44 Where the battle is made
"Shiro, gather all the soldiers, it's time for us to go into battle!"
Sasa Masaji ordered with a cold face.
A moment later, in front of Sasa Masaji and Chiakishiro, 1,200 Ashigaru had gathered, including 800 Atsuta and 400 Sasa families.
"All the troops! Take down the head of Yoshimoto Imagawa! ”
"Roar!"
When the sound of conch resounded from Atsuta Jingu and reached Oda Nobunaga's ears from afar, the Oda army was crossing the uninhabited trail in the mountains under the leadership of Ryoda Masatsuna.
After they ascended Zenshoji Temple, they looked at the entire battlefield and saw the troops of the Imagawa Army appearing in the area of Tian Lewa.
"My lord, if you want to surprise Imagawa Yoshimoto, you need to go down the mountain first, then pass through Nakajima, and take the mountain road to Mt. Tsukasasa!"
Liang Tian Zhenggang and others, who were wearing a pair of shabby straw sandals, panted and pointed to the winding mountain path and explained.
"It's okay...... As long as you can get close to Yiyuan, even the Ten Directions Hell can go down. ”
Nobunaga's brows furrowed, and he silently prayed in his heart that Sasa Naimasa's side would go smoothly.
According to the agreement, Sasa Narumasa will drag the 5,000-strong army of the Imagawa clan's main camp to Tian Lewa as much as possible.
"Chengzheng, this guy...... Don't die, don't die, even though this guy hates ......."
Oda Nobunaga muttered to himself on the mountain road, and the Oda family's reserve stretched out on the narrow mountain path like a black python wriggling around the green mountains.
The northern sky pushed dark clouds, and in an instant, the hot and sunny weather became hot and humid.
The dark clouds were very thick and thick, and it was almost noon at the moment, but it was strangely dim, like an unclear scene before dawn.
There was a thunderclap and a raindrop the size of beans poured down.
The raindrops hit the people's faces, crackling sounds, and they were quite painful, but Oda Nobunaga was happy, and his eyes said with fanatical enthusiasm:
"It's raining heavily, God help me! Speed up the march! ”
Unconsciously, the front team of the Oda army had crossed the narrow Nakajima Fortress, and Sasa Masaji and others, who had set out from Atsuta Jingu, also found traces of the Imagawa army along the main road.
Masaji's original intention was only to contain the actions of the Imagawa army and create an opportunity for Oda Nobunaga's surprise attack, but the biggest limitation of the army of Sasa Masaji and Chiakishiro was the lack of intelligence.
They did not know where Imagawa Yoshimoto's main camp was, nor where the main army led by Oda Nobunaga had arrived.
Therefore, Masaji led 1,200 ashigaru, almost at the speed of a rapid march, along the avenue, from Atsuta Jingu to Tarakuwa.
The pouring rain could not help but conceal the traces of Oda Nobunaga's advance, and also disguised the number of troops in Yoshimoto's main camp, making Sasa Masaji mistakenly believe that he had encountered a partial division of the Imagawa clan.
"Wedge formation, charge!"
"Kill all these buns from Sanhe!"
Masaji took the lead and rushed into the sparse formation of the Imagawa army.
Sasa Masaji is not only a good marksman, but also a good soldier. Basically, there are two family styles of the Sasa family, one is simple, stingy, and stingy to the iron rooster, and the other is a soldier who loves soldiers like a child, is trained harshly, and has the best fighting peasant soldier in all Owari.
These 400 peasant soldiers, who had been trained by Sasa Masaji painstakingly in the past two years, now had to play the role of death squads and cannon fodder, which made his heart twist.
"Ahh
Sasa Masaji roared, and with a single shot, he pierced one of the Imagawa army's ashigaru to the heart. Then he picked up the ashigaru corpse with all his might, spun it around his head, and threw it back.
Boom...... The corpse knocked down four people, and the formation of the Imagawa army, which had been hastily formed, became even looser.
Sasa Masaji was the head of the wedge-shaped formation, and he brandished the blood-stained ten-character spear and led the way into the Imagawa army.
"The field of battle!"
After Sasa Masaji picked on and killed an ashigaru again, he suddenly shouted, and the ashigaru behind him immediately responded:
"The Land of the Dead!"
Masaji laughed wildly, as a four-hundred-foot spearhead, he had been covered in blood, and one side of his originally handsome cheeks was covered in scarlet blood, which made him look like a demon in hell.
"Death or life!"
Masaji shouted again.
"Lucky or dead!"
The ashigaru responded again.
Such an aggressive momentum made Sasa's military pigs advance by leaps and bounds, and under Sasa Masaji's gun, there was no enemy.
"Where there is a battlefield of war, a place where corpses stand, if you die, you will live, and if you are lucky, you will die!"
The Sasa army shouted this slogan repeatedly, and soon it resounded throughout the main camp of the Imagawa army.
Today is the time when the Saya family of Hira Castle will remain in history, and the loyal and courageous Owari Sasa family will be considered to be a representative of loyalty and loyalty for the entire 400 years after today.
Among the few people who survived this battle was a man named Ushiichi Ota, who wrote in his "Nobunaga Official Chronicle":
"Tokisasasaji and Chiaki Shiro led an army of 1,200 people, encountered the main camp of Imagawa Yoshimoto, clashed back and forth, and killed more than 1,000 enemies. The political secretary himself risked arrows and stones, killed dozens of enemies, and was brave. ”
- Sasa Masaji was indeed brave, but after penetrating the defenses of the outer camp, he brought Sasa's army into a situation of encirclement.
Front, back, left and right, are enemies.
What's even more terrifying is that directly in front of him is where Imagawa Yoshimoto's flag samurai is, where are the elites of the entire Imagawa army.
At this moment, Masaji, Chiaki Shiro and others finally understood that they had met Imagawa Yoshimoto's main camp by mistake!
With a thousand pairs of noon, with the peasants and soldiers, against the flag warriors, of course Masaji knew that they had little chance of winning, but even if there was no chance of winning, they would kill them without hesitation!
It was only because they believed that in the mountains not far away, their lord would lead the most elite samurai to give Imagawa Yoshimoto a head-on blow.
They also believe that they will not die in vain!
So they launched charge after charge, approaching Imagawa Yoshimoto step by step, not only for the victory of this battle, but also for their lord and the world, for the dawn of a united country!
However, it is more difficult to get one step closer to Imagawa Yoshimoto than the previous ten steps.
It's harder to get close to Imagawa Yoshimoto than to fight your way out of this siege!
But what about the difficulty?
Is it harder than climbing to the sky?
"Come with me!"
Sasa Masaji once again raised his ten-character gun, which had been stained vermilion by the blood of countless people, and looked like a vermilion gun.
Not bad! It's the red gun!
At this moment, Sasajun is the first in Owari!
At this moment, Sasa Masaji is the first warrior of the Oda family!
Sasa Masaji and the remnants of the dozens of soldiers left behind him marched straight into the Imagawa Army's banner camp.
Suddenly, a samurai holding a sword blocked Sasa Masaji's way, this samurai did not grow a beard, but the stubble was not very clean, although the figure was not very tall, but the hands and feet were long, the expression was fierce, the palm and cocoon of his right hand were very thick, and he knew that he was a practitioner at a glance.
"Who is coming! I'm an immortal nameless ghost under the sword of Aoki Daizen! ”
And in the main camp of the Imagawa army, which was set up in the center of Tian Rakuwa, Yoshimoto sat calmly on the maza and heard the information presented by the samurai in front:
"Enemy generals Sasa Masaji and Chiaki Shiro will lead a thousand people to assault our army!"
"Huh......? Is it Sasa Masaji? ”
Yoshimoto was quite surprised, and Sasa Narumasa, who was tied to the side, heard the name of Masaji, and his heart jumped wildly, and his eyes went dark.