On July 8, Hojo arrived at Edo Castle with 5,000 men at the bottom of the box.

The lord of Edo Castle, Hojo Tsunataka, retreated from the front line, but was reprimanded by Hojo Shiyasu:

"Fight and not fight, retreat and not retreat, but why!"

Shiyasu stood on the head of Edo Castle and questioned Hojo Tsunataka under the castle, the city gate had already been closed tightly, and looking at this posture, Hojo Tsunataka would not be allowed to enter the castle under any circumstances.

"Tone River can be a natural danger, with this defense, the coalition army will retreat with all its food!"

Although Hojo Tsunataka was a fierce general, he was not reckless, and the water surface under the Tone River was now more than 200 meters wide, and if he forcibly crossed the river to attack the coalition forces, he was afraid that he would either be killed by the coalition forces or drown in the turbulent river.

"If the enemy does not come to attack the city, you will not attack! Of the thousands of generals under my command, only one person can be used, and the rest are just wine bags and rice bags! ”

After saying this, Yasuzu went to the castle tower without looking back, and left the Hojo Army led by Tsunataka outside the castle.

"Na...... Buddhist nun! ”

Tsunataka Hojo was furious.

Thirty-two years ago, the governor of the Hojo family was still the father of the Hojo clan, and the young Tsunataka took the lead in capturing Edo Castle, and has been the number one commander of the Hojo family ever since.

Until the night battle of Kawagoe ten years ago, Hojo Tsunari became famous all over the world in one fell swoop, and the number one fierce general of the Hojo family also became Tsunashi who was ten years younger than Tsunaka, which made Tsunade angry.

This year, Tsunataka is a full fifty years old, and he is still powerful and martial arts, but because he took a defensive position in this battle, he was scolded by Hojo Shiyasu as a "wine bag rice bag".

Is it tolerable or unbearable!

"Back to the Tonegawa Barracks! Get ready for tomorrow! ”

He turned around and gave orders to the equally angry Chibei and Qingbei soldiers.

That night, Hojo Tsunataka, Tominaga Naokatsu and Toyama Tsunaki camped with their backs to the Tone River, and across the wide Tone River, the national capital Taijo Castle captured by the coalition forces was faintly visible.

Hojo Shiyasu in Edo Castle also settled down after receiving the military report from Tsunashi Toyama.

Of course, he also knew that it would be more advantageous for the Hojo Army to take a defensive position on this side of the Tone River, and if all else went wrong, the Hojo Army would be able to win the war by holding out for several months on the battlefields of Kawagoe and Kokufudai, respectively.

But the question is...... Can you really not go wrong at all?

Can the front line of Heyue City really be defended?

A sense of unease pervades Tskang's mind, and he needs to change the tide of the battle as soon as possible and turn the tide of the situation.

The crushing defeat at the Battle of Karasawan Mountain and the Battle of Shinobi Castle had already left the morale of the Hojo Army very low, and he desperately needed a big victory to restore the confidence of the Hojo Army.

After weighing for more than ten days, Shi Kang chose his battlefield in Guofutai.

Satake, Satomi and the Oda clan, as well as the rebellious Iwatsuki Castle Ota family, are all familiar opponents to him.

Shi Kang was well aware of the strength of the Guofutai coalition army, and knew that with his alliance with Hojo Tsunataka, it would be enough to defeat him.

However, as long as the Tone River exists, it is destined that the attacking side will be in a disadvantageous position, and if the Hojo Army is attacked by the coalition forces when crossing the river, the probability of victory will be greatly reduced.

Therefore...... Shiyasu also counted Hojo Tsunataka into account.

It is better to persuade the general than to provoke the general, he just wants to arouse the anger and fighting spirit of Ganggao, if not...... I'm afraid that Tsunataka will not be able to lead the demoralized Hojo Army to gain a foothold on the other side of the Tone River.

"Your Highness, Lord Ota has arrived."

"Bring it in."

Yasushi Ota tried his best to pretend to be calm and stepped into the Honmaru castle tower. He is the great-grandson of the famous general Ota Michikan, but he can't be distracted by the sudden arrival of Hojo Shiyasu.

"Yasushi Ota, participate!"

"Oh......"

Shikang squinted at Yasushi Ota, and waved his hand to let the little surname move the map.

"For this battle...... I wonder what you think? ”

Sasa Seimasa stared at Shota in front of him with interest and asked such a question that could have 10,000 answers.

This Zhengtai is only 8 years old this year, and he is still the age of a drooping child, but he has already shown an unconventional calm temperament.

- Genrokuro Ota, this is his name, listen to his self-introduction, say that he is the widow of Ota Shiken, and he is also the nephew of Ota Shishimasa, the lord of Iwatsuki Castle.

Sasa Narumasa has secretly arrived at Iwatsuki Castle at this moment, and like Hojo Shiyasu, the cavalry he leads is also the last surprise soldier of the coalition army!

If Hojo wants to win by surprise, then Sasa Narumasa will return it in the same way.

Hojo Shiyasu wanted to defeat the combined forces of Hitachi and Boso, and then copied the back of the Nagao army, and Sasa Narimasa also wanted to break through Edo Castle and go south to wrap the forces of Taiyuan Yukisai and Hojo Tsunaru in dumplings.

Soldier to soldier, king to king!

The so-called dignified array is not only a straightforward approach of dividing soldiers into two ways, in addition to the regular soldiers against the regular soldiers, there are also strange soldiers against strange soldiers.

"Since the night battle of Kawagoe, the Hojo clan's Yasu-sama has been famous, and since he has already made a move, it is presumable that the combined forces of Satake, Satomi and the Ota family have lost more than they won."

Kosho Taiyuan Rokuro thought about it for a long time, and used a rather vague statement to fool Chengzheng.

Such an answer was originally extremely mediocre, and from the mouth of such a young child, it was difficult to say whether he was smart or stupid, but Sasa Narimasa stared at this little Shota, and always felt that something was wrong.

Is this small Zhengtaicheng Mansion extremely deep and deliberately clumsy, or is Chengzheng thinking too much?

"Then tell me, how will the Hojo Army move?"

At this time, the news that Hojo Tsunataka was camping on the west bank of the Tone River had already arrived. Although Cheng Zheng also boasts of some military ability, he is far inferior to Sister Jinghu, and Hojo Shiyasu's military talent is only slightly inferior to Sister Jing Hu, so naturally it is far superior to Cheng Zheng.

Yes, Cheng Zheng thought hard for more than an hour, but he didn't guess the possible next move of the Hojo Army, and he rushed to the doctor, he remembered that when Ishikawa Goemon sent the information, Xiao Zhengtai was also next to him, since this little guy is so demonic, you might as well listen to his thoughts.

After sitting in front of Cheng Zheng and thinking for a while, Komasa Taiyuan Rokuro said in an old-fashioned manner:

"Forced crossing the Tone River!"

"Strength Tonegawa!"

At 9 o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, Hojo Tsunataka issued a military order.

Tsunataka personally led the Red Reserve Team to occupy this end of the bridge, and a team of Red Reserve Light Foot Light Shoulder to Shoulder lined up in a tight formation to step on the wooden bridge, stepping on the wooden frame creaked, as if it would break from it at any moment.

The bridge could only pass by five people shoulder to shoulder, and many more Hojo soldiers tied their waists with ropes, and ten or twenty people joined together, using bamboo, sticks, and spears as crutches, and dozens of people walked side by side from the river bank into the wide Tone River.

The rainy season is coming to an end, and although the sky is still gloomy and iron-gray, it no longer rains.

The surface of the Tone River was smooth as a mirror, but after the rows of soldiers stepped into the water, there were ripples one after another.

The soldiers of the Hojo family were as small as a flock of ducks on the water, and they were as numerous as weeds on the ridges of the fields.

When the front row of soldiers was about to step onto the opposite riverbank, the coalition forces that had been waiting for a long time finally made a move.

"Click!"

The former general of the coalition army gave an order, and the feather arrows shot towards the river like locusts!