Chapter 262: Battle of Honjo Castle
"Knock Knock Knock ......"
Under Honjo Castle, the dreary military drums rumbled, and this was a decisive battle in Shimoetsu, and many of the people of Shimoetsu sent samurai and even the governor himself to observe the battlefield, because they realized that the battle might affect something.
"Will this war change the existing stalemate between Vietnam and Xia, right?" Nakajo Fujizi glanced at the battle formation gathered in the distance, and then looked at the Jiliang army, which was well-groomed and full of morale, and said with a smile: "I have long heard that there is an elite in the Wuwei Palace, which is very powerful, and today I saw that it was really extraordinary!" This Chiyo Inomaru is not unjust when he was defeated under the hands of the Wuwei Palace! ”
The 1,000 Red Reserve Cavalry, the 500 Spear and Shield Corps were as red as fire, the 500 Iron Artillery Corps, the 500 Shigeto Bow Corps, and the 500 Javelin Corps were as black as ink, and the 3,300 troops composed of 100 Roasting Corps and 200 Horse Guards were extremely magnificent.
There are also five tall and heavily armed Swiss mercenaries standing at the front of the spear and shield team, their appearance is not as exaggerated and eye-catching as the Teutonic knights, wearing steel cuirass, lined plate armor, wearing a set of chain mail inside, holding a halberd waist hammer staff, a fan shield and a two-handed sword on the back, and a bulky pot helmet on the head, which is basically not much different from the knight on foot.
"Hehe, Echizen Shouden has won the prize." Hearing Nakajo Fujishi's address to him, Kira Yoshishi frowned slightly for a moment, and said in a flat tone: "Honjo Fanchang knows that staying in the city and waiting for death is not a way, so he thought of fighting together to determine the victory, right?" To have a little self-knowledge! ”
"Looking down, Honjo Echizen Mamoru really doesn't know how to advance or retreat! Wuwei Hall acts as the lord of the country, even if we wait for you to call you the lord now! Honjo Echizen Mamoru did not regret it at this time. You have fallen into the wrong way! "The lord of the small country, Shui Yorijiu, tried his best to flatter. Maybe it's because he saw that the Kira army was so powerful. He was also extremely excited, he always felt that this was standing in line, and taking the initiative to stand in the camp of the Kira family was definitely the most correct decision in his life, judging from the current form, it was very good to confirm the previous conjecture.
However, his statement still caused some of the Yangbei people to be unhappy, of course, this unhappiness can not be expressed, the Kira family is the Ashikaga royal family, and wherever he goes, he is the most noble samurai family. Where is what their group of miscellaneous Genji and Taira clans can resist, in case they cause trouble, and then they are targeted to use the means to deal with Hojo Takahiro, and their group of Yangbei people can't even drink the soup.
At the same time that the morale of more than 6,000 troops on the Kira side was strong, the reinforcements of the Dewa side, Dahoji Yoshizen, were long overdue, and as one of the appearance of the Dewa Mogami clan, the Dahoji clan has been wandering outside the Mogami clan system, and it seems that there is a bit of a different meaning.
However, the situation has changed in recent years, and the situation of the Daihoji family has changed since the last character of the worship Mogami Yoshimori was renamed Daihoji Yoshizen. It is not surprising that he was instigated by Mogami Yoshimori as a pioneer this time, because the Daihoji clan has always had a close relationship with the Honjo clan. Honjo's eldest mother is the sister of Daihoji Yoshimasa, and as a close relationship between her maternal uncle, she doesn't need to be urged by the Mogami clan to send troops to help.
Looking at the military appearance and morale of the Kira army on the opposite side, Dabaoji Yoshizen opened his mouth in surprise: "This is the enemy of the long man?" How could you provoke such a powerful enemy, didn't you say that the dragon in Echigo had already fallen ill? ”
The samurai of the Dahoji family shook their heads, hiding in the ice and snow all year round in the Dewa country, and only heard a little about what happened on the other side of Echigo, and it was already the credit of the Honjo family to find that the illness and retirement of the long-tail Jinghu was already the credit of the Honjo Honjo long report, as for who Kira Yoshishi was, there was no idea at all, and the Dewa Mogami family used the Ashikaga family flag, although it looked like the color and style were different, and it was just a Ashikaga clan similar to the Mogami family.
"How long will it take for reinforcements from Dewa Hall to arrive?"
"It should be almost there, I have entered the territory of Echigo yesterday, this time there are two thousand troops led by Mayooka Toyomae and Shimizu Hi Mamoru, and it should be able to turn the tables!" The old Tosa Lin Zen Dong of the pen head family of the Dabao Temple family, claiming to be able to climb the guard, was once the Haguro Mountain in the territory of the Dewa country, and was once on an equal footing with the Dabao Temple clan, and was later defeated by the Dabao Temple family and surrendered to the pen head family elder.
"I hope so!" Dabaoji Yoshizen knows too well the paranoid nature of Mogami Yoshimori, and he must do it if he sees a thing, and he has the momentum of not hitting the south wall and not looking back, and this time he can use a letter for help to make him change his hexagram, also because Mogami Yoshimori thinks it is profitable, otherwise he will not want to ask for a soldier when he goes to a hundred letters.
"It's coming!" I don't know who shouted, a group of people with the Marunai two lead two, five three tong pattern flag mark of the most of the army emerged from the distant mountains and forests, the Aooka clan and the Shimizu clan are both the most senior clan, of which the Aooka clan is still one of the eight most noble, and the Upper Clan is the Oshu Spo clan's Shuliu, the Oshu Sibo clan is the branch of the Sipo clan, that is to say, these two are the branches of the Spo clan.
"Yo! That's a lot! "The samurai of the Kira family are happy.,The opposite Marunouchi two lead two、Five three Tong to the Ashikaga two lead two to the Kira family、Five seven Tong,This is a very interesting game.,As for what is the Marunouchi two lead two.,Then it can only be said that the two lead two of this house are really different from the Ashikaga shogun's family.,The inside of the two to the two leads are very thin.,It can be clearly different from the Ashikaga family.,But it can let people know that this is the origin of the Ashikaga family is also painstaking.。
"Mogami still decided to send troops, it's a pity!" Kira Yoshishi shook his head secretly, and he was also very disgusted by this Mogami Yoshimori who was so ignorant, and said in his heart: "I can't do it very well, I have to learn from Takeda Harunobu, where is the Takeda family good?" Is it because there are many killings? ”
When he saw Kira Yoshi, he had been pondering, and Honda was reminding, "Lord of the Hall! There are 2,000 people under the Mogami army over there, and judging by their variegated banners, it should be the Hao clan alliance of the Mogami family, and the marching direction of the Mogami army seems to be heading towards the small country and the Jinjin coalition army on the right flank. ”
"Oops! I need to go back and command! "The small country has been sitting still for a long time, a thousand people is not a good sign for two thousand people, if you don't fight well, you may have to fold the old book in, turn over and run back in a hurry.
Jin Jinyi is not as frizzy as Yorihisa of the small country, and he stays by the side of Nagao Jinghu all the year round, and he also knows how to get along with the superiors. First asked Kira Yoshitoki for instructions: "Wuwei Palace." I'll take my leave and go back to defend the army! ”
Nakajo Fujishi then returned to the left flank. He is facing the Kurokawa army where Kurokawa Mori is located, the Kurokawa clan is a gate of the Nakajo clan, and the territories of the two families are also next to each other, usually looking up and not looking down, but in the end, because of some territorial disputes, it is also a not so pleasant thing, so Nakajo Fujizi's expression is not very happy.
"Fifteen hundred Kurokawa troops against two thousand Nakajo troops, two thousand Mogami troops against one thousand small countries and Jinjin coalition forces. In the end, the two thousand five hundred Honjo and Dahoji allied forces fought against my Kira army, one after another? Up and down? It's a lot of fun! Ben looked meaningfully at the opposite side.
This is a typical left, middle and right three-way offensive formation, there is no crane wings and fish scales, because the Hao coalition army can't afford to play this kind of high-end atmosphere and high-grade things, the Hao clan each formed a whole army, this kind of military momentum is not terrible, want to see if an army is powerful, you can see whether the flag seal is messy.
Of course, this is not necessarily the case, Echigo's miscellaneous soldiers Ashigaru itself has good combat effectiveness, which is directly related to Echigo's fierce folk customs. Although all indicators of discipline training, morale and equipment are scum levels, they are enough in one acre and three points of land in this Echigo country. It may come in handy on a larger battlefield in the future.
"There are also capable people on the other side! I can come up with a plan in such a difficult situation, but that person still underestimates the strength of my Kira army! Kira smiled.
This is obviously to use the Kurokawa army to drag down the Nakajo army, use the Honjo and Daihoji coalition forces to drag the Kira army, and then strive for the morale of the Mogami army to use the absolute difference in strength to defeat the small country, Jinjin coalition army, as long as the other two armies collapse for a while, the morale will definitely drop, and then it will be the prelude to the counterattack of the Honjo army, and by then the two roads of 4,500 troops will be flanked, as long as the Kira army can't hold on and start retreating, a victory will almost be won.
"From the perspective of your subordinates, Honjo must also lack confidence!"
"Don't talk nonsense, it's out of battle!"
The conch sounded, a team of ashigaru began to advance, the Honjo army and the Dabaoji army two ways together, the military cohesion is very close, in this case Naito Masari and Takigawa Yoshige immediately cooperated, formed an iron cannon bow and arrow shock to bombard the two formations, the roaring iron cannon shook many people in the country of Xia Yue frightened, the samurai who had never seen the iron cannon stopped their movements and carefully looked at the magical power of these black sticks.
Unfortunately, Honjo Shigenaga was in great trouble, and the rotation of 500 iron cannons and 500 heavy wisteria bows was terrifying, and the five-stage continuous attack method that the Kira family relied on could seamlessly connect each round of shooting, and an average of 8 seconds of a rhythmic attack could give the comrades behind enough time to clean up the residue and reload ammunition, and the power of this iron artillery team could be maximized.
It seems that the endless iron cannon attack is simply deadly, and the deadly attack range within 80 meters is even more forcing the opposing coalition forces to be unable to charge head-on, and each round of iron cannon bombardment will bring huge losses to the Ashigaru team of the Honjo army, and nearly 200 people have been killed and wounded before they have rushed into 50 meters.
"The archers fight back! Hurry up and fight back! Honjo roared like crazy, no one could bear such a heavy loss.
"Fight back!" Dabaoji Yoshizen's endurance is weaker, although the main direction of attack of the Kira army is not them, but just by the iron cannon bombardment rubbed to the edge of the point and killed twenty or thirty people, what is even more fatal is that the rain of arrows splashed in the sky is even more deadly, the same five-stage continuous attack method, the attack interval of the Shigeto Bow team is shorter.
It only takes 3 seconds to shoot the bow and arrows in stride, and the arrow is shot at an angle, so fast attack rate can maximize the rain of arrows after round, and at the same time give the bow and arrow ashigaru enough time to recuperate.
"No more! More than fifty people were killed and more than sixty wounded! Ikeda said in a hurry.
Dabaoji Yoshizen stared at the Kira army in front of him, listening to the casualties coming from time to time, gritted his teeth and said, "Hold on!" Hold on a little longer! Just wait for us to bypass the range of fire of the Kira army! ”
For the Dahoji family, the lethality of the arrow rain is far more terrifying than the iron cannon, their ashigaru is a light armor unit with three guns, and they are powerless to resist in the face of the attack of the heavy wisteria bow, so the heavy fire attack makes the cooperation between the Honjo army and the Dahoji army make a mistake, and the Dahoji army began to move to the left, trying to avoid frontal kills, while the Honjo army still maintains the rhythm of a frontal advance and has rushed into a distance of thirty meters.
"Iron artillery and archers retreat!" The order to brush and brush came out of the mouths of the heads, and the iron artillery team and the ashigaru team immediately carried the foot to the left and right, and the gun shield team and the javelin team came to the front from the air raid given by the friendly forces, and after a short formation, a row of guns was erected high.
Standing in the middle of a group of short men in the first row were five tall and burly Swiss mercenaries, who were obviously a lot taller than the others, their bright plate armor and shiny breastplates and chain mail were extremely eye-catching, and under the leadership of the bearded Rupert, they shouted incomprehensible slogans, and the guns in the front row were flat against the Honjo army rushing over. (To be continued......)