Chapter 281: Battle of Hachimangahara
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Gradually, the sun turned westward, the physical wear and tear of the two sides was huge, and the situation became more and more stale, and the Takeda army became more and more cunning, knowing that the Kira army had an excellent penetration effect on the three guns, so they changed their tactics and used harassment tactics.
There were always two or three reserves on his side to cooperate with each other, and the overwhelming advantage of numbers made the Kira army unable to exert its maximum power, and could only inflict a small number of casualties on the Takeda army each time, and at the same time, the frequent movement and retreat also added a lot of burden to the army, and the two sides began to pant and were no longer able to play a fast-paced and fierce attack.
Every time he saw the cunning advance and retreat of the Takeda army, Honjo could only scold angrily, he was very envious of the dashing Chibei cavalry, but it was a pity that the new retainers could not be transferred to the Chibei cavalry as a commander, in the words of Kira Yoshitoki, only loyalty and merit are the best test, and time is used to test whether your words and deeds are consistent.
With Honjo Shigenaga, Kurokawa Kiyomi, and Hojo Takahiro leading a large army to sit in the main camp, even if the red cavalry wandered around, there was no need to worry about the threat of the main camp, and at the same time, the Nagao army on the north and south roads was also gradually withstanding the attack of the Takeda army under the command of Honjo Minori and Saito Asanobu.
Seeing that the situation was stalemate, Kira Yoshitoki smiled confidently: "The battle situation has come to an end, how much strength does the Takeda family still have to adjust?" But I still have two preset chess pieces to move, what about you? Harunobu Takeda. β
Just as the battle reached a new stalemate, a fleet of ships came up from the lower reaches of the Chikuma River. There were only a small number of closed ships in this fleet. Most of them are made up of flexible mornings. There were a few samurai armed with iron cannons and bows and arrows standing in the morning, and each ship had Ashikaga two flags planted in it.
"Oops!" At the same moment, Takeda Harunobu's face changed: "Let Ma Yu come out!" The flag team is also out of the line! Be sure to thwart this fleet! β
The right flank of the Takeda Army that landed on the shore was immediately covered by the fire of this fleet, and the scattered sound of iron cannons fell into the formation with a silent rain of arrows, and the already exhausted Five Heavens Army was defeated and retreated, while the morale of the Kira Army was greatly boosted, and the pace of the attack was accelerated again, and the left flank of the entire Kira Army quickly opened up the situation. The tide of battle began to tilt in favor of the Kira army.
At the same time, the Chibei cavalry, which had only appeared once, also circled to the right flank at this time and launched a surprise attack on the opposite Takeda army, and the attacked Takeda army barely launched a wave of counter-assault and was broken.
"Don't retreat! Be steady! The formation of the Takeda army continued to collapse, and Zhujiao Huding hurriedly urged, his original name was Murozhu Huguang, and he also used the two Miao characters of Takeda and Pizhu, and there were many names such as Takeda Toyogoshou and Changqing.
In the Takeda family, he is generally called the original name of Muroju Toramitsu, and some people also call him Muroju Toyogomori and Humitsu. Takeda Tiger Light ...... Anyway, the old man agreed to call him by any name, and his flag seal was also very interesting. It's still the original name of "Room Residence Guardian", which is even cooler than a variety of magical girls.
It is this cool old man who loves to change his name, but he is the uncle of Takeda Nobuya's sixth man, Takeda Nobu's uncle, Takeda Harunobu's great-uncle, a seventy-five-year-old veteran this year, and an authentic old birthday star.
It stands to reason that such an old age should be taken care of, and it is really a cruel thing to let such an old samurai still wear armor to fight, but Zhujiao Huding does not see it that way, his stubbornness makes him always disobedient to old age, firmly believe that he can still fight for the Takeda family, and firmly believe that he will not die, it is this belief that has supported him to cross the battlefield for decades, and today he suddenly feels that everything is different.
"The room is full of guards! It's a big fish again! "A red-armored cavalry general came with a red spear in his hand, this person is the newborn tiger Takigawa Tokiyoshi, with a perverted brawny strength and a spear fast horse, he alone killed the core of the heavily protected chamber team, and every swing of the blood-colored spear will bring up a scarlet blood light, and one by one loyal and brave samurai fell to death on Hachimangahara, making the veteran's eyes split.
"Ahhh Sons, kill this man with me! "Zhujiao Tiger Ding roared and the crowd was indignant, the veteran has lived in Kai for more than 70 years, and he loves to go to the countryside if he has nothing to do, from the peddler pawn to the monk priest, no one does not know him, except that he is a battle maniac, his popularity is not bad, and the warriors of Kai are also willing to obey his orders.
The samurai on both wings drew their shiny swords to protect the weak flanks, for the way of the military formation, the front is like the sharp horns and fangs of a fierce beast, and the flanks are like soft and defenseless bellies, and it is suicide to not be able to line up and not be able to protect the flanks.
"Whoosh!" Arrows as fast as meteors tore through the scorching air, taking the lives of several spearmen, and there was unexpected chaos in the tight formation, and the next moment there were more and more flickering black dots, and the dense flying arrows were like pouring rain, tearing apart the tight military formation at that moment.
"The samurai fight back! Block them......" Before the Horned Tiger had time to make detailed adjustments, Takigawa Shiyi had already urged the horses to crash into the collapsing spear array, and the guns in his hands were like the scythe of death, ruthlessly harvesting fresh lives, and behind him, a group of samurai in red armor waved their spears at the same time and made neat downward cutting movements, and the familiar faces were full of fear and despair, and the blood-red light flew high.
"Is my Huguang going to die here today?" Zhujiao Huding closed his eyes in pain and suddenly opened them, facing Takigawa Shiyi who was rushing straight to the main formation, he did not panic, raised the big gun in his hand and shouted: "Who is coming, I will not kill the nameless general under the tiger light spear in my room!" β
"Interesting! It's still an old man! Takigawa Shiyi staggered and cut a horse warrior in two, thick blood splattered on the white Ashikaga Nichi two leaning flags, and slowly accelerated with a gun held flat at 90 degrees, and a bloodthirsty fierce light erupted in his eyes: "Takigawa Keijiro Shiyi is here to take your head!" β
From a long distance, you can feel that this red-armored rider is full of evil energy, but he can't imagine that listening to his voice is just a little doll in the voice change period, Zhujiao Tiger Ding snorted and roared: "Good boy! Let me put an end to your short, sinful life! β
"Humph!" Takigawa Tokiyoshi doesn't talk nonsense with him either. An acceleration slashes the samurai on horseback who came to block it. Clamp the horse's belly and slam it with all its might. The Zhu spear in his hand turned into a red light, and in the blink of an eye, it went straight to the neck of the Horned Tiger Ding, and the blow burst quickly and brought a tearing wind whistling by.
At that moment, a little bit of sand and dust blew onto the eyes of the horned tiger, so that the veteran's eyes narrowed slightly, and he felt that the red light flashed, only to feel that his neck was cold, and the whole person was shaking in a whirlwind, and in the moment of the wrong body, a blood mist rose to the sky, completely dyeing the white silk flag red.
"Enemy generals. The Horned Tiger must have been taken by me Takigawa Shiyi! β
The samurai of the Takeda Army watched this veteran be begged, and the desperate Asakigawa Tokiyi killed the past in grief and anger, and the island Shikatsu took the opportunity to harvest his life with one arrow after another, and the Red Reserve Cavalry attacked everywhere to take the opportunity to kill this tenacious army, but the crazy Takeda Army couldn't control this, and desperately wanted to snatch back the head of the flank general, which gave the Red Reserve Cavalry time to perform.
A samurai on horseback blocked left and right to avoid the combined strangulation of several waves of Chibei cavalry, rushed all the way to the corpse of the Horned Tiger Ding, stopped at the end of the corpse, and didn't know what he was muttering, tore off the silk cloth on the flag and tightly wrapped his head, turned over and fled back as fast as he could.
"Damn! The samurai who stole the head still wants to run! At this time, Takigawa Tokiyoshi also fell into the ashigaru formation, unable to pursue. He could only shout to the island Shisheng: "Left near!" β
"Understood!" Shima Shisheng held the huge square bamboo bow steadily, and a sharp arrow broke out of the string and sank straight into the back of the samurai's heart. I saw that the samurai's body fell off the horse's back with a weak body, and the blood-stained silk cloth in his arms also rolled to the side, and the blue Takeda Siruqi was stained with blood and turned into a dark red.
Taking a deep breath, he shouted loudly: "Enemy general, Gan Li Huzhong has been won by Shi Sheng on our island!" β
At the same time, on the other side of the battlefield, the bloody Nagasaka Nobumasa also shouted: "The enemy general, Hagiwara Masaaki has been taken by my Nagasaka Nobumasa!" β
"Uncle Tai still couldn't escape in the end?" Takeda Harunobu closed his eyes in pain and tried to extinguish the anger in his heart, by this time he had sent out all the reserves, and he was completely powerless to rescue the great collapse of the left flank, so he could only whisper the name of Suwa Damyojin.
"Lord!" The retainers of the Takeda family looked at him helplessly, at this time, the governor was the backbone, and if the governor lost the will to fight, there was only one way to perish.
"This family must not retreat! My Takeda family has no way back! There is no way back! Takeda Harunobu's emotions suddenly became excited, and he raised the cowhide iron bone military fan and shouted loudly: "Sons and daughters of the Takeda family! Fight! Suwa Damyojin bless us! Defeat the Kira army in front of you and return home with your companions! β
"Suwa Damyojin bless! Return home! "The samurai of the Takeda family are like wild bulls in a rage, one by one they roar as if they were looking at death and pounce on the enemy in front of them, and when their weapons are knocked away, they pick up their swords and fight desperately, and the roars seem to be contagious, and they spread throughout the battlefield in less than a moment.
A fierce and resolute spirit suddenly arose, so that the already completely collapsed left-wing front miraculously maintained the situation under the impetus of this force, and Sheraku, seeing that the situation was not right, hurriedly ordered to temporarily avoid the front.
The priest of the Suwa family beat the drum and danced the dance to wish victory, perhaps because of the encouragement of Takeda Harunobu, the complete Takeda army stopped the rout and once again formed a formation to withstand the onslaught of the Kira army, at this time the samurai on both sides were exhausted, the blood-stained earth was soaked over and over again, and no one looked at the dead corpses again, and they only had enemies in their eyes.
The Takeda family's reserve army quickly launched a counterattack against this fleet, their attacks were so weak, the fire of bows and iron cannons, with their courage to jump into the river in a vain attempt to wade and climb onto the boat for hand-to-hand combat, these samurai in heavy armor were often the first to die, their deaths were meaningless, and could only bring a share of the battle to the Kira army of the fleet.
At this moment, the commanders of the two sides received different news at the same time, Takeda Harunobu saw the news in front of him and almost fainted again, several old men hurriedly helped him to the side to rest, and then looked at the news that said, "Shiozaki Castle was attacked, and Kurihara was killed in battle!" "A few big words.
"The back road is dead, what can I do?" The retainers of the Takeda family gathered around in a panic, and approached the lineage of a family from the people, and served as the Iwate Nobumori who served as the Imperial Banner. With a bitter smile: "I didn't expect to be said by the lord." We have no way back! β
Masatake Komai frowned. As the military advisor of the Takeda family, his burden was very heavy, and he paced back and forth thinking, "Then what should I do?" Rely on Sanada Yutaka to lead the wounded Shinano Ancestors to another raid? No way! Kakizaki Keijia, who has been fooled once, obviously won't be so stupid...... Do you want to retreat now? β
At the same time, Kira Yoshitoki angrily tore a note into pieces, smashed the tea set beside his hand, and shouted angrily: "How is it possible! Pestilence! Locusts! Why did it happen in Echigo! Why! Tiger Queen has a plague! What do you all eat? Yes! Tell me what you're all doing! β
The samurai of this camp looked at each other, and no one dared to provoke the general who was in a rage, and the samurai of Echigo, who was so young that he was so young that he had only gilded experience in this camp, had never seen him angry. Now when I saw it, I was even more frightened and didn't dare to raise my head.
"Lord Pavilion......" Tokiyuki Yamamoto tried to comfort him, but Kira Yoshitoki, who was in a rage, couldn't listen to any persuasion at all, and shouted: "The baking team is out of battle!" Blow up the Takeda Army for me! Even if you can't destroy them, you must cripple them! β
"Yes!" The envoy hurriedly issued an order, as a strategic force of the Kira army, the number of appearances of the baking team is very small, and every appearance is a critical moment, so this slightly smaller special reserve team has also been praised by the Kira family.
"Lord Pavilion, prepare to retreat!" At this moment, Honda Tokimasa and Nanaoka thought of the word at the same time: "Why?" The good situation turned out to be a retreat? This time, there is a great certainty that the Takeda army will be annihilated, although the cost will be very high...... But it is also ...... to hit the Takeda family hard"
"Isn't that what a hard blow is?" Yamamoto laughed bitterly. As a lieutenant general, he was limited in what he could do, and the two young men who served as military advisors were obviously too tender. Taking advantage of this short opportunity, he said: "If this battle continues, it will definitely be a war of annihilation at a heavy cost, the question is whether everyone is ready for this?" Don't forget what the owner's original strategy was. β
"Inflict heavy damage on the Takeda Army, so that it will not be able to pose a threat to Kita-Shinano for three to five years! I understand......" The two of them smiled awkwardly, forgetting this stubble in excitement just now, now the combat attrition of the Takeda Army is definitely more than 3,000 people, and the attrition of the Kira Army is about 2,000.
The biggest advantage is that the two wings of the Takeda Army can not support it at all, and the middle road is becoming more and more dispersed to take care of the two wings, such a heavy burden is just the opposite of the initial stage of development, and the longer the time drags on, the greater the advantage of the Kira Army, and the fleet along the coast can safely and steadily give full play to the advantage of maximizing firepower, and the good situation makes them have the idea of annihilating the Takeda Army.
"Boom, boom, boom ......" a series of detonations frightened the face of Langoka Kanfang, and also scared the horses on both sides, many samurai on horseback were overturned by startled horses, most of them were rescued in time The problem is not big, and there are still many samurai who were killed by the enemy's ashigaru.
Honjo was almost overturned and dismounted, watching in horror as clouds of black smoke rose in front of him, and the terrible flames were so terrifying, and some people turned into fire men and ran around and finally lay on the ground motionless, which made him feel more terrified than the bloody war, "What is that?" Is it the demons at work? β
"Chiyo Inomaru, are you stupid? That's the secret weapon of my Kira family, don't you see them throw strange jars? You see, it's going to start losing again! Let's get off the horse. Kurokawa Kiyomi hurriedly beckoned Honjo to dismount.
After a terrifying rumble, seeing Hojo Takahiro sitting on the horse and drinking water for a long time, several small surnames were trying to appease the frightened war horse, Kurokawa Kiyomi scolded with a smile: "Okay, you Danhou, you already knew that there was this stubble, so you got off the horse and waited, right?" β
"Did you not ask yourself, or did I Gao Guang be clever and saw that a team of samurai in this formation was specially protected, so I knew that they were the baking team, and did you see those explosive things? It's a terrible weapon that can hold secrets in a clay pot! Hojo Takahiro looked around sneakily and whispered, "Want to know what's inside?" β
"What?"
"I don't know! Hahaha......" Hojo Takahiro smiled and leaned back, Kurokawa Kiyomi and Honjo Shiranaga looked at each other, and then grunted angrily and blocked his ears to endure the rumbling explosion.
Five consecutive rounds of roasted jade throws cleared a large white ground full of gunsmoke and flames in front of the formation, and the samurai of the Takeda Army no longer dared to approach this forbidden area of life, even if there were their former companions lying there, they could not let the Takeda Army move half a step as they wailed and begged for help around.
"Bastard! What kind of magic is this! The people of the Kira family must be holding the filthy things of hell! "Battle-hardened older samurai try to calm the panicked young samurai around them. This is the first time that many people have encountered such a tragic war. It's hard to say how much of an impact it will have on their psyche. These veterans can only try to calm the panicked youngsters, hoping that their words will give them more strength.
Takeda Harunobu was shocked and angry and almost fainted, several pedigrees hurriedly helped him pinch the back and slapped his back to ease up, as the governor of the family he had a strong endurance, but he glared at the leader of the Ninja with hatred, expressing his disappointment in his intelligence work, and then roared angrily: "All the army pay attention, dodge the other party's projectiles." Don't face the enemy head-on! β
At this time, the baking team began to retreat, and the Takeda army, which was stunned by the explosion and flames, did not dare to come forward to pursue, and the panicked samurai did not know what to do, and the overall offensive rhythm of Takeda County was completely broken and stagnant, and the battlefield became eeriely silent because of this great change.
"Tiger Chief Saone was taken by me, Watanabe Takatsuna!"
"Kanamaru Masanao was taken by my Honjo Honjo Prosperous!"
"Iwate Nobumori was taken by my Hojo Takahiro!"
"Nanbu Manxiu was taken by me, Kurokawa Kiyomi!"
"Banye Zhenqing was taken by my palace Jirun!"
The Takeda army panicked, but the Kira army was not flustered at all, taking advantage of the gap between the end of the baked jade throw, the samurai of the Kira family attacked everywhere and bit the Takeda army, relying on the physical strength accumulated by the army's preservation strength to chase and fight the defeated Takeda reserves. Several badly damaged reserves could not be withdrawn and began to collapse one after another.
A series of begging inspired the samurai of the Kira army, and the Kira army, which was more and more eager to kill, attacked everywhere. The major generals also unequivocally led their own banners to fight in person, and in one fell swoop the Takeda army was breathless, with more and more generals to be obtained, it was seen that the Takeda army was going to have a comprehensive collapse trend, but the tenacious Takeda army always appeared when it was about to collapse, and a few samurai who did not want to die led the team to rush to the main formation of the Kira army.
"Sons of Kai! Follow me and rush over and fight them! I don't know who shouted this voice, the warriors of the Takeda family also jumped out to launch a decisive counterattack, barefoot are not afraid of wearing shoes, and they are no longer afraid of the powerful force and strange weapons of the Kira army, anyway, it is better to fight to kill one to save the capital, kill two to earn one.
The battlefield can be seen everywhere Takeda family samurai with Lang Dang suddenly out of the corner of the defeated army, roaring and waving the sword in his hand, the big gun rushed to the Kira army's well-equipped formation, and then gradually submerged and disappeared in the fight, this is a very bad start, the main reserve of the Kira army saw that the situation was not good, immediately contracted the formation and moved closer to each other to preserve the strength, and then fought to kill no matter how much it was pointless, in case the formation was half crippled, it was a loss to kill 10,000 enemy troops.
The number of casualties on both sides increased wildly during this period, and in general, each Kira army samurai could replace two or three Takeda troops, and this kind of exchange seemed to be very profitable for the Kira army on the whole, but it was still heart-wrenching that several local reserves were beaten to half-cripples, and it is worth mentioning that the disabled reserves were all from the Shinano army.
The victor does not get the fruits of victory, the loser grits his teeth and is unwilling to give up, a confrontation with no end in sight makes this war a life-devouring flesh millstone, just when the generals of the two sides are tired, the rumbling drum beat from the military taiko drum of the Kira army's main camp suddenly disappears, and the signal flags representing the retreat keep waving, so that the fans hold the signal flag to appear in all corners of the battlefield, and the fierce attack is contained.
The Takeda army retreated without hesitation, they would not care what was wrong with the Kira army, let alone take the opportunity to fight back and win the victory, relying on the elite samurai of the Takeda family to fill it with human lives, and simply pull back the morale that was almost collapsed, the full morale of this trapped beast battle will not last long, retreating at this time is a good opportunity, behind them is their big camp, only when they return there will be really safe.
"Retreat? Why retreat? Why? Takigawa Shiyi's tone was full of resentment and incomprehension, the good situation was for the enemy to leave in a hurry, how could he understand, looking at the silent retreat of the Takeda army, Takigawa Shiyi waved his horsewhip indignantly: "Give me another quarter of an hour!" I can crush them all in a quarter of an hour! β
"I've heard this phrase several times today, but we still haven't defeated them, have we?" Shima Shikatsu comforted his companions helplessly, looked at the slowly retreating Takeda Army, and said with a smile: "That's a group of amazing samurai, they are brave and not afraid of death, just like us!" They have the conviction in their hearts to fight to the end, just like us! β
"Hu ......" greeted the last ray of brilliance of the remnant sun, as if he had figured out this truth, Takigawa Shiyi also showed a happy smile: "Maybe you are right!" But we are always the strongest! Unique! (To be continued......)