Chapter 362: The Alliance Shattered
Takeda Harunobu secretly retreated without a banner surrounded by samurai, and after Takeda Nobuyoshi took off his Suwa Dharma Sex Pocket and stood in the main formation and broke off with Takeda Nobuyoshi, the arrow silently took Takeda Nobuyoshi's life, and a cavity of blood shot out and sprayed on Takeda Nobuyoshi's body and face, and Takeda Nobuyoshi was stunned.
In order to do more like Takeda Harunobu and buy more time for his brother to retreat, he took off the Suwa Dharma Sex Bag, and he couldn't carry it as a throat chakra bullet, which brought the biggest reason for his death, the arrow near Shimazuo came too quickly and too fast, so fast that no one reacted, and the angle was tricky through the gap between several samurai on horseback and drilled into Takeda Nobuyo's neck.
The cast iron arrow from the side of the neck submerged and drilled out from the other side, the left and right sides of the blood at the same time sprayed on his face, the tragic death of his brother to Takeda Nobuyhiro huge heavy blow, Takeda Nobuya was extremely fraternal but watched his brother die tragically under the enemy's fatal arrow, holding Takeda Nobuyo's blood-covered body, Takeda Nobuya was silent for a long time.
Takeda Harunobu still retreated, Takeda Nobushigeru did not move from beginning to end, until his nephew Takeda Yoshinobu was escorted to the front of the formation, Takeda Nobuyobu more than 1,000 elite troops surrounded the formation into a circle to protect the main general, opposite them was a larger circle of the Kira army, this circle surrounded no less than 5,000 men and horses.
"Takeda Stable, surrender quickly! Your lord has fled, and if you don't surrender now, when will you wait? ”
"Takeda Warr, look at your nephew, and then look at the son-in-law beside you, don't you still submit?"
The shouts made the samurai of the Takeda family hang their heads in shame. The defeat was not their responsibility. but they will taste the bitter fruit of their captives. Let the samurai swallow this breath, they don't hate Takeda Nobuyoshi, as a partial teacher, he has reached his limit, and he still can't recover the defeat of the war.
However, after a while, a gap opened in the formation, and Kira Yoshitoki came to the front of the formation surrounded by the army, and exhorted in a loud voice: "The Takeda Warden has done his best, and all the samurai present have also done their best, so you should have a clear conscience." It's not your fault that you've lost to the captives, surrender! This family will give you a fair treatment. ”
After being silent for a long time, a long sigh came from the array: "I, Takeda Shinfan, wish to surrender!" ”
In this battle, the Takeda family went to seven stops, and the samurai who died in the battle included Takeda Nobuyo, Takeda Nobuyomo, Ichichi Shinryu and other close relatives, and the father and son of Kanemaru Torayoshi and Tsuchiya Shoji were killed in battle, and the Samurai of the Pedigree Oda Toramori, Kudo Masasuke, Hinata Masantoki, Mieda Moruna, Hara Torayin, and Hara Masain were killed in battle, and the samurai such as Kurihara Nobuyomo, Asari Toraka, Kato Nobuho, Iwate Yinhide, Iitomi Toramasa, and Iitomi Masakai were successively begged to death.
This out-and-out all-out rout is not only a great loss of vitality and a loss of muscles and bones, but also a waste of martial arts and no chance of recovery.
A total of 9,000 people were killed on the frontal battlefield, and nearly 3,000 were captured before they had time to escape, and only about 3,000 actually escaped. For example, Minami Shinano, Kiso Yoshiyasu, Hida's Eima Shimori, etc., the soles of their feet were smeared with oil and ran away. On the flank battlefield, only Takeda Nobuyo's team rushed over, more than 3,000 people rushed over, 1,000 were captured, 7,800 were killed on the river beach, and more than 1,000 people were captured on the river beach before they rushed out.
More than 5,000 Sanada Yutaka troops on the south bank of the Chikuma River were bitten by the military strength of Murakami Yoshikiyo's attack, and in the end they still wittily broke their tails to survive, and took the initiative to abandon more than 2,000 broken rear troops, and led the main force of 3,000 national troops to escape from death along the mountain road of Tsuma and Daughter Mountain, which was another time he escaped from the fingers of the Kira family.
There were a total of 23,000 people in the war on both sides, only 6,000 escaped, and the rest were either captured or killed, and after the first actual inspection, a total of 10,000 Takeda troops were killed, most of them were killed by the Kira army during the assault, and on average, almost everyone killed an enemy, and such a high death rate far exceeded the trauma suffered by Hojo.
In order to kill Takeda Harunobu, the Kira Legion also paid a heavy price, 14,000 troops killed 4,000 people, and the direct standing of the Kira Legion died 2,300 people, of which the Chibei lost more than 500 horsemen ranked first in the loss list, and the training cost of each Chibei cavalry could easily train ten elite horseback warriors, and one hundred elite ashigaru.
In addition, the Murakami Yoshikiyoshi team who stuck to Kaizu Castle killed 1,800 people, and only 1,200 remnants of the soldiers persisted to the end, if it were not for the collapse of the Takeda Army on the main battlefield and the collapse of the morale of the Shinano Army, Sanada Yukitaka would definitely return to leave this pile of remnants of Murakami Yoshikiyo, not to mention why he used 1,200 people to capture 2,000 prisoners alive.
The loss of 500 people was mainly due to Kira Yoshitoshi's eagerness to fight, in order to kill Takeda Harunobu and bury more than 200 horses, but there must be a loss of the lives of these two hundred cavalry in exchange for the killing of Iitomi Huchang, Iitomi Masakakei, Takeda Nobuyo, capture Takeda Yoshinobu alive, and capture Takeda Nobuyoshi's brilliant results, on the whole, it was still earned.
After this battle, the main force of the Takeda family in the Shinano area was all destroyed, and the Kira army pursued non-stop victory, and drove all the way back to Konoshi County, and at the same time, Kira Yoshitoki fulfilled his promise, and those who were forced to surrender from the enemy within the time limit were not to blame in the past, and the people who resisted were given the privileges of the corresponding years, and for a time the people in Kobi County fell in sight, and the warriors of the Takeda Army who defended the city were either assassinated by the Kira Shinobi army or captured by the people of the country, and the Kokushi County was restored overnight.
Sanada Yutaka with the remnants of the defeated army once again retreated in the stone city to do a desperate struggle, he gambled his life on the body of the Takeda family, and now there is no way out, if he chooses to surrender, then Kai's three sons will die, and he is not willing to surrender like this, he has the dignity of a samurai and the glory of a wise general, even if he dies standing and does not want to live in humiliation, and strives to inspire the remaining eight hundred sons to prepare for the cage city, it seems that he wants to fight to the death with the stone city.
It's a pity that Kira Yoshitoki doesn't seem to have much interest in the defeated generals of that group of remnants, leaving the injured Murakami Yoshikiyoshi team to nail the stone castle and go straight to Saku County, at this time Saito Asanobu has already made the inside and outside of Saku County transparent, and the unreasonable Shino San's Youzu Masanao and Mochizuki Sheng were taken by Saito Asanobu in Oda Ihara early.
The county generation of Koyamada Masatsu led the remnants of the Takeda army to hold Uchiyama Castle, but it happened to meet Saito Asanobu to pick up the leak and was taken without hesitation, and the people of Saku, who continued to hold on, saw the Kira army killed. I know that the trend has passed. Saku-gun was decided.
A meritorious service for Yoshikiyo Murakami. Without him defending Haijin Castle for three months, there would be no glorious record of the Kira Army's painstaking arrangement of a lore, and it is a very remarkable feat to say that he defended a flat city under great pressure, and it is reasonable to give him a meritorious evaluation.
If he gritted his teeth and blocked for a moment, the Takeda Army, which could not be used in all directions, would be entangled in Kira Yoshitoki, and then Takeda Shinfan would come to the rescue, and at that time there would really be nothing to catch, let alone kill who would capture who would capture whom. And these two people have been staring at the huge pressure for several years and have not defected, and they have passed on valuable information to the Kira family, and this credit for him is well deserved.
Three times the Gong Miyabe Jirun, at the same time obtained four Ichibana merits, overnight captured three castles on Hachimangahara, ambushed outside the Takeda Army camp at night, endured the bait of the Takeda Army did not show up, flew to capture the camp at the most critical moment to capture a Shin Dragon, ignited a raging fire to the Takeda Army to deal a fatal blow.
However, such a high death plea is a major event to boast about, and the more people who lose more can be understood by the samurai. The last battle to kill tens of thousands of people was a decades ago, when the more than 20,000 troops of Hosokawa Takakuni and Urakamimura were wiped out. Urakami Munene was killed on the spot, and Hosokawa Takakuni's Aizen dye vat in Amagasaki Town was caught and killed, and that war was so outrageous and bizarre that it was almost comparable to some outrageous wars in the Genpei era and the Northern and Southern Dynasties era.
Among them, the silent Miyabe Jijun performed very eye-catching in the night battle of Hachimangahara and the decisive battle, and another very eye-catching person was Shiraku Sadatsu, who led the Shinano reserve to withstand the onslaught of Oda Toramori, Sone Masayo, and Hara Masain, and forcibly took the head of Oda Toramori, resulting in the collapse of the Takeda Army is also a very boastful record.
After the battle, the losses were counted and the harvest was counted, and Kira Yoshitoki immediately fulfilled the promise he made before going out of battle, as long as the Takeda army was defeated, 50,000 kan was released on the spot to reward the three armies, and the rest of the merits such as the first rank, bereavement pension, meritorious service, etc., the first thing he did when he returned to Asahiyama Castle was to propose 50,000 kan copper coins as cash, and 50,000 kan would be issued to all soldiers on the spot, of which a total of more than 5,800 war dead would also be collected by the widows and family members of the victims.
The so-called heavy reward must have a brave man, meritorious reward must be punished, keeping promises is the way for the king, Kira Yoshishi knows that trust and prestige to establish a good reputation on the basis, so every time before the war to publicize the reward, after the war to send money is not stingy, in front of the spring mountain castle dozens of carriages pull heavy money boxes, open all Huang Cancan copper coins is not the first time, he is using actions to tell all followers, follow the Kira family do not have to worry about meritorious wealth.
Taking Koja and Saku, the entire North Shinano was completely eaten, Miyabe Jijun led 2,000 troops to Saku County and was ordered to go to Saku-gun, tentatively crossed the Shinshu Pass to launch an attack on Kai, and was soon forced back by the Kai people who resisted resolutely, considering that Saku-gun had just taken the people's hearts undecided, Kira Yoshitoki agreed to the proposal of Nanaoka Kazubo and ordered Miyabe Jijun to lead 2,000 troops to defend Kainoguchi Castle.
On the other side, Honjo Shigeru, Kakizaki Keijia and other Echigo nationals led more than 3,000 people to cross the Baba Pass to attack Nakashinano, Honjo Shigenaga's performance in the joint battle was not conspicuous, probably because the night battle was not used to the slow response, only had time to catch the head of the shallow tiger, and the unknown countryman who killed the ground servant was embarrassed to show off.
Kakizaki Keijia did not make it to the third battle, and he held his breath in his heart to find it back in Nakashinano, but the first battle was stubbornly blocked in Aoyagi Castle, and the people of Nakashinano hated the Kira family to the core, and the people of Shinano lost more than half of the people in the war that had just ended, but even this could not change their hatred of the Kira family.
The 500 defenders stubbornly blocked the Honjo Shiranaga and Kakizaki Keika teams in the renovated Aoyagi Castle, and the Vietzee reserves, which lacked the support of iron cannons and baking, could only stare at the castle in a hurry, and those local servants also came from time to time to harass the grain road, and the Kira army that attacked the military camp was annoyed, and as the wind and snow became heavier and heavier in late October, the attack was completely out of play, and was recalled by Kira Yoshitoki to end the unsuccessful invasion of Nakashino.
Ji Liang Yoshishi also had a headache when he learned about this situation, thinking that last year was still too eager for quick success, and he offended the people of Zhongxinno too hard, so don't think about taking it down in a short time. At this time, the snow is falling more and more, and the end of the year is approaching. Good news came out one after another in Vietnam and Vietnam. When Kira Yoshitoki relaxed, he considered returning to Echigo and made corresponding arrangements before leaving.
Ordered Murakami Yoshikiyo to lead the troops and horses of the headquarters, and the 3,000 people of North Shinano, a total of 3,000 people to defend Katsuo Castle, responsible for attacking Sanada Yutakaka, the only one in North Shinano who did not surrender, and 2,000 people from Miyabe Jijun in Umi no Mouth Castle to monitor the movements of Shinshu Pass, Ogasawara served as the banner leader of the Nakashino strategy for a long time, and was responsible for winning over and attacking the Nakashino territory. Allow him to restore his old territory after a successful strategy.
Kakizaki Keijia, Yasuda Keigen, Yoshie Keizi and other Chinese people transferred to the Shinkawa County of Echichu, and Kakizaki Keijia transferred to Tenjin Mountain to establish a new city as the lord of the city, and the land Zhixing increased to 550 towns, Yasuda Keigen and Yoshie Keizi were also arranged in nearby territories, because there was no ready-made fortified castle, they were allowed to move to nearby villages and merge them into a town, and then build corresponding buildings, castle walls, and castle towers.
As for the large number of captured prisoners, he had no intention of dealing with them for the time being, and Takeda Harunobu ran all the way back to Kai from Shinano with the remnants of the defeated army, and he didn't have the time to care about the life and death of his younger brother and son. For a while, Kira Yoshitoki didn't think about how to use these trump cards, so he had to escort them to retreat to Echigo with the army.
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At the end of September, Mogami troops wandered around Xiayue for a long time and quickly retreated. They have to return to the country of Deyu before the snow, otherwise they can't go if they want to go in the snow of the mountains, and the army of the most advanced army in the country of Xiayue swayed in a big circle and basically didn't catch anything, but was frightened by the actions of the people of Xiayue, couldn't eat and sleep, and beware of being taken to the nest day and night, just like a rogue mountain bandit who took a shot to change a place.
I wanted to catch a sum of money at the time of the autumn harvest to go home for the New Year.,As a result, I was frightened back by the defeat of the Ida、Ashina coalition army.,The main force of the most uphill army is the people of the country rather than the so-called direct standing station.,Obey the words of the lord of the country and run to Vietnam in order to grab money, food, and women.,In the face of the encirclement and interception of the people of the lower Vietnamese, the treatment is basically the same as that of the Shinano National Army under the Takeda family.,And it's more unlucky than them.。
Echigo has the agility of the Kira naval army can appear near Arakawa and Agano River at any time to scare them into weakness, and with the defeat of the unhelpful Date and Ashina coalition forces and fled, the Chinese and Vietnamese national armies have flocked to Shimoetsu, fortunately, the most terrible "Takigawa Tokiyoshi" and "Shima Tokikatsu" obediently rejuvenated the mountain castle, otherwise the Mogami army would really be frightened.
Even so, the Mogami army was still frightened when they saw the large-scale siege of Echigo, and when they saw that the situation was not good, the leaders of the Mogami Hachiyu discussed and didn't say a word, and they didn't lose money anyway, so it was worthy of Takeda Harunobu's heavy reward to spend 500 taels of gold for them to march in arms.
The war of the Echigo encirclement network showed signs of anticlimactic signs with the collapse of the two horns of the Takeda Army and the Hojo Army, and the Echichu had always gathered an army of 40,000 under the organization of Katsukoji Yuncheng, and after the autumn harvest organized a new round of attacks, probably because he felt that it was in the way, Kotokuji Shinogen withdrew to Kaga, and he had the opportunity to swallow the fruits of victory alone, and the greedy Echichu had always tried to storm for more than a month except to harvest dead corpses all over the ground.
As the heavy snow fell, the last hope of ending the Vietnamese-Chinese war within the year was disappointed, and the disadvantages of the peasant and soldier groups that had always belonged to the peasant and soldier groups became apparent, and the battle that was not smooth became weaker and weaker, and the morale of the people in more than a month dropped from bursting to extremely low, and a heavy snow extinguished the fanaticism of the believers of the sect, and their own side lost thousands of lives but did nothing, how should this war be carried out.
"How should this war be fought?" The officials of the clan were also hesitating, but they quickly stopped doing this senseless entanglement, because the news of the successive defeats of the Takeda family and the Hojo family came, and the officials of the Yuezhong clan panicked.
The total collapse of the Takeda family, the big benefactor, was like a bolt from the blue, and the news of the defeat of the Hojo family further dampened the will to fight of the Echichu officials, and the morale of the Echichu army became more and more depressed, and the defenders in the city seemed to have received the news, and the low morale of the samurai in the city was rising, and there were more and more cases of provocation against the Ichichi army outside the city, and there were even signs of military instability in the Ichichi army.
In this case, the god of the chief embodies the fine tradition of their family pit teammates, and left a few words of the scene that night and led the army to leave early the next morning, this time the Shengxing Temple Yuncheng and Ruiquan Temple are not light, but the people are the lords of the country and not the officials, and the two great monks have no way to stop them.
A group of great monks such as Yuncheng of Shengxing Temple and Rongxiu of Ruiquan Temple were not able to do anything, so they simply disbanded the armed winter, and we went back to our homes and found our mothers in the winter.
As for the territory of Shinkawa County, the officials each occupy a piece of their own affairs, and the Jimboo family arrogantly assigned a large piece of territory near Toyama Castle to their own, and the two old monks were disgusted by this, and this goods were unwilling to contribute to grabbing land to be a first-class positive, but fortunately, Kaga had always been a big straw bag Guangdeji Temple Chengxian left early, and it was not bad to divide the chassis only the locals, how to say that Shesui County was eaten by several large temples in Yuezhong as a whole It is still very profitable.
Yamamoto Tokiyuki relied on tenacious defense, with 8,000 against 100,000, 4,000 against 40,000, and survived until the moment of victory, although they paid a heavy price for this, almost one for two for three, the defenders still had strong fire support, plus tenacious will and several months of rich experience in defending the city to be able to support, in this month and a month of countless times to repel the army of the same one, leaving them with the hope of victory.
At the end of the war, Yamamoto was fortunate but did not lead the army to evacuate from Vietnam, but led the army to leave Matsukura Castle on the high mountain, and came to the relatively wide and flat Uozu Castle for wintering, and the 5,000 troops paid the price of nearly half of the casualties.
They learned how to fight, how to cooperate with their comrades, how to survive the war as much as possible, kill as many enemies as possible, kill the enemy and see blood, and experience the horror between life and death on the battlefield, this is the transformation process from recruit to elite soldier, when Saijo Bei trained for five years, was carefully covered by Kira Yoshitoki for a year, and was able to complete this transformation process after the deep grass battle, and now they only use less than two years of training, a few months of war to succeed, I don't know whether it is luck or misfortune.
At the end of the year in the blink of an eye, the Kira Army and the Nagao Army were forced to return to Echigo for the New Year because of the impact of heavy snow, and when they learned about the specific situation of the civil war since the summer in the Kasuga Yamajo Kira Yoshitoshi, they still gave high praise and praise to their wives Naohime and Ii Naotora's sudden attack.
Of course, their such nonsense behavior was also strongly criticized by the long-tailed Jinghu, the so-called "its circumstances are permissible, but its actions must be severely punished", as a punishment for the two former princesses and current wives, Princess Aya has stricter control over them, and the behavior of dancing knives and guns is strictly prohibited, only allowing them to hold wooden knives and bamboo swords for basic exercise, their collection of armor, knives and guns and other weapons have all been taken away, and the number of horseback riding is also strictly limited to three times a month, it seems that they will say goodbye to these murderous weapons forever. (To be continued......)