Chapter 263: The Interrogation of the Vanquished

The cavalry of the Kira family rushed into the main formation of the Honjo army with a terrifying momentum like a red wind blowing through the wilderness, and the Dahoji army saw that the situation was not good and hurriedly turned around and retreated, and his 500 people lost nearly 100 combat strength before they touched the edge, and it was simply death if they did not retreat in the face of the wolf-like Kira army.

Losing the support of the left flank, the Honjo army, which was engaged with the Kira army's Ashigaru Formation, became a turtle in the urn, and the main frontal force was pinned down, which seriously affected the mobility, and Honjo Shiganaga could only grit his teeth and send all the mounted samurai to the two flanks to block the assault of the Chibei cavalry.

Kira Yoshitomo pursued the tactics of cavalry assault in a roundabout way, never being rigid in front of the enemy, especially not fighting positional battles with Ashigaru, and his tactical thinking was fully implemented, and the two wings of the Honjo army, which were attacked by the red cavalry from the left and right, were defeated and retreated, and the two hundred horseback samurai of the Honjo army disappeared in a short time.

With the trend of collapse on the front line, Honjo could no longer sit still, and hurriedly urged his war horses to rush out of the main formation, shouting: "The whole army is attacking, and the cavalry of the Kira army must be stopped!" ”

Dozens of horseback warriors of the Honjo family came out to make the situation slightly back from some disadvantages, at least Honjo Shigenaga personally went into battle to stimulate morale, but then the situation was quickly pulled back, Takigawa Keijiro set his eyes on Honjo Shigenaga, urging his mount to rush to the front line and directly confront Honjo Shigenaga.

"Honjo is long! Let me Takigawa Shiyi come and end you! ”

With the help of the huge power of the war horse's charge, Takigawa Tokiyoshi swung the gun in his hand and stabbed out a fierce blow, the bloody breath in his face and the chill on the blade of the gun made his sweat pores explode, and the crisis Honjo's long reaction was extremely fast, and he dodged this fatal attack sideways. The two staggered past each other and looked at each other instantly. For the first time, Honjo experienced the feeling of fear.

Fight the horses again and confront each other. Honjo suddenly felt that his clothes were soaked, and he had been shocked into a cold sweat by that blow at some point, and he could no longer care about the dignity of the samurai, so he hurriedly shouted: "Yawa and the grandson Jiro, Ariakehei right guard, come and help me!" ”

"Yes!" Two of Honjo's long-term cronies rushed to the horse, and at this time Takigawa Shiyi also happened to arrive with another assault, facing the three people dancing with big guns at the same time, Takigawa Shiyi swung his spear violently with both arms to block, and used brute force to knock away three big guns. Honjo's long reaction was the fastest, and the moment the big gun bounced off, he pulled back the disintegrated spear.

This moment's witty reaction saved his life, and the other two were not so lucky, Takigawa Tokiyoshi stabbed Yawa and several Sun Jiro to death with a single shot, and Arimeihei Right Guard was also killed by a sudden flying arrow, Honjo Shiganaga caught a glimpse of the island not far away, and immediately turned around and fled, and there was not much left of the dozens of horseback samurai around him at this time.

Takigawa Shiyi stopped unhurriedly and shouted: "Enemy general, Yayu and Sun Jiro have been taken by me!" Leave him behind! ”

"Yes!" Island Shisheng bent his bow and buckled the arrow, and in an instant, another arrow flew out. In the middle of the hind hips of Honjo's long mount, the war horse staggered and fell in severe pain. Takigawa Tokiyoshi took out the lasso and stepped forward immediately, lassoed the Honjo Fanchang who had fallen into seven meat and eight vegetarians, and dragged him directly away from the battlefield.

"Honjo Shigencho has been captured!" This news was like a storm blowing in all directions, and both the Mogami Army, which was advancing all the way, and the Kurokawa Army, which was tepidly entangled, retreated back at the same moment, and as the main force of the coalition forces on the Honjo side, the blow of Honjo's long direct defeat to the coalition forces was huge.

First of all, the Honjo army all laid down their arms to accept the prisoners, fortunately all this time was not too long, the Honjo army died more than 400 people before and after, and the Kira army only paid the price of light and serious injuries of hundreds of people without a single death, the gap in equipment, training and discipline is fatal, the Honjo army with different orders can not form an effective counterattack at all, the frontal conflict can not take any advantage, and the two wings have not collapsed before they are assaulted, and it is already the super resilience of the Echigo people who are supporting.

The whole situation began to collapse after this defeat, the most senior army threw down the fat in his hand and turned around and fled, the Dabaoji army had already died, if he didn't escape now, he would definitely not have a chance to run again, the Kurokawa army wanted to retreat but was restrained by Nakajo Fujizi, unless Kurokawa Mori was willing to break his tail to survive, he could escape, but the current situation was obviously no longer able to fight.

"Kurokawa Morimi has surrendered! Honjo Shimanaga surrenders! The Mogami army retreated, and we won! ”

The Chibi cavalry of the Kira family was still reluctant to hold Mogami army, although this was not very significant, and all the 100 or so lives were harvested, and the rebellion of Echigo came to an end with the end of the battle under Honjo Castle.

Two days later, in Honjo Castle, the Echigo post-war evaluation meeting was held here, and the entire Shimo-Vietnam people, including the Miura Party, the Chichibu Party, the Omi Party, and the Sasaki Party, attended the meeting.

The first is to punish Honjo Shiranaga and Kurokawa Morimi, who directly led the rebellion, these two people were tied up and escorted into the hall, facing the familiar faces in the hall, or sympathetic or mocking eyes, the faces of the two defeated generals were very ugly, especially the Kira family's habit of disrespecting the captured generals made them very angry.

Honjo said angrily, "Why do you want to tie us up? Even if we are defeated, we have dignity! ”

"Dignity? Do you have this? Kira Yoshitoki sneered, and gestured to Takigawa Tokiyoshi and Shima Tokikatsu, and the two kicked the two of them down, and the two of them scolded loudly: "What dignity do you have!" Rebel! ”

At this time, Kurokawa Shengchen was also angry, and scolded: "We are not the retainers of the Wuwei Palace, why are you doing this to us? You bastards help out! ”

The "bastards" in Kurokawa Morimi's mouth are the Shimotsu people in the hall, but who will help them at this time, Katsunaga Shizobe and Kiyocho Ayukawa of the Chichibu Party directly turned their faces away, and Harutsuna Kaji, Keisuna Takemata, Tsuru Shinshida, and Hiroke Fifty Kono of the Sasaki Party carefully appreciated the expressions of the two with the mentality of watching a good show.

At this moment, a familiar figure appeared outside the assessment room, and Xin Huang Tian Zhen happened to catch a glimpse, and immediately exclaimed: "Huh? Hojo Tango Mamoru? ”

"That's right! That's me! After a few days of mental torture, Hojo Takahiro was several times thinner than before, and the bandit face that was originally full of horizontal flesh became angular and angular, but the bandit spirit on his body was still not gone.

Many people were keenly aware that he seemed to have some strange changes, and before they could think about it, they saw an amazing scene, Hojo Takahiro swept the many Shimotsu martial artists in the hall, and directly stepped over and leaned over and said: "Hojo Takahiro is late!" I've been waiting for a long time! ”

"Your Excellency? What's going on? At this time, not only the people of Shimoyue in the hall were shocked, but even the samurai of the Kira family were a little surprised, only Kira Yoshishi, who was sitting on the main seat, smiled.

"Gao Guang Xingyue is coming, I am very relieved! What do these two people think should be done? ”

"The unrepentant must not be tolerated!" Hojo Takahiro obviously came prepared, nodded to him when he saw Kira Yoshishi, and immediately walked over and pressed the heads of Kurokawa Mori and Honjo, and said sharply: "See who is the person on the main throne?" Are you still obsessed? ”

"Hojo Takahiro! Are you crazy! Let me go! Kurokawa Mori was both shocked and angry, what kind of madness did this guy have today, this moment he has become like this, he was the most dishonest person in the past.

In contrast, Honjo was even more arrogant, and even if his head was pressed on the tatami mat, his mouth scolded mercilessly: "Hojo Takahiro! Let me go! Otherwise, I'll kill you!" ”

"The hall master is here, who are you going to kill! Idiot! Takigawa Shiyi, who retreated to the side to watch the play, was furious, and Shima Shikatsu hugged the angry Takikawa Shiyi, and hurriedly glanced at the stunned Nagasaka Nobumasa: "Come and stop him!" ”

"Oh!" Nagasaka Nobumasa ran over and the two fierce generals worked together to hold down Takigawa Tokiyoshi who had brute force, and saw the moaning sound under the tatami mat between the three people pulling, and the people of Shimotsu couldn't help but feel related, Takigawa Tokimasa put down the two generations of fierce generals of Hojo Takahiro and Honjo at a young age, and the future achievements are only unimaginable.

"Hojo Tango doesn't have to be a villain, it's better for me to come!" Ben Duoshi was looking at the heat and the heat was about the same, so he stood up and looked at the two prisoners who seemed to be dead dogs with a smile, and said loudly: "I have always rewarded and punished the Ashikaga family fairly, and I did not hesitate to reward the meritorious, and naturally there was no punishment for those who had transgressions, and rebellion was a major crime set by the owner of my family. ”

Honjo asked angrily, "Why punish us?" ”

"Why?" Honda was sneering, glanced at the people of Xiayue, and then said slowly: "With your duties as ministers of the Taira Chichibu Party and the Miura Party!" ”

"What?" This is not as simple as being surprised, Nakajo Fujishi, Sebe Katsucho and other people frowned, and they couldn't help but wonder what this Wuweidian meant, they have been autonomous for hundreds of years, no matter who the lord of Echigo is, they can't shake a point, since the outbreak of the Oshu Astronomical Rebellion more than ten years ago, the confrontation between Nakajo Fujiko and the head of the Honjo House has made the originally monolithic Yangbei people begin to split.

Nakajo Fuji took the lead in taking refuge in Nagao Jinghu is the beginning, and then the people of Xiayue actively or passively surrendered under the banner of Nagao Jinghu, but they did not really obey this dragon of Echigo, the first battle of Kawanakajima, Nagao Jinghu repeatedly wrote letters urging Sebe Katsucho to lead the army out of battle, and even the bi-monthly assessment did not necessarily come to participate, which shows how free and loose this group of Xiayue people lived.

Nakajo Fujishi couldn't help but ask, "What does Wuweiden mean?" ”

"What the family means......" Kira Yoshitoki slowly stood up and said with a smile, "Of course, I want to order Echigo in the name of the Ashikaga family!" (To be continued......)