Seeing that he wasn't leaving, Naokei Yuanshan scolded angrily: "Fujikuro! You're not leaving! Don't go yet! If you don't leave, it's too late! Are you going to die here with your old man? ”

"It's too late!" The attendants of the Yuanshan family said in a trembling voice: "The long-tailed army has already chased after ......"

Not far away, dozens of black-armored cavalry ran on the ground like hammering a drum, and a few timid little surnames were scared and their legs were soft and sweaty, and the black-armored knights seemed to notice that the Hojo Army next to the grove raised their big guns and ran towards the grove, and the distant mountain Tsunade sat on the ground, holding his head and lamenting: "It's the Saito family's thousand cut patterns, and the Saito family in Echigo is Saito Shimonono Mori Asanobu, now we really can't escape......"

In fact, only the cavalry of the Nagao Army was responsible for the pursuit, and the Ashigaru team stayed on the battlefield to put pressure on the main force of the Hojo Army, nearly 4,000 cavalry fled with 20,000 Hojo Army's lives, and Nagao Keitora knew that such a tail chase would have good results, but his goal was not to simply harvest these remnants of the defeated generals, he wanted to harvest the general Hojo Shiyasu.

Nagao Jinghu took out his sword and shouted: "The whole army will turn back immediately after listening to the order, and target the main force of the Hojo Army!" ”

The news of Nagao Jinghu's return spread far and wide, no one had the heart to investigate the source of the news, the Hojo army was like a tight bow and all the members were nervous, it was not enough to defeat the 20,000 army, and they insisted on chasing the main force of the Hojo family to fight a frontal battle, how fierce the momentum must be!

The morale of the Hojo army was suddenly pressed to the bottom, and the samurai did not even have the heart to speak, and many people thought that the faster they ran, the safer they were, and they had the skill to gossip and run two more steps. Or it's good to have the strength left to deal with a possible battle.

Hojo knew very well that it was not appropriate to fight again at this time. Even from the collapse of the main force of the East Road to the present. All the losses did not exceed four thousand, and the Hojo family still had a chance to have the confidence to fight back as long as he was given time, and he silently thought in his heart: "The premise is to withdraw from this battlefield first, and it is not advisable to stay here for a long time, only to retreat first, doesn't Kira Yoshishi often say to endure the calm for a while, take a step back and open the sky?" The family has to endure the anger in their hearts for a while now, and take a step back to avoid the edge for the time being. ”

The high-ranking samurai walked relatively calmly with horses, and the old Matsuda Shengxiu, the head of the auxiliary political pen, leaned over on his horse. said: "Lord, the retreating soldiers are moving closer to the main formation, and at present 10,000 defeated soldiers have been gathered, and only more than 7,000 people in the Upper Field Army are still haunting the rear team, can we drive away first and then continue the march." ”

"No, the ashigaru team of the Long Tail Army is following behind the Ueno Kuniren, obviously waiting for the family to stop and take care of the Ueno Army, once it stops, it will not be easy to leave, and the general after the break will be replaced by Tsunashi to lead the five-color preparation to be responsible." Hojo Shiyasu looked back at the north and said to himself tiredly: "Tsusunari can rest assured that he is doing things." More worried about Zenkuro than this family, he led six thousand special forces for the first time. I hope he doesn't get too impulsive! ”

The long-tailed Jinghu came very quickly, or the speed of the Hojo Army's retreat was too slow, tens of thousands of troops had both two-legged running ashigaru, and four-legged cavalry, the archers and iron artillery teams were all baby bumps, and they were reluctant to lose them, and they couldn't let them drag back, and the broken Ueno National People's Army fought very fiercely, which affected the speed of the march.

It took half an hour to get out of the Ueno country and was blocked by the cavalry of the Nagao family, Hojo Shiyasu's original intention was not to fight, but war is not a question of whether he wants to or not, the Hojo army fought Ueno did not ask the people of Ueno if he wanted to fight, and Nagao Jinghu did not ask him if he wanted to fight.

Seeing the black-pressed long-tailed cavalry from a distance, more than 20,000 troops were all nervous, except for the special team that didn't know where to go, there were only more than 2,000 cavalry left in Hojo's Yasuyasu's hands, of which more than 1,000 were in charge of the five-color preparation after the break, and the remaining more than 1,000 horses were Odawara horses.

The four thousand cavalry were very cunning, they did not choose to rush to the front of the Hojo Army, but to stick to the Hojo Army's here to the rear, one of the Hojo clan's military divisions, Ogasawara Yasuhiro was shocked and said: "Not good! Long-tailed Jinghu, this is going to eat the five colors, and then turn over and chase us! ”

"If the five-color preparation is lost, we will have almost no place to stand, please turn around and fight again, no matter what, we must keep the five-color preparation!" Ise Sadaun tugged at his beard anxiously, this personable nobleman fell into extreme panic, as a member of the Hojo family, he knew too well the weight of Goshibei.

Ogasawara Yasuhiro's face turned white for a while, and he said in a trembling voice: "The five-color preparation is the pride of my Hojo family, and the samurai are proud to enter the five-color preparation, and losing the five-color preparation is equivalent to losing nearly half of the combat strength of our army, no!" It should be ninety percent combat power! The five-color preparation is the symbol of the strength of my Hojo family, and the five-color preparation will be frightened to destroy the Edo people, the small machine people, the Matsuyama people, the Izu people and other reserves, so the five colors must not be lost! ”

At this critical moment, knowing that there must not be a moment of hesitation, Hojo Shiyasu immediately took out the courage of the governor and ordered: "The whole army turns to the front team to change to the rear team, and immediately supports the five color preparations!" Then inform Hojo Tsunaru to fight and retreat, and the family will come to the rescue! ”

Long Tail Jinghu led 4,000 cavalry to rejoin the main force on a long journey, and the main force of the Ashigaru Reserve was physically strong, and how much was affected by the guards, since the successful cavalry assault in the afternoon, in addition to following the cover and killing for a while, he has been following the Ueno National People's Army to slowly exert pressure, which is deliberately done by Long Tail Jinghu, no matter how the cavalry assault wins or loses, the combat effectiveness of the main reserve is guaranteed, and there is still the power to fight.

The four shadow dancers, Nagao Kohei Keiren, Nagao Kashiro Keiaki, Nagao Kanshiro Keikin, and Arakawa Izu Mamoru Nagami, faithfully fulfilled their tasks, rubbing the main force of the five-color preparation and constantly harassing them, and the army that was stirring up the five-color preparation from time to time was uneasy, and wanted to drive the horse warriors to pursue and was worried about getting into the trap, and if they didn't chase, they would have to be constantly disturbed.

The consequences of distraction were revealed, and the front gradually could not withstand the oppressive attack of the main force of the long tail army, forcing Hojo Tsusunari to take out a horse team to drive away the harassing long tail cavalry, and the four shadow warriors were not in love with war, as long as they led out of the rehmannia Hachiman out of the battle, they would immediately retreat, and if he didn't chase it, he would just chase it, and chase out Saito Asanobu, Gan Lai Keichi and other fierce generals who could give him a dumpling at any time.

The flanks were harassed, the front was pressed and could not raise their heads, and the casualties of the five colors increased suddenly. Hojo Tsusunari is also in a dilemma. Fortunately, the main force of the Hojo Army provided great support and stabilized the shaky situation. The generals on both sides were unwilling to lose, and the consequences brought the tide of battle back to a dull and bloody battle.

From the north of the battlefield of the Ueno border, the Takayama camp has long been empty, the samurai took the ashigaru out to pursue the Hojo army, leaving only the people trembling to guard the camp gate, most of the 10,000 people levied by the Ueno people fled after the war, and there were only more than 2,000 people alone in the two camps.

His luck was very bad. When he hurried to the foot of Hirai Castle, he was caught up by the envoy of the Hojo family, and received a handwritten letter from the Hojo clan, the ruler of Sagami was afraid that the Hojo clan would not listen to the instructions and do something against the generals, so he deliberately wrote dozens of words from his busy schedule to urge him to rush back.

"No matter where you are, immediately lead the army back, and you must not dwell on temporary gains, otherwise this formation will suffer a great disaster! The survival of my Hojo family depends on you, and you must not make your own decisions, remember, remember! ”

Just a few dozen words weigh as much as ten thousand pounds. Hojo didn't know if he should be excited or lamented. Hastily cleaned up the mood and left Pingjing Castle far behind, at this time, passing by the mountain camp can only take a look with regret, the watermelon has been thrown out, and there is no point in picking up sesame seeds.

"It's pointless for Hirai City to be beaten by a chicken rib, everything will be closed if I lose this formation, but what can I do if I rush back like this?" The Hojo clan used his brain to think hard, and this thought was half an hour, and the horse in front of him told him to enter the battlefield before he came back to his senses.

What he saw was that the Nagao Army and the Ueno Kuniren Army were attacking the Hojo Army, and the number of soldiers on both sides was around 22,000 people, but the situation was one-sided in the direction of the Nagao and Ueno coalition forces, and the Hojo clan was blindfolded suddenly, and his head was like the buzzing of thousands of bees, and somehow a thought suddenly crossed his mind.

"Flank! Only the momentum of the flanking attack can turn the tide, and only the long-tail army can only be them! The Hojo clan made a bold decision in an instant, and six thousand people raided the back of the Nagao Army and gave them a shocking gift.

Six thousand men and horses rushed towards the back of the long-tail army, the goal is very clear, that is, to copy your back road, there is no cover on the battlefield, six thousand men and horses act together like a rolling flood rumbling, far away can be heard clearly, this time the long-tail army began to panic.

How can you not be worried or afraid of being copied in the back, the samurai tried their best to suppress the commotion of the ashigaru, and urgently turned the direction to focus on the surprise attack behind them, and Nagao Jinghu also noticed the movement in the rear, but at the moment he was leading the cavalry into the entanglement of the five-color preparation, and he would not be able to pull away for a while to fight back.

As the distance got closer and closer, the main force of the Hojo Army also found that the Hojo clan was hurrying over, and no matter how stupid the samurai was, he could see that the Hojo clan was rushing to the back of the Nagao Army.

The 6,000 army rushed into the rear of the Long Tail Army, and at once compressed more than half of the Long Tail Army's movement space, and the rear was originally used as a reserve and a place for long-range troops such as bows and arrows, iron artillery, etc., but now it has become a large battlefield, and the samurai in the rear have to protect the long-range troops from harm, and they must strictly guard against the Hojo clan's complicated flanks, and it is difficult to block a few people from the left and right.

Hojo Shigeru, who patiently waited for the opportunity, quickly coveted the flaw in the ashigaru array, and rushed in with the cavalry, and he followed the impact of the horse to slash the large spear in his hand continuously, slashing through several ashigaru heads, the fragile array could not guarantee that they would avoid the fatal slash, and when the war horse staggered by, the red blood suddenly bloomed.

Even the Nagao samurai, who were known for their bravery and skillful fighting, couldn't help but change color, and the young ashigaru fell into endless fear, this was the first time they had encountered a battle of life and death, and recalled that Yamamoto Tokiyuki had tried his best to describe the horror between life and death on the battlefield, and had been laughed at in private, but now when he returned from the actual experience, he realized that it was real.

The snow-white sword shimmered brightly in the sunlight, it was a light that symbolized death and killing, and every ashigaru who saw this light became the trophy of this sword, and Shida Genshiro, who was guarding the rear formation, took a deep breath and stared at the rampage of the Hojo Army general. Shouted: "Thief! I'm Genshiro Shida to take your life! ”

Genshiro Shida jumped up and slashed at the general. was stabbed in the chest and abdomen by his backhand, and a blood-red spear tip pierced out of his back. The severe pain made his hands holding the knife no longer exert his strength, and he struggled desperately as if he wanted to return to the enemy, but the cavalry general's contemptuous smile shook him off his spear, and he shouted, "The enemy general Shida Genshiro has been taken by my Hojo clan!" ”

"Twenty-six samurai including Tadahide Okawa and Shoda Joshi were killed in battle!"

After receiving the information, Nagao Jinghu's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and the casualties in the rear of the Nagao Army increased sharply, and gradually there was a posture that could not be supported, but the Hojo Army was fighting more and more fiercely, and there was a posture of desperately trying to keep the Nagao Army, Nagao Jinghu weighed the pros and cons and sighed: "For today's plan, we can only wait." The Hojo Army is running back and forth and is about to run out of physical strength, and our side is obviously more dominant in physical strength, so wait a little longer. ”

Nagano Yemasa swung his sword to kill a Kurobi samurai, retreated into the formation surrounded by more than a dozen attendants, deliberately risked his life and killed a few samurai to test how much strength the Hojo Army still had, returned to the simple main formation and asked, "Ask a few Nagao Palace, Numata Palace, and those seven Highnesses are resting, are you resting?" After resting, let them come quickly, and if they come half an hour late, they will suffer a big loss regardless of victory or defeat. ”

"Yes!" The envoy of the Nagano family got up and left, and the more than 3,000 people who played soy sauce have been "resting", so it's no wonder that Nagano Yemasa's face is not good-looking.

"Uncle means that victory or defeat will be decided in half an hour?" Nagano looked at the sky. He asked himself, "Indeed, in another hour the sun will set." The Hojo Army will definitely not be able to lift its tired hands after fighting all day, and it will collapse in half an hour at most. ”

"That's right! I can be sure that the Hojo Army is almost at its limit, and at the end of the strong crossbow, the arrow can't wear Lu Min. Nagano nodded approvingly.

Hojo also understood that the current form was very unfavorable to them, and the reason why he continued to fight was that the defeated army was constantly gathered, and it was located on the small plain at the junction of Ueno and Musashi, and the defeated Hojo army that fled back to Musashi had to pass through here, so since the beginning of the war, more than 13,000 defeated soldiers have been collected one after another.

Some of the countrymen, including Ashikaga Tomasa of the Furukawa Prince, also reunited under the banner of the Hojo Army, and even if the total military strength was lost by one cut due to a major defeat, the main force of the Hojo Army still reached more than 25,000 people in the front, and there were nearly 6,000 Einsatzgruppen in the rear, and they had achieved an absolute advantage in numbers.

And he knows very well what the reason for maintaining morale is now, all the Hojo samurai are holding their breath in their hearts, this will to win or survive supports them to continue fighting, everyone is already very tired, but no matter how tired they are, they can't stop, whoever stops at this time has to die, there is no fluke at all, Hojo Shiyasu didn't dare to say the word retreat, he was afraid that once he said it, he would be defeated like a mountain, and now there are probably not many samurai who are fighting to the death who can return to Odawara alive.

Just when the new cavalry was brewing on the battlefield to support the rear, there were new changes on the battlefield, behind the special team led by the Hojo clan, there was a sudden rumbling sound of horses' hooves, which not only the Nagao family was shocked, but even the Hojo clan was panicked, and everyone on the battlefield turned their eyes to the north.

The short quarter of an hour was as long as half a century, and the noisy battlefield suddenly became quiet, as if everything had become very slow, until the chaotic variegated flags came into people's eyes, and both sides showed relieved expressions at the same time, and at the same time made an expression: "It turned out to be just the people of the country." ”

The Long Tail Army took a closer look and found that it was Kiryu Suketsuna, Yamagami Teruhisa, Yura Narishi and other people from Higashigami Nokoku who had already escaped.

"Wait! That's not right! Why is it so many people, why is it here! Why...... Their target will be us! The blood on Hojo Shiyasu's face receded in an instant, and he clenched his fists and shouted: "Order Hojo Tsunari to attack with all his might!" Take down the long-tailed Jinghu...... No! The people of Ueno Province! It's better to catch more hostages, remember that the hostage of my family wants to live, and exchange his life for the life of my Hojo Army's 30,000 sons! ”

"Yes!" His whole body was shaken, and he hurriedly rode his horse and galloped away.

What is most feared in war is uncalculated changes, but in war it is also the most prone to extra-calculated changes, and every change will exhaust the commander's torture and even break down. For example, Hojo Shiyasu was tortured and almost fainted. High blood pressure has been inherited in his family for generations. The eating habits of medieval Japan were salty, and it was difficult to solve the knots of thinking about it every day, and it was already a great luck in misfortune that this sudden blow did not get sick on the spot.

The Hojo family tree generation retainers were helpless, and for the first time, they felt that they were so powerless, and lamented in their hearts: "Please God and Buddha bless my Hojo family through the difficulties, and bless the lord to lead us out of danger!" ”

Hojo Tsusunari received this order and thought about it after a little calculation, and as early as half an hour ago, he had already noticed the phenomenon of the lack of physical strength of the soldiers, and deliberately gathered the main force and called more friendly troops to support. It is unwise to use the five-color reserve to resist the main force of the long-tail army, and good steel should be used on the blade.

Without any more hesitation, Hojo Tsusunari immediately issued a mobilization order, and all the five colors were withdrawn from the battlefield and the target was locked on the Nagano army, and the target he chose was very ingenious, not the other main forces of the Ueno National Army but only against the Nagano Army, that is, ignoring the Ueno National People, and directly attacking the Nagano Army, so when the Ueno National People found that the five colors were passing by them menacingly, their first reaction was to be glad that they had escaped.

The second reaction is to worry about the safety of Nagano Yoshimasa, and the third reaction is to make a trade-off of whether to rescue or not. Take a closer look at the more than 9,000 people who are prepared by the five colors, one by one, like crazy tigers, completely desperate to pounce on the Nagano army. Even the long-tailed army behind them didn't care, and in the end they still wisely chose to watch from the sidelines, anyway, it's not me who dies, whether he dies or not.

Nagano Yemasa never expected that the situation would suddenly reverse, the situation was so good that it would collapse and collapse, none of the allies of the Ueno people came to the rescue, most of the twelve sons-in-law were isolated outside the encirclement, their first reaction was to rescue, but when they met the crazy five-color bei quickly retreated.

There was no time to scold the sons-in-law for being too cowardly, Nagano Ye was turning over and leading the army to fight again, he soon found himself besieged, Hojo Goshibei seemed to be deliberately oppressing his own space, forcibly isolating the main force of the Nagano army from himself, Nagano Ye was rushing left and right and could not break out of the encirclement, and finally with more than a hundred horsemen was trapped by Ashigaru coming from all directions, in the encirclement of heavy troops, Nagano Ye saw Hojo Tsunari.

"Bastard! Even if the old man dies today, he won't let you take him prisoner! Nagano Yemasa drew his sword and rushed towards Hojo Tsunari, but he was tied up by a few lassoes.

Hojo Tsunashi said lightly: "With the cooperation of Lao Shinano, we also captured Shinano Mamoru to save my life, as long as the main hall camp of the long tail bullet lets us get out of trouble, Shinano Mamoru will be able to regain his freedom immediately!" So it's best not to seek death for Shinano Mamoru, you must know that the Nagano army that lost Mamoru Shinano has no value, and Mamoru Shinano gave up his life for a moment of humiliation, forcing my Hojo family to be anxious, and no one wants to live! ”

Hojo Tsunari's voice was not loud, but the north wind that fell into the ears of the samurai of the Nagano family was as cold as the cold winter wax moon, so that they couldn't help but snort, Nagano Ye was stunned for a long time when he heard this, and suddenly laughed: "I see! Why did my Hojo family launch a madness to catch the old man, it turned out to be for this reason...... That's it! The old man confessed this time! ”

It's hard to kill 3,000 people, it's easy to capture 3,000 alive compared to it, it's the same as besieging the city, and chasing the poor, killing people is always more difficult than catching people, and it's even more difficult to target a samurai.

The main general was captured and the Nagano army soon gave up resistance, and then the Ueno national army woke up like a dream, realizing that the general general was captured and hurried to the rescue, but the result was naturally a failure again and again, and the three Nagao halls who played soy sauce, as well as Numata Hatayasu and Ueno Shichihongun, also found that the situation was not good, and hurriedly led the army to rescue but was easily retreated by more than 3,000 people who were wrapped in Hojo Tsunari and surrendered.

At this moment, Hojo Tsusunari showed extraordinary on-the-spot command ability, the success of this raid lies in the first reason that the timing is very accurate, if the vigilance of the Ueno National Army has not dispersed earlier, it will definitely fail, the second is because the surprise attack came so suddenly that everyone did not reflect it, and the third is to capture at all costs and exchange a thousand lives for more than 3,000 prisoners, if you don't have the courage to gamble, you will definitely miss this opportunity.

He won the bet, and the Hojo family also won the bet, and when the Higashiueno Kuniren Army stabbed the Hojo clan in the back, Hojo Tsunari used the lives of a thousand people to leave a precious retreat for more than 30,000 people. (To be continued......)