Chapter Ninety-Six: The Raid

When Akao Kiyotsuna led the team to join the front, the gradually wavering Asai army stabilized again.

Under the tacit understanding between Isono and Kiyotsuna Akao, the right side of the formation began to move back slowly, gradually turning the straight line into a diagonal line.

Rokkaku Yoshixian, who had not seen the disadvantage of the Asai Army for a morning, pulled out several reserves from the main formation to supplement the front line in order to strengthen the suppressive force.

Something was wrong, Gamo Kenhide was keenly aware of something, and issued a warning to Shinto Kenmori in the second formation.

At this time, Asai Nagamasa took advantage of the gap between the Hexagonal Army and launched a surprise attack.

She led her direct retainers and their troops to attack the main formation of the hexagonal Yixian.

The forces of the two sides were 11,000 and 25,000, and the total strength of the troops that could really attack and defend was more than 10,000 people, excluding the heavy battalions guarding the axis in the rear and the peasant soldiers who were in groups.

Asai Nagamasa launched a decisive raid with his most loyal group of ministers. The number of people was not more than a thousand, but like a tiger descending from the mountain, it was obliquely inserted between the second formation of the Hexagonal Army and the main formation by means of a diagonal angle.

The soldiers and horses of the second formation of the Rokkaku Army were already tired, and they couldn't resist in the face of the recuperated Asai Nagamasa, and gave way to the Rokkaku Yoshiken Honjin shogunate.

The army fights together, and the general is stable in the middle army. The main formation is surrounded by a white curtain and is commanded. The Ma-India military flag was accompanied by a flag guard, which was regarded as the military shogunate.

After thousands of years of development, samurai warfare has formed a system of 10,000 stone and one reserve of peasant soldiers, ashigaru, and Ji samurai.

The soldiers came from the direct ministers, the retainers, the countrymen, and other dominated samurai who were of different blood and loyalty, plus the miscellaneous soldiers who hired wild samurai and evil parties, and it was even more chaotic.

The poor and scattered feudal system of the samurai society led to the fragmentation of resources, and it was difficult to form an elite armed group.

The complex and fragile allegiance system makes all parties in the army irrelevant, and loyalty is all tied to the prestige of the general alone.

Once this formation is captured, the front will lose all advantages and retreat in a rout.

In the final analysis, the peasants and ashigaru lacked the subjective will and organizational consciousness to fight for.

The composition of Ji Samurai is complex, and the countrymen, retainers, and mercenaries have their own ghosts, and there are few ideas of fighting to the death.

So, most of the battles are ugly wars of attrition. Do not seek merit, but seek no fault. Some examples of turning defeat into victory are also mostly related to the success of the raid on the main formation.

Asai Nagamasa took a huge risk of abandoning his own home, but he was also forced to have no choice but by the Hexagonal Army.

Defending is also death, retreating is also death, it is better to simply break the jar and break it, and see who kills whom first.

Rokkaku Yoshiken didn't expect that the young Asai Nagamasa would be so decisive and be disrupted by the surprise attack.

But Kamo Hyunhide's timely discovery, and Shinto Kenmori's quick response after receiving the news, also had an effect at this time.

The advancing Asai Nagamasa was outflanked by the hexagonal second formation in the rear, and if the front could not quickly open up the situation, her army would collapse due to the front and rear flanking attacks.

The most die-hard ministers are not made of steel. People are weak, and people's hearts cannot withstand tests, and morale cannot withstand blows.

But when she came to this point, she could only shout and rise up, and command the army to continue to advance, advance, advance.

At the rear of the Rokkaku Honjin, in the grove of hills that went around behind Sawa Mountain, Yoshiyin and his party were closely watching the battlefield.

All the way is a team led by Akechi Mitsuhide. I don't know when she explored the terrain, so she turned left and right on the road and soon arrived at the battlefield.

Until he reached the rear of the hexagonal Yixian's main formation, there was still a small forest to cover it, which made Yiyin greatly admired.

"It's almost, it's time for us to strike."

Yiyin looked at Akechi Mitsuhide and said.

She shook her head.

"It's a little early to attack now, and when Asai Nagamasa attracts some more forces from this formation, the defense in the back will be weaker."

"Wait a little longer, the old foundation of Asai Nagamasa is going to die. The Naochen regiment is the foundation of the family governor, so let's let the Asai family be peaceful. ”

Seeing that Akechi Mitsuhide didn't insist any longer, Yoshiin said to Maeda and Otani Yoshitsugu behind him.

"Let's go, let the hexagon Yoshixian taste the fate of provoking us."

The Ji warriors roared and got on their horses. Yiyin was just about to get on the horse, and after thinking about it, he said to Akechi Mitsuhide.

"In this battle, every time you have an idea, I reject it, you won't blame me, right? You're much more intelligent than me, but there are some things that I really can't care about. ”

Wise Guangxiu was also stunned, he didn't expect Yiyin to come to such a sentence, and smiled.

"No wonder, I'm happy."

Such a righteous lord is really liked to death.

Seeing her so happy, Yiyin couldn't help muttering in her heart.

I was rejected every time I made suggestions, and I was still so happy that I couldn't understand it.

In front of the cavalry were all war horses, nineteen of them. He was followed by forty horses, and all the horses of the Fujido and Mekada armies were here.

This morning, there was only one battle, and I went all the way here. The horses behind them were already trembling with trembling legs and sweating like rain.

Seeing that after this charge, most of them will be killed. The rest of the people didn't live for a few days, and Yiyin couldn't help but say to Gao Hu, the daughter of Fujido Tiger Gao, who followed.

"These ponies are the main force in your village, right? This loss is estimated to make your mother feel distressed to death. ”

Gao Hu laughed.

"Not really. The miser had to eat a rice ball on weekdays and swallow it one by one, and when he felt a little full, he stopped immediately, for fear of eating more and wasting food. ”

Yiyinguaner.

"You arrange your mother like this, aren't you afraid of going back to the village to wear small shoes?"

"I'm not going back, I'm going to follow you, this battle is too good."

Yiyin looked back at her.

"Why don't you go back and let your mother say it's good to come to the door? Will she let you go? ”

Gao Hu shook his hand handsomely.

"Anyway, there is a sister at home, and it's okay if my two daughters run away. Just let my sister have a few more, hahaha. ”

This Nizi is open-minded, Yiyin was overjoyed by her, and it is not suitable to talk about it at this time.

He nodded to Yoshitsugu Otani, who was holding the flag, and struck forward.

At this moment, Asai Nagamasa was almost in despair. The momentum of the army in one fell swoop was blocked by layers of enemy troops, and there was still a team to break through.

The sharp spirit gradually decreased under the accumulation of human lives, and the enemy army behind him also formed a situation of flanking attack.

Rokkaku Yoshiken sat firmly in the shogunate, commanding the rear garrisons to fill forward one by one, and the military fan in his hand was proud.

Asai Nagamasa is seeking his own death, and everything is under control.

Behind the main formation, the waitby Ji samurai scolded the ashigaru who was about to fall asleep, and looked at the surrounding scenery boredly.

Suddenly, a cavalry army sprang out of the woods on the mountain, all samurai on horseback, galloping in a row of flags.

"Enemy attack!"

Piercing screams came and went, and the hands and lips trembled, and the number of cavalry was counted. Five-seven, five-eight, five-nine, a full fifty-nine horsemen.

She was deeply frightened, slurred her speech, and shouted without a word.

"Five-nine, five-nine, the other side of the five-nine has come down from the mountain!"