Chapter 165: Kamiyagawa Battle IV

At the beginning of the battle, the Tokugawa army actually had an absolute advantage in numbers, and Tokugawa Yoribo was not stupid, and there was no sloppiness in commanding the battle, and if the daimyo of each team worked together, it was only a matter of time before the Toyotomi army was defeated.

It's a pity...

The Toyotomi Army, which was not superior in numbers, relied on the momentum of its comeback, coupled with the leadership of the famous Warring States general Sanada Yukimura, even if it was weak, it still pulled the battle situation to the same level between the two sides.

Whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Japanese State, the battles in the era of cold weapons rely on manpower to fight for their lives, and the entire army can accept only 30% of the battle losses, and 10% of the losses will allow an army to break the opponent in the final blow, of course, if the opponent's battle losses have reached 20%, the battle is over.

Take the battle of Salhu as an example, the Ming army was defeated by Nurhachi in the case of the superiority in numbers, and finally the whole army was defeated, and more than 200,000 people were destroyed, of which the battle damage actually only reached 10 percent, even the 'dare warrior' Juniper was defeated after the battle loss was close to the limit of 30 percent, so 30 percent is the final critical point of an army.

The situation of the two warring sides was inclined to the Toyotomi army from the beginning, and the shogunate was extremely wary of the Shimazu family, and this time the Shimazu clan was attached to the Toyotomi clan, if the shogunate army was defeated, the Shimazu clan would be wiped out, not to mention that most of the 100,000 troops were Satsuma feudal people, and they only had one way, fighting to the death.

The existence of the shogunate army as a 'thief army', although each daimyo was a member of the Tokugawa family, after all, it had been at ease for more than 20 years, and each feudal kingdom had its own development, and no one wanted to die in a battle that was considered to be victorious.

This is the case with Tokugawa Yorishige, the son of Tokugawa Yoribo, as the eldest son, who has been raised in the Matsudaira family since birth, Tokugawa Yorishige's real name is Matsudaira Yorishige, and the eldest son of the Gozo family must pass on, which is also tradition.

If the situation continues according to this, as soon as Tokugawa Yoribo dies, the position of the lord of one of the three families of the Mito Domain will fall on Yorishige, who prefers Raijige Matsudaira Yorishige to serve as his father's flank guard general, which has an extremely important position, and in this battle, he now abandons his own camp and escapes, which is equivalent to exposing his father to the sword of the Toyotomi army.

If you are alive, you can be the lord of the three families, and Tokugawa Yorishige is not a fool, where is his ability to be the opponent of Miyoshi Masaysu?

As a result, Sanada Yukimura and Miyoshi Masaysu had just entered Yori's main formation, and Yorizhong abandoned the formation and left.

Of course, there is only one column that collapsed with less than ten percent of the battle damage, and that is the main general who escaped from the battle, thinking that Chen Cao encountered such a thing in Liaodong back then, otherwise it is unknown whether Nurhachi can fight the big and small Ling River.

The worst thing is that this kid is in the pit to the end, and he rode his horse and shouted "I am ambushed...", "The Toyotomi army is here", and these words were heard by the soldiers of the main camp, and the camp began to be messy.

At this time, Tokugawa Yoribo was about to arrange, Sanada Yukimura single-handedly killed out of the army, and actually followed closely behind Tokugawa Yorishige, Tokugawa Yoribo was shocked, and quickly arranged and shouted: "Order Matsudaira and Atsumi to support this formation immediately." ”

"Yes..."

"Kill..."

The Sanada Army foot soldiers who came with the general trend followed closely behind Sanada Yukimura, and Toda Tadayoshi's team was already entangled by Miyoshi Masayasu at the moment, and he couldn't move at all.

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Ukita Hideya had already pulled out his sword at this moment, and he clearly saw that he was surrounded by at least seven or eight daimyo in the middle, although there were 10,000 reinforcements behind him, but the reinforcements were also taking care of themselves at the moment.

Seeing this, Ukita Hideji shouted: "Father, quickly lead the army to retreat..."

Where did the Ukita Hide's family dare to withdraw, if they withdrew here, they would lose this battle, they had been imprisoned on Hachijo Island for so many years, and now they finally came back with the Toyotomi family, how could they be defeated again?

"Order the Iron Artillery to attack the enemy on the right flank, and you lead the army to kill them from that direction at once, disrupting their deployment..."

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Shimazu Tadashi saw that Ukita Hide's house was besieged, and 10,000 reinforcements were also trapped in it, so he hurriedly reported to Hideyori, who was not far away, and when he saw this situation, he looked at Ono Jicho beside him: "Go and tell the people of Zhongheng that the whole army will attack." ”

After Shimazu Tadashi received the news, he stepped down from the stands and said to Shimazu Tadahiro: "You take 10,000 horses to kill from the right front flank and disrupt their deployment." ”

Zhongheng looked straight ahead: "The old man took the remaining 30,000 people and killed them from the front." ”

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Mizuno Nagakatsu's troops have entered the Xiu family's main formation, and at this moment the men and horses on both sides are fighting in chaos, and the battle has reached this point, as long as either side has a declining momentum, then this battle will have a result.

Who knows that the various daimyo surrounded in the middle seem to be fighting chicken blood, even if there is a decline in the command of the command, but everyone is taking turns to arrange the banner book under his command to go forward for a decisive battle.

If the wheel war continues like this, it will definitely be Ukita Hideya who will collapse in the end.

At this point...

"This battle is defeated..."

"The general has withdrawn..."

I don't know who shouted the first sentence, Mizuno Nagakatsu immediately turned around on his horse and looked at the Tokugawa Yoribo Honjin behind him, and was shocked at a glance, the Tokugawa Honjin, which was originally standing three or four miles behind them, had now entered the frightened bow bird, and fled backwards one after another.

If this continues, wouldn't it expose all the seven daimyo who surrounded the Ukita Hide's family to the middle of the Toyotomi army.

Shimazu Tadaro and his troops had just arrived at the right front flank, but when they saw the shogunate army starting to run back frantically, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately dispelled the idea of surrounding the shogunate army on the right front flank, and immediately led the army to make a detour to join the Sanada army, and then surrounded these tens of thousands of people from behind.

Thanks to Shimazu Tadaro's resourcefulness and the right choice, it was precisely because of this that Tokugawa Yoribo was hit hard.

It turned out that after Tokugawa Yorishige shouted words that disturbed the morale of the army, more than 1,000 cavalry led by Sanada Yukimura had broken into Tokugawa Yoribo's main formation, plus Tokugawa Yorishige's extremely inflammatory words, the entire Tokugawa Yoribo's main camp was in chaos, and then Sanada Yukimura rushed like this, and Tokugawa Yoribo himself was carried away by his retainers.

The main camp retreated, and the three daimyo reserve teams behind him followed one after another, abandoning all the nearly 100,000 people who were fighting to the death with the Toyotomi army in front of him.

Opponents who could have been defeated in a while suddenly shouted in unison that Tokugawa Yoribo had been defeated, causing the front army to be disorganized, and the daimyo had the idea of escaping.

It was not until Sanada Yukimura and Shimazu Tadaro converged that they were counter-encircled by the front army of the shogunate army, and the outermost outermost Osuka Kohei issued an order for the entire army to retreat.

If one person runs, on the battlefield, it will immediately trigger a chain effect, and for a while, countless shogunate troops will flee.

Ukita Hideya looked at this scene and shouted loudly, back then, this scene had clearly happened to him, but at this moment, the person who ran away and pursued had a different identity.

Mizuno Nagatsuna never dreamed that his team would be surrounded by the enemy in a circle, his people wanted to run, but now it is impossible, and the team of Takeda Tsuna who is responsible for receiving the outermost part is now also divided and surrounded in the circle, and Takeda Tsunade has chosen to flee at this moment, because he sees clearly that if he doesn't run at this time, not only will he not be able to meet Mizuno Nagakatsu, but maybe even the army he brought will be folded here.

Sanada Yukimura hit his horse and killed Mizuno Nagakatsu, and the frightened Mizuno Nagakatsu immediately arranged for his retainers to resist, but in front of the absolutely superior cavalry, what these bannermen did was just to use their arms as a car.

When his subordinates had no way out, Mizuno Nagakatsu instructed his henchmen to act as the wrong person, and chose to commit suicide by seppuku before Sanada Yukimura could kill him.

As soon as the lord died, the henchmen and retainers cut off the lord's head and escaped under the cover of a group of dead soldiers, and then the others finally put down their weapons and chose to surrender according to the old rules.

Kamiya River, the first official confrontation between the Toyotomi army and the shogunate army, ended with a complete victory for the Toyotomi army, in this battle, the Toyotomi army killed the Tokugawa genealogy daimyo Mizuno Nagakatsu, and severely damaged the pedigree daimyo Itakura Shigemune.

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"My lord, our army won a complete victory in this battle, beheaded more than 17,000 people, captured more than 30,000 people, and captured countless people.

Sanada Yukimura smiled for the first time in a long time, and he sat down after reporting the battle, he was too tired.

After Ukita Hideya laughed, he looked at Hideyori: "My lord, if you win a big victory, my Toyotomi army should be able to fight Gyeonggi again, and at this time, Tokugawa Yoribo must not know how to explain to Tokugawa Hidetada." ”

Toyotomi Hideyori nodded: "This big victory depends on the concerted efforts of all the adults, but this time it is only the first victory, and the main force of the Tokugawa army is still on the way." ”

As soon as Toyotomi Hideyori's voice fell, Ukita Hideya immediately frowned: "Armageddon is coming, Yukimura-sama has to worry more." ”

Sanada Yukimura also became serious and looked at Hideyori: "Lord, when the war begins, the lord will have to fight in person, and Yukimura can't protect the lord, so the lord must be more careful." ”

Hideyori nodded: "Lord Yukimura must be careful as a surprise attack force. By the way, when will the Ming army arrive? ”

Osamu Ohno spoke: "They went to Hizen Province before our army set off, and now the time is not short, it is estimated that before the start of the war, they should be able to reach the Kamiya River." ”

"They don't have a guide, Mr. Ohno, it's better for you to run it yourself, the Ming army is strong in combat, and you can also surprise and hit the shogunate army in the event of a decisive battle." Ukita Hideya spoke.

Osamu Ohno stood up: "It's about the rise and fall of my Toyotomi family, the old man will leave immediately..."