A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Amari Kotaei made what can be said to be the most correct decision at the moment. After all, the Usan River is just a small tributary that flows into the Chikuma River. Although there is melted snow from the mountains, it is still not even a person's calf can be submerged. There is nothing at all. It is possible to strike halfway across.

After all, Itagaki Nobukata was discredited in the morning, and four thousand people easily crossed the Usan River, which even dogs could not drown. The Yamauchi army's crossing of the river at noon was just like playing.

But it was very different if he set up an ashigaru formation on the other side of the Unkawa River. After all, we couldn't let the soldiers wading across the river start charging in the river. It will definitely be difficult to exert force if you are treading water. You have to go ashore to find a piece of flat land, then rearrange your formation before going up.

Therefore, Ganli Hutai is really a veteran. He has a thorough understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of both the enemy and ourselves on the battlefield, and can make full use of all available resources. He has indeed managed to stop the advance of more than 6,000 mountain troops with only 400 people (a very small number of people stayed behind to take care of supplies and supplies). clearing the battlefield).

That is to say, the Yamauchi Army planned well and caught up very quickly, without giving the Takeda Army a chance to collect the defeated troops. Otherwise, they might have to face the troops of Amari Hutai who gathered thousands of people and rushed back to the river bank.

Xiao Pingtai has also discovered that there is actually an organized Army A blocking the other side of the river. At this time, Xiao Pingtai has already ridden a hundred steps, riding high and seeing far. Finding that although the troops on the other side were reorganized, there were not many people there, and there was nothing much to say, they broke up and rushed forward to test the water on the other side.

When you see Kanli Hutai's horse flag raised high, everyone will still know such a famous military commander as Kai. There is no need to go to the trouble of probing for things like breaking up troops and harassing them. They still have the ability to be both powerful and powerful. So the Yamauchi army crossed the river with the entire army, and encircled them on three sides, preparing to quickly defeat the vanguard blocking the road with their superior strength.

However, Army A is still Army A, and they are arrayed in front of the formation with wooden beams and bamboo beams. The ashigaru raised their spears, the warriors fired their bows and arrows, and they gathered together. The Yamauchi army fired several rounds of iron cannons and bows but had little effect. And this hedgehog formation made the warriors risk their lives to rush in, but they were reluctant to do so. Many people would die.

Seeing that the defeated soldiers were gathering together, the effect of the surprise attack was about to disappear.

The A army on the opposite side has obviously received the request for help sent back by Amari Kotaei. The drums and conch shells are rumbling in the A army formations on the mountain. The large-scale troop mobilization obviously cannot cover up the five thousand troops of Kai's hero Takeda Harunobu. The army is coming down the mountain to show off with the Yamauchi army.

Yamauchi Yoshiharu was riding on his horse, constantly ordering all the ministries to move forward bravely, but even though the hedgehog was small, it was difficult for the tiger to bite him. More than ten minutes have passed and still no progress has been made.

Konishiharazaemon took a team of bannermen and rushed up once. The tortoise shell was too hard and the bullet pricked his hand, so he gathered his team and withdrew. Then he simply suggested that a thousand people should be left to confront Ganli Hutai, while the remaining five thousand people should take advantage of the victory to continue to drive the defeated troops to attack Army A.

Yamauchi Yoshiharu was also anxious. He couldn't let go of such a good opportunity to win. He needed to quickly defeat the small but strong A army in front of him, and he couldn't afford to delay it.

But at this time, the situation on the battlefield changed again. The Takeda army coming down the mountain suddenly stopped advancing. Suwa's Daimyojin and Sun Tzu Shiru banners all withdrew back to Cangsheng Mountain. All units of Army A also hurriedly retreated back to their starting positions and formed camps to protect themselves.

No need to ask, reinforcements from Yamauchi have arrived. Coming all the way from Ejiri, the 4,500 powerful Ejiri pioneers have already arrived on the battlefield!

All the troops in the mountain suddenly burst into enthusiastic cheers, and it was not that Amari Hutai's troops were short-sighted. Naturally, when they saw Takeda Harunobu leading his troops to retreat to Kurosho Mountain, their team obviously had no choice but to ask for their own blessings.

The armies in the mountain immediately stepped up their attacks. After just ten minutes, billowing smoke and dust appeared from the south and southwest of Cangsheng Mountain. First, there was a big flag with a two-horse flag and two flags with the political name of Hosokawa Aimee, and then there was a flag with two flags and two horses, which was the flag of the imperial family elder, the elder of the Xi family, Isshiki, the young assistant in the palace.

A little further away is the Tsurunomaru horse flag of Matsushita Toranosuke Issei, the chief of the Ejiri sect. He was one of the people from the Ejiri Kingdom who took the lead in fighting against the enemy many years ago (now he is the leader). He has been doing better and better in the past two years.

And his Matsushita clan is not for nothing. The Matsushita clan is after the Omi Genji clan (the Genji clan of Emperor Uta) and the Sasaki clan. The famous general Sasaki Michio of the Southern and Northern Dynasties had a grandson named Hidetoshi who was called the Matsushita clan. The Matsushita family in the Mikawa area of ​​Ene is divided into two families. The Hexagon family started with Hexagonal Gaolong. It moved from Kasaharazhuo in Ene country to Matsushita in Bihai County, Mikawa state, and was named Matsushita. The Kyogoku line started with Kyogoku Hideyori and lived in the mountain name of Ene country. County Matsushita.

And this Matsushita Toranosuke was obviously a member of the Rokkaku family. Their family later produced a famous person, Matsushita Kahei no Tsuna, who once took in the later Taiko Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

The Matsushita Ao family was originally one of the Mikawa priests. Later, the evil thief Matsudaira Kiyoyasu was supported by foreign hostile forces and committed a rebellion. The Matsushita family, who are related to the Kira family and are quite related by marriage, naturally stood up to the evil thief Matsudaira Kiyoyasu. opposite. As a result, the Kira clan was defeated, and their family was forced to flee to Yuejiang. Later, they established a foothold in Ejiri, and later became the leader of the Yamauchi clan, and became famous and prosperous.

Without further ado, Takeda Harunobu's 5,000 men were attacked from the rear by 4,500 members of the Yamauchi Army's Ejiri Corps. The advancing troops suddenly withdrew, and they were already in a panic. The soldiers were all confused, and now they were sideways. The rear was attacked again, and now it could only block the attack of the Yamauchi Army detachment. If the defeated troops of Yamauchi Yoshinori's main team are attacked again, the entire army will be left here.

Yamashita Amari Koyasu and Yamauchi Yoshiharu both discovered this. Yamauchi Yoshiji simply listened to Konishihara Zaemon's suggestion and prepared to leave a thousand people to entangle Amari Kotaei. There were more than five thousand left and they quickly went to take advantage of the victory to attack Takeda Harunobu's headquarters.

Ganli Hutai showed his heroic nature at this time. With his talents, only the world-class legendary epic general Baldwin IV (Battle of Mengisa defeated 30,000 Egyptian Mamluk slave heavy cavalry with 80 knights) With the archers, they joined forces and killed more than 20,000 Mamluk cavalry. Saladin was beaten and escaped with a camel. ) was resurrected and time-traveled to him, and then all 400 of his men were Honda. Gundam, then there is the possibility of a comeback.

So he simply refused to do anything, abandoned all position defenses, and took more than 200 A-army soldiers who could still fight to launch a final and desperate assault on Yamauchi Yoshiharu's main team. Firstly, it buys time for Takeda Harunobu of our team to defeat Yamauchi Kata Ejirizu. Secondly, if Yamauchi Yoshiharu is killed in a surprise attack on the spot, the Yamauchi army will collapse immediately, which is a huge contribution.

But once his turtle shell is taken off, what's the difference between it and a piece of meat?

(It should be noted here that almost all the deployment of participating troops, generals, terrain conditions, chronological order, combat methods, etc. from the Uedahara Battle to the arrival of Ejiri reinforcements are basically written according to the historical facts of the Uedahara Battle. Except for the characters’ There are no major changes in historical facts other than artistic processing. In addition, the ridiculous statement in "Koyō Gunkan" that Murakami died in battle 130 times and Takeda died in 710 battles and Takeda won brilliantly is not accepted.

The promised fifth watch will definitely happen.