A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

The skilled Echigo cavalry had shaken the Hojo army's front, and I believe all parties on the battlefield could see it clearly. Even someone like Koheita who is not very familiar with military affairs can still see some shadows.

This is not to say that the Hojo Army is too bad. In fact, the Hojo Army is not bad. It fought decently. His flank was attacked by soldiers sent by Yamauchi Yoshikatsu. Although Yamauchi Yoshikatsu only asked for containment and not for the soldiers to work too hard, lest the Yamauchi clan's army suffer too many casualties.

But on the battlefield, it is impossible to preserve the strength. The original goal of the Hojo Army is to defend and counterattack to overthrow the Yamauchi Army. Now that Yamauchi Yoshikatsu has only sent three or four hundred people, isn't it just a joke? Just take this opportunity to eat your small army first.

Soon the Yamauchi Army was stuck with the Hojo Army. The two sides were going back and forth, fighting in full swing, and they could not break away from the contact at all. Unlike those kind of battles where you yell at each other for two hours to break up and go home for dinner, like in a movie, Koheita has already seen casualties on the Yamauchi army.

Xiaopingta subconsciously said to Aji: "Look, the soldiers trained by Rehmannia Hachiman are really powerful, and their fighting power is so strong." Aji hummed and did not answer Xiaopingtai. Xiaoping Tai slapped his forehead and realized that it was the same person who tied up Aji and sold it to him last year. It’s good that he didn’t yell out loud, but it was Xiaoping who was asking for trouble. It also stimulated Aji's young mind, which was too sinful.

Continuing to look at the battlefield, compared with the anxious and even slightly victorious situation on the flanks, the cannon fodder Sano soldiers and Numata soldiers in the center who were used to consume the elite attacks of Yamauchi and Echigo were becoming more and more passive.

Although no one has dropped their weapons and run away as Heita Xiao thought, more and more gaps have appeared in the originally flat front. Many ashigaru cowered and refused to step forward to add to the first row. The Echigo cavalry's cavalry shooting was so powerful and the distance was so close that almost all the arrows hit the target. This made the soldiers who were watching the people in the front row knocking down how dare they come in as substitutes, even though there were still a few wooden posts standing in the first row.

It is basically impossible to defend against strong bows and heavy arrows shot from twenty to thirty meters away with the iron sheet armors on their heads and the cheap equipment on their bodies. Moreover, with the current level of medical care, even if the vital point is not hit, the wound may become infected, become septic, and end up in the street.

If you were shot in a vital part such as the neck, eyes, or chest, no one would even treat it for you. If you are not killed on the spot, you still have one breath. Others will watch silently as you gradually weaken with constant wailing, and eventually bleed to death.

With such a big risk, anyone who is not a fool would not think of actually working for the Hojo family. What's more, Hojo Yasumoto has inherited the Numata family, and he actually doesn't even consider the Numata soldiers as his own, and drives them to be cannon fodder. This behavior chilled these Numata soldiers.

According to Koheita's judgment, the reason why the cannon fodder on the front line did not collapse was mainly because of the three formations of more than a thousand Hojo samurai and the dazzling spear points of the Ashigaru behind them.

As for the iron cannons, Yamauchi only had a few dozen, including the one given by Nagao Kagetora just now, not more than a hundred. Except that the number is too small to form a dense firepower. The main reason is that gunpowder is not cheap. Xiaopingtai spent a total of one hundred yuan to buy Aji, his father and sister, and the gunpowder for one shot of the iron cannon was enough to buy one-third of Aji.

You use such an expensive iron cannon that may not be able to hit someone with one shot. You have to calculate the score and feel distressed. The father and son of Yamauchi Yoshiharu and Yamauchi Yoshikatsu are frugal and even a bit stingy. Don't say it, don't say it, I don't want to give it up, anyway, it is definitely not worth using iron cannons to kill these miscellaneous soldiers. If you can shoot samurai, it's not a losing business. But it is obvious that there are no more than a hundred Hojo samurai in the field, so they cannot be used.

Furthermore, I didn’t realize that the main player was Echigo Hojo Takahiro. He was doing well in the game, and the Yamauchi family could just support him. If you cooperate with Hojo Takahiro's performance, you are doing your duty and fighting a bad fight.

Xiaoheita was thinking blindly, and Hojo Yasumoto on the other side was also thinking blindly. Seeing that Echigo's less than 200 mounted samurai were about to scare away the cannon fodder in front of them, the samurai on horseback at his hand plus the master were only fifty or sixty in total. Do you want to have a collision?

After thinking about it for a while, Hojo Yasumoto decided to forget it. In the seventh year of Eisho, Echigo's guardian Nagao Nokage led the Echigo Seikiki to overwhelm the army of his predecessor, Kensada Uesugi. Uesugi Kensada even risked his own life under the iron heel of the Echigo cavalry.

The man who guarded the Dai Nagao clan in Echigo was a ruthless character who continuously attacked and killed the guardian Uesugi Funo and the leader Uesugi Kensada. You did such a treacherous thing, and you didn't care who you were when you killed people.

Hojo Yasumoto does not have the heroic spirit in Shakespeare's masterpiece "King John". Even if the whole world comes to attack from three sides, I will give them a head-on attack here.

He took his own weight relatively lightly, and still did not dare to send his elite Hatamoto and Horses out to attack the Echigo cavalry.

In the end, after much deliberation, there was nothing good to do, so I had to send the Thousand Hojo reserve troops forward to replenish the front line.

Because of the addition of fresh troops, the front of the Hojo Army finally began to slowly return to its original straight line. It seems like they can continue playing another round, and their morale has been slightly boosted. This made Hojo Yasumoto feel relieved and he breathed a long sigh of relief.

But before Hojo Yasumoto could finish breathing, the situation on the battlefield changed. As for the Echigo Nagao Army, the father and son Hojo Takahiro and Hojo Kagehiro have given up their strategy of continuing to use cavalry to harass and attack the Hojo Army.

I saw the Echigo army shouting in unison, and all the cavalrymen who originally held bows were replaced by long naginata, carbines or Odachi swords. Gathered into a sharp force headed by Hojo Takahiro and his son.

All the cavalrymen made no mistakes. They all arrived at the starting position in just a few breaths. The knights on the horses were all adjusting their breathing. Some people also took out wheat beans from the cloth bags on their waists and fed them to the war horses under their crotches. These wheat beans were soaked in salt water and could replenish the physical strength of the war horses. After all, these war horses had just carried the warriors back and forth for hundreds of meters, consuming a lot of horsepower.

That is to say, the Echigo war horses that grew up in the ice and snow of the Echigo Plain are at this level. Putting the pack horses under Koheita's lap, if he ran five hundred meters at full speed carrying Heita, who was covered in clothes, the horse would be useless and would directly vomit. It's possible to foam and collapse to death. After all, animals are not machines. Just like humans, they have a limit to their energy. An exhausted man will certainly not be able to run, and neither will an exhausted horse.

As if to give the war horses and the cavalry that had fired arrows several rounds a break, the Echigo infantry, which had been standing still in formation, began to advance slowly amidst the sound of the warriors on foot.

Whether these infantrymen were simple warriors with only a formation hat and a spear, or they were ashigaru wearing a formation hat on their heads, or they were high-spirited samurai wearing armor all over their bodies, they all held onto their weapons and were divided into three sections.

Moving from behind the cavalry to the front of the formation, the infantry paused briefly and reorganized their formation. They laid their spears flat and formed a forest of spears. "Hey, hey, hey." They yelled and made fighting movements.

In the first paragraph, it seems that the flag is commanded by a warrior from Xiaodao with Miao character. There were many samurai warriors on the Echigo Miaojima Island, and it was probably not the brave general known as Yajiro Sadaki on the ghost island. He is a close guard of Nagao Kagetora, and he will not be willing to be driven by Hojo Takahiro who promotes the Northern Army.

In short, this small island is moving towards Hojo. At first, they just walked quickly. In the last fifty meters, everyone invariably grabbed their weapons and charged quickly. Just like hot soup melts snow, and a quick knife cuts butter. The entire Hojo Army was immediately dented after being photographed.

It is true that when two armies meet, the brave will win. Neither side is the kind of three-room spear that can only shoot. Everyone carries a one-and-a-half or two-room gun that is convenient for close combat. Anyone who is stabbed will be left with a bloody hole. There is no luck.

The soldiers of the Hojo Army were mixed with cannon fodder and standing troops. Seeing a row of spears coming towards them, the Sano soldiers and Numata soldiers, who were already unstable, immediately panicked. The body retreated involuntarily. It didn't matter if they retreated by themselves, but as soon as they retreated, the Hojo Ashigaru next to them also panicked. Humans are group animals and follow the crowd.

As a result, some people quit and some didn't. Soldiers with varying degrees of bravery and timidity lined up in a line without direct military law constraints. The Kojima team stabbed to death more than a dozen people with just one charge. However, these people are still the bravest warriors in the entire line and never retreat.

This is a good time, because the bravest man is the first to die. The rest were even more frightened when they saw their miserable death state, and they shrank back even more, just like that, they were shot alive by the Kojima team and made a dent.

However, the Kojima team showed no signs of fighting, and within a few minutes they dispersed to the left and right wings and withdrew from the battle.

This made the soldiers of the Hojo Army breathe a big sigh of relief. Seeing the enemy retreating, these soldiers slowly filled up the depression under the shouts and pressure of the samurai. Reluctantly, they reorganized a military line that could stop the enemy.

Just as the Hojo soldiers were holding the gun cautiously and trying to continue fighting, the shouts of the Echigo Nagao soldiers came again. Seeing that the Echigo soldiers were only fifty meters away from the Hojo Military District.

The Yasuda team of the Echigo second team also has more than 300 people. Judging from the homework done by Koheta in advance, Yasuda Keimoto or Yasuda Nagahide are possible. These two have a small reputation. The Yasuda family supported Kagekatsu during the Otate Rebellion. Later, the Yasuda family also transferred to Aizu along with Uesugi Kagekatsu, and was considered an important minister.

The Yasuda team, led by a samurai carrying a horse tag, crashed on the base like raging waves and violently impacted the Hojo army's front. After only a few minutes of contact, they dispersed to the two wings in an orderly manner.

This time the impact made the Hojo army even more shaken. Xiaoheita saw the samurai supervised by Hojo slashing his own soldiers trying to escape with their swords, and the panic was evident.

By the time of the third formation of Sensaka (who was also the head of the Yonezawa clan of the Uesugi clan later), the charge of the Echigo soldiers was even more fierce. The intersecting front lines were filled with elite samurai and senior ashigaru armed with long spears. Almost one charge and a thrust This weakened Hojo's front line. Visible to the naked eye, twenty or thirty people were stabbed to death by Team Chisaka, and they fell to the ground without even shaking their bodies.

Just when Koheita thought they were about to stop and expand their victory, the Echigo army did not stop and spread out to the two wings again. The three teams of Kojima, Yasuda, and Chisaka only took a few breaths, and soon formed three lines again. Hunting against the flag and facing the wind, the soldiers kept shouting.

This round of infantry attacks bought valuable rest time for the cavalry. Hojo Takahiro and Hojo Kagehiro even changed horses, and the other cavalry and war horses were almost rested. He was full of energy and mounted his horse, roaring for battle.

As the Chisaka team retreated, more than a hundred Echigo cavalry with high morale and physical strength rushed to the Hojo military formation and attacked the mess of Hojo's main soldiers and Ueno cannon fodder without hesitation.

The exhausted Hojo army, which had been attacked by Echigo infantry and had low morale, had long been scattered. The soldiers could not find the samurai, and the samurai could not gather the soldiers. He was easily pushed in by Hojo Takahiro and his son.

Especially Hojo Takahiro's red spear, which stabbed left and struck right, spinning around on his horse like flying. Hojo Kagehiro also killed heads with a three-foot-three-inch sword. Heita Xiao who watched them all mourned for the Hojo Army. These two humanoid killing machines simply died if they stuck to each other and died if they touched each other. It perfectly illustrates that killing can be simple and clear and become an art.

With Hojo Takahiro and Hojo Kagehiro as the tip of the sword, Hojo's military formation was almost completely torn apart by just a hair. Seeing that they could not break the formation immediately, the two of them did not hesitate, turned around and withdrew from the battle. The control of fighter planes is extremely exquisite, and there is no lag in coordination.

The Kojima team, which withdrew its main formation and reorganized its formation, moved forward with a roar. The Ashigaru and the samurai shouted loudly, straightened their spears in their hands, and violently hit the Hojo military formation again.

The two teams of Yasuda and Chisaka had already gathered together intensively and quickly, and the three teams collided with the Hojo army within a few minutes of each other.

In the end, the Sano soldiers who had been dragged in could not hold on any longer, and each of them threw down their weapons and flags and ran away crying. The supervising team sent by Hojo Yasumoto killed several defeated Sano soldiers one after another but could not stop their defeat at all.

Beijiao Yasumoto's eyes turned red, trying to grasp the last straw to save his life. He quickly waved the flag and asked Nagano Yasumasa to come down the mountain quickly and save the already endangered Hojo Army front. Not only that, he also repeatedly sent messengers and horses to urge Nagano Yamasa.

But Nagano Yasumasa had no choice in the first place and was forced to succumb to Hojo Ujiyasu. If Hojo Ujiyasu were here, he might consider it, at least pretending to make contact with the enemy. Then he pretended to be invincible and was forced to retreat by his own "defeated soldiers".

Who are you, Yasumoto Hojo? You, Dihuang Hachiman, Tsunari Hojo, even if you come in person, you may not necessarily instruct Nagano Yasumasa. Just you, Yasumoto Hojo? Nagano Yasashiri ignored the pleas of the soldiers sent to deliver the order by Hojo Yasumoto, who was on the verge of death.

He directly ordered the 3,000 Jilun soldiers to retreat. In an instant, the soldiers, who had already enjoyed watching the theater and were preparing to go home to take their children for dinner, pushed the golden mountain and fell the jade pillar, and immediately went into chaos. Three thousand people retreated like the wind. The Yamauchi Army and the Echigo Army cooperated very well and directly let the Minawa people withdraw from the battlefield without pursuing them at all.

As a result, Hojo's flanks were completely exposed. Yamauchi Yoshikatsu and the left and right flankers also saw that the chance of victory was approaching, and immediately inserted the most elite Three Hundred Banners diagonally into the Hojo Army. These three hundred men, both on foot and on horseback, were Yamauchi Yoshikatsu's trump card. The power of this group of bannermen could be judged just from their armor.

Koheita also quickly returned to Yamauchi Yoshikatsu, making final preparations for the entire army to pounce on him. The soldiers' sensitivity to the battlefield is not inferior to that of the generals, and they have already been gearing up and eager to try.

Hojo Takahiro and his son were also extremely keen, and once again led the cavalry into the Sano army's formation, which was in a state of defeat.

One person's turn and retreat will cause two people to turn and retreat. The collapse of two, three, or four hundred people directly affects the morale of the entire Hojo army. The Numata soldiers, who were only reluctantly supportive at first, had no idea of ​​protecting their master, especially the Ashigaru. They simply dragged their spears backwards and ran towards Minawa, seeking refuge with Nagano Yamasa. Anyway, it’s not selling if you give your life to someone, but it’s not selling if you at least have your life first!

At this point, all the hopes of the Hojo Army were tragically shattered, as more than 3,000 Echigo soldiers were defeated by a mere 1,100 Echigo soldiers.

At this time, only some Hatamoto and Ma Fu organized a small group of soldiers to support them hard. They were only offering their last loyalty to their general, Hojo Tsunari. Who calls Hojo Yasumoto his son? They want to use their lives to exchange for the last chance of escape for Hojo Yasumoto.

The second update at 11 o'clock. In order to make the plot complete and not to break up the chapters, the two chapters are put together, which is more than 4,500 words.