A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

In the feudal era, the marching path of the army was certain, and no guessing or prediction was needed. As long as the number of troops reached the point of tens of thousands, he was restricted to a certain place.

It doesn't matter if you are a nomadic cavalry who comes and goes like the wind. Since you are going to rob, you must be walking along the town. A general with a little bit of intelligence can even calculate where you will go at what time and where you will camp tonight.

This situation was especially obvious during the Warring States Period in Japan. At that time, Tokugawa Ieyasu asked Todo Takatora where the Western Army would come from. Without thinking, Todo Takatora immediately said that the Western Army's main force could only go to the Kuwana area of ​​​​Ise Street or the Ogaki area of ​​Mino Street.

The number of the Western Army must be around 100,000 or more. If they want to be able to march normally without causing problems in the march of the army, the main force will definitely go to Ogaki Castle on Meinong Street!

Obviously, the Battle of Sekigahara took place near Ogaki Castle on Mino Street. What Todo Takatora said was absolutely correct!

And what Kanai Meigoro said made Xiaoheita suddenly enlightened!

If Oishi left in such a hurry, there must have been a big problem in Furukawa!

This kind of troops who are marching in a hurry, if they don't go up and make a surprise attack, it will be a shame for Xiaoping Tai's nickname of "guerrilla bombing". And assuming that Hosokawa Miname conquered Furukawa, then Hosokawa Miname's fighting style would make a sudden advance! He will not defend the city and be trapped in one place! They will definitely go out of the city to attack the reinforcements of the Hojo clan who came to rescue Furukawa.

There were only a few roads to rescue Furukawa, and Hojo's troops were numerous. The Oishi clan attacked Ueno with the main force, the Fujita clan guarded Koshuguchi, and the Imagawa clan guarded Kokokuji Temple.

Under normal circumstances, the Dashi family should have sent more than 10,000 troops to rescue the commander-in-chief.

Combining several circumstances, Koheita judged that Hosokawa Saime would take the general crowd he had brought with him after occupying Furukawa, about 15,000 people, to go to Ninja Castle to attack the Hojo army that he expected to rescue Furukawa.

But the Hojo Army has a main force of more than 30,000 people!

This is a huge crisis, but also a huge opportunity!

Assuming that Koheita can reach the south of Ninja Castle before the war breaks out, it is very likely that he will join up with Hosokawa Saime who went to Ninja Castle to ambush or attack Hojo's reinforcements. The two armies combined will add up to 30,000 troops and the Hojo army will attack at Ninja Castle. If we fight together, we can decide the outcome in one battle!

After thinking about it again and again, I feel that it is extremely feasible at this time! Xiaopingtai immediately went to persuade the generals who were accompanying the army. Although what Xiaopingtai said was reasonable, everyone still hesitated.

When Taro Yamauchi, who was sitting on the upper hand, said something, his mother told him that his father, Yamauchi Yoshikatsu, believed that war was never 100% certain, and as long as there was a 50% chance of winning, one should go all out. As a general, you should not hesitate at all!

It’s the final word!

The army immediately cooked pots and meals, and the soldiers rested immediately after a full meal, and woke up at three o'clock the next morning. A thousand small loaders and miscellaneous soldiers were left to take care of the food and supplies, while the remaining 15,000 troops went into battle lightly and rushed (not a typo) to Ninja City.

However, Xiaoheita still overestimated the level of the soldiers and horses under his command. Except for the standing flag base, almost all the Ashari soldiers kept up with them. The Yuanjiang army began to fall behind from the third or fourth hour after setting off.

By the time they reached the vicinity of Ninja City, there were at most eight or nine thousand soldiers left in the entire army. The team had all dispersed, and there were countless heads left. He was preparing to take a rest, gather his soldiers, and then march to Ninja City. As a result, the previous material view brought shocking news.

Tens of thousands of people are fighting near Ninja City!

After further investigation, it was confirmed that it was Hosokawa Saime who was attacking the Hojo Army whose queue was five kilometers long!

Looking back at the gasping troops under his command, except for the Hatamoto samurai, who were in slightly better condition, the others would not be of much use even if they were driven to the battlefield.

Then the old man Uesugi Shihken followed him. His subordinates who were willing to work with him were all veterans who had been with him and Hojo for many years. They were not good at fighting and were good at running away. Although there are a lot of people left behind, there are still about five to six hundred people there.

The only ones left were the Eighth Prince's hundreds of miscellaneous soldiers leading the way, as well as the standing flags.

The generals of the company immediately gathered together and held a meeting standing on the ridge of the field. It was inevitable to go up and join the battle, but in this situation it was impossible to fight.

In what way do you go up to support Hosokawa Harime?

cannon? Xiao Pingtai even left his food, tents, iron pots, etc. in Jingcao. How could he run for eight hours with a cannon.

cavalry? Are cavalry used in Ninja City? Just kidding.

"The way to use troops is to attack the heart first, and to attack the city next. To fight with the heart is the uppermost, and to fight with soldiers is the lowest." Taro Yamauchi actually spoke while standing in Murakami Yoshimitsu's bamboo basket.

Murakami Yoshimitsu suffered a lot from his old nose along the way, and he was still able to march on horseback at the beginning. The closer we get to Ninja City, the harder it will be to walk on the road, making it impossible to march quickly on horseback. But you can't leave Yamauchi Taro in the wild, right? Come on, come on, Murakami Yoshimitsu, you are the youngest, and I leave it to you to do such an honorable thing as joining the war behind the young master’s back.

So now Murakami Yoshimitsu is standing there, leaning on a wooden stick that he doesn't know where it came from, breathing heavily, and Yamauchi Taro is sitting on a big basket all the way, reaching here without using any strength.

"How to attack the heart first?" Old man Uesugi actually knew that this kind of sentence must be a cliché that the teacher taught Yamauchi Taro to say, but now that Yamauchi Taro is the biggest, he has to pick up the conversation.

"In fact, a surprise attack can shake the morale of Hojo's army, but the reward is that Hojo's troops are boundless, and Ninja Castle cannot deploy a large army." Konishiharazaemon turned around and looked at the ruins everywhere.

"Do you know the story of King Xiang of Western Chu?" Xiao Pingtai thought for a while and came up with a plan.

"Is that what uncle said?"

"The siege of Gaixia is besieged on all sides!"

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Facing the collapse of the Hojo Army, the Yamauchi Army and other coalition forces could not stop them at all. Although they ran slowly, they could not speed up their pursuit. Mud treats everyone equally, and he will not stop slipping just because you are handsome.

Then hundreds of boats belonging to the people of Ninja City that had escaped before rushed out again, and continued to take out their slingshots, knocking them down one by one, and tying them up with straw ropes, very quickly.

At this time, the laggard Yamauchi Army took advantage. They were distributed all the way south from Ninja Castle on the road to Kawagoe Castle, which happened to be on the road where the Hojo Army fled.

Xiaopingtai immediately sent people along the way to announce that he would launch a hunt for fallen warriors, allowing the six to seven thousand people left halfway to use their initiative to capture the prisoners.

As for the generals of the Hojo Army, it can only be said that they relied on luck. The thousands of members of the Kawagoe and Hachioji members in the front row on Koheita's side had all collapsed on the ground after singing, unable to move at all. Singing turned out to be a very strenuous task.

The coalition forces that had been attacking the Hojo Army for more than three and a half hours were relieved. Looking at the Yamauchi Army rolling in from the south, each showed different emotions.