A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

The flags on Shitakuhara were raised high, and the troops in the mountain thundered to the left and right!

"Central breakthrough! Central breakthrough!" A military commander held up a long banner with the character "five" in front of the formation and conveyed the news of the victory breakthrough to the Yamauchi main formation under Kiyoi Tahara.

The advancing teams along the way cheered one after another. Hideharu Kanai of the 5th Division of the Flag Division braved the overwhelming artillery fire and bullets and actually broke through the horse defense fence that the leading teams of the Yamauchi Army had been unable to break through five times.

Moreover, he was the one who broke through the first horse defense fence in the center. He was the only one in the entire mountain army who broke through two horse defense fences!

"Aya!" Ashikaga Yoshiaki also applauded.

Now both the left wing and the center of Yamauchi have rushed to the last line of defense in front of the enemy. If they break through at any point, they can turn to the bombing platform and form an encirclement situation against Oda Nobunaga on the bombing platform.

I promise you, even a single soldier in Gifu will not be able to escape from this Shitarahara!

Due to the crazy attack of the Kanai team, Hashiba Hideyoshi's troops finally couldn't hold on anymore and collapsed backwards, fleeing backwards with Sasaki Narimasa and others. The third line of defense in the center of the Oritoku Allied Forces was Nobunaga's son-in-law, Fuhide Eminami, Koji Mino Fuwa, his brother-in-law Owari Ikeda Tsuneki, and others.

They are all Nobunaga's die-hard supporters, otherwise they would not be entrusted with such an important task. Especially Ikeda Tsuneaki, who grew up with Nobunaga on a sip of milk, and this relationship couldn't be stronger. Oda Nobuhide also gave full play to the noble character of "I will raise your wife, you have nothing to worry about!" After Tsuneri Ikeda's death, he even adopted his wife and children.

Nowadays, Ikeda Hengxing serves as the Lord of Inuyama Castle. He is actually the main commander of the third central horse defense fence. He is also accompanied by other Owari and Mino soldiers. The overall number is about 4,000 to 4,500 riders. between.

All in all, this line of defense will not be easier to break than the second horse defense fence defended by Hashiba Hideyoshi. Moreover, as long as there are still people in front of the troops who have retreated in advance, there will always be a chance to regroup, so they must be defeated equally quickly.

Hosokawa Saime Masamune joined forces with the successor village to defend Yoshikuni last week and launched the seventh assault!

"Omiya joins the vanguard, and is preparing to attack Gifu Dansei together with Saimesaki!" Fujiwara Dansei realized that the battle situation was tilting towards the Yamauchi army, and the final decisive battle would take place soon.

"good!"

Under the guidance of thousands of gold and bamboo leaves, thousands of horsemen galloped towards the center of the Zhide coalition army. The dozen or so tall and fully armed warriors in the team were the armed guards of the monks affiliated with Hamamatsu Church, and there were several others. Ten religious militiamen accompanied him.

In accordance with the agreement he made with Koheita that year, Father William recruited explorers from Macau, Malacca, Siam, Spice Islands and other places who were willing to come to Japan for adventure. As a mercenary of the religious order, he usually guarded Hamamatsu's church and Nanman merchant house. , responding to the Yamauchi clan's annual sixty-day military call-up during wartime.

The statue of the Virgin embracing the Son of Immortality followed under the golden horse sign with golden bamboo leaves. The soldiers sang hymns of unknown melody and followed the large group of people. People on both sides of the group shouted in unison, "Victory! Victory! I won." The army is victorious!"

Xiaolu, the sister of Dongguo Wushuang's general, is going to battle with the big Bizang family!

Kanai Meigoro, who originally fought bravely, was finally snatched away after breaking through the second horse defense fence. In front of the third horse defense fence was the heroic figure of Hosokawa and others.

Not to mention anything else, our brother-in-law, Hosokawa Harime, is also a top-notch martial artist, a strong man who can run two kilometers barefoot in the winter. People who are hit with a spear are afraid of ghosts, and even Ikeda Hengxing is a little unable to resist.

"Shibata Nanakuro is here to ask for advice!" [Note 1]

"You came just in time!" Hosokawa Saime was not afraid and started fighting with Shibata Yasutada.

Following the sudden attack, Yoshikuni Murakami assigned retainers one after another to pull out the fence under the fire of the French army. The two of them already knew the news that Kanai Meigoro was shot and died, but it was impossible not to lead the team to rush in just because of this. An earthen jar cannot be broken away from the wellhead, and a general will inevitably die in battle, that's all.

"I, Ina Genzaemon, come to fight!" Another military general jumped out from the Oda army and faced the Murakami Kuzuo who had pulled out the fence.

Both sides know that now is a critical moment. Even if the Owari soldiers and the Mino soldiers are not as durable as the Shinano soldiers, the samurai of Owari and Mino will not necessarily lose to the samurai of Shinano.

Especially now that the left wing of the Oroku Allied Forces, where Oda Nobunaga is located, is still under attack from the right wing of the Yamauchi Army. The two sides are intertwined. They originally wanted to delay the heavily reinforced right wing of the Yamauchi Army with heavy troops. When its energy weakens, the entire army Counterattack.

In the end, it was self-defeating. The Yamauchi army simply gave up. All the troops rushed towards the Zhide coalition forces, taking turns to attack the horse defense fences and trenches. They changed from "break through in key points, the whole army breaks through!" to "break through in the whole army, break through everywhere!" ".

The Kitahata troops of the Oda army have not yet come down from Mount Midou to join the battle. After deducting these 12,000 troops, the 55,000-strong Orita coalition army only has 43,000 troops, and the 39,000 troops of the Yamauchi army are in the battle. More than a thousand people are almost alike.

"Ina Genzaemon has been claimed!"

There was a loud shout in the formation, and a head was raised high. It is still unknown who took the enemy general. The artillery of the Yamauchi Army arrived at the earth platform set up by the Oda Army at the first line of defense before Fujiwara's Nagasaki troops. Without saying a word, they launched an artillery bombardment on the people of Ikeda Hengxing. In the past, the Yamauchi artillerymen held down others. Beaten, it was the first time I was beaten by someone, and I felt like a boss.

First, a general was recruited, and then he was bombarded at close range. The Fuwa Mitsuji headquarters was finally shaken by the attack of Murakami Yoshikuni. The heads held high by spears in the smoke and the shells that kept falling into the formation weakened the already demoralized soldiers of the Bupo team. In an unobservable moment, the first soldier turned around and ran away.

If there is one, there are two. Who is not a master with eyes in the back of his head during the Warring States Period? In line with the central idea of ​​​​who will die but not me, the Fupo team is like melting hot butter, plummeting thousands of miles.

"Victory! Victory!"

[Note 1]: This person has little relationship with Shibata Katsuie. He was a Tokugawa retainer assigned to Ikeda Tsuneki by Tokugawa Ieyasu so that he could get to know the banners of the Yamauchi army generals who came to attack. Historically, this person was assigned to Sakuma Nobumori, and he was also responsible for identifying the generals of the Takeda Army.

In the 4th year of Eiroku (1561), Tokugawa Ieyasu was appointed as the emperor. In the 6th year of Eiroku (1563), Mikawa has always been one of the first disciples of the Pure Land Sect. In the 10th year of Eiroku (1567), Ieyasu established a new job system for his family, and Yasuzada Hatamoto appointed the first person to serve as a general. In the 12th year of Eiroku (the 15th year of the war), the old man of the family was appointed by his father.

In the end, he survived as the Musashi Kokui Iris and the private five thousand stone hatamoto. He was one of the important hatamoto families that participated in the Edo shogunate for a long time.