Chapter 164 The Battle of Kamiyagawa III
"Hidetaka, you lead 10,000 people to fight out from the front left. Hidetsugi, you lead 10,000 people to fight out from the front right. You have only one mission, to cover Lord Yukimura's breakthrough to the Tokugawa army's main formation."
Ukita Hideie ordered his two sons behind him, and then said to his retainers: "You and I will charge into the central formation together and try to disrupt their formation."
"yes..."
Woo...
The horn sounded silently, and the two sides on the battlefield were ready to start a decisive battle. Sanada Yukimura stepped on the horse vigorously, took the spear, and shouted: "Sanada warrior, follow me to attack..."
"Huha..."
The soldiers shouted in unison, their momentum was like a rainbow.
When Tokugawa Yorifusa saw the Toyotomi army's main formation on the opposite side starting to take action, he waved his fan and said: "Send the order, all the main divisions of the entire army, attack directly..."
"ha..."
The messenger ran out of the tent. Tokugawa Yorifusa stood up, asked Hamon next to him to tidy up his equipment, then grabbed the sword and strode out of the tent. This was already a critical moment in this battle.
A man dressed in bright yellow uniforms rode a war horse with a group of bannermen's followers to the front of the Toyotomi army. He waved his fan in his hand and shouted: "I am the Great Tomorrow. The king of the imperial court has granted Japan the title of conquering the barbarians." General Toyotomi Hideyori, all the officers and men, Tokugawa Ieyasu and below have committed crimes and taken away the Toyotomi family's house. Today is the time for revenge. You must kill the enemy with your life, and I will not be stingy with rewards..."
"Huh...huh...huh...huh...huh..."
After a powerful speech, Hideyori led the team to retreat to the rear. Now he has completely handed over the battlefield to Hideie and Yukimura.
Compared with the Toyotomi Army who shouted loudly to boost their morale, the Tokugawa Army came to suppress the bandits as an 'official army' and the other party was a traitor. How could they know how powerful the rebels on the opposite side were? So strong, no less powerful than them.
What's more, the dignified Izumo Kingdom's famous figure, Itakura Shigemune, was seriously injured in the first battle. This move seriously affected Tokugawa Yorifou's judgment, and even rose to the point of damaging military morale.
The two armies met, and there was a sound of collision. Amidst the flash of swords and shadows, the elderly Ukita Hideie did not have the posture of an old man in his fifties. Instead, he charged more and more bravely, risking his life with his retainers and soldiers. Kill towards the Tokugawa army directly ahead.
But after all, the Tokugawa army had the advantage in numbers. Although they lost to the Toyotomi army in terms of momentum, they used the human sea tactic to block the roaring Toyotomi army in front of them.
Sanada Yukimura led his men towards the flank and was met by Toda Tadayoshi's own team. In the previous battle, he was ordered by Tokugawa Yorifou to take charge of the reserve team on the left front wing. Now he was approaching Sanada Yukimura and was operating in the center. Toda Tadayoshi frowned, because the six-striped Qian family emblem flag was quickly heading towards his main formation.
"The flag team will meet them and stop them."
Toda Tadayoshi drew his sword and shouted angrily. Previously, Itakura Shigemune was seriously injured by Sanada Yukimura. Although he felt that he was much more powerful than Itakura Shigemune, he had not fought against anyone for so many years, so naturally he did not dare to step forward casually.
An army composed of more than a thousand retainers and samurai of the Tian family headed straight towards the Sanada army, which was galloping on their war horses, but what followed them was the iron hooves of the war horses.
Yukimura and Miyoshi Masayasu, with their respective retainers and nephews, waved their spears back and forth to kill the Toda soldiers. The momentum was so great that they forced the Toda Hatamoto samurai to retreat.
Toda Tadayoshi, who was sitting on the war horse, was immediately furious. If this continues, his military morale will only worsen. When the time comes, there will be no need for Sanada Yukimura to fight in person. All he needs is a charge of his cavalry, and his side will completely collapse.
Thinking of this, Toda Tadayoshi looked back at Tokugawa Yorifusa's main formation, which was two army formations behind, and shouted: "Send a message to Yorifu-sama immediately, our team needs support."
Just after the order was given, the five hundred cavalry led by Masayasu Miyoshi cut through Toda Tadayoshi's main formation like sharp swords, and moved at absolute speed towards Tokugawa Yorifu, who was behind Toda Tadayoshi's main team. His son Tokugawa Yorishige's team killed him.
After Yukimura Sanada killed the Hatamoto samurai, he immediately followed up with Masayasu Miyoshi who had already killed him, because he only had 500 cavalry at this time. If he couldn't keep up, it was very likely that Masayasu Miyoshi would make the same mistake he did back then.
"Stop them..."
Toda Tadayoshi was horrified. At that time, Sanada Yukimura, with less than 300 samurai from Sanada's army, broke through Ieyasu's tens of thousands of troops and fought straight to Ieyasu's camp, frightening Ieyasu to the point where he lost his way. And escape.
Looking at Sanada Yukimura's formation recently, it seems that he is going to do what he did back then, using force to directly break through the military formations of the various daimyo surrounding Tokugawa Yorifou's main formation, and go straight to Huanglong.
Toda Tadayoshi is not stupid. This situation is all too familiar to him. He participated in the Sekigahara battle with his father. Although he was not a guard of Ieyasu's main formation at the time, he saw this matter. .
"Everyone in our team who dares to escape will be killed without mercy. Follow my orders. The whole army will press forward and be sure to entangle the Sanada army."
Sanada Yukimura brought a total of ten thousand people, using a thousand cavalry as sharp swords to tear apart the main formations of each daimyo. The infantry behind him followed closely, plus the front formation and the iron artillery team provided covering fire. Even Toda Tadayoshi, who had already reacted, was now entangled by the infantry of the Sanada Army who were following closely behind. It was difficult to convey his orders and execute them, because the entire battlefield was now a mess.
The gun in Ukita Hideie's hand has been changed twice. He is indeed a little tired. The continuous killing has made his body somewhat unbearable. But fortunately, the two parties have now killed each other. He can see Sanada Yukimura, who was within reach, had already led his men into the enemy's formation.
"We must buy him time..."
Ukita Hideie was thinking in his mind, and then he realized in his son's cry that Tokugawa Yorifusa did not seem to focus on Sanada Yukimura who broke into the formation, but made him the main target.
Also, today's Ukita Hideie is the number one enemy of Toyotomi's forces who can't even compare to Sanada Yukimura. Sanada Yukimura is only brave, but in terms of wisdom and courage from the Warring States Period, Ukita Hideie has to be considered. For this reason , when receiving the order, Tokugawa Yorifusa set his primary target on Ukita Hideie.
The former army, Takeda and Uesugi, were surrounded by nearly 30,000 daimyo, and the Chinese army was followed by more than 40,000 daimyo from Ando, Osuka, and Matsudaira. Ukita Hideie wanted to break through this with the 30,000 daimyo in hand. The military formation of five daimyo looked impossible.
Fortunately, he still had a reserve force of nearly 50,000 people behind him that could be called upon. Once the reserve force was called upon, the battle would have to be won, otherwise it would be impossible to compete with Tokugawa Hidetada's army that came later.
"Kill..."
Soldiers from both sides were fighting fiercely, and Ukita Hideie was surprised to find that he had been surrounded by the five Tokugawa lords in the middle.
"It seems that I also enjoy the treatment that Yukimura received back then, hahaha..."
Ukita Hideie laughed instead of being frightened. In this way, using himself as bait can create greater opportunities for Sanada Yukimura.
Upon seeing this, Shimazu Tadaro, who was behind the Kamiya River, immediately ordered 10,000 people to dispatch 10,000 people to support the surrounded Hide family on Hideyori's behalf. He himself became the commander of the rear army and now went to the high platform where Sanada Yukimura had previously stood.
This battle must not be lost.
The men and horses were noisy, fighting loudly, and the shouts and wails of the wounded soldiers were everywhere, but this little noise was completely covered up by the muskets and the soldiers who raised their swords to chop at their opponents.
Tokugawa Yorifusa saw that the banner of the Ukita Hide family's main camp was surrounded by the military formations of several daimyo. He was immediately excited and changed from his previous depression. He immediately ordered: "Send the order to have Honda Shun and Sakai befriended immediately." Chongyan's two teams surrounded him and must kill Ukita Hideie in one fell swoop."
"yes..."
Tokugawa Yorifusa also spent a lot of money. At this moment, there are still three daimyo he can mobilize. In addition to his own soldiers, there are nearly 40,000 people he can mobilize. The reason why he only used two teams of daimyo to surround Ukita Hideie's main purpose is because his left wing is enough to see the Sanada army in the military formation of his son Tokugawa Yorishige, but his own army has 30,000 soldiers, which means that Sanada Yukimura wanted to use the limited cavalry to break through the defense of 30,000 people.
Tokugawa Yorifu gritted his teeth and said: "I think it's just a legend. Unless he really has a pair of wings, then I will fail."
The retainer stepped forward: "My lord, why not send another group of daimyo to support us?"
Tokugawa Yorifusa shook his head, because he clearly saw that the Toyotomi army still had tens of thousands of people who were not moving, and his main purpose now was to try his best to entangle Sanada Yukimura who came to break through, and then use superior force to kill Ukita Hideie who was directly in front. Killing, this is the ultimate goal of his entire army today.
"If we kill the Xiu family, even if we are defeated, it will be a great achievement."
Tokugawa Yorifusa thought in his mind, and then took a deep breath: "Supervise the team up, anyone who dares to take a step back will be killed without mercy."
"yes..."
Tokugawa Yorifu's order had just been issued. His son Tokugawa Yorishige's team in the front left suddenly fell into chaos. Before he could see clearly what happened, his son Tokugawa Yorishige was within sight. Already galloping towards him with the Hatamoto Samurai on horseback.
"So what happened?"
It turned out that after Miyoshi Masayasu and Sanada Yukimura joined forces, they immediately broke through Toda's main team and entered Tokugawa Yorishige's main formation. However, his precious eldest son was not as brave as his father, and killed Miyoshi Masayasu. After killing his retainers, he was shocked and immediately led his team to escape.
Even the general ran away, and the soldiers of Tokugawa Yorishige's camp turned around and retreated, causing the Toda troops who were chasing behind Sanada Yukimura to fall into the enemy's counter-siege. Now, a catastrophe occurred...
