Under the fake red bird horse seal on the other side, another member of the Imagawa family has a completely different mentality.
"Why... why did it suddenly lead to Imagawa Yoshimoto..." Imagawa Yoshima was completely unaware of the connections Shouguini had secretly made in the Imagawa Pavilion in the past two days. He couldn't believe everything that happened in front of him, "Could it be that Were they planning to deceive me from the beginning? Are Sugini and these generations fools? Can't you tell who is more qualified to lead the Imagawa family? Why did the Hojo family retreat to the north? Did they ignore me? Why did the Takeda Army come here?"
"We must not lose here..." Imagawa Yoshima took a deep breath and tried to calm his breathing, "If I lose, history will become exactly the same as before, and the direct line of the Imagawa family will also go to a dead end... Damn... Damn..."
"Your Highness Echizen, how many more do we have?" Imagawa Yoshima looked at the troops and morale that had finally been stabilized, and hurriedly asked Fukushima Masashige, who had returned from suppressing the troops.
"Fukushima prepared 850 people, 280 soldiers; Miura prepared 600 people, 200 soldiers; Hasegawa prepared 120 people, 40 soldiers; Ichinomiya prepared 120 people, 40 soldiers; Yui prepared 120 people, 40 soldiers; Kamabahara We have 280 troops and 100 combat troops. The total strength is 2,100 troops and 700 combat troops." Masashige Fukushima said bluntly, "Only half of the opponent."
"Where's the combat power?"
"Asahina Bei is the bravest of all three armies, Okabe Bei is equally perseverant, and the Imagawa family is the elite in the military. Only our Fukushima Bei can barely compete, and the rest are no match for each other." The straight-tempered Fukushima Masashige did not. A little bit tactful.
"Third Young Master, why not retreat to Puyuan City quickly! My city is on a mountain 5 miles away, with an altitude of more than 30 feet. (For the convenience of writing, the length unit conversion in this book adopts the following standard: 1 feet ≈ 3.3 meters, 1 Zhang = 10 feet, 1 foot = 10 inches), easy to defend but difficult to attack! As long as we retreat into the city, the enemy will not be able to defeat it in a short period of time, even if they have thousands of troops!" Umahara Manji came to Imagawa Yoshima's side and almost Pulling the reins of Imagawa Yoshima, he said anxiously with his face flushed:
"We just need to defend the city and then send a message to Toe! The Horikoshi family and the Iio family of Toe Province have been dissatisfied with the Imagawa family for a long time. They will definitely raise troops when they see the civil strife in the Imagawa family! The Asahina family and the Sena family have their castles in Toe, so they will inevitably withdraw their troops. If we need reinforcements, the Imagawa family will also have to send troops to quell the rebellion! When the time comes, we will contact the Hojo family and we will definitely be able to defeat the enemy!"
"What His Highness Kamabahara said is true." Imagawa Yoshima was immediately convinced. Because in the history of the previous life, a large-scale rebellion led by the Horikoshi family and the Iio family broke out in Toe after the Hanakura Rebellion, leaving Imagawa Yoshimoto unable to fully deal with Hojo who invaded Kadong. Imagawa Yoshizhin immediately arranged for the envoy to go straight to the west, and at the same time ordered all his troops to retreat to Kabara Castle in the northwest.
Xuanguang Etan's original personality had dabbled in a lot of semaphores commonly used in the Imagawa family during his more than ten years of practice. These inherited memories helped Imagawa Yoshizhin a lot when commanding. "Kabara Bei opens the way and leads the auxiliary troops to retreat first. Miura Bei protects the northeastern left wing, Yui, Hasegawa, and Ichinomiya Sanbi protect the southwest right wing, and Fukushima Bei breaks off!"
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"What Imagawa Yoshima is thinking about now must be to retreat to Kabara Castle and wait for reinforcements from the Hojo family and Toe's rebellion." Taiyuan Xue Zhai saw through Imagawa Yoshima's movements at a glance, and at the same time ordered, "Send orders to all ministries, Half of the cavalry was concentrated under the command of the Bichu garrison, galloping westward along the official road, bypassing the enemy's lines and heading north, attacking the weak right wing of the local area, and stopping them before they retreat into the mountains!"
"Yes." Asahina Taino took out another wine gourd from nowhere, drank a few swigs, and then led the cavalry and galloped away.
"Okabe Bei, Kotsu Bei, and Anwara Bei, follow the Beichu garrison cavalry in marching formation, advance along the official road, and then go north to launch an attack!"
"yes."
"Sekiguchi Bei, Sena Bei, and Asahina Bei, march northward along the official road leading to the mountainous area from the north, circle around the enemy's left flank and deploy. There is no need to attack, just contain them!"
"yes."
"The 2nd and 4th berths of the Imagawa family's own team are following the enemy Fukushima ri from the front, and must contain the enemy. The 3rd brigades and the horse warriors stay behind at Ma'in as a reserve team!"
"yes."
"Chengfang, read carefully. Those military art books I read before are all false. If you really want to master military strategy, you still have to rely on actual combat." Taiyuan Xuezhai patted Imagawa Shiyuan's shoulder and whispered, "This You don’t need to command in battle, just watch and learn.”
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At six quarters on the morning of March 27, the fifth year of Tianwen (1536), the civil war broke out.
"Quick, rush over, ignore those weak and weak arrows!"
Asahina Taino, who was on the official road, took the lead, leading more than 250 cavalry teams with flags from various families, and rushed westward along the official road at an alarming speed. The movement speed of Hasegawa Bei, Yuhi Bei, and Ichinomiya Bei, who had already left the official road and retreated to the northwest hills, was far inferior to that of the cavalry, and the horizontal distance was constantly shortening. They also tried to shoot arrows to hinder them, but the distance was too far and they couldn't do much damage at all.
"Follow up and don't fall too far behind!"
Behind the cavalry, Okabe Otsuna was leading more than 400 soldiers including Okabe Bei, Kotsu Bei, and Anhara Bei to catch up with Asahina Tenno. The troops were choked by the smoke and dust raised by the horses' hooves along the way, but the excitement of the battle made everyone forget their discomfort.
At this time, in the Fukushima preparation position, Fukushima Masashige was commanding the troops to fight and retreat, but the Imagawa family's team in front of them had no intention of attacking by force. Masashige Fukushima looked to the northeast in front of the Miura Bei position. Sekiguchi Bei, Sena Bei, and Asahina Bei were also marching north along the mountain road in a marching formation, with no intention of rushing to start a battle formation.
"I see, I finally understand." As a battle-hardened veteran, Fukushima Masashige quickly read Taiyuan Xue Zhai's intention, "It seems that he wants to prevent us from returning to Puyuan City, but in fact he has other intentions. picture."
"What do you say, Your Highness Echizen?" Although Imagawa Yoshima is a time traveler, he is still a rookie who has never fought before. At this time, he can only ask for advice.
"He knew that our military morale was shaken during this battle, so he wanted to attack Hasegawa, Yui, and Ichinomiya Sanbi who were not firm in their stance first, forcing them to switch sides and return to the Imagawa clan's Moto side." Fukushima Masashige pointed to the three wealthy families on the left, " Therefore, the cavalry team will not try to circle behind the entire army, but will take action when it reaches the side of Sanbi."
"Send an order to have Hasegawa, Yui, and Ichinomiya Sanbei march in an emergency to draw the cavalry team closer to Kamahara Bei and lead the cavalry team into the hilly terrain that is unfavorable to the cavalry. The Kamahara Bei archery team is ready. Once Asahina Bei's cavalry rushes into the formation, they will fire random arrows. Cover. Then counterattack together!" Masashige Fukushima glanced at the cavalry team that was quickly distancing itself from the follow-up infantry. "Before the enemy infantry reinforcements arrive, annihilate this cavalry team in the hills now and reduce the opponent's strength by 10%. Halfway through, there will be a turning point in this battle. Fukushima Bei also stopped retreating and just stood on the top of this hill to prevent enemy reinforcements!"
After Fukushima Masashige's horse seal was shaken, the 120 soldiers of Hasegawa Bei, Yuhibei and Ichinomiya Bei immediately accelerated their pace, turned and headed north towards the hills. The Umohara Mitsuru clan also immediately evacuated the auxiliary soldiers who were following Umohara Bei, moved 30 archers out of formation, and aimed in the direction of the cavalry.
"We are leading us into the hills. The food and drinks are good now." Asahina Taisun laughed twice, then looked back at Taiyuan Xue Zhai's flag change, "Okay, brothers, let's have a drink!"
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"Fukushima Echizen's guess is correct. The monk has no intention of leaving the whole army. They are panicked in this battle. As long as the war situation does not go well, they may defect on a large scale." Taiyuan Xuezai pointed to Asahina Taino's cavalry headquarters, and then He drew an arc straight to the northeast, "It's just that the poor monk's target is not the Sanbei, but the Miura family, the important ministers in the family!"
After receiving the order to turn, Asahina Taino led the cavalry straight to the northeast. The rapid march north of Hasegawa, Yui, and Ichinomiya Sanbi, who originally wanted to lure the cavalry into the mountains, not only failed to work, but instead tore apart the formation, giving Asahina Tai Nang made an opening. From then on, Asahina Yasuno drove straight in, penetrated the center of Imagawa Ryo Shinakata's entire front, and roared away behind Fukushima Bei.
Fukushima Masashige hurriedly mobilized his troops to defend the enemy behind him. He wanted to rely on the mountains to block the cavalry, but found that Asahina Tenno's target was not himself, but went straight through and headed towards Miura Bei on the northeast left wing.
Taiyuan Xuesai once again signaled the red bird horse seal to wave, and after receiving the instruction, Sekiguchi Bei, Sena Bei, and Asahina Bei all launched a fierce attack on Miura Bei. Although Miura's military strength is as many as 200 soldiers, he has never been known to be good at fighting, and he is firmly involved in the three reserve teams. At this time, Mitsukai Miura was surprised to find that the cavalry team led by Asahina Taino had crossed the friendly position at some point and came to the front.
"Quick, protect His Highness!" Seeing that something was going wrong, the Hatamoto warriors of the Miura family immediately clapped their horses to meet him, but they were unable to increase their horse speed in their haste. In a cavalry charge, horse speed is crucial. Whoever's horse is faster will be successful.
Asahina Taino drew his sword in his hand and led the soldiers forward to kill. He moved on his horse with skillful equestrian skills to pass two samurai swords that were being swung at him, and then slashed the enemy's seated horse beside him with his backhand, without even looking at the samurai who was knocked to the ground by his mount. Just keep rushing forward. He waved his sword and forced two warriors on foot to retreat. Then he jumped on his horse and knocked down another samurai holding a sword. In the blink of an eye, Miura was already in front of him.
Miura stood blankly beside his horse seal, watching as the tall and powerful Asahina Taino reined the horse in front of him, holding a bloody katana. The banner warriors sent out to meet the enemy were also defeated in front of the large group of Imagawa cavalry.
"I'm telling you, brother, last time your family followed Xiaolu Fanman, and this time we followed the Third Young Master, you really don't have a long memory." Asahina Taino joked, while under the gaze of hundreds of soldiers from both the enemy and ours, He leisurely unbuttoned his clothes and took out the wine gourd, raised his head and took a big sip. Then, regardless of the wine dripping down his chin, he swung the wine gourd in front of Mitsuru Miura, "The old Miura, the pen master of the time, is now Things are getting worse and worse. This time we are on the wrong side. How much territory do we still have left? Why don’t we abandon the dark side and join the bright side as soon as possible, and we can still keep our status as the elder of the family."
Miura glanced at his own troops on the front line who were all tied up by Sekiguchi Bei, Sena Bei, and Asahina Bei and couldn't escape. Then he looked at the enemy flags who were being escorted to the ground in a state of embarrassment. Finally, he looked at the people beside him. Asahina Tenno, who was stationed in front of the horse, and the large group of cavalry behind him and the unresponsive friendly forces a hundred feet away, smiled bitterly and took off his saber:
"The Miura family is willing to dedicate their loyalty to the Fourth Young Master. Please convey this message on your behalf."
"Choose wisely!" Asahina Taino sheathed the sword, and then looked at the red bird horse seal, "Master Yukisai, what's the next step?"
