"What the hell..."
As the sky gradually cooled down, Imagawa Yoshima also saw the situation on the battlefield clearly. Imagawa Shimoto actually left his army in the north. Those camps and flags were not false, but were places where troops were stationed. The darkness in the south is not hidden intentionally, but there is really no one there.
"Is it true that Sena Ujitoshi was not a double agent, but actually deceived Imagawa Ujimoto? Did he trick him into ambush in the north?" Imagawa Yoshima was speechless, and the situation in front of him made him laugh and cry, "Then I would rather Is it because you are clever but you are misled by your cleverness?”
"Your Highness, there is no need to blame yourself. Conspiracies are like this. No one can predict who will win." Iio Noriyuki looked at it openly, "Conspiracy is nothing more than linking one link after another, and one step will win the other. But if you are more If you think twice, you will shoot the stone in the foot."
"Fortunately, after they saw Toda Danmasa (Yasumitsu Toda) setting fire in the south, they transferred the main force from the upstream ferry to the south. They only called it back now, wasting a little time and allowing our leading troops to land. "Iio Noriken looked at Horikoshi Bei, Iio Bei, who had already entered the Sena Bei camp, and Okuhira Bei, Kira Bei, who had almost completed the crossing. "Otherwise, we would be the ones who were hit halfway across the river."
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The two sides exchanged strategies, and the final result was a decisive battle at the ferry in the upper reaches of the north. The 2,500 people of Iio Bei, Horikoshi Bei, Okuhira Bei, and Kira Bei fought against the 2,500 people of Asahina Bei, Sena Bei, Ogasawara Bei, Matsui Bei, and Arino Bei. Each of them had more than 800 soldiers. The rebel auxiliaries did not cross the river, while the counter-rebel auxiliaries hid outside the battlefield on the east side.
At this moment, Sena Bei's 170 soldiers were already in crisis under the attack of three times the strength of Iio Bei and Horikoshi Bei. Even Sena Uji Sada and Sena Uji Toshi had to carry their swords in person. Behind the east side of Sena Bei is the hill where Imagawa Ujimoto and Asahina Tenno's headquarters are located. On the north side are Iio Bei's 200 soldiers, on the south side are Horikoshi Bei's 300 soldiers, and on the west side is the Tenryu River. Stuck in a dead place.
"Go, rescue Sena Bei's brothers!" Asahina Yasunaga, who was the first to rush back to the battlefield, led 100 soldiers to attack Horikoshi's back. The leader, Horikoshi Sadaki, immediately arranged for his eldest son, Horikoshi Nobu, to detach a force. 100 soldiers responded to the enemy. Asahina Yasunaga, with several banner warriors, urged his horses to attack the Horikoshi clan's front. Because the Horikoshi family mobilized hastily, they failed to move the spearmen to the front. Instead, they asked a dozen soldiers with swords to resist the cavalry - which was naturally unstoppable. Taisho Asahina led his troops to ride on their horses, swung his swords left and right to open up the space, and already opened a hole in the battle line. The Asahina family's ashigaru behind them shouted and rushed forward, and they were about to repel Horikoshi Nobu.
At this moment, a shower of arrows suddenly flew from the west. Asahinaitai, who was the first to charge, was hit by three arrows on his long shoulder armor and retreated hastily. Several other warriors were also forced back by random arrows. One unlucky man even fell off his horse and was hacked to death with random swords. Chao Hinata turned to look and saw Okuhei, who was still struggling to cross the river on the shoal, dispatching an archery team to attack the shore in order to cover the friendly forces. However, the water flow was fast and the distance was long. The arrow team failed to cause much damage and only delayed the offensive of Asahina Taisho's headquarters.
"First of all, make room quickly!" At this time, the 100 soldiers of Asahina Taichi who were following behind Asahina Taichi to come back for reinforcements were blocked on the road and couldn't help but urge. They could only see arrows flying in front of them and hear the shouts of killing, but they had no idea what was going on in front of them amid the crowds of people. Behind them, the Asahina family's 3rd preparation 130 soldiers led by Asahina Chitoku were also overwhelmed by the crowd and unable to move forward.
"The distance between this mountain and the river is too small, and it's all blocked by Horikoshi." Yasuno Asahina on Honjin Mountain could clearly see the problem, and signaled the flag bearer of Imagawa Ujimoto to start shaking the red bird horse seal, " Let Higo Mamoru (Asahina Taichi) lead the army up the mountain, then climb down the mountain, and directly enter the Sena Bei camp for rescue. Then let Tanba Mamoru (Asahina Chitoku) lead the army to bypass the mountain from the east and from the north Fight back and attack behind Iio Bei!"
After Akatorimain gave the order slowly, the second and third members of the Asahina family who were originally crowded on the shore quickly left. Afterwards, Matsui's 80 soldiers, Ogasawara's 100 soldiers and Shinno's 70 soldiers also followed. Asahina Taino noticed that both of the detour roads were already crowded, and ordered them to stay put.
"Hold on, reinforcements will be here soon!" Sena Ujisad watched the flags waving on the mountain and knew that Asahina Yasuno was directing the rescue, so he shouted to boost the morale of his subordinates. In order to avoid being hurt by the loss, Sena Ujisada chose to dismount and take command.
Unlike the southern front, the situation on the northern front where Sena Ujitoshi personally fought was much worse. While the soldiers on the south side were resisting, they could still see Asahina's troops trying to rescue them in the distance, but on the north side they could only parry Iio Bei's onslaught in vain. Sena Shijun finally stepped back to rest for a while, wiping the blood on his cheek with his sleeve. However, after seeing many more mounted samurai from the Iio family leading the ashigaru charge, they had to pick up their swords again to make up for it. Sena Toshi is usually a slightly introverted person, and he cannot shout to boost morale like other samurai. However, his slightly frail body, fighting on the front line at risk, has already inspired the soldiers of the Sena family.
After a fierce battle for a long time, Sena Bei's casualties gradually approached 30% - this was already a very dangerous number for the medieval Japanese army. Seeing that the battle line was about to break, cheers suddenly came from behind the formation. Sena Ujitoshi turned around and saw that Asahina Taitomo's army was fighting down from the main mountain. Asahina's reinforcements also circled behind Iio Bei, forcing Iio Bei to separate his troops for defense. Sena Bei's The pressure suddenly eased.
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"Let Higo Mamoru take over Senabe's position, and move Senabe to the back of the formation to take a rest." Asahina Yasuno issued an order to the flag bearer, and at the same time looked south, "Ask Ogasawarabe to follow Asahina Erbi. Take the route up the mountain and enter the main formation as a reserve team. Let Matsui Bei and Shinno Bei..."
"What do you want them to do?" Imagawa Moto asked in confusion when he saw Asahina Yasuno hesitated.
"I want you to cross the river in the opposite direction, forcing the opponent's Okuheibei and Kirabei who have just landed to return to support our formation." Asahina Yasuno raised his hand and pointed to the empty main formation under Imagawa Ryoshin's fake red bird horse. "But it always feels like a trap. There is no reason to leave this formation so empty, as if there is no defense at all."
After Asahina Taino considered it for a moment, he still issued the order, "Let Ryobi cross the river. To put it bluntly, Imagawa Yoshima is just a rookie who has fought once and lost a big battle. I didn't catch him after he showed his flaws. reason."
After giving the order, Asahina Taino breathed a sigh of relief, took out the wine gourd from his waist, and began to pour several sips of wine into his mouth. When the battle was tense just now, he didn't even have a chance to take a sip.
"Are you sure about winning?" Imagawa Ujimoto read some information from Asahina Taino's body language.
"Just wait for the nobles in the camp to deal with the Toda Bei who acted as a feint attack. With three times the strength advantage, there is no reason why we can't win." Asahina Yasuno sat down on a stone and looked towards the south. Da Ying, who had never paid much attention to him, gradually slowed down his drinking speed until he stopped.
Because it can be seen at a glance from a high place that Toda Bei and the people of Enjiang are obviously "fighting a tacit fake war." It looked like arrows were flying randomly and swords were clashing, but in fact there was basically no change in the battle line, and there were only a dozen casualties here and there. The two armies had obviously already had an affair and had agreed not to be serious about each other.
"Is this... they want to preserve their strength so that they can bargain with the master later?" Asahina Taino put down the wine gourd and guessed incomprehensibly.
"Could it be that he colluded with my third brother to rebel?" Imagawa Ujimoto gave another possibility.
"That's absolutely impossible. All their children have been sent to Kakegawa City as hostages. How can it be the other way around? This is different from the daughters of the Horikoshi family who have been married into other families. They are both the eldest sons of the clan. How can they just abandon them?" Asahina Tai could retort without thinking, "But it doesn't matter, even if we don't rely on them, we can win head-on."
Imagawaji Yuan nodded thoughtfully and looked at the battle situation on the front battlefield. The sky was gradually getting brighter. After three lines of reinforcements arrived at the Hina family, Sena Bei had already recovered, but Iio Bei and Horikoshi Bei, who had landed, fell into a situation of being flanked. Matsui Bei and Nino Bei who crossed the river immediately restrained the enemy's reinforcements. Okuhira Bei and Kira Bei, who finally crossed the river, had to turn back into the rushing river again and rush back to rescue their own troops. After marching all night and wearing armor and equipment, they had to swim in the shoal twice. These two troops had already exhausted most of their energy before fighting. I'm afraid they wouldn't have much fighting power if they really fought.
Imagawa Ujimoto looked at Matsui Bei and Shinno Bei who had crossed the other side of the river, and then at the people from the Toe country who were behaving strangely in the camp, and several thoughts suddenly flashed through his mind. After a while, he stringed his thoughts together into a train of thought.
"Binakamori, I have a bad idea." Imagawa Ujimoto muttered with a wry smile, "I feel like... there is nothing we can do."
"What do you mean, Your Highness?" Asahina Taino turned around and asked.
"If the people from the Toe country in the camp now defect to the north and capture the ferry where Matsui Bei and Shinno Bei just crossed the river, then the two reserve teams that have already crossed the river will be trapped on the other side. Kii Mamoru (Asahina Yasunaga) The backs of the reserve team will also be outflanked by them." Imagawa Ujimoto himself was a little reluctant to continue talking, as if he didn't want to face such a result, "The three reserve teams will be captured by then. My third brother Do we have any room to refuse if we exchange them for the hostages of the wealthy families in Yuanjiang?"
"Oops." Asahina Taineng stood up suddenly, but the camp to the south had changed.
