At seven o'clock on September 28, the fifth year of Tianwen (1536), Lin Xiangshan.
After all, Hojo Ujiyasu had been in battle for a long time. Although it took some effort, he still managed to avoid being entangled by the Imagawa family banner and retreated to Linxiang Mountain. But as soon as he went up the mountain to take a look at the battle situation, he found that all the Hojo troops on the battlefield were in chaos. He didn't know whether to cry or laugh - various parts of the Hojo Army rushed to the rescue because they were worried about his safety, but the original deployment was messed up, and the positions of the ambush were all exposed.
"You can't trust me so much? Do you think I will be killed if no one saves me?" Hojo Ujiyasu couldn't help complaining, and at the same time ordered, "Let all the troops return to their original positions! Hold on to their positions! Cut off the Imagawa army's retreat! Since The Imagawa Army irrationally wants to fight us without thinking about opening up a retreat. We don't need to attack anymore. All departments must take the initiative to avoid fighting! If we defend against the mountains, the Imagawa Army will not be able to defeat it! Two days later, Look at the enemy’s self-defeat!”
After Hojo Ujiyasu's five-color horse seal shook and gave the order, the various reserve units of the Hojo family that originally wanted to rush forward and fight the Imagawa army stopped, turned around and retreated to their original station. Miura Bei, Abe Bei and Udono Bei all breathed a sigh of relief when they saw this, and they had time for their auxiliary soldiers to start building defenses along the river bank. Okabe Bei seized the opportunity to cross the Yui River and went north along the Banko River.
"I really don't want to suffer any losses." Imagawa Yoshimoto looked at Hojo Ujiyasu's arrangement and said secretly in his heart, "We obviously have the advantage, but we don't want to decide the outcome through a head-on battle. Instead, we just want to stick to the dangerous point. Wait until the enemy's food, fodder and morale are exhausted before counterattacking? Is this the tactics of the 'Sagami Lion'? I have learned a lesson."
"But do you really think that if your 1,000 bannermen and less than 2,000 auxiliary troops are retreating on Linxiang Mountain, I can't defeat them?" Imagawa Yoshimoto laughed and ordered in a low voice, "The fourth bannerman Be prepared, go northeast into the forest! Approach the southeast of Linxiang Mountain! Bring the auxiliary troops and enter!"
"Bring auxiliary troops?" Makiyama Nazuo was confused by Imagawa Yoshimoto's order, "Your Highness, we are already fighting, why do we need to bring auxiliary troops? Wouldn't it be better to let them hide in the main formation on Honkoyama? We And you don’t have to be distracted to protect them.”
"It's always better to have more hands, and I don't want you to go to war." Imagawa Yoshimoto raised his head, looked at the red bird horse prints that were hunting in the wind, and snapped his fingers in the direction of Lin Xiangshan——
"Southeast wind, you go to the southeast foothills of Linxiang Mountain and set fire to it!"
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At three quarters of noon on September 28, the fifth year of Tenmon (1536), when a raging fire ignited at the southeastern foothills of Mount Linxiang and took advantage of the wind to wildly devour the forests of Mount Linxiang, Hojo Ujiyasu had no choice but to overturn his previous order. .
"You're eating shit... Imagawa Yoshimoto has a lot of work to do." Hojo Ujiyasu knew that it wouldn't be long before the mountain fire reached his own formation - at least it was much shorter than the time it took for the Imagawa army to finish eating. "Instruct all ministries not to return to their bases, come here and save me! Launch a general attack on the Imagawa Army immediately!"
"Your mistake saved my life and gave me the opportunity to reorganize my deployment." Imagawa Yoshimoto looked at the prepared teams and tapped the palms of his hands with a folding fan confidently. Okabe Bei has approached the upper reaches of the Banko River and can immediately dredge the river, making it difficult for the enemy to cross the Banko River and the lower reaches of the Yuiga River to attack. Once Tominaga Naosheng's Aobei and Kasahara Nobuya's Hakube cross the river, they will be attacked by Sena Bei and Sekiguchi Bei who are ambushing in the forest - but Aobei and Hakube who are eager to support Hojo Ujiyasu Bei had no choice but to be surrounded and seek reinforcements, and fell into an ambush by the Imagawa army.
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"Fourth brother, what do you think Yoshimoto is thinking about now?" Hojo Ujiyasu, who was choked by the thick smoke blown by the wind and was a little embarrassed, complained to his younger brother.
"He was thinking, brother, that you just missed the opportunity to fight, allowing the army to turn back in vain, and even sent the Okabe equipment to the upper reaches of the Fanko River." Hojo Ujiyao complained mercilessly to his brother.
"Haha, that's what I want him to think." Hojo Ujiyasu laughed twice, and then his expression became fierce again, "But thanks to him setting the fire, I can act more realistically. He won't really think that , I would make such a low-level mistake, right? I don’t really think that he has a chance to turn defeat into victory, right? "
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At five quarters of noon on September 28, the fifth year of Tianwen (1536), Okabe Bei explored the upper reaches of the Banko River. Behind several huge piles of rocks, they saw the water flow blocked by sandbags and gravel blocks, and the surrounding land was soaked by the overflowing river water. However, what surprised Okabe Oyatsuna was that there was not a lot of accumulated water here, and the deepest part was only ankle deep, and it all flowed along the terrain into other ravines with low foundations.
"This is it, be alert all around." After Okabe Oyatsuna saw the man-made embankment, he immediately vigilantly sent people to scout several nearby forests and hills where he could ambush. Imagawa Yoshimoto had just sent a messenger to remind him that the Hojo Army, which had blocked the river, was still stationed here.
After some reconnaissance, it can be said that Okabe Bei is safe. However, Okabe Oyatsuna still did not take it lightly, and asked all the soldiers to prepare for the battle at the Bankok River, and asked his brother Okabe Hisatsuna to start clearing the river with auxiliary troops.
"You are really cautious... Did Yoshimoto not only notice that I wanted to attack by water, but also that there would be an ambush in the upper reaches of the Banko River?" Hojo Ujiyasu observed Okabe Bei's actions on Rinxiang Mountain, and couldn't help but admired, But in an instant, he sneered, "But I already knew that you would notice these two points, and I also expected that you would send people to dredge the river. In the end, you still missed a move!"
Hojo Ujiyasu's five-colored horse seal paused vigorously on the spot, and then waved it back and forth twice. Imagawa Yoshimoto looked at the strange signal sent out by the Hojo family without knowing why. Just when he was wondering who was giving the order, there was a sudden sound like the roar of a flood coming from the upper reaches of the Banko River.
The Okabe soldiers who were cleaning the river were at a loss. They straightened up in stunned silence and turned to look in the direction of the sound - they saw that further upstream of the Banko River, the raging river water was flowing smoothly during this wet season. Rushing along the river.
"Two-layer dike! The Hojo family built a two-layer dike. The lower layer is just to trick us into the river to clean up. It is the upper layer that really blocks the flood!" Okabe Oyatsuna, who suddenly woke up, hurriedly greeted The men left the river, but it was too late. "No wonder there is no overflowing water! The real large flow of water is blocked in the dam above!"
The flood that had been accumulating for a long time roared in. The 600 Okabe auxiliary soldiers who were still working in the river fled in a hurry under the leadership of Okabe Hisatsuna. However, a small half of them were swallowed directly by the river water in an instant and swept downstream. The more than 200 unlucky auxiliary soldiers struggled desperately in the river, trying to grab all the rocks, water plants, and reeds they could grab, but they were still unable to compete with the power of nature. They were thrown to the bottom of the water one by one as if they were spinning around.
The flow of the river exceeded everyone's imagination, and even rushed out of the river. The waves hit Okabe Bei's soldiers, and they were submerged up to their knees in an instant. Okabe Oyatsuna hurriedly led the soldiers to evacuate to the high ground in the northeast. Everyone trudged through the gradually rising water level and finally escaped from the flood. Before the troops could take a breath, a hail of arrows hit from the north.
I saw that on another higher highland not far to the north, 900 black soldiers led by Tamu Gentada had been waiting for a long time. After seeing Okabe Bei being driven to the high ground by the flood, he immediately launched a fierce attack while they were still unheard. Okabe, who was lying in ambush, hurriedly formed his formation, but still fell into a hard fight in an instant.
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"The Banko River...is terrible..." Yoshimoto Imagawa from the top of Honkoyama witnessed the tragic situation in the upper reaches of the Banko River, but he still felt a little comforted in his heart. "But it's okay. After the water flow of the Banko River has been restored to half, the flow of the river downstream will be reduced." The water level will soon rise and the number of suitable fords for crossing the river will become very limited."
Imagawa Yoshimoto turned his attention downstream, where Hōbei of Hojo Hōjo was launching a fierce attack on several bridges controlled by Miurabei, Abebei and Udenbei. To his north, Hojo Tsunade's Akabi did not join the battle group, but moved to the intersection where the Banko River merged into the Yui River, trying to cross the river from the bridge there and directly enter the Ishikiri Forest at the intersection of the rivers.
"Send the order for Senabei and Sekiguchibei to prepare for an ambush." Imagawa Yoshimoto kept an eye on Chibei's movements. As soon as he went deep into the forest, he was ready to arrange for Senabei and Sekiguchibei who were ambushing in the Ishikiri Forest to ambush. He struck a fatal blow.
However, Hojo Tsunadaka had no intention of going deep into the Ishikiri Forest, and led his team to wait in the south of the forest from a distance. Imagawa Yoshimoto was confused until he saw fire and smoke rising from the trees.
"Only you are allowed to set fire?" Hojo Ujiyasu on Linxiang Mountain glanced at the fire that was getting closer and closer to him, wiped his face that was already blackened by soot, and cursed casually, "You little bastard, you have reminded me, who else? You won’t set a fire? Really?”
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"Oops…"
In the Ishikiri Forest, forest fires and thick smoke swept through the forest along with the southeast wind. Sena Ujisada and Sekiguchi Ujiroku tried to organize soldiers to put out the fire, but they failed soon after. The burning flames and the choking smoke smoked the soldiers of Sena Bei and Sekiguchi Bei so much that in the end, nearly 800 soldiers could no longer bear it and had to be thrown out from the north of Ishikiri Forest in embarrassment. What greeted them was a hail of arrows from the Hojo Army Bai Bei and Ao Bei who had been waiting on the other side of the Bangu River.
Under the volley of random arrows, Sena Bei and Sekiguchi Bei suffered heavy losses, and their formations were in chaos. They had to withdraw to the southeast and give up the river bank. Upon seeing this, Kasahara Nobuya and Tominaga Naokatsu immediately urged 1,800 people to cross the river, with 600 combat troops in front and 1,200 auxiliary troops in the rear. However, Sena Bei and Sekiguchi Bei had almost no ability to fight back.
"Although the outcome will not change, if the prey is unwilling to struggle hard, hunting will still be quite boring. If the body cannot heat up, the prey will be tasteless." Hojo Ujiyasu came up with two tricks in a row. , has already forced the two special forces of Imagawa Army into danger. Although the bannermen around him had begun to urge him to retreat from Lin Xiangshan, where the fire was getting bigger and bigger, he still looked at Imagawa Yoshimoto's horse seal with interest.
"Yiyuan, keep on attacking."
