On September 28, the fifth year of Tianwen (1536), the third quarter of Shenshi.
"All the troops downstream of the Yuhi River collapsed... Huang Beihao of the Hojo family is seriously ill..."
Imagawa Yoshimoto looked at the terrible battle situation, but he was helpless. He only has the fourth banner and preparation on hand, and he still has to be responsible for guarding the main formation. He never expected that the originally well-kept river bank would be breached by Huang Bei before the water rose.
However, on the frontal battlefield, the Imagawa Army had already gained a huge advantage. The number of members of the Hojo family on the frontal battlefield was smaller than that of the Imagawa family, and they were only supported by Yuigawa's barrier. As Asahina braved the fire and descended from Mount Rinka, appearing behind Hojo Ujiyasu's main formation, the defense line along the river set up by the Hojo Army on the upper reaches of the Yui River was no longer meaningful, and the battle situation also suddenly changed to the Imagawa Army. direction is tilted.
Hojo Ujiyasu had to allocate a large number of troops to deal with Asahinabei. As soon as the pressure was relieved, the first, second, third and fifth bases of the Imagawa Army rushed across Yuigagawa. After holding back for a long time on the other side of the river, they were finally able to take advantage of their military strength and pursue and attack the Hatamoto of the Hojo family. Without the obstruction of the river, Hojo Uyasu, who was at a disadvantage in terms of military strength, was retreating steadily and was in urgent need of support from Bai Bei and Ao Bei.
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At the same time, in the Ishikiri Forest, Sena Bei and Sekiguchi Bei were fighting and retreating in the forest. Bai Bei and Qing Bei attacked fiercely, but the terrain in the forest was complicated and there were many obstacles, so they couldn't defeat them even after a while.
Seeing the crisis in their own formation, Bai Bei and Qing Bei seemed to have no intention of entangled with the remnants of Sena Bei and Sekiguchi Bei, so they slowly exited the forest to support the frontal battlefield. Imagawa Yoshimoto saw their actions and knew that once these two reserve teams joined the battlefield, the situation on the frontal battlefield would be reversed. So he also sent a signal, asking Sekiguchi Bei and Sena Bei to hold back the enemy forces in front of them.
"Hold on to their tails, don't let them run away easily!" After seeing the flag of Imagawa Yoshimoto, Sekiguchi Ujiro immediately spurred his horse forward, shouting to urge his subordinates.
"But Your Highness, our casualties are already considerable. If we continue to fight reluctantly..."
"The Sekiguchi family are members of the Imagawa family, and they have sworn allegiance to the Imagawa family from generation to generation. Now is the time when the family's survival is at stake. How can we slack off for even a moment?" Hearing this, Shiroku Sekiguchi was furious and scolded the subordinates who raised objections, "The whole army is following Go ahead, even if you risk your life, we must stop the enemy!"
With the fierce attack launched by Sekiguchi Bei, Bai Bei, who was about to withdraw from the forest, had to slow down and separated some soldiers to retreat. Sekiguchi Shilu immediately ordered his men to walk through the various paths in the forest, mobilized the few dozen soldiers left in his hands, and frantically harassed them. Bai Bei struggled for a long time and finally got out of the forest.
However, just when Sekiguchi Shiroku rode his horse out of the forest and planned to continue the pursuit, he discovered that to the east of Baibei's line, 80 archers from Sekiguchi were arrayed impressively, with their arrow tips shining with cold light pointed at Sekiguchishi. Where is Lu.
"The Sekiguchi Punishment Department is still the same as before. You are leading the way as always. I knew you would come out first." Qingbei's reserve captain Tominaga Naokatsu and Sekiguchi Shiroku are also old acquaintances. They visited each other many times during the period when the Shunsei alliance was stable. He learned about the fighting habits of Sekiguchi Shiroku better than anyone else through the archery competition. At this moment, Tominaga Naokatsu was stationed behind the archery team. The moment he saw Sekiguchi Shiroku's figure appearing outside the woods, he swung his sword fiercely and said, "Fire the arrow! The sword is ruthless, don't blame the punishment department!"
Random arrows shot through the air, pointing directly at Guankou Shilu. Sekiguchi Shiroku himself was riding his horse forward. Seeing this, he hurriedly reined in his horse and tried to avoid it. The guards behind him also gave up their bodies and stepped forward to cover, but in the end it was too late. Sekiguchi Shilu and Si Ma were hit by more than twenty arrows, and fell into a pool of blood without saying a word.
"Your Highness! Your Highness!"
The guards of Sekiguchi Bei rushed forward like crazy, but the master of the house had already breathed his last. Before he died, the right hand holding the knife still pointed firmly at Bai Bei's rear team.
"Avenge Your Highness!"
After witnessing the tragic situation of the family leader, Sekiguchi Bei's soldiers lost their minds and rushed towards Bai Bei. But they had already chased out of the woods, and they no longer had the cover of shrubs. How could one fight against many on the plain? Bai Bei turned around to meet the attack, and Qing Bei also attacked from the side. No matter how brave Guankou prepared, it still disintegrated as quickly as snowflakes melting.
"Join the friendly forces!" Sena Ujisada, who hurried out of the forest, saw the collapse of the Sekiguchi Bei and immediately asked his troops to assist the friendly forces in retreating. However, Sena Bei's military strength alone could hardly pose a threat to the enemy. Kasahara Nobu led Shiro Bei into the forest to pursue Sekiguchi Bei's defeated troops, and together they attacked Sena Bei's front. Qingbei, on the other hand, turned around and left, rushing to the main battlefield for support.
With the help of Qingbei, although Hojo Ujiyasu solved his urgent need, he was still at a disadvantage. The Imagawa banner's main force attacked fiercely from the front, and Asahina Bei also kept harassing the enemy from behind. The Hojo army was exhausted and had to shrink its position one after another. Hojo Ujiyasu's five-color horse seal kept shaking, giving instructions to attack the Hojo army on the southeast bank of the Yuhi River. After Huang Bei's Hojo Weichang received the order, he immediately led Huang Bei, who had been hastily reorganized, and rushed towards Imagawa Yoshimoto's Honmitsu Mountain in an attempt to encircle Wei and rescue Zhao.
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On September 28, 1536, the fifth year of Tenmon's reign, Hojo Ujiyasu launched another fire plan. With the north wind howling, Hakubi in the northern part of Ishikiri Forest set the forest on fire. The trees that had been scorched for a long time had become extremely dry at this moment. As soon as they caught fire, the fire quickly rushed towards the defeated troops of Sena Bei and Sekiguchi Bei. Since the fire was still burning in the southern part of Ishikiri Forest at this time, Sena Bei and Sekiguchi Bei had nowhere to escape, so they had to exit the forest from the eastern part of Ishikiri Forest. Bai Bei immediately chased after Sena Bei, launched a fierce attack when Sena Bei was not stable, and defeated Sena Bei in one fell swoop.
In desperation, Sena Ujisada made the same choice as Hojo Tsunaka, letting his subordinates flee through the water, hoping to cross the Yuigao River and escape to the southeastern bank - although the nearest troops near the southeastern bank were also Huang from the Hojo family. Bei, but Sena Shisada had no choice - simply Huang Bei was eager to attack Honkoyama and ignored these fleeing soldiers.
However, the current of the Yui River was quite turbulent at the moment, making it particularly difficult to cross the river, and progress was very slow. Bai Bei chased after him and launched an attack on the Sena Bei and Sekiguchi Bei soldiers who had not yet crossed the river. The samurai left behind by Sena Bei and Sekiguchi Bei spontaneously organized Ashigaru resistance, but they were quickly defeated. A large number of defeated troops fled along the river, some jumped into the river, and some tried to escape to the northeast of the banner's first prepared position.
Kasahara Nobuhi wanted to continue the pursuit, but Hojo Ujiyasu gave a strong signal, telling him not to be greedy for military exploits and gains, but to immediately cross the Yuigagawa River and cooperate with Huang Bei to attack Imagawa Yoshimoto's main camp Honmitsuyama. The spirit of home. Kasahara believed that without hesitation, he led Bai Bei and crossed the river.
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"It's time, let go!" Imagawa Yoshimoto saw Bai Bei collectively wading across the river, and immediately asked Ma Yin to send the signal. Not long after, dozens of sharpened logs were seen rushing out of the upper reaches of the Yui River that flowed through Rinxiang Mountain - the auxiliary soldiers of the Asahina family had just prepared them according to the request of Imagawa Yoshimoto, and they were waiting. Someone in the Hojo family wanted to cross the Yuigao River to change their families. The log flowed down the river, rushing faster and faster with the support of the rapids, and finally hit Bai Bei in the river at almost the speed of an infantry charge.
At this time, Bai Beigang had dozens of soldiers crossing the river, and the whole army was still in the river. Being rushed by this log formation, everything was shattered in an instant. Some people were hit in the waist, abdomen or neck by logs, and they wailed and then sank into the water. More people were knocked down by these logs and swept downstream by the current. Bai Bei's entire river-crossing operation was completely blocked.
Bai Bei, who suffered heavy losses, almost lost his combat effectiveness. Kasahara Nobuyuki had to give up the attack and sent people downstream to fish for people and gather stragglers. The cessation of Bai Bei's attack also allowed the Imagawa army to breathe a sigh of relief - if Bai Bei also joined the siege of Honmitsuyama, Imagawa Yoshimoto's main formation would be wiped out in one fell swoop.
The remnants of Sena Bei and Sekiguchi Bei who had escaped to the shore were already demoralized, but seeing that Bai Bei, who had just killed his comrades, now only had dozens of people left on the shore, the soldiers who were eager for revenge were all He turned around and killed him. On the beach, the soldiers of the two armies fought against each other without any formation.
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At this time, Huang Bei also reached the foot of Benguang Mountain. Imagawa Yoshimoto was unambiguous and immediately asked Makiyama Nazuo's fourth banner to prepare at the foot of the mountain to meet him. Although Huang Bei's combat effectiveness had been reduced in the previous battle, their morale was so high that they had just defeated the third bei in a row, and the fourth prepared in the banner was somewhat passive from the beginning. However, the Fourth Preparation Bureau of Flagship was in a condescending location, and the reserve team was recharged. They quickly adjusted and formed a team with Huang Preparation.
In order to defeat Huang Bei who dared to fight as soon as possible, Imagawa Yoshimoto personally rode his horse to the foot of the mountain to observe the battle situation between Huang Bei and the Fourth Bei at close range, looking for flaws in Huang Bei's formation.
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However, at this moment, there was movement in Chibei in the distance. Hojo Tsunaka spent a lot of time and finally reorganized his troops, but most of the weapons and armor were lost. They were heading north along the west bank of the Banko River, trying to find a suitable place to cross the river to support Hojo Ujiyasu's main formation from the northwest bank of the Hikawa River.
"Don't come over!"
However, at this time, Hojo Ujiyasu seemed to be red-eyed. He personally snatched the horse seal from the flag bearer and waved it to Chibei, "Cross the river directly for me! Go and attack Imagawa Yoshimoto's main formation!"
"Brother, are you crazy?" After seeing Hojo Ujiyasu's crazy behavior, Hojo Ujiyao couldn't help but stepped forward to admonish him, "Just now we were able to defend Linxiang Mountain with ease, but now we are surrounded by enemies. Without support, we won’t be able to stop!”
Hojo Ujiyao was right. The Hojo family's main force, which was under siege on the plain, now suffered more than 20% casualties, and due to its inferior strength, the Hojo army continued to bleed. Asahina Bei and Imagawa Bantamoto were ruthless at every turn. The number of Hojo troops on every front was insufficient. Hojo Ujiyasu had even sent out horses, guards and even messengers to plug the leak. If Seibei hadn't come to support him, Hojo Ujiyasu's main formation would have been conquered.
"If we want to die together, whoever is the first to lose his composure and return to support our formation!" Hojo Ujiyasu smiled evilly, like a lion struggling to fight against a trapped beast, "Yoshimoto, if you have the guts to go to hell with me, ?”
"You are the one who will go to hell first!"
Suddenly there was a loud roar in his ears, and Hojo Ujiyasu hurriedly turned around, only to find that a group of cavalry with the flag of the Asahina family had already arrived in front of them. Behind them, a hole had been penetrated in the thin defense line of the Hojo family. Countless Hojo troops who wanted to rush to intercept were left behind by this group of cavalry. The leader was none other than Asahina Taino.
"Array! Protect the young master!" The few remaining guards and subordinates of the Hojo family hurriedly formed an array to protect the Hojo clan Yasusu behind them. The team of cavalry did not break through forcefully, but formed a circle around the horse seal. However, this group of cavalry caused chaos in the Hojo family's formation. Not only did Asahinabe's soldiers pour in from the gap, but the battle lines of the various Hojo family banners were fractured to varying degrees. Seibei, who was defeated by Tominaga, was busy putting out the fire, but he couldn't cope with it.
