At the front of the Kyogoku family's formation, Uesaka Munanobu, Mitamura Tamasa and others squatted carefully under the horse fence outside the camp, observing the situation of the Asakura family ahead.
Amidst the continuous sound of conch sounds, a samurai roughly the same size as Uesaka Munanobu pointed to the Asakura family's troops in front of them who were actively mobilizing and said slowly, "It seems that the Asakura family wants to fight with me. Got it!"
"Haha! Isn't this just what you and I meant?" Uesaka Munanobu smiled and patted the samurai next to him on the shoulder, "It's been a long time since we have fought side by side with the Tongji Department. I really miss the old days!"
"Haha! What my brother said is true, and I'm looking forward to it too!" Uesaka Yoshinobu also laughed.
Uesaka Yoshinobu and Uesaka Munanobu were of the same clan. After Uesaka Nobumitsu was exiled by Kyogoku Takahiro, Uesaka Munanobu followed Uesaka Nobumitsu into trouble and joined the Kyogoku family in the process. Uesaka Yoshinobu, Uesaka Keishin and others joined the Asai family. After the Asai family was defeated, they returned to the Kyogoku family.
The two were originally close friends, so they knew each other relatively well.
"Daisuke Jibu, let's compete later on who can get more heads!" Uesaka Munanobu laughed extremely relaxedly, and the latter looked at Uesaka Munanobu with a look that said you're going to lose. .
Just as the two were teasing each other, a mounted samurai with three flying feathers on his back quickly came to Uesaka Munanobu's side. Uesaka Munanobu and the other two quickly stopped laughing and looked at the samurai in front of them solemnly.
"Uesaka-sama! My lord has an order, stay here! My lord has sent troops from the Takeda family to support you, please be sure to block the Asakura family's offensive," the samurai said quickly.
Uesaka Munanobu slapped his chest and said proudly, "Please tell Sakyo to enter the palace! As long as I, the Daifu of the Uesaka Civil Affairs Bureau, are here, even a fly cannot fly over to his Asakura family!"
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One mile in front of the Kyogoku family's formation, within the Asakura family's troops, Asakura Kageki was riding on a tall horse, pointing forward with an excited face and saying, "Everyone! This place is Wakasa, and it belongs to the Wakasa Takeda family. territory."
"The Kyogoku family disregarded morality and arbitrarily attacked Wakasa, which caused Wakasa to suffer from war! Now I am raising a righteous army to attack Kyogoku. Can you all follow me to fight as you wish?"
"Conquer Kyogoku and capture Gozeyama Castle!"
"Cruel against Kyogoku!" A group of samurai shouted out the words they had rehearsed for a while. Under the mobilization of the samurai, the morale of the Asakura family suddenly exploded.
"The people of the Kyogoku family are opposite us now. Please pick up the weapons in your hands and defeat these idiots from Omi together with me, Asakura Kageki!" Asakura Kageki raised the sword in his hand and encouraged loudly. Looking at the Asakura family's ashigaru.
"Ouch!"
"Ouch!"
"Must win!"
The Asakura Ashigaru standing at the front took the lead in shouting, and the peasants and soldiers standing behind also cheered. As soon as thousands of people shouted, every Asakura family ashigaru could not help but feel strong confidence and fighting spirit in their hearts!
"kill!"
Seeing that the morale of the ashigaru had been mobilized, Asakura Kageki knew that the time had come. He immediately waved his sword, and the ashigaru behind him began to charge towards the Kyogoku family in front under the command of various retainers.
At this time, there were only seven or eight thousand Ashigaru people under Asakura Kageki's command. In addition to Asakura Kageki's own team of more than two thousand people, there were also 4,000 people from Maesada Kagesada and Horie Kageyoshi. In addition, Yamazaki Yoshie He also brought more than a thousand people to the rear as a reserve team.
At the forefront of the Asakura family's formation is Horie Keiyong. As the top general of the Asakura family, Horie Keiyong has always been deeply trusted by Asakura Takakage. His subordinates are all the most elite ashigaru of the Asakura family. Since they have been fighting against the Kaga Ichimu clan all year round, all of these ashigaru are experienced in hundreds of battles.
Asakura Sotechi asked Horie Keiyu to take the lead because he also wanted to lower the morale of the Kyogoku family.
Judging from the situation obtained from all aspects during this period, the Kyogoku family has been so smooth that it can almost be said that they have never failed. Because of this, the morale of the Kyogoku family must be high, so Asakura Soutai sent Horie Keiyu to lead the battle in order to break the morale of the Kyogoku family.
Seeing the Kyogoku family's troops getting closer and closer to him, Horie Kage felt a surge of pride in his heart.
"It's been a long time since I've fought against such a powerful enemy. I'm really looking forward to it!" Licking his lips, Horie Kage's eyes showed a trace of expectation. His right hand unconsciously tightened the sword at his waist so that he could draw it out and swing it at any time. Combat.
Closer, closer!
Horie Keiyu could even clearly see the faces of the Kyogoku family's ashigaru behind the fence!
I saw Horie Keage slowly withdrawing the sword from his waist and holding it in front of his chest. He stared at the Kyogoku family Ashigaru in front of him and shouted loudly, "Kill!"
"kill!"
"oh!"
With Horie Kageyong's shout, the battle officially started, and the ashigaru behind him also followed Horie Kageyong and rushed forward with their spears in hand.
Uesaka Munanobu and Uesaka Yoshinobu stood in front of the ashigaru, one on the left and one on the right, holding the tachi firmly in their hands. When he saw that the Asakura family's troops had launched a charge, Uesaka Munanobu immediately ordered: "Stabilize the formation, hold the spear high in front of the wooden pole!"
"Ouch!"
A group of ashigaru armed with bamboo spears, led by the samurai, quickly stood in three rows with their bamboo spears raised. The spear samurai stood at the front, and the two rows behind were ashigaru.
In the case where most of the army is composed of peasants and soldiers, the number of warriors will directly affect the combat effectiveness of the entire army.
Under normal circumstances, samurai rushed to the front, not only to boost morale, but also to act as "arrows" to lead the peasants and soldiers behind them to attack. The fighting power of the peasants and soldiers was too overwhelming. If there were no samurai to support them, the Kyogoku family would probably collapse within half an hour of fighting.
If the warriors in a peasant-soldier team suffered heavy casualties, the force would collapse even if the peasant-soldiers were unscathed.
After the ashigaru raised their spears, a group of ashigaru behind the spear ashigaru placed part of the wooden poles in their hands vertically on the ground, and the other part was raised above their heads by three or five ashigaru.
Immediately afterwards, groups of archers stood behind the wooden pillars and began to draw their bows and nock arrows.
Uesaka Munanobu raised his right hand high and stared straight ahead, calculating the distance between the Asakura family's military strength and himself based on this past experience.
Five hundred steps...
Three hundred steps...
Two hundred steps...
"Fire the arrow!"
When the Asakura family's troops rushed to two hundred paces away from Uesaka Munanobu, Uesaka Munanobu immediately waved his palm, and the archers behind him tilted their bows upward at a certain angle, then released their right hands and held them one by one. The arrow immediately flew out of the bowstring.
Horie Keiyong had been paying attention to the movements of the Kyogoku family. After hearing a buzzing sound, he quickly shouted: "Raise the umbrella!"
The Asakura family's Ashigaru were well prepared. After hearing Horie Keiyong's words, the group of Ashigaru who rushed to the front quickly placed the wooden pegs they carried with them on the ground. The entire Asakura family's military force slowly stopped. Come down.
