A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

After hearing what Hojo Takahiro said, Koheita really wanted to believe it. If Nagao Kagetora came, he would be able to believe it alone. However, if you, Hojo Takahiro, come with thousands of people, it is very unconvincing.

Furthermore, big brother, you should have some idea of ​​what you are. You were beaten violently back and forth by Kenshin Uesugi. After being beaten, you were sent to Kanto, and then you turned around and joined Hojo Ujiyasu. Then he was beaten by Uesugi Kenshin again, and finally when Uesugi Kage was defeated, he had a fight with his son and held Kagetora in his arms. The result was unfortunate, even his life was lost.

So why is the credibility of your statement so low? Apart from finding out that Hojo Takahiro is a wild man, Koheita really doesn't see anything that makes him trustworthy.

But now that we are out of business and unable to produce food with our bare hands, we can only trust Hojo Takahiro. To put it in simpler terms: What can I do? I am also desperate.

After thinking about it, for these 10,000 people, food would be stable for at least a month. Xiaopingtai can only say to wait and see how the situation develops before considering anything else.

Two flowers bloom, one on each side. Looking at Hojo's response, we saw nearly 10,000 enemy troops coming. While Hojo Yasumoto was recruiting troops to defend the city, he pulled Hojo Ujiyasu's tiger skin and ordered the powerful Chinese people from Ueno, Shimono and Sahara to lead their troops to rescue him.

As the Yamauchi Army looted everywhere, the horses and messengers of the Hojo Army also shuttled up and down the field one after another, trying their best to pull in reinforcements to rescue their boss, Hojo Yasumoto.

At this time, as Echigo reinforcements arrive, the conflict between the Hojo Army and the Yamauchi Army is about to begin. Hojo Yasumoto was afraid of the increasing number of enemy troops, and finally made up his mind to go out of the city and fight to the death.

Hojo Yasumoto's capital is actually not bad. He has 2,000 local people supported by Sagami Musashi. These are not miscellaneous soldiers. They are all elite Yusheng Huangbei brought by his father, Huanghachiman Hojo Tsusunari. The regular ashigaru does not contain any moisture. Very loyal and strong in combat.

A little later, the Numata clan headquarters he inherited had 800 levies, and the Shimono Sano clan had 600 levies, a total of 3,400 soldiers that he could control with ease. In addition, five hundred people from the Saito clan and 2,500 Minawa Nagano clan gathered together to camp in the mountains outside the city. They made it clear that unless they were sure to win the battle and be able to overwhelm everything and seize the fruits of victory, they would have to go back where they came from. .

But the strength of these three thousand men was enough to cheer up the Hojo army, which showed that at least on the surface, most of the people in the field still sided with the Hojo army. It’s another matter whether I can contribute or not, but my attitude is at least acceptable.

In this way, the actual number of troops on the Hojo side is approximately 6,000, the main force of the Yamauchi side is 3,100 on the Yamauchi side plus 1,200 on the Ejiri side (the actual combat strength is just over 2,000), and 1,100 on the Shinano-Saku side (all weak The chickens and miscellaneous soldiers are useless), the Ueno soldiers are 400 (the ones tied up are even more useless), the two long-tailed remnants are 750, and the reinforcements from Yangbei after Echigo are 1,100.

Looking at the nearly 8,000 troops in the Yamauchi family, only about 4,000 people can actually rush forward to fight, which is not much different from the 3,000 or several hundred people in Hojo who can see the battle.

As soon as the troops were pulled out, Hojo Yasumoto, who was trained by the famous general Hojo Tsunari, only took a few glances and estimated that the actual combat strength of the Yamauchi army and reinforcements was meager. Totally capable.

After Hojo Yasumoto understood all this, he stopped talking nonsense. The formation was quickly set up and the reinforcements from the two local snakes in Ueno were stabilized. Make a horn posture and form an array behind the city. Numata soldiers and Sano soldiers are the first level of consumption. One thousand Hojo soldiers are divided into two wings. Finally, dozens of flags and horsemen drive one thousand Hojo soldiers to form the general reserve on the third level. Second line, make the final decisive blow.

Yamauchi's strategy occupies an advantageous position with the Echigo mountains at its back, giving it a slight advantage of being above and below. The Yamauchi troops occupied one wing, but Hojo Takahiro took the lead in the frontal assault. It seemed that he was trying to overwhelm the Hojo Army with a thousand men. More than a thousand people.

As far as formations are concerned, although the Hojo Army actually had a city to rely on, it could only form formations on a small plain that was flat and wide. The reason is also very simple. The Numata area is actually a basin. Everyone knows that the Japanese are terrible at building cities. A small force like the Numata family will not choose to build a large-scale flat city, but will only try to build a mountain city on the hillside.

This also led to Hojo Yasumoto, who had his back to the city, and could only put his army on the flat ground. After all, the only hillside next door was occupied by Nagano Yasumasa in advance, whether intentionally or not.

Although the Yamauchi Army was on the offensive side, it faced south and was at the junction of the continuous mountains of Echigo and the Kanto Plain. The towering mountains gradually level off here, but there is still a certain inclination angle. Just in time for the army to charge towards Hojo.

The two sides had completed their formations, and Yamauchi's formation was extremely thin (more than a thousand people) and very thick (more than 7,000 people) on one side. Hojo Yasumoto was confused and thought there was some dispute within the Yamauchi army. Woolen cloth.

However, it is obvious that Hojo Yasumoto is overthinking. Although Yamauchi Yoshikatsu is young and energetic, he is not an idiot who slaps the protagonist in a brainless novel. Not being motivated is the lowest requirement for a general. He was happy to have someone on the front line to charge into the battle. The samurai and ashigaru of his Yamauchi family were the capital of the Warring States Period, and it would hurt even if any of them died.

Hojo Takahiro sent a horse guard over to ask Yamauchi Sauma to help His Highness observe the formation, and then ran back quickly.

Then Yamauchi Yoshikatsu was happy to have his leisure, and casually pointed out an ashigaru general from the banner family to lead three to four hundred people to contain Hojo's flanks, and the rest of the army watched the show.

Koheita was more curious about the combat effectiveness of the Echigo soldiers. After all, various information from later generations praised Uesugi Kenshin's Echigo soldiers as unparalleled. It is said to be on par with Takeda Kahi's four elite soldiers. Thousands of people can suppress Hojo's tens of thousands of soldiers, and they are the strongest soldiers in the world.

The opportunity to directly observe the combat effectiveness of the Echigo Army was not to be missed. Koheita quickly rode on his Kiso horse, which was less than 1.2 meters tall, and let Aji hold his hand and stand on a high place to build a pergola to watch from a distance.

Looking at Hojo Takahiro, who was 200 meters away, holding a rattan bow, loudly encouraging the Echigo soldiers, but the sound that floated intermittently with the wind seemed to be a head of two liters of white rice. After destroying the entire army, he was rewarded with two liters of white rice. Quite simple, Xiaopingtai thought.

Then look at Hojo Takahiro! Eh! oh! In response to the call, he personally led sixty or seventy mounted warriors wearing iron armor, hanging veils, and holding rattan bows. They formed a small group of three or five and gathered together to form a large group. The Hojo army rushed towards them, the sound of hooves rumbling incessantly.

When they reached about twenty or thirty meters in front of the Hojo Army, they all relaxed their guns and took aim. They then circled to both sides without hesitation and returned to the Echigo Army formation to form a group again.

I saw that the cannon fodder on the front line of the Hojo Army was constantly knocked down, and most of Hojo's bow ashigaru were recruited on the spot. The Maruki bow was weak and the arrows were not good. Coupled with the terrifying momentum of the cavalry charge, these Ashigaru can still shoot arrows and are already worthy of Hojo Yasumoto.

If you encounter an army with a weak will and a wavering heart, perhaps Hojo Takahiro's invitation to attack will cause the three armies to collapse in an uproar. Anyway, if Koheita was an ashigaru on the front line, he would definitely turn around and run when he saw such cavalry rushing towards him, his life would be at stake.

After Hojo Takahiro gave way to the road, the second formation of the Echigo Army, Hojo Kagehiro, also took dozens of cavalry and fired their bows. Dozens of cavalry were like one cavalry, and hundreds of people were like one person. The two fathers and sons went back and forth like this three times, but they did not lose anyone, but disturbed Hojo's formation.

The chance of victory or defeat has begun to emerge.

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