The Oda army, which was driven to retreat to the southwestern slopes, was already in chaos. Oda Nobunaga lost control of the army, and the Ashigaru gathered around their master's general banner to fight on their own.
The pursuing Imagawa troops approached from two directions and almost occupied the entire low-lying area. The Oda army, which had not yet had time to enter the low-lying hills, hurriedly rushed towards the entrance of the hills under the leadership of Sakuma Nobumori.
They met the escaping Oda family troops head-on.
"Why did you all withdraw? Where is my lord!" Sakuma Nobumori looked at the ashigaru and samurai escaping one after another, and shouted and asked, "What's going on inside!"
"Your Highness, we have fallen into a trap!" the ashigaru who escaped wailed in response, and fled out in a steady stream. A female soldier shouted in the crowd with a mournful face: "Imagawa Jibu used two horse seals as bait.
The lord rushed all the way to the innermost place! As a result, all the troops from the administrative department were ambushed beside the bucket and narrow room, and we were ambushed! The army was all killed with a roar, and we were scattered! The lord also lost contact with us!
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"How many people are there in the Imagawa Army?" Sakuma Nobumori felt his heart tightening and asked sharply.
"Countless! Your Highness!" The women in uniform were crowded by the crowd of people escaping and ran towards the distance. They raised their necks and shouted: "There must be at least five or six thousand soldiers! We are finished!"
"Damn it!" Sakuma Nobumori felt a little unsteady when he heard the news. He looked towards the Okehazama Hills and could already see the Imagawa family's pursuers from the low-lying areas in the distance. Oda
Wherever Nobunaga is, he has completely lost sight of him. I don't know what the situation is in the hills at this time.
"Sakuma Bei listens to the order and covers everyone's retreat!" Sakuma Nobumori shouted loudly, "I will personally direct the retreat, no chaos! After retreating, regroup and try to rescue the lord!"
At the same time, Tianraku Hazama is southwest.
The retreating troops of the Oda Army have already fled up the hilly slopes in the southwest. Not far away, the Imagawa family's army has reached the low-lying area where they were just now. There are only 300 people left around Oda Nobunaga who can obey his command.
They were running desperately towards the top of the southwest slope. They planned to cross the top of the slope and escape from the barrel first. There were even a few ashigaru who had abandoned their armor and weapons, and it was no different from running away.
However, Oda Nobunaga, who had already run up the hillside, found that the dozen ashigaru and samurai who were running in front and on the top of the hill suddenly stopped. Then, they turned around suddenly, waved their hands and shouted, as if to signal
What, it's very similar to how Sasaki Narimasa was before - that time, there was an ambush from the Imagawa family.
"How could..." Oda Nobunaga, who was going up the slope, was stunned for a moment, and the surrounding Oda troops were also stunned. Only a dozen people who climbed to the top of the slope were left, looking at them in disbelief.
The sea of ​​red leaves to the west.
"Fair wind, two hundred steps!" Charlie stood in front of a hundred archers and shouted sternly. He bent his bow and nocked an arrow, and led the archers behind him to fully draw their bows.
"Let go!" Charlie gave the order, and a rain of arrows like locusts immediately shot towards the top of the slope. Most of the dozen or so people at the front had no time to react, and were immediately hit by random arrows, and fell down wailing. Only the remaining people were left.
The next person who luckily escaped with his life staggered towards Oda Nobunaga. The surrounding ashigaru were all in a panic and didn't know what to do. They got out of the way in a daze and let this ashigaru run away.
Arrived at Oda Nobunaga's horse seal.
"Lord! It's bad! There is an ambush here too!" The ashigaru knelt down in front of Oda Nobunaga and shouted with tears in his eyes: "They are from Yuqiu Hongye! I'm afraid there are hundreds of archers.
!More than a dozen of us brothers are gone all of a sudden! There are so many of us here!"
Ashigaru's words suddenly caused an uproar among the people around him, and the morale of the army was in chaos. However, before everyone could react, Oda Nobunaga actually raised his sword and cut the Ashigaru body apart with one strike. Blood spattered on Oda.
On the legs of Nobunaga's black horse, the surrounding samurai and female warriors all widened their eyes.
"Who dares to shake the morale of the army again, there is such a person!" Oda Nobunaga's eyes were completely red, and his face was as ferocious as a demon.
"There are obstacles in front and pursuers behind. We have no way out!" Oda Nobunaga waved the blood-stained katana in his hand, strode forward in person, grabbed his horse seal, and raised the horse in person
Seal and rush towards the top of the slope.
"Those who are not afraid of death, just fight to the death! Rush out! Yuqiuping must not have that many people!" Oda Nobunaga shouted loudly: "Those who are afraid of death, stay where you are, bear the infamy and shame, and surrender.
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"Follow the lord to the death!" Maeda Toshiie was the first to shout loudly, brandishing a red spear, and rushed out first. His heroic performance immediately aroused the great pride of the women and warriors, and everyone shouted
Climbing to the top of the hill, rushing towards the peaceful Tokiwa Prefecture. Even the most timid person who is afraid of death cannot do anything to survive in such a passionate atmosphere.
The Imagawa family in the low-lying area is regrouping and adjusting their formation, and the battle will begin again soon. There is not much time left for the Oda family. After seeing the movement of Oda Nobunaga's flag, other scattered Oda family troops also
They rushed towards Yu Qiuping's defense line. They climbed over the hills and charged towards the southwest slope.
"You actually choose to fight to the death?" Yu Qiuping looked a little solemn, "But fighting to the death is for sure, I will never give you a chance to fight."
"Convey the order, all line up and prepare to enter combat!" After Yu Qiuping's order was conveyed, the maple bird flag was immediately waved. After receiving the order, the various ashigaru generals immediately commanded the troops to advance eastward and occupy various positions according to the prior plan.
The dangerous terrain formed two lines of defense. The archers retreated behind the battle line, while the cavalry patrolled around Yu Qiuping's horse seals and served as Yu Qiuping's bodyguard. There were 10 platoons, with 5 veterans in front as the first line.
Each of the defense lines occupies favorable terrain to form a complete and coherent line of defense. Three of the remaining five recruit platoons are on the second line of defense, and two serve as reserves in front of Yu Qiupingma's seal.
The officers immediately began to shout out commands in Chinese to form a team in a longer tone.
"Step together - let's go!"
"Stand still!"
"All - look to the right - unite!"
"Forward—look!"
"Each row reports its number!"
"one!"
"two!"
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After Tokiwabei arrived at the designated position, he quickly adjusted the order of the team. The veterans on the front line turned a blind eye to the Oda troops who were rushing down, and seemed not to care about their existence at all. They were just concentrating on executing the instructions of queue changes and team formation. That way.
The unusually proud and confident posture gave great encouragement to the recruits behind him. Everyone was holding back their energy, and no one paid attention to the Oda army, but formed the team as if nothing had happened.
After all the ashigaru were ready, another "prepare" order was issued. Several platoons of the second line and reserve team still stood with guns, while Charlie's archers bent their bows and nocked arrows, preparing to use projectile cover
Our own troops. As for the ashigaru on the front line, they quickly changed and performed the training movements day after day in daily training with great proficiency. The ashigaru in the first row immediately knelt down on one knee, holding the spear in their hands at an angle.
Pointing forward. The ashigaru in the second row are on horseback, with their spears leveled, reaching from the shoulders of the ashigaru in the first row. The ashigaru in the back row are ready to go, ready to take over from their companions in front.
The front line suddenly became silent, just like the sky in the barrel after a storm, silent and giving people a gloomy pressure. Oda Nobunaga looked at the motionless forest of spears and the dense red leaves troops in front of him, his face was ashen.
He finally understood that the fact that "Imagawa Yoshimoto's flag unit was handed over to Yu Qiupei to command" that they had previously made a joke might not be groundless.
However, at this moment, he was already riding a tiger, and his army was already in the middle of the Imagawa army's attack. The only way to go was a head-on confrontation.
The Oda family Ashgaru shouted wildly and rushed forward, running into Tokiwabei's spear defense line.
"Charge!" Sooner or later, each Ashigaru general issued the order for the entire army to charge. The spears in the first three rows immediately thrust out, and the Oda family Ashigaru who was at the front of the entire front was immediately killed by random shots.
After the first round of thrusts, more and more Oda family ashigaru came up, and the Tokiwabi ashigaru in the first row also stood up one after another. They no longer tried to squat down to increase the power of the thrusts, but maintained the battle line, and Oriji.
Tian Jun attacked.
The ashigaru of the Jobanbei are fierce and fast, and it is difficult to resist the ashigaru of the Oda family. Once the mounted samurai of the Oda family appear on the battlefield, they will immediately attract the attention of the ashigaru heads in the front row because of their tall size.
He would command his subordinates at a young age, besiege the mounted samurai, and shoot him off his horse with random spears. The Oda army, which had already abandoned many horses, soon lost most of the mounted samurai. The remaining female soldiers and horses were
The samurai drew their swords in their hands and rushed forward to fight. Their fierce fighting restored the momentum for the Oda family. But every time they cut down a Joban Bei Ashigaru, someone would immediately fill up the front line. The battle line lasted for a long time.
, it is still a neat and complete straight line, giving the Oda family no chance to break through at all. The samurai fighting on the front line have to face the situation of being besieged by many people. Even if the spear is not conducive to close combat, it is unbearable to be beaten constantly.
More and more Oda troops fell in front of Tokiwabei's front, but they were still unable to form any breakthrough gap. The morale of the Oda troops, which was constantly reducing in number, was also rapidly declining, and the bravery they had during the desperate assault was also disappearing. Gradually
At first, some people hesitated to move forward. Instead of stepping forward and fighting to the death, they waited for their companions to come forward. They hid behind them and fired a few non-threatening shots from a distance. The offensive gradually weakened.
Although Tsukiwabei was also bleeding continuously, and some ashigaru fell to the ground and were rescued by auxiliary troops. However, Tsukiwabi as a whole did not seem to be affected at all. The frontline troops were still full of energy and did not retreat even one step, but were as numb as conditional launch.
He complied with the officer's orders and seemed to not waver in any way regarding the casualties.
The entire Tokiwabi defense line does not seem like a group of soldiers, but a rock, an indestructible rock. It silently blocks the Oda family, no matter how the Oda army hammers and polishes it, it will not waver.
At this time, behind the struggling Oda army, the drums of the Imagawa family's main formation and the Senabei sounded. More than three thousand soldiers stepped onto the top of the hill behind the Oda family.
The entire Oda army was in an uproar. There were interceptors in front and pursuers behind. No matter they were interceptors or pursuers, they could not defeat them. The Oda family Ashigaru at many junctions in the northeast of Jobanbei dropped their weapons one after another and headed towards the northeast.
They ran through the woods, hoping to escape. The Oda family samurai could no longer restrain their troops, and the whole army was in panic.
"That's it." Yu Qiuping smiled.
Chapter completed!