Okabe Gennobu, who received the news that the Asahina family's cavalry was constantly harassing him in the rear, could not sit still. If, as the commander, he allowed the wealthy troops in the rear to be attacked, while his main army was enjoying the destruction of the wealthy families unharmed, He will definitely lose people's hearts. In the current situation where the Okabe family and the Asahina family are in opposition, if he does nothing, these wealthy families may fall to the Asahina side.
In order to stabilize the morale of the army, he asked Okabe Masatsuna to personally lead dozens of horseback cavalrymen from the formation to rush towards the rear. He happened to encounter Asahina Yasuhiro coming towards him. Asahina Yasuhiro was leading dozens of Asahina family members. The cavalry drove the Ii family's cavalry away from the official road. The Ii family's cavalry was weak and had been forced to give up the official road and retreated towards a hilly area in the southwest, trying to use the complex terrain to escape the pursuit.
At this moment, they were facing each other on the official road. It was Asahina Yasuhiro and Okabe Masatsuna. These enemies each brought dozens of cavalry. They met on a narrow road. As soon as the two men saw the flag on the opposite side, they immediately held their breath. No one was willing to give way, and no one was willing to stop. They each urged their subordinates who were hesitant and did not want to take formal action against the friendly forces to increase their horse speed. They dispersed their formation and made a charging gesture, and rushed towards the opponent blankly. .
More than forty cavalrymen from both sides were arranged in two rows, spreading out in a loose formation. One row of more than twenty people was a hundred meters wide, and the two rows were also separated by more than twenty meters from front to back. People lined up from the west side of the official road to the east side of the official road, like two big nets, rushing towards each other. Asahina Taehyung himself was charging in the middle of the front row, even several positions ahead of his surrounding companions. Okabe Masatsuna obviously did not have the courage, so he just huddled to the side of the second row and kept urging his subordinates to speed up.
Two hundred meters, one hundred meters, fifty meters, thirty meters.
When the horse speed is at its fastest, the distance of two hundred meters disappears in an instant. Both the Asahina family and the Okabe family are already riding a tiger. When the cavalry charges at high speed, it is extremely difficult to turn and avoid it. The opponent's charge is no longer possible. When cavalry are clashing, horse speed means everything. If anyone slows down at this time, he will become a target for the opponent's cavalry. No matter how mature and stable the warriors of the two families are, how powerful they are. Those who do not want to escalate the conflict between the two families to a violent confrontation immediately have no other choice at this moment - they can only draw the knife in their hand, increase the speed of the horse, and concentrate on waiting for the fighting moment when the two horses intersect.
Ten meters!
Asahina Taehyung could clearly see the open mouths of the cavalry on the opposite side, the samurai swords raised high by the cavalry on the opposite side reflecting the cold light, and the manes of the horses sitting down on the cavalry on the opposite side. Even the wind sent them to the opposite side. The roar of the cavalry.
However, he had no time to hesitate or make more observations. Life and death depended on his reaction in the next moment. This was not the first time he had experienced such an exciting fighting feeling. But every time, it was enough to make his blood boil.
In the moment between the horse's leap and the next landing of all four hooves, he had already thought of his actions.
"Kill——!" As he roared violently, the opponent's cavalry had already jumped to his side. The moment the two horses crossed each other, an instinctive feeling told him that the opponent's sword-wielding gesture showed that the opponent was just a human. Newbie! Out of the corner of his eye, Asahina Taehyung caught a glimpse of the cavalryman's face that was as green as his own.
He suddenly twisted his waist to dodge, and the opposing cavalryman swung his katana too early and failed to hit anything. Immediately afterwards, Asahina Taehyung twisted his waist back with force, and pulled out his arm at an exaggerated angle, like
A chest-expanding posture that reached almost 270°, he charged hard and then thrust forward fiercely. At the high speed of the horse, the opponent's cavalry lost the chance to adjust their body because of the swing, and had almost no time to make any reaction. The blade
He slammed into the opponent's neck, and the sharp sword was stained red with blood, protruding from the back of the opponent's head. Asahina Taehyung's hand holding the handle of the knife also hit the opponent's chin heavily. The huge momentum
Even Asahina Taehyung was unable to hold on to the katana in his hand, and was forced to let go and turn sideways to pass by the Kazuma who bumped forward.
A belated scream came from behind, followed by the sound of the rider falling to the ground and the neighing of the horse. However, Asahina Taehyung had no intention of turning around to watch his own performance, because the riders in the second row of the Okabe family behind him had already rushed towards
Unarmed self.
The distance of more than twenty meters was only a matter of moments. Asahina Taehyung almost instinctively took out the rib from his waist, and then suddenly leaned back, almost leaning his waist on the horse's back, to avoid it.
The opponent used the speed of his horse to strike with a powerful and heavy blow. Then, lying flat on the horse, he tried his best to stab the opponent's horse with the rib in his hand, and the sharp rib stabbed the horse's butt. Eat.
The horse neighed in pain and stood up, jumping violently. The unprepared rider suddenly lost his balance, was thrown off the horse, and fell heavily to the ground. He had just struggled to get up, and was followed by another one after Asahina Taimo.
The Asahina family's cavalry raised their swords and chopped him to the ground like a scarecrow.
Asahina Taehyung stood up and slowly tightened the reins. He sat down and the horse slowly began to slow down. After the speed almost dropped to the normal horse speed, Asahina Taehyung tightened the reins. The horse neighed softly and then stopped.
.The other dozens of Asahina family cavalry around them also followed their young master and stopped their horses. The Asahina family cavalry turned their horses and looked at the battlefield where they had just fought to the death, and the Okabe family cavalry in the distance.
Just after a round of hedging, the Okabe family cavalry and the Asahina family cavalry have exchanged positions. Now the Asahina family cavalry is on the south side of the battlefield, while the Okabe family cavalry has reached the north side. Not far behind the Asahina family cavalry,
They were the troops of the Ii family. A few hundred meters behind the Okabe family's cavalry were the Asahina family's ashigaru, who were waiting in full formation.
Asahina Taehyung and others looked at the battlefield just now. There were many corpses of horses and people lying on the battlefield. There were also more than a dozen ownerless horses, walking blankly in a pool of blood, surrounding them.
The master spun around. There were also several samurai who fell off their horses but were not fatally injured, staggering towards the main team. These people who luckily escaped with their lives were all lucky ones. Because at the high speed of the horse,
Even a chop that is usually not very powerful is enough to kill in one blow.
In the previous round of fighting, six people from the Asahina family were hacked to death, and three more fell from their horses. On the Okabe family's side, a total of thirteen people were hacked to death, and five more people fell from their horses and were injured, which reduced their number to less than half.
.To be able to achieve such an excellent exchange ratio, Asahina Taehiro's leading the way and being brave and good at fighting can be said to have made a great contribution.
Most of the ancient cavalry horse battles were conducted with this kind of hedging. The cavalry spread out into loose formations, charging back and forth at high horse speeds, and fighting one on one. In the Warring States Period in Japan, people could ride on horses.
, most of them were respectable samurai from their families. In the round of killing just now, more than twenty samurai fell on both sides.
"Sir, sword!" A samurai of the Asahina family who ran back from the battlefield was just to the left of Asahina Taehirune. His horse was cut by the opponent and he fell off the horse. By chance, he fell on Asahina Taehirune's side.
Next to a beheaded enemy. Recognizing the knife at a glance, he picked up the knife and gave it back to Asahina Taehyung.
Asahina Taehiro took the katana and waved his hand, signaling the men without horses to retreat to the edge of the battlefield. Then, he did not put the sword back into its sheath, but pointed it just at the sky and shouted: "Formation!
Let me rush again!"
"Hey! Hey! Roar!" The Asahina family warriors with high morale responded loudly to their young master.
On the other hand, the morale of the Okabe family is much lower. In the charge just now, the ten people in the center were almost wiped out, and the casualties were twice that of the Asahina family. And their coach, Okabe Masazuna, just now
During the confrontation, they didn't even dare to draw their swords and hid far away from the side. Although Okabe Masatsuna and Asahina Yasuhiro are both young men, Okabe Masatsuna has never been on the battlefield. He is not brave and ruthless.
It was a group fight with Asahina Taiheng in Sunfu Castle. The two armies were facing each other just now. Due to his face and hatred for Asahina Taiheng, he did not hesitate to command his men to rush over. But when it came to the point of hand-to-hand confrontation, he instead
Too scared to do anything.
At this moment, he was hiding in the formation, his hands were constantly trembling, his face was pale, and he was sweating profusely, but he still insisted on saying that it didn't matter. He had just experienced the line between life and death, and he no longer had the courage to fight again.
He was fighting hard. Only now did he realize how terrifying and bloody the battlefield his brother, father, and grandfather had spoken of was. It was not what he imagined, where he could command thousands of troops and millions of troops.
He took off the head of an admiral with such ease and ease. If he were not careful, the body chopped down on the ground by the samurai sword would be his!
Seeing the Asahina family's troops forming formation again, they charged towards the official road. Okabe Masatsuna was so frightened that he ignored his subordinates' request to form an formation, drew his horse and fled towards the side of the official road, mouthing
He shouted: "Don't fight forcefully! Hurry! Go and join Jing Yi's family!"
As soon as Okabe Masatsuna left, the other Okabe family samurai showed no fighting spirit, gave up the official road, and withdrew towards the southwest hills. The Asahina family's cavalry did not pursue them, but marched to the battlefield in a show of force.
He cut off the enemy's head and showed it off in front of his army. The Asahina family's Ashigaru cheered and celebrated the young master's bravery.
Asahina Yasutomo and Ame Qiupei, who hurriedly came from the rear army, wanted to prevent the outbreak of the war, but it was too late. However, Asahina Yasutomo won the first battle, which boosted the morale of the army. Asahina Yasutomo could not blame him, so he just laughed.
He praised his younger brother. In order to prevent Taehyung Asahina from committing another crime, he asked Yu Qiuping to take his thirty cavalrymen to perform a reconnaissance mission with Taehyung Asahina.
This cavalry confrontation also marked the official break between the Asahina family and the Okabe family. The civil war between the Imagawa family broke out.