39. Shodozaka Deadline
The situation on the battlefield suddenly changed. The Imakawa army, which originally had a good location, was hanging on the line. Any straw would crush this overwhelmed camel to death.
The two soldiers are now intertwined, you are me and I are you. The heavy rain from the sky and the muddy battlefield have greatly consumed the soldiers of the two soldiers who are not sufficient physical strength. At this time, the fight was really just a breath.
The Zen Master Taiyuan was also in a difficult situation at this time. On the one hand, he gathered the defeated Shiwu to send the Suruga samurai organization to fill in loopholes. But he himself was nearly 60 years old and could not fight in person. The brave generals of the Suruga sect, Okabe Motonobu, were not here, and Asahina and his son were still coming from Yasuhikawa with their rangers.
The only ones who commanded the army on the front line were Katsuyama, Abe Tsumashi, Kuroonen Sonnen and other samurai. You say they were not good, they must be qualified samurai, and they were all old in the army and fought for many years. But they were not the kind of strong and powerful men who were brave enough to build the three armies, and they were even better at marching and setting up formations.
The general is the courage of the soldiers. In the era of cold weapons, the brave will win when they meet on a narrow road. At this moment, the front line of Oda and Imakawa have completely fallen into a bloody fight between close forces. Because Nobunaga personally visited the front line, Okamachi's elite samurai people have been replenished to the front line. In terms of combat power, the more samurai warriors, the stronger the combat power. If there is another samurai who can fight, then the morale and combat power of the entire army will also increase step by step.
Coincidentally, Oda Nobunaga's mother-robed group Sasa Murao Sumasato was a fierce man who dared to run in the wild with heavy snow at minus 20 degrees Celsius. He was originally a powerful Chinese from Ohara's family who did not stand in the sidelines in Ohara's brothers' walls before, and now he has stains on his body, so he worked harder and did not relax at all when he fought the bad battle.
Because Nobunaga personally led a gun to fight, Sasa Narimasa, who was guarding his wings next to Nobunaga, flew up with a long spear. Blood mixed with mud and water, and the killing heads rolled, and even the rooster could not enter his body. His majestic posture penetrated the rain curtain, and there was no general in the Imakawa army on the front.
It would be fine if there was only one god of killing, but this was not over yet. Shibata Katsuya on the flank of Nobunaga and Maeda Takiya were both good at martial arts skills. One was called "Forward Shibata" and the other was called "Ringleft". The Imakawa army, who were fighting left and right, howled and retreated repeatedly.
The high morale obtained by Oda Jun has completely overcome all the disadvantages on the terrain with his brave samurai and the coach himself, and it seems that victory is at his control. This is exactly what Oda Nobunaga thought and hoped.
The fighting between the two armies became increasingly fierce, and the sky became darker. Due to the rain, it was completely impossible to fight at night. Both armies were short of this breath. The Oda army felt that as long as the next round of fierce attacks, it was possible to completely destroy the crumbling Imakawa army that was blocking the front. The Imakawa army felt that as long as the last wave of offensives of the Oda army was blocked, the entire Imakawa army would be safely protected, and everyone could retreat to Yoshida Castle and even Suruga, waiting for another battle next year.
At this time, it is no longer practical to care about casualties and losses. All sacrifices are just to add their own weight to the scale of war, which devours everything. Money, weapons, and even the names of soldiers are all part of the heavy weight.
However, the balance of the war did not seem to have always favored Oda Nobunaga. When both sides had only one breath left, the Akihina team behind the Imakawa Army stepped on the mud all over the ground and finally arrived at the battlefield and successfully met with our team Taiyuan Xuesai.
When Oda Nobunaga only saw the crooked helmet and the army was not strict, he knew that his original success today had disappeared from his palms quickly.
The reserve team on the battlefield and the reserve team that bravely fights are one of the most important factors that determine the outcome of a battle. Unfortunately, Oda Nobunaga even took the battle himself, and he had no reserve team to deploy. The Zen Master Taiyuan Xuesai finally waited for his reserve team's new force, the army that dared to fight, led by the famous Kaido general Asahina and his son.
The situation on the battlefield changed again and again. Although the Imakawa Army's various forces braved the wind and rain and struggling to the battlefield, they had never experienced fighting and still had the strength to do two or three points. Moreover, due to the march, the soldiers were actually able to warm up.
Don’t underestimate the warm-up. When two soldiers with the same physical strength and martial arts are the same, soldiers who have finished warm-up will definitely beat those who have not yet warmed up. Just like when we are swimming and basketball, we will do warm-up exercises before we go on the court, which is scientific.
Holding the firebird pattern and the two-spirited horses, the Imakawa Rangers did not immediately join the battle, but instead formed a team outside the battle group. Then they first divided up a group of troops and then joined the battle. Judging from the equipment and the number of people, they knew that it was one of the 1,500 Suruga people who were always prepared by Zen Master Xuezhai in Taiyuan, as well as the relatively physically strong samurai among the Sankawa people.
This group of people is only about five or six hundred. Compared with the 12,000 people who are crowded on Xiaodouzaka, this number of people cannot even lift up a small wave, but their troops are still quite strong. Under the leadership of a samurai wearing five red-type powers and sun and moon pockets, they walked through the rain curtain and joined the melee.
What a person, the Zen Master Taiyuan, so he immediately grasped such a fleeting fighter opportunity, driving the last hundred flags to guard him to join the battle. Imakawa II led two horses forward together and attacked with all his strength.
The two sides fought each other in the mud in the heavy rain for more than half an hour. Unfortunately, the joining of the Imakawa New Force did not completely add enough weight to the balance of victory. The sky finally turned dark, and the two sides were unable to fight again at this point. They gradually broke off from contact and finally retreated.
From the afternoon to the end of the night, both sides will have at most a situation where they will be in the 50s and 50s. They will have many casualties and injuries. Of course, they will still have to make a lot of publicity when they return to their country. It must be said that they have won the final victory, and they will even hold a grand banquet to celebrate.
It can be said that the battle between Kotosaka is not a winner in the battle. But on the other hand, the Oda family won the Anshen City, the important town of Nishisan River, and its power entered Nishisan River. Naruto City was just an isolated city. As long as it continues to surround it, it will sooner or later fall into the city.
Although the Imakawa family lost some Nishi Sankawa territory, they greatly tested the level of the Oda family and the current situation that Ohashi is not a monolithic in China.
Chapter completed!