Prime Minister Bizen

The order of the Xiu family was issued to the entire cavalry army with the sound of the conch, and the bannermen who were in charge of the Fengchun family's elite force soon heard the sound of the trumpet, and the Sanhe people who gave up chasing and fled rushed to gather around the Xiu family.

On the contrary, some Jurchen rangers still went their own way, brandishing cavalry sabers and chasing the rout soldiers.

Xiujia had promised them before the war that a head could be exchanged for 5 guan coins and a bucket of polished rice.It may not seem like much, but polished rice is an extremely expensive food for Ezo.

In the previous combat discipline, when they were harassed, they could not go down to remove the head unless it was absolutely safe. This made them fight hard for a long time, and they never had the opportunity to earn money with the head.

Now that the enemy has finally been defeated, it is natural to jump down and pick off the head, so that he can go back and ask the Xiu family for a reward.

In this way, many people would ignore the Xiu family's order and continue to pick off the heads on the ground on their own.Even though the officers and warriors brandished whips on their backs, there were still some who chased too far and did not gather.

But the Xiu family had no more time to take care of those guys, so they immediately ordered Tachihara Nobuhisa, who was commanding the Ezo heavy armored soldiers, "Lieutenant Gentaibing (Lieutenant Tachihara Nobuhisa), do the heavy armored infantry in your hands still have the power to fight?" ?”

Wearing heavy armor and wielding a heavy ax is actually a very exhausting thing.But in the face of the Tokugawa infantry rushing towards him aggressively, how could Xiujia let the cavalry go to the top? In the end, he still had to rely on the infantry to fight.

Tachihara Nobuhisa took off the iron pocket that he had been wearing for a long time, and his neck was already soaked with sweat.

In fact, he was already very tired, but he looked at the Tokugawa army rushing towards him from the north, and said to Xiujia with a firm expression, "Your Highness, you can do whatever you want, and I will leave it to Wei Yuan Taibing here." Just do it."

After receiving the answer, Hideo glanced at Tachihara Nobuhisa with satisfaction, and at the same time comforted him, "Do you think so many of them came to support the Tokugawa army just now? Wrong, he came after my Ma Yin." As long as I leave, they will continue to follow my Ma Yin, and your pressure will be much less by then."

After all, he took the more than 2000 people who had been trained behind him and rode westward on reined horses.

Sakakibara Yasumasa saw Hideka's horse seal heading west, and immediately ordered, "Don't let Ufu get away, Akabi bites it, and all Arima samurai rush up!"

His order was issued to the entire army. Aside from the horse-riding warriors on the military service account when the various formations were recruited, there were more than 2500 horse-riding warriors in Tokugawa's 600 red-handed horses. After receiving his order, 500 riders galloped towards Xiu's side.

It is very difficult for a horse-riding formation of 2000 people to move quickly. Even if so many people are on horseback, it takes at least 3 minutes for the person in the front to start and the last person to rein in the horse and turn around.

But for the Chibei riders who were already very close, rushing to the front of Xiujia's formation was only a matter of dozens of breaths.

Following Sakakibara Yasumasa's order to charge, 500 Tokugawa Chibi Tanpei spears roared towards Hideo, and Hideo himself had already moved west with his people, so it was difficult to make tactical commands in such a short time.

However, as a group of bannermen composed of warriors, each of them has strong combat effectiveness and battlefield adaptability.So when they saw cavalry rushing towards him, the 400 people led by Maeda Anhu turned around and rushed towards Chibei facing north.

They want to buy time for the withdrawal of the entire cavalry corps.

Two cavalry troops, one black and one red, charged head-on, and finally merged together.

"Bang bang bang~ puff~ bang!" Accompanied by horses colliding, weapons piercing people's bodies, and people being injured and falling off their horses, a cavalry battle that was not common in the history of the Japanese Warring States Period took place.

Nearly a thousand riders from both sides fought together on this narrow plain bordering the coast in the south and Inagawa in the north.It was just a charge just now, dozens of black and red warriors fell off their horses, and they lost the potential energy of the cavalry charge just now. Instead of pulling away to prepare for the second wave of charge, they held guns, knives, hammers and other The weapons directly fought on the horse.

In this era in Japan, although the cavalry already had saddles, the stirrups were basically made of straw. Some high-level samurai would use wooden stirrups, and the connection position was also very strange, as if hanging around the neck of the horse.

This made it so that before the end of the Warring States Period, the main combat method of horse-riding warriors on the battlefield was to ride to a place, then rein in their horses and stop, then bend their bows and shoot arrows.Yes, the famous Yabusame team of this era is just a group of horse-riding bow warriors who ride fast and maneuver, and then stop to shoot arrows.

And if it is necessary to dismount to fight, the most common way for mounted warriors is to dismount and fight with guns and swords. Few of them can directly fight on horseback.

The reason why Takeda Shingen's Chibei is outstanding is that their stirrups have been changed from grass to wood, and Koshin samurai are familiar with horses and can be partially liberated from the horse. Just this has become a world-renowned cavalry.

However, the banner in the hands of Xiujia improved the stirrup a long time ago. It was hung on the horse's neck and connected to the saddle, and it was also made of wood and iron instead of grass, which allowed the samurai to ride calmly. Fight on horseback.

Tokugawa Akabe studied under Koshu Takeda Akabe. Although Hideya's modified stirrups are now popular, Tokugawa Akabe's horse equipment must be prepared by the samurai, and the Tokugawa family only provides subsidies.The Xiu family has basically achieved a unified standard equipment.

In addition, Tokugawa Chibei still has not broken away from the nature of semi-conscripts. They are still recruited by low-level samurai with knowledge and practice, and they usually need to live on the land.However, the bannermen of the Xiu family are completely off-duty. Even if they have knowledge and skills, they will hand over to others to farm the land, and they will receive the salary directly handed down by the Xiu family.

All kinds of differences lead to the difference in combat capabilities of the mounted warriors on both sides when fighting on horseback.

Just now they charged with guns, borrowing the potential energy and courage of the charge to make up for this part of the professional gap. Now it's the turn to fight close to each other on horseback, and the huge gap between Tokugawa Chibi and Hideka Banner is reflected.

After just dozens of breaths, more than a dozen people fell on the side of the black armored cavalry, but dozens of people fell on the side of the red cavalry.

Fortunately, the purpose of Tokugawa Chibei was to hold back Ito's Toyoharu cavalry, and behind them were the Chibei infantry who followed closely.

The ashigaru armed with a spear is the worst enemy of the cavalry.

Unlike on land, horses have very limited room to turn around. One or two long spears are okay, but there are more than one. A warrior riding a horse has no place to hide and can only passively dismount from the horse and fight on foot.

But the cavalry has no advantage when they dismount. Not to mention the other Tokugawa cavalry on horseback, three or five Tokugawa Chibei ashigaru can take him down under the leadership of their respective samurai.

Fortunately, Tachihara Nobuhisa's heavy armored infantry was on the side. They had already rushed over when they saw the infantry on the other side rushing over. Prepared to fight with the infantry of the Tokugawa Army.

You have to believe in the power of a 1.5-meter-long ax to cut people down. Even if you cut down a cavalry, the horse that Tokugawa Akabe is sitting on will have to stop immediately. The cavalry will be the second to greet him. ax.

On the other hand, on the side of the Tokugawa Army, they faced the same problem as the Mikawas of Oka Chomori just now. It was impossible for the spears and samurai swords in their hands to split the armor of the heavily armored samurai in front of them. Recently, it is impossible to slap these tin cans with a gun quilt.

Hideka noticed the battle situation here after withdrawing, but he had no way to support Maeda Anhu, because the entire 400 riders in the banner could not get out by themselves, and they were surrounded by the following Tokugawa army.

Fortunately, Tachihara Nobuhisa brought the heavy armored infantry to help. As for the final result of Maeda Anhu and his 400 cavalry, it is not something the current Hideo can consider.

Xiujia, who walked 1000 steps westward south of Inagawa, finally saw the outline of the entire battlefield. There was finally movement near Tanaka Castle, which had been delayed for a whole battle, and the battle situation on the north bank of Yeli River seemed to be beneficial to Xiujia. , because Xiujia saw that Tokugawa Hidetada's main formation, Mayin, had come down from the green hill and stood directly there.

However, there is not much time left for Hideo to think. Although the red cavalry was blocked by Maeda Yasutora, under the order of Sakakibara Yasumasa, almost all the cavalry warriors in the more than [-] troops under his command rushed to bite Hideo At home, it is no problem for so many people to gather hundreds of knights on horseback.

Seeing the Tokugawa cavalry samurai dressed in all kinds of clothes pouring out from multiple directions, ranging from 3 to 5 people to dozens of small teams, Xiujia didn't have the extra energy to play with them.

Xiujia ordered Banners to shoot and retreat, and continue to move closer to Tanaka Castle.The Fengchun cavalry walked westward, while the Tokugawa cavalry warriors charged in this direction, ignoring the arrows shot at them from the sky, riding horses of obviously inferior breed and horsepower, and followed slowly.

Even Xiujia found a chance to shoot a warrior off his horse with the bow and arrow in his hand.

The horses of most of the Tokugawa cavaliers are Shinano horses. These horses are good for short-distance charges and mountain climbing. You expect them to chase after people with a samurai carrying armor of more than [-] kilograms. It is too difficult for them. .

After chasing for a long time, the distance between the two teams not only did not shorten, but also widened a lot.

He didn't take these annoying Fly Shows seriously. He wanted to see what was going on at Tanaka Castle. It's nothing. He hasn't backstabbed the Tokugawa Army's rear yet.

Until now, the Hide family has been fighting against the superior Sakakihara Yasumasa with a weak force, but he still has 4500 people in Tanaka Castle, and two formations of more than [-] troops on the west bank of the Oi River!
Makino Changkang, who was in charge of encircling and supervising Tanaka Castle, was under a lot of pressure, especially after seeing the tens of thousands of troops approaching from the west, he was paralyzed.Not only did Sakakihara Komasa not send him reinforcements, but he also gave her an order to fight to the death without retreating.

But he only has 3000 people in his hand, and it's okay to withstand the people who rushed out of Tian Zhongcheng. The key is what to do with the Fengchun army rushing from the two directions from the west!

The beheading order was issued from the samurai to the Ashgaru, but the army was still retreating non-stop. When he was thinking about whether to retreat first, the retainer beside him said to him, "My lord, look to the east! That is Gourd and horse seal, Youfu is here in person!"

Makino Changkang turned his head to look to the east, but what he saw was a scene that made his scalp tingle. Thousands of warriors were riding on tall horses with others, holding spears and stepping on puffs of smoke towards him.

"Be careful of the cavalry behind! The rear array turns to the formation with guns!"

In fact, he didn't need to remind him at all, the ashigaru and the samurai at the back had already spotted the cavalry rushing towards them from behind.It's too late to count the number of people, but after a rough filter, it's actually equal to the number of people on my side.

Makino Changyasu's reminder did not serve as a warning to the back row at all, but made the Tokugawa soldiers in the middle and front row very scared.

After all, I have already blocked an enemy several times as many as myself in front of me, and there is another enemy rushing behind me.Even if it wasn't a cavalryman, it would be a fatal blow to their morale, not to mention that it was a group of monsters armed to the teeth that rushed close now!

I don't know who started it, but after a few breaths, the Yuanjiang crowd led by Kung Fu Farming Changkang shouted "Run", "Help", and fled in all directions.

Not to mention the ashigaru and samurai who were supposed to line up with guns in the back, even the soldiers who were fighting the Toyoharu army in the front abandoned their weapons and ran towards both sides.

The infantry who did not condense into an army formation could not stop the charge of the cavalry at all. Although there were only 1500 cavalry, they dispersed the 3000 men of Makino Changkang.

After the army formation dispersed, the Tokugawa cavalry who followed behind slowly caught up, and as soon as they fought, they fell into close combat with the Banners, Rangers, and Toyoharu infantry.

These horse-riding warriors, who were so precious in their own domain, fell down in pieces like straw.

Not long after Makino Changyasu was killed, the third general, the Ashikaga family, the good son of the Hide family, came to the Hide family with the support of the retainers.

"Father, the baby is too late!"

The Ashikaga family was obviously a little embarrassed by the ridicule of the Xiu family, so he could only explain to the Xiu family, "Father, it rained yesterday, and the water in the Oi River rose. The lower reaches of the Ashgaru can't cross the river. I can only move north to find Fushi." Ichiro crossed the river with him, so he came a little late."

"The battle is not over yet, the baby is here just in time!"

Hideo accepted the explanation from the Ashikaga family, and his serious face eased a little, and he said to him, "Hitachilusuke (Suga Masatoshi) has been fighting hard for a long time, and I will hand it over to Hizen (Togawa Tatsuyasu) here, and you will be in charge of this battle." Let's attack, join forces with Hitasuke to encircle Sakakibara Shikibe!"

"Follow my father's orders."

The Ashikaga family was still very afraid of the Hide family, so they received an order from the Hide family not to stay any longer, and directly issued a military order to abandon the leader and the whole army to gather and move forward.

After the Ashikaga family left, seeing Togawa Tatsuya who came out from Tanaka Castle to command the soldiers to clean up the battlefield and capture the prisoners, the Hide family was not as good-tempered as before.

Xiujia directly yelled at him, "Feiqian, it's not too late~! If you come later, this battle will be declared victorious!"

Togawa Tatsuya originally had many explanations, but now his lord pushed them back.Seeing Xiujia's unhappy face, he could only kneel down in front of Xiujia and beg Xiujia to forgive him.

At the moment when the war was still in progress, the Xiu family did not pursue his responsibilities too much, and asked him to deal with the battlefield here, block the retreat route to the west, and arrest the fleeing Tokugawa soldiers as compensation.

Not long after the order was issued, Lijian Yijia, the attendant who followed closely beside Xiujia, pointed to the northeast and said, "Look, my lord, Major General Tokugawa has retreated!"

Hideka followed his gaze to the Ye Lichuan battlefield, and sure enough, as he said, the Muji gold fan and the black umbrella Nimaru Mayin representing Tokugawa Hidetada were being held at a slant and moved towards the southwest.

The most basic quality of being a flag bearer is to hold the flag and horse seal for the lord. A stable horse seal means that the formation is still and can give soldiers the confidence to continue fighting.

On the other hand, when Ma Yin was randomly held and quickly moved to the back of the formation, it meant that the formation had admitted defeat and had to retreat in an emergency way.

In other words, when Tokugawa Hidetada's horse seal retreated in this way, it meant that Tokugawa Hidetada had already retreated in defeat, and the Hidetada's victory in this battle was within their grasp.

But Hideka was not very happy, because unlike Tokugawa Hidetada's Ma Yin, who was defeated on the north bank of the Haari River, Sakakibara Yasumasa Ma Yin in the center of the battlefield remained motionless.
This battle is undoubtedly Tokugawa Hidetada's, but the actual commander of this battle is Yasomasa Sakakihara.Even with Tokugawa Hidetada already defeated, Yasumasa Sakakibara is still stubbornly resisting, and judging by that attitude, it is obvious that he is going to fight the Hide family here to the end.