Chapter 135 24. Jiangjiri's Reinforcements Arrive

Ganli Torayasu made the most correct decision at the moment. After all, the Chan River is just a small tributary that flows into the Chikuma River. Although there is snowmelt from the mountains, it is still not enough to drown a person's calf. There is no possibility of attacking them halfway across the river.

After all, Itagaki Nobukata went across the Chan River in the dark in the morning, and 4,000 people easily crossed the Chan River, which even a dog could not drown. At noon, it was like playing for the Yamauchi army to cross the river.

But it was very different for him to set up a foot soldier formation on the other side of the Chan River. After all, you can't let the soldiers who waded across the river start charging in the river. It must be difficult to exert force when stepping on water. You have to find a flat ground on the shore and then rearrange the formation before going up.

So Ganli Torayasu is really a veteran. He has a deep understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of both sides on the battlefield, and can make good use of all available resources. He really did the task of blocking the advance of more than 6,000 Yamauchi troops with 400 people (a small number of people stayed in the main camp to guard supplies and clean up the battlefield).

That is to say, the Yamauchi army planned well and caught up very quickly, without giving the Takeda army a chance to gather the fleeing soldiers. Otherwise, they might have to face Ganli Torayasu's army who gathered thousands of soldiers and rushed back to the river bank.

Kobayata had also discovered that there was actually an organized armored army blocking the other side of the river. At this time, Kobayata had already ridden up to Baidan. He rode high and could see far. He found that although the army on the other side was well-organized, there were not many people. There was nothing to say. He led the fleeing soldiers to rush up and test the water on the other side.

When we saw Ganli Torayasu's horse flag raised high, everyone knew such a famous general in Kai. We didn't bother to test the harassment of the fleeing soldiers. Ganli Torayasu still had this ability. So the Yamauchi army crossed the river on the one hand, and surrounded it on three sides on the other hand, preparing to quickly defeat the first-hand soldiers blocking the way with the advantage of military strength.

However, the armored army was the armored army after all, and they lined up in front of the wooden shields and bamboo rings. The foot soldiers raised their spears, and the samurai shot bows and arrows, gathering in a circle. The Yamauchi army fired several rounds of iron cannons and bows and arrows, but the effect was not great. And this hedgehog formation made the samurai unwilling to risk their lives to charge, as many people would die.

Seeing that the defeated soldiers were gathering, the effect of the surprise attack was about to disappear.

The opposing Jia army had obviously received the message for help sent back by Ganli Torayasu. The sound of drums and conch shells in the Jia army formation on the mountain was rumbling. The large-scale troop mobilization obviously could not cover up that the 5,000 troops of Kai's lord Takeda Harunobu were coming down the mountain to fight the Yamauchi army.

Yamauchi Yoshiharu rode on his horse and kept ordering the troops to move forward bravely, but although the hedgehog was small, it was difficult for the tiger to bite it. More than ten minutes had passed, and there was still no progress.

Konishihara Saemon led a team of hatamoto to charge up once, but the tortoise shell was too hard and the points were prickly, so he gathered the team and withdrew. Then he simply suggested leaving about a thousand people to confront Ganli Torayasu, and the remaining 5,000 people continued to drive the defeated soldiers to attack the Jia army while winning.

Yoshiharu Yamanouchi was also anxious. He couldn't let go of such a good chance to win. He needed to quickly defeat the small but strong armored army in front of him. He couldn't afford to delay.

But at this time, the situation on the battlefield changed again. The Takeda army that came down the mountain suddenly stopped advancing. The Suwa upper and lower Daimyojin and the Sun Tzu Four-Ru flags actually all withdrew to Mt. Kurasho. The various units of the armored army also hurriedly retreated to the starting position and set up camps to protect themselves.

Needless to say, Yamanouchi's reinforcements have arrived. Coming from Ejiri, the 4,500-strong Ejiri vanguard has arrived on the battlefield!

The various Yamanouchi armies suddenly burst into warm cheers, and Amari Torayasu's troops were not blind. Naturally, they saw Takeda Harunobu leading his troops to retreat to Mt. Kurasho. Their small team could only pray for good luck.

The various Yamanouchi armies immediately stepped up their attacks. After just over ten minutes, billowing smoke and dust really emerged from the south and southwest of Mt. Kurasho. In front of them was a large flag with two horses and the name of Hosokawa Saimyou Masamisato, and behind them was another flag with two horses. That was the flag of Isshiki Miyauchi Shosuke, the second-in-command of the Imperial Family Elders.

A little further away was the Tsurunomaru horse flag of Matsushita Toranosuke Ichiei, the chief of the Ejiri clan. He was one of the Ejiri clan who took the lead in the battle of Shimoyama many years ago (now the leader), and he has been doing better and better in the past two years.

And his Matsushita clan is not for nothing. The Matsushita clan is a descendant of the Sasaki clan of the Omi Genji (the Genji of Emperor Uda). The famous general Sasaki Doyo of the Northern and Southern Dynasties had a grandson named Matsushita. The Matsushita clan in the Totomi and Mikawa areas is divided into two branches. The Rokkaku branch started with Rokkaku Takamiaga, who moved from Kasaharasho in Totomi Province to Matsushita in Akai County, Mikawa Province, and was called Matsushita; the Kyogoku branch started with Kyogoku Hideyori, who lived in Matsushita in Yamana County, Totomi Province.

And this Matsushita Toranosuke was obviously a member of the Rokkaku clan. Later, this clan produced a famous person, Matsushita Kahei no Tsuna, who once took in the later Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

The Matsushita Ichisei family was originally one of the Mikawa vassal kings. Later, the evil thief Matsudaira Kiyokasa was supported by foreign hostile forces and committed treason and rebellion. The Matsushita family, who were closely related to the Kira clan, naturally stood on the opposite side of the evil thief Matsudaira Kiyokasa. As a result, the Kira clan was defeated, and their family was forced to flee to Totomi. Later, they gained a foothold in Ejiri, and later became the guide of the Yamanouchi clan, and became successful.

Without further ado, Takeda Harunobu's main force of 5,000 soldiers was attacked from the side and rear by 4,500 soldiers from the Yamauchi army. The army that was originally advancing suddenly withdrew, and the soldiers were already in a mess. Now they were attacked from the side and rear again, and now they can only barely hold off the attack of the Yamauchi army detachment. If they were attacked by the defeated soldiers of Yamauchi Yoshiharu's main force, the whole army would be lost here.

Both Ganri Torayasu and Yamanouchi Yoshiharu at the foot of the mountain discovered this. Yamanouchi Yoshiharu simply followed the advice of Konishihara Saemon and prepared to leave a thousand men to entangle Ganri Torayasu. The remaining 5,000 or so quickly went to attack Takeda Harunobu's headquarters while he was victorious.

Ganri Torayasu showed his heroic qualities at this time. With his few men, unless the world-class legendary epic general Baldwin IV (who defeated 30,000 Egyptian Mamluk slave heavy cavalry and archers with 80 knights in the Battle of Mongissa, and killed more than 20,000 Mamluk cavalry in battle, and forced Saladin to snatch a camel and escape with his life) was resurrected and traveled to him, and then all his 400 men were Honda Gundams, then there would be a possibility of a comeback.

So he simply gave up all the defenses of his positions and launched a final desperate assault on Yamanouchi Yoshiharu's headquarters with more than 200 armored soldiers who could still fight. First, it bought time for Takeda Harunobu to defeat the Yamauchi side of Ejiri. Second, if he killed Yamauchi Yoshiharu in a surprise attack, the Yamauchi army would collapse immediately, which was a great achievement.

But once he took off his turtle shell, what was the difference between him and a piece of meat?

(It should be noted that almost all the deployment of participating troops, deployment of generals, terrain conditions, time sequence, combat methods, etc. from the Battle of Uedawara to the arrival of the Ejiri reinforcements were basically written according to the historical situation of the Battle of Uedawara. There was no major change in historical facts except for the artistic processing of the characters. In addition, the ridiculous statement in "Koyo Gunkan" that Murakami died 130, Takeda died 710, and Takeda won a brilliant victory is not accepted here.)

The promised five updates will definitely be there.