Chapter 205 9. Yoshimoto Died in Okehazama

"Suruga Jibu, give me your life!"

A loud shout penetrated the rain curtain and fiercely penetrated into the shogunate of Imagawa Yoshimoto.

"Surprise attack?" Of course, this was the only thought in Imagawa Yoshimoto's mind, but he was not afraid at all. On Okehazama Mountain, there were more than 300 of the most elite Suruga hatamoto samurai and their close associates. Even if there were one or two thousand miscellaneous soldiers, they would not be enough for them to kill.

One samurai can fight three or five miscellaneous soldiers, ten samurai can fight one hundred miscellaneous soldiers, and more than three hundred samurai? Do you know Kizakihara? Three hundred people only defeated three or four thousand people and killed the enemy generals in battle.

Besides, Imagawa Yoshimoto was not scared. He was also the head of the Imagawa family who fought in the bloody battles of the Hanakura Rebellion. Although his martial arts value may not be very high, he is physically strong and well-armored. Ordinary samurai can't even leave a white mark on him with a rubbish Muramasa.

However, he is now a general, so of course he cannot go down to fight. He only needs to sit firmly in the center of the army, wave the flag, and let Sekiguchi Ujihiro and Abe Motomasa, who are at the foot of the mountain, lead the soldiers to surround and destroy the surprise attacking troops.

After all, even if Oda Nobunaga attacks with all his strength, he only has 4,000 people, and Yoshimoto's main force has more than 4,000 people. The same 4,000 people are not the same. A small half of Yoshimoto's 4,000 people are samurai servants with bright helmets and armor, and they are the essence accumulated by the Imagawa family for ten generations. Ordinary foot soldiers are also standing foot soldiers raised with gold from Fuji Gold Mountain. Most of them have been through many battles and are experienced.

In addition to his mother clothes and foot soldiers, Nobunaga's army is still mostly mobilized peasant soldiers and foot soldiers. Their quality is sometimes good and sometimes bad, and they join the wind and waves. The "true nature of the samurai" is perfectly reflected.

So Yoshimoto was not panicked at all, and pointed to the hatamoto samurai who had just mentioned Okehazama Mountain, "Will Mimasaka help me defeat the invading soldiers?"

The young samurai named Anhara Mimasaka no Motomasa was excited and was appointed by Yoshimoto. The Anhara family was the old and important retainer of the Imagawa family, and this man's name also had a "gen", which showed that he was also a new generation of samurai in the Anhara family. Moreover, he was also Yoshimoto's hatamoto general, and his status and reputation were enough, so he could naturally lead the troops to fight the enemy. Imagawa Yoshimoto was also the eldest son among the short ones, and the generals were all outside, but it was just right to promote newcomers.

Anhara Motomasa did not disappoint Imagawa Yoshimoto's expectations of him at all, and led only more than a hundred hatamoto samurai down the mountain to meet the enemy. He himself was born in a famous samurai family, practiced martial arts since childhood, and had strong soldiers under his command. Soon, "Oda clan elder Sasa Hayato Masakatsumichi has been captured!" "Oda clan foot soldier general Chiaki Shiro has been captured!".

One after another, the famous samurai of the Oda army's surprise attack team were captured one after another, and Yoshimoto's main team, which was originally a little agitated, became active again. The Oda army was indeed so vulnerable. It was not easy to get close to Yoshimoto's main team and launch a surprise attack, but they were killed without leaving a single piece of armor. Even a famous samurai like Sasa Katsutomi was captured, which was really a waste of time.

Imagawa Yoshimoto then ordered the soldiers who were resting along the Denagakusa not to come, because the Oda surprise attack team had been eliminated by him with only a hundred people, and let the army continue to set up camp.

At this time, it was already one o'clock in the afternoon, and the rain in the sky was getting heavier. After Anhara Motomasa sent someone to present the captured heads to Yoshimoto, he continued to pursue the fleeing Oda army.

Yoshimoto felt something was wrong, but the combat effectiveness of the Oda army was in front of him. Two or three hundred surprise attack teams attacked Yoshimoto, but were defeated by only one hundred people. Yoshimoto really didn't take the Oda army seriously. So he stopped stopping Anhara Motomasa's pursuit and only ordered him to return to the team before dark.

At that time, something strange happened. In the sky and earth that had been completely covered by heavy rain, more than a thousand Oda soldiers shouted from the west and the north, tearing through the rain curtain without any formation and launching a desperate assault on Yoshimoto's main camp on Mount Okehazama.

At this time, Yoshimoto panicked. Due to the obstruction of heavy rain, he braved the heavy rain to scan the Oda army on the field, and roughly estimated that there were two thousand people (almost). This number was almost ten times that of his hatamoto, and he couldn't resist it at all.

At the same time, the heavy rain made the road even muddier. The Suruga people of about four thousand people were stuck in the mud and couldn't move. It was difficult for them to go up the mountain together to resist the enemy. In addition, Yoshimoto first wanted to go up the mountain to support, then canceled the order, and then went up the mountain to support again. The order was switched back and forth. Sekiguchi Ujihiro and Abe Motomasa were at a loss and had no idea what Yoshimoto was going to do.

In just a dozen minutes of panic, more than a thousand Oda troops broke into Yoshimoto's main camp in the heavy rain. When Yoshimoto saw that the situation was not right, he immediately turned around and retreated to the northeast under the protection of more than a hundred hatamoto. There were 4,000 people led by his uncle Kamara Ujimasa, nephew Kunou Mototada, and brother-in-law Asai Masatoshi, who were only one mile away from him.

His main Suruga team could only delay him for a negligible amount of time in the mud.

Not far away, Nobunaga finally saw Yoshimoto's Imagawa Nihiki's two horse flags, and encouraged the Owari generals not to cut off their heads, but to kill Yoshimoto.

The soldiers were also inspired to fight, and launched a fierce attack on the hillside. Soon, the 100 Imagawa hatamoto who stayed behind were overwhelmed by the Oda army like a wave. The Oda army took advantage of the situation and went down the mountain, chasing Yoshimoto without caring about their lives.

Nobunaga also abandoned his horse and joined the pursuit on foot with more than ten retainers.

"Where is Imagawa Osamu? Oda hatamoto Hattori Koheita (I like this name) Haruan came to ask for advice!" The first Oda samurai rushed to Imagawa Yoshimoto.

"You unknown person, die quickly!" Although Yoshimoto was a little embarrassed, he raised the world's famous Yoshimoto Sawamonji and slashed at Hattori Koyata. The momentum of the famous general who dominated the Kaido suppressed Koyata in an instant.

Taking advantage of his moment of distraction, Yoshimoto slashed Hattori Koyata's right knee with a knife, and Hattori Koyata fell on the spot.

However, Hattori Koyata's sacrifice exchanged more Oda warriors to rush into Yoshimoto's body, "Mori Shinnosuke Yoshikatsu came to ask for advice!"

Another samurai fiercely stabbed Yoshimoto with his spear, and Yoshimoto couldn't return the knife in time, and was stabbed in the arm at that time. Yoshimoto felt pain and the sword fell to the ground. Mori Shinsuke pounced and pressed Yoshimoto to the ground, and Yoshimoto was not willing to surrender.

He opened his mouth and bit Mori Shinsuke's right hand that was pinching his neck, and then bit off two fingers at the same time, but Mori Shinsuke gritted his teeth, took out the wakizashi, and stabbed it into Yoshimoto's neck.

Yoshimoto's eyes widened, his bloody face gradually faded and turned gray.

"The Kaido Ichi-no-bumitori", the most powerful branch of the Genji clan in the world, Imagawa Yoshimoto, who had the ambition to rectify the world, died in Okehazama!