Chapter 71 30. Recruiting Brave Soldiers with a Generous Reward

With the retreat of Masaki Daizen and Tagatani Shigemitsu, the remaining courage could no longer be mustered. Hojo Takahiro and Nagao Toukage in the second formation were originally eager to fight. Now they had to withdraw their troops and return to the camp. The small fish who watched the excitement clapped their melon seed shells and moved away.

However, today's attack was still useful. At least the morale of the soldiers in the city was no longer so high. The ordinary soldiers were indeed affected by Nagao Kagetora's multi-pronged strategy. Not only did the number of escapees increase day by day, but the people were also panicked.

Now that the outer fortress was shaken, the Hojo clan's desperate struggle was just around the corner. Hojo Ujiyasu and Hojo Ujimasa would not continue to defend the castle. Even if there was no reinforcement from outside, they would definitely come out to fight.

That night, Kobayata hurried to the main camp to advise Nagao Kagetora to prevent a surprise attack. After all, when the battle reached this point, Hojo Ujiyasu and Hojo Ujimasa would definitely use all their tricks.

After hearing Koyata's advice to prevent night attacks, the old guards in the camp all laughed. They didn't mean to laugh at Koyata, but they just thought that you thought too much.

Nagao Kagetora didn't disagree, but he also felt that Koyata was thinking too much, which made Koyata extremely dissatisfied. I came to remind you with good intentions, but you actually thought I was messing around. Nagao Kagetora saw Koyata's constipated face and smiled and asked Ota Sukemasa to explain.

Ota Sukemasa was an experiencer of the Kawagoe night battle and was indeed the most qualified person to speak. Koyata would definitely be happy to listen to his opinion. As a result, Ota Sukemasa asked Koyata, "Can Tanjong see at night?"

Koyata was embarrassed. He couldn't see clearly without firelight, so he had to answer truthfully, "It is true that there is some firelight to see clearly."

Ota Sukemasa smiled and said frankly, "Tanjong, you have an annual salary of 120 kanwen, which is equivalent to 1,200 taels of rice. You have plenty of food and clothing, and you don't suffer from freezing all year round. Even so, you can't see at night. What about those ordinary foot soldiers who don't eat at night and save energy by sleeping?"

"There are only 20,000 Hojo soldiers in the city. How many elite soldiers can there be? There are only a hundred or so people who can see at night among the ten thousand people. How many people can count?" Ota Sukemasa continued.

Koyata scratched his head and looked at the old soldiers in the camp. They all agreed with Ota Sukemasa's statement and nodded frequently. Koyata realized that he was reckless. These gangsters and Nagao Kagetora were much better than him in fighting.

During the night battle of Kawagoe, Hojo Ujiyasu had 8,000 men, and Hojo Tsunanari had more than 3,000 men. They held torches and attacked the 10,000-man Ogigayatsu Uesugi Asanari from both inside and outside, and then drove the defeated soldiers to fight the Kanrei and the Kubo. There was no such thing as 10,000 fighting 85,000.

This was because the Kanrei was negligent. Before that, Hojo Ujiyasu had admitted his weakness to his uncles Ashikaga Haruji and Uesugi Kenshin. He was willing to cede Kawagoe and withdraw from Shimotsuma directly, and also requested a truce.

This made Ogigayatsu Asayoshi, Uesugi Kenshin and Ashikaga Haruji think that Hojo Ujiyasu was really weak and relaxed his defense in the south, so he was caught off guard and attacked. Otherwise, why did Hojo Ujiyasu hesitate outside Kawagoe Castle for more than half a month? His soldiers did not have the ability to attack at night. They just rushed in when they found a gap in the defense and attacked the camp with torches.

In fact, they took advantage of the opportunity when the envoys of both sides kept going back and forth to negotiate, and they directly tore their faces. To put it bluntly, he is a dishonest villain who stabbed others in the back during the negotiation.

After Ota Sukemasa finished speaking, Xiao Pingtai realized that he had made it up. He looked down on others by relying on his time travel.

The surprise attack on Itsukushima was also like this. Tao Qingxian had tens of thousands of people, but only a few of them were around him? Generals like Hironaka Takahata were not around. The number of the various armies of the Mori clan plus the Murakami navy was more than that of Tao Qingxian's headquarters. Taking advantage of the heavy rain that night, it was natural to beat Tao Qingxian to death.

Thinking of the surprise attack on Okehazama, God really gave face to Oda Nobunaga and directly sent heavy rain. The front and rear armies lacked contact. Oda Nobunaga's 4,000 people rushed to fight Imagawa Yoshimoto's 3,000 people head-on. It was like playing a game between two weaklings.

Forget it, I thought too much. The camp of the Kanto coalition forces was arranged by Nagao Kagetora. It was done properly. They were strictly ordered to patrol on time and were isolated from several main camps. Nagao Kagetora had already thought clearly about the night attack.

Kobayata could only awkwardly suggest that hundreds of archers and samurai be deployed in front of the two slopes to monitor, in order to prevent the Hojo army from destroying the slopes at night. As a result, Nagao Kagetora laughed and asked Kobayata, "Didn't you notice that Yamamotoji Sadanaga is missing?"

Forget it, I've embarrassed myself today. I've taken myself too seriously. If I get the title of a combat underdog in the game, I can't escape it. With my ordinary head that has traveled through time, I would advise you not to speak, as it would be embarrassing to speak. The bandit army can still pretend to be strong, but the talents in the regular army are much better than the modern rookies.

So Kobayata had to return to the camp of the Yamauchi army in a bad mood. Yamauchi Yoshikatsu was looking for him, ready to discuss whether to ask for a fight. The chief accountant of Yamauchi disagreed. Kodaira was too neutral. He decided to wait for Nagao Kagetora's arrangement. The suddenness of the sudden attack on the city had been lost. Now it was difficult to advance the city with human lives.

The next day, Nagao Kagetora assigned the armies. The Shimotate Mizutani clan of Shimosa and the Musashi Ninja Narita clan started the battle. They fought for nearly two hours and then retreated as if they were playing. Then the Shimotsu Sano clan and the Kazutsu Maritani clan also went up to play. In the afternoon, the Ashikaga Nagao clan and the Shimotsu Utsunomiya clan also went up, but it was useless. The idea of ​​a round-robin battle is very good, but it seems that they are not working hard at all.

They fought for two days, and each army took turns to charge. It was not a war, but a pure tour. Hojo Sankai stood motionless on the top of the city. More than 100,000 people fought a brutal siege, but the number of people who died in two days was not as many as the number of people who died when Masaki Daizen and his 500 men charged the city on the first day.

Kobayata observed that there was probably no samurai, or only one or two. There were no more than 50 foot soldiers in total. A few who were injured or pretended to be injured ran back by themselves. They didn't act professionally, so bad.

On the third day, Nagao Kagetora finally understood that even if victory was in front of them, these gangsters were still planning to preserve their strength and wait for others to consume them and win. Nagao Kagetora gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and directly decided that whoever broke into the city would be awarded the 15,000-kan territory of Koiso.

Now all the armies were in action, and they immediately became enthusiastic, rubbing their hands, and waiting to climb the city.

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