Chapter 139 28. Xiao Shantian's Total Collapse
When the horse flag of Yokota Takamatsu fell, several followers surrounded the injured Yokota Takamatsu, slapped their horses and walked away, leaving the foot soldiers who were still fighting, without looking back. (It was because he was seriously injured and unconscious, otherwise according to his performance in Toishi Castle, he might have chosen to die heroically on the spot.)
When Koyamada Nobuyuki on the hillside saw the sudden change, he secretly cried out in his heart that it was not good. The situation suddenly worsened. Before his reinforcements arrived, Yokota's troops were about to collapse.
However, after running forward a few steps, as Koyamada Nobuyuki had expected, the soldiers of Yokota's troops could not resist. When they saw the commander was surrounded and ran away, the flag fell and the soldiers and horses scattered.
Yamanouchi Yoshiharu (chief), Yamanouchi Shuketou (first-hand formation magistrate), Yamanouchi Yoshikatsu (front army guerrillas), the three were in different positions, but their eyes were exactly the same. Yokota Takamatsu's troops collapsed, and the backup Koyamada team was unable to provide support, and a huge loophole had appeared on one wing of the Takeda army.
I don't know if there was a gleam of brilliance in Yamauchi Yoshiharu's eyes, but it is definitely true that his eyes became sharp. Yamauchi Yoshiharu, who was riding on a tall horse to watch the battle, immediately issued an order. The drummers of the main team immediately beat the drums and issued an order for the whole army to attack. The four envoys beside Yamauchi Yoshiharu loudly announced "Assault, assault, assault by all the army!"
The chief accountant Yamauchi, who was slightly closer to the front line, also blew the conch shell loudly, and dozens of cavalrymen from the Yamauchi clan followed behind him with long spears raised. A flag of the two horses of Ashikaga, the two-horse flag of the Seiwa Genji, was tied tightly to the body of a tall rider, and the fluttering flag followed behind the chief accountant Yamauchi. Dozens of cavalrymen fiercely launched an assault on the junction of the Kyorai Ishimin Department and Yokota Bichu-no-kami. The attached foot soldiers were also divided into three groups of dozens of people, followed the cavalry, shouted, and charged with all their strength.
As for Yamauchi Yoshikatsu, who had been fighting on the periphery of the two armies, looking for an opportunity to break the situation, he was already prepared. He was like a bloodthirsty beast that smelled the long-lost smell of blood. He wanted to go forward and tear the prey that had revealed its flaws into pieces and drink the prey's abundant blood.
On one side, the horse mark with the name of Yamauchi Samato Yoshikatsu fluttered high, and more than 300 Yamauchi cavalrymen fighting scattered with flags fluttering on their backs. The whistling north wind was cut by the cold blade. The two flags slowly gathered together, and the great ambition of the Ashikaga cavalry who conquered the world with 3,000 iron cavalrymen in the past was attached to Yamauchi Yoshikatsu.
The 300 Yamauchi cavalrymen galloped like the wind, marching in unison, shouting loudly: "Hey! Hey! Oh! ~~"
At the point pointed by Yamauchi Yoshikatsu's spear, Oyamada Nobuyuki felt a chill all over his body. More than 300 cavalrymen almost blocked all the plain scenery in front of Oyamada Nobuhiro. All he saw and heard were the Yamanouchi cavalrymen, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one. In the end, they covered the whole mountain. (If you think that the charge of 300 or so cavalrymen is not so exaggerated, you can buy a computer worth more than 10,000 yuan, and then go to the steam platform to buy a game called Mount & Blade, and adjust the battlefield scale to several thousand people, and you will be taught a lesson by the pirates (^-^).)
Oyamada Nobuhiro had no way to retreat at this time. If he retreated in front of the cavalry, he would definitely die without a complete body once the team dispersed. For the sake of his own life, Oyamada Nobuhiro was forced to meet the iron cavalry charge of Yamanouchi Yoshikatsu.
Oyamada's foot soldiers, who were originally advancing quickly, stopped immediately and hurriedly formed a team under the shouting of the samurai and the servants. Soon, a gun formation that was worth watching began to appear, but they had not yet fully formed a complete team. The cavalry of Yamanouchi Yoshikatsu galloped like flying, and in an instant, the pupils of every small mountain field foot soldier were infinitely enlarged.
The Yamanouchi cavalrymen put down their ghost masks, lowered their heads slightly, and prepared to use the speed of their horses to rush through the round of arrows before the battle.
But the ones who came out of the small mountain field reserve were not arched foot soldiers, but lightly armed infantrymen with bamboo baskets on their waists. These people did not even have the most basic foot soldiers' uniforms, and wore ordinary cloth and linen clothes. A few of them even had weapons such as knives beside them, and they had no other weapons at all, and were no different from ordinary poor people in the mountains.
Oyamada Nobuyuki shouted loudly: "Throw!" (According to records, our army's grenades can be thrown accurately at a distance of 70 to 80 meters. Qi Shuai's Yuanyang formation soldiers also carry two to six slightly polished stones. This proves that throwing stones with bare hands has an effective killing distance and is practical. The only thing worth discussing is whether these slingers in Japan throw with bare hands or with slings. Because both records are available, I will not describe the tools and process of throwing here, but only write that he threw stones.) Hundreds of rough stones as big as children's fists were thrown out, and there was a dull sound of hitting armor and flesh. More than a dozen Yamauchi cavalrymen wailed and fell off their horses on the spot. No matter how injured they were, since they fell off their horses, they would not survive. Yamauchi Yoshikatsu was very lucky and was unscathed. The most dangerous stone hit a cavalryman behind him with a sharp sound of breaking through the air. He watched as more than a dozen cavalrymen died so easily on the eve of the charge, and his eyes were filled with blood red with anger.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
Yamauchi Yoshikatsu thrust his spear, and a small Yamada foot soldier who was unable to dodge was stabbed by the spear and flew three or four meters before landing. The foot soldier didn't even make a sound of wailing or crying. The sound of his body hitting the ground with a pong was the last sound of his life.
The foot soldiers of the Oyamada team, who had not even finished lining up, were devastated by the Yamanouchi cavalry. A single frontal charge took away all the tallest, strongest and bravest foot soldiers in the front. Almost none of the hundreds of people survived, either killed by the spears or by the horses' hooves.
The battle lines of the two armies were instantly like hell, with the ground full of broken, trampled, bloody bodies of the armored soldiers. The huge impact and inertia of the spears could even tear a person's body apart, and the trampling of the horses that followed was even worse.
No matter how strong the soldiers were, they had already fallen to the ground at this moment. Even after the battles and trampling, some of them had become one with the earth, and their flesh and bones had been trampled into powder and mixed into the dirty mud.
Oyamada Nobuyuki did not get up his horse or stand in the front line, so he was lucky to be unscathed until now. He knew that it was completely impossible to turn the tide. He quickly gathered dozens of foot soldiers around him, forming a hedgehog formation, fighting and retreating. The 500 foot soldiers of Koyamada collapsed, and their lives were all sacrificed by the spears and blades of the Yamanouchi cavalry.
The Koyamada team collapsed!
The word pong, although it has this pronunciation, does not exist.