Chapter 579 41. You Are Not Worthy of Being a Consultant

Suwaguchi to Uehara, it's just a short distance.

It's not long, but it's not short either.

The cavalry of both sides went back and forth, and the Yamabushi and Nobushi also infiltrated and passed the enemy's intelligence to each other.

Of course, due to their own purposes, both sides maintained the final restraint. The Takeda army finally marched slowly to the southeast of Uehara Castle, forming a pincer attack with the castle. Uehara Castle was also quite excited, showing a certain determination to resist.

These are all trivial matters, and it can even be said that the Yamauchi side did it intentionally. Anyway, we have to fight, it's best to fight together. Anyway, Yamauchi has a strong military force and is not afraid at all.

Yamauchi can wait, but Takeda can't!

On the second day of the confrontation, Takanari Masahiro sent a message. Oishi Ujiteru came with more than 2,000 people, of course he did not come to support Takeda Yoshinobu, but wandered around Hachioji Koshuguchi for a while.

In the end, probably at the invitation of the Takeda clan, they went to Sakuguchi, relying on the terrain advantage of the Yamaguchi, to build a fortress to temporarily block the troops of Takanari Masahiro for the Takeda clan.

To put it bluntly, the Takanari army came to help the Yamanouchi family. Although they went to Sakuguchi alone, they were actually a flank, and their goal was to enter Kai and grab something along the way. It was impossible to expect them to fight to the death to break through Sakuguchi, attack Kaifu, and die for the Yamanouchi family.

Kobayata and Hosokawa Nainou did not expect them to really help with all their strength. They thought they could rely on him to hold back 3,000 to 5,000 Kai troops, but they didn't expect the Hojo clan to come to rescue Kai. They only held back 2,000 or so people of Oishi Ujiteru, which was better than nothing.

It was a pity that if the Takanari army could break through Sakuguchi and enter Kai, Takeda Yoshinobu would be at a loss and lose half of the battle.

Watching the Takeda army inside and outside Uehara Castle, the Takeda army still maintained a fairly high level. The first mover, Yamagata Masakage, covered the entire army, and the teams that followed extended southward along the Suwa Street. Takeda Nobutoyo in Uehara Castle also went out of the city to form a battle line, and the defense of the city could not be completely dead. If you are trapped in the city all the time, morale will soon be exhausted. If you have spare power, going out of the city to challenge the enemy is a good way to ensure morale.

Correspondingly, the Yamauchi army also deployed. Since it is a field battle, you can't learn to attack the city, and the cannon fodder is pushed to the front line. Ogasawara Sadakishi, Kiso Yoshimasa, Murakami Yoshikuni, and Sanada Yukinaga all face the Takeda army head-on.

If you don't consume the countrymen at this time, when will you consume them?

As for the Yamauchi main team, the more than 5,000 flagstones are the most powerful. But our Shima Taro is six years old and it is impossible for him to go into battle and kill the enemy. The actual commander is Kobayata, and Kobayata's thousand men are handed over to Nanaki.

Pick the tallest among the short ones, it must be Nanaki. Who told him to follow Kobayata in the wars for ten years? Even if he had been a hatamoto, he was still a veteran. It was not a big problem to control the Anesakaji Corps, which actually only had about 500 people.

After giving a few instructions, he asked Honda Masashige and Sakakibara Nagamasa to each serve as the head of a foot soldier in their respective companies. This team would not be too difficult to lead. Anyway, they would be included in the brigade of Hosokawa Saime, and they might not actually fight.

Hosokawa Saime needed to command the newly unified Sakushu and supervise the attack of the four major Shinano people on the Takeda army. The Uchida shu of Yamanouchi was handed over to Yamanouchi Yoshiyasu as the rear guard, and the Ina shu was still under the command of Konishihara Saemon.

As for the generals of each hatamoto division, they also gathered outside the main camp of the shogunate to take orders.

If there was a low-flying camera shooting from the air, it would be found that the Takeda army and the Yamanouchi army were actually confronting each other in a state of anti-"丿", but the Takeda army only had the front and rear teams, while the Yamanouchi army had the front, middle and rear teams.

The strength of the two sides is clear at a glance.

At present, both sides are still in the stage of trial and have no real plan for the final decisive battle.

"How can Takeda Yoshinobu be patient?" The general of the Yamauchi army in the shogunate was a little surprised.

Either fight or retreat. In this confrontation, delay will change. If the Takanari army breaks through Sakuguchi, Takeda will be doomed. What is he trying to do here?

Even if Xiao Pingtai is good at calculating, he can't expect that even if the Takeda army barely drives to Uehara Castle, the trend of quarreling will not stop.

At first, in Suwaguchi, the strength of the pro-war faction was relatively weak, mainly the direct retainers of the Takeda clan. Therefore, Hara Masatane's strategy of slowly advancing and confronting, and trying to force Yamauchi to retreat was recognized by most people.

Now that Takeda Nobutoyo, the pro-war faction, has joined, the strength of the pro-war party has been greatly strengthened. In addition, Takeda Nobutoyo is young and energetic. Although he has a bit of his father's style, he has not had many opportunities to show himself.

In the current situation of the Takeda clan, he believed that he had to keep Suwa and gain a forward base in Shinano, so that he would have a chance to come back next year. If he did not repel Yamanouchi here, he would be sitting and waiting for death.

Then he and Yamagata Masakage resonated with each other, and attacked the Yamanouchi army with a desperate attitude (regardless of death and injury), won a victory, and bought time for Takeda to catch his breath. Instead of being at a loss here and missing the opportunity to fight.

As time passed, the morale of the Takeda army would also decline. Now it is the will to defend their country that dominates them, so the soldiers are willing to die. Once it drags on for a long time, the ambition will fade, and no matter how much encouragement, it will not be encouraged.

The quarrel in the Takeda main camp in Uehara Castle was so fierce that they almost started fighting!

Tsuchiya Sozo Masahiro, who was under the tent, saw that the Takeda generals had no unity, and Takeda Yoshinobu could not completely decide the conduct of the battle.

Thinking of his father, Kanamaru Chikuzen-no-kami Toranoyoshi, who died fighting for the Takeda clan, and his brother, Tsuchiya Uemon-no-no Masatsugu, who died in battle to protect Takeda Shingen's retreat under Toishi Castle. Tsuchiya Masahiro was filled with grief and indignation. He didn't understand where the Takeda clan, which had once gathered all the generals together and worked together to defeat all the enemies, had gone.

So in front of the Takeda generals, Tsuchiya Masahiro suddenly stood up and shouted angrily.

"You are not worthy of being a counselor!"

After that, Tsuchiya Masahiro strode out of the main camp. He personally led 80 cavalrymen from his own team, as well as a group of Langdang family members, a total of 110 people, to launch a desperate assault on the Yamanouchi army.

The generals in the Takeda main camp looked at each other with different expressions. Some were angry, some were disdainful, some were sympathetic, and some were disappointed.

"I will go ahead too!"

One of the twelve envoys, Zensuke Tomoharu Komiya, who chanted "I will report the one in ten thousand high thoughts of the shield", also walked out of the big tent and led his troops to attack the Yamauchi army.

The generals in the tent could no longer sit still. Abe Katsuyasu, Akiyama Kii, Oyamada Masayuki and other generals stood up and walked out, leading their troops to launch a desperate attack on the Yamauchi army.

Takeda Yoshinobu watched the loyal warriors leave the main camp one after another, and his expression changed from nervous to dejected, and then from dejected to determined.

"I will go out in person! Those who are willing to follow me, follow me!"