Chapter 631 37. The Demon Makabe's Great Stick

Oishi Ujiteru suddenly remembered something. He should bring his uncle Hojo Tsunari's Hachiman Great Bodhisattva flag. This flag has not appeared in the sequence of the Hojo since Hojo Tsunari and Hojo Ujiharu were ordered by Uesugi Kenshin to commit seppuku.

Come to think of it, the yellow Hachiman Great Bodhisattva flag is still very intimidating. It will definitely be a success in Kanto to scare all kinds of small fish.

Putting this aside for the time being, Oishi Ujiteru continued to observe the battle situation. In Oshi Castle, riding a horse to deliver a message is not as fast as running with two legs. In the main camp's horse carriage, all those who can run and jump have been sent out by Oishi Ujiteru.

Actively contact various departments to prevent them from thinking that the main camp has encountered a surprise attack and causing unnecessary chaos. The more than a thousand people who rushed out of Oshi Castle can only delay the advance of the army. The hundreds of small boats are really disgusting.

For these elusive attacking small boats running around everywhere, Oishi Ujiteru ordered the various departments not to be stingy with ammunition and bows and arrows. These attacking ships are civilians after all. They were stunned by the sudden attack, so they dared not attack everywhere as recklessly as they are now.

"Tell Suruga no Kami not to look back and to set up the battle array on the spot!" After arranging the teams thoroughly, Oishi Ujiteru dismounted and stood next to Hojo Ujinao.

"Uncle, could it be that Hosokawa Sainori of Koga sent a message to Oshi Castle, asking Oshi Castle to delay our army so that he could consolidate the defense in Shimotsuma and buy time?" Hojo Ujinao thought to himself for a while and suddenly asked.

"Hey! What your highness said is quite right!" Oishi Ujiteru heard that the young man made sense.

The generals of the Hojo Ujiyasu and Gomakai in the team also nodded repeatedly. After all, he is the grandson of the famous general Hojo Ujiyasu, and he has inherited good genes. He has also learned to draw inferences from one example and think divergently.

"Your Highness, we just need to see whether the Narita people fight to the death. If they make a slight contact and leave immediately, then they are just trying to delay our army. Otherwise, it is not the case."

As they were discussing, the Narita people made a clanging sound. One of the three groups of Narita people retreated backwards, broke away from the contact with the Hojo army, and reorganized.

"Koryo (Pear) Echizen-no-kami (Odawara people) sent someone to deliver a message. The Narita people will temporarily withdraw!" A horse ran into the main team and reported loudly.

"It seems that it was really Hosokawa Kane who asked the Narita people to delay our army here. Your Highness is wise!" Oishi Ujiteru complimented or praised Hojo Ujinao without hesitation.

Although Hojo Ujinao was very happy in his heart, he still nodded lightly on the surface to show that he accepted his uncle's compliment. Who told him to really guess the movement of the Narita army, all right.

The Narita people who were in formation changed direction again under encouragement and attacked another group of Hojo army.

After about half an hour of boring fighting, the small boats that were clashing around were greeted by the Hojo army. They gradually became afraid of the firepower of the Hojo army and stopped rushing forward.

The three forces of the Narita clan also gradually began to show signs of exhaustion. After all, if they continued to fight for half an hour without replacement and rest, their physical strength would decrease very quickly. We can't expect too much from the peasant soldiers of this era.

"Should we send someone to bite the Narita clan and seize the city?" Kasahara Fujizaemon of the Gomakai clan asked Oishi Ujiteru.

"Hmm..." Oishi Ujiteru weighed the pros and cons.

With such a commotion today, there is definitely no way to reach Kisai Castle. It is better to seize Oshi Castle and remove this nail in the north of Musashi. At least next year, Kenshin Uesugi will have to spend more effort to enter Musashi, buying more time for the Hojo.

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Looking at the increasingly obvious enemy army in front of him, Daidoji Masaharu immediately ordered a change in the direction of defense. The enemy army in front of him might be quite large.

"Quick! Send a message to our team. We met the enemy first. The enemy has an orange-patterned horse mark! It's the Makabe clan of Hitachi Satake Anoori!" Daidoji Masaharu identified them and finally confirmed them.

It was impossible for the 3,500 Hitachi people to rush forward all at once. The road restrictions meant that the defenders could only respond with one team, and the attackers could only rush forward with a single team.

After weighing the pros and cons, "Demon Makabe" Makabe Ujikan decided to go into battle himself!

The founder of the Kasumigyu Stick Technique only wore a domaru, no helmet, and tied his hair into a braid. He didn't wear any straw sandals, but just stepped barefoot in the mud.

He raised his three-foot-long wooden stick, shouted, and led his men to attack the Hojo army.

Now, not only did Daidoji Masaharu recognize who it was, but all the miscellaneous soldiers also recognized it. No matter what era it is, a general who can use this kind of weapon is definitely a fierce general. He can defeat ten skills with one force. The big wooden stick can smash all the swords, katana, spears and bows into pieces. Even if you wear plate armor, you will die if you are hit by a stick.

The wooden stick is as thick as an adult's arm. Ordinary people can't hold it in battle, but Makabe Ujikan can hold it in his hand as if nothing happened. The few sparse sounds of iron cannons and bows and arrows whistled through the air around Makabe Ujikan.

When Makabe Ujikan ran through this short fifty or sixty meters, the god of death would come!

The spear stabbed, and the stick swept it off! The long sword chopped, and the stick bent it!

When he got close, he hit one by one with a stick, and they fell down immediately!

In the blink of an eye, half of the dozens of soldiers in the vanguard team fell down, and there was absolutely no hope. Now everything was hit. Don't look at the leg that was still twitching, the person was absolutely useless.

This force is that there is no general in front of him. Not to mention the soldiers, even Daidoji Masaharu didn't dare to go up. With the spear in his hand, there was no way he could beat the big wooden pole.

The Hitachi soldiers, armed with guns, also violently charged into the Hojo army. The Hojo army, which was originally quite powerful, was defeated by the slain god-like Makabe clan.

The Daosi team in the first line was originally intended to be mature and prudent, and built bridges across mountains and rivers to facilitate the march of the army. Naturally, this man was not a strong general who could be called the bravest of an army. He and his troops also unconsciously retreated slowly.

However, Oishi Teru, who was still hesitating before, his eyes widened, the Narita crowd boosted their morale and rushed forward again. Behind them were thousands of Shimono people, with the flags of the Minagawa, Hoga, Utsunomiya, Nasu, Mibui, and Ohtawara clans rolling in like mountains and seas.

On the other hand, the Yamauchi Army's conspicuous two flags, with white background and black stripes, looked like a sweeping angry wave. Although there were insufficient dikes on both sides to pass through the fields, most of the troops came slowly and crowded in the mud of the paddy fields.

However, the slow advance and the large armies coming from three sides put huge psychological pressure on the Hojo Army.

In particular, the military forces of Xiazong, Xiaye, and Changlu appeared one after another. The huge military forces spread all over the mountains and plains, boundless.