Chapter Twenty-Three: The Fate of the Samurai
Don't look at Namba Sotada at the front of the team, he is still very brave, but in fact he is already fifty years old, and he can be called a veteran of the Kuroda family. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Another Hidecho Ueki was also under the command of the Kuroda family when the Kuroda family attacked China, and he surrendered to the Kuroda family along with the banker. He, like Namba Muntada, is also in his fifties.
The two veterans of the Kuroda family led two teams, a total of more than 400 people, and chased after the Shimazu family bait team in front. In fact, when they attacked, they didn't receive the news from the Ide Tomoji mentioned earlier, and they thought that the Shimazu family's army in front of them was a defeated team, and all they thought about was beating the water dogs.
The Shimazu family's team is definitely the head of the land, and they know the terrain very well. It's just that even so, under the pursuit of the elite of the Kuroda family, who often train in mountain combat and often train in the mountains, they were quickly caught up by the two teams of the Kuroda family.
The two teams of the Shimazu family are actually the family private soldiers of Kitago Hisamori and Honda, and there is no way to compare them with the elite of the Kuroda family, both in terms of numbers and combat effectiveness.
The men and horses of Kitago Hisamori and Honda Jinji were caught up by the two teams of the Kuroda family at this time, and some of the soldiers on the Shimazu family's side were forced to fight. In such a situation, most of the soldiers on the Shimazu family's side thought of fleeing for their lives, not so much a battle, but a one-sided massacre of the Kuroda family's two teams of the Shimazu family.
After only ten minutes of confrontation, the two teams of the Shimazu family completely collapsed while fighting and withdrawing. And as the leader of the team, Kitago Hisamori and Honda Jinji, all died on the battlefield, this is the fate of the samurai, and it is also the glory they are willing to accept.
And this result is exactly the same as the result they had in the battle of Ogawa later in history. Perhaps when they accepted this task, the wheel of history had automatically helped them repair their fate in history, and they went to receive a boxed lunch with honor.
The spirit of bushido originated from the spirit of the military spirit of the Tang Dynasty, began with the Kamakura shogunate in Japan, absorbed the ideas of Confucianism and Buddhism of the Han Dynasty, and was also formed by fully borrowing from Shinto thought. What is advocated is loyalty, faithfulness, honesty, martial arts, and reputation, but it is fundamentally for the lords to control the samurai under their command, so the origin of the spirit of bushido is the radical military code extracted from various ideas.
And in the most basic idea of the horse leather shroud in the military soul, they are obviously very acceptable, so they can only say that the death of Kitago Hisamori and Honda Jinji is indeed very glorious, at least what do they think.
However, the premise of this is that their bodies can be snatched back by their own people, and there are descendants who have been spreading their stories widely, or for them to build a stupa in the Bodhi Temple as a memorial for future generations to pay homage, otherwise it is not said that it is a hundred years, after thirty or fifty years, who will remember such a samurai who died on the battlefield.
People should be more likely to sing Oda Nobunaga, Takeda Shingen, Uesugi Kenshin, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu and other characters, how many people will know Kitago Hisamori and Honda Jinji? They are okay, they still have their own family, if you think about it, there are thousands of peasant soldiers or ordinary people who only have the names of Koichiro, Kojiro, and Kozaburo, just silently dying on the battlefield, they are the most pitiful people, and no one will remember their names.
After spending more than ten minutes cleaning up the mess and clearing out some of the remaining Shimazu family's soldiers, the two teams of the Kuroda family suddenly stopped as a whole.
They didn't pay attention at all because they had been chasing just now, but now they stopped and realized that they had been chasing the Shimazu family's team all the way forward, and they had all crossed the top of Mt. Takachiho and came to the other side of the mountain.
And they saw that the army led by Shimazu Yoshihisa was in front of them, it was a team of thousands of people, and it seemed that it was already a relatively elite combat unit.
As soon as Namba Muntada and Hidecho Ueki saw the team in front of them, as well as the many banners and samurai, they knew that there was a big fish of the Shimazu family in front of them, and they rushed forward with the team without thinking about it.
In fact, they have made a huge mistake at this time. If the samurai who led the team at this time were young people like Inoue Nobo, or the Kuroda family samurai who had been following Kuroda for a long time, they would never make such a mistake and would definitely retreat slowly.
Why? In fact, the reason is very simple, according to the intelligence of the Kuroda family, the Shimazu family has an army of 3,000 people. Under normal circumstances, the Kuroda family's information is not wrong, and if only a thousand people are seen here, it means that the others must have been dispatched, which means that the Shimazu family must have a plan.
And pay a little attention, the detachment they just defeated is only three hundred in number, and this place is only a thousand people, so where are the remaining sixteen or seven hundred people?
So even if you change someone, use your brain a little, and pay attention to the situation on the entire battlefield, you will know that this is likely to be a trap, and Shigeharu Takenaka's previous reminder to Ite's Yushi is also based on this.
It's just that Shigeharu Takenaka realized in advance that there was a problem with the Shimazu family's attack through his own experience before the battle began, and the other samurai might be able to analyze the results later.
And when they saw Shimazu Yoshihisa, they had lost their most basic judgment and did not do any analysis, so they rushed over desperately. Their current idea is to cut off the heads of the Shimazu family in exchange for their own family's honor.
Their idea is not wrong at all, a samurai fights on the battlefield, not for the strength of the main family, but more for the interests of his own family, otherwise the land and rewards obtained will be a little pale. In the troubled times of the Warring States, the status of the family was more important than the interests of the main family for most of the time, unless the two interests were completely tied together.
"Shiro, now that someone from the Kuroda family has come, but it seems that there are only a few people, what should we do?" After seeing the two teams coming up, Shimazu Yoshihisa said anxiously. Because there were only two teams of hundreds of people coming up, it was not at all what the Shimazu family expected.