Chapter 143 32. Warriors Are Bound to Die in Battle

Yamanouchi Yoshiharu looked at the agitated Yamauchi Yoshikatsu, "Taro, wait a minute." After all, what Yamauchi Yoshikatsu said made some sense, and he needed to be persuaded with reason and evidence, so Yamauchi Yoshiharu looked at the chief accountant of the military magistrate Yamauchi.

Yamauchi chief accountant saw his elder brother looking at him and knew what his elder brother meant. After thinking for a while, he nodded: "Wait a minute, brother."

Then the two brothers stopped even eye contact, nothing. Just close your eyes and rest, with nothing else in your mind. Yamauchi Yoshikatsu saw that his father and uncle ignored him at the same time, and he couldn't force them to answer. Standing there, it's not right to leave, it's not right not to leave, it's very frustrating.

Several people sat in silence awkwardly. Yamauchi Yoshikatsu saw his friend Hosokawa Cainu coming in after the curtain was lifted. The two grew up together peeing and playing in the mud, so he quickly pulled him to discuss.

His father and uncle were talking halfway, which made people feel itchy, but they couldn't ask anything. Fortunately, his friend Hosokawa Saeko is now also a general in command of troops. She has the right to speak and know, and can talk to him about these things.

The two were still whispering. Kobayakata finally settled the soldiers and entered the curtain. Uncle Tsunayoshi was the second one to break into the Takeda main camp. He had already sat down in the curtain. When he saw Kobayakata enter the tent, he called him to sit down.

Kobayakata saw that the shogunate was quiet. Before entering the tent, he saw Yamauchi Yoshikatsu and Hosokawa Saeko talking quietly and quickly outside the curtain, as if they were discussing something important, so he whispered to Uncle Tsunayoshi.

"What is the situation now?" Kobayakata was embarrassed and a little cold when he saw the scene.

"The young master advocated to pursue the Takeda army immediately, but His Highness did not comment, and seemed to want to stop the advance." Uncle Tsunayoshi was separated from Yamauchi Yoshiharu by four people, so he was not afraid of being heard by Yamauchi Yoshiharu, so he quietly told Kobayakata about the situation just now.

As soon as Xiao Pingtai heard it, he understood what was going on. It was natural to beat a man who was down and out. Why was he still hesitating? Xiao Pingtai had several questions in his mind.

Moreover, the Takeda army was almost defeated in this battle. Some of the foot soldiers died. A small number of samurai died. Even Takeda Harunobu fled alone on horseback.

"Does your Highness have any instructions?" "Nothing. I have been sitting there for a long time." Uncle Tsunayoshi was also confused. After all, it was quite rare for the commander-in-chief to not make a decision when the situation was so obvious.

The two exchanged a few words with each other, but they could not figure out anything. They simply stopped guessing and waited for Yamanouchi Yoshiharu to announce the final result.

As soon as the two stopped, an envoy hurried in from outside the curtain, knelt down in front of Yamanouchi Yoshiharu, and then respectfully presented a roll of documents. Yamauchi Yoshiharu did not take it. He sighed lightly and indistinguishably, then turned his head to look at the chief accountant Yamauchi, motioning him to pick it up and take a look.

After the chief accountant Yamauchi looked at his brother, he slowly stood up and took the document from the envoy.

"Let Taro and Cainu come in and listen together." Yamauchi Yoshiharu spoke, and ordered the attendants to go outside the tent to find Yamauchi Yoshikatsu and Hosokawa Cainu, and let them come in quickly.

Everyone knew that some big news should be announced. Holding their breath, the chief accountant Yamauchi opened the scroll and began to read with a heavy voice.

"Captain of the hatamoto group so-and-so died in battle, hatamoto so-and-so died in battle, bow captain so-and-so died in battle, iron cannon captain so-and-so died in battle, long-legged captain Murakami Yoshihira died in battle, long-foot group leader so-and-so died in battle, and a relative so-and-so died in battle."

Everyone listened to the news, and the more they listened, the heavier their hearts became, and the stiffer their faces became. They took a deep breath, and the voices and smiles of the warriors they were so familiar with were still in front of them. They never thought that they had all died in the battle.

Kobayata's headquarters did not suffer too many casualties. Although they had fought several battles, not many people died. Even if there were a few unfortunate and heroic ones, they were only a very small number. Therefore, Kobayata was not very clear about the overall casualties of the Yamauchi army, and even thought that the losses were relatively weak.

After listening to the casualty statistics of the Yamauchi chief accountant, Kobayata could not help but feel sad even though he did not actually know these middle and lower-level warriors. After all, they were all his colleagues, and he actually lost seven well-known warriors in less than two hours.

"Fifty-five members of the Fugong were killed in the battle, more than 400 foot soldiers and miscellaneous soldiers were killed, and more than 1,200 were wounded."

It would have been fine if seven samurai had died in the battle, but that was not the end. The Fugong people, the grassroots backbone of the entire Yamauchi army, had only more than 600 people under the command of the entire Yamauchi (of course, this does not include other male members of their families who were not required to serve in the army). Fifty-five people died in the battle at once, and one-tenth of the military force was directly annihilated. The Fugong group suffered a heavy blow, which was shocking.

As for the more than 400 foot soldiers and other miscellaneous soldiers who were killed, they were insignificant in comparison. They were just the lives of ordinary people, and it was not too heartbreaking.

Yokatsu Yamauchi, who had originally been trying hard to pursue, fell silent after hearing what the chief accountant Yamauchi said. The Yamauchi cavalry he had temporarily formed, and more than a dozen of his cavalry died just because of a stone thrown by Nobuaki Oyamada. He was so distressed that he died, but he did not expect that many of his troops were also killed and wounded.

In one battle, the Yamanouchi Army lost 500 soldiers and 1,200 soldiers were injured. This was a huge loss for the 11,500-strong Yamanouchi Army. (After all, in addition to being soldiers, these people were also strong laborers in the territory. Their death or injury would affect the agricultural production of the territory.

If it had not been for the glorious victory, the feudal army would not have been able to withstand such a huge casualty rate and would have collapsed and perished long ago.

It was not convenient for everyone to speak now. Only the second elder, Ejiri Castle Daishi, Isshiki Miyauchi, was old enough and had high prestige.

"Although the losses were heavy, our army was victorious. The losses of the A army were five to ten times greater than ours. Don't lose the courage of the samurai family."

"During the Hogen and Heiji Rebellions, the ancestors of our Minamoto clan, the father buried the son, the son restrained the father, and finally completely destroyed the powerful Taira clan in Dan-no-ura. A clay pot cannot be broken without a well, and a general will inevitably die on the battlefield. This is the fate of the samurai family!"

After Isshiki Miyauchi finished speaking, he immediately stepped forward to congratulate Yamauchi Yoshiharu. "Your Highness defeated the A army's elite soldiers in a battle of more than 10,000 (exaggerated, a total of 9,500), and became famous in the eastern countries. I am very happy."

The Yamauchi generals also changed their mood. Yes! It is our Yamauchi army that has won a great victory over the Takeda army, so we should be happy.

The chief accountant of Yamauchi then said: "We should first conduct a real inspection and reward the three armies, and then discuss other things!"