"Roar! Press in with everything! Warriors, raise your spears and charge! As long as we can smash through the Sanda armored soldiers head-on, the Ishikari Clan can still regroup, and we can still win!..."
In that instant, the old general Kudo Shigeyasu let out a furious roar in his heart. His beard and hair bristled, his eyes went red, and he was just like the young retainer of the Wakasa Takeda forty years ago, holding his great spear high as he followed the young Takeda Nobuhiro and plunged into Kosamain's Ezo army, smashing the enemy headquarters in one stroke!
"If only it were forty years earlier! No, even twenty years earlier... I would absolutely throw myself in without a second thought, lead my two hundred warriors under my command, and charge to the death against these Sanda armored soldiers!"
Yet when the old general Kudo Shigeyasu turned his head and saw Kakizaki Mitsuhiro's blank, slightly trembling face, every thought of fighting to the death in his heart was instantly hollowed out.
If it were twenty years earlier, he would never have hesitated in the slightest! Because no matter how heavy the casualties were, as long as they could win, the clan head Takeda Nobuhiro could lead retainers like them to make their names ring throughout Ezo Land! After that, relying on the clan head's legendary fame and noble bloodline, the Kakizaki Clan could continuously attract warriors from the various martial houses of Honshu's Wagoku to come and serve them, replenishing all their battle losses!
However, the legendary Lord Nobuhiro was already old, already terribly ill, and would not last much longer. And he himself was already sixty, no longer at the age to charge into formations at forty. At this moment, as the eldest elder of the Kakizaki house, he