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| 57 | 50 | Units melted away; supplies were abandoned. |
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| 57 | 47 | View more quotes about terror">Terror had been cast into the hearts of thousands of brave men, men who would face a common, charging, comprehensible foe with readiness and resolve, with bow and lowered glaives, but who had no heart to withstand the singular and incomprehensible, the mysterious, unnatural, and weird. |
| 57 | 48 | Into such realms arrows do not fly; no steel blade can halt the coming of darkness, the fall of night. |
| 57 | 49 | Daimyos deserted the shogun, withdrawing their men, hurrying to their own holdings. |
| 57 | 50 | Units melted away; supplies were abandoned. |
| 57 | 51 | The road to the south was filled with disorganized, routed troops, with stragglers and refugees. |
| 57 | 52 | Many had now passed even beyond the grounds of the Yamada heartland, continuing to move further south. |
| 57 | 53 | Who would dare to attempt to hold, or stop, such desperate, frightened men? In the confusion, the chaos, and disorder, in the sudden disarrangements of power, in the lapse of authority, peasants rose, many following a charismatic leader named Arashi, himself of the peasants. |