However, Yutō Ogawa was unfortunately right. The long-awaited Inaba Kaztetsu, who was ambushing in the Nishi Karumi area, led his troops across the bridge on the Nagara River and killed the former army's Mori Katsunari and Takikawa Kazumasu.

! And realizing that the ambush of the front army had been launched, the Saito family's army that was chasing behind them suddenly shouted and charged, rushing towards the Oda family's rear army. Several hundred cavalrymen from the Saito family's army behind them,

He even came galloping on horseback.

"Ogawa Yutō! You crow's mouth! Shut your mouth!" Yu Qiuping yelled in anger. Now, they are really going to die without a burial place! Inaba Kazutetsu, as one of the three people in Nishi Mino,

He is also rumored to be the most skilled samurai in Nishi Mino, and his troops are also the strongest in Nishi Mino. As soon as he appeared, the front army was probably in danger! The troops of Tsuneki Ikeda and Namasa Sasaki of the Chinese army were defeated.

However, the other one suffered heavy losses in combat effectiveness defending the city of Ghana and could not help at all. At this moment, we can only count on reinforcements from the rear army!

But what to do with the pursuers behind!

Yu Qiupei glanced at the massive Saito family pursuers behind him with lingering fear. They were rushing towards the Oda family's battle line from the vast area on both sides of the official road and the official road! Even if Yu Qiupei could defeat Inaba Ittetsu, this would still require a lot of troops.

Time. And during this time, the Saito family's troops have long since caught up. How should the Oda family retreat?

"What are you looking at! Yuqiu's red leaves!" Sakuma Nobumori shouted, interrupting Yu Qiuping's thoughts.

"Your Highness Sakuma," Yu Qiuping said anxiously, "What should we do now! We must reinforce the front army, but what should we do with the pursuing troops?"

"Why are you standing there in a daze? You go to the front for reinforcements!" Sakuma Nobumori snorted coldly. He who always looked at Yu Qiuping did not seem to want to communicate with Yu Qiuping at all, "Leave it to me later."

"Your Highness?" Yu Qiuping was shocked when he heard this. Sakuma Nobumori only had 1,000 men at his disposal, how could he deal with 8,000 pursuing troops? "Why don't I stay with you, or you can go and reinforce us!"

"Stop talking nonsense here, Yuqiu Hongye, do you want to kill everyone here?" Sakuma Nobumori turned his back on his horse with disdain, and rushed towards the back, "How to retreat is a matter of turn.

I don’t want you to tell me what to do in front of my retreating general!"

"Your Highness..." The corner of Yu Qiuping's mouth twitched as he watched Sakuma Nobumori rush in front of his troops and ordered his subordinates to start forming a formation to cover Yu Qiuping's back.

"Understood." Yu Qiuping nodded firmly, and immediately directed Tokiwa Bei to change the formation quickly again, switching from the marching formation to a fish scale formation, moving towards the flank of Inaba Ittetsu who had crossed the Nagara River.

onslaught!

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Inaba Kazutetsu had just crossed the river, and before he could attack Mori Katsunari and Takigawa Kazumasu, who were caught off guard, he saw Tokiwa Bei rushing towards him with great momentum. He was as surprised as Fuwa Koji, and didn't understand why some troops could attack in such a short time.

The formation switch was completed within 10 seconds. In desperation, he had no choice but to draw out the main force to line up in front of Yu Qiupei, and sent out a special force to attack Mori Katsunari and Takikawa Kazumasu. Inaba Kazutetsu had no intention of relying on that special force to defeat Mori Katsunari.

Kazuyoshi Takigawa just wanted to force them down the official road and as far away from the battlefield as possible to prevent them from having the opportunity to immediately complete the formation change and attack his troops from the side.

Mori Katsunari and Takikawa Kazumasu really had no choice but to fight and retreat. They first used the Hatamoto team and part of the ashigaru gathered at hand to resist Inaba Ittetsu's offensive, and then let the main force retreat and try to form a formation.

Yu Qiuping's Tokiwa Bei spent a day running around in the muddy ground under heavy rain. He didn't even eat lunch. He also went through a hard battle and consumed a lot of energy. At this moment, facing Inaba who was recharging his energy.

The First Iron Division was suppressed for a while. Inababei is a strong army well-known in Mino, and he did not show any stage fright against Ame Qiupei's spear formation. The spearmen in the first row fought with Tokiwa Bei without showing any weakness.

Fighting against each other, covering the samurai using katana and tachi, and constantly charging into the spear array.

Seeing that the situation could not be opened, Yu Qiuping was also very anxious. The Chinese army's Ikeda Tsuneaki and Sasana Namasa rectified the troops whose casualties were close to 30%, and were almost unable to fight anymore. They rushed towards Inaba Ittetsu's Rangers and contained them.

The momentum of their attack bought time for Mori Katsunari and Takikawa Kazumasushi to reorganize their troops. However, although Sakuma Nobumori tried his best, he could not stop the enemy who was seven or eight times his number. Saito's general auxiliary troops

Staying behind the formation, he sent more than 2,000 soldiers to attack Sakuma Nobumori's defense line. Even though he used the terrain to fight and retreat during his retreat, hindering the reinforcements of Saito's army, there were still nearly 800 soldiers surrounding him from both sides.

Come, including more than two hundred cavalry.

All the way, they rushed towards Takigawa Kazumasu and Mori Katsunari, who had just completed their formation, and stopped them again. The other way came along the Nagara River and went straight to the rear of Tokiwa Bei! But almost most of Tokiwa Bei's troops

, have already been engaged in the battle with Inaba Ittetsu. If Tokiwa Bei, who has no upper hand to begin with, tries to withdraw his troops, he may have to face the risk of collapse.

In desperation, Yu Qiuping had no choice but to order Ogawa Yutō's platoon as a reserve team to immediately go north to establish a defense line, and also transferred Charlie's two archery platoons to support. Then Honda Tadakatsu led his guards, and Maeda Keiji

The cavalry led by them rushed forward. Honda Tadakatsu and Maeda Keiji were extremely brave and killed several cavalrymen who were rushing forward. However, the rolling cavalry brigade arrived quickly. Honda Tadakatsu and Maeda Keiji

Maeda Keiji commanded the cavalry of the Uqiu family to deal with it hard to buy time for Ogawa Yutō.

Ogawa Yutō lived up to expectations and quickly completed the reorganization. The ashigaru of Joban Bei held out their spears and forced the riders on the horses. If the cavalry failed to add up, the pikemen were simply the natural enemies of the cavalry. Joban Bei's

Outnumbered, the cavalry tried their best to stop the charge of the Saito family's cavalry. Ogawa Yutō's spearmen were not polite, and aimed at the live targets on the horses with random stabs, knocking many people off their horses. The riders of the cavalry team were all stunned.

They were precious warriors in each family, so naturally they were unwilling to accept such casualties and retreated one after another.

Before Yu Qiuping could take a breath, hundreds of soldiers from the Saito family who had detoured around him launched a fierce attack. Ogawa Yutong was outnumbered and was forced to retreat to the south under the cover of the archery team and the cavalry team - it was about to happen.

He bumped into the back of the auxiliary troops protecting Yu Qiuping in the center!

Yu Qiuping was anxious, but he had no choice. If he couldn't defeat Inaba Ittsusu's troops immediately, his men would be defeated here due to attacks from the front and back, and they would be attacked from the front and back!

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At the critical moment, Inaba Ichitetsu's Nanfang suddenly remembered the "clack-clack" sound of horse hooves! Yu Qiupei took a closer look and saw that it was the banner of Shibata Katsuie! Under Shibata Katsuie, there were many people in the Oda family besides horses. The most powerful cavalry team outside Huizhong, their arrival gave Yu Qiuping a shot in the arm! Inaba Kazutetsu hurriedly sent out his cavalry to deal with Shibata Katsuie, but was rushed directly by the brave Shibata Katsuie came over. And behind Shibata Katsuie were the ashigaru of the Shibata family and some of the direct ashigaru of the Oda family.

Inaba saw that the momentum was not good and he was about to be flanked. So he hurriedly adjusted and gave up the attack on Amakihei, and instead retreated to the west bank of the Nagara River via the bridge across the river. How could Amakihei have the time? pursue, and hurriedly ordered all Tokiwabei's soldiers to turn back collectively, and immediately bypassed the auxiliary troops to supplement the northern front and cover Ogawa Yutō. Shibata Katsuie did not pursue the pursuit, but directly led the cavalry north along the official road. Mercedes-Benz, on the way, the subordinates of Ikeda Tsuneki and Sasana Narimasa hurriedly jumped off the official road to escape. Shibata Katsuie then ordered the cavalry to be divided into two, and came to support Ame Qiupei, Takigawa Kazumasu and Mori Katsunari respectively.

When he saw that Shibata Katsuie's cavalry had charged to his side and rear, the two Saito family troops that had detoured had to retreat. Yu Qiuping let out a sigh of relief and finally alleviated the big crisis.

At this time, Shibata Katsuie himself happened to ride his horse to Yu Qiuping's side.

"Your Highness Shibata!" Yu Qiuping said with great gratitude this time: "Thank you so much!"

"You little boy, you will really cause trouble for me!" Shibata Katsuie didn't even look at Yu Qiupei, he just spat, and then led his troops to continue northward to cover Sakuma Nobumori's retreat.

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Just when Yu Qiuping was stunned, a familiar shout suddenly sounded in his ears.

"Boy! Are you okay!" Toshiie Maeda also came on horseback and rushed to Yu Qiupei's side anxiously. Tokiwa Bei fought for a long time, and almost everyone's armor was splashed with blood, looking particularly tired in the heavy rain.

"I'm fine, brother," Yu Qiuping finally calmed down when he saw the reinforcements arriving one after another, "Why are your former troops here?"

"It's a long story, so I'll cut it short," Maeda Toshiie domineeringly waved the vermilion spear in his hand and put him on his back. "Our former army fought with Ujie Naomoto for a long time, and finally we gave him to him. We are forced to retreat to the west bank of the Nagara River! We finally contacted our lord. He and 1,000 people were separated from us before and have evacuated to the Moribe side to ensure the safety of our retreat!"

"We could have retreated directly, but His Highness Mori, who originally went to meet you, has not come back. Old fat Shibata was worried that you would be surrounded, so he brought us back with him for reinforcements!" Maeda Toshiie laughed loudly as he spoke, "It seems we arrived just in time!"

After he finished laughing, he turned his gaze to the north. He squinted and looked through the rain and fog for a while, then asked Yu Qiuping: "Is that old guy Sakuma cutting off the rear?"

"That's right." Yu Qiuping nodded, but his expression was a bit complicated. He hesitated for a moment, then came to Maeda Toshiya's side with his horse reins, and whispered into his ear: "Brother, there is something I want to do. please teach me."

"What's the matter? Just ask?" Maeda Toshiie said generously.

"Well... shouldn't His Highness Shibata and His Highness Sakuma be very dissatisfied with us? They seem to look down on us?" Yu Qiuping asked softly.

"Yes!" Maeda Toshiie nodded matter-of-factly, "Those old guys look down on others, they've always been like this!"

"Then why!" Yu Qiuping's tone suddenly rose. Sensing something wrong, he paused hastily and asked in a low voice again: "Then why is His Highness Sakuma willing to personally cut off the rear for me today, and His Highness Shibata is also charging at the first place?"

Come and support me! His Highness Sen and I have a good relationship with Hengxing, so I understand supporting me! What are they doing for the same reason?"

After hearing Yu Qiupei's question, Maeda Toshiie couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"What are you thinking about?" Maeda Toshiie hit Yu Qiuping's head hard twice with the handle of his spear.
Chapter completed!