"Lord Suwon, please lead your army to enter the basin immediately. The basin is densely covered with water networks, supported by villages and woods, and the terrain is complex, which can effectively limit the performance of the Takeda Army's cavalry! If the Takeda Army can successfully pass through the basin and reach the Three Days Plain,
Then we really can't compete with the Takeda cavalry! Only by fighting in the basin can we have a chance of winning!" the messenger reminded in a low voice again.
"I understand. Please hold on for a long time. The reinforcements will be here soon." Yu Qiuping nodded hastily. He only had the Xiliu Bei who had just come out of the valley, Ming Dy Bei and Tsukiwa Bei's two others.
He had previously sent two companies to the west and east respectively, while the cavalry company was still on the mountain road.
"Have Thompson and An Cheng turn around immediately, return all three days, and then go south into the basin." Yu Qiuping quickly issued the order, "Xiliu Bei is following me, and we will immediately go south to support."
"Yunan, I'll leave it to you to stay for three days." Yu Qiuping whispered to Fukuzawa Yunan again, "When Mingdybei, Tokiwabei, and the cavalry company arrive, immediately send them to the Mikamachi Basin.
.Then after the auxiliary troops come out of the mountain, let them set up camp for three days and wait for orders on the spot."
"Yes." Fukuzawa Yunan immediately accepted the order and led the staff to urgently formulate a new plan.
"Ryuko, take a few people with you and immediately report to Okazaki Castle, Hanbei, and the lord in Kinki, saying that Toe has suffered a disastrous defeat, His Highness Tokugawa has been defeated, and the Uakiu army is also in danger."
Qiuping once again told Ryuko beside him, "Go quickly."
"Why?" Unexpectedly, Long Zi, who had always had no doubts about Yu Qiuping's orders, directly questioned this time, "Why did His Highness drive me away?"
Yu Qiuping's thoughts were seen through, and his face tightened. He knew that this battle would be dangerous, and he didn't know whether he could survive. And he had always been very guilty of Long Zi in his heart, and didn't want her to stay here with him to die, so he wanted to
I want to send her to deliver orders so that she can escape the disaster and live well.
Yu Qiuping's hesitation made Longzi see the clues, and tears suddenly burst into her eyes, "Does Your Highness feel that you are going to die? So you don't want Longzi to accompany you?" When she thought of what Yu Qiuping's order meant,
What, Long Zi's cry suddenly leaked out, "If Long Zi doesn't leave, I will die with His Highness! Your Highness, don't leave me!"
"Silly girl, why are you so stupid?" Yu Qiuping felt his heart soften, and then there was a heartbreaking pain - such a good girl, but he had let her down. Yu Qiuping couldn't help but reach out and do
He did something he hadn't done for a long time - he rubbed Ryuko's hair.
Ryuko was stunned, and tears burst out of his eyes. He lowered his head without saying a word, burying his face deeply in the shadows.
"What about Shang'er?" Yu Qiuping suppressed the sadness in his heart and asked the messenger in a low voice again, "Did Zijing send Shang'er back?"
"Please forgive me, Your Highness," the messenger's expression tightened upon hearing this, and he whispered with great remorse, "Mizuhara-sama and Morita-sama resolutely asked the young master to retreat, but the young master refused to leave."
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At 4:00 noon, the hills south of the Mikamachi Basin.
Under the command of Mizuhara Atonsune, all the ashigaru carefully hid on the north side of the hillside, and no one showed his head. Mizuharu Atonsune himself took off his helmet, poked his head out from beside a rock, and observed the Takeda army's movements.
move to avoid getting headaches
The eye-catching red leaves on the paper exposed his position. As the Takeda Army got closer and closer, his heart gradually rose in his throat, and he glanced at Yu Qiu Shang with great uneasiness - Morita Yoshio was still trying to persuade him.
He still stubbornly refused to leave.
"Young Master, the Takeda Army will be here soon. It's already in the blink of an eye." Shui Zongjing quietly leaned over to Yu Qiu Shang's side again and said to him in a deep voice, "I'm begging you, okay, Young Master, please hurry up."
Withdraw! How can I live up to His Highness if you have some good qualities and two shortcomings, young master?"
"Mizuhara-sama, there is no need to say any more, I have already made it very clear." Yu Qiu Shang shook his head, and said to the Mizuhara Sutra, and to all the ashigaru of the second company of Joban Bei, "I am here.
At this moment, I am not the young master of the Yuqiu family. My military rank is just an ordinary private ashigaru of Tokiwabi's second company, and I do not deserve any preferential treatment."
"But..." Shui Yuan Jing wanted to persuade him again, but Yu Qiu Shang waved his hand and said in a deep voice, "If Mr. Sui Yuan really regards me as the young master, then obey my orders."
"Sir Suwon also said just now that we have a heavy burden on our shoulders at the moment. If we can't stop the Takeda Army, the Yuqiu Army will be forced to fight the Takeda Army on the three-day plain, and our whole army will be almost dead.
One. Our fight here is not only for us, but also for our comrades. It is also a fight for the lives of the 12,000 people in our Yuqiu family army. It is a fight for the life and death of the Yuqiu family.
! If we can stop the Takeda Army, the whole army will have a chance to survive. If we can't stop it, the whole army will die." Yu Qiushang's face was solemn, and he narrated the heavy facts in a low voice.
"At this critical moment of life and death, do you still want to send a precious ashigaru to the back? Your Majesty is reluctant to send a messenger, so how can you be willing to waste a combat force?" Yu Qiu Shang asked a series of rhetorical questions.
After a pause, he couldn't help but be surprised. Why did he, who had always been taciturn, suddenly talk so much? However, as these words were spoken, he felt that his trembling body gradually calmed down, his panicked tone gradually stabilized, and the feeling in his heart gradually stabilized.
His will gradually became firmer and his expression became determined.
He faced the 400 soldiers of the second company and said loudly: "I don't have the combat experience of you, the command level of Lord Mizuhara, and the bravery of Lord Morita. All I, Yu Qiu Shang, have is a life and a knife.
." As Yu Qiu Shang spoke, he slowly pulled out the knife from its sheath, cut off the strap that tied the scabbard to his body, and threw the scabbard out. "You are all here to sacrifice your lives for the Yu Qiu family.
As the young master of the Yuqiu family, how can I escape?"
"I will risk my life today and fight together with you all! If you stay on the battlefield, you will die on the battlefield!"
Mr. Tian Chen, Mr. Suwon, this time, I am no longer risking my life randomly. I am doing it for the Yuqiu family, for my responsibility as the young master of the Yuqiu family, and for the glory of being a warrior.
Take this road - no regrets even if you die.
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At the same time, on the other side of the hill, the Takeda family's army was advancing rapidly. As luck would have it, the young master of the Takeda family, 1,000 soldiers and 2,000 auxiliary soldiers led by Takeda Katsuyori, was leading the charge. They
Coming all the way day and night, the entire army has not yet formed an armored formation. According to the original plan, they will complete the armored formation after passing through the Mikazuki Basin ahead, and then attack Yuqiu who is fleeing hastily to Yoshida Castle on the Mikachi Plain.
military.
"Young Master, do you want to send someone to investigate the basin ahead?" the guard following Takeda Katsuyori whispered.
"Have you not been there before? There was no one there." Takeda Katsuyori shook his head matter-of-factly.
"But..." The guard seemed to be still insisting on his point of view, which made Katsuyori Takeda a little unhappy. He retorted in a deep voice: "Now the ninjas of the Yuqiu family may have been scouting around. We will send people to explore the way now.
Isn't this just a warning? In order to prevent our ninjas from being discovered and the plan exposed, my father even withdrew the ninjas who were ambushing around Sanri, so how can we send people to investigate now?"
"Then what if there are people in the basin, wouldn't it mean that our unarmored troops were beaten in vain?" The guard remained unyielding, but did not notice that Takeda Katsuyori's expression was getting worse and worse.
It’s no wonder that this guard is the son of Takeda Shingen’s nickname. He was recently promoted to serve Takeda Katsuyori. He doesn’t know the character of this new master very well. You must know that although Takeda Katsuyori is the heir to the Takeda family, he once served as the third
The fourth son was adopted to the Suwa family. Later, because Takeda Shingen's successor, the eldest son Takeda Yoshinobu, was executed because of political struggles, and Takeda Shingen's second son was blind, and the third son died young, so it was Takeda Katsuyori's turn to come back and inherit.
Since the adopted child could not legitimately inherit the position of family governor, Takeda Shingen had no choice but to support Takeda Katsuyori's legitimate son Takeda Nobukatsu as the next family governor, and let Takeda Katsuyori serve as a transitional person before Takeda Nobukatsu Yuanfu.
Such an untenable identity makes Takeda Katsuyori a very sensitive person. He is very concerned about his authority and is worried that the people around him will disobey him because of his identity. This situation does exist, even if he is
Suruga and Sagami have made many military exploits and become brave generals in the army, but some important officials in the family still don't deal with him. Therefore, whenever someone questions Takeda Katsuyori's decision, Takeda Katsuyori will be very angry, especially on the battlefield.
"I've been fighting for so long, do I need you to teach me?" Takeda Katsuyori angrily swung his riding whip in the air and hit the guard in the ear, shocking him. "This basin
There is no way there is anyone! Even if there is, unless they are lying behind that hillside!" Takeda Katsuyori scolded and pointed his riding crop not far in front of him - the hillside south of the Mikamachi Basin where the forward troops were about to climb, "otherwise
We just need to step back and put on our armor! There is nothing to be afraid of!"
Unfortunately, as soon as Takeda Katsuyori finished speaking, about one hundred and fifty iron gunners suddenly stood up on the hillside that was originally deserted. The front row squatted down, and the back row fired the iron cannon from the front row.
Before the Takeda Army who was going uphill could react, one hundred and fifty iron gunners, under the command of Mizu Atonsune, pressed the triggers together. The roar of the volley and the smoke that followed,
Immediately, the actions of the Takeda Army in the front row were halted. Then, they encountered a salvo of iron artillery fire at such a close distance, and more than twenty of the Takeda Army walking in the front fell instantly.
"What are you doing?" Takeda Katsuyori reacted immediately after a moment of astonishment - Yuqiu's army had an ambush here. Originally, he wanted to order an immediate retreat and regroup, but the slightly wry smile on the guard's face showed that
He seemed to be nakedly mocking him. He was so angry that he slammed his riding crop on the ground, drew his sword out of its sheath and shouted: "No need to wear armor! Get your weapon and kill all those iron gunners."
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Chapter completed!