On the afternoon of May 8, the Momiji Army, which had rested for a long time, hit the road again and arrived at Iyuki in the evening. The most difficult mountain road had been forgotten, and they were only 35 miles away from the plains of Nishi Tosa.
The journey is over.
However, due to the collapse of Chang Zong's army, Yu Qiuping could not find any stronghold to rely on in Nishi Tosa, and he had no intelligence support at all. He had no idea about the situation and troop deployment in Nishi Tosa. Therefore, Yu Qiuping
They did not dare to march rashly, but dispersed the cavalry company to investigate the surrounding intelligence.
Maeda Keiji was leading a cavalry of 100 people at the moment, walking through the hazy moonlight with torches to explore the situation in Nishi Tosa. Kobata Kesheng and other groups of cavalry went to the south and west respectively, and Maeda Keiji's mission
It is to investigate the north side.
The moonlight tonight is not very bright, it is always obscured by dark clouds, and the torch in his hand can only illuminate the surroundings. However, Maeda Keiji is not too worried about being attacked. Because he has a total of 100 cavalry beside him, which is by no means a small group.
Troops lurking in the dark can handle it. But if a large troop wants to move in the dark, it is impossible not to light a torch. If you light a torch, you can see it from a long distance.
Since he was already in a passive situation with intelligence, Yu Qiuping did not try to hide his whereabouts. Instead, he asked the cavalry company to expand the search area as much as possible after rushing out of the mountain. He was not worried about being discovered by the lookout soldiers at the top of the Nakamura Imperial Palace.
-Anyway, hundreds of cavalrymen carrying torches will definitely not be able to hide from the eyes and ears of the Mihaoshi family.
"There is an outpost over there." Maeda Keiji squinted his eyes and looked to the southwest, and found that there seemed to be a small, towering outpost.
"But according to the map of the Choso family, shouldn't the first outpost be further west? Why is there an outpost here?" A cavalry platoon leader behind Maeda Keiji asked in surprise.
"It means that the Miyoshi family has suppressed the nearby area and is gradually expanding their control area. This outpost should be newly built by the Miyoshi family." Maeda Keiji gestured towards the outpost a few times with the hand holding the torch, "
Let's go around the outpost and give them some tentative threats to see if there are other outposts or the Mihaoshi family's camp."
After the subordinates responded in unison, the group of cavalry began to slowly move towards the west. The people at the outpost seemed to have spotted the group of cavalry and immediately lit a bonfire. After a while, there were more than a dozen people in the surrounding darkness.
The bonfires were lit one after another, faintly drawing a semicircular trajectory.
"It's probably this big." Maeda Keiji silently memorized the areas drawn by these bonfires, "Has the Miyoshi family actually controlled the 10 miles around Nakamura Imperial Palace? Then the villages and rock villages here are probably also
It’s in the hands of Mihaoshi’s family.”
"With such a large defense range, there must be about five thousand people here." The platoon leader following Maeda Keiji couldn't help but take a breath, "Thanks to Kubokawa Toshimitsu for still saying that all the Sanuki people are here."
Going north, they obviously want to trick us out and work hard for their Chang Zonggabu family."
"First send someone to report to His Highness. There seems to be a large army around Nakamura Imperial Palace." Maeda Keiji gestured to a messenger behind the team, and then continued to turn the horse's head and run toward the northwest, "Let's circle around and then
Let’s see what new gains there are.”
Maeda Keiji led the cavalry to continue to circle towards the north, maintaining a certain safe distance from the curves outlined by the bonfires. After receiving the bonfire alarm, many rock villages and villages in the area were set on fire by the Miyoshi family. There were little bits of fire, as if to warn of possible enemy attacks.
After a while, I saw another cavalry group carrying torches emerging from a rock stronghold. However, their number was not large, and they were just following Maeda Keiji's group of cavalry from a distance. The intention of the attack seemed to be just to monitor and restrict the movements of the Red Leaf Cavalry.
"The flag of the Anzhai family..." Maeda Keiji squinted his eyes and managed to see clearly the flag on the back of the cavalry in the flickering light of the fire. "Didn't the Awaji people follow? Logically speaking, only the Awaji navy should be here. That's right. Where can there be cavalry in the navy? Then what are these cavalry? Could it be that they are the banner warriors of Anzhai Fuyang?"
Thinking of this, Maeda Keiji suddenly felt that the situation in front of him was a bit confusing. If there was an army of Miyoshi family here, then the Sanuki people must be here. If the Sanuki people were here, why would they send people from the Anzhai family to follow? If the Sanuki people were there, Everyone is gone, the arrangements here are all a bluff, then there should be only some miscellaneous soldiers of the Awaji Navy in the Nakamura Imperial Palace. How dare Fuyang Anzhai to photograph his own flag team for investigation? In any case, the cavalry of the Anzhai family will appear here. It's something unreasonable.
"I want to turn around and confront those cavalry, what do you think?" Maeda Keiji hesitated for a long time, then suddenly said to the two platoon leaders beside him, "Let's see what those guys are thinking?"
"Hedge?" A platoon leader was eager to try after hearing this, "Wall cavalry charge? Then they are definitely no match for us! We are not even afraid of Chi Bei."
"No, they will definitely not fight us. I just want to see how they will react." Maeda Keiji muttered, while slowly pulling out the sword from the scabbard, "In this way Confirm something."
"Everyone obeys the order!" Maeda Keiji raised his sword high and shouted at the top of his voice, "Turn around, throw away the torch, and go to..."
However, just when he was about to finish shouting the order, suddenly dots of fire appeared in the north. After a while, the fire became clear. It was a small cluster of fire running in front, a large fire chasing behind, and the sound of horse hooves. Then it came.
"There's a situation!" Maeda Keiji, a clever man, immediately woke up. "It is estimated that the friendly envoy is being chased by the enemy. Let's go up to him immediately! Save him!"
As a result, the Hongye cavalry gave up their plan to attack the Anzhai family's cavalry, and instead rushed north. Upon seeing this, the Anzhai family's cavalry immediately followed suit.
After seeing the movement in the south, the small fleeing flame in the north ran towards this side with all his strength, and the pursuers behind him became more and more urgent. A small cluster and three large clusters of flames flew quickly in the dark night. Reunion towards a point!
"Line up! Wall cavalry charge!" Maeda Keiji waved Odenta vigorously a few times, and the red leaf cavalry behind him immediately threw their torches to the ground in unison, and lined up like a wall relying on their hearing and tacit understanding. The horizontal formation swept towards the pursuers from the north. Seeing this posture, the pursuers from the north seemed to be afraid - after all, even Chi Bei, who was famous all over the world, was defeated by this move, so they immediately divided into two teams and went around to avoid it. He opened the edge of the Red Leaf Cavalry. The cavalryman who was chased by the pursuers rushed towards the Red Leaf Army's military formation. Maeda Keiji hurriedly asked the left and right to leave a gap for him, allowing his horse to pass safely. However, Before the man could reach the front of the military formation, he suddenly fell off his horse.
While arranging cavalry to guard the surroundings to prevent attacks by the Miyoshi Army cavalry, Maeda Keiji personally dismounted to check the condition of the fallen cavalry. He was covered in wounds, with several arrows stuck in his back, and blood was constantly flowing from the wounds and corners of his mouth.
It looked like he was dying. Under the dim moonlight, from the patterns on his feet, he could be vaguely identified as a member of the Tosa Kira family.
"Are you the messenger sent by His Highness Kira? Do you have anything to convey?" Maeda Keiji asked hurriedly, fearing that the messenger would finally break out from the Miyoshi family's tens of thousands of troops and end up saying nothing.
I died when I came out.
"Kira...His Highness...will break out in two days..." The messenger coughed up blood and gritted his teeth with the last of his strength. "Please...Hongye Your Highness, please take over..."
Before he finished speaking, the messenger's body softened and he fell straight down.
Before Maeda Keiji could figure out what was going on, the shouts of his platoon leader immediately sounded around him.
"Sir, the Mihaoshi family suddenly started attacking!"
After hearing this, Maeda Keiji hurriedly got on his horse and saw that the Miyoshi Army, which was coming from all directions, began to charge. Under the situation of being surrounded, the wall cavalry of the Red Leaf Army was fully unable to move, because the flanks and back of such a formation were very dense.
fragile.
"Breakout!" Maeda Keiji immediately shouted loudly, and at the same time urged the horses to lead the charge towards the east.
"Sir, did the courier ignore him?" Another platoon leader tried his best to move towards Maeda Keiji, pointed at the courier on the ground and shouted.
"Anyway, we're only one breath away. We'll die if we go back. We can't let him delay our breakout! If we can't take his message back, his death will be in vain!" Maeda Keiji clamped the horse's belly hard and kept raising the horse.
"He can break out of a tight siege, so he is probably a warrior. His efforts cannot be let down!"
The Red Leaf Cavalry followed Maeda Keiji closely, formed a wedge formation, and headed towards a point in the circle surrounded by the Miyoshi family cavalry. Those people seemed to be evil at first glance, and they did not seem to have the consciousness and courage to annihilate the Red Leaf Cavalry.
They planned to immediately make a way out of the way. They only harassed the Hongye Cavalry from the side and failed to cause big trouble to the Hongye Cavalry. However, they seemed not to give up. Instead, they chased the Hongye Cavalry all the way to the east, regardless of the Hongye Cavalry.
No matter how much the cavalry raises their horses, it will be difficult to get rid of them.
"I guess it's really Anzai Toyasu's banner team, and the other side is probably the elite cavalry of the Sanuki clan, otherwise the horse power wouldn't be so good." Maeda Keiji turned his head to look at the torch group behind him, and said secretly in his heart. "This gourd
What kind of medicine is sold there!"
Because the Red Leaf Cavalry abandoned too many torches during the charge, they could only rely on a dozen spare torches to guide the way, so they took many detours. The Miyoshi family's cavalry caught up with the rear of the team twice, but were defeated both times.
The Hongye Cavalry was repulsed. At the seventh quarter of Yinshi, the Hongye Cavalry finally withdrew from the camp and dispersed the Miyoshi family's cavalry with the help of the iron gunners.
Chapter completed!