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"Let the second and third companies send all the people they can!" Shui Yuanjing was already red-eyed at this moment. He watched the thousand-man cavalry team flying and wanted to get closer, but his own company

It was already very difficult to deal with two cavalry teams of hundreds of people, one in front and one behind. If they were attacked by that cavalry, they would collapse in an instant.

The mountain flags were constantly waving, but Ikemoto Musashi was on the verge of despair. He only had 5 incomplete spear platoons left in his hands. He was already unable to cope with the more than a thousand people in front of him, and there was also a gun with hundreds of people beside him.

The cavalry is cruising around, so how can we support our formation?

"Danwakamaru, take your platoon and rush out to support our formation!" Ikemoto Musashi asked another auxiliary soldier to help him bandage the bleeding wound on his back, while shouting to a platoon leader who was fighting on the front line.

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"Sir? Do you want reinforcements? We really can't spare a single person here!" Danwakamaru heard the words and yelled anxiously, and fired several shots at the enemy in front of him as if to vent his anger, "Outside the formation

And that team of cavalry, our small group of spearmen were overwhelmed when we went out! Two platoons were gone just now, why are we still going!"

"This is Mizuhara-sama's order!" Ikemoto Musashi didn't want to talk nonsense. He put on his uniform again and went to the front line again with a few wounded soldiers who had just retreated to treat their wounds.

"This order is unreasonable!" Danwakamaru was distracted and was forced into danger by the fierce Echigo samurai in front of him. He finally managed to stabilize his position, "Sir! We can't send more troops out! There are not enough people!

The defense line can no longer hold up!"

"This is an order! A samurai must obey orders!" Ikemoto Musashi shouted at Danwakamaru without any doubt, and stabbed the Echigo samurai in front of him hard, forcing the latter to take two steps back.

Ikemoto Musashi stepped forward with a sword step, took over Danwakamaru's position, and shouted at the same time: "Execute the order! Go for reinforcements!"

"Yes! Yes! Yes! Sir!" Danwakamaru shouted in grief and anger, and then he pulled the twenty brothers who could still be mobilized and retreated from the front formation, intending to run towards the main formation to the east.

Go. However, before he could leave the phalanx, he saw that the mountain flag that originally waved the "reinforcement" order was swinging sideways desperately - that was the order to return.

"What do you mean..." Danwakamaru curled his lips in confusion. However, he was not confused for long. The sound of horse hooves coming from the northwest gave him the answer - the cavalry team of thousands of people did not attack the main formation.

Instead, he circled half a circle around the word "pin" and headed towards Junling Bei's third company to kill!

After seeing this scene, Ikemoto Musashi was momentarily panicked. However, this veteran soldier who had been with the army for many years regained his fighting spirit after a while and even became crazy. He waved the spear in his hand and pointed at the feet beside him.

The young people shouted:

"Fight them! Replace each one with one! Charge!"

"Charge!" the Ashigaru shouted softly in response to their company commander. The entire third company's phalanx ashigaru launched a counterattack like crazy, and in an instant they actually defeated the Echigo army who was far away from them.

They retreated steadily. However, when thousands of horses stepped on this group of scarred and thinly formed pikemen from all directions, collapse inevitably occurred.

Ikemoto Musashi only saw a knight coming from the prancing horse in front of him. He thrust out his spear and stabbed the knight off his horse by himself. However, the knight who bumped into him from the side at the same time chopped off the two ashigaru spears with one blow.

, rushed straight towards Ikemoto Musashi. Ikemoto Musashi jumped back to avoid the blow, but the spear in his hand was knocked away. Immediately afterwards, another horse leaped high and raised its head.

The horse's hooves stepped towards Ikemoto Musashi, who was still on his feet, and instantly knocked the samurai who fought until the last moment to the ground.

The battle line of the Third Company of Junling Bei, which had already reached its limit, was shattered into pieces. The pikemen who lost their formation were hacked to death by the Echigo samurai in the melee, and the panicked auxiliary soldiers in the formation were buried in the snow together with them.

Danwakamaru and the last 20 or so people tried to break through to the main formation, but were defeated by a charge from the side by the hundreds of cavalry who had been waiting for a long time, and they were all cut down to the ground.

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"The third company is over..." Ii Naomasa stared blankly as the third company of Junlingbei was directly defeated by thousands of cavalry in cooperation with the original more than a thousand people, and now the more than two thousand people are killing him, and the target

He and more than a thousand people from the north of Junlingbei's Second Company surrounded and suppressed him.

Ii Naomasa took a deep breath, and finally glanced at the horse seal of the Sui Atomic Sutra - the mountain flag flying high in the mountains. Then, he said in a deep voice: "Abandon the auxiliary troops! Break out to the west immediately!

withdraw!"

The second company of the Junling Bei struggled to fight towards the west through the gap between the Uesugi army. The spirit of the desperate attack prevented the Uesugi army from encircling them for a while, and the fleeing auxiliary soldiers also distracted their attention, and the Junling Bei ran away.

out. The Uesugi army separated hundreds of cavalry to continue the pursuit - in this open snow field, hundreds of cavalry were enough to destroy the pikemen with only more than a hundred people left. The remaining people turned their horses and killed

Toward Junling Bei's last unit that was still holding its position, more than 4,000 men attacked the lone army with only a hundred spearmen left - Junling Bei's first company and Junling Bei's headquarters. All

The remaining troops in the high mountains gathered under the banner of that mountain to hold on.

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Shui Yuanjing has been fighting on the front line for a long time. He already has more than a dozen large and small wounds on his body, but he doesn't even have time to bandage them.

"Give the auxiliary soldiers swords and guns! Now is the time to fight!" Shui Yuanjing cursed viciously in a low voice, "Hit!"

More than two hundred auxiliary soldiers who were protected in the formation received a weapon, and then shouted encouragement to each other and rushed to the front line, making up for the soldiers' front line that was on the verge of being broken.

There are really too few people left. They are as small as a solitary boat in the ocean of Uesugi Army, and the vast white snow and snow fields make it impossible to see the light. The Uesugi Army besieged every place with two or three people.

One man attacked aggressively, forcing the Red Leaf Army to retreat steadily. From time to time, there was a break in the battle line, and the Echigo samurai who poured into it would wantonly kill the ashigaru and auxiliary soldiers of the Red Leaf Army.

More and more places collapsed, and the few hundred people left could no longer withstand the attack. As a last resort, Shui Atom first sent out all the cavalry around him to fight, and then sent out the artillery crew members as well.

He accepted the challenge, and finally all the staff, guards, messengers and flag bearers were sent out to fight. When another front was broken through, he desperately found that he could no longer send a single person.

He was the only one left, standing alone under the flagpole of the mountain flag, waiting for the destruction that would eventually come. He raised his head and stared at the mountain flag fluttering high in the wind and snow. He still remembers his first

My feelings when I received that flag from Amakihei one day - what a beautiful flag it was, made of the same majestic mountains as Tokiwabi's flag.

They were his own reserve team, his own people, the trust he had gained from his 20 years of dedicated service to the Yuqiu family, and a reflection of his life's honor. During recruitment and training, he carefully looked at each and every one of them.

A person wants to keep everyone in mind - because they are his soldiers.

And now, he is about to lead his reserve team to destruction. Even though he has tried his best, even though the mountainous preparations have been tenacious, nothing can change a fact - a shameful fact.

The Junling Preparatory Army was the first reserve unit to be annihilated on the battlefield since the Hongye Army was formed in Zhili Castle 20 years ago.

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Shui Yuanjing vaguely remembers that many years ago when Ming Dybei first formed the army, Yu Qiuping once added this article to the military regulations:

"After the army is destroyed, as long as the military flag is still there, the organization can be retained and rebuilt."

"What if the military flag is gone?" Unfortunately, the person who raised this question at that time was the Water Atom Classic.

"The number of the unit will be cancelled, even if there are still many people surviving, even if all the people in the reserve team are unharmed." Yu Qiuping explained, "Because the military flag is the soul of a reserve team, it is the soul of a reserve team.

The one that everyone in the team must protect with all their might. If his soul is gone, the reserve team is gone too.”

"When the collapse of the army is inevitable, priority should be given to covering the military flag and preparing the captain and staff to retreat." Yu Qiuping added this article in the military regulations.

Mizuhara Atonsune originally thought that as a member of the Red Leaf Army, they would never use this military rule. Even in Mikazuki Town, the Red Leaf Army had never collapsed when faced with Takeda Shingen, who had twice the number of people as him. So this

Where can military regulations be used?

But now the facts are right in front of me.

"Call the young master here." Shui Yuanjing said with difficulty, but no one responded after a while. Only then did he realize that there was no one around him.

I don’t know if it was a tacit understanding developed through many years of superior-subordinate relationship, but Yu Qiu Shang happened to take Morita Yoshio and a few people around him at this time, and rushed to the mark of Shui Atom Jing’s horse covered in blood. The symptoms on Yu Qiu Shang’s body

The injury was no less than that of a water atom, and there was a shocking blood mark on his neck that was bleeding.

"Sir, the collapse of the army is unavoidable. Please apply the evacuation regulations." Yu Qiu Shang wiped the blood from his neck and threw it to the ground, leaving red spots on the ground, which were then covered by white snow.

"Prioritize the cover of the military flag, prepare the captain, and retreat the staff. There is still a small opening in the west. I will lead people to fire a salvo there with iron cannons and artillery. Your Excellency, I will take the opportunity to retreat! As the second commander, I will take over.

command!"

It has to be said that Yu Qiu Shang has really grown into a real warrior over the past few years. Under such circumstances, he can still execute orders meticulously and accurately - he is right, what should be done now.

"No." However, Shui Yuanjing shook his head lightly, "If the military flag doesn't leave, I won't leave either. Young Master, you take your staff and withdraw."

"Sir, this is against military regulations." Yu Qiu Shang had no intention of talking to Shui Atom Jing and signaled to the people around him to put the Shui Atom Jing on the horse and send him away.

"I know this is against military regulations." Shui Atomjing pushed those people away without giving in, and said in a deep voice, "But I just want to violate military regulations!"

"Why?"

"Because you are the young master of the Yuqiu family!"

"I am the commander of the first company of Junlingbei..."

"No, you are the young master of the Yuqiu family!" Shui Zongjing interrupted unceremoniously, his tone suddenly becoming urgent, "Young master, this is the last time I will preach to you in so many years, you

Just listen to it carefully once, okay! There’s no time!”

Yu Qiu Shang was stunned for a moment by Shui Zongjing's words, and even the blood from the wound seemed to pause for a moment.

"No one lives independently in the world. No one can live for himself. That is impossible. People live for each other and persist in this cruel world for each other! There are countless

There are countless people living for you, and there are countless people who love you. And you—" Shui Atomjing prolonged his tone and stabbed Yu Qiu Shang's heart hard with his hand, "you must be worthy of them.

!”

"You are the young master of the Yuqiu family. You shoulder countless hopes. You must be worthy of those who love you. You cannot die here." Shui Yuanjing said, while motioning to Morita Yaxiang and the few followers.

The people who came over put Yu Qiu Shang on his horse and evacuated. At this time, many sections of the defense line of Junling Bei's first company had collapsed. The Uesugi troops poured into the battle line and swept the entire square horizontally. A group of people moved towards the mountain flag.

Shui Yuanjing swallowed his saliva and said to Yu Qiu Shang, "I don't have time to argue with you now. You understand that, right? Young Master!"

"...Sir." Morita Yaxiang was silent for a moment, then glanced at Mizuhara Sui who was standing there with no intention of getting on his horse, "In that case, why don't you and Junqi go together?"

"Since the founding of the Hongye Army, it has been invincible and invincible. No general has ever been defeated on the battlefield, and no reserve team has ever been annihilated." Shui Yuanjing laughed twice and pulled up the ground.

He strode towards the big bags where the iron gunners stored gunpowder and carefully reinstalled the flag.

"I don't want to be the first general to be defeated, and I don't want to be the first reserve team to be annihilated."

Mizuhara lit the torch with difficulty with his frozen hands, and looked fearlessly at the densely packed Uesugi army rushing toward the mountain flag.

At the last moment, he turned his head and looked at Yu Qiu Shang and his group who were riding horses to break through the gap in the west, and Yu Qiu Shang was also looking back at him.

"Shang'er, tell His Highness for me——"

Shui Yuanjing let go of the hand holding the torch, and at the same time shouted at Yu Qiu Shang who was walking away:
Chapter completed!