At the same time, in the Oda Army camp, all the soldiers were packing their bags.
"Lord Kitahata, what exactly does this mean? Withdrawing the troops now is equivalent to giving up Kamigetsu City?" After Yu Qiu Shang walked out of the assessment tent, he immediately found Kitahata Keijia, "Why did Yushiba
Your Highness must insist on withdrawing the troops? My father has already won the naval battle, and support from the Hongye Army will be coming soon? The situation is so good now, why do we have to withdraw?"
"Although our Highness has won, the support from the Momiji Army will not arrive until the afternoon. Your Highness Hashiba feels guilty and does not dare to confront the Mori family." Kitahata Kageie first repeated what Hideyoshi Hashiba gave at the evaluation meeting.
reason, and then took a look around to make sure there was no one, then lowered his voice and said to Yu Qiu Shang, "But Young Master...I feel that this is just an excuse. This withdrawal may be a conspiracy."
"What's the meaning?"
"You see, as soon as we retreated here, the Maori army rushed to Kamigetsu Castle." Kitahata Kageie pointed to the Maori army on the western official road, and nuzzled towards the tent, "And you didn't see
Well, only Kuroda-sama came, Takenaka-sama did not come. The order issued this time did not bear the seal of the previous Joint Staff, but was issued in the name of the Hashiba family."
"My lord, what you mean is..." Yu Qiu Shang frowned, as if he understood.
"Yes, the Yushiba family has reached an agreement with the Maori family privately. The Nizi family is a serious problem for the Maori family. If they are not eliminated for a moment, the Maori family's territory in China will not stop. The Yushiba family has sold the Nizi family to the Maori family as a condition.
, in exchange for the Mori family not to march into Harima and allow us to retreat. In this way, once the Nizi family is finished, the 100,000 koku territory that was originally allocated to the Nizi family will naturally fall into the hands of the Hashiba family. And the Hashiba family also has sufficient reasons to explain
This retreat - the Maori soldiers are outnumbered and our Highness's support is late, so he has no choice but to retreat." The Kitahata Kage family smiled helplessly, "Master Takenaka will definitely not agree to this kind of behavior. So this Kuroda
Your Excellency, you just ran out and asked Mr. Yushiba to bypass the Joint Staff and issue the order."
"Then this order..." Yu Qiu Shang suddenly stopped and stood there, "Are we still going to obey?"
"Just obey, it won't do us any harm anyway. The Nizi family is the Yuli retainer of his Hashiba family, not ours." The Kitahata Kage family nodded as it should be, "Before His Highness left, he also asked us to listen to His Highness Hashiba.
The command."
"Okay." Yu Qiu Shang nodded with some embarrassment and followed Kitahata Jing's family back.
"Fortunately, Ayou is back." Yu Qiu Shang secretly rejoiced. Yu Qiuyou wrote to Yu Qiuping before, saying that he did not follow to Shangyue City, but gave up the mission and came back. If Yu Qiuyou is really in Shangyue City
, I have to worry to death now.
Just when Yu Qiu Shang returned to the camp and prepared to retreat with his packed subordinates, a crow's emissary suddenly entered Yu Qiu Shang's tent without notice. Yu Qiu Shang was startled, and then realized
What? His face turned pale with fright.
Sure enough, Crow's ninjas brought bad news.
"Young Master, urgent information. It seems that the second young master has not returned as promised. I have searched all over and cannot find him..." Ninja whispered in a panic, "Lord Amano speculated that the second young master may have followed Nizi's family to Shangyue City.
Mr. Amano also said that Kuroda Takataka is likely to betray the Nizi family to the Mori family for the 100,000 stone territory, so he requested an urgent recall of the second son. Can you contact Utsuki City now?"
After Yu Qiu Shang heard what the ninja said, his face turned pale. Without saying a word, he ran out of the tent and called out to stop all the retreating Nirvana officers. Then he got on his horse and rushed towards Hashiba Hideyoshi's camp.
, regardless of the obstruction of the Hashiba family guards, he got off his horse until the gate of the camp, and happened to meet Hashiba Hideyoshi and Kuroda Takataka who were walking out.
"Good nephew?" Hideyoshi Hashiba was a little surprised when he saw Yu Qiu Shang come back, "What are you."
"Your Highness Yushiba, please stop the withdrawal immediately and rush to the aid of Shangyue City!" Yu Qiu Shang panted and said to Yushiba Hideyoshi in a deep voice, "My brother is still in Shangyue City!"
"What?" Hashiba Hideyoshi was also shocked when he heard this, "You said the second young master is still in Shangyue City? Didn't he say before that he had come back?"
"No, he followed him. We couldn't find him anywhere. He must have followed him." Yu Qiu Shang was so anxious that sweat broke out on his forehead. "Your Highness, please hurry up and rescue Shangyue City!"
"No." Kuroda Takataka saw Hashiba Hideyoshi's hesitation and immediately stood up and refused, "The order has been issued and the entire army is retreating. It is impossible to attack in reverse now."
"The Maori army was focused on advancing, and they actually used a marching formation to arrive at a place like this. Isn't this a good opportunity for us to launch a surprise attack?" Yu Qiushang pointed at the Maori army's formation, "Why not attack?"
"Young Master Yuqiu, you have to be sensible." Seeing that he couldn't be fooled, Kuroda Takagao changed his tone and said to Yu Qiu Shang, "First of all, you just can't find the second young master, and you can't be sure that the second young master will be here now.
In Shangyue City, after all, the Second Young Master told us and you before that he has come back. Secondly, even if the Second Young Master is in Shangyue City, he cannot risk the safety of the entire army for one person. You have to do it for one person.
Will the illusory possibility put the entire army in danger?"
"Even if it's not for one person's safety, should we give up with so many friendly forces in last month's city? The Maori army has exposed such a big flaw, why don't we fight? Isn't our goal to defeat the Maori family?" Yu Qiu Shang fired a barrage of fire.
The rhetorical question left Kuroda Takaka speechless for a moment, and Hashiba Hideyoshi beside him didn't know what to say. Yuqiu Shang understood the reason for their helplessness - it must be like what Amano Keitoku said, they have already communicated with the Mori family
A secret agreement was reached, so it was impossible to turn back and attack the Maori army. The Nizi family had been betrayed.
"No matter what, as a samurai, you need to carry out the order. Withdraw your troops immediately and don't miss the opportunity to fight again!" Kuroda Takataka knew that he had been wronged, so he simply stopped trying to reason and used force to suppress others.
"What order to execute? What about the order of the Joint Staff?" Yu Qiu Shang became a little anxious. He didn't even use honorifics in his words, and his tone became higher. "It's obviously the Yuchai family's order from the beginning to the end! We just
Accept orders from my father and the Joint Staff, but not from the Hashiba family!"
"Are you going to disobey me?" Kuroda Takaka raised his voice and asked.
"Do I want you to take care of it?" Yu Qiu Shang looked at him without fear.
"Good nephew..." Yu Shiba Hideyoshi never expected that Yu Qiu Shang would have such a strong temper, so he hurriedly stepped forward to smooth things over.
"Your Highness Yu Chai! Please send troops to rescue Shangyue City! Rescue the Nizi family and my younger brother!" Yu Qiu Shang suddenly knelt down towards Yu Chai Hideyoshi and kowtowed to him twice. This was something he didn't even know about Yu Qiu Ping.
Etiquette performed.
"This..." Hashiba Hideyoshi was in a dilemma, unable to say a word.
"Impossible." Kuroda Takagao snorted coldly and glanced at Yu Qiu Shang who was kneeling on the ground. "We can't control your unruly Red Leaf Army, but we can control the Yu Chai Army. No matter what, Yu Chai Army The decision has been canceled today, you have to go and do it on your own."
"Okay." Seeing that there was no room for communication, Yu Qiu Shang stood up, patted the mud on his pants, turned around and walked out of the tent, "No matter what, I will save my brother. "
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Not long after Yu Qiu Shang left, Hideyoshi Hashiba received a report from the sentry.
"Report to your highness! Something bad has happened! Nirvana is ready to rush out!" The sentry said to Hideyoshi Hashiba with sweat on his head, "The people below are stopping them and refusing to let them go. They will leave the stronghold at any cost, even to our guards. Shoot! Now we have rushed out of the village gate and rushed out of Xiangyue City!"
"Where is Wan Junbei?" Hideyoshi Hashiba asked next.
"Nirvana Bei didn't seem to communicate with Wan Jun Bei in advance. Wan Jun Bei was still preparing to withdraw when he saw Nirvana Bei rushing out. There was a bit of confusion for a while. But now they have reorganized and are about to rush out of the stronghold to chase Nirvana Bei. ." The sentry swallowed, "Sir Kamikoda's troops happened to be blocking their way out of the stronghold, and the two sides are now confronting each other. Master Kamikoda refused to let them pass, and Wan Junbei's Kitahata Kage family threatened to use force against us. .Master Kuroda has already gone, I don’t know what the situation will be like.”
"It's so annoying." When Hashiba Hideyoshi heard the words, veins popped up on his forehead, and he threw Caipei to the ground with some annoyance, "This disobedient and willful boy... I really don't know how Hongye manages it? Let's let this kind of Will the person inherit the family governor?"
"What should we do now?"
"What else can I do? Go and help Nirvana prepare? Can't you just watch Hongye's child die? Then Hongye, don't chop me down?" Hideyoshi Hashiba was so angry that he couldn't help but grit his teeth and ordered, "All troops Turn!"
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At the same time, the Maori army outside the city that was attacking the city last month also discovered the strange movements of the Oda army.
"What's going on?" The commander of the vanguard, Shimizu Souji, looked at Nirvana Bei who suddenly came out of the Oda army's retreating queue with some surprise. "Didn't Hashiba Hideyoshi reach a peace agreement with us? What is this going to do? "
"The Shanfeng Banner...is the Nirvana Bei, the reserve team of the young master of the Yuqiu family." Shimizu Souji frowned. Although Yuqiu Shang is young, his dazzling performance against Takeda and Uesugi has already made his martial name resounding. Since ancient times, many heroes in the world have emerged as young heroes, and some people have begun to compare him with Minamoto no Yoshitsune, who is also a young hero. Naturally, Shimizu Souji would not dare to look down on such a person.
"Send someone to communicate and ask them what's going on? Can't Hideyoshi Hashiba control the young master of the Yuqiu family?"
After a while, the reply from the messenger came. Yu Chai Hideyoshi said that he really couldn't control Yu Qiu Shang. Yu Qiu Shang refused to obey the order and rushed out alone. Yu Chai's army could not interfere with Nirvana Bei's actions. Yu Chai It was impossible for the army to leave Yu Qiu Hongye's son to death, so they could only launch an offensive together, breaking the covenant, and hoping for the Maori family's understanding. The reply given by the messenger to Yu Qiu Shang was rather strange, Yu Qiu Shang said that he had no intention of fighting a decisive battle with the Maori army, but he only hoped that the Maori army would temporarily lift the siege of Shangyue City for half an hour, allowing Yu Qiu Shang to send a messenger into the city, and then Nirvana Bei would withdraw its troops.
"Is the Oda family playing tricks on us?" Shimizu Souji was so angry that he yelled, "We agreed to a truce, but only part of it stopped? The other part of the people followed suit? And then someone came, and they asked us to withdraw from the siege? Do you think we are stupid?
?We have lifted the siege and let the Nizi family out? We are here to destroy the Nizi family? Do you still want to continue the negotiation and delay it for a while? Delay it until tomorrow when Yuqiu Hongye arrives from Akashi City? Do you think we are stupid?"
"Ignore it." Qingmizu Muneji spat on the ground, "Let's fight, form a formation immediately! While attacking the city, send troops to intercept Nirvana Bei!"
Chapter completed!