After seeing the arrival of Ukita's army, everyone in the Urakami family from top to bottom was full of fighting spirit, eager to fight to the death with this traitor. The remaining samurai and soldiers of the Urakami family rushed to the top of Shinomaru Castle, frantically
He roared angrily and asked for a fight.
At this time, Yu Qiuping had led his troops to retreat to Sanshi Castle, southeast of Tianshen Mountain City, and was watching the situation from the castle tower.
The Hashiba army was deployed 10 miles south of Tenjinzan Castle, and Kaiki waited for the fight between the Uki family and the Urakami family. However, the Uki family had already crossed the Yoshii River and advanced to five miles away from Tenjinzan Castle, and the battle was imminent.
"It's a little strange." Yu Qiuping squinted at the movements of Yuxi's family and muttered in a low voice.
"They don't seem to have prepared enough siege equipment." Fukuzawa Yunan also saw the problem.
"Not to mention the observation deck and oars, there is not even a ladder. Are you planning to use a battering ram to open the city gate?" Yu Qiuping adjusted the focus of the telescope and looked at the queue of Ukita's army. There were only a few improvised ones.
of battering ram.
"It's not necessarily impossible. Shinomaru was occupied by Hashiba's army before, and the city gate has been destroyed. The gate that the defenders are currently repairing temporarily should not be of good quality." Fukuzawa Yunan looked at Tenjin Mountain Castle with a telescope.
Trying to find a reasonable explanation, Yu Qiuping suddenly exclaimed.
Fukuzawa Yunan was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly tried to adjust the focus of the telescope, trying to see the queue of the Uki family. But he immediately realized that he could figure out what was happening now without a telescope - the Uki family turned around and headed straight towards
Yu Chaijun rushed over.
"It's broken." Yu Qiuping put down the telescope, took a deep breath to adjust his mentality, and immediately reacted.
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Nagafune saw Hideyoshi drunken and unconscious after drinking all night, and reported the news to the Ukita Nao family. The Ukita Nao family believed that Hashiba Hideyoshi was unable to command the troops in this state, so they decided to raid the leaderless Hashiba army.
It is indeed something that the poisonous snake of the Ukita Nao family can do...
What's worse is that the Hongye Army has already withdrawn to Mitsuishi Castle. Not only can they not be of much help behind the Yushiba Army, but if they are not careful, they will be affected by the defeat.
Thinking of this, cold sweat broke out on Yu Qiuping's forehead. How ruthless are the Ukita Nao family? They dared to raid 50,000 people of the Oda family with less than 10,000 people?
"Yun Nan, you take the Jingzhe Bei, Tianhe Bei, Xinghuo Bei, and Jincao Bei to guard Sanshi City. You must defend the city. If the situation gets out of hand, Sanshi City is the line of defense to save the retreating friendly forces from the enemy." Yu Qiuping
While giving instructions to Fukuzawa Yunan, he quickly walked down the city with his guards, "Send someone to inform Shengzheng and ask him to take the Liaoyuan Preparation to seize the high ground downstream of the Yoshii River. Then notify Yutō and take the
Make preparations to set up formations on the hills southeast of Tianshen Mountain City. Do not contact Yuchai's army, be careful of being overwhelmed by the defeated army, just occupy the terrain. Then send someone to notify Chongxiu and let the special forces disperse to nearby dangerous places.
In the village temple where you can stay, keep a good view of the ninjas who cover the Military Intelligence Department."
"Tell Qingci to gather the whole army with the copper wall and follow my horse seal." Yu Qiuping strode to the gate of the city, got on his horse, and led the guards to ride toward the northwest and Qi Yuchai's palace.
Ying rushed over, "I'm going to take over the command of that drunkard, otherwise Yu Chai's army will be doomed."
Yu Qiuping galloped away with the cavalry guards. The distance from Sanshi City to the Yushiba family camp, which was less than 20 miles, only took a quarter of an hour. "It should be faster than Ukita's army." Yu Qiuping kept thinking in his heart.
.The uphill slope in front of him and the camp of the Yushiba family blocked his view, so Yu Qiuping could not see where the Ukita army had reached. However, looking at the smoke and dust rising in the distance and the already agitated Yushiba army camp, it seemed that the distance was far away
It was also quite close. The reserve troops of the Yu Chai Army had already rushed out of the camp and dispersed in all directions.
The first unit Yu Qiuping saw when he rushed to the camp was the reserve team of Shenzi Tianzhengji. They were leaving the camp in a hurry and running towards the mountainous area to the east.
"Lord Shenzitian!" Yu Qiuping immediately led his guards to ride in front of Shenzida Zhengji's reserve team, and shouted to Shenzida Zhengji, "Please wait a moment!"
"Is this His Highness Momiji?" Kamikoda Masaharu's subordinates obviously recognized the Maple Bird Horse Seal, and Kamikoda Masaharu himself immediately rode over and asked, "What do you want, Your Majesty Momiji?"
"Don't panic, don't evacuate in a panic." Yu Qiuping tried to control his breath to be steady, and looked less nervous. He ordered in a deep voice, "Your organization is still intact. Reorganize the troops immediately and go to..."
However, before Yu Qiuping finished speaking, Kamikoda Masaharu interrupted in a very embarrassed manner, "Your Highness Momiji, please atone for your sins. I am a samurai of the Hashiba family. Without His Highness Hashiba's permission, I really cannot obey your orders."
"How long has it been and you still care about this?" Yu Qiuping said in a deep voice, very anxiously, "His Royal Highness Yu Chai has been drinking all night, and he is probably drunk now. How can he give you orders? You didn't see it.
Well, the Yuxi family has already come over. If Yuchai Army doesn’t adjust, it will be over! I still have to command other reserves of your Yuchai Army, and I don’t have the time..."
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!" Kamikoda Masaharu interrupted again, his tone full of doubts, "But... His Majesty Hashiba just ordered me to move to the hills southeast of Tenjin Mountain Castle."
"What?" Yu Qiuping was stunned when he heard this, "His Royal Highness Yu Chai can still command now? Are you sure he is not drunk?"
"This...I haven't seen His Highness Yu Shiba either, but here are the messengers." Shenzi Tianzhengji looked at Yu Qiuping without knowing what was wrong, and then pointed to the southeast, "His Highness asked me to go to that hill."
Yu Qiuping glanced at the direction pointed by Zida Zhengzhi. The hill was exactly where Yu Qiuping ordered the wine preparation equipment to be stationed. By occupying that hill, he could control several surrounding mountain roads.
"Then you go." Yu Qiuping realized that time waits for no one now. Since the place Kamikoda Masaharu wants to go is also the direction Yu Qiuping thinks is okay, let him go. Could it be that Hideyoshi Hashiba was drunk like that?
Can you still make rational commands? That’s really impressive.
After passing the troops of Shenzi Tianzhengji, Yu Qiuping once again drove towards the camp. At this time, the hastily mobilized Tongqiang cavalry had also followed up in ranked units, and they urgently regrouped behind Yu Qiuping.
Qiupei didn't care about ordering them, and continued to lead the guards towards another Yushiba armament unit running towards the south.
"The reserve team over there, stop!" Yu Qiuping and his guards shouted in unison, while frantically waving flags at the reserve team. It seemed to be Miyata Koji's reserve team. Miyata Koji and the others obviously also
He noticed the speeding Yu Qiuping and others, but had no intention of slowing down and stopping, and continued south.
"It's strange, Miyata Mitsuji is the most powerful general of the Hashiba family. With his temperament, he will fight to the end even if he is attacked. How can he lead his troops to abscond?" Yu Qiuping increasingly felt that something was fishy, ​​and at this time, Miyata Mitsuji
A messenger was also sent to Yu Qiuping.
"Your Highness Hongye!" the messenger hurriedly shouted to Yu Qiuping on horseback, "My Lord, upon His Highness Yu Shiba's order, asked us to immediately go south and occupy the high ground downstream of the Yoshii River. The military situation is extremely urgent and we dare not delay, so we cannot stop.
I salute His Highness Hongye, I’m very sorry!”
"The high ground on the lower reaches of the Yoshii River in the south..." Yu Qiupei looked to the south. That high ground was also the direction in which Ryuhara Bei was heading - judging from the current progress of both parties, Mitsuji Miyata would arrive much earlier than Ryuhara Bei.
Yu Qiuping made a gesture to signal the guards and Tongqiang Bei to stop, and the cavalry of the brigade slowly decelerated and braked on the plain. Yu Qiuping led everyone to turn their horses and look towards Yu Chaijun's Heqi camp.
The Hashiba Army of the brigade seemed to be in a panic, but in fact they were withdrawing from the camp in all directions in an orderly manner. The Uki family's troops rushed into the camp shortly after, chasing the retreating Hashiba Army.
"How many people are there in Ukita's army?" Yu Qiuping asked loudly after seeing the soldiers he sent rushing back.
"In return for Your Highness, at least 8,000 people." Tan Ma reined in his horse and saluted Yu Qiuping, "The leader is Gang Lisheng's troops."
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At this moment, in the Ushiba Army camp, Oka Toshikatsu, one of the three elders of the Ukita Army, was commanding the troops to enter the camp.
"Don't worry about the baggage. We won the battle with plenty!" Oka Toshikatsu saw that many Ashigaru seemed to be interested in the gold and silver military pay that the Hashiba Army left all over the camp. Some even quietly picked up some broken silver and put it in
In his pocket, he was so angry that he cursed, "Chase me! Leave the camp alone! Leave the camp to the people behind! Anyone who disobeys the order will be killed!"
After Oka Toshikatsu gave the order, many samurai immediately drew their swords and stared at their ashigaru fiercely. The ashigaru did not dare to make a mistake, so they could only reluctantly look at the military pay in the camp and quickly followed the troops forward.
, rushed forward through the camp.
"I didn't expect that the entire camp was abandoned without even defending it, and yet it retreated so decisively." Oka Toshiyuki rushed to the front on his horse, and he couldn't help but admired, "Although Hideyoshi was drunk
, but there are capable people in Yu Chai’s family.”
"Chase, don't let them run away!" After Oka Toshikatsu rushed out of the camp, he immediately saw the Hashiba family's troops retreating at the end. It seemed to be the banner of Oto Chinobu, "No matter how fast they run, they can still get there.
Are we chasing fast? Even if we can't kill Hideyoshi Hashiba, at least we can bite off a piece of meat!"
Under the leadership of Toshikatsu Oka, the Ukita army surged toward the rear of the Hashiba family like a flood. Seeing that Oto Chinobu could not escape, he had to hastily adjust his formation to defend on the spot, trying to block the pursuit of the Ukita family.
"It's okay. Their reserve team only has 1,500 people and 500 combat soldiers. Don't be afraid!" Odo Chinobu erected his general's flag on a high slope and cheered to the soldiers around him, "Let's hold our hands
There are 800 soldiers up there! What are you afraid of?"
However, as soon as Oto Chinobu finished speaking, he saw the troops of Nagafune Sadachi and Togawa Hideyasu rushing out of the camp behind Okari Katsu's troops, and they made a roundabout move to the south to outflank them.
The dynamics of your own department.
Chapter completed!