Chapter 168: Halfway (2)
"Your Highness! This!" Several of the messengers around Yu Qiuping stood stunned, "What should we do!"
After a moment of astonishment, Yu Qiuping already understood: He had no choice but to hold on for dear life.
The enemy was already two miles away, and it only took a moment to reach the battlefield. There was not much time left for Yu Qiu to calm down.
The area around the bridge was still very crowded, and queuing up to cross the bridge was a fool's errand. And if the entire army waded across the river, it would obviously be too late.
Then there is only one way left - everyone crosses the river on bridges and bamboo rafts - which will definitely disrupt the organization and plunge the troops into chaos. Because neither the chaotic bridges nor the narrow bamboo rafts are enough to support the troops. When passing through in formation, everyone must take care of their own way to cross the river.
Is there any choice?
"The whole army obeys the order!" Yu Qiuping said loudly: "Reduce the whole army to pieces!"
"Fukushima Yasunari and Omaezaki Nakahide, you two have your men board bamboo rafts to cross the river!"
"Yoshioka Katsumasa, Ogawa Yufuji, and Charlie, take your four platoons, all as individuals, squeeze into the crowd of Asahina's family, and squeeze across the bridge!"
"Then you, along with others, squeeze out from the crowd on the other side and march to the south to form an array!"
After the order was given, there was an uproar.
"Your Highness, are you crazy?" Nakahide Omaezaki was horrified. "With this arrangement, everyone will rush over in a swarm. Just like the Asahina family, they will fall into complete chaos! Squeeze through the crowd and form a formation. The government and the organization will definitely not be able to maintain it! No one can find anyone! How should we direct it! Isn’t this just running to the other side of the river bank to die!"
Although the people around him didn't say anything out of respect for Yu Qiuping, they all expressed their protest in silence.
"Your Highness, you must not be merciful as a woman at this time!" Amano Keide said sternly: "Either you abandon your brothers on the other side and don't go there and die! Or..." A ruthless look flashed in his eyes, "Order your subordinates to make no distinction. Attack and kill the Asahina troops on both sides of the river bank!"
"No!" Yu Qiuping said solemnly.
"You are going to die like this! How can a scattered army form an array to meet the enemy?" Amano Jingde stood sideways and stopped in front of Yu Qiuping, "Your Highness, please calm down!"
"We are different from those armies!" Yu Qiuping shouted to several ashigaru generals: "We have been fighting side by side and training hard for two years! Don't you have any idea about the discipline of our men? Isn’t it just to reorganize the troops in chaos?”
"Let me tell you, after breaking into pieces and squeezing to the other side, just treat it as a sudden gathering after dinner! Aren't they all in a mess and then formed a team in an instant!" Yu Qiuping said as he turned over and dismounted.
"Your Highness! Think again! This..." Amano Kagetoku still wanted to persuade him.
"Execute my order!" Yu Qiuping saw that the enemy was getting closer and closer, and there was no time to explain! Without saying a word, he grabbed his maple bird flag and squeezed into the crowd first, "Believe in me! Come with me!"
Amano Keitoku and Honda Tadakatsu sighed and followed immediately without saying much.
Fukushima Yasunari and others looked at each other and immediately ran back to their respective teams, calling on his subordinates to squeeze into the crowd like a pile of sand and jump onto the bamboo rafts in the river. Even the subordinates of the cavalry team tied their horses to On the trees, they squeezed into the crowd together.
At this time, Okabe Gennobu stood on a hill five miles away, looking at the chaos by the river.
"What are you going to do, Yuqiu Hongye?" Okabe Motonobu snorted disdainfully, "You are still trying to cross the river when the interruptions continue and you are in chaos. The situation is irreversible?"
"When he crossed the river like this, didn't he just send people over for us to kill?" Okabe Masatsuna laughed loudly: "When he came over, he was also a scattered and chaotic team. How to fight? He just sent more than 300 more people for us to kill.
!Does he think that fighting is just about sending people over?"
"Momiji Tokiwabei, what a great name." Okabe Gennobu looked at the maple bird flags squeezing over the bridge and the densely packed maple soldiers squeezing across the river, and snorted coldly, "This is a personal gift from His Highness the Governor of the Household.
I will accept the red bird flag for you!"
At this time, on the Meizuma River, many ashigaru were trying their best to cross the river. Some were struggling to paddle forward on bamboo rafts with bamboo poles, others were crowding on the bridge and rushing towards the other side, and some were using several bamboo rafts to
Bamboo poles were connected together to build a simple floating bridge, and they rushed across the river.
After finally squeezing through the crowd on the west bank, after crossing the river, they had to be crowded together with the Asahina family's troops again. Tokiwabei's ashigaru tried their best to push away the people in front of them, and squeezed out a gap from the crowd.
Follow the maple bird flag and run towards the south.
At this time, Yu Qiuping, with his horse seal and guards, had already squeezed out of the crowd and arrived at a stone's throw south of the rebel army. He planted his horse seal on a small mound and began to assemble the troops.
By that time, the powerful coalition forces from the south had approached two miles away, but there were only a dozen or so Ashigaru people who arrived near Yu Qiupei's gathering place.
It is definitely impossible to restore the complete system of society. Now the slow walker has not been able to cross the river.
Yu Qiuping made a prompt decision and gave up the idea of completely gathering the troops. Instead, he organized all the troops that had arrived and prepared to establish a temporary platoon. He stood by the big flag, made a formation gesture, and shouted:
"Facing me, form five horizontal lines, with ten people in each team, and automatically fill in!"
After Yu Qiuping gave the order, the dozen or so people who had already arrived immediately ran to him and stood in a row and a half. The Ashigaru people who arrived one after another after seeing Yu Qiuping's gesture also rushed over to complete it.
Line up. The line continued one after another, and soon the fifty people who arrived first were lined up. These fifty people were all old subordinates who had followed Yu Qiuping for two years, and Yu Qiuping could call each of them.
names, knowing that they are from different platoons.
Yu Qiuping glanced at the formation and saw the figures of Fukushima Yasunari and Omaezaki Nakahide, the fastest runners. He then said loudly: "Ancheng, you will be the platoon leader of the first temporary platoon! Zhongxiu,
You go out first, you have other tasks!"
"Yes!" the two men saluted.
"How many people are archers?" Yu Qiuping asked again.
About seven or eight people raised their arms holding bows and arrows high. Yu Qiupei asked them to get out of the queue immediately, and Maezaki Nakahide was temporarily responsible for the assembly, and continued to add the infantry ashigaru who were coming later to the team.
"How many people were ashigaru-tou before!" Yu Qiuping asked again.
Out of fifty people, seven people raised their hands.
"Jinsuke, Kihachiro, you two go out first! Then add two ordinary Ashigaru!" Yu Qiuping ordered again, "Five of you, follow the order, one person will lead a class, and adjust the queue positions yourself!"
Under Yu Qiupei's series of orders, the fifty people in the first platoon were organized. Although each ashigaru leader was not his own subordinate, due to the unique systematic and standardized training method of Yu Qiupei's army, the passwords of each platoon,
The establishment is exactly the same, which is very different from those big and small wealthy families who work independently. In addition, everyone is a hard-working brother who lives and works together, and they are all familiar with each other. Therefore, the ashigaru heads can command these without much effort.
Under the unified leadership of Fukushima Yasunari, the first temporary platoon immediately moved south to the southern hilly area and began to deploy defenses based on some of the fortifications left by the Okabe family.
At the same time, more people were rolling out of the crowd. After Charlie arrived, Yu Qiuping immediately asked him to take charge of the assembly of the archery team. Nakahide Omaezaki was called by Yu Qiuping to take charge of the formation of the second temporary platoon.
After the personnel and ashigaru heads were gathered, the two temporary platoons of Charlie and Omaezaki Nakahide immediately went south to support Fukushima Yasunari. At this time, the powerful coalition forces had already approached a mile away!
The following ashigaru people continued to cross the river and squeezed onto the shore. It was still a mess when they arrived, and they were immediately organized into a row in front of Yuqiupei. Yoshioka Katsumasa and Ogawa Yufuyu arrived shortly after, both of them were still wet.
.
"I rushed too fast and fell into the river. What a bad luck! If it hadn't been for Yudong, I might have found out where he was!" Yoshioka Katsumasa cursed.
"Who would have thought that you are so big and can't swim!" Yu Qiuping laughed and scolded, "Lead the assembled troops to the front line immediately!"
After Yoshioka Katsumasa went south with another temporary platoon, the reorganization and reorganization also entered its final stages. Since Tokiwabei had suffered certain losses in Okehama before, the last platoon was not full, with only about thirty people.
Led by Yufu Ogawa as a reserve team, the more than forty archers assembled later were immediately sent to Charlie for unified command.
Now, the Tokiwabei in the south have formed their formation facing the south. From the west bank to the east are the troops of Omaezaki Nakahide, Fukushima Yasunari and Yoshioka Katsumasa. Each of the three platoons has set up defense on a small hill.
Obtaining a commanding geographical advantage, Fukushima Yasunari's troops retreated slightly and assumed a crane wing formation posture. Yu Qiupei arranged both bow and arrow platoons behind the hill on the side of Yoshioka Katsumasa far away from the river bank.
, that is, the left wing of the crane. He predicted that this would become the main attack point of the place.
Both Okabe Motonobu and Okabe Masatsuna, as well as the heads of the wealthy coalition forces in the south, all watched in disbelief as Joban Bei completed the formation, and were speechless in surprise. Joban Bei had already started fighting fiercely.
The advance team and Okabe Bei also paused the battle slightly and turned their attention to Tokiwa Bei's main army.
"It's too fast... It's fake..." Okabe Masatsuna whispered incredulously: "In less than two quarters of an hour... 300 people forced their way across the river in chaos and then completed the reorganization."
"No, Tsukiwabei didn't reorganize." Okabe Gennobu saw Tsukiwabei's reorganization method at a glance, "They randomly gathered fifty people and formed a team to fight the enemy."
"No wonder, what's so big about this?" Okabe Masatsuna breathed a sigh of relief, "Regardless of the organization and formation, if we rush over in a swarm, even those untouchables can do it!" He said and slapped fiercely.
He waved his fist and said, "I want to see, this soldier doesn't know the general, and the general doesn't know the soldiers. How can a disorganized army respond to the enemy? Yu Qiuping, it's a waste of reputation!"
"No." Okabe Gennobu said in a cold voice, "This is even more terrifying..."
Chapter completed!