Naomasa Ii saw Ema Huisheng lowering his head and said nothing. He immediately understood her thoughts and sneered with his teeth bared.
She turned around and shouted to the people present.
"If Jiang Ma's family isn't going, let's go!"
She was not the person in charge assigned by Shiba Yiyin, and everyone in the group was stunned. The leader Ji Ji looked at her, and then at Jiangma Huisheng.
Before Shiba Yiyin left, she asked the remaining Ji warriors to listen to Jiangma Huisheng's arrangements and return. The group headed by them subconsciously looked at her.
Seeing her reaction, Ii Naomasa became furious and said.
"Okay, okay, I'll go even if I'm alone!"
The leader of the Tongxin people quickly stopped her and said.
"Iiji..."
Before she could finish speaking, Ii Naomasa opened her arms to stop her and said.
"I, Naomasa Ii, have received a great favor from the emperor, and I know that I have nothing to repay, so I can only repay it with death!
The benevolence and righteousness of the imperial court are unique in the world. I will never tolerate the humiliation of the lord being captured and humiliated by Yixiang Zong! Unless they step on my corpse!
It’s time to repay your kindness to the loyal king! The only option is to die!”
After she finished speaking, she strode out of the village.
Behind her, the members of the group looked at the leader. Naomasa Ii spoke impartially and outspokenly in front of Shiba Yigen, and saved the face of the group, which gained a lot of goodwill among the group.
The leader gritted his teeth and said.
"Let's follow!"
As soon as the Tongxin people left, Kawada Nagauchi and the Yamamotoji family's samurai warriors no longer hesitated and followed them out.
Jiang Ma Huisheng looked uncertain.
She knew that if Ii Naomasa was allowed to leave the village and she did not respond, she would be embarrassed to have any friendship with Uesugi Teruhora in the future.
The Ema family's size of several thousand koku was nothing compared to the Echigo Uesugi family and the Kanto governor. Her friendship with Uesugi Teruhora was already at a high level.
Yoshigan Shiba was also the shogunate's official representative. If he was captured and humiliated, and I watched with cold eyes, how could I have the nerve to interact with Terutora Uesugi?
Ema Terusei remembered that the Takeda family had sent someone to persuade the family to make the decision, and it was the Odaisho who was mentioned, not Uesugi Teruhora.
This shows that in the eyes of Takeda Harunobu, he also agrees with the importance of Shiba Yoshigan himself.
Thoughts were running through Jiangma Huisheng's mind. Naomasa Ii had already reached the entrance of the village. She knew she could no longer hesitate and took this gamble!
"Iiji! Wait for me!"
She quickly caught up with Naomasa Ii and said.
"Everyone ran forward, taking turns riding the horses to maintain their strength.
It’s definitely too late to notify the imperial office, so we will break through a gap behind the encirclement and pick up the imperial office!”
Naomasa Ii looked at her excitedly and nodded repeatedly.
"good!"
After a little reorganization, the army left in a hurry. Only the nuns from Dongshan Jian Village were left standing there, wondering what the enemy troops were doing.
First, they don't want to steal money and food, and second, they don't burn down the house. Why are they going to evade the encirclement?
She jumped up and shouted to the village.
"Come out! The bandits have escaped!
Go and take a look at my Buddhist hall. The candlestick just fell over. Don’t burn down my Buddhist hall! You lazy people, go and take a look!
Also! Send a fast runner to Higashinojiri Village and tell them that I have expelled an enemy army here and tell them to be on guard! Don’t forget to report my military merit!"
———
North of Higashinojiri Village, Uesugi Teruhu is hiding silently on the side of the mountain, and the raised mounds hide the figures of hundreds of riders.
A horseman came running from a distance, dismounted, bowed to the ground, and said.
"Your Highness, the village's defenses are empty. Dust and smoke are billowing in the south, and the sound of killings is loud."
Uesugi Teruhora narrowed his eyes, glanced at the Ji warriors behind him who were dismounting and resting, and said calmly.
"Set off."
The order was quickly spread, and hundreds of Ji warriors stood up one after another, arranging their swords, guns, and horses, and preparing for battle.
After a while, Teruhora Uesugi took the lead and rushed towards Higashinojiri Village. The sentry outside the village was so frightened that he was about to give a warning when he saw a large group of cavalry heading west, bypassing the village and galloping south.
She was stunned for a moment to react, her eyes were horrified, and she quickly blew the conch. Starting from her, the sound of the conch was accompanied by the sound of horse hooves, heading south.
Immediately, Terutora Uesugi signaled to the left and right to approach, and Kakizaki Keie and Saito Asanobu rode close behind.
Terutora Uesugi pointed forward and shouted.
"Kakizaki Kageie, lead your men to charge from behind and disrupt the military formation!"
"Hi!"
"Saito Chaobu, your people will go west, insert them from the side, and drive them east!"
"Hi!"
Finally, she looked at the towering horse prints in the distance and shouted behind her.
"Put up my chaos dragon flag, the long-tailed people follow me! The target is the Yixiang Sect's main formation!"
"Hi!"
Once the military flag is raised, there will be no retreat.
Uesugi Teruhora brought here all the elites this time. Kakizaki Keike's 300 strikers, Saito Asanobu's 220 close flags, and the 50 Nagao Ichimen from his own formation.
The Wu family has a reserve force of Wanshi, with about 250 regular soldiers, including 400 to 50 Ji warriors.
When Uesugi Teruhora came this time, he almost mobilized the elite warriors of 150,000 koku who were directly under Kamizhongetsu. The reserve force at Naoe Keituna's place only left the number of warriors who could barely control the army.
There are only 4,000 troops in the hands of Yori Zhao, who are still scattered soldiers from various places in the sect.
The Yuezhong Yixiang Sect with one hundred thousand stones can mobilize 12,000 people, which is much higher than the mobilization power of the Wu family. Shengxing Temple's Shixuan pretended to be stupid, and Anyang Temple's leader held his troops without moving.
Shimon Yoriteru only had Zuisen Temple and could not command 7,000 men, so he had to worry about encirclement from all sides. He had already tried his best to mobilize 4,000 men to round up Shiba Yoshigan.
Uesugi Teruhora led nearly 600 elite warriors and quickly rushed in, preparing to attack the 40,000 to 50,000 troops mobilized by Etsuchu.
But the 40,000 to 50,000 troops have been divided and disintegrated by Shiba Yigen using various strategies. The only ones who can be gathered into a fist are the 4,000 Shiritarisaka.
Sun Tzu said, "The more you can win, the less you can't win." This is indeed a wise saying.
———
Shiba Yiyin returned to the slope again and looked around. Only eleven of the twenty riders were left.
Pushengshixiang faced the foot of the mountain and cursed.
"mean!"
Shimoma Yoriteru carefully arranged the arrangement here, using artificial obstacles to resist the horses and trap the horses to block the momentum of the horses. He also used super long guns to form a spear formation to drive away the cavalry.
They didn't press hard, they just consumed Yiyin's cavalry strength. Several Ji warriors were impatient, but they were swept off their horses.
Yiyin shook his head and said.
"They never fired arrows. They wanted to capture me alive."
He glanced around him. Nearly half of the war horses were lost, and Warrior Ji looked tired.
The main generals such as Kamaojigo, Kawada Nagauchi, Yoshie Shigen, Hazaka Nagami, Yamamotoji Takanobu and others are still there. But if we charge again, I'm afraid a few of them will be lost.
Sibo Yiyin smiled helplessly and said.
"It's me who Yoriteru wants to arrest, Kamaohime, you go and shout.
Let them untie the encirclement and let you go, I will stay."
Pushengshixiang cried out.
"Odaisho! No!"
Kawada Nagauchi and others also looked at each other in confusion.
Although they don't want to die, if the Imperial Palace is captured, they will be disgraced when they go back and bear a stain that cannot be washed away.
If I really want to be suppressed for this for the rest of my life, I might as well die now.
