"You tried your best and followed me to fight for more than ten days. You have achieved nothing but success.
Your Majesty's arrest of me was just to use bargaining chips to negotiate with His Highnesses Uesugi Jinbo, without endangering my life.
You can go back in peace and explain to His Highness Uesugi that this is what I mean. They are all good warriors with both wisdom and courage. It would be a pity to die here.
When I get back, I will work for you and receive rewards. You must stay as useful as possible so that you can serve me and His Highness Uesugi again in the future."
Pu Sheng's village was filled with tears, and all the concubines behind him were also moved.
Shiba Yiyin tried his best to fight against the infamy for them, without caring about his own reputation. He had always been a treasonous person, and Shiba Yiyin was captured and humiliated. They must be blamed for their death.
Yoshigan doesn't care, he knows that Yoriteru Shimoma won't do anything to him.
Unless Ishiyama Honganji doesn't want to hang out in recent times, he must be polite to him, a powerful local figure in the shogunate and the husband of the general.
The worst thing is to suffer some losses in the negotiations between Vietnam and China, but with the return of Kaga's army, Vietnam and China are unable to survive alone, and Yoriteru Shimoma has no qualifications to bargain with Terutora Uesugi.
Holding the righteous silver is just to embolden yourself and seek peace. Takeda Harunobu's humiliating behavior, Shimomo Yorteru would not dare to do, it is really looking for death.
Surrendering only hurts Sibo Yiyin's reputation for being victorious in every battle, and makes his face look a little ugly.
The great names of the martial arts in this world are willing to let Samurai Ji die for the sake of their own reputation and face.
That's why Shiba Yoshigan's behavior was so dazzling, making the Kamo clan shed tears and surprising Kawada Nagauchi and others.
The Lord of Justice and the Benevolent King is indeed well-deserved. Although he lacks the domineering power of killing and decisiveness, serving under his command is indeed reassuring.
It was difficult for Kawada Chouchi and others to speak, and Kamaojigo said with tears in his eyes.
"Otai Suo, please stop talking. Even if I die, I will not let you suffer this humiliation.
If I want to catch you on the battlefield, you must first step over my corpse!"
"Bold! You didn't even listen to my words!"
"I am ashamed! Please take back your order and charge again. I, the Pu Sheng clan, are willing to be the vanguard!"
When Shiba Yiyin saw the eyes of Kamo clan with a look of death, his finger pointing at her trembled, and he was so angry that he couldn't speak.
This stubborn guy is really putting himself in trouble, why doesn't he understand the principle of saving people and losing land, and saving both people and land!
The two were still arguing, and the concubines around them were silent. At this moment, there was a noise coming from behind.
Kamoji looked behind him and said in surprise.
"At the imperial office, there is chaos in the rear. Is Lord Jiang Ma coming to kill you?"
Yiyin glanced at it and said doubtfully.
"Jiangma Huisheng?"
He didn't expect the Jiangma family to risk his own life and seek death, but suddenly he thought of Naomasa Ii in Jiangma's formation, and his face turned bitter.
Damn it, no one is obedient!
At this time, there was no room for him to think any more, time was life, Yiyin shouted loudly.
"Return to the army! Go back! Follow the Jiang Ma family's reinforcements and fight out!"
This place is dozens of miles away from the mountainous area of Hida Highlands. With this sudden attack, the army will inevitably be exhausted, and it is feared that it will be surrounded and destroyed before it reaches the mountainous area.
But Jiang Ma's army has already arrived, and Yiyin has no other choice. Let's unite and rush out first.
The cavalry turned around and headed east, rushing towards the road they came from.
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Shimo Yori Zhao was in the main formation and kept looking at the black spots on the slope. He was also surprised when he saw Shiba Yiyin's cavalry going back down the slope.
Before, I didn't dare to rush back even though I had plenty of energy. Now that I'm tired and exhausted, I'm looking for death instead?
She was really worried that arrows would be fired randomly over there. If Shiba Yiyin was shot to death, she would be in big trouble.
Just when the subordinate Yizhao was about to give the order, he sent someone to inform the other side that no arrows were allowed to be fired. He saw an envoy rushing towards him to report the military situation.
"General! Blocking the army from the east, we were attacked from behind and there was a gap in the encirclement."
"What!"
Yoriteru Shimomama subconsciously stood up and took a few steps forward. No wonder Yoshiyoshi Shiba turned back and walked back. Where did the reinforcements come from?
Recalling that Shiba Yiyin's cavalry consisted of one man and three horses, with only about twenty people, Yoritaru Shimoma came to his senses.
"It's the people who stayed behind! They gathered their horses to help the Imperial Palace break out, and some people stayed behind!
The whole army attacks! Quickly support the east, Sibo Yiyin must be left behind!"
Yoriteru Shimoma gave the order very quickly, but in fact he was not in a hurry. Shiba Yoshigan's cavalry was tired, and as long as the Zong army followed and pursued him, they would surely bite him and capture him.
She didn't forget to say one last thing.
"Order all ministries not to shoot arrows, and the imperial office must be captured alive! Remember, you must treat those you catch with courtesy, and notify me as soon as possible!"
The neat spear array of Xiang Zong's army began to loosen up, moving up the earth slope from north to west and east.
Yoriteru Shimoma was excited. The moment she stepped onto Shiriwari Saka, she seemed to have seen a future in which she would have no choice but to retreat after holding Shiba Yoshigan, Uesugi Teruhora and Jinbo Nagasaki.
At this moment, a continuous sound of conch sounds sounded from behind Xiang Zongzong's army, which was running all over the slope and chasing the Sibo Yi Silver Cavalry.
Yoriteru Shimoma turned around suddenly. The sound of the conch came from the north, from Higashinojiri Village, with a strong warning.
"not good!"
Just as she was about to order the entire army to turn back, a different sound of conch sound was heard from the north and west, and there was a faint hint of horse hooves in the distant sound.
Shimoma Yori Zhao glanced at the scattered troops of the Ichigo clan scattered across the mountains and plains, and looked at the large group of horseback samurai warriors looming in the distance, with a desperate expression on his face.
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The Yixiang Zong army in the east carefully blocked Sibo Yiyin's return journey, mainly resisting horses and bows and arrows. But they never expected that an army would come out behind them.
With more than 60 Hime samurai including Tōxinzu and Uesugi as the vanguard, the Hime samurai under Ema Terushiro commanded more than 200 Ashugaru peasants and soldiers to form a spear formation and follow up to cover up the killing.
When Xiang Zong's troops noticed the people coming behind them, it was already too late. When the two armies collided, it was difficult for the bows and arrows to shoot, so as not to accidentally injure one of their own.
Naomasa Ii rushed forward, one man and one horse, and the remaining horses followed closely and galloped forward, going deep into the Xiong clan's army and disrupting the formation.
Jiang Ma's army followed and attacked the chaotic Yi Xiangzong with a complete array, gaining the upper hand for a while.
After the Zongzong army had overcome the initial chaos, the fanatical believers of the Ni soldiers took the initiative to step forward and besiege the few enemy troops wedged in the formation.
The Wu family's army numbered only two or three hundred men, but the Xiang sect's thousands of people came to their senses, and with the fanatical believers at the front, they began to counterattack.
Several large naginata slashed at the legs of the horses that had slowed down. The horses stumbled and knocked down the Ji warriors one by one. They formed a small formation and continued to hold on back to back, but the Jiang horse army behind them could not rush forward.
Yi Xiangzong took advantage of his numerical advantage to slowly tear Jiang Ma's army into small pieces, and was about to gain the upper hand.