Volume 7 Jiangnan Green Looking Maple Red Chapter 1049 Red Leaf 18
At this time, Tongqiang Bei, who was rushing back to the formation, also discovered the tail behind him - 500 Oda family cavalry. After many battles, Tongqiang Bei only had 700 of the 1,500 cavalry left.
However, in order to support the main formation in time, Yoshino Tiancheng made a decisive decision and personally led 200 cavalry to defeat the rear, and asked the commander of the third company, Takano Yoriyuki, to lead the remaining 500 men straight to the main formation.
Yoshino Tencheng is also a veteran. He understands that horse speed is very important when cavalry is facing off. Naturally, he will not make a U-turn and cut off the rear. He commanded the 200 cavalry left behind to divide into two teams, and after rushing through the Oda family and
After the gap in the central front of the Red Leaf Army, they immediately spread out to the left and right, and then slowly drew an arc and turned to the middle, attacking the Oda cavalry who also rushed out of the gap from both sides. However, before he was about to launch a pincer attack, he suddenly discovered that Ori
The strange thing about Tian's cavalry is that they don't hold samurai swords, but each one has an iron cannon.
"Fancy." Yoshino Tiancheng cursed secretly in his heart, and then immediately outflanked him. The Oda family's horse-mounted iron artillery team was chasing Takano Yoriyuki's main team, and there was no immediate response on the chaotic battlefield.
After discovering that Yoshino Tencheng had detoured back to the rear troops on both wings, he fired many shots at the rear of Takano Yoriyuki's troops, only killing a few people. At this time, 200 people from Yoshino Tencheng's troops had already attacked from the left and right.
Come.
The Oda family's horse-mounted iron artillery team immediately fell into chaos. Even though they were holding flintlock guns that were easy to fire, the loading of bullets was actually not much convenient. On the bumpy horseback,
The horse-mounted iron gunners hurriedly bit open the Hayai gunpowder bag and hurriedly poured the gunpowder into the gun chamber - some did not have time to clear the chamber, and some did not have time to compact it. In a panic, the horsemen fired on both sides.
Only half of the iron gunners completed the shooting normally, and the rest either did not have time to finish loading or misfired, and some even had their barrels exploded, leaving the team in a mess.
On the bumpy horseback, half of the bullets fired had little effect. They only hit more than ten Hongye Army cavalry. When the Hongye Cavalry roared in, each of these cursing horse-mounted iron gunners were
Very annoyed, they threw away the expensive flintlock rifles in their hands and drew out their familiar samurai swords to fight. However, facing the red leaf cavalry who came from both wings in a wall cavalry charge, the Oda family's horse-mounted iron gunners, who had no time to change their formation, came in.
They suffered heavy losses as soon as they contacted the enemy and fell into a bitter battle.
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At this time, Takano Yoriyuki had already rode all the way back to the main formation. From a distance, it could be seen that more than 2,500 soldiers of Sasana Narimasa were besieging Yu Qiu Shang's main formation, Wan Junbei and Jincao Bei.
The more than 500 remnant soldiers of the two companies were unable to resist, and they were retreating steadily. The formation was also in danger. Takano Yoriyuki did not say much, and led the army straight behind Sasanagi Masa. Sasanagi Masa had seen this a long time ago.
The menacing cavalry had to immediately detach half of the soldiers and all the cavalry to defend backwards, thus reducing the pressure of the frontal attack.
"Just hold on! Just wait until the Maeda family launches an attack on the south side of the detour!" Sasanagi Masa was not in a hurry, but commanded his men to fight with the 500 cavalry and more than 500 infantry of the Hongye Army - this was already the red leaf
Finally, the army can defend the main formation. As long as Maeda Toshiie attacks southward, the Hongye Army's main formation will also fall. After that, they only need to chase Yu Qiu Shang's horse seal and be unable to hold it back.
Give him a chance to regroup.
However, Sasanagi Masa waited and waited, but still did not see Yu Qiu Shang move his horse seal. Seeing that his subordinates continued to reduce in number, but the Red Leaf Army's main formation remained motionless, the anxious Sasana Masa was there
On horseback, he looked far to the southeast, trying to find Maeda Toshiie's troops, but found nothing. He looked around again and found that Maeda Toshiie was slowly heading southwest with his people, heading towards the Red Leaf Army and the
The auxiliary soldiers behind the coalition's formation launched an attack, driving the auxiliary soldiers all over the ground.
"Why are you going to fight the auxiliary soldiers at this time? Is Aquan thinking all shit?" Sasaki Masa was so angry that he almost cut off the head of the horse he sat on with a knife, "Just take off the horse mark."
You win! What’s the use of taking advantage of that little advantage?”
Sasana Narimasa immediately signaled the flag bearer to wave the flag, and issued an order to the Maeda Toshiie to request cooperation in the pincer attack. However, the Maeda Toshiie ignored it and rushed toward the auxiliary troops.
"Damn it...this bastard must be letting off steam!" Sasaki Namasa almost exploded his hand and bit it with his teeth, but there was nothing he could do.
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At this time, Oda Nobunaga on the West Castle Bastion watched helplessly as the overwhelming battle situation was reversed by the Red Leaf Army. Both the Oda Army and the Red Leaf Army held on to their last breath and tried desperately to defeat the other side first.
The artillery on the post was bombarding non-stop. The troops on the central front of the Oda Army were already showing signs of disintegration. Nearly half of the reserve troops were so disintegrated that they could no longer fight, and the generals suffered heavy casualties. The Oda family's cavalry units successively
Defeated on the banks of the Yodogawa River and near the central front, they were unable to continue the attack. Although the Oda family on the left and right still suppressed the Hongye Army and the coalition forces in front of them, with the defeat of the center, it was difficult for them to make further progress.
Sasanagi Masa and Maeda Toshiie's detour troops of the main formation came to a standstill because Sasaki Namasa was held back and Maeda Toshiie went to attack the auxiliary troops like a laborer. On the bastion front, Ikeda Tsuneki and Sasawaki Yoshiyuki remained indifferent, and Ori
The Tian family's troops defending the fort were barely able to draw a draw with the Mori family's troops, Ming Gabei, Hosoragi Bei, and the special company. In Maple Leaf Mountain Castle, although the army of Kamao clan suppressed the situation in the city again, Hosoyanagi Bei was defeated.
The company rushed into Ninomaru. With Hoshiyanagi as the backbone, Ninomaru became more difficult to capture.
At this moment, the entire battlefield has no formation or tactics at all, and it has turned into a mess of melee. Although the battle with fewer enemies and more enemies for most of the day has caused the overall casualties of the Hongye Army and the coalition forces to be close to 40 to 50%, the Hongye Army has
Because of Yu Qiupei's unjust death, his fighting spirit was high, and he still shouted "for the sake of Momiji-sama" and fought to the death. On the other hand, the Oda army obviously knew that they were not the righteous party, and many samurai also felt sad for the death of rabbits and foxes.
and a sense of disappointment, the fighting spirit is obviously not high. It's okay when the wind is favorable, but once it falls into a headwind, few people are willing to stand up and try their best to turn the tide for Oda Nobunaga and the Oda family. If the battle continues like this, the failure of the Oda army will be
Sooner or later, if they fail in such a decisive battle in which the fate of the family is at stake, the Oda family will inevitably end up falling to the wall and ending in despair.
——This is unacceptable to Oda Nobunaga.
At this moment, he was already red-eyed, and cast his eyes and all his hopes on Ikeda Tsuneaki, Sawaki Yoshiyuki, Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Tenka Daimyosho who had been standing still - their 30,000 soldiers had been staying safely in the south of the city.
There is no movement in the bastion. As long as they appear as a new force, whether they attack the central bastion, join the frontal battlefield, or attack Yu Qiu Shang's main formation, they can instantly disintegrate the entire Red Leaf Army and completely seize the battle.
Next victory.
"Send someone to find them!" Oda Nobunaga's eyes were bloodshot, and even the corners of his mouth were oozing with blood. He looked like a vampire and shouted at the messenger, "Just tell them! Let them immediately
Send troops! If I don’t send troops, I will send people back to Azuchi Castle now to kill the mothers, wives and children of those two bastards Ikeda Tsuneaki and Sawaki Yoshiyuki! Then I will send people to the island to kill Tokugawa Ieyasu’s wife.
Kill me too!"
Oda Nobunaga roared as he roughly pulled out a few documents from the arms of his attendants, hastily wrote the order to execute the hostages with a brush stained with blood, and stuffed the documents into the arms of the orderer.
, and at the same time roared sinisterly, "Let them figure it out on their own! If you can't see them leaving the fortress within a quarter of an hour, just let them wait to collect the corpses!"
Not long after the envoy left, Oda Nobunaga became furious when he saw that Nancheng's ministries still hadn't moved. As if he had gone crazy, he loudly ordered the gunners on the bastion to turn their barrels over and point them at the Nancheng bastion.
Friendly fire.
"Don't you believe that I dare to come here?" Oda Nobunaga grinned ferociously, watching with satisfaction that the bastion in Nancheng was beaten with a big cannon, sending smoke and dust everywhere, "Then I'll show you.
Look at Yu’s determination!”
Under Oda Nobunaga's evil threat and the constant incoming projectiles, Nancheng's 30,000 soldiers finally dispatched. Watching their flags slowly moving towards the Red Leaf Army's main formation, the entire battlefield
The Oda Army cheered with thunderous cheers and their morale was greatly boosted. They knew that this battle had been won. However, the Red Leaf Army and the Allied Army all looked ashen - in order to counterattack, they had exhausted all their reserves.
There were not even 100 extra men in the formation. The 26,000 soldiers of the Red Leaf Army and the Allied Army fought with the 100,000 soldiers of the Oda family for most of the day. Now they have suffered heavy casualties and are exhausted. Facing the 30,000 new troops who have been killed, even if there are
Tongtian's abilities were of no avail. The various units of the Hongye Army were determined to repay their master's attention with death, and launched an even more frantic counterattack. But Yu Qiu Shang,
The bodyguards of Chosonggabu Motochin and Miyoshi Yoshihei were already thinking about how to save their master and fight a way out from the rebel army.
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"They finally took action..."
Not long after, on the east hill of Maple Leaf Mountain City, Imagawa Kaede, who was dressed in military uniform, gritted his teeth and watched the 30,000 soldiers from the Nancheng Bastion reluctantly bypassing the bastion and heading towards the Hongye Army's main formation.
"Come down the mountain, let's stop them! We are the only ones who can act now." Imagawa Kaede took a deep breath, tried to calm down, and ordered without any doubt.
"Madam, we volunteers have no ability to fight in the field! We have already suffered such heavy casualties! As long as we fight, the whole army will be defeated! Madam, your safety cannot be guaranteed!" Sanada Nobuyuki and Sanada followed Kaede Imagawa up the mountain.
Sanada Nobushige tried their best to stop Imagawa Kaede. Of course they also care about the safety of Yu Qiu Shang and the Red Leaf Army, but any mature samurai will understand that a militia unit that has suffered heavy casualties encounters a replenishing force in the field.
What will happen to the soldiers? This is why no one, including Oda Nobunaga, the entire Oda Army, and the Red Leaf Army, counted the militia on the Higashiyama Mountains when counting the situation on the battlefield.
Of course Imagawa Kaede also understands.
"I have already made up my mind, go and get ready." Imakawa Kaede ordered categorically, and at the same time he turned back and walked towards the depths of Dongshan Maple Forest. There was Yu Qiu Shang who was sent to Dongshan Maple Forest by someone before the war.
The maple bird horse print in the cemetery, and the chidori with the saber sent back by an unknown party. Imagawa Kaede bent down to pick up the chidori, and lightly smelled the two most familiar smells in her life - the incense in her father's room and the chidori.
With her lover's breath, she hung the Chidori around her waist. She picked up the Maple Bird Horse Seal again, threaded it on the flagpole, then turned to the west and looked at the battlefield of desperate struggle.
"You left in such a hurry that I didn't even get to say goodbye properly."
"Shang'er originally wanted you to have a good rest, but he may have to trouble you again. I will go out with the Maple Bird Horse Seal. That is my father's flag, and it is also your flag."
Imagawa Kaede looked at the maple bird horse seal, tied his long hair behind his head with both hands, and softly told his feelings to the horse seal.
"I have always been grateful to you for taking care of me."
"Come with me one more time, Ping. This is the last time."
"For our dreams and our meaning, I will fight until the end."
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A breeze blew, and Imakawa Kaede closed his eyes, feeling the hair caressing his cheek. Thirty-eight years of his life passed by in a hurry like this breeze. The first fourteen years were so cruel, but the two years after meeting him
Fourteen years are as beautiful as a dream, but also fragile.
Yes, this love that spans time and space is like a dream, so happy that it is unreal. The meeting between him and me was a coincidence made in heaven. We can only cherish it, but there is no need to have any unreasonable thoughts about it that will last forever. He was originally
He does not belong to this world. Now it is better to say that he is going back than leaving. He is going back to his home...
But he didn't come back to our home...
Tears filled Imagawa Kaede's eyes.
That deceitful liar...didn't he promise to stay with me for the rest of his life?
Will there be an afterlife for people? If there is an afterlife, will you find me across more than four hundred years like you did in this life? I really want to see you again...
It’s time to wake up from the dream.
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"I'm back."
Suddenly, the familiar voice came, which made Imagawa Kaede feel that the dream was getting stronger. She did not dare to open her eyes, she was afraid that this hard-won dream would suddenly be shattered. However, our story, our love, everything about us and
Isn’t everything just like a dream? So what if it’s another dream?
She bravely opened her eyes, tears bursting out of her eyes, and only that Japanese song echoed in her heart.
Be it the red leaves, the sacred pavilion, Tokiwa, or the autumn colors. All of these, eternity, are just to connect our two hearts together across endless time and space.
The heart is like the red leaves staining the pavilion, the autumn colors of Changpan are in harmony with the king's heart
The beginning is heart and the end is heart.
Is that the original meaning of that Japanese poem?
Thousands of words came to my mind, but I didn’t know how to express them. In the end, they only turned into the tenderness like water and the eternally warm voice: