At three o'clock in the hour, in the Ii Valley to the north of Mifangyuan, the sun was already swaying near the horizon and was about to set. And Yu Qiuping was leading Yu Qiu's army at a rapid march. He himself led a group of guards and charged forward on horseback.
On a hill next to Ii Valley, he wanted to look down at the battle situation in the south. About an hour ago, he discovered that there were flames burning in the sky over Hamamatsu Castle, as if a large amount of food, grass and baggage were burned, and he realized
Something bad has happened - Tokugawa Ieyasu has left the city to attack.
Yu Qiuping almost ran the sitting Pipa to death (a descendant of the white horse Pipa that Asai Nagamasa gave to Yu Qiuping), and finally climbed a small hillside. He reined in the horse and looked to the south.
Everyone was stunned for a moment.
I saw Takeda Hisi's flag flying high on the plain, and the Takeda family's army swept the battlefield wantonly, chasing the Tokugawa army that fled. Tokugawa Mitsuha Aoi's flag was thrown everywhere, and the entire battlefield was no longer visible.
The Tokugawa Army who was still resisting could not be seen. A battle also broke out at the east gate of Hamamatsu Castle. The Hojo Army who stayed behind immediately attacked Hamamatsu Castle after seeing Takeda Shingen's victory. Kanbara Yasumasa was struggling to support it.
In just one hour, Tokugawa Ieyasu had been completely defeated. If the Takeda Army continued to pursue, the defeated Tokugawa Army would trample on each other at the north gate of Hamamatsu Castle, and the entire north gate would become a living hell.
"I'm really in trouble..." Yu Qiuping saw the miserable situation of the Tokugawa army, and his heart felt as if ten thousand grass and mud horses were running through him. He who always gave people a refined feeling couldn't help but cursed: "Takechiyo's head is filled with all these things."
Tempura! Are you going to fight with the Takeda family and beat your uncle?"
"It's over." Yu Qiuping felt a sudden sense of powerlessness in his heart. Originally, he had 12,000 people, and Tokugawa Ieyasu had 10,000 people. Together they could barely equal the 24,000 people of the Takeda family (not counting
The Hojo family's 3,000 reinforcements) have the power to fight - after all, the Koshu Army is the most powerful army in the world, and even the Amaki army dare not entrust it. Even if the Takeda family plans to defeat Amakihei first, Tokugawa Ieyasu can at least help him
Detain one-third of the Takeda army.
But now Tokugawa Ieyasu's appearance in Meng Lang's battle before Yuqiupei arrived caused the entire army to collapse. Hamamatsu Castle may not be saved immediately. Once Hamamatsu Castle is defeated, the main force of the Tokugawa family will be wiped out, and the Uqiu-Tokugawa coalition forces will be lost instantly.
With half of his troops, he was unable to fight against Takeda Shingen. Even under the hunt of Takeda Shingen's powerful cavalry, whether Tokugawa Ieyasu himself could escape was a big question. If Tokugawa Ieyasu was captured, then Tokugawa
The family will definitely fall to the Takeda family, and Yu Qiupei's own retreat will not be guaranteed. If the Takeda family did not attack the Tokugawa family, but turned around, then Yu Qiupei would not be facing two-thirds of the main force of the Takeda army.
, but to directly confront the entire Takeda army.
Yu Qiuping couldn't help but feel that his throat was a little dry and he swallowed. However, just when he was thinking about how to clean up the battle, Honda Tadakatsu and Ryuko suddenly became alert. Honda Tadakatsu cut the dragonfly in front of him.
, Ryuko quickly drew his sword out of its sheath, and protected Yu Qiuping, who had not yet recovered, behind him. Following Honda Tadakatsu's order, Yu Qiuping's guards also turned over and dismounted.
Before Yu Qiuping could ask what happened, a dozen ninjas rushed out from the surrounding woods to attack. Honda Tadakatsu and others immediately led their guards to attack head-on, forcing the fastest ninjas to retreat.
However, those dozen ninjas were quite skilled. Although they were unable to attack Yu Qiuping, they injured two of Yu Qiuping's guards with lightning and flint, and none of them were injured.
Wounded.
Soon after, just when Yu Qiuping realized that the strength of these ninjas was not simple, those ninjas suddenly threw a large number of hidden weapons at Yu Qiuping. Honda Tadakatsu and Ryuko, who were standing in front of Yu Qiuping, disappeared between the lightning and flint.
Able to push aside all hidden weapons, two shurikens came straight towards Yu Qiuping's flat door. Just when Yu Qiuping was panicking and about to use his arms to block it, two kunai suddenly fell from the sky and were inserted into each hand.
In the hollow iron ring in the middle of the sword, two shurikens were nailed to the ground.
"Good skill." The leading attacking ninja snorted coldly and watched Uchiha Aooka leading a group of Yu Qiuping's ninjas to emerge from the woods behind Yu Qiuping. Uchiha Aooka dodged and jumped to Yu Qiuping's side.
He carefully put on his gloves, took off the shuriken that was nailed to the ground, took a look, and whispered to Yu Qiupei: "Toubori and Togakure are both elite ninjas of the Takeda family. Your Highness, be careful.
.”
"What does it mean that so many elite ninjas from the Takeda family appear here..." Yu Qiuping muttered to himself as if talking to himself: "Takeda Shingen has been paying attention to my movements, so my arrival must be
In his plan, he must also have the next move against me."
"His ninjas did not choose to ambush and observe the enemy's situation, but came out to attack me directly when the success rate was low. It must be Takeda Shingen's arrangement. Such an active action strategy means that the Takeda family's strategy is to actively attack..."
"The Tokugawa family has been defeated. Now the Takeda family has two choices. Either leave some people to delay me and prevent me from supporting Hamamatsu Castle. Then cooperate with the Hojo family to first pursue and eliminate the main force of the Tokugawa army, and then directly destroy Hamamatsu Castle.
Fight down and completely annihilate the Tokugawa family."
"Either, Hamamatsu Castle is handed over to the Hojo family, and the main force of the Takeda family goes north to annihilate us in a field battle before we enter the city."
"Takeda Shingen, what choice will you make?" Yu Qiuping took a deep breath and looked through the guards in front of him. The Takeda family ninja a few feet in front looked straight at Mikatahara in the distance.
After the Takeda Army noticed the Yuqiu Army appearing more than ten miles behind them, they began to slowly stop their pursuit and were making adjustments.
"The target is me." Yu Qiuping immediately made a judgment and ordered in a low voice: "Qinggang, don't be reluctant to fight, cover us down the mountain, we have to withdraw!"
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After Yu Qiupei withdrew from the mountain under the cover of the ninjas, the troops of Tokiwa Bei, Naru Kabuto Bei, and Hosoyanagi Bei also arrived at Ii Valley. Yu Qiupei immediately issued a retreat order to the entire army and activated the previously formulated plan.
Retreat into the mountains and go to Shitarahara for a decisive battle with the Takeda family.
However, before Yu Qiupei could withdraw from Ii Valley, he saw a Takeda army coming out from the east side of the battlefield. It was a cavalry force of about 600 people, a pure cavalry force.
In most Japanese armies, only a few cavalry formed separate formations. Most of the mounted samurai led and commanded the infantry ashigaru to charge together. However, for such a large-scale independent cavalry team, there was only one in the Takeda family.
Chi--the terrifying cavalry outfitted in crimson dyed with cinnabar, which frightened Takeda Akabi in the East.
"It seems that the Takeda Army has given up attacking Hamamatsu Castle to annihilate the Tokugawa family, and instead wants the entire army to eliminate us first." Yu Qiuping glanced at the Takeda family's ongoing formation adjustments and secretly admired, "Doctor Ochan is really fierce.
!If I were in his position, I would certainly not be able to help but eliminate Tokugawa Ieyasu first and eat the fat in my mouth first,
We won’t have to go to Longwangshu. Before Hamamatsu City was captured, we thought about wiping out Yuqiu’s army as well.”
"That's why I can only defend but not attack. Maybe I'm too steady." Yu Qiuping turned his horse's head and commanded the troops to retreat quickly, while secretly sighing, "Doctor Dashan is Doctor Dashan after all.
It’s not at the same level as my command level.”
"But it's okay." Yu Qiuping thought of this and cheered himself up as if to comfort himself, "Although my level is far worse than that of the big meal doctor, I have the aura of history and I have made plans in advance."
The only thing that worries Yu Qiuping is the physical strength of Yu Qiuping's army. They traveled all the way from Hanoi over the mountains and ridges and struggled for a month. If it were an ordinary army, let alone fighting at this moment, they would be exhausted, that is,
The Amaqiu Army is still holding up, but its combat effectiveness must be compromised. However, the Takeda Army has also been marching and fighting for a long time, and they just had a big battle with the Tokugawa family, so they must not have much physical strength.
As Hosayagi Bei, Naru Dysprosium Bei, and Joban Bei's rear force changed to the front force and began to retreat to the west, the Akabei force led by Yamagata Masakai also followed closely and blocked the entrance of Ii Valley. Yu Qiupei urgently thought
He wanted to see the movements of the Takeda family's army, but due to the intelligence barrier formed by the presence of the Red Guards, Tanma could not go to investigate. So Yu Qiupei tried to send ninjas to the surrounding highlands to look down at the enemy's situation and take a look at Takeda
The family's army had already chased them somewhere. But to his surprise, a large number of elite ninjas from Toubori and Togakure were deployed on almost all nearby highlands and hills, firmly restricting Yu Qiupei's field of vision.
.Those ninjas occupied a strategic position, and Uchiha Aooka's ninjas attacked several times to no avail.
However, although Yu Qiupei could not directly see the situation of the Takeda family, Hamamatsu Castle, where Tokugawa Ieyasu was located, could be condescending and see clearly what the Takeda family was going to do. Therefore, Yu Qiupei sent people to light beacon smoke while retreating, and asked Tokugawa Ieyasu to
Kawa Ieyasu asked for intelligence assistance. Both Yu Qiupei and Tokugawa Ieyasu were from the Imagawa clan. The shapes and methods of the wolf smoke were similar, so it was not a problem to understand each other. However, after waiting for a long time, Yu Qiupei was surprised to find that Hama
In the direction of Songcheng, more than a dozen wisps of smoke were lit at once. Some said that the Takeda Army went north, some said that the Takeda Army moved to the west, some said that the Takeda Army moved to the south, some said that the Takeda Army moved to the east, and some said that the Takeda Army moved to the east.
The siege is being stepped up, some say that the Takeda Army is pursuing, some say that the Takeda Army is still far away, some say that the Takeda Army is already behind... Almost all possible situations of the Takeda Army have been reported
once.
"What is going on? Is Takechiyo's mind really filled with tempura?" Yu Qiuping was completely dumbfounded when he saw this.
"No, Your Highness. It's obvious that Dr. Daisen had known about the Imagawa clan's beacon in advance and recognized that His Highness's beacon was to seek intelligence assistance." Intelligence master Sanada Masayuki immediately made a judgment, "Doctor Ozen is worried that His Highness Tokugawa is in Imagawa."
The smoke rising in Matsu Castle would leak information about the Takeda family, but for the time being, it was impossible to control the entire city of Hamamatsu Castle immediately. Since there was no way to stop His Highness Tokugawa from rising the smoke, the great chef simply raised a dozen bunches of confusing smoke at the same time.
Let Your Highness not know which one is true."
"Good guy." Yu Qiuping gasped when he saw this, "Kibei, is there anything you can do?"
"It's Dr. Ozen's handiwork. It's a suffocating intelligence blockade." Sanada Masayuki heard this and shook his head with a wry smile. "What can I do? If my father is here, he might still be able to fight with Dr. Ozen.