Chapter 258: Moribe

"It's raining heavily, this is the hell weather." Kuemon sighed and complained. He was a light head of the Hibino family, and he followed the head of the family on the expedition in this battle, serving as a lookout on the front line. At the moment, he was vainly adjusting the position of the hat, hoping not to get his clothes wet.

"Kuemon, don't complain," another Ashigaru head Tai who came to investigate comforted, "Mino in May, which time won't it rain heavily?" โ€

"It's raining so hard, they're all hiding in tents to rest, so we're going to come out to investigate," Kuemon spat out, "What kind of reconnaissance!" Your Highness is really a lot of things! With such a heavy rain, I can't open my eyes, and my pants and shoes are so wet that they are like lead, who will attack! Those Owari guys aren't big fools! โ€

"Not necessarily," said Da Lang with a laugh, "Isn't that Oda Nobunaga a famous big fool?" I don't know why His Royal Highness the Third Elder of Dao wants to give Mino as a dowry! You..."

Suddenly, Da Langtai frowned, and his voice stopped abruptly, leaving only the noise of heavy rain pouring down.

"What's wrong? Da Lang Tai? Kuemon asked with some surprise, "Choking?" โ€

However, Tai Lang Tai did not reply to his words, but leaned down in some disbelief and put his ear to the ground. As soon as he saw this posture, Kuemon also understood what Darou wanted to do. He hurriedly fell to the ground and pressed his ears to the ground.

This tremor, this sound... Even in the midst of a storm, it is still legible.

"Enemy attack!" The two shouted in unison!

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Mori Kecheng and Shibata Katsuie, one left and one right, led their subordinates to brave the heavy rain and went straight to the Saito military camp in Moribe.

"Damn! With such heavy rain, these Owari guys have nothing wrong with their brains! Hibino Kiyomi, who received the scout's report, realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly ordered his subordinates to start assembling. It's just that the wind and rain are urgent, and it is not easy to gather troops in the camp. The ashigaru people didn't expect that there would be a war on such a rainy day, so they hurriedly braved the heavy rain to line up. The noisy sound of rain, the fine rain fog, and the chaotic crowd caused a huge disarray in the Saito family's communication system. On a rainstorm with poor visibility, it was difficult for the heralds to find who they were responsible for notifying. The 600-day Hino warriors closest to the front line in the southeast had completed their formation, while the ashigaru men on the northwest had yet to figure out what was going on.

At the same time, Mori Kasei's 200 soldiers and Shibata Katsuie's 400 soldiers had also arrived at the outskirts of the Saito family's camp and launched an attack on the Saito army, which had finished arraying out of the village. Mori Kasei and Shibata Katsuie, one south and one north, pounced on the Hibino family's front like a giant pincer. In order to deal with the two, Hibino Kiyomi also divided the 600 soldiers who had completed the formation in half to resist the attacks of Mori Konari and Shibata Katsuie.

Relying on the superiority in troops, the Hibino family troops who defended Mori Kecheng's side barely completed the detour of the Mori family's troops from both sides, forcing Mori Kecheng to retreat and regroup. However, the situation on the other side is not optimistic. Relying on his own martial arts, Yamaji Masayu, a retainer of the Shibata family, led his subordinates into the formation of the Hibino family. When Shibata Katsuie discovered the progress made by his subordinates, he immediately led a large number of troops into the vicinity of the gap, constantly expanding the scope of the breakthrough. Hibino Kiyomi was afraid that the battle line would break, so he had to keep retreating, and at the same time he added the 100 soldiers he had just assembled into his left flank, and it was still difficult to change the situation of losing and retreating. The rain poured down, and the movements of both armies became relatively sluggish.

Just when the situation was deadlocked, the remaining 300 soldiers of the Hibino family completed the assembly. Hibino Kiyomi ordered the Adachi Rokubei to personally lead the team, pass through the gap in the middle of his two wings, cut the connection between Shibata Katsuie and Mori Kasei, and then outflank the two troops from the flank and rear.

At the same time, more than 200 Tokiwa soldiers led by Yu Qiuping, who was the second formation of the Oda family, also rushed to the battlefield. Sensing Hibino Kiyomi's intentions, Yu Qiupei immediately ordered Tokiwa to run forward, fill the battle line, and cover the flanks of Mori Kasei and Shibata Katsuie.

"The whole army is determined!" After rushing to the established position before the troops of the Hibino family, Yu Qiuping immediately asked his subordinates to line up on the spot, and Adachi Liubei, who was caught off guard by rushing up to fight Yu Qiuping, watched in surprise as Chang Panbei completed the formation through a series of dazzling formation changes.

"In the heavy rain, you can line up so quickly..."Adachi Rokubei stared at the paper red leaves fluttering in the rain on Tsunebanbei's head, and couldn't hide his surprise.

"That's only it!" Adachi Rokubei snorted coldly, he pulled out the long sword at his waist, and strode to the front of the line, "Brothers! Follow me! โ€

Standing at the front of Tokiwabei's team was a platoon of archers led by Charlie. In heavy rain, the power of the bow and arrow was greatly weakened. They fired two flat shots in a row, but they failed to inflict many casualties on the enemy and hurriedly retreated to the rear of the formation.

The Hibino army roared and rushed towards the spear forest of Tokiwabi in the face of the heavy rain, and as the distance between the two armies continued to approach, Tokiwabei's spears were also leveled in unison. The first row crouched, and the second row poked out its spears. With a "stab" command, two rows of silver snakes suddenly spit out the letter together, taking dozens of lives in an instant. However, this Hibino family's army was not a fish belly army like the Hao Coalition Army, but the personal guard that Hibino Kiyomi relied on to become the Ichiba of Nishimino, and they also stabbed a dozen Ashigaru of Tokiwa at the same time, and many of them dodged the deadly thrust with nimble dodges and blocks.

After the first round of stabs, Tokiwa in the first row quickly got up and began to fight the rushing Hibino army. While many of the Hibino Ashigaru who had already gotten close were rejoicing that they had entered the range where the spear could not be used flexibly, the second row of Ashigaru's life-threatening spears continued to stab through the cracks of the first row, dealing a fatal blow to the ashigaru who had not yet had time to perform hand-to-hand combat.

The two armies were entangled in each other, stabbing, slashing, parrying, and dodging each other, and swords, guns, swords, and halberds constantly collided. But it's clear that Tokiwabi's Ashigaru has the upper hand. Not only are they strong and strong, but they also cooperate with each other very tacitly, and they also have a momentum of looking at death as home, and they look like veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time. On the other hand, on the side of Hibino, although they can also fight habitually, they are suppressed by Tokiwabi in terms of momentum, and it is difficult to break Tokibanbei's gun array.

Seeing that the battle situation was unfavorable, Adachi Rokubei was also a little anxious. He personally carried his knife into battle, and after dodging the two spears that stabbed him sideways, he cut off the two spears with his backhand. He jumped forward with a lunge, and was about to slash at the two ashigaras with his sword, when the ashigaras in the second row stabbed out their guns, forcing him back several steps. And the two Ashigaru who lost their weapons in the first row also immediately switched places with the people in the back row, and the entire formation still did not loosen.

"Damn!" Adachi Rokubei let out a low roar and lunged forward, stabbing the spear in his hand again with the three ashigaru who were watching him in the first row. Adachi Rokubei saw the opportunity, and leaped forward, rolling forward on the spot, and rolled from under the straight spear to the three feet of the three feet. He took advantage of the momentum to slash down the ashigaru in the center with a backhand, and then rushed into the spear formation regardless of it. The ashigaru of the second row hurriedly stabbed his spear at him, but he blocked it with a sword. Adachi Rokubei took advantage of the situation to make a big loop, directly flew the spear high, and then kicked down the ashigaru in front of him. Just before the surrounding ashigaru rushed to encircle him, he first slashed down the surrounding ashigaru with two sharp swords, and led the subordinates behind him to attack the spear formation, and then rushed forward again, killing the ashigaru in the third row.

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"It's so strong!" Yu Qiuhei squinted in the heavy rain and watched the Adachi Rokubei wreak havoc in his formation. In normal times, he could have waited for the Ashigaru leaders to react on their own and repel the enemy forces that had entered the formation. But this time the enemy seems to be extraordinary, "Nabenosuke! You're on! Give him some color and see! โ€

After Yuqiu Ping clicked on Honda Tadashi's name, Honda Tadakatsu, who had long been eager to try, immediately drew his sword in his hand and rushed towards Adachi Rokubei. Adachi Rokubei was already fighting with three spear ashigaru, but when he saw Honda Tadakatsu menacing, he hurriedly jumped backwards and jumped into a safe area. He glanced at Honda Tadakatsu with some surprise, obviously just a kid in his early teens, and he actually had such a powerful murderous aura! And unlike the rest of Tokiwa, Honda Tadashikatsu was the only one of the hundreds who didn't have a momiji leaf on his helmet. Adachi Rokubei snorted coldly and glanced at Honda Tadakatsu with disdain. Honda Tadakatsu didn't say a word, leading the surrounding Tokiwa to start a counterattack towards the gap.

After taking a few breaths, Adachi Rokubei immediately roared and met him, slashing at Honda Tadakatsu. Honda Tadakatsu knew that his strength might not be too strong, and he resisted the blow with both hands horizontally holding the knife. Then he frowned, and with a sharp force, a huge force poured into the knife, blocking the Adachi Rokubei's sword.

"Good boy!" Adachi Rokubei was a little surprised. He is a well-known Hercules in Mino, and he can only compete with this hairy boy in terms of strength.

At this moment, the Tsukiwa Guards stabbed the two Adachi Rokubei Guards one after another, and their fall directly exposed the Adachi Rokubei to the encirclement of Tsukiwa Bei. A Tsukiwa stabbed Adachi Rokubei in the ribs with a spear, and the Adachi Rokubei, who was entangled by Honda Tadakatsu, was caught off guard and was about to be stabbed.

"Stop!"

Honda Tadakatsu suddenly burst out with a low roar, which frightened that Tsukiwa Ashigaru hurriedly stopped what he was doing and saved Adachi Rokubei's life.

"This is a duel between samurai," Honda Tadakatsu said coldly, "just attack, don't interfere here!" โ€

Watching the army of Tokiwa Bishishi, who was surrounded around him, turn around and attack the Hibino family, Adachi Rokubei looked at the young man in front of him with some admiration.

"Boy! Balls! Adachi Rokubei complimented, "Come!" โ€

Honda Tadakatsu didn't say much, he slammed the knife in his right hand and slashed it sideways, and Adachi Rokubei blocked it with both knives in both hands, and after eating this blow, he was about to block Honda Tadakatsu's knife with all his might. But he didn't want Honda Tadashi to withdraw his strength suddenly, Adachi Rokubei pounced, and there was a flaw in his body, and Honda Tadashi immediately stabbed at the door with a knife. Adachi Rokubei retreated again and again to block, who would have thought that Honda Tadakatsu would turn the stab into a slash again, and slammed a slash. The blade bumped against Adachi Rokubei's blade all the way down, and slashed heavily at the wrist of Adachi Rokubei's left hand, which was holding the knife, and cut the wrist into a bloody blur at once. Adachi Rokubei was briefly distracted by the pain, and was immediately seized by Honda Tadakatsu, who slashed his neck with a knife and died with a whimper.

"The Adachi Rokubei has been taken by our army!" Nakahide Mizensaki, who was not far away, had already brewed this sentence and shouted excitedly. The momentum of Tokiwa is like a rainbow, and the breakthrough that the Hibino army has just opened with great difficulty has also been resealed. Having lost the Adachi Rokubei, they were demoralized and leaderless, and were defeated by Tokiwa's spear array.

Watching the central front continue to collapse and Ai General Adachi Rokubei being begged to death, Hibino Kiyomi can no longer sit still. He personally rushed to a small hill on the front line to supervise the formation, less than twenty meters from the front line where the two armies were fighting. However, before he could give his first command, a feathered arrow burst through the air and struck him in the chest. He spat blood from his mouth and fell straight down.

Twenty meters away, standing on such a striking target, for Charlie, it was just a bag to pick up things.

The main general was hit by an arrow, and the first fierce general was in battle, and the morale of the Hibino army was completely lost. After a few hasty resistances, they were broken through the flank by Shibata Katsuie, and the injured Hibino Kiyomi was also captured by Shibata Katsuie. Seeing that the Japanese army, which had no chance of victory, retreated like a tide, a large part of the people were involved in the camp, and the three villages in front of them were immediately lost. Nagai Wei'an, who was reorganizing his troops and preparing for support, was caught off guard and had to retreat into the main village for defense. However, in the wind and rain, the camp was in chaos, and it was difficult to rectify it. When many people saw the defeated soldiers of the Hibino family scattering and fleeing, they all thought that the defeat was decided, and the people were panicked. There were even many troops directly under the Saito family who retreated to Inabayama Castle on their own because they could not contact the commander Nagai Guardan.

When Oda Nobunaga's main team arrived on the battlefield, the troops of the Shibata family and the Mori family immediately made a posture of encircling the main village. Fearing to be surrounded, Nagai Guard hurriedly retreated from the main village. Unfortunately, during the retreat, he himself unfortunately lost his horse and was pursued by Saxie Ryoyuki, who was chasing after him. The remnants of the Saito family scattered like birds and beasts, and fled in the wilderness. Due to the heavy rain that blocked the view and the unfamiliarity with the terrain, the Oda family abandoned the pursuit, allowing most of the Saito family to escape.