Chapter 166: Wushuang

At three o'clock, Tokiwa had already assembled, and immediately headed east, following Asahina's team to attack the rearguard of the Okabe family. When Yu Qiupei led nearly 600 soldiers and cavalry to the Okabe family's camp at the end of the river, Asahina Taiheng had already taken 400 soldiers and the rearguard left in the camp by the Okabe family to fight. The rearguard of the Okabe family seems to have about 400 soldiers, which is a quarter of the strength of the Okabe family.

Looking into the distance, you can see that several bridges over the Tsumasa River have been crowded by the troops of the Okabe family crossing the river. It seems that a large number of troops have crossed the Tsumasa River and are building improvised fortifications on the east bank. In addition to the bridge, the Okabe family seemed to have quietly built a lot of bamboo rafts yesterday by relying on the bamboo forest on the edge of the camp, and at this moment they were also dragged to the Ozuma River, transporting troops back and forth. The main force of the Okabe family was waiting on the east side of the camp, on the west bank of the Ezuma River, waiting to cross the river.

The so-called half-crossing attack in the art of war is to fight these troops who have not yet completed the crossing of the river. This is because when crossing a river, the formation and organization of the troops will inevitably be disrupted, and the troops that have not yet been able to regain their formation and command are often vulnerable. Coupled with the fact that the backwater array is constantly mobilized, there is no way back, and the half-crossing attack often achieves excellent results.

"Join the fight now!" Yu Qiuping ordered, "Zijing, Ziping, Yaqisuke, take the platoon of the three of you, and immediately replenish to the army of Lord Asahina, and accept his moderation!" "Yu Qiupei found that Asahina Taiheng seemed to be a little short of troops, and immediately sent the troops of Mizuatom Jing, Mizutohei and Kobayakawa Yashisuke. He himself moved with the rest of his men towards the left flank towards Bina Taehyung, intending to attack the rearguard of the Okabe family from the flank.

When the Okabe family sensed Yu Qiuping's intentions, they immediately stepped up the speed of crossing the river. At the same time, the rearguard troops also began to shrink their defensive lines, gradually giving up their large battalions and retreating towards the river. Thus preventing the camp from being caught by the rain from the side.

However, just as Yu Qiuping was making great strides, Asahina Taehyung, who was on the frontal battlefield, suddenly stopped. Immediately afterwards, the Asahina troops, who had already attacked the Okabe family's main camp, quickly retreated. Before Yuqiuping could send someone to ask why Asahina Taehyung had suddenly retreated, the fire was burning rapidly in the camp, and the smoke was billowing out, and it looked like a fire that had been arranged a long time ago.

If it weren't for Asahina Taehyung's early discovery, it is estimated that many people from the Asahina family would have been trapped in the fire.

Okabe Motonobu's operation made Yu Qiuping impressed, obviously the flammable materials in these camps were arranged yesterday. With this burn, the progress made in Asahina's hard-fought attack was in vain, buying the Okabe family a lot of time. The official road line that attacked Okabe's house head-on was also blocked by fire, and the pursuing troops had to take a detour, which caused a lot of trouble for the attackers.

After the Asahina family retreated temporarily, Yu Qiuping, who was alone in the depths, did not dare to advance too much, because there were still many troops from the Okabe family on the bank of the river. It was only after Asahina Taihyung regrouped and began to attack the Okabe family from the right that Akihei resumed the offensive again - it was already two o'clock in the morning, and more than half of the Okabe family's troops had withdrawn to the east bank. And on the east bank, the Okabe Army is also trying to regroup.

However, there was not much room left for Yu Qiuping to attack. The passage between the fire and the Tsuma River was unusually narrow and hilly, and the Okabe family only sent more than 200 soldiers to block the road. Even if Yu Qiuping had a double advantage in the number of soldiers, it was still difficult to deploy troops. Yu Qiuping wanted to test the opponent's combat effectiveness, so he sent two platoons of recruits to attack, but with little success.

The guard of the Okabe family who stayed behind is obviously the elite of the Okabe family, and it seems that the flag is the direct force of the Okabe family. They relied on the advantage of the terrain and the fire of their own archers to block the attack of Tokiwabei. Under the influence of the complex terrain and the enemy's rain of arrows, the recruits were unable to maintain a complete formation, and the Qi Thorn, which Tokiwa was proud of, could not be used. And these recruits who lack combat effectiveness, because the training focuses on discipline, are far inferior to these elite soldiers of the Okabe family in terms of personal martial arts. In the chaotic battle, he was beaten by Okabe Ieshigaru and stopped moving an inch. If it weren't for the spirit and spirit that had been tempered by the usual rigorous training, I am afraid that it would not be able to compete with the troops of the Okabe family at all.

"It's too late, you have to hurry!" Yu Qiuping hurriedly said: "An Cheng! Victory! You go to the front and replace those two platoons of recruits! Bear the casualties and force the breakthrough! Punch through the opponent's position! ”

Yasunari Fukushima and Katsumasa Yoshioka made immediate progress after the old squad who had been in battle since Zhili Castle followed Yu Qiuhei into battle. Charlie's archers Yu Qiuping moved to several nearby hills to suppress the enemy's positions. And Fukushima Yasunari and Yoshioka Katsumasa rushed forward with the Momiji soldiers. Under the pressure of Charlie, the archers of the opposing side had to try to shoot at the archers of Tokiwabei, which reduced the pressure on the frontal battlefield.

Chang Banbei endured the flying feather arrows, and as long as the ashigaru in the middle was not shot, he silently broke the shaft of the arrow, and continued to follow the team without saying a word. Even if you are occasionally shot in the cheek or thigh and are forced to fall, the person behind you will immediately fill in the position. The well-dressed ashigaru walked neatly, ignoring the hills and lowlands in front of them, and pressed towards the Okabe family front like a torrent of steel.

After a while, the veterans of Tokiwa had already marched to the front of the Okabe family formation, and without saying a word, they were just stabbing in the face! The samurai of the Okabe family and the brave Ashigaru stepped forward to fight back, and although they also killed and injured many Ashigaru of Tokiwabi, they were stabbed down one after another. The feet of the Okabe family were slightly shaken, but Tokiwa was unequivocal, and stabbed towards the Okabe family's position with his guns indiscriminately. The morale of the Okabe family was stagnant, but they quickly recovered and formed a dense formation to resist the advance of the gun formation of Tokiwa.

Although Tokiwanbei's heroic and good fighting suppressed the troops of the Okabe family, the elite soldiers of the Okabe family were not trivial, and the battle line once again fell into a stalemate.

"This situation may require a strong breakthrough point to open the situation." Seeing the solemn color of Yuqiu, Tianye Jingde suggested in a low voice.

"What I said is that such a chaotic war situation still relies on samurai with outstanding personal martial arts." Yu Qiuping was stunned for a moment, and looked at Honda Tadakatsu, who was already eager to try.

"Nabe Nosuke, you haven't done it since you took it, right?" Yu Qiuping asked loudly.

"Back to Your Highness! Yes! Honda Tadakatsu stiffened his waist sharply, stretched out a majestic voice, and shouted in a low voice.

"Then, go and prove your martial arts!" Yu Qiuping raised his hand and pointed to the position of the Okabe family opposite, "Nabenosuke, no." Honda Tadashi wins! Give you a quarter of an hour to break through the opponent's position for me! ”

"Yes!" Honda Tadakatsu was still a child after all, and replied with some excitement. This is the first time he has gone into battle to kill the enemy after his subduation! It can also be called the official beginning of his military career.

"Everyone resist and buy time for our father-in-law!" The general of the Okabe family, who was in charge of the broken back, continued to cheer up his subordinates and tried to maintain the defensive line. And he knew that his colleagues on the other side must be fighting hard. Now, the evacuation of the Okabe family has been completed, and only the last group of auxiliaries and baggage have not been withdrawn. They just have to hold on a little longer!

"These red leaf soldiers are really strong! hit it head-on, and the momentum that day was not afraid of the ground! Digging Tail Sunai looked at Chang Panbei's ferocious attack, and scolded in a low voice, "No wonder you have the confidence to betray the Governor's Palace!" ”

The offensive of Chang Panbei just now caused them great trouble. Originally, it was thought that such a narrow terrain and complex terrain would be enough for them to resist for a long time. Who would have thought that Chang Panbei would completely suppress his troops at once. Simply Chang Panbei could not deploy the troops, and put more people into the attack, and they could still survive.

"In any case, the situation is stable." "Hold on for a while, and then you can start retreating... Nani! ”

A smile suddenly froze on his face, and his eyes widened.

I saw a young man single-handedly, with some incredible equestrian skills, moving between the hills. As soon as he put his legs in the belly of the horse, the horse leaped high, and at the same time he took the reins to the side, and the horse leaped up and landed on a small mound in the middle of the army. He then urged the horse again and slammed into Okabe's side. Several ashigaru in the front row of the Okabe family turned their spears towards the war spurs, trying to stop Honda Tadakatsu's advance. Who would have thought that Honda Tadakatsu slammed on the horse's back, and his body soared, his legs were folded, and he squatted steadily on the horse's back.

The next moment, the moment the spear stabbed the horse, the horse let out a long howl in pain, and the man stood up. Seeing that he was about to get off his horse, Honda Tadakatsu took advantage of his inertia to jump hard, and the whole person rose from the horse's back and appeared above the many Okabe Ashigaru.

The ashigaru looked up at a loss, only to see Honda Tadakatsu leaping high, briefly obscuring the sun's rays. In vain, they tried to pull out the spear that had pierced the horse's belly, but it was too late.

A moment later, the body of the black armor swooped down on them, and the light of the sun reappeared from above and down, dazzling their eyes. Vaguely, I could only see this general, and he didn't have red leaves like the hundreds of people in Chang Panbei.

Honda Tadakatsu continued the inertia of falling, drew his knife in his hand, and turned over with a swirling slash, and the four people who were below him were instantly cut down. He rolled forward on the spot to unload the power of the fall, ran a few steps in a row by inertia, and slashed three Okabe family ashigaru by surprise in a row.

Honda Tadakatsu raised his head and glanced at it contemptuously, and found the commander's banner of the Okabe family reserve team. He held a katana in his right hand, and in his left hand, he snatched a spear from a dead ashigaru and held it in his hand. He straightened up and rushed straight towards the flag.

The Okabe family on both sides hurried to besiege Honda Tadashikatsu, but was taken the opportunity to break through by the frontal Joban Ashigaru, and the entire formation was thrown into a mess. However, no matter what Ashigaru came to stop, it was not a combination of enemies that Honda had won. Obviously he was only a teenager, but he was as brave as the gods came again, fighting a bloody way in the array of ten thousand armies. His footsteps never stopped, and all those who stood in his way were cut off at his feet.

He rushed all the way to the banner, and nearly a dozen samurai stood between him and Tsuruo-juku. Honda Tadakatsu's face was still full of disdain, and then he rushed forward, stopping abruptly in front of the samurai, and flung the spear in his hand like a javelin with his left hand. The spear stabbed out like a sharp arrow, and he felt a flash in front of his eyes, and then a sharp pain came from his chest, and hot liquid gushed out of his throat, and a fishy sweet smell rushed to his nose. Before he could realize what was happening, he vomited blood and collapsed unconscious.

"You! You! After a moment of stunnedness, the nearly ten samurai went madly at Honda Tadakatsu. Honda Tadakatsu's face was still as calm as water, and he greeted him without hesitation.

When the surrounding Okabe family Ashigaru realized that the Tsuruo Sukuai had been beheaded, he hurriedly surrounded the flagpole. I saw that around the banner where there were more than a dozen people just now, only a black-clothed young man covered in blood was left standing there, and more than a dozen corpses were lying around him.

The boy glanced disdainfully at the dozens of ashigaru around him, and silently put the blood-stained katana into his sheath, not paying any attention to the dozens of ashigaru. He walked slowly under the flag, held the flagpole with one hand, and with a slight effort, he pushed the flagpole in half.

The battlefield fell silent suddenly.

Only then did they realize that the young man, who had just been like a bamboo, had killed dozens of ashigaru and courted their general. With the power of one person, the whole army was swept away. The dozen or so corpses that were still bleeding at his feet were their adults not long ago. Just a moment later, they all fell.

It's called a ride.

Surrounding Honda's Tadahatakatsu Okabe army, no one dared to make any action.

It was a kind of shock and silence of the mortals in heaven and earth when the gods descended on the mortal world.

A moment later, the shouts of the general attack of Tokiwa Ashigaru rang out. The weapons in the hands of the Okabe family, who woke up from a dream, fell to the ground one after another. His body was constantly trembling, and he was in a cold sweat, looking at the black-armored young man covered in blood. Look at the samurai who fought dozens of people in just a quarter of an hour.

The ashigaru people on the periphery fled in a hurry, and none of the dozens of ashigaru who surrounded Honda Tadakatsu could move their steps, just staring at the black-armored young man blankly, shocked by the indifferent murderous aura.

The surrounding Tokiwa Bei Ashigaru completely destroyed Okabe's defense line, shouting and killing: "Those who kneel on the ground and ask for surrender will not be killed!" ”

One ashigaru, at the moment when he looked at Honda Tadakatsu, his legs suddenly went limp, and he suddenly knelt on the ground.

It is difficult for them to take their own steps, and they cannot escape a single step. His legs trembled, and he couldn't stop kneeling and begging for mercy. It was not the awe of authority and power that human beings inherited, but the innate fear of unrivaled beasts, inherited from the ancestral memories of unarmed primitive people.

Those dozens of ashigaru, when Honda Tadashi looked around, were like dominoes, one after another, kneeling on the ground and hanging their heads.

Facing the center of the battlefield, where Honda Tadashi was.

Bow down to the world's unparalleled!