"I'm sorry to get you involved, Mitsuhide." Yu Qiuping commanded Chang Panbei to adjust the formation, preparing to go to the north to meet Tokugawa Ieyasu, and at the same time bowed his hand to Akechi Mitsuhide very apologetically, "Please also ask Mitsuhide to retreat first, the soldiers are in danger." ”

"Momiji, where are you talking about this?" Wise Mitsuhide frowned when he heard this, "Don't you want to fight side by side with me?" ”

"Of course not." Yu Qiuping shook his head again and again, for fear that Akechi Mitsuhide would misunderstand, "It's just that I'm going to reinforce His Royal Highness Tokugawa, because His Highness Tokugawa is a good friend I've known for more than ten years, and out of this friendship, I will take a huge risk to save him." Mitsuhide and His Royal Highness Tokugawa are probably meeting for the first time, so there's no need to take such a big risk. ”

"His Royal Highness Tokugawa is our ally, and that's enough." Akechi Mitsuhide seemed to be quite dissatisfied with Yu Qiuping's statement, turned his head a little angrily, and said in a deep voice, "Farewell, Momiji." It is not your turn to command how my reserve team acts. ”

Looking at the back of Wise Mitsuhide leaving directly, Yu Qiuping suddenly smiled with some relief.

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After the whole army had a brief lunch, Yu Qiuping immediately led Chang Panbei to leave the main camp and maneuver towards the north of Changfa Temple. Akechi Mitsuhide, on the other hand, took over from Tokiwa and entered the main defense to prevent the resurgent Asai Army from cutting off their retreat. With only 800 soldiers in his hands, Akechi Mitsuhide was no match for the Asai army at all, so Yuakihei had to hurry to get Tokugawa Ieyasu back before Akechi Mitsuhide arrived.

When Yu Qiuping arrived at the Tokugawa family's position, the Tokugawa army had reached the point of exhaustion. With less than 2,000 soldiers, they arrived at the Asakura family for nearly two hours, with more than 8,000 soldiers. The Asakura army had no expectation that the Tokugawa army would put up such a stubborn resistance—why did they need to carry four times their own forces for the sake of the alliance? However, the straight Mikawa samurai didn't care so much, and they desperately resisted. Despite the narrowness of the official roads and the complexity of the terrain, the Tokugawa army was outflanked by the Asakura family from both flanks. In order to cover the flank, Tokugawa Ieyasu had to spread his rear and reserves towards the two flanks, and there were no troops available in his hands, and he was retreating in disarray.

Earlier, when Oda Nobunaga's horse seal was evacuated to the southwest, the retainers of the Tokugawa family were in an uproar - they all thought that the Oda army was going to abandon the friendly army and retreat. However, in a field of flags surging westward, the retrograde maple bird and horse print stood out. The Tokugawa army, which was already on the verge of collapse, instantly had the courage to support it.

"Quick, go tell His Highness Tokugawa, let him evacuate quickly, and I'll stop the Asakura army for him!" Yu Qiuping immediately asked Kohata Jiesheng to personally go over and give the order, "Let the Tokugawa army move quickly!" Your Highness Wise can't wait too long! ”

After receiving Yu Qiuping's request, Tokugawa Ieyasu left his horseback samurai to go to the rear, and Ashigaru quickly retreated backwards. Seeing this, the Asakura army immediately pressed the whole army and wanted to pursue, but found that Chang Panbei had killed him from the oblique stab. Asakura Keitsune had no choice but to order the troops to turn to the enemy, and the Tokugawa family took the opportunity to escape.

"Momiji, thank you!" After the Tokugawa army and the Asakura family broke away, Tokugawa Ieyasu personally rode his horse to Tokiwabei's position to thank him, "If it weren't for Tokibanbei, I guess I would have been in a different place by now!" ”

"Thank you, we have been friends for more than ten years, and we should help each other." Yu Qiuping stretched out his hand to him, and Tokugawa Ieyasu was stunned for a moment, thinking that Yu Qiuping was going to shake hands, so he also stretched out a hand in a daze. Yu Qiuping looked at him a little restrained, couldn't help laughing, and then waved his hand and high-fived him.

"The territory is bigger, and the shelves are not small." Yu Qiuping smiled and teased, "You don't even want to high-five your good brother?" ”

"How could it be, Momiji laughed." Tokugawa Ieyasu also laughed when he heard this, "It's just that I didn't expect the Momiji Territory to become bigger, but it's still as straightforward as before." ”

"Alright, don't be polite here, retreat quickly." Yu Qiuping patted Tokugawa Ieyasu on the shoulder, "His Royal Highness Akechi won't be able to support it for long. ”

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Akechi Mitsuhide has never been known for his battle formation command, and in the face of a strong general like Asai Nagamasa, it is naturally difficult to resist. By the time Tokugawa Ieyasu withdrew into the main camp of Chohoji, the east gate of the main camp had already been broken. Yu Qiuping had no choice but to lead Chang Panbei to bypass from the west side of the main formation and walk on the road to Kuchiki Valley. And after Akechi Mitsuhide saw that Tokiwabi was also evacuating, he immediately led his troops to evacuate from the main camp and followed in the footsteps of the Tokugawa army and Tokiwabi.

The Asai Army and the Asakura Army smoothly combined their forces and pursued along the retreating route of the Oritoku coalition army. However, on the left side of the west shore of Lake Biwa is the impassable hills and mountains, and on the right side is the vast waters of Lake Biwa. In addition, the land on the west shore of Lake Biwa is not small from the height of the lake, and it is a somewhat steep cliff, and it is impossible to wade through it. Therefore, as long as Akechi Mitsuhide chokes the narrow road and fights and retreats, the Asai-Asakura coalition has a huge force but it is useless.

However, Yu Qiuping was a little uneasy about Akechi Mitsuhide's temporary scheduling. Akechi Mitsuhide has been engaged in civilian work for so many years, and it has only been nearly three years since he began to command the army, so it is inevitable that he will be a little busy when encountering such an occasion. If the army of Akechi Mitsuhide collapses on this narrow official road, the situation of the rout and revolt will happen again. So, Yu Qiuping called Tokugawa Ieyasu, who had no command pressure, and the two rode their horses to the Akechi Mitsuhide formation, intending to help him command.

Before leaving, Yu Qiuping handed over his saber Chidori to Shigeharu Takenaka, and he commanded Tsukiwa Bei on his behalf.

Akechi Mitsuhide is not a conceited person, on the contrary, he is modest and gentle. If Yuakihei and Tokugawa Ieyasu had come to Shibata Katsuie's main camp and asked for help with his command, Shibata Katsuie would definitely have driven them all out in a thunderous rage. And Akechi Mitsuhide didn't have any dissatisfaction, but naturally accepted the help of the two.

Yu Qiuping personally took over the command responsibility from Akechi Mitsuhide, and immediately adjusted the originally somewhat scattered formation in an orderly manner, took care of each other, and covered each other to retreat in turn. And Tokugawa Ieyasu personally went to the front line to teach the generals and ashigaru generals who were commanding, and let them act according to Yu Qiuping's deployment.

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At this moment, Yu Qiuhei was standing on a rock on the edge of a cliff on the west shore of Lake Biwa with Akechi Mitsuhide, looking at the battle situation condescendingly. As the terrain became narrower and narrower, the pressure on Akechi Mitsuhide's troops became less and less, and it seemed that the retreat would be successful. When the troops have withdrawn from this cliff, Akechi Mitsuhide and Yu Qiuping will ride their horses away and retreat to the next high point to continue commanding.

"Thank you Momiji and Your Highness Tokugawa," Akechi Mitsuhide also sighed with emotion when he saw this, "When it comes to the command of the battle formation, I am indeed inferior to the two!" ”

"Oh? Mitsuso? Don't get mad at me? Yu Qiuping asked in surprise when he saw Wise Guangxiu's kind tone.

"Why should the husband care about words?" Akechi Mitsuhide smiled when he heard this, but his soft voice destined his smile to always be that kind of elegant smile, and not as heroic as Oda Nobunaga, "Momiji is also dedicated to his companions, how can I be harsh?" ”

"Is that so?" Yu Qiuping smiled and responded, and suddenly felt the sound of the wind in his ears. Before he could react, Akechi Mitsuhide, who was standing to his right, suddenly let out an exclamation, and the sound of sharp metal clashing also sounded on Yu Qiuping's side.

Yu Qiuping turned his head to the right blankly, and time seemed to freeze at that moment. A sharp arrow plunged straight into Akechi Mitsuhide's armor, not knowing if it had penetrated. The arrow flew so fast and with such force that only an archer of Charlie's calibre could shoot an arrow of this strength. Looking at the direction of the tail of the arrow, there is a high probability that it is the shooter of the Asakura family. That arrow was either aimed at Yu Qiuping or Wise Mitsuhide, and if it was Yu Qiuping who was hit by the arrow, it was estimated that it would not be spared.

And Akechi Mitsuhide was already staggering to the right because of the huge impact of the arrow, and a few steps to the right was Lake Biwa, which was nearly five or six meters under the cliff!

Yu Qiuping almost instinctively wanted to reach out to pull Akechi Mitsuhide, but he didn't pull it the first time. Akechi Mitsuhide had already taken two steps back in a row, and his body had lost its center of gravity and fell straight to the edge of the cliff! Yu Qiuping rushed over with an arrow step, grabbed Akechi Mitsuhide's wrist, and was trying to pull Akechi Mitsuhide back, but he didn't want to slip under his feet, so he fell over and rolled off the cliff with Akechi Mitsuhide!

Moments later, Akihei Rain and Mitsuhide Akechi both fell into the waters of Lake Biwa. Yu Qiuping only felt a huge impact on his body in an instant, which made his cheeks hurt, the sound of falling water also sounded in his ears, and the touch of the cold lake water also spread throughout his body in an instant. Since he and Akechi Mitsuhide were both dressed in heavy feet, they had to fall from such a high place and sank several meters under the water at once. Yu Qiuping didn't react for the first time, and choked on a mouthful of water.

However, as a person with a good water nature, Yu Qiuping did not panic. He held his breath, three times and five divided by two, and threw away all the mustaches on his body, what do boots affect swimming, and he even pulled the red leaf shawl on his body with his hand. However, the familiar touch reminded him of the time when the girl who did not know how to work was hiding in the cabin and embroidering birthday presents for him, and after a moment of hesitation, he untied his shawl and stuffed it into his arms.

He slammed his legs into a breaststroke leg and slid his hands together, swimming quickly above the water, coughing a few times and steadying his breathing, only to find that Akechi Mitsuhide had not swam up. He then took another deep breath, and a fierce man stabbed down, and at a glance he saw Akechi Mitsuhide. He didn't seem to know how to swim at all, and was struggling in vain with his clumsy armor, his body sinking deeper and lower, and bubbles constantly leaking out of his mouth.