"Your Highness! This... There is a change in plans," Naoe Tadahei hurriedly asked Yu Qiuping, "What is Your Highness's plan?" ”

"I can't contact His Highness Sena here!" Yu Qiuping swallowed, "God knows that this Oda Nobunaga actually hit his head on it." After that, the commander on that side can only ask His Royal Highness Sena to decide. ”

"Herald! Stay hidden and don't act rashly! Yu Qiuping said in a low voice, "Continue to face northwest, and use the side to face the direction of the Oda army." ”

On the other side of the hill, Sena Shitoshi commanded his subordinates and pushed the palanquin and horse seal forward to the top of the slope. The surrounding ashigaru was surrounded by cover.

Before five o'clock, Tian Le was on the hills on the east side of the narrow room. The Oda Army, which was in the central low-lying area, was attacking Imagawa Yoshimoto Masin at the top of the hills to the east, under the leadership of the Mother Cloth and the Horse Warriors. Because of the large number of rocks and shrubs on the slopes, it was not easy for horses to walk, so the Oda family's mothers and stables left their horses under the hills, dismounted and fought on foot, and rushed up the hills with a shout. The other group, led by Shibata Katsuie, blocked the counterattack of the Imagawa army, which was less than 1,000 in the low-lying area under the hills.

The Sena archers on the hills condescendingly sprayed fire, causing great difficulties for the Oda army attacking on the back.

Sasa Naruma is fighting on the front line at the moment. In the two years since his brother was taken by Yu Qiuping's subordinates, he has been holding his breath against the Imagawa family, and he can't wait to get revenge immediately. However, in last year's Battle of Zenshoji Temple, he was again defeated by Yu Qiuping. Because of his reckless attack, the Sakuma family and the Sasa family were each confiscated part of their land. This couldn't help but make his resentment towards the Imagawa family even more intense.

This time the barrel narrowness of the surprise attack, as a member of the black mother's clothes, he has been desperate, not avoiding the arrow charge on the front line, eager to personally kill the samurai of the Imagawa family to wash away his shame.

However, it backfired. Originally, he already had the supreme honor - to win the Imagawa family governor Imagawa Yoshimoto, but he suddenly fell to the bottom - and the only one he killed was a little-known shadow warrior. And the army of the main family seems to have fallen into the ambush of the Imagawa family.

The situation is clear. The 1,000 main formations that the Imagawa army had just fallen into a rout had silently formed in the distance at this moment, and the auxiliaries behind them were no longer scattered and fleeing, but cautiously gathered behind the soldiers. If according to the information of the Oda Masada, there are still 2,000 soldiers outside the hills at this moment, they will definitely enter the Tarakusha along the corridor of the hills - when the reinforcements arrive, the Oda army will definitely be defeated. The back road of Narumi Castle has been cut off, and it is estimated that it will be completely wiped out here.

And now the only chance for the Oda family to win is to take advantage of the fact that the Imagawa family's reinforcements have not arrived, and defeat Imagawa Yoshimoto, who only has 800 soldiers by his side, so as to win a glimmer of life for the army.

Therefore, he casually left behind the hard-won head and went to the front line again.

Sasa Narumasa was carefully holding a rattan plaque at the moment, hiding next to a bush to protect his body. Another rain of arrows struck, and Sasa Naruma felt two or three arrows firmly stuck in his shield, and the huge force shook his arm. As soon as the rain of arrows passed, he immediately raised his shield and rushed forward with a shout. The other Oda samurai and ashigaru also took advantage of the gap between the bows and arrows of the Imagawa family to march towards the top of the mountain, and then looked for obstacles to hide again.

As the Imagawa archers continued to lose their physical strength, the interference with the Oda family's mountain attack troops became weaker and weaker, and the Oda family's troops had rushed up to the vicinity of the mountain. Sena immediately ordered the archers to step back and let the melee ashigaru step forward. The troops of the Oda family had already killed the red eyes and killed the horse seal and the palanquin of Imagawa Yoshimoto. A large number of troops from the periphery poured into the low area of Tianle and slaughtered towards the mountain, and the team pulled a long line in the corridor between the hills. One end was still blocked out of the hills, and the other end was almost on the top of the eastern side of the southern part of the hills. And although Sena Bei was not inferior in numbers in the head-to-head battle, he was still shrinking his line and retreating—retreating from the top of the hill in an orderly manner.

"Your Highness Sena, what are you doing!" Yu Qiuhei watched in amazement as Sena Shijun not only did not remove the horse seal and the palanquin, but instead let his own troops withdraw, allowing the Oda army to get closer and closer to the hills to the east.

"If the Oda family is allowed to ascend to the commanding heights, all the deployments will-" Yu Qiuping stood there stunned, trying to say something, but couldn't say anything. "Could it be... His Royal Highness Sena has other plans? ”

Sasa Naruma charged on the front line, taking advantage of the time when Sena Bei adjusted his deployment, he rushed forward with a few people around him, and the unprepared Sena Bishigaru kept retreating and reorganizing in order to maintain the integrity of the battle line, but for some reason, the battle line suddenly broke. was led by Sasa Narimasa to seize the opportunity and rushed into the formation at once. Spear Ashigaru was no match for the samurai and hurriedly retreated under the cover of the samurai on horseback and the samurai of Hagimoto, but the palanquin of Imagawa Yoshimoto was exposed in front of the eyes of the Oda family. What's even more surprising is that the Ashigaru and samurai of the Sena family actually paid no attention to Imagawa Yoshimoto's sedan chair! Instead, they retreated straight down the hillside.

"This..."Sasa Narumasa sensed that something was wrong, and watched Sena Bisashiki in front of him retreat like a tide, letting go of the top of the eastern hills. He led a few people, rushed to the top, cut down Imagawa Yoshimoto's horse seal with a knife, and lifted the curtain of the sedan chair - the sedan chair was empty. The horse seal fell, slamming into the ground, kicking up puffs of smoke and dust.

After the smoke and dust cleared, Sasa Narimasa and several other Oda troops who had taken the lead in climbing to the top of the hill and slope stayed in place in a daze, looking to the east in amazement. What was in front of them was not the empty plain they had imagined.

I saw a large camp of more than 10,000 people, standing silently on the plain east of the barrel room, and the people in the camp who could not see the edge were strengthening the fortifications. The 2,000 troops directly under the Imagawa family, which should have appeared at the entrance to Tarakusama in the distance, had already finished their formation in front of the front, and were now marching in great strides, preparing to climb over the hills to the right of Tarakusama, climb to the top of the narrow slope of the hills, and launch an attack from top to bottom, directly defeating the Oda army distributed in the long low-lying corridor in one fell swoop. And the Imagawa army on the south side of the low-lying corridor also immediately launched a counterattack against the Shibata Katsuya headquarters in front of them.

Flanked from both sides, inferior troops, wrong formation, and unfavorable terrain, the Oda family was already bound to lose.

The Oda army, who were still in the low-lying area preparing to attack the top of the hill, was surprised to find that their companions who had reached the top of the mountain were waving and shouting desperately, as if they wanted to convey some message to them.

They don't have to be confused for long, though. In a short time, a large number of troops directly under the Imagawa family crossed the eastern hills, and the flags and banners appeared in the field of vision of the Oda family. The Imagawa family's 2,000-strong army was condescendingly fighting the Oda army in the low-lying area from the hilly slopes.

Most of the Oda troops who were spread out into a long snake were in the shape of a marching army, waiting in line to attack the place where the Imagawa family's horse seal was just now, and at this moment, in the face of the Imagawa family's sudden flank attack, they were caught off guard and suddenly disorganized.

"Your Highness! Hit the trick! The second horse print is also fake! Sasa Naimasa pushed away all the ashigaru who stood in front of him regardless of it, and ran all the way to Oda Nobunaga, "The main force of the Imagawa family is not at the entrance to the Barrel Narrowma Hills at all, but on the east side!" We've been tricked! ”

"Oops." Oda Nobunaga looked at the situation in front of him, which was almost unmanageable—the line was too long, and there was no depth on the flanks, and it was simply impossible to resist the condescending flank raid of the Imagawa family. This narrow hilly area, which was originally the terrain that plagued the Imagawa family, was now limited to any formation movement and troop build-up due to the depth of the entire Oda army. Once the Imagawa family invaded the low-lying area, the serpentine Oda army would be immediately cut into several sections, unable to communicate with each other, and it would be difficult for Oda Nobunaga, who was in the innermost part, to escape. Evacuation along the low-lying corridor between the barrels is no longer possible.

"The whole army immediately retreated towards the hills to the southwest! Climb over the hills to the southwest and retreat separately! Oda Nobunaga was in a hurry and gave such an order. He relinquished control and formation of his troops, and instead let all the ashigaru and samurai escape over the hills. He knew what the loss of the formed field force meant to the Oda family, but he had no other way.

But he didn't know that behind the hillside on the southwest side was the long-awaited Tokiwabi. The Oda family has long been sealed off even the last retreat.

"Fooled." At this moment, Yu Qiuping, who was standing on the top of the hill on the southwest side, smiled confidently and looked at the Oda army rolling away from the east. "His Highness Seminga's troops and the troops directly under his jurisdiction are iron hammers, and my Tokiwa is an iron plate. We wielded a hammer and scared the Oda army into running towards the hard iron plate, and then hammered them to pieces with another hammer on the iron plate! ”

"According to the first plan - all - turn right!" Yu Qiuping ordered loudly, and the Maple Bird Flag immediately waved. As the various ashigaru generals and ashigaru heads passed down the orders one by one, one by one the squad turned around and faced the top of the hills to the northeast.

"Although the Oda family's actions deviated from expectations, we were still invincible no matter how the situation changed. Because, as long as His Royal Highness the Governor does not have an accident, the surprise attack of the Oda family has failed. ”

"Whether it's a shadow warrior or an empty sedan chair, it's just bait." All plans are under his control, and powerful enemies are used by him to use history to introduce ambush traps and play with applause. At this moment, Yu Qiuping suddenly felt full of pride, and following the appearance of Imagawa Yoshimoto, he snapped his fingers, and pointed his index finger directly at the Tianle narrow room under the hills.

"His Royal Highness the Governor is not in the barrel room at all. Even if there was an accident in the barrel and a complete defeat, His Royal Highness the Governor was still unharmed. As long as Narumi Castle's troops cut off Oda Nobunaga's back route, they will still give the family a complete victory! ”

"That's what I do." Yu Qiuping shook his fist excitedly and laughed loudly.

"His Royal Highness the Governor has already secretly followed the baggage troops into Minghai City!"