With a single thought, Yu Qiuping seemed to have returned to ten years ago in an instant. On the battlefield, once again a good opportunity was missed because of personal feelings.

But this time, he didn't suffer because of his kindness. Because opposite him, the young man who led the army was also a fool who valued love and righteousness.

"Brother..."Asai Nagamasa looked at Yu Qiuping, who couldn't bear to give the order to shoot on the camp wall, and found that the latter was also looking at him, and his eyes moistened all of a sudden.

"My lord! Please also immediately order the troops to charge forward in a scattered formation! Seeing this, a retainer who was following behind Asai Nagamasa immediately suggested, "It's a great luck that the Yuakiji Department missed the opportunity and didn't order the Iron Artillery Team to shoot!" Now it's time to spread out your queues, reduce salvo damage, and charge now! ”

"No way!" Seeing this, Asai Nagamasa stopped sharply, "Brother remembered the old relationship, so he didn't shoot, so how could he miss the opportunity?" If we take advantage of our brother's old affection to attack, wouldn't it be treacherous, and how would we see the world? ”

"What does the lord mean? Don't you attack? The retainer faintly felt that something was wrong, and asked again.

"Soldiers, the country's major affairs, naturally can't miss the fighter for personal reasons." After Asai Nagamasa sighed, he chose a compromise method, "Brother let go of the eagle and prepared a horse, and the eagle prepared to repay this favor." Anyway, the Eagle Bei has suffered a lot of losses, so let the Eagle Bei withdraw from the battle and let the follow-up troops continue to attack. ”

"This..."The retainer suddenly said hurriedly when he heard this, "The lord is graceful! The Eagle Bei is gaining momentum at the moment, how can the Eagle Bei be evacuated? The strongest in the family is Eagle Bei, who will be the opponent of Chang Panbei of the Yuqiu Governance Department besides Eagle Bei? What's more, at this moment, let the eagles prepare to retreat and drop the next batch of reserves back, wouldn't it be a lot of time! ”

"That's as it should be! If my brother hadn't remembered the old love, we would have been rewound by the gun at this moment! Asai Nagamasa gave the order without question, and let the standard-bearer give the order. After receiving the order, although they were very confused, the various reserves of the Eagle Reserve still completed the turn very quickly and began to retreat.

After seeing the eagle prepare retreat, Yu Qiuping breathed a sigh of relief, he was afraid that his kindness would bring disaster to the reserve team again. And just as the eagle was about to retreat, a figure stepped out of the ranks. Yuqiu Ping took a closer look and found that the person who came was his brother-in-law Asai Nagamasa. He didn't seem to care about the 450 black hole iron cannons on the camp wall, he trusted Yu Qiuping very much, and walked straight to the fifteen zhang outside the camp gate, and gave Yu Qiu a big gift to his younger brother who had seen his brother.

Seeing this, Yu Qiuping immediately waved his hand and ordered all the iron gunners to collect their guns. The gunners immediately blew out the flames from the arquebus and lowered the cannon.

"Thank you, brother, for your mercy! The kindness of my brother is remembered by Changzheng! Asai Nagamasa shouted at Yu Qiuping from a distance, "I just hope that my brother will keep in mind the righteousness of the martial arts family, and there is no need to make reservations on the battlefield for personal reasons!" The next time they meet, Changzheng looks forward to having an honest duel with his brother! ”

After that, Asai Nagamasa once again made a big gift to Yuqiu, but this time, it was the etiquette of the samurai in the duel. Then he turned and left. Yu Qiuping looked at Asai Nagamasa's back, and his eyes gradually moistened.

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Soon after, Isono's troops took over the position of Eagle and prepared to attack. However, at long range, his troops were quickly overwhelmed by the iron cannons that were prepared by Tokiwa. As a last resort, Asai Nagamasa ordered all the iron gunners in the Asai army to be transferred to the front line under the unified command of Isono Yuanmasa. The state-owned village, one of the largest iron cannon manufacturing centers in, was located within the territory of the Asai Army. As a result, the Asai army was able to possess a fairly large number of iron cannons.

This was the first time that the iron gunners of Tokiwa had faced an attack with more iron gunners than they had since they formed the army, and Yu Qiuping couldn't help but be a little nervous. In the past, the iron gunners who used to be equipped were able to easily gain an advantage in the battle with the archers. However, iron cannon firing is different. No matter how good your armor is, as long as a projectile comes at you, you can't stop it. As a result, the casualties of the Tokiwabei iron gunners gradually increased.

However, Tokiwa's iron gunners were well-trained, and their rate of fire and accuracy were much better than those of the Asai family. In these years, Xiang Yuqiuping concentrated iron cannons for training and use them in a small number after all. In the Asai family, only those well-established samurai families could equip the troops with dozens or hundreds of iron cannons, and they were usually used as treasures to show off their wealth, and rarely spent a lot of money to buy gunpowder projectiles for the training of iron gunners. These negligent iron gunners are naturally inferior to the iron gunners who practice every day. Not to mention that the iron gunners who are always in the boat have the camp wall as cover, while the iron gunners of the Asai family can only shoot on the flat ground.

The firing continued for some time, and the iron gunners of the Asai Army gradually became unable to bear such casualties. In addition, they all come from various families and do not belong to each other, so Isono Yuanchang can't give them orders. Seeing that the casualties of the iron gunners were increasing, the samurai who led the team led the troops to retreat from the front line. In desperation, Isono had no choice but to order the troops to start attacking the camp of the Oda family. However, like Tokiwabi's iron gunners, Tokiwabi's pikemen were also well-trained, and even if they were besieged from three sides in a hurry, the Asai family had nothing to do with Tokiwabi.

The Haibei Tsunade who came later tried to make a detour back to the west side of the camp and completely surround the camp. After seeing Haibeibei's movements, Yu Qiuping only felt a cold sweat behind him, and began to quietly adjust his deployment. Because of this expedition, Chang Panbei only brought out three companies, so he could only resist in three directions. At this time, the west gate of the camp was almost unguarded.

In order to defend the west gate, Yu Qiuping could only draw troops from the defense line in the other three directions, which inevitably brought more pressure to the defense. And many of the Oda family's routs in the camp tent that had not been put in order were even wandering around, seriously hindering Yu Qiuping's dispatch.

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However, just as the Asai family's offensive was about to make progress, the main force led by Oda Nobunaga finally arrived belatedly. After Tokugawa Ieyasu was left behind on the mountain road, they themselves rushed back from the north side of Chohoji Temple to come to the aid of the main camp.

However, even if the home formation of the Weaving-German coalition army is not lost, there is no suspense in this battle. One-third of the soldiers of the Oritoku coalition army were defeated by Asai Nagamasa at the beginning of the battle, and the number of soldiers available to the Asai-Asakura coalition army had surpassed the Oda army at this moment. With its inferior forces, it was impossible for the Oda army to defeat the coalition forces away from the enemy's territory when they were flanked from both sides.

So, Oda Nobunaga didn't say much, and after simply forcing back the attacking troops of the Asai army, he ordered the entire army to withdraw immediately.

"Retreat? Where to retreat? Yu Qiuping asked in surprise after receiving the order from the mother-clothed people, "Hasn't the retreat been choked by the Asai army?" ”

"Returning to Your Highness, not long ago, the Rotten Wood Yuangang of the Rotten Wood Valley was forced to agree to our request for borrowing." "Many of our defeated troops have just rushed to the west, and Kinoshita-sama took the opportunity to enter the castle of Mototsuna Kuchigi to negotiate with him, claiming to be an envoy of the Oda family. Threatened that if he did not agree to let him go, the Oda army would take advantage of the chaos to sack the village town of Kuchigi Valley. Although the army of the Oda family had been dispersed, Mototsuna Kuchigi did not dare to support it, so he had to agree to the conditions. ”

"Fujiyoshiro has made a great contribution again!" Yu Qiuping clapped his hands excitedly, and then instructed, "Please tell the lord and let him lead the defeated soldiers and auxiliaries in this camp to evacuate first, and I will stay here until His Highness Tokugawa returns." ”

"No, the lord means that His Royal Highness Momiji is requested to withdraw now." Hearing this, the mother shook her head and said, "Although the Asai family is forced to retreat, they will attack again soon, and if the guards are sticky, the whole army will be at risk." Therefore, His Highness is also requested to evacuate quickly. ”

"I'm withdrawn here, what should His Highness Tokugawa do?" Yu Qiuping sensed that there was something in the words of the mother's clothes, and pointed to the mountain road to the north with some anger, "His Royal Highness Tokugawa blocked the 8,000 soldiers of the Asakura family with more than 1,000 soldiers, and bought time for the Oda army to retreat. Are we going to leave him behind? As soon as I withdrew here, the Asai family occupied Chofa Temple, and the Tokugawa family was wrapped in dumplings! ”

"Please also ask Your Highness to obey the military order." Seeing that the mother clothes couldn't say that Yu Qiuping was peaceful, she lowered her head directly and said in a deep voice without being humble or arrogant.

"I refuse." Yu Qiuping shook his head very stiffly and said, "Take me to see the lord!" ”

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When Yu Qiuhei, led by his mother, found Oda Nobunaga, who was directing the evacuation of the troops outside the West Gate, he found that Akechi Mitsuhide seemed to be arguing with Oda Nobunaga about something.

"His Royal Highness Tokugawa has tried his best to break the queen for us, how can he leave it alone at this moment?" Akechi Mitsuhide asked with some excitement. Even when he was out on the expedition, his face was still covered with thick powder, and he was dressed like a palace secretary, and he could hardly see his own appearance. But this time, his cheeks were so red that he couldn't even cover the powder.

"His Royal Highness Tokugawa will figure it out himself, it's not your turn to worry about it." Oda Nobunaga snorted coldly in disdain, threw the horsewhip in the air, and scolded: "You are a retainer of the Yu Oda family, just obey Yu's orders!" If you don't withdraw at this time, you will be stuck by the Asai Army, and these tens of thousands of auxiliaries will be slaughtered by others! ”

"Lordship." Seeing this, Yu Qiuping also made a remark, "I think His Royal Highness is right." In any case, allies should live and die together. If this battle is destined to be a heavy loss, we should also advance and retreat with His Highness Tokugawa and bear the losses together, instead of leaving His Highness Tokugawa behind. ”

Hearing this, Wise Mitsuhide threw a grateful glance at Yu Qiuping. Yu Qiuping suddenly felt that these eyes were a little familiar, but he couldn't remember when he had seen them.

"Don't use your clever mouths to say stupid things." After Oda Nobunaga saw that both Yuqiu Ping and Akechi Mitsuhide were opposing his order, he sarcastically said: "Yuqiu red leaves, just been released for a few hours, healed the scar and forgot the pain?" ”

"In any case, Zai refused to turn his back on his allies. The Asai family is like this, and so is the Tokugawa family. Yuakihei straightened his waist and looked at Oda Nobunaga without fear. The two stared at each other like this for a moment, and Oda Nobunaga suddenly sneered, flicked the horsewhip casually, and whispered disdainfully: "You want to go and save, you two go by yourself." Yu led the army away, you can do it yourself! ”