Yu Qiuping led his troops to hurry west on the north bank of the Nishikanda River, and suddenly noticed that the current of the Nishikanda River was gradually becoming shallower. Just as Yu Qiuping was surprised, a herald suddenly stabbed diagonally from the side and rushed to Yu Qiuping's horse at once, startling both Honda Tadashi and Ryuko.

"I've found you, Your Highness!" The herald said in a breathless voice, "Your Highness, your horse seal has been changing places, and you can't find it even if you look for it!" It's finally happening! ”

Yu Qiuping understands that this is the harm caused by moving the main formation - the entire command and communication line system will be paralyzed for a period of time. Therefore, in a war, the main formation cannot be easily moved, and if the enemy can be forced to move the main formation, it will be a great success.

"Lord Yoshioka recently discovered that in the upper reaches of the Nishikanda River, there are a large number of Takeda troops blocking the river with sandbags, sacks, wood and other obstacles, and the water level of the Nishikanda River is gradually declining, so I have come to report to Your Highness!"

"What?" Yu Qiuping was taken aback when he heard this, and looked at the Nishikanda River beside him in disbelief—it turned out that the drop in the water level was due to this. During the dry season in winter, there is not much water on the Nishi-Kanda River, so you can wade through it. When Yu Qiuping led his army across the Nishikanda River just now, he was looking for a shoal to wade through.

If the water level of the Nishikanda River drops further, then the Takeda Army can recklessly cross the Nishikanda River and launch an attack, and the Yuqiu Army is at risk of collapsing on the entire front!

"Now that he has found out, why didn't he stop it? The Takeda Army, who was carrying out engineering operations by the river, should be a live target, and he sent dozens of iron gunners to shoot across the river, and he would not let them block the river! The more Yu Qiuping looked at it, the more angry he became, and he couldn't help but say in a loud voice with some complaints, "What is Shengzheng doing!" ”

"Didn't His Highness ask Lord Jigang to guard the Yudong Temple and not leave a step?" The herald was stunned when he heard this, and looked back at Yu Qiuping with great puzzlement, "Lord Jigang saw that His Highness's order was so dead, and he thought that there was something strange in the Yudong Temple, and he didn't dare to leave the position without permission. After discovering the problem, he immediately sent down to find His Highness and asked His Highness to give a new order! However, His Royal Highness's Ma Yin has been changing places, and he has been looking for a long time to find it, which has delayed time. ”

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said yours, it was my mistake." Yu Qiuping realized his gaffe and scratched his hair in great annoyance. Takeda Shingen was linked one by one, and when he forced Yu Qiuping to move his own formation, he immediately launched a strange surprise attack, so that Yu Qiuping's subordinates couldn't make up their minds, and they couldn't contact Yu Qiuping, so as to expand the results of the battle. This offensive method is really ferocious.

"Jing family, you don't have to go back to Mikachicho Ueo Na with me, you go directly to the west and go to Yudong Temple to take over Katsumasa's defense line. At the same time, Katsumasa was notified to send some of his subordinates upstream to prevent the Takeda Einsatzgruppen from crossing the river. When your troops are in place, let him hand over the defense line of Yudong Temple to you, and he himself will go upstream to repel that Takeda army and clear all obstacles at the same time! ”

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Even though the Kitabatake Keike family had already rushed there, and even if Yoshioka Katsumasa immediately sent people upstream to stop Takeda Nobutoyo from crossing the river after receiving the order, they were still one step late, and Takeda Nobuyoyo, who had waded through the water, had gained a firm foothold on the north bank of the Nishi-Kanda River, and there was still the idea of further crossing the Kitayama River and attacking the Hakusan Shrine.

Yu Qiuping had no choice but to order the Kitabatake Keika to turn around, go north along the Kitayama River, and enter the Hakusan Shrine, where he shot Takeda Shintoyo's department across the Kitayama River. And Takeda Nobutoyo was unable to act further because of the flank attack of the Kitabatake Keikei, so he had to confront the Kitabatake Keike across the Kitayama River, and Yoshioka Katsumasa's department avoided the dilemma of being flanked by Koyamada Nobushige and Takeda Nobutoyo.

And due to the sharp decrease in the water depth of the Nishi-Kanda River, the second company of Hosoyanagi Bibi downstream also ran into trouble. On the other side of the river, 500 troops directly under the direct administration of the Takeda family immediately waded across the Nishi-Kanda River and attacked the second company of Hosoyanagi Bei, which was stationed at the shrine. The second company of Hosoyanagi Bei had just lost their company commander and deputy company commander, and could only be commanded by Kanamatsu Masayoshi on a temporary basis. The complex terrain of the shrine and the fact that the valley of the Nishikanda River caused a lot of trouble for the actions of the Takeda Army, and Kanamatsu Masayoshi was able to barely resist.

To the east of his direction, the 3rd Company of Tokiwabi, stationed in Shimoo Na, a fishing village of Mikamachi, was much less pressed. Because of the confluence of the Kakida River, the water level of the river in front of them was still not low, and Naito Masatoyo had no way to deploy his more than 900 soldiers in this narrow water network terrain, nor did he dare to wade through the water with 150 iron cannons. Nakahide Omaezaki then tried to transfer two platoons from the 3rd Company of Hosoyanagi to help Kanamatsu Masaki garrison

And in the attack and defense of the village of Kamio Nai in Mikachi, the western entrance of Fukushima Yasunari personally supervised the formation was as stable as Mount Tai, and there was nothing Nobuyoru could do about him. At the east entrance, the fighting was fiercer. The remaining 1,000 soldiers of the three companies prepared by Charles Mingdi had to resist the onslaught of more than 1,800 soldiers of Takasaka Masanobu and Baba Nobuharu, and it was difficult to deal with them. But with the narrow terrain, it can hold out for a while.

Returning to Amaakihei in Kamioona, Mikamachi, he re-established the Honjin in the village. He looked at the Takeda army's main formation on the high ground from a distance across the front line where Ming Di Bei and the Takeda army were fighting, and Takeda Shingen's wind forest volcanic horse seal was fluttering high. In this formation, Takeda Shingen still has 1,000 flags, which is one of the most combat-effective units of the Takeda Army. The reserve team in Yu Qiuping's hand was only the cavalry company at hand, and no troops could be transferred outside, and all the companies were fighting on the front line. If there is, there will only be the second company of Chang Panbei, which has lost more than seventy percent and everyone is injured.

If there is a duel in open terrain, as long as Takeda Shingen puts those 1,000 banners into battle at this moment, Yu Qiuping's 400 cavalry will definitely not be able to stop it, because there are nearly 500 cavalry in those 1,000 banners. The terrain is narrow now, and all fronts are basically full of people, and the red leaves and Takeda Ling are intertwined. Even if Takeda Shingen's 1,000 reserves wanted to go into battle, they couldn't find a suitable battlefield for the time being.

Yu Qiuping glanced at the sun in the west, which was about to fall into the horizon. As long as it drags on until nightfall, the Takeda Army will only be forced to withdraw its troops, and the Yuqiu Army will be saved!

An additional hour of delay will do.

Yu Qiuping pulled his gaze back from the setting sun and looked at the main formation 200 meters away from the Takeda Army again. It was as if he could see Takeda Shingen, who was riding on a tall horse, sitting next to his horse seal from the temporary shogunate with Takeda Ling painted on it, thinking about how to defeat the Yuqiu army.

"Doctor Dashan, you're running out of time." The corners of Yu Qiuping's mouth squeezed out a proud smile slightly, "Absolute defense, it's not something you can break if you say it, this is the defense line that Yuqiu Army has fought out with huge casualties and sacrificed their lives to die." ”

However, looking at it, the smile on the corner of Yu Qiuping's mouth suddenly froze. Because he clearly saw that in the shogunate headquarters of Takeda Shingen, a wisp of wolf smoke slowly ignited.

"Wolf smoke? Is this informing something? Yu Qiuping glanced at the wolf smoke, and then at the dozen wisps of wolf smoke that were still not extinguished on the side of Hamamatsu Castle. This is... What orders were given? Yu Qiuping was confused. Because the wolf smoke is used to notify the troops who are far away and can't see the flag. Moreover, the orders transmitted by the wolf smoke are very vague and can only be used for simple commands. Now the basin where the Takeda Army and the Yuqiu Army fought a decisive battle is less than one square kilometer in size, how can wolf smoke be used at such a close distance?

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Don't...

Yu Qiuping only felt that a light suddenly flashed in his head, and the whole person froze suddenly.

The frontal battlefield was so anxious and urgent that he almost forgot about the Takeda family's ace army, which had not appeared on the battlefield from beginning to end.

Yama Prefecture Chibei...

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"Your Highness! Oh no! Longzi, who was standing beside Yu Qiuping, suddenly patted Yu Qiuping's shoulder urgently, and turned to the north with his slender arm—the three days where Yu Qiuping's auxiliary soldiers and grain and grass battalions were located.

Yu Qiuping turned his head in a daze, and found that in his auxiliaries and the grain and grass camp, three wisps of wolf smoke had been lit in a row at this moment—that was the meaning of 100,000 fires.

Akabi evacuated before and was missing.

Either to the east or to the south.

There is no trace of Chibei in the south, it must be to the east.

Because of the urgency of the war, I have already transferred back the two companies that had been sent to the east to guard against the red garrison.

Now Chibei went and returned, and came from the east on the third day, and attacked the auxiliaries and the grain and grass camp.

And Yu Qiuping has no other reserves in his hands, except for the 400 cavalry.

But these 400 cavalry is Yu Qiuping's last capital, and it is to be used to guard against Takeda Shingen's 1,000 banners, and they can't be moved at all. Otherwise, once there is any problem on the frontal battlefield, Yu Qiuping has no way to deal with it at all, and can only sit back and watch the troops be destroyed.

What's more, even if these 400 cavalry are sent over, where is the opponent of 600 Takeda Akabi.

"Your Highness, what should I do?" The cavalry commanders of Nobumi Anayama, Kohata Jiesheng and Maeda Keiji were all about to cry at this moment, and they rushed to Yu Qiuping's side, waiting for his order, "All of our 8,000 auxiliaries and all the grain and grass are in three days!" What now? Those auxiliaries are unarmed, and they can't deal with Takeda Akabei at all! ”

"Everything was my mistake." Yuqiu's face was pale, and he didn't dare to look directly into the eyes of his subordinates. He paused, shook his head with great difficulty, almost gritted his back molars, and spat out a few words in a voice as thin as a mosquito, "I don't have reinforcements to send." ”

Yu Qiuping's words were like a basin of cold water, extinguishing all the anxieties of his subordinates. They understood the situation at the moment, these 400 cavalry must not be used without authorization, they no longer have the ability to support the auxiliaries.

"Ignite the wolf smoke, inform Yu Nan, give up the baggage, and order the auxiliaries to escape. General Staff, with important documents of our army, retreat immediately. Yu Qiuping strode towards the commanding heights of the village and looked north.

His only hope now is that the surviving auxiliaries can attract Chibei's pursuit and buy time for the main force. As long as it dragged on until dark, the Takeda army was forced to withdraw its troops, and Yu Qiuping's soldiers still had a chance to escape. If Takeda Akabei only dispersed the auxiliaries and did not fall in love, but went straight south, galloped along the path of the Yuqiu army to aid the Mikamachi Basin battlefield, and attacked the back of the Yuqiu army's defense line - the Yuqiu army would really be finished.

Unfortunately, as a veteran of decades of war, Changjing of Shan County would not make the mistake of "picking up sesame seeds and throwing watermelons". Wouldn't it be clear which of the 8,000 unarmed auxiliaries or the main force of the Yuqiu Army was more worth exterminating.

Soon after, the heavy camp of the Yuqiu army was ablaze, and all the baggage was burned.

Half an hour before sunset, Takeda Akabi's banner appeared on the line of the Yonegome River in the north, heading straight for the back of the Yuqiu Army. Yu Qiuping's despair at the moment is like Napoleon on the battlefield of Waterloo.