The Oda Army, which had been driven to retreat to the southwestern slopes, had fallen into disarray. Oda Nobunaga lost control of his troops, and the ashigaru gathered around their master's banner to fight their own battles.

The Imagawa family's troops, who followed after them, approached from two directions and occupied almost all of the low-lying areas. The Oda army, which had not yet had time to enter the low-lying hills, hurried towards the entrance of the hills under the leadership of Sakuma Nobumori, and met the troops of the Oda family who had escaped.

"Why are you all withdrawing! Lord! Sakuma Nobumori looked at the ashigaru and samurai who had escaped one after another, and asked with a yell. What's going on inside! ”

"Your Highness, we've been tricked!" The escaped ashigaru wailed in reply, and continued to flee outward. A mother-clothed crowd cried out in the crowd with a sad face: "Imagawa Jibu took two horse seals as bait, and the lord rushed all the way to the innermost!" As a result, the army of the Zhibu was all ambushed on the edge of the barrel room, and we were ambushed! The army was all slaughtered at once, and we were scattered! The lord has lost contact with us! ”

"How many people are there in the Imagawa army!" Sakuma Nobumori only felt his heart tighten, and asked sharply.

"Countless of them! Your Highness! The mother-clothed crowd had already been crowded with the fleeing crowd and ran into the distance, craned their necks and shouted, "At least five or six thousand soldiers!" We're done! ”

"Damn!" When Sakuma Nobumori heard the news, he felt a little unstable. He looked out over the hills of the barrel saga, and in the distance he could already see the Imagawa family's pursuers from the low-lying area. Where is Oda Nobunaga, he is already completely out of sight. I don't know what the situation in the hills is at this time.

"Sakuma prepares to listen to the order and cover everyone's retreat!" Sakuma Nobumori shouted loudly, "I'll personally direct the retreat, don't mess up!" Stand back and regroup and try to rescue the lord! ”

At the same time, the southwest of the narrow space of the field.

The retreating troops of the Oda army had already fled to the hills and slopes to the southwest, and the army of the Imagawa family not far away had already reached the low-lying area where they had just been. Oda Nobunaga had only 300 men left to obey his command, and he was desperately running towards the southwest slope. I'm going to go over the top of the slope and escape from the barrel first. There are even a few ashigaru who have left behind their armor and weapons, and they are no different from fleeing.

However, Oda Nobunaga, who had already run to the hillside, found that a dozen ashigaru and samurai who were running at the top of the hill at the front suddenly stopped. Immediately afterwards, he turned around sharply and waved his hand and yelled, as if to signal something, very much like the appearance of Sasa before Seimasa - that time, it was the ambush of the Imagawa family that appeared.

"How come..."Oda Nobunaga, who was going uphill, was stunned for a moment, and the surrounding Oda troops were also stunned. Only a dozen people were left at the top of the slope, looking at the sea of autumn leaves to the west in disbelief.

"Downwind, two hundred steps!" Charlie stood in front of a hundred archers and shouted. He bent his bow and led the archers behind him to draw their bows.

"Put!" Charlie gave the order, and the rain of arrows like locusts immediately shot overwhelmingly towards the top of the slope. Most of the dozen or so people in the front didn't have time to react, and they were immediately shot by random arrows and fell down in wailing. There was only one man left who narrowly escaped with his life, and he staggered towards Oda Nobunaga. The surrounding ashigaru people were panicked and didn't know what to do, so they got out of the way in a daze, and let this ashigaru run all the way to Oda Nobunaga's horse seal.

"My lord! Oh no! There are ambushes here, too! The ashigaru knelt down in front of Oda Nobunaga and shouted with tears in his eyes, "It's the one with the autumn leaves in the rain!" I'm afraid there are hundreds of archers! We have more than a dozen brothers, all of a sudden! Many, many people! ”

Ashigaru's words suddenly caused an uproar among the people around him, and the military was in turmoil. However, before everyone could react, Oda Nobunaga actually raised his knife and slashed Ashigaru's body apart with a single sword. Blood splattered on the legs of Oda Nobunaga's black horse, and the eyes of the surrounding samurai and mother-clothed people widened.

"No matter how dare to shake the hearts of the army, there are such people!" Oda Nobunaga's eyes were red, and his face was as hideous as a demon.

"There is an interception in front, there are pursuers in the back, and we have no way to retreat!" Waving the blood-stained katana in his hand, Oda Nobunaga personally strode forward, snatched his horse seal, and personally held the horse print, and rushed towards the top of the slope.

"If you are not afraid of death, you will fight to the death! Rush out! There are definitely not so many people in Yuqiuping! Oda Nobunaga shouted loudly: "Those who are afraid of death, stay where you are, bear the infamy and shame, surrender and go!" ”

"Swear not to surrender, follow the lord!" Toshiya Maeda was the first to shout, brandishing a red spear and rushing out first. His heroic performance immediately aroused the pride of the mother-robes and the samurai, and everyone shouted to rush to the top of the hill and rush towards the rainy autumn flat of Tokiwabi. Even a person who is timid and afraid of death, in such a passionate atmosphere, he can't do anything to steal his life.

The Imagawa family in the low-lying area is reuniting and adjusting their formation, and the battle will start again soon. Time is running out for the Oda family. After seeing the movement of Oda Nobunaga's general banner, the troops of the Oda family scattered in other places also crashed headlong into Yu Qiuping's defense line. Climb over the hills and rush towards the southwest slopes.

"Did you choose to fight to the death?" Yu Qiuping's expression was a little solemn, "But it's certain to fight to the death, I will never give you a chance to fight." ”

"Order, all lined up, ready to enter combat mode!" After Yu Qiuping's order was conveyed, the maple bird flag was immediately waved. The various ashigaru generals who received the order immediately followed the advance plan and directed the troops to advance to the east, occupying various dangerous terrains and forming two lines of defense. After the archers retreated to the battle line, the cavalry team cruised around Yu Qiuping's horse print, serving as Yu Qiuping's guard. There are 10 platoons, with 5 veteran platoons in front as the first line of defense, each occupying favorable terrain to form a complete and coherent line of defense. Of the remaining 5 recruit platoons, 3 were in the second line of defense, and 2 were in reserve in front of Yuqiu Pingmayin.

The officers immediately began to raise their tunes and shouted in Chinese to order the whole team.

"Let's go!"

"Stand-set!"

"All - look to the right - all together!"

"Forward—look!"

"Count each platoon!"

"One!"

"Two!"

……

After arriving at the designated location, Tokiwa quickly adjusted the neatness of the team. The veterans of the front line turned a blind eye to the Oda army that was rushing down, and seemed to have no idea about their existence at all, just engrossed in carrying out the orders of the queue change and the whole team. That extremely proud and confident posture gave the recruits behind him great encouragement. Everyone held back their strength, and no one paid attention to the Oda Army, but formed a team as if nothing happened.

After all the ashigaru preparations were made, another "ready" order was given. Several platoons of the second line and reserve were still armed with guns, while Charlie's archers bent their bows and arrows, ready to cover their own troops with projectiles. The ashigaru on the front line quickly transforms and is extremely proficient in carrying out the training movements of daily training day after day. The first row of ashigaru immediately got down on one knee, and the spear in his hand pointed diagonally forward. The ashigaru of the second row walked with his horse and his spear flat, reaching out from the shoulders of the ashigaru in the first row. The back rows are lightly geared and ready to take over from their companions in front.

The front suddenly became silent, as silent as the narrow sky after a storm, silent and gloomy pressure. Oda Nobunaga looked at the immovable spear forest and the Momiji troops in front of him, and his face was pale. He finally understood that the fact that "Imagawa Yoshimoto's flag team was handed over to Yu Qiuping to command" that they had been joking about before may not be groundless.

However, at this moment, he was already riding a tiger, and his army was already in the middle of the Imagawa army. There is only one way to go, confrontation head-on.

Oda Ieashi pounced with a furious shout, and ran headlong into Tokiwa's spear defense.

"Thrust!" Sooner or later, the various ashigaru generals gave the order for the whole army to swoop. The spears in the first three rows immediately stabbed out in unison, and Oda Ieashigaru, who was rushing to the front on the entire front, was immediately shot and killed. After the first round of stabs, more and more Oda family ashigaru rushed up, and Tokiwa Bishigaru in the first row also got up, no longer trying to crouch down to increase the power of the spur, but maintained the battle line and stabbed against the Oda army.

Tokiwa's spurts are fierce and swift, and the Oda family's ashigaru is difficult to resist. As soon as the Oda family's samurai appeared on the battlefield, they immediately attracted the attention of the ashigaru in the front row because of their tall and large horses. Ashigaru would command his subordinates to besiege the samurai on horseback and stab him off his horse with random guns. The Oda army, which had already abandoned many horses, soon lost most of its mounted samurai. The rest of the mother-clothed people and the warriors of the stables drew their swords in their hands and rushed forward to fight. Their struggles brought back momentum to the Oda family. But every time they cut down a Joban, someone immediately made up for it. The front has been fighting for a long time, and it is still a neat and complete straight line, not giving the Oda family any chance to break through at all. And the samurai who fought on the front line had to face a situation of siege by many people. Even if the spear is not good for melee combat, you can't stand being slapped constantly.

More and more Oda troops fell in front of the Tokiwabei front, but they were never able to form any gaps to break through. The morale of the Oda army, which was constantly declining, was also declining rapidly, and the bravery of the decisive assault just now was also passing. Gradually, some people began to hesitate, not like stepping forward to fight to the death, but waiting for their companions to step forward, hiding behind themselves, stabbing a few non-threatening shots from a distance, and the offensive gradually weakened.

Although Chang Panbei was also bleeding constantly, he kept falling to the ground and was rescued by the auxiliaries. However, the entire Tokiwa Bei does not seem to have been affected in the slightest. The troops on the front line were still full of energy, not retreating, but numbly obeying the officer's orders like a conditional launch, and it seemed that there would be no degree of wavering in the casualties.

The entire Momiji Defense Line of Tokiwa does not seem to be a group of soldiers, but a rock, an impregnable rock. It silently stood in front of the Oda family, and no matter how the Oda army knocked and polished, it did not waver.

At this time, behind the Oda army, which had been fighting hard, the drums of the Imagawa family main camp and Sena Bei sounded. More than 3,000 soldiers stepped onto the top of the hill behind the Oda house.

The entire Oda army was in an uproar. There is an interception in front and a pursuer in the back, and they can't beat either the interception or the pursuers. The Oda family, who were at many junctions in the northeastern part of Tokiwabi, threw down their weapons and headed for the woods of Tohoku, hoping to escape. The samurai of the Oda family were already unable to restrain their troops, and the whole army was in a panic.

"That's it." Yu Qiuping said with a smile.

However, just as Yu Qiuping was about to give the order for the whole army to attack, an uninvited guest came on horseback.