Chapter 170: Leap Frog
"I'm really X, X!" Yu Qiuping was so angry that he actually burst out foul language, "Where did this kid run to!" What about people! Come back and defend! Let him retreat, he can't hear! ”
However, no matter how thunderous Yu Qiuping is at the moment, Mizenzaki Nakahide will definitely not be able to come back immediately. Yu Qiuping was forced to tearfully use a team of 50 fewer people to try to deploy the defense, and the originally planned defense circle had to shrink inward again. At this time, the ashigaru of the Hao Clan Coalition Army also came to the front of the battle.
There were nearly 100 archers in Changbanbei, who numbered less than 300 people, and the battle line suddenly became overstretched. Yu Qiuping had to let the subordinates of the cavalry team also join the outer circle of the circle, and there was really no reserve left at hand.
The Hao coalition unceremoniously took advantage of the numerical advantage and besieged the Chang Panbei circle on many sides. Not only did they maintain a ferocious offensive from the front, but they also sent two Einsatzgruppen to attack from behind the flanks of Tokiwa Tsuneki. With the stability of the battle line and the dispersion of the enemy's forces, the well-disciplined spear formations of the Tokiwa Bishigaru were able to show their skills, and for a time they suppressed the offensive of the Hao Clan's coalition forces.
However, as more and more Hao Clan coalition troops began to enter the battlefield, fighting began almost everywhere around the circle, and the rear roads were also threatened, and the disadvantage in the number of people in Chang Panbei became more obvious, and he fell into a disadvantage. Many samurai relied on their strong combat power to lead the ashigaru to launch a charge towards the circle again and again. Even if Charlie's archers kept throwing and covering their own defenders, it would be difficult to hide the decline.
However, to everyone's surprise, the Hao Clan Alliance, which had been smooth sailing, suddenly stopped attacking amid a shout. Yu Qiuping was stunned for a moment, and looked at the hill just now—I saw that on the hill, several banners of the Hao clan coalition were waving desperately—that was a signal to retreat.
"What a situation! How did you retreat if you fought well? Although Yu Qiuping was confused, he immediately ordered the troops to readjust their formation and seize this hard-won respite.
At this time, on the south side of the hill, Miura Yoshishi was hurriedly directing his subordinates to move his horse seals and hide to the east. Just now, after the left flank of their Hao clan coalition re-attacked the hill to the west, they reported to him that they had not seen any trace of the headquarters of Nakahide Mimasaki, who had been there.
However, just as the troops on their left flank left the hill and headed north to besiege Mayin in Yuqiuping, things suddenly changed. The guards left on the hill by the left flank troops suddenly went crazy and waved desperately at the place where Miura Yoshiki's horse seal was, not knowing what to express.
Before Miura could react, he saw that on the west side of the Fengzuma River, a lot of bamboo rafts suddenly drifted down from the upper reaches of the north, and there were several Momiji soldiers on each raft. They bypassed their army from the Tsuma River, stopped at a shallow place not far from their main camp, and then formed a formation on the spot, ready to attack the main camp.
This frightened Miura, but there were only a dozen people around him, and there were only five cavalrymen. Facing fifty well-trained elite pikemen, no match in any way. Although the Hao Clan coalition army on the hills to the west is trying to return to help, the way back is a narrow tidal flat, and I am afraid that it will not be able to reach the main formation in a short time, and it will definitely not be able to count on it.
In order to prevent the avalanche-like reaction caused by the cutting down of Ma Yin, Miura Yoshiki was forced to start moving his main formation. More than a dozen people crowded around the horse prints and ran towards the hills to the north. At the same time, Ma Yin also kept waving the signal of retreat and convergence, informing the troops on the front line to rush back to rescue the main camp immediately.
After some hasty communication with the Hao coalition forces, they found that there were only 50 people in Tokiwa Bishigaru who came to attack, and they were still drifting from the Fengzuma River. The angry Ii Naomori left nearly 500 soldiers behind and continued to carry out the offensive against Yu Qiuping, so he personally led more than 200 soldiers to kill the Mizenzaki Nakahide.
Nakahide Omaezaki was not in love with the fight, and immediately turned and left some distance from Ii Naomori's troops, ran towards the shore, jumped on the bamboo raft that had been prepared, and rowed towards the north. All that was left was Naomori Ii's back.
"Do you use Lao Tzu as a monkey!" Jing Yi Naomori took a sip and scolded in a low voice, "When I chase to the shore, you run back to the north to attack the hills?" ”
"Pass my military order, the whole army is here to standby, and if those red leaf soldiers dare to land again, they will be beaten back!" After Ii gave the order with a snort, he immediately rode his horse to the main attack position in the north, and transferred 200 men to the bank of the Tsuma River in the west, and cooperated with the troops who were originally on the hills to the west, and encircled and suppressed the headquarters of Nakahide Gozensaki. The pressure suddenly decreased, and the Yuqiuping headquarters successfully stabilized their position, and even had a tendency to fight back.
However, just as Ii Naomori was leading his troops around the woods and hills on the east bank of the Tsuzuma River, trying to hunt down the troops of Nakahide Gozensaki, the troops on the hills to the west shouted again. Immediately afterwards, Miura Yoshitoshi's horse seal on the central hill also waved again, all signaling Ii Naomori to stop.
"What the hell is going on!" Ii Naomori cursed in a low voice, and without waiting for the herald to come to report, he personally rode his horse up the small hill to the west, looking at the entire battlefield from a high vantage point. Then he froze in place.
I saw a bamboo raft carrying the Momiji soldiers going up and back on the Tsuma River, starting from behind the woods and drifting down again from north to south. With the speed of the water, it rushed towards the south quickly, leaving behind all the Hao clan coalition forces that came to surround and intercept them. The raft crossed the battle line of the Hao Clan's coalition army, crossed the horse seal of Miura Yoshisa, crossed the hills, and still headed straight to the south.
"It's... What are you going to do? Ii Naomori froze in place, "South... There are no more soldiers? Didn't you abandon the army and run away! Will the Momiji soldiers also run away without a fight? ”
Not only Ii Naomori, but also the troops of the Hao Coalition Army were all confused, and they didn't understand what Mizenzaki Nakahide wanted. Even the Hao clan coalition army under the command of Mimasaki Nakahide was not clear, let alone Yu Qiuping, who was confused in the distance. The Hao Clan Alliance, which had been besieging his troops just now, suddenly retreated for a while, and when they returned, there were many fewer people. After a while, many people were transferred away. Now, the Hao coalition forces in front of them are no longer able to continue the attack, and nearly half of the troops have been sent to the bank of the Tsuzuma River on the west side, as if to encircle Gozenzaki Nakahide.
Yu Qiuping once again set his sights on the ferry in the northwest, the main army of the Asahinai Tai Dynasty had already begun to cross the river, and the troops of the Asahinai Taiheng were about to complete their rectification, leaving little time for the Hao Clan Alliance. If the Hao coalition forces fail to launch another general attack, their surprise attack will face failure.
Although the main army was relatively safe, Yu Qiuping still sweated for the troops of Nakahide Omaezaki. He may now face hundreds of people chasing and intercepting him!
At this time, Tsumida Kawakami.
Nakahide Mizenzaki took his temporary platoon and drifted all the way down the river, already far past the lines of the two armies.
"My lord, what are you going to do this time?" A few ashigaru heads in the platoon have been choked by Mizenzaki Nakahide's series of fancy kaleidoscopic operations. First retreated towards the river bank, then fired back with a backhand. Then he retreated again and made a detour from the Kazuma River to attack the opponent's main camp. Then he retreated again from the river, and after a short return to the north, he again went south downstream, heading straight for the enemy's rear.
"How do I know?" Mimasaki Nakahide stretched comfortably, and smiled a little lazily, "The other side thinks I'm going to retreat, so I'll fight back." Thinking that I was going to flee back to my own position, I attacked their own formation. I think I'm going north, so I'm going south. Anyway, if the other side guesses what we're going to do, we're going to do nothing! Let's talk about the rest! ”
"But my lord, we are getting farther and farther away from our army! What's next? Ashigaru asked anxiously.
"Look at fate! It's a big deal to go to the West Bank and land, regardless of Your Highness. Nakahide Omaezaki laughed, looked around, and suddenly gave a high-five!
"Brothers, look there! We've hit the jack of luck! Mizenzaki Nakahide excitedly pointed to the shore not far away, a mile south of the Hao Clan's coalition army, there were more than 2,000 people, "The auxiliaries and people of the Hao clan are all there for us to harvest!" ”
"All ashore!" Nakahide Gozenzaki ordered, "Line up and attack the enemy's auxiliaries!" ”
By the time Miura Yoshiki received an emergency from the auxiliary team, Mizenzaki Nakahide's subordinates had already entered the auxiliary team. If it is said that the warriors are still training in the slack time, the auxiliary soldiers and the people are just strong men who are pulled out of the territory during the slack time. These rabble, with low morale and scattered formations, no matter how large they are, will not be the enemy of a well-trained elite army. Before the battle broke out with them, many of them had already fled in all directions.
Some ran to the north to join the soldiers, while others fled in all directions to the southeast. A handful of a dozen samurai in the auxiliaries tried in vain to maintain order.
The Hao Coalition Army, who learned that the auxiliary team had been attacked, was panicked and had no heart to fight. Originally, Ii Naomori had already assembled his troops and was preparing to launch a general attack on Yuqiuping's headquarters. However, as soon as the governors of the small wealthy clans heard that the peasants who had come to pull out their own territory had been attacked, they demanded immediate reinforcements. They are not as good as the Miura family and the Jingyi family, there are nearly 100 men in the family, and the agricultural tax income is very important, and the strong men pulled out are usually the main force of cultivation, which is very precious, even if the loss of ten people is a great loss.
Therefore, under the unanimous protest of the wealthy clans, Ii Naomori and Miura Yoshishi were forced to withdraw their troops and return to the south. With a sigh of relief, Yu Qiuping immediately approached the south and reoccupied the three hills, thus gaining a view of the battlefield and immediately understanding what Nakahide Gozenzaki had done—the latter was now in a hurry to retreat towards the river, intending to catch up on his raft and run away again before the enemy arrived.
"This kid has done a great job this time." Yu Qiuping was angry and funny, "Jumping around like MacArthur, but he really has him." ”