An hour later.

At three o'clock, the sun was already swaying near the horizon in the Ii Valley to the north of Mikatahara, and it was about to set. And Yu Qiuping is rushing with the Yu Qiu army at the speed of a rapid march. He himself led a group of guards and rode up a hill next to the Ii Valley, intending to condescend to see the battle to the south. About an hour earlier, when he noticed that there was a sky-high fire burning on the side of Hamamatsu Castle, as if a large amount of grain, grass and baggage had been burned, he realized that something was wrong—Tokugawa Ieyasu had gone out of the castle to attack.

Yu Qiuping almost ran to death from exhaustion (the offspring of the white horse that Asai Nagamasa gave to Yu Qiuhei), and finally climbed a small hill. As soon as he reined in the reins and looked south, he was dumbfounded.

I saw Takeda Ling's banner fluttering high on the plain, and the army of the Takeda family swept the battlefield wantonly, pursuing the Tokugawa army that had broken and fled. Tokugawa Mitsuha's banner was thrown everywhere, and the Tokugawa army that was still resisting could no longer be seen on the entire battlefield. And the east gate of Hamamatsu Castle also broke out at this moment. When the remaining Hojo Army saw Takeda Shingen's victory, they immediately stormed Hamamatsu Castle, and Kamihara Yasumasa was struggling to support it.

In just one hour, Tokugawa Ieyasu had been completely defeated. If the Takeda army continued to pursue, the defeated troops of the Tokugawa army would trample on each other at the north gate of Hamamatsu Castle, and the entire north gate would become a purgatory on earth.

"I'm really a day..."Yu Qiuhei saw the tragic situation of the Tokugawa army, and his heart seemed to have 10,000 grass and mud horses running by, and he couldn't help but scold, who had always given people a sense of elegance, "Takechiyo's mind is full of tempura!" Fight with the Takeda family and fight your uncle? ”

"It's over." Yu Qiuping only felt a sense of powerlessness suddenly surging in his heart. Originally, he had 12,000 men in his hands, and Tokugawa Ieyasu had 10,000 men, which together could barely fight with the 24,000 people of the Takeda family (not counting the 3,000 reinforcements of the Hojo family) - after all, the Koshu army was the strongest army in the world, and even the Yuqiu army did not dare to hold it up. Even if the Takeda family planned to defeat Yu Qiuping first, Tokugawa Ieyasu would at least be able to help him hold back a third of the Takeda army.

But now, Tokugawa Ieyasu had Meng Lang go to war before Yu Qiuping arrived, causing the entire army to collapse, and Hamamatsu Castle might not be able to hold it immediately. Once Hamamatsu Castle is broken, the main force of the Tokugawa family will be completely annihilated, and the Yuqiu-Tokugawa coalition will lose half of its strength in an instant, and it will not be able to confront Takeda Shingen at all. Even under the search of such a powerful cavalry as Takeda Shingen, whether Tokugawa Ieyasu himself could escape was a big question. If Tokugawa Ieyasu is captured, then the Tokugawa family will definitely fall to the Takeda family, and Yu Qiuhei's own retreat will not be saved. If the Takeda family did not attack the Tokugawa family, but turned around, then Yu Qiuhei would not have faced the main force of two-thirds of the Takeda army, but would have to directly confront the entire Takeda army.

Yu Qiuping couldn't help but feel a little hoarse in his throat and swallowed his saliva. However, just as he was pondering how to clean up the battle, Honda Tadakatsu and Ryuko on the side suddenly became vigilant. Honda Tadakatsu sliced the dragonfly horizontally in front of him, and Ryuko quickly drew his knife out of its sheath, protecting Yu Qiuping, who had not recovered from his senses, behind him. With Honda Tadakatsu's order, Yu Qiuping's guards also turned over and dismounted.

Before Yu Qiuping could ask what was going on, more than a dozen ninjas rushed out of the surrounding woods in an instant, and Honda Tadakatsu and others immediately led the guards to meet the attack, forcing the fastest ninjas to retreat. However, the dozen or so ninjas were quite skilled, although they couldn't attack Yu Qiuping, but they injured two of Yu Qiuping's guards in the flash of light, and none of them were injured by the guards.

It was too late to say that it was too fast, and just when Yu Qiuping realized that the strength of these ninjas was not simple, those ninjas suddenly threw a large number of hidden weapons at Yu Qiuping. Honda Tadakatsu and Ryuko, who were standing in front of Yuqiuping, couldn't get rid of all the hidden weapons, and two shuriken came straight to Yuqiu's plane gate. Just when Yu Qiuping was panicked and was about to block it with his arm, the two kunai suddenly fell from the sky, and each of them was inserted into the hollow iron ring in the middle of the shuriken at once, nailing the two shuriken to the ground.

"Good skills." The leading attack ninja snorted coldly, and watched Uchiha Aooka emerge from the woods behind Yuqiu with a group of Yuqiu ninjas. Uchiha Aooka jumped to Yu Qiuping's side in a flash, put on his gloves very carefully, took off the shuriken that was nailed to the ground, took a look, and whispered to Yu Qiuping: "Tohari and Togakuri are both elite ninjas of the Takeda family, Your Highness be careful." ”

"What does the appearance of so many elite ninjas of the Takeda family mean here..."Yu Qiuping muttered as if he was talking to himself, "Takeda Shingen has been paying attention to my movements, so my arrival must be in his plan, and he must have the next move against me." ”

"His ninja didn't choose to lie in ambush and observe the enemy's situation, but came out directly to attack me when the success rate was not high, it must have been Takeda Shingen's arrangement. Such an aggressive strategy of action means that the strategy of the Takeda family is to actively attack..."

"The Tokugawa family has been defeated, and the Takeda family has two options right now. Either leave some people behind to delay me and prevent me from supporting Hamamatsu Castle. Then cooperate with the Hojo family, first pursue and destroy the main force of the Tokugawa army, and then directly defeat Hamamatsu Castle and completely annihilate the Tokugawa family. ”

"Either way, it is to hand over Hamamatsu Castle to the Hojo family to settle the matter, and the main forces of the Takeda family will all go north and annihilate us in the field battle while we have not yet entered the city."

"Shingen Takeda, what choice will you make?" Yu Qiuping took a deep breath, looked through the guards in front of him, the Takeda family ninja a few feet away in front of him, and looked straight at Mikatahara in the distance. After noticing the Yuqiu Army appearing more than ten miles behind him, the Takeda Army had begun to slowly stop the pace of pursuit, but was making adjustments.

"The target is me." Yu Qiuping immediately made a judgment, and at the same time ordered in a low voice: "Qinggang, don't fall in love, cover us down the mountain, we are going to withdraw the army!" ”

·

After Yu Qiuping withdrew from the mountain under the cover of the ninjas, the troops of Tokiwabei, Narudi, and Hosoyanagi also arrived at Iiya in turn. Yu Qiuping immediately issued an order to the whole army to retreat, and activated the plan that had been formulated before, retreating into the mountains from the third day, and going to the decisive battle between Shirakuhara and the Takeda family.

However, before Yu Qiuping could withdraw from Iiya, he had already seen a Takeda army come around from the eastern side of the battlefield. It was a cavalry force of about 600 people, pure cavalry.

In most Japanese armies, only a few cavalry will form alone, and most of the mounted samurai will lead and direct the infantry Ashigaru to charge together. And such a large-scale independent cavalry team, there is only one in the Takeda family-the terrifying cavalry dressed in crimson and feet dyed with dansha, which terrifies Takeda Akabei in the eastern country.

"It seems that the Takeda Army has given up attacking Hamamatsu Castle to annihilate the Tokugawa family, and instead wants the whole army to destroy us first." Yu Qiuping glanced at the Takeda family's ongoing formation adjustment, and secretly exclaimed, "Doctor Dashan is really fierce!" If it were me in his position, I would definitely be able to eliminate Tokugawa Ieyasu first, and eat the fat in my mouth first, but I wouldn't be able to get Longwangshu. Before Hamamatsu Castle was defeated, he thought about destroying the Yuqiu army as well. ”

"That's why I only defend, I don't attack, maybe I'm too steady." Yu Qiuping turned his horse's head and commanded the troops to retreat quickly, while sighing secretly, "Doctor Dashan is a doctor in the end, and his command level is not at the same level. ”

"But it's fine." Thinking of this, Yu Qiuping comforted himself and said, "Although my level is far worse than that of Dashan Doctor, I have the aura of history and have planned in advance. ”

The only thing that worries Yu Qiuping is Yu Qiujun's physical strength. They traveled all the way from Hanoi over the mountains and mountains for a month. In other words, the general army, let alone fighting at the moment, is tired and exhausted, that is, the Yuqiu army can still stand it, but the combat effectiveness will definitely be reduced. However, the Takeda army has also been marching and fighting for a long time, and it has just had a big battle with the Tokugawa family, so it must not be very strong.

As the rear team of Hosoyanagi Bei, Naruto Bei, and Tokiwa Bei changed to the front team and began to retreat to the west, the Red Reserve team led by Yama Yama Masakai also followed closely and blocked the valley mouth of the Ii Valley. Yu Qiuping was eager to see the movements of the Takeda family's army, but due to the intelligence barrier formed by the presence of the Red Reserve Army, Tanma could not go over to investigate. Yu Qiupei then tried to send the ninja to the surrounding high ground, condescending to see where the Takeda army's army had been pursued. But to his surprise, almost all the nearby highlands and hills were deployed with a large number of elite ninjas from Tobori and Togakuri, which firmly restricted Yuqiuping's vision. Those ninjas occupied a dangerous position, and the ninjas of Uchiha Aooka attacked several times in vain.

However, although Yu Qiuping could not directly see the situation of the Takeda family, Hamamatsu Castle, where Tokugawa Ieyasu was located, could condescendingly and clearly see what the Takeda family was going to do. Yu Qiuping then retreated while sending people to light wolf smoke and ask Tokugawa Ieyasu for intelligence assistance. Yu Qiuhei and Tokugawa Ieyasu were both from the Imagawa family before, and the shape and way of wolf smoke are relatively similar, so it is not a problem to understand each other. However, after waiting for a long time, Yu Qiuping was surprised to find that in the direction of Hamamatsu City, more than a dozen wisps of wolf smoke were ignited in one breath. Some say that the Takeda Army is going north, some say that the Takeda Army is moving west, some say that the Takeda Army is going south, some say that the Takeda Army is advancing eastward, some say that the Takeda Army is stepping up the siege, some say that the Takeda Army is pursuing, some say that the Takeda Army is still far away, and some say that the Takeda Army has reached the back of the buttocks... Almost all possible situations of the Takeda Army were reported.

"What's going on? Is Takechiyo's mind really stuffed with tempura? Yu Qiuping was completely dumbfounded when he saw this.

"No, Your Highness, it is obvious that Dr. Daizen has learned about the wolf smoke of the Imagawa system in advance, and recognizes the wolf smoke of His Highness as seeking intelligence assistance." Intelligence master Sanada Masayuki immediately made a judgment, "Dr. Ozen is worried that the wolf smoke rising from His Highness Tokugawa in Hamamatsu Castle will leak the information of the Takeda family, but for the time being, he can't immediately control the entire city of Hamamatsu Castle. Since there was no way to stop His Royal Highness Tokugawa from raising wolf smoke, Doctor Daizen simply raised more than a dozen strings of confused wolf smoke at the same time, so that His Highness did not know which one was real. ”

"Good fellows." Yu Qiuping gasped when he saw this, "Kibei, is there any way?" ”

"It's Dr. Dashan's handwriting, a suffocating intelligence blockade." Sanada Masayuki shook his head with a wry smile when he heard this, "Where is the way?" If my father is here, maybe I can still have a fight with Dr. Dashan. ”