"Nabe Nosuke, Ryuko, pack up your things, we're going to get ready to withdraw!" Yu Qiuping returned to the tent and immediately asked the attendants to pack up the things in the tent. When Ryuko heard the order, he immediately quickly put the map, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, oil lamp and other things into boxes and bags. Since having Longzi go out with Yu Qiuping, Yu Qiuping immediately felt that his living environment had improved a lot. The careful and considerate Longzi takes care of people more than his original guards, and takes care of everything in an orderly manner, and Yu Qiuping is now a little inseparable from her.

Although Honda Tadakatsu is the captain of Yu Qiuping's guard, he generally doesn't do these chores, as if he feels that these are against the identity of a samurai.

"Your Highness, why did you arrive only before yesterday and leave today?" Ryuko asked timidly as he collected his belongings.

"Because the enemy is coming," Yu Qiuping smiled and touched Longzi's little head, "There are thousands of enemies from the west, all of them are coming to Inabayama Castle, if we don't leave, we will be blocked here!" ”

"Is it so scary?" When Longzi heard Yu Qiuping say such a scary thing, the speed of collecting things in his hands suddenly accelerated, which made Yu Qiuping laugh.

"Don't worry, as long as we evacuate Inabayama Castle quickly, they won't be able to catch up with us." Yu Qiuping comforted with a smile.

At four o'clock in the afternoon of May 20, 1563, the Oda family began to evacuate from Inabayama Castle. In order to leave Inabayama Castle as soon as possible, Oda Nobunaga ordered all divisions to quickly move south along the official road directly in a marching formation, so as to avoid being blocked by the combined forces of the Nishimino clan at Inabayama Castle. Oda Nobunaga himself led the evacuation as the vanguard, and the long serpentine march formation of the Oda family's army stretched for miles along the official road, interspersed with a large number of auxiliary soldiers carrying heavy loads in carts and poles.

All the improvised siege equipment was too late to be transported back, and all of them were abandoned by Oda Nobunaga in Inabayama Castle. Due to heavy rain, the Oda army was unable to ignite the siege equipment when it was evacuated in a hurry.

At less than two o'clock in the afternoon, the army of the Oda army arrived in the city of Ghana. At this time, reinforcements from Higashimino also arrived in Ghana City and began to attack Ghana City. Sakuma Nobumori led his troops to resist stubbornly, and the reinforcements of Higashimino, who did not have enough siege equipment, did not have a good way for them. Oda Nobunaga was afraid that the night would be long and dreamy, and he was worried that the allied forces of the wealthy clan in Nishimino would rush to Inabayama Castle and pursue him, so he did not choose to support Kana Castle, but directly bypassed Kana Castle from the west, and retreated south along the Nagara River, towards the Shijujo area to the south. He gave an order to Sakuma Nobumori that after holding on for a while, he could abandon the castle and retreat to keep up with the main army.

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In the early days, on a hill in the West Light Sea area of Ximinon.

A young man with a handsome and elegant face was standing on the top of a pavilion on the top of the mountain, holding an oil-paper umbrella, quietly listening to the rhythmic sound of raindrops falling on the umbrella surface.

Suddenly, the rhythm of the sound of raindrops suddenly became chaotic, and the umbrella in his hand shook slightly.

The wind is blowing.

"Lord Takenaka," one of the attendants behind him walked out of the pavilion, "the wind is blowing, do you want to go back to the pavilion." ”

"Not necessarily." Shigeharu Takenaka shook his head lightly and continued to look at the vast plain.

The wind rises and eight gusts come out.

The show is about to begin.

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In the next five minutes, Oda Nobunaga received a report that the defenders of Inabayama Castle had moved south from Inoguchi Town, carrying a large number of siege equipment, to attack Ghana Castle and pursue the retreating Oda army. Oda Nobunaga understood that the combined forces of the Nishimino clan were estimated to have all arrived near Inabayama Castle, so Saito Ryuko would be so confident in launching an attack. Oda Nobunaga asked Sakuma Nobumori to lead his troops to evacuate the city of Ghana immediately, so as not to be surrounded and suppressed by the 7,000-strong army of Nishimino. Oda Nobunaga, who was worried about being caught up in the territory of Mino, also ordered his troops to speed up the march, and the march dragged on longer and longer, and the distance between the troops widened.

However, to everyone's surprise, just as the former army of Oda Nobunaga arrived in the Shijujo area on the east bank of the Nagara River and was about to continue south, behind a hill on the west bank of the Nagara River, an army of the Saito family suddenly bypassed out! They had already completed the formation, and they crossed the river from the two bridges on the Nagara River with great vigour, and they were heading for Oda Nobunaga's department! Look at the banner, it is the department of the Naoyuan family of one of the three people of Ximinon!

"There's an ambush!" Oda Nobunaga was shocked that he would be ambushed by the Nishimino clan here! They came from afar, and their knowledge of geography was far less than that of these local wealthy families in Mino, and it was inevitable that they would be ambushed. However, all of his men lined up on the official road, and they still maintained the formation of marching troops. The auxiliaries were mixed together, and most of the armor of the soldiers was mounted on the trolleys and poles of the auxiliaries, and it was too late!

The Oda family's ashigaru hurriedly put on armor to meet the battle, and before they could complete the formation, the Saito family's army came forward. There were 500 soldiers in the Naomoto department of the clan, and they crashed straight into the Oda army. The Oda family's thin marching line dragged on too long, and there was no way to cope with the flank attack, and the team was cut off from the center at once, and Oda Nobunaga himself happened to be south of the truncated position, and suddenly lost contact with the troops of the various retainers of the Oda family who followed him! Oda Ie, who had lost contact with his boss, suddenly fell into a panic.

"What's going on up ahead!" Yu Qiuping, who was in the position of the Chinese army, could only see the position of the front army in the south, and the banner of the clan Naogen and the papaya banner of the Oda family intersected. He couldn't help but shout in surprise: "Isn't it time for the wealthy clan of Nishimino to go to the aid of Mt. Inaba!" How can there be an ambush here! ”

Before the words fell, there was a huge commotion at the bridge in the northwest. Yu Qiuping turned around in surprise, only to see that on a bridge located in the northwest direction, there was actually the banner of the Saito family's troops shaking—that was the banner of not breaking the light rule! Another lined reserve came out from behind the hillside, and at this moment it was passing the bridge over the Nagara River and was heading towards the rear army of the Oda family, Ikeda Hengxing! Ikeda Hengxing's original task was to escort the baggage, and at this moment all the soldiers basically maintained a marching formation, no one was wearing carcass, and the headquarters was mixed with grain trucks, auxiliaries, and a large number of pots and pans, and there was no power to resist at all!

"Tokiwabi! Line up now! Yu Qiuping hurriedly gave the order. The ashigaru people who used to prepare for it were already wearing their feet because of the lack of auxiliaries, but at this moment, it just happened to be convenient. They left the official road from the west side, came to the wasteland on the west side of the official road, and immediately completed the formation by skillful queue change. Yu Qiuping didn't say much, and immediately broke away from the Chinese army, and went to the rear army in reverse, relieving Ikeda Hengxing of the siege.

As soon as the baggage team of the Oda family's rear army saw the fierce Saito family's army slaughtering them unarmed, many of them immediately scattered like birds and beasts, and fled in a safe southeast direction. He was also unceremonious, and immediately sent the cavalry team under his command to chase down and drive away these auxiliary soldiers who fled in embarrassment. Ikeda's headquarters was defeated by deserters, and was about to be defeated by Furu Mitsuji without a defense. At the critical moment, Chang Panbei arrived in time. 400 soldiers lined up in a neat array of guns and slaughtered towards the flank of the Immortal Light Division. Fupo Koji was surprised that Yu Qiuping's department could make such a quick adjustment to the battle formation, and he didn't dare to slack off, so he had to give up the pursuit of Ikeda Hengxing's department and turn to meet Yu Qiuping.

The troops who did not break the house were indeed rumored to be a strong force that dared to fight, and they actually resisted Chang Panbei's offensive for a while. Yu Qiuping's counterattack bought Ikeda Hengxing precious time, and he hurriedly relied on the official road to line up, preparing to fight with Yu Qiuping's subordinates without breaking the light rule.

However, before Ikeda could take action, smoke and dust immediately rose from the official road to the north. Yu Qiuping looked at it and immediately saw that it was the banner of Ando who came to pursue! The heavy rain had severely affected the field of vision, so that the two previous ambushed forces had not been detected for a long time, and the Saito family force from the north had already approached so close that Ikeda Hengxing had only just noticed it. That force was outnumbered, estimated to have nearly 2,000 men, six or seven hundred soldiers, and the weak Ikeda Hengxing had only 400 men, more than 100 soldiers, and they were no match at all. As soon as they fought, they immediately fell into disadvantage!

Yu Qiuping felt bad! Because Ando Morisho is from Inabayama Castle! It is very likely that he will follow the main force of the Nishimino Hao Clan Coalition that went to save Inabayama Castle before! Seeing this, he immediately ordered his troops to increase their offensive, intending to defeat the Bupo Koji headquarters before the army arrived, and then immediately cover Ikeda Hengxing to retreat together.

However, Ikeda's forces were defeated faster than he had imagined! Mamoru Ando, who was outnumbered, quickly commanded his subordinates to encircle Ikeda's fragile flanks from the right side of the official road, crushing Ikeda's battle line in one fell swoop. Ikeda's headquarters collapsed at once, and he fled to the south of the official road!

His retreat was a bad thing, and as the pursuing Ando Mamoru continued to move south, the flank of Tokiwa Bei, who was fighting on the west side of the official road and the headquarters of the unbroken light office, would also be exposed. Yu Qiuping hurriedly ordered the platoon of Mizuatom Jing and Mizenzaki Nakahide to immediately adjust their ranks and turn to the right, only to block Ando's side attack. However, Yu Qiuping's situation at the moment was extremely dangerous, and he was surrounded by a narrow area on the west side of the official road and on the east bank of the Nagara River. It seems that Ando's troops are trying to make a detour back to the south side of Yuqiuping and completely encircle and annihilate Yuqiuping here!

Yu Qiuping did not dare to hold it up, so he hurriedly ordered his subordinates to turn their backs to the river, laid out a semi-circular formation, covered the auxiliary soldiers and cavalry on the inner side of the circle, and fought and retreated. Ikeda seemed to sense the danger of Yu Qiuping, and personally led dozens of soldiers who could still be mobilized to launch a counterattack on Ando's place of Mashojima, which moved Yu Qiuping but was a drop in the bucket. Mamoru Ando immediately dispatched a hundred soldiers and his cavalry team to surround them, and Ikeda Hengxing was also in a desperate situation. His dozens of men were even more embarrassed than Yu Qiuping's troops, and Ikeda Hengxing himself was in danger of being taken over.

However, Ikeda Hengxing's decisive assault made Ando's lineup a little loose! If he wants, he can force his way through from the south right now!

What to do!