Sakakihara Yasumasa fixed his eyes, it turned out to be the head of Okupei, Sakai and Osuka, he suddenly felt a stream of hot blood rushing from his chest to the back of his head, only to hear a "poof" sound, a large mouthful of blood sprayed on the face of the doctor who was bandaging, the generals immediately stepped forward to check, but was stopped by Yasuma, he poked the ground with his ether knife, stood up from the horse with great effort, and commanded: "The outer teams immediately set up a gun array, beware of the enemy's surprise attack!" ”

It wasn't until the deployment of the gun array that he was relieved to talk to Sanada Nobuyoshi on the slope: "I have heard for a long time that Sanada Anfang is good at strategy, and I never thought that the two little highnesses are also proficient in the art of war, and I really admire it." A few days ago, Izu Mamoru dragged more than 10,000 Youfu troops with a strength of 2,000 troops, won time for the retreat of the main force of our army, and won the Youfu Commendation. If he knew that his brother was here against the Tokugawa army, how would he feel? ”

"Shikibu is deceiving me for ignorance? I have already received the news that my brother and your army were separated when Hibara retreated, and his life and death are uncertain, and he wants to threaten me with him, so he really underestimates me Sanada Genjiro. Besides, since my brother decided to follow the Uchifu out of Aizu, we have parted ways, and I am afraid that Shikibu will be in vain. Xin Fan shook the ten-character spear leisurely on the slope, and the three heads also shook, and the Sanada soldiers on both sides also laughed when they saw this, "Your Highness has killed more daimyo Zhixing this time than my Sanada Zhixing, which is really a lot of gain!" As he spoke, he also instigated the soldiers on both sides to wave their flags and shout, and some even directly humiliated Sakakihara Yasumasa.

"Bastard!" When the elder of the Sakakiwara family, Nakone, saw this scene again, he suddenly couldn't hold back the anger in his heart, and he wanted to rush up the hill to fight to the death with Shin Fan with his spear, but was stopped by Sakakihara Yasuma. His expression was solemn at the moment, his eyes revealed a murderous aura, and there were several fires burning in his heart, but he was not carried away by anger, but continued to say to Shin Fan as if nothing happened: "Do you know that behind me are more than 20,000 Tokugawa troops? Now that Anfang Shou has burned down the city, how long will you be able to hold out if our army storms Ming Walnut?"

When Xin Fan heard this, he immediately laughed: "Storm the famous walnut? This Royal Highness of the Shikibe family has a deep understanding, do you want to ask him, how can this Hu Tao be so easy to capture? Saying that, Nobu Fan took off the head of Osuga Tadamasa, pretending to throw it to Sakakihara Yasumasa, but he refused to start, but shook his hair in a bun: "I wanted to return the young master's head to the Shikibu, but the Shikibu Fang's words were not small, so let's do it, I will bring back the name Kuruma first, if you really want it, come over and get it quickly, and it will be sent back to Ueda Castle to receive the battle merits." With that, Nobuyhiro shouted and rode his horse north, while the Sanada soldiers first insulted the Tokugawa army, and then swaggered away from the top of the slope, and the sides of the street returned to peace.

At this moment, the Tokugawa generals were full of righteous indignation, and they all asked Sakakihara Yasumasa to ask for help, hoping to lead the army to pursue the Sanada army and conquer the famous walnut to avenge the sacrifice of the soldiers. But without exception, all of them were rejected by Sakakihara Yasumasa, he looked at the surrounding terrain, and said calmly: "If it weren't for our army to respond with guns at this moment, I might have ended up with the same fate as Okuhei and Sakai." Sanada Xiao'er's words just now don't need to be worried, obviously seeing that the surprise attack failed, he hurt each other with words, in order to lead our army to pursue, as for what we will face in the past, we don't know at all...... Presumably, Zhongzheng fell for this trick before he died in Huangquan. At present, our cavalry is completely lost, and it is not suitable for the pursuit of this kind of mobile warfare, and the top priority at the moment is to meet with the Lord as soon as possible to discuss how to deal with it next, and must not delay here for too long and miss the big event. ”

"What about the young master's head, do you just let them ravage?" Nakane was unwilling to face the fact that Tadamasa Osuka had died in battle.

"Of course the head will be taken back, but not now." Sakakihara Yasumasa gritted his teeth and secretly vowed: "One day, I will let the Sanada clan be martyred for Tadamasa and thousands of Tokugawa soldiers!" ”

However, things did not go as Sakakihara Yasumasa thought, and Nobushigeru did not intend to stick to Nagoma, but led all his army of about 800 people to make a detour to Numata Castle, preparing to attack the cage castle at Numata Castle.

"I didn't expect to catch three big fish." In Numata Castle, Sanada Shogun said excitedly as he inspected the head with Masayuki. Shin Fan also fought very beautifully in this battle, and he said excitedly to Masayuki: "Osuka Tadamasa was too light on the enemy, and was killed by the ambush soldiers outside the famous walnut city, and the cavalry under his command was also completely annihilated; Sakakihara Shikibu let his sons insult him, but he didn't dare to send troops to pursue, this father could expect it, and his sons really admired it! ”

"What is there to admire," Chang Xing waved his hand and said calmly: "After two ambushes, three generals were killed, and the main cavalry force was lost, what did he use to chase you?" Then again, even if the cavalry is still there, but he has suffered two losses and does not know the specific strength of our army, he will not dare to act rashly. Now it is estimated that the Tokugawa main camp has been withdrawn eastward to resume its life, and the next thing is to see how the inner government chooses. ”

In the early morning of the 25th, Sakakiwara Yasumasa led his troops to Tokugawa Honjin and told Tokugawa Ieyasu what had happened.

However, what he did not expect was that instead of being burned down, Numata Castle was still standing under the banner of Sanada Rokubunen, and the soldiers were waiting at the head of the castle, as if they were going to confront the Tokugawa army head-on. This scene made Sakakiwara Yasumasa, who had previously believed that Numata Castle had been destroyed, ashamed, and he directly asked Ieyasu for his life, hoping to lead his troops to storm Numata Castle and make atonement for his crimes.

Tokugawa Ieyasu did not reprimand, but asked him to lead his troops to take Kamada and stop at it, firstly, to warn the Sanada family that they had the strength to capture Numata Castle and not to gain an inch; The second is to deploy the temple army here to prevent the Sanada army from going out of the city to pursue and disrupt his own plan. In fact, Masayuki had previously decided not to attack the Tokugawa army along the way, for the simple reason that after two sneak attacks, it was bound to strengthen its defenses, and the two armies had already converged, so it was impossible to inflict the same damage as last night; He was also considered two hundred cavalry in this battle, which was also a big loss for the Sanada family, and Ueda Castle was in a difficult situation, so he had to rush to the aid as soon as possible, otherwise the gains would outweigh the losses.

Fearing a sneak attack by the Sanada army, Ieyasu decided to take a long detour to Minowa Castle, which took a whole day to slow down, but fortunately, most of the defenders of Minowa Castle went to Aizu with Fukushima Masanori, and the castle defense was weak, and when the Tokugawa army of more than 20,000 troops arrived, Joyo surrendered the castle with a little resistance, and it did not take much time, and Ieyasu also let the family members in the castle go to Kanayama Castle as agreed.

On the 29th, after a day of repairs, the army continued to advance eastward, but without thinking, it encountered stubborn resistance from Yukinaga Asano and Terumasa Ikeda in Matsuida.

On this day, the situation of Kaizu Castle has become very serious, after the Ishikawa army conquered Mt. Tsuma and Nyo the day before, this morning the Horiya army broke through the Chikuma River defense line, after a morning of fierce fighting, all the strongholds outside the city were occupied, and Gamo Yorigo withdrew the remnants into the city, determined to defend the castle to the death.