Shima Kiyoko has 5,000 troops in his hands, plus 100 people from Hineno Hirosaku, and the total strength is roughly the same as Uesugi Keikatsu's 1,000 men. However, in terms of combat effectiveness, Shima Kiyoshi's iron wall is known for its perseverance, and at the beginning in Korea it was able to resist the Ming army several times its size, and finally withdrew from the battlefield safely without the main force being damaged.

In the confrontation with such a hard-headed army, not only Uesugi Keikatsu, but even the resourceful Naoe Kanesugu had no good strategy, and at the critical juncture when the temple army was completely wiped out and Toyotomi's pursuers were about to come, Uesugi Keikatsu made a desperate bet and decided to attack the relatively weak Hineno Hiroshi Division, using this as a breakthrough to break through to southern Sichuan.

How could Shima Kiyoko, who had been in battle for a long time, not understand Uesugi Keikatsu's thoughts, behind Hineno Hirosaku's army, he deliberately planted 300 iron walls to help, and with the support of these 300 iron walls, the mouth that the Uesugi army had finally torn apart was blocked again. Not only that, the other departments of Shima Kiyoko also took the opportunity to launch a counterattack against the Uesugi army, causing heavy casualties, and the few remaining fierce generals of the Uesugi clan, Yasuda Nomoto, who won the victory of Inomata Village, also died in the battle, and the army was on the verge of collapse, but perhaps it was the immortal Uesugi who was not dying, and at the critical moment when the Toyotomi army was approaching step by step, the arrival of Tayoshimasa changed the situation dramatically.

Due to the secret communication with Tokugawa Ieyasu, Tayoshimasa was deliberately defeated by the Uesugi army, which was eager to break through, and withdrew the army from Ninomaru and returned to the Tsuruhara Plateau. Shima Kiyoxing was suspicious of Tian's rapid defeat, so he was reluctant to take him with him to besiege the Uesugi army. This deliberate alienation made Tayoshimasa feel that the matter was exposed, and from the previous contact with Kobayakawa Hideaki, he learned that Tokugawa Ieyasu had conquered Furukawa Shrine. and Hideho went to war at Hinobara, which prompted Tayoshi Masato to take a desperate step and decided to form an alliance with Uesugi and Kobayakawa to contain the Toyotomi army in northern Sichuan, and then create conditions for Tokugawa Ieyasu's victory. And add chips to the post-war bounty.

The 300da army galloped down from the Tsurubara Plateau, and at this most critical juncture, it dealt a heavy blow to Shima Kiyoshi. Although he was suspicious of Tian Yoshimasa before, Dao Kiyoshi felt that with his timid character, he did not dare to turn back at this critical juncture, so he did not make more arrangements for the Tsuruhara area. This strategic mistake gave Tian Yoshimasa an opportunity to take advantage of it, and the 3,000-strong army, like a sudden flood, violently attacked the right flank of Shima Kiyoshi, without defense. Defeated several reserve teams and approached the main team of Shima Kiyoxing.

However, the stubborn resistance of the iron wall gradually resisted the attack of the Tian army, and Tayoshi Masato saw that the purpose of the raid on the island Kiyoko's main team was difficult to achieve, so he sent someone to inform Uesugi Keikatsu, who was fighting on the left flank, and asked him to lead his troops to join his army and go south to join forces with Kobayakawa Hideaki of Utagawa Village. After that, he will deal with Shima Qingxing and the pursuers who will follow.

Taking advantage of the time when the iron wall was ready to transfer reinforcements to the right flank, he decisively led his troops to withdraw from the battlefield on the left flank, moved east to the position already occupied by the Tian army according to Tayoshimasa's instructions, joined forces with Tayoshi Masa, and went south in an attempt to seize the dirt road on the Yukawa River and flee to Utagawaso.

At this time, Shima Kiyoshiko, although he was not succeeded by Tian Yoshimasa's raid on his own team, the collapse of the right flank still made him suspend the pursuit of Tian and Uesugi armies. In just two quarters of an hour, nearly 1,000 troops and nearly 100 battle-hardened retainers and warriors were lost. Even so, Shima Kiyoshi was not hot-headed, and in order to prevent the combined forces of Tian and Uesugi from moving south, he immediately sent people to Kobayakawa Hideaki in southern Sichuan through a small road, and asked Kobayakawa Hideaki to cross the river to participate in the battle. Destroy the coalition forces with the pursuing troops of Toyotomi who came after them.

Knowing that Tian Yoshimasa took the lead in defecting, Kobayakawa Hideaki couldn't help but gasp: "Who gave him the courage to dare to fight against the water in this situation?!" ”

The "situation" that Kobayakawa refers to is that the fall of Wakamatsumomaru and the fact that the Uesugi army has a strong enemy in front of it and pursuers behind it, and no one in his thinking who is a little more normal will bet on Uesugi Keikatsu in such a one-sided situation. But Kobayakawa Hideaki felt that Tayoshimasa didn't seem to realize that the big ship of the Uesugi clan was about to capsize, but instead changed his cowardly nature, and gave Shima Kiyoshi a heavy blow at the most critical moment, taking the first step that Kuroda, Satake, Shimazu, and even himself did not dare to take, and this spirit of "daring to be the first" suddenly put Kobayakawa Hideaki in a dilemma.

Will they cross the river to start a war with Uesugi and Ada, or will they join forces with them and go south to support Tokugawa Ieyasu? In the face of this sudden change, Kobayakawa Hideaki showed a sharp decision-making power like a general: he immediately sent someone to blow up the dirt road connecting Inomata Village and Utagawaso, so that the army in northern Sichuan could not pass through it to reach southern Sichuan.

This decision was made based on the following two considerations: first, as Hidebo's side, blowing up the dirt road could prevent the Uesugi and Tian coalition forces from moving south, which was conducive to the pursuit of the coalition forces by the follow-up pursuers, which was a great achievement; Secondly, as the Tokugawa side, it can be falsely claimed that the bombing road is to block the southward movement of the Toyotomi army and buy time for Hinohara's war, although at the expense of Uesugi Keikatsu and Tayoshimasa, but from the overall consideration, especially when the troops are at a disadvantage, this can also be said to be a helpless choice to take into account the overall situation, so it will not be liquidated by the Tokugawa army after the war; The main thing is that this can avoid weakening the strength of Kobayakawa's army and accumulate enough capital for Kobayakawa Hideaki's own ambitions in advance.

With a series of loud noises, the dirt road that had been paved with great difficulty collapsed into the billowing Yukawa in a cloud of dust, and Kobayakawa Hideaki stood in the south of the river, staring at the Yukawa that had changed color due to the mud and sand, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Since then, there has been no obstacle to the situation of the family, and we can wait for the emergence of the winner of the Hibara side with peace of mind." Kobayakawa Hideaki stood tall and stroked his beard with affection. Yes, in today's southern Sichuan, in addition to the Tokugawa and Toyotomi armies, only he Kobayakawa Hideaki's army is the strongest, and after the first two fought and lost both, he can completely reap the benefits as a savior, take this world into his pocket, and achieve the hegemony of his dreams.

Perhaps hearing a strange noise on the banks of the Yugawa River, the 300 pioneers of the Uesugi and Tian coalition forces accelerated their march and finally arrived at the ferry port south of Inomata Village two quarters of an hour later. To their surprise, the boats had been burned and the dirt road had collapsed into the river in sections, leaving only more than two meters from the shore, telling them that it was once the only road to southern Sichuan.

He returned to his team without stopping, and reported the situation on the shore to Uesugi Keikatsu and Tian Yoshimasa. At this time, the coalition army had lost the strong morale of the victory over Shima Kiyoxing, on the contrary, after learning that the 30,000 troops led by Shimazu Yoshihiro and Kuroda Nagamasa had cleared the remnants of the Uesugi army around Wakamatsu and were chasing him south, Tayoshi Masato began to regret the previous backlash, and the retainers and samurai under his command were also shaken by the army's morale.

Tian Yoshimasa is also a daimyo at all, and he is very dissatisfied with Uesugi Keikatsu's practice of controlling his military situation by setting up a prison army, especially after Uesugi Kagekatsu's supervisor army killed more than a dozen Tian family sergeants who tried to escape. At this time, he learned that the way out to escape to southern Sichuan was cut off, and the only way to survive was to fight against the water, and the resulting despair was mixed with all kinds of previous resentment, so that Tian Yoshimasa made a risky decision - the battlefield defection, that is, he took the initiative to ask Ying to be the vanguard of the Uesugi army, and temporarily defected when he fought against the Toyotomi army, and counterattacked Uesugi Keikatsu as the vanguard of the Toyotomi army, so as to minimize the punishment after the war.

This was Tian Yoshimasa's last chance, he gritted his teeth fiercely, looked at the battle flag with a knotted family crest hanging behind him, and said firmly: "No matter what, I, Sasaki Genji, Tian Liu, must not be cut off here!" "Two rebellions a day is an absolute shame for the samurai, but Tian Yoshimasa still decided to rather bear the infamy in exchange for the continuation of the family name, which may be the difference between the daimyo from the peasant family and ordinary people.