The sound of Azen's battle soon alarmed Sakakihara Yasumasa, and when he learned from the scout that he had been attacked by the Sanada army, he slapped his thigh heavily and angrily scolded, "You shouldn't let the vertical man be in the limelight!" Now, instead of making meritorious contributions, I have put my life into it, so how can I face the lord, how to face the deceased Zhongji and Xinchang! ”

Seeing that Sakakihara Yasumasa was so indignant, his subordinate soldiers were also excited, and they immediately rushed to avenge the dead soldiers when Yasumasa gave an order.

"Zhongzheng, immediately lead the main cavalry to Azen to support, if it is really as the scouts found that there are only four hundred horsemen, then this surprise attack of the Sanada army should be the back hand left by Anfang Mamoru in order to prevent our army from pursuing, and it can be defeated with a single charge, so there is nothing to fear." Saying that, Sakakihara Yasumasa handed over the marriage to his eldest son, Tadashi Osuka, who had previously passed on to the Osuka clan of the famous Mikawa family, and he himself led the Ashigami troops to the rear of His Palace, and at the same time sent someone to inform Tokugawa Ieyasu who was in the rear of the battle situation.

Osuga Tadamasa was only nineteen years old, due to the early death of his adoptive father Osuga Yasao, in recent years has been staying by Yasumasa's side, after years of experience, the ability should not be underestimated, Hibara Battle had one enemy five, cleared the way for Yasumasa to break through, won the trust of Yasumasa and Sakakihara generals.

Taking over the match from Kang Zheng, Zhongzheng nodded solemnly, and immediately led a thousand horsemen to the rescue of Azen.

At this time, it is not an exaggeration to describe the purgatory in the world, not to mention the projectiles that continue to shoot out of the Maimaimaru out of the horse, which penetrates the flesh and blood of the Tokugawa army who tried to break through to the slopes on both sides, and it is the unscrupulous slashing of the Sanada cavalry in the crowd that also makes the battlefield splashed with blood, and the corpses are all over the field, and the two generals of Okuhei and Sakai were killed in succession, which greatly destroyed the morale of the Tokugawa army, and after a while, the troops of 1,400 people were wiped out, and the only few remaining cavalry shuttled back and forth in the battle array, Relying on horse combat to kill part of the Sanada army, he won some dignity for the Mikawa samurai.

Sanada Nobuyoshi didn't care too much about whether he could completely defeat this vanguard force, and he gathered dozens of guards to come to the east side of the encirclement and wait for the storm.

"The Samurai of the Three Rivers is here, and Sanada Kid is here to die!" Sure enough, it didn't take long for Osuka Tadamasa to lead the main force of the Tokugawa cavalry to arrive, roaring and rushing to the front of the battle, vowing to wipe out all the Sanada army.

Seeing this, Sanada Nobuhiro immediately shouted to Tadamasa: "I am Sanada Genjiro Nobushi, the general of this surprise attack, and there is a gift for His Highness opposite!" With that, Nobuyoshi threw a burden in front of Osuka Tadamasa's horse, and Tadamasa picked up the burden with a gun, and when he opened it, he saw that it was the head of Sakai and Okuhei.

Shin Fan did not intend to entangle with it, but quickly led his troops to take advantage of the chaos of the battlefield to cross the battlefield from east to west, made a sharp turn near Azeng, and fled due north along the path. Immediately afterwards, the Sanada army on the battlefield and in Azen also began to retreat along the mountain road on the northern slope, and seemed to have converged with Shinshi.

"Where does this lead to?" Tadashi did not follow up rashly, but first questioned the scouts.

"All the way north is the branch of Numata Castle, called Walnut." The scout replied.

"Peach City?" Chungzheng pondered for a moment and analyzed: "Now that Numata Castle has been abandoned, this cavalry that attacked our army must have no way to retreat, so they went there. Thinking about it like this, maybe they hid in Minghu Tao before, and only went out of the city to attack when our army got close, what a group of hateful guys. ”

"My lord, do you want to go back to Shikibu now?" A samurai asked.

Tadamasa looked at the dead and wounded Tokugawa soldiers on the battlefield and the heads of Opei and Sakai hanging on the saddle, clenched his fists, and said indignantly: "Father Fang Cai has analyzed that this surprise attack force is only 400 people at most, and there were many casualties just now, we must not let them return to the city for refuge, we must take off the head of Sanada Nobushihiro, and avenge my more than 1,000 soldiers!" ”

"Obedience!" The samurai's eldest brother unfortunately died in this battle, and when he saw that Tadashi insisted on pursuing him, he no longer stopped him. In addition to leaving 100 people to clean the battlefield and rescue the wounded, the rest of the soldiers were killed from the small road to the famous walnut city.

After a while, the casualties of the First Battle of Aso were settled, and Sakakihara Yasumasa learned from the mouth of the military commissioner that the Tokugawa army had lost 1,100 killed and 90 wounded, and 210 were still able to fight; The Sanada army lost 89 casualties, including 72 cavalry and 17 iron artillery, and the casualty ratio between the two sides reached 13 to 1.

"On my command, the army will continue to advance, and I want to see what this Numtian city has burned to the ground. I also informed Tadamasa that it was enough to defeat the enemy army, and that there was no need to destroy them all, and that I would take the head of that kid from the Sanada family and come to Numata to meet me. After the deployment, Sakakihara Yasumasa immediately led the remaining 2,600 troops to continue to advance.

As the distance from Azen got closer and closer, the smell of blood in the air became stronger and stronger, Yasumasa tried to sniff, it seemed that there was the soul of a Tokugawa soldier in the air, and he couldn't help but shed two lines of tears when he smelled it: "I haven't even arrived at Numata Castle to encounter such an accident, I really don't know if the road behind will be more dangerous, is my Tokugawa family really destiny?" ”

"Woohoo!" I only heard a few crisp gunshots suddenly coming from the grass on both sides of the road, but fortunately, Sakakihara Yasumasa was fine, but his shoulder was grazed by the projectile, but his mount was hit by several bullets, and with a "plop", his front legs collapsed to the ground, and he lost his breath after a few big gasps.

"There are assassins!" Yasuma's retainers immediately surrounded him in the middle and sent several ashigaru teams up the hill to search for snipers.

"Damn, it's definitely a ninja from the Sanada family." Kang Zheng gritted his teeth and said, "I'm here to see what other strategies he has to stop our army from marching!" ”

Kang Zheng performed a simple bandage with the help of his retainers, but fortunately it was only a skin injury, which did not prevent him from continuing to command the troops to advance.

But at this moment, with a few loud "booms", several boulders rolled down from the top of the slope on both sides, and finally smashed heavily into the street, and nearly 100 ashigaru, including the mountain search team, were stoned to death. Although there were not many casualties, due to the previous raid, these ashigaru had long been silent, and now they were smashed by the boulder, and they were even more panicked, and many people began to hug their heads and run around, and because the rear of the team was also occupied by the boulder, a large number of ashigaru were crowded into the narrow mouth, completely ignoring whether there would be other bombardment.

"Anfang Shou is not blocking the advance of our army, but wants to put our army to death!" Kang Zheng suddenly realized: "It's me who underestimated the Sanada family, passed on my order, and the army immediately retreated and joined the main force!" ”

"What about Tadamasa-sama?" The military general asked suddenly.

Kang Zheng waved his hand and replied indifferently: "He has his own measure, and after so many battles, we still have a tacit understanding." ”

"Sure enough, there is a tacit understanding, Shikibe-sama, see who I brought for you?!" Kang Zheng's back was cold, and he hurriedly followed the sound to look at the top of the hillside, only to see Sanada Nobuyoshi sitting on a horse, casually swaying the three heads hanging on the gun, and said leisurely: "If Shikibu feels that several adults are lonely under the spring, Nobuyoshi is willing to send the adults down to accompany them for a ride!" ”