Knowing that the situation was urgent, Okubo Shinemon and Onoda naturally chose this path near the Yodo River.

The Osaka Plain is known for its large number of rivers, and there are many small rivers that flow into the Yodo River along the way, so the swamps, wetlands, and miscellaneous forests on both sides of the Yodo River are the most densely populated areas.

The development of such land was labor-intensive and time-consuming, so only a small part of the land near the Yodogawa River was turned into paddy fields.

In order to reach Hirakatajude as soon as possible to quell the chaos, Okubo Shinemon and Onoda divided their troops into three parts. The first team of 150 people moved forward lightly, mainly responsible for the situation on the road ahead; The second team of 450 people advanced at a normal speed and was responsible for receiving the first team; The third team, 900 men, marched at a speed that conserved physical strength and was also the main force.

The road from the old camp downstream to the Hirakata lodging field upstream was about 15 kilometers, and when Okubo Shinemon reinforcements walked nearly two-thirds of the way, they were attacked by Li Chenfang's troops who were lying in ambush in the woods next to the road.

The attack site was in front of a swampy wetland, and the patient Li Chenfang spared the first two teams of men and attacked the main force led by Okubo Shinemon.

Matsuura Nobumoto and Numata Kanichi and two brigades were dismantled into six squadrons by Li Chenfang and ambushed in the reeds and miscellaneous forests nearly a kilometer long.

The attack began at the end of the reinforcement team, and when Okubo Shinemon, who was walking in front of the group, tried to return to the rear to command, the front of the group was also attacked, causing the soldiers in the middle of the group to be confused.

When Okubo Shinemon had not yet judged that the enemy's main force was in that direction, Li Chenfang personally led two squadrons to storm the middle part of this team. The Shogunate Army, which had already begun to be chaotic, was immediately shaken, and many people gave up resistance and turned around and jumped off the embankment.

The battle ended in fifteen minutes, with 600 men ambushing 900 men, still in a completely defenseless state, where were these untrained vassals the opponents of the battle-hardened 2nd Coastal Defense Battalion.

When Okubo Shinemon saw that the team had been driven off the road and completely lost his command, he broke through his own resistance with the help of a small group of samurai and ran to the front to join the squadron led by Onoda Yuku.

In addition to more than 100 dead and wounded, hundreds of fugitives who jumped into the Yodo River, and some soldiers who escaped with Okubo Shinemon, this unit was eventually captured by Li Chenfang with nearly 600 men.

After defeating this unit, Li Chenfang didn't care about cleaning up the battlefield, so he ordered Numata Kanichi to clean up the battlefield with a squadron, while he and Matsuura Nobumoto took the remaining five squadrons to pursue the direction of the escape of Okubo Shinemon and some other personnel.

Onoda, who was walking in the middle of the road, bowed, and when he heard the sound of gunfire coming from behind, he ordered to stop his advance, and sent someone to summon the first group of people who had opened the road in front of him.

However, the team led by Li Chenfang pursued too quickly, and Onoda's subordinates had just seen Okubo Shinemon.

Onoda's subordinates, who had just put up a defensive formation, only resisted one round of charges, and were broken through three rows of horizontal lines in a row by these excited enemy troops.

Although Okubo Shinemon did not continue to run, the men he brought with him were so frightened that they fled again, and Onoda bowed to Onoda, who was struggling to stabilize the formation, and immediately found that his subordinates were also fleeing, and no one was willing to follow his command and go to block the enemy's attack.

Li Chenfang's troops were like a heated dinner knife cutting butter, and silently divided Onoda's subordinates into two halves. Most of the soldiers who were forced down the embankment were captured, and those who fled into the woods and swamps mostly escaped.

Although Okubo Shinemon pulled Onoda to bow and fled again, when they joined up with the front team, the soldiers around them were only in their early 200s. Okubo Shinemon looked at the enemy troops who were organizing their ranks in the distance and preparing to launch another attack on their men, and at the soldiers around him who showed a look of fear, and finally decided to surrender.

Before Onoda could wake up from the defeat he had just woken up, he heard this decision that shocked him even more, and he grabbed the samurai who was about to deliver the message, and yelled at Okubo Shinemon, "Are you crazy? Those people are not deserters, they must be Osaka rebels, do you want us to all be considered rebels by the shogunate? ”

Although Okubo Shinemon's face was pale, he still insisted: "If we lose a whole army, even if we escape, we will be ordered to cut our stomach, which is difficult." If we surrender to the other side, we still have a way to live, and if we don't surrender, we will be finished now. ”

Onoda looked at Okubo Shinemon in surprise and said, "If we die here, the shogunate will probably spare our families and surrender these rebels, what will be the way to live?" ”

Okubo Shinemon swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "Since the Osaka rebels were able to ambush us here, it can be seen that the Hirakata Lodge was taken by them. The army at the front was cut off from the food routes, and where was there a chance for victory.

If even Iiten is defeated, and the shogunate can't guarantee that if peace talks with Osaka are not held, won't we have a way out? Why die here for nothing? ”

When Okubo Shinemon defended his decision, he also quietly gave his subordinates a look. As soon as he finished speaking, several samurai came up and hugged Onoda as a bow, and persuaded him: "Lord Onoda, there is a saying among the Chinese, the green mountains left behind are not afraid of no firewood..."

Onoda's subordinates all stood in place, and no one stepped forward to help him get out of trouble, and Onoda could only watch as the messenger who delivered the surrender message ran towards the opposite side.

From last night to now, it has been running and fighting, Rao is a soldier of the Second Battalion of Haiphong who has undergone two years of training, and he is also a little physically exhausted at this moment.

Therefore, although it seemed that the number of people on the other side was not large, Li Chenfang still recalled the surrender offered by Shinemon in Kubo, which saved Li Chenfang a lot of unnecessary bloodshed, so he quickly accepted it.

After disarming Okubo Shinemon and others, Li Chenfang was sure of their sincerity in surrendering. He ordered Okubo Shinemon and Onoda to remain in command of the more than 700 captured Shogunate soldiers, which reassured the captured Shogunate soldiers.

When Li Chenfang returned to the Hirakata lodging field with victory, the deserters of the shogunate army stationed at the lodging also happened to detain six ships from Kyoto. Four of the six ships were filled with food, and the other two were other supplies.

It was at this moment that Li Chenfang revealed his identity to the deserters. He made two suggestions to the deserters, one was that the deserters could leave on their own now, and he would ensure that Naokaka Ii would not send someone to hunt them down before dawn tomorrow; The other is to ask the other party to join the Osaka Rebel Army, and they will part ways at the end of the war, so they don't want to expose the true identities of Li Chenfang and others and cause trouble for themselves.

But no one would have thought that these Osaka rebels would be so bold and reckless, and they really wiped out the reinforcements sent by Lord Naotaka Ii without saying anything.

The 1,500 people who were fully armed were still wiped out by the opponent's team of more than 600 people, and the 600-person group of the deserters with different hearts and minds did not stop them, and let them bring enough food. The other four centurians expressed their willingness to stay, and Li Chenfang ordered Numata Kanechi to reorganize these deserters and Okubo Shinemon and other prisoners into three brigades and one auxiliary brigade.

Next, Li Chenfang asked Okubo Shinemon to send his subordinates to trick Nobunao Endo outside the east gate into the lodging. After seeing Naodaka Ii's military order and Okubo Shinemon's token, Endo Nobunao ran into the east gate with dozens of people, but some of the ambushed soldiers on both sides of the street ran back to the old camp in the southwest, and only the last few dozen people chose to surrender to Li Chenfang.

Naotaka Ii, who was stationed in the old camp, did not hear the news of the contact between the Osaka army and the former army led by Abe Shoji, but heard the news that Okubo Shinemon and Onoda were ambushed again at dusk.

Dozens of soldiers who were drifted down told the old battalion soldiers about the bad news as soon as possible. After hearing that the ambushed soldiers might be rebels in Osaka, Naotaka Ii finally couldn't sit still. He realized that he might have been deceived, and that it might not be a group of deserters but Osaka's rebels who occupied Hirakata.

The food in the camp was enough for the army for 2 or 3 days at most, and the grain route was cut off, and the army had to retreat, so Ii Naotaka naturally could not allow the Osaka rebels to cut off their back road like this. He ordered Kimata to defend the old camp, and he personally took 2,000 red reserves to recapture the Hirakata lodging ground and dredge the grain road.

As it was getting dark, Naotaka Ii chose to march on the official road away from the river, where the view was wide and the fields were the most suitable for cavalry galloping.

However, as soon as he ran out of the old camp 1 or 2 kilometers with the Red Reserve Team, a fire broke out in the direction of the old camp behind him. Naotaka Ii immediately led the team back in shock, and when he returned to the old camp, he found that it was not the old camp that was on fire but the three pontoon bridges behind the old camp.

The Osaka rebels loaded the six captured transports with dry firewood and ignited objects, then went down the river and set fire to the transports near the pontoon, allowing them to float downstream to the pontoon.

As soon as these three pontoon bridges were broken, the shogunate troops on both sides of the Yodo River immediately lost contact. On the other side, Nagano Yehui and Anhara Asama became lonely, and Naotaka Ii stood by the pontoon bridge and listened to the sound of fighting on the other side of the river.

It wasn't until just before dawn that the fighting on the other side of the river gradually subsided. After the sun rose high, more than 100 people, including Nagano Yehui and Anhara Chaoma, were escorted by the Osaka rebels to the beach west of the Yodo River in despair, and then under the gaze of Naotaka Ii and others, they were pressed to the ground and their heads were cut off one by one.

Looking at the corpses strewn across the river beach, the shogunate soldiers on the old camp all showed fearful expressions. Naotaka Ii vomited blood and fainted, and was hurriedly carried into the old camp by Kimata Shouan and other retainers.