On March 23, the second year of Takautake, 10,000 pioneers of Tokugawa Ieyasu's main force arrived at Iwami to take command from Naomasa Iii, who had been appointed as the commander-in-chief by Tokugawa Ieyasu.

On the same day, Yukinaga Asano, who had made meritorious contributions to his crimes, again led a vanguard of 20,000 men into the Iwami Province area and re-established a large camp in the place where he had been defeated.

This time he was much more cautious, scattering sentinels, setting up open and dark sentries everywhere, and the army patrolled day and night, and the army kept their weapons at hand, and rushed out with weapons as soon as there was a war.

The number of the night vigil troops was strengthened, and the defense was greatly increased, and Ii Naomasa thought about repeating the old trick because he felt that the soldiers were not tired of cheating, but this time, after repeated spying, he learned that the night attack could not continue to work.

Yukinaga Asano is a famous general of the Warring States, there is no doubt about it, a person who has been in battle for a long time will only suffer once, and if he eats it a second time, he should die.

Since the attack couldn't work, he took the initiative to challenge, and Ii Naomasa sent someone to give Asano Yukinaga a challenge book and invite him to come to the decisive battle, but he was also ignored.

If the invitation doesn't work, then it's ironic.

It would be a good thing if he could defeat Yukinaga's 20,000 vanguards before Tokugawa Ieyasu arrived, and according to the information sent back by the spies, it was said that the main force of the Toyotomi army

Then Naomasa Ii sent Asano Yukinaga women's clothes and makeup, and then sarcastically mocked him, saying that he was frightened after a defeat, this is not a general, but a woman, quickly change into women's clothes and escape, he promised not to pursue.

Asano Yuki grew up angry, and thundered in the camp, leading the army out of the camp to meet the battle.

The two sides agreed on a time for the battle, and when the time came, the two armies met in a plain.

Yukinaga Asano said that he would defend his dignity with a righteous and bright battle, and Naomasa Ii did not object, and also appeared with his army and fought him face to face.

Then there is an extremely traditional head-to-head battle between the two sides, Asano Yukinaga vs. Ii Naomasa, the two sides fought for more than an hour without a winner, Ii Naomasa repeatedly sent the Red Reserve to attack the camp of the Toyotomi army, but the position of the Toyotomi army was very solid and never broke through.

Although the Red Reserve was strong, it was not many in number, and in the face of the 20,000 Toyotomi Army, the Red Reserve was obviously not as smooth as the previous night attack.

If the infantry formed a strong formation, there was nothing too good for the cavalry.

Occupy a bit of a stalemate.

Naturally, it was not that Naomasa Ii couldn't break through, but that he didn't break through with all his strength, and he retained the main force of the Red Reserve and didn't put it into battle.

He had to wait until the elite led by Yasumasa Kamihara raided the hands of the Toyotomi army camp, and then when the dizzy Asano Yukinaga panicked and the Toyotomi army was in turmoil, he would give them a fatal blow.

Yes, when the two armies were about to fight, Kamihara Yasumasa had already led the army to make a detour to prepare for a surprise attack on the Toyotomi army camp, and the purpose of this battle was originally to secretly cross Chencang on the Ming Plank Road, and once again forced Asano Yukinaga into a dead end.

And this time Asano Yukinaga didn't have such good luck, the last time he was able to escape, this time it may not be.

Ii Naomasa has been waiting for the moment when black smoke rises from the direction of Toyotomi's main camp, and he has been waiting.

Finally, black smoke rose from the direction of the Toyotomi army camp, a very thick black smoke, and Ii Naomasa was overjoyed and immediately ordered the whole army to intensify the offensive.

Then he sent people to have the army shout, "Toyotomi's main camp has been broken, but fortunately he will die quickly."

To exacerbate the chaos of the Toyotomi army.

However, the Tokugawa army shouted and shouted, only to realize that something was wrong.

This Toyotomi army did not waver and continued to fight, as if it did not see the thick black smoke coming from behind.

Ii Naomasa frowned and felt that something was not right, when this kind of thing happened, the Toyotomi army not only did not retreat but continued to insist on fighting, which is obviously not logical, but what went wrong Ii Naomasa can't figure it out.

Could it be that this group of Toyotomi troops is dying?

I can't care so much about it.

Naomasa Ii decided not to stay any longer, and immediately ordered the main force of the 3,000 Red Reserve Army to enter the battlefield and began to attack the large formation of the Toyotomi Army, directly killing Asano Yukinaga, as long as the large formation of the Chinese Army wavered, the Toyotomi Army would inevitably be defeated.

The 3,000 Red Reserve roared and rushed forward, bringing some change to the tide of the battle, and the Toyotomi army's defensive line was broken through slightly, but soon more foot soldiers rushed over, holding spears to block the Red Reserve's surprise attack, forcing the Red Reserve to reorient the attack and launch another attack.

The power of the cavalry lies in the impact force, if it is forced to stop by the infantry array, the cavalry will be dangerous, and the infantry on the ground has many ways to knock down the cavalry and kill it.

So the cavalry had to keep the horses running and at speed, otherwise they would become targets.

The Red Reserve is proficient in cavalry tactics, but it is not that there is no combat effectiveness when dismounted, and the Red Reserve is also a first-class hand-to-hand field infantry, and many Red Reserve cavalry have broken through the attack of the iron cannon and were stopped by the infantry and dismounted, and they pulled out their waist knives and began to fight hand-to-hand with the Toyotomi army, and the two sides were inseparable from each other.

As time passed, the sunset came, the Toyotomi Chinese army was as solid as a rock, the handsome flag was not shaken, and there was no intention of retreating, and the Red Reserve Army was stopped by the infantry of the Toyotomi Army several times, which made the strong uneasiness in Ii Naomasa's heart more and more intense.

Did Yasumasa Kamihara get it?

Is Yukinaga Asano holding on?

That's not right......

He began to have the idea of retreating, planning to withdraw from the battlefield first, so he began to arrange the iron gunners to line up, preparing to cover the retreat of the main battle troops, but as soon as he ordered the iron artillery troops to line up, there was a very shocked voice from the retainers around him-

"Something happened to the camp!"

Naomasa Ii's heart was beating wildly, and when he looked back, his eyes were round.

A large amount of black smoke rose into the air from the direction where he had promised!

What's going on?

At this moment, there was a burst of shouting from the Toyotomi array.

"The Tokugawa Honjin has been broken, and Naomasa will surrender quickly!"

"The Tokugawa Honjin has been broken, and Naomasa will surrender quickly!"

The sound was very loud and noisy, and with such shouts, the Toyotomi army actually turned from defense to attack, and the Tokugawa army was confused in shock, and the front gradually became untenable, and there were signs of rout.

Naomasa Ii was shocked, and his mind went blank.

Why? How could this happen?

Why is there black smoke coming out of the big camp on his side?

Was this a sneak attack?

How can it be?

The Toyotomi army only had 20,000 pioneers arrived, and they were all here, so unless another army arrived, how could they send troops to attack? In their own formation, don't you want so much ordnance, materials, food and grass?!

In the next moment, Naomasa Ii's eyes suddenly widened.

Could it be ......

He looked back at Toyotomi Honjin in shock, as if he had traveled through space to see the mocking smile on the corner of Asano's mouth.

Want me to fall twice in the same way?

You can't help but underestimate the four words of the famous generals of the Warring States, right? Naomasa Ii!

Then, the battle horn sounded from the Toyotomi main camp, and the defense turned into an attack, and the Toyotomi army attacked on all fronts.