As the number of iron cannon shots on the side of the shogunate decreased, the soldiers of the Osaka Division, who had only been standing near the bridgehead to shoot, began to slowly move towards the center of the river, and the closer the firing distance, the more powerful these arquebuses became, and the shogunate officers and soldiers behind the wooden shields did not even dare to raise their heads.

The situation in which the officers and soldiers of the shogunate were beaten and could not fight back also made the officers and men of the Osaka Division more and more emboldened and more and more accepting the command of the superiors, and also made them more and more like a real army.

After the two sides had been fighting continuously for nearly a moment, Hirano Goro made sure that the shogunate officers and soldiers at the bridgehead really had no other follow-up, so he ordered the two cannons that had been arranged to fire at the fortifications on the opposite bridgehead.

Although the two cannons of the Osaka Division were only six-pound guns, they were more than enough to deal with these temporary fortifications built with hard wooden furniture and doors nearly a knuckle thick.

The fortifications opposite the first stone arch bridge downstream were quickly shattered by the gunners' accurate fire, and after enduring three rounds of shelling, the fugitives finally appeared from the shogunate officers and soldiers defending the bridgehead.

The iron artillery unit of the 2nd Wing finally rushed to the opposite side of the bridgehead, and when a high-ranking samurai who had urged his subordinates to come forward was brought down by a platoon of guns, the samurai's fall became the last straw that overwhelmed the shogunate officers and soldiers who were defending the bridgehead.

The morale of the shogunate, whose morale had been extremely low, finally could not bear the fear of being shot by the iron cannon, and began to abandon their positions and turn around and flee. With the collapse of the defensive position of the first stone arch bridge, it soon caused a general collapse of the defensive position on the bank of the river opposite the Great River.

As a result, the officers and men of the 1st Osaka Division watched in amazement, and they had only broken through a point, and the officers and men on the opposite position had already begun to collapse on the entire front. Most of the officers and soldiers desperately fled to Sakai City, and of course some of the more intelligent ones knew that the low wooden walls of Sakai City had no defense, so they simply avoided Sakai City and ran along the road to the southwest.

Hirano recovered quickly, and he immediately commanded the 1st Wing across the river, following behind the defeated troops to Sakai City.

However, the 1st Wing did not encounter much resistance in Sakai City, because Inagaki Shigenuna, who was stationed here, saw the collapse of the riverbank defense line and retreated to the south with the remaining 200 or so men in Sakai City.

After receiving this news, Hirano Goro immediately ordered the three brigades that had not yet entered Sakai City to bypass Sakai City and continue to pursue southward, this time he was determined to leave Inagaki Shizuna behind.

The high-ranking samurai in Osaka Castle are now on the run from this Inagaki Shigetsuna. Although this man does not appear to have much military ability, his ability to rally the samurai and peasants of the countryside of Osaka Prefecture against the new ruler of Osaka Castle is a scourge for them.

Hirano Goro feared that if he let this man escape, he would continue to lead people to wander around the countryside of Osaka Prefecture, which would be detrimental to his side if he continued to lead people to roam the countryside of Osaka Prefecture, which had just submitted to the new rulers of Osaka Castle, which would be a disadvantage for his side, who did not have so many men to protect every village in the countryside.

After the nearly 200 defeated troops who fled into Sakai City found that the Shangguan and their colleagues had fled in the open way, most of them suddenly lost the will to continue to resist and surrendered to Goro Hirano, who was chasing into Sakai City.

The merchants and leaders of the townspeople in Sakai City also came out at this time to express their submission to Goro Hirano, who had defeated the shogunate officers and soldiers. They offered Hirano Goro that they would be willing to pay a fee as long as the army did not destroy Sakai City, and that they would assist Hirano Goro's army in convincing the surrounding villages not to resist.

Worried about the condition of his own pursuing troops, Hirano Goro did not entangle with these merchants and townspeople in Sakai City, and when Yuta Higuchi arrived with two brigades of the Second Wing, he asked for a brigade from Yuta Higuchi, and withdrew from Sakai City with the forces of the brigade he led, and went south to catch up with the other three brigades of the First Wing that were pursuing the enemy's defeated troops.

Yuta Higuchi was naturally happy about this, and although he was forced to surrender to His Royal Highness Tadacho, represented by Li Chenfang, the former shogunate head who was about to be fifty years old, was not very optimistic about his future. He didn't quite believe that an army formed in a hastily manner could defeat an army of samurai under the shogunate.

Therefore, he was not very optimistic about this expedition to Sakai City, which was also a small part of the reason why he completely surrendered the command to Goro Hirano. But the battle of Dahechuan suddenly ignited a little hope for the future.

If the force of the shogunate officers and soldiers was of this level, even if His Royal Highness Tadashi finally failed, their army would have to be recruited by the shogunate. Although Yuta Higuchi's family is not very high, it is also the identity of the flag book that can meet the shogun.

He didn't know much less about the shogunate's affairs than those of the shogunate's important ministers. He knew very well that the shogunate would never use Edo's direct banner books for unnecessary consumption. As long as Osaka's force is strong enough, after the shogunate disposes of His Royal Highness Tadanaga, it will definitely settle this force in a peaceful way.

Therefore, the higher the force of the Osaka Division, the safer his family would be in Edo. After proving that the reckless army could defeat the samurai, Yuta Higuchi's enthusiasm suddenly increased.

He hurriedly took over the work of pacifying the hearts of the people in Sakai City and collecting the defeated troops of the shogunate, trying to start fulfilling the responsibilities of the division commander.

Hirano Goro didn't care about the change in Yuta Higuchi, and he chased down the tracks on the road with two brigades of more than 1,000 people. Soon there were surrendered shogunate officers and soldiers on the side of the road, and at first Hirano Goro felt very relieved, but as more and more prisoners were taken on the roadside, he began to be a little wary in his heart.

When he was about to rush to Ishizugawa, he finally couldn't help but confirm to the soldiers around him: "Are there more than 300 prisoners we met on the road just now?" ”

The soldier quickly replied, "Yes, my lord, it seems that there are 34 or 50 people in total." It seems that the troops led by Captain Kisogawa have already crossed the Ishizu River, so they won't encounter an ambush, right? ”

Hirano Goro finally became a little worried, Kiso Kawaichiro was not a samurai like him, but he was a farmer, and the other party was a mountain dweller of lower status. In addition to the rough temper that ordinary mountain people have, Kiso Kawaichiro also has an unbearable straight line character.

Only then did Goro Hirano remember that because he was too hasty just now, he gave a brief order to Kisogawaichiro, just asking him to catch Inagaki Shigetsuna, this bastard should not be chasing all the way without a brain.

After seeing that the number of prisoners on the side of the road had exceeded his estimate of the men around Shigezuna Inagaki, Hirano Goro immediately realized that something might have happened in front of him. On the one hand, he ordered his troops to speed up their advance; On the other hand, he sent his own soldiers to inform Kisogawa Ichiro to stop the pursuit, and ordered someone to start interrogating the prisoners.

Just when Hirano Goro realized that something was wrong, Kiso Kawaichiro, who was leading the pursuit ahead, had already entered the hilly area south of the Ishizu River.

Kisogawa Ichiro also began to notice that as he crossed the Ishizu River, the enemy forces on the opposite side not only did not decrease, but increased. And these enemy troops still dare to stop and resist, and they are no longer like the defeated soldiers who fled after hearing the wind before.

The other two captains couldn't help but be suspicious, and came to raise their suspicions to him, thinking that there must be a new enemy here.

Although Kisogawa Ichiro did not deny his colleagues' suspicions, he rejected his colleagues' suggestion to stop the pursuit and adjust the team.

He pointed to the resisting enemy troops on the opposite side and said, "These are probably what the wing commander said, the back hand of Inagaki Shizuna."

I don't think these ambushes are anything remarkable, although they have the ability to resist our army's actions, but their will to resist is not resolute. As soon as a small number of troops cross behind them, regardless of whether they are at a disadvantage or not, they will suddenly collapse.

However, we must be careful not to completely surround them, because once they have completely lost their way to retreat, these ambush soldiers will have the determination to stubbornly resist our army to the end. Therefore, when we encounter a resisting enemy army, we will take a detour through the enemy's flank and attack, but do not completely surround them.

I don't care how many enemy troops there are in front of me, I will never withdraw my troops until I capture Inagaki Shigetsuna today..."

Kisogawaichiro's stubbornness made the two colleagues feel helpless, and they themselves measured that in the pursuit of the soldiers of the three brigades, they had long lost their overall formation, and it was easy to mess up their positions now by aborting the pursuit.

It would be safer to continue the attack while the soldiers were extremely excited about the victory, and wait until it was dark to withdraw the troops. So the two captains who followed Kiso Kawaichiro to attack acquiesced in Kisogawa Ichiro's decision.

Kiso Kawaichiro was not wrong in his judgment of the enemy army, although the number of enemy troops in front of him was increasing, but as Kiso Kawaichiro judged, as long as a small group of people appeared behind these enemy lines, it would cause the entire defense line to collapse.

Before dark, three brigades led by Kiso Kawaichiro successively broke through the seven or eight lines of defense composed of the so-called Inagaki Shigetsuna ambush, and finally completely broke the resistance of these ambushes.

However, after capturing eight or nine hundred people, Kisogawa Ichiro was unable to catch Inagaki Shigetsuna, whom he had been obsessed with, and looking at the mountains and forests hidden in the night, he finally gave the order to stop the pursuit.

It was also at this time that the messenger sent by Goro Hirano caught up with Kisogawaichiro's team and conveyed Goro Hirano's order to withdraw his troops.

When Hirano Goro and Kisogawa Ichiro reconciled, he finally understood why the number of enemy troops being pursued had increased inexplicably, because these people were not Inagaki Shigezuna's subordinates, but the troops of the Kishu Domain.

Thanks to Kisogawa Ichiro's stubbornness, Inagaki Shigetsuna led his subordinates to join the Kishu Domain's troops, and was beaten into a chase by Kiso Kawaichiro in an inverted bead curtain.

The defeated troops led by Shigetsuna Inagaki scattered the advance of the Kishu Domain, and then were routed by Kiso Kawaichiro, and then these defeated troops of the Kishu Domain were dragged towards their own Chinese army and rear team.

Due to Kisogawa Ichiro's unreasonable pursuit methods, Usami Dingsuke, who led this unit, was completely unable to regroup his team, and even he himself was captured. The Kishu Domain's troops, which had lost their command, finally collapsed, and most of them were taken prisoner, except for a small number of men who fled into the mountains and forests.

Hirano Goro looked at Usami Dingyu who was escorted up, and after only a moment's pause, he was overjoyed and ordered to the soldiers beside him: "Immediately write a good news and report to His Highness Fang that my heroic 1st Division has broken through the Inagaki Shizuna headquarters and recovered Sakai City." In addition, he also defeated a reinforcement unit from the Kishu Domain, and captured the commander of the unit, Usami Dingyu..."