"Bastard, I don't even know how the enemy army detours, what is the use of the old man asking you to wait." Shibata Katsuya was really angry this time, and after listening to him, he pulled out the sword on his waist with a bang, and was about to kill this low-level samurai.

But before he could take a step, he suddenly heard Sanada Masayuki shout: "Ah! I know, the other party must have taken a boat and taken the sea route to detour behind us, it must be like this, it must be like this. ”

In this way, it makes sense that the Uesugi family controls the overseas Zodo, and in order to facilitate the transportation of personnel and the mined gold, the Uesugi family has a lot of large sea ships, and if they take a boat to detour behind the coalition forces, not only will they definitely not be discovered, but they are also very fast. So if you take the mountain road, you will definitely not appear near Himekawa so soon.

And with the Uesugi army appearing behind, it can already be judged that the war to invade Echigo has been completely lost, and once Himegawa is controlled, not only will the retreat of the army be cut off, but the most important thing is that the grain route will be blocked by the other side.

Now it is time to think not about how to attack Kasugayama Castle, but about how to withdraw to Echichu at the lowest cost.

And when Shibata Katsuya heard this, he also knew the route of the enemy's army, so he no longer embarrassed the low-level samurai, only to see that he first put away the sword in his hand, and then asked: "Ladies and gentlemen, now that our army has Kasuga Mountain Castle in front of it, and the Uesugi army in the back, there is the sea on the left and the mountains on the right, it can be said that our army has been surrounded, I don't know who can break this crisis, please make it clear." ”

"Lord Shibata, I think that at this moment, we should rush ahead of the Uesugi army behind us, and immediately retreat to Fudoyama Castle, while relying on the fortified castle to hold on. On the one hand, he asked for help like Takayama Lord. As long as the Takayama family sends reinforcements. Then not only can you break the game, but you can also continue to attack Kasuga Mountain Castle, I don't know what adults think. I only heard that the light of the light was the first to speak.

He thinks that at this moment, the army is surrounded here, if you want to escape or turn defeat into victory, then you can only rely on external forces, and where does the external force come from, of course, it is the Gaoshan clan, although at this moment, most of the elite of the Gaoshan family are deployed in Jiafei. However, with the 40,000 troops of the coalition, it should not be difficult to rely on the fortified city to resist the enemy's attack until reinforcements arrive, so he came up with this idea.

But when he finished speaking, he saw Shibata Katsuya shaking his head and said: "It's not proper, let's not say that now Senbei is here to guard against Hojo, there is no extra military strength at all, just say that now the source of grain and grass has been cut off, and the food and grass of the army is only enough to support five days, how can the Takayama Army survive in such a short time." Once the army is short of food and grass, then there is no need for the Uesugi army to attack. Our army will collapse on its own, so there is no need to mention this plan. ”

After learning that there was only enough food and grass for five days in the army, even Sanada Masayuki had no choice, it was useless to say anything without food and grass, for the sake of today, only to retreat as quickly as possible, of course, if you want to retreat, then you can't help but consider the tens of thousands of Uesugi troops in Kasuga Mountain Castle, once you retreat, the Uesugi army will definitely pursue, so the responsibility of the temple army is not insignificant.

And everyone present also knows that once you become a temple army, it is almost impossible to survive the attack of the Uesugi army, and it can even be said that from the moment you take on this task, you are no different from the dead, although everyone here is a samurai, but there are not many who can see death as home.

So when Shibata Katsuya mentioned this, the camp suddenly became silent.

And at this moment, in the castle tower of Kasugayama Castle, Uesugi Kenshin drank wildly with a wine gourd in one hand, and laughed over and over again: "Haha, I thought that Shibata's courage and Sanada's strategy were difficult to deal with, but now I just used a little trick to surround them all and then here, as long as they are all annihilated, then the unification of the Hokuriku and the king of Shangluoqin will be just around the corner, hahaha." After speaking, I saw him throw the wine gourd behind him, and said to the attendants beside him: "Immediately give the order, the army will go out of the city and annihilate the enemy troops outside the city in one fell swoop." "Walk briskly towards the outside of the castle tower.

"It's the lord." The attendant named Higuchi and Rokuro immediately retreated, and at this moment the Uesugi army had already assembled in the city, waiting for the lord's order, and now as soon as the military order came out, the army was rushing towards the Shibata coalition main camp.

Uesugi Kenshin's intention to do this is very obvious, after learning that his plan was successful, and someone has returned to the Shibata main camp, he immediately sent out the army, in order not to leave the enemy with a chance to leave the army, once the enemy outside the city is completely annihilated, then the two countries of Vietnam and China are completely defenseless for themselves, so he has no intention of letting them go. And this time, the Takayama family sent a lot of reinforcements to eliminate these people, then the threat from the south of the family will also be alleviated to a certain extent, so many benefits, if Uesugi Kenshin doesn't do this, then I'm really sorry for his arrangement of this battle.

And with the dispatch of the Uesugi army, the Shibata coalition army, which had already been hit, was completely chaotic, all the front positions of the Shibata army were scattered by the Uesugi army with lightning speed, and with such a might, even the middle formation was easily broken, in the case of sufficient defense, the enemy army soon approached the rear formation, but the defeat was like a mountain, although all the troops in the rear of the Shibata army added up to 15,000 people, but at this moment they had no will to fight at all, so they soon broke out, Soon the enemy was already approaching the main camp, and by this time, even if Amaterasu himself came, he could not stop the rout.

At this moment, the Shibata coalition army has been broken up by the organized and premeditated Uesugi army, and only a thousand or a few hundred people around Shibata Katsuie, Sasa Narumasa and others fled to the mountains, because the Himegawa was blocked, even if they could escape there, it was impossible to cross the Himegawa River and return to Echichu, so they could only move from the mountain road in the direction of Echichu.

And Tanaka Katsusuke and his deputy commander, the military commissioner, led less than 2,000 troops at the first time and came to Sanada Masayuki to protect his retreat like a mountain.

As for Nakagawa Kiyohide and the others and the troops under their command, they were arranged in the front formation, so they were scattered by the Uesugi army for the first time, and they and the less than a thousand troops around them were surrounded by the Uesugi army in the middle of the three layers and the outer three layers, especially the retreat has been completely blocked by the other Uesugi troops of the pursuing coalition army, except for Watanabe Shigetsuna before the Uesugi army went out of the city, went to the main formation to report the situation ahead, so no longer in the formation, this time it should be able to escape the catastrophe, no matter whether the others are in command of Nakagawa Kiyohide, The military commissioner Lin Shengji or other samurai, at the moment there are only two choices, either kill some more enemies and then die, or take refuge in the Uesugi family, Nakagawa Kiyohide chose to fight to the death, but Lin Shengji didn't want to die like this, so when the army under his command was just dispersed, he chose to lay down his arms like the Uesugi army surrendered, because his status in the coalition army is not low, so after returning to Shun, he was actually treated with courtesy.

Seeing that the military situation around him was rapidly decreasing, Nakagawa Kiyohide immediately shouted loudly: "Brothers, now that we have no hope of escaping, it is better to die vigorously than to die silently like this, brothers, Uesugi Kenshin is ahead, if you can follow me to ask for it, even if it is a death, it is a worthy death." ”

"I'm willing to follow the Commander!" At this moment, there are basically no newly recruited Ashigaru who can stand here, these Ashigaru predecessors are all new team members, although they are not as dazzling as the other forces of the Takayama Army, but their will to fight will definitely not lose to any Takayama Army, so as soon as Nakagawa Kiyohide proposed, he deserved the support of everyone.

"Okay, then now please entrust your lives to me, give the order, the enemy is in front, follow me!" After saying that, he rushed towards the direction of Kasuga Mountain Castle with a spear in hand, and nearly eight hundred Takayama family elites followed closely and rushed over.

Since the Uesugi army has basically won the victory at this moment, the army is no longer focusing on the more than 800 people who are surrounded, and more people have gone to pursue the enemy army, so as to get more merits, but they did not expect that the enemy army that has been surrounded still has such a will to fight, so under the carelessness and the enemy's reckless rush, they actually broke through the encirclement, but they did not break through in the direction of Yuezhong, nor in the direction of the mountains, Instead, he pointed directly at the main camp where Kenshin Uesugi was.

This immediately caused the panic of the Uesugi army, because the enemy has been scattered, so no one thinks that anyone will dare to attack the main camp with the determination to die, even if there is, the number will not be too many, but this time they miscalculated, the enemy not only dared to do this, but this is more than 800 people, and at this moment the Uesugi army is chasing and killing the rout, Uesugi Kenshin only has 3,000 troops around him, so it can be said that now is the best opportunity to win Uesugi Kenshin.

Soon, Nakagawa Kiyohide had broken through the enemy's intercepted forces several times, and there was only a distance of less than 100 meters left from the main camp where Uesugi Kenshin was located. Samurai or Ashigaru, who has better eyesight, can now ride on a white horse and wear a white scarf on his head Kenshin Uesugi.

And Uesugi Kenshin also saw the enemy rushing over, although it was close at hand, but he did not panic, the enemy was only a few hundred people in total, but there were 3,000 on his side, he didn't need to be afraid at all, so while sending the troops around him to intercept it, he asked the people around him, "I don't know who this person is." ”

However, because the other party was covered in blood at this moment, and there was no representative helmet on the helmet on his body, it was difficult to identify it for a while.

Seeing that everyone didn't know, Higuchi and Rokuro, who had been following Uesugi Kenshin, hurriedly announced their guilt to the lord, and then rushed to the place where the two sides were fighting, and shouted loudly: "Come and listen, my lord asks who you are!" ”

"I'm Nakagawa Kiyohide, the general of the Takayama family, go back and tell Uesugi Kenshin to prepare the head, and I'll go get it." Nakagawa Kiyohide, while answering loudly, kept the spear in his hand. (To be continued.) )