Man, as an animal, is said to have been a diurnal and wild animal since its infancy, and the evidence is that his vision and sense of smell have deteriorated considerably compared to other animals of the same class of his time. With the refinement of the social division of labor and the emergence of classes, some special occupations have also begun to reverse the long-term life of jet lag, and with the development of society, this contingent has a tendency to gradually expand, but in terms of the overall proportion, it still belongs to a very small part.

The night of August 12 to 13 in the second year of Tensho (1574) was destined to be a chaotic sleepless night, and the entire Dongyuan River was bustling with activity. In an area with a total population of only 60,000 or 70,000 people, more than 100,000 people are now fighting for their own survival or to deprive others of the right to live.

The Takeda Army lost a big gamble centered on the remnants of the Red Reserve, not to mention the Hojo reinforcements, and even most of the soldiers of the Takeda Army lost their fighting spirit. The victory and defeat are self-evident, and decades of loyalty to the Takeda family have maintained the last breath of morale.

Takeda Katsuyori's persistence, impulsiveness, and ignorance of current affairs were praised throughout the Warring States, and even in the face of such a predicament, he still had to fight as a trapped beast. He still had more than 20,000 troops in his hands, and Oda Nobunaga also wanted to give him this opportunity and ordered all the armies to attack on all fronts. At this time, a piece of news came: Sakai Tadaji, the head of the four heavenly kings of the Tokugawa family, led an army of 3,000 to capture Iris Mountain, and the main general of the defenders, Takeda Hyogo, was killed in battle, so that the Takeda army's return route to Suruga was cut off!

Following the "adventurism" in the offensive, the Takeda army staged the "escape doctrine" in the retreat, and the only consolation was that they behaved more decently than the Imagawa army after Tsubashima. Takeda Katsuyori fled in the direction of Shinano to the north, and the number of people accompanying him was rapidly decreasing due to the continued escape of the small wealthy clan and the resistance of the Oda coalition forces. At this time, everyone's reaction was almost unanimous, leaving the infantry to clean up the battlefield and search for the remnants of the enemy, and the cavalry kept following the trail.

"Hurry up, a lot of people are chasing after you!" Shinhachiro urged anxiously, if I hadn't been keeping an eye on him, I was afraid that he would have run away by himself. “…… Originally, we were in the northernmost position, but now we are basically the last one! It's a shame......"

"If you don't feel comfortable, go back to Takenaka-sama and them!" I interrupted his complaint in a tone that left no room for manoeuvre. Although the Takeda family has fallen, I don't really want them to be destroyed so soon. Dongguo is far away from me, isn't it good to leave something for "others" to relieve their boredom? Naturally, it is impossible for the armored cavalry to run faster than the light cavalry, and besides, we are far from being the last of what Shinhachiro said.

"Although the Takeda Army has dispersed, there are many remnants lurking in the four places because of this. This is not our own place, and it is late at night, so we still have to watch out for ambushes! "When I pursued, I only brought the guards and the armored cavalry led by Shima Katsutoshi, and although he didn't say it explicitly, he understood my intentions.

"It's all defeated like this, what else can there be ambushes!" Shinhachiro muttered dissatisfied. In fact, he is not wrong, according to the latest report of Kato Duanzo an hour ago, there are less than a thousand people around Takeda Katsuyori.

"There's a fierce battle going on at the road crossing!" When the Shinano border was approaching, a horse galloped to report.

"Let's take a look!" With a wave of my hand, I galloped forward.

I don't know if it's my luck or Takeda's bad luck, this kind of chasing actually let me catch up! The wave of men in the previous battle was none other than Takeda Katsuyori's main team, which was besieged by a cavalry equal in number, and it was supposed to be the subordinates of Hideyoshi Hashiba and Tokugawa Ieyasu.

"But it's you here, if you let Takeda Katsuyori run away again, you have to kill me!" A skinny samurai surrounded by a dozen guards came to me, but it was none other than the "monkey" of Hideyoshi Hashiba.

"Oh?" I was slightly shocked, with his identity, he actually chased so far with only about 200 cavalry, and he didn't have the courage to put it on me. "Besiege them, don't let Katsuyori Takeda run away!" At this time, I can't just watch, I shouted orders to my subordinates.

Shimakatsu Takeshi and Shinhachiro agreed to lead the team to rush forward, leaving more than 100 guards to surround us. People with a similar level of martial arts know it, so I won't show it!

After carefully observing for a while, I could roughly see the situation in the field, and I could see Takeda Katsuyori himself under "Siru" from a distance, but I couldn't see the face clearly. At this moment, there are still about 600 people in this Takeda army, and from the armor, they are all the elite of the Takeda family. On the other side, in addition to Hideyoshi's troops, there were more than 300 Tokugawa light cavalry, and Honda Tadakatsu, Kamihara Yasumasa, Kato Kiyomasa, and Fukushima Masanori were the main forces in the field. The two sides have been fighting for a while, and if it weren't for me, Katsuyori Takeda would have been out of trouble soon!

The sudden addition of more than a thousand fresh troops significantly changed the balance of power between the two sides, which was immediately felt on both sides of the war. Tadakatsu Honda and others fought hard to take more credit for this upcoming victory; The Takeda Army disrupted the small interdependent formations and scattered regardless of casualties in order to prevent the enemy from approaching their lord!

Suddenly, a Takeda general was shot in the lower abdomen and thigh, and with a swing of his sword, he cut the three Tokugawa cavalrymen who were blocking the way under his horse, turned around and shouted: "Please leave as soon as possible, these servants of the Oda family will be handed over to me Naito Masatoyo!" The situation was stronger than people, and Takeda Katsuyori had to run towards a bridge in the distance, surrounded by a dozen close attendants.

"Takeda boy, leave the head and go!" Honda Tadakatsu shouted loudly and urged the horse to swing his gun and rush forward, he was closer to Naito Masatoyo, and he was in front of him in an instant.

"Stop!" Naito Masatoyo immediately slashed his knife with both hands and swept Honda Tadakatsu's left ribs. Honda Tadakatsu stood diagonally with the barrel of his gun sealed, and did not engage him, urging his horse to chase after Takeda Katsuyori.

Naito Masato's eyes were full of red intentions to fight Honda Tadakatsu again, but Honda Tadakatsu returned three shots to stop his pace. The "Dragonfly Cut" in Honda's hand is more than 5 meters long, and it opens up the distance in a few clicks. At this time, Naito Masatoyo had been seriously injured, and a lot of blood was shed under the hard touch, and when he saw Honda Tadakatsu chasing after Takeda Katsuyori with three or four knights, he gritted his teeth and tried to stop it, but he was entangled by Kamihara Yasumasa who caught up. Seeing this situation, more than 100 nearby Takeda cavalry abandoned their opponents and rushed to help, and in the blink of an eye, the intersection to the north was tightly blocked.

"Bastard! Don't entangle with him, go after Katsuyori Takeda! Seeing that his subordinates Kato Kiyomasa and others were blocked by that "mess", the "monkey" was so anxious that he jumped to his feet and scolded.

At this time, Naito Masatoyo was besieged by Yasumasa Kamihara and others, and he was seriously injured in several places, but he still held the intersection and did not retreat. His helmet fell off, his hair hung in a loose bun, and his face was covered in blood, like a ghost.

"Die!" Seeing that the opportunity had finally come, Yasumasa Kamihara smirked and stabbed out, and the tip of the spear pierced between Naito's chest and abdomen like a poisonous snake and then came out of the back. "Shh......h Hey? Yasumasa Kamihara, who was about to breathe a sigh of relief, suddenly saw a strange phenomenon, and Masatoyo Naito was actually laughing.

"Click!" Naito Masatoyo grabbed the gun in front of his chest with his left hand, and slashed it with a knife in his right hand, and the unprepared Yasumasa Kamihara was immediately flickering. The matter was not over yet, Naito Masatoyo fell off his horse and swung the knife in his hand seven times in a row, cutting at several war horses beside him without distinguishing between the enemy and me.

Suddenly, some of the war horses broke their legs, and some of the war horses were frightened, and they even rolled and crawled, and even squeezed and collided, and a large number of narrow intersections fell, and even Kamihara Yasumasa was thrown to the ground. It's complicated to say, but the time is very short, not to mention Shima Katsu Takeshi, Shinhachiro, even Kato Kiyomasa and others were also blocked in the way, and they could only watch the distance between Honda Tadakatsu and Takeda Katsuyori getting closer and closer in the distance.

"!" Yushiba Hideyoshi flicked the horsewhip hatefully, and his war horse instinctively jumped. "It's taken so much effort, but I can only watch the Tokugawa family swagger!"

This also ...... "I don't have as much urgency as he has, so I don't have much regret."

"The Three Rivers Thieves Stop Me !!" At this moment, an elbow and armpit appeared, and a white-armored young general suddenly emerged from the woods on the side of the road, and the knife slashed at Honda Tadakatsu who was galloping.

Suddenly, it was too late for Honda Tadakatsu to parry again, and the blade with the cold wind quickly approached his head. However, Honda Tadakatsu was extremely brave and unusually brave in the battle, and he dodged the fatal blow on one side of his head, but the antlers on the right side of the helmet were cut off.

"I'm Sanada Nobutsuna here, so don't wait for it to pass!" Taking advantage of Honda's dodge, the white-armored young man blocked the way.

"It is worthy of being the home of famous generals, it is really extraordinary!" Hearing Sanada's name, I couldn't help but nod secretly.

"Look for death!" Honda Tadashi knew that every inch was at the expense at this moment, so he stabbed out the "dragonfly cut" in his hand without nonsense, and several knights around him also besieged him. Sanada Nobutsuna was not afraid, wielding a sword to meet the enemy on all sides. After a few moves, Sanada Nobutsuna took Honda Tadakatsu with a single sword, and Honda Tadakatsu finally waited for his chance.

"Kara!" The five-meter-long barrel of the gun in Honda's hand was disconnected, and an iron chain connecting the two ends locked Sanada Nobutsuna's sword, which turned out to be the secret of the famous gun "Dragonfly Cut". Sanada Nobutsuna was taken aback and slashed several times by several other knights themselves.

"Hey!" Seriously injured, Sanada Nobutsuna roared and jumped up from his horse, pounced on Honda Tadakatsu, and fell to the ground together. The two rolled and fought on the ground until Sanada Nobutsuna was hacked to death by the Tokugawa cavalry on the side.

"Bastard!" Honda Tadakatsu, who finally got up from the ground, spit out a mouthful of bloody phlegm, and scolded hatefully at the night mountains where Takeda Katsuyori and others disappeared. He was bitten on the ear by Sanada Nobutsuna during the roll just now, and his face was covered in blood at the moment.

"It seems that the Takeda family really still has some 'scenes'!" I immediately muttered to myself in the distance.