Chapter 390: The Yellow Sparrow is behind

Endo Keitaka waved his sword and said to his subordinates, "Everyone, if you attack this city, you will be rewarded with a hundred shots. ”

In the face of such a high reward, all the ashigaru were greatly boosted, and they roared in unison, and rushed towards with Endo Keitaka.

Surrounded by the crowd, Endo Keitaka was dressed in a color armor, wearing a large eye-catching bag, holding the ancestral Meitai sword, and rushed forward quickly.

At this moment, his gaze was firmly locked on the Yiliu City in front of him, for him, Yiliu City was the key to his revival of the Endo family's name.

Endo Qinglong's pace was not slow at all, seeing that Ichiyanagi City was getting closer and closer to him, and the two Takeda soldiers who were originally standing listlessly at the gate were ashigaru, seeing the Endo army rushing so quickly, they were so frightened that the city did not dare to go back, and directly abandoned the city in embarrassment and fled.

There were several panicked shouts and shouts from the city, apparently unprepared for the attack.

All this made Endo Keitaka even more confident, in his heart, the capture of Ichiliu Castle, then the matter of subduing Hachiman Castle in the county is in front of him.

Since Otemon had been blown up by the Takeda Army before, the Endo Army poured into the castle without the slightest hindrance, and fought all the way to the castle tower and occupied Honmaru.

"Report to the lord, the Takeda army escaped from the hand gate."

In the blink of an eye, Ichiyanagi Castle was captured, and now the samurai of the Endo family, Ashigaru, are all happy.

The samurai who took the spear first shouted the good news of Keitaka Endo.

But Endo Qinglong's face changed slightly at this moment, and he said: "No, why is the Takeda Army resisting so weakly, it's not good, we have fallen into a plan." ”

The moment Keitaka Endo suddenly woke up, suddenly at this moment, Ichiyanagi Castle Pill suddenly started to catch fire from all sides, and this scene was obviously someone deliberately setting fire.

In an instant, the soldiers around Endo Keitaka were all pale, but they didn't expect that the city was not captured, but fell into the strategy of the Takeda army.

Endo Qingtaka Huo Ran turned his head and looked at the defeated samurai who had reported to him the situation in Yiliu Castle before.

Endo Keitaka was also worried about this person before, so he kept ordering someone to spy on the other party. Now that there is a change in the city, Endo Keitaka immediately understands that this person is a spy of the Takeda Army, and he is deliberately deceived into a trap here.

The other party's face also faded from the previous respectful color, and Endo Qinglong did not avoid looking at each other.

I only heard a pop, blood dripping, this person's eyes bulged, and Endo Keitaka's sword had penetrated his chest.

Endo Keitaka drew his knife out, blood dripping from the knife, and then he shouted to the surroundings with a hideous face: "Everyone follow me out of the city." ”

Endo Keitaka withdrew from the city gate under the cover of his subordinates, and the fire began to ignite, and the Takeda army, which deliberately set fire to the city, had no intention of burning the city, so most of the Endo army escaped smoothly.

However, when the soldiers of the Endo Army thought that they could breathe a sigh of relief, they suddenly shouted in the east and killed the Takeda Army in ambush from the mountains and forests.

Behind the Takeda Army's ashigaru, all of them are the fingers of the three-leaf cypress flag, which is the county of Shima Katsumo.

Seeing that the Takeda army was coming, Endo Keitaka could barely stand firm at the moment, and now he deeply regretted why he was greedy for great merit in the first place, and acted so rashly, and now he is going to lose his life and the lives of three hundred soldiers here.

But he also understands that regret at this moment is useless, by the impact of the Takeda army's ambush, Endo Qinglong struggled to organize, the Endo army, who had just escaped from the city, to resist, but the Endo army's heart was dispersed early, Rao is Endo Qingtaka intended to fight back, but was still directly killed by the Takeda army.

The Endo army ashigaru threw down their spears, pointed their flags, and fled to the side of the mountain, and many of them surrendered directly to the Takeda army.

Escorted by several loyal retainers, Endo fled to a low mountain, where Endo showed the demeanor of the head of the Endo family, personally firing his bow and arrows, wounding several Takeda soldiers who tried to catch up.

The Endo army on all sides saw that the head of the family was powerful, after all, it was a decades-old foundation, and there were still many loyal people in the family, and suddenly thirty or forty people rushed to the mountain to advance and retreat together with Endo Qinglong.

The rest of the army was slaughtered and scattered.

After the pursuit was over, the Takeda army surrounded the low mountain on all sides and began to shout in unison: "Surrender!" ”

"Surrender!"

Looking at the Takeda Army surrounded by the mountain below, Endo Keitaka was also bloodless, took off his head pocket and threw it on the ground, and said miserably, "Defeated, defeated." You will die here with me today, and show the name of the Endo family! ”…,

When the surrounding Endo Army heard this, there were various expressions on their faces, some were angry, some were desperate, and some were unwilling.

Just as everyone was preparing to fight to the death, someone suddenly pointed to the side of the mountain and said, "My lord, you see that there is an unknown army here. ”

Endo Keitaka looked in this direction, and suddenly the decadent color on his face disappeared, and he said with joy: "It turned out to be Inaba-sama's reinforcements, and we were saved!" ”

The tide of battle took a sharp turn as reinforcements from Inaba Ichtetsu arrived.

It seems that the Takeda military commanders also considered the strength of Inaba Ittetsu's army, and gave up the siege of Endo Keitaka, withdrew from the siege, and began to take up a battle at Ichiyanagi Castle, preparing to fight against Inaba Itchitetsu's reinforcements.

Seeing this scene, Endo Keitaka couldn't help but say proudly: "Lord Inaba, there are 1,800 troops, how many people can there be in the county, a thousand?" The island will definitely lose. ”

But Endo Keitaka immediately thought that if he was defeated in this ambush, he would definitely be reprimanded by Inaba Kachitetsu and even Oda Nobunaga.

With Nobunaga's character, it may be possible that Keritaka Endo will be cut directly.

Worried about it, Endo decided to gather the forces that had just collapsed and plunged into a battle for a while to make up for the mistakes.

Just as the Takeda Army regrouped, the Inaba Army also arrived.

Among the Mino trio, Inaba Ichitetsu has always been known for being a fierce general and daring to fight tough battles, and in the decisive battle between Oda and Asai Asakura, the battle of Ogawa.

The Oda army attacked the Asai family in the front, and when several formations were broken in front of the battle, it was Inaba Ittetsu who led the army to flank the right side of the Asai army, playing the role of the winner and the loser, and laying the foundation for the final battle.

After the war, Nobunaga rewarded his meritorious deeds, with Inaba Ischitetsu and Tokugawa Ieyasu having the highest military achievements.

In the expectation of Endo Keitaka, the Inaba Army is also menacing.

First of all, a team of 200 horsemen arrived, and first came to the foot of Endo Keiraka Mountain to relieve the siege.

After that, the dust flew in the distance, and the banner fingers of the three characters appeared like a forest, and the main force of the Inaba Army, 1,600 troops, appeared in the eyes of Endo Keitaka.

The lineup of the Inaba army is very rigorous, and it does not look like it has gone through a rapid march at all.

Inaba Ichchitetsu was dressed in a bright and dazzling body, and before riding out of the battle, he kept shouting orders and commands, and one after another rode the envoy from in front of him and galloped away, conveying the order to the troops under his command.

Under the cover of cavalry, the Inaba Army spread out to the Takeda Army in a line, almost completing the formation on the march.

At the same time, the Takeda army also gathered its military momentum, completed the formation under Yiliu Castle, and put on a posture of fighting against the city.

At this time, Endo Keitaka came to Inaba Ichitetsu on his horse, and immediately knelt on the ground after dismounting, and said, "Endo Danma Shoukeitaka, listen to the ginseng here." ”

Inaba was on the horse, and he didn't look at Endo Keitaka, and said, "Get on the horse!" The rest will be discussed after the war! ”

Endo Qinglong was overjoyed, and with a sigh, he remounted his horse and returned, at this time, the defeated soldiers of the Endo army under his command had been gathered by him and there were hundreds of people, and this force could barely join the battle.

And Inaba Yitetsu glanced at the back of Endo Keitaka, spat disdainfully, and then waved the horsewhip forward, and said loudly: "Attack the Takeda Army!" Out of the line! ”

"Oh!"

The front row of the Inaba Army had light guns, and then put down the tips of the guns and began to advance next to each other.

The spears were like a forest, and the infantry was on the ground, and the dust was flying.

"Inaba Ittetsu is worthy of being a famous general of Mino, and this military situation is really old."

Seeing the Inaba army attacking, even Shima Katsutoshi, who was an opponent, couldn't help but praise Inaba Ichitetsu.

And around Shima Katsutako, as a local wealthy family in Mino, Higashi Changyao and Endo Yinjun both understand the power of Inaba Ischitetsu.

Seeing that Shima Shengmeng praised each other like this, these two people had no bottom in their hearts.

When the county lords attacked Yiliu Castle before, they had already lost some of their strength, and now their troops were far less than the enemy's army, so they really couldn't be optimistic about this battle.

But when they saw that Dao Shengmeng looked like he was in his chest, he didn't dare to ask easily, not to mention that now that the army was in battle, it was too late to retreat.

Seeing the Inaba army coming, Shimakatsu raised his horsewhip and shouted, "The archery light team releases arrows!" ”

After hearing the order, the archafoot light team placed on the front line of the prefecture began to shoot arrows at the advancing pikemen of the Inaba army.

Under this round of bows and arrows, the pikemen in the front row of the Inaba army suddenly lay down more than a dozen people, but on the whole, the army was not chaotic and continued to advance. …,

After Inaba Ichitetsu saw Shima Katsu's methods, he snorted coldly and said, "Order the iron artillery team to step forward!" ”

The Inaba Army's iron artillery ashigaru emerged from both flanks of the pikemen and began to bombard the Takeda Army's formation.

The Inaba Army's iron cannon ashigaru was even more numerous than the Takeda Army's archery ashigaru, and under the thunderous bombardment of the iron cannon, the front row of the Takeda Army was knocked down one after another.

The Takeda Army's position was also bombarded by iron artillery and began to waver.

"I thought that Shima Katsu Takeshi was a famous general of the Takeda Army, but that's it." Inaba shook his head disdainfully, just as he was about to order a general attack on the Takeda Army by the whole army.

At this moment, suddenly from the left and right sides of the battlefield, from the front, there was a noise like a mountain and a sea.

It seems that in an instant, in the surrounding mountains, I don't know how many Takeda Ling flags have been erected high.

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

Countless spears were raised in the jungle, and the glitter of the tips of the spears suddenly joined together, and from them came the sound of cheers, echoing between the mountains and rising higher and higher.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The marching drum was beaten abruptly.

Immediately, the army on the mountain began to advance downward like a torrent.

Inaba Ichitetsu, who was riding on a horse, seemed to understand something in a timely manner, and said in a lost voice: "Yes, the main force of the Takeda family's Hida Echichu Legion!" ”

"They're really in the county!" ……，