"I'm going to hit ten!"

Keiji Maeda galloped back and forth in this camp with a red gun, and there was no enemy under the gun.

After the death of the only defender, Li Xiaozhan, the battalion fell into complete chaos.

In less than half an hour, all of them had been killed.

In a matter of moments, the fire was raging, and the grain that the Takeda army had gathered here began to quickly turn into ashes.

The knights cheered with their weapons raised, but a heavy gloom suppressed in Sasa's heart.

――It went so well!

It was so smooth that it was somewhat unexpected, and although the Takeda army that remained in the camp resisted hard, it did not play a role at all under the attack of the cavalry. Takeda's reaction was normal, there was no camouflage in it, and the grain in the grain stack was real, not a fake filled with sand and straw.

The victory came so real and easy, but Sasa Naruma felt that the attack itself was a little unreal.

Taking advantage of the fact that it was still dark, the knights began their return journey, intending to pass through the Bottleshiri Pass, and then bypass Matsui Tianjo Castle to the north, and return to Minowa by the line of Eagle's Nest Castle.

- Even if the Takeda Army had sent people to rescue here, it would have been after midnight, and by that time they would have already gone far away.

No one felt in danger, no one was trembling and walking on thin ice as before, everyone relaxed, chatted and bragged, and some even took out the cloudy wine they had brought with them and began to enjoy it.

The battle is over - almost everyone thinks so.

Sasa Narimasa was still not happy, he frowned, calculating the cycle of Ishikawa Goemon to transmit information, faintly worried.

Before the start of this raid battle, Naimasa had instructed Ishikawa Goemon to deliver the message every other hour, but at this moment, it had been an hour plus half an hour since the last message was delivered.

…… Although this is within the allowable margin of error, Chengzheng is not optimistic.

Since it was already night, there was no guarantee that the horses would not step into the pit, and the riding team only walked forward in the night, and the speed was not too fast.

In a trance, the team had already marched to the Bottlejiri Pass.

"Bang!"

In the dark night, a thunderclap suddenly sounded, and an iron cannon exploded in the mountains and forests ahead, and the horses walking in front of them suddenly panicked and stagnated with their front hooves.

Shouts of killing rang out all around, and the sound of killing was far-reaching and powerful, and it was by no means less than a few thousand people.

"Line up! Lined up! ”

Without waiting for Sasa Narumasa's orders, Keiji and Ogasawara Sadakei have begun to maintain discipline, but they are only the commanders of the Rose Knights, and they are only Ashigaru generals in terms of position, how can they call the horseback warriors of the Ueno clan?

In the blink of an eye, torches were lit on the hills on both sides and in the plains behind them, each with no less than 3,000 men.

Seeing this situation, the Ueno wealthy clan panicked, they were used to fighting with Sasa Chengzheng these days, and now they were surrounded by the Takeda Army on three sides, and it was the situation that I was in the open and the enemy was in the dark, and they couldn't help but panic, and they fled to the Takujiri Valley not far away.

Sasa Chengzheng doesn't stop it, and in this case, he can't stop it.

Just like during the Battle of Bottlejiri, Nagano Yoshimasa, the head of the Ueno coalition army, was unable to prevent the rout of the coalition army.

Between breaths, most of the mounted samurai of the Ueno Hao clan fled eastward, and only a few dozen people stopped in place like the Rose Knights, most of them were retainers of the Kohata family, who had broken through from Kohata Castle with Naimasa, and were veterans with more seniority than the Rose Knights.

"Lord, what are you thinking about now?"

Maeda Keiji, like Naimasa, was not flustered at all, but Naruma's unflustered stemming from the fact that he was thinking about the plans of the Takeda Army, but Keiji was very arrogant and unimpressed.

His martial arts are outstanding, but it is easy to break through.

"Why are there torches burning on three sides, but not at Bottlejiri Pass?"

"Of course, it's because there's no one in the mountain pass."

As soon as the words came out, Keiji knew that he was wrong.

If the purpose is to attack at night or assault, of course, the more concealed the better, how can you light the torch with great fanfare?

Burning torches, although tantamount to using oneself as a target to tell the enemy, is enough to intimidate and demonstrate if one's own side is in an advantageous position.

Torches were lit on three sides, naturally because the Takeda army did not want the cavalry to break through in these three directions.

"Got it!"

Keiji Maeda shouted, looking a little excited. Cheng Zheng has always ridiculed him for being brainless, although Keiji doesn't care about it with a big grin, but a person is always said to be brainless, who is happy?

"Sa...... Ogasawara Sadakei! Keiji Maeda! ”

"Hay!"

"Each of you will take a hundred horsemen and break through in the north and south directions!"

"Hay!"

"There are 10 horses left, follow me to break through to the west!"

"Hay!"

Although the knights subconsciously responded, they couldn't help but be angry when they heard Chengzheng's decision.

What was surprising was that Sasa Narumasa only led a minimum of 10 people to break through, but instead let Ogasawara Sadakei and Maeda Keiji take away most of the strength; He was so angry that since Sasa Chengmasa was their lord and leader, he had ignored their own wishes and made such a risky decision without authorization.

That's right! The knights were very unhappy with the way Sasa Naruma left most of them behind!

He's their lord, and he shouldn't leave his knights behind to take the risk alone!

Seeing that everyone was looking at each other, Cheng Zheng laughed instead:

"The enemy's target is me, so the fewer people who follow me, the better, if you follow me, not only will you not be able to protect me, but you may also become a burden to me, don't you understand!"

Under his sharp reprimand, the knights couldn't help but hang their proud heads.

Naruma is right, for him, it is true that the fewer people the more conducive to escape, among the two hundred horses, except for Maeda Keiji and Ogasawara Sadakei, I am afraid that no one's martial arts can be stronger than Sasa Seruma. Seimasa didn't say anything like asking them to value their lives, because that would only provoke the knights' anger even more.

On the contrary...... Seimasa was ashamed to accuse the people who followed too much of a burden, and instead made the knights decide to follow his decision.

Sasa Chengzheng exhaled softly, but unexpectedly, his words and expressions were all seen by Jing Yi Naoto.

"Tiger girl, you go south with Keiji."

Sasa Namasa pushed Ii Naohu away, and his tone was unprecedentedly harsh.

Zhihu was stunned for a moment, and suddenly roared:

"What do you mean!"

She grabbed one of Sasa Naimasa's hands and clenched it so hard that her knuckles turned a little white.

"What do you mean! Let me run away alone, and let me run away alone!

“…… Less self-righteous, Sazo Chengzheng! Who do you think you can make or break the lives of others? Who do you think you are, make me laugh and I have to laugh...... Let me get out of here, I'll have to get out?! ”

Naoto's timbre was very high-pitched at first, but it became deeper and deeper, and by the end it was choking.

"Bastard...... If you want to just throw me away, I won't want to ......."

Tears slipped silently from Zhihu's delicate face, but she still stubbornly held one of Chengzheng's hands, and she never gave up no matter how coldly Chengzheng ignored her.

Torches from three directions were still approaching, and if you looked closely, it seemed that the Takeda Army's advance had become a little slower.

Are they underarmed, or do they want to play their prey to their heart's content?

Looking at Naoto's pretty face with pear blossoms and rain, Sasa Naruma's heart also softened, he pulled the reins of the moon hair and moved to Naotohu's side, and opened his arms to take Jing Yi Naohu into his arms.

"Alright...... I know my mistake, I won't leave you behind, don't worry! ”

He comforted the beauty in his arms softly, stroked the long hair of the straight tiger, and at this critical moment of life and death, he could still laugh out loud:

"We're not married...... What to worry about, let's go together, we can definitely go back. ”

The situation was urgent, and Jing Yi Naohu was not such a delicate woman, so she quickly reached out to wipe away the tears, smiled vigorously and nodded towards Chengzheng.

And then...... With a thud, Cheng Zheng punched Naohu in the back of the head, knocking her unconscious.

"Yaga Keiji! When I return to Minowa Castle, if I find that the tiger girl is missing a hair, I will ask for you! ”

He threw Ii Naotora into Keiji's arms, turned around and called ten cavalrymen, and rushed to the Takeda army to the west.

"Meet Minowa Castle!"

Seimasa's voice drifted in the wind, Keiji and Ogasawara Sadakei gritted their teeth, and immediately turned their horses' heads and rushed north and south.

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PS1: Tiger girl is still so lovely......

PS2: If you still have a referral ticket in your hand, then be sure to smash it for me!

Aligado one yard of Sita!