The clear laughter gradually turned into a chuckle, and Oda Nobunaga raised the whip in his hand and tapped the hat on his head.

"Huh...... Suddenly it occurred to me that we were in such a hurry to march, if the generals of the Xia Kingdom, especially Guan Yu who was mighty in China, if he used his troops well and was resourceful, he should take advantage of this moment to attack our army, then we would not be captured? ”

The cold rain splashed on his face, and Oda Nobunaga continued: "You see, if we set up an ambush here and wait for work, our army will be stuck in a quagmire and will not be able to resist at all!" ”

Whether it was the leading generals around him or the small people on the side of the guard, they all looked at each other.

Shibata Katsuya looked at the front speechlessly.

"......" Takigawa Ichiyi hurriedly arched his hand towards the governor on horseback and whispered: "Governor, this is a bit unlucky. ”

"Others say it's unlucky, but I'm the head coach, and it's not up to me to say whether it's auspicious or unlucky." Oda Nobunaga waved his hand heroically, and after laughing just now, the originally tense nerves finally relaxed a lot at this moment.

He smiled and urged the horse forward, and continued: "Just now it was just a joke, let you and me relax, and in terms of military strategy, even if there is cavalry, it is impossible to suddenly go around our back from the front, unless he fights such a master ......from the beginning."

The long line has walked to the opposite side of the forest, and the wind and rain have brought a slightly different sound.

Oda Nobunaga said, '...... At the time of the idea, the sound of wind and rain hitting the forest and the earth suddenly became louder, and his ears were full of crackling sounds, but in such a sound, he only felt a little frightened.

Hurriedly turned his head to look over, still smiling

Then, a roaring voice came from the rear, and in the ranks marching behind, there was a sudden "Ah! The moment the terrible scream came out.

The entire army marching in the rear was suddenly panicked and confused, and before they could react, the chaos had quickly spread from the rear to the position in the middle of this side.

"Send someone over and check it out immediately!" Oda Nobunaga stopped and waved his hand for the envoy to hurry over there.

After a while, the envoy sent out with a body of water vapor galloped back from behind in a panic.

"Oda-sama, it's not good!"

"Yes...... It's the cavalry of the Xia Kingdom, coming up from behind us! ”

"What?!"

Oda Nobunaga was stupid, he didn't expect that what he said casually just now would really come true.

In his field of vision, the sky was full of water vapor, and the back of the light foot team in a panic, one, two, four...... 100 ways, 1000 roads...... The cavalry of the Xia Kingdom brandished broadswords and cut through thorns and thorns all the way from the rear.

A black man at the head of the group, revealing his sturdy upper body, galloped in front of the horse, with a big knife in his hand, slashing left and right frantically, and then, he raised the knife and pointed forward, turned back and shouted at the cavalry behind him: "Kill the head of the thief, get the head of the thief, seal the marquis!" ”

Zhang Bao wore an iron helmet and black iron armor, and also waved a spear and shouted: "Fenghou!" ”

"Kill—"

The cavalry of the Tiger Cavalry Battalion, which was advancing like a long dragon, roared hysterically, and when they heard the word 'Fenghou', they urged the war horses one by one, and for a while the horses' hooves stepped on the muddy road, and the ground under their feet seemed to be shaking.

A group of cavalry after resting swept down like a flood that burst the embankment, and the murderous spirit spread.

The picture of the wolf rushing rushed into the eyes of Oda Nobunaga and the generals, and the smile that was originally hanging on his face stiffened there, and he had not yet reacted from this sudden turn, only a buzzing sound was in his head, and he only heard the voice of the general Shibata Katsuya next to him yelling: "Takigawa Kazuki, Niwa Nagahide, go down to straighten out the soldiers and horses, and look for a narrow area to form a formation——"

The rain hit the bottom of his eyes, and the mistakes of two strategic miscalculations were congested in his heart, Oda Nobunaga trembled the hand holding the reins, he almost widened his eyes, and suddenly pulled out the sword called 'Nagabune' from his waist and raised it, towards the sound of rolling waves downward, and the impact of the Natsu Country Iron Horse.

"In the eyes of a coward, you can often see the enemy's advantage!"

"Everyone, go to war on the spot!"

The generals around him, except for Shibata Katsuya and the two small surnames, the rest of them rode down one after another.

When the generals returned to their respective armies, Ashigaru, who was originally in a panic, gradually began to recover, and after reacting under the shouts and shouts of the generals, he hurriedly set up a formation on the spot, but the morale was not too strong over the other party after all.

On the opposite side of their field of vision, one by one the fleeing comrades were cut down in the rain by the rushing Xia cavalry, without the slightest pause, and quickly pulled closer to this side to a stone's throw away.

"Ready!" The archers held up their bows and arrows in the elite ashigaru team, but such a distance was almost too late, Niwa Nagahide swung a shot on horseback, and the archers shot arrows, which were hindered by the heavy rain, and most of them were weakly nailed to the iron armor of the rushing cavalry, or lost their heads, and directly plunged into the road of the Xia cavalry.

In the next second, the iron rider surged.

Zhou Cang and Zhang Bao were the arrows, leading the tiger cavalry battalion to crash into a hastily formed ashigaru team, which was a loud bang, and the high-speed running war horses, waving the big knife and crashing into the pile of Japanese soldiers in front, the sword and shield countered, the heavy big knife, with the impact of the war horse, almost smashed the inferior wooden shield with a knife.

One shield after another broke, shattered, or came out of his hand, and the ashigaru behind the shield was also squeezed by the force of the push, sitting on the ground or falling down on his back, and the front line pushing the road cut a gap in this moment.

Zhou Cang spat out a mouthful of blood foam, and after the war horse lost momentum, he turned over and stepped on a Japanese soldier who wanted to get up, and the big knife in his hand slashed through the opponent's neck, and a person's scream sounded.

Immediately, the swarthy man with his bare body dragged a big knife and walked into the array of Japanese soldiers.

And at this moment, a large number of cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry who rushed into the front frantically waved their knives at everything they could see in front of them.

One after another, the sword light was staggered, the flesh and blood were flying, the screaming figure fell, the human arm flew, someone rushed up, stabbed a shot at the opponent's war horse, and the head was immediately cut off by the swinging blade, and the headless body sprayed hot blood, stumbling and running a few steps before falling.

In just a dozen breaths, Xia Guo's iron cavalry rode from east to west, overthrowing one by one Japanese soldiers, and the figures of war horses and people were staggered, and they were killed fiercely.

"Let the mother-clothed people go up—" Oda Nobunaga, who was guarded by the small surnames, threw away the hat on his head, and continued to give orders to the envoy beside him with his long-boat sword.

But right now, it's completely insufficient.

Shibata Katsuie galloped back from below with a cross spear, and at this time all the guards under his command were wounded, and the several teams of Ashigaru under his command were completely demoralized, and they only cared about fleeing for their lives.

He rushed up the high slope, took the guards around him towards Oda Nobunaga, and wiped the blood on his face: "Lord Oda, the mother-clothed people can't waste here, the morale of the Xia cavalry is strong, they rushed over, and they have brought up the momentum, and our morale is frustrated, compared with them, the mother-clothed people have no advantage in speed, and they will be scattered by the other party if they meet the enemy head-on!" ”

Over there, Oda Nobunaga, who gradually calmed down, fell silent, and he didn't speak, which means that Shibata Katsuie's words were not wrong.

"Guan Yu detoured behind us, and he didn't have to go to the battle ahead...... In other words, he was very confident that the Xia army in front of him could defeat the Takeda army......"

He thought for a moment and said.

Just as he was still speaking, a heroic voice suddenly sounded.

"Wakako—"

On the muddy road, a charcoal-red war horse, dragging the Green Dragon Glaive Knife, galloped on the corpses that stretched all over the ground, and rushed straight towards the side of the mountain.

Seeing this scene, Shibata Katsuya sent all the guards under his command out, and then turned around and shouted to Oda Nobunaga: "Oda-sama, leave immediately!" ”

Below, the figure of a half-body green robe and a half-body golden armor, with a beard flying obliquely, rushed to the rushing Japanese soldiers, and the running war horse directly knocked the opponent away, and fell with a backhand knife, and fell to the ground with a burst of brains.

He stared at the few figures standing on the slope without saying a word, and the red rabbit horse under him spewed rough air, and his thick limbs sank into the mud, and then stepped out with countless mud, and the rain splashed everywhere.

There were still Japanese soldiers who rushed to kill them with guns, and Guan Yu cleanly swung his knife to cut them off one by one.

Seeing the other party advancing over, a huge sense of horror instantly enveloped him, and Oda Nobunaga was pulled by Shibata Katsuie and rushed into the forest with the reins.

Several people with small surnames also followed, rushing into the forest, leaving only a group of guards to stop each other.

At this time, on the road below, the stabbing spear head made a gurgling sound on the iron armor on Zhang Bao's body.

He and Zhou Cang continued to rush forward, but in their eyes, the strange cavalry of the Japanese people carrying a ball on their backs did not rush over, but rushed into the nearby mountains and forests extremely quickly under the leadership of a Japanese general.

Zhang Bao wanted to rush over, but was stopped by Zhou Cang: "The forest is not suitable, the cavalry of the Tiger Cavalry Battalion is fighting, don't go in!" ”

At this moment, in the afterglow of the two of them, a fiery red figure galloped from the east direction in the heavy rain.

With just one glance, Zhou Cang recognized the other party: "Wen Hou, why are you here?" ”

However, after asking this sentence, he hurriedly added.

"What is Wen Hou doing here?!"

It was Lu Bu who came at a gallop, single-handedly smashing into the back of the ashigaru formation in front of him, chopping the waves and killing him through a pair of crossings, when Zhou Cang's words came.

When staggered by, Lu Bu replied: "Look at what else the generals here can find!" ”

Zhou Cang and Zhang Bao were suddenly confused.

Watching each other, they galloped past them, and then the prancing horse rushed to the hillside, and disappeared into the edge of the forest in the blink of an eye.

……

Meanwhile.

Oda Nobunaga, who was running in a panic in the forest, pulled away an object in his hand, and when he threw it on the ground, a cloud of dusky smoke rose and drifted through the dense layers of branches into the rainy day outside the forest.

After running for less than two quarters of an hour, when he was about to leave this mountain forest, a straight and upright figure stood on a high rock nearby, covered in pitch-black tights, carrying two ninja knives behind his back, and wearing a black scarf.

"Hattori Hanzo, waiting for Oda Nobunaga to send!"

The voice rang out in a low voice.

(End of chapter)