Chapter 167 Halfway (1)
After the Okabe family's defense line in the north was instantly defeated by Tadao Honda, the Okabe family troops in the south were caught off guard and retreated in a hurry. Some of the auxiliary soldiers, baggage, and retreated without time to withdraw. The chasing Yuqin and the command of Taehyung of Akihito immediately stepped forward to chase, and the Okabe family troops fled in a panic. 4oo A small part of the soldiers who broke the rear were captured by Akibe and Takababa on the west bank of the Hokkima River. The Okabe family troops who fled east lost order, robbed the right to use the bamboo platoon and bridges, pushed each other and tried hard to cross the river.
In the midst of chaos, another commander general was also killed in the chaos army. The chaos army fled to the east coast of the Moemakawa. No one tried to destroy the bridge and organized the pursuit of Khabinabe and Takababa. Okabebe, who was already in the east coast, had to give up his plan to reorganize the team in order to prevent the formation of the chaos army from being dispersed, and the enemy took the opportunity to cover it up. The entire army immediately continued to advance eastward.
After realizing that the Okabe family troops on the east bank of the Imai River moved further east and headed to Kariya Castle, Yuqiehei and Asahira immediately commanded the troops to cross the river and launched a pursuit, trying to hinder the movement of the Okabe army. At this time, Asahirata had already led the main army of the Asahira family, 7Ooba soldiers and thousands of auxiliary soldiers to arrive and began to extinguish the fire in the Okabe family's Dazhai so that the army could pass through.
Yuqiehei and Asahina Taehyung began to attack the bridge from north to south. The Okabe family's defeated army was unable to stop it, and the control of the bridge soon fell into the hands of Asahina Taehyung. Asahina Taehyung asked Yuqiehide to line up after his reserve team and he would cross the river first.
"Everyone chase after you quickly! Don't let the Okabe family run away!" Chaobinata yelled anxiously, "Cabinets, follow me to cross the river first! You all follow up!" After that, he waved his horse whip and urged his subordinates to cross the river quickly. He took dozens of cavalry to take the lead and chase the river. Many of the subsequent Akybinata troops were squeezed by the bridge, waiting to chase the bridge.
The bridge was not too spacious. In order to chase the fugitives of the enemy, the troops of the Hina family tried their best to push forward. Many people snatched the bamboo trays from the Moonma River and jumped onto the bamboo trays in groups of three or three, and paddled towards the opposite bank. Some people who couldn't wait, held their spears and rushed across the river.
However, when they arrived on the other side of the Moema River, these Chaobi Nai army, who had to stop crossing the river in a disarray, had to stop. They were spinning on the mudflats, looking for their own generals, and did not know whose orders they should obey. The soldiers rectified in a mess and tried to restore the command system, but it was difficult to complete. Their pause blocked other Chaobi Nai troops who had not crossed the river on the bridge and in the river. The commander of the troops, Asabi Nai Taihyung, had already taken people to chase and kill the defeated army, and no one was to rectify the troops.
The so-called "half-crossing" attack is to attack these troops that have not yet been able to cross the river. Because when crossing the river, it will inevitably disrupt the establishment and organization of the troops. The troops that have not yet been restored to their formation and command are often fragile. In addition, the backwater formation is constantly being mobilized and there is no way to retreat, and the attack on the half-crossing will often achieve excellent results.
Yu Qiuhei suddenly recalled his evaluation of the Okabeya River Fighting Army not long ago.
And now, this evaluation... and the current situation of the Asahina family...
What if...I mean... What if Yu Qiuhei looks at the Okabe family's troops that are constantly retreating eastward. If they kill back, the current situation will be out of control!
However, the scene in front of him continued to move towards what Yu Qiuhei had expected. The Okabe army, three miles away to the east, seemed to have noticed the chaos of the Asahina army and was trying to slowly turn and counterattack. The huge army was not easy to turn, which won time for Yu Qiuhei to adjust its deployment.
"Send someone to inform His Highness Asabina and Lord Oping first, and tell them not to rush over! It's too chaotic here!" Yu Qiuping sent a messenger to rush to the Asabinabinagata.
"Hey! The messengers on the other side!" Yu Qiuping took a few personal guards and shouted loudly through the Vivian Kawa. He saw several messengers looking at the Bina family. "Go and notify your young master and ask him to come back to command the troops immediately!"
After receiving the order, several commanders chased the eastward. Yuqiehei immediately ordered the three positions of the Aoi Aoi who had just been assigned to Asahina Taehyung, the three stations of Mizua Aoi and Kobayakawa Yasuke were close to the Imma-gawa troops, and immediately waded across the river and went to build defenses in front. Yuqiehei also ordered the Aoi Nai family troops crowded on the bridge to immediately vacate the bridge and do not try to restore the establishment on the edge of the bridge! However, the chaotic Aoi Nai movement was very slow, and people were squeezed into the water from time to time. Yuqiehei was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, but there was no way.
Sure enough, even though the three-man troops passed through the river, they still maintained a basically complete formation and system with strict discipline. After crossing the Hoshima River, the three platoons quickly moved forward and advanced neatly, protecting the still-chaotic troops of the Asahina family behind them. The other three platoons were also sent by Yu Qiuping to continue to wade across the river. Naoe Tadae was also sent by Yu Qiuping to command the defense of the six new platoons.
However, the water flows in the center of the river and the width of the river is not short. After all, it took a lot of time to cross the river. The Okabe family's troops also completed the adjustment. Nearly 3oo of the war soldiers who had turned to the completion came towards the west. However, at this time, the chaotic Asahina army on both sides of the river bank became more and more chaotic under the urging of Yu Qiupi. The bridge was empty, but there were many people on both sides of the bridge and they could not get through at all. It is estimated that before the Asahina army on the other side of the river restored order, they should not want to line up to cross the river.
Seeing that the Okabe family was large and powerful, Yu Qiuhei couldn't help but feel worried about the front line. Naoe Tadaehide pressed the troops forward and stayed away from the river bank, giving hundreds of Aobina's troops room to rectify the river. Asahina Taehyung himself also brought dozens of cavalry to constantly raid the Okabe family troops coming, and dealing with the cavalry team sent by the Okabe family to cover the flanks.
Next, as long as the Asahi family can restore order, they can stabilize the defense line on the west bank. It is absolutely not necessary to cross the river and retreat before the enemy. They can only build a bridgehead for advancement. They will take the rest of Takababa and the main army of the Asahi family behind them to stabilize the formation.
"The lesson this time is so painful." Yu Qiuping sighed secretly, "You must be careful when crossing the river in the future. If it is as chaotic as today, you will be hit by a devastating half-cross. The people led by Akina Taehyung are all elite, and they are extremely brave in combat. Once you lose your organization and command, you will still be in a mess."
Yu Qiupi turned around and looked at the fire. The subordinates of the Asahita Tora and the Opi family were striving to put out the fire. However, due to the extremely crowded river and the lack of tools for water withdrawal, the Asahi Nai army made an extremely slow progress in putting out the fire.
Just as Yu Qiuping was thinking about whether to organize some people to help get water and put out the fire, panic shouts suddenly came from the opposite side of the river bank. Yu Qiuping looked at the other side of the river bank in a daze, and saw that the Aobina family troops, which were about to be rectified on the river bank, suddenly became chaotic again. Many people pointed their hands at the south side - the east bank of the lower reaches of Fengma River, shouting something to each other.
"What's going on!" Yu Qiuping pulled the reins of the horse, turned the horse, followed the Fengmai River, and looked towards the downstream of the south. He stepped on the stirrups and stood upright.
I saw smoke and dust rolling.
He was stunned there too.
Vaguely, he identified several flags flying high.
The Ii family, the Miura family... many exotic families who followed the Okabe family appeared here. They walked around from several hills four miles away in the south! At a glance, the number of people exceeded 3,000. Among them, the number of soldiers must be close to 1,000! This army was following the east bank of the Yoshima River and heading towards the ferry in the north.
How could those rich families appear here!
Shouldn't they have retreated long ago! How could they be ambushed here? Shouldn't the Okabe family retreat to Okazaki Castle? Why ambushing us here?
Are we careless? We thought that the Okabe family’s goal was Okazaki Castle, and we would never get too entangled, but would retreat all the way east. We thought that these wealthy families had already retreated into Kariya Castle, and all the scouts had gone to investigate the Okabe family’s camp, without paying attention to the upstream and downstream of Imai River!
A series of question marks flashed through my mind, but Yu Qiuping had no time to answer.
Because at this moment, the east bank of Fengmaichuan was already facing a catastrophe. The only six platoons of war soldiers in the system had advanced to a place one mile away from the river bank and fought with the Okabe family who had come back. Faced with the more than one hundred people and the rear army that were coming, it would be great that they could hold on, not to mention retreating. At this moment, the Akibe family troops who were exposed to the more than one thousand powerful soldiers were the troops behind the Takapanbei Advance Team and rectified against the river bank. The hundreds of war soldiers who had lost their establishment, were in chaos and were defenseless, were unable to resist the impact of the more than one thousand war soldiers.
If more than a thousand soldiers were allowed to come up with Hitomikawa and scatter the troops of the Asahina family. Then the six platoons of Takababa who had already crossed the river would be cut off and retreated back to Hitomikawa, and the entire army would be destroyed under the attack of the Okabe family.
"Masato, do you understand now?" Okabe Motonobu looked at everything and got on the right track as planned, and smiled with satisfaction, "Why do I still want them to participate in the assessment meeting even though I knew that the Aoping family was likely to be rebellious?"
"Brother is the plan that the Opi family knew the wrong one?" Okabe Masatotsune was impressed and said with conscience: "Then let them tell the Asahina family the plan of 'Okabe family thinking about withdrawing Okazaki Castle'. Let the Asahina family carelessly underestimate the enemy, just thinking about chasing and hindering us all the way, ignoring the investigation, lowering their vigilance? So they seize the opportunity and ambush them!"
"That's right." Okabe Motoshi said in a deep voice, "this is why I asked you to learn more and read more."
"Brother, I admire him for his wonderful tricks." Okabe Masato exclaimed, "Now it is hard to fly with the Asahina family and Yuqiu family!"
"War is cruel and full of deception." Okabe Motonobu sneered, "If you are not careful, you will lose everything."
Chapter completed!