Chapter 179 Chase
In the early morning of May 28, Yu Qiuhei, who had gotten up early, immediately led his troops to Anxiang Castle. The gathering degree of Seminyama, who got up with Yu Qiuhei, was far inferior to that of Nakabashi. When Yu Qiuhei's troops had already been out for half an hour, Seminyama left the castle town outside Kariya Castle.
At the third moment of Tatsuo, Ansuo Castle was clearly visible in the field of view. It was only 13 miles from Kariya Castle to Ansuo Castle. According to Takabaki's degree, it would definitely be possible to arrive in half an hour. In order to save time, Yu Qiuhei did not even bring his auxiliary soldiers to go there, but asked them to follow Serezushi's team. Takabaki's feet were dressed neatly and had arrived outside the town of Ansuo Castle at this time.
Long ago, Yu Qiuping sent a large number of horses to investigate the southeast. What made him feel a little relieved was that until now, there was no sign of Okabe's large-scale activity. This also made him worried - because in the previous few fights, he had not been able to understand the movements of the Okabe's family every time and was repeatedly defeated.
After Tobashi Bei arrived at the city, Tadaji Sakai in the city immediately sent an envoy to communicate. When Yu Qiuhei tactfully stated that he wanted to enter the city to assist in defense, he was immediately rejected by the envoy. After that, Yu Qiuhei wanted to make this request many times, but the envoys used various reasons such as "The environment in the city is not good, how dare you be wronged by Tobashi Bei" and "The Matsue family is more than enough to defend the city, and it is not hard to worry about it." Yu Qiuhei understood Tadaji Sakai's attitude, and no longer tried to do more tests. He honestly set up camp in the west of the town-thereal town-he naturally would not run to the south to help the Matsue family as a shield.
After completing these deployments, Yuqiehei immediately sent a messenger to report to Kariya Castle, saying that the Okabe family had not yet appeared, so that the main force would not have to act rashly, so as not to be shot by Okabe Motoshi. Yuqiehei now admires Okabe Motoshi's military strategy. Although the two sides were evenly matched, they have been maintained by Okabe Motoshi and led by the nose.
"You guys, why is this happening?" Yu Qiuping asked the people around him in confusion, "Why are the two sides evenly matched, but we have always been so passive?"
Naoe Tadaehiro, Honda Tadae and Katsumasa Yoshigang, and others seemed not to give a good opinion, but just listened silently. Masayuki Sanada frowned and pondered for a while, and said hesitantly: "In terms of my opinion, it may be caused by the differences in intelligence."
"Oh?" Yu Qiuhei looked at Masayuki Sanada, "Kibe, tell me?"
"In fact, from the beginning when we confronted Naruhiro Castle and Otaka Castle, we were destined to be led by the nose." Masayuki Sanada said, "Because the Okabe family is closer to the southeastern than us, we had to follow him when he retreated. It has always been the Okabe family who chose the battlefield. The place we arrived at, they had all been to the front feet, and they knew the right time and place, and our movements were all under their noses. But we knew nothing about where they moved and what they were going to do. The backwardness in intelligence forced us to take a defensive and were more passive."
"What he said makes sense." Yu Qiuhei suddenly realized, "but there seems to be nothing wrong. Are Kariya Castle and Anxiang Castle both in our hands now? Although the Okabe family has always taken the initiative, there is no advantage."
"And now, the Okabe family's advantages in intelligence no longer exist." Masayuki Sanada smiled and said, "When we have the city as a supporter, relying on the subtle advantages of the cavalry, we can hide the movements of our army very well. As long as we survive today, we can try to reconnaissance the movements of the Okabe family."
"It makes sense." Yu Qiuping and several people smiled and nodded.
"What, are you talking nonsense there?" Mimaezaki Nakahide muttered dissatisfiedly, "The old thief Okabe is not as powerful as you have analyzed. I think he is always going to a place where no one is, and he doesn't care about our information anyway. Anyway, we guess where he is going, he won't go anywhere. Hiding and seeking with us! If you want me to tell me, he will run back to Naruto City now!"
"Come on, you. Run back to Minghai City, you can think of it!" Yu Qiuping laughed loudly, "You kid, can you be more serious when discussing the problem?" Everyone was amused by the words of Omaezaki Nakashui, and the depressed atmosphere eased a lot for a while.
After the horses sent to Kariya Castle returned, Asahi Taisho's latest order also arrived with Senabe who had just arrived. The most urgent task was to find the movements of the Okabe family's troops. Asahi Nai and Yuqiu family, Senabe family sent a large number of horses to search the south. Do not act rashly until the investigation progresses.
However, just as yesterday's script was staged again, the news of the news that the horse-studying team was reported was that there was no sign of Okabe's attack.
With the experience of being cheated last time, Yu Qiuping would no longer stand stupidly and do nothing. At the 20th minute, he personally led a team of reconnaissance cavalry to the south to investigate. However, they had all advanced to the Yasaki Riverside, twenty miles south of Anxiang City, but there was still no sign of the Okabe family.
"Isn't I cheated again?" Yu Qiuping cursed in a low voice. Last night, his horse-snooping team encountered the information barrier of the Okabe family here - but now there is nothing here - so the Okabe family can only go to the south of Xiou. So several bridges in Yasaki Kawakara were kept intact, and the Okabe family seemed to have no intention of hindering the pursuit.
"Your Highness, let's continue to go south!" Xiaoba Jiesheng suggested eagerly.
Yu Qiuhei slightly stood up on the horse's back and looked at the surrounding terrain. To their southwest, there was a forest covering the road from Kariya Castle to Nishio. And across the southeast of Yasaki River, there were also quite a lot of forests and hills. These were two places where we could ambush.
Yu Qiuhei, who had always been cautious, did not lead the cavalry forward rashly. Instead, he asked some people to go to the official road in the west and asked the stalkers of the Asahina family who left Kariya Castle to provide wings to cover and investigate. He also sent Kobashi Katsumaki to take a cavalry and cross the Yazaki River from the bridge and investigate to the southeastern forest.
At six o'clock, the horses sent to the west and southeast were sent back to pay back. There were no ambushers in the west and southeast forests - there was not even a flag for the suspicion formation. The horses of the Asahina family, led by Asahina Taehyung, have continued to approach the south.
Although the current environment is not absolutely safe, Yu Qiupi felt that it was no problem for his dozens of cavalry to escape. So he advanced together with Taehyung, one in the east and the west. He crossed Yasaki River and ran towards the west along the two official roads.
At the beginning of noon, Asabinataehime and Yu Akihei met in Nishio. On a plain in Nishio, they found traces of large-scale camping and cooking. Obviously, the troops of the Okabe family were stationed in Nishio yesterday. The cavalry north of Yasaki River were just setting up a suspicion formation.
If the Okabe family arrived in Nishio yesterday... today...
Yu Qiuping looked eastward, and an ominous premonition made him shudder on the hot day.
Sure enough, the scouts found a large number of uneliminated footprints and horseshoe marks on the pachy-shaped official road leading to the east at the west end. Looking into the east from afar, it seemed that they could still see the dust rising by the army.
"Abandon Kariya, bypass Anxiang and Okazaki, and ignore all important towns," Yu Qiuhei said in disbelief, "Is it a great courage to push all the way to the south?"
To the east of Kashima is Yoshida Castle. This most important stronghold in the Higashima River is now affiliated to the Ouphira family. In other words, basically Yoshida Castle, which is a Hokkien, will be attacked by the Okabe family immediately.
"Go and inform His Highness Asahina and His Highness Sena." Yuqiehei said in a deep voice, "The Okabe family did not try to attack Anxiang Castle, but instead took a detour from the south, with the goal of Mikawa Yoshida Castle."
Now, the main force of the Asahichi Ichi-series has been left for a day and a half by the Okabe family. The situation is already very dangerous. Yu Qiuhei has truly realized that the advantage of walking ahead when retreating - he can always lead the latter's nose. Anyone who occupys a strong city can block the pursuers behind.
"It's all because of the failure to bite the Okabe family at the beginning." Yu Qiuhei sighed regretfully, "Otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to distance themselves and play with us in the midst of applause. The number one player of the Imakawa family is worthy of his reputation."
When Yu Qiuhei led the cavalry back to Anxiang Castle, it was already early. He learned that the Asahina family had led a large army to Anxiang Castle to meet and began to discuss the next plan. Now he was chasing the Okabe family and chasing the South Road, which was obviously too late. Only by following the official road along the north line could there be time to support Yoshida Castle. Because the official road in the south was relatively remote, the road was narrow and rugged, which was not conducive to the rapid passage of the army. The official road in the north: Anxiang Castle-Okazaki Castle-Iwaroji-Mori-Yoshi Castle, the official road was the official road passed by the Imakawa family army, and the traffic volume was almost twice that of the official road in the south. If you follow the north line, you may still catch up.
However, the problem facing everyone is that if you want to go to the north line, you must pass through the territory of the Matsuhide family. Is the Matsuhide family really willing to let such a huge number of Asahide family pass? You must know that the Okabe family is far south and cannot interfere with the situation around Okazaki Castle. If the Atahide family is difficult to inflict violence, the Matsuhide family will not have time to turn to the Okabe family and will be immediately besieged or even eliminated.
Therefore, both Sakai Tadaji of Anxiang Castle and Matsuhira Motoyashi of Okazaki Castle refused to allow the Asahina family troops to pass through and even put on a stance of martial law. In the end, Yuqiehei and Semine Shin-shi took action and rushed to Okazaki Castle to negotiate with Matsuhira Motoyashi, and reached a compromise clause - the auxiliary soldiers were allowed to pass through the line of Anxiang Castle and Okazaki Castle. The soldiers marched from the plain grass south of the official road. This inevitably greatly slowed down the marching rate, but everyone had no other choice. Okayama and his son were anxious, but they could do nothing.
Chapter completed!