"I'm sorry to have you brought in, Mitsuhide." Yu Qiuhei commanded Changbanbe to adjust the formation and was about to go to the north to pick up Tokugawa Ieyasu, while bowing to Akechi Mitsuhide apologetically, "Please please retreat first, the soldiers are in danger."

"What's the matter with Hongye?" Akichi Mitsuhide frowned when she heard this, "Do you don't want to fight side by side with me?"

"Of course not." Yu Qiuhei shook his head repeatedly, for fear that Akichi Mitsuhide would misunderstand, "It's just that I want to reinforce His Highness Tokugawa because His Highness Tokugawa is a good friend I have known for more than ten years. Out of this friendship, I take a huge risk to save him. This is probably the first time Mitsuhide and His Highness Tokugawa have met, and there is no need to take such a big risk."

"His Highness Tokugawa is our ally, that's enough." Akichi Mitsuhide seemed quite dissatisfied with Yu Qiupi's statement. He turned his head angrily and said in a deep voice: "Goodbye, Hongye. It's not your turn to command my reserve team."

Looking at Akichi Mitsuhide's back as he left straight, Yu Qiuping suddenly smiled with some relief.

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After the entire army simply used lunch, Yu Qiuhei immediately led Changbanbei out of the formation and maneuvered towards the north of Changfa Temple. Akichi Mitsuhide took over Changbanbei's position and entered the defense of the formation to prevent the Akichimi army from breaking their retreat. Akichimi Mitsuhide only had 800 combat soldiers in his hands and was no match for the Asai Army at all. Yu Qiuhei had to hurry up and try to pick up Tokugawa Ieyasu before Akichimi could not arrive.

When Yu Qiupi arrived at the Tokugawa family's position, the Tokugawa army had reached the end of its reach. They used less than 2,000 soldiers to reach the Asakura family for nearly two hours. The Asakura army did not expect the Tokugawa army to carry out such a tenacious resistance - why did they have to carry four times their own troops for the alliance? However, the straightforward Sankawa samurai did not care about so many, and fought to the death. Although the official roads on the mountain road were narrow and the terrain was complex, the Tokugawa army was still surrounded by the Asakura family from both wings. In order to cover the side, Tokugawa Ieyasu had to spread his back and reserve team to the two wings, with no soldiers available, and he was defeated in a mess.

When I saw Oda Nobunaga's horse seal evacuate to the southwest, the Tokugawa family's retainers were in an uproar - they all thought that the Oda army was going to abandon friendly forces and retreat. However, in a surging westward flag, the maple bird horse seal looked so eye-catching. The Tokugawa army, which was already on the verge of collapse, instantly had the courage to support it.

"Hurry, go and tell His Highness Tokugawa and let him evacuate quickly. I'll stop Asakura's army for him!" Yu Qiuhei immediately asked Xiaobashi to pass the order in person, "Let the Tokugawa army move quickly! Your Highness Akichi can't wait too long!"

After receiving Yu Qiuhei's request, Tokugawa Ieyasu left his horse-riding samurai to break the back, and his feet quickly retreated. Seeing this, the Asakura army immediately pressed forward and wanted to pursue him, but found that Takaba Bei had come out of the slanting assassin. Asakura Keiyo had to order the troops to turn to respond to the enemy, and Tokugawa family took the opportunity to escape from the Heavenly Heaven.

"Hongye, thank you!" After the Tokugawa army and the Asakura family broke off contact, Tokugawa Ieyasu personally rode a horse to Changbanbei's position to thank him. "If it weren't for Changbanbei, I would probably have been in a different place now!"

"What are you grateful for? We have been in love for more than ten years, so we should watch and help each other." Yu Qiuping reached out to him. Tokugawa Ieyasu was stunned for a moment, thinking that Yu Qiuping was going to shake hands, so he also stretched out a hand in a daze. Yu Qiuping looked at his somewhat restrained look and couldn't help laughing, then waved his hand and high-fives with him.

"The territory is getting bigger and it's not too small." Yu Qiuping teased with a smile, "I don't even want to slap my good brothers in a high-five?"

"How could it be? Hongye was joking." Tokugawa Ieyasu also laughed loudly when he heard this, "I just didn't expect Hongye's territory to grow bigger, but it was still as straightforward as before."

"Okay, don't be polite here, retreat quickly." Yu Qiuhei patted Tokugawa Ieyasu's shoulder, "Your Highness Akihito can't hold on for long."

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Akichi Mitsuhide never knew how to command the battle formation, and it was naturally difficult to resist the brave generals like Asai Nagamasa. When Tokugawa Ieyasu retreated into the main formation of the Nagamasato of the Nagamasato, the east gate of the formation had been broken. Yu Qiuhei had to lead Takapanbei to go around the west side of the formation and walk forward to the road to Kuroki Valley. After Akichi Mitsuhide saw that Takapanbei was also evacuated, he immediately led his troops to evacuate from the formation and followed Tokugawa's army and Takapanbei's footsteps.

The Asai Army and Asakura Army successfully joined forces and followed the retreat route of the Orito Union. However, on the left side of the west bank of Lake Biwa are hilly and mountains, and on the right side are vast Lake Biwa. Moreover, the land on the west bank of Lake Biwa is not small at the height of the lake. It is a steep cliff, and it is impossible to wade through it. Therefore, as long as Akechi Mitsuhide strangles the narrow road and fights and retreats, the Asaki-Asakura Alliance has only a huge force but is useless.

However, Yu Qiuhei was a little worried about Akichi Mitsuhide's dispatch of the battle. Akichi Mitsuhide has been working as a civil servant for so many years and has only started to command the army in the past three years. It is inevitable that he is a little busy when encountering such occasions. If Akichi Mitsuhide's troops collapsed on this narrow official road, the situation of the defeated army turning against each other would happen again. So Yu Qiuhei called Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was not under command, and the two rode their horses to Akichi Mitsuhide's formation together, intending to help him command.

Before leaving, Yu Qiuping handed over his sword, Chidori, to Takenaka Shigeji, and he was in charge of Chang Panbei.

Akichi Mitsuhide is not a conceited person, but rather modest and gentle. If Yuqiehei and Tokugawa Ieyasu came to Shibata Katsuya's main formation and asked him to command, Shibata Katsuya would definitely be furious and drove them all out. Akichi Mitsuhide was not dissatisfied, but he naturally accepted the help of the two.

Yu Qiuhei personally took over the command duties from Akichi Mitsuhide, and immediately adjusted the originally scattered formation in an orderly manner, taking care of each other, and retreating in turn. Tokugawa Ieyasu personally went to the front line to give face-to-face instructions to the generals who were commanding, so that they could act according to Yu Qiuhei's deployment.

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At this moment, Yu Qiuhei was standing with Akichi Mitsuhide on the edge of a cliff on the west bank of Lake Biwa, looking down at the battle situation. As the terrain became narrower, the pressure of Akichi Mitsuhide's troops was under reduced and less, and they were about to retreat successfully. When the troops retreated through this cliff, Akichi Mitsuhide and Yu Qiuhei would ride their horses and retreat to the next high point to continue commanding.

"Thank you, Hongye and His Highness Tokugawa," Akichi Mitsuhide was quite moved when he saw this, "When it comes to command of the battle formation, I am indeed inferior to the two of you!"

"Oh? Mitsuhide? Isn't you angry with me?" Yu Qiuping asked in surprise when he saw Akichi Mitsuhide's tone.

"Why should a real man care about the anger of words?" Akichi Mitsuhide smiled when he heard this, but his gentle voice destined that his smile was always the kind of elegant smile, and he could not be as heroic as Oda Nobunaga. "Hongye is also devoted to his companion, so how could I blame him?"

"Is this true?" Yu Qiuping responded with a smile, and suddenly felt the sound of wind in his ears. Before he could react, Akihiko Mitsuhide, who was standing on his right, suddenly screamed, and the sound of sharp metal collision also sounded beside Yu Qiuping.

Yu Qiuping turned his head to the right in a daze, and time seemed to be frozen at that moment. A sharp arrow inserted straight into Akichi Mitsuhide's armor, and I don't know if it penetrated. The arrow flew so fast and had such a great force that only an archer comparable to Charlie could shoot an arrow of this intensity. Looking at the direction of the arrow's tail, it is likely that it was the Asakura family's archer. That arrow was either aimed at Yu Qiuping or Akichi Mitsuhide. If Yu Qiuping was the one who shot it, it would probably be difficult to escape.

At this moment, Akichi Mitsuhide had already staggered to the right due to the huge impact force brought by the arrow - and a few steps to the right is Lake Biwa, which is nearly five or six meters below the cliff!

Yu Qiuping almost instinctively wanted to reach out to pull Akichi Mitsuhide, but he didn't pull it in the first place. Akichi Mitsuhide had already taken two steps in a row, and his body lost its center of gravity and turned straight to the edge of the cliff! Yu Qiuping rushed over and grabbed Akichi Mitsuhide's wrist. He was about to pull Akichi Mitsuhide back hard, but he didn't want his feet to slip and fell over and rolled down the cliff with Akichi Mitsuhide!

After a while, Yu Qiuping and Akichi Mitsuhide both fell into the lake water of Lake Biwa. Yu Qiuping only felt a huge impact on his body, which made his cheeks hurt, and the sound of falling into the water sounded in his ears, and the touch of the cold lake water also spread throughout his body in an instant. Because he and Akichi Mitsuhide were both in heavy weight, they fell from such a high place, and suddenly sank into the water for several meters. Yu Qiuping didn't react for the first time and choked on a sip of water.

However, as a person with good water nature, Yu Qiuping was not panicked. He held his breath and threw away all his body. He even pulled the red leaf shawl with his hands. However, the familiar touch suddenly reminded him of the way the girl who could not work in a female hut was hiding in a small wooden house and embroidered his birthday gift with needle and thread. After hesitating for a while, he untied the shawl and stuffed it in his arms.
Chapter completed!