Chapter 496 Sacrifice
However, just as if the athlete had been arching for a long time, the gunshots were still ringing, Yu Qiuping was full of doubts. However, just like the athletes who were fully focused on the track, no one dared to distract himself and look up at the referee holding the gun. If the gunshots sounded at the moment you raised your head, your starting point would be at least half a position slower than others.
Therefore, Yu Qiuping was still holding Qiandi tightly, ready to jump out after the signal was released. However, as Yu Guang reached, he suddenly realized that Longzi was a little distracted at this moment - she was carefully stroking a scarf in her pocket.
"What a familiar scarf." A thought flashed through Yu Qiuping's mind, "It seems...oh! That winter, when I first met Longzi, I tied a scarf for her."
Didn’t this scarf throw it away long ago? Yu Qiuping was also a little distracted for a moment and began to think about the story about the scarf. When Yu Qiuping just gave Longzi the scarf in winter, but Longzi had to surround it no matter what, and in summer, he had to prickly heat on his neck. Later, Yu Qiuping took away the scarf - and then, Yu Qiuping asked himself that he had never seen the scarf again, and he didn’t know how it could have returned to Longzi’s hands - he had never seen Longzi again after so many years.
However, in the moment when Yu Qiuhei was distracted for a long time, there were suddenly fighting and shouts of killing from the side of Sen Kecheng. Yu Qiuping poked his head out of the pass in surprise, and it was revealed that Sen Kecheng had already rushed out of the pass with his people and was fighting with more than a dozen ninjas in front of the pass-and-the ninjas that were originally standing in the middle and the woods immediately rushed towards Sen Kecheng. Even many ninjas who were guarding this pass in front of Yu Qiuping rushed to reinforce.
"Why did you start to fight without calling a secret code?" Yu Qiuping was shocked, but at this moment he could not help asking Sen Kecheng, but immediately waved his hand and led the five people around him to charge. Longzi quickly stuffed the scarf back into his arms, and rushed out with Yu Qiuping with a knife. At this moment, there were less than 10 ninjas left in front of them. These ninjas naturally could not stop the guards who had been through many battles. Although Yu Qiuping himself was not very skilled in martial arts, Longzi and Sen Kelong were both masters, and they covered each other and rushed out in one breath. Those ninjas were no match for them at all. After being cut to death, three of them fled in a hurry.
However, Yu Qiuping had already rushed to the bottom of the mountain, but Sen Kecheng did not rush out. Yu Qiuping and Sen Kelong hurriedly jumped onto a stone ridge and looked back. Sen Kecheng and his only two remaining guards were besieged by more than 30 ninjas. Before Yu Qiuping and Sen Kelong could react, they saw that under the scattered swords, Sen Kecheng and the remaining two guards were also chopped to the ground. A ninja rushed to Sen Kecheng, cut off his level, and raised it high like a show of flaunting.
The close friend who was just chatting about the past suddenly became a dead soul under the knife. After being shocked, Yu Qiuping felt pain as if his heart was torn apart. He suddenly understood why Mori Kecheng insisted on sending Mori Kelong to Yu Qiuping, and then attacked without a secret code. Mori Kecheng did not want to break through together, but wanted to use his life as bait to break through first to attract the attention of Matsunaga Ninja's Ninja, so as to win the opportunity to escape - however, he couldn't bear to let his eldest son die with him, so he arranged him to Yu Qiuping, hoping that Mori Kelong could escape with Yu Qiuping.
"Senior Sen..." Yu Qiuping felt a dry throat in his throat and tears poured out of his eyes, "Why did you do this? Didn't you agree to cherish your life? If you don't let me die, how could you die by yourself!"
"Father!" Sen Kelong's eyes were red, and he roared angrily like a wild beast, and held the knife and rushed towards Sen Kecheng's level. However, Yu Qiuping realized that the situation was not good. Because the dozens of Sanhao Ninjas had turned their direction and rushed towards Yu Qiuping.
"Your Highness Hongye, please go quickly!" Sen Kelong shouted in a low voice to Yu Qiuping, and at the same time he rushed to the opposite direction, "I'll go and avenge my father!"
"Kelong, calm down!" Yu Qiuping grabbed Sen Kelong, and while ordering the guards to retreat quickly, he whispered: "If you don't want Lingzun's efforts to be wasted, just go with me!"
After saying that, Yu Qiuping pulled Sen Kelong toward the mountain without saying a word. Sen Kelong knew that this was not the time to get upset. Although he was full of grief and anger, he still obeyed Yu Qiuping's request and evacuated with him with tears in his eyes. The ninjas of the Matsunaga family had a lot of secrets and forgot to kill or move the horses left by Yu Qiuping and the others in the same place, so that Yu Qiuping and the others could ride on their horses and run.
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However, since the Matsunaga family's footsteps came from the northeast and the Miyo Family's troops to the south, Yu Qiuping had to take everyone to ride a horse and run westward. After noticing that Yu Qiuping had successfully escaped, the Matsunaga family immediately sent cavalry to chase after him. At the critical moment, Yu Qiu's army, located outside the west gate, seemed to have noticed something wrong. Takenaka Shigeji immediately ordered Nobumi Aiyama to lead the 4oo cavalry out to respond in the name of the Chief of Staff, and pretended to be in front of the 4oo cavalry that the Matsunaga family pursued.
Shinshi Aiyama didn't say much, and did not consider whether the Matsunaga family was an enemy or a friend, so he rushed over to the Matsunaga family's cavalry. When the cavalry hedges, horses are crucial. If you miss the time to improve the horse due to hesitation, the entire army will be destroyed. The cavalry of both sides sent a loose huge formation and launched a round of hedging outside the south gate of Takaya Castle. In the sword light and sword shadows, many knights were killed by the opponent at the moment when the horses intersected, and more people swept their weapons to each other and rode their horses toward the next enemy.
After one round of hedging, more than twenty knights fell on the Matsunaga family, and more than thirty people fell on the Yuqiu family. Because the two sides exchanged positions during the hedging, the Yuqiu family cavalry behind the Matsunaga family was the Yuqiu family's camp, and behind the Aishan Shishishi and the others were the Matsunaga family group rushing towards them. In order to return to their respective camps, the commanders of the Aishan Shishishi and the Matsunaga family ordered the cavalry to turn their horses and slowly start a hedge. This time, the exchange ratio of the Yuqiu family's knights was still not optimistic - they fell on the 20, but only more than a dozen people fell on the Matsunaga family. After the two rounds of confrontation, the knights who were only knocked off the horse and were not fatally injured ran back to their camp with the help of friendly forces, and Yuqiuhei had also escaped back to the camp safely.
"Your Highness, what's going on? Why is the Matsunaga family chasing Youth Highness!" Takenaka Shigeji immediately came forward and asked after seeing Yu Qiuhei's safe return.
"The Matsunaga family is likely to rebel from the Oda family. He just sent ninjas to attack His Highness Mori and me on the mountain! His Highness Mori has encountered an unexpected situation, and I escaped by chance." Yu Qiuping gritted his teeth in hatred and said in a deep voice: "Immediately let Chang Panbei and Mingdi prepare for the army to prepare for war! Fighting the Matsunaga army that is rushing over! And the Miyo family is likely to have colluded with the Matsunaga family. The troops of Anzai Tomokazu and Miyo Yoshihiko are also at risk of sudden attacks on us, so be careful!"
"Kelong, I know you are feeling very uncomfortable at this moment." Yu Qiuping turned around and patted Sen Kelong, whose eyes were red and his face was full of tears. "But you still want to return to the reserve team of the Sen family immediately, prepare for war immediately, and beware of the three good troops in Gaowu City's cooperation inside and outside!"
"Yes! Your Highness!" Sen Kelong replied loudly almost with a roaring volume, and bowed suddenly, "I'll cooperate with Your Highness Hongye to attack these miscellaneous people! Avenge your father!"
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After Morikotaro returned to Mori's army, Yu Qiuhei immediately asked Takenaka Shigeji's general staff to start formulating an emergency combat plan. Matsunaga's 4ooo soldiers had bypassed the south castle of Takaya Castle and attacked Yu Qiuhei stationed in Nishi Castle. Takatani and Matsunaga's 24o soldiers guarded Yingpan and Nishi Castle. With their strong defense capabilities and dense iron cannon fire, Matsunaga's 4ooo soldiers were helpless for a while.
However, Yu Qiuhei knew that now was not the time for a decisive battle. Originally, on the southern line, the total force of the Oda-Matsunaga coalition was 24ooo people, and the Miyo family's army also had 22ooo people. It was in a stalemate and no one could act rashly. However, at this moment, the 12ooo people of Matsunaga Hide fell to the side of the Miyo Army, and the situation immediately became the 12ooo people of the Oda army to fight against the 34ooo people of the Miyo-Matsunaga coalition. It was an absolute disadvantage of the Oda family and was unable to fight.
On the one hand, Yu Qiuhei sent an emergency envoy to inform Oda Nobunaga that Matsunaga had rebelled and Moriko-sei died in battle, and asked Oda Nobunaga to send reinforcements. On the other hand, he sought to retreat from Takaya Castle and retreat back to the north coast of Yamatokawa as soon as possible to defend his territory.
However, at this moment, no matter how you send an envoy, Oda Nobunaga can react tomorrow. Takaya Castle is about 70 miles away from the front line of Oda Nobunaga and Miyoo Nagaki, and it would be nice to have reinforcements reach the day after tomorrow - and before, Yu Qiuhei had to rely on his own troops. Although the situation at this moment is not a desperate situation, it is also extremely difficult.
The most urgent task is to find a way to repel the attack of the Matsunaga family. Then, block the reinforcements of Anzai Tomoya and Miyoyo Yoshihiko, and even fight against Miyoyo Yoshiko Yoshiko who came out of the city. Since Yu Qiuping's troops are located in Nishi Castle, it is difficult to withdraw from the north bank of Yamato Kawa. After that, how to defend Sakaimachi, located 30 miles away from the west side of Takaya Castle, is another big problem.
Just as Yu Qiuping was worried about the difficult situation in front of him, Shigeji Takenaka suddenly walked quickly to Yu Qiuping and whispered to Yu Qiuping: "Your Highness, I have a plan! Please let me go to the Mori family army immediately!"
"Ah? What's the plan?" Yu Qiuping was stunned for a moment and asked hurriedly.
Chapter completed!