Chapter 1606: Minamoto Nagamasa is desperate
"boom!"
"boom……"
Shells continued to explode among Uesugi Yu's troops.
The battle formation they formed in panic collapsed.
Around them, the cavalry led by Gao He and Qin Pu were constantly shooting.
"Help!"
"what……"
"Run away..."
On the battlefield, there were screams everywhere and the sounds of soldiers running away with their heads in their hands.
Especially those so-called warriors suffered heavy casualties.
They had no armor and had no training in battle.
Many people have never even been on a real battlefield.
Faced with such a blow at this moment, many people did not even have the courage to resist. They dropped their weapons and fled in all directions, just to survive.
However, what greeted them were arrows from the cavalry roaming around the periphery.
"Charge! Follow me!"
Uesugi Yu roared at the top of his lungs and led more than 3,000 troops towards the artillery position.
Without destroying these artillery pieces, they would have no way of organizing their troops to break out.
Looking at the enemy troops rushing over, Lun Tai and Liu Feng looked at each other at the same time.
Is it so easy to attack an artillery position?
Do you really think that these seven or eight thousand troops surrounding the area are just for show?
"Prepare defense!"
Liu Feng shouted loudly, and the messenger beside him immediately waved the command flag.
Upon receiving the order, all units moved forward in an orderly manner.
Shieldmen, spearmen, archers...
All soldiers quickly took up defensive positions.
When Uesugi Yu led his troops to charge over, the archers took the lead in launching the attack.
After a round of rain of arrows, the soldiers led by Uesugi Yu fell down in large numbers.
However, this part of the troops did not disband and continued to charge forward.
Lun Tai saw it and nodded secretly in his heart.
This group of people is quite good. They did not disintegrate under such circumstances.
If Minamoto no Nagamasa had such well-trained troops under his command, this battle would not have been so easy to fight.
After suffering nearly two thousand casualties, Uesugi Yu finally led the remnants of his troops to the defense line of the artillery position and engaged in a fierce battle with their defensive forces.
Uesugi Yu was extremely brave. Although he was hit by an arrow while charging, the sword in his hand still flew up and down.
In a blink of an eye, several Daqian soldiers were killed.
"I didn't expect that Yu Country has such a powerful general! I'll go meet him!"
Lun Tai couldn't hold back any longer and rode out on his horse.
Liu Feng wanted to stop it, but it was too late.
never mind!
Stop the ass!
"kill!"
Liu Feng roared and rushed out as well.
He had been slightly injured in a naval battle before, and although he has not recovered yet, why should he care about these things at this moment?
Soon, Luntai rushed to Uesugi Yu and swung the long sword in his hand at Uesugi Yu.
Just as Rindai was fighting with Uesugi Yu, Tanaka Nobuyuki and Oki's troops also entered the battlefield.
From a distance, Qin Qihu led dozens of people to charge towards Uesugi Xiong's general flag.
"Leave Uesugi Yu to me!"
Qin Qihu galloped on his horse and roared loudly.
The mace in his hand was not idle either.
Wherever the mace passed, enemy soldiers fell down.
When Qin Qihu rushed to Uesugi Xiong, Uesugi Xiong had already fallen off his horse under the fierce attack of Lun Tai and Liu Feng. His body was covered with wounds. He was only relying on his willpower to hold on, and he was waving the broken sword in his hand randomly.
"clang!"
With a crisp sound, Uesugi Yu's knife hit Qin Qihu's mace.
The already scarred sword suddenly broke into two pieces.
Qin Qihu raised his mace and knocked the half-broken sword out of Uesugi Xiong's hand. Then he turned around and smashed the mace heavily on Uesugi Xiong's head.
"puff!"
Uesugi Yu spat out a mouthful of blood and fell straight down.
"..."
Lun Tai and Liu Feng looked at Qin Qihu with depressed expressions.
This isn't the way to grab kills!
If you had arrived a few breaths later, Uesugi Yu's head would have been ours!
"The heads are yours!"
Qin Qihu waved his hand carelessly, "Cut off the head quickly!"
After saying that, Qin Qihu went straight to Uesugi Xiong's general flag.
He has already made too many military achievements!
He doesn't need this little bit of military achievement!
He just likes the feeling of killing the enemy's commander!
Under Qin Qihu's fierce charge, the enemy's flag-guarding soldiers were thrown to the ground.
When Qin Qihu knocked the soldier carrying the flag away with his mace, the morale of Uesugi Yu's troops completely collapsed.
The rest was basically a one-sided massacre.
……
Susa Castle.
Minamoto Nagamasa sat there with a dull look in his eyes.
He already knew the news that Uesugi Yu's troops were surrounded, and he also guessed the fate of that group of people.
But he did not send troops to rescue, but instead withdrew the last of his forces.
It's not that he doesn't want to rescue, but he simply can't do it.
He knew clearly that if he sent people to rescue, he would be surrounded by the enemy again.
Now, he had no choice but to hide in this city and have a slight chance of resistance.
"Where are the reinforcements?"
"Where are our reinforcements?"
"Didn't they agree to support us?"
Minamoto Nagamasa kept muttering to himself.
His original high spirits had long since disappeared.
However, in just one day, Minamoto Nagamasa seemed to have aged ten years.
The reinforcements from several southern lords were nowhere to be seen.
The spies he sent out reported that no troops from the south had entered the north through Broken Ridge Mountain.
"Sir, we have no reinforcements!"
"We were deceived by those lords in the south!"
"From the beginning to the end, they never thought of supporting us!"
Yaliang wailed with grief and anger on his face, his eyes full of despair.
He should have thought that those lords in the south would not be so easy to talk to!
They never thought of sending reinforcements.
Those lords were just teasing them on purpose.
Give them hope, and then let them down!
This is the revenge of those lords in the south!
"No reinforcements?"
Minamoto Nagamasa looked at Yaliang dejectedly, with a hint of hope in his eyes, "Where's Chihide? Will Chihide come to support us?"
Is it Yuan Qianxiu?
Yaliang lowered his head silently.
I guess Yuan Qianxiu is only thinking about escaping now?
In this situation, how can Yuan Qianxiu support them?
If Yuan Qianxiu wanted to support them, there wouldn't be no news for so long.
He knew in his heart that Yuan Qianxiu had already fled with the remaining troops.
Yuan Qianxiu must have understood that Yun Zheng would never let him go. If he fell into Yun Zheng's hands, he would have no way out, just like Yuan Jiro who was skinned and had his tendons pulled out.
Moreover, even if Yuan Qianxiu came to support, what could he do with the few men he had?
It's nothing more than losing one more life.
Seeing that Yaliang remained silent, Minamoto Nagamasa's face suddenly showed sadness.
He also suspected that Yuan Qianxiu had already escaped with his men.
But before that, he still had a glimmer of hope in his heart.
But Yaliang's silence completely wiped out the last bit of hope in his heart.
"Are we at the end of our rope?"
Minamoto Nagamasa asked in a distraught manner, with only endless despair in his heart.
Now, he only has 15,000 soldiers left.
When Yun Zheng defeats Uesugi Yu's troops, he will inevitably start attacking Susa Castle.
He knew that it was basically impossible for him to defend Susa Castle, but he had no choice but to defend it to the death.
Because, apart from Susa Castle, he had nowhere else to go!
"Probably..."
Yaliang closed his eyes in pain.
"Then can we... surrender?"
Minamoto Nagamasa seemed to have lost his mind and asked with a dull look in his eyes.
surrender?
Yaliang looked at Minamoto Nagamasa in disbelief.
How could he ask such a question?
He actually thought of surrendering?
If they had not provoked Daqian in the first place, they would certainly have had a chance to surrender.
But they killed so many people in Daqian, how could Yun Zheng give them the chance to surrender?
Now, it’s not a question of whether they want to surrender or not.
The question is whether Yun Zheng will give them this opportunity!
If they could go back in time, they would definitely not go to Daqian to plunder.
But now, there is no point in saying anything...
