The battle has been going on for about a pillar of incense, and in this short period of time, nearly two percent of the Alpine army has also been captured, but new problems have also arisen, the enemies are all bald, without hair, they can't pin their heads around their waists, if it's just one, they can still fight with one hand and one hand, but once they kill two enemies, then there is no way to take it.

Maeda Toshiie, who had been keeping an eye on his surroundings during the battle, immediately shouted when he noticed the problem: "The whole army obeys the order, and whoever kills the enemy will cut off his left ear as proof!" ”

As his voice fell, the order was quickly executed, if it was just the left ear, it wouldn't matter, one ear didn't take up much space, and it could be dragged around the waist, but there was a problem again, for the Ashigaru of the Takayama family and the ninjas who had followed the clan for many years, this was not difficult, but the ninjas who originally belonged to the wind demon had only followed the clan for a long time, and where they could tell the difference.

Seeing the hesitation of the ninjas under his command, Wasuka Masakatsu immediately knew what was going on in their hearts, for him, this problem was very easy to solve, since he couldn't tell the difference between left and right, then it would be better to simply cut off the enemy's ears.

And as Wasuka Masakatsu also gave an order to the ninja army, a palpitating glance appeared, only to see that the Takayama family is ashigaru or ninja, as long as there is something gained, they all take advantage of their free time, cut off the ears of the skull on their hands, and the monks who watched only felt that their scalps were numb, and even more, they involuntarily touched their ears.

With the problem satisfactorily resolved, the people of the Gao Shan Army had no worries. The offensive was once again fierce.

There are nearly 3,000 people in the Gaoshan army, and nearly 20% is 500 people, which means that in a short period of time with a pillar of incense, at least 500 monks and soldiers were killed, such a speed is unimaginable.

This situation will generally only happen when the combat power of the two armies is very different, and the combat power of the Takayama Army is only equal to that of the monk soldiers after the addition of the Wind Demon Shinobi Army and the newly recruited Ashigaru - so the price paid to achieve such results is not small.

While inflicting heavy losses on the enemy, the losses of the various armies of the Alpine Army were also close to two hundred. However, due to the cruelty of the Gao Shan Army's actions just now, the monks and soldiers felt frightened, so from that moment on. The casualties on both sides are slowly drifting apart.

The battle soon lasted for half an hour, and the monks and soldiers hurried for days, and the road to Hida was very difficult, so they were already a little tired. They were already tired and had time to rest, so they fought a big battle with the almost crazy mountain army, and even if they wanted to continue fighting, their physical strength was seriously unable to keep up.

The monks and soldiers also do a lot of evil in their daily lives, but in any case they are much more pious than the abbots and masters, or they have been completely deluded. The reason why they can continue to fight is completely supported by the belief in their hearts, and the monks and soldiers don't care what benefits they can get after killing the Gaoshan Clan, they only know that the Dao Gaoshan is the enemy of the Buddha. It is a demon, and he will not be allowed to live in the world.

Even if it is death, it can be regarded as killing for righteousness, and after ascending to bliss, he will definitely be favored by the Buddha. But the body is not determined by faith, although they are still fighting, but their combat power has dropped a lot compared to just now. The movements of the hands became more and more stiff.

Look at the high mountain army again, although they are also in a hurry, but they have already rested in the city for a night, their physical strength has already been recovered, and as the combat power of the monks is getting lower and lower, they are becoming more and more excited, in their opinion, now is a good time to get credit, if they don't take advantage of this time to cut off a few more heads, then when can they be crowned lords, not to mention sorry for the lord, even if they are sorry for themselves, in this way, even if the mountain army is slightly less, but the advantage is becoming more and more obvious. [520xs]

"Master, the enemy's attack is too fierce, it's better to retreat first, there is no point in continuing the battle." When the two sides were fighting, I saw an abbot kill a bloody road, come to Qili Lai Zhou, and say loudly.

Because the scale of the temple under his rule is too small, he only dispatched 200 monks in this battle, and what is even more unfortunate is that Maeda Keiji, the killing god and the army led by him, are fighting with the temple monks, and the offensive launched by the Takayama Banner samurai team is only 200 monks and can resist, so from the beginning of the battle to the present, the loss of its temple monks has been close to fifty percent, if it continues like this, I am afraid that no matter how pious the army is, it will also break and flee.

He knew in his heart that as long as someone broke and fled, then the coalition army would collapse like an avalanche, and the first to collapse would definitely be punished heavily, and he didn't want to bear such a crime, so before the incident happened, he hurriedly came to Qili Lai Zhou to propose advice first, once he agreed, then he had no responsibility.

Qili Lai Zhou is now in no mood to ponder his careful thoughts, the current situation is very clear, if he continues to fight, then the most will still be defeated by the Gao Shan Army, and if he orders to retreat now, although it will make the temples pay a heavy price, but at least it is much smaller than being defeated by the Gao Shan Army and then chasing and killing.

So after thinking about it and turning it over, Qili Lai Zhou finally decided to retreat.

Although he had already made a decision, he did not give an order immediately, his current position was at the forefront of the battle, and the troops around him were too scattered, once he ordered to retreat, then it was very likely that the army behind would be able to retreat, but he was surrounded by the Alpine army, so he would definitely ensure that he and his subordinates would give the order when they could evacuate.

As for whether the monks and soldiers of other monasteries can retreat, it is up to fate.

Although these monasteries belong to the same lineage and have many connections in normal times, after all, they are not subordinate to each other, but more like a loose alliance, if their ability allows, or if there are benefits to be obtained, they may help each other, but once they encounter a crisis, they will definitely choose to protect themselves first, and then say anything else.

When Qili Lai Zhou made a decision, I saw that he immediately led the army around him to rush left and right, first gathered the monks under his command together, whenever he encountered the high mountain family samurai blocking the road on the way, he did not fight with it, and directly led the army to rush over, so that the monks and soldiers of Honganji Temple quickly gathered together.

The number of Honganji troops this time has reached 2,000 people, in addition to those who have been killed, it has now gathered to Qili Lai Zhou's side has reached 1,500 people, although there are still 1,200 people scattered everywhere, these monks and soldiers are basically just out of the wood, at the moment away from him, and the number is not too much, so it is not enough for Qili Lai Zhou to lead the army to rescue them.

After assembling 1,500 monks, Qili Lai Zhou decisively rushed to the rear.

On the battlefield, the two armies together were only less than 7,000 men, and how could such an army of more than 1,000 men suddenly move so loudly that it did not attract the attention of others.

Seeing this, the warriors of the Takayama family immediately organized an army to attack the monk team that had been organized, wanting to intercept this monk team, but because they rushed too fiercely just now, now the Takayama army has been scattered all over the battlefield, so no matter how they shouted, the army under their command could not be gathered, and it was obvious that there was no ability to retain this army at present.

And the abbots of the other temples saw Honganji behaving like this, and they still didn't know what Lu Dao was thinking in his heart, they couldn't help but hate it in their hearts, it was obvious that Qili Lai Zhou was planning to lead the army to retreat, and in order to retreat calmly, he wanted to put himself on his back, how could he dare to do such a stupid thing, so when Qili Lai Zhou led the army to move towards the rear of the formation, they also immediately concentrated their troops and prepared to retreat.

The warriors of the Gaoshan army couldn't keep the more than 1,000 people, and they were already very angry, how could they let the remaining monks retreat calmly, so they didn't care about the more than 1,000 monks, and they transferred their troops to their sides to encircle and suppress the monks who had not yet gathered.

Seeing that Qili Lai Zhou led 1,500 people under his command to withdraw to the most rear, the abbots of all the temples knew that they could not delay any longer, otherwise under the siege of the Gaoshan army, there was only a dead end, and they didn't want to go to see the Buddha so soon, so they no longer gathered their troops, and they all retreated backwards.

However, due to the hurry, there were not many troops that could be gathered together by them, some could have two or three hundred people, and only a few dozen people.

Qili Lai Zhou, who was rushing backwards, saw that the coalition forces had already moved, and he had already led the army to the rear, so he didn't wait any longer, and directly gave the order to retreat.

As soon as the words came out, he led his army to the north without looking back, and he didn't feel distressed at all. The other monastic abbots had also withdrawn from the battle, but the expressions on their faces could tell that their hearts were bleeding.

The Honganji family has a great cause, and they can not care about some losses, but there are more than 1,000 people under their command, and only two or three hundred, and such losses are difficult to recover in a few years.

But they did not dare to have any resentment against Shichiri Raizhou, if he had made accusations, then it was very likely that he would take advantage of the weakness of the monasteries under his rule to annex the land, such a thing had not happened before, and anyone who dared to be disrespectful to him, with the same power as him, had long disappeared in Kaga.

I am already lucky to have escaped this catastrophe, so what is there not to be satisfied with.

Compared with them, the monks who could not retreat immediately were not so lucky, and in the face of the absolute superiority of the Alpine Army, none of them could escape. (You are welcome, your support is my biggest motivation.) )