"yes!"
"My soldiers and I will hold this place to the death!"
"Akihara! We'll live and die with it!!!"
Takuma Yamanaka looked up and saw Kosuke Murata's resolute eyes. Seeing that look, Takuma Yamanaka knew there was no need to say anything more.
He turned and mounted his horse, addressing the small group of routed soldiers he had brought with him:
"You all stay here! Obey General Hou Cuntian's orders!"
"I will return to the Kyoto Imperial Palace first and ask His Majesty the Emperor to hand over my troops. Wait for us! I will come to your aid!"
"Yes, sir!" the soldiers replied.
Immediately, Yamanaka Takuma rode away, while Murata Kosuke led the way forward.
After the warhorses had run some distance, Yamanaka Takuma turned his head to look at the advancing troops, and before he knew it, a strong sense of sorrow arose in his heart.
This feeling came from nowhere, and he could only attribute it to the defeat he suffered today, which left him feeling down.
He looked up at the full moon hanging high in the night sky.
"It should be almost 9 PM, but I don't know when the message will reach His Majesty the Emperor."
Just before the hour of Xu (7-9 PM), a force of 30,000 men from Hisa Prefecture, which was adjacent to Akihara Prefecture, joined forces with Murata Kosuke.
Meanwhile, the troops led by Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou, who were already in Qiuyuan County, chose to halt their march because messengers from the rear had brought news that more troops were on their way.
Immediately afterwards, at 9:00 PM, Xu Da and Chang Yuchun's army joined forces with Qi Jiguang and others.
The messengers dared not stop at all when sending out the military intelligence that Yamanaka Takuma had initially sent out, and they rushed the message to the Kyoto Imperial Palace!
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