At about 40 in the afternoon, the vanguard army, who received orders from Hideopo, launched an attack from four positions to the north bank of Yukawa. When they learned that the local big tube was relatively close, the front line Daimin retreated two miles to withdraw from the big tube's range. Then, using the red cannons given by Hideopo, bombing the Uesugi army's positions on the other side. In an instant, dust and smoke filled the air. Fired fires occurred in many places in the Uesugi army's barracks, not only the beachfront position, but also the Ikebukuro area far away from the river bank.

Rei suffered heavy losses. The first and second route were almost completely destroyed by the three-layer anti-horse barriers set up along the river bank, and several gaps of more than 20 meters long were torn open by artillery shells, basically losing their ability to resist. Most importantly, the Tsukimizu Lu located in the southeast corner of Honmaru was also hit by two shells and caught fire. Naoe Kensuke, the biological father of Higuchi Kento, was seriously injured. He simply treated him in time to save his life, but lost one leg and half of his arm.

After this disaster, the morale of the Uesugi army dropped to freezing point, and the defense line was close to the brink of collapse. After an hour of bombardment, Fukushima of Omoto Town took the lead in leading the army to Yukawa and filled the river with prepared sandbags. Daming from the other positions followed suit when he saw this. For a time, Yukawa was crowded with sluts and migrant workers who carried sandbags. Yukawa was not wide at first. With the efforts of more than 10,000 people, he finally paved several paths that allowed three people to pass side by side at the approach of nine o'clock.

The actions of the Toyotomi army were seen by the Uesugi army on the other side of the river. Kitagawahara Forestry, Ai Maeda Kyoji ordered the artillery team to aim at the other side of the river. Once the military force of landfill sandbags entered the range, they would immediately shoot. At the same time, he also ordered the Uesugi army to launch artillery on the south bank with several remaining large tubes and organize the Toyotomi army to approach Yukawa.

This move initially had some effect. Many migrant workers refused to work because they were afraid of burying themselves at the bottom of the river, which made the road not widened for a while. Many of the sandbags that had just been filled were washed away by the river. Seeing this, Fukushima Masaru immediately ordered the Otsutsu team to bombard the North Bank again. This time the target was no longer the Uesugi army's camp, but the iron artillery team and Otsutsu team on the river bank.

Under the second round of artillery bombardment of the Toyotomi Army, the Uesugi Army paid a heavy price. Almost all the big tubes were destroyed. Kitagawahara's iron artillery team also suffered a catastrophe, with nearly 70% casualties. The famous iron artillery general Nakajo Mimori, who had military achievements in Hasegou, was also killed. His thousand troops were placed under the command of Maeda Keiji.

In order to prevent more people from dying under the artillery fire of Toyotomi Army, Maeda Keiji gave up the policy of resisting the enemy in Henan and decided to lure the enemy into depth, blur the junction of the two armies, and then let the big tube throw a rat and avoid weapons.

Maeda's original intention was good, but he ignored a fact that with the thousands of troops in his hands, he could not withstand the impact of the 20,000 Toyotomi army. When the Toyotomi army stopped shelling and filled the earth and crossed the river again, Maeda's Kyotomi immediately ordered the army to retreat to the first defense fence, relying on the remaining fences and combined with the Toyotomi army that had just landed on the iron artillery team to shoot.

The first to rush to the north shore were mostly holding short weapons. These people were powerless to deal with the iron cannons, and dozens of people were killed or injured. However, the Uesugi army's iron cannon team had lost 70% of its troops before. Even if they tried hard, they could not stop more and more Toyotomi troops. These Toyotomi troops rushed from three waterways to the north shore, like black locusts. Looking at the terrifying, it was even a nightmare to contact.

Fukushima Masashi is a powerful general who is as famous as Kato Kiyoshi's Kiyoshi in the "Qiqian Gun". Now Kato Kiyoshimashi is guarding Kyushu. As the pioneer of the crusade army, he is even more unwilling to take away military achievements by others. The first military force to rush past Yukawa was the Fukushima Army. This alone laid the foundation for his future rewards.

The Fukushima Army took the light of guns and feet as the first formation, followed by cavalry and iron cannons, and rushed to Kitagawahara's first horse barrier like a storm. The horse barrier was completely destroyed, so it could not be used as a fortification to block the Fukushima Army's attack. The nine thousand army launched an attack on the front three routes of Maeda Kyoji's army. Facing the Fukushima Army, which was several times more than its own, Maeda Kyoji was not afraid at all. He waved the red gun and rode his horse around the enemy's middle and east, causing dozens of casualties in the Fukushima Army for a while. Seeing this, the Uesugi army forgot his fear and rushed to the ground formation, struggling to block the Fukushima Army's attack.

With the courage of Maeda Kyoji, the Uesugi army basically stabilized Kitagawahara's position and even suppressed the Fukushima army along the north coast for a time. At this time, Kuroda Nagamasa and Hosokawa Tada, who were unwilling to be the only military achievements of Fukushima, decided to cross the river to "support" friendly forces. Although Fukushima Masaru was not happy, in order to avoid affecting the progress, the ferry finally opened and allowed these two troops to participate in the war.

The support of 8,500 people was a great encouragement for the Fukushima army, but it was a disaster for the Uesugi army, which was already struggling to support. As soon as it landed, Mother Ritoshi, one of the "Japanese Seven-Pillar Guns", was a red horse under his crotch, holding a Japanese horn, and roared and led his samurai into the Uesugi army's position. As soon as he joined the formation, he attacked Maeda Kyoji's retainers Mizuno Fuji and Usa Miyagi Goemon. Seeing that the two veterans died of misfortune, Maeda Kyoji was angry and stood in front of the formation to fight with Mother Ritoshi. However, before Mother Ritoshi responded, he was hit by the left shoulder by the iron cannon foot of the Kuroda army and fell off the horse. Seeing this, Uesugi immediately stepped forward to protect Maeda Kyoji from leaving the battlefield.

The Uesugi army, who had lost Maeda Keiji, had no leader, and quickly became disorganized under the impact of Toyotomi army several times that of them. They gave up the first horse defense gate and gathered towards the Kasunoyama Tadagoba behind the second horse defense gate.

At the same time, Minamicho's progress was also very smooth. Mizuhara Mitsuhara was shot and killed by Otani Yoshiji's iron cannon foot. Kyoko's high-ranking six thousand troops advanced all the way, breaking through two defense horse barriers, killing nearly half of the Suwon army and confronting Kurokawa. The two armies fought for a long time. When Otani Yoshiji destroyed the main formation of the Suwon army, they came to support him and finally defeated Kurokawa, forcing the latter to retreat to the Hirasan Villa area. The first phase of the West Road strategy was successfully completed.

Compared with the progress of the two routes of the Central and Western routes, the slow movement of the Four Kingdoms Legion, which had 23,000 people, was surprising. Because Nagazo's Mori-jun intends to preserve his strength, he did not fill the soil and pave the road like Nagazo's West Road, but planned to wait for the army of Nagamata Village to assist Maeda Keijimaki and then cross the river by boat. Unexpectedly, the Uesugi army did not plan to go to Kitagawahara but stubbornly held their positions, which made Nagazo's Mori-jun very embarrassed. Tanaka Yoshimasaki and Kobayakawa Hideaki, who were as interested in preserving their strength, insisted on staying at the Sugawara Shrine, waiting for Nagazo's Nagazo's Nagazo's Nagazo's crossing the river before taking action.

When he found something strange about Nagazo's Mori-jun, he was responsible for monitoring the east route in Tenshenzhuang, and made a quick decision and ordered the three pioneers of the Tosa Army, Hisuka, Ikoma and Kato family behind him to move closer to Nagazo's main lineup, and sent envoys to the Tosa Army, asking Mori-jun to immediately organize an army to cross Yukawa.

Due to the situation, Nagazo's troops, Mori-ki, had to bite the bullet and attack the Uesugi army. It took nearly two hours and the three hundred troops to barely fill the road. When the beachhead was truly occupied, the West Road had already settled the Pingshan Villa, and the middle Road also attacked the third defense horse barrier.
Chapter completed!