No one could have imagined that the war would come much sooner than they thought.

In this era, no news is impenetrable, and protracted melee makes people become noisy, and they are good at seeing the clues of war in small changes.

On August 22, when the news of the mobilization of the people in the Bozhou Prefecture was brought to Inshu and Tajima by the wandering monk, the Yamaga family immediately sent an envoy and gathered the people in the country to organize troops, and prepared defense at the Ice Mountain in the country, and immediately sent important ministers to repair the neighboring country to the east, the Isshiki clan.

The news of the coming war spread like a plague of locusts from Hakushu, which was preparing for war, to Inshu, Tajima, and Misaku, and then to Bizen and Harima...... until it shook Gyeonggi.

The world, which had just been slightly settled after the end of the Nagashino War last year, was surging again, and for a time the wood, stone and weapons merchants made a lot of money.

On September 13, the Nizi family's troops who had completed the preparation for the war finally received an order from the Shizhou Prefecture to go out, and under the leadership of Yamanaka Kasuke, Chen soldiers of more than 5,000 people, on the grounds that they were unwilling to submit to the Ming State, sent a war letter to the Yamana family who ruled Inshu and Danma, and the two sides officially declared war.

While scolding Niko Katsuhisa, Yamana Toyokuni wrote a letter to Niko Katsuhisa asking him to maintain the peace of the feudal kingdom, and at the same time reduced his forces to Tajima Province, abandoning most of the country's territory and relying on the Ice Mountain to build a defensive line, while at the same time trying to find a way to ask for reinforcements from the Isshiki clan to the east.

When Yamanaka Kasuke led his army through the fields of Inzhou, he finally knew Chen Bazhi's plan to send troops at this time—the rice in various places would mature in October and November.

"It is no wonder that the Shizhou Mansion has asked us to prepare for defense in the military order, with the Ice Mountain as the boundary, and the fields of the Inzhou Prefecture are harvested by us; If Tajima were to be captured, the harvest of the fields in the two countries would be enough to tide over any difficulties. ”

The samurai of the Nizi family prepared for more than a month in advance, and at the beginning of the war, they took advantage of it, and successively captured the two castles of Tenjin Mountain and Tottori in Inzhou, and more than 20 teams divided their troops into four routes, and occupied all the dangerous passes in Inshu in just ten days, until their soldiers approached Tongshan Castle at the junction of Tajima, which was greatly hindered.

The Yamana army was intimidated by the threat of the Ming army's raids in various places, and did not want to be the enemy of Chen Bazhi, so they only defended the main road leading to the Tajima country, and did not dare to go west to fight.

The Yamana family and the Nizi family have had many contacts in the past few years, and even at the beginning they helped the Nizi family to return to the country and send troops, but later broke up after the Nizi family joined the Ming Guoqin Wang army, at this time, if they had to choose one to surrender, they would prefer to switch to Oda Nobunaga and Nizi Katsuhisa than Chen Bachi.

After all, it doesn't matter if Oda or Niko, they won't pour their own stoves and distribute the land of the samurai family to the people.

In the eyes of the samurai, the real hell is in the three mansions of the Ming Kingdom.

Outside Kiriyama Castle, the two armies of Niko and Yamana each set up a formation on a low mountain, and there was only one road to the east, and the Yamana army was unwilling to retreat, so they confronted Yamanaka Kasuke with their backs to Yamashiro.

At first, Shikasuke did not dare to attack rashly because he did not know the strength of Yamana's army, but he did not expect that the Yamana army would gather more and more in Kiriyama Castle for more than ten days.

After the Yama clan, the family crest of the Isshiki clan also appeared on the Yamana clan's main camp, and at the end of September, tens of thousands of troops were gathered between the small Inshu and Tajima.

In this way, Yamanaka Kasuke did not dare to act rashly, so he simply made defensive preparations, and dispatched seventeen generals under his command and four bandits and robbers from all over the country to form a guerrilla team to arrange the defense line, and the offensive was always superior to the defensive position, but in his opinion, it was wise to start a war on the preset battlefield that he was familiar with.

At this point, the momentum of the two sides has completely changed, and the previous Yamana Toyokuni was still busy sending envoys to this side in the hope of surrendering, and only when he heard Shikasuke convey that Chen Bachi asked for Ikuno Ginzan, he was full of voices, and now it was not like that at all, and they began to forcefully demand that Yamanaka Shikasuke withdraw from Inshu, otherwise they would attack in October.

As the confrontation progressed, Yamanaka Shikasuke became more and more bottomless in his heart.

"General Chen doesn't plan to send reinforcements yet?"

Seeing that the enemy army is becoming more and more unable to hold back the idea of attacking - the fields are about to ripen, and before they are ripe, they will definitely launch a counteroffensive.

Shikasuke looked at the banner of the low mountain on the opposite side from a distance, and the family crest of the Inhatama clan, Tajima Yama clan, Isshiki clan, Yagi clan, and Tayuzu Zhuang clan...... A large number of family crests representing the castle lords such as Tajima and Tango stand opposite, and the number of troops on his side seems to be pitiful.

The Ming army, which was supposed to send reinforcements, looked like it was far away, and if it really fought, the four hired guerrilla teams would inevitably disperse in a hurry under the defeat.

The surrounding environment minimizes the morale of the Nizi Legion.

Yamana's troops launched an attack at dawn on October 3, and the dew of the night shrouded the Nazi army in a morning mist, and the Yagi team and the Tayususo team of the Yagi army of the Yamana army hid all the way from the mountain road to attack, and when the light penetrated the forest, the outermost army found the enemy, and at first it was only a fierce battle with a rain of arrows, and at this time the peripheral peasants still had the strength to fight.

However, when the form of battle changed from bow and arrow to white blade, the peasant soldiers, who lacked the belly and even the number of hats, were not the opponents of the stalwart samurai, and were defeated in almost a moment of engagement.

As a ranger, the Bozhou bandits brandished the wild sword and attacked the enemy's belly and back from the middle of the road, and after slashing and killing dozens of people, they did not dare to fight, and then passed through the other side of the mountain road.

On both sides of the main formation on the mountain, gathered seven teams of men and horses of the Nizi clan and an elite wild samurai team, hearing the shouting and killing from the mountain, Yamanaka Kasuke held the long knife with the pestle on his side and did not get up from the small horse, but after a while, the envoys of each team rushed to the main formation to report: "The enemy army is killed from the city, the Miyuan team will be killed by the enemy, the Shenxi team will be defeated, and the Thorn He team will be returned due to the attack of the guerrilla team." The Dohu team defected, the general has been beheaded by the military eye, and now the troops are taken over by the Uyama team and detoured to the enemy's side! ”

"Well done!"

Shikasuke approved, turned his head and nodded to the three generals on the left, the battle strategy had already been explained, at least the current battle was still going on according to their ideas, the three generals led the troops to leave, according to the earlier confrontation cut out a small path to the enemy's flank, Yamanaka Shikasuke then straightened out his armor and stood up from the horse.

As long as more than 1,000 men can make a detour from the enemy's flank, he can swallow the enemy's pioneers by virtue of the mountainous terrain and advantageous location, and the encirclement will be followed by a battle of annihilation.

If he wins, he can gather all the scattered forces back, and then he will be able to win the next great victory from the field with superior forces.

At this moment, a dense burst of iron cannon fire suddenly came from the bottom of the mountain, which made Yamanaka Shikasuke have a bad premonition in his heart.

After a while, the panicked envoy ran up and reported loudly: "Oda, the enemy army has erected the Oda family crest in this formation!" ”

The shadow of the famous tree of the people, and the mere Oda battle flag, caused all the generals of the camp to panic, even the hand holding the sword of Yamanaka Shikasuke, who was the general general, trembled slightly-in the world, no one is not afraid of the forces of the Oda clan, and everyone is the same.

But as a general, he must have a tenacious will, he glanced at the generals with a forced gaze, waved his hand: "Even if the Oda army comes to help, how many troops can be gathered in just twenty days?" And how many troops can reach the front? Whoever comes is the same, if we win this battle, the Nizi family will be able to control Bozhou, Yinzhou, and Danzhou, and the family will revitalize the loyalty of all the monarchs, and this victory or defeat will depend on our morale - will you raise the flag? Set up the battle flag of the Ming Kingdom! ”

On October 3, the third year of Wanli, outside the city of Tongshan in Japan's Inaba country, the Mingzi banner that had already been prepared and placed on the ground was erected on the main formation of the Dwaryama Nizi Army.

Yamanaka Yukimori, who was wearing a deer antler helmet, stood on the flagpole and waved it left and right in the mountain pass, slamming on the ground, opening his mouth and neck with blue tendons: "Eh! Huh! Roar! ”

The four teams of this formation are light and cheered.

After the melee, Ashigaru heard the cheers of his own formation on the top of the mountain, turned his head to look, and the big banner with clear characters on the top of the mountain hung high and opened up.

"Kill! Reinforcements are coming! ”