After hearing this, Toyotomi Hideyoshi shook his head and said suddenly: "Thirty thousand! ”

That is, Matsunaga did not speak as soon as he came up, otherwise, it is estimated that there will be more than 30,000 troops to be dispatched, which is entirely because Toyotomi Hideyoshi suddenly felt that the retainers and the Tokugawa family had dispatched more than 100,000 troops after a rough calculation, and if the remaining small forces were counted, the military strength they used alone would be close to 150,000, which in his opinion was enough, so Kaien only let the Matsunaga family dispatch 30,000 troops.

It's just that like the Maori family, the Matsunaga family has an army of 30,000, and he dispatched 25,000, or because he has the same idea as Niwa Nagahide, because it is the reason for the decisive battle in Omi, and this is already the most military force that the Matsunaga family can dispatch, although there are still some, but the Tsutsui family was nominally wiped out, but it allowed Tsutsui Shunkei and his retainers and many troops to flee into the mountains, plus the Tsutsui family is deeply rooted in Yamato, once the battle is resurrected, it will be a big mess, so he has to be cautious.

But he didn't plan to open his mouth and hope that the lord could reduce the number of people who let his family go out into the army, because he vaguely heard the scene that happened just now, which was simply impossible, so in the end he could only admit it, and he had the same idea as Maori, Takigawa and others, the elite was not enough, and he could use the peasant soldiers to make it up. Anyway, these hundreds of thousands of troops do not lack the combat power of their own thousands of troops.

And then, the number of the remaining small forces to send out the army, Toyotomi Hideyoshi didn't bother to listen, he couldn't even get together a thousand people, there was no need to waste time at all, so he only asked those wealthy families to lead their own forces to belong to the main formation.

"Ota Ushiichi, have you calculated the number of people in your family who will go out of the army in this battle?"

Ota Ushiichi was originally a yobi of Oda Nobunaga, and has been following Nobunaga's side, and after his death, because Omi has been captured by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he has also become a yobi of the Toyotomi family.

As a person who had been in charge of this work for many years, he calculated the exact number directly after everyone reported the figures, and when Toyotomi Hideyoshi asked, he only heard him say: "Back to the lord, the subordinates have finished calculating, and the retainers and Tokugawa-sama have sent a total of 153,000 troops, and I ask the lord to decide." ”

After hearing this number, Hideyoshi finally nodded with satisfaction, the number of troops under his command and Tokugawa alone has exceeded 150,000, so in this way, he can leave more troops to protect the territory, and even if the thousands of troops of Nagazong's family are called, what effect can they play.

So after estimating it, he said: "This battle is related to whether the family can seize the world, so I decided that the family will send 50,000 troops, and gather 200,000 troops to fight a decisive battle with the Gaoshan family, you will go back to prepare immediately, I will only give you half a month, within half a month, the 153,000 army must be assembled in Azuchi City, if anyone is late or does not gather enough troops, don't blame me for being ruthless." ”

"Yes, please rest assured that your subordinates will live up to the trust of your lord."

Toyotomi Hideyoshi just wanted to announce the dismissal of the meeting, but he heard the Ukita Naoie, who had already served as a military advisor, say: "My lord, this time the battle letter sent by the Takayama clan only agreed on the date of the decisive battle, but did not propose the location of the decisive battle... ”

"That bastard of the Gaoshan Clan Sect dares to despise this family so much, good! Didn't he let me choose, then I chose the west bank of the Aichi River to see if he dared to come! Although Toyotomi Hideyoshi looked very angry on the surface, he was very happy in his heart, because when he watched the war book, he was already angry, and he did not realize that the other party had entrusted such an important decision to himself, and now how could he not be happy to hear the retainers mention it.

And because it has lived in Azuchi Castle for a long time, so the terrain of Minami Omi is still relatively familiar, the Aichi River originates in Lake Biwa, and then all the way to the south directly divides Aichi County into two, this river is wide, difficult to cross on foot, if the battlefield is set here, then the Takayama army must be ready to fight against the water, once its army is defeated, then even if you want to run, there is no chance, and as long as the enemy is annihilated, then the rectification of the eastern country will no longer have any strength to resist the attack of the family, so when the Ukita Naoya mentions, This was the first place he thought of.

"The lord is wise, if this decisive battle is repeated, the mountain army can be wiped out in one fell swoop." When Toyotomi Hideyoshi made a decision, the retainers present were also very excited, and couldn't help but say one after another.

On May 5, 1580, no one cared about the weather, because it was the day of the decisive battle between the Takayama family and the Toyotomi family.

Because it was a battle against the water, and the Toyotomi family gathered 200,000 troops this time, even the Takayama clan did not dare to slack off, and after receiving the news, he immediately led the army from Gifu Castle, and when he arrived at the east bank of the Aichi River, he did not order to cross the river, but bypassed the Iga country at the end of the Aichi River, so as to avoid a sudden attack by the other party when crossing the river.

And Toyotomi Hideyoshi really wanted to do this, but seeing that the other party was not on the set, he could only give up in anger in the end, and began to set up the formation while sitting in the main formation.

Since the number of people mobilized by both sides of the joint battle this time exceeded 300,000, and such a large-scale joint battle could not be carried out in the same place, so long before the arrival of the Takayama army, Toyotomi Hideyoshi set the main camp on Mount Kinyama, five miles west of the Aichi River, although the mountain is only about 400 meters high, but in the Omi country, especially in the land west of the Aichi River, this is already quite a high mountain. And although the Guanyin Temple Castle on this mountain was demolished, there was enough open space here for his army to be stationed.

And the reason why he fixed his formation here was not because he was afraid that the Gaoshan army would make a detour and sneak attack from behind, this kind of thing Gaoshan Clan Sect is very good at, and it is related to the battle of the world, how can he not guard against this.

In addition to the Toyotomi family's main camp, the 25,000 troops of the three families, including Mori, were arranged to serve as a reserve army between Mt. Kinyama and Minami Kesakuyama, and took on the important task of protecting the main camp.

As for the other troops, Toyotomi Hideyoshi led them to find a suitable position for themselves in the two miles west of the Aichi River, and the reason why he pressed the hundreds of thousands of troops so high was to put pressure on the Takayama army, so that after the other party crossed the river, he could not find a suitable position at all, and also made the Takayama army panic, so that they could see the rolling river as long as they turned around.