Volume 1 Chapter 740 The battle begins

In June 1570, Nobunaga was furious when he learned that Asai Nagamasa dared to refuse his request, but because he just wanted to teach him a lesson, he did not personally lead his army, but ordered the Takayama clan, Shibata Katsuie, and Sakuma Nobumori to attack the Asai family.

Due to the threat of strong enemies on both sides of the Hida Kingdom, in order to ensure the safety of the territory, the clan clan not only left the new group to guard the territory, but also left the iron cannon and the heavy vine bow to defend in the territory, after all, these two armies did not have any advantage in attack, and he personally led the rest of the army in his family to participate in the battle with a total of 4,700 people.

And Omi Shibata Katsuya and Sakuma Nobukatsu don't have so many worries about the clan, and the army in the territory is 10,000 people. Especially Shibata Katsuya, the lord will marry Ashi to Asai Nagamasa, he does not dare to resent the lord, and it is his son-in-law who makes the suggestion, although he feels angry, but also because of the love for the clan, it is not easy to vent his anger on him, so Asai Nagamasa can be unlucky, unknowingly became the enemy of Shibata Katsuya, in order to repay the hatred of his wife, this time Shibata Katsuya sent an army of 6,500 people, in addition to the dozen or twenty ashigaru left in each castle, the Shibata army went to war with it.

Since the Shibata Katsuie's territory was adjacent to the Asai family, he had his own way, and if the clan and Sakuma Nobumori wanted to attack Kita-Omi, they would need to pass through Mino, so the eight thousand led by the two of them would be the other way.

The Asai family and the Oda family had already turned against each other, so he had to send more detectives to inquire more about the Oda family's information, so as soon as the clan and the other three came out of the army, he received information.

And when he heard that although the enemy seemed to be coming in two ways, but Oda Nobunaga's army did not make any moves, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, as long as Oda Nobunaga did not personally lead the army to come, then at least this time, with the power of the three families, as long as there are no accidents, there is still a certainty to block the enemy's attack, as for what to do in the future? Let's wait until later.

Asai Nagamasa after receiving the report. Not daring to have any delay, he immediately sent people to Echizen and Kaga, asking the two families to send troops to help, and in addition, he mobilized the army to transfer to the cities for defense.

Asakura Yoshikei is determined to fight on the same front as himself. Ordered Asakura Jingjian to be the main general, and sent 6,000 troops to aid Asai, although it seems that the number is not large, but these 6,000 people are all elites with helmets, armor and spears, and the total number of elites of the Asakura family is only 99,000, and this time 6,000 were dispatched, which can be seen completely. He's going to play with the Oda family.

Although Asakura Yoshikage didn't want to send too many elites at the beginning, after all, the territory controlled by the family was at the junction with Mino, and once the elites were out, if Oda Nobunaga led the army to attack at this time, then the family would definitely be destroyed, but he thought about it, even if he left all the elites in the territory, if the Oda family really wanted to attack. Then it is impossible to stop it with only 9,000 elites, so it is better to vigorously aid Asai, as long as Oda does not come to attack the main family this time. Then next time, how could the Asai family not lead a large army to help, so this time he could only take a gamble.

And Qili Lai Zhou only planned to send 3,000 troops to aid Asai at first, after all, his neighbor was the Gaoshan Clan, and he had to leave enough troops to defend, but when he heard that the Gaoshan Clan Sect led a large army to Asaui, he couldn't help but relax and sent 5,000 monks to support.

After the defeat of the Takayama army, Shichiri Yorishu finally had a full understanding of the strength of the Takayama family, and he knew that if the Kaga temples were to govern as before. If you only wait for the time to gather together, you will only be broken by the Gaoshan family in the end, and when the temples go out, I am afraid that the Gaoshan army will have already disappeared without a trace, and it does not need to seize the land at all, as long as the temples are eliminated one by one. So this Kaga will come to his hands sooner or later, which he can think of, how could the Takayama clan with the reputation of Owari no Fox not think, fortunately, in the past two years, the Takayama clan has only cared about training the army, and there is no intention of going out to Kaga for the time being, and he has taken advantage of the two years to annex the land of Kaga Temple, although it took a lot of effort, but he still succeeded after the most reluctance, and at present, the temples that originally stood side by side in Kaga have all disappeared, and some are just the power of Honganji, Now there are 10,000 monks and soldiers at Kaga Honin Temple, and this time he can send 5,000, which can be regarded as sincere assistance.

Honganji had already integrated Kaga-ji Temple in the past two years, so the speed of its army was not slow, and it only took four days to lead the army to arrive.

At the same time, the clan and Sakuma Nobumori went all the way to Mino Naomoto Kita Omi, and the Shibata Katsuya controlled the place closer, so it had launched an attack on Sawa Yamajo a day ago, and the Oda family army was nearly 15,000 in this battle, and the three elite troops of Asai, Asakura, and Honganji were 18,000, and the coalition army had no advantage in numbers, but the elite army of the Asai family also had to defend the cities, especially the cities on the front line, and Asai Nagamasa could not worry about sending farmers and going to defend them, so that a large number of elite troops were occupied, Therefore, the number of banners that can be dispatched is only 3,000 at most, and in this way, the company army can really fight a decisive battle with the Oda army at most 14,000, but it is at a disadvantage everywhere.

As for the peasant soldiers, during the elite duel, the peasant soldiers did not play any role at all except to add to the chaos, so although Asai Nagamasa mobilized nearly 20,000 peasant soldiers, he only sent them to various towns to defend them.

Because the Asai family made preparations first, the Shibata Katsuie, who could have already fought with the Asai family, did not bargain, and there were 6,500 elites under his command which seemed to be a lot, but if the reinforcements sent by Asai Nagamasa were added to the Sawa mountain castle, there were also 3,500 people, although there were few people, but Isono Yuanmasa only held out in the city, and there was no danger of breaking the city for a while.

However, the city lord Isono Chang Zhi said, I am afraid that he will block for a while, since the third day, Shibata Katsuya completely imitated the method of attacking the city of the clan, and divided the army under his command into three, and launched an attack on the city without interruption, although the army of each team attacking was only two thousand, but Isono Chang did not dare to divide the defenders in the city into three parts, as long as the Shibata army attacked, the defenders in the city had to rest and go into battle, only one day down, the army in the city was exhausted, as long as Shibata Katsuya attacked for two more days, Then even if the defenders in the city still have fighting spirit, they will never have the physical strength to fight against the enemy.

So in desperation, Isono Masayo sent someone to Tanijo immediately and asked Asai Nagamasa for help again......)

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