It can be said that the Takatori castle guard is too lucky, because the ninja of the Takayama clan left to report to the Takayama clan after finding out the information of this city, and he is not lurking in the city at the moment, otherwise the intelligence of the Takayama clan can come up with at least ten ways to deal with them. ,!.

Soon after Isono Yuanchang, Wakisaka Yasuharu, Fujido Takatora and others made a plan, Takayama Clan Sect and Sakuma Nobumori led more than 8,000 troops to appear not far outside the city, although the army under his command was tired, but because there were not many defenders in the city, as soon as they arrived outside the city, Takayama Clan Sect directly ordered the army to attack the city.

And he is leading 1,600 cavalry, 300 assault ninjas, and 100 banners of the samurai and Sakuma Nobumori to line up a mile outside the city, for such a siege battle that does not require much skill, it is really not necessary to personally command generals like Takayama Clan and Sakuma Nobumori, there is Wasuka Masakatsu, Sakuma Morimasa and others to supervise the battle is completely enough.

Since the war, Sakuma Nobumori has been in a very bad mood, he has been fighting for decades, in addition to following the lord's side, he has never been a deputy general, this time it is an exception, if the main general is Shibata Katsuya, a samurai who has always been stronger than himself, it will be just, but this time the main general is the young Takayama clan, and he is also his son-in-law, which makes him feel very uncomfortable.

And the Takayama clan could guess what he was thinking from his expression, so after entering the main formation, he was supposed to be his only son sitting on the first place, but in order to take into account Sakuma Nobumori's mood, he still raised his seat to the front, but it was one level lower than himself.

After sitting down, if you don't look closely, you will definitely think that the two of them are sitting side by side.

Everyone sat down, and the clan sect simply said a few innocuous words and then stopped talking, for him, there was really nothing to say about attacking Takatori Castle. As long as he relies on superior forces to attack, he doesn't need to worry about it at all, and he is now thinking about the battle in the future, and he already knows the news that more than 10,000 troops from the Asakura family and Honganji have come to help him yesterday. And he has been sending ninjas under his command to keep an eye on the movements of this army, but what is incomprehensible is that the opponent's army of more than 10,000 people is staying motionless in Kotani City, which is really abnormal. With Asai Nagamasa's intelligence, it was absolutely impossible to think that if he only relied on the current defenders, it would be impossible to stop the attack of his own and Shibata Katsuie's two armies, and since he could think of this. But it would be strange not to send troops to help, not even to have this idea.

What does Asai Nagamasa want to do? Could it be that they want to resist the attack of the two armies in Kotani Castle? But if that's the case. Then there is no need for it to separate the four thousand elites and refuse to defend the two-tier city. Wouldn't this be a waste of troops, he must have neglected something, but the current war has just begun, and the army in Kotani Castle is monitored by his own ninjas, even if he wants to play any tricks, it is absolutely impossible to succeed, thinking of this. The clan couldn't help but relax again.

Since he doesn't have to worry about strategic matters, he began to think about how to get the talents of the Asai family, because in order to regain the dominance of the Asai family, Asai Nagamasa purged more than half of the retainers in the family, and in order to fill the vacancy, he could only supplement the young retainers in large quantities, and it was precisely because of this that a large number of young and capable samurai such as Fujido Takatora , Otani Yoshitsugu , Katagiri , Wakisaka and so on will appear on the stage of history several years in advance, and this is a good thing for the Asai family, After all, they are stronger than most of the old ministers of the Asai family in terms of ability, and their loyalty to Asai Nagamasa is even more undoubted, it is their existence that allows the Asai family to recover its strength in just a few years after the end of the civil strife, and it is stronger than the original.

And it also has a lot of benefits for the clan, if they don't appear in advance, they need to send more ninjas to investigate where they are, and now they are still the retainers of the Asai family, so it is convenient to wipe them out, all the capable retainers of the Asai family, in this battle, the clan will definitely not let go of one.

At the same time that the clan clan was sitting in the main formation, Wasuka Masakatsu, more than 6,000 troops under the command of Sakuma Morimasa had launched an attack on the city, and the city Isono Masahara thought that the strength of the South Road Army was not much different from the combat power of the Shibata Army, and the army under his command should be able to block its attack for several days, but when the other party attacked, and after a while, he realized that he was too naïve, if the combat power of the thousands of troops of the Sakuma family was not much different from the Shibata Army, The combat power of these ninjas with steel armor in front of them is more than a step higher.

Although the ninja swords in the hands of the other party are too short to reach the defenders in the city, the shuriken they throw out from time to time is unguardable, especially at the moment when the two armies just engaged, the overwhelming shuriken attacked the city, because the defenders in the city did not expect the other party to do this, so only this time, there were nearly two hundred swordsmen, even if Isono Yuanchang did not react quickly, at the same time as the enemy shot the shuriken, he lowered his head, I am afraid that it will be difficult for him to escape the fate of death, and he will fall nearly one percent of the army at once, the defenses of the city walls immediately appeared porous.

That is to say, Isono Yuanchang has rich combat experience and left a reserve of 500 people, intending to support everywhere, and let them top in time after a large part of his army's strength has fallen, otherwise, the enemy will definitely be able to take advantage of the situation to attack the city, so that let alone a few days, I am afraid that this city will be difficult to hold for a while.

Now Isono Yuanchang is only looking forward to leading the ambush army to appear quickly, otherwise this city may not be long before it changes hands.

Fortunately, it didn't take long to wait, after the two sides started a battle with a pillar of incense, only to hear the shouting and killing of the east and west, it is obvious that Fujido Takatora and Wakisaka Yasuharu each led two thousand troops to kill, although the effect of killing from the enemy's side is not as good as killing from its back, but the enemy is from the south, and how can he ambush in the south, so Fujido Takatora had to retreat to the second, but in time, it was still caught off guard, especially the Sakuma army, although he also implemented the separation of soldiers and farmers, this time the participants were all banners and light, However, the combat power is probably slightly worse than that of the Shibata army, and although this Sakuma Morimasa is brave, he is not very good at commanding, so as soon as the enemy attacks, the Sakuma army is in chaos.

He was in a hurry when he saw this, but he saw that the army's heart was already in turmoil, so he had to lead dozens of banners to kill the enemy Ashigaru, although his martial arts were impeccable, but how could he only have one person, how could he defeat the enemy's two thousand army with one person's direct strength, if it goes on like this, within a moment or three, the Sakuma army will be defeated and retreat, and then look at the Takayama family ninja army, they are now angry that they can't get the credit for the enemy they just killed, of course, this has nothing to do with the clan, after all, a sword in one hand, Each enemy will have at least a few or a dozen shuriken inserted in their bodies, and whose credit should be given to the enemies they kill together, and just when they felt that they could not vent, the enemy's two thousand troops rushed from the side, which made them suddenly overjoyed, and even the unhappiness just now disappeared from their hearts without a trace.

In their opinion, these two thousand people are completely here to give credit to themselves, how can they give up such an opportunity.

When Wasuka Masakatsu just ordered them to stop attacking the city, and first kill the enemy outside the city, they saw that they pounced on the enemy like wolves and tigers, and the number of ninja troops was not less than that of the enemy outside the city, so although the Asai army sneaked up first, it did not get any cheap, especially when the two armies fought in one place, but also let the Takayama family ninja army have the upper hand, that is, the Asai Naga political army is extremely strict, although the combat power is not comparable to the Takayama army, but it is similar to the flag under Oda Nobunaga, so even if the Takayama army has some advantages, But they can't be intimidated either.

The two thousand volt army on the east side of the attacking ninja army was led by Fujido Takatora, he thought that he led the army to sneak attack, even if he couldn't scare the enemy back, but he couldn't make them overwhelmed, but what he didn't expect was that the other party was not only not chaotic, but before he led the army to rush, they rushed over first, it seems that this mountain army really deserves its reputation, he knows that if he only relies on his own two thousand troops, not only can he not defeat the mountain army, but the most defeated will be himself, So now he only hopes that on the other side, Wakisaka Yasusho will lead two thousand troops to quickly defeat the Sakuma army, and then lead the army to come to the aid and flank this Takayama family's ninja army.

On the west side of Takatori Castle, Sakuma Morimasa wanted to use his bravery to make his subordinate Ashigaru calm down, but he found that he had killed a lot of people, but not only did Ashigaru not recover, but the chaos in the army became more serious, don't look at their number of nearly five thousand, but soon under the assault of the two thousand people of the Asai family, they began to retreat.

Speaking of which, the defeat and retreat are not to blame on these ashigaru, the scene is already very chaotic, and they have not received the order of Sakuma Morimasa for a long time, and even many people don't know where Sakuma-sama is, whether he is still alive, and after having such a thought in their hearts, how can they still fight the enemy, so soon the Sakuma army collapsed.

Sakuma Morimasa saw that the army under his command had retreated, and in desperation, he had to lead dozens of banners around him to open a bloody road to retreat south, and on the other way, if Yasuharu Wakisaka led the army to chase at this time, it would definitely make the Sakuma army suffer heavy losses, and he did think so, but after he led the army to chase a few steps, he saw that the army on the other side of the city, Fujido Takatora, was already at a disadvantage, so he only hesitated slightly, and led the army to the rear of the ninja army.

Wasuka Masakatsu has already sent someone to report to the lord's main camp when the enemy ambush army appeared, and now it has been a short time, I believe that the lord should have known the battle situation here, so he is not worried now, as long as he holds on for a while, the lord's reinforcements will come, and at that time, he will be able to turn defeat into victory.

ps: I wrote this chapter, I'm not very satisfied, mainly because I haven't written it for a long time, although there is an outline, but the idea is a little bit unconnected, sorry.

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