No matter how Honganji testifies to the calculations in the castle, a mile outside Nagashima Castle, the Oda army and the Northern Ise Hao clan alliance are in full swing, but in the face of the fierce offensive launched by the Oda army, the Hao clan alliance has shown its decline.

Among them, the leader of the Oda Army, Sasa Narumasa, led the left vanguard banner Honashigaru to launch a strong attack as soon as he came up, and Sasa Narumasa rushed to the front, he did not entangle with the enemy Ashigaru, and directly took the enemy's right vanguard general.

Within six or seven rounds, under the onslaught of Sasa Chengmasa, the enemy's commander was stabbed under his horse, and the enemy's right vanguard should have been defeated and retreated, but the lieutenant general was obviously more favored than him, and he immediately assumed the heavy responsibility of commanding the battle after the death of the main general. And there aren't too many ashigaru escapes.

Seeing this, Sasa Narumasa was furious in his heart, and he couldn't care about the danger of being encircled, and after handing over the command to the deputy general Yabe Ieding, he personally led more than 30 bannermen to fight a bloody way to take the enemy's right vanguard deputy general. And although the deputy general was very supportive, but his strength was not good, and before he could survive three moves under Zuo Zuo Chengzheng, he was shot through the heart and fell to the ground.

Seeing that the main general and deputy general had been easily won by the enemy's samurai in green armor, the morale of the samurai plummeted, and the other samurai could not be restrained at all, so the right front collapsed and fled in all directions.

In the first three formations of the Oda army, seeing that the enemy had already been defeated for a while, the morale was greatly boosted, and the attack became more violent. Seeing this, Kobe Gumori, the lord of Takaoka Castle, the lord of the Hao Clan's coalition army, hurriedly ordered the right center to immediately step forward to block the enemy's attack, but the good times did not last long, and when the two sides were deadlocked, the middle vanguard had also been defeated by the Oda army of Ashigaru general Kawajiri Hidetaka led by the 300 banners of Honashi. At present, only the left front one of the first three formations of the Northern Ise coalition army remained, and under the attack of the Oda army from both sides, it was even more difficult to support itself, and it was soon defeated. At this time, the three pioneers of the Oda family had already fought against the coalition forces.

In the main formation of the Northern Ise coalition army, Kobe Gu Sheng saw that this battle was no longer able to return to the sky, and couldn't help but sigh, he was unwilling to get involved in the grievances of the Harmony Sect and the Oda family, and this time he served as the chief general of the coalition army, and he was forced to be helpless, if he did not send troops to help, it would be needless to say that he would be an enemy of the Tsuji clan in the future, and the other forty-seven wealthy families of the North Ise were afraid that when they were aiding Nagashima City, the Kobe family would lead the army to attack, and they would unite to destroy him first, in order to seek stability. And with the small territory of a part of Hequ County, nothing can be said to win.

If the army comes to the rescue, then it will be the enemy of Oda Nobunaga, and the rumors of Nobunaga's ashigaru elite have long been heard, so he is even more reluctant to be an enemy of Nobunaga, but after weighing the pros and cons, he still decided to keep what he was talking about first.

But after fighting with Nobunaga's army, he regretted this decision a little. At this moment, not only Kobe Gomori felt remorseful, but even most of the leaders of the wealthy clans in this formation began to secretly regret it.

Among them, Nagano Guto is even more, he was originally the son of the Kokuji Kitabatake Residence, with a noble status, since he became the adopted son of Nagano Masadari, and succeeded to the governor of the Nagano family, he always fantasized that he could be in a high position, commanding thousands of troops and horses, how could the Nagano family rule the territory of only a few thousand stones, and there were less than three hundred ashigaru, how could he fulfill his dream.

Although he was a little dissatisfied that he was not promoted to the main general, he thought that he could finally command the army and show his ambitions, so he finally accepted it.

But the reality is far from his fantasy, seeing that the front battle has been broken through by the Oda army, and the middle formation can't support it for too long, he suddenly ran out of ideas, and only heard him ask in a panic: "God... Kobe-sama, how can it be good to see that the enemy is about to be killed? ”

Kobe Gu Sheng was already trembling at this time, how could he come up with any ideas, if he hadn't been able to provoke the Kitabatake Gujiao behind Nagano Gu Fuji, he would have scolded a long time ago, Kobe Gu Sheng thought in his heart, he was really blind at the beginning, otherwise he would never be in the company of this group of waste. But he didn't dare to get angry with Nagano Guto, so he had to suppress the anger in his chest, and said with a pleasant face: "Lord Nagano, according to the opinion below, only by retreating first and reorganizing the army can he compete with the Oda family again, I don't know what Nagano-sama thinks?" ”

Nagano Guto has long had the intention of retreating, but he is afraid of losing face, so he has not spoken, and now seeing the thoughts in his heart, he said it from Kobe Gusheng's mouth, and was overjoyed, and hurriedly clapped his hands and echoed: "What Kobe said is reasonable, then please give an order to retreat quickly." "At this moment, Nagano Guto is already a little impatient to get out of here. ,

In this formation, in addition to Kobe Gumori and Nagano Guto, there are three powerful leaders of the wealthy clans, so he did not speak directly, but looked at everyone, and the other three samurai were also secretly calculating in their hearts, they saw that there was no hope of winning this battle, in addition to wanting to preserve their strength, they also saw that many of the wealthy clans who came together suffered heavy losses, so they had the heart of annexation, so of course they were not in favor of the proposal to retreat.

Seeing that there was no opposition among the samurai, Kobe Gumori immediately spoke: "Order all formations, withdraw ...... immediately"

Before he could finish speaking, he saw a flag book hurriedly running in and shouting excitedly: "Report! My lord, my lord, the Oda army has retreated! Our army has won! And not long after he finished speaking, there was an earth-shattering cheer from the front of the formation.

Everyone present stood up violently without exception, they didn't expect that the Oda army was about to win, and it was impossible to take the initiative to withdraw the army.

"What! Why would the Oda army retreat in a hurry? Kobe Gumori couldn't help but ask.

How could that flag ashigaru know the reason for the Dao, he only knew that the Oda Army of the Dao had withdrawn, so his little life was saved, so he just heard him say: "Back to the lord, this subordinate will not know about it." ”

At this moment, from the battlefield ahead, a samurai wearing a belly roll galloped towards the main camp, and as soon as he arrived in the main formation, before he could dismount, he opened his mouth and shouted: "My lords, the Oda army has retreated, and this is the time to pursue, so please make a decision as soon as possible." ”

"This ......" Kobe Gumori groaned a little, although the retreat of Oda's army did not seem to be a plan, but with the wisdom of Oda Nobunaga, how could he be defenseless when withdrawing his troops in such a hurry? He was already satisfied with being able to get away with repelling the enemy army this time, and in order to avoid capsizing in the gutter, Kobe Gumori decided that it would be better not to chase it.

However, although he was the commander of the coalition army, the people in the formation were not his retainers, so he did not dare to be arbitrary, so he only heard him speak: "Ladies and gentlemen, is our army going to pursue now?" I'd like to hear your opinions. ”

After everyone present looked at each other, they said in unison: "Lord Kobe, we think that Oda Nobunaga is cunning, and if we pursue, if we fall for his tricks, the gains outweigh the losses, so the inferior people all believe that the Oda army should not be pursued, and now that the siege of the temple has been resolved, we should lead the army back." ”

"Kobe-sama, now is a great time to defeat the Oda army, if you don't pursue it, it's too late to regret it, please think twice."

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