On the eastern side of Yamashiro Province, where Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Matsunaga Hideya fought, that is, in the land of Omi Province, Akechi Mitsuhide, who had already seized Katsuryuji Castle with his men, left a small number of troops to guard Katsuryuji Castle and protect his own back road, and then attacked all the way west.

His footsteps only stopped in Omi Province, because Niwa Nagahide, who belonged to the side of the Oda family, had already received the news and immediately gathered his men, and the 8,000 troops of Niwa Nagahide, who had arrived earlier, had already begun to fight with the forces of Akechi Mitsuhide.

Although Niwa Nagahide has more people than Akechi Mitsuhide, he is not good at military affairs, he is more good at domestic affairs and diplomacy, and it is really not easy for him to get to the point where he is now with a job similar to that pursued.

Niwa Nagahide can't fight by himself, even if it's his subordinates, there are no people who are too good at military affairs to get it, and the most famous estimate is the job-hopping master Fujido Takatora, and the bow master Ota Ushiichi.

It turned out that Aoki Kazushige, who was supposed to be subordinate to Niwa Nagahide in history, was currently in the Kuroda family, and Naoyuki Kumagai and Katsuhisa Kuriya were currently under Akechi Mitsuhide, and Toda Katsunari was not assigned to his subordinates, but became a direct minister of Oda Nobunaga, and died on the way to rescue Oda Nobunaga.

The other Ueda Shigeji, Aoyama Sokatsu, Tian Zentong, Otani Motohide, Okuyama Shigetari, Okuyama Masayuki, Kuwayama Shigeharu, Tanehashi Nariaki, Tanehashi Isaki, Terasai Masakatsu, Terasai Isari, Narita Michi, Murakami Yorikatsu, Murakami Tadakatsu, Yamada Takatsu and others, to be honest, each has its own bias, but in fact it is not very useful.

Therefore, after two days of fighting, the small number of Akechi Mitsuhide's army prevailed, but Niwa Nagahide's army suffered a defeat, the famous samurai Tian Yoshido and Otani Motohide were killed, and the army retreated to Kita-Omi Province to rest, while Akechi Mitsuhide quickly seized a large area of Minami-Omi, recruited soldiers, and began to arrange his own defensive positions for the possible battle later.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the 5,000 Ise people of Kitada Nobuo, the 10,000-strong Hokuriku Army of the Shibata Katsuie, and the 6,000 Omi Province people regrouped by Niwa Nagahide, plus Oda Nobutada's own 15,000 troops, the number of which reached 36,000, and launched an attack on Akechi Mitsuhide.

And in Akechi Mitsuhide's plan, the original possible reinforcements, his own in-laws, the Tsutsui family, as in history, really did not appear, and now Akechi Mitsuhide's 7,000 men and horses became a lone army.

Akechi Mitsuhide acted decisively, and after snatching all the grain in the vicinity, he transported it all to Katuryuji Castle, where he fought with Oda Nobutada's army around Katryuji Castle.

Takigawa Kazuyi only got the corresponding news half a day after Tokugawa Ieyasu launched the attack, and he immediately gathered his men and led 5,000 men to Tokugawa Ieyasu to confront him, and the two sides temporarily formed a stalemate.

In this way, the men and horses who originally belonged to the Oda family started a war in three places that turned out to be their own.

Since the opportunity that Kuroda had been waiting for had already appeared in advance, he did not hesitate and immediately passed all his orders to the various lords of the Kuroda family, preparing to go out of the Oda family.

The 20,000 members of the Kuroda family's Kyushu Legion, led by Itetomo and Matsui Shigetaka respectively, had already arrived at Katsurui Castle in Awa Province by boat and were ready to attack. And Kyushu will be led by the relatively stable Matsui Shigetaka, who has an army of 30,000 people in his hands and dozens of generals, and is not afraid of a threat from the local area. And Imate Tomokiyoshi will be his deputy, sitting in Kuma Castle in the south, and controlling the power of the whole of southern Kyushu.

The Kuroda family's army of 20,000 men will be divided into two routes, with Imate Tomoji leading 15,000 men to sweep the three southern kingdoms, and Matsui Shigetaka leading 5,000 men and horses to attack Kii Province with the full support of the Kuroda family's 3,000 naval forces in Awaji Province.

The 7,000 men and horses of the Mori family and the Niko family under the command of the Kuroda family have also come to the designated places in Tango Province to assemble, and they will be together with the Tango and Wakasa Legions of the Muri family as the Kuroda family's North Road Army, with a total of 12,000 people, and will be headed by Musato Takatomo as the general general, Mori Terumoto and Niko Takahisa (Niko Katsuhisa in history) as deputy generals, and Mori Takakei (Kobayakawa Takakei) as military advisors.

Kuroda Takahisa's Koji Legion will attack Bessho from the west and north this time, and Kuroda Vocational High School has arranged for 5,000 men and horses under Iwaki Yutsu and Miyoshi Masaysu, 2,000 men under Ichichi Kandai, 1,500 men under the command of Saionji Kohiro, and 800 men under the command of An Yun Guohu will be uniformly dispatched by Kotera Takahisa, plus the 6,000 men of the Himeji Army, the number of this army has reached more than 15,000 people.

Their purpose this time was not to destroy the Bessho family, but to ensure that the Bessho family would not be able to make trouble in the rear when the Kuroda family attacked the Oda family, and as long as they restrained the Bessho family, they would complete the task, and as for what other ideas these people themselves had, it was another matter.

But speaking of which, whether it is the Bessho family in history or the current Bessho family, it is indeed very strong, from the rise of the Kuroda family before it was the banner of the East Harima country, until now it has only lost two counties under the various means of the Kuroda family.

Kuroda raised an army of 30,000 people, leaving 15,000 men and horses to stay in Kuroda's family to prepare for various emergencies, and at the same time serve as a mobile force for various armies.

At the same time, he also gathered 4,000 soldiers from the Miki family, 4,000 soldiers from the Ando family, 2,000 men from Endo Takakei, and 6,000 people from Tanba Province under the command of the Kodera clan who had already assembled in Tanba Province.

To sum up, the number of men and horses in the army led by Kuroda Vocational High School reached 46,000.

In the main team of Kuroda Vocational High School, there is a special team, which is a cavalry of 500 people led by Qi Ying, the son of Qi Jiguang and already serving in the Kuroda family.

This army was trained in full accordance with the requirements of the cavalry of the Northwest Army of the Ming Kingdom, and under the tilt of the Kuroda family's resources and Qi Ying's strict requirements, it took two years to finally take shape.

Kuroda Vocational High School brought the cavalry with him this time, firstly, because the terrain of the entire area was relatively gentle, which was suitable for large-scale cavalry operations; the second is to test the combat effectiveness of the cavalry; The third is also to see Qi Ying's actual combat command ability.

While the Oda family was fighting for their own lives, the Kuroda family divided into five armies, each of which began to attack their own targets according to their prior purpose.