Shibata Katsuie's only hope for Sasa Seimasa is that he will be able to resist the Takayama clan for more time. The longer Zuo Chengzheng can drag on, the more calm his side will be, and it can be regarded as the attitude of a dead horse as a live horse doctor.

Speaking of this place, adults may be a little puzzled, since the Shibata Katsu family originally had 15,000 people, and knew that they were inferior, Shibata Katsuya would still think about relying on the many castles of Echizen Province to defend.

Then why did he give up the defense of these cities now when there were only 12,000 people left, and come to a decisive battle with the Kuroda family's Musato Takatomo army, which was not to attack the opponent's strength with his own weakness.

In fact, it was because when he knew that the Takayama clan was coming to attack his rear, Shibata Katsuya didn't have much hope for himself! You read that right, this so-called No. 1 general of the Oda family is actually very desperate in his heart right now.

Shibata Katsuie already felt that he had no hope of defeating the Kuroda family, even if he was only facing one aspect of the Kuroda family. Before, he rushed back to Echizen Province with an army of 15,000 in a hurry, thinking that he could resist the Kuroda family through many castles. It's just that after the Kuroda family's success in transferring the Takayama clan, he broke all his previous plans, and also put him in a situation where he was attacked on his back.

Shibata Katsuie is not a man of outstanding resourcefulness, and his subordinate Muto Shunhide, who is relatively resourceful, has already gone to seek refuge with Oda Nobutada. Now if it is said that there are people under his command who can have a certain amount of resourcefulness, then there may be only one person left, Liang Tian Hiromasa, and his wisdom is honestly not comparable with the many Kuroda family youngsters under the command of the Muri family.

It is precisely because of the despair of the Shibata Katsuya for the future that he decided to simply have a real showdown with the Kuroda family! Perhaps with the strong attack of many non-subordinate generals, it is possible to defeat the Kuroda family.

Since you have been forced to a dead end, why not just take a gamble, if you win the bet, you can still have a chance of life, and it is even possible that from now on, you will fight back against the Kuroda family with Oda Nobutada, who rules the Oda family. Even if you lose, it's a predictable result anyway, and there's nothing to regret.

As for the idea of the decisive battle of Shibata Katsuya, after discussing with everyone under his command, Takayu Musato quickly came to the conclusion that the best way now is to be able to directly carry out this decisive battle and defeat Shibata Katsuya head-on, at least this is much better than knocking on the turtle shell one by one.

If this time it is possible to defeat Shibata Katsuya through a big joint battle, then then add the cooperation of the Takayama clan. It will not be too difficult to take the entire Echizen country.

Because everyone had such a result of the discussion, Musato Takatsuhiro did not hesitate to reply to Shibata Katsuya and agreed to the request for a decisive battle.

The next day, after the two sides lined up their positions, the two sides were tense, and a big battle was about to break out.

The Kuroda family's vanguard team is the team under the command of Musato Takatomo's righteous brother Musato Yunobu, and the reason why Musato Yushin is ranked at the forefront. It also has something to do with his own powerful martial arts.

When Yushin Musato was still in the training class of the Kuroda family, it was already the end of the training course, and he had already shown his strong military ability, which was exactly the same as Yushin Musato in history. At that time, the martial arts of the mother Yushin were appreciated by many teachers of the Kuroda family, and he was already a leader among his peers in martial arts.

I think that when he was only eleven years old, the people of the Bessho family and the Maori family secretly attacked Kuroda Castle, the residence of the Kuroda family, and many small surnames of the Kuroda family and the guards guarded the gate of Ninomaru.

After that, in martial arts, he inherited the fine tradition of the mother's family! Although the current mother is still in his early twenties, he is infinitely close to the quasi-swordsman in terms of strength.

Strength is on the one hand, the second point is that Muli Youxin, as a member of the Muli family, takes the initiative to stand at the forefront by him, which can be regarded as an example to all the people under the command of the Muli family, telling everyone that the people of the Muli family dare to work hard and dare to sacrifice their lives for the main family. At the same time, this can also improve the morale of your own side and let everyone see the courage of the mother's family.

It's just that in front of the mother Yushin, there is still a barrier, that is, the mother family, the Maori family, and the Niko family, a long-range team pieced together, but such a team, although it implements the consistent tactics of the Kuroda family, first use long-range attacks to consume the enemy's vitality and morale. But the problem is that such a motley team is still far behind the Kuroda family's long-range team.

You must know that the long-range team of the Kuroda family's own family generally uses only three weapons, which are unified standard crossbows, iron cannons and Ming firearms. And this motley long-range team at the forefront of the Muri Longyou's army has the Muri family's own crossbowmen and iron gunners. There are also some miscellaneous iron gunners and Maruki bowers from the Maori family and the Niko family, as well as a few samurai with better bowing skills, and these people are holding the more valuable Fujiki bows.

Such a patchwork team is indeed quite a lot of people, reaching as many as four or five hundred, although it can't compete with the Kuroda family's own long-range team, but if it is just for the enemy's front, some harassment and obstruction can be done.

And as the pioneer of the Shibata family, it is Sakuma Morimasa, the nephew of the Shibata Katsuie, who is the first fierce general under the Shibata Katsuie, and is also a samurai under the command of the Shibata Katsuie, who likes it very much.

In history, Sakuma Morimasa even had a nickname for Oni Genbo, and we all know that in the Wa Kingdom, if you add a "ghost" font in front of the samurai's nickname, it means that this person is unusually brave, such as the Uesugi family's Oni Kojima, and the Takeda family's Oni Mino. Just from the top of the nickname. Sakuma Morimasa's bravery can already be seen. And as the eldest nephew of Shibata Katsuie, he was ranked in the vanguard of the entire army, and Shibata Katsuie's hope for him can also be seen!

And the same Shibata Katsuya also sent his very precious iron artillery team, but in the previous attack on Zhishan Castle and the subsequent series of battles, his iron artillery team has been consumed relatively large.