At this moment, on the other side of the Onogawa River, a large number of yellow crane patterns on a black background and the flags of important wealthy families such as the Kamou family suddenly appeared from behind the mountain. There were a large number of people. At first glance, it was estimated that there were more than seven or eight thousand people. Everyone was
It was a surprise, and the offensive stalled. As the Rokkaku family's troops gradually began to form an array on the other side of the river, the number of Rokkaku family's ashigaru visible in the field of vision reached nearly ten thousand.
"What the hell, this formation only has one or two thousand people left for defense!" Yu Qiuping looked at the extremely large number of Hexagonal Army, "How did Hexagonal Yixian know that we have no spare strength? Aren't you afraid of being attacked by this formation!"
The 4,000 men of the Hexagon Army who had arrived earlier had already completed their formation and were heading straight towards the Onogawa River. They seemed to be planning to bypass the Yamaoka family's troops on both sides and outflank the Asai family's flanks.
"Nagamasa, it's better to retreat!" Yu Qiuping hurriedly walked to Asai Nagamasa and suggested, "We only have 4,500 people, and most of them have already started fighting with the Yamaoka family. We will be in danger when the reinforcements of the Hexagon Army arrive in large numbers.
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"No! Then this large-scale dispatch will soon be in vain!" Asai Nagamasa's face turned red and he shook his fist angrily, "Before the reinforcements arrive, defeat the Takaoka Army first!"
"No, it's better to be safe! It's not time to fight hard yet!" Yu Qiuping grabbed Asai Nagamasa, "If you fight now, the chance of winning is slim. If you lose, the Asai family will be finished. Even your father's family will be finished."
I can’t even keep my position! Nagamasa! Calm down!”
"Damn it!" Asai Nagamasa shouted, "Damn it, it's only a moment! The Rokkaku family is two-quarters of an hour late, and the Yamaoka family is finished!" In desperation, he had to order all the ministries to stop fighting and disengage.
Slowly evacuated. The Yamaoka family, who were disrupted, were unable to pursue them. After watching the Asai army meet the Akao family's troops, they retreated towards the north.
After the Rangers returned, the frontal feinting team also began to retreat slowly. During the retreat, they were killed a lot by pursuers and bows and arrows, and finally withdrew to the other side. They once broke through the second fence, but reinforcements from the Shinto family arrived.
After that, they were beaten back again. When the defenders in Zuohe Mountain City saw the main army deployed in full force, they mistakenly thought it was the beginning of a general attack, and opened the city gates to attack in an attempt to cooperate inside and outside, but were beaten back into the city by the remaining troops.
At 2:00 p.m., all the Asai family members left the south of the Yagura River and returned to their main formation in Yonehara. In today's offensive for most of the day, the Asai family killed 106 people and injured more than 300 people, but failed to make any progress.
During the post-war assessment meeting on the afternoon of August 15, the atmosphere in the assessment tent was very gloomy.
"There's no progress at all!" Yumori Kiyosada slammed his fist on the table. In today's battle, his troops suffered the most damage because they were responsible for the frontal feint attack, but they failed to find the weakness in the Rokkaku family's defense line.
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"We don't have many people, and we still have to attack. It's really too reluctant." Yu Qiuping sighed. Because he changed history, it seemed that the Noragada battle in the previous life could not happen. Yu Qiuping only found out after looking at the map that Noragada is located
Aichi County, but the current battlefield is in Sakata County. So, he is not sure whether Asai Nagamasa will win now. Full of chagrin and regret, he is in an extremely low mood.
Next to them, Matsushita Karan and Sanada Masayuki also looked solemn, holding a stack of papers and maps filled with information, thinking about something.
"At that time, I didn't know who was unwilling to send troops immediately! As a result, Sawayama Castle was besieged, and we fell into this situation!" Kiyosada Umori looked angrily at Akao Kiyosuna. The latter was also in a bad mood because of the defeat in the battle.
He immediately yelled back angrily: "It was too late to go there! Aguan-sama and Onoki-sama had gathered the night before, so they couldn't catch up!"
"Stop arguing, now is not the time to argue about whose responsibility it is." Tsuna himself shook his head, "The Rokkaku family's actions were truly unexpected."
"Just keep going like this. There are so many of them that we can't use them up!" Endo Naomisuke shouted with a loud voice, "Let's take this opportunity to have a wild battle! It'll be great if we win!"
"The Rokkaku family occupies the geographical area and is sure to win. How can it be possible for them to fight with us in the wild?" Tsunachika Kaiboku sighed.
"There is not much food in Sawayama Castle. It will only be more than ten days." Onoki Shigetoshi looked to the south worriedly, "When the food is gone, what should Genzaburo do?"
"According to Isono-sama's routine, we may launch a desperate attack on the enemy. Sawayama Castle will also be lost by then." Akao Kiyozuna continued, "But... there are too many people in Sawayama Castle. If there were not those people... maybe
Isono-sama can hold on longer."
"There are no people!" Asai Nagamasa keenly caught the question in Akao Kiyosuna's words, and suddenly became furious, "What do you mean! Do you want Isono-sama to kill the people for food? Are you crazy!"
"If not, Sawayama Castle will be lost!" Akao Kiyosuna muttered: "If Sawayama Castle is lost, we will lose the access to Minamiomia! We will have to be suppressed and beaten by the Rokkaku family!"
"Actually..." Aguan Zhenzheng said, "It's not like there are no other ways... to protect Zuohe Mountain City."
"What can I do?" Asai Nagamasa and Akao Kiyosuna, who were arguing, looked over at the same time.
"Okay..." Aguan Zhenzheng avoided the eyes of the two people and whispered: "Negotiation."
"Negotiation? Negotiation?" Asai Nagamasa was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood what Aguan Zadazheng meant, "Do you want me to sue for peace? Sue for peace with the Rokkaku family in the same humiliating way as my father?"
"I won't even ask for peace even if I fight to the death! The worst is, let's have a good fight! Die happily!" Naotsuke Endo was the first to stand up and object, "If you still want to negotiate for peace and surrender, you might as well let the old master continue to be the governor of the house.
What! Our negotiations this time will only have harsher conditions!"
"When we are not as good as my old lord, we should not have declared war!" the head of the family, Taka Sadano, said angrily. At that time, he supported Asai Nagamasa's succession, but he had reservations. "Such a move.
It’s great to make trouble, Inugami County will definitely not be saved! It’s better to be like before!”
"The men of the Asai family will never bow to the enemy like before!" Asai Nagamasa roared in a low voice, "Anyone who dares to talk about peace talks again..."
"It's not that there's no progress!" Matsushita Qingran suddenly interrupted Asai Nagamasa's words as if he woke up from a dream. This was a very impolite behavior. His inexplicable words suddenly attracted everyone's attention.
.The tent, which was originally tense, suddenly became quiet.
"Hanbei, what are you doing?" Yu Qiuping pulled his clothes, "Why are you so surprised?"
"Who is this! You have no right to speak here!" Yusen Qingzhen scolded fiercely.
"He's the friend I invited, don't embarrass him." Asai Nagamasa shook his head, "Ms. Matsushita, are you feeling uncomfortable in any way?"
"No." Matsushita shook his head lightly, stood up silently, raised his hand confidently, and pointed towards Hieda Castle in Minami Omi on the map, "But I am willing to issue a military order."
He turned his head and looked at everyone present proudly.
"Within five days, no hexagons will be broken and no heads will be left."
The next day, on the evening of August 16, we were in Hiden Castle in Aichi County, northwest of Minami Omi Kannonji Castle and ten miles away from Biwa Lake.
The lord of the city, Hidetaka Takanoze, is a wealthy man under the Rokkaku family. However, the relationship with the Rokkaku family has never been very harmonious. Instead, many conflicts have arisen due to territorial disputes. There have been rumors in the territory that the Rokkaku family is thinking about how to get rid of Takanoze.
Although Hidetaka Takanose didn’t believe it, he still had a knot in his heart.
However, an incident before made him hate the Rokkaku family to the extreme, and he really started to be wary of the Rokkaku family.
His father, the previous head of the army, Takanoze Yorisada, was assigned to go out alone as a special force when he went on an expedition with the Rokkaku family. Although he made great achievements, no one rescued him after the raid. Takanose Yorisada was killed on the spot, and his family
Ashigaru also suffered heavy losses.
After that, instead of giving the Takanoze family compensation or territory rewards, the Rokkaku family confiscated a lot of territory in the southeast of Hieda Castle on the pretext of going out to fight privately, and turned it into the direct control of the Rokkaku family.
Takanoze Hidetaka was very angry about this, but he did not dare to take any action. Because the Rokkaku family was too tyrannical, and his residence was so close to Kannonji Castle. If Ashigaru arrived in the morning or evening, if there was the slightest disturbance, he would be
They were immediately eliminated. However, the hatred in Takanose Hidetaka's heart towards the Rokkaku family became more intense due to repression.
During this expedition, the Rokkaku family almost issued a summons to all the wealthy families to conquer Asai, but they did not summon the Takanoze family. This made the whole family as anxious as ants on a hot pot. Because this showed that the Rokkaku family had already suspected Takanoze.
The Takanoze family has an ulterior relationship with the Asai family. The Takanoze family has indeed had close ties with the Asai family's Tsunahime Uboku. If after the Asai family's defeat, the communication between them and the Kaihoku family is revealed, the Rokkaku army will return.
During the Western Expedition, Feitian City could not escape death even if it was surrounded by water on three sides and was easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Just as Hidetaka Takanoze stood at the top of the city, nervously looking at the Sawa Mountain battlefield twenty miles to the northeast, hoping that the Asai family would win, a messenger suddenly ran up.
"Your Highness." The messenger knelt down and said, "A fleet is visiting from the Uso River, saying that they are bringing mandarin fish to pay homage to Your Highness."
"Huh? Fleet?" Takanose Hidetaka's expression changed. Bringing the mandarin fish was his code for contacting the Haibei family. He said hurriedly: "Let them in quickly."
The fleet is still a large fleet, and it takes a lot of effort to unload the cargo. The guys are busy unloading boxes and boxes of goods. Not to mention, it seems that the fleet is still big.
It's quite huge, with nearly two hundred people working there alone.
After a while, all the goods of the caravan were brought in, and the city gate was slowly closed behind them. The leader was still a young man, and was brought to the castle tower to see Hidetaka Takanoze.
"Takanose-sama, the mandarin fish from Wakakaya that you have been talking about has been delivered." The young man smiled and took out Tsunayika Uboku's seal and gave it to Hidetaka Takanose.
"Thank you for your kindness." Hidetaka Takanose dismissed the people around him knowingly, and asked in a low voice: "Who are you? Mr. Haibei sent you here, what's the matter?"
"I am Kaibei Masayuki, the adopted son of Kaibei-sama." Sanada Masayuki said in a low voice, "I have met Takanoze-sama."
"I've never heard of you before." Takanose Hidetaka was a little confused.
"My father was worried that if he was a famous person, he might be recognized, so he sent me here." Sanada Masayuki explained.
"What's going on here?" Takanose Hidetaka asked bluntly.
"I came here to ask you to be your bait."
Time goes back to the afternoon of August 15th, in the assessment tent.
"Bait?" Everyone looked at Panasonic in surprise.
"That's right, let Uita Castle be used as bait." Matsushita said calmly, but he had already planned the whole plan: "Now, the Rokkaku family uses Sawayama Castle as bait to catch our fish. The Rokkaku family is like fishermen.
They are just waiting for work, waiting for us to take the bait."
"So, we also need to prepare a bait to catch the Rokkaku family." Matsushita pointed at Hitian Castle lightly, "I saw in the intelligence before I leave that the lord of Hitian City, Takanose Hidetaka, is extremely resentful of the Rokkaku family and even made friends with us.
Well, the Rokkaku family has not taken them with them on this expedition, and it is obvious that they already have a grudge against them. The Takanoze family must also have doubts about this. All they need to do is send someone to instigate them."
"It's not difficult..." Tsuna Uboku thought carefully, "I have been in contact with Takanose-sama for a long time, and he has indeed turned against her for a long time. In addition, this time after the Rokkaku family killed his father and deprived her family of their land,
Not taking him with you even when going on an expedition will definitely make him more worried. It will probably not be difficult to instigate him to rebel."
"Hitian Castle is not far from Guanyinji Castle, on the edge of the Rokkaku family's grain road. If it turns against the Rokkaku family, the Rokkaku family will definitely be furious. For the safety of the city and supply lines, they will return to besiege Hitian Castle. Feitian Castle will become ours.
Bait, to lure the Rokkaku family to take the bait. Retreating in front of the enemy is easier said than done. After crossing Omi, the official road back to Hieda Castle from Mount Sawa is not wide. When the Rokkaku family retreats, the army must evacuate separately. As soon as the Rokkaku family retreats, we will
Chase them one after another, seize the opportunity to engage in a field battle on the road from Sawayama Castle to Hitian Castle, and defeat the enemy!" Matsushita said confidently, "If the Rokkaku family ignores Hitian Castle, we can even send troops from Lake Biwa.
Go up to Feitian Castle and disrupt the Rokkaku family's supply line, so that the Rokkaku family will run out of food before Sawa Yamashiro!"
"Great idea!" Asai Nagamasa exclaimed excitedly, and the surrounding ministers also showed happy expressions. "I will prepare a generous gift tonight and send it to Takanoze-sama!" Tsunachika Kaiboku said.
"Let Masayuki Sanada deliver it." Yu Qiuping volunteered, "He is the best at this kind of betrayal."
"When did you leave such an impression on Mr. Yuqiu?" Sanada Masayuki said with a wry smile.
Chapter completed!