After the captain's matter came to an end, Yu Qiupei asked Omaezaki Nakahide and the 600 veterans who were rationed to Hosoragi Bei and a group of officers to leave Takaya Castle and go to Maple Leaf Mountain Castle to train Takenaka Shigeharu. The new recruits will also be recruited soon.
Arriving at the front line of Takaya Castle, Fukushima Yasunari and Charlie were responsible for the training. According to the rules, all newly recruited Ashigaru must be trained according to the standards of spearmen to cultivate their discipline and team awareness. Among the veterans, 450 were selected
People practice iron cannon instead.
After everything was done, Yu Qiuping went to inspect the cavalry training place in the castle town north of Takawu Castle. The Yu Qiu family's cavalry suffered a loss in combat effectiveness before, and it has been made up by newly trained cavalry. However, the combat effectiveness of the cavalry
, but Yu Qiuping felt a little worried - Yamato's cavalry was never known for being good at fighting, but the Yu Qiu family's cavalry couldn't even defeat them in an upright confrontation. So Yu Qiuping found Aneshan Nobuyuki and Kohatajie
Sheng, Maeda Keiji and other cavalry officers discussed with him.
"Your Highness, I told you ten years ago that you cannot train cavalry in the same way as infantry." Maeda Keiji immediately complained when Yu Qiuping mentioned this.
As he spoke, he pointed to the cavalrymen who were training in neat formation on the school field. They were all lined up in a horizontal and vertical square formation. The distance between the two riders was very close. Two adjacent riders were required to hold their knees together.
Live on the same shield. Keeping such a close distance, everyone charges forward together. There can be no disconnection, uneven cards and scattered queues. The shield cannot fall on the ground - this is the Yuqiu family's ten years of training cavalry.
The way.
"You always say that this can practice discipline, and you always say that this can jointly practice everyone's equestrian skills, but the cavalry does not rely on discipline at all! When it comes to the battlefield, everyone breaks up and fights individually, charging one-on-one.
It’s all my own riding and slashing skills! Your set of infantry cooperates with each other, and the dense formation is completely useless!”
The more Maeda Keiji talked, the angrier he became. He even made a few exaggerated gestures and said: "Who would arrange the cavalry in a square formation and fight on the opposite side? Only when everyone breaks up and forms a loose formation can they charge! Keep it that way
In a dense formation, people rushing from the opposite side can't even hide! And riding horses in a formation can't run fast at all. The one with the slow horse will die in the cavalry confrontation! Look, you have practiced the formation for so long, and when it comes to the battlefield, we
Aren't you just going to break up the formation and charge? It's not useful at all! Your Highness, you formulated this training method just to fight with me, but it killed the Yuqiu family's cavalry!"
"Didn't you find the problem before?" Yu Qiuping was pointed out by Maeda Keiji, and he admitted his mistake with some embarrassment. "In the past, the cavalry was basically used for cover, reconnaissance, and pursuit. There were not many frontal confrontations -
And we didn’t suffer any loss when hedging head-on!”
"No matter what, we have to change it anyway! Let's change the training method as you said." Yu Qiuping patted his head, admitting his mistake to Maeda Keiji, "Train everyone's riding and cutting skills.
!You can’t even defeat the Matsunaga family’s cavalry.”
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On April 22, the invasion of the Honganji family came as expected. However, the Yuqiu family, who had been prepared, did not panic too much. The people hid in nearby castles, while the Honganji army, which lacked siege equipment, took Hanoi
The walled city where the security forces were stationed had no choice but to cut off their communication and try to capture the city by surrounding it.
At this time, Hosoragi Bei, who had been on standby for a long time, immediately went into battle, and under the command of Gomaezaki Nakahide, he rescued the besieged castle one by one. Although Hosilyanagi Bei had not been training for a long time, after all, there were 800 veterans there to support him, and his combat effectiveness was very high. Instead, Gomaezaki Nakahide took advantage of the fact that the Honganji family did not know the details of this new army, and fought two battles with two victories, forcing Honganji's vanguard back to the Neyagawa area.
When Honganji finally realized that this army under the banner of Willow Branch and Tokiwa Bei
, Ming Dybei is also an elite unit of the Yuqiu family, and it is by no means comparable to a no-name army like the Hanoi Garrison Force. They have missed the opportunity to fight. Important passes and ferries are occupied by Xiliu Bei. They rely on 450 iron cannons And the dense water network terrain for defense makes it difficult for Honganji to enter Hanoi on a large scale.
After Honganji attacked the Oda family and sought peace with the Miyoshi family, the Miyoshi family was able to free their hands and march into Higashisettsu. The Oda army relied on Akutagawa Mountain Castle and Takatsuki Castle as the defense line to fight the Miyoshi family. Relying on Shibata Katsuie's fierce fighting barely repelled the Miyoshi family's attack.
Just when the situation was extremely tense, something unexpected happened to the Oda family. The Miyoshi family, who had been eager to try and seemed to be planning to defeat the Oda family in one fell swoop, as well as the Honganji and Matsunaga families who had just been eager to break away from the Oda family and start a war. The offensive was suspended and instead they withdrew into their territory. It was still some time before the autumn harvest, so there was no reason for them to leave in such a hurry. However, although Oda Nobunaga did not understand it, he decided to withdraw after seeing this. After all, a large number of his troops were stranded. In Kinki, the supply pressure on the Noo area is really too great.
The dark clouds that had gathered over Kinki suddenly dispersed without warning, which surprised everyone except those few insiders.
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"What's going on? What did you do, Tansei?" In a remote small temple in Yamashiro Country, Ashikaga Yoshiki was yelling at Matsunaga Hide who was lurking here secretly, "I'm ready to launch the next plan! You are here What happened! Why was the siege suddenly suspended?"
"My friend in the east had a small accident, and we can't move for the time being." Matsunaga Hide faced Ashikaga Yoshiki's scolding, but he didn't show any anger at all and whispered calmly.
"What happened? Didn't I promise that I will decide the north, and there will be no worries!" Ashikaga Yoshiki seemed to feel that his authority was being doubted, and added angrily.
"No, Gongfangdian, don't get me wrong." Matsuzong Nagasaki twitched the corners of his mouth with a showy smile, "It's just that I'm getting older and my health is not that good."
"Then what should we do now? The arrow is on the string and we have to shoot it." Ashikaga Yoshiki turned his back and did not look at Matsuhisa Hide, but looked at the endless mountains to the east. "After planning for so long, if he does not recover from his illness, You might as well just let it go!"
"Don't worry, Gongfangdian. In any case, the trip will definitely be possible this winter." Matsuhisa raised his eyebrows, picked up the tea cup in front of him, took a deep sip of the tea fragrance, and sighed in a low voice: "That People, even if they risk their lives, they will take a look at Kyoto."
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On September 3, the weather turned cooler, and the situation in Kinki also dropped to freezing point again. Anzai Fuyu, Miyoshi Changyi, and Miyoshi Yixing once again gathered in Izumi with the intention of attacking Minamihanoi. However, in the past few months, Yu Qiuping has already The small wealthy families in South Hanoi were also absorbed into the Congress, and their tribes were also integrated into the Hanoi police force. With Gaowa City as the core, Yu Qiuping built several defense systems layer by layer, with Joban Bei in charge of defense. And Xiliu Bei and Meibei were left to guard Sakai Town and Wakae Castle-Maple Leaf Mountain Castle line respectively.
At the same time, Miyoshi Chokei, Miyoshi Yoshihide, and Tokawa Isun also came to Settsu again. The Honganji family also stationed troops in Hanoi. At the junction of Settsu, Matsunagahide also moved his troops to the northeast of Maple Mountain Castle, intending to launch another attack.
The fierce attack on the Oda family's territory. Oda Nobunaga was also unambiguous and ordered Shibata Katsuie from Minami Omi to immediately rush to help. He himself also led the troops that had been assembled by the three countries of Owari, Mino and Ise and immediately marched westward to Kyoto.
, preparing for a showdown with the anti-Oda forces. After arriving in Kyoto, he immediately arranged for Ikeda Tsuneaki, Takigawa Kazumasu, Niwa Nagahide and others to lead the army to Hanoi under Yu Qiupei, preparing to cooperate with Yu Qiupei to launch from the southern front
The offensive took over Izumi Province, the last foothold of the Miyoshi family in southern Kinki.
However, this time, the Miyoshi family, the Honganji family and the Matsunaga family did not rush to launch an attack. Instead, they launched a sit-down battle with the Oda family on the front line. They seemed not to be in a hurry. The Oda family once again did not understand what was going on, but there was still a vague feeling in the air.
I noticed a strange atmosphere.
On October 24, to everyone's surprise, the Miyoshi family, the Honganji family, and the Matsunaga family, which had been quiet for more than a month, suddenly launched a fierce attack on the Oda family from all fronts. The Oda family was simply prepared and was not caught off guard.
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"Obviously, the anti-Oda family forces must have been in contact privately." Takenaka Shigeharu made a judgment that night, "And to have such cooperation, there must be important figures in the alliance."
"Hanbei, who are you referring to?" Yu Qiuping was stunned when he heard this, and suddenly felt that the history of his previous life seemed to be reappearing before his eyes.
"It's none other than, most likely, His Highness the General."
Facts have proved that Takenaka Shigeharu’s judgment was correct.
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On October 25, Ashikaga Yoshiteru suddenly raised troops in Yamashiro Province, gathered 3,000 of his men, and launched a fierce attack on Mitsuhide Akechi, who was staying in Kyoto. At the same time, he issued a call to the world's daimyo to fight against the traitor Oda who was plotting to overthrow the shogunate.
Nobunaga seemed to have made an appointment a long time ago. That afternoon, the Hatano family and the Isshiki family announced that they would raise troops in response to Ashikaga Yoshiteru's call. The Hatano family's troops poured into Yamashiro through the border of Yamashiro country and Tamba country, while the Isshiki family's troops
Also on the way to support.
Akechi Mitsuhide, who had more than enough to deal with Ashikaga Yoshiteru, had to withdraw from Kyoto due to the sudden appearance of reinforcements from the Hatano family and begged Oda Nobunaga for reinforcements. Oda Nobunaga was so angry that he cursed and hurriedly left Kyoto from the front and Minami Omi's remaining troops.
Nearly ten thousand people were dispatched to help Kyoto to ensure that the way back was not lost.
However, before the Oda family could catch their breath, Omi was once again in chaos. The Asai family and the Asakura family, which had been silent for a long time, suddenly announced their revolt on the afternoon of the 25th. After the two coalition forces met on the 27th, they moved towards Kinoshita Hideyoshi.
The garrisoned Yokoyama Castle and Kamazana Castle were killed. The Rokkaku family lurking in the Koka Mountains also raised troops again, harassing the supply lines of the Oda family in Minamiomi.
Oda Nobunaga was shocked when he heard this - if Yokoyama Castle and Kamazana Castle were lost, the Oda family's army and the official roads of Owari, Mino, and Ise would be cut off. However, in order to cope with Ashikaga Yoshiteru's sudden uprising,
Oda Nobunaga has sent almost all the reserves at hand to fight in Yamashiro Country. There is currently no way to withdraw them from the front line, otherwise there is a risk of collapse of the front line.
Oda Nobunaga had no choice but to order all ministries to shrink their front lines and fully switch to defense, trying to squeeze out troops to reinforce Kinoshita Hideyoshi. However, Kinoshita Hideyoshi was weak alone and could not stop the Asai-Asakura coalition forces, and Yokoyama Castle and Kamabana Castle were quickly fell.
, Kinoshita Hideyoshi had to lead his troops to retreat to protect Sawayama Castle. Relying on his outstanding military command ability, Sawayama Castle was able to ensure that it would not be lost. The Asai-Asakura coalition forces then changed their policy and surrounded Sawayama Castle from all directions.
Set up a joint camp. Although Sawayama Castle was not lost, the connection between the two territories of the Oda family had actually been severed. Reinforcements led by Shibata Katsuie arrived belatedly after Sawayama Castle was besieged, and immediately tried to rescue Sawayama Castle.
They rescued the siege, but were repelled by Asai Nagamasa and his troops. With no choice but to ask for reinforcements from Oda Nobunaga.
Seeing that all the surrounding forces seemed to have formed an anti-Oda family encirclement network, Oda Nobunaga himself was also in disarray. In Settsu, all Yamashiro's troops had been restrained and could not be mobilized at all, so he had to order the southern front.
The troops gave up the attack and asked Yu Qiuping to lead his three reserve teams to break away from contact, preparing to transfer Yu Qiu's army to Omi to relieve the siege of Sawa Mountain Castle.
Yu Qiuping had already assembled his troops and incorporated another newly-cast three-pounder into the battery and assembled the troops. Just when he was about to set out on the road, a piece of bad news suddenly came from the east.