Although Miyoshi Nagayi only had more than 3,000 cronies, the rebellion he set off in Settsu attracted a lot of attention, and it was not inferior to Oda Nobunaga's action in crusading against the Asakura family.

After all, this family was still the ruler of five years ago, and the power that has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people is not so easy to forget. Therefore, Araki Murashige's defection is not surprising.

However, the Oda family's reaction was also fast enough, and the more than 10,000 people of the "rear team" led by the Shibata Katsu family had already stayed in Omi and had not entered Echizen, and after receiving the order, they immediately turned back and rushed towards Settsu with great momentum.

Gamo Dingxiu, Tsutsui Shunkei and others stood by Oda's side with a clear banner and took the initiative to provide support and food. The influential Iwasari Friendship refused to stand with his old buddies and persuaded the wealthy families in Hequan, Hanoi, and Shancheng to hold their ground. Then Hatakeyama Akitaka, Horiuchi Shizen and others reacted slowly, but also symbolically showed their attitude.

In this case, seeing that the Shibata Katsuya of the Oda family immediately came to the front, the shogunate, who had been silent for several days, finally raised the banner and called for a crusade against Miyoshi Nagaitsu.

Then the snowball got bigger and bigger, and many small forces that were originally neutral also sent one or two hundred or even dozens of troops to come over and put up the name of participating in the war.

When Shibata Katsuie came to Kyoto and visited Ashikaga Yoshiaki, nearly 10,000 rabbles had gathered around him, and the number had doubled. An army of more than 20,000 in total is pointed at Settsu, and the edge is exposed.

In addition, Asai Nagamasa, who was far away in Harima, also got the news, and immediately announced the suspension of the western expedition and led 10,000 people to turn around and suppress Miyoshi Nagaitsu.

Tanba's Akai and Hatano also organized a coalition of 1,500 troops, claiming to fight south. Although it is just a meaning, it is always an attitude to some extent.

At the same time, the Kuki Yoshitaka led the Oda Navy from Ise Bay and sailed to the Seto Inland Sea, intending to join the Herate family's men and horses in Awaji and put an end to the enemy's waterway.

With a multi-faceted attack, a large number of people, and a famous general, it seems that there is no possibility of failure.

So the attention of the generals of the Oda family returned to the battle line in Echizen.

The front of the Asakura Jingjing Mirror is still blocking the hub, holding on to it, refusing to show any flaws.

In response to this, Nobunaga was ready for a protracted war, and ordered Fujo to be built near the Fuchu area, and planned six castles in one go.

(Fucheng: refers to the construction of small fortresses near the enemy's stronghold, which plays the role of defending as attacking)

If the confrontation continues for a long time, the Asakura family, who have lost their money bags and the port of Tsuruga, will obviously not be able to survive the Oda family, which is rich in the world.

On the other hand, Oda Nobunaga took silver money to open the way, and asked a few Echizen generals to carry out the rebellion.

If you plot against this matter, of course, you won't see results for a while.

However, when Murai Sadakatsu walked to the military tent with twenty strong men carrying ten boxes, and when he opened the lid to reveal the shining gold coins, the soldiers and generals present were all stunned and salivating.

Inside each box were 3,750 gold coins, each weighing two taels, totaling 7,500 taels of gold, which were converted into copper coins, worth 30,000 yuan.

In fact, in the past, every time the Oda family conducted a large-scale military campaign, the military bounty spent was at least 10,000 8,000, but it was just an unremarkable number recorded in the accounts, and it was another thing to convert all of them into gold coins and pile them up in front of them! The visual impact of minted precious metal currency is by no means comparable to that of a ticket.

Let's not talk about whether we can successfully buy the enemy generals, at least it boosts the morale of the soldiers.

Not to mention the middle and lower class retainers, even the Tie Honhide, who owned the two countries of Izumi and Awaji, mastered a part of the trade in the Seto Inland Sea, and his annual income was tens of thousands of yuan, but he had never seen so much real money.

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On April 26, the third year of Yuangui, Pingshou Fanxiu, who had been following the main force of the Chinese army to paddle and make soy sauce, finally received a specific task, that is, to replace the Sen Kecheng Department who had withdrawn to rest and complete the work of Fucheng.

After careful questioning, I found out that there was a big accident the night before.

At that time, Mori Kecheng's eldest son, who was only 18 years old, personally supervised the construction on the front line, but in the night, he was hit in the temple by a stray bullet fired by an iron cannon 200 paces away, and died on the spot. The Mori clan was in chaos, and the Asakura army took advantage of the situation, killing hundreds of Oda's soldiers and burning down the civil works that had been built.

It is really deplorable that such a flying disaster has occurred.

Sen Ke himself was not injured, but his spirit was a little sluggish, so he went down to rest. Although he and he respect each other, they are not familiar with each other, so they can only express their hearts roughly, and it is not convenient to say anything like mourning.

Let's not forget that it's still wartime, and business is the most important thing.

However, when he came to his army, he immediately made a serious mobilization, and repeatedly admonished: "In the past, Saito, Rokkaku, and Miyoshi were defeated by us, because of their internal turmoil. Asakura seems to be weak, but it is still standing, and it must not be neglected! ”

According to the analysis of the situation before and after, the main reason for Mori Kolong's death should be that he saw that the Asakura family was weak and conservative, so he let down his guard and neglected his guard.

The opposite Asakura Jingjing seems to be not only good at arranging defense, but also quite good at surprise attacks, with these two points, at least he can be regarded as a second-rate celebrity.

The ancients said that there were only a thousand days to catch thieves, and there were no thousands of days to prevent thieves, and no matter how strict they were in the enemy's territory, no matter how strictly they defended it, they would always show flaws.

In order to ensure the smooth operation of Fucheng, Hirata Honhide made two preparations: one was to attack and defend, change the initiative, and let Hisute Hideyi, Bai Xiang Jiajia, and Honda Masashige three fierce generals, each leading 400 elite soldiers, carrying a large number of iron cannons, to continuously intimidate and shoot at the enemy position.

If the enemy refuses to come out to fight, then it is just what he wants, and he can concentrate on building the fortress.

If the enemy also sent a small force to test it, they would fight hard, and it happened that the soldiers had already held their breath, and they wished to see blood open meat.

If the main forces of the enemy come out to meet the battle - this is obviously impossible. If there is such a good thing, it is obvious that the surrounding friendly forces will rush up, and maybe the problem of Echizen will be solved immediately.

In fact, the three squads took turns to fight, shouting and killing for two whole days, and the enemy soldiers did not react, only shooting at each other from a long distance.

This time, there were no more unlucky people as Senkolon, and there were no casualties on either side.

Taking advantage of this time, Kawada Naga was in charge of commanding more than 1,000 miscellaneous soldiers, and reluctantly restored the damaged construction site.

The Asakura Jingjing in Fuchu Castle was condescending to see the outside, and of course he refused to sit idly by and watch the Oda family repair the castle, so on the night of April 28, he arranged a night attack.

At that time, it was the turn of Tieshou Xiuyi to go to the front line to suppress, and he took Keer Caizang, Yiliu Zhimo and other high-powered companions, and the artist was bold and dared to walk into the city alone for a hundred steps. It's just that he has been working in vain for two days in a row, and his military appearance is always inevitably weakened.

Seeing this, the city of Asakura Jingjing selected thousands of elite soldiers overnight, and sent the fierce general Sandansaki Rokuro as the vanguard, and suddenly came out of the cover and was caught off guard.

Although the tie Xiuyi and others were brave, they couldn't resist it, and they were defeated and scattered all the way.

The three dan Saki Rokuro led a thousand people, and in a quarter of an hour, they chased out of Twenty Towns (about 2.1 kilometers) and ran straight to the location of Hirate's Fuki Castle.

Who knew that in the messy construction site, it was not handymen, but Kato Kyoaki, Yamauchi Kazuto, and Konishi Yukinaga were waiting for them.

In addition, the flat hand Xiuyi and others, who pretended to be defeated, turned back and attacked, and attacked back and forth, and the Asakura army realized that they had been deceived and immediately evacuated to the city, and were chased and beaten.

In the hazy moonlight, Yamauchi Kazutoyo stared at the outfit of the enemy's high-ranking samurai, and burst in with a spear alone, suffering three stab wounds, stabbing to death the Asakura family's Ashigaru general Midanzaki Rokuro.

After this skirmish, everyone was happy.

Kawada Changqin said with a smile: "In this way, the enemy army will no longer dare to go out to attack and harass, and our army can worry about the future and establish Fucheng." ”

And Tie Fan Xiu was even happier with the fact that "the plan of deception and defeat is quite difficult to implement, not to mention that it is a night battle, this experience is commendable, and we must remember it well in the future." ”

All in all, there is an atmosphere of optimism and cheerfulness from top to bottom.

There is no doubt that Oda's strength is far stronger than that of Asakura. As long as you maintain the rhythm of steady and steady progress now, winning is a sure thing, and the only suspense is just the length of time.

But at this moment, I saw the shout of "Tie is in charge of affairs" sounded in the rear.

Following the sound, I saw Hidemasa Hori sweating profusely, anxious, and panting, but he didn't dare to slow down at all.

"What do you have to advise?" Fan Xiu felt bad at first glance, but after thinking about it, he didn't know what the problem was.

"It's me...... Our army is ...... Behind! "Hori Hidemasa was out of breath, trying to finish in one breath, but on the contrary, his breath was even more uncomfortable," it is said ...... Echigo...... Echigo Uesugi ...... Uesugi Army...... Hida ...... Walked behind our troops...... More than 10,000 people...... The one who came was not good...... Lord...... The Lord summons! ”

Although it is not connected into a coherent sentence, you can understand his meaning from a few key words.

Echigo Uesugi Kenshin took more than 10,000 people to the Hida Province and went around behind the Oda army to rescue the Asakura family?

That's a ......

Not only unexpected, but even more unreasonable!