On May 28, 1570, after a period of strife and turmoil, a coalition of 80,000 troops (known as 200,000) was formed to defeat the Asakura family.

Among them, the team of the Oda family accounted for more than 35,000, nearly half of the proportion. After continuous battles, several generals died, and after extensive losses, he still had this strength, which shows that Nobunaga's family property was very rich.

However, Hirate Honhide, who controlled Izumi and Awaji, nominally belonged to the shogunate, and Minami Omi Shibata Katsuya and Kitaise Takigawa Kazuki were all suspected of being too big to fall, and the Mino trio had an ambiguous attitude and deviated from Germany, but Ma's Niwa Nagahide and Kitayama Castle Nishi-Omi Mori were killed, and Hayashi Hidezhen, Niwa Katsu and other Owari people were firm but limited in combat power...... At present, there are only more than 10,000 people in Oda Nobutada's trustworthy family and genealogy.

In fact, the sect was not very reliable before, because the most talented relatives were all rebelled and ended. It's just that recently, Xinbao, Xinzhao, Xinzhang and others dare not stand up, so Changyi, Xincheng, Xinzheng and other young generations have been able to show their talents and bring a little confidence. Oda Nagayoshi, the sister-in-law of Hite, led 1,500 partial divisions to annihilate 300 enemies in the Battle of Gifu, and won the two ashigaru generals of the Asakura family, which made people have high hopes.

When Nobunaga came to power, he did not deliberately assemble a large direct army, because his own authority was enough to make the various legions bow to the ears of the fingers. So as soon as he had an accident, the problem came.

This was also a common situation in the Warring States period, where the rise and fall of the family were all in one.

Therefore, Asai Nagamasa, who has 17,000 troops, is obviously less than half the strength of Oda Nobutada, but it seems that his momentum is still excessive. After getting the head of Miyoshi Changyi, his prestige suddenly rose to a very high level. The core strength of the Asai family is the Kita-Omi soldiers who can fight well, and on the left and right, there are the elite people of Araki Murashige and Bestsu Nagaharu leading Settsu and Harima, and the lineup is very extraordinary.

If you think about it carefully when you are out of emotional tendencies, Asai's internal hidden dangers are actually only small compared to Oda, but in the rising period, all problems can be covered up temporarily.

In terms of strength, the third person is Tokugawa Ieyasu. He occupied eighty percent of the territory of Mikawa and sixty percent of Enoe, and his maximum mobilization force was about 15,000 men, but the geography was really treacherous, too far from Kyoto, too close to Takeda. Now that the cooperation to "carve up Imagawa" has ended, Takeda Shingen expressed concern about the situation of his brother-in-law Asakura Yoshikei and made a gesture of preparing to go to Luo, which made the Tokugawa family quite uncomfortable. Therefore, he could only grasp Oda on the one hand and stabilize the rear, and on the other hand, contact Uesugi and Hojo to try to contain it.

Due to the above reasons, the power that Tokugawa could put into Kyoto was very limited, and the number of soldiers who could survive was not more than 5,000, and it was generally about 2,000 people, so in the eyes of the people of Kinai, they could only be compared with the likes of Gamo and Tsutsui, and belonged to the "pro-Oda faction" minions.

The rest, such as Yoshitsugu Miyoshi, Keitaka Yamaoka, and Katsujima Isanobu, who were not so close to the Oda family, and preferred to obey the shogunate's orders, were undoubtedly classified as "pro-Ashikaga factions". However, the troops directly under Ashikaga Yoshiaki were only three or four thousand people in the mountain castle, and the morale of the grassroots and the upper command were very bad.

The rest are also the melon-eating masses like Akai and Hatano, and the left and right Fengyuan factions like Heite Tsunaga and Matsunaga Hide, who both sides want to woo...... Many forces with their own intentions together form a coalition of 80,000 people, which looks very much like the script of the Battle of Ha Yue.

The huge and chaotic military array, the blindly optimistic upper echelons, the mixed generals, the disorganized soldiers, the soldiers who disturb the people, the people of the wall-to-wall who pick up cheap and sell their teammates against the wind, and the wine merchants, gambling dealers, and wandering girls who openly come to solicit business.

The situation of the "night battle of Heyue" at the beginning is basically all reproduced.

There is a shortage of the Sagami Lion and the Yellow Hachiman.

It's a pity that the enemy is far from the united and tenacious Kanto Gohojo family.

After being rejected by Asakura Yoshikei, he only did two things: one was to find someone with more face and continue to plead, and the other was to quickly let the front-line troops withdraw to Echizen to defend at a rapid pace.

Asakura Jingjing, who led 30,000 troops to operate in the area of Meinong in the south near Jiangxi, immediately obeyed the order, turned around with the whole army, gave up the heavy booty, and quickly turned back.

Hisamasa Asai can only run with him, and his little people will definitely not be able to hold Kotani Castle.

As a result, when the vanguard of the coalition forces, Shibata Katsuie, and the second striker, Asai Nagamasa, rushed to Minami Omi, they found that the enemy army had already died, and only a few hundred miscellaneous soldiers who remained to clean up the battlefield were not enough to quench their thirst.

Then the vengeful Shibata Katsuya took his own initiative and went forward to pursue, and Asai Nagamasa, who refused to let him make meritorious contributions, also went up first, but pretended to send someone to Kyoto to ask for instructions.

Ashikaga Yoshiaki, who was talking about the army on paper, suddenly panicked, and originally thought that the enemy army would stay in Omi to face the battle, so he adopted the strategy of flanking the front and rear. I didn't expect the Asakura family to be so shameless, and they ran away neatly. Wouldn't it be dangerous to go around the Takigawa Ichiyi through the western shore of Lake Biwa now?

So the shogun hurriedly ordered a full-scale pursuit, which happened to the appetite of Shibata and Asai.

From the perspective of Tieshou Tsunohide, I really want to say: Takigawa Kazuki's impromptu response on the battlefield is top-notch, and his life-saving ability is second only to "retreating Sakuma", so there is no need to worry that he will make the mistake of carving a boat to ask for a sword, but before he could do so, he heard Ashikaga Yoshiaki's order already spoke.

Forget it...... Although the friendly forces are not strong, the enemy forces are also weak, and it should not be a problem to rely on the superiority of numbers.

Kuroda Kanbei is really powerful, and his combination with Asai Nagamasa did do something. However, it was all done intentionally and unobtrusively. Now that he has come to the forefront, he feels that he can see the other party's purpose clearly and take appropriate measures to deal with it.

Although Ashikaga Yoshiaki was a general, he was not able to maintain a large organization of metsuke (military supervisors) and monomi (scouts), and his control over the coalition forces was very low, and he could not even know the number and location of each reserve at the first time. Nominally with about 1,000 men in Ashikaga Yoshiaki's Chinese army tent, Hirate was often invited to talk about military affairs, but in fact he secretly instructed Kawada to organize the other 3,000 troops and prepare for action.

As we all know, there has been a lot of chaos around Kyoto these days, and a little action is inconspicuous.

Even if it was discovered, it was nothing, and after the knife giving incident, Ashikaga Yoshiaki temporarily gave up wooing Shibata and Takigawa, and instead vigorously promoted Hirate Hasu, and treated them with the courtesy of a heartfelt minister. This is the general direction of the shogunate's work, and it will not change because of small details.

On 29 May, sad news came from the front. Shibata Katsuie quickly pursued the retreating Asakura army along the Hokuriku Road, and reached the area of Imada and Hikone, and the distance between him and the large army was too long, and he was suddenly killed and returned to the horse pistol, and was caught off guard, losing his troops and losing his morale, and had no choice but to retreat to Kutoku Castle to recuperate.

The news of the unfavorable news of the first battle, the other part of the people were quite frightened - Ashikaga Yoshiaki immediately couldn't sit still, and prepared to return to Kyoto to make peace with Asakura; While others took it for granted, the general finally calmed down under the repeated persuasion of Hisho Tsuno.

Immediately afterwards, Shibata Katsuya sent someone to send an urgent report, shouting that he was wronged, saying that the Asai family suddenly made trouble in the battle, which led to his careless defeat.

The deeper layer is not embarrassed to say, in fact, Shibata has always been wary of Asai, but he met a labor army claiming to be sent by Mrs. Aichi to visit her mother's family, and brought a handwritten letter, so she relaxed her vigilance. As a result, he was cheated by this team.

Of course, the Asai family does not admit this. Nagamasa himself had already gone up with Jikashi, and his two younger brothers, Masamoto and Masayuki, remained in the camp and vigorously rebuked Shibata for his shamelessness, claiming that Asai was still fighting fiercely against Asakura, and there was no way he could spare to attack friendly forces.

In fact, everyone else who came back from the front could confirm that Asai Nagamasa was indeed attacking Asakura, and at present, Ashikaga Yoshiaki was disliking Shibata and wooing Asai, so the matter was over.

Correspondingly, Shibata Katsuya's reputation plummeted. The crowd began to laugh at him:

"Without Oda Dan as the commander, the broken bottle Shibata lost two battles in a row in Settsu and Omi, and it seems that his martial arts have come to an end."

"In the past, it was all due to Oda Danmasa! Shibata is just a make-up of numbers. ”

"It's ridiculous to make an excuse that it was attacked by friendly forces."

Of course, Oda Nobutada wanted to maintain the prestige of Shibata Katsuya, but he was too young to inherit the million-stone territory. And although Tokugawa Ieyasu, Matsunaga Hide, Gamo Dingxiu and others fought side by side with Shibata, they did not mean to defend their old comrades-in-arms at all.

This is where the pros and cons of popularity can be seen - Shibata Katsuya has offended too many non-Owari people in the past (although some of them are likely asked by Nobunaga to offend), and the rank and file officers who love him generally lack a political voice.

Tie Tsuyo said a fair word:

"Shibata Sakyo is a bright and upright Owari samurai, who doesn't know how to do things like flies and dogs, and is prone to the calculations of traitors."

This is acceptable to people on both sides.

Shibata Katsuie, Oda Nobutada, and Ikeda Tsuneko and other martial arts factions were somewhat comforted by this.

Others, however, can grasp a bit of irony about the brainlessness of the Owari Martial Arts faction.

All in all, the defeat of the vanguard did not affect the pace of the offensive of the 80,000 coalition army, and the second striker Asai Nagamasa, who had 15,000 elite soldiers, got his wish and became the vanguard. Ashikaga Yoshiaki felt very satisfied, because the sword-giving scene made by Oda Nobutada was in vain.

On the other hand, Hirate Honhide quietly visited Oda Nobutada, Gamo Dinghide, Tsutsui Shunkei and others, and then issued a signal to Kawada Nagajin to "act as planned" through his cronies' subordinate Hattori Hideyasu.