The people of Araki Village, who were heavy, were lost under the walls of Nanzen Temple. Obviously, the wall of this courtyard is not high, and there are not many defenders, but they can't find a place to go down, and they pay hundreds of casualties under the courtyard wall in vain, but they get nothing. No matter which section of the wall you attack, you will always be beaten in the back for no reason, so that the besieging side will not be able to find cover.

Araki Murashige's men held out for a while, but there was no breakthrough except for five or six warriors who climbed the courtyard wall and were all stabbed to death by Tokiwabei's pikemen a few times. In the gap between several protruding parts of Nanchan Temple, nearly 200 corpses fell horizontally and vertically, and many more were wounded. Araki Murashige barely made any progress, and he had already suffered nearly thirty percent casualties, and he couldn't bear it anymore and was directly defeated.

Noticing that the attack on Nanzenji Temple was not going well, Yasutaka Dongyasu immediately led his 2,000 men down the mountain and joined the attack on Nanzen Temple.

"Good fellow, His Highness Anzhai's troops!" At this time, the Kitabatake Keiya, who was lying on the side of the courtyard wall to change bullets, raised his head and glanced at the banner of the Miyoshi family's reinforcements, "I just cleaned up Arakimura Shige and Miyoshi Masaysu, and there is a new dish." ”

"Brothers, let go of your stomach and eat!" Kitabatake Keike smiled and shouted at the surrounding iron gunners, "Miyoshiya is serving food again!" ”

"Roar!" The gunners responded to their commander with an excited shout. When they were guarding the city of Guanyin Temple, they had already simulated the law of guarding the city with a fortress. This time, it is naturally handy to use it in a real fortress.

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"I see..."After listening to the complaints and analyses of Miyoshi Masaysu and Araki Murashige, Ataka Fuyasu nodded thoughtfully, and his gaze at Nanzenji Temple was also a little complicated, "This castle is not a convex polygon, but a concave polygon, so there are almost no shooting blind spots, and attackers must encounter attacks from at least two sides." And it is estimated that there are hundreds of iron cannons in this Nanchan Temple, which is really not easy to fight. ”

"What about the temple door? Why don't you just ram it away? "Yataku Dongkang made a suggestion.

"The doors of the temple seem to have been blocked from the inside with stones." Araki Murashige snorted angrily, "This shrunken turtle! ”

"And what about the two small rocks behind him? How many iron cannons are in it? Is it easy to fight? Anzhai Dongkang frowned, and then set his eyes on the two small rocks behind Nanchan Temple.

"It's... It is not clear under that. Arakimurashige shook his head honestly, "I haven't been to fight, we were all besieging Nanzenji just now." ”

"Is it possible to control this path even if you don't dig down Nanzenji Temple and the two surrounding rock bars?" Antaku Dongyasu glanced at the terrain and asked to himself.

"No, Your Highness." Miyoshi Masayasu replied directly, "Nanzen Temple and those two rocks are combined to control almost the entire passage. If they don't hit them, the coalition forces can escape from the area between the three of them or behind them, and they can't stop them. ”

"Then we're going to hurry. I'll go to hit Nanchan Temple, and Zhengkang you will hit the rock in the left rear. Murashige, you go and keep an eye on the rock in the right rear. As soon as Anzhai Dongkang clamped the horse's belly, he led the troops and set off towards the rock in the right rear, "Big brother, it is estimated that it will be solved soon." ”

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Anzhai Dongkang is right, the coalition army is indeed about to be solved by Miyoshi Changqing and Shihe Yicun. Under their constant flanking attacks, nearly half of the coalition army's reserves had collapsed to the point where they could no longer command, so they could only be trapped in the formation and retreat towards Okazaki Shrine to the east with the large army. Oda Nobunaga had completely lost the ability to command the entire army at this time, and could only stumble and lead the army that was about to collapse to retreat eastward, leaving everyone to fight on their own. As long as you are able to retreat to Okazaki Shrine, you can retreat to Nanzenji Temple through the hilly terrain southeast of Okazaki Shrine, and then escape from Nanzenji Temple.

"Do you want to evacuate to Okazaki Shrine?" Miyoshi Changqing saw the coalition forces struggling to move to the east, and smiled helplessly, "Put the signal." ”

With the shaking of the flag of Miyoshi Chokei, the troops of the Miyoshi family suddenly poured out of the Golden Ring Light Temple in the north of Okazaki Shrine, and the banner was the son of Miyoshi Chokei, Miyoshi Yoshiko. After he was repelled by Yu Qiuhei and Nishimino before, he hid in the Golden Ring Light Temple north of Okazaki Shrine. Since the three of Nishimino were in a hurry to go to Kyoto, Yu Qiuping immediately withdrew to Nanzen Temple, so no one pursued Miyoshi Yoshiko, and he remained lurking there. Now, after receiving the order from Miyoshi Chokei, he immediately killed himself from the Golden Ring Light Temple and went straight to Okazaki Shrine. According to his speed and distance, he is definitely faster than the coalition forces! If Okazaki Shrine is occupied, the coalition forces will be surrounded from the west, south, and east, and will have to retreat to the north, which is getting farther and farther away from the retreat!

Just when the coalition army was wailing and thought that the general situation had passed, a force suddenly appeared in the hilly area northeast of Okazaki Shrine. Both the Miyoshi Army and the coalition army looked in that direction in surprise, and for some reason there were still troops there. If you look closely, it is Kinoshita Hideyoshi's surprise attack team that has lost contact for many days! They went around and around in the mountains to the north of the mountain city, and when they finally got around, they ran into such a joint battle. Kinoshita Hideyoshi, who had always had a keen sense of smell, had no idea what the war was going on, but he realized the importance of Okazaki Shrine and immediately led his troops to rush over. The position where he appeared is closer than Miyoshi Yixing! In this race, it was Kinoshita Hideyoshi who won the victory, preemptively occupying the empty Okazaki Shrine and covering the retreat of the coalition forces.

"The monkey has done a great job this time!" Oda Nobunaga, who was already embarrassed, excitedly shouted, "Quick! Let's remove Nanzenji Temple from Okazaki Shrine! ”

"Lord, can Nanchan Temple still hold on?" After Sakuma Nobumori heard the order, he couldn't help but question: "The Miyoshi family estimates that there are 4,000 soldiers before and after, and there are only 800 soldiers in the rain and autumn and red leaves, where can they stop it?" ”

"Don't worry, the position he guarded Momiji has never lost!" Oda Nobunaga looked up to the sky and laughed heroically, "There is no endless road to heaven! Walk! ”

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At this moment, Miyoshi Masaysu is urging his subordinates to storm the fortress guarded by Charlie. However, since the distance between the three rocks is not far away, the troops in Nanchan Temple can also cover the two fortresses behind them.

"Bang!" After Uji Hidetaka took aim, he pulled the trigger and hit a man who was hiding behind the low wall outside Charlie's fortress. He and a few of the surrounding gunners had been shooting at the low wall for a long time, but the Miyoshi family behind the low wall always seemed to think that they were shooting dead spots and would not be attacked.

"Don't go there! Mind yourself here! Just when Uji Hidetaka was obsessed with shooting those troops who were slaughtered, Yu Qiuping, who was riding a horse and patrolling the temple, reminded loudly, "The Jing family is a little tight, you hurry over with a dozen iron gunners!" ”

"Yes, Your Highness!" Uji Hidetaka saluted as soon as he saluted Yuaki Heii, and immediately led a dozen of his subordinates around him down the stairs and trotted all the way to the area where the Awaji people were attacking. He climbed up the courtyard wall and found that the courtyard wall had fallen on the corpses of many people on both sides of the enemy, and two or three iron cannons were left there, and no one picked them up.

"What's going on?" Uji Hidetaka shouted loudly, hoping that someone would answer him in a noisy environment.

"Just now, some people from the house rushed up." The water atom sutra leaning against the wall battlement yelled back at Ujihide, "Kill a few iron gunners, my men have already driven them down." The Jing family is also in a tight situation, and he can't send anyone, so I'll leave this section to you! ”

"No problem, dude!" After exchanging military salutes with Mizukotsu, Uji Hidetaka and Mizuatom Jing climbed to the edge of the courtyard wall with a dozen iron gunners, erected the iron cannon on the courtyard wall, squinted one eye and began to aim.

Soon, he found his first target. Ashigaru, an Ataka family, picks up a javelin and seems to want to throw it back. He slammed the trigger, and a puff of smoke rose in front of his eyes. However, according to the training requirements of the Tsukiwa Gunner, the iron gunners did not have time to observe the results of the battle, and had to reload immediately. After some maneuvering, he began to look for his target again, this time firing at a Ashigaru who was trying to climb a ladder up the courtyard wall opposite him.

More than a dozen iron gunners fired one after another, alleviating the crisis in the area. However, the Awaji people soon noticed the dozen or so iron gunners, and immediately organized a wave of ashigaru and rushed towards the courtyard wall.

Uji Hidetaka hurriedly shot the attacker, but it didn't work well, according to the common sense of fortress defense popularized by Yuakihei, the shooters should always give priority to shooting at the enemy attacking the friendly army, because this kind of shot often gets the best angle of fire. Companions cover each other, forming crossfire between the bastion areas.

However, the two salients on either side of him were entangled by the Awaji people at the moment, and there was no way to cover them. The troops who climbed the wall made rapid progress and immediately forced under the courtyard wall.

"Xiugao, you stand back." Seeing this, the water atom waved his hand and ordered Uji Hidetaka to take a few steps back and retreat to a safer area where the shooting angle was not too good. Then, the pikemen of the Water Atom Sutra walked quickly to the courtyard wall and poked at the Awaji people who were climbing the wall. The Ashigaru of the Awaji people only saw a flock of autumn leaves swaying overhead, and then the spears rained down, poking everyone who tried to climb the wall into dice.

"Hey! Don't get distracted! Even if the shooting position is not good, you can't desert! Uji Hidetaka saw several iron gunners beside him looking at the north in a daze, and actually stopped the loading in his hand, and said in a voice with some dissatisfaction: "This is the battlefield!" Have you forgotten the rules of Tokiwabi? ”

"No... My lord. One of the gunners muttered twice incoherently, then slowly raised his hand and pointed to the north, "Look there!" ”

Uji Hidetaka looked inexplicably in the direction his arm was pointing, and he was stunned for a moment.

I saw that the army of more than 10,000 allied troops almost collapsed on the hills from Okazaki Shrine to Nanzenji Temple, and fled here in a swarm. Papaya-patterned, tortoiseshell-patterned banners and weapons were thrown everywhere, and tens of thousands of embarrassed men fled south with more than a thousand cavalry in disarray—while the army of the Miyoshi family was chasing closely behind and on the flanks.

"Oh my God."