"Oh, it seems that our Highness Oda is in big trouble." At this moment, Asakura Yoshikage, who had been grinding for most of the day at the foot of Mt. Higashiyama, found that a large number of Miyoshi troops had come out of Toji, crossed the Kamogawa River, and drove directly to Mt. Otowa, which was unmanned. And Kyoto, which had just been shot down by Oda Nobunaga in the distance, was on fire again, and it was known that Oda Nobunaga was in a bad situation.

"What should we do, my lord?" Yuzhu Jinggu stood aside for a day, yawning tiredly, and asked listlessly.

"What else can I do, withdraw." Asakura Yoshikage sneered when he heard this, "If we don't withdraw, when Doctor Miyoshi repairs down Mt. Otowaba, won't you be able to condescendingly outflank us?" I don't want to resist the main force of the Miyoshi family for that dirt bun. He's so good and sent us to the edge, so what does it have to do with me if he goes to fight it himself? ”

With that, Asakura Yoshikei waved his hand and led the 6,000 soldiers of the Asakura family to return along the same path after a day of autumn travel and withdrew to Yamashina.

And the position of the Miyoshi Army against him is here.

"Everything is as His Highness Anzhai expected." Araki Murashige saw that Asakura Yoshikage really didn't fight at all, so he led the troops to retreat, and complimented Anzhai Dongyasu in a very admiring tone: "Your Highness is really like a god. ”

"It's not that you know things, it's just that you can expect people." Antaku Fuyasu shook his head silently, indifferent to Araki Murashige's compliment, "We are used to seeing the wind and waves, and we have some understanding of people's hearts. ”

"Let's go, go to Mt. Otowa immediately, and make peace with the main guild." Ataka Fuyasu nodded to Arakimura, who immediately turned to gather his own troops, but did not notice that Ataka Fuyasu looked at him with the same eyes as when he looked at Matsunaga Xiu's back.

At the same time, the main force of the coalition forces was chased by Ten Rivers Ichicun to the east bank of the Kamogawa River. However, Asai Nagamasa immediately sent Eaglebei to block several ferries and bridgeheads on the Kamogawa River, blocking the pursuers of the Ten Rivers on the west bank of the Kamogawa River, buying time for the main force of the coalition to restore its formation and reorganize its formation.

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Compared to them, the situation at Mt. Otowa is a little more dangerous. There were no more than 50 combatants on the entire Otowa Mountain, and basically all that remained were heralds and some of Oda Nobunaga's mothers. And at this moment, the 6,000 soldiers of the Miyoshi family and the 3,000 soldiers further away are rushing here. Most of these left-behind people were so frightened that they didn't dare to resist at all, so they abandoned Mt. Otowa and fled towards the main camp to the east.

And Yu Qiupei originally asked the main camp to send Minami Omi troops as reinforcements, but was rejected by Ashikaga Yoshiteru on the grounds that "no troops can be sent without the order of His Highness Oda"! Now the situation is chaotic, and Oda Nobunaga can't be contacted at all, so where did Oda Nobunaga's order come from? Yu Qiuping knew that Ashikaga Yoshiteru was communiquing his personal vendetta, in order to take revenge on Yu Qiuping for exterminating the Rokkaku family in Omi on the grounds that "no troops will be withdrawn without Oda Nobunaga's order". But at this moment, even if he was angry, he had no choice but to send an envoy to Ashikaga Yoshiki to reason and show affection to Ashikaga Yoshiki - this is a matter related to the lives of tens of thousands of allied soldiers! Ashikaga Yoshiteru finally relented and sent a large collection of armor and ordnance to Akihei.

Yu Qiuping, who had no choice, had no choice but to continue to direct his construction in full swing - he converted Nanchan Temple into a large fortress. All the areas that are one zhang wide inside the narrow courtyard wall are raised with earth and stone, so high that people can stand on the raised foundation of this layer and their arms can just stick out of the courtyard wall. In this way, it is possible to simulate a city, and the courtyard wall is used as a battlement, and the raised foundation is used as a city wall. The courtyard wall is one and a half feet high, and it is definitely high enough as a wall. When the time came, the people stood on this foundation, and under the cover of the courtyard wall, they condescended to defend the city. And for the convenience of going up and down, at intervals, Yuqiuping will build stairs on the side of the foundation. And several gates of the temple - Yu Qiuping felt that there would be no chance to go out of the city to fight back anyway, so he simply blocked them all with stones.

In order to cover the road safety behind Nanzen Temple, Yu Qiuping also built two small fortresses behind Nanchan Temple according to Itami Kangqing's drawings, the height is slightly lower than Nanchan Temple, but the shape is more standard than Nanchan Temple, which are two concave polygons with many edges and corners. These two fortresses, together with Nanchan Temple, form a "product" character structure.

And outside the Nanchan Temple and the two fortresses, Yu Qiuping also dug a half-man-deep trench along the wall. Outside the trench, a half-man-high earthen wall was simply built with excavated earth as a fortification.

However, relying on Yu Qiuping's 800 soldiers and 50 cavalry alone, they would definitely not be able to hold the three fortresses. For this reason, Yu Qiuping also found all the 1,600 auxiliary soldiers of the Yuqiu family from the queue and asked them to use the weapons, bows and arrows, and bamboo guns that were temporarily looted. In order to make more long-range weapons for the auxiliaries, Yu Qiuping also took thousands of them from the tens of thousands of auxiliaries who built the fortifications and went to Dawen Mountain to cut bamboo and tree trunks and cut them into javelins. At the same time, a lot of small and small stones were loaded in baskets and returned as throwing weapons used by the auxiliaries.

However, although the construction of the fortress and the collection of weapons are almost complete, it will still take time, but the Miyoshi family has already arrived at the foot of Mt. Otowa at this moment.

"It's six quarters before the hour..."Yu Qiuping glanced at the sky and roughly estimated it, "I still need two quarters of an hour... But it only takes a quarter of an hour for the Miyoshi army to cross Mt. Otowa and come to Nanzenji Temple..."

We have to find a way to block the Miyoshi family for a quarter of an hour... But how can I stop it?

Yu Qiuping looked around blankly, but his eyes suddenly fell on Honda Tadakatsu. A wave of trust and confidence for no reason suddenly welled up from the bottom of his heart, and Yu Qiuping patted Honda Tadakatsu's shoulder violently, and said in a deep voice to him: "Nabenosuke! I'll hand over my cavalry platoon to you, and you'll find a way to stop the Miyoshi family on Mt. Otowaba! A quarter of an hour is fine! ”

This is almost an impossible order to complete - because Yu Qiuping's cavalry platoon is only 50 people. And the number of the three good troops they want to block is still nearly 10,000. However, just as Yu Qiuping had expected, Honda Tadashi only bowed suddenly, without shirking, and said in a sonorous and powerful voice: "Obey!" ”

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"Honda-sama, how do we act?" Honda Tadakatsu led the cavalry to gallop along the wide mountain road of Mt. Otowa, stirring up smoke and dust all the way, and the little hata Kaimori behind him, who had always believed in Honda's martial prowess, still asked very respectfully, even if the rank was on par with him.

"Look at me." Honda Tadakatsu still didn't say much, just lightly spit out these three words. The people behind him didn't know what was going on, but they still chose to believe in this samurai, who had always been the most reliable in their army.

When everyone drove through the winding mountain road and finally jumped onto the plain at the top of the mountain, the current scene suddenly made the cavalry of Chang Panbei turn pale. I saw that the 9,000 soldiers of the Miyoshi family were like ants, densely distributed on the path up the mountain. The nearest one is about to reach the top of the mountain. Miyoshiya's nail drawing pattern covers almost the entire foothills of Mt. Otoba, and it looks so dazzling in the sunlight. Compared with these 9,000 soldiers, the 50 cavalry of the Yuqiu family with red leaves on their helmets are like a flat boat in the sea, as if they will be overturned in an instant.

"Look at me." However, Honda Tadakatsu still has only this one sentence. He lifted the dragonfly cut high, and rode his horse alone and rushed down the mountain, straight to the Miyoshi army that was going up the mountain. He was confronted head-on by Miyoshi Masayasu's troops, and when he saw that a cavalryman rushed towards him as if he were not dying, he immediately ordered the pikemen in the front row to go to the front and poke the knight off his horse. However, the giant spear in Honda's hand was longer than the long spear of Ashigaru! Ordinary people can't swing such a huge thing even if they stand on the ground, let alone on a horse, but Honda Tadashi can control it with one hand. He stabbed his spear hard, stabbing it into Miyoshi's body before Miyoshi's spear could reach him. Immediately after that, he slammed the horse's belly, and with a straining of his right hand, he picked up the entire corpse and flew it, and blood splashed everywhere in an instant. He dragged the heavy corpse back with the heavy spear, making a charge. Then he cut the dragonfly forward and slammed the reins of the horse, and the warhorse man stood up.

The gesture - a samurai clings to the horse's belly, and the horseman stands up, while the samurai holds a large, exaggerated spear with a large exaggerated spear with a corpse on the tip of the spear in his deep straight arm. This posture seemed to freeze in the minds of all Miyoshi family Ashigaru, and they had to ask themselves - is this really the power that humans can have?

O gods!

In the next second, Honda Tadakatsu violently exerted force, and the corpse was also thrown out of the tip of the gun, relying on the huge inertia, and smashed straight into the queue of Miyoshi Masayasu, instantly knocking four or five ashigaru to the ground.

When the front hooves of Honda Tadakatsu's war horse landed, Honda Tadakatsu also waved the dragonfly horizontally, glared angrily, and roared angrily at the Miyoshi family. The roar resounded throughout the mountain, and even the trees beside the mountain road trembled.

Where had the troops of Miyoshi Masayasu as the vanguard seen such a battle, one by one, their thighs and stomachs trembled, and they were unable to kneel to the ground one after another, and the rest of the land retreated in a hurry, not daring to advance further.

When Honda Tadakatsu saw that the enemy was frightened by him, he immediately rode his horse back to the top of the mountain and rushed down another road up the mountain. The ashigaru and samurai on this road had just witnessed the tragedy on the road next door, and when they saw the fierce god rushing down, even those who had experienced a lot of battles couldn't help but want to dodge.

Honda Tadakatsu rushed straight at them, and the soldiers thought that there was no way to hide, so they could only put on a posture and fight hard. However, at the moment when Honda Tadakatsu crashed into them, Honda Tadakatsu suddenly slammed the horse's belly, and at the same time slapped the buttocks of the BMW Mikuni who was sitting down with the barrel of the giant gun. Sangokuro kicked the ground knowingly, and his four legs rose into the air, and he actually relied on the height difference caused by the slope of the mountain road, and directly crossed the dozen or so people in the first row from the top of his head. The ashigaru and samurai looked up blankly as Honda Tadakatsu moved, and watched as the samurai seemed to stand still above them, as if a god had descended.

The next moment, with a roar and screams, the gods fell behind them. Immediately after, the giant spear flew up and down, blood splashed everywhere, and the Miyoshi family Ashigaru along the way also retreated in embarrassment.

Honda Tadakatsu repelled this way, and did not love fighting, but rode his horse back to the top of the mountain again, turned around and headed straight for the next road. Repeated more than a dozen times, it was so that no one in the Miyoshi family could go up to the top of the mountain.

Standing on a pavilion on the mountainside, Miyoshi Chokei, with a look of great fascination and admiration, looked at the Honda Tadakatsu, who belonged to the enemy but was brave and unstoppable. After holding out for a quarter of an hour, Honda Tadashikatsu's horsepower and physical strength had reached the limit, and he did not relent, but silently led the cavalry to slowly retreat, leaving only a dashing and solemn back.

"I've heard that before this son became famous, Imagawa Jibu praised him as 'exclusive eight buckets'. When I saw it today, it really lived up to its name. What a Honda Heihachiro Tadatsu! ”

"There is one stone in the world's martial arts, and Heihachiro has eight fights."

After this battle, Honda's martial name of Tadakatsu completely resounded in - with the martial courage of just one person, it was difficult for the Miyoshi family to move forward with nearly 10,000 troops! Some people compare his feat with Zhang Fei's retreat of Cao Cao's army at Changban Slope during the Three Kingdoms period, and call him Zhang Fei of Japan.