At noon on March 2, inside the castle.

"Are you sure? Has Sen Kecheng been killed? ”

"It's true, please rest assured, two highnesses!" The ninja sent by the Matsunaga family knelt in front of Miyoshi Nagaitsu and Miyoshi Masaysu, "Mori Kosei and the people around him were all killed by us, and none of them escaped!" None of us have seen what Mori Koon, the eldest son, looks like, but he must be among those who were killed! Please also ask the two highnesses to go out of the city immediately to counterattack according to the agreement! Cooperate with my lord to attack the Yuqiu Division! ”

"Since you said that Sen Kecheng and Sen Kelong are dead, why are the Sen family troops outside the north gate not chaotic at all?" Miyoshi Nagaitsu was still very calm, but walked to the window of the castle tower and pointed to the Mori family troops outside the north gate.

"It may be that the Yuqiu Ministry has blocked the news! For only his men fled back! Seeing this, the ninja of the Matsunaga family hurriedly responded, "Your Highnesses, please wait!" My father-in-law will send someone to send Sen Kecheng's head immediately! When the time comes, he will take his head to the city gate, and the Sen family will naturally collapse without a fight! ”

"Okay, then wait for the bullet to be corrected." Miyoshi Changyi tapped lightly on the window frame with his fist, "As soon as Sen Kecheng's head arrives, we and His Royal Highness An Zhai will abide by the prior agreement and immediately attack!" ”

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However, not long after the Matsunaga ninja left, Miyoshi Masayasu, who had been standing by the window of the castle tower and observing, suddenly noticed that two groups of people rode into the Mori family's camp one after the other. Immediately afterward, small chaos and commotion broke out in the Mori family's camp. However, the commotion was soon quelled.

"Changyi, what do you think?" Sanhao Zhengkang used his elbow to push the top Sanhao Changyi, "What's wrong with the Sen family?" ”

"It is estimated that the people of the Mori family found out that the Matsunaga Army had a sudden move, the situation was in crisis, and the governor of his own family was delayed in returning, so he asked someone to ask the Yuqiu Division. In order to stabilize the Sen family, the Yuqiu Governance Department successively sent messengers to coax the Sen family, saying that Sen Kecheng was safe and sound, and he had returned to his tent. After thinking for a moment, Miyoshi Changyi made an inference, "As soon as we show Sen Kecheng's head, the deceived Mori family will definitely be in chaos after realizing that the family governor has been killed." When the time comes, we will take advantage of the chaos to cover up and kill, first destroy the Sen family, and then kill the Yuqiu Division! ”

While the two were discussing, the ninja of the Matsunaga family sent Mori Kesei's head as promised. Miyoshi Changyi immediately lit up the wolf smoke, and asked Yataku Dongkang and Miyoshi Yoshiko to cooperate with Matsunaga Xiu to attack the Yuqiuping Department located outside the West Gate. Then, he hung Mori Kecheng's head high on the castle tower of Sannomaru at the north gate, and asked dozens of ashigaru to repeatedly shout to the Mori family's troops: "Mori Kecheng is dead!" "Sen Kecheng is dead!"

Sure enough, the troops of the Sen family were in an uproar after seeing Sen Kecheng's head, and the whole army was in chaos. Just when Miyoshi Nagayi and Miyoshi Masaysu planned to open the gate of the North Castle to cover the killing, the Mori family's troops had already retreated on their own—abandoning their camp outside the North Gate and withdrawing straight to the Yamato River in the north.

"Actually withdrew?" Miyoshi Changyi was taken aback when he saw this, "Isn't this directly exposing the back road of the Yuqiu Governance Department in front of our eyes?" ”

"I must think that the Yuqiu Governance Department deceived them, the Sen family lost the head of the family and the young master, and the dragons had no leader, so they withdrew directly in a fit of anger." Miyoshi Zhengkang chuckled, "Yuqiu Zhibu will eat its own evil consequences." ”

"In that case, there will be no time to waste!" Miyoshi Nagayi clapped his hands and pointed at Yu Qiuping's camp with an unsheathed katana, "The two of us, one of us, went around from the north gate and attacked the back of Yu Qiujibu!" One directly opened the west gate and attacked the flank of Yuqiuzhi's department! Cooperate with the bullet to defeat the Yuqiu Zhibu in one fell swoop! ”

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At two o'clock in the afternoon, the north and west gates of Gaoya Castle opened, and Miyoshi Changyi and Miyoshi Masayasu attacked Yuqiuping from two directions. Ming Dibei had to be deployed separately and held the north and east gates of the camp. And Tsunebanbei has to resist the onslaught of Matsunaga Shu on his own, and he is in a difficult situation.

At the same time, the troops of Ataka Fuyasu and Miyoshi Nagaitsu bypassed the southern side of the Matsunaga army, intending to make a detour to the west side of Yuakihei's headquarters and firmly block Yuakihei outside the west gate of Takaya Castle from all sides.

However, to everyone's surprise, the Mori family's troops, who had already retreated north to the Yamato River ferry, suddenly turned around and headed south after Miyoshi Nagayi and Yu Qiupei's troops exchanged fire, and reversed towards the north gate of Takaya Castle. Due to the obstruction of vision, Miyoshi Nagayi, who was in the middle of the battle, did not notice the abnormal movement of the Mori family's troops at first, and it was Miyoshi Masakatsu who stayed in Takaya Castle that discovered the abnormality before he sent someone to inform Miyoshi Nagayi and Miyoshi Masayasu.

When Miyoshi Changyi realized that something was wrong and tried to retreat to the north gate, Yu Qiuping immediately sent the cavalry led by Anayama Nominei to stick up, and resolutely refused to let Miyoshi Nagayi and Miyoshi Masaysu return to the division. The two were harassed and in a dilemma, Miyoshi Changyi was unable to complete the retreat because the distance was too long, and Miyoshi Masaysu finally withdrew half of the people to Gaoya City.

However, before he could reorganize the defense of the North Gate, the Mori family's troops had already rushed back. When they retreated, they left all the siege equipment such as ladders and rushing carts in the camp and did not take them with them, and when they counterattacked, they directly pushed out to attack the city. There were only a few remaining troops left around Miyoshi Masakatsu in the city, and the north gate of Sannomaru was immediately breached, and Mori Kosei's head was also recaptured by Mori Kolong himself. Immediately afterwards, Mori Kotaka took the lead in attacking Ninomaru, and captured Ninomaru before Miyoshi Masakasu's reinforcements arrived, and Miyoshi Masakatsu was also killed by Mori Kotaka himself at the head of the castle.

Sen Kecheng's death did not collapse the morale of the Sen family. Because Shigeharu Takenaka cooperated with Mori Kolong to arrive first, stabilizing the morale of the army before chaos broke out. On the contrary, after Sen Kecheng's head was singled out, the entire Sen family was agitated and vowed to avenge the murdered head of the family. At the request of Shigeharu Takenaka, Mori Kotaka first led the Mori family's troops to pretend to evacuate, deceived the Miyoshi family's troops and then dealt a backhand blow. The morale-high Mori family troops were unstoppable and broke Sannomaru and Ninomaru in a row. Mori Kolong even led his subordinates to personally attack the city gate of the West Gate, and Ming Di Bei attacked left and right, leaving Miyoshi Masaysu at the West Gate to attack half of Yu Qiuping's army completely defeated, and opened the gate of the West City of Gaoya Castle.

Tsukiwa and Ming Di fought and retreated, and gradually retreated from the west gate to the castle. At this time, Miyoshi Yoshiko and Ataka Dongyasu's troops were in a very awkward position - they were located in the southwest of the Matsunaga army, halfway through the detour. That is, there is no way to immediately devote themselves to the pursuit of the Yuqiu army, and there is no way to immediately return to the south gate of Gaoya City and enter the city to support. The largest force of the Miyoshi-Matsunaga coalition could only spin around the periphery and watch from the wall when the battle situation was at its most anxious.

At this time, in Takaya Castle, Miyoshi Masayasu's 500 soldiers and 4,000 auxiliaries in the castle had to face the attack of nearly 1,500 soldiers of the Mori family and Ming Akibei. However, Matsunaga Hide's troops were blocked by Tokiwa outside the west gate of Gaoya Castle and could not enter the city to support. Miyoshi Nagaitsu finally got rid of the harassment of Anayama Nobushi and withdrew to the north gate, but was blocked by the 500 soldiers left behind by Mori Kolong. Under the onslaught of the Naruki and the Mori family's troops, Miyoshi Masaysu was unable to resist and fled from the defeat of Honmaru and retreated to the south gate of Sanomaru, trying to wait for the arrival of reinforcements from the Miyoshi family.

Yu Qiuping immediately withdrew Tokiwabei and all his auxiliaries into the city, completed the defense of the western, eastern, and northern castles, and then attacked the south gate of Sannomaru from both the city wall and the ground with Morikoto. The inside and outside of Takaya Castle were like huge concentric circles, and the Oda army circled around the small circle, while the Miyoshi army had to rush on the large circle outside the city. By the time Miyoshi Yoshiko and Matsunaga Hideki finally put their formation in order and went around to the south gate to prepare for support, the brave and unstoppable Mori Kolong had already controlled the gate of the southern city. Miyoshi Masayasu's last troops tried to hold out at the head of the castle, but they were continuously shot by the iron cannons of Ming and Tokiwa as live targets at high places. Miyoshi Masayasu himself was wounded by a shot by Uji Hidetaka of the Iron Artillery Team in the chaos army, and died of blood loss shortly after.

With the death of Miyoshi Mayasu, the remaining remnants of Miyoshi Masaysu were powerless to resist. They were pushed to the edge of the battlements, many surrendered, and a few Miyoshi family Ashigaru jumped off the battlements in despair and fell into the moat to their deaths.

The Miyoshi Army was originally here to defend the city, but it didn't carry siege equipment at all, so there was no way to attack, and only Matsunaga Xiu's camp built siege equipment. However, after conquering the southern castle, the extremely active Mori Kolong immediately moved to the eastern castle, opened the gates and rushed into the large camp of Matsunaga Shu, which was almost not guarded by soldiers. The Matsunaga family's auxiliaries were scattered like birds and beasts, and the siege equipment that he had worked so hard to build was also burned by Mori Koron. Before reinforcements from the Miyoshi-Matsunaga coalition arrived at the East Gate, they withdrew again to Takaya Castle.

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After a dizzying series of scuffles, the Miyoshi-Matsunaga coalition and the Oda army were stunned to play a game of house swapping that can only be seen in the war game invented by Yu Qiuping. The Takaya Castle, which was originally in the hands of the Miyoshi family, fell into the hands of Yuqiuhei and Mori Kotaka, and the camps of the Yuqiu family and the Mori family were occupied by the Miyoshi family.

The Miyoshi Army, which had been surrounded in Takaya Castle and waiting for reinforcements, now surrounded the Oda Army in Takaya Castle. And the Oda army is waiting for reinforcements from Oda Nobunaga at the moment.

After the battle, the Oda army suffered nearly 800 casualties, and the governor of the Mori family, Mori Kasei, was also assassinated by Matsunaga Shu. The Miyoshi-Matsunaga coalition suffered nearly 1,500 casualties, and Miyoshi Masaysu, one of the three Miyoshi, was killed, and Miyoshi Masakatsu was also won.

In order to capture Gaoya Castle, the Miyoshi family immediately began to build siege equipment. However, the Oda family's reinforcements, Takigawa Kazuki and Ikeda Tsuneko, also arrived at the Yamato River line on March 6. At the same time, Oda Nobunaga also sent people to attack Yamato Province by the northern route, forcing Matsunaga Shu to divide his troops to return to defense. Although the Miyoshi family's troops did not withdraw, they had no intention of storming Takaya Castle. Because the entire small Hao clan in South Hanoi has fallen to the Yuqiu family, the activities of the Miyoshi Army have been greatly restricted. At this point, the crisis in Takaya Castle has finally been resolved. After being betrayed by Matsunaga Hide, the Oda army on the southern front actually hit the important town of Takaya Castle in Hanoi by mistake, which can be regarded as a crooked attack.