After Burning Sky stopped Shibata Katsumasa, he glanced back at Oda Nobutada who was on the horse, Oda Nobutada nodded to Burning Sky with a smile, and then continued to say to everyone: "Don't care about the Asakura army behind you, retreat to the Shinmori main camp!" ”

After saying that, Oda Nobutada beat his horse and rushed to Sakuma Nobumori's main camp alone, and the surrounding attendants hurriedly hit their horses to catch up when they saw this. Shibata Katsumasa bowed his head to the Burning Sky and saluted him, then slowly turned on his horse and said to the Burning Sky and Tokii Katsu: "Ming Shamen, Yusuke, thank you!" With that, Shibata Katsumasa and the other team leaders led his subordinates to run towards Sakuma Nobumori's main camp.

Asakura Jingjing led the horse riding team to the mouth of the gorge of the valley, and saw the Oda army fleeing towards the valley in embarrassment, and the horses lingered in front of the mouth of the valley for a while, and then said to the samurai who arrived later: "There is an ambush in the valley, I don't have to chase it!" Let's go back! After that, Chaocang Jingjing turned his horse's head and ran towards the station, and the rest of the samurai couldn't say anything, so they could only follow Asakura Jingjing back to the station.

Watching Asakura Jingjing return from his horse, Toyama Nagashige said to Maebo Yoshitsugu: "Mahamami-sama, is Jingjing-sama too careful?" The Oda army has broken up to such a state, how can it be a trick to lure us and wait, and fight and retreat as a lure army, is Lord Jingjing too vigilant! ”

After hearing this, the former Boji lowered his head and said to Tomita Nagashige: "Lord Tomita, I am from a background and don't know much about war, but I often hear that Lord Tomita is brave in battle, and today Lord Jingjing is indeed too careful and has lost a great opportunity to pursue the Oda army." ”

After hearing this, Tomita Changfan said with a smile: "It's just a lianzhizhong, what kind of ability do you have, obviously this time the troops are still fiercely opposed, but they have done the formation as a matter of course, but now they have the opportunity but dare not grasp it, hum!" ”

After saying that, Tomita Nagashi beat his horse and followed Asakura Jingjing, while Mae-Hayoshi looked at the direction of the Oda army's withdrawal, a complicated look flashed in his eyes, and then he turned his horse's head and ran towards the station.

The day after Sakuma Nobumori's second failed attack on the Asakura army, the Oda army, which was besieging the castle on the front and flanks, launched a general attack on Kotani Castle under the command of Kinoshita Hideyoshi. Although Asai Nagamasa was somewhat prepared, he was still caught off guard by the sudden all-out attack of the Oda army. The large team under the command of the Takenaka Hanbei seemed to have gone crazy and frantically fired cannonballs at Kotani Castle.

The already battered walls of Otani Castle were no longer able to help the Asai army resist the offensive of the Oda army under the combined bombardment of the large barrel team and the iron artillery team. Not long after, the Oda army broke through the main gate of Kotani Castle, and the Oda army on the flank also took the opportunity to break through the side gate of Kotani Castle.

Asai Nagamasa, who was observing the battle situation in Nimaru, was already trembling a little, but he still gave orders to his men with the same color. At this time, the Oda army did not attack Nimaru immediately, but retreated slightly back. Seeing this strange situation, Anyangji Jingshi immediately noticed a trace of unusual aura, and whispered to Asai Nagamasa: "My lord, go to Honmaru for refuge!" ”

Asai Nagamasa glanced back at Anyang Temple Jingshi with a cold face, pursed his lips and said, "The Asai family's business for several generations is going to be cut off in my hands?" Before Anyangsa could reply, he heard the roar of a cannonball. Then Asai Nagamasa was protected by the attendants beside him, but the cannonball that hit the ashigaru in front of him did not stop, but ran towards Asai Nagamasa under the escort of everyone.

Several of the attendants in front of Asai Nagamasa were suddenly cut off their left arms, and in an instant, the cannonball slashed along the body of Anyoji Jingshi on Asai Nagamasa's left. At this time, Asai Nagamasa's ears remembered the wails of countless Asai samurai, Asai Nagamasa looked around, there were stump arms and severed limbs everywhere, and Anyangji Jingshi, who was still talking to him, also fell to the ground at this time, and there was a big hole in his spleen and lungs that kept oozing blood.

Asai Nagamasa rushed up to check on the Anyang Temple Sutra, but at this time, the eyes of the Anyang Temple Sutra no longer had the look of the past. Anyangji Jingshi lay on the ground and looked at Asai Nagamasa who rushed over, and spit out a sentence from his throat with difficulty: "Extreme... Joy Pure Land, one step ahead..."After saying that, the breathing of Anyoji Jingshi became more and more laborious, and Asai Nagamasa stood up and shouted to the samurai beside him, "Beware of the big barrel of the Oda army! "After that, continue to command the Asai samurai and Ashigaru in Nimaru to counterattack the Oda army in Mimaru.

The Oda family's large team cleaned the barrel immediately after firing a round and continued to reload it with ammunition. While watching the situation on the battlefield, the Takenaka Hanbei communicated with Kinoshita Hideyoshi, who commanded the attack on Kotani Castle, through the Oda papaya-patterned military flag.

Just as the large cylinder team of the Takenaka Hanbei was loading ammunition, the iron artillery team of the Asai family took the opportunity to shoot at the Oda Army in the three pills. Of course, the Oda Army would not let go of this opportunity, and also organized the Iron Artillery Team to counterattack against the Iron Artillery Team of the Asai Army.

At this time, Asakura Jingjing also heard the loud sound of Kotani Castle, and just as Asakura Jingjing was thinking about whether to go to support the Asai family, suddenly a samurai rushed to Asakura Jingjing's main formation and said to Asakura Jingjing: "Lord Jingjing, the Oda army has come out in the direction of Otani!" Asakura Jingjing looked at the samurai who hurriedly dismounted and knelt half-kneel, and said to the Asakura generals beside him: "Oda Nobunaga wants to use Sakuma Nobumori to drag us and others, and see how we defeat Sakuma Nobumori!" ”

"With a blow, the big team that broke into the Oda family and caught Oda Nobunaga off guard!" Tomita Nagashige on the side got up and said to Asakura Jingjing, and then said to the Asakura generals beside him: "Sakuma Nobumori has been defeated twice by us, and last time we were able to defeat the Oda army in one go, so that these Ono samurai know the prestige of the Echizen samurai!" ”

After hearing this, Asakura Jingjing and the rest of the generals fell silent. At this time, Maeboji got up and said, "Everyone, let's defeat the Oda army first, and we are discussing whether to pursue it!" ”

After hearing this, Asakura Jingjing got up and said to everyone: "Okay, let's defeat Sakuma Nobumori first, and then discuss whether to pursue or not!" With that, the Chaocang people got up, pressed the sword at their waist, and walked towards their respective camps.

After a while, Sakuma Nobumori appeared in the field of vision of the Asakura army with more than 1,000 people under his command. This time, Asakura Jingjing directly changed the layout of the battle formation, placing the iron artillery team at the forefront. I hope that the "stupid" Sakuma Nobumori will still command the army to blindly charge the Asakura army as usual, so that the iron artillery team of Asakura can reap the maximum effect.

But to Asakura's surprise, Sakuma Nobumori changed his previous style and even sent the iron artillery team and the Asakura iron artillery team to shoot at each other. Moreover, the iron artillery team of the Oda army suffered heavy losses in the morale and reloading speed of the Asakura family's iron artillery team, which made the Asakura family's iron artillery team suffer heavy losses in the first head-to-head confrontation with the Oda army. Seeing that the iron artillery team was not fighting well, Asakura Jingjing couldn't accept this defeat, so he said to Tomita Nagashi: "The Oda army is just a powerful iron cannon, you lead the cavalry team to charge the Oda family!" ”

So Tomita Nagashige led a cavalry team to rush out of the Asakura army formation and ran straight towards the Oda army's iron artillery team, which was loading ammunition. Sakuma Nobumori immediately ordered the two hundred guns behind the iron artillery team to step forward and withstand the onslaught of the Asakura army's cavalry. Tomita Nagashigeru looked at the Oda gunashigaru that appeared, and after a loud shout, he hit his horse and rushed into the gunashigaru. In an instant, the horseback team of the Asakura family and the Oda family collided lightly, and the human and horse blood were mixed together and could not be identified.

After the cavalry rushed into the Oda army, the various formations of the Asakura army also quickly pressed up. Sakuma Nobumori looked at the spearhead that was gradually surrounded, and immediately gave the order to retreat, and many military generals, including Honda Tadakatsu, turned their horses and left. Oda Nobutada, Burning Sky and others began to run away the moment they received the order because they were behind the battle.

Perhaps it was Sakuma Nobumori's resistance that made the Asakura army smell blood, and the Asakura army, after eating the blocking spears, began to pursue the fleeing Oda army. Mae-Ha Yoshitsugu looked at the direction of the Oda army's escape, and said to Asakura Jingjing: "I shouldn't have spoken if I didn't care about military affairs, but Lord Jingjing, don't miss the opportunity and don't come again, now that the Oda army has been defeated again, I hope that my lord can chase it to the end and completely annihilate Sakuma Nobumori, including the big team that makes His Royal Highness Asai distressed; After the success, Lord Jingjing's status in the Asakura family can be determined..."

"Lord Jingjing, Lord Tomita has already led his army into the valley!" A samurai who was reporting the news interrupted Mae-Ha Yoshitsug. Asakura Jingjing looked at the expectant eyes of his retainers around him, and the fact that Tomita Nagashige had already rushed into Kotani, Asakura Jingjing pulled out his sword, pointed at Kotani and shouted: "Pursue the Oda army, serve the family, and expand the territory of the family!" ”

Seeing this, the low-level samurai and ashigaru of the Asakura family could only desperately keep up with the pace of their master's house, and rushed towards the small valley full of smoke and the sound of fighting.

Looking at Asakura Jingjing leading the army into Xiaotani, he deliberately dragged the last of the Asakura army in front of Boji and snorted coldly in the direction of Xiaogu, and then beat his horse and ran towards Xiaogu City.