Another papaya-patterned banner fell down, but the Oda family's offensive was still maintained, and Sakuma Nobumori, who was in charge of the attack, was still calmly directing more samurai and Ashigaru to advance through the main gate of Otani Castle. At this time, Oda Nobutada vaguely heard a soft sigh from Oda Nobutada, and then Oda Nobutada said to Oda Nobutada and Shibata Katsumasa: "Nobuymori uses troops like this, although he is calm and composed, but he is too rigid, blindly suppressing the other party with the advantage of troops, and wants to rely on troops to drag down the Asai family, but he didn't expect that the Asai family is based on the city, and can quickly replenish troops and materials for a period of time, while the family needs to transport more materials from the rear, in case the military rations are robbed, or the Asakura raids the family's grain road, I'm afraid that the family will be passive at that time! ”

After saying that, Oda Nobutada was about to walk towards Oda Nobunaga's main formation, but Burning Sky hurriedly stepped forward to grab Oda Nobutada, bowed his head and said softly: "Young master, don't go to report to the lord now, I hope the young master will think twice!" After hearing this, Oda Nobutada stopped, turned his body around, and said to the burning sky: "Maybe my father has other plans, you are right, I am indeed a little reckless." ”

With the rapid operation of the two war machines, the old parts were replaced with new ones as soon as they were damaged. The Oda family and the Asai family paid a lot of price in the cage city game on the first day, and the Oda family lost as many as 400 people in the battle, and the number of wounded was counted. Oda Nobunaga did not express any dissatisfaction with this in the evening assessment, but only asked Sakuma Nobumori to continue the siege tomorrow.

After the assessment, Oda Nobutada returned to the bamboo hut where the people were resting with a look of indignation. Burning Sky and the others were telling each other about their experience of martial arts, and after seeing Oda Nobutada, they immediately ended the conversation and saluted Oda Nobutada, who came back, Oda Nobutada raised his right hand and waved it and said, "Let's rest early, tomorrow I will continue to go to the main camp to guard." ”

In the following days, the offensive of the Oda army did not stop, and every day it launched an attack on Otani Castle on time, but there were no more heavy casualties like the first day, and during this period, the main gate of Otani Castle was broken at one point, but then it was repelled by Asai Nagamasa and his attendants. The Oda army has successively lost nearly 1,000 troops, of which the casualty rate of low-level samurai is as high as seventy percent, which makes the retainers of the Oda family extremely distressed, these low-level samurai can be said to be the backbone of the Oda army, and there are many distant relatives of some high-ranking samurai.

Just when Oda Nobutada couldn't resist and wanted to give Oda Nobunaga a new opinion, Oda Nobunaga suddenly replaced the general in charge of the attack with Kinoshita Hideyoshi, and ordered Sakuma Nobumori to be stationed in the gorge southeast of the main camp. Oda Nobutada keenly smelled something unusual from it, and then Oda Nobutada took the initiative to ask to follow Kinoshita Hideyoshi to participate in the attack, but Oda Nobunaga directly refused, and asked Oda Nobutada to no longer have to be on duty in the camp tomorrow, and stay in the camp at any time.

When Ozora learned of Oda Nobunaga's order, he immediately summoned Akiyama and asked Akiyama to follow him at any time recently. Oda Nobutada then summoned the others to the bamboo hut, explained to everyone what happened in the camp tomorrow, and also told everyone not to leave the camp too far in the next few days, and immediately assemble in the camp when they heard the order.

Early the next morning, Burning Sky and the others were awakened by the earth-shattering noise under Kotani Castle, and Burning Sky and the others turned over and got up from the ground, holding the sword at their waists, and instantly prepared to unsheath and slash the enemy who rushed out. At this time, Oda Nobunaga's Ma Hui in the camp once again announced Oda Nobunaga's order in the camp, and Burning Sky looked at the galloping Ma Hui, and secretly complained in his heart: "Demon King, no matter how good you are, you can't suddenly attack Kotani Castle like this twice in a row, in case the camp is bombed, it won't be worth the loss." ”

Just as he was complaining about the burning sky, Ma Hui stopped in front of Oda Nobutada and did not dismount, but directly bowed his head and said: "Young master, forgive me for being rude, the lord ordered the young master to lead the special team to support Lord Sakuma!" Then the horse got back and went on in the other direction of the camp. Shibata Katsumasa and the others were still a little confused, so Oda Nobutada shouted at them: "Go and gather the troops, it should be the arrival of reinforcements from the Asakura family." ”

Listening to Oda Nobutada's words, Shibata Katsumasa and the others instantly came to their senses, and pressed the sword to gather the standing guards who were still vigilant. Burning Sky said to Oda Nobutada: "Young master, we still need to meet up with Lord Sakuma as soon as possible, and complete the arrangement at the southeast canyon as soon as possible, so as to prevent the Asakura army from attacking our family by taking advantage of the road." Oda Nobutada nodded after hearing this, and said loudly to the attendants beside him: "When the time comes, you don't have to protect me alone, just listen to my orders!" ”

After that, he took his tiger head antler pocket from the hand of the attendant, and said to the assembled samurai and ashigaru in front of him: "No matter if you surrender today, as long as you fight to kill the enemy, your family will not be stingy!" With that, Oda Nobutada summoned several samurai who had surrendered to his side, then handed them his folding fan and spear, and solemnly said, "Today, please carry a gun and a fan for me!" ”

After finishing the words, the spirit of the few warriors who surrendered to the army was shocked, and they shouted words such as loyalty to the Oda family, and the morale of the other surrendering troops was immediately mobilized by Oda Nobutada. However, Shibata Katsumasa was a little unimpressed, and when he saw this, he said with a smile: "Sanzaemon, those who have festivals in troubled times are worthy of respect, but these people are just to survive, and they have not done anything to kill the lord and seek glory, so why bother holding on to this?" ”

After hearing the words of the burning air, Shibata Katsumasa's face suddenly turned a little red, and the burning sky realized that Shibata Katsumasa thought that the burning sky was talking about his adoptive father Shibata Katsuya. Burning Sky hurriedly explained, and Shibata Katsumasa also said that he would not despise those surrendered troops.

After a while, Oda Nobutada put the Einsatzgruppen in order, and after reporting to Oda Nobunaga, he led the group to the southeast canyon. On the way, Kanku and the others saw the Takenaka Hanbei who attacked Otani Castle with a large barrel on the nearby mountain, and due to the urgency of the battle, the Takenaka Hanbei only bowed his head to Oda Nobutada, and then continued to command the Otsubo team to bombard Otani Castle.

Oda Nobutada did not stop, and immediately led the Einsatzgruppen to Sakuma Nobumori's place. At this time, other teams that came to support from the camp also arrived at Sakuma Nobumori's garrison one after another. Among them, the 1,000 troops of the Tokugawa family were among them, and Honda Tadakatsu, who wore a black lacquered antler hood, commanded the Mikawa samurai and Ashigaru to quickly organize their formation.

After the generals were sorted out, Sakuma Nobumori held a temporary meeting in front of the battle to discuss how to deploy the defense. Soon the meeting came to an almost unanimous conclusion, with a 300-man iron artillery team led by Maeda Toshiie, who had come to support, and a 200-strong iron artillery team led by Tokugawa Mototada, who came to support, lying in ambush on both sides of the canyon; Oda Nobutada assisted Sakuma Nobumori in guarding the exit of the canyon with his swimming momentum.

However, Oda Nobutada was very dissatisfied with the conclusions reached at the meeting, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that Sakuma Nobutada and other generals wanted to protect Oda Nobutada, and wanted Oda Nobutada to pick up the leaks behind the battle, so as not to let Oda Nobutada be injured, but also to allow Oda Nobutada to get military achievements. Although Oda Nobutada, who was eager to prove himself, understood Sakuma Nobumori's kindness, the uninhibited in his blood and the desire to be recognized made the originally arranged plan more unstable.