With the urgent mobilization of the Oda family, 8,000 troops from Mino and Owari were mobilized and assembled near Gifu Castle on June 16. The Tokugawa family, an ally of the Oda family, also sent a thousand troops to help the Takeda family. For a time, the beacon fire in the Omi area was stacked, and the ground attendants sandwiched between the Oda family and the Asai family also scratched their heads, on the one hand, the Asai family has gone through several large and small battles, and the decline has been unstoppable; On the other hand, the prestige of the Oda family and the situation under siege made everyone want to return to obedience, but they had to think twice.

On this basis, Oda Nobutada made the first formal proposal of his life to Oda Nobunaga. Oda Nobutada met with Oda Nobunaga alone in private, and proposed to his father to "win over the ground servants, use them for my own use, and destroy the foundation of Asai's rule." Statements. Although Oda Nobunaga had already asked his cadre Kinoshita Hideyoshi to do this, Oda Nobunaga still symbolically praised Oda Nobutada.

However, due to the urgency of the time, Oda Nobunaga issued a "Decree on the Return of Shuntoku" to the local officials in the Omi area before the start of the expedition on June 19. In the decree, Oda Nobunaga stated that all the servants who returned to the Oda family this time would not do anything in the past, but if they stubbornly resisted, they would be killed.

Burning Sky, who was on guard outside the formation, watched one horse after another rush out of the formation, and asked the head of the Ashigaru group on the side, "Yusuke, do you know the situation of this battle?" The young leader named Yusuke looked around a few times, and then whispered to Burning Sky: "I heard my father say that this time it was Kinoshita-sama from Yokoyama Castle who sent news that he had returned to the Asai family, and that Nobunaga Hall wanted to join forces with the outside and capture Otani Castle in one fell swoop. ”

After hearing this, Burning Sky thanked Yusuke, and then stood quietly on the periphery of the main formation, looking at the Mianchang Dragon who was resting behind him, and silently clenched the naginata in his hand.

On June 27, Oda Nobunaga's 8,000-strong army reached Yokoyama Castle. Kinoshita Hideyoshi, who was the representative of Yokoyama Castle, invited Oda Nobunaga and Oda Nobutada into the castle tower, and ordered the defenders of Yokoyama Castle to assist the army in building the proposed camp. Because it was the height of summer, the lowly Ashigaru only needed a shade tree, and Kinoshita Hideyoshi only built a few bamboo sheds for the middle and lower class samurai who couldn't enter the city, and Burning Sky was one of these middle and lower class samurai.

Although the mission of the Burning Sky is to protect Oda Nobutada, Oda Nobutada has a close attendant and Oda Nobunaga's horse back and a mother's guard, and the heads of the group responsible for the protection of the Burning Sky are useless. So Oda Nobunaga burned these group leaders and formed a special team under the command of Oda Nobutada.

I heard that Oda Nobunaga's Omi ground attendants stationed in Yokoyama Castle handed over their letters of ownership to Oda Nobunaga, and some of the ground attendants who were taken care of by the Asai family returned not far away, bent on fighting the Oda family to the end, and this time the Einsatzgruppen came in handy.

On the third day of Oda Nobunaga's arrival at Yokoyama Castle, Oda Nobutada was sent by Oda Nobunaga to annihilate the border guards who did not want to belong. With a sad face, Oda Nobutada walked out of Yokoyama Castle with his bodyguards, and came to the pergola where the people rested, holding a list of those who did not want to surrender. Since Sakaku often served as a pen bearer next to Oda Nobutada, Oda Nobutada gave the list to Sakata and asked Sakaku to copy a few sheets to prevent loss or omission.

Burning empty hands and the result list, under the service of Ming Shan, began to copy the names on the list. The name of the Kaima family in Jiashan Village appeared in the eyes of the burning sky, and the burning sky was stunned for a moment, and then continued to bow his head and copy, and Oda Nobutada, who was drinking water next to him, keenly caught the consternation of the burning sky. So he quietly put down the bamboo tube containing water, and quietly walked to the side of the burning void who was buried in copying, and saw that in the list that the burning void had just copied, there was an obvious tremor at the family of Haima Zhong Chiyo in Jiashan Village.

Oda Nobutada silently remembered the name, and then looked up and said to the leaders of the group who had already gathered and were ready to go: "This time, we must defeat these ground servants in one fell swoop and clear the obstacles for our army's advance into the North Omi. With that, Oda Nobutada walked out of the pergola and came to the standing room of more than a hundred people. When the Oda family's standing guard saw his young master, he hurriedly knelt down and saluted, and Oda Nobutada pressed his sword and said, "The first battle of the Asai family's northern expedition to the Asai family is for you!" ”

He then completed the transcription and sent the list to the other five team leaders. After seeing that each group leader had put away the list, Oda Nobutada turned over and rode on the horse that Takeda Shingen, who could be said to be his father-in-law, gave him from Kai. This is also what Sakaku heard from the mouth of the head of the group named Yusuke, as the last descendant of the Toki clan, Toki Yusuke Ikatsu, whose father was a side branch of the Mino Toki clan, after Oda Nobunaga pacified Mino, he was invited by Niwa Nagahide to serve as Oda Nobunaga, and now serves as the military horse commissioner of Gifu Castle by Oda Nobunaga's side. In this battle, he was ordered to mobilize the horses of the Gifu army for the use of the cavalry team, and also accompanied Oda Nobunaga into battle.

The news of Oda Nobutada's departure was soon known by Shibata Katsuya and other retainers, and Shibata Katsuya knew about it and said to Sasa Narumasa who was playing in his house: "Inner Tibetan help, the young master's battle is also the first battle, and the lord is so relieved to let the young master lead the troops to exterminate that group of ground servants?" ”

After hearing this, Sazuo Chengzheng ate the white chess pieces in the chessboard, raised his head and said to Shibata Katsuie: "The mind of the lord, I still don't want to speculate in vain, in the special team led by the young master, in Chinese, it is called 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon', the young master's initial battle must be fine, okay, hurry up, hurry down, it seems that Lord Shibata is going to lose this game again!" ”

Oda Nobutada, with his special forces, first defeated them with the speed of thunder, in a vain attempt to attack several of the homekeepers of Oda Nobutada's team. Later, at the suggestion of Burning Kong, he sent people to set fire to the back of the wall, forcing out several local servants who united in a vain attempt to resist desperately in the wall. Because the ground attendant in the wall did not expect that the Oda army would set fire to the wall from behind the wall, and the fire was so fast, he had to break through from the main gate, but he was in the middle of the fire.

Through several battles, Burning Sky also learned the general situation in the group leader, although Toki I's mouth was quite broken, but his superb archery skills with five arrows in a row made Burning Sky breathtaking; Another person in the group, Shibata Sanzaemon Katsumasa, the adopted son of Shibata Katsuya, also attracted the attention of Burning Sky, and when he counterattacked the sneak attack, he single-handedly held a red gun and killed directly from the armed peasant soldiers of the ground servant, and the last shot resulted in the life of a ground servant, with the fierce general spirit of an adoptive father.

Oda Nobutada's decisive courage in the face of the enemy also made Oda Nobunaga see a little bit of Oda Nobunaga's shadow. By the end of the day, Oda Nobutada had successfully killed or routed half of the ground attendants on the list. Seeing that it was getting late, Oda Nobutada, after cutting off the heads of the two peasant soldiers he had personally killed, urged everyone to cut off the heads as soon as possible and return to the station of Yokoyama Castle to report on the situation of quelling the rebellion.