"Good! From now on you will be under my tent. "This can be regarded as making up for the loss of the Battle of Kanesaki and Hosokawa Nobumoto.

"Kill! Set! ”

The castle town under Kotani Castle was in flames, and the townspeople fled in all directions. Mori Kasei, Sakai Masanori, Saito Toshiharu, Shibata Katsuie, Sakuma Nobumori, Kinoshita Hideyoshi, and others were ordered to carry out a scorched earth strategy in the castle town within the area of Otani Castle.

"Out of the battle! Get this group of robbers out! Asai Nagamasa reluctantly gave the order to attack, originally according to his idea to defend Kotani Castle, but it was planted on the collegial system of heavy ministers, because the scorched earth strategy involved the interests of many people, they had to go out of the city to protect their own interests.

"Shoot!"

Bang bang bang!

"Archery!"

Whoosh!

In order to successfully lure the Asai army to the vicinity of the Ogawa River for a decisive battle, the Iron Artillery Corps and the Bow Ashigaru led by Sasa Narumasa, Nakajo Ietada, and Hiromasa Ryuda served as the palace army, covering the main force to evacuate Mitoramae Mountain, cross the Ogawa River, and set up a formation near Katsuyama on the south bank. It formed a confrontation with the Asai army on the north bank of the sister river, but in fact, it was waiting for the Tokugawa army to prepare for a decisive battle.

Hosokawa Nobumoto also led Niwa Nagahide and Mino, with a total of 6,500 troops, to surround Yokoyama Castle according to the original plan, and did not take any military action for the time being.

On June 27, Tokugawa Ieyasu finally arrived with 5,000 reinforcements; On the same day, 10,000 reinforcements from the Asakura family also arrived, but according to ninja reports, the leader was Asakura Keiken, a general of the Asakura family. In such a major battle, the head of the family, Asakura Yoshikage, did not even go out in person, but in fact, the defeat of the Asakura family had already been announced.

Oda Nobunaga did not wait for Tokugawa Ieyasu to rest, and immediately began the pre-war deliberations.

"Please hand over the Asakura army to us Mikawa boys!" Sakai Tadaji said angrily, he is an important minister of the Tokugawa family, and Ishikawa Shumasa is known as "the second important minister of Tokugawa".

"Good! Hahaha! Takechiyo has such a retainer, and the Tokugawa family can't prosper if they don't want to. Seeing that the morale of the Tokugawa family's Mikawa army was unprecedentedly high, Oda Nobunaga immediately gave the order for a decisive battle with Asakura and Asai the next day.

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The Sister River is a 39-kilometre-long river at the southern tip of Asai County in Omi Province that flows down from Shinho Mountain to Lake Biwa in the north.

In this joint battle, the Asai family poured out of their nests and set up a formation at Nomura on the north bank to meet the Oda army, with a total strength of 9,000, the first formation was Isono Yuanmasa, with a strength of 1,500; The second formation is Asai Masasumi, with a thousand troops; The third formation is the Ashu Zhen Expedition, with a thousand troops; The fourth formation is Xinzhuang Zhilai, with a thousand troops; The fifth formation is Naokei Endo, with a thousand troops; This formation is Asai Nagamasa, with a strength of 3,500 troops.

The total strength of the reinforcement army Asakura was 10,000, and they set up a formation in Sanjia Village on the north bank to meet the Tokugawa army, and the first formation was Asakura Kekeki, with a strength of 3,000; the second formation, Maenami Shinhachiro, with 3,000 troops; This formation is Asakura Jingjian, with 4,000 troops.

The total strength of the Oda army on the south bank was 23,500, of which Hosokawa Nobumoto led 6,500 to attack Yokoyama Castle, and the remaining 17,000 men also set up a position to meet the Asai army. The first formation was Sakai Masanori, with 2,000 troops; The second formation was Ikeda Hengxing, with 2,000 troops; The third formation was Kinoshita Hideyoshi, with 2,000 troops; The fourth formation was Shibata Katsuie, with 2,000 troops; The fifth formation is Sen Kecheng, with 2,000 troops; The sixth formation was Sakuma Nobumori, with 2,000 troops; The main camp is Oda Nobunaga, with 5,000 troops.

The total strength of the Tokugawa family reinforcements was 5,000, and they faced the Asakura army, and the first formation was Sakai Tadaji, with 1,000 troops; The second formation is Ogasawara Nagatada, with a thousand troops; The third formation is Ishikawa Shumasa, with a thousand troops; This camp was Tokugawa Ieyasu with 2,000 troops.

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"You bastards! If you have the ability, come here! "Bang!

The enemy and the enemy are constantly scolding each other and provoking with iron cannons across the sister river, both trying to induce the other side to cross the river to attack first, after all, crossing the sister river will also consume a lot of physical strength.

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"Kill! Attack it! ”

On the other hand, in Hengshan City, there is a fierce battle as soon as it comes up, and there is no need to hide it anymore.

"Team Ando stepped forward! Team Inaba retreats! Alternate offenses! "Hosokawa Nobumoto commanded the siege battle on horseback, but due to the destruction of the Hosokawa family's iron artillery team, he lacked a siege weapon, and now he uses the most primitive band attack.

"Hold on! Resist me! "Yokoyama Castle Lord Onoki Hidetoshi shouted desperately, the attack of the Hosokawa army is too fierce, at this time in the city, in addition to his headquarters army, there are also reinforcements from Nomura Naotaka, the lord of Kunitomo Castle, and Mita Village Castle Lord Mitamura Kunisada, a total of 2,000 people.

Bang bang bang!

There was a dense burst of gunfire, and more than 30 people fell on the Ando team.

"Damn!" Hosokawa Nobumoto cursed, once upon a time, his army became a live target, and there were five hundred iron artillery teams in Yokoyama Castle, all of which came from Kuniyou Village.

In the 13th year of Tenmon (1544), Hosokawa Nobumoto's cheap father Hosokawa Harumoto ordered four craftsmen, Kuniyubei, Fujikuzaemon, Shiro Ie, and Suketeo, to study and build iron cannons, and on August 12 of the same year, he successfully developed his own brand "Kunitomo Gun" and established the largest iron cannon processing factory in Kuniyu Village at that time.

With the increase in production and efficiency, "Kunitome gun" was accepted by more and more daimyos, and Oda Nobunaga's first 500 iron cannons were purchased from Kuniyu Village, and now basically except for Hosokawa Nobumoto's own newly established Sekigahara iron cannon processing factory, the rest of the iron cannon imports are basically from Kuniyu Village.

Bang bang bang! The sound of iron cannons kept coming, and Hengshan Castle used this sharp weapon to keep it in order.

"The clan team stepped forward! Team Ando withdraws! Hosokawa Nobugen hurriedly ordered a replacement attack, the current application of iron artillery is not very widespread, and many tactics have not yet been developed, so the lethality of iron artillery has not been reflected to the maximum, but around this, the blow to morale is still very big.

"Lord, my family does not have an iron cannon to suppress the city, and if it goes on like this, it will only increase casualties, and it seems that Hengshan City will not be able to take it for a while." The implication of Honda Masashi's words is to temporarily suspend the army, their group of people who have been to the Ming Empire have seen the power of iron cannons, as long as the number of people exceeds thousands, it is basically a steady stream of blows.

"Damn! Damn monkeys! If I hadn't buried my family's iron artillery team, I would have been able to suffer this here! Look, I'm going to have to peel off this monkey's skin! Hosokawa Nobumoto gritted his teeth, hating Kinoshita Hideyoshi to death, and wondered if it was time to give him little shoes to wear.

Bang bang bang! The iron cannons of Yokoyama Castle are frequent.

"Ahh

"Ugh!"

"Damn! Withdrawal! Withdrawal! "Hosokawa Nobumoto still cherishes the lives of his subordinates, and he doesn't want to use this tactic of piling up human lives.

The Oda army, which received the order, withdrew in an orderly manner, the casualties were not very large, and the morale did not suffer too much.

"Thank you Hosokawa-sama for your understanding." Mamoru Ando waited for the three of them to return to the camp and thanked Hosokawa Nobumoto, who had saved the three families from senseless sacrifices because the order to evacuate was given immediately.