On July 21, 1558, outside the town of Ukino in Niwa Prefecture, Owari Province, Oda Nobunaga's army sat on the ground and waited for Oda Nobuyo's army to arrive.

This Oda Nobuyoshi is the guardian of the four counties of Owari, the son of Oda Nobuyan of the Iwakura Oda family. And Oda Nobuyan actually banished his father a few days ago and replaced him, it is said that Oda Nobuyan wanted to pass on the position of family governor to his youngest son Oda Nobuya.

When Oda Nobunaga learned about it, he took advantage of the unstable situation of Oda Nobunen's family governor and attacked decisively.

"My lord! The enemy is coming! Honda Masanobu on the side interrupted Hosokawa Nobumoto's thoughts by speaking.

"Well, order the troops to assemble and prepare for battle!" Hosokawa Nobumoto immediately ordered to go down, and looked at the Iwakura Oda army that was crossing the river in a mess in the distance, and they were also playing the military flag with the Oda papaya pattern, who said that both sides were the Oda family, and even the family crest was the same.

As for how to make soldiers distinguish between friend and foe when fighting? Hosokawa Nobumoto looked at his own ashigaru, and the finger flags behind him were all red, while the opposite ones were white, which was agreed upon in the battle letters of the two families.

"My lord! The troops are ready for battle! Honda Masanobu reported from the side.

"Hmmm! Order the troops to stand by and wait for the enemy to set up. Hosokawa Nobumoto had no choice but to give the order to standby, if he had been in Daming, he would have already attacked half-crossing, and he was still here stupidly where the two agreed on the decisive battle? And then waiting for you to arrange your troops? Joke!

In this battle, Oda Nobunaga's direct peasant soldiers and samurai, plus the peasant soldiers led by various small wealthy clans who supported Oda Nobunaga, had a total strength of about 2,000. Among them, because Hosokawa Nobugen had not yet known how to act, he temporarily commanded the peasant soldiers directly under Oda Nobunaga, while Oda Nobunaga sat firmly in the big tent of the Chinese army.

Oda Nobuyoshi mobilized 3,000 peasant soldiers to come to the decisive battle, and the 1,000 reinforcements agreed with Oda Nobukiyo have not appeared so far.

The location of this decisive battle was chosen by Hosokawa Nobumoto, who deliberately made a 3-mile detour to the northwest so that Oda Nobuyo's troops had to cross the Mizuba River. However, the original strategy of attacking half-crossing, or the strategy of the iron artillery team smuggling across the Suiba River from the downstream and detouring behind enemy lines, was denied.

The reason for the denial is very simple, the retainers of the Oda family disagree, saying that it is insulting the spirit of bushido, too despicable? [I'll go, it's normal, okay, it's you guys who are so weird.] Hosokawa Nobumoto, who participated in the military conference at that time, scolded his mother in his head. [No wonder I saw Yamamoto Kansuke at Takeda's house at the time, and I wanted to ask him for a lesson or two, but this guy will say "The soldier is treacherous" over and over again, and he can't do anything else, so he was still regarded as a military advisor by Takeda Shingen, and praised it as a trick, and no one will be flexible now.】 ]

Since it has to be head-on, it is always possible to find a battlefield that is beneficial to one's own family, and Hosokawa Nobumoto does not force it, nor does he bother to convince them. Because the current Warring States of Japan are almost all like this medieval duel, only so-called despicable villains like Mori Motosho and Takeda Shingen have the means, of course, the Oda family in the future will do everything.

"The Lord has an order! All the army is attacking! A naked woman patted his horse to convey Oda Nobunaga's order, and Oda Nobunaga left only a dozen horses and suppressed the rest of the army.

"Attack!" Hosokawa Nobumoto rode on his horse and pulled out the sword at his waist, pointed forward, and the Iwakura Oda army on the opposite side also pressed on the whole line, but he left two hundred guards by his side.

"Oh!" His subordinates marched forward in unison under the command of the samurai of the Hosokawa family, and Hosokawa Nobumoto transferred the original Mayu Kagawa Nanaemon, Mikoda Hizen Mamoru, Oura Morinobu, Nagasaka Hikogoro, and Naito Masari to serve as the head of the Ashigaru group. And Hattori Masaaki, Hattori Yasumasa, and Hattori Hotoshi were promoted to the head of the mono. The Mayashi recruited some more samurai, and the pen was headed by Keika Hita Keika.

"Bang bang bang" Rows of light smoke rose from it, and it was Oda Nobunaga's direct iron artillery team that opened fire first. In the field warfare of this era, when the army advanced, it was stipulated that they should be arranged in the order of small flags, iron cannons, bows, and spears. The formation was extremely simple, and all the soldiers were divided into three formations in three stacked formations. In the front row, the front line is holding a flag, the middle line is holding an iron cannon and a bow, and the back line is a short soldier (sword, gun). When encountering the enemy, the two sides of the flag bearer were separated into an encirclement, and the iron cannon held by the middle bank had a longer range than the bow, and at all times, Oda Nobuyogen's bow foot light was shot down by the iron cannon, and the formation was slightly loosened.

"Calm down! Stay in formation! Take the bow! Shoot! The commander of the opposite bowfoot light Hayashichiro commanded loudly.

The bows of both sides of the "whoosh" were lightly shot with bows, and the arrows of "ah", "ah" and "uh" were countless, and Oda Nobuken's bowsukueshi was hit twice in succession and suffered heavy losses.

"Oh~~!" The guns in the back row alternately engage the enemy, "popping" and constantly slapping with their spears to probe, and occasionally poking the enemy on the opposite side with a slap.

"It's time to start chicken, Yahachiro, come on, play shogi." Hosokawa Nobumoto turned over and dismounted to greet Honda Masashi.

"Huh? Lord, this is still a fierce battle. Honda Masanobu was stunned to persuade Hosokawa Nobumoto, and sometimes it was a real headache to follow such a lord.

The Warring States Ashigaru spear formation duel, a very peculiar method of warfare, is not to kill each other, but to smash each other with spears until one side loses the will to fight, and it is no wonder that so few people die in Japan every time they join forces.

"Hah! Ha! "Bang bang, the spear is still crackling, "Ah~~" In order to break the deadlock, several samurai forcibly broke into the gun array, and some of the martial arts were strong enough to break in and expel the peasants, and most of the martial arts were poked into a sieve in an instant.

However, the samurai on Oda Nobunaga's side were more powerful, Shibata Katsuie, Maeda Toshiie, Kawajiri Hidetaka, Takigawa Kazuki, Mori Konari and others all had a few heads hanging on their waists, ready to be inspected after the war. And the Hosokawa family's meritorious recognition is basically the responsibility of Honda Masanobu, and Hosokawa Nobugen rarely touches these bloody heads, unless they are of great value before they can be reported. So basically, after the war, other families were full of heads, but the Hosokawa family was a very civilized statement, which was ridiculed by others.

"Enlightened Lord! Left near to take two enemy samurai, Keijiro to take one enemy samurai. Our morale is high, and the enemy is gradually losing ground. "Honda Masanobu reported the information collected on the battlefield to Hosokawa Nobumoto in a timely manner, so that Hosokawa Nobumoto could make a correct judgment.

"Oh? Keijiro courted a samurai at the beginning of the battle? Not bad, not bad. "The Keijiro in Hosokawa Nobumoto's mouth is Tsurumomatsumaru who has just been served, and he is named Takigawa Keijiro Interests.

"However, Kagawa Nanaemon-sama was taken by the enemy." There are joys and sorrows, and it is impossible to see only the enemy die on the battlefield and not see the death of one's own family.

"Hey~ Heavy pension, in addition, Gui Feng Pill is good at finance, let him focus on finance in the future, let's have more experience." Hosokawa Nobumoto regretted that this was Kagawa Kiyobei Tadaji's first battle, probably because his father wanted to take him to show his martial arts, and like Keijiro, he could be able to win the favor of the lord in the first battle, right? It's a pity that the heavens don't fulfill people's wishes.