"The Great Hall is defeated! Now they are retreating to Sumamata, and the Saito army is close behind, and the main hall sends someone to order the lord to prepare early! Sanada Masayuki said the truth in one breath.

Hosokawa Nobumoto was still there in a daze, holding his hands on his chest, and said with palpitations: "Changxing, if there is anything in the future, talk slowly, don't shout so much, I was not killed by the enemy, and I was almost scared to death by you." Okay, pass the order down, let Naito Masari lead the bow foot to the city wall to defend, although the city wall is only half covered, it is better than nothing. Let Niwa-sama organize the people to give me a few more torches, be sure to illuminate the sky for me, and then let Honda Tadakatsu lead the horse riding team to stand by, ready to counterattack at any time. ”

Soon, the Oda army retreated from the front line in a chaotic manner, and took refuge in the half-built Sumamata Fortress, and Hosokawa Nobugen ordered people to collect the defeated army while looking for the lord Oda Nobunaga, and happened to meet Ikeda Tsuneko and learned the whole story.

It turned out that the Oda army had been attacking the Saito family's Shijujo Fortress, but because of the arrival of the rainy season, the Oda army was unable to attack effectively and was unable to break through the fortress for a long time. The army led by Saito Ryuxing actually abandoned the Fourteen Pillars and did not save them, first taking advantage of the flooding of the river after the heavy rain, they forcibly crossed the army and broke through the Nineteen Fences that the Oda family was building, and the garrison Oda Hirora was taken by the Saito retainer Nonomura Masanari.

Later, the battle was fought with the Oda army, which had galloped south to the aid of the Nineteen Pillars, and finally both sides exhausted their efforts to rest and recuperate. I don't know if Saito Ryuxing imitated the tactics of the Oda army, or if there was another clever guidance, and he also abandoned the traditional way of fighting, and attacked the Oda army at night with Makimura Ushisuke as the vanguard, and the Oda army was caught off guard and retreated all the way until the Sumamata Army.

"Kill!" There was a shout of killing from the north of Sumamata, and I saw Shibata Katsuie leading a team of ashigaru and fighting and leaving, followed by a large area of Saito's army.

Hosokawa Nobumoto, as the garrison of the Sumamata Tsuna, hurriedly climbed the already one-man high city wall, ready to command the battle, and did not dare to slack off at all.

"Hey~ If you don't come early or late, you just come at this time, and you will really choose a time." Hosokawa Nobumoto muttered on the city walls, struggling to distinguish between friend and foe in the distance. "Bow foot light attention! Aim at the Ashigaru of the Saito family, don't hurt our troops, and shoot freely! ”

Sou! Whoosh! Hundreds of archers began to shoot arrows, although the frequency was very low, but the hits were extremely high, almost every two or three arrows took a fresh life, and soon a vacuum belt was formed between the Shibata army and the Saito army behind the palace.

Shibata Katsuya was not verbose when he saw this, and took advantage of this powerful opportunity to separate and ran back to Sumamata in one go.

"Bastard! What are you doing! Hurry up and attack it! Fast! Saito's retainer Saito Maemon roared violently, and immediately began to drive the peasant soldiers to attack the sumamata.

"Stop shooting!" Hosokawa Nobumoto gave an unbelievable order, but the Hosokawa family was influenced by the "Hosokawa Military Law" for a long time, and all of them stopped shooting arrows in unison, watching the enemy step by step, but no one retreated, and no one shot arrows without authorization.

Saito Mataemon was hiding behind an ashigaru at this time, and the archery just now made him feel uneasy, and he could be a low-level samurai with such accurate archery. But now the archery on the other side suddenly stopped, which made him feel secretly glad that the teenage doll was scared by his big drink, and that if he attacked the low wall, the Oda army inside would be swallowed up by the tide of Saito's army.

"Naito Masari!" Hosokawa Nobumoto suddenly called out a person's name, and with a whoosh, a bolt of lightning burst out from the darkness and shot silently into the distance.

Burst! Saito Mataemon looked at the arrow in his throat in disbelief, and tried to reach out and pull it out, but he couldn't move, and fell straight on his back.

"Huh? My lord! The surrounding peasants and soldiers suddenly rioted.

"Goal! The Saito army in front, three consecutive strikes in a salvo! Shoot! Hosokawa Nobumoto gave the order at the right time.

Swish! Swish! Swish! Arrows rained down, and the Saito Army, who shot at the time, cried for his father and mother, hating himself for having two legs and two heads.

"Honda Tadakatsu!" Hosokawa Nobumoto called out another name.

"Hah! Nether Iron Rider! Invincible! Assault! "Boom, a hundred cavalry rushed out of the Ink Mata Chamber, black helmets and black armor, and the horror was a hideous face (face helmet), like a demon descending to earth, and the night was really terrifying.

"Mom!" "Youkai!" "Run!" "Ahh "Ugh!" Where the Netherworld Iron Rider passed, there were no people or animals left, and blood donations stained the Nagara River red.

After chasing for not far, Hosokawa Nobumoto ordered the troops to be collected, first, the road was unknown at night, and second, to guard against a person. Hosokawa Nobumoto wouldn't believe that Saito Ryuxing's military talent was so high, and he knew that he would repair the plank road and secretly cross Chencang in the first battle? Do you know that you have just finished fighting during the day, and you dare to attack at night? With that ability, the Saito family would not have ended up betraying their relatives and doing so many ridiculous things.

"Hanzo! Oh yes, he's still in Trois-Rivières. Goemon! You go and find out who is making plans for the Saito family's battle. Hosokawa Nobumoto stood on the city wall and commanded without looking back, because of his duty, he wanted to sleep tonight.

As soon as the day dawned, Ikeda Hengxing led Ashigaru Flag to change shifts, and Hosokawa Nobumoto had time to meet Oda Nobunaga. When I saw Oda Nobunaga yawning, I was so angry in my heart, I slept quite soundly at night with this guy.

"Rokuro, I'll leave it to you, I'll rest assured. I didn't expect this kid Saito Ryuxing to learn smart, and the tactics are really endless, and it seems that it will be even more difficult to capture Mino in the future. Sure enough, it should be an alliance with Takechiyo, and without the threat from the east, you can devote yourself to taking Mino from the west. Oda Nobunaga lay on the couch and held his head with his hands, as if he was talking to Hosokawa Nobumoto, as if he were talking to himself.

【What! Make an alliance with the old turtle! No way! I'm going to break them apart. As soon as he heard about the alliance, Hosokawa Nobumoto rolled his eyes and said: "My lord, your subordinates have found out that this battle is all because of the strategy of the Takenaka Hanbei, and it has nothing to do with Saito Ryuxing's head. ”

"Oh? Who is this Takenaka Hanbei? Military law is so well used. "Oda Nobunaga, who loves talents, suddenly became interested.

"Hmm~~" Hosokawa Nobumoto thought about it, organized the language and said: "This Takenaka Hanbei is the son of Shigemoto Takenaka, the lord of Bodhi Mountain Castle in Mino Country, and his wife is the daughter of the old Saito family and the lord of Iwamura Castle Ando Mamoto, so the Takenaka family and the Ando family are very close. This person has been reading military books since he was a child, and since his debut, he has been known as one of the eighteen generals of Ximinon, which can be seen. This battle was all thanks to his advice, so the ministers thought that the Saito family was not to be afraid, as long as they recruited this Takenaka half-soldier, Mino Province was at their fingertips, so there was no need to form an alliance with the Matsudaira family. ”