And while Oda Nobukiyo was actively preparing for the battle at Inuyama Castle, in the castle tower of Owari Kiyosu Castle, the clan was preparing to receive Nobunaga's commendation in Mitsuki.

I saw Nobunaga smile and said, "Senbei, you did a good job this time......"

"Report! The lord, the Saito family Karumi Mitsuaki has left Inuyama Castle, and now Oda Nobukiyo is mobilizing Ashigaru to prepare to attack Sumata Castle. Nobunaga was halfway through his sentence when a Hasegawa Shuichi quickly ran in and said loudly. When Nobunaga heard this, he was furious and did not continue what he had just said.

The clan secretly called it unlucky, when did this Oda Nobukiyo rebel badly, but when Lao Tzu was entitled, seeing Nobunaga's current mind, it was no longer on himself, and I don't know if Lu Dao could remember it after destroying the Nobunaki rebels.

Nobunaga said, "What's going on with Mino? ”

"Back to the lord, the Saito family is also urgently mobilizing Ashigaru now." Shuichi Hasegawa hurriedly replied.

Nobunaga thought for a moment, and then said: "Knowing the way, quickly recruit the retainers to go to the assessment room, and tell Maeno Nagayasu to let him stick to Sumamata and wait for reinforcements, and if he loses Sumamata Castle, let him apologize." ”

After Hasegawa Shuichi left, Nobunaga looked at the clan again and said, "You go and beat Inuyama Castle down for me." ”

After the clan walked out of the castle tower, he was helpless, Nobunaga always disregarded the strength of his retainers, and assigned tasks indiscriminately, just let Takigawa Yiyi be in charge of the sect is like this, and now he actually asked Lao Tzu to attack the fortified Inuyama Castle, not to mention Inuyama Castle, even if he can capture Kuroda Castle, or Oguchi Castle, it would be good, how can this battle be fought. Hey, yes, Nobunaga just let Inuyama Castle be captured, and he didn't say that he was going to face the enemy head-on with Oda Nobukiyo, so he could have waited for him to go out of the city and attack Sumamata. Thinking of this, the clan suddenly relaxed.

After returning to the samurai's mansion, the clan did not dare to delay, and immediately summoned Maeda Toshiie, Wasuka Masakatsu, and Yamauchi Kazutoyo to discuss.

After the three of them sat down, they only heard the clan say: "Oda Nobukiyo rebelled, and the lord ordered me to seize Inuyama Castle." ”

After hearing this, the three of them were very dissatisfied with the order issued by the main hall, the lord now has a total of 700 stones, and Oda Nobukiyo does have 20,000 stones in the three cities of Inuyama, even if the lord is slightly more than the other samurai of the same identity in the Oda family, but he can't give orders so randomly. It's 700 hits 20,000, and the main hall is not joking.

I only heard Yamauchi Kazutoyo say: "Lord, can the main hall send reinforcements?" The question he asked was also what the other two retainers wanted to ask. If there are reinforcements, then it will not be difficult to rely on the elite of the elite under the command of the lord.

The clan shook his head and said: "Don't think about the reinforcements, the lord's army will go to the rescue of Minamata Castle, and this time the Inuyama Castle strategy can only be completed by us alone." Without waiting for the retainers to speak, the clan clan said to Wasuka Masakatsu again: "Recall all the ninja troops, and the main force of this battle will be you." ”

Wasuka Masakatsu is a little embarrassed, now there are only 20 ninjas left in Dongqi City, in case of emergency, if you want to recall all the other 80 ninjas, it will take at least three days, but he still understands the truth of the soldier's speed, I saw Wasuka Masakatsu said with a difficult face: "Lord, now most of the ninjas have been sent to Mikawa, Mino, Ise, if you want to recall them, it will take at least 4 days, please forgive me." "Wasuka Masakatsu was afraid that the situation would change, so he played a day of prosperity.

Four days? Clan Zong thought, there is still plenty of time, through the daily report of the ninja at home, he still knows a little about Oda Nobunaki, nominally he is a minister, Oda Nobunaga is a king, on the surface he also belongs to the Oda family, but in fact it is not the case, Oda Nobukiyo has always maintained an independent state, in addition to not participating in the assessment meeting, he also ignored the orders issued by Nobunaga, and did not take it seriously at all.

Because the Inuyama Castle he controlled was on the border between Owari and Mino, Nobunaga turned a blind eye to his behavior in order to prevent Oda Nobukiyo from throwing himself into the Mino Saito family, and adopted a laissez-faire attitude. ,

And now that time is pressing, it would be very good for Oda Nobukiyo to mobilize 2,000 peasant soldiers, and some of them should be left to defend the three cities, so that there will never be too many defenders in each city, which also greatly increases the possibility of success.

Thinking of this, I only heard the clan say: "Okay, I'll give you four days to recall all the ninjas, and after Oda Nobukiyo leaves Inuyama Castle, he will attack." ”

"It's the lord, and the subordinates will do it." After Wasuka Masakatsu finished saluting, he walked quickly out of the samurai's mansion.

As soon as the four days passed, 80 ninjas wearing lock-type ninja steel armor and Hachima ninja helmets and 100 banners were in two phalanxes in Leh, Dongqi City, waiting for orders. The clan also waited a little longer, he was waiting for the news of Oda Nobukiyo's departure from Inuyama Castle and the deployment of troops.

The clan scolded in his heart, this Oda Nobukiyo is really grinding, just mobilize so many people and haven't gotten together for four days, if you don't leave, I'm afraid you don't have to go.

As early as the day after Oda Nobunaga learned that Oda Nobukiyo had rebelled and the Saito family was going to attack Sumata Castle, Nobunaga sent Ikeda Tsuneko as the main general and Sasa Narumasa as the deputy general, leading 2,000 troops to Sumata Castle to support, but after they arrived, a day later, the Saito family's 5,000 troops were late. Along the way, they returned to the castles that had been captured by Maeno Nagayasu before, and they wanted to take advantage of the high morale to take Sumamata Castle in one fell swoop, but what they didn't expect was that the Oda army had been recuperating for a long time, and they were waiting for the left bank of the Nagara River, putting on a posture of fighting against the water.

As soon as the Saito army appeared, Ikeda Hengxing was not polite to them, and directly commanded the army to charge, and 2,000 Oda Qimoto forced the 5,000 Saito army back with a four-meter spear in his hand. While the Saito army was regrouping, it sent people to Inuyama Castle to urge Oda Nobukiyo to leave the army quickly.

"Report! The lord, Oda Nobukiyo, has left Inuyama Castle with a thousand troops, and now it is Nakayama Kawasuke and 500 Ashigaru who are in charge of the town, while Kuroda Castle is defended by Tanaka Shinsuke with 300 Ashigaru, and Koguchi Castle is defended by Nakajima Toyogo Mamoru with 200 Ashigaru. Except for his subordinates, the remaining nineteen ninjas have all infiltrated the castle town of Inuyama Castle, waiting for the lord's order. ”

"Good! The whole army listened to the order, and the target was Inuyama Castle, and set off. ”

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