Chapter 82: The Battle of Kumeda

In the first month of the fifth year of Eiroku (1562), on Mt. Kaibuki at Kumida Temple near Kishiwada Castle, the Miyoshi Yoshikenbu who confronted the Tayama army was exhausted, and their morale and fighting spirit were gradually declining.

A few days ago, Mikama Castle, a branch of Kishiwa Tada Castle, was conquered by a surprise attack by the Tayama army, and the defender Miyoshi Masanari was killed. Seeing that Tayama Takamasa, who was in a sluggish state of the Miyoshi Army, was unwilling to let go of the good opportunity to attack, he ordered the whole army to form an attacking fish scale formation, force the crossing of the Haruki River, and attack Kaibuki Mountain on his back. Seeing this, Miyoshi Yoshiken immediately ordered the archery foot light team to fire a volley of 10,000 arrows to block the attack of the Tianshan army.

"Shinohara, Nagabo! With you as the vanguard, defeat the Tian Shan family's army head-on! "Miyoshi Yoshiken gave the order to engage the enemy.

"Yes! Lord! Your Majesty will definitely defeat the Tianshan Army! Bring back Takamasa's head! Shinohara's long room replied angrily, he is an important minister of Miyoshi Yoshiken, a famous fierce general.

"Oh! Ha! "The Tayama army, which crossed the Haruki River, formed a dying backwater array, and Asumi Sobo, Yusa Nobuyo, and Yukawa Naomitsu lined up in three horizontal columns to fight against the Miyoshi army.

"Kill! Assault! "Shinohara's Nagabo showed great courage and led the army to attack the Yasumi Sobo in the first formation.

"Hold on! There is no way back! Kill! "Yasumi Sobo commanded the army to desperately resist the onslaught of the Miyoshi Army.

After more than three hours of fierce attack, Shinohara Nagabo had broken through the Anmi sect and entered the second formation of Yusa's religion, and the Tayama army was unstable and gradually became a mess.

At this time, Yukawa Naomitsu led the third formation along the upper reaches of the Haruki River in an attempt to flank the Shinohara army, which was deep in the lone army, and Miyoshi Yoshiken, who was standing on Mt. Kaibuki, saw this, and hurriedly ordered Miyoshi Yasunaga and Miyoshi Masakatsu to aid Shinohara's Nagabo from both flanks and outflank the Tayama army.

"Hah!" "Ahh Burst! As soon as the two sides fought, they immediately entered a white-hot melee, you have me, I have you.

"Draw on me! Don't run! Yukawa Naomitsu desperately tried to rein in his army, but he was attacked by the Miyoshi army on three sides, and his army was immediately on the verge of collapse.

"Hahaha! Stop dying and struggling, and hand over your head! Shinohara, who had turned over and came back, rushed towards Naomitsu Yukawa in the crowd.

Bang bang bang! Suddenly, a dense sound of iron cannons came from the Beibuki Mountain, the main formation of Miyoshi Yoshixian.

"Huh? Not good! The troops of the Miyoshi family turned back one after another, only to see nearly a thousand Tianshan troops rushing up from behind their own formation, each armed with arquebuses, which was the iron cannon from the roots hired by Tianshan Gaozheng at a high price.

"Kill!" Encountering such a strong enemy, the Miyoshi Yoshisage of this formation did not dare to retreat, he thought that he must lead his troops to assault and engage with the white blades of the Genlai people in order to save the situation, and led the only more than 100 horses to rush forward.

Bang bang bang! The sound of iron cannons came and went, and they lined up in a line under the leadership of the owner of Genraiji Temple, and fired in turn in the direction of Miyoshi Yoshixian. In the smoke and rain of bullets, Miyoshi Yoshixian's personal soldiers and horses fell one after another like wheat that had been cut.

And Miyoshi Yoshixian, who rushed to the front first, was also hit by a lead shot through his armor, pierced through the back waist, and directly turned over and fell off the horse. But Miyoshi Yixian still gritted his teeth, led the remnants of more than 30 horses and more than 10 small surnames, and successfully broke into the enemy formation, and the two sides immediately formed a stalemate, hand-to-hand combat, corpses everywhere, very tragic.

In the melee, Genlai monk went back and forth to Zuojing, and slashed at Sanhao Yixian with a three-foot-one-inch long knife in his hand, and Sanhao Yixian shouted when he saw this: "Good come!" He used the saber "Guangzhong" he carried with him to pull away his blade, and then with a backhand knife he split the face of the "Ten Kings" worn by Zuojing. Xiang Zuojing's body was crooked, and his knee was cut, but he still insisted on fighting.

Due to Miyoshi Yoshiken being shot in the abdomen, he began to lose too much blood, and gradually lost his physical strength, and was finally cut down by Fuzakyo and cut off his head, becoming the first famous general to be killed by an iron cannon.

"Miyoshi-sama has been taken! Miyoshi adults have been caught! Run! I don't know who shouted in the Miyoshi Army, and the Miyoshi Army, which was originally in the upper hand, suddenly scattered like birds and beasts and began to flee in all directions.

"Don't run! Don't run! Come with me to the rescue of the Lord! "The three of Shinohara, who couldn't believe all this, struggled to hold on to the surrounding forces and returned to the camp. When Shinohara Nagabo and the other three climbed Mount Kaibuki, they saw more than 100 corpses lying horizontally and vertically in their own formation, and the headless corpse of Miyoshi Yoshiken was also among them.

Bang bang bang! "Ahh "Ugh!" The sound of iron cannons sounded again on both sides, and for a while the bullets rained down, and the Miyoshi army fell one by one, and the Izumi monks who came to the people, Oka Dalin of the Arado Satosaka, and Miki Uchitsumi of the Tayama family also took the opportunity to break into the panicked Miyoshi army. Helplessly, the main general was killed in battle, the army's spirit was scattered, and the Miyoshi army was immediately defeated, some fled to Kishiwada Castle, and some fled to the nearby mountains.

Tayama Takamasa led the army to march forward, took Gaoya Castle, and combined 40,000 troops to surround Miyoshi Changqing's Jucheng Fansheng Heavenly City, intending to directly capture and kill Miyoshi Changqing.

Compared with the great victory of the Tayama army, Hosokawa Nobumoto, who suffered a big loss, has also returned to Owari Kiyoshu Castle and learned of the defeat of Mino by Oda Nobunaga.

It turned out that Oda Nobunaga was also very smooth at the beginning, and when he arrived in New Ghana, he was ambushed by Takenaka's Hanbei on ten sides, and Oda Nobunaki of Inuyama Castle rebelled, which almost made Oda Nobunaga unable to return.

"Abominable! Has he forgotten my kindness to him? "In the assessment room in Kiyoshu Castle, Oda Nobunaga is throwing a tantrum and scolding his sister-in-law of Inuyama Castle.

"My lord! It's better to send troops to fight now and take Inuyama Castle! Shibata Katsuya also said indignantly on the side, he is now showing signs of raising his head.

"Your lord, no! Inuyama Castle is far away from the main family, Kiyoshu Castle, and close to the Saito family, so even if the main family sends troops, it will be attacked by the two coalition forces, so don't do it! Niwa Nagahide hurriedly spoke out and said dissuasion.

"So what do you say? You can't ignore it! Shibata Katsuie frowned, obviously disagreeing.

"Why don't you let Niwa-sama go and tweak it? I heard that Niwa-sama was born in Kasugai County, and he was familiar with the old Inuyama Oda family and Kuroda Castle Lord Wada Shinsuke, so I thought that I might be able to rebel. Hosokawa Nobumoto also made a suggestion.

"Huh? Omitted? Oda Nobunaga thought for a moment after hearing this, turned to Niwa Nagahide and asked, "Yyogoro, what do you think?" ”

"Hmm~" Niwa Nagahide replied after a little thought: "Back to the lord, the minister is indeed familiar with Wada Shinsuke, and the minister is willing to give it a try, please make a choice." ”

"Well, well, then okay, you will be in charge of Inuyama Castle, and I have just accepted the daughter of Saburo Goro (Oda Nobuhiro) as an adopted daughter, and I have officially married you." Oda Nobunaga handed over the Inuyama strategy to Niwa Nagahide, and mentioned his marriage by the way.

"Huh? Thank you, Lord! Your Majesty will be loyal to the Oda family to death! Niwa Nagahide was very excited to thank him, and from then on he was also a member of the Oda family.