The battle on the Ukino was stalemate, but as time passed, the samurai of the Iwakura Oda Army as the backbone were won over one after another, and the peasant soldiers were gradually exhausted because they did not get enough rest, and the formation was already faintly unstable, even if there were 1,000 more people than the other side.

"Shame on the enemy! I'm going to take off his clothes! With a shout, the commander of the Iwakura Oda Army, the old Fukui Daizen, was taken by the Shibata Katsuie, crushing the last straw of the Iwakura Oda Army.

It happened that Oda Nobukiyo's army was killed from the southeast, and Iwakura Oda's army collapsed immediately, and Oda Nobunaga immediately led his army to pursue the victory.

The so-called defeat of the army was like a mountain, and the Mizuba River behind it became an impassable ditch for the Iwakura Oda army, and the casualty rate skyrocketed.

"Kill!" "Hah! "Ahh The two sides fought brutally, and there was no sign of a family.

"Yashichiro! Come and duel with me! With a bang, the iron cannon struck Hayashichiro's feet and stopped him from escaping. was named and asked for a horseman, Hayashi Yashichiro stopped and looked back, "It's Hashimoto, it's okay, let's ask for advice or two!" ”

Hayashi Yashichiro is an archery master under Oda Nobuken, and Hashimoto Kazuba, who is about to fight, is Oda Nobunaga's iron cannon teacher, and the two were originally friends, but unfortunately they have different positions and meet each other on the battlefield.

The two ashigaru gave them the dueling circle, and the two looked at each other, and suddenly raised their hands at the same time. Hayashi Yashichiro took the arrow and bent the bow in one go, and Hashimoto Kazuba still needed to light the fire rope, which was one step slower than him.

Hayashi Yashichiro shot first, and an arrow hit Hashimoto's right rib, and the arrow was completely embedded in the armor. Hashimoto endured the huge pain, and raised his hand to shoot a shot, bang! In the middle of Hayashi Yashichiro's lower abdomen, both of them fell to the ground.

Seeing this, Yoshiyuki Sawaki on the side stepped forward to quickly visit Hashimoto's injury, only to see that he had bleeding from his mouth and nose, and the blood in his right rib was gushing like a spring, and he couldn't survive.

"Hey~" With a sigh, Yoshiyuki Sawaki put down Hashimoto's slap, which was already dying, and approached Hayashichiro, ready to cut off his head. Unexpectedly, the dying Hayashi Yashichiro suddenly jumped up and slashed at Yoshiyuki Sawaki with a short knife in his hand.

"Huh?" The careless Sawaki Yoshiyuki instinctively blocked it with his right arm, and his wrist was slashed by Hayashichiro, and Sawaki Yoshiyuki's heart was cold. I thought that my right hand would not be able to be saved, but I didn't expect the short blade in the chop to be weak, it turned out that Lin Yashichiro was too seriously injured and had no strength, so he collapsed directly to the ground. Yoshiyuki Sawaki wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and cut off Hayashichiro's head with palpitations.

Now the Iwakura Oda army was defeated, and was chased by Oda Nobunaga and Nobukiyo across the Mizuba River, destroying Oda Nobuyo's Gochobori and Daido Temple defenses along the way.

The combined forces of Oda Nobunaga and Oda Nobukiyo attacked the castle like a ghost shaved their heads, swept through the perimeter of Iwakura Castle, and finally Oda Nobunaga besieged Horio Castle, and Oda Nobunaki led his army to besiege Kuroda Castle.

"My lord! The defender of Horio Castle was Iwakura Oda family general Horio Yasuharu, and the defenders were only 300, and his subordinates suggested that the castle be attacked directly. "In Oda Nobunaga's big tent, Takigawa Kazuki is in charge of reporting on the battlefield.

"Yes! Mori Kecheng! I order you to attack Horio Castle within an hour! Oda Nobunaga confidently gave the order.

"Yes! Your Majesty will take Horio Castle within an hour! Sen Kecheng took the order and went out to organize the peasant soldiers to attack the city.

Hosokawa Nobunaga looked at Mori Kenari who went out, and knew that this was Oda Nobunaga brushing up on his cronies, wanting to gradually replace the retainers of the previous generation. In fact, this Mori Kecheng is 35 years old this year, and his age is not too young, it stands to reason that Oda Nobunaga should promote younger and more promising loyal and brave people, but in fact, Mori Kecheng is so deeply used because of Nonhime. He was originally just a junior samurai of Saito Michizo, and later changed to the Oda family as the captain of Nohime's guard, so all good things belonged to him, and in less than five years, the promotion and salary increase were like riding a rocket, and now he is a general.

In less than an hour, the simple Horio Castle was captured, and the whereabouts of the castle lord Yasuharu Horio were unknown, so Oda Nobunaga immediately turned his army around Iwakura Castle and waited for Oda Nobukiyo to attack the last stronghold of the Iwakura Oda family.

"Damn! It's really damnable! Oda Nobunaga's angry voice came from inside the big tent, he tore up the letter in his hand and threw it on the ground, and the retainers of the Oda family looked at each other in confusion, and the little surname on duty next to him knelt on the ground and did not dare to come out.

Hosokawa Nobumoto stepped forward, picked up the letter on the ground, and studied it carefully. His identity is special, even the hot-tempered Oda Nobunaga will hardly throw his face at him, so in general, only he dares to do and dare to say this kind of bad thing.

"Humph! Juro Saemon has withdrawn! "Oda Nobunaga told the news of Oda Nobunaki's withdrawal.

"What? Has Mamoru Shimono withdrawn? The retainers sitting on the matza below chattered and discussed.

Hosokawa Nobumoto finished reading the letter in his hand and pondered, the content of the letter was very simple, Kuroda Castle had been breached, and the elder of the Iwakura Oda family, Kuroda Castle Daiyamauchi Moritoyo and his eldest son Yamauchi Juro were taken. In this battle, more than half of the 3,000 people of the Iwakura Oda army were killed and wounded, and their vitality was greatly damaged, so there was no need to worry about it for the time being. On the grounds that the autumn harvest was imminent, and that the control of the new collar should be strengthened, the army was disbanded and withdrawn unilaterally, and it was proposed that according to the prior agreement, 20,000 Zhixing should be given.

"That's it!" Oda Nobunaga pulled out the folding fan on his waist and slapped Maza a few times, "The matter has come to this point, what do you think, just say it now!" ”

"Your Majesty thinks that you should take advantage of the big victory and enter Iwakura Castle! Solved Oda Nobuken, and everything was solved. Shibata Katsuie spoke first, and here he has the highest general.

"Your Majesty's opinion is the same as that of Shibata-sama." Sen Kecheng reconsidered, the credit is not too much.

"But in this way, if it is not captured in a short time, it will delay the autumn harvest. You must know that although our army has won a big victory now, Iwakura Castle originally had 500 ashigaru, and after the war, about three or four hundred people fled in, and our army only had about 2,000, this ~~ I'm afraid it was not so easy to capture. Sakuma Nobumori questioned. The combined territory of the head of the Sakuma family and the division of the family is more than 30,000 stones, which is the largest among the genealogies of the Oda family, so he must think more about the family leader.

"Yoshibei, how is the situation at home? If the army is not disbanded, can this year's harvest be guaranteed? Oda Nobunaga glanced at Sakuma Nobumori, and then asked Murai Sadakatsu, who was entrusted with the affairs of the family.

"Back to the lord! Because there is no maximum mobilization this time, the stability of the family will not affect this year's autumn harvest. Murai replied dutifully.

"Hmmm! Don't worry about the things in the territory, what other ideas do other people have? Say it, and you can talk about it. With that, he looked at the people standing on either side of him.