After Ishikawa Goemon appeared, he ordered five ninjas to go to the warehouse to bring a large number of shuriken in storage, while he led the remaining two ninjas to the castle, replaced Omiya Keiren and his command Shigeto Bowshigaru, and began to attack the monks outside the city.

Since there are less than thirty ninjas, when a hundred heavy vine bows and ashigaru leaves, the city wall will be much more relaxed, and the ninjas are not lined up behind the ashigaru like the heavy vine bow ashigaru, only to see them always see the stitches to the front row, after throwing out a few, or throwing out a hand of swords, they hurriedly retreated, and there are several ninjas climbed the watchtower that is several meters high by the city wall, the enemy army outside the city has no far city attack team at all, so the ninjas on the tower can shoot the shuriken without any scruples.

And they no longer threw out one by one, but one by one, each thrown, a monk fell to the ground, although there were only a few ninjas on the two towers, but they caused no less casualties to the enemy than the more than twenty ninjas at the head of the city.

If it weren't for the lack of command at the head of the castle, Ishikawa Goemon would have been interested in climbing the tower.

After the ninja replaced the heavy vine bowshigaru, the damage caused to the enemy did not decrease, but increased, and the spear ashigaru stood at the forefront, although they could not bring a few more lives, but it was precisely because of their presence that they prevented the enemy from approaching, if at this time, Ashikaga Yoshiaki or other temple monks could suddenly attack from the other side, even if they could not attack the city, they could force the clan and the defenders to hurry, but they did not do so, They just watched the monks of Enryakuji Temple in the rear continue to lose, and even many temple abbots were secretly happy in their hearts, they also hoped that the monks of Enryakuji Temple would die more, only in this way could they replace their position in the mountain city.

Prince Jue Shu is not a fool, otherwise he would not have become a temple in the mountain city. Although the monks and soldiers under his command are not afraid of death, they are powerful and exhausted. Seeing that the siege had been almost half an hour, and the strength of the monks and soldiers had almost been exhausted, he decisively gave the order to retreat.

After leaving behind more than 500 corpses, the monks and soldiers of Enryakuji Temple finally retreated like a low tide.

The moment it receded. The defenders of the city finally let out heartfelt cheers and defeated the enemy, they would not have done so, but they had defeated not men, but the dead who had put life and death on the line.

And since the enemy was not too close at all, the casualties of the defending forces were very small, looking at the hundreds of corpses outside the city. Such a record is enough for them to be proud of.

And for the monks and soldiers of the temples outside the city, such a defeat is undoubtedly a huge blow to them, and even the crazy attack of Enryakuji Temple was blocked by the enemy, so if the monks under their own command went to attack, it was not a hundred gives, it seems that it is better not to come out or not.

After this battle, the two armies entered a stalemate. Although on weekdays, Ashikaga Yoshiaki's command and the monks and soldiers of the temple will also attack the castle, but they are definitely not as crazy as the first time. Even the monks of Enryakuji Temple were no longer as frantic as before in the next attack, and it was clear that they had received hints from Prince Jueshu.

And the clan is even more happy, the food in the city is enough for the army to eat for more than a month, and the weapons used to defend the city do not have any worries, as soon as the enemy comes, they will call out with their lives, anyway, everyone knows that it is a waste not to use, and it will not be long before the reinforcements of the family will arrive.

Food, weapons are plentiful. Reinforcements soon arrived, so that the morale of the defenders of the city, although trapped in the city, was very high, compared to the enemy troops outside the city. …,

In the first few battles, the clan will also supervise the battle on the city wall. However, after repelling the enemy a few times, the clan is not so active, and the enemies themselves are tearing each other down, what kind of heart does Lao Tzu have.

After attacking for a few days in a row, the number of attacks became less and less, which made Ashikaga Yoshiaki anxious, don't look at the current traitor Takayama clan only occupies this city, it doesn't seem to affect the overall situation, but in fact, everyone knows that if you don't pull out this nail, then you can't attack elsewhere at all.

There are still more than 1,000 troops under the command of the Takayama clan, if he leads the army to attack the other Oda family castles in the mountain castle country, then the Takayama clan can take advantage of this time to attack the territory of the family or the temples, with the combat power of the Oda army, it is easy to capture those places, in this way, this is equivalent to the two sides exchanging venues, there is no point at all, and the Takayama clan is not in the mountain castle at all, he can not care, but he and the abbots of the temples can not care, once he takes the temple, Then the blow to the morale of the coalition forces is undoubtedly huge.

Ashikaga Yoshiaki also didn't think about leaving a part of the army here to contain the army in the city, and the rest of the army to attack, but how much army to leave is appropriate, these days, the consumption of the coalition army is not small, the original 5,500 people, now only 4,800 left, if you stay more, it will be very difficult to attack other places, but if you leave less, maybe it will be swallowed by the Oda army, in the case of the army is not much, no one dares to take risks.

In the past few days, Ashikaga Yoshiaki often brought the abbot of the temple to discuss, but after quarrels again and again, there was no result at all.

Just when Ashikaga Yoshiaki and the abbot of the temples were at a loss outside the city, the situation in Minami-Omi changed greatly.

The Oda family fully carried out the orders of Akechi Mitsuhide, and the samurai such as Akechi Samasuke and Saito Rizo quietly led the army to leave on the night of the retreat of the army, and ambushed not far away, while Akechi Mitsuhide led the army to leave quietly at night, all the way west to Chokoji Castle.

Although the monks and soldiers immediately pursued the enemy when they learned of the retreat, it was already a night, which gave the Oda army ample time to prepare.

It was only about two days from the position to the castle of Changguang Temple, and the Oda army stopped after a day of running wildly and began to repair, wise Mitsuhide calculated, when the monks chased here, they should have exhausted their strength, and the Oda army had already recuperated and had enough advantages in physical strength, and this place was not too far from those temples, I am afraid that when the Oda army fought with it, the news of the temple being captured should be able to spread here quickly, and then the enemy was not only weak, but also demoralized, how could the army under his command be invincible?

Half a day later, Akechi Mitsuhide saw that the army under his command was almost rested, and estimated that the enemy was almost there, so he immediately ordered the army to line up and prepare to meet the enemy.

Minami-Omi is mostly plain, with rare high mountains, and some are only low hills. The battlefield chosen by Akechi Mitsuhide was between two hills, the two hills were no more than ten or twenty meters high, less than 100 meters apart, because it had entered the summer, so the trees on the hills were luxuriant, and the Oda army was divided into two routes, one was led by Shibata Katsuharu, and the other route was led by Akechi Mitsuhide himself to the south, and the army was hidden in the trees, if you didn't look carefully, you couldn't find it at all.

The samurai under the command of Shibata Katsuya have some opinions about such an arrangement, not to mention that such a sneak attack is really against the spirit of bushido, just say what if the enemy does not go between the two hills.

Looking at the suspicious eyes of the samurai, I saw Akechi Mitsuhide smile and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, although I am not sure that the enemy will pass between the two hills, but what is there to worry about, if the enemy goes on the other side, then let the enemy pass, and after the enemy passes, after the enemy passes, the effect received is the same, as long as the general direction is good, then it will be fine." ”…,

After listening to it, everyone also felt that what they said was very reasonable, since it was a sneak attack, it made no difference whether it was from the side or from the back.

So after getting this answer, he stopped dwelling with it and immediately returned to his position.

Soon after they left, they saw a foot galloping from not far away, and as soon as he arrived in front of Mingchi Mitsuhide, he saluted and said loudly: "Report, Lord Wise, two thousand monks and soldiers are less than five miles away from here at this moment, please decide." ”

"I've gotten it, let's explore it again." Wise Mitsuhide nodded after hearing this, this matter was already expected, so he didn't feel any surprise at all, just listened to him say lightly.

As a pursuing army, the monks and soldiers of the various temples did not have any scruples at all, let alone thought that the Oda army was just a strategic retreat. So all the way to the road, there is no formation at all, they all the way, when they are tired of running, they rest, eat, rest enough, and continue to run, they don't know that there is a huge trap waiting for them in front of the road.

Soon more than 2,000 monks and soldiers had chased them outside the two hills, not to mention that they were just chasing after the victory, even if they were in normal times, if they were not in a particularly dangerous place, they would not have any caution, so after they came to the front of the two hills, they did not stop and send people to investigate, but just rushed straight over.

There are three roads leading to the castle to the east, but it is separated by two inconspicuous hills, and the middle one is undoubtedly the closest, so they chose the road of no return in order to catch up with the Oda army and prevent it from entering the city.

Soon, more than 2,000 monks and soldiers had rushed between the two hills, and when Wise Mitsuhide saw that the time had come, he drew his sword and shouted: "The enemy is right in front of you, kill me!" ”

As the words fell, more than 1,000 Oda family ashigaru rushed towards the enemy army at the foot of the mountain under the leadership of the samurai such as Beeya Yoritaka and Tokuyama Norihide.

In the blink of an eye, only Akechi Mitsuhide and a dozen or so Ashigaru guards were left on the southern hills.