Owari.

The Imagawa family is worthy of the name of the first bow of the Tokaido, and since the attack on Owari, it can be said that it is like a bamboo, and along the way it has been said that the castle is either falling from the wind or the castle is destroyed. In just two days, the army of the Imagawa family has already captured Otakajo, Washizu and other places one after another.

The Oda family generals Iio Dingmune, Sakuma Moritge, and others fought for death one after another, which dealt a great blow to the morale of the Oda family.

On October 15, the 24th year of the Astronomical Tenham, the Imagawa family was divided into three armies and marched towards the three parts of Owari. On the left flank of the vanguard were 1,000 men of Matsudaira Motonobu, and after taking Nakone, they continued westward and marched along the coastline towards Kanie Castle.

On the right flank of the vanguard were 2,000 men of Naomori Ii and Nagasho Uden, marching from Ōtaka Castle to Suemori Castle. The other force was 3,000 troops under Okabe Motonobu and 2,000 troops from Asahina Taichao, a total of 5,000 troops attacking Narumi Castle.

In addition, 5,000 men of Katsuyama Nobutada had already marched in the direction of Kiyosu Castle as an advance team, and Imagawa Yoshimoto led 8,000 troops as his own army to follow. In the back formation, 1,500 people led by Asai Masatoshi are still hanging inside, as well as other small lotus packs and other people, miscellaneous soldiers, etc.

On October 16, Narumi Castle fell, and Owari shook!

The people of the Oda family are completely panicked now, if before the war everyone still had a trace of illusions about blocking the Imagawa family, then now this fantasy has disappeared.

The reason why the Oda family in history was able to defeat the Imagawa family was that in addition to Oda Nobunaga's surprise attack on Imagawa Yoshimoto's main camp in the barrel Sasama, resulting in the death of Imagawa Yoshimoto, the more important reason was that the overall battle situation in Owari did not fall in favor of the Imagawa family.

In fact, by the time the Imagawa family was in Kamiraku, Oda Nobunaga had already unified Owari. Judging from the mobilization capacity of the Oda family's 570,000 koku in Owari at that time, the total strength of the Oda family at that time was about 15,000 people. And these 15,000 people were scattered all over Owari and were not uniformly assembled, so it created the illusion that "the Oda family only had two or three thousand people", which is also the reason why Tsukasama let Oda Nobunaga "deify" in one fell swoop.

In fact, it is precisely because the Oda family has more than 10,000 troops in the Owari collar that the Imagawa family's strategy is not fast, which means that the battle situation is still in a stalemate. At this time, the general of the Imagawa family suddenly died, and naturally the Oda family was equivalent to declaring victory.

But the current situation is that Oda Nobunaga has just defeated Oda Nobuyo of Kiyosu Castle and mastered Kiyosu Castle. Not to mention the unification of Owari, even the Iwakura Oda family next door has not yet been settled.

In this case, the Oda family did not have the cohesion that it had in history, which led to the fact that after the Imagawa family attacked Owari, half of the castle in Owari was captured or surrendered.

The situation was very serious for the Oda family.

Nakono Castle, almost all the troops that can be mobilized in the Oda family are gathered here. Looking at the military service account reported by Lin Xiuzhen in his hand, Oda Nobunaga frowned and was silent.

"My lord, all the men in the family from 60 to 15 years old are here, a total of 4,600 people!" Lin Xiuzhen's face was also a little unsightly, and if she wanted to use these four or five thousand people to fight a decisive battle with the Imagawa family, she was undoubtedly looking for death.

Oda Nobunaga was silent for a while, and then threw aside the military service account in his hand, "For generals, you should know that sometimes soldiers are noble and not many!" ”

"Where is Imagawa Yoshimoto's main battle?"

"According to the news from the main family detective yesterday, Imagawa Yoshimoto's main camp has left Akakeke Castle and marched in the direction of Narumi Castle, and it should be in the ...... at this time Let's be around here! In the castle tower, Mori Kecheng pointed to a place on the map and whispered.

Oda Nobunaga's gaze followed the direction Mori was pointing, and then whispered, "Barrel Sasama........

"According to the speed of the Imagawa family's march, the Matsudaira Motonobu team in the front line of the enemy can reach the vicinity of Arako Castle today. And the enemy's Ii Nao's strength has arrived outside Suemori Castle, and Musashi Shousho Shogashi Castle is fighting to the death! The war in various places is very erosive, if the family can't do any more effective offensive, I'm afraid that the Japanese family will be defeated on all fronts within three days! The one who spoke was Sakuma Nobumori, who was known as "retreating Sakuma".

"Matsudaira Motonobu? That Mikawa brother of mine? Oda Nobunaga sneered, and then said, "Saemon, Arako Castle is the territory of the Maeda family, I will give you 300 men, no matter what, you must defend this place!" ”

"Hah!" Oda Nobunaga's naked mother's clothes, the pen head Maeda Toshiie, immediately received the order. At this time, the Maeda Toshiya had not killed Oda Nobunaga's half-brother, so he did not abscond, and he was still Oda Nobunaga's naked mother.

After scanning his gaze back and forth in the direction of Arako Castle and Narumi Castle for a while, Oda Nobunaga turned his gaze to Sakuma Nobumori on the side, "As long as the enemy's attack direction should be the line from Narumi Castle to Kiyosu Castle, the location of Zenshoji Temple is very important!" Can the Captain of the Right Guard have the confidence to guard this place? ”

"As long as I, Sakuma Nobumori, still have a breath of air, the people of the Imagawa family will never want to set foot here!" Sakuma Nobumori clenched his fists and said with a firm expression.

Oda Nobunaga nodded, "I will give you 2,000 troops, and half of the samurai in the family will be with you, please be sure to hold this place for three days!" ”

"And what about the lord? Where is the lord's main formation? ”

"It's getting late, I'm very tired, let's talk about it the day after the war!" Oda Nobunaga yawned and withdrew in the surprised and inexplicable eyes of everyone.

......

"Fujiyoshiro, how about you say that the family led troops to attack Imagawa Yoshimoto's main camp? If you can win the head of Imagawa Yoshi, you can turn the tide of the war, right? Outside the ancient castle, Oda Nobunaga seemed to have returned to his own paradise, changed into the fancy clothes he wore when he was young, and ran outside the city to play in the water with Kinoshita Tojiro and others.

Fujiyoshiro carefully wiped Oda Nobunaga's straw sandals clean, and then put them in his arms, "My lord, from Arako Castle to Suemori Castle, there are all the troops and reconnaissance of the Imagawa family, how easy is it to surprise the enemy's main formation?" Even if you can bypass the enemy's line, how can you defeat the enemy's main position of thousands of people? ”

"I have fifteen hundred muskets, and if I fire a volley at the enemy's own formation, the enemy will definitely be defeated!" Oda Nobunaga seemed confident.

Fujiyoshiro was stunned, "The lord is talking about the kind of new weapon from the Tsugawa family?" ”

"Exactly!"

"But the Suruga Imagawa family is strong, but how do you know that the other party doesn't have this thing?"

Oda Nobunaga was silent for a moment, "Then is there really no way?" ”

"The villain has a plan, but this move is a bit risky, but I don't know if the lord is ....."

"Hugh wants mother-in-law and mother-in-law, let it go if there is a fart!" Oda Nobunaga waved his hand and said impatiently.

Fujiyoshiro hurriedly laughed a few times, then his eyes flashed, and he said solemnly, "The lord can deceive the Imagawa family, and when Imagawa Yoshimoto passes through Kiyosu Castle or Nakono Castle, the family will be in trouble again!" In the chaos, if you can win the head of the Imagawa family, you will definitely be able to defeat the Imagawa family in one fell swoop! ”