"Troops! Dispatch troops! NND, people die for money, birds die for food. Fight! Hosokawa Nobumoto, who returned to Devon Castle, immediately issued a mobilization order.

In August of the 12th year of Eiroku (1569), Oda Nobunaga went out from Gifu with generals such as Hosokawa Nobumoto, Sakuma Nobumori, Shibata Katsuie, Niwa Nagahide, Mori Kasei, Takigawa Kazuki, Ikeda Tsuneko, Ando Morori, Inaba Ittetsu, Shibu Quan, Kinoshita Hideyoshi, Yamaoka Keitaka, Kobe Gumori, Sakai Masanori, Fupo Mitsuharu, Saito Nagatoryu, Kizo Gumasa, Seki Mori Nobu, Maruge Nagasho, and Ichihashi Nagatoshi.

There was also the reinforcement Isono Yuanmasa sent by Asai Nagamasa, with a total strength of 40,000 troops, while the Kitada Army only had 8,000, and could only rely on the natural danger of Okochi Castle and the surrounding branch cities to carry out ridge battles.

The Oda army arrived at Kizuki Castle on the 23rd, and after resting for three days, Kinoshita Hideyoshi led the vanguard to attack Asaka Castle, while Hosokawa Nobumoto led the naval army south to capture Tominaga Castle, the naval base of the Kitada family.

"Kill! Capture Asaka Castle and get a lot of rewards! Kinoshita Hideyoshi led the vanguard to kill Otemon.

"Archery! Stop them! "The lord of Asaka Castle, Omiya Irimichi, led 1,000 defenders to resist the attack of the Oda family.

Whoosh, arrows rained down on the walls.

"Oops!" Kinoshita Hideyoshi stumbled and was hit by an arrow in his left leg.

"Hey!! Pity! Omiya Keiren, the son of Omiya's initiation, angrily threw down the broken bow in his hand, just now he was aiming at Kinoshita Hideyoshi's chest, but unfortunately he used too much force and pulled the bowstring.

"Damn! Give it to me! Give me ten thousand pieces! Kinoshita Hideyoshi screamed like a cat stepping on its tail, and this was the first time he had been injured.

"Oh!" Koroku Beesuka led the people of Kawa and shouted in unison and rushed forward. He was sent by Oda Nobunaga to the monkey in order to make up for Kinoshita Hideyoshi's disadvantage of not being good at the art of war.

"You're already surrounded, hurry up and surrender!" This is Hosokawa Nobumoto shouting under the castle, and he directly surrounded Tominaga Castle by water.

Although the general of the Kitada family's navy, Toriya O, had 1,500 sailors, he did not dare to go out of the city at all, and he cowered in the city, and the four Ataku ships also lay quietly in the harbor.

"Humph! Toast without eating and eating penalty wine! Iron cannon shooting! Offensive! "Hosokawa Nobumoto gave the order to attack.

Bang bang bang! The guns rang out continuously, not only Takuzhi Kiyoshi's 500 iron artillery team, but even Murakami Motoyoshi's 500 sailors were also at sea, firing iron cannons.

In fact, when the Hosokawa family navy was first established, only the Kumano navy was the prototype, with a number of 500, and there were only four ships and more than ten small morning boats, which could not be compared with the huge Kitada navy.

But in this matchup, not only the 3,000 people of the Hosokawa family, but also the tens of thousands of troops of the Oda family behind them, at this time, there are two villains fighting in the head of Toriya Omanei.

Bang bang bang! There were thousands of iron cannons, the sky was shattered, and the defenders on the city wall only cried and cried for their mothers.

"My lord! Lord! Hurry up and give the order, whether you go or fight, you give a happy word! A bleeding pirate rushed in front of Toriya Omitsuei.

"Let's go? Where can we go? Now that the whole of Isewan is owned by the Hosokawa family, where can we go? "To tell the truth, Mitsuei Toriya wants to go, and with the four Ataka ships, the Hosokawa Navy can't help him.

"You can go anywhere, the Nine Ghost family was taken away and left in Kumano's stall. Later, he took refuge in the Oda family, and now he is gradually growing stronger? What's more, the family has four settling boats and thousands of sailors, so who takes refuge has to be treated as guests? "This pirate obviously doesn't want to bury the Kitada family, and now he is starting to encourage Toriya to find another way.

"Humph! That's a nice thing to say, I'm afraid you'll live a free life in the future, right? I'm afraid I'll be like the Nine Ghosts Jialong, with a different head. "Toriya Omitsuei is not a fool, he is also a famous player with both wisdom and courage in the Kitada family, but there is an example of the fate of Nine Ghost Yoshitaka in front of him, which makes him always undecided.

"The subordinates don't dare, the subordinates don't mean that." The pirate shook his head in fright, for fear that the lord would cut him down on the spot.

"Humph! Go, shout to Hosokawa Jun, and say I have something to say. "Toriya Omitsuei doesn't bother to guess his thoughts, he can't protect himself now.

"Now? This iron cannon is so dense... This..."

"Don't go yet! Do I want to kill you right now? ”

"Ahh Be! With that, he ran to the city wall.

"Hey! So be it. After this pirate's interruption, Toriya O's Mitsuei also figured it out, his Toriya O's family has followed the Kitada family since the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and now it has been more than 200 years.

He himself is also the elder of the Kitada family, and the Mizutani family, the Sawa, and the Akiyama family are called the four elders of the Kitada family, and the important minister among the important ministers.

It's just that now he is old, he is in his sixties this year, and his body is no longer good, and his eldest son, Toriya O, is now also stationed in Okochi City, and as for the other sons, they have all been loyal to the Kitada family.

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"Bird-sama! I heard you're looking for it? But what's the matter? Hearing that there was a reply from the city, Hosokawa Nobumoto rode out to see if the city was ready to submit.

"Ukyo-sama, Mitsuei in Shimotoriyao, the lord of Tominaga Castle!" Seeing that Hosokawa Nobumoto was so young, Toriya Omitsuei couldn't help but sigh for a while.

"Under the orders of the lord, stick to the city, and you will definitely do your best! Lord Ukyo is also an important minister of the Oda family, so he must understand his intentions. Toriya O's tone was vicissitudes, although he knew that the Kitada family was unlucky this time, but he still adhered to the righteousness of the samurai.

"Huh?" Hosokawa Nobumoto didn't expect it to be like this, since he chose to fight to the death, what are he doing with him Rory.

Seeing that Hosokawa Nobumoto was stunned, Toriya Mitsuei hurriedly continued to shout: "Since the adults understand the intentions of the next one, I hope that the adults can agree to the next request." ”

"What is the request?"

"When the city is broken, Lord Wanwang Youjing will not embarrass his family, and he is willing to apologize!" Toriya Tail Mitsuei thought of the grandson in the city, who was the only bone and blood of his Toriya Tail family.

"I see, don't worry, Lord Toriyao, it won't hurt my family, this is the rule of my Hosokawa family!" Hosokawa Nobumoto is not a murderous person, people respect him a foot, he respects people.

"Thank you! Come on! Let's have a good fight! Toriya Ao Mitsuei raised the sword in his hand and vowed to live and die with the city.

"You're going to fight! I'll fight! That's a dignified attack below! German Prepared! Offensive! ”

"Oh!!" Stamped, five hundred German guards held the rattan plaque high, and neatly stepped on the offensive pace.

"Bow samurai team! Cover the attack! ”

"Oh!" In a hurry, the original bow foot light has been promoted to bow samurai, I saw them trotting all the way, coming behind the rattan card to cover the archery, although there are few people, but the attack speed is extremely fast, and the accuracy is incomparable.

For the first time since the establishment of the Hosokawa army, the Hosokawa army attacked the city head-on, and there was no conspiracy and no sneak attack, and it was dignified!