Asai Nagamasa originally planned to leave only the peasants to defend the city, and he led the remaining 1,000 elites in the city to attack the Shibata army with reinforcements, after all, the other party was here to help him, and if he didn't express it, it would be a little too much.

And when he just made this decision, he heard someone hurriedly persuade: "Lord Asai can't be like this, think that the Takayama clan is used to stealing the city, and this time it is attacking, the command is the majority of the ninja army, if the adult only leaves the peasant soldiers to defend the city, once the Takayama clan sends people to attack the city, if there are only peasant soldiers in the city, it will not be able to block the enemy's attack at all, so I think that the lord should lead a thousand elites to sit in the city, as for the upcoming Shibata army, the number is only six thousand, The 5,000 monks with the master and the 6,000 elites below were enough to wipe out the enemy. ”

After hearing this, Asai Nagamasa couldn't help but hurriedly said: "The two of you can lead the army to help, Nagamasa is already grateful, if the enemy army only lets allies fight, it's too much to say." ”

"Now that the three of me think it's one, there will be a place where there will be trouble with Lord Asai in the future, so Lord Asai doesn't have to be polite."

Asai Nagamasa heard that he both meant this, and what the other party said was not unreasonable, so he finally agreed to their suggestion.

Not much to say, after the end of the military discussion, he immediately led a large army to set up a formation outside the city to wait for the arrival of the Shibata army.

There was really no suspense in this battle with the Shibata army, not only was the coalition army nearly twice as large as the enemy, but the combat power was even stronger than it, and he was afraid that Shibata Katsuya would not dare to respond to the battle when he saw a large army, so he launched an attack on it before the Shibata army reacted.

At the same time as the coalition forces rushed towards the Shibata army. The report also came quickly to Shibata Katsuya. Panicked shouted: "Report." Lord, the big thing is not good, the enemy... More than 10,000 enemy troops are coming to our army, and I ask the lord to decide. ”

Shibata Katsuya not only did not panic after hearing this, but was overjoyed, although he heard that the other party numbered tens of thousands, but he only thought that most of them were just a number of peasant soldiers, if they were filled with a large number of peasant soldiers. Not to mention that the opponent's army is tens of thousands, even if there are 20,000 people, it is not a problem to defeat them, and what makes him excited is that as long as he can defeat this army of more than 10,000 people, then it will not be easy to capture that small valley city.

At that time, as long as Asai Nagamasa is killed, Ah Shi is not his own, by the way, it is better to let Asai Nagamasa die in the chaos of the army, so as to save Ah City from resentment towards himself.

Shibata Katsuie was also a traditional samurai. Although there are clan reasons, his opinion of ninjas has changed a lot. But if he is asked to recruit ninjas, it is still impossible, in this way, it can be said that his intelligence does not exist at all, at most, he only sends a few spies to the front when he is marching, so as not to fall into the enemy's ambush, so he doesn't know that what Lu Dao killed at him is not a peasant soldier, but a real Asakura elite and Honganji monk soldiers.

Although Shibata Katsuya is in a good mood now, seeing that this subordinate Ashigaru was scared like this, he still scolded first: "What's the big deal, a group of peasant soldiers can scare you, so how can you become my Shibata family flagbook." ”

"Lord... My lord, the enemy is not a peasant soldier at all, but an elite army with guns and armor, and there are thousands of monks among them. ”

"What!" Shibata Katsuya almost fell off his horse after hearing this.

"My lord, if we have no hope of winning the battle, it is better to retreat first." Shibata Katsuya was not one to hesitate, and when the samurai under his command finished speaking, he did not hesitate and immediately ordered the army to retreat.

But at this time, you can already see the figure of the enemy's 11,000 army, if Shibata Katsuya did not give the order to retreat, even if the whole army under his command is annihilated, it will give the enemy serious losses, but Shibata Katsuie's order to retreat is first, so that the fighting spirit under his command is completely lost, and the ashigaru who follows the team is fine, and he can escape when he turns around, but the ashigaru in front and in the middle is not so lucky, and the fast one who turns around knocks down the slow one who turns around, and the slow one blocks the fast one, and in the blink of an eye, the Shibata army fell into chaos.

And the coalition army has come to the front at this time, although Shibata Katsuya has been shouting loudly, but his subordinate Ashigaru completely took his words as the wind in his ears, and now even if he should fight, it is impossible to fight, Shibata Katsuya is not in the slaughter of several people, hit the horse and leave, and the military situation under his command can not be taken care of at all, and his command Ashigaru began to only plan to retreat backwards, but now that the enemy has been killed, they can't take care of these, where there is a way to live, where to flee, it is completely scattered in all directions, when Shibata Katsuya escaped, there are only nearly a thousand Ashigaru left.

He wanted to gather the defeated army to defend in the city, but after waiting for a while, less than 500 troops fled one after another, and he knew that with only the 1,500 defeated troops under his command, it would be impossible for the enemy to defend the city if the enemy came to attack, so after making a mental struggle, he had to lead the defeated army back to Minami Omi.

Not to mention Shibata Katsuya, only to say that on the side of the clan, after two days of strong attack, Takatori Castle was finally captured by him, Isono Yuanchang, Wakisaka Yasuji, Fujido Takatora and others had no choice but to lead more than 3,000 defeated troops to the north of Songyan Town, in order to continue to block the enemy's northward advance.

Although they knew that they could not stop the enemy's attack by relying on the strength of these troops under their command, there was no way to do it, and they only blocked the enemy army in Gaotori City for three days, which was still half the time set by the lord, and now they could only rely on this method to delay for a little longer.

After the capture of Takatori Castle, the Takayama clan did not stop at many places in the castle, the enemy had been defeated, and now was the best time to pursue the victory, but when he and Sakuma Nobumori had not led their army to Matsuiwa Castle, they saw the ninja sent to Shibata running all the way.

As soon as he came to the clan, he said loudly, "Report to the lord, Shibata-sama refused to carry out the order, and asked his subordinates to inform the lord that he was going to exchange money with the lord in Kotani Castle, and asked the lord to decide." ”

After hearing this, the Takayama clan almost didn't have his lungs blown up, Shibata Katsuya dared to openly disobey his orders, this was really something he didn't expect, anyway, he was also the main general of this battle, he was like this, he was so unreasonable.

When the clan was about to get angry, he saw another ninja coming from the north.

"Report to the lord, a total of 11,000 troops of Asakura and Honganji have left the city, please make a decision."

Now that the ninja has come to report, it means that at least more than a day has passed, I am afraid that at this time the enemy army has already defeated the Shibata army, and even if the enemy loses a lot in this battle, but if you add the defenders in Matsuyan City, the number should remain at about 14,000, and there are less than 8,000 left on his side, if these 8,000 people are all elites under his command, the clan will dare to fight with the enemy, but nearly half of the 8,000 troops are under Sakuma Nobumori, so he will not dare to take risks, Therefore, in the end, he had to lead the army to retreat to Mino.

Nobunaga couldn't help but be furious after learning that the army attacking the Asai family was defeated and retreated, he thought that even if the Asai family had the assistance of the Asakura family, its total elite army would not exceed 12,000 people at most, and the family sent an army of nearly 15,000, and there were wise generals clan, fierce generals Shibata Katsuie, Sakuma Nobumori went out of the battle, and gave Asai Nagamasa a profound lesson, it was not a matter of being captured, but who knew that the lesson of the road was not given, but it slapped himself in the face, which was unacceptable to Nobunaga, so when he got the defeat report, He immediately summoned the three of the clan's chief and deputy generals to Gifu, and ordered all the important ministers in the family to come, and it was obvious that Nobunaga was going to take action himself.

"Lord, if you lose this battle, your subordinates will have an inescapable responsibility as the lord, and your subordinates are willing to bear it with all their might, and please punish the lord." As soon as the clan and the other three came to Nobunaga, they heard the clan speak.

To say that the reason for the failure of this battle really doesn't have much to do with the clan, but Shibata Katsuya is not only his father-in-law, but also usually takes great care of himself, and he can have his current status, so it can be said that the help of his father-in-law is indispensable to this, so when the clan came to Nobunaga and saw Shibata Katsuie's haggard face, he finally made a decision to take the responsibility on himself.

And Shibata Katsuya is a fair and upright person, it is his own fault, he will definitely not let others carry it, and it is impossible to let his favorite son-in-law go to the top.

So as soon as the clan clan finished speaking, he heard Shibata Katsuya hurriedly say: "Lord, this battle is all the fault of his subordinates, it is his subordinates who did not listen to the advice of Lord Takayama and led the army to advance, so the whole line will be defeated, and please ask the lord to punish his subordinates, all of this has nothing to do with Lord Takayama." ”

"Lord, the order conveyed by his subordinates is not clear enough, if his subordinates send someone to pass the order and inform Shibata-sama that more than 10,000 elite troops of Asakura and Honganji have arrived, the subordinates believe that Shibata-sama will never rush in, so the responsibility should still be borne by the subordinates."

"Lord ......"

"Alright, shut up! Now is not the time to discuss responsibility, this defeat has brought the prestige of the family to the ground, and in order to save face, I decided to personally lead a large army to conquer Asakura Asai and the hateful Honganji. If the three of you want to clear your reputation for incompetence, I want to see you in the next battle. Come with me to the assessment room. ”

In the assessment room, the important ministers of the Oda family have been waiting here for a long time, but some people are not bored, but feel very happy, the defeat of the Takayama clan faction is definitely a great news for Kinoshita Tojiro and others, 15,000 troops are out of battle, and they are defeated, I am afraid that the status of the Takayama clan and others in the hearts of the lord will be greatly reduced. (To be continued......)