"Now we are probably here in Mino, and there are still thirty miles left from the Owari border, but we must not relax, in case they lead troops to attack, there may be problems!" Maeda Toshiie pointed to a sketchy map he had made and explained it to Tengjiro, which also asked Tengjiro for his opinion.

"Further east from here is the castle of Mino, but I don't think there should be an ambush here. This time they launched this encirclement and suppression, it should have drained the Mino troops. Tengjiro knew Maeda's intentions, so he said what he thought.

"What you said is also good, but if we continue to retreat to the east, it will be difficult to break through if the city over there is blocked, but at this time, we are directly south of Inuyama City, and there is definitely an ambush on the road over there, so how about it!" Maeda's analysis does not make sense.

No matter how stupid Saito Yoshiryu is, he will definitely not fail to fortify on the road where the Oda army may return, so their retreat route is very important at this time, and if they don't get it right, they will end up with the entire army being wiped out.

"But if we don't return to Owari as soon as possible, our situation will be even more dangerous. Wait a minute! We can't go in the east, and if we march westward, we will throw ourselves into a net, and there will definitely be an ambush army in the south, so why don't we have a waterway? Maeda Toshiie's words caused everyone to ponder and then their eyes lit up, which is also a good way! It's just a waste of time making rafts.

"No way!" Michizo Saito was also listening to their meeting, although this method would surprise Yoshiryu, but the preparation for taking the waterway was too troublesome, and it was also very dangerous!

"I calculated that our current strength is about two thousand four hundred people, and the capacity of a raft is not enough for so many of us to use it, and you don't forget Minong's famous tactics!" Michizo Saito's words shocked Toshiya Maeda! Almost had an accident!

Mino is a country that goes down to the top, and this belly snake once used an extremely bad but extremely effective tactic to occupy many cities in Mino, and its name is Fire Fengwei! As the literal meaning suggests, with the power of the wind, the spark has the power to ignite the prairie fire! This tactic is not uncommon, and it can be said that it is used in siege warfare in almost all countries, but! Here only this person in this country can do it to control the fire!

"The fire is mighty, I have heard of it for a long time!" Michizo Saito was born as an oil merchant, since he is a businessman, his perception and control of the weather is much stronger than others, plus he has carried out decades of research and experiments when he went down, and now he has practiced this fire and wind strategy, if the war feature of Owari is iron cannon, then Mino is also this hand fire wind might!

"Then let's choose a dry road!" If the water route is not good, the only choice is the dry road, these two advantages and disadvantages are different, one from here to continue the march from west to east, stretch the battle line of the Yilong army, and when they can no longer form an encirclement network, immediately turn to the south and move to join the defenders of Inuyama and Nakono. The second is to set out directly from here from the north to the south, and you may encounter an ambush enemy army on the way, but you can greatly reduce the time for retreat.

The former has the advantage of being safe, but it takes a lot of time and is easy to get into a bitter battle due to the obstruction of the defenders of other cities in Mino. The latter has the advantage of being less time-consuming, but it is easier to intercept than the former. It stands to reason that choosing the route from west to east is the most appropriate, but at this time, Maeda Toshiya was anxious because of Guo Jia's injury, so his decision was to choose the shortest route!

"We set off directly to the southwest, the location of Inuyama City is forty or fifty miles southwest of us, so it takes the shortest time here, and when we encounter the Yilong Army on the way, we will break through directly!" And no one will refute his decision, because everyone present wants to see Guo Jia soon! The soldiers of the Thunder Regiment were very high because of their previous victory, and if they were allowed to come into contact with the enemy army at this time, they would not be afraid of this situation at all!

"Since there is no one to refute, let's go immediately!" Maeda Toshiya looked at Tengjiro and the others and gave the order to march.

As they had imagined before, before they could walk five miles, they encountered a group of reconnaissance cavalry, and at that time, Maeda Toshiya ordered the Iron Artillery Department to shoot, but the point was that they did not completely annihilate this group of scouts, and to add insult to injury, the gunfire of the Iron Artillery Department was infinitely stirring here, and this sound exposed their position and made them face a more severe challenge!

"This voice? How can the weather be so good that there can be thunderstorms during the day? No, it's the iron cannon of the Nanban! Where is it? Saito Yoshiryu heard the sound and rushed out of the camp tent to look at the depths of Mount Mino, and immediately reacted, and immediately ordered: "Send our main infantry to fortify at the junction of Mino-Owari, and the cavalry corps quickly went to the place where there was a loud noise just now!" ”

Saito Yoshiryu made a correct decision, it is reported that the Oda army came to Mino this time with only 4,000 troops, and his cavalry corps has nearly 3,000 troops, which is more than enough to entangle the Oda army troops, and they will definitely advance towards the Owari border At this time, they will be fortified there, and the cavalry will fight and retreat while waiting for his two legions to converge, and they will definitely be able to take them by surprise!

"Be careful, the sound of iron cannons just now must have attracted a lot of troops, we must pay attention to the ambush! At this time, don't worry about so much, the whole army is closed, the mine regiment protects the iron artillery department, let the iron artillery department go to the front, and if there is an army to block it, exchange fire immediately. "Now that the position has been exposed, why continue to be timid?

After cleaning up the battlefield, the Oda army continued to march in the direction of Inuyama Castle, and also encountered an ambush of three or four hundred people on the road, and this time Maeda Toshiie directly ordered the iron artillery department to carry out a clearing and then it was harvested by the mine.

"Toshiya Maeda! Troops are coming! "Akechi Mitsuhide, who was leading the horse to Saito Michisan, was half-kneeling at this time, with his palms pressed to the ground, and brought him a message from this land that a large number of people were approaching them! And Akechi Mitsuhide guessed correctly, it was indeed the cavalry legion of the righteous dragon, because soon the dense cavalry appeared directly in front of them, whether it was armament or military flags, it showed their identity! Mino Cavalry Legion!

"What should come will come, the Iron Artillery Department prepares, enter the range and fire!" Maeda Toshiie did not panic, and they still retreated and marched at a normal pace. Both sides are fighting Xiao Jiujiu in their hearts, the cavalry corps wants attrition, and the Maeda Toshiya wants to retreat!

"The 138th team will attack from the right flank, and the rest will charge with me!" Led the commander of the Mino Cavalry Corps to give the order to attack.

"It's coming!" Maeda Toshiie saw the distant legion dividing his troops to fight, and he was instantly interested.

Seeing that the cavalry corps was coming in division, the Oda army did not hesitate at all, and immediately dispersed the formation, so that the mine regiment stood in the place where the enemy had the most, while the iron artillery department was loaded to aim at the smaller number of troops who had divided their troops.

They gave the Mino Cavalry Legion a surprise when they stopped like this, that is, it seemed that this group of people wanted to fight them! But it was this pause that greatly reduced the effect of the assault this time.

The Mino cavalry was heavily armoured, and the muscles of the strong horses bulged high like an explosion, and they drew their swords from their waists, and the cold light was pumped out.

"Blade!" Maeda Toshiie's eyes lit up, because he saw that the approaching cavalry team actually put up a formation for rapid charge, the sharp arrow, as the name suggests, the cavalry drew the knife with the blade as the edge, the edge as the arrow, and the horse as the bowstring to rush into the enemy formation!

"Swing a phalanx of long soldiers!" Why do the cavalry restrain the infantry, because when they charge, the infantry is in front of a strong horse, and the warrior on horseback can directly swing a knife at the neck of the infantry, this is the reason, but after so many years of battlefield experience, there is always a way to deal with this situation, that is, to put up a long phalanx!

The infantry were all lined up, one person in the front and one in front and one left and right staggered to defend against the attack of the war horse, the tip of the spear in the front row was aimed at the war horse, and the latter drew his sword and prepared to assassinate the horse cavalry! Because this formation is to deal with assault attacks, so let them run for a while at this time!

In the blink of an eye, the cavalry had already rushed to the front of the thunder regiment, and the blades and arrows instantly burst out and tore apart their defensive lines, but was the long army phalanx useless? Not!

"Phalanx Cover Kill!" After Guo Jia's changes, this formation can basically resist the impact of all cavalry! And its role is not to resist, but to attack tactically with destructive power!

As the opening of the cavalry grew wider, they realized what the problem was! Don't care about the end! The soldiers in the front row of the phalanx suddenly closed and broke their arrows and arrow shafts! In an instant, the soldiers who broke into the thunder regiment were slaughtered by the canine tooth battle array in the rear! Only the horses under their crotches were still alive. What is a phalanx cover-up? That is, the front phalanx of long soldiers cut off the path of the soldiers who came from the assault, and the dogtooth killing array in the rear slashed the stalemate forward soldiers on their horses!

"Phalanx Assault!" With one hit, Maeda Toshiya didn't pause, because he needed more war horses!

At this time, the commander of the Righteous Dragoon Legion had just realized that something was wrong, and was about to order the withdrawal of the army, but he didn't expect the Oda Army's thunder regiment to suddenly attack, he watched this group of barbarians turn into two steps in three steps, and the guy in his hand attacked and killed them!

The soldiers in the front row staggered one by one to form a human flesh to resist the horse, and the phalanx in the back row aroused the soldiers on the horse in front of them to send the soldiers on the horse in front of them into bliss with the weapons in their hands!

"Withdraw, withdraw!" The cavalry commander is finally no longer in a daze, and it will be over without retreating at this time!

But at this time, the 1383 teams he divided out had just approached the side of the Oda army. "Bang! Bang! Bang! A round of iron cannons will kill the horses in front of them, the earth-shattering sound will frighten the horses that follow, and suddenly the three teams are in chaos, those horses seem to know that if they continue to charge, the end will be the same as the pile that fell in front, the war horses that are not controlled by the soldiers scattered like crazy, and some also threw off the soldiers on horseback, what are the consequences of lying on the ground at this time, that is, to become the undead under the horse's hooves!

"Retreat!" The commander of the cavalry corps finally made up his mind, turned his head and fled with his horse whipped, this time the attack was really worth the loss!

"Poor Kou Mo Chase! To appease the captured war horses, the Lei Regiment can move to make a few improvised carriages! We put the wounded on top. These horses are used as coolies! ”

There may have been no casualties in the war, and the soldiers who were basically immobile were carried by his friends and comrades-in-arms, and the horses came at this time, of course, they could be used as a means of transportation to carry them!

"Move fast! The retreat is not over yet! ”