In the face of the onslaught of the Takeda Army, the Akechi Mitsuhide team set up a dense defensive formation.

Mori Changke's army was on the left, Wise Hide's army was on the right, and Wise Mitsuhide led his army in the center.

Although the strength of the army was less than half of the Takeda army, under the tenacious command of Akechi Mitsuhide, it was enough to support the Takeda army's three large-scale onslaughts.

Wenjing Jinglong, You Zuo Xuguang, Jia Fei Qinjia, Tufei Qinzhen, these can ascend to the wealthy family, and their combat power is mediocre, so even if they do their best, they can't shake the front of the Wise Army.

And the generals under Li Xiao, such as Shenbao Nagaken, Hideji Kano, and Naomo Ichiyanagi, also did their best.

They all led their troops to fight to the death, and several times tried to clash with Akechi Mitsuhide's position, and approached the location of the Oda army's main camp.

But each time it was repelled in a bloody battle under the command of Akechi Mitsuhide.

Li Xiao saw the tragic situation in the central government, and couldn't help but look pale.

Wise Mitsuhide, under the ambush for himself and the defense of inferior forces, can still support it for so long, and it is not a loss that he is a famous general who can fight habitually.

Thinking of the battle of Kajitian Castle at the beginning, if it weren't for Li Xiao's five standing reserves, under the situation at that time, under the disadvantage of troops, Li Xiao's army would have been completely annihilated by the Shibata Katsuya and completely defeated under the city.

Shibata, Akechi, and Yushiba Hideyoshi, who has not yet touched the above, but is not inferior to these two people, and Takigawa Kazuki is really Oda Four Heavenly Kings, all of whom are easy people.

"Pass the order, stop the offensive, and regroup the army!"

Li Xiao immediately spoke.

As soon as Li Xiaozhi's order came out, his retainers were unclear.

"But my lord, the wise army will not be able to support it, and it will be enough to reorganize an offensive." Yamamoto said as he hid on the sidelines.

Thinking of the temptation of annihilating the Wise Guangxiu Army in front of him, Li Xiao finally held back, shook his head, and said: "All battles require seven points of strength, three points are left for oneself, and when the victory or defeat is not known, you must not do your best." ”

"Now that the war has been going on for so long, our army is exhausted, and if there is another force of the Oda army at this time, we will be in danger of being annihilated if we attack with all our strength. If you are careful, you can not go wrong. ”

The generals of the Takeda army were not convinced when they heard this, and now that the Wise Army had been besieged for a long time, if the Oda Army had the strength to come to the rescue, it would have already appeared, and if the offensive was stopped, it was likely to miss the opportunity to completely annihilate the Wise Army.

However, the generals of the Takeda Army did not dare to question Li Xiao's decision.

The several reserve units that attacked immediately stopped their offensive and retreated to regroup.

At this time, Yushiba Hideyoshi, who was watching the battle on the mountain on the side, waited for a long time for the Takeda army to have a flaw and couldn't do it, and at this time, when he saw the Takeda army reorganizing the formation, it seemed that he wanted to fight again.

Yushiba Hideyoshi's face sank at the moment, and he waved his hand, pointed to the Takeda army under the mountain, and said, "Out of battle!" ”

Suddenly, the 3,000-feather firewood army that had been in ambush from the mountains and forests for a long time appeared.

"It's Hideyoshi Hashiba!"

Li Xiao's face changed, he was just cautious in advance, and recycled his troops, but he didn't expect that Yuchai Hideyoshi was really ambushed on the side, like a poisonous snake that had been lurking for a long time, looking for an opportunity to give him a fatal blow.

"Order the god to defend Nagaken to resist, Hashiba Hideyoshi's attack!"

Li Xiao made a judgment at the moment and sent the strongest Divine Protection Army to resist, otherwise if he made Yuchai Hideyoshi's new force come into the formation, his several weaker reserves would collapse immediately.

However, fortunately, the wise Guangxiu team put on a defensive posture with an iron bucket, and it was not easy to switch from defense to offense, otherwise Yuchai and Wise would join forces, and they would have to suffer a big loss on the spot.

Jimbo Nagaken had just retreated from the front of the formation, and after receiving Li Xiao's order, he set up a defense against the North Omi Army of Yushiba Hideyoshi in front of the formation.

Hashiba Hideyoshi's Northern Omi Army, after the Kanesaki break, encircled and annihilated the Asai family and other battles, made good achievements. …,

Hideyoshi and Riru Miyabe Castle Lord Miyabe Jijun, Yamamoto Yamamoto Yamajo Castle Lord Asa Seisi, as well as Wasuka Koroku and Asano Nagayasu's Namikawa people.

The Jimbo army of Jimbo Nagaken was immediately attacked by the army of Hashiba Hideyoshi, and after a fierce battle, it was repelled by a hundred paces.

At this time, Yamamoto Kanzo led the cavalry team to return to the flank of the Yushiba Hideyoshi team and was about to attack, but happened to meet the direct Qimoto of the Yushiba team.

The team encountered the Takeda Army's cavalry team, and was immediately unceremonious, among which the generals Asano Nagamasa, Horio Yoshiharu, Yamauchi Kazutoyo, Nakamura Kazuji, Fukushima Masanori, Higuchi Naobo, Kato Yoshiaki, Katagiri and Mototo attacked the Takeda Army together.

And among these generals, such as Fukushima Masanori, Yasuharu Wasaka, and Katagiri Kazumoto, are three of the seven guns of the famous Shidake in the future.

One willow straight end, Yamamoto Kanzo two, where is this group of wolf-like tiger Yuchai army fierce generals, the current Takeda army cavalry team suffered a lot of losses.

Ichiyanagi Naosue was even more subjected to the double battle of Yasuharu Wasaka, Katagiri and Moto, two young samurai of the Yushiba Army who were only ten years old.

Even if Ichiliu Naomo is strong in martial arts, he is not able to resist the offensive of these two, and when Ichiliu Naomo is at the moment, he can only abandon the martial arts temperament, and can only pull out his horse and retreat.

Yasuharu Wasaka, Katagiri and Moto, but they chased after each other.

Katagiri and Yuan opened his bow and arrow, and raised his hand to a willow and was an arrow.

The arrow hit his right arm, and he rolled off his horse.

Yasuharu Wasaka, Katagiri and Mototo were overjoyed when they saw it, and hurriedly turned their horses forward and came to ask for his head.

Seeing the two of them killed, Ichiliu Naomo was about to turn over and get up, but found that his limbs were weak.

Just when Ichiliu Naomo was about to shout 'my life is over'.

I saw a war horse with a coat like silk galloping beside him, and met Yasuharu Wasaka, Katagiri and Yuan.

The person who came was Li Xiao!

It turned out that he saw the crisis on the left flank of the Takeda Army and personally led the flank to come to the rescue.

Seeing that the other party's general was riding a horse to kill, Yasuharu Wasaka, Katagiri and Yuan were at a loss for a while.

Everyone knows that the other party is one of the few fierce generals in the world.

And the black forging under Li Xiao's crotch was as fast as lightning, and suddenly it was close to these two people.

Seeing that the two of them were still panicked, Li Xiao was even more unceremonious and raised his gun.

I saw that in mid-air, a shot was killed, Katagiri and Yuan flew off the horse with blood, and was killed by Li Xiao with a shot, and begged for it!

Seeing that Li Xiao was so powerful, Yasuharu Wagasaka was frightened at the moment, and he gave up the idea of avenging Katagiri and Yuan, and hurriedly retreated.

"Katagiri!"

Yushiba Hideyoshi, who was watching the battle on the mountain, saw that he was killed by Li Xiao, and he was distressed for a while, and couldn't help but grit his teeth.

However, in the situation, the Yuchai Army and the Wise Army still overpowered the Takeda Army.

Although the samurai Katagiri and Yuan of the Hashiba Army were taken by Li Xiao, after a fierce battle, the Makino Kamishosuke team of the Takeda Army was defeated, and the lord of Awayu Castle, Shichiro Awayu, was taken by the fifteen-year-old samurai Masanori Fukushima under Hashiba Hideyoshi.

The Takeda army also fought and retreated, retreated across the river, and the two sides fought until dusk, the Takeda army was still in formation, and in the end it was wise, and the Yuchai army could only be unable to retreat.

The two sides retreated in a draw.

That night, General Li Xiao was stationed on the Kaga border, and while continuing to confront the Oda army of Akechi and Hashiba, he also contained the followers of Honganji Temple who had retreated to Kaga.

That night, those who had retreated from Toba Castle were led by Lai Jun Shimoma, Lai Zhao Shimoma, and Nanari Zhou and others with less than 300 monks and soldiers, as well as more than 2,000 believers, to join Li Xiao.

The Honganji Temple of Shengxing Temple in Yuezhong is honorable, and the 5,000 Vietnamese reinforcements led by Lianqin of Honganji Temple of Ruiquan Temple have just arrived in Li Xiao's military camp.

In the middle of the night, Li Xiao and these Kaga, the officials of the Honganji Temple in Vietnam, had a military discussion at the moment. …,

Xianrong, Lianqin, Xiama Lai Zhao, and Qili Lai have all dealt with Li Xiao a lot, and now that they see Li Xiao, they all look dejected.

At the moment gathered in Kaga, there are less than 10,000 believers left.

At the beginning of the expedition from Kaga to Echizen, the 140,000 Honganji army was defeated by the Oda army in just a few days, and tens of thousands of believers were killed by Nobunaga's butcher's knife, and the rest were scattered.

These four people all knew that if it wasn't for this time, Li Xiao would lead the army to help, and Kaga's Pure Land True Sect would be destroyed.

But the guidance of the next Masato Lai Zhao, the guidance of the Seven Miles Lai Tsunami Kaga Ichizong, is usually used to his strengths, and he refuses to bow his head to Li Xiao at the moment, saying anything grateful.

However, Honganji showed that he had no guilt, and said: "But Lord Mamori, if it were not for Your Excellency's help, the consequences would be unimaginable, and I will thank you on behalf of the people of Kaga Echichu, Your Excellency's help, and the help of the Takeda Army, we will remember it in our hearts." ”

Li Xiao smiled gently after hearing this, and said, "I don't dare to do this." ”

At this time, Lai Jun stood up, clenched his fists, and said loudly: "Nobunaga has committed a lot of blood debts in Echizen, and we must not just forget it. Now that reinforcements have arrived at the Echichu Temple, and with the 8,000 troops of Lee, and we can return to fight the Oda army and recapture Echizen. ”

As soon as this person finished speaking, Li Xiao couldn't help but look at the other party with an idiot look.

Not only Li Xiao is like this, but even the next Lai Zhao, Qili Lai Zhou, Xianrong, and Lianqin are also like this.

Xianei said: "The war in Echizen has been eroded, and we are powerless to return to heaven, we still want to know how to protect Kaga, prevent Nobunaga from taking advantage of the situation to enter Kaga, and shake the foundation of my Pure Land Shinshu in Hokuriku." ”

Shimoma Yorisho said in a deep voice: "Yes, the matter has come to this point, and there is no need to mention the matter of retaking Echizen in the future." ”

After Yorijun was reprimanded, he sat down again with a flushed face.

Kaga is where Hokuriku Ichijomune Mountain is located, and if Kaga is destroyed, then Honganji Temple will be uprooted in Hokuriku.

"But Lord Mamori, I have already discussed, and I would like to ask Your Excellency to lead an army into Kaga, and join us in resisting the Oda family's invasion of Hokuriku!"

It was Qili Lai Zhou who spoke out.

Li Xiao's eyes narrowed after hearing this, but he was silent.

Shimoma Lai said: "But Lord Mamori, if you are willing to lead the army to settle in my Kaga, we are willing to grant Your Excellency the position of monk to the head of the mountain, as the official of my Kaga Pure Land True Sect, and sit on an equal footing with the poor monk and the master of the seven miles." ”

Hearing what Yorisho Shimoma said, Li Xiao nodded slightly, thinking to himself that in the face of the oppression of the Oda family, Hokuriku Honganji had to hug my thighs right now.

This position of Kaga Honganji temple official is finally a very sincere condition.