As the sun rises, the banner of the Yongle Tongbao style flutters in the wind in the Atsuta Shrine.

Oda Nobunaga frowned and stood on the steps of the shrine waiting for news.

In a short time, thick black smoke was already burning from the two places in the distance, the Marone and the Washitsu.

- Even these two have fallen.

A little later, a samurai who had fought his way out of the encirclement came to report to him on the military situation:

"Oda Genbo, die in battle!"

"Marune, fall!"

"Iio Omi Mamoru parent, died in battle!"

"Sakuma is solemn, and he died in battle!"

"Washizu, fall!"

Including Oda Nobunaga, everyone's hearts were hesitant.

Yesterday evening, Matsudaira Motoyasu of the Mikawa Matsudaira family arrived at the Otaka Castle with military rations, indicating that the Oda family had lost the initiative on the national border.

Before sunrise today, the Imagawa family sent Matsudaira Motoyasu and Asahina Taichao to attack Marune and Washizu at the same time.

Although Nobunaga parachuted into Atsuta with lightning speed, saved the merchants of Atsuta, and slightly regained a hand, the huge disadvantage on the frontal battlefield still could not be compensated.

Judging from the current arrangement of the two armies, it is likely that the Oda army has not yet approached Yoshimoto, and has been killed by the various detachments of the Imagawa family.

How do you have to march in order to gamble with Imagawa Yoshimoto?

"Report! A large number of pirates have appeared in the direction of Isewan! ”

"Nani!"

Nobunaga was shocked.

The first line of Atsuta and Narumi Castle was originally connected to Ise Bay. If Nobunaga marches to Yoshimoto's main camp, he can also choose the road near the sea.

But when the tide rises and there are pirates watching from the sidelines, the road to the sea is also blocked.

"It must be Hattori Tomosada, the bald donkey......"

Nobunaga realized in an instant that Hattori Tomosada led the pirates to block Ise Bay because he had reached some kind of agreement with the Imagawa family.

"Nagashima has always been a monk...... I, Nobunaga, have written down this account! ”

At this moment, the Oda army that had gathered in Atsuta had a total of 700 horseback troops, 1,800 ashigaru, and the Atsuta people, an armed force formed by Atsuta merchants, also numbered 800.

Nobunaga remembered Sasa Narumasa's plea before leaving, and knew that this victory was very slim, so he planned to leave Sasa Masaji in Atsuta.

- The Sasa family is loyal and brave, even if it is Nobunaga, he does not want the Sasa family to be destroyed.

"Where is Masasa Sasa!"

"The subordinates are here!"

"You take the reserves of the Sasa family and the Atsuta people to garrison here, and you are not allowed to attack without my orders!"

Masaji couldn't help but be stunned.

"Masaji did not show any disloyalty, and in the past, he was the first in every battle, and he did not live up to the expectations of his lord. At this moment, the army is about to start, why do you leave me here? What does the lord mean? ”

Sasa Masaji looked like an angry little daughter-in-law's aggrieved posture, which made Nobunaga involuntarily upset.

However, not only Nobunaga, but also Shibata, Maeda, Niwa and others also thought deeply of Sasa Masaji's Shin Ming.

Nobunaga relied on the Sasa family in the past, but why is it ...... today?

"I don't want to say it again! If there are disobedient people, they will not be forgiven! ”

Nobunaga yelled roughly.

As a result, everyone was silent, and Sasa Masaji was still arguing, but he was pulled by Chiaki Shiro on his side.

Subsequently, Nobunaga gave the order to go out of battle.

"Whole army, go to Zenshoji Temple!"

The weather was getting hotter, and the unclothed peasants in the team began to wipe the sweat from their foreheads, but Sasa Narimasa, who was wearing a full set of priests' hunting clothes, still looked well.

They had been waiting here for three hours since sunrise.

According to the agreement, Sasa Seimasa left Cheongju Castle overnight, found skilled retainers and peasants from the territory of Sasa's family, prepared special products and crude folk cakes and fruits, and arrived at this canyon at dawn.

It is more appropriate to say that it is a valley than a depression, although there are low hills on both sides, but it is not dangerous, and the valley floor between the mountains is slightly narrow, but it is far from the extent that it is impossible to open it.

This depression, the locals call it Tianlewa, and after today, it is called "Barrel Narrow" by the world.

Standing on a dirt slope, Narumasa saw the Imagawa family's troops from a distance, and a trace of joy rose in his heart.

- Compare it to Yoshimoto Imagawa's main team.

He brought people here to wait for him, and the one who was waiting was Imagawa Yoshimoto.

A moment later, a samurai on horseback came and asked:

"Get out of the way!"

This samurai looked like a domineering man, and just by coming to disperse the crowd, he had already pressed the guard to the hilt of his sword, and he had a posture of drawing his sword and slashing it without saying a word.

Seeing this situation, several retainers of the Sazuo family who pretended to be farmers were all angry.

Sasa Narumasa took two steps forward with a smile on his face, bowed to the arrogant samurai and said:

"The little one is the priest here, when he heard that His Royal Highness Daisuke Jibu led the royal master to come, the joy in his heart was incomprehensible, so he worked with the elders in the township to prepare some special products and coarse pastries, and came here to greet the army of His Royal Highness Daisuke!"

His expression was sincere, and his tone was extremely humble, which couldn't help but make the samurai let his guard down.

"Count you as acquaintances! Wait until I tell Your Highness! ”

With that, the samurai turned his horse's head and went back with a bang.

In front of us, Owari priests and peasants greeted our army—a news that surprised Imagawa Yoshimoto slightly.

Although he was confident that the people under his rule could live and work in peace and contentment, he would not be so arrogant that he thought that the people of Owari were looking forward to him leading the king's division to arrive.

The so-called situation of "eating pot pulp to welcome the king's master", he thought that it would not happen.

Even if someone did come to greet them, it was not the intention of the local farmers.

"If you are not a farmer, who will it be? Could it be a wealthy family with a heart to defect? ”

Yi Yuan understood seven or eight points after thinking about it for a while, and remembered that the messenger Ming Guang Yizheng had not yet returned with news, and he was a little worried in his heart.

What if the Atsuta people imprisoned Ming Guang Yoshimasa and asked him to pretend to be a peasant and a priest to meet him here, waiting for an opportunity to assassinate him?

"Impossible...... It's a lot of worry. ”

This idea was only born, and it was denied by Yiyuan himself.

Atsuta may have a motive to greet him, but there is never a motive to assassinate him.

"Give the order, and our army will rest here for a while, and bring the priest to me."

"Hay!"

After the order to rest on the spot was handed down, the main unit of the Imagawa Army, which numbered of 5,000 men, dispersed in an orderly manner, and the ashigaru men gathered in groups on the back of the mountain or under the shade of a tree to escape the scorching sun.

As a priest, Sasa Narumasa also came to the Chinese army with the samurai of the Imagawa family, and he couldn't help but be surprised to see a tall samurai riding a white horse and wearing silver-white armor surrounded by everyone in the center.

Where did Yoshimoto Imagawa go?

It is rumored that Yoshimoto is a big fat man, and because he likes Kyoto's public culture, he shaves off his eyebrows and blackens his teeth, which is ugly and funny.

It is also rumored that the reason why Imagawa Yoshimoto rode in a sedan chair in the Battle of Tsubazama was because he was fat and his legs were too short to ride a horse.

Although the above is not found in the history of letters, it is also the opinion of the vast majority of people.

At this moment, what Cheng Zheng saw was a tall and handsome samurai with a two-handsome mustache, and he couldn't help but wonder in his heart, and looked around the tall samurai, but he didn't find anyone who might be Yoshimoto.

Since he couldn't find it, Cheng Zheng simply bowed down from afar and shouted:

"Villain Ikari Yuandu, meet Yi Yuangong!"

"Look up."

Cheng Zheng did as he was told, only to see the tall samurai in the center of the crowd step down from the snow-white steed, looking down at him condescendingly.

…… Could it really be him?