Several members of the Nine Ghost Family laughed and said, "It seems that this so-called inland river army is not even as good as paper!" It's a group of guys who don't have a ball, and there is no ball in Ashikaga Yoshitoki, and it takes so much effort to fight a Miyoshi family, and look at our lord's father-in-law's order, and Miyoshi Yi fled in a hurry, this is the gap in the realm! ”

The samurai of the Oda family held the sword one by one and laughed lowly, but it made many of the Kinai sailors on the ship very embarrassed, the Sakamoto navy is a straw bag, and the Awaji navy is a pus, their group of Kinai sailors are not even as good as a dirt pit, and the seven or eight turns prove that the people of Kinai are all cowards without a bag ball, and then it proves that the Oda family is invincible in wisdom and martial arts, and it is strange to be happy to hear this bastard logic.

The Nine Ghosts Jialong is very smart, just a few glances to understand the situation on the ship, and suddenly said: "Don't be angry, you gentlemen, our Shima Navy is used to the sea wilderness, and when we first arrived at the inland river, we are not very suitable for this calm and calm river, and it is inevitable to say some foul words used on the ordinary sea, if the improper use of words hurts your face, I Jialong is here to say sorry to a few people, not an example, not an example!" Hehehe......"

"Yes, yes! I'm just a little impatient, don't mind if you say a few words! Hehe...... "The samurai of the Nine Ghost Family are all pirates who rob houses, and they are the best at hippie smiling nonsense and ruthless face-turning, not to mention being cheeky and apologizing, even if they are caught by the enemy and kneeling down to shout father, they have also done it, this group of samurai who don't know what the festival is most concerned about is face, if face can be exchanged for wine to drink, then their face would have turned into two taels of wine and fell into the belly.

There are nine ghosts Jia Long who personally reversed the direction of the topic. There are also pirates who have been robbing money and killing people at sea all year round, and are proficient in all kinds of vulgar jokes. It didn't take much effort to coax this group of relatively honest bow and sailors around. One by one, the relationship between brothers and sisters is very good, and it is almost to the extent that they swear to be righteous brothers from heaven to earth, at first glance, where is this colleague who has just known each other for a long time, it is simply a good brother in a pair of pants, and the relationship is eager beyond imagination.

Nine Ghost Jialong shook his head and said with a dark smile: "The water army of the inland river is really a group of guys who don't have a ball, and they will be fooled in a few words, if they are placed in the open sea, I am afraid that they will die without a place to bury." ”

At this moment, the Oda sailor gradually slowed down the speed of its march. Under the command of the Nine Ghosts Jialong, the 600 boats and ships were divided into three routes, and the left and right flanks outflanked the Sakamoto naval army with 200 pure Xiaozao left and right, and then went around to Sakamoto Port and turned around to raid the back of the Sakamoto naval army, while the main force charged the Sakamoto naval army with more than 200 main boats and ships.

The arrangement is not very fine, but there is always caution, and always keeping the two hundred boats in the formation is also to beware of the Sakamoto naval army suddenly playing an unexpected trick, the boats on both wings are all servant troops from the inland river, even if the whole army is wiped out, it will not affect the nine ghosts Jialong for half a point, but he is still careless, and he actually forgot to arrange Xiaozao as a guard in the nearby waters.

This is a fatal oversight. As a result, the Nine Ghosts Jialong did not expect at all, and the direction of Katata Port, which has never been very eye-catching. At this time, more than 200 boats suddenly drilled out and turned into an off-string arrow and galloped towards the port of Sakamoto, and their target was the negligent Oda naval army, and the first in line was all the small morning clippers, speeding in the north wind blowing from Lake Biwa.

The main formation of the Oda naval army immediately reacted and sent a small early to try to thwart the surprise attack with iron cannons and bows and arrows, but they soon found that these small early were obviously carrying heavy loads, but they ignored the blocking of the oncoming iron cannon bows and arrows, as if they were not afraid, the horses rushed into the main formation of the Oda naval army, and then the sailors who drove the boat did not care about the naval army that jumped on the boat, and jumped into the water and abandoned the ship without saying a word, such a strange move immediately attracted the attention of the nine ghosts Yoshitaka.

The Nine Ghosts Jialong said strangely: "Carrying heavy loads but no soldiers, it ran into the fleet and fled immediately...... Wrong! This has been specially reinforced early on, how can there be a cabin shed, there must be a problem with this! ”

His reaction was still a little slower, and the Oda naval samurai who jumped on the boat got into Kohaya's cabin and let out a burst of exclamations after a moment, and before he could react, he saw Kozai, who was galloping later, rushing over and throwing a round sparkling clay pot at Kozai, who crashed into the formation.

The next moment, the fire splashed and lightning thundered, and the violent shock set off high waves, even if the Nine Ghosts Jialong was sitting on the stable Anzhai ship, he was also shaken and staggered, and before he could open his mouth, there was a rumbling explosion in his ears, this time he was really a little unable to stand, the huge Anzhai ship seemed to be struggling in the raging waves, shaking violently and irregularly from side to side.

Even the most nimble sailors will inevitably lose their balance, not to mention the Nine Ghost Yoshitaka who stood on the roof of the ship without shelter and handrails, and some of the leaders who accompanied the Nine Ghost Yoshitaka on the roof of the Ataku ship were unlucky, and some of the samurai on the side fell into the icy lake in the first wave of vibration, and then the second and third waves of the shock threw many people down, compared to these guys who didn't know life and death, the Nine Ghost Jialong was still very lucky.

In misfortune, Wan Xing, he just fell and knocked his head out of a big bag, and wanted to scold a few words of bad luck and there was a huge earthquake, the location of this shock seemed to be near the house ship, the nine ghosts Jialong was very smart and lay motionless on the deck, until the violent vibration gradually turned smaller, he raised his head and looked around: "Is there anyone still alive?" What the hell is going on? ”

"Explosion...... It's on fire! Many ships were on fire...... The flotilla fled! The left and right flanks are collapsing...... The Sakamoto Navy is outflanking and pursuing! The intermittent shouting in the cabin was almost faintly visible under the cover of the explosion and the roar of the iron cannon, and the Nine Ghosts Jialong panicked at this moment, and even stood up and looked around, and a bloodstained blade was on fire everywhere in front of him, and the nearest one was even next to the Anzhai ship, which was extremely terrifying.

"Bastard! We were fooled! The cunning Sakamoto Navy didn't show real skills, and this group of cunning inland river sailors must have colluded to deceive me! Right! It must be so! I'm going back and tell my lord! Let him watch out for these cunning river armies! The Nine Ghosts Jialong cursed viciously, and by the way, he pushed his responsibility away, and waited for a dense sound of iron cannons to reach his ears. only to wake him up from the blow of defeat. In a hurry, he ordered the whole army to turn around and temporarily retreat into the Uji River to retreat.

Clippers loaded with rosin, oil, saltpeter, sulfur and large quantities of charcoal were detonated. The flames that rose into the sky were accompanied by the roar of spring thunder, completely suppressing the unprepared Oda naval army, and the flotilla that was still outflanking on both wings watched in amazement at the explosions and flames that were constantly coming from the main formation behind them, and the bright flames could be seen clearly even from a distance of several kilometers.

A thought popped up in everyone's hearts, the Oda Navy was defeated, and it was a complete defeat, far more than the Nine Ghost Yoshitaka imagined a miserable defeat, and whether they could get up from the fall was still a problem. No one cares about this issue now, and everyone has a thought, leave a useful body and run away quickly, and work for Oda Danmasa again in the future.

The Nine Ghosts Jialong shrank in the cabin and didn't dare to come out, he didn't know how much the boat had lost, just a quick glance just now estimated that the loss was no less than thirty percent, with the fierce firefights, shouts and cries coming from outside the ship, one thing could be determined

The process of escaping is difficult, facing the Sakamoto naval army from all sides, the whole process of the stagnant boat turning around on the spot and slowly accelerating will continue to face attacks. The largest Ataka ship became a target, and the iron artillery team of the Sakamoto Navy stood on the side of the ship and aimed and fired at will. The dense firepower focused on the attack, and the nine ghosts Jialong who hit almost didn't dare to take the lead.

The Sakamoto Navy also knew that the Ataka ship was a command ship, so he sent the Kohaya Clipper several times to try to rush around the Ataka ship to attack, as long as killing or capturing the Nine Ghosts Yoshitaka would be equivalent to breaking one of the arms of the Oda family, and the Nine Demons Yoshitaka such a long-term pirate of course also understood this truth, so that the flag waved in all directions and was protected by dense Kozai, and made up his mind to get out even if he filled in people's lives.

There is nothing wrong with the response of the Nine Ghost Jialong, after the shock of the explosion of the fireship, the formation of the fleet was washed out of the system, the sailors and outlaws fell into the water, and the people who were burned and drowned did not know how many, and the samurai with helmets and armor would not die as long as they fell into the lake, no matter how good the water was, they were not saved, and if they did not escape at this time, there was only one word "death".

The snake has no head, and the commander of the general is huddled in the cabin and desperately issued a retreat order, but it is conceivable to what extent the army's heart has collapsed, and the inland river sailors on both wings have run away, and those with conscience can still think of issuing a banner, and most of the sailors will run away without saying a word, regardless of the situation in their own formation.

The victory has been decided, and the Sakamoto Navy began to privately surround and harvest the endgame, and the pocket array surrounded by the Quartet became tighter and tighter, trying to turn over and fight a war of annihilation, but the main force of the Sakamoto Navy was not enough, and it was still too difficult for the Oda Navy composed of two hundred boats and ships of the Sakamoto Navy to annihilate a fleet of two hundred boats, and the Nine Ghosts Yoshitaka was not the bow of an ordinary running ship.

In the face of half of the injured Oda naval army, the Oda naval army could only choose the key attack, staring at the Ataka ship to attack for a long time, and found that the Oda naval army spared no effort to protect the command ship.

After a little measurement, Yodogawa Mitsucho ordered to turn around, set the tactic of encircling the three ques and enlarging and chasing the small, followed the fierce pursuit behind the Oda navy, and followed the defeated troops of the Oda navy to the Uji River outside Otsu Port, and the merchant ships passing along the way watched in amazement as the fleet of the Oda navy fled with black smoke.

The Sakamoto Navy chased fiercely, and more than a dozen lightly armed Sekibunes relied on the advantage of speed to keep biting the left and right sides of the Ataka ship, and the guards of the Oda Navy Sekibune were desperately protecting the left and right, and the deck of the Ataka ship was riddled with holes, and there were a few light transmissions that were so good that you could see the sun outside.

The Nine Ghosts Jialong anxiously urged, and the sailors used their strength to paddle desperately, but the shape of the Ataku ship was large, the speed of movement was slow, and the speed of turning was even slower, and it was always stuck to the light and convenient ship and could not get out, according to common sense, the defense and firepower of the Otaku ship were far superior to the ship, but now it was completely suppressed by the firepower of the Sakamoto naval army.

"No, it's still too slow! If you chase down and escape into the Uji River like this, you may not be able to escape safely......" Seeing this posture, I thought about it and felt that it was not good, so I immediately called the surviving naval army general and ordered: "Order all the ships to line up in two rows to separate the pursuers of the Sakamoto naval army, and the Ataka ships will concentrate their fire to fight back, if they continue to pursue, there will be no way out, and they must be determined to fight to the death!" We Oda samurai can't just know defeat and escape! ”

"Yes!" The Admiral of the Navy hurriedly gave the order, and soon the firepower of the Ataka ship increased rapidly. Movement speed has been significantly reduced. The samurai who had gone to defend all went down to paddle. Now that he had turned back and defended with an iron cannon, the speed of the oarsman was naturally slowed down, and as the Ataka ship slowed down, so did the escort fleet.

At this time, the distance between the two sides became closer and closer, and Yodogawa Mitsunaga, who followed closely, immediately noticed that the situation had changed, and shouted an order: "The Oda army is beginning to retreat!" Now is our good opportunity to immediately attack and block the Uji River Mouth, so that they cannot retreat into the river! ”

Forty ships carrying bows and arrows, Xiao Zao, who was lightly footed, threw off his arms and accelerated with all his might. In a moment, it surpassed the large fleet of the Oda Naval Army, and the clever naval army ordered all ships to abandon the pursuit of the remnants of the Oda Naval Army, and stared at the main force where the Nine Ghost Jialong was located.

"It's broken! The Sakamoto Navy wants to seal the way out! "Nine Ghost Jialong panicked and found that he had made a mistake that he shouldn't have made, he was obviously going to flee to the Uji River but didn't shoot the response fleet, the original fleet was slow and couldn't get rid of it, and now the Uji River estuary is blocked by boats, and it is even more difficult to break through, even if it's only forty boats, it will only delay a little time and it will be fatal.

The mouth of the Uji River was sealed, and the Oda Navy lost hope of escape. It was too late for the Nine Ghosts to send Kozao to storm the estuary in vain, and the Sakamoto Navy Army that followed closely was constantly supportive. Cutting off the last glimmer of hope for the Oda navy to break through the defensive line, the dozens of large and small ships crossing the mouth of the Uji River are like a wall that can never be crossed, and the height is desperate.

The Nine Ghosts Kataka risked his life to climb onto the deck, and looking around, there were only a handful of boats with papaya patterns, and white Ashikaga flags fluttering everywhere in the distance, staring at these boats and muttering, "One, two, three...... Seventy-five, seventy-six, seventy-seven, am I left with seventy-seven boats? And more than half were injured...... The Sakamoto Navy has at least two hundred ships to fight again, the firepower is fiercer than ours, the troops are more than ours, the retreat road is blocked, and there is only one way to let it go! ”

Today's Oda Nobunaga is the overlord of Kinai, and he has never suffered a defeat with a proud record, giving him a layer of invincible aura, which is the second invincible powerful samurai in Kinai since Ashikaga Yoshitoki, and what is even more bizarre is that Oda Nobunaga's development process is comparable to a dream, from the lord of Owari Half-Kingdom to the Daimyo of the Three Kingdoms of Noo-Ozai It only took more than ten years, and Kamiraku entered Beijing and swept Kinai in only three or two months, which was faster than Ashikaga Yoshishi's speed of sweeping Kanto.

The two samurai with proud records have their own merits, at first glance, they can be evenly matched for a while, but public opinion in Kinai does not see it that way, when it comes to the achievements of these two people in Kinai, it is obvious that Oda Nobunaga is more convincing, Ashikaga Yoshitoki fought against the Miyoshi family for only three years and retreated to Echigo, Oda Nobunaga only took three months to break up the Miyoshi family and fled back to Shikoku, and the people of the Kinai country are looking forward to surrendering, which is definitely far more powerful than the Ashikaga Yoshitoki of the year, and the reason why some samurai of the Oda family looked down on Ashikaga Yoshishi is also the reason.

No matter how much water Oda Nobunaga is powerful, at least the Oda Navy is not comparable to the Sakamoto Navy that has been developed for 20 years, and the Honjin fleet sent to Lake Biwa this time has more than 200 large and small ships, and more than 400 ships and ships of the servant army, which is simply comparable to the total scale of the Kanto Navy Army, not to mention the existence of sailors left behind in Kii, Ise and other places.

But it was so strong but was beaten in a water battle without the power to fight back, the nine ghosts Jialong, who has always been shrewd and resolute and never made mistakes, encountered a fatal mistake, more than half of the two hundred boats were destroyed by the fire and explosion, and more than 20 were destroyed by this pursuit, and less than 80 ships of all sizes survived, and more than half of them were injured.

The Nine Ghosts knew that he had no hope, and Yodogawa Mitsunaga also understood that the Oda Navy had no reasoning, so he shouted: "The whole army will speed up, surpass the Oda Navy with all its might, and annihilate them here...... And also! Life or death! ”

In the last round of attack, the remnants of the Oda navy were surrounded by regiments and had become a dead state, and the Sakamoto navy was still cautious to open the way with iron cannons and baked jade, and forced a passage to the command ship, in the face of huge force superiority and strong firepower, all resistance relying on the wooden deck was futile.

The sailors of the Oda Navy hurriedly jumped into the middle of Lake Biwa to look at the small life, and they were usually the first to lock on to the target and kill them with bows or iron cannons, and the battle turned into a one-sided one-sided crushing and slaughter.

Sailors who are eager to make meritorious contributions and boast of strong water kung fu have asked for battle. What these non-samurai-turned-sailors most desired was military exploits. If you have a beheading, you will get a bounty. If you have military exploits, you can get a reward for knowing and doing, and interacting with the land of knowing and doing means becoming a samurai, and you are no longer an ordinary fisherman who begs for a living on the water in the countryside.

Stimulated by the exploits of war, the young sailors all had their eyes shining, and they rushed out with a sword in their hands and a simple carcass, or they looked for an opportunity to jump on the deck of the Oda Naval Force, or jumped into the water and climbed all the way to the side of the ship, and with their beautiful water kung fu, they rushed into the middle to find the lone samurai killer. From time to time, you can hear the sound of fighting and wailing in the cabin of the ship in the right place, and usually this kind of person is also the least afraid of death.

The fierce battle lasted until the evening before it came to a hurried end, the resistance of the Oda army became smaller and smaller, and at the beginning of the fierce return fire was only faintly heard by the sound of scattered iron cannons, and when Yodogawa Mitsunaga boarded the almost scrapped Ataka ship, the last wisp of twilight hanging on the horizon sank to the earth, and the body of the Nine Oni Yosataka was found in the cabin, and a few words of death were written on a blank piece of paper, the general of the Oda Navy had already returned to Huangquan.

The Nine Ghosts Yoshitaka must die and not die, if he doesn't die, he will inevitably be captured by the Sakamoto Naval Army. Oda Nobunaga would never spend a lot of money in exchange for a loser, and if he was captured, it would be no different than if he was already dead. But being captured and dying are not the same after all, and he carries all the hopes of the Shima Naval Army on his shoulders.

If he could escape with half or a third of the fleet in this fiasco, he might be able to find a reason to explain to Oda Nobunaga, but how could he explain that he was captured and that these two hundred ships were all wiped out, and that the utilitarian Oda Nobunaga could accept a limited defeat, not a complete defeat, let alone an incompetent general.

The Nine Ghosts Jialong Yingming I was confused for a while, no matter how good he was in the past, as long as the gutter capsized once, he became a representative of mediocrity and stupidity, how many ministers and good generals died in the evening or died accidentally, they were planted on this invisible threshold, knowing that they could not rush in but they rushed to attack.

Knowing that the Sakamoto Navy may be deceitful, he still wishfully believes that the enemy is really weakening, and he knows that he is about to be defeated, but he does not abandon the Ataka ship and flee as soon as possible, he is paying the price for his stupidity and wishful thinking, which is considered to be innocent and deserved.

The movement of this Lake Biwa water battle is very large, from the early morning to the evening, from Sakamoto all the way to Otsu, along the way stop to watch the merchant travelers, monks, samurai countless, they used their own eyes to witness the occurrence of a legendary water battle, with the facts proved how ridiculous the so-called Oda Nobunaga invincible theory is, a war to destroy all the main forces of the Oda army, like a leg of the Oda army, Oda Nobunaga is still invincible? Apparently not.

When the results of the water war spread to Kinai and even the world, the mythical aura of the Oda family's invincibility faded in the future, and soon someone turned over the example of Oda Nobunaga's repeated defeats to the Saito family in his early years, and the battle of Barrel Sasama had not been able to take much advantage from the Imagawa family before, and in the face of Takeda Shingen, he could only passively defend the city, and Tokugawa Ieyasu of Okazaki Castle was beaten every three or five times, and the crumbling many times relied on the tenacity of the Mikawa samurai to persevere.

Owari is weak and incompetent, Owari is a big fool who has done a lot of deviant evil things, etc., all of them have been exposed by the boat brother one by one, and in the forbidden change incident of the deposed emperor, Oda Nobunaga played the role of a thug, leading a group of Owari samurai who did not belong to the imperial court or the shogunate to kill people and arrest people when they saw them, and they killed when they resisted, and they were far more arrogant and domineering than the samurai of Shikoku who plundered Kyoto for a lot of evil, at least the Shikoku samurai only looted the Konoe mansion, and did not dare to break into the palace to arrest people and kill people and depose the emperor.

This time the weak soldiers of Owari once again exposed their nature of bullying the soft and fearing the hard, and the whole army was wiped out under the surprise attack of the Sakamoto Navy, and even the general of the Navy, the Nine Demons Yoshitaka, also cut his stomach and killed himself, Oda Nobunaga's reputation was like last year's united efforts to praise him, and he was pressed down with one heart and one mind, which is called the higher the praise, the heavier the fall, and it is actually difficult to live up to the fame.

Oda Nobunaga, who was sitting in the Kannonji Castle to supervise the battle, was also the first to receive this information, at first he didn't believe in the information of the annihilation of the whole army at all, until he confirmed the same result several times, he found that the situation was far more serious than he imagined, and the Nine Demons Yoshitaka, who had always been the most assured, was defeated and killed by Uji Kawaguchi, which was not a heavy blow.

Powerful water army, that is one of the most proud military forces of the Oda family, Oda Nobunaga's trust of the nine ghosts Yoshitaka is not an ordinary person, at least the ability to control the water war is not comparable to ordinary mediocrity, these days many small defeats can also express understanding, even if you lose a big defeat, as long as you can get a harvest and learn a lesson, Oda Nobunaga still believes that he will annihilate the Sakamoto water army, because he believes that the general he uses is the best, he will be able to succeed, this time he failed.

Oda Nobunaga held a glass of Nanban's specialty, holding a glass of blood-like wine, coldly glanced at the samurai in the assessment room, and said: "A fiasco, more than 6,000 people were killed and wounded by the navy, seventy percent of the essence was wiped out in one day, and the most hateful thing is that the nine ghosts Yoshitaka took all the essence of the navy army and died in Lake Biwa, who can tell the family, what happened?" Why did the family lose? Why did you lose so badly in this little Omi? Why exactly? Well? ”

The ministers were dripping in cold sweat and didn't say a word, but Oda Nobunaga didn't intend to let them go, and directly called the name of Sakuma Nobumori, who was forced to get up and said: "We failed, because of the mistake of the Nine Demons Yoshitaka, so the naval army was destroyed, this is the general's mistake, we used the wrong general......"

"It's not a person, this is a good reason, failure is the general's fault, if the Nine Ghosts Jialong is at fault, then who should the family replace, Ban Yusuke continued!"

"Your Majesty ......" Sakuma Nobumori was stunned for a long time, obviously it was the season of early spring, and the beads of sweat on his head kept falling, just blindly kneeling on the ground and bowing his head to say sorry.

"Humph! It's not as useful as the dead Nine Ghost Kataka......" Oda Nobunaga turned his face in disgust, Sakuma Nobumori lowered his head with a pale face, Shibata Katsuya looked at his best friend sympathetically with a painful expression, and secretly sighed that he was really unlucky to bump into such a difficult question, no matter how he answered, it was difficult to satisfy Oda Nobunaga, after all, it was a loss not a win, and he also rewarded the essence of the sailor army and the fiasco of most of the boats, how to answer it was wrong.

Yushiba Hideyoshi was also very excited at first, thinking that there was a chance to take the lead, and when he saw what happened to Sakuma Nobumori, he hurriedly lowered his head and bowed his body obediently like a kitten, trying to avoid being targeted by the lord under the rage, most of the samurai in the hall had similar attitudes and practices, all of which were seen by Akechi Mitsuhide, as Oda Nobunaga's nominal righteous brotherhood, as well as the special background of the shogunate samurai, and got the position of being in charge of Kyoto's second service, as well as the Yamashiro National Police,

Cold-eyed and squinting at the life of the Oda family samurai, he bowed his head and made a contemplative expression to avoid this encounter, he was unwilling to provoke Oda Nobunaga who was like a tyrannosaurus for such a thing, and the irrational anger was just a simple vent, no matter who chose to take the lead, there was no good result.

"My family can't accept defeat, if you fail in the water war, you will find it back by land, if you can't win today, you will find a way to win tomorrow, and you will win for many years to kill and slaughter the enemy, if it is useless, why raise it." Oda Nobunaga raised his head and drank the wine, flicked his sleeves and strode away like a meteor. (To be continued......)

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