The first battle of Norada played the prestige of Asai Nagamasa, and greatly boosted the morale of the Kinai Triple Alliance, Asai Nagamasa with more than 10,000 troops in Aichi County to attack and plunder before returning to the division and retreating, this war is not just a conquest of tens of thousands of people, but also represents an important signal that the Asai family has become a daimyo completely independent.

This war completely tore apart the diplomatic game of the Rokkaku family and the Asai family, revealing a bloody and cruel real scene, and the Asai family once again became independent from the Rokkaku family, becoming a daimyo with complete ruling power and strong force, and no longer need to bow to the Rokkaku, even if it is formal.

The face of the Rokkaku family was completely swept away, and the family governor Rokkaku Yoshiken used his humiliating performance to fulfill the prestige of Asai Nagamasa, and the Rokkaku retainers felt deeply humiliated and resentful for this, and several genealogical ministers further separated from the Rokkaku family, and many people under the Rokkaku family began to plan their own way out, which was the beginning of the complete collapse of the corner.

Perhaps it was a great victory that allowed Asai Nagamasa to fully stretch his abilities and further establish his absolute prestige as the governor of the family, so on the second day after he returned to Kotani Castle, he announced in a high-profile manner that the tax on the customs offices of Asai and Ika counties would be implemented immediately, and he was telling the Kira family that he would not give you any chance to negotiate, and rudely rejecting any possibility of compromise.

At the same time that Asai Nagamasa announced the start of the tax in a high-profile manner, Asakura Yoshikei also cooperated with the announcement of the long-prepared plan, and he was determined to confront the Kira family with practical actions rather than verbal threats. Let them get rid of the members of the Naya who belonged to the Kira family.

Their actions completely infuriated Tokiyuki Yamamoto, who was still patient. Let this one-eyed general be determined to teach these arrogant samurai a profound lesson. They were reminded of the memories of Yoshitoki Kira's time in Kinai, and on the morning of July 12, 16,000 troops poured out of Sakamoto Castle, targeting Asai gun, north of Takashima-gun.

In the process, the people of Takashima County acted quickly and did not show any dissent, and those samurai who made anti-Kira remarks were either quietly controlled by the Kira ninja or had completely disappeared from the world, and the Kira family gave them preferential treatment and were so ignorant of current affairs, thinking that life would be better if they resumed their autonomy. This kind of samurai who can't distinguish the general trend has no value in existence, and their death and extinction can just bring benefits to the Kira family.

Yamamoto Tokiyuki himself served as a general to raid Asai County, which was separated from the east and west banks of Lake Biwa, and was defeated without resistance under the surprise attack of the Kira army, and there was not even a decent castle for the Kira army to attack, and the ragtag army composed of several small wealthy clans was crushed to death without injury, and they had no value in existence like those samurai who did not know the times.

The customs office in Asai County was destroyed by a fire, and the executive appointed by the chief of Asai was hanged on a crooked neck tree outside the customs office, and the first batch of money collected in the customs office was obtained by the Kira army, and all the business travelers who handled the tax collection documents at the customs office were refunded in turn. The other part of the business travelers who have paid the tax and left do not receive this part of the compensation tax, and they will also be found through the network of the pipa house to give corresponding compensation.

Tokiyuki Yamamoto was very clear about the meaning of the invasion in the second northern Omi. The slogan of expelling the tyrannical and rude decision of the Kinai Triple Alliance, and using force to ensure the unimpeded flow of trade routes without interference, and whoever obstructs us is our enemy, is the heartstring of the Kinai merchant group, and because of the good business reputation of the Kira family, it has been supported by the Ki Nai merchants, either explicitly or implicitly.

After burning down the Kansho in Asai Prefecture, the Kira army set off again for the further north of Ika Prefecture, where Numata Mitsukane's strategy played an important role, and Iguchi Nobuyomoto, a powerful countryman in Ika Prefecture, had two daughters who were married to Hisashi Asai and Numata Mitsukane's four men, Numata Gonsuke Motoko.

Iguchi Nozoto was closer to his eldest son-in-law, Asai Hisasa, but after Asai Hisasato was forcibly claustrophobic by his grandson Asai Nagamasa, his political stance gradually tilted towards the Numata family where his youngest daughter was, and at this time, the current head of the Iguchi family, Iguchi Nobuya, was his sister-in-law, but he was a die-hard supporter of Asai Nagamasa.

As a powerful countryman who gave up the position of monk governor but did not completely retire, Iguchi Nobuyoto was very dissatisfied with his sister-in-law's attitude of following the Asai family, because he had already seen his son's in-laws Numata Mitsukane, and the conditions given by this in-law were very favorable, as long as he stood on the side of the supporters of the Kira family, he would give the Iguchi family a larger territory to know how to act.

This treatment impressed Iguchi Jingyuan, he has been running for the expansion of his territory all his life, marrying the Asai family of Kita Omi and the Numata family of Wakasa Province are all tentative moves to ask for directions, and now his two temptations have achieved extraordinary achievements, the first time let Ah Yiyue change from a small trumpet country to a large countryman, and this time may make him from a country man to a powerful country man who shocked one side.

However, what he could do was very limited, neither so that his sister-in-law Iguchi could find out about it, nor could he let the nearby Yumori Yabei Captain Kiyosada notice it, so he hurried to Ika-gun under the pretext of going to Lake Yuwu to see the flooding of the river this year, where he contacted the old Yuyukan and Higashinokan in the name of a guest, and successfully infiltrated the city by providing cover for the ninjas of the Kira family.

When he found a reason to return to Ikaguchi Castle, the news of the fall of the two castles had already arrived, and the pass in the northern part of Ika-gun was completely burned down, and such a big movement immediately caused a fierce reaction from the Asai family, and Asai Nagamasa led 10,000 troops to rush to Ika-gun, and gathered the troops of the Asho clan, the Iguchi clan, the Yumori clan, the Isono clan and other people in the county, and gathered 12,000 people to march into the northernmost part of Lake Biwa.

At this time, the Kira army was already ready for war under the leadership of Yamamoto Tokiyuki, and 16,000 troops were deployed in Oiwa Mountain to meet the attack of the Asai army, and Asai Nagamasa still sent 5,000 pioneers composed of Isono Yuanmasa to charge ahead, and he led 7,000 troops to detour back to the flank of Oiwa Mountain to flank the Kira army, even in the face of the Kira army, which had a geographical advantage on the Oiwa Mountain, he did not show the slightest fear.

In the face of such a blatant method of arranging the formation, Yamamoto Tokiyuki only smiled lightly and said: "Dividing the troops with inferior forces to flank the superior forces, this method of arranging the formation is really unexpectedly reluctant!" It seems that winning more with less has given this Asai Hall a great morale boost. Try to replicate the glorious battle of Norada here. Should the old man give him a chance to perform? ”

Although the mouth is very casual. But in fact, Yamamoto Tokiyuki responded very cautiously, mobilizing several military forces to meet the offensive of the Asai Army in turn, and taking advantage of the time difference between the second attack to further consume the impact of the Asai Army, so that the Asai Army, which was already climbing the mountain and attacking back, formed a short stack of military momentum in the middle of the mountain, and it was very embarrassing to want to advance and retreat.

Isono Yuanchang still played the true character of a fierce general, and in the face of the superior forces of Okochi Kunitsuna, he still rushed to the front without showing fear, but it was a pity that he was facing the Omi samurai who had been carefully trained for more than ten years, rather than the ragtag army of the Rokkaku family. Neither the quality nor the morale of the soldiers is comparable to that of the people of those countries.

More than half of them have experienced several classic battles during the reign of Kira Yoshi, and the other half have participated in the night attack on the mountain and the extremely tragic battle of Luozhong, which can be called rich combat experience enough to face the slightly less intense war in Kinai, not to mention the 2,500 elite existences who have experienced the Vietnamese-Chinese War and the Luozhong Battle.

In front of the array of guns erected by hundreds of Omi samurai, even the most brave samurai had to be cautious and cautious, but there were still some reckless young samurai who rushed into the erected spear forest with a hot brain, and as a result, they were poked into a pile of rotten meat by countless spear blades without touching a single person.

He is a fierce general, not a reckless man, and he is not a fool, and he will not fight a battle that he knows will die. He chose to serve Asai Nagamasa or the revitalization of his family business rather than blindly being foolish, and he also supported the Asami clan against the Asai clan many years ago. But it doesn't prevent him from now working under Asai Nagamasa's banner to seek a harvest for himself.

The decay of Isono Yuanmasa's fighting spirit means that the invincible vanguard of the Asai family has been frustrated, this young army lacks the cohesion and deep heritage of being an elite, although the combat power is strong, it cannot avoid the problem of being good at fighting with the wind, this problem exists in all the military forces below the elite, no matter what their composition has a characteristic, that is, once they are in a tailwind, they are all kinds of tigers, and their majestic posture is amazing.

But once you encounter a headwind battle, you have to rely entirely on the leadership of the banner character, once the banner's fighting spirit decays or the flag falls, then you can't continue to fight, Isono Yuanchang is active in the vanguard of the Asai army as such a banner, in the past, he gave people the impression of being reckless and rude, like saying that I want to send the first samurai if I don't give it, but in fact, he is a smarter guy than anyone else.

The strength of the Kira family was completely beyond his imagination, and the powerful spear formation that could discharge a full 300 elite samurai with guns in the vanguard was definitely more powerful than having 5,000 miscellaneous troops or 500 horseback samurai, and all samurai could ride horses, even if their riding skills were bad, it would not prevent them from claiming the name of horse samurai.

But not every samurai can play spearmanship, and there are far fewer samurai who are good at gunsmithing than those who are good at swords, and slightly fewer than samurai who are good at bowing, which means that the base of the samurai class who are proficient in gunsmithing is smaller, not to mention gathering a group of guns that can pose strangely shaped, and can also gather from time to time to fight, and the Asai army has no power to fight back.

Under the cover of the elite ashigaru on both wings, the combat power of these three hundred samurai may be stronger than that of three thousand miscellaneous soldiers, they are like a solid reef standing on the shore, no matter how many times the waves of the sea beat them, they can't shake half a point, after the attenuation of Isono Yuanchang's fighting spirit, the vanguard of the Asai army organized more than a dozen charges, all of which were crushed by this huge rock without hesitation, and they couldn't even kill or injure one of them.

Ding no Wakasa Mamoru quickly reacted and ordered the arrows, but unfortunately the order passed down made the somewhat stupid Ashigaru people stunned for a long time, and under the severe reprimand of the samurai, they shot the first round of arrows in a panic, the construction of ordinary bamboo bows, ordinary arrows without tail feathers, and the rhythmless random shooting made the threat of these arrows very small, enough for the spear samurai of the Kira army to draw the shield behind them to resist the attack of the arrows.

The Kira army quickly responded with a for a tooth, resolutely retaliating with a better heavy wisteria bow and wooden arrows equipped with cast iron arrows and tail feathers, and round after round of arrow rain completely extinguished the offensive momentum of the Asai army's first formation, and the frontal attack was inflicted heavy damage in the first round of assault. It's really an advance, it's not a leg, and it's not an embarrassing basis for the situation to fall into a dilemma.

The brave Asai Nagamasa rushed up to Mt. Oiwa and was driven down again. I didn't last long and was pushed down again. Then the failure of the third assault made him realize that there was no result in such a fight, so he decisively ordered to reinstate his troops and camp on the west side of the Great Rock Mountain, which was only a few kilometers apart, and seemed to intend to confront each other here for a long time.

This mountain is located in the north of the river Yumu Lake is the highest mountain, because it is just between Lake Biwa and Lake Yuwu and the mountain is flat and wooded, it is one of the favorite tourist spots for tourists, standing on the top of the mountain can overlook the beautiful scenery of Lake Yuwu in the north and Lake Biwa in the south, and it is eye-catching, leaving many cultural footprints on this peak of only more than 400 meters.

Asai Nagamasa decided to stay here because he saw the flat terrain of Mt. Shidake, and because the mountain peaks were higher, he could obtain a higher field of vision, so he could easily monitor the movements of the Yoshira army of Oiwayama. As long as you keep an eye on the big rock mountain, you don't have to worry too much about being raided, and the local samurai are still being raided on their own territory, which is going to make a joke.

"Sadoden! They have retreated to the Mt. Eidake Mountain! ”

Yamamoto Tokiyuki looked at the direction of the retreat of the Asai army and did not speak, but after a little imagination, he could guess Asai Nagamasa's abacus, and secretly thought to himself: "Asai Nagamasa is planning to drag it down and wait for the rescue of the Asakura army to come!" The Miyoshi family's army is still concentrated on the front line of Settsu to deal with Hatakeyama Takamasa, and the Asai family will not be able to come to assist for a while, and only by waiting for the reinforcements of the Asakura family can the old man be pushed back to Sakamoto, and even carry out a round of attacks on the main family Sakamoto. ”

The samurai family in Kinai and the samurai outside Kinai are completely different things, because their seven aunts and eight aunts can easily involve a bunch of relatives and samurai who can't be provoked, either the imperial court ministers or the shogunate's important ministers. To provoke any one of them is to provoke the rhythm of a group of relatives, just like a bunch of relatives in the Date family beating up the small and medium-sized people of Mutsu.

What's worse is that the shogunate is very sensitive to Kinai. The public side has always regarded the acre and three points of land in Kinai as its own land, and the daimyo and the chaotic people of Kinai have a complicated relationship with the shogunate, and often encounter the two sides when they want to start fighting, they bump into the messenger sent by the shogunate to mediate, and then this joint war has no need to fight, and to force it to continue to fight is to disobey the orders of the shogunate, and their enemies will seize this precious opportunity to unite with opponents in their own families, such as a family or a family of genealogy to play themselves to death.

Therefore, the expansion of the Kira family in Kinai has always been not smooth, and the two counties have been hated by several big forces in Kinai for a long time, and the increasingly rich and powerful governance for a few years has attracted the covetousness of countless samurai, so Kira Yoshitoki decided to go down to Echigo as soon as possible to avoid the death of Kinai, and this time the implementation of countermeasures against Kinai is also a last resort, not to fight to the end with the Asai family.

Therefore, Yamamoto Tokiyuki was considering whether he could withdraw his troops and take a section of Asai County and successfully burn down Ika County and the Sekisho in Asai County, and the losses paid by his side were only a small number of battle losses and hundreds of wounded, and from the perspective of the situation, the Kira family made more money, at least Asai Nagamasa failed to grab much territory in a battle of Norada, but only collapsed the Rokkaku family's domination system over Minami Omi.

Just as Yamamoto was planning further plans, he received a surprising piece of information, which made him finally change his judgment and decide to continue fighting, and actively dispatched troops to forcibly harass the speed at which the Asai army camped on Mt. Shidake, preventing him from comfortably setting up camp.

The advantage of the Kira family is that the soldiers are elite, and they only need to send three or five hundred cavalry with bows and arrows to throw arrows at the guards halfway up the mountain of the Asai family, and they don't want to hit people, just harass the Asai army and camp are not peaceful, if the Asai army can't help but catch up for a while, there will be a group of iron artillery teams hiding in the dark woods and putting cold guns at an obscene angle, and they will run away after the fight, and they will definitely not stay in one place for too long.

This back and forth tossed the Asai army was too annoying, so they had to send 5,000 troops to camp at the foot of the mountain, and there were still 3,000 troops on the mountain ready to go down the mountain to respond, so they barely drove the harassment troops of the Kira army back to Big Rock Mountain, but this toss had exhausted the little time left, and it was getting late, but seeing that the camp had not yet been built, the Asai family could only light torches and continue to cut down trees and build camps.

This toss made the Asai army busy until midnight before resting, Asai Nagamasa was really worried about the Kira family's midnight raid, it was really because the Kira family was too fond of night raids that people had to guard against, so he took advantage of the situation to use the harvested excess timber to build a simple camp at the foot of the mountain, and Isono Yuanchang took the 5,000 troops to camp at the foot of the mountain.

Asai Nagamasa is young and healthy, even if he is busy all day, he doesn't feel how tired he is, and he is in the mood to pull the countrymen and important ministers to discuss the next military arrangement, which can make these elderly countrymen lords miserable, and the third watch in the middle of the night does not let people sleep to discuss important military and political matters, and it didn't take long for Jingkou Jingyuan to open his mouth and beg for a night's rest first and then discuss it tomorrow, and the people hurriedly echoed this proposal, and persuaded the people to persuade them for a long time. (To be continued......)