Wang Tianxie ordered the whole army to rest in Tsuruga Castle for two days.

He had already arranged for Maeda Keiji to lead the Oda Ghost Army to attack the Ryumen Temple outside Ichijo Valley Castle, and set up the main formation of the Oda Army at the Ryumen Temple. Therefore, he was not very afraid of Asakura Yoshikage, a sick fox with a disease, and fled to Ichijo Valley Castle.

Of course, if you can kill him before the other party returns to Yicheng Valley City, it will be much easier to attack Yicheng Valley City in the future.

Asakura Yoshikei, the sick fox, returned to the vicinity of Ichijo Valley Castle on the evening of the 22nd.

He did not run back to the castle of Ichichenggu, where he had lived since he was a child, but stood in the dense forest with a panicked face and looked at the city he was very familiar with.

It's not that he doesn't want to go back, it's that he doesn't dare.

At this moment, it can be said that the outside of Ichijoya Castle is very lively, and the roar of the iron cannons of the Oda Ghost Army's mounted iron artillery team, as well as the sound of ......Maeda Keiji's three-meter-long sword called "Daitainori" when he wields it, are all stunned by his kryptonite eyes.

Keiji Maeda was attacking Ryumonji Temple, not far from Ichijo Valley Castle. Under his leadership, the 4,000 Oda Oni Army Cavalry launched heavy fire around Ichijo Valley Castle and Ryumonji Temple.

Although the Asakura family, such as Asakura Keiren, Asakura Keiji, and Asakura Keimori, who were in charge of garrisoning Ichijo Valley Castle, organized an archery team to meet the attack, but under the high mobility of the Oda Oni Army's mounted iron artillery team, the effect was extremely weak, and it hardly had any effect on blocking the enemy.

As for the monks and soldiers of Longmen Temple, not to mention.

These monks and soldiers, armed with large swords and metal Zen staffs, were even more incompatible in the face of the charge of the mounted iron artillery team, and they were all killed on the ground one by one in front of the sick fox Asakura Yoshikage.

"The ghost! How could that ghost ...... Horse Riding Team! It must be that riding team! How can it be repaired! Asakura Yoshikei, the sick fox, hid in the woods and muttered with horror on his face.

It was only then that he finally remembered the horseback team that had appeared in the distance on his left side and rushed into the mountains when he fled to Yanase Castle the other day.

At that time, whether it was him or his family elders and important ministers. They all thought they had seen the apparitions, after all, they were all rugged mountain roads and steep cliffs.

Although it was indeed a shortcut to Ichijo Valley Castle, even if the army of Echizen Province under him came out, he would never take this path. Only those businessmen who don't care about their lives and only care about making money, or those bandits. will like such mountain roads.

Soon, Maeda Keiji's military formation had been completely stationed in Longmen Temple, which was far away from Ichijo Valley Castle.

Longmen Temple is only about 400 meters away from Ichijo Valley Castle Sannomaru. If Keiji Maeda wanted to, he could rely on the two thousand iron cannons in his hand to shoot at Ichijo Tanoshiro Sannomaru from Ryumonji Temple.

However, since Wang Tianxie had already said that he would let Maeda Keiji arrange his own camp in Longmen Temple, Maeda Keiji would naturally not rashly launch an offensive against Ichijo Valley City.

When the moon little Lori left the house and played in the sky, Maeda Keiji finally annihilated all the monks and soldiers outside the Longmen Temple. Prepare to storm the interior of the temple.

When the sick fox saw that Keiji Maeda had entered Ryumonji Temple, the idea of pretending to be a resident of the castle town and infiltrating the castle town town arose in his mind.

At this time, Ryumonji Temple was struggling to support under the onslaught of Keiji Maeda, and the castle town was in chaos, and the townspeople scrambled to flee in all directions.

Asakura Yoshikei took off his gorgeous samurai suit and changed into a coarse civilian suit, and then left his war horse in the grove, breaking the 300 army formation into pieces, taking advantage of the fact that Maeda Keiji did not have time to pay attention. Fled to the castle town.

"Open the door! Hurry up and open the door! When Asakura Yoshikei came to the Sannomaru Grand Entrance, he immediately shouted loudly.

At this moment, the sky was filled with the deafening roar of iron cannons. and the sound of horses' hooves trampling the earth with "click-......". Therefore, his shouting did not attract the attention of Keiji Maeda, who was four hundred meters away.

When he rushed into the Sannomaru Grand Entrance, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly summoned all the people, family elders, and important ministers in the city for a military discussion.

Soon, as a member of the family, Asakura Keitaka, Asakura Keika, Asakura Keiren, the old bird Ikin, Takahashi Shizaburo, Mamba Shigeji, and Tsukiyama Kiyozaemon all came to him.

Merely. Little did he know that this would be the last military conference in his life.

"Kiyozaemon! How many troops are there in the city? After drinking a cup of hot tea to calm down, Asakura Yoshikei looked at Kiyozaemon Tsukiyama, an old man in his seventies.

"The Great Hall, before saying these things, thinks below. At this point, it is best to invite the young gentleman, his wife, and his wife to this meeting. Although this is a military discussion, in fact, it is the time to say goodbye to the main hall at the inferior level! The white-haired Tsukiyama Kiyozaemon fell to the ground and said with a trembling mouth.

"Kiyozaemon, in this case, there are very few military formations left in the city?" Asakura Yoshikage's face was a little embarrassed.

"Yes, even if we are all counted, plus the three hundred people brought back from the main hall, the total number is probably not more than eight hundred! The main hall, you can take as many people as you can, right? The rest of the people were handed over to me Kiyozaemon to lead a desperate battle against the oni of the Oda family. Kiyoemon Tsukiyama continued to prostrate himself on the ground, crying with tears in his voice.

After listening to Tsukiyama Kiyozaemon's words, Asakura Yoshikage was a little speechless and speechless for a while. He really didn't want his mother and wife to see him in such a miserable state.

However, he also knew that Kiyozaemon Tsukiyama was right, and the reality was the cruelest, so he had to let his mother and wife understand the current situation before he could make a comeback plan.

"Okay, go ask them over." In the end, Asakura Yoshikyo still compromised, and was forced to put down his old face in desperation, and gave the same orders.

"The main hall, the city handed down by the ancestors, cannot be kept for the time being. The only way to go to Haishan City immediately is to make a comeback with Jingjing. After the righteous fox finished speaking, Chao Cang Jingzhong also knelt on the ground and spoke.

"You mean, you want to give up this ......" Asakura Yoshikage looked at his clan, and there was a look of unwillingness in his eyes.

Just as he was about to continue, Asakura Yoshikage's sixty-year-old mother led the way into the main hall. Behind her is his wife, who is from the same family as the fairy little sister Sakurahime, and in her hand is her eight-year-old son Aiomimaru.

"Old lady! Young lady! The Oda army has already arrived at the castle, so it is safer for the lower rank and His Highness to agree that the main hall and you will go out of the city first to avoid the chaos at the Dongyun Temple in Haishan, and it is safer to stay there for a while. Shizaburo Takahashi will accompany you and protect you. Just when Asakura Yoshikage didn't know how to speak, Toi Kei, who was sitting next to Tsukuyama Kiyozaemon, bowed down and said to the three of them.

"As for the Oda army outside the city, please leave it to the inferior to resist." Asakura Keitaka, Asakura Keika, Asakura Keiren, and Tsukuyama Kiyozaemon all bowed down and knelt on the ground and said.

Asakura Yoshikyo stood up and walked out of the main hall first, leaving only a lonely back like a wind candle for everyone present.

"Uncle Jingzhong, my father's ......" Aiomaru Koshota, who was only eight years old, glanced at Asakura Yoshikage, who walked out of the main hall, and turned his head to look at Asakura Jingzhong with a pair of big watery eyes.

"Young master, please live strong and shoulder the responsibility of revitalizing the Asakura family." Asakura Jingzhong looked at the eight-year-old Xiao Zhengtai, who was full of confusion, and said so in his mouth.

Soon, Asakura Yoshikei led his mother, wife, and son, under the protection of Takahashi Shizaburo and Toi Keijin, and led a hundred ashigaru teams to once again disguise themselves as townspeople from the castle town and flee into the grove where Asakura Yoshikei had just stayed.

At this time, Maeda Keiji had already brandished his three-meter-long sword called "Daitainori", and took the lead in attacking Longmen Temple, slashing and killing the monks in the temple in Longmen Temple, which also played a great cover for Asakura Yoshikei to escape into the grove.

Three hundred horses were still tied to the trunks of trees in the grove, and without making a sound, silently waiting for the arrival of the people.

Asakura Yoshikage had no choice but to leave behind two hundred war horses and make two simple sedan chairs in one hour, and then led everyone to flee in the direction of the Ono Basin, heading to Tounji Temple, which is located on Mount Hai next to the Ono Basin.

"Shisaburo, you immediately go to Pingquan Temple as a messenger to ask for help." After the Yoshijing sick fox came to the Dongunji Temple with the faint light emitted by the paper lantern of the moon little Lori, he immediately ordered Takahashi Shizaburo beside him.

Hiraisenji Temple is a branch of Mt. Hiei Enryakuji Temple, and has a relationship with Asakura Yoshikei by marriage.

What made Asakura Yoshikei feel a little sad was that the existence of Hiraisenji Temple was originally regarded as the monks of Mt. Hiei running to Echizen Province to hug his thigh, but now, he was forced to seek help from the other party in desperation.

Due to the large number of monks in the temple hall, they all have an inseparable relationship with the Asakura family. Therefore, Asakura Yoshikage was convinced that as long as he was willing to put down his face, the other party would definitely send troops to support.

But the fact is that when Takahashi Shizaburo came to Hiraisenji Temple in a hurry, what caught his eye was a large group of cowardly guys who were frightened by Wang Tianxi.

"Your Highness Takahashi, I hope you will be considerate of the situation of the inferior. After all, the Oda family is a Buddha enemy who treats the gods and Buddhas as nothing, and since he dares to burn down the entire Mt. Hiei, if we help, I'm afraid that the temples of Hiraisenji will also be burned to ashes! ”

This is the reply that Takahashi Shizaburo heard when he came to Hiraisenji.

He can understand, after all, Wang Tianxi, together with the little Lori of the Huangquan Ghost Girl of the Yellow Springs Root Country, burned down the entire Hiei Mountain with a fire, which was an incredible blow to all the temples in the world. (To be continued......)