Under Kiyosu Castle, a castle town that used to be lively. The streets and alleys are no longer shouting merchants.

The townspeople closed the stalls, closed the door, and observed the back and forth in the crack of the door.

The Ji warrior on the horse scolded the slightly slower legs and feet, and some of them were so anxious that they had already crackled a few shots.

This is another military disaster, and it has only been a few days since the good days. Cover your mouth with the child who is making a fuss at home.

If you call again, throw it out to sharpen the knife for the vicious Ji warrior, and the white knife will go in and the red knife will come out, see if you still scream.

Yiyin took people to rush all morning, and he and his interests were okay when he came down on horseback for more than ten miles, and the heavily armed Ashigaru was tired enough.

Generally speaking, the grain and grass armaments are pressed by the peasants and soldiers in the rear, and the feet are lightly loaded forward. This time it was a rush to assemble, and all the dry food weapons were hung on the body.

Looking at the appearance of Ashigaru behind him, he had to quickly find a place to repair, and at this time, he would be able to collapse directly if he met the enemy.

He asked the interest to report to the city, and he took Ashigaru to rest in place for a while, waiting for the accommodation to be arranged.

"Lord Yiyin, there is an envoy who has sent an order to the front, saying that all the incoming troops will go to Inao Shengyuan to converge."

After finding out the situation and coming back, Yiyin frowned when he heard it.

"Your Highness, are you going to give up defending the city and choose to fight in the field? Shouldn't it, the enemy is outnumbered, and the enemy army has come from afar, and it is not good to gather troops to wait for work? Did something happen? ”

The interest glared at the ashigaru who couldn't stand up, scolded a few words, and whispered to Yiyin.

"Rumors are rife in the city, and it is said that His Highness Nobuyuki has already called, and His Highness Nobunaga is determined to go to war."

"So fast?"

Yiyin said unexpectedly.

In fact, Owari is not big, and it was a big prefecture in the previous life.

The most prosperous area in Shimoowari is Kiyosu Castle, and the best land in the vicinity is naturally divided among a few important ministers.

Speaking of Owaki, Yoneno, Arako, and Suemori are just villages with a larger village nearby.

The area where the fight started is equivalent to a place as big as a township in the previous life, otherwise how could he only dispatch a standing ashigaru with weapons and equipment and dry food.

It is very tiring for a modern army to run 10 kilometers in arms, and these malnourished soldiers in feudal society have to run to death.

But marching and fighting is not a simple matter, in ancient times, even the elite could not walk many miles in a day, and the rebels killed so quickly, it is said that the soldiers are fast, and Nobunaga was caught off guard.

"And you already know where we're stationed?"

"Well, I got a sign for permission to station, close to the lower reaches of the Shonai River, behind the Kawajiri Reserve."

The interests began to drive the ashigaru people away, and Yoshiin looked in the direction of Kiyosu Castle with some concern.

Several tributaries of the Nakagawa Canal provide the plains with water for agriculture, and most of these tributaries are shallow, dividing the plains into small areas, and Inaoshengyuan is one of them.

It is located to the east of Kiyosu Castle, west of the Shonai River, and it is this tributary that Nobunaga wants to get stuck in, blocking the rebels to the east of the river.

Shibata Katsuya on the pass looked in the direction of the sun, the army of the Lin family and His Royal Highness Nobuyuki had already arrived in the morning, and it was Lin Xiuzhen's sister Lin Gutong who led the team.

And his own reserves have almost arrived, and when the army has passed, the time is also in the afternoon.

"Lord Shibata, the troops have all passed the pass, can we go?"

Lin Gutong respectfully asked Shibata Katsuie, and when she came, her sister solemnly warned her that everything in the battle array must obey Shibata Katsuie's orders.

Hayashi Xiuzhen and Oda Nobuyuki were still preparing the follow-up axle heavy peasant soldiers at Suemori Castle, and the front was all entrusted to Shibata Katsuya.

"Let's go, then."

The team walked along the road into a long snake formation, and the ashigaru people silently carried their weapons under the supervision of the Ji samurai, which was by no means an easy task in the winter.

Owari has less snow than in the north, but the cold wind is biting and the ice is not so slippery. Looking at the small flag of the Oda family carried behind the Shibata Reserve Ashigaru, Shibata Katsuya suddenly felt a little touched.

Ancestors, the elite you have formed in your hands will eventually destroy the family governor you have set up.

Oda Nobunaga's shogunate was set up behind the Mori Reserve and Kawajiri Reserve, and the first two reserves were held up and down the Shonai River.

However, during the dry season in winter, the water of the river could not reach the ankles, and the soles of the shoes were barely wet.

The weather was not cold enough to freeze the river, and the living water was only equivalent to a humid lowland, which had no effect on stopping the enemy at all.

Soon after camping, spies appeared on the other side of the river, and soon the rebels set up camp not far from the opposite bank.

Shibata Katsuie expressed contempt for Nobunaga's move to abandon the castle and attack, but His Royal Highness Nobunaga was really a fool, and he chose to fight in the field because he didn't defend the good castle.

This time she brought not 1,500 people, but a full 1,700 troops. If Nobunaga chooses to defend the city, he can survive for a few days, and the field attack will be the time of defeat tomorrow.

So they set up camp and repaired, and the army was tired from the march, and rested well, waiting for the battle to begin tomorrow.

When it got dark, the armies on both sides were resting except for the sentry posts, and the military council in Nobunaga's shogunate was dispersed.

I have to go out tomorrow, even if the situation is not optimistic, we must be mentally prepared for tomorrow's battle.

Mori Kecheng and Kawajiri Hidetaka walked out of the shogunate worriedly, greeted each other and returned to the camp.

Niwa Nagahide sighed, and he still needs to keep an eye on the preparation of military rations tomorrow morning before resting.

Maeda Toshi's family went on patrol, and Nobunaga's side was left with only his sister Ikeda Hengxing.

After drinking some sake, Nobunaga fiddled with a set of carcasses on the pylon, which was her armor for tomorrow.

"Hengxing, do you know this set of carcass?"

"I don't know."

Although worried, Ikeda still looked at it carefully, remembered it, and shook his head.

"That's right, I don't know, this set is not mine, this is my mother's carcass. I used to wear it always a little out of shape, but I didn't expect to take it out this time, and it was just right. ”

Looking at the elated Nobunaga, Hengxing was stunned for a moment, and took a closer look, this set of carcasses is really a well-made top grade, and some traces of post-war repairs can be seen, not decorations.

"Do you think I'm doing something wrong?"

"No, I didn't."

Nobunaga suddenly asked, and Hengxing replied reflexively, and Nobunaga snorted.

"You, Yonegoro, and Inuchiyo, all look like you want to speak and stop, but it is Mori Kenari and Kawajiri Hidetaka whose worries are written on their faces."

"We were brought out by your own hands, and we are different from those two adults."

"What's the difference, it's not that I think I'm going to lose."

Nobunaga carefully straightened the carcass of the hanger and said.

"Everyone knows that my father didn't like me since I was a child, he liked Shinyuki. And my mother.

What about your forefathers? At the age of six, he appointed me as the lord of Nakono Castle and drove me to that rural place. When Nobuyuki enjoyed family fun by his mother's father and learned the rules of the samurai.

I, the eldest daughter of the Oda family, was playing in the mud with a group of wild children in the countryside. ”

"Nurse. I was among the wild children. ”

Hengxing said with a wry smile, and Nobunaga sneered.

"Not only you, but also Yagoro and Inuchiyo. Everyone called me Owari a fool and said that I had lost my mother's face by being a prodigal.

But I'm just a wild child, I'm used to it, I can't change it. ”

Nobunaga looked at the almost finished finish, clapped his hands with satisfaction, and turned to Hengxing to continue.

"Eventually, my mother remembered me, called me home, and made me the governor of the Oda family on her deathbed. But did she really choose me?

Mori Kecheng who left me, Hidetaka Kawajiri is an outsider from Mino, and you grew up with me.

What about the important ministers? Lin Xiuzhen, the old pen head? The number one fierce warrior Shibata Katsuya? Is it really just their choice that they choose Shinyuki? ”

Nobunaga's speech grew faster and faster, and his expression froze.

"It was she who told them that Nobuyuki was a good lord.

It was she who gave the Lin family the knowledge of the three cities.

It was she who left the Shibata Katsuya Oda family's most elite troops.

And me? Shimoowari 270,000 stone Oda family. I only have 50,000 direct collars. Two foreign generals.

Ridiculous and not ridiculous. Will I be able to stabilize the situation? You say, who did she choose? ”

The heart-wrenching words made Hengxing dare not look up at her face and listened with his head down.

"The governor of troubled times needs iron and blood to stabilize his position. And me? It's the stepping stone she left for Nobuyuki.

In the past few years, I have been reluctant to eat or wear, and I have swept up 50,000 direct leaders, reorganized the army, expanded the elite, and actively armed themselves.

For what?

I've been waiting for this day to come, and I'm not trying to prove that I'm amazing.

I just want to tell her, to tell them, I'm not an Owari fool, I don't want to be a stepping stone, I don't want to be stepped on.

The Oda family that Oda Nobuhide left to her Nobuyuki, I, Oda Nobunaga, will definitely take it with my own hands! ”

Pointing to Oda Nobuhide's carcass on the pylon, and then turning to the rebel camp on the other side, Nobunaga's face was full of hideousness.