Half a day later, 3,000 soldiers under Imagawa Yoshimoto's generals and Maeda Inu Chiyo of the Oda line left Owari and appeared at the foot of Inabayama Castle, the gateway to Mino, where they joined Shibata Katsuie, who had just finished a day's battle and had been repaired.

At this point, the number of Imagawa troops who appeared in the territory of Mino exceeded 5,000 and reached the number of 6,000 away.

Not to mention, at the same time that this force arrived, Matsudaira Motoyasu's troops, who had set out from Mikawa, also entered the territory of Mino.

Even though the number was only 2,500 men, with the Imagawa army under Kamiinabayama Castle, the total number of troops outside 8,000 was enough to break all the arrangements of the Takenaka Hanbei and force the Mino side to engage in the most brutal head-on engagement.

"We have won this battle!" Wise Mitsuhide said awe-inspiringly.

It's just that the good times didn't last long, and the next morning, not long after Shibata Katsuie commanded the Imagawa army to launch an attack on Inabayama Castle, the information from other places once again made the eyes of everyone present change their eyes and their expressions became solemn.

"Asai Nagamasa and Asakura Yoshikei are really good at picking the time." The general of the Imagawa army rebuked angrily.

Yes, that's right, after the delay on the side of Inabayama Castle, Asai Nagamasa finally led the Asai family's army into the Mino country as agreed, and launched support for Mino, and then with the Asakura army, who was also moved for unknown reasons and sent troops to help, they rushed towards Inabayama Castle together.

On the contrary, the Rokkaku family of Minami-Omi, who are also close neighbors and the place where Imagawa Yoshimoto Kamiraku must pass, were indifferent, and they had no intention of sending troops to support them, and they didn't know if they couldn't understand the current situation or had other ideas.

Anyway, it's not a bad thing for the current situation.

"What now?" The general of the Imagawa family looked at Shibata Katsuya and asked.

"What do you think?" Katsuya Shibata asked rhetorically.

"Since the people of Minong don't know what to do, then let's just stop paying attention to benevolence and righteousness, and just set fire to the mountain." The general of the Imagawa family.

After all, Inabayama Castle is a castle built on top of mountains and forests, although it has been blessed with the geographical advantage of being easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is also covered by many trees, so as long as the besiegers can be ruthless and don't care about the subsequent impact - too much killing, destruction of the castle, and the reduction of the value of Inabayama Castle after the destruction of the castle, it is not too difficult to fight under the strategy.

And this is also the reason why Achichi Mitsuhide only dared to lead a few people to charge through when she knew that there was a trail - she was also worried that there would be too many people, and the people on Mino's side would set fire to the mountain!

At that time, as long as it is properly controlled, it is completely possible to directly wipe out the team with more than 1,000 people in one fell swoop at the expense of a small number of mountains and forests, without affecting the degree of the defense system of Inaba Mountain Castle.

"No! In this case, the existence value of Inabayama Castle will be completely abolished. Akechi Mitsuhide retorted.

"You can't just waste your time here because of it, right? Don't forget, the troops of the Asai family and the Asakura family are on their way. The general of the Imagawa family asked unceremoniously.

"......" Suddenly, Akechi Guangxiu was speechless, looking at the map in front of him and frowning.

"Let's burn the mountain." After Qin Heqing saw the situation, he rushed to Shibata Katsuka.

"Qin Jun!?" Akechi Mitsuhide and Shibata Katsuie both looked at him with puzzled eyes, wondering why he supported the plan.

"Don't worry about extinguishing the fire and follow-up problems, I'll take care of these things, you just have to fulfill your duties and help Yiyuan take down Mino for her." Qin and Qing said solemnly.

"Is it really okay?" Shibata Katsuya asked with some concern.

"Well, trust me." Qin Heqing said with a smile.

"Okay, let's burn the mountain!" Shibata Katsuya stared at Qin Heqing for a moment, gritted his teeth and nodded in agreement.

Then the Imagawa army moved under the orders of Shibata Katsuie, first attacking as usual - archers and infantry were killed, and the attention of the soldiers of Inabayama Castle was diverted, and then Akechi Mitsuhide, Maeda Inu Chiyo, and Imagawa generals each led a small group of people to rush out of the main camp, enter the mountains with arson tools, find the right place, and start setting fires.

So it didn't take long for the conspicuous flames to burn in several mountains and forests around the mountain castle, and gradually expanded, spreading towards the mountain castle.

"That's ...... Fire!? The people of the Imagawa army actually set fire!? Do they want to destroy the mountain city? Takenaka's half-guard, who heard the news, was shocked.

"I guess I'm in a hurry." The former ghost covered his face with a feather fan, and said softly with only his eyes exposed.

"Someone!" The half-guard of Takenaka did not hesitate, and immediately turned around and shouted to the side.

"Your Excellency." The soldier half-knelt down in reply.

"Immediately organize people to prepare water wheels, water cannons and all kinds of fire prevention materials to be placed around the mountain city, and prepare for the fire to burn the city. Then arrange two teams of 100 people to go around the area where the fire is spreading, try to clean up the debris in the path of the fire, be sure to stop the spread of the fire, and delay the attack of the fire until after the reinforcements of Asai and Asakura arrive. Takenaka's half-guard said without any long-winded instructions.

"Yes!" The soldier then got up and left, to convey the order of the Takenaka half-guard.

"Fortunately, that guy has made a move, otherwise, we may not be able to hold out until the people from the Asai and Asakura families come over." Takenaka's half-guard looked at the battle situation under the city and said with a somewhat relieved look.

……

However, Mino Army's actions failed to stop the speed of the flames after all.

After all, the speed of arson is much higher than the difficulty of fighting fires, and the Imagawa army is not afraid of death - mainly the first batch of Imagawa soldiers who followed Shibata Katsuya, after experiencing Ayukawa's miraculous treatment methods, understand that as long as it is not an injury with missing arms and legs, serious injuries in the general sense are not called aftermath for them at all, and it is called a rough one to kill, which makes the people of the Mino Army feel a lot of pressure.

Coupled with the existence of the surrounding flames, they had no intention of fighting head-on at all, and they were not the opponents of the Imagawa army, so after holding out for almost an hour, the Mino army decisively chose to retreat, ran back to the mountain forest, and ran back to the mountain castle under the cover of fire.

As for firefighting? Whoever likes to go, they don't have that idea anyway.

Therefore, it was not long before the mountains and forests near Inabayama Castle were decisively covered by a sky-high fire, like a mountain of flames, separating Inabayama Castle from the Imagawa army.

"At this time, it would be nice if the rain girl was here." Qin Heqing looked at Inabayama Castle, which was wrapped in fire, and suddenly remembered the rain girl who was left by him on Izu's side at this time, and said with some emotion.

"I'll go take a look."

After speaking, without waiting for Shibata Katsuya and the others to speak, he summoned back Ayukawa, activated his ability, and flew into the sky.