"Ka!"

"What?!"

At this time, before Akechi Mitsuhide, who was leading the soldiers, could fully react, countless traps formed by wooden branches and wooden spears cut from the original material, that is, the trees owned by the mountain forest itself, shot at the team from all directions.

"Spread out!" Akechi Mitsuhide exclaimed urgently.

At the same time, he quickly jumped to the side, and the group rolled around, dodging the various attacks that followed.

"There's even a trap laid here, should I say it's you, Half-Guard." Akechi Mitsuhide, who had temporarily dodged the attack, said with a heavy heart.

What does this mean? Explain that the other party's thoughts about her, or the marching arrangements have been anticipated, so that they will so accurately lay enough traps on the path that her march must pass, so that they can appear wounded in a non-combat state.

Even if it is not a lot, it is only seven or eight people, but for a team of 200 people, it is equivalent to nearly one-tenth of the attrition.

If this happens a few more times, doesn't that mean that they have come out in vain this time?

That's not going to work!

As a confident and proud wise Mitsuhide, she can't lose in the land of Mino again and again, it will be a shame to her face.

But before she could think about it, noisy footsteps and human voices rang out in the mountains and forests.

"Right there!"

"Rush!"

"Destroy them!"

Wise Mitsuhide's face changed again when he heard this, and he didn't dare to hesitate, and immediately reorganized the team.

"Everyone, stand up for me immediately, the enemy is coming, if you don't want to die like this, just pick up my weapons and rush forward, only by solving them, we can survive!" Akechi Mitsuhide pulled out his matching knife and shouted.

Obviously, she had understood that the appearance of these people was not a coincidence, but like a trap, the Takenaka half-guards had arranged it here in advance, in order to prevent someone from the Imagawa army from making a detour from here to attack Inabayama Castle.

Then the soldiers of the Imagawa army quickly got up from the ground, picked up their weapons, and stood on guard.

In just a moment, he encountered Minong's soldiers.

The two sides didn't talk nonsense, and they fought straight in the mountains and forests.

……

Fortunately, there are not many soldiers on the Mino side, and there are only about 300 people in the end. After all, compared to the Imagawa army, which only needs to choose one path to break through, there is more than one trail around Inabayama Castle that can be sneaked, and except for a few that are impossible to pass, there are enough three or four such mountain paths to defend! If each of them sent hundreds of people there to defend it, even if Inabayama Castle occupied the territory again, there was no need to invest too many troops in the defense, and there was a danger of being broken under the attack of the Imagawa army.

Therefore, arranging 100 to 300 people per path according to the situation is the limit, and no matter how much, even if the mountain castle side can divide the troops, the half-guards will not do that.

Therefore, in addition to the task of blocking, the members of each team also have another task - that is, after discovering the enemy, immediately sound the alarm and pass the news to the mountain city side, so that the mountain city side can deal with it.

In this way, even if the number of people is small, they can't defeat the detachment of the Imagawa army, and they won't be attacked by the other party without any preparation.

What's more, it doesn't necessarily mean that the Imagawa army can't be wiped out in the mountains and forests.

Otherwise, wouldn't all those traps set overnight be in vain?

Therefore, under this idea, although the soldiers of the Mino Army fought bravely, they always lacked a feeling of seeing death as home, coupled with the presence of Akechi Mitsuhide, even if they were missing nearly a hundred people, they finally won the victory at a painful price after fighting for nearly half an hour......

In addition to Akechi Mitsuhide, there are less than 20 survivors......

"My lord, do you want to continue?" The soldiers who survived, but also had various wounds on their bodies, looked at Akechi Mitsuhide with palpitations on their faces and asked.

Obviously, he didn't want to go any further.

Similarly, although the others did not speak, judging from the expressions in their eyes, they all had similar meanings, so Akechi Mitsuhide gritted his teeth and ordered very unwillingly, "Let's go." ”

After speaking, he no longer looked at the faces of the other soldiers, turned around and took the lead and walked back towards the way he came.

……

Soon after, the members of Akechi Mitsuhide's team returned to their main formation.

"Sorry, the operation failed." Akechi Mitsuhide reported to Shibata Katsuie with a face full of shame.

"Was it calculated?" Qin Heqing said thoughtfully.

"Yes, our plan of action was all expected by the other party, so if it is not expected, other paths that can be detoured to the mountain city should also have similar precautions, and it will be difficult to break through without a large army." Akechi Mitsuhide affirmed.

This is also the current dilemma, the division of troops, it means that the offensive strength of the front line is weakened, although it can still achieve the effect of containment, but it is certainly not as strong as the current effect, and it is easy to free up the mountain city side to deal with other things. No division of troops? Then the breakthrough of one or two hundred, three or four hundred people does not have much effect at all, and it may not be possible to complete the breakthrough, and the troops that were divided will be wiped out by the arrangement of the Minong side first.

So now there is only one way to solve the problem, and that is to ask for help from Owari, so that Owari can send more troops to support them and help them break the city.

"What do you mean?" Shibata Katsuya looked at Qin Heqing on the side and asked.

Wise Guangxiu didn't know Qin Heqing's strength, but she knew that Qin Heqing had the ability to resist the army alone! If he is willing to help attack, even if he doesn't ask for help from the Owari side, they will still be able to take Inabayama Castle and open the door to attack Mino.

"Let's ask Owari for help." Qin Heqing thought for a moment.

It's not that he didn't think about the possibility of making a move by himself, but when he thought of the Takenaka half-guard and the former ghost, as well as the now demonized Tokimei, Qin Heqing dismissed his plans in this regard.

Without him, the success rate is too low.

And it is also easy to leave criticism to the outside world. After all, it's not just Imagawa Yoshimoto's family who can invite mages, and if all the families raise the war to the level of magic, the casualties will be caused......

Thinking about Qin Heqing makes me feel terrible-

I'm afraid that if it weren't for the Warring States period, one-third of the population of the island country would disappear.

"I'll contact Yiyuan." After thinking about it, Qin Heqing took out the bronze mirror in front of Shibata Katsuya and Akechi Mitsuhide, contacted Imagawa Yoshimoto, who was enjoying himself in the rear, and told the other party about the problem here.

"Asking for help...... Well, then I'll send another 3,000 troops to support you. Really, a little girl has caused me so much trouble, it seems necessary to teach her some lessons after taking her, so that she and the other family governors can understand that I, Imagawa Yoshimoto, am not so easy to mess with. Imagawa Yoshigen said angrily.