On the one hand, Gao Xianda sent out cavalry to inquire about the news of Imagawa's main team, and on the other hand, he sent people to the small towns around Cheongju Castle. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

A big city like Cheongju Castle is empty, and a small castle like Nakono Castle, which has only one layer of walls and a single-story castle tower, naturally has no people. All the troops were forcibly recruited by Oda Nobunaga, and in addition to the women and children, there was only a team of a dozen old, weak, sick and disabled.

Therefore, without Gao Xianda and Okabe Motonobu personally going out, they casually sent a small detachment led by 10 cavalrymen and composed of 200 ashigaru to conquer it.

The other, smaller towns simply surrendered and came under the control of the Imagawa family.

With a team of more than 1,000 people, Coxianda took most of Owari's territory under his command.

Of course, Gao Xianda also knew that it was impossible to hold so many places with just a thousand people, and Oda Nobunaga was an example.

Fortunately, Gao Xianda is here to sabotage, and it has not yet reached the stage of production and construction. Therefore, he simply abandoned all the other small cities, demolished all the fortifications, and concentrated the population, grain and grass and all kinds of equipment in Cheongju City.

If Oda Nobunaga returned to his master's office, all he would get was a useless empty castle.

Gao Xianda only needs to wait for the news of the battle in Cheongju Castle every day.

But it's not all good news.

Sure enough, the attack took place anyway.

On May 19, Oda Nobunaga led his army to Atsuta Jingu to pray for blessings and make the final pre-war mobilization.

At the same time, Imagawa Yoshimoto led his team into Mt. Tsubasasa.

Further ahead were the two barrages under Ōtaka Castle, where Ii Naomori's troops and Asahinatai's troops were attacking separately at this time. The battle has entered a white-hot stage, and the news of the Imagawa family's victory could come at any moment.

Therefore, Imagawa Yoshimoto did not move his army forward, but chose to camp and rest on a high place.

Thinking that he would soon win a great victory and bring the Oda family under his command, Imagawa Yoshimoto allowed his subordinates to have a small banquet.

But the spies had already reported their whereabouts to Oda Nobunaga not far away, and Oda Nobunaga chose to raid.

And God deliberately helped Oda Nobunaga, and it rained heavily at this time.

The sound of rain obscured the whereabouts of Oda Nobunaga's troops, leaving Imagawa Yoshimoto's forces completely unaware that death was near.

The heavy rain soon stopped. The troops of the Imagawa family, who were still drinking and feasting, heard the sound of firecrackers.

But this is not the Chinese New Year, and there can only be one thing for this crackling noise, muskets.

More than a decade ago, Portuguese merchants, with the help of Ming merchants, accidentally docked at Akaogi Port and spread the technology of the musket to the head of the Tanegashima family, Tanegashima Tokiyo, who later ordered his blacksmith Yaita Kiyoshi to imitate it. In the years since the success of the imitation, the use of muskets has slowly spread throughout Japan.

In Japan, this kind of thing is called an iron cannon.

Although the musket at this time was crudely made, it belonged to the arquebus with a front charge. But its power has already gained the attention of many warlike daimyo.

Oda Nobunaga was a man who liked new things, and he felt that muskets were weapons that could change an era. Therefore, after Oda Nobunaga became the governor of the family, he began to form a musket team, and over the years he had organized a musket team of 300 people.

Because of the complex production process of muskets, the cost is not cheap, and special training is required for charging and shooting, and it is more expensive to raise such a musket team than to raise a cavalry team.

These 300-strong musket team is Oda Nobunaga's hole card. So he had to wait until the weather cleared before he launched an attack on Imagawa Yoshimoto.

The loud sound of the musket and the huge lethality soon caught Imagawa Yoshimoto's team by surprise.

Then two thousand wolf-like Oda iesashiki began to violently assault Imagawa Yoshimoto's main team.

At this time, Imagawa Yoshimoto was still in the joy of imminent victory, and the soldiers in his team who could react in time were probably only twenty or thirty percent. And only half of these people were able to move immediately into battle.

So the Imagawa troops that were able to fight against the Oda family were actually only a thousand people.

Two thousand people fought a thousand, and the Oda family entered a partial numerical advantage.

And the 1,000 people who can move are still mixed in the 10,000-strong team. When Oda Nobunaga's troops killed a large number of heads in a hurry, even the morale of the thousand men collapsed.

The Imagawa army trampled on each other and cried loudly, and the whole scene was chaotic and there were countless deaths.

However, Oda Nobunaga's goal was not to annihilate Imagawa Yoshimoto's troops, and he was not stupid enough to devour a force of 10,000 men with 2,000 men. Even if the morale of these 10,000 people collapses, there is finally a time to organize. Even if there are 5,000 people left, the Oda family will be wiped out!

Oda Nobunaga has only one goal, the head of Yoshimoto Imagawa!

Imagawa Yoshimoto, as the main general, naturally sat on the highest place, waving the most conspicuous banner, telling his subordinates that the main general is here, everyone can rest assured. But at the same time, it also revealed its own goals to the enemy.

The Oda family soon came to Imagawa Yoshimoto's side, so they were embarrassed.

Imagawa Yoshimoto is not a general.

He was a military strategist, a diplomat, a politician. He was able to start a war to annex Enoe and Mikawa, he was able to promote an alliance with Kojun through his personal charm, and he was able to obtain the righteousness of Joraku through his relationship with Kyoto.

But he is thin, drawing eyebrows and painting teeth, and his usual dress is completely like a public family in Kyoto, a weak civil official.

Although he likes to wear an extra-long famous knife on weekdays, Zongsan Zuo Script, this knife is not suitable for him, and his personal combat ability is also very problematic.

The samurai around him were quickly cut down by the mad Oda army, while he himself wielded Sozo Samu, which was not suitable for his height, and he was surrounded by enemies.

So his fate can be imagined.

Gao Xianda knew exactly that there had been a battle between Tsukasama and that Imagawa Yoshimoto's main team had been attacked. The defeated army of the Imagawa family was retreating towards Okazaki Castle, and Oda Nobunaga's army pursued it very bravely, killing countless people. In the end, it was blocked out of Okazaki Castle.

Imagawa Yoshimoto's army of 20,000 ended up with only a few thousand remaining.

But the most important thing is that as the main general, Imagawa Yoshimoto, no one knows his whereabouts.

Some say he is still directing the battle in Okazaki Castle, others say that he has retreated to Sunpu Castle, and the Oda family claims that they have beheaded Imagawa Yoshimoto.