"How are we going to attack Omi? The two daimyos, Asai and Asakura, are not so easy to deal with. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info "Gao Xianda said," There will be no more Saito Ryuxing's behavior of giving away people's heads. ”

"Why should we go to war with the two of them?" Meng Yan smiled, "Our goal is to become the actual controller, and we didn't fight with all the big names." It seems to me that we are on the verge of achieving our goal. ”

"Done?" Gao Xiandaqi said.

"Yes." Meng Yan said, "None of them are the key. When Oda Nobunaga was in Kamiraku, he did not fight against the Asai and Asakura families. We don't need to push along the road. It's like the Mino Raiders, you just need to do diplomatic work. The Asai family and the Rokkaku family are feuding, and they won't want to fight us when we have the advantage in our forces. ”

"And in the same way, the Hexagon family will not take the initiative to be our enemy." Gao Xianda said, "But I'm afraid the three good families won't be able to make peace." Now that the entire region, including Kyoto and Nijo Castle, is under their control, we may not be able to sustain our troops for long battles. ”

"That's another reason why I went to Kyoto in the first place. Now Miyoshi Changqing is dead, isn't it? The forces of Miyoshi Nagakei and Matsunaga have not yet been established, and the army of the Miyoshi family is vulnerable. Meng Yan smiled, "Our mission is almost over." ”

The actual situation developed as Meng Yan expected.

Due to the good year this year, Junfu, Yuanjiang and Sanhe all got a bumper harvest. Mino was annexed peacefully, and the harvest was not affected in any way. Even Owari was not greatly affected, and the Imagawa family did prepare a large amount of military rations.

After reintegrating the forces of the five countries, the Imagawa family also put together an army of 50,000 ordinary ashigaru, known as 100,000 troops, and restarted the journey to Shangluo.

In addition to the ordinary infantry, Maeda Keiji trained an elite cavalry force of 2,000 men, and Gao Xianda was accompanied by a Guards army composed entirely of cavalry, led by Maeda Toshiie.

Keiji Maeda's own uncle, Kazuki Takikawa, was the best at musket warfare under former Oda Nobunaga.

He integrated Oda Nobunaga's original musket team, and formed a new musket team of 500 people using the more than 200 muskets that Gao Xianda brought back from Sakai Town this time, as well as muskets replenished from surrounding merchants and blacksmith shops. The size of Oda Nobunaga's musket team has doubled.

And the most elite unit under Gao Xianda is actually an artillery unit.

When Kinoshita Tengjiro was building Inabayama Castle, Takazenda gave him fifteen large and small naval guns that he had obtained from the destroyer and asked him to learn how to use them.

He was good at math, and Gao Xianda explained to him a simple parabolic equation, which Kinoshita Tengjiro easily understood and was able to apply what he had learned.

As for the complex calculation formulas such as wind direction, wind force, and fluid mechanics, Gao Xianda itself does not understand it very well. Fortunately, those cannons had a limited range and were not very accurate, and they were prepared to bombard large enemy forces or city walls. Fifteen cannons are fired together, as long as the deviation is not too large.

As a result, Kinoshita Tengjiro now has the only artillery unit in Japan.

Therefore, the Imagawa family is determined to win this time.

In order to reduce unnecessary losses, Gao Xianda first sent envoys to Asai, Asakura, Rokkaku and other famous families to spread the word, they only wanted to go to Luo this time, not to annex them, I hope everyone will not panic.

But the retainers of the Asai family are not stupid, and the Imagawa family has captured Owari and Mino this year, and it would be hell to say that they have no ambition to annex Omi.

So in order to show their strong attitude, the Asai family sent an army of 5,000 men to meet the enemy.

This can make Keiji Maeda happy. After he established this cavalry unit, he had not yet tested its combat effectiveness in a real war.

If the enemy saw the military strength of the Imagawa family and rushed to surrender one by one, how could he still have a chance to perform?

He led the cavalry, and he was already walking fast, walking at the front of the team. And because he is anxious and rides a loose wind BMW, he doesn't always stay with his soldiers, but likes to ride in front and take the initiative to serve as a scout.

He soon spotted the soldiers of the Asai family, so he hurriedly turned back, took his cavalry in a circle, and ambushed him in a hidden place.

How could the soldiers of the Asai family have thought that the Imagawa family now also has a strong cavalry, so when they saw the single Maeda Keiji, they thought that he was just an ordinary passer-by and ignored him.

They walked a long way, and finally met the infantry of the Imagawa family head-on. This unit of the Imagawa family was the vanguard led by the voluntarily surrendered Anten Mamoto.

Although An Teng Shou held the position of vanguard, after all, he was a veteran and took it seriously, and hurriedly ordered his soldiers not to act rashly. After all, he came from afar, and the other party waited for his work, and it was easy to suffer.

So he ordered his soldiers to form a defensive formation, and at the same time organized his men to start building fortifications. In the case of equal numbers, whoever can block the opponent's charge and shoot a few waves of arrows out first will be considered to have the advantage.

The Asai family also knew that the troops on the opposite side were coming, so they naturally didn't dare to be careless, so they also began to arrange their troops and put all the elite troops in front of the troops.

The Asai family's troops and Anteng's troops tested each other, but before they could officially start their work, their flanks suddenly killed a cavalry force.

The leader is naturally Keiji Maeda, who rides Matsukaze and holds a red gun.

They rushed into the Asai family's troops like the gods of war, and immediately ripped apart the Asai family's formation.

Seeing this, Anteng Shou knew that it was a friendly army coming. At this time, the two sides have already fought, how can there be time to shoot arrows at each other?

"All the troops are attacking!" Anteng Shou ordered.

So the soldiers of the Imagawa family, all of whom rushed forward bravely, rushed towards the troops of the Asai family.

It turns out that without the help of Gao Xianda, the combat effectiveness of the Saito family's army is also considerable.

Faced with the opponent's scattered formation, the soldiers under An Teng Shou immediately turned into tigers and killed the little white rabbits in front of them one by one.

It didn't take long for the morale of the Asai family to completely collapse and the entire line to disperse.

And they are infantry. How can two legs run more than four legs? Keiji Maeda led the team to chase after him, biting his tail and attacking again.

The last troops of the Asai family to flee back are probably less than 1,000.