On May 17, at about three o'clock, the nineteen villages.
"Are there no reinforcements yet..." Oda Nobui leaned against the inner wall of Iwazhai and gasped.
The Saito army had arrived at the periphery of the Shinjiujo Village more than an hour ago, which caught Nobui Oda off guard. The three families along the way and the surrounding Kawabeng Group immediately responded to the Saito family and regained their lost territory as agreed in advance. Nobui Oda suddenly faced a lonely situation, and the 4,000 troops of the Saito family surrounded his 500 people in the Shinjiujo Village.
Oda Nobunaga was the younger brother of Oda Nobunaga's lord Oda Nobunaga. Oda Nobunaga was not only Oda Nobunaga's cousin and married Oda Nobuhide's daughter, so he stood on Oda Nobunaga's side in a series of turmoils in the previous series of turmoils. However, the relationship between the two families was not very close, and even a barrier arose due to the division of spoils. Therefore, when Oda Nobunaga asked for reinforcements this time, Oda Nobunaga only sent 150 soldiers and 350 auxiliary soldiers led by his younger brother to help Oda Nobunaga build the Iwam Village. Oda Nobunaga did not bring Oda Nobunaga's westward expedition with him, who was likely to listen to the tune and not the Ryukawa, but let him stay behind the back - who would have thought that he would encounter such a situation?
Oda Nobua did not want to fight for Oda Nobunaga. After seeing the Saito family army, he had plans to escape. Unfortunately, Hiroki Hiroki noticed Oda Nobua's intention and immediately ordered Saito Ryuki's horses to go around the side of the 19th Village and stand by. Seeing so many cavalry appearing on the battlefield, he looked at the 19th Village that was nearly two hundred feet away from the Kisogawa floating bridge and the ferry crossing, Oda Nobua had to give up his plan to escape and guard the four gates.
The more than 1,300 Saito Army soldiers did not delay much. After a little rectification, they rushed to the 19th village. Due to the hasty attack, the Saito Army was unable to prepare enough siege equipment, and only had three siege hammers. The archers of the Saito family did not rely on the watchtower and stood on the flat ground and shot upwards at the top of the city, which was difficult to cause too much casualties. The Saito family soldiers held rattan cards and covered the auxiliary soldiers and carried the siege hammers to hit the village gate.
Oda Nobui was faced with three sieges and had to throw all his feet near the three gates. The archers were responsible for attacking the city hammers. The soldiers were on guard at the gate and on the walls of the village, while the auxiliary soldiers smashed the rocks and samaki down the city. Because the 19th village was temporarily built, the walls of the village were not very high. Many Saito family soldiers even climbed up the city walls by stacking arhats, which caught Oda Nobui off guard. So he hurriedly transferred the troops who were standing at the gate to the walls to prevent the Oda family from infiltration. He even brought his servants to the battle twice, and was also shot on his shoulders.
Now, he had just stepped down from the front line and was asking a servant to bandage the wound on his shoulder. It was probably involved in the pain. He took a breath and then cursed:
"Damn it, where are the reinforcements..." Oda Nobunaga practiced and breathed quickly to endure the pain, "It's been an hour! Why didn't there be a reinforcement? Is Oda Nobunaga blind?"
Suddenly, a loud noise of continuous wood shattering suddenly came from the north gate. Immediately afterwards, shouts of killing, cheers and screams rang out together.
"What's the situation!" Oda Nobui hurriedly stood up, climbed up the wall of the inner wall, and looked towards the north gate. A large hole had been broken into the north gate, and a large number of Oda family soldiers were pouring into the Iwam Village from the north gate. The small number of Oda family soldiers in the north gate were unable to resist the surging Saito family soldiers, who were retreating step by step.
"Hurry! Come with me!" Oda Nobui, who had not had a long rest, took his guards to meet him again, and at the same time, he called on the troops on the Beimen Village Wall to immediately give up the guards of the village wall and come down to resist. Under such joint attacks, he barely blocked the Saito Family at the door. However, such orders caused a series of chaos. Many Saito Family at the door took the opportunity to climb the Beimen Village Wall and attacked the East Gate and West Gate along the Beimen Village Wall, causing a chain reaction - Dongmen and Ximen also fell soon after. The Saito family swept from behind and directly attacked Oda Nobui, who was resisting at the gate of the north gate. Oda Nobui was killed on the spot by a samurai of the Saito family. The remaining Oda army scattered like birds and beasts, fled from the empty South Gate in a hurry, but was chopped and killed by the long-awaited Saito family horse riding team. No one ran to the shore of Kisogawa alive. The desperate remnants had to kneel down and beg for surrender, and the 19th Village fell.
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At the sixth hour of Shin-ō, heavy rain stopped. After repairing the floating bridge, the Oda army who came to cross the river found that it was too late. The flags of the Saito family's wave patterns were already flying from the 19th village. Most of the food and grass brought by the Oda family across the river were also in the hands of the Saito family, leaving only the food that had been transported to the front line yesterday and the day before yesterday. It is estimated that the army can only need three days. Saito Ryuki also sent someone to send Oda Nobunaga's head and provoked Oda Nobunaga.
Oda Nobunaga was so angry that he ordered Yuqiuhei, who was still in Sumata, to burn the camp and the Tawabashi on Nagara River, and the entire army fought to the death in the 19th Village. However, because it was too late, the Oda family's attempt to recapture the 19th Village had not yet begun, but the sun had to stop because the sun set.
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After this stop, Hiroki Hiroki and Takeao Naoki were convinced by their new lord. Although they were only 15 years old, they were so brave and had the same style as his father and grandfather back then.
"Young master, do you want to demolish the floating bridge on the Kiso River south of the 19th Village?" After nightfall, Hirohiro Hiroshino asked, "This way, it can ensure that no one in the Oda family can sneak back!"
"No need," Saito Ryuki shook his head, "The military strategy is everywhere, and the encirclement army will be missing. If the Oda family blocks the way to escape, it may arouse their determination to fight to the end. Just leave a gap here. When the decisive battle breaks out, many Oda family may be shaken and run away!"
"Yes!" Hirohiro Hiro looked at the stern and eye-catching Saito Ryuki, slightly moved. Before he knew it, he changed his name to Saito Yoshiro, "As for orders, lord!"
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In the early morning of May 18, in the camp of the Oda family, Saito Ryuki's prophecy arrived early. One night, more than a dozen Oda family members quietly became deserters and slipped away from somewhere. Oda Nobunaga was furious and immediately asked to line up immediately to attack the Saito family's position.
"As the saying goes, don't start a military force," Yu Qiuhei looked at Oda Nobunaga in the assessment meeting, but felt a little happy in his heart, "It's probably impossible to win this battle." He thought silently in his mind: "I don't know how prepared the personal guard is."
At the sixth hour of the Oda family, after breakfast, they left the auxiliary soldiers in the camp. Nearly 1,700 soldiers began to line up on the plains. Among them were Oda Nobunaga's 100 horse-ridden cavalry, Yuqiuhei's 20 cavalry, Shibata's 30 cavalry, and Moriko's 20 cavalry. The Saito family also set up a formation around the 19 treasury village. Saito Ryuki personally led 400 soldiers to occupy the 19 treasury village, and more than 2,000 auxiliary soldiers of the Saito family were also left in the Iwa Village. On the south side of the Iwa Village, which is the left wing of the Saito family, and the direction of the Kisogawa floating bridge, Hiroki Hiroki led 600 Saito family soldiers to guard the death. On the north side of the Iwa Village, which is the right wing of the Saito family, there are 300 soldiers with the Bamboo Shoo's Shadow.
Oda Nobunaga made targeted arrangements for this. The irrelevant northern battlefield, that is, the left wing of the Oda family, was handed over to more than 200 soldiers of Yuqiuhei to restrain the enemy. It seems that Oda Nobunaga was still worried about handing over the important task to Yuqiuhei, the newly surrendered old minister of Imakawa. The Central Front was handed over to 500 soldiers of Shibata Katsuya and Morikaze. Oda Nobunaga personally led 800 people as the right wing on the south side, which was also the main attack direction of the Oda family. The Maeda Taki family and other mother-robed members were left to lead the remaining 200 soldiers as reserves.
On the battlefield, the 1700 soldiers of the Oda family had an advantage in military strength over the 1300 soldiers of the Saito family. However, the auxiliary soldiers of the Oda family were all left in the camp, while the 2700 soldiers of the Saito family were still in the 19th village, which might be useful in defense.
The battle began at the fourth moment of Tatsuo. Oda Nobunaga personally led 800 soldiers to attack Hiroshinoji's defense line with the fish scale formation. The 200-person reserve team that stood in front of the fish scale formation was the Hashima team led by Oda Nobunaga himself. The three subsequent reserve teams followed the side and back of the reserve team. Hiroshinobu relied on the built trenches and fences to resist Oda Nobunaga's attack. Since the Hashima team did not have it With archers, they were unable to fight back when facing the harassment of the Saito archers, so they had to rush forward in a quiet voice. Although this caused the three reserve teams behind them to be a little disconnected from them, it also caught Hirohiro Hiroshi off guard. When the archers hurriedly retreated, they disrupted the formation of the reserve team behind them, allowing Oda Nobunaga to find an opportunity and rush into the formation hard, and knocked Hiroshi Hiroshi's formation deep into it.
At the same time, the northern front was calm. Zhuyao Shin-Kui knew that he was just a hindrance and did not order his subordinates to fight to the death. After the first test, Zhuyao Shin-Kui realized the super combat power of Chang Panbei's long spear soldiers and no longer forced his subordinates to attack. Yu Qiu-Kui-Kui was still counting on the defeat of the Oda family and fled in the chaos, so he naturally would not fight all his strength. The two armies were light, and they slapped each other's guns with long spears between each other. The archers shot weakly, making it difficult to kill the well-armed troops.
On the Central Front, Shibata Katsuya and Morikozen faced the 19th Jojo Village and were at a loss. The 500 of them only carried siege hammers as equipment. However, because there were friendly covers on both sides of the 19th Jojo Village, Shibata Katsuya and Morikozen could only attack Ximen and could not launch their troops. The archers of the Saito family kept shooting at the Oda family troops who were trying to attack the gate, causing great trouble to Morikozen and Shibata Katsuya.
Chapter completed!