Late at night on May 19, 1563, the city of Daoye Mountain.
Takenaka Shigeji took a contract that had just been signed and hurriedly walked on the hill from Inabayama Castle to the outside world with four or five guards. Not long ago, the contract signed by Saito Ryuki Saito, who was desperate, was drafted by many Simeono rich families led by Mino and the other three. Simeono rich families stated that as long as Saito Ryuki Saito was willing to sign this contract, the Simeono rich families immediately sent troops to help Inabayama Castle.
The contract required Saito Ryuki to punish his family's confidant villains - and asked Hiroone No, Hiroyuki and Takeao Naoki, to send Su Lao and several Saito Naoko to completely withdraw from the central affairs. At the same time, the practice of the collaborative system of important officials was restored. The decisions on the Saito family's territory, taxation, expropriation and other major affairs must be approved by the joint meeting of important officials led by the three Simeono people - to drive the Naoko Saito family out of the central affairs, and set up a meeting of important officials to complete the central decision. This can be said to have completely undermined Saito Ryuki.
The most important thing is that there is another provision in the contract - the three Simino will send one person every year to lead the troops to protect the safety of Saito Ryuki and Naojin in Inabayama Castle. In other words, the military power of Inabayama Castle must be controlled by the noble clans, monitor Saito Ryuki and Naojin, and prevent them from regaining power.
Such a harsh and harsh treaty would never be signed unless he was forced into a desperate situation. But he could no longer hesitate. Under the siege of the Oda family, Inabayama Castle was already in danger. If enough concessions were not made to allow the rich to send troops to help, Inabayama Castle would not be able to save it, so how could he talk about power?
After signing the treaty, Naoki Naoki and Komuri Genta who were left behind in the city were both ashamed and angry, but they had no choice but to do anything. However, the army of Nishimino's wealthy family came and cooperated with the main force of the Saito family who was about to return from Tomino, they could indeed rescue Inabayama Castle. Naoki Naoki Naoki and Komuri Genta instructed Takenaka Shigeji to make him be careful not to leak the news, so that the rich Simino who were familiar with the terrain could quietly touch the near Inabayama Castle, Okada Nobunaga caught him off guard and surrounded him and annihilated him near Inabayama Castle!
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However, the first thing Takenaka Shigeji left Inabayama Castle was to send people to Inoguchi Town to spread the news that the Simino family was about to jointly send troops to rescue Inabayama Castle.
"Master Takenaka, why is this?" asked a servant in confusion, "We can clearly attack! Isn't the Oda family ready in this way?"
"Oh?" Takenaka Shigeji chuckled and glanced at the servant behind him. "Then why would I ask you a few questions?"
“大人请讲.”侍从恭敬地答道.
"If you were His Highness Oda, what would you do if you heard that the Nishimino family jointly reinforced Inabayama Castle?" Takenaka Shigeji raised his head, looked at the night sky, and asked softly.
"Well..." The servant frowned and thought for a moment, and replied: "The total number of our Simino Hokkien coalition forces is close to 7,000. With the reinforcements returning from the east, their strength will definitely exceed that of Oda Nobunaga's army. If I were Oda Nobunaga, I would definitely retreat."
"Then what would happen if the Simino family appeared near Inabayama Castle when you didn't expect it?" Takenaka Shigeji still raised his head and continued to ask casually.
"Uh..." This question seemed a bit too difficult. The attendant thought for a long time before replying: "Maybe they can only rely on Minomaru's city wall and Castle Town to fight to the death."
"What then?" Takenaka Shigeji seemed to have not heard a satisfactory answer and continued to ask.
"Then..." the attendant frowned and replied tentatively: "Let's find a way to retreat?"
As soon as the attendant said his words, he seemed to understand something.
"The biggest casualties in the war occurred in pursuit," Takenaka Shigeji still looked up at the sky, "The so-called battle is just to find a way to force the other party to retreat and provide opportunities for one's pursuit."
"If there is a way to directly let the Oda family retreat, why fight hard?" Takenaka Shigeji chuckled, "If you don't fight, you will be the best."
"What if Oda Nobunaga is determined to capture Inabayama Castle tomorrow, ignore the rumors we spread and continue to attack, what should we do?" The servant asked in a worried manner.
"It's okay, he can't beat it." Takenaka Shigeji said softly confidently. The cool evening breeze blew across his handsome face and blew up a few strands of hair on his forehead. He looked at the sky and smiled confidently.
The storm is about to come and the wind fills the building.
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In the early morning of May 20, the Oda family had just had a fierce discussion in the main account in Minomarumara, Inabayama Castle. The focus of the debate between the two sides was where the Oda family should go today.
Inabayama Castle is worthy of being a world-famous city. Even if the defenders are only 2,000, they are not satisfied with the city walls, and they still resist the fierce attack of nearly 10,000 Oda Nobunaga's army. Everyone has to admit that the best time for the Oda family to siege has passed. Today, Higashimio's reinforcements will be rushing back.
For this reason, the more conservative Yu Qiuhei, Takigawa Ichie, Sakuma Nobumo and others strongly advocated retreating immediately to avoid being surrounded and attacked under Inabayama Castle. However, Shibata Katsuya, Morikazuki, Ikeda Yoshihiko and others advocated adding more effort - after a day of battle yesterday, the Saito family has suffered huge casualties. Now they are surrounded in Ninomama, and as long as they attack for a long time, they have hope to take down the entire Inabayama Castle! If they retreat this time, they don’t know when they will get such a good offensive opportunity next time.
After weighing the opinions of the two factions, Oda Nobunaga finally made a decision - continue the attack! Even if Hiromio's reinforcements came back, there were only 6,000 people. Oda Nobunaga could divide half of its troops to restrain their operations and then continue to attack the city. In order to understand the movements of the 6,000 people in real time, Oda Nobunaga sent almost all the siege and horse corpses to go to the east to spread a huge intelligence network.
After breakfast, the Oda family launched another fierce attack on Ninomaru. The Oda family knew that time was limited, opportunity was rare, and the offensive became extremely fierce. The Oda family mobilized almost every archers, standing on Minomaru or higher buildings in the city, spraying arrow rain on Ninomaru's walls. Yu Qiuhei's Takababa archers were also assigned to the south wall and shooting fiercely at Ninomaru.
In the structure of Inabayama Castle, the height of the city walls of the Honmaru is higher than that of Ninomaru and Sannomaru. However, the city walls of Ninomaru and Sannomaru are almost flush, and Ninomaru is only slightly higher. This led to the Saito family archers no longer having the condescending shooting advantage of yesterday, and were soon suppressed by the Oda family archers. The Oda family, who was climbing the ladder, was gently pressing against the top of the city with a rolling stone marigold and feather arrows.
Finally, at the second hour of the Mizunoji, the Shibata family's troops first attacked Ninomaru's city. After Komuro Gen and Takeoyashi Naoshi resisted for a while, they realized that Ninomaru could no longer defend, so they had to retreat to Honmaru and retreat to carry out the final desperate resistance.
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However, the horses also received a reward at this time - the 6,000 reinforcements of the Saito family in the east had arrived more than ten miles away from Inabayama Castle, and they would arrive in more than an hour! Oda Nobunaga had to make plans early and sent Sakuma Nobumoto, Sasa Narimasa, and Takigawa Ichie's 2,000 men to defend Ghana Castle, protect the Oda army's retreat, and at the same time blocking the reinforcements to support Inabayama Castle.
Nobunaga Oda understood that there was not much time left, so he immediately gathered the remaining 6,000 people, intending to fight to see if he could kill Honmaru before reinforcements arrived! The archers took their place and began to suppress Honmaru's enemy.
However, at this critical moment, the gods who have always favored Oda Nobunaga failed to do good! The sky that has been gloomy finally started to rain. At first, it was just a drizzle, but gradually turned into a downpour! This directly brought huge obstacles to the siege side. In heavy rainy days, the range and accuracy of the bow and arrows were greatly reduced, and they could hardly play any role. In other words, the siege side's bow and arrow cover almost no longer exists. However, the defense side also has siege tools such as siege and rolling stones to use.
On rainy days, the slippery ladder makes climbing particularly difficult, and the heavy clothes after being wet by the rain also increase the difficulties of the siegemen. The siege often needs to attack backwards, and the raindrops will fall directly on the face, blurring their vision, and greatly affecting the battle.
Nobunaga Oda looked at the right time as Honmaru was disturbed by a heavy rain, and he couldn't help but stomp his feet in anger. However, even more unfortunate news came one after another.
Just this morning, a rumor suddenly emerged in Inoguchi Town, under Inabayama Castle. It was said that the Naoko faction of the Saito family reached an understanding with the Nishimino family on the condition that they all withdrew from the center and gave up the central power and the military power of Inabayama Castle. The Nishimino family will gather the entire army today and come to Inabayama Castle to support it.
When Oda Nobunaga heard the news, he didn't believe it so much, but just regarded it as a delaying strategy for Saito Ryuki to jump over the wall. However, his spy liner deployed in Simeino finally came back at noon today, bringing the Simeino army leaving the territory collectively yesterday and began to gather to the east. Soon, Yuqiha Aoka, the ninja leader of Yuqiha, also broke back with great difficulty. He was attacked by Simeino ninjas at the intersection of several important roads on the road, and it seemed that he was planning to completely block the news. However, he had extraordinary kung fu, but he still broke through the blockade and rushed to Inayayama Castle to report the news to Yuqihao. He originally wanted to convey information about the Simeino family's abnormal movements, but he met Ando Musuke's army on the road!
According to the latest news he brought, the 1,500 people who were the leader of the Simino family, Ando, ​​were very close to Inabayama Castle! It is only 10 miles away from Nagara River!
"Master, please make a decision quickly." Sakuma Nobumo was so anxious that he jumped straight away. "If we were surrounded by the Saito family's tens of thousands of troops in Inoguchimachi, we would be finished!"
Nobunaga Oda turned his back to his anxious retainers, looking at the towering towering Inabayama Castle Tenshou Pavilion through a rain and mist. His hands were clenched into fists, and the folding fan in his hand was creaking. He felt extremely unwilling to give in. After a long time, his helplessness and resentment turned into a long roar to the sky.
Chapter completed!