At this time, a spy reported: "Sir General! The Asakura family's troops in Echizen Country have begun to take action!"
"Okay! Just in time!" Oda Nobunaga shouted excitedly: "Soldiers of the Oda family! Let these frogs in the well see what the army of the world's overlord is!"
The Oda Army marched towards Echizen Country with high morale. When they passed this place in the river, they could already vaguely see the flag of the Asakura family.
At this moment, another army hurriedly arrived. Looking at the flag, it turned out to be the Tokugawa Army wearing the tortoise shell family emblem.
"Oh! Tokugawa-dono is here! You're on time!" Oda Nobunaga looked approvingly at Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was sweating all over due to the rush.
Tokugawa Ieyasu wiped the sweat from his face and said: "Hey, if there is money and water that can be harvested, of course I will come quickly. Who doesn't know that if you stand with the Oda Army, you will definitely not suffer!"
"Hahaha! You old fox! You are still so good at talking, okay! With your attitude, if I capture the Asakura family's territory, I will give you 30% immediately!" Oda Nobunaga looked very confident in defeating the Asakura family.
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At this time, a person who looked like a valet hurried over and handed a small bag of natto to Oda Nobunaga, who was beaming with joy: "This is what Miss Aichi asked me to bring to you, General, and she said that she must deliver it personally."
"Well? Has she come back after praying to the Buddha? When did she become so petty with a small bag of natto?" Oda Nobunaga habitually threw the small bag of natto to Tokichiro without caring: "Monkey! Give it to me!
Here you go! Isn’t there a proverb that says: A monkey eating beans will become more intelligent? Haha!”
I saw Kinoshita Tokichiro staring blankly at the natto in his hand without saying a word.
"Okay! Let us attack the Asakura Army in front immediately! In front of our Oda Army who is good at attacking and Tokugawa Army who is good at defending, everyone will fall!" Oda Nobunaga said, pulling out the Dufeisheng
Give yourself the blood-drinking magic knife and prepare to command the whole army to charge with a wave of your hand!
"Wait a minute!!" Kinoshita Tokichiro, who had been silent all the time, suddenly shouted, "Your Highness! Something bad is happening!"
"Monkey! What is your ghost name!?" Oda Nobunaga asked in a nonchalant manner: "Don't you see that morale is very high right now?"
"Your Highness! Look! This bag of natto has punctures on both sides!"
"Yes, why do you need to pierce both sides?" Oda Nobunaga said this to the monkey, and he also murmured in his heart.
"Miss Aichi will never do anything to talk about! Did she mean to send this bag of natto as a metaphor that we are surrounded?" Maeda Toshiie also murmured to himself at the side.
"By the way! Lord! This bag of natto refers to us! The two tied ends refer to the armies of the Asakura and Asai families! We will soon fall into their attack!" Kinoshita Tokichiro shouted loudly!
"This!!!" Oda Nobunaga suddenly realized: "This Asai! I will never spare him!"
"Now is not the time to say such things! My Lord! You and His Highness Tokugawa go first! I will lead a small team to hold them back!" Fujikichiro showed amazing courage at this time!
"Fujiro! It's too dangerous for you to be alone! I'll stay with you!" Maeda Toshiie held his thin shoulder tightly with one hand at this time: "Let's repel Asakura and Asai together!"
"No! Maeda! You have to protect the safety of my lord! There might be an ambush from the Asai family on the road ahead!" Tokichiro's aura of generously willing to die made Shibata Katsuie and others who originally scorned him also turn their noses up at him.
There was some respect.
"Okay! Monkey! It's up to you! I'll leave you a thousand fire commanders, remember not to fight to the death! Hold them for a while and then retreat immediately! I don't want to see a dead monkey!" Oda
After speaking, Nobunaga waved his hand: "Don't panic, everyone, the rear team will become the front team! Withdraw to the homeland!"
"Take care! Tokichiro!" Maeda Toshiie glanced at Tokichiro with complicated eyes, then turned and left.
Tokugawa Ieyasu also wiped his sweat and said to Tokichiro: "Then you really don't need the help of our Tokugawa army? Can Kinoshita-kun really do it?"
Tokichiro boasted in public, and now it was too late to regret it, so he had to bite the bullet and said: "Thank you! I am enough alone!"
After everyone left with their troops, he started to go crazy. What should he do? Asakura and Asai are the main forces of the two daimyo!
His brother-in-law, Asano Nagamasa, came over and said worriedly: "What should we do? We only have these few soldiers and horses and we can't stop the coalition forces of Asakura and Asai! Or we should run away too!"
"Shut up!" Tokichiro's mind began to spin rapidly: the Asakura family estimated that there are more than ten thousand people, and the Asai family has nearly ten thousand. If they fight hard, of course they will be dead! We must find a way to frighten them.
Suddenly he had an idea and shouted loudly: "Xiao Liu! Go and take a hundred people to the nearby forest to break off branches! Then twitch on the ground hard to raise dust!"
Fujiyoshiro remembered the story that Du Fei had accidentally told him during the Three Kingdoms period, in which Zhang Yide single-handedly scared off millions of Cao Cao's troops.
Although Zhang Yide was brave and talented at that time, what really scared Cao Cao away was the suspicious formation he had laid out.
Although Tokichiro is not one ten thousandth as brave as Zhang Yide, he can still learn how to set up suspicious formations. Hundreds of his men began to be busy. Suddenly, overwhelming dust began to rise in the woods and Oda's military formation.
Tokichiro's more than a thousand troops were indistinct in the dust, and it was impossible to see exactly how many there were.
In fact, Asai Nagamasa was very conflicted in his heart at this time. He liked the immortal-looking Aichi very much and was unwilling to be an enemy of his brother, fearing that it would make Aichi sad.
However, the Asakura family and the Asai family are family friends. Not only are the governors related by marriage, but also the retainers of the two families have close contacts. Either the son of one married the daughter of that one, or the sister of that one married the young boy.
concubine.
In fact, even if he was unwilling to betray Oda Nobunaga, his important ministers had already begun to actively cooperate with the Asakura family.
At this time, Asakura Yoshikage was full of doubts and speculations. He was very afraid that the Asai family would ignore their family friends and leave him alone to face the joint attack of the two major forces of Oda and Tokugawa.
To be honest, let alone the Oda and Tokugawa coalition forces, even Hikaru Oda Nobunaga's own army has no confidence at all. The reason why he reluctantly mustered up the courage to accept the challenge is to pin his hopes on the Asai family's pincer attack.
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As a result, Nagamasa Asai, who was deeply conflicted and worried, and Yoshikage Asakura, who was full of doubts, both noticed something strange in the Oda camp.
what's going on
Both of them were stunned! They understood that generally only a huge army of tens of thousands and a large number of cavalry could make the dust fly so fiercely!
What happened! How could the Oda family have such a strong force? They all began to hesitate.
Asai Nagamasa of the Asai family was hesitating about his position, while Asakura Yoshikage felt timid because Chen Yan could not see the reinforcements from the Asai family.
At this moment, Tokichiro made a bold move! He ordered his iron artillery troops to immediately shoot at the Asakura army that had not yet entered the range!
Asakura Yoshikage's army was suddenly attacked. Although no real damage was caused due to the long distance, the psychological deterrent given to him was indeed not small: How dare the Oda family dare to take the initiative to attack? Did the Asai family really not come?
The two of them just stared at each other with big eyes and small eyes, without taking any action for a long time!
At the same time, the troops of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu had already exchanged fire with the Asai family's weak ambush force. Due to their absolute superiority in numbers, the Oda and Tokugawa coalition forces quickly gained the upper hand.
Only then did Asai and Asakura realize it! It turned out that the one who was playing tricks with them here was just a small army! And the real Oda army had already escaped!
After waking up, they hurriedly tried to catch up with the main force of the Oda Army, and did not pay attention to Tokichiro's small unit. Unexpectedly, although Tokichiro was weak, he cleverly directed the iron artillery army to hide in the woods and constantly pursued Oda Nobunaga.
The Asakura troops were shooting.
Asakura Yoshikage was annoyed. He suddenly lost his mind and ordered the soldiers to stop and counterattack into the woods, hoping to annihilate Tokichiro's troops before pursuing them!
But at this time, the Asai family's envoy Shimoma Hyogo arrived and asked why his troops didn't join in the pursuit.
"I want to destroy this Oda army!" Asakura Yoshikei said angrily: "They have no way to escape now! They will be defeated in just a moment! How disgusting! How dare you play with me! I must destroy them.
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"Your Highness! Please calm down and control yourself!" As a messenger, Shimoma Hyogo couldn't say anything, but he was really puzzled to see a dignified family governor with such a lack of foresight.
At this time, the Asakura family's number one military general, Asakura Kagakutake, was also quietly advising: "Sir! The alliance agreement cannot be violated! The Asai family has decisively broken with the Oda family for the sake of their long-term friendship with our family! They are invited by us.
Yes, there is no reason to let people face the enemy alone!"
Asakura Yoshikage also felt that he was a little out of character, but he still couldn't forget Tokichiro who was teasing him: "Naotaka Naotaka! Brothers Naotara Naochei! You lead three thousand soldiers and horses, and you must annihilate this enemy force! The rest of the people follow me.
Come!"
Tokichiro, who was hiding in the woods, saw the Asakura family's brigade and immediately had no choice but to do anything. Facing them at this time were three thousand fierce Asakura troops.