At the first quarter of the hour on March 30, the 14th year of Tenmon (1546), on the Shichijo Bridge, Oda Nobunaga was taking the lead, leading the Oda army directly across the Shichijo Bridge and towards the west bank of the Kamogawa River. The soldiers at the bottom were still in immersion.
In the joy of successive victories, heads and trophies were pinned to their waists, waiting to be rewarded when they went back to discuss their merits. However, some knowledgeable senior samurai were all livid at this moment, wondering what Oda Nobunaga was doing at this moment.
What to do.
"Young Master." Niwa Nagahide followed closely behind Oda Nobunaga's horse, tightened his grip on Oda Nobunaga's horse reins, and kept trying to pull him back: "Are you crazy? How are you going to the west bank?
Are you going? The west bank is prosperous and is home to important strategic points such as the Imperial Palace and Nijo Castle. Naturally, it will be heavily guarded by the Northern Army. We have few soldiers, and Master Yuksai, who is in charge of the army, intends to frame us. It is too late for us to hide on the sparsely populated east bank.
Why are you sending it to the tiger's mouth on the west bank by yourself? And according to the previous order, our mission is to advance on the east bank. Aren't you disobeying orders by going like this? What if His Highness blames you? The friendly forces didn't know you would be like this.
Take action, who will rescue us if something happens? No one knows that our Oda Army will appear on the west bank!"
"Wan Qiandai, what do you know? If I stay on the east coast, I won't be tricked by that old monk. That old monster has many plans in his mind. I will go step by step. It will only be a matter of time before I fall into his trap.
.God knows how he will adjust his deployment and how he will lure the enemy to surround us." Oda Nobunaga snorted twice, then laughed wildly, "But it's okay, I can't guess what he thinks, and he can't participate.
Tell me what I think!"
"What's your plan, young master?" Niwa Nagahide looked at Oda Nobunaga excitedly as if he saw a turning point, "What's your plan for going to the West Bank?"
"No!" However, Oda Nobunaga loudly said loudly, "I don't know what I am doing! I just want to choose the most outrageous and exaggerated direction of march! This is a once-in-a-century chaos, a war that attracts worldwide attention.
Wouldn't it be too boring to follow the same rules without any changes or surprises? I, Oda Nobunaga, will be the spoiler!"
"Ah?" Niwa Nagahide was so shocked that he almost fell off his horse.
"Haha, but even I don't know what I'm doing, so how could the old monk expect this step of Owari, the idiot I am? In any case, it must be outside of his plan. That's fine!" After that,
Oda Nobunaga threw away Niwa Nagahide's hand holding his reins, clamped the horse's belly, and rushed forward quickly: "Muddy the water, fish in troubled waters! Beat the old monk to death with random punches!"
At the same time, Sanjusangendo.
Mitsuhide Akechi, who was directing the firefighting, was dumbfounded as he watched the papaya pattern of the Oda family disappear on the west bank of Shichijo Bridge. He didn't know what to do for a while:
"The Oda family is the new in-law alliance of our Saito family. If they are allowed to go deep into the heavily guarded West Bank alone, they will definitely suffer heavy losses, which will be extremely detrimental to the Saito family's geographical situation. But if we follow them, we will also
The general is in danger, and Saito's army doesn't have many troops..."
"Follow me." A rough big hand patted Akechi Mitsuhide's shoulder, and Saito Douzan's voice immediately sounded from behind.
"Huh?" Akechi Mitsuhide was stunned for a moment, "My lord? Why are you here?"
"Follow up and follow the Oda army across the river." Saito Michizan repeated the order without changing his expression.
Akechi Mitsuhide's expression tightened upon hearing this, he knelt down solemnly and retorted with his hands raised:
"Lord, please think twice, this is very dangerous. Currently, according to the flag signals of friendly forces and the intelligence sent back by our formation, the total number of Northern troops present on the battlefield is less than a few, and the location of nearby people is unknown. There is a high probability that its main force is on the west bank.
Wait on the north side. We only have 6,000 people, and the Oda Army only has 3,000 people. According to the previous plan made by Master Yusei, our goal is to advance on the east bank of the Kamogawa River. If we rush westward, it will not only break the entire southern army's plan
, we cannot notify the surrounding friendly forces in time, and we cannot get any support. With our strength, we will most likely be eaten directly."
"Danger is right, wealth can be found in danger. I can't keep up with the footsteps of that boy from the Oda family." Saito Douzan smacked his lips disapprovingly, "If you follow the rules everywhere, you will definitely fall into the trap in the end.
Monk Xuezai’s plan. In this case, it’s better to risk the troops and fight for a way out. Aren’t their Imagawa troops going to detour from the north of Mount Otowa back to the east bank of the Kamogawa River? Then if our troops on the east bank all cross westward,
Wouldn't the Northern Army's garrison troops originally left on the east coast be free to return north to outflank the outflanking Imagawa Army?"
"But they may also go directly south and cut off our retreat back to the east coast." Mitsuhide Akechi advised again.
"Don't worry, I'm not a lunatic, and I have no interest in gambling my life's hard work. I just want to see what step that boy from the Oda family can take." Saito Michizan clapped his fingers and said, "We
After crossing the Shichijo Bridge, we stopped, guarded the ferry, and prepared to evacuate."
"Then I'll send someone to report our army's movements right now." Mitsuhide Akechi handed over his hands and prepared to take the order, but was stopped by Saito Michizan with a raised hand:
To the northeast of Sanjusangen-do is Shinyoshi Shrine.
Not long ago, Hojo Tsunari learned about the outrageous whereabouts of the Oda army from his family's messengers, and had to suspend the offensive. After Saito's army could not fill the Sanjusangendo Hall on the flank, he resumed his attack on the new army.
The attack on Hiyoshi Shrine. The brave Sagami Hojo Army was outnumbered and actually overwhelmed the Mimura Army and the Isshiki Army. Hojo Tsunari was confident that as long as Saito Army's reinforcements outflanked it from the west, they could force
The Mimura Army and the Isshiki Army abandoned the New Hiyoshi Shrine and retreated - of course he didn't know that the Saito Army was also heading in an outrageous direction.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Not only did the friendly troops who were on the front line not know, Takeda Harunobu, who was coordinating the command at Tofukuji Temple, was also unable to see clearly the movements of the troops in the dense streets and alleys at the first time. He
I could vaguely see a crowd of people near Shichijo Bridge, but I didn't know what was going on.
On the other side of the Kamogawa River, Rokkaku Sadeyori and Asakura Sotetsu naturally knew nothing about the actions of the Oda Army and Saito Army. They were busy directing the battle and had no time to pay attention to the movements on the Kamogawa River.
They couldn't see anything while walking in the streets. Even if they noticed the strange movement on the Shichijo Bridge, they would never have thought that Oda Nobunaga, a lunatic, did not act according to the battle plan at all and led the army into the fire pit - while Saito
Jun actually followed us.
The first one to discover the Oda Army was the Aki Mori family, a unit of the Northern Army stationed at Shin-Zenkoji Temple.
"Father?" The second son Yoshikawa Motoharu, who was adopted into the Yoshikawa family one year earlier than the original timeline, was originally on the top of the Shin-Zenko-ji Temple, constantly watching the battle situation in the direction of Gonkyo-ji Temple, and discussing it with his father Motori Motoharu.
It depends on the gains and losses of both sides' command. However, as he was talking, he found that his father did not reply for a long time, and seemed to be distracted.
When Yoshikawa Motoharu turned to look at Motori Motonari, he found that the latter was staring blankly in the direction of the Shichijo Bridge in the southeast.
"Someone may want to cross the bridge." After noticing his son's gaze, Mao Liyuan replied in a low voice.
"Huh? Was that the Oda family's team over there just now?" The eldest son Mouri Takamoto asked doubtfully: "They should only have two or three thousand people. How dare they rush to the west bank of the Kamogawa River? Did my father see it wrong?"
"First determine the authenticity of the thing, and then consider the motive. If the thing really happened, even if we can't find the reason no matter how hard we think, it still happened. If the thing really didn't happen, even if we think the other party had to do something
There is still no reason." Motonari Mouri shook his head inexplicably, "The fire in Sanjusangendo Hall did not go out immediately, which means that the Oda army who captured Sanjusangendo Hall did not stop, or
To the north, or to the west, or to the east.”
"There are no horse seals erected at the Rokuparamitsu Temple in the north, which means that the friendly forces ambushing there have not engaged the enemy. Otherwise, flags will definitely be used to command the entire army. And in the direction of the New Riyoshi Shrine in the east, the Mimura family and the Isshiki family
The flags are all in order, and it doesn’t look like they are being attacked from two sides. Only the Shichijo Bridge in the west has obvious smoke and commotion, so someone must be passing by. If not the Oda Army, who else could it be?"
"Takakage." Mao Liyuan signaled to his third son who had adopted Kobayakawa's family, "Take someone to investigate."
"Yes." Kobayakawa Takakage had just served in the Yuan Dynasty for a short period of time. He was still childish, but he was already quite capable. After receiving the order, he led a small team of exploration horses to the southeast.
"Motoharu." Motonari Mouri looked at Yoshikawa Motoharu again, "Take the Yoshikawa family members and leave Shin-Zenkoji Temple first, and ambush in the neighborhood north of Shichijo Bridge."
"Yes." Yoshikawa Motoharu clapped away without saying a word.
"Takamoto." Maori Yuan finally ordered to his eldest son: "Go down and command the troops to put on armor, prepare for battle, and set up defenses in the area of Shin Zenkoji Temple."
"Yes." Mouri Takamoto also accepted the order happily, but he, who has always been upright, still frankly raised his doubts to his father: "But I still feel that it is making a fuss. How dare the Oda family act like this?"
"Never underestimate your opponent, carelessness is unacceptable." Mourimoto taught in a serious tone: "Also inform the surrounding friendly forces of the situation and beware of possible surprise attacks by the Oda army."