At 4:00 noon on March 30, the 14th year of Astronomy, on the west bank of the Kamogawa River, there is the New Zenkoji Temple.
"Really, this is His Highness Owari's reply?" Mourimoto confirmed to Kobayakawa Takakage who had just returned.
"Yes, His Highness Owari asked his father to do things for his own convenience." Kobayakawa Takakage replied with a look of embarrassment on his face.
Mao Liyuan frowned, crossed his arms, and fell into deep thought. The Oda Army southeast of Shin-Zenko Temple is regrouping at this moment and seems to be preparing to reorganize an attack.
"Father, in my opinion, His Majesty Owari wants us to leave the battlefield without permission and sell the Nizi Army's rear to the Confederate Army. But the Ouchi family don't want to be known as 'betraying friendly forces' in front of the world. , so we were asked to 'act cheaply' so that our Maori family would get a bad reputation." Mao Lilongyuan bluntly exposed Tao Longfang's wishful thinking, and said to Maori Yuan a little indignantly: "Why should we? For the sake of their Ouchi family, ruin the martial name of the Maori family in this world-famous battle?"
"But if we can make the Nizi army be attacked from both sides and weaken the strength of the Nizi family, it will be of great benefit to us." Kobayakawa Takakage suggested in a low voice from the side: "After all, compared to the Ouchi family, the Nizi family is directly adjacent to the pressure. Instead, we are.”
"That won't ruin the reputation of our Maori family..." Takamoto Maori raised his voice and argued, "Abandoning friendly troops on the battlefield, retreating to the rear, abandoning the position and fleeing without a fight, wouldn't it mean that future generations would laugh at us? ?What will everyone think of our Maori family?"
"But..." Kobayakawa Takakage hesitated again and wanted to speak.
"I have an idea." At this time, Motonori Motonari, who had been pondering for a while, suddenly raised his head, his frown had already relaxed, and he waved his hand and pointed in the southeast direction: "Did you see the Takio Shrine over there? The flag of the Tsutsui family. They quickly headed north, but then stopped at Takio Shrine, and even retreated south. This means that our friendly forces on the east bank of the Kamogawa River had already broken through south to Takio Shrine after receiving the notice."
"Ah? Then why is the flag of the Saito family still flying in the Sanjusangen Hall?" Mouri Takamoto looked at Saito's bicep wave flying on the Sanjusangen Hall in the north of Takio Shrine with a confused look.
"It is estimated that the Otomo Army who previously lived in Rokuparamitji Temple wanted to hide it from the enemy, so they did not change the flag after capturing Sanjusangendo." Mourimoto replied without thinking: "Then this also means that Zhai The Fuji army should have left Sanjusangendo. If the Saito army went east, then the New Hiyoshi Shrine would have been in emergency, but in fact everything there was the same as before. If the Saito army went south, then the Takio Shrine The Tsutsui family shouldn’t be the only one fighting over there. Considering that the Saito family and the Oda family are allies, it’s very likely that the Saito army crossed the river to the west with the Oda army——”
Maori Yuan stretched out his voice and raised his chin: "It will be in the neighborhood southeast of us, south of Shichijo Bridge."
"What does father mean?" Mouri Takamoto and Kobayakawa Takakage were both confused.
"It means that most of the east bank of Kamogawa River is now controlled by our Northern Army. There are almost no deployments by the Southern Army. It is very safe." Mao Liyuan coughed twice, and then explained his plan: "If we Defeated the Oda Army and pursued them all the way. When they arrived at the Shichijo Bridge, they 'suddenly' found an ambush by the Saito Army there. Being 'desperate', they had to retreat to the east bank of the Kamogawa River for shelter. Friendships and the world will probably not criticize our Maori army, which has a small number of generals, right? We did not intentionally betray the Nizi army's rear, it was just due to the situation."
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At 5:00 noon on March 30, the 14th year of Astronomy, outside the New Zenkoji Temple.
Oda Nobunaga readjusted the deployment of his troops and planned to have the soldiers bypass the two alleys of Shin-Zenkoji and launch an attack together. However, before he could wave the flag, he suddenly noticed that Motonari Mori's horse seal on Shin-Zenkoji Temple was waving high. A moment later, an ambush from the Mouri family burst out of the alley on the north side where he originally wanted to make a detour. The leader was Yoshikawa, the young but still brave second son of Motonari Mouri. Yuanchun.
The Oda Army was caught off guard and was immediately thrown into chaos. Fortunately, the Oda Army samurai's fighting qualities were still excellent. They were not as embarrassed as the Tsutsui Army. Instead, they gathered their troops and retreated to the southeast towards the Shichijo Bridge. Prepare to join the Saito army waiting there and repel the ambush before making any plans. What surprised the Oda army was that the Maori army in the Shin-Zenkoji Temple also came out in full force, abandoning their carefully constructed strong positions and directly chasing and killing them.
Oda Nobunaga didn't panic when he saw this, and led his army to retreat all the way to the Shichijo Bridge. Saito's army, which had not fired a shot all morning until now, had been recuperating for a long time, and immediately came from the streets south of the Shichijo Bridge. He rushed out and rushed towards the Maori army.
But the changes in front of them once again shocked all the Oda family and Saito family samurai - instead of retreating, the Maori army rushed towards the Shichijo Bridge. Neither the Oda Army nor the Saito Army expected this movement, so there was almost no defense on the east side, and the Maori Army rushed directly towards the east bank of the Kamogawa River, leaving the Saito Army and the Oda Army looking at each other.
"Lord, isn't our retreat cut off?" Akechi Mitsuhide was a little anxious and pointed in the direction where the Maori army was heading away - Sanjusangendo.
"It doesn't matter. Didn't the Northern Army's troops pass by just now? They were lost a long time ago." Saito Douzan didn't care at all. He pointed at the streets on the west bank of the Kamogawa River with his thumb, "If we want to withdraw, just go ahead and Go south along the Kamogawa River to Dongshan Bridge, there is nothing to be afraid of, there is nothing to be afraid of."
Before he finished speaking, something happened that frightened Empress Saito Dosan.
The Oda army didn't even say hello, but turned directly towards the Shin-Zenkoji Temple that had just been vacated by the Maori army.
"My son-in-law..." Saito Douzan was angry and funny. He couldn't help but cursed: "I don't know who I learned this reckless temper from. It's like rushing to be reincarnated! Be decisive when you see an opportunity. Of course, you won’t miss a good game, but you may also get yourself killed.”
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At seven o'clock noon on March 30, the 14th year of Tianwen, in the south of Yuanjiao Temple, Nizi's army was in the middle.
"Report! Your Highness! Oh no! The new Zenkoji Temple is lost! The papaya flag of the Oda family of the Confederate Army has been planted on it!"
"Huh?" Nizi Kunikisa was fighting on the front line with all his strength. After receiving the notification from the ordering soldiers, he quickly retreated, climbed to the second floor of a house and looked back - only then did he find a word on the new Zenkoji Temple. The three-star flags have disappeared.
"The beasts of the Maori family... I knew that these two-faced beasts would be up to no good if they were assigned behind us!" When Nizi Kunijiu saw this, he was so angry that he cursed and quickly called the troops: "Retreat, retreat, withdraw your wish Teach the temple.”
"It's still dangerous to go back to Yuanjiao Temple..." After issuing the order, Nizi Kunijisa still felt cold sweat. "The New Zenkoji Temple is lost, and our retreat to the northeast has been cut off. We can only go to Faguang Temple in the northwest. But Faguang Temple, It’s clearly the Ouchi family’s position…it can’t possibly be convenient for us, right?”
Just as Nizi Kunihisa expected, after seeing the Maori army at Shin-Zenkoji Temple give up their position "expeditiously", Tao Ryufu had already decisively commanded the Ouchi army to retreat.
"The flanks and rear have been broken through. The southern army may pass through Shin-Zenkoji Temple and directly attack Nijo Castle and the Imperial Palace. The entire army should immediately return to King Kin! Leave Hokoji Temple and retreat to Daisenji Temple!" Tao Longfang took the opportunity of the change of hands of Shin-Zenkoji Temple and legitimately ordered The Ouchi army retreated north. The samurai of the Ouchi family immediately led their troops to break away from the Asakura army and retreated towards Hoko Temple, while the rear troops in Hoko Temple began to move directly to Oizumi Temple in the north.
Sotetsu Asakura is also an old fox who is half dead. How could he not understand what the Ouchi family is thinking? With a tacit understanding, he enlarged the inner army to leave, and followed closely behind him. After the inner army withdrew from Faguang Temple, he immediately entered it. At the same time, the original position at Toji Temple was left to be garrisoned by the Asai Army who came for support. After the warriors of the Nizi Army withdrew to Yuanjiao Temple, they discovered that the Ouchi water chestnut on Faguang Temple had also been replaced by Asakura Sanmori papaya, and they all jumped up in anger.
"Tao Owari is going to deliver Nizi's family to our mouth." Asakura Sotechi stroked his gray beard under his chin and looked at the army that had been occupied by Asakura Army, Asai Army, Rokkaku Army, Wakasa Takeda Army and Oda Army , Saito's army surrounded the Nizi army in Yuanjiao Temple from all sides.
On the other side, Rokkaku Sadeyori and his son-in-law Takeda Nobutyo were leading their troops to pursue the Rokkaku army and blocked them all the way into the Kankyo Temple. However, Rokkaku Sadeyori immediately ordered the troops to stop and did not immediately launch an attack on the Kankyo Temple. storm.
"Guan Lingdai." Takeda Nobong was confused, "The Rokkaku family's foothold is not stable. This is a great opportunity for us to attack. Why did we stop our troops?"
"Can't you see, this is a borrowed knife plan of the Ouchi family. The Ouchi family and their vassal Maori family withdrew their troops from the left and right sides, sold all the Nizi family, and sent them to our encirclement as a big gift. Come here." Rokkaku Sadayori unhurriedly arranged his military uniform, patted his skirt with both hands and said: "But, why should we serve as knives for the Ouchi family? The Nizi family is surrounded. In order to survive, we will inevitably have to fight against a trapped beast. If we attack at this time, won’t we run into an iron plate?”
"But this is such a big honor, it's the moment to become famous..." Takeda Nobunto was still a little envious.
"There's no rush, it's a big gift that our two families can't afford to receive on their own." Rokkaku Sadayori waved his hand, motioning for the juniors to bring a mat and sit down, and looked meaningfully at Asakura Jun and To the west. Asai Army, "Wait until all our people are here, then attack together."
