Chapter 693 5. The Waves of the Sister River Surged

This time, the judges agreed not to move for the time being. Anyway, they were backed by Sakaimachi and it was easy to get supplies.

The news was so confusing, who knew what the situation of Oda Nobunaga was. At this time, you could make mistakes in everything you do, and you were unfamiliar with the place in Kinai. If you made a mistake, you would most likely die without a complete body.

After just one day, more news came. The Three Miyoshis in Settsu got the news and were moving towards Luoyang. It seemed that they were going to attack Luoyang again.

Fortunately, the Yamanouchi army arrived early, otherwise they might run into the Three Miyoshis on the way, and a big battle would be inevitable. It was a bargain for Oda Nobunaga, and he had one less group to deal with.

Then, Matsunaga Hisahide and Tsutsui Junkei from Yamato next door also started fighting. Anyway, there was no one to suppress them, and the two groups of enemies were particularly jealous when they met. Now they are calling friends and small-scale conflicts continue.

Izumi's upper guardian Hosokawa Fujitaka is now in Luoyang and has no control over local affairs. There is no chaos around now. It is really suppressed by 15,000 Yamanouchi troops. No one dares to jump out for the time being.

In the next few days, everyone spent time in tension. During this period, they managed to contact Luoyang once. Hosokawa Fujitaka sent back a letter. The situation in Luoyang was still okay, but Murai Sadakatsu, who was guarding Luoyang, was also a little panicked. He was sending people to Gifu one after another to understand the situation of the Oda family.

And the news of the Battle of Anegawa was finally clear after being continuously summarized and sorted out!

There is no doubt that Asai Nagamasa betrayed Oda Nobunaga. After Oda Nobunaga entered Jiangbei, he joined forces with 15,000 people from Asakura Kageaki who came to support the war. The two armies of 25,000 people launched a surprise attack on the Oda Matsudaira coalition who were resting in the Yokoyama area of ​​Anegawa and Meigawa.

Among them, Asai Nagamasa's 10,000 people fought against Oda Nobunaga's 19,000 people, and Asakura Kageaki's 15,000 people fought against Matsudaira Ieyasu's 5,000 people. The plan was very well thought out. Asai's army launched a surprise attack on Oda, disrupting the deployment of Oda's army. Asakura's army attacked Matsudaira with a three-fold advantage in numbers, hoping to quickly crush Matsudaira's army, and then attack Oda's army from the flank. The two armies joined forces and completely killed Oda Nobunaga at Anesakawa.

The plan was perfect, and the layout and morale were quite high. Asai Nagamasa and Asakura Kagekage used their most elite and brave generals on the front line, ready to achieve success in one battle.

However, the development of things was very different from what they expected. Under the fierce attack of Isono Uemachi, Asai's army quickly broke through several teams outside Nobunaga, and the entire army quickly approached Nobunaga's main force.

Asakura Kagekage relied on the advantage in numbers to suppress Matsudaira's army at the beginning, and the battle progressed quite smoothly.

The Matsudaira army was led by Ogasawara Nagatsugu, with Sakai Tadatsugu and Torii Mototada on the right wing, Ishikawa Sumo, Naito Nobushige, and Okubo Tadayo on the left wing, and Ieyasu personally guarded the center.

Facing the fierce attack of the fierce general of the Asakura army, Magara Jurozaemon Naotaka, the Matsudaira army was unstoppable for a while, and the troops were shocked and retreated one after another. His brother Magara Naosumi and his son Magara Ryoki also joined the battle. These three were really killing people and Buddhas. They were about to rush to Matsudaira Ieyasu's main camp and kill the generals and seize the flag.

Seeing such a general rushing forward, the Matsudaira army did not talk about any courtesy, righteousness, and integrity. The four brothers of Kosaka Shikibu rushed forward, and the four big men besieged the 62-year-old Magara Naotaka. Magara Naotaka was not afraid at all. He came up and killed Kosaka Gorojiro with a knife, turned around and cut off Kosaka Shikibu's palm with another knife, and fought his way out of the siege in blood.

As a result, Kosaka Rokurogoro hit Magara Naotaka with a hammer from behind, knocking the old general off his horse and taking his head. Magara Ryoki saw his father died in the battle, so he rushed up on horseback to grab the head and killed Kosaka Rokurogoro with a knife, but he was also surrounded and died in the battle.

The Asakura army's momentum was greatly weakened after the death of the father and son of Magara. Sakai Tadatsugu took advantage of the situation to attack the Asakura army from the side, and the Asakura army began to retreat in the chaos. Generals such as Kurosaka Bichu-no-kami, Kobayashi Ruishuxuan, and Uozumi Saemon-no-jo were successively killed by the Matsudaira army, and the Asakura army, which was three times larger than the Matsudaira army, was defeated.

At this time, the Asai army did not know about the defeat of the Asakura army. Isono Uemachi broke through eleven teams of Oda's army in a row, killing them all covered in blood. Only 700 people were left, and they were already in front of Oda Nobunaga.

The second general who reversed the situation appeared. Kinoshita Hideyoshi led his troops to form a circle and blocked the front of Isono Umamasa. Like a rock on the seashore, it actually blocked the fierce attack of Isono Umamasa.

Anyway, the tens of thousands of troops in front were scattered, and Oda Nobunaga simply put down the Yongle Tongbao horse flag and personally went to the formation of Inaba Iktetsu, Ando Morinari and Ujiie Bokuzen who were still in the rear. Commanded the 4,000 troops of the Mino Three to launch a counterattack against the Asai army and surrounded the first mover of Isono Umamasa.

The two generals Endo Kiemon Naoki and Anyangji Saburozaemon found that the first mover of the Asai army was surrounded and came to rescue. They were caught by Ikeda Kanxing who finally recovered, and cooperated with Sassa Narimasa and Hachiya Raitaka to eat him in one bite.

Two of the three fierce generals of the Asai army died in battle, and one was surrounded and his life or death was unknown. The first mover suffered heavy losses, and the various units immediately began to retreat without any command.

The two sides fought to a draw!

Asai and Asakura did not achieve their goals, and Oda and Matsudaira were ambushed and unable to pursue.

In addition, due to the chaos of the battle, troops from all four sides withdrew from the battlefield on their own in the chaos. Even the troops of a general like Shibata Katsuie fled all the way to Odani Castle, ten towns below.

After Oda Nobunaga's main camp horse mark was knocked down, rumors spread everywhere that Oda Nobunaga had been killed by Isono Uemachi. In the confusion, the troops of various divisions could not tell the truth, and many believed it.

This is also the reason why nearly a thousand Asai and Asakura troops entered Eizan Enryakuji Temple. They withdrew from the battlefield without knowing the direction, and ran out to find that they had gone in the opposite direction.

As for the dead, according to the oral accounts of the black shovelers on the battlefield. Asai Asakura lost nearly 3,000, and Oda Matsudaira lost 1,600.

No one got it right!

"What is the whereabouts of Gifu Danzheng!" This is the key, and Ashikaga Yoshiaki is also very concerned.

"Gifu Danzheng is now in Usayama Castle!"

"Why is he there?" Hosokawa Saijo was also surprised.

"Mori and Sanzaemon have more than a thousand elite soldiers in Usayama Castle. When they heard about the battle of Anegawa River, they gathered 6,000 troops from Jiangnan to rescue them, but they were intercepted by Gifu Dansho on the way. Now Gifu Dansho has gathered 12,000 to 13,000 troops and is heading to Enryakuji Temple on Mount Eizan."

"Could it be?" Xiao Pingtai was suddenly shocked.

"Yes! Gifu Dansho notified Enryakuji Temple to hand over all the remaining soldiers of Asai and Asakura and evacuate the mountain gate, otherwise he would set fire to it!"

Murakami Yoshimitsu's voice was not loud, but the people present were terrified.