On May 7, the seventh year of Yonglu (1564), Yu Qiuping completed the assembly of troops in the territory. This time, Yu Qiuping's family dispatched a total of 600 combat soldiers, and the 20,000-stone territory of Yu Qiuping, who was recruited in the territory. Many of them had been selected into the combat troops, and the remaining ones could only recruit so many auxiliary soldiers. Due to the serious inconsistency between the proportion of combat soldiers and auxiliary soldiers, Yu Qiuping's combat soldiers still had to wear sufficient marches to reduce the logistical pressure on the auxiliary soldiers. A total of 1,000 foul and 50 cavalrymen approached the border with Oda Nobuqing territory from the west.

This time, there were two brand new troops in Yu Qiuping's army. First, the Cavalry Platoon of Aiyama was officially established. After Yu Qiuping became rich, he expanded the cavalry to 50 people and selected some outstanding achievements from the veterans to join the cavalry unit - because in the general Japanese concept, becoming a cavalry is a symbol of becoming a samurai.

However, Yu Qiuping was still in a dark way when it comes to cavalry training, so he had to let everyone practice marching like infantry and change the queue. Maeda Keiji brought some small training methods, and this guy seemed to be quite proficient in cavalry. Including asking riders to ride on horseback to try to see the scarecrow standing on the road, or the skills of slashing immediately, he could teach other cavalry some. Yu Qiuping gave him a position as a cavalry coach to assist him in training the troops.

Another unit was the iron cannon team that Yu Qiuhei had been thinking about day and night. Under Yu Qiuhei's strong persistence, he under the pressure of Charlie and many archers, the oldest archer platoon began to learn how to use iron cannons, and selected the 20 people who learned the fastest to change the iron cannons as equipment. However, this caused strong dissatisfaction from Semei Yoshinori. Because the archer's training costs almost no money, the arrows shot can be used even if they are pulled out. However, the gunpowder of the iron cannon is a disposable consumable, and it is too expensive to train. However, Yu Qiuhei was reluctant to let the iron cannon train with Tsuda Kazuyoshi, and the gunpowder was shot out like money-his theory that if you don't train, you can't hit people on the battlefield, and it's meaningless to spend as little money. Under his training at no cost, the iron cannon's star quickly approached the level of the bow and arrow.

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However, before going to the battle, he had another important thing to solve - that is, Shigeji Takenaka's physical problems.

Last time, after kneeling with Yu Qiushang for an afternoon without eating, Zhuqianchi became tired and ill. After recuperation for a long time, Yu Qiuping remembered that Zhuqianchi's health has always been poor. In the history of his previous life, he died of illness in 1579 before he could show his talents on the battlefield in the Western Kingdom. Yu Qiuping didn't want such a tragedy to happen again in his friends, so he personally took the initiative to formulate a dietary care plan for Zhuqianchi.

At this moment, he was sitting next to the bed of Takenaka Shigeji, reading to him the health regulations that need attention.

"Eat less pickled food, eat less vegetables and cucumbers for breakfast, and eat more fresh vegetables, fruits and melons. You must drink a bowl of porridge and eat half an egg for breakfast every day."

“Chinese food…dinner…”

"No drinking or staying up late. You must go to bed before the seventh hour of the Xu hour every night..."

"You need to exercise enough every day, take two quarters of a walk in the morning and two quarters of a walk after dinner."

“There must be a limit on working hours, every day…”

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Yu Qiuping meticulously recited the health regulations for Zhuzhong to treat the heavy treatment word by word, making the latter lying on the bed laugh and cry.

"Hongye, I'm only 20 years old." Takenaka Shigeji shook his head with a wry smile, "Although my health has never been very good, I don't need to be treated like this."

"Don't treat your body as a joke, half-soldier guard!" Yu Qiuping frowned and pretended to be angry, "I promised to practice our dreams to correct the world together. Do you want to break your promise? I don't want to wait until I get old and the world is pacified, and there is no good friend who can talk to me about my past ideals."

Takenaka Shigeji was stunned when he heard this, slightly moved, and his eyes flashed.

"If you don't do it properly, I will send you a few maids to supervise you every day." Yu Qiuping threatened angrily, "I will do anything for your health."

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On May 8, the Oda family army began to approach Nimba County from all directions, Oda Nobuki's territory. Due to years of war, the Oda family could not recruit enough troops, and only 7,000 people were sent to conquer Oda Nobuki. However, without the assistance of the Saito family, Oda Nobuki also knew that the crisis was heavy. Therefore, he was in a state of war and almost urged all his retainers and samurai to gather every male of his age in the territory. The total number reached about 3,000 people, preparing to resist Oda Nobunaga's military power.

However, his behavior made his subordinates complain from their family to their youth. These Ohachi people were unwilling to fight each other because of their relationship. After Oda Nobuki rebelled, many people had fallen down due to civil war. This time, almost every adult man was sent to the battlefield, which really made people feel disappointed and dissatisfied.

On May 9, the seventh year of Ekiro (1564), the Oda family army began to approach Oda Nobuki's territory from Kuroda Castle, Komakiyama Castle and Dakua Castle. Among them, Oda Nobunaga led 4,000 main forces from Komakiyama Castle to the northeast, surrounding the Kokua Castle, which had not been captured for a long time. As the general of the Eastern Route Army, Ninobu Nagahide led 2,000 people to surround Dakua Castle. Yuqiuhei set out from Yeli County and led more than 1,000 of his troops eastward to a village 10 miles west of Inuyama Castle, restraining Oda Nobuki's main forces and preventing him from supporting him easily. As a good partner who has cooperated with Yuqiuhei many times, Moriko once again led his troops to the land ceded north of Kuroda Castle and Kisogawa to guard against possible attacks by Mino's side.

Due to the threat from Yuqiuhei's troops, Oda Nobuki had to leave the main force 1,500 people in Inuyama Castle. The 900 people in Kokura Castle and 600 people in Oda Castle were occupied by Oda Nobunaga's army and surrounded the city. The Mother Yizhong, Ma Li, and the horse-riding samurai in the homes of various retainers in the Oda family, patrolled and wandered in the Niba County in accordance with Oda Nobunaga's request, blocked all possible connections between Inuyama Castle and its two branch cities. At the same time, Oda Nobunaga divided Shibata Katsuya and Sakuma Nobumoto as a ranger and began to attack Kokura Castle and the villages around Oda Castle. Those villages were unable to resist and had to express their loyalty to Oda Nobunaga.

In Xiaokou Castle and Dacao Castle, many of the recruited men and stingers came from those villages. Seeing that their hometown was captured and their families were all in the hands of Oda Nobunaga, they were not only worried, but also worried that their resistance would cause trouble to their family. Since the connection between inside and outside the city was completely cut off, these two branch cities were like two small boats on the vast ocean, lonely and helpless, as if they could not wait for any rescue. Under such circumstances, the morale in the two branch cities began to shake.

Oda Nobuqing understood the danger that Zhicheng was facing at this moment. He was unwilling to sit and wait for death. He bravely sent troops out of the city to try to support the two Zhicheng to boost morale in the city. And Yu Qiuhei, a special forces assigned to restrain Oda Nobuqing's main force, naturally would not let him go easily. In order to avoid the main force being captured by Yu Qiuhei after the main force left, Oda Nobuqing had to lead an army of 1,500 from the west gate of Inuyama Castle and attack Yu Qiuhei's troops. He planned to defeat Yu Qiuhei first, relieve the danger on the flanks, and then head south to support the Zhicheng.

But this is just as rainy and autumn flat thoughts.

Oda Nobuki's 1,500 army was already trapped and still fighting, and the local area did not need auxiliary soldiers to fight at close range, so nearly 800 people put on Domamaru and set foot on the battlefield as soldiers with weapons in hand. There were also 80 cavalrymen including the Ma Li. Oda Nobuki originally thought that among the more than 1,000 people, there were only more than 300 soldiers in Yuqiuhei, and his number of soldiers was twice the advantage. However, he did not know that Yuqiuhei's local rich man, who recruited soldiers, had a total of 600 soldiers and 50 cavalrymen, waiting for his arrival.

At four o'clock on May 10, Oda Nobuki's army left the west gate of Inuyama Castle and marched towards Yuqiuping's camp along the south bank of Kisogawa. Yuqiuping also left the auxiliary soldiers in the camp, and the soldiers sent the camp to form a formation. Oda Nobuki also left the auxiliary soldiers behind and sent 800 soldiers to form a formation.

The terrain in the northwest of Tanba County is very flat, almost flat. Except for Kisogawa, which is the border between Mino and Ohachi, there is no terrain that can affect the situation of the battle. Yuqiuhei's camp is set up on the north side of the Guandao, which is on the edge of a village between Guandao and Kisogawa. Oda Nobukiya led his army to leave the Guandao and came to the wasteland in the north to compete with Yuqiuhei's troops.

On this plain, which is almost unaffected by the terrain and fortifications, there is no strategic layout, strategic competition and complex battle situation, and one-on-one battle. This is Yu Qiuhei's first experience. Oda Nobuki's number was slightly more than his subordinates, and the troops of Inuyama Castle have always been a powerful brigade in the Oda family's family, Yu Qiuhei was a little nervous. In this battle, whoever wins and loses, it has nothing to do with the competition of strategy. Instead, they simply compete for the combat power of the two armies and the battle formation dispatching ability of the generals of the two armies.

Because Yu Qiuping had a small number of people, he also preferred defense, so he listed a regular horizontal formation. 600 foot light, 50 cavalry, a small number of guards and commanders, a total of 13 platoons. Among them, 3 bows and arrows, 9 infantry platoons and 1 cavalry platoon. Yu Qiuping let three bows and arrows line up in a row, standing in front of the entire army, and 6 of the 9 infantry platoons were lined up to the front line, forming three horizontal lines, and lined side by side. The remaining three infantry platoons and the cavalry platoon were detained in the original formation by Yu Qiuping as a reserve team.

Oda Nobuki's 800 people and nearly 80 cavalrymen listed a huge crane wing formation. The left wing is Mida Yoshitsushi's 300 people reserve team, and the right wing is led by Tatsutaro, with a total of 300 people. The two wings are pressed forward and make a gesture of surrounding Yu Qiuhei. Oda Nobuki's main team is located between the two wings, garrisoned by 200 foul and 80 cavalry.
Chapter completed!