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Junfu City.

Imakawa Yoshimoto held a mobilization meeting.

All the Imakawa family's direct retainers and city lords gathered here to wait for his order.

Imakawa Yoshimoto first made a pre-war mobilization.

First, it tells the current chaotic situation of the Warring States Period and the decline of the general family, and also explains the origin of the Imakawa family. As a family of Ashikaga, it shoulders unshirkable responsibilities. Then it explains the current good situation of the Imakawa family. It not only has economic prosperity and strong military strength, but also has formed a family of children and relatives with two powerful daimyos, Takeda and Hojo, and has a stable alliance. Finally, he announced the final conclusion that he wanted to go to Luo.

Before this, he had sent someone to contact Ohashi's Oda family, hoping that the Oda family would surrender to him and support the Imakawa family's great righteousness, but he got a negative answer.

Since Ohara's little ghost head dared not let the Imakawa family gora, then Imakawa Yoshimoto launched a large army to flatten Ohara!

All the people here are important officials of the Imakawa family. Before this, they also received news that Imakawa Yoshimoto was going to Luo. No matter what Imakawa Yoshimoto's ultimate goal was, they were all ready. They mobilized their retainers, formed an army, and gathered from their fiefs. After receiving Imakawa Yoshimoto's clear order, they each took their own orders to set off for their destination.

The vanguard unit was led by Naomoto I, the general of the Mikawa Ii family, and was mainly composed of troops from each Mikawa family. As the head of the Matsue family, Matsue Motoyashi also led the soldiers of the Matsue family to join this unit.

Within the scope under the jurisdiction of the Imakawa family, these people in the Sanhe area belonged to each other the latest, and they were full of talents and had strong combat capabilities. Therefore, letting them be pioneers is also a good consumption of their strength.

At the junction of Mikawa and Ohachi Kingdom, there are two small cities: Otaka Castle and Naruto. These two cities were fought with Ohachi Oda family for many years and seized them a little bit from Oda Nobunaga's father Oda Nobuhide. It was a springboard for the Imakawa family to invade Ohachi, which was equivalent to two nails nailed into Ohachi, which is of great strategic significance.

And the more we reach this time, the more important the geographical location of these two cities is. It is equivalent to opening two gates in Ohara Kingdom, and the Imakawa family's army can drive straight into the surrounding Qingzhou Castle.

Oda Nobunaga naturally would not sit still and wait for death. In order to resist the attack of the Imakawa family, five forts were built near the two cities, forming a siege of the two cities, and sent troops to siege the two cities.

The so-called fortress is a fortification built of wood. Although it is not a castle made of stone, it also has certain defense capabilities. Each fort can accommodate 500 people. If it is operated properly, an army of 2,000 people may not be able to attack. It is equivalent to rebuilding an anti-theft door inside.

Because Minghaicheng and Dagaocheng are small cities and have limited people to accommodate, there were not many defenders in Dagaocheng and Minghai City before Shangluo, only 1,800 people.

So Oda Nobunaga sent people to step up his offensive against the two cities, hoping to capture the two cities before the arrival of Imakawa's army. Relying on these two cities for defense, plus five forts, the Imakawa family's army would not be so easy to come.

So Imakawa Yoshimoto sent the yokomoto Nobu Okabe to lead a thousand people to quickly enter Naruto City to assist in the defense.

Okabe Motonobu was indeed a famous general and often hoped to make a name for himself with his spear. After he arrived at Naruto City, he immediately organized his troops to fight back against the soldiers of the Oda family who besieged him. Although his troops were not superior, he repelled the Oda family's attack many times and defended Naruto City like an iron barrel.

Nagata Udian, who was known as the No. 1 counselor of Tokaido, also led his army to Otaka Castle and defended.

At the same time, the lord of Kagawa Castle, Asahina Taisho, as the pillar retainer of the Imakawa family, also led a team of troops from Kagawa Castle and came all the way to the Dagao Castle, and joined the vanguard troops.

At the same time, Imakawa Yoshimoto had already set up 10,000 troops in the Shinfu City, along with the troops recruited by Suruga and other cities in Tojiang, the wealthy families, wild samurai who surrendered to Imakawa's house, and the vanguard troops that had set out, recruited a total of 25,000 people.

This is a very powerful force in the Warring States Period in Japan, which is not very populous.

Imakawa Yoshimoto was known as a 100,000 army, advancing westward and set out towards Ohara in a mighty manner.

Gao Xianda naturally arranged it into this army. However, his status was relatively high, and he was under one person and above ten thousand people.

In order to allow him to establish a certain prestige in the army and understand the hardships of the samurai life, Imakawa Yoshimoto asked him to go out.

Moreover, in order to ensure his safety, he specially handed over the 500 cavalry that the Imakawa family had finally trained to Gao Xianda for management. As the pioneers of the team, they were wearing gorgeous armor and showing off their power along the way, informing the residents in the country, demonstrating the strength of the Imakawa family.

At this time, the separation of peasants and soldiers had not been carried out, so most of the foot-light infantry were acted as farmers. They held bamboo sharpened at one end in their hands, and they had weapons.

When the residents of the local area saw this disciplined unit composed of warriors riding horses, wearing armor and holding iron weapons, they could feel the essential difference of this unit.

After they felt the force of the Imakawa family, they could strengthen their surrender. They took out the delicious food they had collected from the house to work hard.

But in fact, although these 500 cavalry are known as cavalry, most of them are recruited by peasants, which are not comparable to the meat horses of Gao Xianda, let alone the separation of horses, pack horses, and war horses.

Gao Xianda deeply felt the huge gap in the war between Japan and the Celestial Empire. However, even if the Imakawa family is so weak, they dare to become a powerful daimyo, which means that the enemy is even weaker.

Gao Xianda felt that he had nothing to worry about. But why would Shimada Hanzo and others say that Imakawa Yoshimoto would die in this war?

On May 16, Imakawa Yoshimoto's team arrived at Okazaki Castle, and the vanguard troops arrived at Ikechiro.

On May 17, Imakawa Yoshimoto's team arrived at the Ikekaku and the vanguard troops entered Ozawa's territory.

On May 18, Imakawa Yoshimoto's team entered the Takui City and conducted pre-war mobilization.

On May 19, the vanguard troops began to attack.

Ii Naomori's troops launched an attack on Maruen Fortress, while Asahina Taisho began an attack on Washizu Fortress.

If these two villages can be pulled out, the access to Wei Zhang Kingdom will be said to be completely defensive.

Imakawa Yoshimoto's team slowly advanced westward and came to a hilly area called: Tuosa. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!