July 30, 1570 · Ōmi Province Theater
July 30, 1570
The Azai and Asakura clans, allied against Nobunaga's expansion, met the combined Oda-Tokugawa army in the shallow Ane River. The fighting was close and bloody in the water itself, and for a time the Oda centre was in real danger of breaking; Tokugawa Ieyasu's flanking troops turned the battle. Both allied clans withdrew battered but intact.
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