The ox carts moved far too slowly, with the slowest marching speed in all the land. As Harano was overtaken by others along the way, by the time he finally reached Inaba Land after more than an hour, Oda Nobunaga had already finished resting and led his troops out again, not bothering to wait for him at all.
He asked the samurai who had been left behind to guard the temporary camp, but Oda Nobunaga hadn't left him any orders. After probing a bit further about Nobunaga's troop movements, he discovered that Nobunaga's forces had already split into three: two detachments had gone to demolish the newly established Songye Fort and Samben Wood Stronghold, while Oda Nobunaga and the Shoushan City Lord, Oda Nobuaki, led the main force toward Haijin, seeking a decisive engagement with the Qingzhou army's main force.
