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| | The Final Showdown |
 | | Three years after Oda Nobunaga's army attacked the Ikko Buddhist sect in Kanazawa, destroying their religious government and the Gobo temple, Lord Maeda Toshiie entered the city and built the Kanazawa Castle on the former temple site in 1583. |
 | | Standing ready behind the first line of battle, just north of Sekigahara along the Hokkoku Road, General Ii Naomasa's 3,600 samurai, known as the "red devils," backed by 3,000 warriors under command of General Matsudaira Tadayoshi, moved into position north of Sekigahara along the Hokkoku Road, roughly in the center of the Eastern Army's lines. |
 | | In the third line, dispersed along the Nakasendo Road south of the village, 4,600 samurai under the commands of Furuta Shigekatsu, Oda Yuraku, Kanamori Nagachika, and Ikoma Kazumasa stood ready for battle. |
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