"Chapter Seventy-Four: Intervention in the Battle"
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The astonishing changes at sea also attracted the attention of two fighting armies on land, among which the weak army in red uniforms was the Sanada family who was being hunted down by the southern family, and the army in the inky military uniform was naturally the attacking southern family.
The southern family is the strongest family in the Yamato Empire, and they are also the guardians of the Mutsu Kingdom appointed by the Emperor of the Yamato Empire, and they are the rightful rulers of the Mutsu Kingdom.
It's just that the Sanada family's governor Sanada Masayuki and his two sons Sanada Nobuyuki and Sanada Nobuyoshi are indeed talented generals, so they command the army that is at an absolute disadvantage and have been resisting the fierce attack of the southern family.
The arrival of the Roman City fleet gave the Sanada family, who was already in a stalemate in a stalemate battle, a glimmer of hope, after all, the huge fleet that appeared at such a critical time could hardly be an ally of the southern family, but could only be an enemy of the southern family.
As for the Southern Family itself, it is not that Sanada Masayuki looks down on the Southern Family, but with the strength of the Southern Family in the Yamato Empire, it is impossible for them to have such a large fleet, and even in the entire Yamato Empire, there is no one who has such a powerful fleet.
"Soldiers of the Sanada family, the fleets of our allies have arrived in time to support, now is the time for us to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, let the blood of the southern family achieve the prestige of our Sanada family!"
The Sanada family's army, which was already not low in morale, was encouraged by the family governor Sanada Masayuki, and its morale soared to launch a counterattack against the southern family's army, and the southern family's army, which was caught off guard, suffered heavy casualties in an instant.
However, the death and injury of the family's soldiers did not shake the determination of Nanbu Haruki to exterminate the Sanada family, and he was still constantly investing reserve troops, trying to completely exterminate the stubborn Sanada family before the Sanada family's reinforcements landed!
Nanbu Harutsugu is a strong contender for the next governor of the Nanbu family, especially if the Nanbu family governor Nanbu Harumasa is still seriously ill, and in order to defeat Nanbu Shinnao, Nanbu Harutsugu must establish new merits for the Nanbu family in order to gain the support of his retainers.
Helping the Oda family, the most powerful family in the Higashiyamado of the Yamato Empire, and eliminating the Sanada family, which their family has failed to exterminate several times, will be an important bargaining chip for the southern family to form a bond with the Oda family, and also an important bargaining chip for Nanbu Haruji to succeed the family governor.
In other words, the governor of the southern family is the highest goal that Nanfang Qingji has worked hard all his life, and he is willing to pay with his own life for it!
Therefore, even if the powerful ally of the Sanada family is coming, he still wants to eliminate the remnants of the Sanada family as much as possible, establish this great feat for the southern family, and make himself the new governor of the southern family.
The fierce fighting on land continued, and the escort fleet, which controlled the two convoys of the opposing side, confirmed that there was no other threat nearby, and then Bai Feng ordered the landing fleet to sail to the coast, preparing to start landing on the island.
The battlefield of the fierce battle between the Sanada family and the southern family soon appeared in front of Bai Feng's eyes, and looking at these two armies with weapons and equipment that were almost exactly the same as those of the Japanese Warring States period on the earth, the corners of Bai Feng's mouth couldn't help but show a slight upward smile.
The battlefield where the two armies fought was about two thousand meters away from the coastline, and the longbowmen on the naval warships of the Roman city could not attack each other at all, so Bai Feng ordered Licinius's First Army to carry out the first batch of unsupported landings.
Although the longbowmen on the naval warships could not support the landing First Army, the First Army itself had three longbow wings, so the first landing army led by Licinius himself also included one wing of longbowmen.
Just as the fighting between the Nanbu and Sanada clans was at a fever pitch, two battalions of the 1st Licinius Army and a Longbow Wing landed, and the landing was unusually easy and smooth without the enemy's obstruction.
In just twenty minutes or so, the officers and men of the First Legion of the two brigades had landed and established their defensive lines near the coast, and then two thousand longbowmen had successfully disembarked and assembled in large groups.
The total strength of Licinius's first batch of landing troops was less than 3,000 men, and the two armies that were fighting to the death had less than 5,000 men on one side of the ink-colored uniform, and less than 2,000 men on the red-uniformed side.
How could an enemy force of this magnitude be taken seriously by the battle-hardened Licinius, and when the landing force had been regrouped, he did not hesitate to give the order to divide his forces and attack the two opposing armies at the same time.
The brave and combative Licinius personally led the first brigade and 1,000 longbowmen to slowly advance towards the inky uniformed enemy, while the remaining 2nd brigade and 1,000 longbowmen, led by the captain of the longbow wing, steadily advanced towards the red-uniformed enemy.
Seeing that Nanbu Harutsugu was about to be completed, he would not easily give up his results, especially when he found that the Sanada family's allies were only about 3,000 people, he was relieved in his heart;
When he sensed that the Sanada family's allies wanted to attack his own army, he even laughed at the stupidity of the other party, because the other party dared to attack his own army of 5,000 with only 1,500 men.
Haruki Nanbu, who smiled contemptuously, turned around and sent out the last 1,000 reserves in his hands to take the initiative to attack the allies of the Sanada family, and the 1,000 soldiers of the Nanbu family who had been ordered quickly turned around and launched an attack on Licinius's army.
The first battalion of Roman light infantry was deployed at the front of the battle array, followed by the Roman youth army in a neat array, and finally the imposing Roman heavy infantry, and the two brigades of longbowmen were distributed by Licinius on the left and right flanks of the three columns.
The 1,000 reserve army of the Southern Family is composed of 800 spear ashigaru and 200 samurai, and the combat effectiveness is the strongest under the command of Nanbu Qingji;
Unfortunately, they were met by a formidable Roman legion, and as soon as the charging Southern Clans army approached within 400 meters of the Roman army, the longbowmen on the left and right flanks of Licinius began the first volley.
The samurai of the Southern Clans, who were quite capable of fighting, could barely withstand the volleys of arrows from the longbowmen by virtue of their martial arts skills and good armor, but the spearmen who were only dressed in cloth uniforms suffered and became a living target for the longbowmen.
After finally closing the distance to eighty meters, the annoyed warriors of the southern family had not yet begun to roar, and the first round of javelins of the Roman light infantry was thrown, and the whistling javelins were far more ferocious than the arrows fired by the longbowmen!