When Sanada Yutaka and Yamamoto Kansuke first met, both of them were impressed by each other, so they cherished each other. Kansuke Yamamoto ran to Suruga to want to be the head of Imagawa Yoshimoto, but because of his appearance, Imagawa Yoshimoto taunted Kansuke Yamamoto, which made Kansuke Yamamoto have to leave Suruga.

After that, Kansuke Yamamoto came to Shinano to look for an opportunity, and for a while he was at Sanada Yutaka's house.

In addition, the two worked together in the Takeda family for a few more years, and when Sanada Yutaka was brilliant in the Takeda family, it was also with the help of Yamamoto Kansuke that he was able to reuse the enemy by Takeda Harunobu.

So Sanada Yutaka knows Yamamoto Kansuke very well, and the same Yamamoto Kansuke knows Sanada Yutaka very well.

Nobukata listened to Sanada Yutaka's words and said, "In this way, I am afraid that the weakness of the defensive line has been known to Kansuke Yamamoto. ”

Sanada Yutaka wondered: "Lord, what is the weakness of this line of defense?" ”

The letter sighed: "The weakness is not in the defense of the city, but in us, the family is now borrowing money to fight, the potential has been exhausted, and now there are not enough soldiers.

When the Takeda family gathers up a large army, divides and surrounds my four cities, and cuts off the connection, we will be consumed to death sooner or later.

Moreover, the people of North Shinano do not know my life and death, and I am afraid that many people will defect to the battle. ”

Sanada Yutaka understood what the letter meant, and said, "Then the lord will gather more soldiers and horses, build a fortress on the hill outside these fortified cities, and use this as a horn for defense. ”

The letter shook his head and said: "It can't just be defense, being so passive will only demoralize our side, and we must find a place to attack."

When the time comes, it will depend on where the Takeda family will attack, attacking Osahiro and Saku, then we will instigate the countrymen of Kita-Shinano to attack Yasumo and Chikuma, and vice versa. ”

At this time, Sanada Nobutsuna said outside the door: "My lord, some people claim to be a retainer of the Ogasawara family, and they have come to defect. ”

Nobukata was overjoyed, he understood that it was those Ogasawara family rogue horse cavalry who had come to defect.

For the time being, he asked Sanada Yutaka to keep an eye on the Takeda family, and then went out to meet the samurai who had come to him.

Most of these samurai were members of the Ogasawara family, as well as the second sons of the retainers or the children of the Shu family.

The relationship with the Ogasawara family is extremely close, and they were originally very disappointed in Ogasawara Nagacho, who could only escape, but now they learn that Nobukata has become the son-in-law and adopted son of the Ogasawara family, plus Ogasawara Nagato's call, and Nobukata's own achievements.

This gave them a glimpse of the future of Shinano, so they rushed to Shinkata one after another.

A samurai named Aoyagi Akiyoshi said, "Your Highness, there are still castle lords in Anyun County who support the Ogasawara family, and I only hope that Your Highness will invade Anyun County as soon as possible." ”

Another samurai, Tsuchiya Uemon, said: "Your Highness, the lord of the castle of Koiwajiki (Yue) is still fighting against the Takeda family, I hope Your Highness can take us back to kill!" ”

Nobugata looked at these excited samurai and said, "I understand your feelings, since I am the guardian of Shinano, I will definitely drive away the Takeda family and drive them back to Kai!" ”

"Oh!"

In the large room, all the samurai shouted in unison.

Xin Fang said with a serious expression: "You are in a hurry, and so am I, but we must be ready!"

You are elite Roguema samurai, and you didn't play at the level you should have fought in the Takeda family! But I know how good you are, so I asked my father to gather you.

I hope you will train hard from today onwards, and when the time comes, you will shoot the samurai of the Takeda family on the battlefield! ”

"Oh!"

Nobukata gave the samurai a bowl of chicken soup and then asked Sanada Nobutsuna to take them to claim their horses.

This time, more than 20 samurai came to defect, and more people came over one after another.

For the cavalry, the letter party built a set of horse harnesses that should be used, Takahashi saddles, stirrups, and horsesshoes.

The bows and arrows used by the Ryodium Horse Team are all heavy rattan bows, using two types of arrows, one light and one heavy.

Light arrows can be shot at a distance of 100 paces, and heavy arrows can be shot within 40 paces, and they can pierce armor.

The first training session of the Wandering Horse Team, Nobukata took Sanada Yutaka to watch, and those Wandering Horse Samurai could still shoot targets in the galloping of the war horses, which was enough to see that they still had some skills.

Of course, the target in the field is fixed, and it is inevitable that there is no accurate understanding of the real strength, and I am afraid that some exercises will have to be carried out at that time.

Sanada Yutaka, who was beside the letter, looked at the samurai in the middle of the field and said, "My lord, has the commander of the cavalry team been decided?" ”

The letter nodded and said, "The Liudi Horse Team is under my direct management for the time being, and I will hand it over to others in wartime." ”

Sanada Yutaka nodded, not speaking.

The letter didn't pay attention to the question just now, and the scope and Sanada Yutaka talked about the riding and archery of the northern nomads.

Sanada Yutaka understood what the Nobukata Warrior was trying to do, and it seemed to be similar to the Iron Cannon Cavalry.

In Shinkata's view, the predecessor of the Wandering Horse was a ritual performance, and it also had the form of a ride.

At the beginning of the cavalry, two cavalry fired at each other, and then they fought against each other.

Therefore, in the final analysis, the flowing horse is still riding and shooting, and since it is riding and shooting, then the strongest riding and shooting tactics are the northern nomads.

Japan's war pattern changed, thanks to the two invasions of the Yuan Dynasty, when Japan's tactics were mainly a cavalry, and then it was educated by the Yuan army, and then it changed its combat methods.

After the Battle of Tsushima, the Kamakura shogunate was almost finished.

Although the terrain is mountainous, there are actually plains in the battle, so it is no problem to shoot on horseback.

Therefore, Shinto told Sanada Yutaka about some cavalry warfare.

It was the first time Yutaka Sanada had heard of it, and he was very surprised.

Don't blame Sanada Yutaka for not knowing about the Kamakura shogunate period, these historical books and other materials are in the hands of the minister.

After the Yingren Rebellion, the ministers divided these materials and regarded them as their own unique family studies, and only those rich and powerful daimyo could send their children to the ministers to learn culture.

Therefore, the wealthy families who have not received such an education do not know the history of more than 100 years, and what they know can only be passed down by word of mouth from their ancestors and fathers.

After listening to Nobukata's explanation of mounted archery, some of the historical deeds in it, Sanada Yutaka was immediately emotional, and he also felt that he had learned a lot.

At the same time, I deeply admired the erudition of the Shinkata.

The letter side said about the rise of this talk: "Ha, the paper is shallow, just come to test!" ”

With that, Nobugata stepped forward, stopped the training of the Wandering Horses, and then began to talk about the outline of mounted archery.

However, the wandering horses are more particular about personal bravery, and are not interested in the wandering harassment of mounted archery.

However, the letter side said that mounted archery could defeat Takeda, which made them reluctantly accept it and conduct mounted archery.

Mounted archery is not simple, he is very organized, which requires a high level of organizational discipline on the part of the team.

The letter side took a team of more than 20 people to try, and there were many problems, mainly because the horses made frequent mistakes when the team turned.

Although they are very good at archery, the chaotic organization will only greatly reduce their marksmanship.

The letter was extremely dissatisfied with this, but he was not discouraged, anyway, there were still a few months to go, and he just had to step up his practice.

With a heavy heart, the letter said to them, "Do you feel it? ”

Aoyagi Akiyoshi said, "I'm sorry, Your Highness, I've disappointed you!" ”

Xin Fang shook his head and said, "It's serious, after all, it's your first time trying." You know that the Takeda family is as fast as the wind, as slow as a forest, as aggressive as a fire, and as immobile as a mountain.

Harunobu Takeda made this a condition and trained his army, and mistakes like today, they rarely happen, or no.

So, ladies and gentlemen, we still need to keep working hard! ”

Tsuchiya Uemon hurriedly said, "Your Highness, please rest assured, we will train diligently!" ”

Nobukata nodded with great satisfaction, and then called Kimoto Higashino Nobukatsu and Sanada Nobutsuna, and asked them to cooperate and train the horse team, so that they could be neat and act in unison.

In this way, the samurai who came to defect in the following days threw themselves into this training.

And the number of the Wandering Horse Team has reached nearly a hundred, which is already the limit, and more samurai are still waiting under the command of the Takeda family.

After more than half a month, the craftsman Miki came to the letter with a large iron cannon that had been made.

Nobugata hurried over and looked at the barrel in Miki's hand, which was already very similar to the artillery, and then it was up to him to see how powerful it was.

He said excitedly: "Okay, clear the field immediately, and seal it tightly, and let the iron artillery team train around the perimeter!" ”

The letter made all this move to cover up the artillery experiments.

Soon, the experimental site was cleared, and the surrounding area was surrounded by the flag team, as well as the iron cannon team, and ninjas scattered around.

Seeing that everything was almost ready, the letter said, "Let's begin." ”

After Miki built it, he didn't conduct experiments yet, but he just brought it to Shinkata to see how it looked.

Regardless of whether it was successful or not, Shin Fang directly asked Miki to start the experiment.

When Miki heard Nobukata's order, he immediately began to reload his ammunition and aim at the wooden target in the distance, this time at a distance of 200 paces.

After Miki was loaded, he took the torch from his apprentice and shouted, "Light the fire!" ”

"Whoa..."

The line of fire quickly ignited, burning to the barrel at a rate visible to the naked eye.

"Boom!"

"Bang bang bang..."

The sound of the cannon exploded together with the sound of the iron cannon, and the sound of the cannon was hidden in a burst of iron cannon sound, but it still shocked the people at the scene.

The wooden target two hundred paces away was partially damaged, and the cannon was crooked, but it was extremely powerful enough to shock people's hearts.

The letter was overjoyed and shouted, "Good! Miki, you've done a good job, get another shot! ”

Miki was also very excited, and reloaded again, another shot, this time it was much more accurate, and the wooden target was directly broken.

The letter looked up and laughed happily, and the others could no longer express their shock in words.

Sanada Yutaka couldn't help but say: "As soon as this thing comes out, the territory collapses!" ”