It was September, and the weather was gradually cooling, but the hearts of many people in Shinano were hot, and since August, the Takeda family and the Shinkata side have been in constant friction.

In particular, the riding and archery of the Liudi horse team made the Takeda family suffer a lot, which also made the Takeda family see the power of mounted archery and began to imitate it.

In order to deal with this Liudi horse team, the Takeda family set up an ambush, but the Liudi horse team itself was a dip and go, and it was very mobile, and the Takeda family failed in the ambush.

But since this time, the Wanderers have rarely appeared.

On the 10th of September, Takeda Harunobu gathered the forces of Kai and Shinano-Suwa Prefecture, a total of 10,000 men, from Uehara Castle to Nagakuwa Castle.

Hotan Castle in front of Nagawa Castle was directly abandoned by the Nobunaka, and Nobuya led 3,000 troops to set up a base in Nagawa Castle.

As for the other three cities such as Toishi Castle, they are all protected by elite soldiers.

Of the 3,000 troops led by Nobukata, only 1,000 were self-trained standing ashigaru, and the other 2,000 ashigaru were recently recruited and trained for a period of time.

Takeda Harunobu set up his main camp near Wada Castle, and he divided his troops and cut off Nagawa Castle from other castles, and the Takeshi Castle behind Nagawa Castle automatically retreated before the arrival of the Takeda army.

Faced with the fact that the letter took the initiative to retreat, Takeda Harunobu hesitated, so he asked Yamamoto Kansuke: "Kansuke, what does this Ogasawara Nobukata mean?" ”

Kansuke Yamamoto looked at Nagawa Castle in the distance and began to think, this Ogasawara Nobukata was not afraid of being cut off at all, so it could be seen that he had already prepared.

He looked at the Jinma Commander Yuan Changyin and asked, "Changyin, have you seen the Ogasawara family's tributary Kasa Horse Team, as well as other horse teams?" ”

Yuan Changyin replied: "The surrounding area has been checked, and there are no footprints left by the horse team. ”

Kansuke Yamamoto frowned and said, "Ogasawara Nobukata didn't leave the horse team in the city, but in this way, he lost the advantage of the horse team.

No, Chang Yinyu, you have to send someone to continue to check north to see if his horse team is heading towards North Shinano! ”

Yamamoto Kansuke hurriedly said to Takeda Harunobu: "My lord, this Ishishiro Mori is named Iwasita Naka, Iwashita Kiyoshi and Iwasita Ryu, and they are old friends of Ogasawara Nobukata.

The defender of Maeyama Castle is Kamizu Kenryo, a retainer of Kasawara Kiyoshige, and the defender of Mochizuki Castle is Youzu Katsunao.

In addition, Nagawa Castle was guarded by Ogasawara Nobukata himself, except for the Sanada family. ”

Takeda Harunobu opened his eyes and looked at Kansuke Yamamoto and said, "You mean, Sanada Yutaka led the Ogasawara family's horse team north. ”

Kansuke Yamamoto nodded and said, "Now there is only such a conjecture, presumably Ogasawara Nobukata has taken this situation into account when he set up the defense line, and he also knows the situation of the people of the North Shinano country."

He was afraid that the people of the Northern Shinano country would lead us, so he did not hesitate to use his own safety as a bait to attract our army to set up positions in Kopre and Saku Prefecture. ”

Takeda Harunobu nodded and said, "Then what do you think of it?" ”

Yamamoto Kansuke thought for a while, and said solemnly: "Lord, Changwa City is not as steep as Hushi City and Qianshan City, try to attack once, if you can take it, the thief will capture the king first!" ”

Takeda Harunobu smiled: "Okay, that's it!" ”

As Takeda Harunobu waved the military equipment in his hand, the Takeda family's main camp began to dispatch troops to Nagawa Castle.

At the same time, Takeda Harunobu asked Takeda Nobushihiro to lead Iitomi Toramasa's Akabi to Chikumo-gun to help Baba Nobuharu defend Fukashi Castle.

In the afternoon, the first wave of the Takeda Army attacking Nagawa Castle had arrived, and the leading general was Kohata Toramomori.

Together with his father, Kamiko-chan and Hikiyo, Kohata began to follow Takeda Shintora, who was only nineteen years old.

At that time, Shinhu was very active in preparing for the unification of Kai. It is said that as soon as Rijing took office, he was appointed as the general of the town guard, and it can be imagined from this incident that he was very brave.

This dedicated assistant to Shintora was killed in battle while suppressing the rebellion of the Takeda clan Imai Shinya. Therefore, when Hu Sheng succeeded to the governor, he was only fourteen years old.

During the Shingen period, the nickname "Ghost Tiger" terrified the enemy. He has fought more than 30 times, has more than 40 scars on his body that represent the honor of the samurai, and is a fierce general who has experienced a hundred battles.

After the reserve team rested, Kohata Toramori let the vanguard attack and make the way for the large army.

The terrain of Changwa City is not high, after the repair of the letter, there are three lines of defense in front of Changwa City, the first hundred paces, there is a wooden fence, back to thirty steps is a pile of antlers, three or five steps in front of the city is a trench full of bamboo barbs.

The vanguard of the Kohata reserve soon rushed thirty paces in front of the wooden fence, and the fifty iron cannon ashigaru columns that had already been prepared began to shoot.

Although the vanguard of the Kohata Reserve prepared a wooden tree, it was quickly broken and there were casualties.

But the samurai in the vanguard shouted and urged his men to move on.

Soon, after the iron cannon was finished, he quickly retreated to the rear.

A group of the Ogasawara family's Ashigaru, led by samurai, stood behind the wooden fence.

The remaining seventy or eighty people of the vanguard of the Kohata reserve rushed to the wooden fence arrogantly, and the two sides stabbed each other through the wooden fence.

Later, Kohata Toramori arrived with his own reserve and joined the battle, and as soon as Kohata Toramori arrived, the morale of his men was greatly boosted, and the casualties of the Ogasawara family began to soar.

And many of the Ashigaru or samurai of the Kohata reserve began to climb over the wooden fence and rush inside to fight.

As soon as the believers in the city saw that they could not do anything, they immediately called out the gold and withdrew their troops.

The forces behind the wooden fence immediately retreated.

Kohata Toramori left a group of men behind and destroyed the wooden fence, while the rest continued to pursue the retreating Ogasawara army.

At thirty paces, Ogasawara reached the antlers, which were not placed randomly, and if they wanted to rush over, they either had to lift their antlers and move away, or they had to go around and go inside.

It's like queuing up to buy tickets in the park now, like a curvy road or a river.

The Ogasawara army quickly rounded up and withdrew to the city.

When the Kohata garrison arrived, they erected their wooden poles and tried to carry the antlers, but the iron cannons and bows on the castle tower began to shoot.

The ashigaru who went up to carry the antlers screamed and fell to the ground, or died instantly.

Xiao Ha Hu was so annoyed that he hurriedly shouted: "Torches, throw them over and burn the antlers!" ”

Soon a samurai led the way with a burning torch and lit it under the cover of the wooden tree.

But when the warrior got closer, he hurriedly withdrew with his men.

Kohata Toramori almost drew his sword and slashed the samurai.

The warrior hurriedly shouted, "My lord, the antlers are smeared with wet mud, and they can't be ignited at all." ”

Kohata Husheng secretly scolded despicable and shouted, "We are the warriors of Kai! Ladies and gentlemen, let these Shinano soft-bastards see the bravery of our Kai samurai and rush over! ”

With the encouragement of Kohata Husheng, a group of people screamed as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and Kohata Husheng was the first to pick up a piece of wood and rush towards the antlers.

How could his retainers be left behind? They led their troops to charge forward and rushed to the antlers.

As soon as they approached the antlers, the Ogasawara army on the castle tower began to shoot.

"Whew!"

"Poof!"

A heavy arrow of triangular arrows struck Kohata Toramori in the shoulder.

Kohata Tiger screamed in pain, attracting the attention of his retainers.

Those retainers shouted "protect the lord" and pulled the small banner Husheng to retreat.

When the letter party saw it, he shouted: "Attack! It's time to show the bravery of our Shinano samurai and kill all the Kai monkeys! ”