The one who is now serving as a military advisor in this camp is Komai Takahakusai, and he also said, "It's good that the lord stays in this camp, and the pursuit of the enemy is left to the retainers." ”

Takeda Shinhiro said: "In this case, let your subordinates, as the shadow warriors of the lord, command the army to pursue the Ogasawara army!" ”

Komai Takahakusai immediately said: "It is indeed a safe strategy to let Xin Fanyu act as a shadow warrior, and the more this time, the more stable the lord must be. ”

Takeda Harunobu nodded and said, "Okay, then let Shin Shigeru go for me." ”

In this way, Takeda Nobushihiro wore Harunobu's spare armor and led the Takeda army of 15,000 men to attack Ogasawara's main camp first.

As for Saito Michizo and Taiyuan Yukisai, they stayed at Hirose Castle and waited for news with Takeda Harunobu, and the armies of the two families did not follow to pursue, but protected Hirose Castle with the remaining 3,000 Takeda troops.

Ogasa's original formation was on a high mountain two miles outside Hirose Castle, and at this moment, Sanada Yutaka had already prepared his troops for defense.

Yoshicho left behind a dozen large iron cannons and a few large barrels, and as for the copper cannons, he had already pulled them away.

When the time comes, when the main formation is breached, the large iron cannon and the large barrel need to be destroyed.

"Report! The Takeda Army of Hirose Castle dispatched 15,000 men and came straight to the main formation! ”

As the envoy passed on the military information, several generals of the palace army in the shogunate immediately became agitated.

Kamizu Kenra patted the shore and said, "Sanada, please give an order, let me take the lead!" ”

And another leading general, Tadasada Uehara, also said: "I am willing to follow behind Kamitsu and meet the enemy together!" ”

Tadasada Uehara was a little luckier than Konosuke Asano, and was not killed by Iitomi Masakakei, and now leads a reserve team in place of the injured Higashino Nobukatsu.

Sanada Yutaka looked at the generals below and said, "You don't have to earn it, we have to remember our mission, delay some time here, there is no need to fight to the death."

Of course, we must also play the momentum of our palace army, and we must not let the enemy find any clues! ”

"Oh!"

Sanada Yutaka said: "In this battle, Haruhara Wakasa Mamoru led the Sanada people to take the lead, and the virtuous and loyal ones defended one left and one right, and the rest were on standby!" ”

He turned his head to look at the big barrel Miki and said, "The big iron cannon will trouble you over there." ”

Miki hurriedly stood up and said, "Sanada Matsuki, please rest assured, I will definitely hit the Takeda Army hard!" ”

Kenra Kamizu and Tadasada Uehara led a thousand men down the mountain to set up a formation, while Miki Otsuki led his troops to build a position on the hillside behind them.

Not long after they set up their formation, the vanguard troops led by the Takeda Army were Iitomi Masakai and Kasuga Masanobu.

There were more than 2,000 people under the command of Iitomi Masakai and Kasuga Masanobu, and when they saw that the Ogasawara family's palace army had only dispatched 1,000 people to set up the formation, they immediately sent people back to ask for instructions.

Takeda Nobu thought for a moment, and immediately asked the hundred-legged people to run to convey the order to attack.

Iitomi Masakai and Kasuga Masanobu, who received the order, each divided half of their troops and launched an attack on both sides.

Kenra Kamizu and Tadasada Uehara placed a row of bamboo bundles in front of the formation, and they watched the enemy approach from behind the bamboo bundles.

As soon as the Takeda Army's vanguard entered a distance of one hundred and fifty paces, Miki immediately asked his men to ignite the big barrel first.

With a few loud bangs, several projectiles shot out and fell directly into the dense infantry array.

The sound of cannon echoed across the plains, and even Hirose Castle in the distance could hear it.

Takeda Harunobu opened his eyes and said: "It was the big iron cannon at that time, and Yoshicho left such a powerful weapon for the palace army just to buy time to retreat!" Tell Xin Fan that you must capture these big iron cannons! ”

One of the hundred-legged men immediately stood up and ran out.

At this moment, Iitomi Changjing and the others were urging their troops to continue to advance, and at the same time ordered their cavalry troops to bypass the front and move towards the enemy's flank.

When Kamizu Kenra and the others saw that the Takeda cavalry was moving towards their flank, they immediately asked their men to move out the antlers and fences that had been prepared long ago, and arranged defensive lines on both sides, with iron cannons behind them.

The 300 iron cannons in the Yichang army are all here, and they have fired three shots in the previous war, most of the iron cannons are still new, only a few are old.

The 300 iron guns are divided into two teams, one on each side.

As for Otsu Miki, he still fired at the ashigaru of Takeda's first troops.

Iitomi Masakai left Kasuga Masanobu to command the Ashigaru troops, and he personally led a horse team of 150 people and more than 100 elite Ashigaru to move towards the flank of Kamizu Kenrashi.

Iitomi Changjing knew that the iron cannon had a high lethality for a dense lineup, but the cavalry unit was not a dense lineup, and there was a certain distance between the two cavalrymen, including the maneuver space for the cavalry spear, the space for the war horse to turn its head, and so on.

So the light cavalry units were looser.

Soon, he was thirty paces away from the Ogasawara army's position.

As soon as the Takeda cavalry entered the thirty paces, the iron cannon general of the Ogasawara army immediately shouted, "Shoot!" ”

"Bang ......"

Bursts of iron cannons rang out, and the Takeda cavalry suddenly suffered casualties, but after a few rounds of gunfire, the Takeda cavalry also suffered more than 20 casualties, and the iron cannon was light enough to prevent them from approaching.

Fan Fu Changjing waved his horsewhip and urged his subordinates: "Assault! Let them know how powerful the Takeda cavalry is! ”

The cavalry troops quickly rushed to the antlers, and they pulled up their horses directly, trying to cross over, but they were lightly wounded or killed by the iron cannon foot behind.

Many Takeda cavalrymen stuck on the antlers abandoned their horses and jumped directly into the Ogasawara army's iron artillery to fight.

The reloading cannon did not have time to refill the gunpowder, so he could only pick up the cannon and engage the Takeda cavalry who jumped in.

The Iron Cannon General shouted to the Iron Cannon Ashikau in the back queue and quickly lined up, reloading ammunition to prevent more Takeda cavalry from rushing in.

Seeing that the flanks were in danger of being lost, Kamizu Kenra immediately sent three ashigaru groups, about 130 people, to support.

The flank battle was fought with Iitomi Masakai and the elite Takeda Ashigaru entering, and the disadvantage was even worse, but fortunately, after some Ashigaru filled the iron cannon, he sniped some brave Takeda soldiers, and even Iitomi Masakai was almost killed.

The flank battlefield has reached a fever pitch.

On the frontal battlefield, because of the support of Miki's troops, the Ashigaru troops led by Kasuga Masanobu have already shown signs of collapse, after all, if the Ashigaru troops are loosely formed, they will be in danger of being defeated.

But in the face of the big iron cannons and big barrels of the Ogasawara army, Kasuga Masanobu was also miserable.

At this moment, Sanada Yutaka made a quick decision and immediately led the nearly 2,000 troops left behind to rush down the hillside and attack Iitomi Masakagage's team.

Iitomi Masashi was outnumbered, covered by his retainers, and evacuated from the battlefield.

When Kasuga Masanobu saw that Iitomi Masakai was defeated and retreated, he also immediately withdrew his troops, only to be chased and killed by Kamizu Kenra and Uehara Tadasada for a while.

The Takeda family's vanguard forces were completely defeated.

When Takeda Nobuyoshi heard the battle report, he did not blame Iitomi Masakai and Kasuga Masanobu, and he ordered the army to advance at full speed and march towards the main camp of the Ogasawara army.

At this time, a part of the Takeda Army was still stuck in Hirose Castle waiting to leave.

As soon as Sanada Yutaka saw the Takeda Army speeding up its march, he said, "Our army has been fighting with the Takeda Army for more than an hour, and there is no need to fight again.

Destroy all the big iron cannons and big barrels, and withdraw immediately! ”

Miki hurriedly said, "Sanada Maki! It took a lot of materials and effort to build these weapons, and it's a shame that they were destroyed like this! ”

Sanada Yutaka frowned and said: "I also know below, but the military situation is urgent, we must lead the enemy into the ambush circle, these weapons cannot be obtained by the Takeda family, they must be destroyed!" ”

Miki had no choice but to ask his subordinates to find a large amount of gunpowder and blow up all the big iron cannons and big barrels together.

Subsequently, Sanada Yutaka led the Imperial Rear Army to retreat quickly.

When Takeda Nobuhiro learned of the retreat of Ogasawara's army, he immediately sent two horse teams, one to Ogasawara's abandoned main camp, and the other to pursue Ogasawara's army.

Nobu Fan felt that Sanada Yukitaka would definitely not retreat with a heavy iron cannon when he led the troops back, but thinking of the loud noise just now, he still wanted to send a horse team to take a look.

Sanada Yutaka led an army of less than 3,000 men and retreated, and soon arrived at the location of a valley outside Ishen Castle.

At this time, a hundred-legged man riding a fast horse immediately ran to Takeda Nobuyoshi and told Takeda Nobuyoshi: "Report! Ogasawara's temple army has caught up and is currently being held back!

Moreover, the banners of Ogasawara and the Uesugi army are a mile away, and our army is about to catch up! ”

Takeda Nobu was overjoyed and said with a smile: "Okay, since you have seen the main force of the enemy, then don't stop, move forward quickly!" ”

Half an hour later, Sanada Yutaka and thousands of his men were besieged.

Takeda Nobuyoshi personally came to the front of the battle and shouted: "Sanada, Dan Masatada, you surrender quickly, Ogasawara Yoshicho has been defeated in this battle!" ”

Sanada Yutaka saw Takeda Shinshihiro, he frowned and said to the people around him: "It's not good, Harunobu didn't come in person, it was his younger brother who came, damn it, it's a shadow warrior." ”

Kamizu Kenra was surprised: "What then?" ”

Sanada Yutaka shook his head and said, "The matter has come to this point, there is no way back, let's send a signal later." ”

After he gave a command, he also walked out and confronted Takeda Nobuyoshi.

Sanada Yutaka smiled: "I didn't expect it to be Shin Fanyu to send him off, and I thought that His Royal Highness Takeda would come in person." ”

Takeda Shinho looked at Sanada Yutaka with a relaxed look, and frowned slightly: "Sanada Dan Zhengzhong, it's useless to talk more, surrender." ”

Sanada Yutaka raised his head and laughed and said, "Shin Fanzu, do you think your Takeda family has won?" Ueda Castle is still in the hands of our army, and it has always been defeated! ”

As soon as the voice fell, in the Sanada array, a big flag was waving in the wind.

Takeda Nobushi's face changed greatly, after listening to Sanada Yutaka's words, he saw the red flag again, and he understood in an instant.

Ueda Castle is no longer in danger, so why should the Ogasawara army retreat in a hurry, this is clearly a plan to lure the enemy!

He hurriedly exclaimed: "Retreat, we have fallen into a scheme!" ”

"Boom!"

With a cannon shot, an iron pellet fell near Takeda Nobuyo, the war horse was startled, and Nobuyo fell directly off the horse, and several guards next to him also fell off the horse.

With the sound of this cannon, a large number of flags appeared in the surrounding woods, as if the mountains were full of people.

Ogasawara and Uesugi ambushed their troops, and the Echigo cavalry broke through directly to the Takeda rear army, and they drove the defeated army to attack the front line of the Chinese army.

Moreover, the battle line of the Takeda Army was relatively long, and the whole army was in chaos when it was ambushed.

Iitomi Masakai and Kasuga Masanobu's troops followed Takeda Nobushi, so the two took the lead in finding Takeda Nobushi.

When they found Takeda Shinshihiro, Shinshihiro was pressed to the ground by his own war horse, and several guards were lifting the war horse.

Iitomi Masakai and Kasuga Masanobu hurriedly ran over and shouted: "Nobu Fanqi, our army has been ambushed, and there are enemy troops everywhere. ”

Takeda Shinho hammered himself angrily and said: "Quickly erect the banner of our army, you gather the troops and kill them, and keep the retreat for the army!" ”

Rice Tomi Changjing was surprised: "What about you?" ”

Takeda Shinhiro said anxiously: "The lord trusts me, so I let me lead this fifteen thousand army, and now I have the trust of the lord, what face do I have to go back to see the lord alive?"

All I have to do now is to keep some strength for the Takeda family! I must not let the Takeda family decline because of my mistakes, you leave me alone, go and open the way, and let me attract the attention of the enemy army for you! ”

Fan Fu Changjing said with tears in his eyes: "Xin Fanxi, you go first, let me attract you down..."

"Smack!"

Takeda Nobuyoshi slammed a horsewhip on Changjing's hood and shouted, "This is a military order!" ”

"Hah!" Iitomi Masakai and Kasuga Masanobu paused one after another, and then rode their horses to assemble their troops to break through.

With the support of the guards, Takeda Nobuyhiro sat on the horse, holding the military ration in one hand and the horsewhip in the other, and said: "Raise the banner, blow the conch, and beat the war drum!" ”

Soon, on the battlefield of panic, the sound of the Takeda family's conch and war drums sounded.

The samurai, who had been fighting separately before, began to stabilize, and they quickly found their superiors and retreated methodically to the outside.

Yichang Jinghu saw where the banner was, and the two immediately led their banners all the way over.

Where Xin Fan was, he looked resolute and unfazed, and listened to the envoy's report on the situation on the surrounding battlefield.

"Report! Yoshicho Ogasawara and Uesugi Keitora's Banner Force is moving here! ”

When Xin Fan heard the news, he smiled and said: "It turns out that Yi Changqi and Jing Huqi are here, you must cheer up, and you must not lose the reputation of our Kai warriors!" ”

Xin Fan put away his horsewhip and military rations, drew his sword, and moved in the direction of Yichang and Jinghu under the protection of the guards.

There were too few people around Xinfan, and he was soon killed by Yichang and Jinghu's banners.

Yoshicho saw Shin Fan, who was fighting hard, and said, "Capture him alive." ”

Jing Hu was puzzled: "I thought that I should give Xin Fanyu a decent way to die, doesn't Yi Changqian think so?" ”

Yichang said: "It stands to reason that Xin Fanyu should be given a decent death, but in order to prevent the war from dragging on, he needs to capture Xin Fan alive, and I hope that Jing Huqian will understand."

Only by ending the war in Shinano as soon as possible can we help Jing Hushu go to Kanto together. ”

Jinghu nodded and said, "Yi Changyu has a heart." ”