Draw your eyes back to the Kakida River battlefield.

Although the crossfire arranged by Yu Qiuping caused considerable trouble to the Takeda army, the enemy was after all two famous generals of the four ministers of Takeda, and it was easy to deal with it. Gradually, Takasaka Masanobu had suppressed the first company of Hosoyanagi Bei, and was gradually pushing the battle line towards the location of Yuqiuping's maple bird horse print.

Just when the Yuqiu army was in trouble, Mizenzaki Nakahide on the east bank of the Kakida River waited for an important guest. After a long journey, they finally crossed the Nishi-Kanda River and rushed to the front line.

"You're here!" Nakahide Mimasaki personally left the position and ran to the rear to meet the dozens of people.

"It's a lot of work to drag these two big guys on a march with a few horses." Senteo smiled apologetically at Mizenezaki Nakahide, and then gave a straight military salute, "The artillery crews of Tokiwa and Hosoyanagi are reporting to Mimaezaki-sama!" The artillery crew prepared by Ming Di is far away, and the gun carriage is also broken, and it is estimated that it will be better for a while to come back! However, the infantry of Ming Di had already joined up with our auxiliary battalion on the third day, and Lord Fukuzawa immediately arranged for them to come and support. ”

It was none other than the two artillery crews led by Senteo Onari and Naoe Narumu and their two precious three-pounder guns.

"Don't say anything, let's start fighting quickly, the Jing family on the west bank will not be able to withstand it." Nakahide Mimasaki personally jumped off his horse and helped the artillery crew push the cannon to a small high slope nearby, and the crew of the artillery crew immediately began to dig and build a simple fort. "Hit Masanobu Takasaka on the other side first!"

"Don't worry, sir, leave it to us. We have spent so much money on the skills of His Highness, so naturally we will not disappoint His Highness and Your Excellency. As he spoke, Senteo knelt beside the artillery, stretched out his right thumb in front of his eyes, closed his left eye, and began to use trigonometric functions to observe the distance of Takasaka Masanobu's office.

After a few moments, the members of the artillery team reported to Senju-o, "Senju-sama, the reload is complete!" ”

"290 meters." (Meters, decimeters, and centimeters are distance units specially introduced by Yu Qiuping for artillery, and he is really not used to using zhang size, and he also plans to further promote the International System of Units to the whole army after the success of the artillery experiment) Senteo stopped his observation when he heard this, tentatively spit out a data, and glanced at Naoe Narumu, who was also observing beside him, and nodded in agreement with each other.

Immediately after receiving the order, the gunner began to quickly rotate the crank, adjusting the angle of inclination of the muzzle according to the amount of charge and distance. Such a formula, they have memorized it to a great extent. Similar test launches have been carried out countless times, and they have long become a mechanical memory in the brain. After the adjustment, the gunners standing behind the two three-pounder guns raised their torches and signaled to Senteo Onarari.

"Kai hillbillies, try the Nanban gifts we brought." Senju Ozari laughed evilly and raised his hand in the air. After a moment, he threw his arm down vigorously and shouted at the same time:

"Fire!"

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"Bang!"

The two armies of Yuqiu and Takeda, who were fighting on the front line, only heard two earth-shattering sounds in the east of the battlefield. Everyone was startled, but Hosoyanagi quickly calmed down—they recognized the sound of their own artillery firing.

The Takeda Army, on the other hand, was stunned in an instant. For them who grew up in the remote mountains of Jiafei, even the iron cannon is a novelty that they have gradually accepted in the past few years, and they can't help but point their fingers when they see the iron cannon, let alone this artillery.

"What is this? Could it be a big tube? "Even high-ranking samurai such as Masanobu Takasaka have never seen artillery with their own eyes, but they have heard rumors about it. It was a swarthy iron cannon the size of a bell in a temple, and it would shoot an incomparably huge projectile, larger than Keju. Those who are hit by this projectile will not only be stoned to death on the spot, but even their souls will be smashed out of their bodies and become lonely ghosts wandering in the world, and they will not be able to rest in peace in this life.

Before the Takeda army could recover from the violent roar, they saw two swarthy iron balls rise from a hill on the east bank of the Kakida River at a speed that was almost impossible to catch with the naked eye, cut a high arc in the sky, and smashed straight into Takasaka Masanobu's troops. An ordinary Ashigaru general in Takasaka Masanobu's army stood in place dumbfounded, forgetting to fight, just staring at the flying cannonball. He watched as the iron ball seemed to tear through the blue sky, rushing to the highest point at an extremely high speed, and then falling towards this side.

Suddenly this thought occurred to him: what would happen if he was hit by this thing?

However, before he had a moment to think about it, the radius of the falling iron ball in front of him suddenly became larger, so large that it almost obscured the sun—and at the moment before he died, he finally realized that the iron ball was smashed against him.

"Ahh

Screams rang out among the Takeda army, and three hapless Ashigaru and samurai were killed by the shells. Since Yu Qiuping does not have advanced technology, his cannonballs are just solid iron balls, which cannot bring explosive damage, and only stop at impact damage. The two hot iron balls hit the ground after killing three people, and then bounced high again, knocking the two men to the ground with a huge momentum. After that, the iron ball gradually slowed down, bouncing and gliding for some distance in the crowd of evasive, and finally came to a reluctant stop.

The two three-pounder guns fired only one round, bringing three dead and two wounded, and also messing up the formation of Takasaka Masanobu's department.

"Is this the big tube?" Takasaka Masanobu looked at his panicked team in disbelief, and while ordering the samurai to suppress the troops and calm the morale, he cast a surprised gaze on the location of the artillery fire, "What does it look like?" ”

"It's too late, hurry up and rush down the position before the big barrel fires again!" Takasaka Masanobu had a premonition of what kind of panic this new weapon would bring to the troops. Those superstitious and honest ashigaru people will not be able to take this unknown weapon as a sanction of the gods, and thus it will seriously shake morale. When the iron cannon first appeared, it brought such consequences.

However, the rate of fire of the Yuqiu artillery was as good as that of their iron cannons. In just one minute, the two guns opened fire again, inflicting two more casualties on Takasaka Masanobu's formation.

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Ding Ci is a light head in Takasaka Masanobu's army, and he has made a lot of achievements on weekdays by relying on his fat body and strength as big as an ox. Just like his honest body, Ding Ci is a stupid fat man. Believe in Buddhism, filial piety, righteous anger towards friends, although others who have not seen much of the world are a little stupid, and he doesn't understand anything about the novelty of a little complicated things, but everyone loves to get along with him.

At this moment, in the face of the thunderous roar and the iron ball that fell unreasonably and smashed people to death, Ding Ci, who had always been arrogant and not afraid of heaven and earth, panicked.

"What is that! What is that? Ding Ji staggered away from a standstill iron ball, which had almost hit him. If he hadn't dodged so quickly, he would have been the same as the ashigaru who was still standing beside him just now, already lying in a pool of blood.

"There was a bang, and then the ball fell from the sky." Ding Ci looked up at the sky with palpitations, "God, are you punishing us?" ”

"The person is gone all at once..."A ashigaru beside Ding Ji also looked at his comrade who was dead on the ground with some trembling - his head had been smashed open, his brain was flowing to the ground, and he died without even shouting. He squatted down timidly, reaching out to reach the iron ball that had just fallen to the ground, but was pulled by Ding Ci.

"Are you crazy, that thing can't be touched! I can't touch it! Dead people! Ding Ci yelled at his reckless companion, "How dare you touch that thing!" ”

Just as Ding Ci was about to continue roaring, the sound of cannon rang out again in the east. This fat man, who is usually as bold as an ox, is so frightened that he squats down with his head in his hands at this moment, praying to the gods and Buddhas not to hit him.

There are not a few such cases in Dingji, and many people in Takasaka Masanobu's army have been shaken. Even though the samurai had tried to calm down the troops, telling everyone that they were nothing more than large iron cannons, the chaos was still difficult to calm. As soon as the army's morale was in turmoil, their attack on the first company of Hosoliubei eased down, allowing Yuqiu to stabilize his position.

For a time, the Takeda Army on all fronts in the entire basin was blocked by the Yuqiu Army using the complex terrain, and it was difficult to make a breakthrough. And Yu Qiuhei received news from Fukuzawa Yunan that the 8,000 auxiliaries had settled down on the third day, and Tokugawa Nobuyasu gradually stabilized the situation on the battlefield of Shirakuhara and was not defeated by Okabe Motonobu's special forces. And the Ming Di Bei led by Charlie has also returned for three days and is speeding south to support. Yu Qiuping felt that as long as Charlie's Ming Di arrived, the situation would really stabilize. All thanks to the desperate delay of the second company of the Water Atom Sutra and Chang Panbei, the Yuqiu army was able to enter the complex and narrow terrain of the water network, streams, woods, and hills, thus restricting the flexibility of the cavalry of the Takeda army. If the battle really broke out on the third day, then Yu Qiuping, who only had Hoshiyanagi in his hand, would be instantly defeated. And on the plains, the scattered Chang Pan Bei and Ming Di Bei are not opponents, and it is estimated that they will be quickly surrounded by cavalry.

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At the second hour of Shin, 2,000 soldiers of Takeda Shingen's main team and 1,000 soldiers of Baba Nobubo climbed the hillside at the southern end of the basin, and with it, the wind forest volcano horse seal that fluttered high appeared along with it.

The Wind Forest Volcano Banner seemed to have magical power, and his appearance alone greatly boosted the morale of the Takeda Army. The Takeda Army, which was fighting on various battlefields, cheered and roared excitedly after seeing this horse print, and the offensive became fierce. Yu Qiuping suddenly sighed with emotion - perhaps for Takeda Jun, Takeda Shingen is no longer just a family governor. As a leader who led the Takeda family out of the impoverished and chaotic Kai Mountains, expanded its territory all the way, achieved countless victories and glory, and brought the Takeda family to the highest peak, he has been close to an invincible myth and a belief in the minds of the soldiers of the Takeda Army. Just his presence there, just the appearance of the horse seal representing him, can give Takeda Gunashigaru the belief that he will win.

He vaguely remembered that when Chitachi and Imagawa Yoshimoto's Akatori military flag was unfurled many years ago, not only the Imagawa army was inspired, but even the hostile Oda family was terrified. The magical effect of a flag may be a microcosm of the impact a great leader can make.

Yu Qiuping smiled a little self-deprecatingly, and looked up at his maple bird horse print.

"When will my horse seal be like the horse seal of His Royal Highness the Governor and the Great Chef to make my own side full of confidence and make the enemy fearful?"

Yu Qiuping slowly lowered his head again, looking at the wind forest volcano banner that Takeda Shingen was waving in the wind a mile away.

"Its swiftness is like the wind, its swiftness is like a forest, its aggression is like fire, and it is as immobile as a mountain."

He muttered to himself, and the helplessness in his heart overwhelmed the hostility for a while, "Jiazhou is like the art of war, the first in the world." Is such a person really defeatable? ”

A southerly wind blew. What came with the wind was the sound of the soldiers of the Yuqiu Army fighting hard and the sonorous slogans. What disappeared with the wind was the sense of powerlessness in Yu Qiuping's heart.

Yes, I don't have the military strategy of Dr. Daizen, and I can't tease the enemy into applause. Strategically, I've been defeated. But no matter how good a strategy is, it must be executed by tactics, isn't it?

It's as fast as the wind, it's as slow as a forest, and it's as aggressive as fire or something, I can't do it.

I'm just going to do one trick -

Immovable as a mountain.

"Yuqiu Art of War, Absolute Defense!"