Chapter 318: Qi Zheng Depends on Each Other (1)
Under the command of Takeda Katsuyori, the Takeda army slowly pressed towards the Weaving Virtue coalition army that had been arrayed for a long time. The Tokugawa family's bannermen galloped through the various military formations, conveying Tokugawa Ieyasu's orders to the generals, and at the same time feeding back the situation of the generals to Tokugawa Ieyasu.
The scolding and urging of the samurai began to sound in the military formation of the Weaving Coalition Army, and the miscellaneous soldiers in tattered clothes trembled incessantly, and some of the peasant soldiers behind the formation could not even hold the weapons in their hands before they saw the Takeda Army.
However, the performance of the ashigaru was not much better, and some of the iron artillery team under the command of Sabei couldn't help but take the lead in firing the iron cannon in their hands, and a roar of iron cannons followed. The samurai shouted angrily at the frightened Ashigaru, but before they could say a word, they saw the roar of iron cannons in the Takeda army.
The battle between the two armies began, and while commanding his iron artillery team to change guns, Sabei looked at the momentum of the Takeda army, and the naginata in his hand couldn't help but tremble slightly.
After some testing, the iron artillery teams in the front of the two armies finally found a suitable firing distance, and Sabei obviously felt that the casualty rate of his iron artillery team began to rise.
At the same time, the bow team of the coalition army also pressed up from the rear under the command of the generals. Countless arrows flew out from behind the iron artillery team, crossed the shallow ditch in front of the two armies, and finally fell to the ground, and after the first wave of arrows, the arrows of the bow team began to increase the casualties of the Takeda army.
Countless arrows and lead bullets flew from the Takeda Army's formation, as well as from the Coalition's Iron Artillery and Bow Teams, and Sabei Weixin, who stood behind the formation, silently estimated the consumption of the Iron Artillery Corps and predicted the time of the Coalition Army's first attack. The samurai under Sabei stood beside the iron cannon Ashigaru, scolding them to hurry up and reload, while watching the situation in front of the Takeda army.
Fujido Takatora held the pressure cut, vigilantly looked at the surrounding situation, and suddenly saw a team in the Takeda army formation filled with gunsmoke, flying out of the right flank of the Takeda army, trying to approach the left flank of the coalition army, but because the distance was too far, it could only be seen dimly. After a brief pause, Fujido Takatora immediately leaned over to report the situation to Sabei, but before he could speak, he saw the lord nodding to himself.
Seeing that the Takeda Army was divided into more than a few people, Tokugawa Ieyasu immediately sent someone to give an order after receiving the news from the front.
At this time, Sabei didn't care too much about what this partial army wanted to do, but ordered his iron artillery team to change the formation, three columns became two columns, one column of iron cannons was abandoned, three people fired two shots, one person shot, and two people loaded ammunition.
Although this change did not increase the reload rate by half, it increased the firing rate for a short period of time, making the iron artillery team on the opposite side, which had adapted to the original firing rate, a little flustered for a while. In the midst of the chaos, mistakes such as the spilling of iron cannon powder and the failure of lead bullets to be stuffed inadvertently increased, and this caused a chain reaction, and the final result was that the casualty rate of the Takeda army's iron artillery team increased by another one or two percent.
Sabei looked at his men who were constantly falling and the enemy troops of Takeda, and knew in his heart that the white-knuckle battle was about to begin.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for the various military flags in the Takeda military formation to start moving, and a red army rushed out of the smoke and rushed towards the direction where Sabei was at full speed. When Sabei saw Yamaprefecture Akabi, his heart beat faster, and when he looked back, he saw that the Tokugawa generals who were in charge of the first service also led the army to rush out of the battle formation. Before Sabei came back to his senses, he heard a bang in his ears, and Sabei hurriedly turned his head and ordered: "Stop shooting, take the iron cannon and retreat!" ”
Wailing out in tears as his arm was broken by the burst cannon, Sabei ordered his arm to be bandaged briefly, and then ordered the artillery team to abandon the hot cannon and prepare to support friendly forces as a reserve.
Fujido Takatora looked at Ashigaru, whose broken arm was bleeding continuously, and whispered to Sabei: "Lord, this tactic will make Ashigaru fearful, this..."
Sabei looked back at the ashigaru people around him who seemed to be apprehensive, and said to Fujido Takatora, "It's not because of this tactic, we need a better iron cannon to support it." ”
After speaking, Sabei stepped forward and said softly to the broken arm whose face was already a little pale: "You are very brave and loyal, say your name, and I will reward you with fifty pieces of money in your family after the war!" ”
Seeing this, Sabei nodded, and then looked around at the iron cannon ashigaru, and then shouted loudly: "Take one of the enemy's heads in this battle, reward five times, kill one enemy and take the head of the person wearing his head, reward twenty times, and another reward!" ”
Before Sabei could finish speaking, Tokugawa Bannermoto came on horseback, and after conveying the order to garrison the left flank to Sabei, he rode away again.
Sabei didn't say anything more, and after handing over the hot iron cannon to the iron cannon team under Okubo Tadashi, he moved to the left flank with his men.
When he arrived on the left flank, Sabei found that Lin Xiuzhen's troops had fought with Takeda's partial army, and at the same time, Tokugawa Ieyasu mobilized 500 people to support Sabei, and these 500 people were naturally temporarily dispatched by Sabei.
The strength of the army of nearly 900 people was not too much, and after sorting out the military situation, Sabei contacted the cavalry team on the left side to ask them about the situation.
However, it didn't take long for the originally wandering cavalry team to receive an order, and immediately plunged into the battle between Lin Xiuzhen's troops and the Takeda army.
Taking advantage of the fact that the battle between the two armies had not yet reached the white-hot stage, Sabei once again sent his close attendants to inquire about the situation. At the same time, the battle between Lin Xiuzhen's department and the Takeda army in front of him became more and more intense, and everyone who was rewarded by Sabei for killing was eager to try.
Soon after, the attendants returned and reported to Sabei that the coalition first and the Takeda first arm, led by Takeda Akabi, were in a difficult fight, and that the right flank of the coalition was under attack by the Takeda and Hojo coalition forces, but there were no major problems so far.
After hearing the news of the Hojo Army, Sabei finally breathed a sigh of relief, afraid that there would be no news from the Hojo Army.
After sorting out the information in his hand, Sabei temporarily had some ideas, as long as the coalition army first blocked the momentum of the Takeda army, and waited until the Oda army that recovered Higashimino was victorious and rushed to the aid of Makinohara, then the Takeda army would have lost its advantage in fighting the coalition again. The initiative of the war is firmly grasped on the side of Zhide, and it is difficult to speculate on it in the future, but it will not be bad in the end.
Just when Sabei was thinking about it, Lin Xiuzhen's department had already decided with Takeda's partial army. After receiving the good news from Lin Xiuzhen, Sabei watched the Takeda Army, which was gradually moving away, and the Lin Xiuzhen Army, which was pursuing the victory, officially took over the defense of the left flank of the coalition army.