After listening to Lin Xiuzhen's explanation, the others knew the reason, so after bowing their heads and saluting, they went back to organize their teams and prepare to set off. Burning Sky also returned to the vicinity of his iron artillery team, summoned his subordinates Fushiwa Akijiro and Right Ichisuke, and conveyed to them the plan for the battle. Later, he ordered the samurai to maintain order when they retreated, and not to cause unnecessary disturbances.

Later, Lin Xiuzhen took the combined forces of Oda and Tokugawa to set foot on the road to Futamatata Castle again. It didn't take long for Kanku to immediately see Futamata, which was surrounded by the Takeda family not far away. Just when the burning sky was worried about whether the plan would succeed, Lin Xiuzhen gave the order to line up. The iron artillery team that burned the sky was naturally lined up in front of the formation, and was used to attack the besieging Takeda army from a distance.

The Takeda family, who were besieging the castle, also spotted the Oda and Tokugawa coalition forces that had come to support them early, and responded to them under Futama Castle. Incinerator lines up the cannons in two rows, and works with another cannon general to form a fire coverage area. The three archers in the army covered the formation of the iron artillery team on both flanks, and the gunmen were listed behind the iron artillery team. The Tokugawa family's forces were waiting behind the battle to lead the way for the Oda army.

Lin Xiuzhen watched the movement of the Takeda army from afar in this formation, and found that the Takeda army actually began to storm Futamata Castle after seeing the arrival of Oda reinforcements. Burning Sky looked at the Futama Castle, where the battle was suddenly fierce, and said to Fushiwa Meijiro on the side: "I have heard for a long time that the art of war of the Xuan Gong is unparalleled, and when I see it today, it is really extraordinary!" ”

After hearing this, Fushiwa Mingjiro said to the burning sky: "My lord, why did the Takeda army storm Futama Castle after we arrived? What art of war can be there? ”

After hearing this, Burning Sky said to Fushiwa Akijiro, "If you were the general of Cage City, what would you do after the enemy's reinforcements arrived?" ”

After hearing this, Fuyu Meijiro thought for a while and said: "It should be to find out the enemy's situation first, plan and then act, didn't the previous lord also warn me to wait for the battle formation, to stay calm, judge the situation, plan and then act?" ”

After hearing this, Burning Sky showed a hint of a smile and said, "It should be so, but Xin Xuangong saw that we were waiting for reinforcements to come, so he ordered the siege of the city, why at this time?" ”

After hearing this, the right Ichisuke on the side said: "The Takeda army can see us, and the defenders of Futamatata Castle can naturally see us, in this case, if there are reinforcements to help the morale of the defenders, not only are they violently attacked by the army of the cage city, but the reinforcements have not moved for a long time, and even dare not make a move, how will the samurai and ashigaru who defend the city feel?" ”

"And we are going to retreat after receiving the battle, and the reinforcements are repulsed, and at the same time we are attacked fiercely, how will the defenders feel?" After Ichisuke finished speaking, Burning Sky added to Akijiro Fushiwa.

After hearing this, Fushiwa Akijiro smiled bitterly and said, "Isn't that the Tokugawa-sama who gave up Futamata-jo in the first place?" ”

After hearing this, Burning Sky looked up at the Takeda Army that had already moved on the opposite side, and said to Fushiwa Meijiro: "I don't have to worry about this matter, this is a contest between Go masters, and we can do our part as a chess piece." Suddenly, Burning Sky raised his voice and shouted, "Check the arquebus!" Check the ammo! Get ready to meet the enemy! ”

As soon as the words of the burning sky fell, the entire coalition battle formation began to move, and the bow general ordered the head of the group to urge the bow and ashigaru to take aim with arrows, and the ashigaru general began to encourage his subordinates, and the head of the ashigaru group stood at the front of the team, holding the long soldiers in his hands tightly, and warning the ashigaru behind him to follow him; The gun general is pulling the pikemen to stand behind the iron artillery team, ready to step forward at any time to cover the retreat of the iron artillery team.

At this time, the Takeda military array suddenly rushed out of a group of red-armored walking warriors with Takeda Lingqi on their backs, and the burning sky was stunned for a second, and then the whole person became excited. Yamaprefecture Akabei, who had been lost in the dust of history, reappeared in front of him, and although he was an enemy, this feeling was still extremely wonderful.

Just as Burning Sky was observing the group of warriors on foot, a large group of red-armored warriors on horseback appeared behind them. "Attention all! Raise your gun against the enemy! Aim! Burning Sky subconsciously shouted a few words, and saw that the walking Akabi had already charged towards him, and the Akabi cavalry pulled out the sword at his waist and shouted and rushed towards the iron artillery team with the walking Akabei.

Seeing this, the Burning Sky was stunned on the spot, and the coordinated tactics of the infantry and cavalry made the Burning Sky a little surprised. However, Burning Sky didn't have time to think about anything else, and after seeing Akabi rushing into the firing area of the iron cannon, he silently counted three in his heart, and then shouted at the iron cannon Ashigaru beside him, "Shoot!" ”

In an instant, more than 100 iron cannons roared one after another, and the bow generals on both wings also ordered their men to start throwing arrows after seeing the iron artillery team shooting. The first column of iron cannons immediately crouched on the ground after firing. Within a few breaths of the first column's iron cannon ashigaru, the first column also pulled the trigger held by his fingers, and more than a hundred projectiles flew towards Takeda Akabi, who was rushing forward.

Seeing that a round of iron cannons had been fired, the spearhead behind the iron artillery team rushed out of the gap left between the iron artillery teams under the order of the gun general, and rushed towards the Takeda family's Akabi. The five iron cannon leaders also began to move backwards when they saw the slightly larger flag fingers on the back of the incinerator move backwards, and the iron cannon ashikoshi said that the group head with the flag fingers on his back moved backwards, so they also moved backwards with the group leader.

The Burning Void's Righteous Warriors were closely behind the Burning Void, and the Burning Sky circled from one side of the battle formation to the back of the formation, while the other group of iron artillery with a larger number of people went around the other side of the battle formation to the back of the formation. After the team arrived, Burning Sky ordered his iron artillery team to load ammunition and raise the muzzle of the gun a little higher, and shoot in the direction of the Takeda army, because it was to build momentum, accuracy was not so important. (In the war, the grassroots commander does not dare to shout the detailed password, such as: follow me, retreat, move to the left, etc., it is easy to cause other teams to be mistaken, resulting in the collapse of the battle formation, so the flag finger will come in handy, recognize the commander's flag and finger, and when there is no password, look at the flag and point to the action.) In the middle and late Warring States period, there were very few people who carried the flag finger on their backs, and some would have small flags to indicate their identity, and the flag fingers were only qualified to be carried by samurai at and above the head of the group, of course, the elite troops said otherwise. ）

After the Takeda army also attacked with Akabi, it immediately sent a corps of men and horses to press on the combined forces of Oda and Tokugawa. Lin Xiuzhen saw that the Takeda family's army was about to unfold, and immediately shouted: "Retreat!" After hearing Lin Xiuzhen's words, the warriors around Lin Xiuzhen also shouted repeatedly: "Retreat!" ”

Seeing Lin Xiuzhen's start to retreat, Burning Sky shouted to his subordinates: "Cover retreat!" Hearing the command to incinerate the air, the iron cannon raised its muzzle slightly, and fired a round. He then followed the Burning Sky and retreated in the direction directed by the Tokugawa Army.