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In the past ten days, I have had the pleasure of reading a lot of books about Japan's Warring States, including "Koyo Military Prison", "Picture Book Taiko Ji", "Nobunaga Gongji", "Righteous Man", "Takeda Shingen", "Heaven and Earth: Uesugi Kenshin", "Mori Motojo" and so on.

Many of them are not available in Japan, and I have to ask my friends in Japan or order them online.

Luckily, I still know a little Japanese, otherwise these books from foreign countries would have ......

It's all written by the Japanese themselves, and it's completely different from the "travel texts" that circulate on the Internet.

There seems to be a big difference between the Sengoku in our eyes and the Sengoku in the eyes of modern Japanese themselves, or the authors of that era.

By the way, to correct it, the lord who is called the lord should be "Shogun", and "Shogun" can also directly mean the lord, whether it is a high-ranking family elder or a low-ranking ashigaru, you can call the head of the legion "Shogun", and the word "Daiden" did not appear until the Edo period, and low-level samurai called the high-ranking feudal lord "Daiden......

In the spring of the 6th year of Tensho (1578), the San'in Dao Legion led by Akechi Mitsuhide and the Tamba Legion, led by Hideharu Hatano, the most powerful faction of Tamba, fought a large-scale field battle with more than 25,000 participants in the field of Kokoji Castle in Taki County, southern Tamba.

Historically, this battle is known as the Battle of Kokoji, and it is also known as the Battle of Tezuka Town because the location of the battlefield was Tezuka Town on the shore of the Sasakawa River.

Oh, I almost forgot, in this battle, there are also 3,000 people from the Tango Isshiki family, if you count them, then the number of people in this battle is more than 30,000.

However, fortunately, the Isshiki Army only came to play soy sauce and go through the motions, and it has never been involved in the battle, so its sense of existence is quite weak and can be ignored.

Because of my relatively low position, I can't see the front line with my own eyes, which is a bit of a pity.

It was around noon that the Akechi Army and the Tanba coalition met on both sides of the Sasakawa River.

The first is the Akai Army led by Akai Naomasa, they are the most combat-effective unit in this miscellaneous army.

The neat Akai army, under the leadership of the Akai family, Akai Naoyoshi and Akai Masamori, slowly came to the beach near the riverbank.

They adjusted their pace, and after making sure that they were not in the enemy's attack range, they continued to take a step.

Here, the author wants to say more, I wonder if you have ever watched old movies such as "Heaven and Earth" or "Shadow Warrior"?

If you've seen it, you'll find out.

Whether it is the Takeda Army, which has comprehensive combat skills, or the Uesugi Army, which comes and goes, or the Oda Army, which is well-armed and good at firearms, their combat routines are very similar.

According to the field tactics of that era, Ashigaru, who was armed with bows and arrows or iron cannons, fought a bow and arrow battle after the two armies marched to the distance of archery, and then the pikemen and flags of both sides entered into contact battles.

And at the moment, the wise army to which I belong is precisely this kind of plan, watching the Akai army gradually approach, and then "entertaining them" with bows and arrows and iron cannons.

Otherwise, why do you think Akechi Mitsuhide would put Akechi Mitsutada, Akechi Mitsuharu and Miyake Yaheiji, the three generals who are best at using firearms, at the forefront of the army?

But!

I don't know if it's because Akai Naomasa had experience in dealing with us in the last battle, or if he has already figured out our combat routine.

This traditional and fixed combat routine was discarded by him!

When the Akai Army enters the range of the Wise Army's guns, and at the same time, puts itself within the killing range of the enemy's long-range weapons.

The Akai archers and iron gunners who were supposed to appear did not appear, but on the contrary, the sudden acceleration of Ashigaru and the cavalry, as if they were not afraid of death, rushed towards the enemy who was not too far from them.

Opposite the vanguard of the Wise Army.

The three generals obviously did not expect this "mutation", and by the time the three of them reacted, the distance between the enemy and me had been shortened a lot.

So, in the hasty order of the three of them, the iron gunners and archers in the first formation hurriedly returned fire in a somewhat embarrassed manner, and ten thousand arrows fired in unison, and the guns and cannons fired in unison, breaking the tranquility of Shinokawa.

But Akai Jun did not have the slightest timidity.

They craned their helmets and shrunk their shoulders, gritting their teeth as they advanced.

Someone was hit by an arrow or directly hit by a rapidly flying projectile with small bloody holes, and every time they took a step forward, several people were on the ground.

The quality of a strong army began to be reflected.

The Akai army was not deterred, and they did not even have a trace of panic and unease.

To be honest, this kind of "playing with life" tactics of the later Chinese Boxers is quite similar.

There is nothing technical at all, purely with the most reckless, simplest, and most brainless primitive tactics.

But it is precisely this tactic of "looking for death" that has made the wise side waver.

Could it be that this is the legendary "the fierce are afraid of the horizontal, and the horizontal are afraid of death"?

Probably.

The people who had been calmly bending bows and shooting arrows and loading iron cannons with bullets to prepare for shooting began to have psychological fluctuations, and if this continued, their minds would be taken away, and it would be difficult to resist with concentration, and they would soon be crushed by the Akai army.

Sure enough, there was confusion at the front, and the crosshair of the bullet was greatly missed.

"There's no way, withdraw!"

In fact, iron gunners and archers also have cold weapons for melee combat, but they are in the company of iron cannons or bows and arrows all year round, and their melee combat ability is far less light than ordinary infantry.

After paying a certain amount of casualties, the first formation retreated, and Saito and others from the second formation rose up.

The Akai army succeeded in the first battle, and took advantage of the victory to attack Saito Toshizo in the second formation.

Seeing the decline in front of him, Saito Rizo frowned, and anger rose from his heart.

"You have just started the war to achieve this virtue, and you three people are still generals of your own clan, and the face of the Mino samurai has been lost to you!"

Of course, this is the word in his heart, and of course he will not say it on the surface.

"Your Highness Saito, look! The enemy will move! ”

With the exclamation and guidance of the flags, Saito saw it suddenly.

A hundred zhang away, a tall military general galloped on a horse.

Although he was too far away to see the enemy's face, he could still tell it from the large group of centaurs who were closely following him.

That is indeed the enemy's general.

The actions of the "Tamba Red Oni" were as fast as the wind and thunderous as ever.

He wore a black helmet, black leather armor, and straddled a pitch-black horse, only representing his identity, the sickle-shaped helmet on his head, shining golden in the sunlight, very dazzling.

I don't know if it was because I cut off the spear last time, but this time he changed to a new weapon.

A broadsword nearly seven feet long!

The knife of some astonishing length is placed in his hand, and he will be slashed whenever he meets, and he is invincible, and almost no one can face him face to face.

He shouted loudly as the blades fell, and some people's bodies were separated, some people's hands and bones were shattered, some people's legs and limbs were cut off, and some people were even split in two from head to toe.

The Saito army, which was still neatly lined up, immediately disorganized and fled left and right.

Saito Rizo was furious when he saw that his subordinates were so quickly defeated under the attack of Akai Naomasa's "One Horseman".

"Don't stop me! I have to slaughter this Akai with my own hands! ”

Just when Toshizo Saito wanted to rush up and "collide with Mars on Earth" with Naomasa Akai.

A loud voice came.

"In Shimowashu Island, I am near Kiyoko, and I came to teach His Highness Akai Iyomori the art of war!"

Wearing silver armor, Shima Kiyoshi, under the escort of the soldiers, rode a horse and rushed to Akai Naomasa, who was killing all sides.

"Good! I'll play with you! ”

"Bell"

Suddenly, the two long knives collided violently in mid-air, making a collision sound of gold and iron.

Shima Qingxing's face was bitter, and a huge force burst out from the blade of the long knife in the opponent's hand.

The sheer force almost knocked the knife off his hand.

"What a strong force!" Shima Kiyoxing felt a little overwhelmed.

"Humph! It's a Tamba red ghost! Sure enough, I have some ability, but my island is not something that can be defeated casually! ”

Thinking of this, he took out a stronger force than just now to attack the enemy in front of him.

"His Highness Akai! I, Saito Uchizo Rizo, have also come to ask you for advice on the art of war! ”

Without waiting for Akai to respond, Saito Rizo had already slapped his horse and flashed in front of him.

I'm KAO! Akai Naomasa thought of the scene when he was besieged by three imps last time.

Don't you people from know what bushido is, a fair one-on-one battle?

Woo woo~~~

And at this time, the dull conch was blown.

At this time, the general Hatano Hideji personally pressed the formation, and the main formation of the coalition army suddenly dispatched, and the army came out together, and the momentum was pressing.

The wise army, which had finally stabilized, began to be impetuous.

"Damn!"

Rizo Saito and Kiyoko Shima had to end the battle with Naomasa Akai and return to their respective formations.

From the beginning of the war to the present, it has only been an hour.

Although the time was short, the battle was extremely fierce, and hundreds of soldiers had fallen on the land.

The sun shone more warmly on the river beach, and I couldn't keep my eyes open.

In the place where the battle had just begun, the grass was trampled and scattered, and there were many dead and wounded, and there were also blood stains on the river beach, stained red.

But elsewhere it's still a spring day.

Seeing this scene, I suddenly thought of Thoreau's "Walden", which I had read in my previous life, and there was a sentence in it:

"What a ridiculous and ignorant thing what man has done in the face of nature, which has a long history!"

It's a pity that no one in the two armies has this idea of me and Thoreau, and the fight continues.

And the mountains and rivers are still quietly watching all this happen