Chapter 33: The Outpost Battle

The news of the defeat of the famous Nikaido family in Aizu did not reach Asadachi in time, but an army of 3,750 men led by Takeda Yoshinobu and Takeda Nobushiro had already reached Hachimangahara. Takeda Harunobu's main team also arrived and set up a main camp in Kaizu. And Nagao Keishin was ordered by the Dragon Maiden to lead 3,000 troops to Zenkoji Temple to garrison; The 500 troops of Murakami's Yoshikiyo Division were garrisoned by Omine Castle on the edge of Zenko-ji Temple. At this time, the dragon girl revealed her superb command value, and instantly captured the surrounding wealthy families close to the Takeda family, and the six wealthy families were purged. After being defeated by the Takeda family and fleeing to Echigo, this time he returned to Togakushi Shrine and gathered 300 troops from the old department to stand by Togakushi.

In this way, the number of the Long Tail Army was greater than that of the Takeda Army. Takeda Harunobu also knew, and when he left Shiota Castle, he sought out his 'base friend' Hojo Shiyasu and asked him to send 2,000 troops of the Hojo clan to set out from Hati Castle and reach Komoro Castle six days after crossing the Shinano Mountains.

"Gao Guang, your department should learn how to use iron cannons under the guidance of the envoy of the Takeda family." Chaoding doesn't believe that Takeda Harunobu sent iron cannons and didn't teach them to use them!

"Yes. Taught the corresponding 100 troops. "Hojo Takahiro also came with an iron cannon this time, but he just put it in a box and didn't open it.

"That's good, let them equip all the iron cannons they know how to use and have the projectiles ready." Asadachi patted Hojo Takahiro on the shoulder.

"Yes." Hojo Takahiro knew that this was a good opportunity for him to make meritorious contributions, as long as his Ashigaru achieved combat exploits or killed enemy generals with iron cannons, then everyone would be impressed with him!

With a cup of tea, Hojo Takahiro asked Hojo Takamasa to command them, and all the ashigaru who had replaced the iron cannon were concentrated.

"Very well, you guys listen to the range of the iron cannon is 200 paces! The actual killing distance is 50 steps! However, I want you to wait until the enemy is 20 paces away before firing! "Chao Ding knows that the ammunition of the current iron cannon will be quickly exhausted if it is fought randomly, so it is necessary to save some money.

"The main hall, isn't it too dangerous? The people of the Takeda family told the retainers that they could fire at will after 150 steps. "Momoi Yoshitaka didn't understand a little, the distance of twenty steps was too dangerous!

"No, it has to be twenty steps." Chaoding didn't want them to be attacked by the Takeda Army's red reserve when they were reloaded, and they would be gone.

"Yes." A hundred iron cannon ashigaru had no choice but to obey.

"Bow your foot and concentrate for a moment." Asada wants to make the bow and the iron cannon ashigaru cooperate, if the iron cannon ashigaru is changing ammunition when the bow ashigaru is reloaded, the bow ashigaru will cover the shot.

"Yes." There were still one hundred and thirty people in the Hojo Takahirobu, and these people were immediately assembled.

"Bowashigaru is commanded by Hojo Takamasa, and you have to remember that Bowashigaru can only attack when the iron cannon is reloaded." Asadachi repeatedly instructed Hojo Takamasa.

"Yes." Hojo Takamasa also knows that the iron cannon is very slow to change ammunition, and the plan set by the court is also possible.

"Resist the horse and prepare more!" Usami Joshimitsu looked at the 'trap' and Mizobori and felt that there were still too few rejections.

"Mamoru Suruga is right, but it may be too late." Chaoding felt that he would not wait for them to finish preparing and the Takeda Army would come over.

"Kakizaki and Izumi Shoujing's family assisted in repairing the doctor's hall to defend together, and the foreign minister's army divided three hundred troops to be responsible for manufacturing." Usami saw some flaws.

"Then please." After looking at the 'masterpiece' in front of him, Chaoding felt that he could fight an offensive and defensive battle with the Takeda Army for the time being.

However, Takeda Harunobu only arrived in Hachimanwara not long after he did not let Takeda Yoshinobu attack Tsuyamatoyama, which gave Asadachi and others a whole day to set up the horse rejection array, and even prepared four horse fences on the hillside! 100 Iron Gun Ashigaru and 100 Gun Ashigaru of Usami Seikatsu are in the first lane, and Gun Ashigaru is equipped with three guns; The second one has one hundred and thirty people with a bow and one hundred Hojo Takamasa with a gun. The third is Hojo Takahiro, who has 400 spears and 100 sabres on standby; And the fourth path is where the main formation of the court is located. Kakizaki Kei's two thousand and Usami Dingman's one thousand anti-betsu were on the left and right sides of the Uesugi army. In front of the first fence there are two furrows, one and a half meters deep. In this way, it is impossible for the Akabi horseback samurai to attack directly, but to dismount first!

After confirming that the dragon girl would not move troops for the time being, Takeda Yoshinobu asked Takeda Yoshinobu to send troops tentatively.

"Don't be afraid, when the red cavalry of the Takeda Army reaches twenty paces, all of them will open fire, and then change to the second team." Usami's decisive victory split the Iron Gun Ashigaru into two teams. Chaoding felt that if there were no hundreds of iron cannons, Ashigaru had to let a hundred iron cannons be divided into fifty-one rows.

Takeda Yoshinobu first let his master Iitomi Tiger Shobe's Chibi Legion serve as the first soldier, and he first let his two hundred Chibi horseback warriors under his command rush to Mt. Tsuna, and the four hundred Chibi spears were lightly behind. Under the orders of Takeda Nobuyoshige, Mieda Morunao also marched behind the Red Reserve Army with a hundred spears and a hundred bows and a hundred bows. And this time, it was Iitomi Humasa's younger brother Yutomi Masashi who led the Akabi horseback samurai.

The warriors marched slowly, and when they were one hundred and fifty paces from the first barrier, they began to gallop at an accelerated pace. The samurai on horseback brandished their spears, swords, and naginatas and charged with shouts. For thousands of years, he has ridden iron horses, galloped across the field, and thousands of troops and horses. Indomitable! This scene of cavalry charging has always been the most blood-boiling moment on the human battlefield! In particular, these Akabi equestrian samurai have a pure red paint, which makes it a powerful visual impact as soon as they appear! This time, Chao Ding saw the swift and thunderous picture of Lu on the ancient battlefield on the mountain. For thousands of years, the neighing of war horses and the roar of iron hooves have always accompanied human memories of war. Today, the Uesugi family wants to seal the sword and sword, the bloody slaughter, and the obsolete red cavalry into the long river of history.

When the Akabi horseback warriors roared and galloped to a distance of twenty paces, Usami Takatsu waved his saber and shouted, "Fire!" ”

"Smack! Syllable! Smack!·······" The iron cannon in the first row pulled the trigger directly, and fifty buckshot bullets flew out of the chamber in an instant. After the sound of these iron cannons, the smoke emitted from the second platoon opened fire in place of the first platoon before it had dissipated. The sound of iron cannons was accompanied by the startling of the horses and the fall of the Akabi samurai. Even the Akabi samurai who were not directly hit by the buckshot were hit by the subsequent projectile of the bowashi. It was only an instant, and some of the Akabi samurai who fell to the ground were trampled to death by the horses of their colleagues who were galloping behind. The surviving Akabi samurai dismounted and had to remove the fence and keep their horses away, but they were attacked by three guns behind the fence.

In this process, the 200 precious Chibei cavalry of the Takeda family were almost completely wiped out after a round of charge! And then the gunshigaru who rushed in had to move the horse fence like the Akabi samurai. However, their luck was bad - the iron cannon ashigaru finished reloading and opened fire directly at the Akabi samurai and akabi ashigaru in the ditch. After two rounds of fire, Mizobori was already full of the corpses of the Takeda Army.

Takeda Yoshinobu and the others, who were five hundred steps away from the Wife and Daughter Mountain, were all blue-faced! In their eyes, they saw that the samurai and ashigaru of the Takeda family kept falling to the ground, and the front of the Uesugi army's position was full of overturned war horses, broken four-cut scale flags, and samurai or ashigaru struggling in a pool of blood, and the ditch in front of the horse fence was already full of the corpses of the Takeda army. For them, this was the worst since the Takeda family came out of Shinano. It's completely full of corpses, and the battlefield is a mess!

At this moment, sixty paces away from the first horse fence, a Akabi samurai slowly stood up with his saber propped up on the ground, and shouted, "Could it be that the famous Uesugi family only uses such despicable tactics to fight?" ”

"Well said! Your Takeda family isn't much better! As soon as Hojo Takahiro heard this, he took the bow and arrow beside him, walked to the horse fence, and aimed at the young Akabi samurai.

"You Uesugi family are all despicable people! is not worthy of a relationship with the famous Takeda...... Yes! Before he could finish the word war, Hojo Takahiro shot an arrow through his foot and stabbed him in the lung.

"Iitomi-sama!" When Saneda Mori arrived with his troops, he witnessed the shooting of Iitomi Masakakei.

At the same time, Iifu Huchang also saw it clearly, he knew that one of his generals could not charge at will. However, he still ordered the remaining Red Reserve Regiment to attack with one hundred spears and one hundred saber ashigaru.

"Follow me!" Sanzhi Shouzhi saw that another army was rushing forward, and it was not easy for him to retreat without authorization, so he had to rush forward. He himself was killed by a stray arrow while charging. One hundred red spears and one hundred saber ashigaru did not dare to rush forward at all, and they were not allowed to charge under the orders of Takeda Nobushigeru and Takeda Yoshinobu, so they were saved after standing in place.

With round after round of gunfire and round after round of arrow rain, plus Kakizaki Keijia couldn't stand it, he personally led five hundred horseback samurai and one thousand guns Ashigaru to attack the Takeda army from the right side. In the four hours of this morning, the Red Reserve Army, which the Takeda family had spent a lot of money to build, consumed most of it in the First World War, and together with the other troops, a total of 800 troops were killed. Only 10 people were killed and 50 were wounded. And the Takeda Gunashigaru and samurai, who were still struggling in a pool of blood, directly ordered them to meet the Buddha. Even the samurai of the Takeda family and Ashigaru who died in battle had to be stabbed with a shot or a knife.

"Enough, our army withdraws to its own position." Yoshinobu Takeda can't stand it either, this is a war? It's total slaughter!

"Retreat." Takeda Nobuyhiro also shook his head, he didn't expect that the Uesugi family would build a fortification on Mt. Saijo (Mt. Tsuma-heme) in a short period of time, and let the iron cannon fire continuously!

Fan Fu Huchang also left the battlefield with the drag of Zhujiao Huding and others. By the time Takeda Yoshinobu and the others arrived at Hachimangahara's main camp, Takeda Harunobu's face was also iron-blue.

"Can anyone tell me what the outcome of the battle will be?" Takeda Harunobu's right hand was about to crush the military equipment in his hand.

"Father, son-in-law is not in proper command. All 200 horseback warriors of the Red Reserve Regiment were killed in battle, and even the master's younger brother, Iitomi Masakakei, was shot with a bow and arrow by the retainers of the Uesugi family. Yoshinobu Takeda had no choice but to kneel on the ground as soon as he entered.

"The lord, the ministers are guilty!" Seeing that the young master was kneeling, Takeda Nobuyhiro and the others had no choice but to kneel together.

"My lord, Lord Sanzhi Shouzhi also died in battle." Kansuke Yamamoto said the second half of the sentence that Yoshinobu Takeda did not say.

"Humph! How did you command it?! The Akabi horseback samurai had already filled up the ditch dug by the Uesugi family, and let the three branches of the Mamoru rush forward! After Takeda Harunobu finished speaking, he threw the military ration in his hand to the ground.

"Brother, Taro is the first formation, and now even his initial formation has been defeated, I am responsible!" Takeda Nobuyoshi had no choice but to take the responsibility on himself.

"You too! Won't you send a ninja to find out?! "Takeda Harunobu doesn't have a good temper with Takeda Nobushihiro now.

"The ninjas can't be sent, the Xuanyuan ninjas are all over the area of Mt. Saijo, and the Shinano clans who were defeated and fled by their own families in Zenkoji Temple, Daimine and other places have all made a comeback and occupied a lot of cities." Zhujiao Huding sighed.

"There are 3,000 troops of the Nagao Keishinobu Department in Zenko-ji Temple, and our army is now completely at a numerical disadvantage." Nobukun Anayama, who was sitting on the side, already thought that the Takeda family would not be able to defeat the combined forces of the Nagao family and the Uesugi family in a decisive battle.

"My lord, this family will ask Lord Imagawa Jibu Daisuke Yoshimoto to mediate the war." Nobuyo Akiyama, who was still kneeling, made a suggestion.

"Lord, this family is at most at most with the Nagao family, so it's better to ......" Baba Nobubo also thinks this proposal is good.

"So be it. Xinlian, you go to Junfu City and ask Daisuke of the Ministry of Governance to mediate. Takeda Harunobu is also helpless.

Uesugi Jun placed all the corpses of Takeda Army in front of the ditch one by one, cleaned the ditch hori, and filled the blood inside with a bucket. Then, Asadachi ordered the Uesugi army to cut down some trees, make wooden stakes, and nail all the more than 800 people killed in the battle to the wooden stakes for the Takeda army to see.

A day later, everyone in the Takeda Army's main camp saw this scene, and Takeda Harunobu had done it before, but with the joint resistance of the Shinano clan, he had to cancel the slaughter of the city. He also watched this scene from this formation.

Seeing his brother nailed to a stake, Iitomi Huchang gritted his teeth even more, and he informed his samurai that they were going to launch a night attack at night and recapture his brother's body.