When the Takeda Army's brigade appeared at the top of the opposite slope, it was already 9:15 in the morning, and unlike the surprise attack of the "Disease of the Wind", the advance of the army before the battle was generally "like a forest". It seems that the Jiazhou army has indeed fulfilled the essence of the "four as" art of war, but I don't know if this defensive counterattack we are going to carry out in a while can also be "like a mountain without moving"!

From the west bank of the Lianzi River, because of the angle, we can only see a dense line of soldiers standing under the banner, judging from the terrain I went up to survey last night, the main formation of the Takeda Army should have been thrown onto the official road. The flags were waving for half an hour, and it seemed that they were adjusting their formation for the final preparations before attacking.

I stared at the changes above with good eyes, and gently shook the Tai Chi Tuan military fan in my hand. "Do you count it, is it safe for the artillery to hit the Takeda Army?" I didn't have a good look at it myself, but I asked anyway. Although only half of the iron artillery team was brought this time, the two commanders were among them.

"Will be able to land on the front edge of the Takeda Army, and the blocking effect of the trees will not be ideal!" After listening to my words, he shook his head helplessly, of course he has been in charge of this operation for a long time.

"Then aim the cannon in the middle of the downhill and shoot at my command!" I nodded at him. Since this is indeed the result, then do your best!

"Yes!" He said yes succinctly, and then walked over to adjust the two 10-pounder guns, this time I set the cannons next to the commander's position.

"The Lord's decree!" A herald of Oda Nobunaga rode up to me. "The lord's decree: Hearing the sound of the main array of artillery, all teams of iron cannons fire a salvo, and those who leave the battle line without authorization and enter the army will be killed!"

"Lord Shangfu, the Star Department obeys the order!" I replied loudly. "Come back to the team! You can't slack off in the slightest just because you're not in the forefront! "I told Kerr and Katsutoshi Shima that they were both my defenders and reserves.

"Lord...... Do you want me to swap places with Fuxiu? "Shima Shengmeng went back to command the armor horseman, but Ke'er Caizang still wanted to bargain.

"This matter has been decided, go back and do your own thing!" I don't want to discuss this issue anymore, and there can be no wavering and confusion at the moment. "Take my words to heart: the back team is missing, I want your head!"

"Yes...... Lord! Probably because of the cold tone I had never had, he made an exception and didn't say much.

"Dut...... ...... "In a series of hurried conch sounds, the Takeda Army completed the rectification of the formation. The soldiers in the first row were changed from ashigaru to knights, bright red armor, war horses, and Takeda Ling leaning on the flag, and a cavalry spear more than three meters long in everyone's hand.

"This ...... How did Katsuyori Takeda have so much confidence? Looking at the flag of the mountain county in front of me, I said to myself in confusion. In the usual big battle, the two sides will inevitably have some small tricks to try and skill, and the way of putting in the main force of the famous generals is usually only used when the strength exceeds the opponent by a lot.

"It seems that there is confusion within the Takeda Army, and they are very unsure about this battle!" My words were so loud that only the half-guards around me could hear what they were. He suddenly said this in a loud voice, and all the people around him looked at him in amazement.

"Oh......" I was confused for a moment.

"My lord! The Takeda army seems to be full of momentum, but it is unusual......" Takenaka Hanbei said calmly: "If you really have the certainty of defeating us in one fell swoop, you should show the enemy weakness, in order to destroy as much of our army's living force as possible!" But now it is a desperate posture, which shows that Takeda Katsuyori wants to take advantage of the public opinion and force the army. Without a fight, the Takeda Army has already lost half of it! ”

Everyone suddenly realized, and their confidence immediately rose, and at the same time, I also understood that the Takenaka Hanbei was waking me up. Since my defeat at the hands of Takeda Shingen two years ago, it is undeniable that I have unconsciously left a certain shadow on my psyche. For a soldier (even though I'm not a soldier at heart), if you don't think you can beat your opponent, then you don't have to fight at all! Admittedly, this sentiment of mine has affected my subordinates. I glanced back at the Hanbei Takenaka and nodded gratefully at him.

"Look, Lord, the Takeda Army has moved!" Ah Xue called out, and immediately attracted the attention of everyone around.

A sound of horses' hooves accompanied by the slight vibration of the earth came from afar, with the banner of the mountain as the forerunner, thousands of cavalry swarmed down from the opposite hillside, the cavalry spears in the hands of the knights in the front formation pointed diagonally upward, and the two behind were holding the long swords of the cold light in their hands. Although the cavalry on the downhill galloped fast and could not form a horizontal and vertical formation, each knight maintained a roughly equal and stable distance from his companions around him, and nothing happened to interfere with each other.

High-speed, stable and quiet, which reminds me of a Rolls-Royce in a Mercedes. No one shouted to kill, only closed lips and cold eyes, and there was no doubt that a huge battle force was about to explode from this silence, and only the horse's hooves were left at the moment. During this time, I did not let the cannon open, first, because there was no order from Oda Nobunaga, and second, they were too fast to pass through the ramp.

In the blink of an eye, these thousands of red preparations came to the other side of the Lianzi River, and the front team slowed down a little, and the rear team spread out to both sides, divided into three roughly equal clusters and pounced on the line of Oda's army.

"Oh......" I opened my mouth slightly, and the half-guard next to me also had an expression of disbelief.

Takeda Katsuyori went crazy and actually threw all of his Akabi at once! Just now, due to the blocking of the front team and the banner of Yamaguchi Masakai being too conspicuous, no one noticed the situation behind, and it was not until the two troops behind us were displayed in front of us that everyone discovered a fact, it was Naito Masatobe who rushed to the right, and it was Baba Nobubo who went straight to me! The three "famous ministers" who fought in Yuanjiang were all in battle at once, what did Takeda Katsuyori want to do?

"......Boom" A roar sounded that marked the beginning of the battle, and the first to speak was the "big barrel team" in the Oda main camp. The "big barrels" made by Kunitomo House were originally ordered for the navy, but due to the rush of time, only about 50 were built, and this time Oda Nobunaga also organized them into the iron artillery team in order to deal with the old enemy Takeda cavalry.

More than 20 Takeda cavalry fell into the water of Lianzichuan, and in the smoke of gunpowder, more horses stopped advancing and circled in place. The sound of the "big barrel" was very different from the iron cannon, and it was also much louder, and some of the war horses began to be frightened. After all, the Takeda Army was well-trained, and immediately stabilized the formation and launched a new round of charges, leaving only one chance for the Oda Iron Artillery Team to fire a salvo. I noticed that the knights who had fallen from their horses were all rushing forward with their swords and guns as long as they could still move.

"Shoot!" Not caring to see what was going on on Oda Nobunaga's side, I gave the order to the Iron Artillery Corps.

The almost simultaneous firing of thousands of iron guns throughout the army caused a huge amount of air and noise pollution, and the deafening neighing and hoofing of horses just a moment ago had been completely suppressed, and in this environment, the speed of the new command transmission would undoubtedly be greatly reduced. At the last moment, when the smoke of gunfire rose to obscure my vision, I saw a large line of red cavalry in front of me, with men and horses planted headlong into the first trench.

"Phew......" I let out a long breath of suffocation, and the pungent smell of fire immediately invaded my lungs. It seems that Oda Nobunaga is right, and I am really worried! But God didn't seem to want to let my nerves go just like that, so soon it tensed up again.

The early morning air was not only humid but also a little windy, which was very conducive to the recovery of the sight of the Iron Artillery Corps, and also made me quickly see the Takeda Army on the opposite side again.

The Chibei cavalry behind did not have the slightest scruples, and the corpses of their companions in front of them had already come to the fence, and the knights who had lost their horses also climbed out of the trench, and a burst of swords of the wooden fence flew with their swords. The Iron Artillery Team reloads and fires, and Gamo Fuhide also directs his spears to assassinate Ashigaru through the fence. Soon, the other side of the fence was full of corpses of men and horses, and the Takeda Army behind them was slamming into the "wall of flesh and blood" from that side. Due to the natural barrier formed by the corpses, the lethality of both iron cannons and spears was greatly reduced.

The corpses are piled higher and higher, and the corpses of the Takeda Army piled up on my front are no less than 500, and I believe that the number on other fronts will not be less than mine. The number of casualties in horses is larger and larger, and a slope large enough to cross the fence is gradually forming. Under the command of Baba Nobubo, the Takeda Army is launching one attack after another on this flesh-and-blood "road of death". At the end of this road, there is my head!

"Lord, hurry up and carry out the second set of plans!" Seeing that I was stunned for a while, the half-guards of Takenaka anxiously urged.

"Good...... Let's herald! My throat and stomach tightened at the same time, and I swallowed hard to keep my saliva from spitting out, and a few people behind me, including Goto Matabei, were already vomiting. I've seen a lot of brutal scenes, but today feels different. It was as if all the soldiers of the Takeda Army were hypnotized, and there was no death in their eyes.

My herald blew a brass horn for the Nanban Short Pipe, a special communication tool for the Iron Artillery Corps, and after trial and error, this instrument was the only instrument that could convey its characteristic poignant sound in the chaos of iron cannons.

With this sound of the voice, Philip and his iron cannon retreated over the second trench, ascended the slope of the trench mound, and turned to fire again condescendingly, so that the bloody rampage on the first fence was no longer an obstacle.

Ashigaru and Banner under the command of Gamo Fuhide were just the opposite, rushing forward with a hundredfold murderous aura, boarding the first fence and starting a hand-to-hand fight with the Takeda army, and the brutal fight fell into a stalemate......