On the hillside, under the double flag of the sun and the moon.

Li Xiao held the military ration in his hand and looked at the foot of the mountain surrounded by the Inaba Iron Army on three sides.

Li Xiaowei smiled, Inaba Yitie, Meinong three people, he can be in Taige, Shinno can be said to have admired the name for a long time.

Li Xiao turned his head and said to Usami on the side: "It seems that it is true that Ichiyanagi Naomo gave me information, and there is no fraud in the slightest?" ”

Usami Nami lowered her head and said, "My lord, Ichiyanagi Naosue really didn't cheat, so I didn't need to use some follow-up measures before, but it's a pity that I didn't repair Shibata completely." ”

Li Xiao laughed when he heard this, and said: "It's enough, it's enough to use the bait of Endo Qinglong to adjust the rice leaf one iron, if you add the Shibata Katsuya, I'm afraid that I won't have such a good mouth, swallow these two people in one gulp, take it step by step, annihilate the rice leaf one iron, this battle is enough to show the military might of my Hida Etsuchu Legion." ”

After speaking, Li Xiao pressed the iron sheet military in his hand downward.

Banner Benbei, Kamioka Bei, and Snake Tail Bei put pressure on the Inaba Ichitetsu Army together.

On the battlefield under Ichiyanagi Castle, when Inaba Ichitetsu saw the Takeda Army rushing from the slopes of the mountains on three sides, he made a decision immediately.

Inaba Ichitsutsu, who has always been known for his Mino tough guys, turned his horse's head and pulled his horse away, and the samurai of the Inaba Army on the side of his son Inaba Sadatsu immediately stepped on his horse and fled the battlefield with Inaba Ichitsutsu.

Li Xiao, who was on the hillside, was dumbfounded by Inaba Yitetsu's escape from the battle, and his move was tantamount to abandoning all the ashigaru and the horseless foot warriors of the Inaba family on the battlefield.

However, Li Xiao immediately understood that under the encirclement and attack of his own army, the Inaba army had no chance of winning another battle.

Obviously, Inaba also understands this situation.

Resist stubbornly and annihilate the whole army. It's better to preserve your strength, anyway, those who stay on the battlefield are all peasant soldiers, or low-level samurai.

The peasants could be re-recruited at any time, and the loss of low-level samurai was not too painful.

As long as the cavalry and high-ranking samurai are there, Inaba Ichitetsu can make a comeback at any time.

"What a rice leaf and one iron!" Li Xiao admired the other party's decision at the moment, although this move was an extremely unheroic desertion.

Just as Inaba Ichitetsu led the samurai on horseback to flee from the battlefield.

Kamioka Bei Daisho Fujido Takatora reacted immediately, and he immediately ordered the iron artillery team to quickly descend the mountain. Before the Inaba Ichitetsu cavalry team left the battlefield, they grabbed a favorable firing position near the path that the opponent had to pass.

"Shoot!"

With Kamioka's iron cannon, General Ashigaru gave an order. Kamioka prepared iron cannon Ashigaru fired at the Inaba Army's cavalry team that was rushing towards the intersection.

The horseback warriors of the Inaba Army are desperately running towards the intersection, where to watch out for iron cannon fire.

Under the bombardment of the iron cannon, the mounted samurai of the Inaba Army snorted, and one after another they fell off their horses.

The neighing of the horses continued.

General Kamioka Bei Iron Cannon immediately transferred the second batch of Iron Cannon Ashigaru and fired again. Suddenly, more than a dozen horseback warriors of the Inaba Army who were galloping fell off their horses.

Li Xiao saw that Fujitang Gaohu reacted quickly, and couldn't help but nod approvingly, in history, he only remembered the name of Fujitang Gaohu, but rarely positively evaluated his due strength, but he was a person who came to the name of 320,000 stone with a white body.

Compared with the Fujido High Tiger, the Snake Tail Bei will have a mountain tiger. The reaction is much slower. By the time the iron cannon he led arrived, he had already let the Inaba Ichitetsu cavalry escape from the firing range.

Seeing that Inaba Yitie was about to successfully escape from the battlefield, a sneer escaped from Li Xiao's lips, the reason why he surrounded Sanque Yi in the first place. It was premeditated.

Li Xiao once again pressed down on the general's hand.

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves rolling in the middle of a hillside.

The cavalry with the sun and moon double-patterned flags on their backs, a large force came out from the hillside, and it was the cavalry team of Tsuchiya Masahiro.

Inaba saw the interception of the Takeda army in front of him, and after being surprised for a moment, he immediately waved his sword and shouted, "Fight!" ”

The samurai of the Inaba family are also a group of fierce people, and they see the head of the family drinking orders. Rush forward at the moment.

The Takeda Army's cavalry reserve attacked from the top of the hillside, condescendingly. At present, the horse attacked with a bow and arrow, and the inaba army horseback samurai was hit by a wave of arrows. They were shot off their horses.

Then the cavalry of the two armies fought together. …,

On the other hand, because even the general and the samurai had fled, even if the Inaba army wanted to fight, there was no one to organize them, and they were scattered in all directions.

At this time, Li Xiao's three standing infantry took advantage of the momentum to rush down the mountain and cover the killing, which immediately filled the valley with a bloody atmosphere.

Half an hour later, the Takeda Army under Ichiyanagi Castle was already cleaning up the battlefield.

Li Xiaoan sat on top of Maza, and behind him were a group of generals such as Katsu Shima, Higashi Changyao, Endo Yinjun, and Usami Nami.

Tsuchiya Changheng was covered in blood, rode to Li Xiao, threw a delicate gold pocket to the ground, and said: "Lord, this is the head pocket of Inaba Yitie, he asked me to cut it, but unfortunately, he still let this person get away and did not take off his head." ”

Li Xiao nodded and said, "It's hard work." How many of the Inaba Army cavalry escaped? ”

Tsuchiya Masatsune replied, "No more than fifty horsemen." ”

Li Xiao nodded when he heard this, thinking that he still got away with about one-fifth of the other party's samurai.

At this time, Fujido Gaohu also came to Li Xiao and reported to Li Xiaoyu: "The enemy general Endo Qingtaka was also beheaded by our army, this is his head. ”

After speaking, Fujitang Gaohu presented the first-level box.

Li Xiao glanced at it, and saw that the expression on the other party's head was lifelike, full of anger and unwillingness.

But for Li Xiao, this person didn't have much impression, but said indifferently: "This person was also a big name before, take it down, and bury it." ”

Li Xiao didn't know that because of his appearance, the history of Endo Qinglong made a detour here, in history, although Endo Qinglong was able to die a good death as the lord of the Gujo Domain, but when Takeda Shingen Shangluo fought, he was secretly rebelled by Shingen.

According to the information, Endo Keitaka sent his old family Endo Shinzaemon to Kai to communicate with Shingen, and also communicated with the Asakura Asai family.

At that time, Ogilino Endo Keitaka. Echoing with the Akiyama Nobutomo of the Higashimino Offensive, this may be the reason why Nobunaga did not dare to leave Gifu Castle without permission, did not lead the main force to Tokaido to fight Shingen, and finally sent only 3,000 reinforcements to rescue the Tokugawa family.

Later, after Oda Nobunaga breathed a sigh of relief, Endo Yoshitaka pleaded guilty to Nobunaga, but Oda Nobunaga was unexpectedly lenient and pardoned his grave sin.

When he finally arrived in Edo, Endo died at the age of eighty-three.

And now Keritaka Endo has completed his mission ahead of schedule. Now the head is different, by the way. His official name is the same as Li Xiao's, and he is Danma Shou.

In addition, it is interesting that Endo Yinjun, the head of the Endo clan who subdued Li Xiao, was killed in the Shiga battle against the Asai Asakura family as a side of the Oda army in the first year of Motokame.

And right now, Endo Yinjun has lived well to the three years of Yuangui. Now as the strength of Shima Katsumo, as the side of the Takeda Army to attack the Oda Army.

Fujitang Gaohu then said: "Returning to my lord, a total of 323 enemies were killed in this battle, 1,51 enemy soldiers were captured, and our army, including the cavalry team, suffered no more than 10 casualties. This is a big victory. ”

Li Xiao nodded slightly, after this battle, Inaba Yitie, one of the three people in Mino, has been hit hard. After that, it is estimated that for a long time, it will not appear in the military service book of the Oda Army.

Yuanjiang, Futama Castle.

Futamata Castle is located on the slope of the intersection of the Tenryu River and the Futama River, surrounded by water on both sides to the north and south, and the northeast side is a slope, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

At present, under the city, there is an army like mountains and seas.

The crimson Takeda Ling military flag covered the sky and almost submerged the city.

The roar of the iron cannon was like the roar of a giant beast. In the distance, I saw a large area of gunpowder smoke filling the air.

This is the siege of the Takeda Army organized a large-scale iron artillery team to fire a salvo at the head of the city. In the past, this was also the consistent method of the Takeda army to attack the city.

When the iron cannon is not in fashion, the enemy city soldiers are likely to be unaware of the new thing such as the iron cannon. And fear arose, so that the morale of the defenders collapsed.

However, by the time of the Motokame year, iron cannons had long been a common item on the battlefield, and the castle commander Nakane Masateru was also a strong and loyal Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Therefore, there will be no fear because of the iron artillery bombardment of the Takeda army, on the contrary, the sporadic shooting of iron cannons is constantly heard on the head of the city, and it is obvious that the city soldiers are also using iron cannons to counterattack the Takeda army in an organized manner.

At the place where the Takeda army was in the main position, Takeda Shingen was wearing a Suwa helmet, and although he couldn't see the battle clearly, the hustle and bustle of the city reached his ears at all. …,

Xin Xuan never expected that the projectile city in front of him would actually block his 27,000 main elite division for a whole month.

In the past month, the army of 27,000 has consumed countless grains and grass.

Rao is Takeda Shingen's army is slightly unparalleled in his life, but in the face of such a strong city, there is nothing to be done, and the only way is to attack strongly.

However, under the siege of the city by famous generals of the Takeda Army such as Maba Xinfang and Yama County Changjing, they insisted on taking this fortified city and had no choice.

However, the location of Futamata Castle was very important, as it was the supply line for the Takeda army to attack Mikawa, and it was necessary to occupy this castle.

Takeda Shingen let out a long sigh, this month of running around on the battlefield, his body could not support it, but Shangluo's ambition was still burning in his chest, and he must not fall down on the day when he didn't see Takeda Ling fluttering in Kyoto.

"Work harder, stick harder." Shin Xuan said to himself.

Takeda Shingen shouted to his subordinates: "Order the Baba Minbu to launch another attack on the east side of the city!" ”

"Oh!" He was ordered to go down.

But not long after, Takeda Shingen saw the Takeda army on the east side of the castle rushing up, and under the counterattack of the castle soldiers, it was defeated like a tidal tide.

Suddenly, Takeda Shingen's face turned pale

At this moment, a fast rider hurriedly entered the military tent and reported to Takeda Shingenyu: "Report, my lord, Li Xiao's Hida Echichu Legion appeared in Gujo County, captured Ichiyanagi Castle, beheaded the Oda family retainer Endo Keitaka, and severely damaged Inaba Ichitetsu, destroying two thousand enemies!" ”

"This is the good news that Li Xiao sent to the lord, please take a look!"

Hearing this, Takeda Shinxuan stood up, and an irrepressible joy appeared on his face