Chapter 70: The Time to Advance and Retreat

The Saito Asanobu team was well-organized, and the gunazu light team was arranged in three columns.

The spear pole held by the Echigo military ashigaru is a composite structure, made of oak and other wood, with bamboo chips on the outside, and the blade is smoothed, and the length is slightly inferior to that of the Takeda family's Sanken gun.

Although they were all temporary recruits, the Echigo Army's gunshigaru underwent collective training. The ashigaru knew that before facing the charge of the enemy cavalry, they had to line up on their knees, keep their spears by their sides, and wait for the enemy to arrive. When the enemy approaches, pick up your spear and aim the tip of your spear at the area where the horse's belly is located. After the tip of the spear pierces into the skin and flesh of the war horse, it must not be pulled out immediately, and it must be continued!

The archersfoot light team of the Saito Asanobu team stood in front of the formation first, and waited for Li Xiao's cavalry team to enter the range of bows and arrows, and first carried out a baptism of arrow rain. And Li Xiao, as the general of the charging battle, was naturally given priority by the enemy's bow.

Li Xiao waved the gun pole with both arms, turned in a big circle, and swept down the seventeen or eighteen arrows that were shot at him in one go. Here Li Xiao must be grateful, the old cadres painstakingly taught themselves how correct it was to turn the big gun to avoid arrows.

After pulling away the arrow shaft in one breath, Li Xiao continued to ride his horse to attack, but not everyone had Li Xiao's good hand, and after two rounds of arrows, several Takeda cavalry men and horses were filled with several arrows, and fell on the way to charge.

Due to the extremely fast speed of the cavalry of the Takeda family, the bow of the Saito Asanobu team did not have a chance to shoot the third round of arrows, so they retreated behind the gunashigaru.

The performance of Li Xiao, the guns of the Saito Asanobu team naturally looked at it, and in the face of such a brave opponent, even the Echigo samurai, who had good martial arts, was ready to fight to the death for him at this moment.

Li Xiao stared at the two rows of Echigo Ashigaru soldiers in front of him, and he was also a little apprehensive in his heart, he knew how much strength he had. Fangcai's bloody battle, relying on the strength of Li Xiaojia and Katsu Takeshi, took the lead, and such a peerless duo of brave generals even the Kakizaki Keijia, who was known as the invincible man in the seven counties of Echigo, was cut down.

Although the cavalry behind him was small in number, it was composed of Kohata cavalry who were skilled in archery and horses, as well as Takeda Katsuyori's horse Huizhong, and the bravery and fighting of these samurai were naturally better than Echigo Ashigaru and the coalition army of the Ueno clan.

At present, facing this dense array of guns, Li Xiao can't help but think of the scene in the movie "Braveheart", when the cavalry of the British royal army was killed by the Scottish peasants of Will Wallace with spears.

By now, there was no turning back, Li Xiao frowned, and even quickened his horse speed, and the Echigo army spear formation in front of him was less than ten meters away, and at this time, only to hear the bowstring behind him, the three Echigo ashigaru in front of Li Xiao held the throat of the half-cut arrow feather with their hands, and threw themselves on the ground with blood spurting blood from their necks.

Li Xiao didn't have to think about it to guess that it was Yumi Kohata behind him who used her cavalry shooting with a bow and three arrows, and shot three ashigaru in one go, leaving a gap in the Echigo army's gun array standing in front of Li Xiao.

Where would Li Xiao let go of this opportunity, I saw him shouting loudly, and jumped into the gun array of the Yuehou army.

The ashigaru of the nearby Echigo army was shocked by Li Xiao's leap of the horse, and before he could make a correct response, and at this moment, Li Xiao's big gun circled in the air, and where the head of the gun was pointed, seven or eight Echigo soldiers were lying under Li Xiao's big gun.

Rumble!

Li Xiao's war horse fell heavily to the ground, shaking the nearby Echigo Ashigaru to tremble, and then Li Xiao shot out two more shots, stabbing the two Echigo Ashishi who were about to poke their horse's belly to the ground. Then Shima Shengmeng followed Li Xiao to kill, the big chopping knife in his hand, swung down continuously, and the four Echigo soldiers flew with light flesh and blood, and their bodies were in different places, and they were killed on the spot.

Relying on the strength of Li Xiao, Shima Katsu, and Yumi Kohata, they forcibly opened a gap in the military momentum of the Saito Asanobu team. The cavalry of the Takeda Army then rushed forward and struck like a long dragon

In the formation of the Saito Asanobu team.

On the slope of the main camp of the Echigo army.

The generals of the Echigo army stood sideways behind Uesugi Kenshin, their necks stretched out, watching the battle between Li Xiao's Takeda cavalry and Saito Asanobu's team. The moment they saw Li Xiao and them enter the Saito Asanobu team, several Echigo generals sighed regretfully, or high-fived them with fists to vent their inner unhappiness.

"My lord, it seems that Saito Asanobu has been broken by this Takeda family's Ming Kingdom general again." Yataro Onikojima said fiercely on the side.

Uesugi Kenshin glanced at Onikojima Yataro, but he smiled and said, "Yataro, you are too anxious, how can Saito Asanobu be such an easy person to defeat." You see, Saito Asanobu is starting to fight back. ”

After killing another samurai of the Echigo Army, Li Xiao killed the Saito Asanobu team in one go, and now he can see the flag of Takeda Katsuyori's main camp on the hillside on his horse.

However, when Li Xiao looked behind him, he found that only a few riders followed behind him, and even Dao Shengmeng did not follow behind.

Li Xiao's face changed, he grabbed the reins, stopped his horse, turned to the cavalry of the Takeda family who followed behind him and asked, "What about the others?" ”

The cavalryman of the Takeda family was stunned for a moment by Li Xiao's questioning, and then pointed the blood-stained sword in his hand towards the depths of the formation.

I saw that in the midst of a group of Echigo Ashigaru black banners, the cavalry of the Takeda family, who were carrying the Shikarizu banner on their backs, were surrounded by Saito Asanobu and trapped in the formation. They were clearly in a disadvantageous position, surrounded by a long spear array, and from time to time a gun pierced their horses.

"Bastard." Li Xiao couldn't help but scold, this Saito Asanobu clearly planned to separate Li Xiao from his subordinate cavalry, and then trap the cavalry of the Takeda family in the formation and eliminate it.

"Do you want to kill again?"

Li Xiao thought so, and turned his eyes to look at the cavalry in front of him who followed him out of the battle, they were now covered in blood, all panting, obviously looking like they were physically exhausted, they were indeed fighting now, if they were asked to turn back and fight again, it would be really difficult to support. Even the chestnut horse under Li Xiao's crotch, even it snorted a few times now, looking listless.

Could it be that Li Xiao returned to his main camp like this, and then left Shima Katsumeng, Yumi Kohata and a group of cavalrymen who followed him in and out fell into the formation of Saito Asanobu's team, ignoring it.

Absolutely not!

Li Xiao paid that his physical strength was still able to support him, and there were not too many problems in fighting for a while, and then he glanced at these cavalrymen and said loudly: "Which of you is willing to follow me back to the enemy formation?" ”

Several horsemen glanced at each other, and they all nodded together, indicating that they were willing to go.

Without any grandiose words, Li Xiao only felt a heat in his heart, turned the horse's head back to the military formation of the Saito Asanobu team, and then took a long breath, slapped the horse with a gun, and the chestnut horse under his crotch neighed in pain, and threw up his hooves and galloped hard.

The cavalry of the Takeda family behind him also followed Li Xiao and returned to kill back.

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