Chapter 67: Sweeping through a thousand armies swept like a sweep
Fifty-two-year-old Masatoshi Hoshina, covered in armor, barely stood on his laurels with a large gun in his left hand, his right hand having just been slashed by a Echigo samurai, and he could no longer fight with a two-handed gun.
Seeing that his father was injured, the eldest son, Masanao Hoshina, and several ashigaru soldiers guarded his side to the death, desperately fighting with the soldiers who wanted to get the head of Masatoshi Hoshina.
At present, most of the samurai from the Hoshina family around Hoshina Masatoshi have been killed in battle, and many of them are retainers who have followed Masatoshi for a long time, and the offensive of the Echigo Army's Kakizaki Keijia team has not weakened, although they also suffered heavy casualties, but under the command of the Echigo samurai Kakizaki Keijia, the offensive is like a stormy wave, wave after wave.
"Father, Yoritomi-sama of the Suwa family has been killed in battle, and the Echigo army has broken through the gun array on the right side of our army." Bao Ke Zhengjun's third son, Bao Ke Changyue, ran over and said.
Masatoshi Hoshina looked around, it was the scene of the Shura field, and he kept seeing the soldiers of the Takeda Army who had been cut down, and let out a terrible and desperate roar before dying. In front of him, there was still one breath left, and the samurai of the Takeda family was carrying around, and the intestines that flowed out of his abdomen were broken, lying on the ground and crawling inch by inch.
Baoke Zhengjun glanced up at the sky, sighed, and said to himself: "Is my martial arts movement ending here?" ”
After speaking, Masashi Baoshina looked at the two of him, and said: "The fate of the samurai is to die on the battlefield, and now is the time to show the glory of our samurai." ”
"Yes, Father." Bao Ke Zhengjun, Bao Ke Changyue replied in unison with a resolute face.
Just as Masatoshi Hoshina was about to launch a final charge with his sons, the neighing of horses was heard on the other side of the hill.
Then Masatoshi Hoshina felt as if the hillside he was standing on was shaking, and he had the illusion of being unstable, and the Echigo samurai who were about to kill him in front of him suddenly stopped, and the movement of slashing with a sword suddenly froze in mid-air.
The Echigo samurai all turned their heads to look in the same direction, and several of them even showed frightened expressions.
The horseback team of the Takeda family killed at this moment with overwhelming momentum.
"Run."
The Echigo samurai, who had been rushing to the front, seemed to wake up suddenly, turned around and hurriedly began to run. At this time, I saw that the opponent's entire body was pierced by a big gun behind him, and then he was provoked high, threw a few distances at once, and fell into the crowd of the Echigo army.
Seeing this scene, Baoke Zhengjun couldn't help but be stunned in place, picking up a big living person to fly, such arm strength is too terrifying! And who else in the Takeda family can do it except Li Xiao.
Li Xiao, who was wearing a thick armor with a Takeda Lingqi finger on his back, took the lead, waving the big gun in his hand, stabbing, picking, rushing, and killing, and no one could stop him wherever he passed. I saw Li Xiao on the horse, the head of the gun was thrown wildly, and where the tip of the gun was pointed, more than a dozen soldiers fell to the ground with their chests in their arms.
Behind Li Xiao, several arrow feathers flew out, piercing the air and making a sharp and rapid sound, shooting the Echigo army warrior who was about to rush forward to fight Li Xiao directly to the ground. On the side, the cavalry of the Takeda family saw that Li Xiao and his subordinates were so brave, and their morale rose sharply at the moment, and they also shouted in unison, driving their horses to rush down the hillside.
Dao Shengmeng is like a shadow, firmly guarding Li Xiao's side, so Li Xiao can relax and swing the big gun to kill people. At the beginning, Li Xiao made it to the position of the Kakizaki Jingjia flag seal and drove the war horse towards the opponent's position.
In the face of the unstoppable cavalry of the Takeda Army, the Echigo Army did not dare to fight with them without opening the gun array, and many courageous Echigo troops wanted to step forward to shake the cavalry of the Takeda family, but they were all the end of the mantis arm as a car, these people were either picked up by the gun, or they were directly hit by the war horse, and then crushed to death by the horse's hooves.
At the moment, no one can stop the cavalry of the Takeda family, Li Xiao and his cavalry almost in a moment, they killed in front of the Kakizaki Jing family, and his personal samurai stood in front of him desperately, wanting to block the momentum of the cavalry, but under a round of arrows from the Takeda family's archers, half of them were injured on the spot.
The rest of the people were killed by Li Xiao, Shima Shengmeng, and the Takeda cavalry who rushed immediately.
Seeing that he was alone, Kakizaki Keijia, who was known as the invincible of the Seven Counties of Echigo, showed his terrifying strength at this moment. I saw that he flicked the big bar gun in his hand, stood in place and swung directly at the horse leg of the Takeda cavalry that pounced on him.
The cavalryman's horse suddenly sank into the ground with both hooves, and the whole person flew directly out from the horse that was galloping at high speed.
However, Yumi Kohata rode on his horse and aimed at an arrow from Kakizaki Keiya, which immediately hit him in the right shoulder. Under the pain of Kakizaki Jingjia, he was still brave, and with a flick of a shot, he picked off a Takeda family cavalryman from his horse.
Where did Li Xiao tolerate Kakizaki Jing's family to kill people again and again, and he slapped the horse on the spot, and a shot in his hand broke through the air. Kakizaki Jingjia knew the power of Li Xiao's shot, but in the midst of danger, he still used the big gun in his hand to fight Li Xiao's shot.
The head of the gun flicked, and the arm strength of the two was equal at this moment, and neither of them could help the other.
But Kakizaki Jingjia is still unable to escape the fate of the end of martial arts here, he just blocked the assassination of Li Xiao's shot, just when this new force was not born, and then Shima Katsu rode over, the huge katana waved, and the right arm of the opponent was cut off with a sword.
Immediately, the figure of Kakizaki Keijia, the famous brave general of Echigo, was so submerged in the rolling hooves of the Takeda army.
"Kakizaki Keijia begging."
The moment when the head of the Kakizaki Kei, along with the helmet in front of his black scythe, was raised high by the cavalry of the Takeda family with the tip of their spears. The morale of the Echigo army, which was still fighting on the hillside, suddenly collapsed.
The soldiers of the Echigo Army watched this scene in disbelief, but when they saw the helmet of the Kakizaki Keijia and the flag mark representing the Kakizaki family's family crest where the general was located, they were convinced of the news when the Takeda Army cut it down.
The prestige of the Kakizaki Keijia in the Echigo Army is known to everyone, and the Takeda Army also regards the other party as a terrifying enemy, and now the head of the Kakizaki Keijia is actually taken by the Takeda Army, these soldiers under the command of the Kakizaki Keijia are of course difficult to contain the fear in their hearts, and they lost control and fled in all directions.
Of course, there were also a few loyal and brave samurai who wanted to recapture the head of the main general, but then because Kakizaki Keijia was killed, the morale of the Takeda army who went down the mountain was greatly boosted, and they all fell to the ground.
The situation on the battlefield was reversed at this moment, and the original iron artillery team and the archery light team of the Takeda Army also picked up swords, ribs, and spears one after another, and joined the army that was attacking down the mountain. The Echigo army showed a tendency to rout.
Katsunaga Sebe, Saito Asanobu of the Echigo Army, did not understand why the Kakizaki Keijia suddenly collapsed in an instant, and when they saw the cavalry of the Takeda family attacking down the mountain, they suddenly realized for a while, and each urged the army to come up and intercept it.
And the Nagano army, the Ueno Hao clan army, and the direction of Uesugi Kenshin's main camp, which were far away, still couldn't figure out what was going on on the hillside for a while.
And at this time, Li Xiao and his Takeda family cavalry team killed the army of the Kakizaki Jingjia team in one go, and the mountains were full of Echigo troops who were chased and slashed by the Takeda army after the rout.
And Li Xiao was not relentless, and at this moment, he rushed towards the Echigo Army's iron artillery team and archery foot light team, which had not yet had time to withdraw from the battlefield.
Without the protection of the gun array, the cavalry entered without hindrance, and this iron artillery and archery with no melee defense were in the middle. The Echigo army's iron cannon ashigaru and bow ashigaru only had time to pull out the ribs, that is, the cavalry of the Takeda army stabbed them with spears on their horses, slashed them with swords, and killed them to the ground.
For a while, the cavalry of the Takeda Army, under the leadership of Li Xiao, was like sheep entering a wolf pack, killing the Yuehou army like chopping melons and vegetables, and for a while the heads were rolling and blood flowed like a river.