With the sound of the horn, Takeda Katsuyori's 500 speared ashigaru troops had returned to the hillside, returned to their respective positions, and regrouped into formation, and the arrow plates laid on the trenches were retrieved and rearranged.

The Takeda Army returned to its original position.

Fang Cai's cover-up and killing, the Nagano family suffered heavy losses, leaving a total of more than 300 corpses, more than 100 wounded, and many generals were killed in battle. At present, the Nagano family's army has retreated to their own camp and rested again, and it is estimated that they will not be able to go into battle again for a while.

On the other hand, the Takeda Katsuyori team only paid the price of a few minor injuries. It was an unbelievable victory.

thought that the battle of the queen palace was extremely tragic, but under the various strategies of Yamamoto Kansuke and Li Xiao, they continued to resolve the disadvantage, but this time they fought until noon, and no one was killed in Takeda Katsuyori. This made the soldiers of the Takeda Army, who had been the queen of the palace go to death early, and couldn't help but have a glimmer of hope in their hearts.

"Uesugi Kenshin will never let our army get enough rest, the army of the Uesugi family below is about to go into battle, and the next thing is to usher in a hard battle." Kansuke Yamamoto said to Katsuyori Takeda.

Sanada Masayuki said, "Our army is not without a chance, and if we hold out until night, I think we can use the cover of night to retreat into the Shirane Mountains." ”

As soon as Sanada Masayuki said this, everyone's eyes also ignited hope.

Tonight is the new moon, and it will be dark at night, and if a melee is purely a fish in troubled waters, both sides will have a greater chance of slaughtering their own men than killing the enemy, and if you light a torch, the lighting will be fine, but it will soon become a target for snipers and archers, and it will be purely self-defeating.

Uesugi Kenshin would not take this risk and engage in a night battle with the Takeda Army.

But will Uesugi Kenshin give them this opportunity and let them hold out until night, at this time, the Tai Drum of the Echigo Army's main camp sounded.

A row of black-clothed and black-armored Echigo troops surging like a tide finally came out of battle.

"The iron artillery team entered the trench."

"Bow foot light team preparation."

The iron cannon squatted back into the trenches, and many people threw away the bamboo shoulder pads draped over their shoulders, the small sleeves on their arms, and the cages on their wrists, just to be more flexible and increase the almost negligible reloading speed of the iron cannons.

The iron cannon Ashigaru began to clear the chamber, carefully loaded with gunpowder, projectiles, crushed with a push rod, and loaded with a fire rope. On average, each iron cannon had four platoon shots, and in terms of the service life of iron cannons in this era, it was easy to explode after firing five or six times in a row in a battle.

But it doesn't matter now, the explosion of the borechamber and the cutting off of the head by the Echigo army have the same result.

"Do you guess that the rear army will be over, and the wing of our army will be attacked first?" Li Xiao took advantage of the gap in the transfer of the Echigo army, and actually chatted with Sanada Masayuki very casually.

Although it is no longer Sanada Masayuki's first battle, but he is only fifteen years old, facing the battle of the palace that has died for a lifetime, and the undefeated prestige of Uesugi Kenshin, Sanada Masayuki will never be as calm in his heart as he seems.

Faced with Li Xiao's question, he thought for a while and said: "It should be possible to break through from the left flank, although the slope here is a little steeper, but the strength of our army deployed here is weak." ”

Li Xiao laughed, shook his head and said, "No, I bet with you that the Echigo Army will definitely break through from the center." ”

"Why?" Sanada Masayuki is not a blind follower.

"Because the other party's main general is Kakizaki Keijia, when I was in Kawanakajima, I learned him, this person is the first fierce general in Echigo, and arrogance and arrogance are also the first, he will definitely choose the front with the thickest strength of our army, break through the center, and then take the main formation directly."

While Li Xiao and Sanada Masayuki were talking, the iron cannon Ashigaru in the first row of trenches had already opened fire.

The loud roar of the platoon guns rang out, and the head of the iron artillery group observed the results of the shooting, and it was obvious that the Echigo army was not a god, and like the Nagano army, the opponent's guns were also scattered under the fire of the iron cannons.

Rumble!

The iron cannon in the second trench also opened fire.

After two cannon shots, the Echigo army began to charge up the hillside, and their aim was to try to get the Takeda family's iron cannon to shoot a second platoon of guns to the front of the trench and minimize the casualties of being killed by the iron cannon. But the slope of the hillside, as well as the corpses of the former Nagano Army scattered everywhere, hindered their progress.

Behind the shield, the bow of the Takeda Katsuyori team was ready at this time.

"Shoot!"

With the vibration of the bowstring, a dense array of arrows drew a parabola, striking at the Echigo army that was ascending the mountain.

However, compared with the Nagano Army, the armor on the Echigo Army's body is obviously much more reliable in terms of thickness and texture. It is not uncommon to see the fierce Echigo samurai, who have been hit by several arrows and still charge up the mountain as if nothing had happened.

The Echigo army was obviously much faster than the Nagano army, so the Echigo army would soon be closing in on the trenches, and the Takeda family's iron artillery team had no chance to fire a second row of fire.

Li Xiao immediately made a decision, and immediately ordered someone to set fire to the last two dozen bamboo cages left, and then pushed them down the mountain together. The iron cannon in front of the position was hiding in the trench, and he didn't have to worry about the bamboo cage fireball that could burn him.

In the face of the repetition of the old tricks of the Takeda army, the front row that had been prepared for a long time was more and more rear, and directly erected a row of spears to pick up and block the flying mangosteen cage. Then several spears were pulled hard, or a katana was brought and slashed, and the bamboo cage was destroyed.

However, this delay was enough, and the Takeda family's iron cannon was light and had been loaded.

The roar of the iron cannon sounded, and a cloud of smoke rose from the top of the trench, and the iron cannon of the Takeda family fired a second volley of guns, and after finishing it, quickly retreated from the position of the trench to the rear of the Takeda army's position.

Undeterred by the volley of muskets, the Echigo army marched up the hill in a dense formation, filling two trenches with the planks they were carrying, and then charged.

Takeda Katsuyori immediately ordered the bow foot to retreat to the rear, and then the Takeda family's spear was also put down.

"Out of battle."

The Takeda spears hung down their towering spears, trotted in the face of the enemy, and then fought with the Echigo army as they charged up the mountain.

The three gun formations of the Takeda Army faced the gun formations of the Echigo Army at this moment. The two sides used each other's spears, stabbed and struck, and each did not give in.

The Takeda military spears are very light, and when they do gun formation training with three guns, they usually work in groups of three, one person specializes in blocking the opponent's spear, one person raises his spear to assassinate, and the other person swings his spear and slams the opponent's head with the top.

In this way, each of the three guns is responsible for attacking, defending, and flanking three different duties.

And the Echigo army also has its own way of cooperation, in general, to attack the mountain, the Echigo army still suffered a little loss. However, the Echigo army won because it had a numerical advantage, and the troops were constantly pressing, and the gun formation of the Takeda army retreated little by little.