The next day, Li Xiao directly commanded a team of more than 20 people, and four low-level samurai were sent as his subordinates to serve as the head of the ashigaru group to assist him in managing the more than 20 peasants.

The soldiers of the Fei country are from the mountain people, and they have always been known for their hardships and hard work. In addition, during the Warring States period, it was said that the folk martial arts were extremely popular, and before the sword hunting order was issued, even the countryside had swords, guns and weapons for self-defense, so even if the villagers fought between them, it was by no means as simple as the farmer's three fists were a little painful.

Li Xiao inspected his own soldiers, at this time, the peasant soldiers, in addition to being short, slightly lacking in nutrition and looking thin, on the whole, the surname of patience and discipline are good, according to the views of later generations, this is in line with the conditions for training into an elite army with strict military discipline.

Due to the inconvenience of language communication, Li Xiao did not plan how to train this army, because the peasants and peasants had to go back to farming after the battle, but he also knew that there would be a brave man under the heavy reward, so he took out twenty pieces from the Yulu, and each of them always asked them to contribute well for themselves, and declared that if they were beheaded on the battlefield, they would be promoted to samurai.

Seeing so many rewards and the temptation of the future, these peasant soldiers immediately burst into tears, and felt that this samurai from the Ming Kingdom was really a figure worth following.

Three days ago, Takeda Shingen had already sent troops from the main castle to join forces with the troops of the various generations of retainers, and then Koshu (Kai) stepped into the territory of Shinshu (Shinano). After that, Shinano's wealthy clans and town guards who were attached to the Takeda family also led their troops to join them, and the troops were stronger.

"My Takeda family's army is really mighty." Takeda Shintoshi, who was beside Li Xiao, couldn't help but sigh as he watched the army march.

Li Xiao looked at Takeda Nobuto's youthful face, as Nobuyo's eldest son, although Takeda Nobutoshi is only twenty years old this year, he has already been subdued and has participated in several battles of the Takeda family.

Li Xiao listened to the other party's exclamation, nodded slightly, and looked at the army beside him. The Takeda family's ashigaru team, cavalry team, and iron artillery team were burying their heads forward, and the sound of armor and horses' hooves was like a surging river.

And the messengers (heralds) with the 'centipede' flag and fingers drove the horses under the seat to and from the front and back of the army, conveying orders.

Not far behind him is Takeda Shingen's flag team, and as the symbol of the general of the main camp, the Takeda Shingen flag seal 'Sun Tzu Siru Mantra Banner' is towering above.

The banner reads 'It is as fast as the wind, its Xu is like a forest, it is like a fire, and it is as immovable as a mountain', and these sixteen characters are selected by Takeda Shingen from Sun Tzu's Art of War.

Later generations often use the four words "Fenglin Volcano" as the essence of Jiafei Liu's military science, when Li Xiao played Taige Five in the past, the card of Fenglin Volcano is also the anti-heaven level in the joint combat skills, and after use, it obtains the effect of attack power, garrison power, and movement power increase.

Li Xiao's equestrian skills were already good at this time, and he talked to Takeda Shinfan and their two sons in a lame dialect from Xinxue. Although Li Xiao's learning ability amazed several people, some grammatical errors still made Takeda Shinshi and others laugh from time to time.

Takeda Nobutoyo said to Shin Fan with an excited face: "Father, the army that went out this time is as many as 18,000 people, and it is a time when the Takeda family has such a majestic force, and when I think of the decisive battle with the Vietnamese army (Echigo army), the samurai blood in my body will boil." ”

"It's not 18,000, but a full army of 20,000, and there are 2,000 people from Xinchang Gong in Haijin City." Katsuyori Takeda immediately refuted his cousin Nobutoyo's claim. At the moment, Takeda Katsuyori has a kind of young man's competitive spirit, and he wants to express himself in front of others everywhere.

Takeda Nobutoyo was speechless when he heard Takeda Katsuyori's speechlessness, not because he didn't want to refute, but because he took into account the identity of the son of Katsuyori's lord.

Xin Fan smiled and looked at the argument between his nephew and son, and then said: "The Vietnamese army is also pouring out of the country, according to the detailed investigation report from the front, the Echigo army has 13,000 men and horses in the Yamahonjin Formation of his wife and daughter, and there are 3,000 men and horses in Shanlan Temple. The military is evenly matched with our army. ”

Referring to the good fighting of the Vietnamese army, as well as the undefeated peerless military general Uesugi Kenshin, Takeda Shinfan and others looked slightly heavy again. The fourth Kawanaka Island was definitely a large-scale joint battle in the middle of the Warring States period, with a total of about 40,000 troops on both sides. At that time, it was said that the total number of men of all appropriate age who could serve in the military did not exceed 500,000.

In Echigo, the forces of the two countries were mobilized by the whole country, and if they could defeat their opponents in a decisive battle, they could rest assured that they would go to Luo, without worries from the rear.

But as a traverser, Li Xiao of course knows the outcome of this battle, about who wins and who loses in the two parallel heroes, Takeda Shingen and Kamishi Kenshin, on the forum, there are fans of the two families who have different opinions, and there are controversies, and in the long run, there is no final winner in the confrontation between the two families.

In the battle of Kawanakajima, the Takeda Kamishi family was greatly injured, and they were temporarily unable to go to Luo, missing the best opportunity to unify the world. However, Oda Nobunaga, the chief of O, relied on the power of defeating Imagawa Yoshimoto in Sasama last year, and swept the whole world like a raging wind in the next 21 years.

Although both the Takeda family and the Uesugi family caused some trouble to the Oda family in the later period, at that time Oda Nobunaga's climate had become a climate, and its advantages were already difficult to shake.

And Li Xiao, who is familiar with all this, secretly thinks in his heart, I don't know if he can use his own personal efforts to bring the Takeda family a different Kawanaka Island from history.

After a series of treks, the Takeda Army followed the straight road built by Shinano in the past, and gradually approached the battle destination, Kawanaka Island.

To the south of Kawanaka Island is the Chikuma River, which originates in Kai, and the Rhinogawa River, which originates in Minamikomagatake, merge at Kawanaka Island, which is a delta between the two rivers.

The Chikuma River, as its name suggests, has a slow flow and a winding river, and to the south is the Shinano Land of Shingen. The water of the Rhino River flows as fast as a rhinoceros, and to the north is the Kenshin Echigo.

In the third year of Eiroku, Takeda Shingen adopted Yamamoto Kansuke's suggestion and built Kaizu Castle on the east side of the Chikuma River in only eighty days, and was garrisoned by Takaha Masanobu, a famous general of the Takeda family, with 2,000 soldiers and horses.

And Kaijin Castle is only a day's journey away from Uesugi Kenshin's home city, Haruma Mountain Castle, and Uesugi Kenshin naturally cannot tolerate this.

The fourth year of Yonglu, that is, 1561 A.D., is not a word that can be described as busy for the god of war.

First of all, it was easy to calm down internally, and Xinxuan secretly made it bad, and it has always been a sectarian chaos provoked. Later, Uesugi Kenshin, in the name of the Kanto governor, gathered an army of 100,000 troops of the Kanto princes to defeat the Hojo family of the Takeda Alliance.

In the face of such an unprecedentedly powerful army, the Hojo family raised the banner of turtle defense and asked for help from the Takeda family, and relied on the strong fortress of Odawara Castle, which is known as the "No. 1 Fortified Castle", and trapped it for a month.

Although Odawara Castle was not conquered, Hojo was greatly damaged by this, and Uesugi Kenshin officially inherited the position of Kanto Governor at Kamakura Tsuruoka Hachimangu Shrine on the way to the class.

Uesugi Kenshin returned to Echigo in June, and on August 14, he led 16,000 Echigo troops from Harumayama Castle, and on August 16, the Echigo army bypassed Kaijin Castle and set up a headquarters at Mt. Tsumeme in the southern part of Kawanakajima.

On August 24, 18,000 Takeda troops arrived at Kawanaka Island and set up their headquarters at Mt. Chausu. It is only eight miles away from the Uesugi family's main camp Mt. Tsumito. The position of the Takeda Army not only blocked the way for the Echigo Army to retreat to Echigo, but also cut off the supply route from Zenkoji Temple to Mt. Tsumome.

However, Uesugi Kenshin seems to have ignored this crisis and remained inactive in his own position. According to the Takeda family's hokusaku and spies, the flute and drumming of Noh can be heard from Mt. Tsumime every day.

As a result, the two armies temporarily started a confrontation in the area around Kawanaka Island.