Chapter 59: The Ueno Cavalry

When the army of the Takeda family re-entered Ueno Province, they started to exterminate several disobedient Ganle County and the local wealthy clans of Dohu County, and put down most of the rebellions in Ganle County and Duohu County in one fell swoop. All this made Yoshinobu Takeda, who had insisted on taking this route in the wild country, very happy, and firmly believed that his choice was correct.

After quelling the rebellion, both Takeda Katsuyori and Kohata Kenshige felt that they had to march quickly, and after passing through the Shiraneyama mountain road, they could enter Shinano. But Takeda Yoshinobu felt that there was no need to be in such a hurry at the moment, because Uesugi Kenshin's Echigo army was besieging Tatebayashi Castle, and there was no time to worry about the Takeda family's side, and even if the Echigo army arrived now, there would be enough time to evacuate.

Therefore, Takeda Yoshinobu insisted on waiting for the oath of surrender and the hostages sent by these wealthy clans, so he delayed for a few more days.

After entering the second month of the fourth year of Eiroku, Uesugi Kenshin, who had returned to Ueno Province again, first led his army to surround Tatebayashi Castle by surprise. Two days later, Tatebayashi Castle was breached by the Echigo army, and the lord of Tatebayashi Castle, Akai Clan, ran out according to the scene, and then fled to the Utsunomiya family in Shimono Province to ask for refuge.

As a member of the Fujiwara North family, the Akai family, a powerful local wealthy clan in Ueno Province, was destroyed like this, and for a while, Uesugi Kenshin's thunderous methods shocked Ueno again.

And the local wealthy clans in Ganle County and Duohu County, which had just been suppressed, once again started to think about it repeatedly. Not only did they reject the demands of the Takeda family, such as pledges, hostages, etc., but some bold wealthy families had begun to organize men and horses one after another to attack the Takeda family's army.

When the Takeda Army's main camp was passing through the country roads of Ganle County, it was actually attacked by several local wealthy clans, and in this attack, the wealthy clans actually mobilized more than a dozen iron cannons to shoot at the position of the commander-in-chief, Takeda Nobuyoru.

Although Nobuyoru Takeda himself was unharmed, and the Takeda Army managed to repel the attack and kill dozens of people, all this indicates that the Takeda Army is now starting to struggle in Ueno Province.

At the same time, what is worse is that it is said that the ninja came to report that the Nagano family of Minowa Castle finally sent troops, this time the Nagano family gathered 2,000 troops, and the new governor of the Nagano family was only fifteen years old, and Nagano Yemori, who had just been subdued, went out in person.

In the army, there are not only Nagano Yetsu, Nagano Yeskatsu, Nagano Yesu and Nagano Yesu such fierce generals of the Nagano family, but also the sixteen samurai who are said to be able to defeat a hundred with one hundred guns, and the most famous of the sixteen guns is Kamiizumi Nobutsuna, who is known as "Nagano One Gun".

In addition, after the Echigo army captured Tatebayashi Castle, it also did not stop, and rushed towards Ganle County and rushed to the Nishi-Umino expeditionary army of the Takeda family.

Hearing the news, the Takeda family must speed up and march towards Mt. Shirane, otherwise they will really be surrounded by the two armies of the Nagano family and the Uesugi family.

However, the Takeda Army was intercepted and harassed by the premeditated efforts of the wealthy clan of Ueno Province along the way. They destroyed bridges on the road, sniped the envoys of the Takeda family, attacked lone soldiers, and harassed the Takeda army when they camped at night.

All this delayed the speed of the Takeda army's march, and it was at this time that the Nagano family's 2,000 troops caught up with the Takeda Katsuyori team in charge of the Takeda army.

The midday sun shines on the mountains, which are surrounded by mountains, winding and rugged paths, and the light shines through the dense foliage.

In a clearing in the mountains, a series of clatter horses' hooves were heard, and behind the pass appeared more than 30 riders with flags on their backs, and their flags were painted with Nagano's family crest juniper fans. These Nagano cavalry looked at the rear of Takeda Katsuyori who was departing from afar, and were hesitating whether to come forward and pursue.

The cavalry of Ueno Province was also a very famous cavalry team during the Warring States period, and for a time it was on par with the Kai cavalry of the Takeda family. In the Battle of Nagashino, the Takeda family, which had already commanded the entire Nishi-Ueno at that time, sent the Ueno cavalry team led by Nobutada Kohata as a three-way array to attack, breaking through several horse barriers arranged by the Oda family, and directly attacking the main formation of the Oda army where Oda Nobunaga was located.

Oda Nobunaga himself was deeply shocked by the impact of the 'Kohata Akabei' formed by the Ueno cavalry.

The outpost cavalry in front of them was none other than the Nagano family, and they had attacked Takeda Katsuyori's troops several times, and on one occasion caused a small loss to the Ashigaru team. However, their main purpose was to delay the pace of Takeda Katsuyori's march and buy time for the main force of the Nagano Army and the Echigo Army, which were rushing to the rear.

Because of Takeda Yoshinobu's stupid insistence, the Takeda family's Nishi-Ueno Expeditionary Army was put in an extremely dangerous situation, but despite this, Takeda Yoshinobu refused to admit his mistake at the temporary military meeting in the morning, and even proposed to return to fight the Nagano Army.

This really made the other generals of the Takeda family very devastated, but Takeda Nobuyoru also knew that now was not the time to hold him accountable, and he had to pass through the Baimiaoshan Mountain Range as soon as possible, which was the best way at present. At the moment, in the army of Nishi-Ueno, in addition to the main camp, the strongest military team of Takeda Katsuyori and Kohata Kenshige took turns to serve as the rear army, while the rest of the teams hurried to Hakumyosan.

At present, in the Takeda Katsuyori reserve, the small load group carrying grain and grass has just passed by on the path, which is definitely a piece of fat for the Ueno cavalry.

The small lotus pack group of the Takeda army marched the mountain road, and from time to time there were pack horses deep in the mud pit, and once separated from the brigade, the small lotus pack group was mostly ordinary ashigaru and grooms, and there was a samurai in charge of command, in addition, the Takeda army naturally knew the important surname of the small lotus pack group, and arranged a group of more than 30 people with guns and a group of iron cannons to guard.

Seeing that the Takeda Army's small lotus pack group was so weakly defended, the Ueno cavalry finally couldn't bear it anymore, and dozens of horsemen rushed towards the small lotus pack group in two ways.

In the face of the galloping Ueno cavalry, the soldiers of the Takeda family shouted one after another to warn the rear of each team of the attack.

Under the order of the head of the iron cannon group, more than 20 people of the iron cannon group stood in two rows in a kneeling position, and hurriedly released a row of guns at the Ueno cavalry, and then immediately disbanded, carrying the guns and running towards the rear, and the effect of this platoon gun shooting only killed a horse warrior on the other side.

After the iron artillery group retreated, more than 20 people from the Takeda family lined up in a gun formation, and they knew that their team had learned the news of the attack on the small lotus group, and the teams were rushing to reinforce here, so they only needed to resist the first round of attack of the Ueno cavalry.

While the Ueno cavalry increased their speed, they all stretched their bows and arrows on their horses, and shot down seven or eight ashigaru in a round of cavalry shooting, and the spear ashigaru group suddenly became a mess, and the ashigaru people ignored Ashigaru's order to shout, and they threw down their spears and fled in all directions.

As soon as the spear retreated, the groom, who was in charge of guarding the pack horses, and the weak Ashigaru, also fled in all directions like desperate, and the scene was very chaotic for a while.

Seeing that the Takeda army was so vulnerable, the Ueno cavalry couldn't help but laugh out loud on their horses, but they didn't bother to chase down the deserters.

A cavalryman took a spear and poked at the bag on the horse's back, only to see that instead of white rice, black soil was oozing from the mouth of the bag.

"Oh no, we've been tricked." The leader of the samurai of the cavalry shouted.