Chapter 68: The Horse Stepping Company Camp
"My lord, Kakizaki and Izumi-samaru are dead."
"What?" Naoe Minoru stood up from the Maza in surprise, Kakizaki Keijia as the first fierce general of Echigo, for the Uesugi family to fight for many years, in addition to the brave martial arts, this person is also the Uesugi family's internal affairs council, and is responsible for diplomatic matters with the Hokuriku samurai, the Hojo family, I didn't expect to die today at the foot of Shirane Mountain.
"Lord!" Minoru Naoe turned his head to look, only to see Uesugi Kenshin quietly closing his eyes.
After a long time, Uesugi Kenshin opened his eyes and said slowly: "The death of Kakizaki and Izumi Mamoru is equivalent to cutting off my Uesugi Teruto's arm." ”
After a pause, Uesugi Kenshin asked: "Who in the Takeda Army has such the ability to kill the Jing family, I definitely don't believe that Shiro of Takeda Shingen has this ability." ”
At this time, another Echigo military envoy rushed up the hillside, knelt down in front of Uesugi Kenshin, and said: "My lord, Kakizaki and Izumimori's main team has been defeated, and now the cavalry of the Takeda family has broken through the iron artillery team and the archery light team. ”
"The Takeda family cavalry? The Jing family died at their hands, who is the commander of the Takeda family's cavalry team? ”
The envoy hesitated for a while, then said, "Report to the lord, this is not clear. ”
"Bastard," Minoru Naoe scolded, "Doesn't the other party's master have a seal?" ”
"Lord Hui, the chief general of the Takeda Army, there is no flag seal, the cavalry of the Takeda family is wearing red armor, and there are four flags and fingers inserted behind them, and there are no flags and fingers that can be marked."
Naoe Minoru sneered and said: "My lord, it is the Takeda family's Red Reserve, and the main general must be Iitomi Huchang, otherwise it is Kohata Kenshige's Kohata Akabi, but with Kohata Kenshige's martial arts, it is not enough to have the strength to win over Kakizaki and Izumi Mamoru." ”
"No, the person who is courting the Jing family is definitely not a rich man." Uesugi Kenshin said this in a deep voice, then stood up and looked into the distance.
View from the main camp of the Uesugi army.
Naoe Minoru saw that the cavalry of the Takeda Army on this road was only more than 60 horses, but in the military situation of the Echigo army, the left and right rushed forward, and no one could stop him, and the military general at the head was even more brave and abnormal, holding a spear, and wherever he passed, the Echigo soldiers were invincible, and no one could parry the blow of his spear.
Naoe Minoru was dumbfounded, such a brave general, no wonder Kakizaki Keijia was courted by him. Minoru Naoe tried to remember, but for a moment he couldn't remember any general in the Takeda family who was so good at riding horses and guns.
In the blink of an eye, the red cavalry of the Takeda army was defeated again, and the 300 troops of the Takemata Keitsuna team, which was the third formation of the Echigo army.
The officers and men of the Echigo army were defeated under the iron hooves of the Takeda army, and fled in all directions in embarrassment, and the general's flag and spear were thrown to the ground.
Naoe Minoru was shocked and said to Ken Oesugi: "General, the purpose of this Takeda cavalry team is actually our army's main formation. ”
"Well, I know," Uesugi Ken said indifferently, holding the rosary in his hand, "just let him let the horse come, and I'll see what kind of person the other party is." ”
Now the tip of the front half of the spear on Li Xiao's right hand has been dyed all red by blood. The chestnut horse he was riding, I saw that every time the four hooves of the war horse landed, countless sweat mixed with blood were thrown off from it, dripping into a line of blood.
Li Xiao was soaked in blood even with his men and horses, as if he had just crawled out of the pool of blood, which made people feel terrible. And most of the cavalry of the Takeda Army behind Li Xiao were like this, and everyone looked like blood-stained battle robes.
The shouts of battle had not yet dissipated in Li Xiao's ears, and the battle just now made his whole person enter a state of high mental excitement for a while, but as the commander of the cavalry, Li Xiao must also have a clear consciousness and calmly judge the situation on the scene.
At present, Saito Asanobu, Sebe Katsucho's team has been killed from the front and the left flank, these two are famous generals of Echigo, and their military strength is complete, and their combat power is extraordinary, if Li Xiao is hard to shake them, even if they can kill the opponent's front, the casualties will inevitably be very heavy.
Li Xiao turned his horse's head without hesitation, and the cavalry of the Takeda family followed Li Xiao, bypassing the Saito Asanobu and Sebe Katsunacho who were intercepting them, and then rushed straight towards the miscellaneous army of the Ueno Hao clan.
From the beginning to the end of the Battle of Mt. Shirane, the miscellaneous army of the Ueno Hao clan has always played the role of a cup, as an attacking team, and before it could engage the Takeda family, it was fired by a row of iron cannons, and the whole army was defeated.
When he went out for the second time, it was easy to reorganize the army and prepare for another battle with the Takeda army, but the formation was the defeat and retreat of the Nagano family ashigaru team, and he was beaten by the Takeda army and lost his armor.
The miscellaneous troops of the Ueno Hao clan who have been hit repeatedly, when they saw the cavalry of the Takeda family choose to attack them, many people suddenly had a look of resignation in their eyes, and more people wanted to smear oil on the soles of their feet at this moment and flee in all directions.
When the cavalry of the Takeda family, which had harvested countless lives along the way, came with an indomitable momentum.
The guns in the front row of the Ueno Hao clan were light, and they immediately couldn't withstand this invisible pressure, so they shouted one after another, dropped their spears and ran around.
"Vulnerable." Li Xiao's side of the island sneered, then clamped the horse's belly with both feet, and accelerated the speed of the sprint with Li Xiao.
The cavalry team of the Takeda family led by Li Xiao easily entered the army of the Ueno wealthy clan. Only a few brave family heads wanted to bring their warriors forward to fight the cavalry of the Takeda Army, and most of the rest turned around and ran as soon as they saw the head of the Takeda Army's horse, but the military strength of the Ueno Hao clan could not even slow down the Takeda Army's charging speed for a moment.
Now the army of the Ueno Hao clan is completely defeated, in order to avoid the pursuit of the cavalry of the Takeda army. The defeated soldiers flocked to the nearest Nagano army, wanting to rely on it and seek refuge, but they did not expect that such a move would disrupt the Nagano army's position again.
Li Xiao would not let go of the opportunity, and led the cavalry team to consciously drive the defeated soldiers of the Hao clan all the way in the direction of the Nagano army. The alliance between the Nagano Army and the Ueno Hao clan was adjusted from the previous situation, and this time it was the turn of the Nagano Army's position, which was rushed into chaos by its own coalition army.
Therefore, when Li Xiao's cavalry team followed the route of the defeated soldiers of the Hao clan and entered the Nagano army, the two generals of the Echigo army, Saito Asanobu and Katsunaga Sebe, who rushed to the rescue, showed helpless and resentful expressions at this moment.
The Takeda cavalry, with only 60 men, broke through the five formations of the Echigo-Ueno coalition army in a row, and the strength of several thousand troops was crushed, and hundreds of people died under the swords of the cavalry, which had never been done since Uesugi Kenshin took charge of the Echigo army.
Although the Nagano army was outnumbered, it had only suffered a defeat, and now the formation was disrupted by the defeated army, so in the face of the Takeda army's cavalry, although it resisted, it was to no avail.
For a moment, in the midst of the military formation, the sword fell, and where the spear was waved, blood flashed, and the soldiers of the Nagano family lined up the corpses along the place where the Takeda cavalry had harvested like wheat stalks cut down in the autumn fields.
The fifth formation of the Nagano Army was defeated!
Li Xiao led the cavalry of the Takeda family to break through five formations in a row, and now there was no army in front of them to stop them, and they rushed straight to Esugi Kenshin's main formation.
At this moment, Uesugi Kenshin was finally shaken, he looked at this Takeda family cavalry team, rampage along the way, breaking his own army several times in a row, and now he actually killed under his nose.
And the military general who was the head of the other party rode a tall horse, and his figure far exceeded that of his contemporaries, and the other party was soaked in blood with people and horses, and he couldn't see what he looked like at all.
At this moment, the other party stopped the horse down the mountain, then raised the tip of the gun in his hand and pointed at his position, and shouted: "Uesugi Huihu, dare to go down the mountain and fight with me Li Xiao." ”