The Takeda Army had 500 troops, while the Kawakami Coalition Army had 300 men.

Five hundred to three hundred, Li Xiao's Takeda army had an advantage in numbers.

However, the problem faced by the Takeda army was not to defeat the enemy army in front of them, but to completely defeat the opponent before the reinforcements of the sister Koji family arrived.

With the beating of the drum, Li Xiao's 500 troops formed a sharp arrow formation, moving forward step by step.

The iron artillery team, the bow foot light as the first momentum, and the horse cavalry as the guerrilla swim on the two wings, the island is victorious, Shigang Kazuha is in front of the front as the vanguard general, and Li Xiao is in the middle of the formation. And there is still an army left in the rear, as a rear, which is also a reserve.

As the two armies gradually approached, the iron artillery team on Li Xiaojun's side took the lead in approaching and opened fire first.

With Kohata Xiaoxian's order, the Takeda Army's iron artillery team fired a salvo.

Because Hida Country is located in a remote area, there are not many iron cannons in the whole country combined, not to mention these ashigaru, even the native samurai have not seen many iron cannons.

For the roaring salvo of iron cannons, although the Kazuhito coalition forces in Kawagami had made preparations for a long time, there were still many ashigaru who had gone into battle for the first time, and they were shocked by the loud sound of the iron cannon firing.

For these natives, seeing the people next to them, being hit by this invisible thing, they lay on the ground and convulsed, and died in a few breaths. This is incomprehensible to them.

After the cannon was fired, the Takeda family's iron cannon team immediately stood in place, skillfully clearing the chamber and reloading it.

Immediately, the archers of the two armies came into range of each other and began to shoot at each other in front of the formation.

Although Hida is rich in wood and bows and arrows are also good, the bow and arrow of the Kawagami coalition army are obviously undertrained, so their archery skills are not good. And in terms of quantity, Li Xiao's army is obviously lighter.

Therefore, under the bow and arrow of the two armies, the Takeda army completely occupied an overwhelming advantage.

Many of the allied troops on the river were shot and fell.

After a few rounds of arrows from each side, the Takeda Army's iron artillery team had been reloaded.

After the iron artillery team approached, another round of iron cannon volleys blasted the opponent's archerfoot light team into disarray. And this time, Xiaohan Xiaoxian took action in person, and directly killed the opponent's bowed-foot group leader with one shot.

Kohata Xiaoxian clenched his fists excitedly on the spot, this was his first battle, and he actually killed one of the other party's samurai with an iron cannon, but unfortunately, he couldn't get the opponent's head.

After the Takeda Army's iron cannon let go of another round, the iron artillery team retreated, and after several rounds of continuous firing of the bow foot light, it was also weak in the arm, and also retreated to the back of the formation.

Encountering the double blow of the Takeda family's iron artillery team and the archashigaru team, and the allied army on the river, which was killed and wounded nearly half, bowashigaru no longer fired arrows at this time, and retreated after assembling.

After the Iron Artillery Corps and the Archafoot Light Corps withdrew, the arrows of the Takeda Army's front arrow formation began to approach the defensive line of the coalition forces on the river.

The arrowhead formation was the spearhead of the Takeda Army, and the formation was tight and compact.

The guns looked solemn under the hats, the tips of the guns were erected, and the whole army looked like a porcupine with thorns standing up all over its body, approaching its prey step by step.

Immediately, the taiko drum of the main camp sounded three times in a row, and the order to charge was given.

The first sound of the Takeda Army's guns, the first row of guns, the three guns were put down in a neat row, and the spears were held in both hands and raised in front of them.

"Kill!"

The spears of the Takeda family roared forward, leaning on the flag and swaying from side to side behind them, charging directly towards the opponent's dense formation.

The position of the coalition forces on the opposite river was also immovable.

When the Takeda army approached to the distance of only twenty steps from the river coalition army, and at this moment, there was a sudden abnormal movement in the formation of the river alliance army, only to see that the opponent's front of the spear foot light formation suddenly separated from the left and right, and then showed dozens of burly mountain people.

Li Xiao suddenly felt weird, only to see that these mountain people were all sturdy, with sackcloth on the left side, half of the shoulders and shirtless, revealing the entire right arm.

In their hands, however, each of them held a sharpened wooden rod with the thick rim of a cup.

"Not good, they're going to throw javelins!"

Li Xiao saw their actions, and it was too late to order the front army to retreat.

I saw the opponent take a step forward, twist his body, and then round his entire right arm, and his posture is as standard as that of an Olympic javelin thrower.

With all his might, the other party threw out the javelin in his hand and threw it towards the onrushing force of the Takeda army.

I heard the sound of whirring air from the field.

Suddenly, in the formation of the coalition army on the river, dozens of javelins fired a volley towards the Takeda army.

On the other hand, on the side of the Takeda Army, in the face of such a dense javelin shooting, the ashigaru in the front row couldn't dodge, and many Takeda ashigaru on the spot were all stunned. The whole person flew up in the air, and with the javelin's usual surname, even the person with armor, the front heart penetrated the back, pierced by the javelin, and then nailed to the ground alive.

The back half of the javelin, which was inserted into the ground, was still buzzing.

"It's terrifying."

Li Xiao said in astonishment, the front line of the Takeda Army's charge was light, and it immediately suffered a lot of casualties.

Immediately, the opposing mountain people made a second round of throwing of the javelin in their hands.

In the vanguard of the Takeda army, the casualties were a mess in an instant.

After suffering such heavy casualties, the morale of the Takeda army fell, and the Takeda army that charged into battle began to hesitate and hesitate whether to continue to rush forward.

"What kind of warlike Takeda Army, but so, don't think that after a few victories, you will think that the world is invincible, let you also know how powerful our Hida people are. This time, you will finally taste the power of my rich faith on the river. ”

In the rear formation, Fushin Kawagami, who was commanding from afar, sneered and mocked.

I have to say that this hand, the tactic of ambushing and throwing javelinmen and shooting suddenly, has achieved miraculous results.

And these javelin throwing mountain people, are Hida local lumberjacks, because of Hida many mountains and forests, so the local lumberjacks, every time they say logging, so their arms are a powerful look, both hands wave this nearly ten pounds of javelin throwing is naturally not a problem.

Toshinobu Kawagami is also a little arrogant.

On the other hand, Shima Katsuto, who temporarily took over the general general, was furious.

The scene just now, Shima Katsu Meng's eyes were split, many of the soldiers who were shot by javelins in the front row were trained by him after eight months, and now before they could fight, they were ambushed by the other party's javelins, and they shot so many at once, how not to make him angry.

At this time, Shima Katsutoshi personally led the horseback samurai of the Takeda Army, dismounted together, drew their swords, and began to run and rush towards the enemy's spear formation.

"Kill me."

Shima Katsumo's brave deeds suddenly aroused a lot of ashigaru courage, and suddenly the originally somewhat loose Takeda army's spear-to-light formation was assembled again, and the death of his comrades beside him also awakened a lot of ashigaru courage, they were not hastily assembled peasant soldiers, but after eight months of training, there was already a preliminary prototype of an army.

"Kill!"

The Takeda Gunashigaru began to press again, and the Baba Masabo team and the Takasaka team on the flanks of the arrows of the Blade Formation also moved forward bravely.

The Takeda Army rearranged itself in a frontal formation and attacked the army formation of the coalition army on the river in one go.

And Kawagami Fushin looked at this Yu Frustration, but Yu Yong's Takeda Army, but was stunned.

(To be continued)