On the banks of the Kawase River.

As the vanguard of the Three Rivers Army, a group of three hundred red cavalry galloped tick-tock.

This cavalry team with red armor is a cavalry regiment formed by Tokugawa Ieyasu imitating Takeda Akabei.

And this time, the general of Tokugawa Akabi was Naomasa Ii, a countryman from Toe Kunii Iya.

This later known as one of the three masters of Tokugawa, Naomasa Akaii, was only nineteen years old at this time, young and handsome.

Since the small surname of Tokugawa Ieyasu came out, that is, as the army of Ii Akabei, he has entrusted Ieyasu with a heavy responsibility, which makes Honda Tadashikatsu, Sakakihara Yasumasa and other generals all dissatisfied.

Therefore, Ii Naomasa also held his breath, and in this battle of Sekigahara, he took the initiative to ask Ying, as the forward of the Tokugawa Army, as the front line of the army, to fight on the front line, in order to show the strength of the newly trained Ii Akabei.

"Report to the lord, the Oda army is found ahead!"

Naomasa Ii sighed and asked, "How many people are there?" Which general's seal is it? ”

"The flag seal is unrecognizable, there are only about 100 people, there are war horses, and they are drinking water by the river!"

"The flag mark is unrecognizable, so it is naturally a nameless general, so there is nothing to worry about."

After hearing this, Jing Yi Naomasa smashed the horse's head with his fist and said: "Very good, the first merit of the first battle was made by my Jing Yi Chibei, and the Red Reserve Team assaulted!" ”

The location of Naomasa Ii is located in Mino Akasaka.

There are 69 Nakasendo lodging sites, which run from Kyoto to Kanto.

Sekigahara is located in the Fifty-Eight Accommodations. Akasaka, on the other hand, is fifty-six, and in the center of the two camps, there is a vertical well, which is already the main battlefield close to the Sekigahara array, Nangong Mountain.

Ii Naomasa led 300 Chibei, of course, to prepare to take the lead in the momentum, but to seize the first credit, but also to clear the obstacles for the next army to pass through here and go directly to Sekigahara.

Ii Chibei is like the wind all the way. Along the Kawase River, I really saw that by the riverside, many Oda soldiers with small flags were drinking water and washing horses by the river.

Ii Naomasa immediately made a big move, and the cavalry under his command led the understanding, and when he outflanked him from the left and right, he rushed forward from the middle.

The opponent's army was obviously in a hurry and unprepared, and he saw that Jing Yichi was preparing to kill. Hurriedly get on the horse.

At this time, the cavalry under the command of Naomasa Ii released arrows one after another, and suddenly the first round of arrow rain fell.

Under this round of arrows, more than a dozen people fell at the moment.

The other party immediately lost his will to fight, and he panicked at the moment. Scurrying on all sides.

"It's so easy!" Ii Naomasa couldn't help but scream, and at that moment, three hundred cavalry, the left and right clashes surrounded the other party on the river beach in one go.

Just as Ii Naomasa thought everything was going well, an iron cannon stretched out from the woods next to the cavalry team outflanked on the left flank.

Just listen to the thump.

Suddenly. On the left wing, Iyi Chibei, the war horse neighed, and the samurai on horseback kept falling off the horse.

Not good, in ambush.

Naomasa Ii shouted, just as he was about to wave his gun and command, and his subordinates retreated from the same way.

Suddenly, on a small hill on the side. Countless pieces of wood were left behind, and they were thrown on the retreat.

Random wood blocks the way, although people can pass, but the war horse cannot walk.

At this moment, the sound of shouting and killing sounded from the other side, and an unknown number of people came out from behind the bushes and surrounded the horse team of Naomasa I.

Naomasa Ii understood that his youth was presumptuous, and as a result, he ordered the Red Reserve. Instead, they were encircled by the enemy, and this wooded place was clearly not a place for horseback troops.

Under the current situation, Naomasa Ii shouted to the soldiers and said: "Abandon your horses and follow me to kill back the way you came!" ”

Ii Naomasa's words made all the Mikawa samurai look at each other, and the hard-won war horse is understood by everyone.

Ii Naomasa's move is tantamount to turning the hard-trained Akabi into a horseless samurai again. …,

It is not easy for a strong man to break his wrist, and in the face of the enemy army in the woods, everyone knows that the only way is to survive.

At that moment, all the Samurai of Mikawa followed Naomasa Ii and dismounted to fight.

When the Oda army saw the Mikawa samurai, there was no war horse, and it was like a tiger pulling out its teeth, and they pounced on it at the moment.

However, at this time, Naomasa Ii gathered the team together.

When the Oda army rushed up, they were greeted with bows and arrows.

The strong bow in the hands of the Samurai of Mikawa is by no means the Maruki bow in the hands of the Oda Army, which can be compared.

Heavy arrows fell, and the Oda army, which was almost defenseless and bamboo-armored, fell one after another.

When the Oda army rushed closer, the Akabi samurai all abandoned their bows and replaced them with spears and naginatas.

The lament of the loss of the war horse, coupled with the bravery of the Samurai of Mikawa, this group of samurai rushed into the formation of the Oda army at the moment, setting off a bloody storm.

At that moment, hundreds of Oda soldiers ambushed them, and under the charge of the Mikawa samurai, they lost their armor and fled in all directions.

Naomasa Ii was also not greedy, and ordered his subordinates to stop the pursuit, and after cutting off the heads of the samurai of the Oda Army, he stepped on the chaotic trees in an orderly manner and retreated from the original path.

Ii Chibei, this time was a good time, and he retreated calmly, which angered the Oda army at the moment.

At this time, a flag mark appeared from the mountains, and Ii Naomasa identified it from the flag seal, and the other party was Oda family Yamato guardian Tsutsui Shunkei, and his famous general Matsukura Shigenobu.

As soon as Matsukura Shigenobu appeared, he immediately reorganized his subordinates and stepped forward to pursue Ii Chibei.

At this time, the warriors of the Three Rivers fully demonstrated the courage of the latter's fearless and elite soldiers.

Although the Oda army was several times larger than the Ii army, Hori Hidemasa organized several assaults, and even went into battle himself, but they were all repelled by the Mikawa samurai.

Naomasa Ii was stained with blood, and he suffered two stab wounds, but he was still at the back of the team with the soldiers to block the momentum of the Oda army.

After Naomasa Ii commanded the army to withdraw for a mile, the rear of the Tokugawa army finally received the army, Sakakihara Yasumasa and Okubo Tadayo.

Matsukura Shigenobu also knew the name of the two of them for bravery, and immediately led the army to retreat.

"Bastard! Two thousand people can't help three hundred. ”

When Tsutsui Shunkei returned to the camp to surrender to Oda Nobutada, and Akechi Mitsuhide surrendered his life, he was angrily scolded by Oda Nobutada.

Oda Nobutada was furious at the same time, but Akechi Mitsuhide on the side was secretly frightened.

What is Tsutsui Shunkei's combat strength, he knows, the other party has been in Yamato for a long time, and he is not an incompetent general, and Matsukura Shigenobu's bravery, he has also heard of it.

Before, he wanted to use this strategy to annihilate the enemy's army, in order to cowardly the other party's intention to seek war.

However, he didn't expect that the Tokugawa army of 300 people would be hit, and after he laid an ambush with 2,000 troops, he would still be able to break through.

Not only that, but also killed and wounded more than 500 people of the Oda army, and captured more than 30 levels of the opponent's samurai, plus before, the Tokugawa family general Honda Tadashi victory, with 500 manpower according to the Oda family's 40,000 troops and a half, I can't help but feel the Tokugawa army's good fighting.

Akechi Mitsuhide thought that the Tokugawa army was so powerful, if he encountered Li Xiao, who was even more elite than the Tokugawa army, then the future battle of Sekigahara would be extremely difficult to fight.

Oda Nobutada still looked angry, and Akechi Mitsuhide thought to himself that Tsutsui Shunkei was a lord-level daimyo after all, so he couldn't be so faceless.

At that moment, Wise Guangxiu came forward to be a good person, and Wen Yan comforted him.

Just as Akechi Mitsuhide was assessing the chances of victory in a joint battle between the two armies, the Hida Etsuchu Army had rushed to Akasaka, where it joined Tokugawa Ieyasu's Banner Army.

Li Xiao and Tokugawa Ieyasu met at the moment.

Tokugawa Ieyasu reported to Li Xiaoyu about the previous battle of the Kanse River, and told him the news that his most elite Akabei had been frustrated.

After Li Xiao heard this, Wen Yan comforted Tokugawa Ieyasu and ordered his subordinates to give the other party a bag of gold. …,

Let him reward the soldiers of this battle.

This bag of gold immediately lifted Tokugawa Ieyasu's spirits a lot.

Immediately, Li Xiao and Tokugawa Ieyasu studied the topography of Sekihara.

Tokugawa Ieyasu took the lead in saying: "Since our army's advance has been defeated in an ambush, it means that the Oda army has entered Sekigahara one step ahead and is preparing to meet our army here. ”

Oh? After Li Xiao heard this, he was very interested at the moment, this is the official general of the Eastern Army in the history of the Guanyuan Battle, which is Li Xiao's current position.

The other side actually thought that it would be extremely inconvenient to conduct a joint battle in Sekigahara.

Li Xiao immediately ordered someone to spread out the map and asked, "Under the three rivers, what is your opinion?" ”

At that moment, Tokugawa Ieyasu pointed his horsewhip on the map, pointed at three points respectively, and said: "Major General Konoe, you look at the battle of Sekigahara, there are Matsuo Mountain, Nangong Mountain, and Sasao Mountain on the terrain, which are distributed in the word "Pin", and the Oda army guards the mountain, all of which can be defended by the mountain, and they are condescending and overlooking the overall situation. ”

"The main camp of the Oda army, Mt. Tenman, located in front of Mt. Sasao, although the mountains are gentle before Mt. Tenman, and there are plains for a decisive battle by attacking, but if our army directly attacks Mt. Tenman, it will be easy to be attacked. Sasao Mountain, Matsuo Mountain, Nangong Mountain, and the three-sided attack of the Oda Army. ”

Li Xiao listened to Tokugawa Ieyasu's analysis, and immediately understood that if he wanted to attack the Oda army's main formation.

For example, if you insert yourself directly into the center of the three mountains displayed in a zigzag shape and attack Mt. Tenman, the left, right, and rear sides are all vulnerable to attacks by the Oda army from Mt. Sasao, Mt. Matsuo, and Mt. Nangong.

This is obviously a taboo for soldiers.

The historical Sekigahara Formation, Ishida Mitsunari, also took advantage of this terrain to set up a Crane Wing Formation, using this formation as bait to lure Tokugawa Ieyasu into the pocket.

In the Meiji era, Major Mitchell, a military adviser, was invited to see the battle of Sekigahara and the layout of the battle between the two sides, and he did not hesitate to assert that the Western Army would win.

It's just a pity that the end result is ......

The Maori army on Nangong Mountain sat and watched and ate a whole day's lunch.

And on Matsuo Mountain, Kobayakawa Hideaki, the god of war of Sekigahara, was born out of thin air, shouting that justice lies in the Eastern Army, so Ishida Sancheng was decisive.

Li Xiao looked at Tokugawa Ieyasu at the moment, and his eyes couldn't help but feel a little more playful.

So Li Xiao thought, right now in the position of Tokugawa Ieyasu back then, and now commanding this battle, is it still to follow the example of Tokugawa Ieyasu back then, with 60,000 main forces, go straight to the Tianman Mountain, and fight a decisive battle with the Oda army? (To be continued)