September 25, the fifth year of Tianzheng.

Early in the morning, Li Xiao wore thick cotton armor and wore a scarlet coat on his back, and climbed the small hill on the main position of the Hida Etsuchu Army, looking down.

As the sky gradually brightened, the regimental commanders moved briskly and entered their respective positions, and the whole position also came to a standstill.

In the Kurobe River, among the dense forests that surround it, the sound of birds chirping in the early morning is no longer heard, and the entire mountainous area is in a deep silence.

Occasionally, there are only a few figures, and the shadows are more than enough to shuttle through the forest, showing a scene of swords and swords.

In front of Li Xiao, the huge Li character flag was blowing against the wind.

In fact, since the decision to fight today's decisive battle, a secret confrontation has begun last night.

The two armies saw that the ninjas were all dispatched.

The first purpose is to reconnoiter the enemy army, whether there is a night attack, or a plan to divide troops to sneak attack.

The second is reconnaissance and espionage, the deployment of the two armies, the terrain, and the distribution of troops.

Although the Xuanyuan people of the Uesugi family were destroyed, Uesugi Kenshin invited the ninja of the outside world to come and help this time, and his own things were all dispatched.

On the side of the Hida Echichu Army, Yokotani Yukishige and Yokotani Yukiyo were dispatched together to direct this dark battle.

And Li Xiao's ninjas, including the Ninja of the Sound Department, the Ninja of the Dark Division, thousands of ninjas, and more than 200 Monomi, started a secret war with the Ninja outside the Uesugi family.

The ninjas on both sides spied on each other, infiltrated, and assassinated each other's sentinels, and before the battle began, hundreds of people died in this invisible hustle and bustle.

As a result, this time there was a dark battle. It ended with a victory for Yokotani Yukishige's side.

Li Xiao has been running the My Wife Ninja for many years, and this time he has completely suppressed the Waiwen Ninja. Not only will we expand our own surveillance network. protected his military intelligence from prying eyes, and it was equivalent to abolishing half of Kenshin's eyes and ears in disguise.

Therefore, in the case of the defeat of the ninja, this time Uesugi Kenshin wanted to follow the example of Kawanakajima on the eve of the battle and attacked Takeda Shingen Hachiman at night. In the case of the abolition of the intelligence network, it is simply self-defeating.

After Li Xiao learned about this. A commendation for Yokotani's good fortune, but it's just a commendation.

Li Xiao has taken a certain lead, but today's decisive battle is the highlight. Hard-hitting strength competition. Don't take the slightest trick.

So Li Xiao picked up the monocular Qianli tube and looked at Uesugi Kenshin's position in the distance.

The battlefield of this battle was chosen near the Shinkawa Plain, roughly located in present-day Kurobe City, Japan, and north of Kurobe City was the town of Irizen and Asahi in Shimo-Shinkawa County, which were located on the fan-shaped land of the lower reaches of the Kurobe River.

Therefore, the battlefield was in the middle reaches of the Kurobe River.

It is close to the Tateyama Mountains. The nearby maple forest is famous for its autumn leaves.

At this time, it is already autumn, so it is a scenery of layers of forests.

Except for the battlefield where the two armies faced each other, there was a long and narrow open field of several square kilometers and a half in the center. Above the two wings are mostly mountainous areas with towering forests, and tributaries of the Kurobe River, which are very inconvenient for marching and fighting.

Therefore, Li Xiao naturally concentrated the main force on the open side of the center, and only invested secondary forces on the two flanks to guard and guard.

In the rear, the main street of Hokuriku Road is also defended with some troops, and at the same time serves as a mobile location.

The general battle of 60,000 people was enough to be a great battle to determine the place during the Warring States period.

Li Xiao, who can be the general in charge of the military distribution, is very cautious and does not attack rashly. …,

His strategy was very simple, which was to strike backwards.

His own iron cannon and big barrel are incomparable in defensive battles, so it is a good strategy to defend instead of attack.

According to Li Xiao's judgment, although it is difficult to guess the tactics of Uesugi Qianxin, the opponent, who has always been arrogant, must take the lead in attacking in the case of superiority in troops.

This is not Li Xiao's conjecture, Uesugi Kenshin has fought hundreds of battles in his life, when has he ever seen passive defense.

Since he knows that the other party is definitely going to attack, Li Xiao must undoubtedly take the opponent's opening three axes, and then mention the counterattack.

It seems that as long as Li Xiao defends the frontal defense line, even if he can't win the battlefield, he can remain undefeated.

However, this is not the case, and this frontal line of defense is not easy to defend.

The reason for this is that the shape is too narrow and long, with a depth of no more than one kilometer, while the cross-section is more than six kilometers long.

Subtract the two wings, the defensive forces in the rear, as well as the reserves.

Li Xiao has 13,000 or 4,000 troops in his hands, and it is really a bit troublesome to defend this defense line that is more than six kilometers long.

You must know that Li Xiao's Western Phalanx is applicable to the terrain, and the narrower the frontal opening terrain of the battlefield, the more powerful it can exert itself.

If the opening is too long, there is a danger that the enemy will outflank both flanks.

The western phalanx does not have the firepower configuration to shoot from all directions.

It seems that Uesugi Kenshin chose this and had a decisive battle, and it was indeed a success.

Apparently did your homework beforehand.

In the art of war, geographical advantage is also an important part, and joint battle is where the tacit understanding between the two main generals lies.

Therefore, the influence of geographical advantages is very important, but since Li Xiao and Uesugi Kenshin both know that this location is advantageous, and they choose to fight here, they must have their own plans.

Uesugi Kenshin is weakened, the greatest power of Li Xiaoxi's phalanx, but Li Xiao has other ideas.

Seeing the terrain, Li Xiao decisively gave up the plan to fight a decisive battle on the ground with the phalanx of the western country.

Instead, a temporary field fortification was built overnight at the front of the open field.

Li Xiao planned to use positional warfare instead of field warfare, similar to the battle method of Nagashino Battle, where Nobunaga first held on and then struck preemptively.

Li Xiao's field fortifications, relying on the mountains behind him, were built continuously.

Although Nobunaga was defeated during the Nagashino battle, his fortifications of the three gates were really good.

Li Xiao intends to follow suit, but there is not enough time, so it must be simplified.

Since Li Xiao entered Xinchuan County, the people's popularity is very good, so he summoned tens of thousands of people in one breath to build fortifications.

Under the toil of a day and a night. Two tall walls stretched from the ground, and a wooden fence was erected above the plain. Right as the first line of defense.

Really focused. It was the six small hills behind the open field, and Li Xiao used this as a support point on this earthen fortification, with heavy guards.

Li Xiao prepared the god of the most experienced, and the snake tail was prepared. The flag is prepared, and the big cylinder is prepared. and Li Zheng's pro-army tiger preparation, all of which were put into the position.

First, these standing guards are all elite soldiers. Brave and good at fighting. Second, these troops have the highest level of firearms, and the equipment rate of iron cannons and large barrels is much higher than the average level of this Warring States era.

In order to meet the Uesugi army.

Above every hill. All are equipped with special artillery positions to house large cylinders of various calibers.

Large barrel preparation. The large barrels attached to the large cylinders were assigned to six hills, and field artillery positions were built under the command of Rui Costa.

The well-trained artillery of the large barrel is becoming more and more professional in operation, and the surveying and mapping has been completed on the battlefield in advance, and the heights and distances of all parts of the battlefield have been marked. …,

What entered Li Xiao's sight now was the field fortifications that had been arranged, the iron cannon and the large barrel were all ready, hiding behind the fortifications.

Excellent field fortifications, which can both protect and obscure the enemy's view.

Li Xiao looked at it, and the soldiers of his department were all hiding in the fortifications, without showing the slightest trace, so that the Echigo army could not spy on the layout here.

This made Li Xiao nod with great satisfaction.

The sun is rising, and the sky is bright.

Ten thousand golden rays shine on the snow-covered peaks of the mountains behind them, and the snow color is particularly dazzling.

Li Xiaoli was in the central hill, looking at the other party's Echigo army camp and finding that the other party did not move at all.

It stands to reason that at this time, the Uesugi army had already begun to launch an offensive.

However, in the opposing camp, it was still silent, and this scene made Li Xiao doubt his judgment for a while, wondering if Uesugi Kenshin had changed his intention to take the initiative to seek a decisive battle and turned to defense.

Just when Li Xiao secretly wondered about it, he was about to send an envoy to inspect the positions on both wings.

At this time, the thing in front of him had already sounded the warning horn, and as the first horn sounded, the horn sounded one after another, and then resounded all over the place.

The soldiers of the Uesugi Army, dressed in black and black armor, were like a black tide discharged, slowly revealing their hideous faces on the opposite side.

One flag after another, appeared on the opposite hill.

The flag is like the sea, and the army is like a mountain.

Soon after, two flag seals of Uesugi Kenshin also appeared in the Uesugi army.

The banner of the dragon, the flag of the word.

Li Xiao raised the monocular telescope and looked at it carefully.

Among the guards of the Uesugi family.

Uesugi Kenshin rode on his horse, raised his sword, and slowly pointed at the soldiers behind him.

Wherever Jian Feng pointed, all the soldiers of the Uesugi Army burst out with a sky-shattering cheer, and countless Uesugi Army soldiers faced the incarnation of Bishamontian at this moment, and the expressions of their lord Uesugi Kenshin were all kinds of irrepressible excitement and worship.

In this enthusiastic cheer, even Li Xiao, who was an enemy, was also shocked.

Facing the silent Takeda Army's position, Li Xiao immediately secretly felt envy, jealousy and hatred, this scene of Uesugi Kenshin's three armies shouting together is simply more like the protagonist of this book than him.

The morale of the Uesugi army, with Uesugi Kenshin personally supervising the battle, suddenly reached its peak.

At ten o'clock in the morning, when the Takeda army was waiting impatiently.

Kenshin Uesugi slashed the sword in his hand, and the Uesugi army finally began to attack.

The three armies shouted together, and thousands of horses rushed to thunder.

The main force of the Uesugi army went into battle.

Dozens of drums sounded, and the rumbling sound of stepping on the ground resounded in my ears.

The Uesugi army is full of guns and halberds, and the lineup is at its peak.

On the other hand, on the side of the Takeda Army's position, there was silence.

Hiding behind the fortifications, the Takeda Army's iron cannon was achigaru, and under the orders of their respective generals, they slowly poured the gunpowder from the bamboo barrel into the chamber of the gun.

PS1: Lately, there has been a lot of piracy.

I hope that the stolen children's shoes can also respect the success of my labor, although the number of words is not much, it is also a word by word code out, conceived.

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PS2: The hard disk of the old computer is broken, and all the data is deleted (it's a pity that I have countless classic good films that have been collected for more than 4 years, tears), and now the new computer has been bought with savings, and I'm sorry for the day before yesterday.