When Ando's main reinforcements all rushed to the castle of Hachiman Castle in the gun, the Takeda army had already packed up and led the army away.

Hearing this, the Takeda army retreated, and Ando, who came to the rescue of Hachiman Castle, led the 3,000 troops under the command of the 3,000 troops who were deployed under Hachiman Castle in two ways, and all the way directly into the city.

The Ando army came to reinforce the troops very heavy, and the banner of the army was the family crest of the Inaba family, and the leading general was Inaba Sadatsu, the sister-in-law of Inaba Ichitetsu, one of the three Mino people.

In addition, there is still the banner of the heavy moment of the city lord of Bodhi Mountain City. (Shigeharu Takenaka was a reclusive at this time, and after the Oda family captured Mino, he only came out of the Oda family as a ronin)

Of course, the most troops are Ando Mori, the headquarters of Ando Dingji's father and son, and the military strength of several small wealthy families under him.

The momentum of these support forces was quite huge, and under the twilight, the various variegated flags and fingers of the Ashigaru covered all over the field.

Seeing the arrival of Ando's strong reinforcements, the soldiers of the Endo Army at the head of Hachiman Castle broke out into earth-shattering cheers, and both samurai ashigaru held their weapons high, and there was a sense of escape from death under the offensive of the Takeda Army.

Immediately Endo Keitaka, sister Koji Yoritsuna immediately gathered 700 troops to open the castle to rendezvous, and the Nagai Michitoshi army, which was heavily damaged by Kinoshita Koichiro in the East Temple Mountain Castle, also cobbled together 300 troops to strengthen the prestige.

After the three forces converged, the momentum of the Meinong coalition army rose sharply for a while, and it had already overwhelmed Li Xiao's Takeda army in terms of strength alone.

At present, the army is strong, Endo Qingtaka and sister Xiaolu Lai Gang have proposed to pursue the Takeda army and defeat Li Xiao in one battle.

However, Ando Mamoru climbed to the top of the castle and looked at the rear of the Takeda army, which was slowly retreating, with a hesitant look on his face.

Sister Koji Laigang said very unwillingly: "Lord Ando, the Takeda Army retreated with a large cylinder, and it must be inconvenient to do so. If our army pursues, if the enemy wants to protect the big tube, it will inevitably take care of one and lose the other, and expose the flaws, at this time, we will take advantage of the gap to attack it, even if we can't defeat the Takeda army and capture Li Xiao alive, we can also defeat the enemy army. ”

The words of the sister Koji Yoritsuna were immediately echoed and supported by most people, especially the samurai of the Ando family, none of whom had ever fought against the Takeda army, and they were obviously not afraid.

On the scene, only Michitoshi Nagai, Mamoru Ando showed a hesitant look on his face.

These two are battle-hardened generals, and when they see that although the Takeda army is retreating, the team is compact and marching in an orderly manner, they know that this strong team is by no means an ordinary victory.

Nagai Michitoshikata had just been defeated at the hands of Kinoshita Koichiro, so he did not say a word, so as not to let others think that he was cowardly, and at the same time, his eldest son was also captured by Takeda Junsheng, and he also hoped to get it back.

What's more, as far as Mamoru Ando is concerned, the chief think tank under his command, Takenaka Half-Guard, suddenly fell ill when he went out of battle, and he is still being treated in the military and cannot go into battle to command.

If he is still here, Mamoru Ando can also discuss it and come up with an effective result.

Seeing that everyone was asking for their lives, Mamoru Ando finally couldn't resist everyone's persuasion and decided to lead the army to pursue the Takeda army.

Mamoru Ando agreed with his eldest son, Joji Ando, and Sadatsu Inaba of the Inaba family, and the two volunteered to lead the mounted samurai of the headquarters to pursue the retreat of the Takeda army.

Mamoru Ando promised to let the two men each lead 150 samurai on horseback to advance, and ordered them to only hinder the retreat of the Takeda army, and the rest would launch a general attack on the Takeda army in one fell swoop after the forces of the headquarters converged.

On the side of the Takeda Army, the army has withdrawn to a certain distance away from Hachiman Castle in the gun.

However, when I saw the plains in the distance, all kinds of flags and prints rolling, and the soldiers also knew that the enemy army that Hachiman Castle had come to help, and the scale of the army was not small.

At present, Li Xiaobu set out a square circle hollow array, placing the large cylinder team, the horse team, and more than 300 enemy prisoners in the center of the formation.

Behind the flag of the main hall, Kamioka prepared the left wing, and the snake tail prepared the right wing and slowly advanced.

In addition to each reserve, they are all their own iron artillery teams, arched foot light teams.

At this time, Li Xiao saw the smoke and dust billowing behind him for less than half a mile, and knew that the other party's horseback team was coming to pursue.

However, Li Xiao is confident that with the opponent's cavalry, it is not enough to break through his own formation, but it may be possible to delay the retreat of his own army.

Li Xiao was very determined to watch the battle on top of the war horse, except for ordering the army to slow down and move forward, he did not make other adjustments to the situation at all. …,

Immediately, the opposing horseback team appeared, and the Takeda Army was in sight.

The Takeda Army's iron cannons are all ready, and the arquebuses at hand are all lit, just waiting for the opponent to get close before shooting.

However, the general of the opposing horseback team, apparently also took into account the power of the Takeda army's iron cannons and bows and arrows, and did not directly impact the Takeda army's formation.

Instead, it bypassed the two flanks of the Takeda army's formation, and the cavalry circled the two flanks of the Takeda army's round formation.

Li Xiao's eyes lit up, and he saw that the other party's samurai on horseback, except for some who fell behind the formation, the rest circled from the sides of the two flanks, and some cavalry circled to the front of the Takeda army's formation, slowly advancing with the Takeda army.

Li Xiao saw that in the other party's horseback team, everyone was skilled in horsemanship, and many of them were samurai with mother's clothes on their backs, obviously most of them were samurai who were skilled in bowing and riding horses from a young age, which was definitely not something that his newly trained horseback team could fight against.

Moreover, the cavalry generals of the opposing side also knew the way of cavalry, and did not rush straight to Li Xiao's army formation, but instead used the cavalry to bypass, surround Li Xiao's infantry phalanx in disguise.

In the Song Dynasty, someone once described the Mongolian cavalry and said, surrounded by a hundred horses, can wrap thousands of people, and a thousand horses can be divided into a hundred miles.

Cavalry, also known as clutch soldiers, was not really used to charge into battle.

The movement of Ando's military cavalry distributed on all sides of Li Xiao's army gave Li Xiao's ashigaru an illusion that he was surrounded on all sides.

In the era of cold weapons, if the army falls into a situation where the flanks are outflanked and the rear road is cut off, it is difficult to control the fighting spirit of the soldiers under his command, no matter how good the generals are, and the morale of the army is easily weakened.

Fortunately, the troops under Li Xiao's command are all regular and standing and have experienced a lot of battles, so their performance is still stable, but if they continue to do so, and then maintain such a dense formation, it will be a great drain on physical strength when the pressure of the enemy's assault is marching.

Seeing that the twilight was getting thicker, Li Xiao immediately ordered the army to stop advancing and confronted the enemy's cavalry.

At this time, the opposing horseback team began to take turns to tentatively attack Li Xiao's military momentum.

The female clothiers in the opposing horseback team first took advantage of the direction of the downwind, and then galloped from a distance, using the momentum of the horses and the speed of the wind to increase the range of the arrows, and then shot the arrows at the rear of the Takeda army, and then circled sideways.

The Takeda army also counterattacked with iron cannon bows and arrows, and the range of the iron cannon was still superior after all, and it did not give the enemy cavalry an advantage in the exchange ratio.

During this period, Li Xiao took the opportunity to open a gap in the formation, and ordered Tsuchiya Masahiro's cavalry to charge the enemy cavalry, and the two sides fought for a while, and finally repelled the cavalry of Ando's army.

After repelling the cavalry of Ando and Inaba Sadatsu, the Takeda army was still successfully delayed by the other side in retreating.

Now Li Xiao has seen from the monocular Qianli Tube that the main force of the Mino-Hao Clan coalition led by Mamoru Ando has arrived, and the enemy army definitely has the upper hand on the side of the Takeda Army in terms of strength.

At present, the distance between the two armies is no more than a distance, Li Xiao sneered, and then ordered the army to turn around and line up on a mountain, preparing to defend here.

At the moment, Mino is in the coalition army.

Mamoru Ando had already led the army to catch up with the Takeda army, and when he saw that the Takeda army did not retreat at this time, but lined up with his back to the mountain, he doubted again in his heart.

Ando Mamoru sat on his horse and watched the military formation of the Takeda Army, while thinking about whether there were other intentions behind Li Xiao's move.

At this time, Ando Dingji and Inaba Sadatsu also led the horse riding team back.

His son Ando Dingji first reported to Ando Mamoru and said: "I have long heard that Li Xiao is good at fighting, and he is the leader of Jiaxin, but I didn't expect it to be so, there is nothing special, now the enemy army has been caught up by our army, besieged here, please ask my father to order an attack, you can break the enemy army in one battle"

As a guest soldier, Inaba Sadatsu is now persuasive, and said: "Lord Ando, at the moment, we are under the orders of Lord Sosuke to send troops to prevent the Takeda Army from seizing the gungami, and the purpose has now been achieved. However, at present, the momentum of Lord Kamisuke's seizure of Mino has become settled, and Oda Takeda is an alliance, so I think it is enough to repel the enemy army, and there is no need to fight to kill them all. The Takeda Army is so good at fighting that even if our army wins, the casualties will be not small. I think it's better to let them go. ”

"No." Sister Xiaolu Lai Gang and Li Xiao have a grudge against their father and take the family business, so they naturally refuse to let Li Xiao go.

Sister Koji Yoritsuna said: "Lord Kamisuke, after the capture of Mino, the future trend of the world is that Oda or Takeda has the best hope of Kamiraku's success. If we can kill Li Xiao, the general of the Takeda family, and eradicate such a strong enemy on behalf of the president, although the lord will not say it, he will actually reward us with a big prize. ”

Endo Keitaka also said: "Yes, Lord Kamisuke is about to become the master of Mino, if we don't show our military exploits, I'm afraid it will be difficult to occupy a place in the Oda family in the future." ”

The suggestions of the two sisters, Koji Yoritsuna and Endo Keitaka, were approved by many Ando and Inaba samurai, after all, they did not see anything special about the combat strength of the Takeda Army under the battle, and they all wanted to win the battle and glorify the martial arts.

After listening to everyone's opinions, Ando Mamoru thought for a while and said: "Your opinions are very insightful, so if you can surrender without a fight, you are superior." Now it's about to fall into the night, and the night battle is risky for both sides, so the two armies are resting, and tonight I will send someone to negotiate with the Takeda army to get it to surrender, if the negotiations between the two sides fail, we will ...... tomorrow."

Just as Ando Mamoru was about to finish speaking, suddenly an envoy rushed into the place where everyone was discussing and said loudly: "My lord, something is wrong. ”

"Bastard," Ando snorted, "what's so alarming?" ”

The envoy pointed his hand back and said loudly, "My lord, Gujo Hachiman Castle has been captured by the enemy. ”

As soon as this person's voice fell, it sounded like thunder in everyone's ears.

Mamoru Ando looked in disbelief in the direction of Hachiman Castle in the gun, and sure enough, he saw several thick clouds ......of smoke burning up the castle, rolling up to the sky, and it was particularly clear in this twilight.