"Back to my lord, the Uesugi army is here, about two hundred miles in front of our army."

In fact, there is no need to see the reply, Li Xiao also saw the slowly moving banner of the word 'Bi', as well as the chaotic 'dragon' flag seal.

Kenshin Uesugi and we met again.

Thinking of this, Li Xiao's face was solemn, he stopped his horse, and said loudly: "The whole army stops!" ”

"The whole army is arrayed, the phalanx of the Bussi country, to meet the Uesugi army!"

As the order was passed down, Li Xiao's army was displayed in front of the Uesugi army and regrouped.

In the middle of the military column, a military order was issued to reorganize the ranks, and the ashigaru took their positions, and the armor collided and clanged as they ran.

On the other side of the Uesugi army, Uesugi Kenshin stood tall on his horse and watched the formation of the Takeda army with the generals.

Looking at the whole process of the Takeda Army's formation from loose, regrouping, and then to array, each in its own position, it can be seen that although Li Xiaojun is in a hurry, it is not scattered, and he is in step by step.

"Takeda Junguo is really powerful, but I didn't expect Li Xiao to come to Yuezhong for only two years, but he really asked him to train into an elite army." Uejo Masafan said it quite objectively.

"Don't be afraid, please let me lead the Lang Party to attack Li Xiao's main formation." The general of Hatamoto, Yataro Onikojima, took the initiative to ask Kenshin Uesugi to fight.

Kamijo Masahiro hurriedly spoke out to stop him and said: "I don't know if you see it, Li Xiaojun's formation is very strange, and the iron artillery team is not in the forefront, but placed on both sides of the reserve. ”

After the generals saw it, they watched it carefully, and it was indeed as the previous article Zhengfan said.

Uejo Masato said in a deep voice: "If we don't figure out the reason why Li Xiao is so arranged, we are likely to suffer a big loss, you must know that the other party is a famous general who has defeated the Saito family." ”

Yataro Onikojima snorted and said, "If there's anything strange, I'll find out if there's anything wrong." Could it be that if you don't understand the tactics of the enemy army, you won't go to battle? ”

"This is an anomaly, and we can't afford not to be cautious." Mashiro Uejo said loudly.

"Uejo-sama, please respect yourself."

"That's enough."

Uesugi Kenshin raised his hand, stopped the quarrel between the two generals, pointed his horsewhip at Li Xiaojun's military momentum, and said: "Among the three reserves of the Takeda Army just now, the central reserve team completed the formation the fastest, and this should be the standing reserve of Li Xiao's starting family from Shinano, and he has followed him for the longest time, so it is the most elite. The second is the reserve on the left flank, and the right flank is holding the third-order Qi Banner seal, I guess it should be the military strength of the Hida Eima family, and the Eima army is the slowest to assemble the military formation. ”

"So don't pay attention to the military strength of the Takeda family, take the Jiangma army first, and defeat him first, so Li Xiao's formation will be self-defeating!"

When Li Xiao saw from afar that the cavalry of the Uesugi army began to move towards his left flank, he already understood Uesugi Kenshin's tactics.

Uesugi Kenshin was going to attack the weakest Eima army on his left flank.

Damn it.

Li Xiao secretly held the horsewhip and attacked the Jiangma army on his left flank, so that the iron cannons of the two reserves of Shengang and Snake Tail would not be used.

After all, he can't let his iron cannon learn to bow and arrow, go over the head of the Jiangma army, and shoot at the Uesugi army.

Originally, I wanted to use the Western Phalanx to surprise Uesugi Kenshin, but Uesugi Kenshin really couldn't be underestimated, and he avoided the important and light, so he carefully prepared his tactics and couldn't use them.

Li Xiao secretly thought so, and then he smiled with relief on his face, if everything could go well on the battlefield, it would be unexpected.

However, Uesugi Kenshin's tactics, I, Li Xiao, are not without countermeasures, in this case, you can see the results of my two years of army management.

"Order the Jiangma Army to stop advancing, Kamioka Bei, Snake Tail Bei to move forward, cloth wedge-shaped array!"

The so-called wedge-shaped array, also known as the diagonal array, is an array that changes the parallel battle columns and lays out the formation like a seesaw, one end is high and the other end is low.

Used for the first time in history, the famous general Epaminonda of Thebes in ancient Greece was used when defeating Sparta at the Battle of Leuctra.

At that time, in order to defeat Sparta, which was the first in the Greek land war, Ibaminonda concentrated his superior forces on the left flank, so that the left flank was higher than the right flank, and the strong left flank was prominent to take the lead in breaking the enemy army to protect the weak right flank.

However, this method of warfare was later improved in the hands of Fred the Great and became a method of warfare specifically adapted to musket shooting.

Li Xiao followed the example of Ibaminonda, the wedge-shaped array of Fred the Great, not for attack, but for defense, he wanted to prepare for the god and the snake tail to rush forward, in order to cover the weak side of the Jiangma army, and more importantly, to concentrate the advantage of iron artillery firepower.

Yataro Kojima struggled to drive the war horse under his crotch and galloped forward, followed by hundreds of Uesugi family flag riding team.

All of them were elite samurai of the Uesugi Army, many of whom followed Uesugi Kenshin to unify Echigo, went to Kanto, Odawara fought Hojo, and Kawanakajima defeated Takeda Shingen.

Each of them is a battle-hardened warrior who is brave and not afraid of death.

And in Shirane Mountain, Iwajicheng, this elite banner army, has never fought with Takeda Katsuyori and Li Xiao once.

Especially Shiraneyama, Kojima Yataro and Uesugi Kenshin's banner army, watched Li Xiao lead the cavalry of the Takeda family, and in his own army formation, he killed six in and six out.

As the elite of the Uesugi army, they had to protect the Uesugi family's main formation, but they couldn't attack.

This made this group of samurai all hold their breath, and they hated to show their bodies in this battle, and the shame of losing the battle on Mt. Shirane with one blood.

Just as the general of the Uesugi army, Yataro Onikojima, led his army to attack the Jiangma army on Li Xiaojun's left flank, he saw that Li Xiaojun's right flank was actually detouring to his right.

A sneer appeared on Kojima's face at this time, thinking that it would be absolutely stupid to use infantry to detour the cavalry. Does Li Xiao really understand this military strategy?

"Don't bother, just focus on what's in front of you."

Yataro Kojima thought so, and at the same time accelerated the speed of his horse, he wanted to be one step ahead of Li Xiao, first crush his left flank, and then make a contribution to the Uesugi family.

Then more than 100 Uesugi Army horseback riders with the 'Bi' character flag on their backs formed an assault queue, like a black torrent, following Kojima Yataro towards the Jiangma Army.

"Very well, it seems that this Uesugi army general really knows nothing. The other party should be Yataro Kojima. ”

Li Xiao picked up the horsewhip and struck it lightly in his palm, seeing that the other party was unconscious and fell into his trap, he couldn't help but have a smile on his face.

When he chose to take over the battle here, Li Xiao also had his own considerations, and the side of the Jiang Ma Army was leaning on the direction of the Honganji main formation.

In fact, this also prevented the Uesugi cavalry from attacking his left flank in a big detour.

However, looking at the other party's brain-mongering style of play, it seems that this point is not taken into account at all, which makes Li Xiao feel a lot more relieved.

"My lord, Kamioka has arrived."

Soon after, another envoy reported.

"My lord, the snake tail has also arrived."

"Very good," Seeing that the enemy cavalry was less than a hundred miles away from the front of the Jiangma Army, Li Xiao waved his horse whip and said, "Order the iron artillery team to line up and arrange it in three columns." ”

Shouted at the top of his voice.

Originally, the array of the western country was arrayed, and the iron cannon was located on the left and right flanks of the spear foot light team.

Now they began to run towards the front, as instructed by Li Xiao, they formed three columns in the front, middle and back.

Now in front of Li Xiaojun's formation, the snake tail is in front of the right flank, the Shengang is in the center, slightly behind the snake tail and the Jiangma army is at the end of the left flank.

Now that the iron artillery team has entered the position, the front iron artillery general Kohata Xiaoxian shouted the order, and the iron artillery ashiki body turned around forty-five degrees.

And the cavalry team of the Uesugi Army, which was charging at Li Xiaojun's left flank, had been completely exposed to Li Xiaojun's iron artillery team.

"First list the guns."

The Iron Cannon Foot Light Team raised the iron cannon in unison, holding the gun in both hands on the chest.

And in front of them, the sturdy and sturdy Uesugi army horseback samurai roared past. The samurai on horseback of the Uesugi army rode their horses and whipped their horses, and the smoke and dust rolled up from under the hooves of the horses, and they rushed towards the Jiangma army like thunder and lightning.

"Aim!"

As the impact speed of the Uesugi Army's cavalry team accelerated, the figure of the Uesugi Army's mounted samurai was gradually enlarged under the eyes of each iron cannon. Everyone held their breath at the moment, Rao was a veteran of the battlefield, and at this moment, his heart was like a sledgehammer hammer, and his forehead was slightly sweating.

But now they held their guns straight, their eyes fixed on their target, and their ears ignored the muffled thunderous stomping of their horses as they galloped, except for the sound of the burning of the arquebus.

On the Uesugi Army's main formation, the general of the Uesugi Army was puzzled when he saw the strange layout of the Takeda Army, and they all guessed Li Xiao's intentions.

Many people have the idea of fighting with Onikojima Yataro, thinking that Li Xiao wants to use infantry to detour the flank of the Uesugi army and have surrounded the Uesugi army.

But in the eyes of the generals of the Uesugi Army, who knew that Li Xiao was powerful, Li Xiao would never make such a low-level mistake.

"Impossible, we are likely to fall into Li Xiaozhi's trap." Murakami Yoshikiyo remembered that when he and his father Murakami Yoshikiyo were chasing Li Xiao in Azuma County, Li Xiao used the flood tactics to fight a battle that wiped out the whole army.

In his eyes, he was very wary of Li Xiao.

However, as soon as he said this, many generals of the Uesugi family immediately came out to refute it, thinking that he was too jealous of the other party.

Although Uesugi Kenshin has been standing, he already has a premonition of uneasiness when Yataro Onitari has just rushed into battle, and when he sees Li Xiaojun's army moving into formation, his uneasiness becomes even stronger.

When Li Xiaojun deployed the iron artillery team in front of the position, he was suddenly stunned, Li Xiaojun's movement, at this moment, the flanks of the oni Kojima Yataro cavalry team, were not completely exposed to the guns of Li Xiao's iron artillery team.

"Not good."

Uesugi Kenshin Huo Ran stood up and said loudly: "Quick, blow the conch horn and let Kojima Yataro retreat." ”

"Lord, I can't retreat now." Masan Kamijo said on the side.

"If you can't retreat, you have to retreat." Uesugi Kenshin added, his eyes staring fiercely at the center of the battlefield.

"Yes, my lord, blow the conch trumpet."

Woo! Woo!

Soon after, a dull conch whistled from the Uesugi army's position.

Li Xiao listened to the sound of the conch, smiled slightly, and said, "I only woke up now, it's too late." ”

After speaking, Li Xiao pressed his hand down and gave the order to shoot.

"Shoot!"

The iron cannon general Xiaohan Xiaoxian shouted, and the sword in his hand slashed hard.

Immediately, on the battlefield, there was the sound of bursting beans and thumping subway cannon shooting.

(To be continued)