Echigo, spring mountain castle.

A dimly lit meditation room in the castle tower.

The golden statue of Bishamen Heaven enshrined in the shrine, holding the staff in the left hand and holding the pagoda in the right hand, is in the shape of a vajra angry eye, and the law is majestic.

The staff represents the samaya form of Bishaman, which states its original vow, that is, to have compassion for the poverty of all sentient beings, to break the karma of sentient beings and to give them the joy of wishful wishes.

Under several candlesticks, Kennobu Uesugi, wearing a white head-wrapped robe, recites in Sanskrit with his eyes closed, his hands folded, a string of prayer beads wrapped around his wrists, his eyes closed, and his knees on the futon, reverently chanting in Sanskrit.

After reciting for a long time, Uesugi Kenshin whispered to the statue of Bishamon, "I, Uesugi Teruto, would like to abandon my personal feelings, cut off all troubles, and serve Bishamonten with my body, and ask Bishamon to give me divine power to bless Echigo and raze Takeda in one fell swoop." ”

After speaking, Uesugi Kenshin opened his eyes, his eyes revealed a look of determination, picked up the sword, Huo Ran got up, and then turned to stride forward, and opened a paper sliding door.

"Meet my lord."

Naoe Minorutsuna, Kagan Keichi, Katsunaga Shibabe, Nakajo Fujishi and other family elders, as well as dozens of Uesugi family generals, were all sitting in the hall with their armor on, already waiting there.

Uesugi Kenshin nodded and sat down on the main seat, and the little surname next to him took the sword from Uesugi Kenshin's hand.

Minoru Naoe took the lead in saying: "My lord, Takeda Shingen ordered Iitogen Goro to be the general, and with 3,500 troops to send troops to Hida for no reason, Hida Kuni's sister Koji Yoshiyori asked me for help from Echigo, hoping that I can uphold justice and repel the brutal Takeda." ”

Katsucho of the color department also echoed the words: "Takeda Shingen is reckless and has repeatedly challenged the end, which is really intolerable, and I ask the lord to send troops to wipe out the armor in one fell swoop, and my color department is willing to fight to the death with Takeda for the first battle." ”

"Please send troops and fight to the death with Takeda."

After the two old ministers of the family spoke, the generals spoke in unison, and dozens of people shouted and cheered, full of momentum.

Uesugi Kenshin held the rosary in his right hand, his eyes swept over the generals and said: "Takeda Shingen exiled his father, as a person without filial piety and righteousness, this time he sent troops to fly to the army, the division was nameless, he fought an unrighteous battle, occupied an unrighteous place, ignored the misery of the living beings, and wanted to persecute the common people with his own selfishness. ”

"I, Uesugi Teruto, am pardoned by the emperor, punished by personal enemies, and crusaded against unrighteous ministers and unscrupulous thieves, and I decided to go out to Kawanakajima for the fifth time and eliminate Takeda in one fell swoop."

In June of the 7th year of Eiroku, in order to avoid the crisis of the Takeda family attacking Echichu from Hida and flanking Echigo, Uesugi Kenshin decided to go out to Kawanakajima for the fifth time to attack the place where he must be saved, and led Takeda Shingen to this strategic decisive battle.

Uesugi Kenshin sent his troops a month earlier than in history, thus opening the prelude to the Fifth Battle of Kawanakajima between Ko-Vietnam.

Under Sakurato Castle, the Takeda Army is in the main formation.

At this moment, the Takeda Expeditionary Army, who were going out to fight against Hida, did not know that there was a danger of being cut off, and they were now devoting all their attention to the decisive battle that would determine the control of Hida Country.

Li Xiao stood forward in the shape of a moon, draped in heavy armor, and rode a war horse in the middle of his military formation.

Above Li Xiao's head, the flag seal of the moon double pattern hunted and moved.

Today's decisive battle, he finally could not live in the rear to watch the battle, he was entrusted with the heavy task of attacking the left flank by Changjing of Shan County, replacing a Shinlong yesterday, against the right flank of the Hida United Army.

The formation of the Takeda Army has been greatly adjusted compared with yesterday, and Changjing of Shan County personally went out to the battle, using the strategy of the king against the king, and his own formation against the main formation of the sister Xiaolu Army.

On the right flank, there is a Nobu Dragon's Takekawa group against the Uchijima family's army.

On the left flank, with the forces of Li Xiao, Eima Huisheng, Aoyagi Kiyonaga, and the three families, concentrated thousands of troops to strike at the weakest right flank of the Hida United Army.

And yesterday, the Kiso people, who were the pioneers, have not yet recovered their vitality and cannot go into battle, so they can only watch the battle from the sidelines.

The left wing of the Takeda Army was served by Li Xiao, and this was the first time that Li Xiao commanded an army of more than 1,000 people and put it into battle.

And in front of him is the 700 troops of the Hida Hao clan belonging to the sister Xiaolu family, and in terms of numbers, Li Xiao has an advantage in strength.

After watching the battle yesterday, Li Xiao already understood the approximate strength of this Hida wealthy clan.

These Hida Hao clans are composed of more than a dozen small local Hao clans of Hida, to be honest, this army truly embodies the battle mode of the head of the township and the village of the Warring States period.

In order to expand their strength, the sister Xiaolu family promoted the famous lord of Hida Village, the common people, to their own samurai and become the level of the ground servant.

Ground servants, unlike formal samurai, usually lived in the countryside, not in castle towns or castles like formal samurai.

One of the roles of the local servant is to be responsible for paying taxes in the village and handing over the daimyo, and the other is to mobilize the young men of the village to form peasant soldiers to fight when the daimyo.

Therefore, it is obvious that the military strength of this small wealthy clan is relatively average compared to the regular army.

However, Li Xiao said yesterday that the result of watching the battle was that it was this inconspicuous small Hao clan army that delayed the offensive of the Wuchuan people, who could be called the elite of the Takeda army, so that the tactics of breaking through the left flank of Changjing in Shan County failed to materialize.

(Having said that, the Takekawa people are also in the realm of the countrymen, but his predecessor was the local samurai regiment of Ichijo Village, and it has always been the force guarding the border of the Takeda family, so the combat power is much stronger than the ordinary people.) Historically, after the demise of the Takeda family, the Takekawa family came out of the Tokugawa family, and many later became the banner samurai of the shogunate. The previous Nosiryu offensive was deadlocked, and it failed to make progress, which greatly surprised the Takeda Army's pre-war expectations.

In yesterday's battle, Li Xiao saw that although the Hida Hao clan coalition army was not strong, it was extremely strong, after hearing that the Takeda family refused to sue for peace.

These village chiefs led the villagers under their command, and they still played at a considerable level.

In yesterday's battle, the Wuchuan people repeatedly broke through the current blocking Hida Hao clan's army, but although the Hao clan's army was defeated very quickly, it was soon able to regroup and once again participate in the battle of the Wuchuan people.

It's like a dozen flies, swatting and not dying, as soon as you chase him away, but when you turn around, he buzzes in front of you, and you are annoyed.

Under such entanglement, although the Wuchuan people under the command of a Shinlong defeated the current Hao clan army more than a dozen times, they were still entangled by the enemy army and could not achieve a decisive victory.

This is the reason why yesterday said that a letter dragon could not make a breakthrough for a long time, and today it is said that the Takeda army still pins its hopes of winning the battle on the breakthrough of the left flank, and Li Xiao, as the general in charge of the left flank, is still the same as a letter dragon said yesterday, but today it is said that the victory or defeat of the Takeda family is still unknown.

Looking at the military strength of the Hida Hao clan opposite, Li Xiao smiled slightly, turned to Jiangma Huisheng beside him, and Aoyagi Kiyocho asked, "Are the two of you already in place?" ”

Eima Huisheng and Aoyagi Kiyocho both agreed in unison.

At present, Li Xiao, as the general of the left wing of the Takeda Army, Jiangma Huisheng and Aoyagi Kiyocho are all under his orders.

Aoyagi Kiyocho said with a questioning look on his face at this time: "Lord Li Xiao, I still feel that it is inappropriate for Your Excellency to arrange it in this way, to disrupt and reorganize the various reserves, and to fight against the enemy, I have been fighting for decades, and there has never been such a precedent. The Takeda family doesn't seem to have such a tactic either. ”

Li Xiao smiled and said, "Lord Aoyagi, please have more confidence in me, okay?" Just because no one has set this precedent doesn't mean that this tactic won't work. Look at it. ”

Aoyagi Kiyocho nodded and said, "I will still follow Lord Li Xiao's orders." ”

Li Xiao snorted and said confidently: "Well, thank you, Lord Aoyagi, if you have no other objections, you all do what you agreed before the war!" ”

"Oh!"

Shima Katsuto, Shioka Kazuha, Kohata Xiaoxian, Kinoshita Koichiro and other generals were stunned, and then left their respective positions.

I remembered the sound of the marching taiko drum.

At this time, the Yama Yama Changjing Army, which was the main formation of the Takeda Army, took the lead in attacking the main formation of the Sister Koji Army.

Regardless of the samurai, the main army of Yama Prefecture Changjing was dyed red, and from a distance, it was like a red tide rushing to the position of the sister army, as if it were the second red reserve of the Takeda army.

The offensive of Changjing, Shan County, was as turbulent as a stormy wave.

Sister Xiaolu Army's main formation, Sister Xiaolu Lianglai is still wearing a bowl on his head, holding a sword, his eyes are staring at the military momentum of the Takeda family of Changjing Takeda in the opposite direction, and gradually his face is more solemn.

The samurai of the sister Xiaolu family behind him was also shocked, and the enemy who fought today was different from yesterday, and he was the elite of the Takeda family.

On the other side, the general of the Wuchuan people, a letter dragon, shouted.

"It's our turn."

A letter dragon is dressed as gorgeous as ever, he is wearing an extremely delicate armor head pocket, and the iron sheet on the head pocket spreads left and right, which looks particularly dazzling under the illumination of the day.

And on the armor, whether it is the big sleeves, or the front and back heart guards are painted with all kinds of patterns, diamond patterns, the system that binds the big armor, is also colorful, and there are all kinds of ornaments hanging on the saddle.

At first glance, this letter dragon doesn't seem to be here to fight, but to show off his delicate armor.

But this is also the consistent style of a Shinryu, otherwise why is it called 'a gorgeous hall' in the Takeda army.

With a wave of the whip of a satinya, Takekawa launched an offensive against the Uchijima family on the left flank of the enemy.

Seeing the formation, the right flank moved together, and Li Xiao also issued an order to attack.

As Li Xiao's thousands of troops slowly began to move forward.

At this time, Kiso Yoshimasa, who was watching the battle on the hillside, showed a look of surprise and asked his retainer Yamamura Shibei: "What kind of formation is this Li Xiao posing, why is it so strange." ”

Yamamura Shibei stared at it for a while, and said: "It's a little strange, no, Your Highness, you see that Li Xiao actually disrupted and reorganized his standing reserves, as well as the reserves of the Jiangma family and the Renke family, and reorganized them, what was his intention in doing this?" Doesn't he know that the various reserve units are not running in and not cooperating with each other, and it is easy for a crisis of scattered command to arise? ”

Kiso Yoshimasa snorted and said: "I want to see this Li Xiao, how to clean up this mess, originally set out to fight Hida this time, His Royal Highness Yoshinobu also asked me to find a chance to recruit him, but he doesn't have to be, such a mediocre talent, it seems that it is the same whether you find it or not." ”

(To be continued)