"My lord, although the combat power of the Ueno Hao clan is a little worse, the number of iron cannons of the Takeda Army is also very amazing." Minoru Naoe said to Ken Uesugi.

"It's going to be a tough battle, and even if our army wins, we'll still suffer heavy casualties," Uesugi Kenshin pondered for a while, then ordered, "Let the forces of the Ueno clans retreat, recuperate, and let the Nagano family take over as a second team." ”

The scratching of the Ueno Hao clan's ashigaru team could not be suppressed by the bullet for a while. Although in this era, the major names began to equip a large number of iron artillery troops, after all, iron artillery is still a new thing for most people. There were very few samurai in the formation of the Ueno clan, and most of them were newly recruited peasant soldiers, so the discipline and persistence were naturally not high.

And the dense salvo of nearly a hundred iron cannons of the Takeda Army was enough to shock them.

The troops of the feudal era, as a general rule, once they suffered more than 10 percent casualties, the morale of this army was quickly evaporated, and it was on the verge of collapse.

The first attack was frustrated, and the Nagano family, as a second team, took on the task of trapping. Due to the limited width of the hillside where the Takeda family was stationed, the Nagano army arranged a phalanx of nine ashigaru spears in a three-three-one formation, and the ashigaru soldiers fought towards the hillside with guns.

The choice to defend on this hillside was predetermined by Yamamoto Kansuke, who wanted to take advantage of the narrow terrain so that the Uesugi Nagano coalition army, which had the advantage in numbers, would not be able to deploy its forces.

At this time, Takeda Katsuyori's iron artillery team had already refilled its ammunition, and in the face of the advance of the Nagano army, it once again fired two rows of volleys in front and back.

As the smoke from the ammunition fire cleared, the head of the iron artillery group visually measured the shooting results, and the Nagano Army soldiers in the front row fell, but what was better than the previous Ueno Hao clan was that the Nagano Army remained quite intact in the face of the salvo of the iron cannon.

"Oh!"

Immediately, the gunners of the Nagano Army lowered their spears together and began to charge towards the Takeda Army formation on the hillside.

Taking advantage of the gap in the reloading of the iron artillery team, behind the arrow board, the archersfoot light team began to fire a volley of arrows. The spear was charged with both hands in his hands, so he did not have any shield to block the arrows, and the armor on his body was mostly made of bamboo, which was probably inferior to the belly rolls and carcass pills on the samurai.

So when the arrows came, the ashigaru could only hold their heads low, hoping that the array hats wrapped in iron sheets on their heads would be able to withstand the one or two blows.

On the Takeda Army's position, the sound of bowstrings vibrating and the sound of arrows breaking through the air resounded.

The rain of arrows made the Nagano army, who was climbing the mountain, lightly armed, and the losses were not small. When the same Nagano family came forward to shoot, not only was the shot inaccurate due to the angle of the hillside, but most of the arrows shot were blocked by the arrow board in front of the Takeda army.

This kind of arrow board is made of bamboo in the center, and the outside is covered with straw to resist the fire of iron cannons.

Nagano Ieashi braved the rain of arrows to advance with difficulty, and they had already rushed to a position no more than thirty meters away from the Takeda Army's formation, and at this moment, the Takeda Army's iron artillery team completed the second reload, and two volleys of guns were fired, and dozens of Nagano Army soldiers who were shot rolled down the mountain like this.

After completing two firing missions, the iron artillery team retreated directly from both sides of the trenches dug through to the rear of the formation. The trenches in front of the battle became two trenches that blocked the advance of the enemy Ashigaru.

Seeing such a large casualty inflicted on the Nagano Army, Takeda Katsuyori said to Li Xiaoyan with a happy face: "Li Xiao, the trench you designed is really ingenious, and in the future, our Takeda Army will have to dig these two lines at the front of the military formation." ”

Li Xiaowei smiled, such a trench is quite brutal for defense, but if you attack, you will block your own people.

"Your Highness, don't worry, the best is yet to come."

At this time, the Ueno clans under the mountain had already integrated the scattered ashigaru and rearranged them into a formation to follow the Nagano army to the mountain.

The Nagano Army, which showed some signs of rout by the iron cannon salvo, was reprimanded by the head of the Ashigaru group, and the regrouping momentum continued to kill the Takeda Army on the hillside. When jumping over the first trench, more than a dozen people were unstable and planted in the trench, and then Ashigaru who got up from the trench in embarrassment and stepped on Ashigaru who jumped over his head in the follow-up.

Just as the Nagano army was about to cross the second trench, Li Xiao suddenly ordered to move the arrow board, and then fifteen or sixteen bamboo cages made of bamboo rattan, which were almost one person high, were pushed out by Ashigaru. The bamboo cages were soaked in oil, and then lit with fire, burned into a large fireball, and then pushed down the hillside.

When many Nagano ashikashi were about to climb the second trench, they saw the scene of more than a dozen fireballs rolling down the mountain.

"Ahh

Many ashigaru screamed, their hands and feet were stained with fireballs, and suddenly their bodies were on fire, and they hurriedly rolled on the ground to extinguish them, and more people ran in all directions to avoid this.

Just when the Nagano family was dodging, more than a dozen of these 'fireballs' rolled down from the mountain, and for a while, the formation of the Nagano army was in chaos. Behind the Takeda Army's formation, the Takeda Iron Artillery Team, which had reloaded its guns, stood in three rows, and nearly 100 iron cannons were aimed at the Nagano Army, which was in a hurry, and the third round of salvo fired.

Boom!

Dozens of Nagano family members rolled down the mountain again.

At this time, the general who commanded the Nagano Army Ashigaru, even if the command was high, there was no way at all, and the Nagano Army Ashigaru Team had fallen into a chaotic situation.

"I can get the gunfoot light team ready."

Li Xiao saw that the tactics he designed had received good results and was very satisfied. And the Hoshina brothers, as well as Suwa Yorizhong, Suwa Yoriho, and even Sanada Masayuki, who is known for his resourcefulness and reputation, was also shocked by Li Xiao's endless whimsy.

This Li Xiao's method is too much. Everyone thought so in their hearts.

Following Li Xiao's advice, Takeda Katsuyori ordered Hoshina Masatoshi's spears to line up, while the archashiki stepped forward and pushed the arrow board to the top of the trench as a bridge.

"The Gunfoot Light Team is out of battle."

The 500 gunneru men of Takeda's Katsuyori team had been waiting for a long time, and they shouted condescendingly from the hillside.

The Nagano army, which was in chaos, barely regrouped, but at the slightest contact, it was broken up by Takeda Katsuyori's spearhead team, and the mountains were full of Nagano family ashigaru who were running in all directions.

The Nagano army also had people who dared to fight and wanted to try their best to reverse the situation, such as Ueno's sixteen shots, the head of the Nagano family's ashigaru group, the ashigaru general, and the general of the squire who killed the Takeda army one after another. However, in the face of the Takeda Army's three-gun formation, the stubborn resistance of these people only set off a slight wave, and then it was crushed.

Nagano had many Ashigaru generals to be killed, and Takayama Mishige and Shirakura Saemon Munehito, who were among the sixteen guns in Ueno, were killed on the spot!

The Nagano family, known as the first wealthy clan in western Ueno, was defeated in this way, and this rout even affected the military formation of the Ueno wealthy clan in the rear, and then the military formation of the Ueno wealthy clan was also split and collapsed without a fight.

"Blow the conch, collect the troops." Li Xiao said with a slight smile.

"But our army is in pursuit, and we have captured the enemy's head." Katsuyori Takeda said this hesitantly.

Sanada Masayuki shook his head, stretched out his hand and pointed to the 5,000-strong army of the Uesugi family who were still waiting on the opposite hill: "Lord Li Xiao is right, Huihu Gong's main army has not yet moved, if our army continues to pursue, if it is surrounded and cut off by the opponent's army, it will fall into a heavy encirclement." ”

"Damn, if it weren't for the dragon of Echigo, I would have defeated the 3,000 troops of the Kamino army with 800 people." Takeda Katsuyori was a little depressed and said this.

Li Xiao said with a smile: "Our army has only a few hundred troops, and it is enough to frustrate the spirit of Uesugi Huihu for a while." Your Highness, why be anxious. ”

The Uesugi army is in the main formation.

Looking at the collapsed Ueno coalition army, Uesugi Kenshin suddenly stood up from the maza, and the general waved towards the Takeda army's main formation, and said: "Order Kakizaki Keiya, Sebe Katsunaga, and Saito Asanobu to go out of battle." ”