"My lord, the Shibata Army is close to ninety miles away. (BAIDU SEARCH DUKANKAN.WIN Q COINS, READ AND SEE THE NOVEL NETWORK)"

Li Xiao nodded slightly, and then felt that the ground shook again, and the big cylinder of the Takeda Army made a thunderous noise.

The twelve six-pounder guns of the large barrel roared again, and a second salvo was launched.

The sound of the cannon rumbling echoed in Li Xiao's ears, and he couldn't help but spit and rub his ears again.

Aiming on the basis of the first shot, the second shot was reoriented, and the shells rolled down several enemy soldiers, and then rolled into the crowd.

Since the Oda army formed a skirmisher lineup, the gap between Ashigaru was widened, and the speed of Ashigaru's advance was much faster than that of the phalanx.

So there was no situation like the first shelling, which rolled over a column.

Although most of the shelling hits this time, the shooting effect was much worse than the first one.

Li Xiao nodded slowly, the effect of the artillery bombardment had been achieved, and he paid more attention to the result of the artillery bombardment disrupting the formation of the Oda army than the killing effect of the shelling.

Now the Oda army array is more loose and can no longer be queued.

The Oda army on the other side, seeing that the big barrel of the Takeda army, after this change of formation on their side, the lethality was greatly reduced, and they also began to cheer up their confidence and rushed up.

Now the front row of spears and foot light teams, they all lay their spears flat, shouting and screaming and charging up.

The Golden Banner of the Twin Wild Goose was agitated against the wind and rushed towards the Takeda military formation.

"Left Gate Guard, the distance to the front of the Shibata Army?"

Hearing Li Xiao call his name, he compared the distance between the front army of the Shibata Army, and said back to Li Xiao: "My lord, the Shibata Army is approaching our army, less than seventy. ”

Li Xiao shouted loudly and said, "Order the phalanx iron artillery team to prepare to shoot!" ”

"Oh!"

Yoshida Sunshiro was originally born in a family of ground servants in the Wooden Boat Castle in Vietnam, but later his father offended the lord of the Wooden Boat Castle, Ishiguro Narita, and was killed.

After the confiscation of the Yoshida family's Zhiyuki, Yoshida Sunshiro, and his brother Sunjiro, both became a ronin, and with the idea of reviving the family's name, they fled to the Takeda Army in Echichu and joined the Banner Honbi Standing Fortress as Iron Cannon Ashigaru.

Although he could not become a samurai, it was a blessing for Yoshida Sunshiro, who was hungry and cold at the time, to be able to eat enough.

And in the Takeda Army's iron cannon ashigaru, the Yulu is higher than the ordinary ashigaru.

Iron cannons are not strange to the Yoshida Sunshiro brothers, whose father served the Ishiguro family as a cannon general.

Now his brother has been promoted to the samurai directly under Kinoshita Hidenaga, the former general of the Serao, and he is also very hopeful of becoming the iron cannon Ashigaru general of the Serao.

"Ready!"

As the iron cannon general shouted an order, Yoshida Sunshiro woke up from his memories, and he secretly complained to himself, how could he recall the past at such a great time.

As the first column of the Western Phalanx, Yoshida Sunshiro raised his head, and he could clearly see the Shibata Gunashigaru who was roaring and rushing over on the opposite side.

Their faces were full of hideous colors.

Yoshida Sunshiro glanced ahead, buried his head and wrapped the arquebus, and checked the iron cannon one last time.

"Fifty more! The first to list the guns! Adashigaru said loudly.

Yoshida Sunshiro listened to Admiral Ashigaru's report, estimated the distance, pointed the iron cannon at the Shibata Army in front of him, and raised the head of the gun slightly.

Beads of sweat rolled down Yoshida's forehead slightly, and although he fought for the first time from time to time, he was still a little apprehensive in his heart.

"Hachiman Daimyojin!"

Yoshida Sunshiro said silently, his heart beating like a big drum, although he was a little nervous, but the hand holding the iron cannon did not shake at all, this is the result of years of rigorous training.

The iron cannon in the western phalanx is light, and what must be practiced every day must be to tie a heavy object to the head of the gun, which must be kept horizontal, and then stand motionless for a period of time.

So at the moment, despite the nervousness, Yoshida Sunshiro still has a light weight in his hands.

The Iron Cannon Ashigaru General swung his sword at him and shouted, "Shoot!" ”

Yoshida Sunshiro did not hesitate to pull the trigger in his hand, and he could clearly see that he was facing a rushing Shibata gun, his body suddenly paused, and then fell to the ground, his body shaking suddenly.

With intuition, Yoshida Sunshiro was convinced that he had fired the shot. …,

However, Yoshida Sunshiro didn't react too excitedly, and his expression silently passed by the iron cannon Ashigaru who followed in the second row, and any stop during this period would have to eat a military stick.

With Li Xiao's order, it didn't take long for almost at the same time, the first row of the array of the Takeda Army's seven Western Kingdom phalanxes, iron cannons fired a salvo.

On the battlefield, there was a loud roar of iron cannons.

Li Xiao saw that with the shooting of the iron artillery team, the blue-black gunpowder smoke began to rise in front of the battle.

A short moment later, the second row of Takeda's iron guns began to fire a salvo.

Li Xiao looked at the advancing Shibata Army, because the distance was still far away, the firing power of the iron cannon was not at its maximum.

After the front row of the Shibata army was killed and wounded, they all hid behind the ashigaru with a shield board.

But the arrow shield can't cover everyone.

Since the Shibata Army's bow foot light had not yet reached the firing distance relative to this distance, the Shibata Army was now enduring casualties.

"Why didn't the Shibata Army fight back with the Iron Artillery Team?" Usami asked Li Xiao.

Li Xiao stretched out his hand and pointed forward, and said, "The Shibata Army doesn't know how to shoot in three stages, so we can only wait until the Iron Artillery Team gets close to our army for a certain distance and then carry out the only round of salvo!" ”

"However, it's not that easy," Li Xiao immediately said, "Pass the order and order the Iron Artillery Team to speed up the firing frequency!" ”

"Oh!"

On the battlefield, after the sixth row of iron cannons of the Takeda Army had completed the salvo, the gap between the two armies was approaching thirty, and the casualties of the Shibata Army began to increase, and its shock lineup had begun to thin up.

At this time, with the third salvo of the Takeda Army's large cylinder team, several more arrow plates were smashed by cannonballs, and sawdust and corpse pieces of flesh were thrown high and flew in the air.

Suffering such heavy casualties, the front of Shibata's army began to show signs of retreat.

At this time, as several front-line generals, Mao Sheng couldn't bear it anymore, and began to order the iron cannon to speed up forward and strike at the Takeda military formation to weaken the momentum of the enemy's iron cannon shooting.

As the battle progressed, Sunshiro Yoshida, who had already fired a shot, had retreated to the last row and began to reload his ammunition during this time.

Yoshida Sunshiro skillfully cleaned the gunpowder slag in the chamber with a ram, then filled it with gunpowder and projectiles, repeatedly compacted the gunpowder projectiles in the chamber with a ram, and finally inserted the fire rope into the fire hole again.

This series of movements flowed smoothly and was completed on the march, and for Yoshida Sunshiro, a large number of repetitive movements had to be performed every day in order to shorten the time as quickly as possible on the battlefield.

At the moment when Yoshida Sunshiro finished it, he looked left and right at the other five iron guns in his platoon, and they were almost finished reloading their ammunition, and the difference between them was at most a breath and a breath.

At this moment, Yoshida Sunshiro had re-established himself in the first row of the iron cannon formation, and the scene in front of him was different from when he was at the time.

About twenty-five miles in front of him, the front row of the Shibata army had been replaced by Ashigaru armed with iron cannons or bows and arrows, although they suffered many casualties under the continuous iron cannon fire of the Takeda army.

But still under the command of the opposing general, he raised the iron cannon and the bow and arrow.

"Raise your gun and aim!"

With the hoarse roar of the iron cannon general beside him, Yoshida Sunshiro took a small step forward with his left foot, raised his gun expressionlessly, and then aimed the gun flat.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

It was not the Takeda Army that fired the shots, but the Shibata Army's iron cannon Ashigaru.

In an instant, Yoshida Sunshiro felt something fly by in his right ear, followed by a hot feeling.

But before Yoshida Sunshiro could feel the pain, an iron cannon beside him was already holding his chest with his hands and collapsed.

Yoshida Sunshiro's eyes instantly turned red, and his friendship with the other party on weekdays was really good.

The same scene was played out in the Takeda Army's formation, and with the Shibata Army's iron cannon salvo, the ashigaru of the first platoon of the Takeda Army fell one after another, and the bodies of the undead or wounded twitched on the grass.

The same enemy fired bows and arrows and flew down, causing casualties in the Takeda army.

There was not much time for sympathy and mercy, and the places of the casualties were immediately filled by the ashigaru in the back row, and everyone stared calmly at the enemy opposite.

"Shoot!"

Under the order of General Ashigaru, Yoshida Sunshiro pulled the trigger, and he clearly saw that under his own fire, the iron cannons in the front row of the enemy army, bowed lightly, fell to the ground like sacks.

"This army can be of great use!"

Seeing that his standing guard not only withstood the blow of the Shibata army's iron cannon bow and arrow, but also that the formation was not chaotic at all, Li Xiao said with emotion.

Compared with the embarrassment when Li Xiao led Kamioka to prepare for the Saito army when the Western Kingdom phalanx was formed, it can be said that the judgment is now high.

But Li Xiao didn't dare to say that the Western Phalanx had been completed, and when facing the cavalry assault of the Shibata Army, it was the real test.

The Shibata Army's iron artillery Ashigaru only had a chance to fire a salvo, while the Takeda Army, on the other hand, under the operation of the Western Phalanx, the fire of the iron artillery was endless and uninterrupted.

No wonder the Spaniards boasted that if they gave him ten musketeers, they could guarantee that the muskets would last until the end of the war.

The Shibata army attacked the Takeda army's formation, and whenever it approached a distance of ten rooms, it would be defeated by the Takeda army's iron artillery ashigaru.

It's been like this several times in a row.

The Shibata Army, which was the closest to the first time, but was lined up in a skirmish line, did not pose any threat to the spear phalanx of the Takeda Army that was waiting for the battle, and was forced back alive.

The Shibata Army suffered countless casualties of samurai Ashigaru, and it approached several times, but it didn't even have a chance to kill the Takeda Army in front of the battle.

At this moment in the battle, the commander-in-chief of the Shibata army finally couldn't control the military situation.

On the battlefield, more than 2,000 Shibata troops were completely defeated before Li Xiao's phalanx of the Western Kingdom.

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