Fushin Kawagami's mood changed instantly, like heaven to prison, two extremes.

Originally intending to destroy the Eima family, Sister Koji Ryoyori promised him a fief of 2,000 koku and became the lord of Takahara Suwa Castle.

This is undoubtedly a great benefit for the Kawagami family, 3,000 stone plus the original 2,000 stone, the Kawagami family can become a small daimyo of 5,000 stone. In addition, he did not have to live in a simple mountain wall built of mountain trees, but he could move into Suwa Castle, a highland with stone walls and a more sturdy and comfortable plateau.

And the key thing is that he can replace the Eima family as the most powerful wealthy family in the North Hida, and Kawagami Fushin believes that with his influence, he can win over some local people, and in the future, he can even get rid of the constraints of the sister Xiaolu family and become a master of reading.

It was under this temptation that the Kawagami family betrayed the main family, the Jiangma family, and chose a path to reach their ambitions by destroying the main family.

However, now that the Takeda Army had joined the Eda family, the Eima family had received strong reinforcements, and Sister Koji Yoshiyori had to suspend the attack on Suwa Castle in the highlands.

If Sister Xiaolu did not destroy the Jiangma family, then for Heshang Fuxin, the next will undoubtedly be an extremely tragic fate, and the Jiangma family will tilt all their anger on this traitor of their own.

So that the river house is in danger.

Therefore, for the sister Koji family, if they can't capture the plateau Suwa Castle, they can withdraw, but their river family and Kazuhito's family must not retreat.

Obviously, Sister Koji Yoyori also calculated this, so he ordered the Kawagami family and the Karen family to block the Takeda army on the mountain.

This is to make the soldiers of the Heshang family and the Heren family fight for their lives and have to fight to the death. If the attack can be successfully blocked, the sister Koji army will complete its military strength, and the two sides will be able to annihilate this Takeda army in one fell swoop, and then capture the highland Suwa Castle.

In case the blockade fails...... Fushin Kawagami didn't dare to think about it anymore.

There is no way to retreat, even if it is defeated, at least it must hold out until the sister road army regrouped.

Kawagami Tominobu thought so, and then shouted loudly to order the combined forces of Kawagami and Hitoshi to move forward and come to the position of the Takeda army on the hillside from Gomachi.

Kawagami Funobu is not ready to take the initiative to attack, but he only needs to block the path of this Takeda army's advance, prevent the other party from copying to the rear, and attack the main camp of the sister Xiaoji family.

Kawagami confidently decided to delay the tactics, and at the same time prayed in his heart that the sister Koji army would immediately retreat from the highland Suwa Castle, and then regroup their forces to reinforce them.

On the hillside where the Takeda Army was stationed.

Li Xiao looked at the military situation blocking them along the way, and asked towards the island Shengmeng: "How is the combat strength of the enemy army on this road compared to our army?" ”

Shimakatsu sneered, raised his horsewhip, and condescendingly pointed to the enemy's military strength at the bottom of the mountain, and said: "My lord, the mountain people of Hida Country are brave and good at fighting, but the generals of the enemy army are afraid of our army's military strength and lack the courage to fight. ”

Li Xiao nodded and said, "That's right, since this is the case, Shengmeng, you will command the whole army for me." ”

"My lord?" Shimakatsu said in surprise.

It's no wonder that Dao Shengmeng was surprised, generally famous families or wealthy families go to war, and they are personally commanded as the chief general, but Li Xiao let Dao Shengmeng command the battle, which is contrary to common sense.

However, Li Xiao is self-aware, he does not know very well about the tactics of the cold weapon era, and he still needs to learn.

Defeating Uesugi Kenshin in the Battle of Mt. Shirane, in addition to his own wisdom with a little modern knowledge, a large part of it was also due to luck, Uesugi Kenshin did not know his own details, so he suffered a loss from the enemy.

Because it is a cold-weapon battle, it is restricted by the morale of the troops, and it is rare to use the skirmish line of play that is suitable for dodging heavy firepower in modern times.

Therefore, if Li Xiao commanded a military formation of more than hundreds of people and fought in the form of marching into the formation, he might not be as good as Dao Shengmeng, and he might not be as good as the other party.

In short, in the future, Dao Shengmeng will also be the only general in Li Xiao's army to lead an army to fight, and Li Xiao is also ready to train him well.

When Dao Sheng suddenly saw Li Xiao handing over the command to him, he immediately felt Li Xiao's trust in him, and at the same time shouldered a responsibility and pressure.

Now Li Xiao can draw out the identity of the general and the authority, and instead look at this battle from the perspective of a bystander.

Li Xiao took a closer look from the mountain, went to the river to join forces with the Renjia army, and had already begun to line up.

The opposing side was arranged into two armies, left and right, lined up in a dense formation, arranged in turn, and arranged in the direction of the Takeda Army in a circular defensive line.

Li Xiao listened to Dao Shengmeng's explanation that the Heren coalition army on the river had laid out a square circle array that was conducive to defense.

The square circle array is almost like the legendary iron bucket array, which is dispatched and commanded by the general in the center, and then arranged in a circular formation by the bow foot light team and the spear foot light team in turn.

The advantage of the square circle array is that the circular formation can make the front, rear, left and right attack area become minimized, and the dense and concentrated arrangement of troops makes the front, rear, left and right are strongly supported, even if a certain part is attacked by the enemy, the army is not easy to collapse.

In short, this is a tactic of fighting without attacking the enemy and establishing oneself in an invincible position.

However, the shortcomings of the Fangyuan array are also obvious, it is only easy to defend, it is difficult to switch from defense to attack, and the maneuver is poor, which is not conducive to pursuit.

However, the purpose of this formation is also very clear, that is, to delay time with a dense and unbreakable defense, and wait for reinforcements after the sister road army regains its strength.

Obviously, Kawagami Fushin's impromptu decision was also very correct, and he adopted the most suitable military formation for himself according to local conditions.

On the other hand, on the side of the Takeda family, under the command of Shima Katsutoshi, the Takeda army laid out, known as the strongest attack of the sharp arrow formation.

The arrow formation is commonly known as the arrow formation, that is, the elite soldiers are arranged at the forefront of the arrows in the formation, and then the two wings of the arrow are spread out diagonally, and the tips of the arrows are almost distributed in a regular triangle shape.

Generally speaking, the front arrow formation is used to break through the line defense, mainly to attack the enemy's defense line with strong troops, and then advance the follow-up forces after opening.

However, for a dense defense such as a square circle, it is not very effective, if the opponent's formation defense is too strong, it is easy to break or deform the arrow formation in front. Generally speaking, under the condition of superiority in troops, the fish scale formation of echelon attack is slowly worn out, and it is a more old-fashioned and serious tactic.

However, Li Xiao saw at a glance the purpose of Dao Shengmeng's actions.

Shima Katsumo's intention was very simple, that is, to place the elite of the strong army in the position of the arrows of the sharp arrow, so as to storm the square circle formation of the Kawagami and Ren coalition forces, the weak central junction position of the two armies.

After achieving the goal of tearing the two armies from the middle, the follow-up men and horses will open up and expand the results.

This method of warfare is correspondingly very targeted, because it takes into account the intention of the sister Xiaolu family to gather reinforcements, so it adopts a quick and decisive tactic.

Although it would take a little risk, once successful, Kazuhito's combined forces could be broken by the Takeda army in a short time.

So thinking about it this way, Shima Katsutoshi's tactics are also very correct.

After the Takeda army was deployed, Shimakatsu rode forward and waved the sword forward, and the Takeda army's 500 troops took a neat step, and as the attacking party, they began to march in the direction of the Kawagami and Ren coalition forces.

(To be continued)