On the hillside, wearing a hat on their heads, holding three spears, they stepped on the soft soil with their feet in grass shoes, and quickly descended the mountain in a formation.

Li Xiao left his sister Koji Yoritsuna, as well as the 300 troops of the Kojima family, such as Honda Masanobu, Yakushi, and the Little Lotus Team on the mountain.

And he took two dissatisfied Kamioka Bei and Snake Tail Bei, plus the military strength of the Jiangma family, a total of more than 1,000 people rushed down the mountain.

Li Xiao's goal was clear, that is, to attack the flank of the Uesugi army that was storming Etsuchu, Kaga had always been in the main camp.

Now Uesugi Kenshin is almost with the strength of an army, so that the monks and soldiers of Kaga Echichu can't raise their heads, so Li Xiao must arrive as soon as possible, otherwise once the Honganji main camp can't support it, his strength is not enough to compete with the Uesugi family alone.

However, before approaching the flank of the Uesugi army, fighting on other battlefields continued.

When Li Xiao's army descended the mountain, the first thing that was blocked was the military strength of Yizong.

The military situation of this road has always been that the Xuanzong of Honganji Temple was worried that Li Xiao would collude with the Uesugi family repeatedly, and deliberately stayed here to monitor Li Xiao's main formation.

Most of the battle has been carried out, and the army of Yizong in other places on the battlefield has been defeated, but this army has been unmoved, staring at Li Xiao's own formation, guarding the front.

Sure enough, when Li Xiao asked this road to be allowed to go by the sect's army, he was refused.

Their reply was that they must not leave the position they held until the order of the abbot of Xuanzong was issued.

"It's really old-fashioned and doesn't know how to be flexible, even with this little bit of men and horses dare to stop our army," Xiaoman Xiaoxian snorted and said to Li Xiaoyan, "Please give the lord an order to immediately send troops to eradicate this Yizong army, and it doesn't cost us any effort." ”

Li Xiao raised his hand and said: "It's just some poor people, there is no need to kill, order to set up a formation, and the iron artillery team will fire a warning shot into the sky in front." ”

When Honda Masanobu heard this, he recited a Buddha name and said, "Thank you, the Lord Mansion is kind-hearted. ”

Hearing this, Usami Nami on the side glanced at Li Xiao and nodded slightly.

When Li Xiao's iron artillery team fired a volley, the sound of the iron cannon roaring in unison echoed endlessly.

This group of disciples of the Sect is also in vain, the entire battlefield of the Sect of the Sect is already in a situation of complete defeat, how can they have the determination to resist.

Therefore, the moment the iron cannon sounded, the momentum of the Zong army had already collapsed, and when they saw the elite Takeda army lined up in formation and approached the bottom of the mountain, they fled without a trace.

"Vulnerable." On the side, Xiaohan Xiaoxian snorted coldly.

Seeing the repulsion of this force of the Yizong army, Li Xiao rode on the black forged horse, and gave the order to the envoy in the army, saying: "Send an order to the reserves, with the snake tail on the right, Shengang in the center, and the Jiangma army on the left as the formation, quickly advance forward, if you encounter a small group of enemies along the way, you will use iron cannons, bows and arrows to drive away, and if you encounter a large group of enemies, you will re-line the formation to meet the battle." ”

Li Xiao raised the horsewhip and raised it forward, and said: "In the passage, avoid all fights as soon as possible, my goal is only one, that is, Uesugi Huihu!" ”

"Oh!"

The envoy agreed, and then conveyed Li Xiao's order.

Li Xiao led the flag holder of this formation to follow on the side of the snake tail Bei, the flag mark of the moon double pattern, and the rapid advance of the ashigaru, and the Takeda Ling Flag finger on the back formed a strong visual impact array.

Along the way, the disciples of the sect, as well as the army of the Xiaohao clan, saw this army with a strict lineup, and they retreated and left, and no one wanted to take their own surnames to live.

However, Li Xiao still encountered the situation of intercepting his own army, which was the army of Kikuchi Takekatsu, the lord of Ao City.

But Kikuchi Takekatsu made a wrong judgment, which made the battle situation a ridiculous scene.

It turned out that Kikuchi Wusheng had just seen Li Xiao's army attacking Yixiangzong, and he thought that the other party was also a military force belonging to the wealthy clan in Vietnam, so he naturally regarded Li Xiaojun as a friendly army.

Kikuchi Takekatsu was not wary at all, and exposed the flanks of the generals in front of Li Xiao, and generously let them pass by, preparing to flank the current Xiangzong army together.

Seeing this scene, Li Xiao was of course unceremonious, deliberately pretending not to know, and when he approached the strength of Kikuchi Takekatsu's army, he suddenly turned his face and ordered his troops to enter their weak flank.

Kikuchi Takekatsu was caught off guard, and was immediately routed by the whole army, if he hadn't fought his way out under the close guard, he would have almost been given his surname here.

Li Xiao did not order the pursuit of the Kikuchi family's forces, and his current target was only Uesugi Kenshin.

Li Xiaojun was approaching the center of the battlefield step by step, on the side of the Uesugi army.

The battle here at Honganji Temple has fallen into a bitter battle, and the Uesugi army, under the command of Uesugi Kenshin, took turns to attack the monks of the Tsunekozong in front of them with a cavalry team and an ashigaru team.

Although the monks were also an elite army, and their numbers were superior to the Uesugi army, and there were also a large number of iron cannons to help.

However, the tactical command level of these officials, monks and monks, compared to Uesugi Kenshin, is simply one heaven and one underground.

Although Uesugi Kenshin's frontal offensive was like a fire, he did not fight in a hurry, and while maintaining the offensive against the Honganji main camp, he constantly sent light cavalry to outflank and harass the enemy's flank.

Looking at the situation on the battlefield, the big bald head of Shimoma Lai Zhao saw that it was a big sweat, and he was a little careless, and a monk army of 200 people under his command was divided and surrounded by the cavalry of the Uesugi army.

Shimoma Yorisho wanted to support, but he was powerless, so he could only watch the monks and soldiers on this road annihilated, and finally they were all cut into corpses by the Uesugi family's horseback team with a sword.

How can this battle continue, seeing this scene, Lai Zhao's heart was also shaken, so even the main formation could not hold on.

Although he had heard that the same sect in Etsuchu had said that Uesugi Kenshin was brave and good at fighting, he had never seen such a level of bravery.

He thinks that Uesugi Kenshin is at most a famous general similar to Asakura Munetsu, but at the moment it seems that Uesugi Kenshin is better than Asakura Sotsu!

"Owner, I can't support it."

Shimoma Nakataka returned to his camp with a bloody face on his face, and reported to his father: "Although the monks and soldiers have the determination to fight bravely to eliminate demons and magnify Buddhism, the Uesugi army is too good at fighting, but they are simply not ordinary demons. Please give the order to retreat, or if you continue like this, you will be wiped out here. ”

Shimoma Lai Zhao shook his head and said, "Do you think we still have a chance to escape?" More than half of the Uesugi army was a cavalry team, and if we retreated, we would not be able to escape a mile at all, but if we stayed to meet the battle, the battle might have a turning point. ”

"But where's the turning point? Our army's own formation is no longer able to counterattack the Uesugi army, and the disciples on the four sides are in a rout under the attack of the Yuezhong Hao clan, and I don't see a turnaround. ”

When Shimoma Lai Zhao heard this, he was silent.

At this moment, a monk soldier rushed to the main camp where Yorizhao was located, and said, "Owner, there is an army of thousands of unknown sources on the left side of the Uesugi army. ”

"Oh, what kind of army is it, I think it's probably the Yuezhong Hao clan who came to support the Uesugi army." When Shimoma Lai Zhao heard this, his face was like ashes, and he shook his head alone with a wry smile.

"No, owner," Shimoma Nakataka suddenly said with an excited expression, "This army is flying the banner of Takeda Ling and the moon double pattern, this is the old Li Xiao of the Takeda family." ”

"Li Xiao?" Shimoma Lai Zhao perked up, walked to a high place to look, and said, "Yes, it's the military strength of the Takeda family, this Li Xiao's name, when I was in Kaga, I had already heard that it was said to be a fierce general who could go hand in hand with Uesugi Teruto, I didn't believe it at the time, but at this moment I hope it is true." Nakatakaka, as far as I know, the Takeda family has an alliance with the Honzong, so I'm here to help us. ”

"Yes, owner, Li Xiao must be reinforcing us, we can unite with Shengxing Temple, Li Xiao's army, and attack Uesugi Huihu on three sides."

Hearing his son's reply, Shimoma Lai Zhao nodded and said, "Very good, no matter what Li Xiao's intentions are here, but our Pure Land True Sect also feels his rescue feelings, and we have given the order to go down and gather troops to be ready to counterattack at any time." ”

"Oh."

At this moment, Uesugi Kenshin was in a bowl, and on a high ground, he sat peacefully on his war horse, calmly directing the battle.

From time to time, Uesugi Kenshin raised his horsewhip and waved his finger at the Ichisho army formation, pointing out the flaws in it, and then ordered the order to mobilize the army to attack in turn, and under his excellent command, the Honganji main formation was in danger under the attack of the Uesugi army.

"It won't be long before the Honganji main camp can be defeated." Yataro Onikojima pointed to the battle ahead and said confidently.

Murakami Kunikiyo on the side looked at Uesugi Ken with great admiration and said: "With an army of 2,000 to break the crowd of 80,000, no one has done this in ancient times, and the bravery of the lord will be spread all over the world because of this battle." ”

Uesugi Kenshin shook his head and said, "In my opinion, Honganji Temple is just a rabble, no matter how many people there are, they don't take it seriously. The fierceness of this battle was far less than that of Kawanakajima. ”

Murakami Kuniqing said with a sigh: "But after this battle, the lord can rely on this momentum to unite the wealthy clans in Vietnam and Central China in one fell swoop, and accept them under the name of my Uesugi family." Unifying Yuezhong, so that the lord is one step closer to the road to Shangluo, and it can also avoid the unfavorable battle situation of the Takeda family from three sides. ”

Hearing Murakami Kunikiyo say this, Uesugi Kenshin was silent for a while, and then the Uesugi Army's Monomi ran to Uesugi Kenshin and said, "Report to the lord, the military momentum of the Takeda Army appears on the left side of our army. ”

"What?" Murakami Kunikiyo was stunned for a moment.

"It's Li Xiao," Uesugi Kenshin said with a hint of calm in his eyes, "He really won't miss it." ”

Uesugi Kenshin suddenly remembered that during the Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima, it was also Li Xiao, and when he was about to swing his sword again and slash at Takeda Shingen, he rescued him from the side, so that he did not kill Takeda Shingen in the end.

Could it be that at this moment, he also wants to follow Kawanakajima's actions, so that he can't defeat the Honganji main camp in this battle, and he can't be fully successful?

Uesugi Kenshin drove his war horse, came to the front of the mountain, looked at the Takeda Lingqi that was shining like fire not far away, pointed at Li Xiao's military formation with a horse whip, and shouted: "Since this is the case, let's let the horses fight!." ”

(To be continued)