On the night of September 9, Li Xiao crossed the Chikuma River with the 8,000 army of the Takeda Army Headquarters and set up his headquarters in Hachimangahara. In the middle of the night, the fog began to rise in Hachimangaara.

Knowing that the war was coming, Li Xiao had no intention of sleeping, leaning in front of the tent door, putting the gun across his knees, wiping the knife in his hand, and looking into the depths of the distance with his eyes. In just a few hours, the Uesugi family's wolf-like army will appear in the thick fog and launch a fierce attack on the Takeda family's main camp.

Li Xiao didn't think of the first battle he participated in after coming to the Warring States, well, in the words of the time, it was the first battle, that is, he encountered a bloody battle with the worst casualties in the history of the Warring States. That's a lot of luck.

When the bright moon is in the sky, it must be at this time that the army of the Uesugi family has crossed the Amamiya River, wading through the silver frost-like Chikuma River stream, crossing the river.

Li Xiao can't change this trend, his butterfly that fanned history, his strength is still too small, and he can only do what he can do at the moment is how to keep his surname in the bitter battle of Ming Yue.

Thirteen thousand against eight thousand, the situation is not optimistic.

In the Takeda family's main camp, bonfires were lit everywhere, and most of them, except for the ashigaru soldiers who were on guard, after the first half of the night's trek, fell asleep. Li Xiao looked back left and right, those soldiers of the Takeda family who were called Shinjiro, Heishiro and other common names were sleeping peacefully in their clothes, and many of them did not have tents, so they slept in the open air.

As soldiers of the Takeda family, most of them are not the first time or the second time they have gone into battle, and Shingen's Shinano invasion over the past ten years has turned the Takeda army into an elite army that has experienced a hundred battles.

September 10th, 7 a.m. The fog on Hachimangahara is getting thicker and thicker. Li Xiao's field of vision is in front of him, and the visibility is no more than ten meters.

However, at this time, the cold wind blowing from the northeast gradually became stronger, and according to the theory that the wind and fog dispersed, the overwhelming fog was about to disperse. For now, it was still silent in the silence of the early morning, and all around was the sound of the strong wind blowing every Takeda soldier, the 'Kasa seal' behind his pocket and the flag fingers on his back still rattling, and occasionally the neighing of a war horse or two.

At this time, the soldiers of the Takeda family were eating breakfast, and after more than ten days, Li Xiao also integrated into the life of the samurai, and like every soldier, poured the water in the bamboo tube into the dry rice and sprinkled it with sesame seeds and salt. It's a quick way to eat in wartime, quick and easy, and ready to deal with sudden wars.

At this moment, the three centipede riders swept through the front of Takeda Nobuyoshi's formation, and went straight to the main formation, and one of them still had arrows behind his back. Many soldiers under the command of Xin Fan saw this scene, and they hurriedly dropped the rice balls in their hands, took their guns and stood up.

Some people guessed in their hearts that the Einsatzgruppen had already engaged the Echigo army so quickly. After a while, Li Xiao could see from a distance that from the position of Takeda Shinxuan's main formation, the centipede cavalry galloped out and scattered in all directions.

A centipede rider galloped to Takeda Nobuyoshi, pointing his pistol in his hand and pointing ahead.

"Lord Lord, please believe that the enemy army is in front of you!"

The Takeda Army's camp was surrounded by earthen ramparts. Roads are heavily fenced, and beyond them are hastily harvested rice paddies or empty wastelands that farmers use for composting.

Except for a few low-lying and waterlogged places, it is very suitable for large corps operations.

After receiving the order to prepare for battle, the various phalanxes of the Takeda Army began to move, the movement of military horses, the footsteps of soldiers, and the arrangement of them according to the pre-arranged positions to meet the enemy.

Faintly, the soldiers of the Takeda family could already hear the faint sound of a rising tide in the fog ahead. In the overlapping fog, people can also be seen shuttling back and forth.

Suddenly, the strong southeast wind suddenly turned stronger, and the thick fog in front of the soldiers of the Takeda family was completely blown away, as if the curtain had been rolled up. Li Xiao clearly saw that countless black-clothed and black-armored soldiers in front of him were slowly advancing towards the Takeda Army's main formation like a black line.

On the two black-on-white flags standing in the array, although he couldn't see it clearly, Li Xiao knew that one of the flags had 'dragon' written in traditional Chinese, and the other was a 'bi' flag. And under the banner is the dragon of Echigo, Uesugi Kenshin.

The sudden appearance of the Echigo Army and its solemn appearance shocked the officers and men of the Takeda Army deeply.

Now in front of the array of the Takeda Army, there is the iron artillery team that Shingen has spent a lot of money to deploy. In the past, the Takeda family ignored the iron cannon, a new technology stream of lethal weapons, and then had a fiasco in the Battle of Choga.

In fact, Takeda Shingen was one of the first daimyo monarchs of this era to attach importance to and equip iron cannons. As early as the time of Shinano's raids, Takeda Shingen had already formed a large-scale iron artillery unit in the Warring States period. At present, the iron artillery team of about 100 people of the Takeda family stood in a column, and they all knelt down and raised their guns.

As the advance of the Echigo army entered the range of the iron cannon, the leader of the iron artillery team waved down the sword in his hand and shouted: "Anat." ”

The muzzle of the iron cannon spewed flames, and the Echigo army lined up in a neat phalanx of soldiers, and immediately many soldiers rushed to the ground.

The sound of thunderous iron cannons echoing over Hachimangahara was also a warning signal from Takeda Shingen to the Tsumame Mountain Rangers who had attacked.

Takeda Army's main camp crisis!

Oh!

After being attacked by the iron artillery, the Echigo army shouted in unison, and the ashigaru soldiers in the front row hung down their spear heads like a dense forest, and rushed towards the Takeda military formation with their guns in their hands.

The bloody reality scene in front of him made Li Xiao's heart beat like a big drum.

Takeda Shin has been in battle for a long time and is very determined, even his two sons are also calm, and Li Xiao suddenly relaxed a lot when he saw this. At this time, the iron artillery team in front of the formation was reloaded, and the second time it opened fire on the attacking Echigo army.

This time the distance was closer, and the lethality was much greater, and more Vietnamese soldiers fell on the way to the impact.

Li Xiao shook his head, obviously the use of the Takeda Army's iron cannon technology was not distinctive. It was only shot by a single soldier, simply filled with ammunition, the rate of fire was slow, and the time interval between the first shot and the second shot was more than twenty seconds.

In terms of the tactics of the use of iron cannons in the Sengoku period, such as the Saga ninjas hired by Honganji and the iron artillery troops led by Saga Sun City, the 'bottle shot' method of warfare invented by them can reach a rate of one shot in fifteen or sixteen seconds.

And Oda Nobunaga, the iron cannon master of the later Megatron Hon, learned lessons from the nearly ten years of battle with Honganji Temple and trained the iron cannon combat method of 'three-stage strike', and then had a mature use in the battle with the Takeda family's Nagashi.

Then the Takeda Army's iron artillery team was about to retreat to the rear of the formation, and the following preparations were to let the Ashigaru soldiers step forward to engage the Echigo army.

Seeing this, Li Xiao suddenly remembered another famous iron cannon combat method, so he rode his horse to Takeda Shinfan and said so. Although Takeda Nobuyhiro didn't quite understand what Li Xiao meant, he still nodded and did so.

The confrontation between the Echigo Army and the Takeda Army Ashigaru soldiers began.

The two armies, led by low-ranking samurai soldiers, commanded the ashigaru soldiers, who were composed of peasants, and marched in a wall of people. There were many peasant soldiers who had experienced the war for the first time, and their legs were weak in fright, and the head of the Ashigaru group began to scold, waving the sword in his hand and threatening to slash.

In addition to driving his subordinates Ashigaru to fight, these low-level samurai are the backbone of the battle, and the samurai of the two armies will each find the other party's samurai to fight, and generally the victory or defeat of a battle is mostly determined by the casualty ratio of the low-level samurai on both sides.

Purely in terms of fighting, neither small soldiers nor individual brave generals can control the overall situation of the entire battlefield.

The Echigo army in front of them was in black armor and lined up in an emergency formation, killing the Takeda army in the phalanx of Takeda Nobuyoshi. The strength of the Echigo army on the front is estimated to be around 15,600 people, while Takeda Nobuyoshi's side is only 700 people.

Takeda Shinfan, who was beside Li Xiao, closed his lips tightly and suddenly said: "The banner of the enemy army in front is Kakizaki Keijia, the general of the Echigo Army, you must not retreat, fight to the death with me." ”

The Takeda soldiers on the left and right agreed in a hurry.

When Li Xiao played the Taiko game, he heard of the prestige of the Kakizaki Kei, who was the first general under Uesugi Kenshin, and was known as 'the unrivaled among the seven prefectures of Echigo'.

Li Xiao saw that the other party was dressed in black leather armor, straddling a pitch-black horse, holding a black spike long-handled spear with a spike length of four feet, and the sickle-shaped 'front stand' on the helmet that marked the surname was shining in the morning light.

This eye-catching and stylish dress seems to be eager for all the enemies on the battlefield, and he doesn't know that he is Kakizaki Jingjia. Li Xiao secretly smiled bitterly, if he had known that he was going to cross, he would have brought a gun and destroyed the Kakizaki Jingjia with one shot directly at this distance, saving so much trouble.

But if it is replaced by an iron cannon, at this distance, with the accuracy of the iron cannon in this era, Li Xiao will not have any illusions at all.

Li Xiao sighed and felt very sorry, but Takeda Shintoshi on the side thought that Li Xiao was hesitant about the strong strength of the Echigo army.

At this time, Kakizaki Keijia pointed at the tip of his gun, and his samurai rushed to kill with him, and his direct aim was to win the head of the second person in the Takeda family.