Chapter Seventy-One: Defeating the Three Armies
The gun has been the king of a hundred soldiers since ancient times, and there are many famous generals who use guns in history, such as Zhao Zilong, Wang Jingyao, Wei Chi Jingde, Yue Wumu, all of whom are fierce generals who dare to break into the camp with one gun and one horse. Li Xiao remembered that the old cadres often sighed before their deaths, modern martial arts were in ruins, and cold weapons based on guns had completely withdrawn from the trend of the times, but in the past battlefield, guns were definitely first-class killing weapons.
At present, the sky on Mt. Shirane is overcast, and it is about to fall into the night, and now the clouds on the horizon are gradually thickening, and it seems that it is about to rain.
And when Li Xiao, who had the Takeda Ling Flag on his back, turned back to the moment when he returned to the Saito Asanobu Army. For the Ashigaru soldiers of the Echigo Army, it was like a god of murder.
Li Xiaojin said that the people he killed had at least reached more than 100 people, and when he killed more people, he naturally had a murderous aura on his body, and he regarded human life as a mustard. Like the Echigo army rushing towards him in front of him, Li Xiao didn't have too many ideas, like a conditioned reflex, he saw the gap of the other party at a glance, and stabbed the other party with one shot.
A famous Echigo samurai, riding a war horse, challenged Li Xiao on a horse. Li Xiao even owed the time to listen to the other party's self-declaration of his surname, and directly inserted a shot into the horse's neck, forking the other party's people and horses into a string.
Shock, fear, and fear all kinds of expressions appeared on the faces of the soldiers of the Echigo Army at this time.
Li Xiao drew a shot, bringing out a rain of blood, and the warrior fell to the ground with the horse. At this moment, the troops in the four Viethorn troops lost their will to fight and fled one after another.
And now that Shima is victorious, Yumi Kohata is leading more than a dozen cavalrymen to break through in the direction of the Takeda Army's main formation. The Echigo spear foot light team cooperated very tacitly, once one person used a gun to pick up a horse, another person went to bend down to assassinate the horse.
The two sides fought fiercely for a while, and the Echigo army spear ashigaru used this method to stab several Takeda cavalry to death, and after the Takeda cavalry fell off the horse, they were then surrounded by a group of Echigo army spears and spears for a while.
Shimakatsu was also very tired from the fierce battle at this moment, and he could definitely fight his way out of the encirclement with his own strength, but he had to cover the cavalry behind him and Kohata Yumi, who was not good at close combat, so he couldn't get away for a while.
Although Shimakatsu killed more than a dozen Echigo soldiers and samurai in a row, more Echigo soldiers kept coming, and the battle could not be finished, and the killing could not be finished, and more and more battles were fought.
"My lord, you'd better go out alone." Yumi Kohata saw that the Echigo army had besieged his side, and he couldn't help but persuade Katsutoshi Shima to escape alone.
After seeing that Shima Katsutoshi killed another Echigo samurai, he said to Yumi Kohata: "Needless to say, let's think about how to kill here." ”
Yumi Kohata subconsciously touched the quiver, but forgot that it was already empty. Yumi Kohata pulled the reins of the horse, lowered her head and wiped a sad look in her eyes, shook her head lightly and said, "I'm afraid it's difficult, I just hope that the lord can take care of my family after he enters the siege." ”
Shimakatsu parried the attack of an Echigo Ashigaru again, and now he is getting more and more overwhelmed, but as a samurai, he must not show a trace of fatigue at this time, and he must inspire the rest of the people to fight their way out of the encirclement.
"Don't be discouraged, of course your family will be taken care of by yourself."
"That's right," Yumi Kohata nodded, a smile on her face again, and said, "We are all samurai, and we must not be discouraged until the last moment." ”
Shimakatsu laughed and was about to speak.
But he saw the Echigo army that was originally blocking in front of him, and they ran in all directions, and the frightened look on the face of those Echigo soldiers was as if they had suddenly seen a flood of beasts.
The sound of whistling horses' hooves sounded, and Yumi Kohata saw several blood-stained Takeda Rhombo fingers at a glance.
"It's the lord, he didn't leave us behind." Looking at Li Xiao, who was covered in blood and holding a big gun in his hand, riding a horse towards them, Yumi Kohata almost burst into tears at this moment.
Shima Shengmeng also laughed loudly and shouted behind him: "My lord has come to save us, let's kill it together." ”
These more than ten cavalrymen of the Takeda Army were also ecstatic when they saw that their surnames were saved.
Li Xiao stopped his horse and saw that Shima Katsutsu and Kohata Yumi were safe and sound, and he was happy in his heart, but he looked at it again, frowned and said, "Why are there so few people left?" ”
Shima Katsu said with a look of embarrassment: "My lord, besides us, there are other people who are also trapped in the formation. ”
"Anyone else? Okay, there's no need to say more," Li Xiao waved his big gun and said, "Everyone is willing to kill with me for a while and rescue the others." ”
Although everyone was tired and wounded, they replied violently, "I would like to follow your lordship." ”
Li Xiao nodded and said, "Everyone follow me, don't be separated." ”
So Li Xiao once again took a horse, and this time the Ashigaru of the Echigo army saw Li Xiao with more than a dozen cavalry killed, and almost didn't even have the idea of resisting, and they spread their feet and retreated. Not only is this the case for low-level ashigaru, but even the famous samurai who has experienced several joint battles in Echigo is also frightened, and no one dares to take a step near Li Xiao.
Occasionally, only one or two people who didn't have long eyes or ran slower were picked off by Li Xiao's spear, and I saw that wherever Li Xiao went, the Echigo army retreated.
was originally under siege and had fallen into despair, and the cavalry of the Takeda family everywhere felt a sense of despair when they saw their own cavalry returning.
"Your Excellency, you didn't leave us behind."
The cavalry of the Takeda family regained their spirits and rode their horses into battle to kill the enemy.
Along the way, there were cavalry of the Takeda family who joined Li Xiao's cavalry torrent, and the number of cavalry teams of the Takeda family increased again. Later, Li Xiao even focused on finding places with many soldiers in Echigo, and often rescued a few Takeda cavalry.
And every time Li Xiao rushed to this situation, the Echigo army dispersed in a hurry. In this way, the military strength of Saito Asanobu's team completely collapsed under such a surprise attack by the cavalry of the Takeda family.
On the main camp of the Uesugi army.
The expressions of the generals of the Echigo Army at the moment were quite wonderful. I thought that the Saito Asanobu team had trapped and besieged this Takeda cavalry team, but although Li Xiao was gone, this result was acceptable.
But their expressions, with the moment Li Xiao turned back to kill, there was a 180-degree reversal, Li Xiao not only did not flee for his life, but turned back to rescue the cavalry team of the Takeda family, not only that, but also rushed left and right in the Saito Asanobu team, and now the defeat of the Saito Asanobu team is a foregone conclusion.
Is this a weirdo? At this point in the battle, everyone is exhausted, isn't he tireless at all? And are the cavalry teams under his command also beaten with iron one by one?
Many Echigo generals thought so in their hearts, but no one said it at the moment.
Looking at the scene of the fiasco of Saito's asanobu team, Uesugi Kenshin couldn't help it at the moment, he threw the rosary in his hand to the ground, pointed at Li Xiao at the bottom of the mountain and roared: "Is it possible that none of my Yue Hou can resist this Li Xiao?"
All the generals were ashamed of Uesugi Kenshin's harsh words.
"Lord, we still have several reserves such as Yamamoto Temple Dingchang and Chisaka Keijin that can be mobilized, and the troops of this formation have not yet gone into battle, these thousands of fresh troops are enough to completely encircle and kill the Takeda Army here." One of the generals, Echigo, advised.
Minoru Naoe on the side sighed, looked at the Echigo army on the battlefield that was killed by the cavalry of the Takeda Army and fled in all directions, and said softly: "Is it useful?" The morale of our army has been discharged, and I am afraid that the generals and subordinates of the other formations are unwilling to fight the enemy at this moment. ”
After Naoe Minoru said this, the Echigo generals were silent. Today, this Ming country general is as brave as if he was possessed by the god of Hachiman, and in such a state, I am afraid that the Echigo army will not fight with him.
As he spoke, the already dark sky suddenly crackled and rained heavily, and the freezing rain in the mountains in the early spring was enough to chill people's bones. Ordinary people are fine, if they let the wounded soldiers get drenched, it is likely to endanger their lives.
Uesugi Kenshin stared in the rain for a while, and said in a deep voice, "Blow the conch trumpet and withdraw the troops." ”
"My lord." The generals of Echigo stepped forward one after another and spoke in unison.
Uesugi Ken said: "If you continue to fight, it will be useless, I didn't think that I Uesugi Huihu has been in the country for more than ten years, and I have not tasted a defeat, but now I am defeated under Shirane Mountain." Needless to say, withdraw troops. ”
With Uesugi Kenshin's shout, the main formation of the Echigo army sounded the horn of the conch to collect the troops.
As the sky grew dark, and in the midst of the heavy rain, after the long line of Katsube and Yamamotoji came up to the front hall, the other Echigo Ueno coalition forces began to retreat, bringing the wounded soldiers out of the battlefield one after another, and at the same time, on the other side of the hill, the remnants of the Takeda army's main formation also began to retreat, slowly retreating to the Shirane Mountain Pass.
Uesugi Kenshin watched the retreating army of the Takeda army in the rain, and saw Li Xiao take the remaining thirty cavalry of the Takeda family as the rear of the palace, covering the retreat of the main formation towards the mountain pass.
"Wait, I'll have a fight with you sooner or later."
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