When the shelling of Matsukura Castle rang out again.

Naoe Keitsuna, who is located in the main camp of the Uesugi Army, and Kawada Naga's relatives both have changed their faces.

They looked at the densely built trenches of the Takeda Army, although they didn't know what Li Xiao's intentions were, but in terms of their consistent understanding of Li Xiao, this was by no means untargeted.

There will be trickery in it.

However, neither of them was a general who retreated from the battle, after hearing that Matsukura Castle and the Takeda Army's artillery was attacking the city more and more intensely.

After the two discussed for a while, although they could not see through Li Xiao's trench tactics, they were still ready to attack and save the crisis of Matsucang City.

Kawada Naga first sent a reserve to attack on the flank of the Takeda army.

The strength of this reserve was about 500 men, 350 spears, 30 bows, 20 iron, and 100 samurai and miscellaneous soldiers.

At present, they formed a tight line in front of them, slowly approaching the trenches of the Takeda Army.

At this moment, from the first trench in front, a row of iron cannons with black holes stretched out.

"It's the iron cannon ashigaru" Naoe Jinggang saw this slight color change, he didn't expect that the Takeda army would actually arrange the iron cannon ashigaru in the trench.

According to the cover of the trenches, it is not useless to have such a bow and a light iron cannon.

At this time, in the first trench, the Takeda Army's iron artillery Ashigaru opened fire en masse.

After the smoke of gunpowder filled, the Takeda Army's volley fired a volley, causing the attack lineup of the Echigo Army to stagnate slightly.

Seeing this, Naoe Keixuna said to Kawada Chang himself: "Since the Takeda army has made the iron cannon light and hid in the trenches, it must not have the protection of the pikes, so I ordered the reserve to quickly attack and directly approach the position, so that the enemy army can be defeated." ”

Kawada Naga also said: "In this case, there is nothing to be afraid of the Takeda Army's tactics. Three more reserves are put in for the attack. ”

Naoe Keixuna said: "Lord Wada, this battle is a decisive battle between the Takeda army and the Echigo army, if we can't break through the enemy's trenches in one battle, the enemy army will rely on this to hold on, and Matsukura Castle will only fall, so we must put life and death aside from the consciousness to carry out this battle." ”

Kawada Naga waved his horsewhip, his face was arrogant, and he said, "Lord Yamato, I've been waiting for this day for a long time. ”

Naoe Jingzuna patted Kawada Changqin on the shoulder and said, "I will lead three reserve forces to attack as the main force, and you will lead another army to bypass it as a flank attack to contain the forces of the Takeda army." ”

Kawada nodded heavily and said, "In that case, Naoe-sama, I'll leave everything to you." ”

Naoe Jinggang did not answer immediately, but got on the horse directly, and said in a deep voice: "Lord Kawada, may Your Excellency's martial arts luck last a long time"

"Your Excellency's military luck is long"

After saying goodbye to the two, Naoe Jingzuna led a team of nearly 100 horsemen and began to attack the Takeda army.

After the Echigo Armament was fired at by the first row of the Takeda Army, the general of the Echigo Armament took advantage of the interval to reload the iron gunneru and ordered the reserve gungunashigaru to charge.

However, the general of the Echigo Army did not expect that in the first trench, there was another group of iron cannons of the Takeda Army that had already been prepared.

Just as the Echigo Army approached the charge, the Takeda Army fired a second volley.

After two volleys, the shock lineup of the Echigo army withered a lot, and many brave and daring samurai and ashigaru were killed on the way to the charge.

At this time, the combat significance of the rest of the peasant soldiers was not so firm, and they began to cringe a little.

At this moment, in the second trench of the Takeda Army, the iron cannon Ashigaru fired another salvo of nearly fifty iron cannons.

In the Echigo armament, the general who was supervising the battle and commanding the advance was directly killed on the spot by the Takeda Army's round of iron cannon volleys.

Seeing that the general was killed, the morale of this reserve team suddenly collapsed on the spot, and the front of the army scattered and fled.

Seeing the scene of the Echigo army fleeing in such a mess, the Takeda iron cannon in the trench was light, and everyone laughed.

Laugh at the combat power of the Echigo army, but that's it.

Li Xiao, who was always paying attention to the battle situation in this formation, also smiled slightly, it seemed that the trench warfare method he designed had taken effect.

The purpose of covering the iron artillery with trenches and hoarding heavy troops behind the trenches is not to destroy the enemy, but only to block the attack.

Just as Li Xiao was about to put down the Qianli tube, he suddenly saw a sudden dust in the lens tube.

Li Xiao was stunned for a moment, looked at one side carefully, put down the Qianli tube and said, "What is Zhijiang Jinggang personally leading the horseback team to do?" ”…,

It turned out that Li Xiao saw the flag of the general of Naoe Jinggang himself from the Qianli tube.

Just when the defeated army of the Echigo army retreated, the cavalry team of Naoe Jinggang rushed towards Li Xiao's trench, and this formation made the Takeda army stunned.

Just when Li Xiao was surprised, Naoe Jinggang personally led the Echigo cavalry team to rush to the place where there were less than ten rooms in front of the Takeda army's trench, and the horseback warriors stopped the war horses one after another, and then turned over and dismounted, one by one, holding swords and spears to kill the iron cannons in the Takeda army's trenches.

It turned out that Naoe Jingzuna led the cavalry team to attack first to shorten the charging distance, and then dismounted and fought on foot.

The Echigo cavalry suddenly arrived, which immediately caught the Takeda Army iron artillery in the first trench off guard, and they didn't care about shooting at the moment, so they hurriedly turned around and fled to the second trench from the tunnel where they were communicating.

After that, the three reserves of the Echigo Army had already arrived, and they took advantage of Naoe Jinggang to open this gap and attack the Takeda Army trench position.

Naoe Keitsuna wore a coloring color and took the lead in the charge, even though he was quite old at this time, but he still braved the Takeda Army's iron cannon fire with the low-ranking samurai of the Uesugi family.

Seeing that the general was still so reckless for his life, the samurai of the cavalry team also made a decision to die, and accompanied Naoe Keixuna to rush to the second trench of the Takeda army.

There were only ten spaces between the first and second trenches, and the swift impact of the tiger was almost instantaneous.

The iron cannon of the Takeda army was light, and he didn't have time to react and hurriedly put a row of iron cannons, and when he wanted to retreat, it was too late, so Naoe Jinggang led the samurai and jumped directly into the trench, holding a sword like chopping melons and vegetables, and killed a lot.

Li Xiao saw this scene, his hands sank, he knew that in the second trench, this nearly 100-person iron artillery team was about to be wiped out, and this was the elite soldier he had worked so hard to train.

Immediately, Li Xiao waved his horsewhip and said: "Transfer the flag to prepare here, order the whole army, I want the head of Zhijiang Jinggang"

oh

After receiving the order, he immediately rode back to give the order.

The iron artillery of the third trench did not hinder the rapid onslaught of Naoe's Jinggang team.

Naoe Jinggang and his three reserves broke through the three trenches set up by Li Xiao in one breath and directly attacked the Takeda army camp.

On the other hand, Kawada Nagaqin also led his army to break through, but without the assistance of the cavalry, his army was blocked by the iron cannons of the Takeda army's three trenches in turn, and paid great losses before he broke into the triple trench and broke into the Takeda army camp.

At present, the military momentum of Kawada Naga's relatives was blocked by the army of the wealthy clan in Yuezhong under the command of Kinoshita Hidenaga, and gradually trapped in a corner.

Seeing Naoe Keizuna, Kawada Nagakin's reinforcements went to war, and Shiina Keinao, who was trapped in Matsukura Castle, also led Shiina to go out of the city to counterattack.

Jimbo Nagaken led the Jimbo Army to fight hard with him in the Shinomaru.

The battle situation under Matsukura Castle was divided into three places at one time, and they fought at the same time.

Naoe Keitsuna led his army to the Takeda Army's third frontal assault and was repulsed.

On Naoe Jinggang's right shoulder, blood was pooling and flowing, but he suddenly stopped.

At the moment, he was barely standing with the support of two samurai.

Naoe Jingzuna knew that the victory or defeat of this battle depended on whether his side could break through, and the interception of the Takeda army should be combined with the defenders of Matsukura Castle.

However, the Takeda Army seems to have been targeting this for a long time, and Naoe Jinggang was blocked by the three major reserves of Kamioka, Snake Tail, and Qimoto under Li Xiao.

These three standing armaments are all elite and fierce generals, no less than the Takeda Army's Red Armament, and the Hojo Family's Dihuang Hachiman's strong army.

Although the three reserve units under the command of Naoe Jinggang fought to the death, the samurai under his command were also very desperate and brave, but the three assaults were like hitting an iron wall, and they were forced back by the Takeda army.

"Lord, what should I do?"

The more than 100 Echigo samurai who broke through with Naoe Jinggang before were already seven or eight out of ten dead and wounded.

Naoe Jinggang looked around left and right, barely held the knife, stood up, and said, "Needless to say, prepare to assault again"

"The Lord"

Just when several samurai were about to dissuade Naoe Keitsuna.

On the other side of the Takeda Army, there was a sudden chorus of all the troops shouting.

"Kawada Naga's pro-take"

Then came the thunderous sound of countless people.

Hearing this news, Naoe Jinggang left and right samurai, and they all changed color. …,

The fact that Kawada was taken meant that Kawada's team had collapsed, so that the Naoe Jingzuna army was only a lone army.

"My lord, Kawada Naga is asked if we ......?"

"Needless to say, assault again," Naoe Jingzuna said loudly.

"Oh"

"I can't help myself" Li Xiao put down the monocular Qianli tube, and seeing that Kawada Changqin had been taken over, Naoe Jinggang's team still launched the fourth attack without his life.

"My lord, since this is the case, let him fulfill the glory of his warriors." Fujitang Gaohu on the side was a little eager to try, and he calculated in his heart that Naoe Jinggang's head could shorten the distance he was from the promotion of the general.

Li Xiaoyan said: "No need, the Zhijiang Jinggang team is all elite, although it has been surrounded at the moment, but under the battle of the trapped beasts, even if our army wins, the price is not small, just order all the armies to persuade them to surrender."

At this moment, the Takeda Army had completed the encirclement of Naoe Jinggang, and the Naoe team fell into the siege before it had time to counterattack reactionarily.

Although the Takeda Army tried to recruit the encircled Naoe Keizuna team, the samurai of the Naoe Keisesuna team were very tough up and down, and most of them refused the Takeda army's surrender.

Naoe Keixuna personally led the samurai Ashigaru to form a circle formation, and in this isolated and hopeless situation, he fought desperately with the Takeda army for two hours.

At this moment, Kawada Naga's relatives and Shiina Jingzhi's team had already been repelled by the Takeda army, and Naoe's Jingzuna team was the only one to fight to the end.

At the end of the battle, Naoe Jinggang stubbornly guarded the flag seal of his commander-in-chief, and there were only ten people left around him, and the Takeda Army once again surrendered Naoe Jinggang.

Rejected again.

In the first year of Motokame, on September 6, at noon, Naoe Yamato Shoukei Tsunade was killed in battle under Matsukura Castle .......