I heard that it was the first fierce general of the Oda family, Shibata Katsuie, to appear, and the prestige of this person, even Fujido Takatora who was far away in Hokuriku had heard of it.

In the battle of Changguang Temple, Shibata Katsuya took 400 against 400 hexagonal 4,000 and broke it.

Since then, the name of the firewood field has been known to everyone in the world.

Hearing that this person was coming to fight, Fujitang Gaohu suddenly felt a little apprehensive in his heart.

And Fujido Takatora also knew that the current Takeda army was lacking in physical strength at the moment, and it was not the best state to fight.

Just when Fujido Gaohu was hesitating, at this time, a legend galloped in front of Fujitang Gaohu, pointed in the direction of Shibata Katsuya Army with the tip of his gun, and said: "The Lord has an order, Shibata Repair Corps is directly ahead, please Fujido Lord Buxi National Phalanx to face the battle!" ”

"Got it."

Fujitang Gaohu was not a person who panicked in the face of a strong enemy, nodded at the moment, then turned around, drew out his sword, and shouted to the soldiers of Kamioka Beizhi with all his strength: "The whole army is ready to fight!" ”

Immediately, the cavalry conveyed Li Xiao's preparations for battle, and the various reserves of the Takeda Army moved under the dispatch of their respective generals.

The various armies had just arrived at the state of scattered sand under Kajida Castle, and they quickly moved and set up formations.

"Gunashigaru Brigade!"

"Oh!"

"Set up here!"

Kamioka's gun-ashigaru brigade took off its holsters and marched in a neat formation.

"Stop! Start aligning! ”

"The first three rows, the guns stand in front!"

"Oh!"

The first three rows of guns are light, one row is half-kneeling, and the last two rows send the guns forward together with the front row, forming a wall of guns that prevents the cavalry from breaking through.

"Iron cannon team with guns!"

"Let's walk together!"

"Stop!"

Rustling footsteps, a cloud of smoke and dust. The ashigaru generals of each reserve team roared in front of the formation, and one column after another ashigaru entered the designated position.

In just a short period of time, the Takeda Army's military formation was like a plate of mud and sand with a sieve, and it became orderly and organized.

The three standing formations of the Takeda Army were centered on the flag and the snake tail was the left flank. Kamioka was lined up on the right flank, facing the forces facing Shibata's corps. Seven standard western phalanxes are arranged.

The speed of its formation and the rigor of the formation made the people of Kajida who were sitting and watching on the side stunned.

The generals of Kajida, led by Toshiharu Saito and others, almost thought that they had spent their eyes.

And after the three standing positions, it is the position of the Takeda Army. On a small hillside, artillery positions were already being arranged.

All of Rui Costa's belongings are placed here, and originally all the direction of the gun muzzle was aimed at Kajida Castle, but now it doesn't matter, just turn one direction and move it to the back of the hillside.

And horseback riding is prepared. The personnel of the auxiliary cover were all under the hillside and were used as reserves.

The last of the county lords, they served as cover behind the back, preventing the Kajida people from attacking the standing back.

Seeing that the arrangement of the Western Phalanx has been completed. Li Xiao breathed a sigh of relief slightly, this phalanx of the Western Kingdom is where all his confidence lies.

Thinking of this, Li Xiao picked up the monocular Qianli tube and looked at the Shibata Army coming from the front.

Shibata Katsuie rode his horse to a hillside, glanced in the direction of Kajida Castle, and said to the other side, "Set up the main camp here!" ”

After speaking, Shibata Katsuya jumped off the war horse neatly, and the war horse was led away by the small surname, and the other side approached and immediately handed over the collection and matching of cinnabar animal hair to Shibata Katsuya.

Picked. Originally, it was used by falconry hunters, and later it became the same role as military distribution on the battlefield.

It can often be seen. The military commander held a short stick decorated with gold leaf cinnabar and animal hair, and shouted to the army.

Shibata Katsuya at the moment. Holding the match in one hand, he put his left and right hands in front of his chest, looking at the formation of the Takeda army.

Approaching the hillside, the cavalry stood on the hillside, and the three horsemen held a four-and-a-half-long wooden stick with gold leaf hanging from the wooden stick in a zigzag pattern.

Ashigaru erected this on the ground next to Shibata Katsuie.

This is the Shibata Katsuke Horse Seal, the royal coin of gold, which was established to mark the location of the general of the whole army.

Imperial coins are coins used in Shinto rituals.

Under the sunlight, the gold leaf hanging paper on the imperial coins sparkles, and the imperial coins are not only used for sacrifices, but also for exorcism and cleaning.

Shibata Katsu's family used this horse seal, which represents its meaning of doing the way for the sky.

For the Shibata Katsuie's so-called 'Heaven', it is Oda Nobunaga, who is determined to take the world, and since his brother changed to Nobunaga, Shibata Katsuya has always been loyal to Nobunaga and has made great contributions to the Oda family. …,

Now, under the Golden Imperial Coin, the army of the Shibata Legion, with the fingers of the Double Goose Golden Banner on its back, is rolling forward.

At this time, Shibata Katsuya looked at the advancing army, stopped the beast hair, and said: "Order the whole army to stop advancing, order Deshan Zexiu, Mao Sheng will be illuminated, and the mountain road Zhengguo team will deploy a formation to the Takeda army!" ”

After Shibata Katsuie's order was delivered, Shibata Katsuie relaxed his posture and paced up the hillside.

Shibata Katsuie's hesitation before this battle was not because he was indecisive, but because he wanted to wait for the reserve to arrive with the whole army, and then launch a thunderous offensive against the Takeda army.

Anyway, the Takeda Army also completed the formation and lost the opportunity for cavalry assault.

Shibata Katsuya is not in a hurry, he will not commit the taboo of filling oil in battle.

In his calculations, the Takeda army divided more than 1,000 people to guard against the surprise attack of the Kajida people in the rear, and the strength to deal with his own side was only more than 3,000 people.

Moreover, in the course of the operation, it is necessary to guard against the attack of the rear army at all times, which has a very adverse effect in the operation.

Anyway, there are more than 5,000 people in the Shibata Army, and the strength is in an absolute advantage, so he has to wait for the Kanamori Commander to arrive together, and then integrate the army and then strike an all-out blow at the Takeda Army.

It's just that the Takeda Army's very well-trained posture and rapid deployment of the formation made Shibata Katsuya a little stunned, but it was just stunned.

Shibata Katsuya stood on the hill, stretched out two fingers, pointed at the Takeda military array, nodded slightly, and said to Shibata Katsuquan, one of the two Shibata families on the side, Shibata Katsuharu said: "I heard that in front of me is the elite men and horses of the Takeda army, so it also saves me a lot of foot strength, so I don't need to enter the Kai Mountains to arrest them, just annihilate them all here!" ”

Shibata Katsuharu replied and said, "My lord, the equipment of the Takeda Army is really good, in addition to iron cannons, there are hundreds of horse riding teams, and even large cylinders. ”

Shibata Katsuquan on the side heard this and smiled: "The iron cannon is nothing, we only have a lot more, and the cavalry team is twice the size of the Takeda army, as for the big cylinder,"

Speaking of this, Shibata Katsuquan sighed twice, "After this battle, these will all be ours." ”

Shibata Katsuharu said with a smile: "I heard that the big tube is a siege weapon, and the main hall has long wanted to buy it from the southern barbarians, but unfortunately the southern barbarians ask for too much, but if it is taken from the hands of the Takeda army, it should be much more convenient, and it should be able to save a lot of money from the main hall." ”

He is the son of the brother of the Katsu family, he followed Shibata to conquer the south and the north to defeat countless enemy troops, and he was also infected with the pride of the victorious army.

Shibata Katsuya sneered and said: "Pass the order, whether you kill or capture Li Xiao alive, you will know and do 100,000 stones!" ”

"One hundred thousand stones!" Shibata Katsuharu and Shibata Katsuquan are both discolored.

Shibata Katsuya said indifferently: "This is what the lord meant!" ”