Long before Sasa Narumasa came to Echigo, there were merchants selling arquebuses from Shinano to Kasugayama Castle.

In fact, even earlier, the lord of Biwa Island Castle, Usami Jomitsu, had asked someone to spend a lot of money to get two arquebuses, each with 500 kan.

Other words...... Uesugi Terutora came into contact with the iron cannon earlier than Sasa Seimasa.

As a teenager, Uesugi Terutora was exposed to all kinds of weapons with the assistance of Usami Dingmi, and of course, he was also trained in the use of iron cannons.

From that time on, Huihu was a little unimpressed with the musket.

"This thing is expensive and difficult to use, it can't be used in the rain, it can't be hit thirty steps away, if it has large-scale equipment one day, I won't be surnamed Longtail!"

She had such a joke many years ago, so a few years later, the "Echigo Early Strike Group" was formed in the Echigo Nagao family with the iron artillery team as the core combat force, and she really didn't have the surname Nagao, but changed her surname to Uesugi.

In other words, when Sasa Chengzheng first wanted to form an iron artillery team, Sister Uesugi, who was still Sister Jinghu, was very disdainful.

"Three hundred iron artillery team against three hundred horse team, I will beat your iron artillery team with a wave of charge, why spend so much money on this thing, it is better to build more armor for the family's standing ashigaru equipment."

-- This is the original words of the Uesugi family to fight against Sasa Narumasa at that time, and for this reason, Sasa Naimasa, who did not admit defeat, really came to a drill with Uesugi after the first establishment of the iron artillery team.

At that time, although the training of the Echigo early strike group had begun to bear fruit, and the early strike girls had superb gun platoon combat discipline and sniper skills under Suzuki Bushto and Saito Toshizo's Yan Zhou Takafumi, they ...... The 300 cavalry team PK the 300 iron artillery team, they still lost a lot.

Now, the Echigo cavalry team led by Sasa Narumasa is full of confidence in the iron artillery team trained by Kansuke Yamamoto, as if he saw the scene of himself leading people to torture and kill the Takeda iron artillery team.

Five hundred samurai on horseback lined up behind him, their eyes blazing, their confidence of victory and the fighting spirit of death.

As the saying goes, one person will die, ten people will be invincible, a hundred people will die, and a thousand people will not be.

Sasa Narumasa can now command 500 "mortal" knights, but he doesn't want them to die.

"Victory, or even better! Advance! ”

In the aftermath of this roar, the terrible sound of the conch from the formation sounded, and the five hundred horseback warriors gently kicked the horses under their hips, and the horses began to speed up.

Keiji Maeda, Nobutaha Nobutada, Ogasawara Sadakei and Akai Teruko, Narita Kai, Fuji Kami and others rushed to the forefront.

Isn't it a search for death when the cavalry rushes to the iron artillery team that is ready to attack?

Although the Takeda family's iron artillery team did not have a triple horse fence, the iron cannon was a solid one, and if the mounted samurai gathered in a stormtrooper formation were caught fire by the iron cannon......

Just like the Sasajia Iron Artillery Team did to the Iitomi Changjing Red Reserve Team, I am afraid that those warriors who rush to the front will lose their lives in the first round of shooting!

But Sasa Naruma is still the same fanatical smile, I don't know where he got his confidence?

Yamamoto Kansuke didn't know, he could only set up the iron artillery team as much as possible and tell them...... This battle will be won.

A distance of hundreds of paces is not close to say, but far is not far enough, and it is not enough for this riding team to push the speed to the extreme.

But...... In practice, there seems to be no need to speed up to the extreme, and when the speed is too high, it becomes especially difficult to fight on horseback, which is very bad for the samurai on horseback.

In the field of vision of Kansuke Yamamoto and the Takeda Iron Artillery Team, there seem to be fewer samurai on horseback who are coming back!

The oncoming samurai on horseback stretched out a long line from a distance, a foot or more away from each other, and the formation was unusually sparse.

Yes, this charge formation is unusually sparse.

"What a cunning enemy......"

Kansuke Yamamoto sighed, calculating the distance between the Echigo cavalry and his own, and raised a withered arm, but he couldn't swing it down.

…… Closer, closer.

If you get closer, you will be able to get more damage when the cannon fires at your opponent.

…… However, it could not be closer.

If it is closer, the Iron Artillery Team will not be able to retreat behind Ashigaru in the future after two rounds of salvos, and the shooters who do not have melee ability will become the human target of the Echigo Iron Cavalry!

"Click!"

Bang Bang!

"Uh-huh!"

Bang Bang!

After two volleys, the samurai on horseback who rushed to the front occasionally landed, but most of them only slowed down slightly before regrouping.

Before launching the charge, they had already plugged the ears of the war horses with cotton wool, and they exploded with iron cannons comparable to "thunder", which could not be used as a weapon to intimidate the war horses.

After two volleys, Kansuke Yamamoto quickly retreated with the iron artillery team, and the ashigaru of the Takeda family stood in front with spears in their hands, and at the same time...... The Echigo horseback team also changed suddenly.

In the interval between the two rides, there was one more ride, as if two eyes were staggered to see two images, and the Echigo cavalry completed a "replica" in an instant.

But one time was obviously not enough, and in the eyes of Kansuke Yamamoto and Takeda Ieshigaru, the Echigo cavalry that staggered forward and backward made another "copy", showing its proper appearance in the direction of depth.

It turned out that seeing such a sparse formation in the direction of the Takeda Army was because the vast majority of the samurai on horseback were hiding behind the person at the front!

Taking advantage of the restrictions of visual shielding and iron cannon shooting in a straight line, and increasing the interval between each horse, Sasa Naimasa really taught Kansuke Yamamoto a lesson.

The Iron Cannon has always been the nemesis of the Mounted Cavalry, but Kansuke obviously never thought that the Mounted Cavalry could also become the nemesis of the Iron Artillery Brigade, making the Iron Artillery Team's shooting a useless waste of ammunition.

"Throw the gun in place!"

Hundreds of samurai on horseback neatly took out a short spear from the saddle bag.

Although it is a short gun, the head of the gun is made of iron, and there are at least two deep concave blood grooves engraved with it, and the cost of this throwing gun is not much better than that of one gun with three guns.

"Front team, throw!"

More than a hundred throwing spears formed a rain of guns and smashed towards the ashigaru who had not yet gained a foothold.

The hapless ones who couldn't escape the guns clutched their wounds and howled, or stared at their companions' chests pierced by a single shot, while the samurai on horseback in the front row had already pulled out their swords at their waists with a snort.

"Squadron, throw!"

Another rain of gunfire fell, and the howls in the Takeda army became even more intense, and the ashigaru people had a tendency to collapse.

At this time, the samurai on horseback in the front row had already rushed in front of Ashigaru, and the chaotic formation of Ashigaru was powerless to stop the tight array of guns, like meat on a chopping board, slaughtered by the samurai on horseback one by one.

"Rear team, shoot!"

There was another whistling, but instead of a spear, it was a round of feathered arrows.

This round of feather arrows directly crossed the ashigaru in the front row and attacked the back, completely confusing the ashigaru who were already in decline.

"This is the tactics of the cavalry team against the iron artillery team, which can be called ...... Let's attack in waves. ”

Three years ago, Sister Uesugi pointed at Sasa Narumasa's nose and gave this method of warfare a name.

Today, three years later, Sasa Narumasa uses the old tricks that Sister Uesugi played to teach Kansuke the one-eyed dragon Yamamoto a lesson.

"Retreat! Fall back! ”

Masatyo Naito, who was in charge of the command, roared desperately.