There is a saying in "Sun Tzu: The Strength of the Army", "Those who fight, with the right fit, with the odd victory." Therefore, those who are good and surprising are as infinite as heaven and earth, and inexhaustible as rivers and seas. ”

——As a trusted minister of the Takeda family, Iitomi Masakai was fortunate to be exposed to the study of "The Art of War".

In addition to the fourteen-character mantra of the Takeda family, "Swift as the wind, Xu Rulin, aggression as fire, and immovable as a mountain", the sentence about "Zhengqi is in harmony" was also remembered by Iitomi Masakatsui.

Therefore, after he saw that the right wing could not achieve a significant victory with regular soldiers, he launched the surprise soldier plan.

Therefore, after the strange army he personally led penetrated deep into the left flank of the Uesugi army, and saw the black holes of the iron cannons in front of him, he understood.

Iitomi Masakai finally understood why Sasa Narimasa, who was good at cavalry warfare, only commanded Ashigaru in the battle on the right flank.

Because...... This is the trap that lures him into attacking!

However, it was useless to realize that it was useless, and as soon as Sazuo Chengzheng's words fell, dozens of iron cannons pulled the trigger at the same time, making a deafening roar.

At this moment, Iitomi Changjing turned his body slightly, hoping to be able to avoid the vital point, hoping to survive the fire of the iron cannon.

And then...... The smoke of gunpowder rose, and more than a dozen samurai on horseback led by them fell off their horses one after another, and the buzzing in their ears still lingered.

He did it!

Although Iitomi Masashi was shaky and in great pain all over his body, none of the several projectiles that shot at him hit the vital point.

He sat tremblingly on his horse, raised the sword in his hand, endured the pain, and shouted again with all his strength:

"Target-the head of Sasa Seimasa!"

His saliva spurted out of his mouth along with blood and turned into a blood mist, and the blood flowing from several bullet holes on his body was soaked in the red armor and array feather weaving, and there was nothing to see from the outside, but his already red eyes and hoarse voice were announcing his "ghost" to the two sergeants!

- Red Oni, Rice Tomi Shojing!

"Kill!"

The Chibei knights, who were still sitting on their horses behind Changjing, roared out in unison and launched a decisive charge towards Sasa Seimasa, who was close at hand.

It's too close! It's too close!

As long as you rush past these dozens of iron cannons, you can slash Sazuo Chengzheng under the horse!

Iitomi Masakai was almost a little delirious from the severe pain and excessive blood loss, but in his bloody vision, he was excited to see Sasa Naimasa's unruly figure getting closer and closer.

But...... But...... Something went wrong, something wasn't right.

It wasn't until he heard the mournful roar of the mount under his crotch that Changjing realized that he was not facing a group of iron guns with no melee combat ability.

These soldiers in front of them were holding the iron cannon in their hands, and the front end of the iron cannon had given birth to a short but sharp blade at some point!

These mountain people from Uiganoso, armed with their muskets and bayonets, stabbed him fiercely into Iitomi Masake's mount and into Iitomi Masashi's thigh, dragged him off his horse, and stabbed him in the chest again and again.

- The lord has said a long time ago, don't have a head, don't leave a whole corpse!

For a time, more than a dozen mounted samurai who rushed to Sasa Naruma's side fell into the siege of the bayonet team and were slaughtered in just a few breaths.

Outside. Surrounded a little, Minoru Honjo commanded Ashigaru to quickly cut off the Red Reserve Army, blocked more troops outside, and followed Iitomi Masakai to successfully break through to the more than 30 cavalry in the Uesugi Army, and the whole army was wiped out under the ambush and siege of the Sasaya Iron Artillery Team.

Stopped. The soldiers of the Red Reserve Corps who surrounded them launched one charge after another in grief and indignation, trying to retrieve the body of Fan Fu Changjing, but they lost the command of the main general, and they were just a group of brute cattle with a little more strength when they fought bravely.

After suffering many casualties, the Red Reserve finally retreated under the "order" of Hara Huyin, temporarily merged into Hara Huyin's reserve, and confronted the left flank of the Uesugi Army.

As a result, the confrontation of the left has reached a stalemate.

However, before Iitomi Masakai launched an assault, Yamamoto Kansuke, the military advisor of the Takeda family, made efforts to defeat the first general of Echigo as soon as possible.

Although Naito Masaho used a slightly thicker formation to block the attack of the Kakizaki Keijia, he was always pressed and beaten and was not in a proper manner, at least for the Takeda family's family governor Harunobu, who was pressed and beaten by the Kakizaki Keijia, it was very faceless.

As a result, Kansuke Yamamoto and the iron artillery team he trained single-handedly made their debut.

Among the daimyo of the Eastern Kingdom, the Takeda family used iron cannons very early, but in the past, Harunobu only used iron cannons as a weapon to "thunder" to scare the enemy, and never thought of using it in actual combat.

In recent years, the military advisor Yamamoto Kansuke has seen more and has become more knowledgeable, and has begun to study the possibility of using iron cannons in actual combat. In addition, the neighboring Echigo seemed to have a lot of experience in the use of iron cannons, and the Takeda family's iron artillery team was quickly formed.

Because they did not have mastered the core technologies such as "paper shell bullets," "early closure," and "three-stage strike," the 300 iron artillery team formed by Yamamoto Kansuke adopted the method of firing in two stages, divided into two equal parts and fired in turns.

Kansuke Yamamoto commanded the iron artillery team to hide behind the banzaki, pushing the wooden tree to gradually approach the Kakizaki team, and the Jing family, who was galloping on horseback, of course saw the movements of the Takeda army, but the Jing family's vision was blocked by the wooden tree, and they were not in the mood to guess what tricks the Takeda army was going to play.

After thinking about it, he stopped his movements in all directions, and swung his mounted gun to signal his soldiers to regroup their positions.

But at this time, the Naito team, which had been shrinking on the defense, began to act, and they attacked uncharacteristically, so that the Kakizaki team had no time to adjust the formation.

"Yaga! Back off, back off! ”

The Jing family galloped irritably and shouted in the Kakizaki team, and everywhere he went, the fighting Kakizaki family Ashigaru and Ashigaru Chibi all got out of the way and stopped fighting, but how could he run the entire front alone?

In an instant, the Takeda Army's plate had stopped moving, and rows of black hole muzzles flashed from behind.

"Uh-huh!"

Bang bang bang!

And then another round -

"Click!"

Bang bang bang!

The Kakizaki family in the front row fell to the ground one after another, but the Jing family himself was very lucky, but he was hit by the war horse and was not injured.

"Retreat! Fall back! ”

The Jing family changed horses, led the Kakizaki team to retreat slightly, and integrated into the forward reserve of the Uesugi army.

Kansuke Yamamoto sighed hatefully...... It seems that the distance is still too far to snipe Kakizaki Keika.

In this way, the first battle between the Takeda Army and the Uesugi Army Advance ended with the superiority of the Takeda Army.

Soon after, Harunobu Takeda in the center received the news that Iitomi Masakai had been killed in battle.

Immediately afterwards, the Uesugi army gathered the left and right flanks that were still in an offensive posture and slowly switched formations.

Although it was a change of formation, it was only a small adjustment on the basis of the fish scale formation, and coupled with the opponent's superiority in strength, the Takeda army, which had laid out the crane wing formation, could not launch a full-scale attack at all.

For example, words such as "taking advantage of the opponent's change of formation, rushing into the formation in one go, killing a lot, and turning the world upside down" and the like can probably only appear in the military records in the future.

In a short time, the Uesugi Army completed the adjustment of the formation, and at this time, the one who served as the forward and faced the middle army of the Takeda Army was-

Echigo Horse Riding Team!

Led by two hundred Rose Knights, their white background and three red bars were stretched out by the wind, like blood on Hachimangahara.

In the center of the Rose Knight, the huge wolf's head and horse mark has also been erected!