Chapter 496: Crisis of the Second Echelon!
Facing the military formation that Wang Tianxie was galloping into, Asakura Jingheng suddenly felt his scalp tingle. Originally, he thought that Wang Tianxi, the "ghost" of the Oda family, would never be the first to go into battle.
In Asakura Keiheng's view, the first of the Oda family to come out should be the former No. 1 brave Shibata Katsuie. At the very least, if it were their Asakura family, the former number one brave man would definitely want to prove that his sword was not old.
As for how to prove it?
Of course, it is to bravely go out into battle, bravely kill the enemy, and bravely win the credit of the current number one brave man in the family.
For the Oda family, who is said to be full of weeds and only knows how to rush forward blindly before the first warrior of the former family, Shibata Katsuya, Asakura Keiheng is not afraid at all. He even had the idea of defeating Shibata Katsuya first, and after winning the opening prize in this battle, he immediately withdrew his troops and returned to Ichijo Valley Castle.
With the army formation of only 4,000 people in Asakura Keiheng, it is absolutely impossible to resist the 12,000 army formation of the Oda family. Asakura Keiheng knows this, the violent overage pseudo-Lori knows, and even the sick fox Asakura Yoshikyo in Ichijo Valley City is also very clear
Unexpectedly, Wang Tianxie came out as the first formation, and immediately disrupted Asakura Jingheng's plan.
Of course, Asakura Jingheng didn't know the intention of the violent overage pseudo-Lori to send Wang Tianxie out of the battle, and he was originally to force him to escape, so as to break through Kanesaki City in the shortest possible time. You know, how can a city that has lost its lord continue to stumble?
The violent overage pseudo-Lori even plans to use the shortest possible time to return Echizen Province to Oda's family. After all, there are too many forces involved in the sick fox Asakura Yoshikage.
If you count the madmen of Honganji Temple, the big cat of Kai Province, Harunobu Takeda, and the Asai family of Kita Omi Province, the Oda family will face at least 100,000 troops.
This is a scene that violent overage pseudo-Lori will never be、Absolutely not allowed。
For Wang Tianxie, the "ghost" of the Oda family, the violent overage pseudo-Lori is full of confidence. Well, of course, after all, it's the pillow person she chose. The two have been together since childhood, so they naturally know each other.
Sure enough, Asakura Jingheng saw Wang Tianxie coming out of the battle, and he couldn't care about what to open the lottery anymore. He hurriedly left his four thousand foot light, leaving three thousand eight hundred people. And he himself took the remaining two hundred people and fled in the direction of Yicheng Valley City.
No way. Wang Tianxie's "ghost" name alone has already made Asakura Jingheng feel embarrassed.
Asakura Keiheng even had a feeling that even if his 3,800 foot light team had 800 more people than the "ghosts" of the Oda family, it would definitely not be the opponent of the other party.
Sure enough, when Asakura Jingheng's front foot had just left the main formation on the top of the Thandtube Mountain, the back foot Wang Tianxie had already rushed into the main formation.
Relying on Tianling's big Lori and the third princess Caiji's illusion of the "demon knife. The sharp blade of the "Oni Flash Pill", the spear that stabbed at Wang Tianxie, was all cut off by him one by one, and by the way, he bought and gave away all his arms, necks, and the like.
As for the Guangxiu Da Lori and Takenaka Hanbei, who also went out as Wang Tianxie's retainers. Compared with Wang Tianxie, the degree of ferocity is not at all a grade.
The two of them leaned behind Wang Tianxie on both sides of Wang Tianxie, about half of the horse's body, brandished the big sword in their hands, and charged behind Wang Tianxie. The three of them were triangular, like the arrows of arrows, and they took the lead in rushing into the main formation of Asakura Keiheng and rushed towards Kanesaki Castle.
Behind the three of them, the 3,000 cavalry team looked like barbed arrows. The wounds pierced by Wang Tianxi, Mitsuhide Da Lori, and Takenaka Hanbei were expanded, expanded, and expanded, making Asakura Keiheng's main formation even more bleeding.
Interestingly. If the Oda family were asked to vote on who was the most ferocious in the Wang Tianye army, Wang Tianye would be at most in second place, and the first place would definitely be Maeda Keiji who stayed at the border of Mino Province, Echizen Province, and Shinano Province.
As a retainer of Wang Tianxi's family to help lead the orphan army, Maeda Keiji, the big sword called "Daitaidian" used is three meters long, and this visual impact is not a joke.
In particular, Keiji Maeda's "Daitainori" Daitai knife uses a large blade that is more than two meters thick. Riding on a horse, you will slash to the left and the right to the right, and each knife will be sent to at least two or more ashigaru to apply for immigration procedures at the Santogawa Prefecture.
Soon, Wang Tianxie cut through the defensive net of 3,800 ashigaru and rushed into the castle town of Kanesaki Castle.
Just this charge. The 3,800 foot light team left behind by Asakura Jingheng was eaten by Wang Tianxie, and only about 2,000 people remained.
It's just that although such a record should be something to be happy about, Wang Tianxie couldn't be happy at all. No way, after this charge, he found a very serious problem.
In order to guard against the Asakura sick fox and the Kai country big cat, he took advantage of the fact that the Oda family ran to Heiankyo and took the opportunity to attack Gifu Castle, and the violent overage pseudo-Lori and Wang Tianxie left the most elite 10,000 orphan troops of the Oda Army to Maeda Keiji stationed on the northern border of Mino Province.
This led to the fact that the Oda family went out this time in the second echelon that had only begun to receive training since the separation of soldiers and peasants. However, the combat effectiveness of the second-line echelon and the staying power of the battlefield are far from catching up with the orphan army who have been trained since they were seven or eight years old.
The problem of very weak battlefield staying power had been discovered as early as the last Shangluo battle, when Wang Tianxie attacked seventeen cities in three days.
Since then, he and the violent overage pseudo-Lori have begun to increase the training of the military formation. However, the training of the military formation did not happen overnight.
Originally, Wang Tianxie thought that after increasing the intensity of training, the strength of the second-tier echelon would rise a lot, but after today's charge, he immediately discovered a more serious problem.
After all, the main force of Wang Tianxie's siege last time was the orphan army, and the second echelon army formation was only carrying out reserve work, responsible for receiving, rearizing, and waiting for the handover of reinforcements in the rear, etc., so the lack of combat effectiveness was still within the acceptable range.
But really fighting on the front line of the battlefield and doing reserve in the rear are two completely different extremes.
Although Wang Tianxie cut through the defensive network composed of 3,800 ashigaru, his 3,000 cavalry also lost nearly 600 people, and the battle damage of the horses was even greater, and the battle loss was nearly 1,000 horses.
This number is actually not too big for a joint battle in this warring war. But Wang Tianxie knew that if he was leading an orphan army, this number could definitely be shortened.
It has been more than two years since Li Huamei, the big cat sister of the iceberg, introduced corn and sweet potatoes to Owari Province.
This was also the biggest support for the Oda family to successfully change from a peasant and peasant system to a separate military and peasant system. After all, only by increasing the grain output per mu by a large margin can the number of peasants be reduced, and thus the policy of violence can be carried out.
However, as we all know, the cultivation of new species cannot be stored in the hands for a long time as a strategic reserve. As long as there are farmers who grow it, it is absolutely inevitable that it will be introduced to other regions.
The only difference is that the Oda family has a head start.
With the development of the Oda family in the past two years, many neighboring borders began to transform into a system of separation of soldiers and peasants. The current joint battle is no longer like before, and the two sides together are full of battles and calculations, and there are less than 10,000 people.
At present, 10,000 to 20,000 people on each side will fight in a joint battle, and at least 50,000 people on each side will fight in a large-scale joint battle. Therefore, if the Oda family does not make good use of the advantages gained by the first opportunity to strengthen the training of military formations, it will definitely be overtaken by others.
As the first formation, Wang Tianxie needs to be responsible for cutting through Asakura Keiheng's defensive main formation, attacking the castle town of Kanesaki Castle, and encircling and even attacking the Honmaru of Kanesaki Castle.
As for how to completely annihilate the enemy's main formation after chiseling through Asakura Jingheng's defense formation, it was not something he needed to think about. That's what Shibata Katsuie and Matsunaga Hide, who are in charge of the second and third formations, need to be responsible for.
The castle town of Kanesaki Castle had long been deserted when they heard the arrival of the Oda family's military formation.
Most of the townspeople took refuge in their homes to avoid the early arrival of the war. Only a small number of willing townspeople formed a procession of worshippers and gave some of the souvenirs of the castle town as gifts to Wang Tianxi, hoping that Wang Tianyi would not burn the buildings of the castle town.
If it is the military formation of other families, after attacking the castle town, it will inevitably set fire, cut people, and then launch a fierce attack on Sannomaru. However, the Oda family's military formation was relatively different.
Don't look at the violence, although the overage pseudo-Lori has a very high awareness of war, she is absolutely ruthless when she should be ruthless. But on the contrary, she also knows the misery of the people and the helplessness of the townspeople in the castle.
Therefore, when she was besieging the castle, she did not burn the buildings and cause the townspeople to lose their homes. Besides, after all, the Oda family will take control of this castle in the future, and it will be very costly to burn down the castle town of this city.
Wang Tianxie's army did not deal with these salutes, and with a team of two thousand horsemen, they rushed directly to Sannomaru in Kanesaki Castle. The people in charge of dealing with this group of salutes were the more than 300 people who lost their horses in the charge just now and were forced to become the ashigaru team.
Although Kanesaki Castle is a castle on the edge of the Echizen Province, it is not very strong because it is located in the direction of Kita-Omi Province. At the very least, its Sannomaru Grand Entrance is not a huge iron door, but just an ordinary wooden door.
Wang Tianxie is certainly not a rookie when it comes to breaking through the wooden entrance gate.
"Gentlemen! Rocket! Shoot! Target the entrance door! ”
I saw that he put the "demon knife" in his right hand. Oni Shine Maru" held high, shouting loudly from the inside of his mouth.
As for his left hand, he took out the "Ghost Fire" in his arms, which was transformed by Princess Medusa and the fourth princess of the Heavenly Ghost Lineage. Butterfly Maru" short iron cannon, relying only on two legs to support the balance, rushed towards Sannomaru with the military formation.
He used the mobility of the cavalry to great effect, and when the two thousand cavalry entered the distance of three hundred paces, the flaming flaming feathered arrows pierced the wooden gate. (To be continued......)