Chapter 71: Narumi Castle Lost?

Regardless of the situation on Gao Xianda's side, his three hundred cavalry had already rushed into the Oda family's army. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

These cavalry may not have an advantage against well-groomed infantry, but they are effective when facing musketeers at close range.

These musketeers finished the first round of bullets, and there was simply no time to fire the second round. And because of the problem of equipment, it is impossible for them to equip a bamboo gun for self-defense like ordinary infantry. At this time, the musket in their hands was far inferior to an ordinary iron rod. What's more, they were reluctant to use such a valuable musket to resist the knives and guns stretched out by the other party.

So these musketeers were basically in a state of total protection, and were quickly slaughtered by the cavalry of Gao Xianda.

Although this is only a flank, this side is close to Zenshoji Temple, and Oda Nobunaga has long expected an enemy attack in this direction. Therefore, half of his musket team was placed here, and the remaining half was used to rely on the firepower advantage of the Imagawa family to have a large number of ashigaru just frontal at the beginning of the war.

The early advantage of the musket is great, and against the slow-moving ashigaru team, as long as they can shoot twice, they can establish a huge advantage.

The Oda family had an advantage in numbers, and after the muskets knocked back the enemy's morale somewhat, the original advantage was obvious in the head-to-head confrontation between Ashigaru.

But as soon as Goxianda's cavalry disrupted the flanks of Oda's army, the situation was completely different. Ashigaru, who was fighting head-on, suddenly felt the pressure from the rear.

They were very uncomfortable with the enemy on their backs, but there was nothing they could do to deal with the Gao Xianda cavalry who were rampage behind them.

The Imagawa army on the opposite side also seemed to have a master in charge, and although they didn't know what was happening in the distance, they also knew that the enemy in front of them was in disarray.

So the leading general shouted: "The whole army is assaulted." ”

So all the Ashigaru of the Imagawa family radiated double their spirits and rushed forward. Originally, the two sides were still trying to rely on the ashigaru team to fight the formation and shoot bows and arrows at each other, but now it directly became a hand-to-hand battle. And these soldiers of the Imagawa family didn't care what the formation was, they rushed out directly, and they were bound to break through the opponent's formation.

In this way, the formation of the Oda army was completely scattered, and for a while I didn't know whether it was friend or foe in front and back. Under the front and back attacks, the Oda army was defeated.

Everyone understands the principle of pursuing victory, so Narumi Castle also opened the city gate at this time, and an army rushed out from inside. Seeing that Oda's army was attacked from three sides, they would soon be able to annihilate them all.

But who knew that although this army was under the banner of the Imagawa family, it did not attack Oda Nobunaga's army, but made way for a passage and let Oda's army enter the city. And after the pursuing Imagawa army and Gao Xianda's cavalry team followed, they launched an attack on the Imagawa family's army.

Because they were carrying the Imagawa family's flag, the Imagawa family soldiers who rushed to the front didn't realize that these accomplices were actually trying to kill their enemies.

So many of the troops in front were killed.

At this time, someone with sharp eyes finally saw the difference and shouted: "These people are pretended by the Oda army, and they all have yellow cloth bands wrapped around their left arms!" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone really found that there was indeed something wrong with these soldiers of the Imagawa family. So the soldiers of the Imagawa family shouted one after another, telling the people around them to be careful of people with yellow bands on their arms.

But by this time it was already a little late. These defenders in Narumi City have a plan, they just came out to cover up and stir up the situation on the field. Seeing that the soldiers of the Imagawa family were already in chaos, they took the opportunity to quickly retreat to Narumi Castle and lowered the gates.

Gao Xianda rushed from the flank, and after some rushing, he came to the tail of Oda Nobunaga's line, so from the perspective of the Imagawa army, he rushed the most.

He saw exactly what the enemy was about to do.

So Gao Xianda teleported, and then drove the acceleration effect of the spear grappling, and quickly rushed to the gate, and with both hands, he held up the big gate.

The gate weighed a thousand pounds, and several soldiers needed to push the winch to open and close it up and down. He relied entirely on his own strength to lift, and naturally it was a little difficult.

But as long as he can hold on a little longer, the Imagawa family's troops may take advantage of the situation to rush in. As long as you kill these guards who guard the door, it will be a matter of minutes to open the gate.

It was too late, but it was too late, and a large man as strong as a bear, wearing a heavy armor, rushed towards Gao Xianda from the inside.

He didn't run as fast as Gao Xianda's spear grapple, but his weight and armor were very heavy, and his overall kinetic energy should not be underestimated at all.

Gao Xianda held his hands against the door, unable to move, and was knocked out by this big man all of a sudden.

The big man didn't follow up and withdrew directly into the city. The huge gate fell to the ground with a "bang".

The soldiers of the Imagawa family tried to rush forward again, but it was too late.

They tried to storm Narumi Castle along the city walls, but Narumi Castle had already prepared for defense, and a rain of bows and arrows shot down condescendingly, and the soldiers of the Imagawa family had no choice but to retreat.

In this way, Oda Nobunaga has already taken Narumi Castle one step earlier. Whether he attacked it or bought off the spies in the city, he was very quick to control Narumi Castle in his hands.

That's why he dared to line up his soldiers facing the field and wait for the Imagawa family's pursuers. And sending a small force to attack Narumi City later, it was completely for show.

He clearly wanted to lure the enemy deep and ambush the pursuing Imagawa soldiers.

If Gao Xianda hadn't attacked Oda Nobunaga's troops, Oda Nobunaga would have been able to fight and retreat in an organized manner with the troops opposite him. Seeing that Narumi Castle is behind him, the Imagawa family will definitely want to attack Oda Nobunaga on both sides, and then step by step into the trap laid by Oda Nobunaga.

Oda Nobunaga just had to give them a four-sided surrounding. will be able to eat this army. In that case, no Imagawa family's troops would dare to chase him. Oda Nobunaga can slowly organize his men and counterattack Kiyoshu Castle.

His abacus played well, but he didn't expect that Gao Xianda had just come out of Cheongju City, not only sneaking up on his troops, but also winning the battle. The musket array of horses that Oda Nobunaga had laid in advance was completely torn apart, and all the musketeers on the flanks were killed. The main forces on the front could only flee in a hurry.

If he hadn't taken control of Narumi Castle in advance, he would have lost this battle.