557. Woodpecker tactics
Yi Yun searched carefully on the battlefield, but after looking for a long time, he really didn't see the flag representing the Sanada family. The four ministers of the Takeda family, he all found them in the crowd. There are also four people who are a little worse than the four ministers, and they are also very strong, such as Itagaki Nobukata, Ganli Hutai, Iitomi Huchang, and Oyamada Masatsu, who are also visible in the Chibei cavalry.
It's the only one of the Sanada family's generals, and I haven't seen any of them.
A very bad premonition rose in Yi Yun's heart...... There are ghosts, there are definitely ghosts! Wait, I have to think about it, what are some of the famous tactics of the Takeda family?
He began to think hard in his mind, Yi Yun didn't know much about the Fuso Warring States, but he didn't know everything, just take Takeda Shingen as an example, this person has appeared in various strategic games involving the Fuso Warring States, and belongs to the generals that Yi Yun knows better.
Takeda Shingen's most famous battle was the "Kawanakajima Battle" with Uesugi Kenshin, and in the process of expanding his power, the most used and most effective tactic was called the "Woodpecker Strategy".
The so-called woodpecker tactics are to learn the method of woodpecker predation, first knock on one side of the tree trunk, make a sound, and frighten the insects hiding in the tree hole to escape from the other side, and the woodpecker has already bypassed and waited. In practice, it is used on the battlefield to divide the army into two parts, one part is the own team, and the other part is the surprise team. Use your team to attract the enemy's attention, and the surprise attack team will go around the enemy's back and use surprise attacks or surprise attacks and other combat methods to drive the enemy out of the garrisoned position, and rush to the places where our team has laid an ambush or waited for in advance to carry out a flanking attack or directly carry out a flanking attack.
Iyun couldn't help but think that Nobunaga had already set up a barrier to the east, and the attention of the whole army was focused on the east. If there is a surprise party in the west at this time...... Nima, isn't this the ploy of the woodpecker in the middle of it? Not good, the Sanada family, who has never appeared, may be the responsible surprise attack team.
"Herald, hurry up and help me deliver a message to Oda Nobunaga...... Beware of the western ......" Iyun's words hadn't fallen yet, and the herald hadn't even had time to set off, on the western horizon. The roar of horses' hooves was already heard.
The horse's hooves roared, and the ground trembled, obviously. This is not a small army, at least seven or eight thousand people. A large crimson cavalry cloud appeared in front of everyone's eyes, and countless flags fluttered in the army. On the first flag, six copper coins are painted. It is the family crest of the Sanada family.
"Sure enough, woodpecker tactics!" Fortunately, Iyun had already thought of this possibility in advance, so it was not a special surprise to see these cavalry suddenly appear behind Nobunaga's army.
However, the Oda family's Ji samurai were not so calm, and they were preoccupied with preparing for the battle with the Takeda army in the east, when suddenly an enemy army appeared behind them, and they were immediately shocked.
"What's going on, why are the enemy forces behind you?"
"No way, the scouts have a five-mile field of vision, why did they touch so close. The scouts didn't call the police?"
"Our army has obviously arranged scouts on all sides......"
"I'm rubbing, it's impossible? Why did it come so quickly?" Yi Yun also felt a little strange: "With Nobunaga's strategic ability, it is impossible not to arrange scout teams in all directions, and my Huwangfu army has also arranged scouts to monitor all directions at any time, this Sanada's surprise attack army." It stands to reason that it should have been discovered five miles away, and Nobunaga had time to make some arrangements, but he didn't expect to be touched by the visual range, and the scouts didn't react......"
Thinking of this, Yi Yun suddenly remembered a skill, when he was in Hangzhou City to fight against the Japanese Invaders. I once met a "military scholar" in Fuso who can hide a troop and see it when you get closer, what is the name of that skill? Oh, by the way, it's called "Hyakki Night Walking", and it seems that the people of the Sanada family also know skills similar to "Hundred Ghosts Night Walking". ...,
At this time, the cavalry team led by Sanada had arrived not far from Oda Nobunaga's army formation, and Iyun counted it, and this surprise attack army was about 8,000 people, all cavalry, and the red camels were panting...... A banner of six copper coins and a banner of "Wind Forest Volcano" were erected at the same time, and then the trumpets were blown in the army, and the cavalry began a fierce charge towards Nobunaga's main camp.
Since this cavalry team came from the west, the Oda army's horse rejection fence was placed on the east side, and the result was that the horse rejection gate was completely useless, not only could not resist the opponent's cavalry, but became a way to hinder the Oda army's retreat, and became a stumbling block for the Oda army.
Watching the rumbling iron cavalry rushing towards him, Nobunaga's army experienced slight fluctuations and confusion, and its morale plummeted.
"Oh, I was really put on a show by Takeda Shingen. The thirty-year-old virgin Nobutoshi had a crying and laughing expression on her face: "It is worthy of being the No. 1 military artist in the Warring States, and I also ate his plot." ”
Because Nobunaga's generals such as Shibata Katsuie, Maeda Toshiie, and Akechi Mitsuhide divided their troops to attack Asakura, and only half of the generals such as Hashiba Hideyoshi, Sasa Narumasa, and Takigawa Kazuki were around.
"So far, there is only one battle left on the back!" Nobunaga waved his hand: "Iron artillery troops, set up a three-stage firing array!"
Oda Army acted urgently, 3,000 iron artillery set up several iron artillery arrays, Oda Nobunaga was a genius who commanded iron artillery troops, in Fuso, he was the first to invent the iron cannon three-stage shooting method, the so-called three-stage shooting, that is, the iron artillery stood in three rows, the first row of fire after the second row of shooting, the second row of firing and the third row of fire, to the rear of the gunpowder and so on, after the second row of shooting, and then the third row of shooting, the second row and the first row of the first row of the beginning of the exchange of positions, replenish ammunition, the third row after the shooting and then by the first row of shooting, so that the cycle interval time will be greatly shortened。
The iron artillery stood in three formations, and the cavalry had already rushed to within two hundred meters. Nobunaga did not dare to hesitate in the slightest, and quickly ordered: "Shoot!"
"Bullets and bullets!"
The gunners immediately launched a powerful "rain of bullets", and the bullets flew towards the rushing Red Reserve cavalry like rain.
This is Nobunaga's most powerful unit, and with this commanding force, she swept through countless daimyo and won the title of "Sixth Heavenly Demon King", which is not unpowerful. If the army of the Takeda family was an infantry unit, it would definitely be bombarded with iron artillery, but the Chibei cavalry was different, and at a distance of two hundred meters, for the infantry with weapons and armor, it would take at least thirty or forty seconds to run. It will give several rounds of shooting in a rain of bullets.
But for the cavalry, such a distance is only a matter of an eye, and even if it is formed, the rate of fire is like a rain of bullets from machine guns, and there is only one chance to shoot a round. Therefore, when the firecrackers of this era fought against the cavalry, they had to have the help of the horse rejection fence, otherwise they would not be able to play a big role at all.
As soon as the firecrackers of the Oda army rang out, the red cavalry that rushed to the front immediately fell in pieces, and the people flipped on their backs, accompanied by terrible screams and roars, but as soon as the group fell, the cavalry behind jumped over their corpses and rushed in front of the Oda army.
The spears flew up, the katana swept across, and the firecrackers almost completely lost their effect once they were close to them, and when they were charged by the cavalry, the formation was thrown into chaos. The soldiers had no choice but to pick up the firearms in their hands to use them as sticks to defend themselves, but their hand-to-hand combat skills were so bad that the cavalry of the Takeda family casually swung their spears and beat them to cry and cry for their mothers.
Knowing that they were outnumbered, the Musketeers had no choice but to retreat, while the pikemen of the Oda Army hurried up to protect the Musketeers, and the formation was in disarray. ...,
Due to the large number of cavalry rushing up, the rear of the surprise army was relatively small. In the distance, Yi Yun saw clearly the leading general of the red cavalry, he was a middle-aged man in his forties, he looked quite thin, and he was not wearing armor, but wearing a cloth kimono, it seemed that he was not a military general, but a wise general. Yi Yun basically guessed without much brain power that this person was the current head of the Sanada family, Sanada Masayuki.
Sanada Masayuki was one of the top strategists of the Fuso Warring States, and was called "a cunning and cunning man" by Hideyoshi, and during the Battle of Sekigahara, he used 1,000 troops to contain Tokugawa Hidetada's 38,000 army, so that Tokugawa Hidetada did not have time to participate in the Battle of Sekigahara.
Yi Yun searched around this middle-aged man, trying to find the figure of Sanada Yukimura, the "strongest soldier in Japan", but unfortunately he didn't find it, and he didn't know where this guy was hiding again.
At this time, the Oda family's military formation had begun to collapse.
Once the soldiers collapse, they need generals to play a leading role, if there can be a strong general, rush to kill the enemy, can put down the generals of the Sanada family, the situation may change, not to be completely powerless, but unfortunately Shibata Katsuie, Maeda Toshiie, Akechi Mitsuhide and other generals have gone to attack the Asakura family, not by Nobunaga's side.
There was no general in Shu, so he had to use Liao Hua as a vanguard, and Nobunaga rushed out a Ji samurai behind him, this Ji samurai was very young, and he was eighteen years old this year, named Sakuma Morimasa, and was the daughter of Sakuma Moriji, an old minister of the Oda family. is also a brave person, his combat effectiveness is quite strong, and he is nicknamed "Ghost Xuanfan".
With a wave of the spear in her hand, the golden light lit up, and she was actually a fourth-order "spear master".
"Nobunaga, go down and take the head of Sanada Masayuki!" Sakuma Morimasa roared, waved his spear and rushed forward, the tip of the spear flashed, and several Chibei cavalrymen were swept by his spear, and immediately fell from their horses and died. In the midst of the chaos, he just recognized the location of Sanada Masayuki and rushed straight over...... All the cavalry that came to block his way were swept away by him with a single shot.
Nobunaga jumped out of the back of another girl, it turned out to be Sasa Narimasa, she took off an Omi gun from her back, and said loudly: "Lord Morimasa, I, Sasa Narumasa, will cover your ......" (Welcome to your support, is my biggest motivation.) )