Chapter 25 Led by a Hundred Fierce Soldiers

The soldier is the head of a hundred evils, and when the battle ends, that is, into the land of death and life. In Shinshu, Dongshan Province, both friendly and enemy forces are unpredictable, although there are many people under his command, the only one who can make Asahina Shin trust is the 500 flag book he brought.

Since receiving a letter of help from the defenders of Taiheiji Temple, Asahina Shinji casually read it and then asked people to transfer it to Kurita Castle, with a resolute attitude, if you don't move, I won't move, and he still lost only 500 wells, until 200 Chibei came to help, and then he drove the troops to come.

Therefore, the reinforcements that Gao Shisheng was waiting for never arrived, not because there were no reinforcements, but because the reinforcements went to rescue Taiping Temple.

Although the two sides tried their best to refrain from fighting head-on, the county was too narrow after all, and there were not many places for the combined strength of the two sides to move around.

Asahina Shin placed his reins on Ma Gaofu, looking at the Buddhist temple in the distance, and the various units under his command had already met the intercepted Nagao Zhengjing team head-on.

At noon, the sky was getting warmer, and the cold wind was still slightly cold, whether it was for the soldiers in armor or for the armored war horses, it was a suitable temperature for battle, the morning fog dissipated, and the vision was good.

In the two formations of Imagawa and Takeda, Asahina Shinji was the main general, and his position first blew the horn of the advancing conch, and then soon, the opposite Nagao army also beat the drums of the attack.

Takeda Akabei, who had already lined up in front, heard the sound and moved.

Among the 200 cavalry, the brothers Kanozu Katsutashi and Changzhong took the lead, pointing at the pre-selected offensive position with their guns, without saying a word, directly urging the war horses and galloping away with the red preparation.

Although Asahina Shinji also selected 200 banners as the first move, after all, they were all foot soldiers, and they needed to line up in formation to attack, unlike the cavalry that was light and fast.

Nagao Masaki and the Takeda Army fought for Ya Barrel Castle, the first to break the Ueda infantry was these 200 cavalry Akabei, Takeda Akabei's courage was seen by the Echigo Army, so today's battle, on the left flank of Takeda Akabi, Nagao Masaki arranged the most sharp flag of the Ueda people to defend.

Takeda Akabei did not reach the front of the battalion, the first arrows were shot out in the Echigo army formation, hundreds of archers opened their bows and shot vigorously, although the arrows did not rain down, but the deterrent power was also great, and the lethality was not small, especially the longbow and arrows, once they were shot at the vital point, I was afraid that they would immediately fall off the horse, but none of the two hundred Takeda Akabei cavalry retreated, not even dodge, all the Akabi did not look at the arrows, but the back of the Kanozu brothers, where the two rushed to, where the two hundred Akabi rushed to, the Lord will not stop, they will not stop, This is true even if there is a dense barrage of enemy troops in front of you.

It was also by relying on the commander-in-chief's example and strict military discipline that Takeda Chibei was able to thwart the encirclement and suppression of the Echigo army several times with a number of 200 and cover the safe retreat of the main force.

Although there are a lot of arrows, hundreds of them are fired in unison, but Takeda Akabi are well-trained horseback warriors, the armor on the horses is excellent, the speed is extremely fast, once the charge is really as fast as the wind, aggression is like fire, it is said that there are only three arrows in battle, and the long tail has just shot two arrows, and Takeda Akabi is suddenly in front of him.

In order to intercept the enemy's reinforcements, Nagao Masakai dug several narrow ditches not far apart on the plains, specifically to prevent the surprise attack of the enemy cavalry.

After all, at the beginning, it was only set up according to the standard of wild ambush, aiming to intercept and kill enemy reinforcements, but it could not stop the rescue of an army of more than 2,000 people, so it could only give up the ambush and come out to fight head-on to decide the victory.

However, even if it was rudimentary, those narrow ditches were enough to temporarily block Takeda Akabei's charge and keep him from approaching.

Two hundred Takeda Akabei rushed to the front of the Nagao army, and the Kanozu brothers took the lead in turning their horses' heads and marching along the trench, galloping sideways and sideways, throwing the short hammer in their hands towards the enemy formation.

In addition to the equestrian requirements, the first thing to do in the selection of the Akabi cavalry is to test the strength, whether they can throw the stone to sixty paces, these Akabi samurai are all infinitely powerful, and the Kanozu brothers are the best among them, plus the mounts are sprinting with all their might, the pair of short guns will only be faster in the air, whistling over the trenches, rejecting horses, mounds, and falling into the formation of the long-tail army.

The two hundred red warriors who followed the generals also raised their short hammers one after another, and threw them into the long-tail formation.

The damage caused by these 200 short arrows was far greater than the power of the hundreds of arrows just now.

Arrows are thrown from a distance to kill the enemy, and as long as the armor on the body is good enough to be shot due to poor military luck, you can still fight again. The speed of the Takeda Chibei cavalry charge was extremely fast, so many arrows fell into the air one after another, and there were not many Takeda Chibei who were really hit by the arrows, and only two or three people fell off the horse, mostly because the mount was shot by multiple arrows at the same time.

And these nearly 200 short guns were thrown at a close distance, and most of the long-tail Zhengjing troops were foot soldiers, lined up in a relatively dense front to defend, and they couldn't dodge in time in a hurry, and the short guns were so rapid that they couldn't block them all, and they screamed again and again.

The Kanozu brothers don't have to look back, and they also know that this trip was a short shot and killed, and the gains were not small.

The two brothers were not in love with the battle, and ran forward with the red cavalry for a while, and after dodging the scattered iron cannon fire, they turned their horses first, turned back, and ran back and forth along the way they had come, and at the same time took out a short hammer from the side of the saddle and threw it into the formation.

The cavalry urged the formation, mostly shooting long-range bows and arrows, throwing short-range weapons such as short hammers and throwing axes at close range, and only after the enemy's front army appeared to rush and rout, it was possible to charge with guns. This is the most standard and common method of light cavalry warfare, so before the Kanozu brothers went into battle, each of them brought several short hammers for the purpose of charging into battle.

Shicai threw the short hammer twice, and the light soldiers of the long-tail Zhengjing front army suffered dozens of casualties, if this was a few times, I am afraid that the casualties would be nearly a hundred. Moreover, Takeda Akabei not only brought a short hammer, but also a riding bow, and after throwing the short hammer, and then shooting the dysprosium horse, the troops were enough to support it, and the morale could not withstand such a series of blows.

Therefore, Hontatomo, who was in command of the front, saw that the situation was not good, so he could make the archers and iron cannons scatter and retreat, firstly, in order to temporarily avoid this continuous attack by Takeda Akabei, and secondly, he also adjusted the range of the longbow and iron cannon to launch a counterattack.

At this moment, behind Takeda Akabi, Asahina Shinji also sent a pioneer soldier, and hundreds of ashigaru armed with spears and skulls were already about to run to the vicinity of the trench.

Nagao Masakai also looked from afar, watching the battle situation, and was angry at Murakami Yoshikiyo's deployment to disrupt the overall situation, according to his strategy, step by step, eating away at the defenders of Kurita Castle is the best way.

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