Chapter 396: The Uesugi family is destroyed
The Jiannu cavalry all wore heavy armor, and from time to time they were hit by knives on their legs and waists, but the light force of the knives could not break the heavy armor.
The Wa infantry used bamboo spears, naginatas, and katanas, all of which were sharp but light and lacked strength.
The main force of the Wajima perennial war was the peasant soldiers known as Ashigaru, and even after Oda Nobunaga separated the soldiers and peasants and strengthened the professional army, Ashigaru was generally equipped and had mediocre morale.
Over the years, against these lightly armored infantry, the naginata and katana have been tried and tested.
These two weapons are very effective against light armor, but because they are too light, they are very ineffective against heavy armor.
The katana, which is as sharp as a cicada's wings, encounters a double-layer cloth iron armor and directly wears the curl blade.
A sharp blade with a lot of money left a series of knife marks on the armor, but the blade was damaged if it could not penetrate.
"Roar!"
Ao Bai roared angrily, and the big knife was waved like a wave, and the Japanese soldiers together couldn't stop him from striking with all his strength.
The 50 Eight Banner soldiers who followed him became more and more courageous, each of them seemed to be descended from heaven, and they were not afraid of the weak counterattack of the Japanese soldiers.
"Not good!"
Uesugi Jingsheng's face was very bad, because his family's trick car suspension formation was originally a formation that kept moving and rotating, but now Ao Bai and the others were stuck in the car suspension formation.
The formation can't turn, and it can't solve the Ao Bai inserted into the formation.
The mystery of the car suspension is that the circle array moves, so as to avoid a little battle on the circle formation and other soldiers watching the play. Moreover, with the command of the commander, you can send cavalry in the middle and corners of the formation to surround and kill the enemy.
This trick was tried and tested repeatedly during the Wajima Warring States period.
But this time, he was lowered by Aobai and directly stuck.
However, in order to deal with the Tokugawa family, Uesugi Keikatsu mainly used hand-to-hand combat and bows and arrows, and did not bring an arquebus that was not suitable for car hanging, that is, the iron cannon in the mouth of Wajima.
In the early days of the Wajima Warring States to the shogunate, there were indeed no armor-breaking weapons except for firearms such as iron cannons and large barrels.
It's just that the Uesugi family is not known for firearms, and this time in order to copy the car suspension of Sister Uesugi's car, they completely copied the weapons of the time, and now they have suffered a big loss.
"Change formation! The infantry entangled the enemy, and the cavalry surrounded them!" Uesugi Jingsheng roared angrily, and could only rely on the strength of the people to eat the 50 people in Aobai, even if the surrounding soldiers and horses handed over their backs to the remaining enemy troops, but the number of people on his side was doubled, and some casualties did not hinder the overall situation.
The Uesugi retainers immediately responded, directing the samurai and Ashigaru to surround Aobai.
Although Azig was only 19 years old, he must have a lot of war experience, and when he was 13 years old, he followed the Ming army in Salhu. Now he has become a terrifying cavalry general.
During the Dolgon period in history, the strongest Manchu Qing were the three brothers Azig, Dolgon, and Duoduo.
Among them, Dorgon sat in the rear, and Azig and Dodor personally led troops to sweep away all the Ming troops who dared to resist and rebel.
Duoduo was the artillery king of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and he was good at using Hongyi cannons to blow up Tongguan and Yangzhou, defeating Li Zicheng and Shi Kefa.
Azig was the cavalry king of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and counting all the Mongols under the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Azig was the most powerful cavalry.
The cavalry paid the most attention to the timing of the attack, and although there were only 400 men on this mission, they all brought war horses.
"Follow me!"
Azig raised his spear and charged directly at the Uesugi cavalry.
Originally, the cavalry of the Wa Kingdom was short and slow, and they lacked cavalry experience in cavalry, so the 700 cavalry of the Uesug family was intercepted by the 350 cavalry of the Azig family.
Directly, the Japanese cavalry rushed into chaos, scattered in chaos, and scattered one after another.
In just half a burnt time, the Houjin cavalry did not kill a single person, and almost wiped out the cavalry of Uesugi.
Azig, in particular, had the ability to shoot a bow with one hand, holding a gun in one hand and a bow in the other, and killed 30 enemies in a while.
Although the 50 people on Aobai's side were surrounded by thousands of Uesugi infantry, he had not seen this situation before.
I saw that the Japanese infantry used bamboo guns to pierce them, but they couldn't pierce the armor at all.
Uesugi Keikatsu hurriedly ordered to stab the horse, but Ao Bai was not a fool, and directly under the constant tickling of the spear, he turned over and dismounted and fought on foot.
After dismounting, the Houjin heavy infantry each had two layers of armor, ordinary katana, naginata, and bamboo spears could not be injured, and only a dozen people hugged and pressed down together, and they were stabbing the armor seam with a saber This way of killing.
After fighting for a long time, only seven or eight lone Houjin soldiers were knocked down, and several people used sabers to find armpits, eyes, and lower yin and other places that lacked armor protection to kill.
"Roar, roar, roar!"
Ao Bai slaughtered and was covered with the blood of the Japanese people, and the Japanese killed seven or eight people, and he alone killed seventy or eighty Japanese soldiers.
The morale of the Uesugi family has fallen, and if it weren't for the retainers who were all in front of them, I'm afraid they would have been defeated.
"Kill!"
The 2,600 soldiers and horses of the Tokugawa family were also killed, and they were about the same strength as the Uesugi family, but under the encouragement of the gods of the Houjin Eight Banners, their morale was far superior to that of their opponents.
Azig became more and more brave the more he fought, and the Houjin cavalry was heavily armored and killed with a salvo.
Even Fan Wencheng went into battle, wielding a big knife to cut off the heads of the Japanese soldiers, like chopping melons and vegetables.
Uesugi Keikatsu is 70 years old, and although he is a daimyo he can barely eat enough, rarely eats meat, and although his body is taller than that of ordinary Japanese people, he can't compare with the Houjin generals who have meat accounting for half of their diet.
Nurhachi was very cruel, plundering and exploiting a large amount of supplies, slaughtering people and starving to death, but he fed the Eight Banners very well, and the generals ate meat every day.
One by one, the retainers of the Uesugi family were shot in the face by the Eight Banners in five steps.
The guards of the Uesugi family, holding swords in both hands, were able to block the power of the Eight Banners' one-handed knives, and they were also killed after a few fights.
Uesugi Keikatsu was exposed, a gray-haired old man who was a head above the others, pointing fingers there, too conspicuous.
Azig drew a heavy arrow and shot it, and the white-haired old man fell to the ground.
I heard the Tokugawa soldiers who rushed in front shouting in unison, "Uesugi Keikatsu is dead by an arrow!"
"Uesugi Keikatsu is dead by an arrow!"
Yonezawa, who was barely able to maintain his position, suddenly collapsed, and the Uesugi retainers scattered in a hurry, and many of them simply disarmed and surrendered knowing that they couldn't escape. More than 2,000 people were killed and more than 3,000 surrendered.
Uesugi Keikatsu was shot dead by Azig, and after the battle, it was discovered from the arrow on Uesugi Keikatsu's chest that it was an Azig arrow.
The war horses of the Houjin cavalry stepped on the Shanjia military flag.
The strength of Houjin completely shocked the Japanese people.
The Gojin army, which had only 400 men, was several times stronger than the 2,600 men of the Tokugawa shogunate, and there were less than 100 casualties in the entire battle.
A battle inspired the strong men of the Wa Kingdom to worship Houjin, Azig and Aobai. The Japanese people are like this, and the future generations have not changed, whoever is strong will recognize whoever is the father.
Half of the daimyo privately contacted Azig and Fan Wencheng of Houjin, and privately asked for trade and hiring Houjin warriors as private soldiers.
The Tokugawa shogunate was busy dealing with Yonezawa, and if this old enemy who dared to stand out was destroyed, he would be able to subdue the allegiance of other Kanto daimyos.