Chapter 162: Kamiyagawa Battle

Although Sanada Yukimura is in his fifties, the tendons and flesh of that body and the blood make his body look like he was in the prime of his thirties.

Tonight's attack on the camp was also the first step in his battle plan, which was the first to capture people, which he learned from the military books circulated in the Ming Kingdom after living in seclusion in the Ming Kingdom for many years.

These 1,300 war horses are all the war horses in Kyushu, of course, Chen Cao will naturally not hand over his limited war horses to this gang of people.

Even if the opponent has a whole army of 10,000 and comes with the general momentum of the shogunate's army, in the night attack, once the opponent breaks through the camp, what awaits the opponent is collapse.

In the darkness, Sanada Yukimura personally led 1,300 men to rush into the camp of Itakura Shigemune, rushed back and forth in the tent of the army in front of him, and then led people through the entire Itakura camp.

Just as Itakura Shigemune was preparing to seppuku, Sanada Yukimura, who had already won a big victory, left at night with a large amount of food and supplies without finding Itakura himself.

If it weren't for the henchmen who stopped Itakura Shigemune, who had already drawn his sword, in time, this high-spirited Izumo country daimyo would have become his own ghost.

"They withdrew?"

Itakura Shigemune was in a state of shock, and was attacked in the middle of the night, even during the Warring States period, and both sides fought a big battle in one place in a proper manner.

"My lord, all the food, grass and other supplies of our army have been taken away by them."

After the retainers finished speaking, Itakura Shigemune let out a sigh of relief: "If it's gone, it's gone, quickly form a team, gather the soldiers..."

It was a sad thing to be attacked in the middle of the night, although hundreds of people were killed and wounded, but they had already lost in momentum, and when it was just about to dawn, the sound of horses' hooves sounded again.

The use of the art of exhaustion was much better in the Wa Kingdom than in the Ming Dynasty, and it was not long after the Itakura Shigemune, who thought that he would not be attacked again after being robbed, and soon after he was busy with everything, Sanada Yukimura killed another horse pistol.

At this time, Itakura Shigemune couldn't bear it anymore, and fled directly on horseback, leaving all the soldiers behind him in place.

The battle went smoothly, the entire Itakura team was already a frightened bird, and after being hit by more than 1,000 cavalry, they scattered and fled, and the battle ended before noon, beheading more than 3,000 people, and Sanada Yukimura won a complete victory.

After escaping for more than an hour, Itakura Shigemune finally met the main force of the former army under the command of Tokugawa Yoribo, the former general of the army.

Tokugawa Yoribo is also not young, he is the eleventh son of Ieyasu, only two years younger than Hidetada.

"I was attacked twice, and the 10,000-strong team was formed..."Tokugawa Yoribo sighed: "Lord Shigemune, how much do you look down on Sanada Yukimura?" ”

Itakura Shigemune sat on the maza in great discouragement, and sighed again: "I didn't have to be so brave these people back then, that old guy didn't know how to do it." ”

Tokugawa Yoribo is embarrassed to say this name again, after all, he is a member of the genealogy family, if his words are too heavy, I am afraid that he will hurt the hearts of others, but he really lost the battle, and he didn't deal with him himself, and when the hot-tempered person of Hidetada came, I was afraid that he would not be able to eat good fruit.

"Lord Chongzong, you are really defeated, now give you a chance to make up for your mistakes, immediately reorganize your soldiers, after today's rest, we will go to Kamiya River early tomorrow morning, and talk about it with this group of people first, what do you think?"

Itakura Shigemune bowed solidly, then stood up, hugged his helmet and walked out of the big tent of Tokugawa Yoribo.

"My lord, the Itakura team is now a defeated general, what if they mess up in front of the battle?"

Tokugawa Yoribo agreed with his retainers, so he looked at the other daimyo sitting on the other side: "I still have to worry about Asai-sama's subordinates and the Itakura team to act together." ”

Asai Tadakatsu leaned over and nodded, and Tokugawa Yoribo continued: "They stole the food and supplies of the Itakura team, which is enough to prove that the Toyotomi army is short of supplies, and if you come, you will immediately report this situation to Taiko-sama." ”

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On the Kamiya River Plain, Sanada Yukimura stood on a high platform set up in the main camp, and the 170,000 troops in the distance stood in different phalanxes like ants crossing the mountain.

"It's another Sekigahara battle," Sanada Yukimura couldn't help but sigh, although he hadn't participated in it back then, the Hideya behind him was indeed a person who had experienced it personally.

Toyotomi Hideyori and a group of retainers stood on the top of Nanshan, looking at the shogunate army formation in the distance, and the Hidetomi family sighed: "The battle of Sekigahara is only 180,000 people, and the forward troops of the shogunate army alone are enough 170,000 people.

Xiujia smiled a little self-deceptively, but then the spirit came, Xiu Lai stood up from the horse, and then looked over: "Lord Xiujia, what does the victory rate of our army have in this battle?" ”

"Yesterday's two night attacks by Lord Yukimura have dealt a blow to the arrogance of the shogunate army, and the lord doesn't have to worry, now with the help of the Ming army, they are attacking from the sea, even if we can't defeat the shogunate army, there should be no problem in holding this Kamiya Kawaguchi."

Although Shimazu Tadashi's foot gear is not as bright as Hideyori's, the momentum set off by the dark color is comparable to that of Hideyori's: "My lord, but rest assured, now that my lord has come with the support of the righteousness of the Heavenly Dynasty, the news of my lord's return to Japan must have spread to the Hokkaido lands, and many of the foreign and feudal daimyo who had received the favor of Lord Sekihaku back then are watching, and our army will win this battle, and at that time, the land of Honshu China will definitely set off countless rebellions against the Tokugawa family." ”

"Zhongheng people are reasonable," Xiujia smiled at Xiu Lai: "The lord only needs to pass by when the time comes, even if it is Tokugawa Hidetada, he can only lift shoes for the lord..."

"Hahaha..."

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'Woo...'

The sound of the horn sounded, and this sound was known to all the Japanese army as an order to prepare for battle, and after carefully watching the Toyotomi army on the opposite side, Tokugawa Yoribo decided to take the lead in fighting the Toyotomi army as his former army commander-in-chief to test the depth of the opponent.

"According to the previous plan, the first wave of attacks against the Toyotomi army was launched with 7,000 Itakura troops and 10,000 Asai troops, and secondly, if the two teams were unfavorable to retreat, the 10,000 Takeda team and the 10,000 Uesugi team were used as the left and right fronts;

If the offensive is in our favor, the Mizuno team and the Toda team will immediately go forward and attack together, remember, everything is done carefully, the opponent is the heroic samurai Sanada Yukimura. ”

"Yes..."

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Shimazu Tadashi urgently put together an iron artillery team of only more than 1,000 people, which is all the strength he can use, plus the iron cannons captured from Chikuzen, Chikugo, Bunzen, Bungo, Higo and other countries, Sanada Yukimura also reluctantly gathered 5,000 iron artillery troops, which is also considerable.

In fact, the iron artillery team under the command of Tokugawa Yoribo was full of 10,000, but the interesting thing is that they still followed the main body of the battle according to the name of each team, and did not make the idea of using all the musketeers together.

Sanada Yukimura, on the other hand, learned these things from the Ming army, and used all the muskets from each team, so that a situation of being outnumbered by the crowd was formed, which could minimize the losses brought by their side.

"Iron Artillery Team..."

"Ready..."

"Put..."

'Bang bang bang...'

If the distance is too far, the special arquebus can be projectile, so that the shooting distance of the lead bullet can be extended, and the most important thing is that the lethality of the lead bullet will be greatly reduced.

If the opponent uses armor to protect the body, this kind of damage penetrates the opponent's armor at most, and there is no penetration, but fortunately, the Wa Kingdom is wet all year round, and the armor is only available to the daimyo, generals and retainers of the daimyo, and the ordinary soldiers are wearing uniform clothes, and the rich daimyo is only adding a layer of leather at most.

Therefore, the projectile lead bullet can cause partial damage to the opponent, and the main effect is to hit the opponent at the beginning of the battle.

From time to time, the iron artillery sergeants on both sides were shot and fell to the ground, but they were not fatally wounded, and the accompanying military doctor quickly dragged people down to treat their injuries.

To this day, the fighting methods of the Daimyo of the Wa Kingdom are still the same as the 'polite' methods of warfare of the Warring States period, and after three musket salvos, cavalry battles are fought.

The cavalry of the Itakura team had been exhausted in the two night attacks, and the cavalry of the Asai team was only four hundred, but at this moment, they also joined the dozens of remaining cavalry of the Itakura team and quickly slaughtered towards the front of Sanada Yukimura.

I saw a fan in Yukimura's hand, and the iron artillery team that had been loaded on both sides met again, his tactics were very simple, they did not have an advantage in numbers, in this case of the enemy's intentional war of attrition, it was natural to preserve the absolute strength of the cavalry.

"The Iron Artillery prepares..."

"Put..."

'Bang bang bang... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang...'

The sound of gunfire is loud, this time the muzzle is no longer raised for projectile, but direct horizontal shooting, as mentioned above, the improved arquebus of the Wa Kingdom is much higher than the traditional bird gun of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to reaching an astonishing hundred steps in the distance, it is also very powerful in terms of lethality.

As an exact series of front-loading smoothbore guns, the arquebuses of the Wa Kingdom can compete with the arquebuses in the hands of the Francophone at this time.

'Bang bang bang... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang...'

'Bang bang bang... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang...'

'Bang bang bang... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang...'

Buckshot flew sideways, and the cavalry that rushed to kill fell countless times, and under several rounds of musket volleys, these 400 cavalry only escaped back and could not ride more than 100 horses.

The corners of Sanada Yukimura's mouth rose slightly under the mask, and in his eyes, such old-fashioned combat methods could no longer keep up with the trend of the times in the hands of him, a man who had been immersed in the Ming military book for many years.

"Soldier: Cover your opponent with absolute strength..."

Miyoshi Zhengkang stood on the side: "Lord, but do you need to attack?" ”

Sanada Yukimura nodded: "I have won twice in the beginning, after you break through their front with cavalry, take a careful look at my command banner, don't act recklessly..."

Miyoshi Masaysu nodded, then took a deep breath and got off the high platform, got on the horse with a thousand cavalry, and walked out of the fence...