A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

"It must have been Songshan and the others who risked their lives to break out of the encirclement when they heard the sound of the cannon being fired!"

After a busy day, Kanai Meigoro sat on the pony and just caught his breath. After a series of battles, even an iron man like him was exhausted.

Kodaira also guessed in an instant that the besieged Hosokawa Harimei, Nagano Yasumasa and others heard the rumbling sound of the Buddha's gun, and there was no food and grass, so they began to make a last ditch effort.

After all, in today's Japan (shielded), only Uesugi and Yamauchi may have the blunderbuss. According to the original agreement that if you want cannons, you must preach, and if you want technology, you must trade, the Nanman people taught the Yamauchi and Uesugi families the technology of casting cannons and trained artillerymen.

Although there are cannons now, artillery is still being cultivated. The Uesugi family's Echigo country's route to the Sea of ​​Japan has not yet been connected to the Nanman people in Kyushu. The only routes connected are Hamamatsu and Kyushu.

So if you want to use a cannon, you must be a Nanman gunner hired in Hamamatsu. Both the Hosokawa father and his son, who were important officials of the Yamauchi family, knew this. They knew that there were Nanman artillerymen training the Yamauchi family's artillerymen in Hamamatsu. If they wanted to use cannons, they must be from Hamamatsu.

They heard the rumble of cannons, and with a quick thought, they understood that Xiao Pingtai's reinforcements had arrived.

But the distance from Tone River to Koshihata Castle is more than five kilometers, and it would normally take half an hour to an hour to walk alone. Let alone an army of tens of thousands, with a mixture of people and horses, it is impossible to be that fast.

If you don't see Meng Lianggu, Tang will not talk about it. How many kilometers are Huang, Li and others closest to Meng Lianggu? In the end, he could no longer walk, so Zhang died in the encirclement.

Hong Chengchou went to Jinzhou to aid, and the entire army arrived at Songshan. Hearing the lights of Zu Dashou and others in the city, it was still quite cold even before finishing the last stretch of the road.

"Meigoro, how do you think our army should behave at this moment?" Xiaoping was too difficult to make a decision.

"Self-determination! The disaster of the three armies is born of suspicion. If you are lucky, you will die, and if you die, you will live!"

"Meigoro, how many months have you been at home?"

"Huh? Seven months."

"It's been seven months. It must mean that the fetus is stable. I will give birth to Lin'er someday, and the Kanai family name will continue!"

"Damage?" Kanai Minggoro was confused.

"Can we fight again?" Xiao Pingtai said solemnly.

"Can fight!"

"good!"

"Jilun, Haijin and others who have sent the message are waiting to defeat the entire army and storm Ikunoyama. Everyone, below me, must be enthusiastic and active to achieve unparalleled feats!"

Having said that, Koheita put on Yamauchi Yoshitari's armor and headband, and ordered Nanami to hold the Genji Royal White Flag, and Tatsumi to hold the Thousand Gold Bamboo Leaf Horse Flag. The Yamaga-ryu formation taiko drum was beaten, and the entire army was divided into two groups. One group stormed Ikunoyama, and the other group opened the Etsubata Road.

After crossing hundreds of steps, although Yamauchi Yoshiharu's armor didn't fit Xiaoheita, the experience of fighting under this flag and under this armor for many years immediately infected the samurai ashigaru of the Yamauchi army. The whole team burst into enthusiastic cheers.

The taiko drums are beating, the green bamboo sticks are pointed, and everyone in the direction is jumping for joy!

"Attention! Look! The leader of Mount Kasuga is coming out!"

Uesugi Teruhora finally made up his mind and led the two thousand people who were still able to fight across the floating bridge and converged on Ikunoyama.

"Okay, okay! Send a message to His Majesty the Commander, asking him to attack Ikinoyama, and I will personally open the Koshibata Pass!"

At this moment, the two largest reserves of the Hamamatsu clan under Koheita's command are the Matsushita clan and the Asahina clan. They have been accumulating strength for a long time. Encouraged by this, one on the left and one on the right cleared the way for Koheta.

Nagano Yamori also knew that the people besieged in Matsuyama were risking their lives to break the siege. Although he wanted to turn around and save them, the situation was like this. Koheita ordered them to stick to the Takeda army and attack Ikunoyama. When the order came, Nagano Yamori happily accepted the order and risked his life to buy time for Koheta to get through Koshibata.

All 3,300 Minawa soldiers pressed forward, and Takanashi Masarai's 5,000 soldiers also arrived. In addition to the fact that the five hundred horsemen who fought for a long time could not go up again, seeing that the battle situation was becoming more and more favorable to the Yamauchi army, they also fought hard under the command of the Takanashi generals.

"Regardless of origin! The first one to clear the path, I will guarantee that he will give two hundred pieces of wisdom and practice to block it immediately!"

Faced with the obstruction of Takeda Military Prime Minister Kisashiro, Koheta announced loudly.

The iron cannons came in and fired one after another. The long soldiers with cannons were in front and the short soldiers behind. They shot first and then struck. In less than five minutes, Xiangmu's team of only 300 people collapsed under the attack of more than 4,000 people from Xiaoping Tai.

The Takeda Second Formation Rakuganji team had a weak fighting spirit and fell apart as soon as they came into contact.

The Takeda Third Formation, the main members of the A Army, Takekawasuji, Yonekura, Yanagisawa and other generals certainly wanted to fight, but they had no choice but to send orders repeatedly to shrink their troops and stick to Ikunoyama to cope with the madness of the Yamauchi Army's last ditch effort.

Xiaopingtai suddenly became enlightened!

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"Father, look, it's the royal white flag and the thousand-piece golden bamboo leaf horse mark!" Although the setting sun is not too bright, under the brilliance, the light of hundreds of taels of gold is still dazzling.

Hosokawa Harumiya passed through the obstruction of Naito Shu and Imagawa Clan, and saw Koheita's extremely conspicuous horse mark, as well as the imperial white flag for which he had fought for more than forty years.

After fighting hard for three hours, the Yamauchi army that had not yet broken through suddenly saw hope, as if full of energy, and the ability to survive was revived.

"The Takeda Army was defeated, and the Iitomi Military Department has been killed!"

"The original Mino has been killed!"

"The defender of Amari Bei has been killed!"

"Takeda Daisen fled alone, and the rest were crushed!"

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Naito Masayo's troops, who were already having a hard time fighting against the Hosokawa Saime's troops who were full of survival will, suddenly heard countless shouts. One after another, the famous samurai of Kai were killed. Suspicions also arose.

"You won't really lose, right?"

This thought came to everyone's mind.

Naito Masahiro couldn't believe it when he saw that Koheita's people were marching in and they would arrive in less than half a quarter of an hour.

Either Takeda Harunobu was surrounded by more troops and was unable to stop him. Or he was really defeated by the Yamauchi Army, and the Yamauchi Army could attack Koshibata on a smooth road.

This general, who was known as "Takeda Kazuo's deputy general" and "no less brave than Lord Norima", had a trace of panic.

The original encirclement and counter-encirclement have become internal and external cooperation, attacking from both sides. If a soldier in this era is attacked from a flank, he has no choice but to run away and will definitely be killed.

The clanging bell rang, and Naito Masatoyo was determined to save the five thousand intact army for Takeda Harunobu, who might have been defeated.

Seeing that there was hope for survival, Hosokawa Saime's troops were all extremely brave. Even Kiso, Ogasawara and other people from the country also used all their strength to rush towards Koheita's golden bamboo leaf horse mark.

Koheita, on the other hand, followed step by step, stabilized his team, and approached Hosokawa's headquarters step by step.

The sun was sinking just below the horizon!

The people of Koshihata finally escaped!