A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Under the stone city, guns and cannons roared, and bowstrings sounded.

After all, it was Yamauchi Yoshiji and Yamauchi Yoshikatsu who single-handedly trained the Standing Ashigaru. In addition, the number of officers rarely reached 25% of the entire army. More than half of them were down to the grassroots level. Even though Takeda Shingen suffered two rounds of six Folang machines. Cannons and shelling can still form a line and move forward steadily.

After the Takeda Army was bombarded by the Yamauchi Army's artillery located on a small slope in Mount Si'a, Army A was in the best condition, motionless as a mountain. The Shinano clan was quite shaken and confused. As for the Suruga clan, they were lucky and hadn't been shot yet.

This time, Koheita's command completely brought the entire 13th Division of Yamauchi Imperial Court, except for the 1st Division led by Murakami Yoshimitsu, the remaining 12 divisions were brought.

The generals of each division are all samurai who serve Yamauchi loyally and have both courage and experience. It is not too much to call them the treasures of Yamauchi.

With a wide frontal approach to the enemy and three sections of horizontal formation, the twelve squadrons actually faced the enemy head-on, with the fifth, sixth, ninth, and eleventh squadrons actually facing the enemy. Yumiya and Teppanyaki took turns firing the long-range weapons in their hands, and they had long been accustomed to the sound of cannons whizzing past their heads.

Who knows that there are often test firings of Folan guns under Fuzhong City. In order to train artillery and train horses to fight in the sound of artillery, this is inevitable.

Many Ashigaru were even woken up by the roar of cannons in the morning. Their nerves were usually tense due to cannons, but they felt much more relaxed on the battlefield.

Get used to it!

Xiaopingtai's combat strategy this time was very plain, and he did not adopt a simple strategy of a large group of Wuyangyang people rushing up in chaos. Instead, they adopted a forward attack method to attack Takeda's army head-on. They fought head-on with the Takeda Army on the narrow river plain next to Mount Si'a and the Saikawa River, and held off the Takeda Army.

Then the soldiers in Toishi Castle came out in full force and attacked the flank of the Takeda Army. Under the double panic and blow of the Takeda Army, they used the advantage of artillery to directly kill the samurai generals of each team of the Takeda Army, and finally attacked Takeda Shingenmoto. Array.

There is no cunning plan, no clever strategy, only the confidence to risk one's life and fight decisively!

Sitting on Baidan, Xiaoping didn't care about anything else!

"The order was sent to Meigoro's fifth division to come forward and entangle Mino Mamoru Baba, and Shiro's eleventh division to entangle Shushin Naito, and Aki's ninth division to entangle Shiro Suwa, and the sixth division also stepped forward to cooperate. The teams will be ready to take turns in the future!”

"Takanashi Hebei on the left wing should not move lightly. Ask him to lead the Takanashi army to cover one side of the battlefield and invite the Takeda army to attack!"

The envoys who knelt in front of Xiao Pingtai listened to the orders one by one, mounted their horses and galloped out to deliver orders to each division.

The command and dispatch of purely professional troops is completely different, military orders are clear, and the ability to implement strategic goals is far better than ordinary old-style troops mixed with a large number of peasants and soldiers.

The two sides were still in the process of testing firepower for the time being, and the Takeda Army's artillery misfired. It was not that there was a problem, but that the front of the army gradually expanded, and a large number of Takeda troops were deployed in the firing range, and no more shooting could be done. The Yamauchi Army's artillery position on the slope was still firing fiercely.

"The enemy is engaged!" Chen San shouted!

"It was Ogasawara and Shiro Nagamasa who were the first to break into the enemy formation!" There was a loud shout from the formation.

The long-handled ashigaru of Ogasawara's unit formed a spear formation and violently attacked the Takeda army. With a bang, hundreds of spears from the two armies collided, and a fierce battle began.

At the same time, the other three teams also collided with the Takeda Army teams one after another. All standing ashigaru troops are in uniform order. Under the shouts of the ashigaru, three rows of spear ashigaru waved their spears in turn, constantly hitting the formation of Takeda Army soldiers, like waves crashing on the shore, like a furious tide hitting the air.

Although only 5,000 people participated in the battle, they completely entangled the 10,000 Takeda troops who faced the enemy head-on (excluding Suruga, about 4,000, and the Takeda main formation, about 3,000).

The Takeda Army was originally a mixture of various arms. Some of the standing soldiers and peasants wanted to fight, while others wanted to hold on. The soldiers holding flags, carrying ammunition and wooden poles were even more at a loss. They were not combatants in the first place, but the Yamauchi army suddenly appeared, and they were forced to mix in the team to face the enemy together.

If the handymen, who account for 40 to 45% of the total army, are taken away before the battle, the Takeda Army may have fewer soldiers to face the Yamauchi Army head-on than the Yamauchi Army.

However, the participation of these non-combatants did not enhance the actual combat capabilities of the Takeda Army much. Instead, serious riots and wavering occurred under the heavy shelling.

Although the generals of the Takeda Army are working hard to maintain the front, it is inevitable that these miscellaneous soldiers have the intention of running away. This thought became even more intense after a cannon from the Yamauchi Army hit the troops of Yida Nobō, the lord of the Shinano clan Yida Castle.

"Bounce! The enemy general Yida Mutsu's horse mark was blown off!"

Following the direction pointed by Chen Sanyao, Koheita could see clearly that Shinano's Yida troops were greatly shaken and retreated under the shelling and storming.

"Very good, give the order to the artillery leader at the back to focus fire on the middle section of the Shinano army."

The head of the cannon crew on the hillside was from the Chiba clan in Soshu, but the Chiba clan was oppressed by the Hara clan in power in the family. The Yuan family in Zongzhou was divided into several factions to fight with each other. The representative of one of the factions was Yuan Huyin, who was beaten away by Xiao Gonggongfang. The other faction belongs to the current Yuan Yinsheng, who was defeated in the Qianye Rebellion. Later, he served Yamauchi Yoshikatsu, who was in Kyoto at that time, as a cannon attendant, and now he serves as a cannon leader.

"In addition, the time has come to issue an order to Peishi City!"

"yes!"

Chen San ran backwards, and then fired a stick and fire arrow into the sky.

The drums were beating loudly, and flags were flying in Peishi City. The soldiers all over the city were filled with hatred for their country and family. They were all pleasantly surprised yesterday when they learned that the Yamauchi clan's general Fujiwara Ammasei had sent troops to help. They were originally planning to fight Takeda Shingen in the city for the final battle to the death, but they didn't expect Wang Shifei to arrive.

Now I heard the sound of orders from the castle with sticks, fire and arrows. The 493 people under the castle general Suda Mitsurui all had their heads tied with white cloths and wore only light armor. The front group held bows and arrows, and the rear group held spears. Open the city gates and secret doors everywhere, and rush down from the city.

All the soldiers of Toishi Castle were shouting wildly, with high morale and great ambition, determined to defeat Takeda Shingen in one battle to comfort the countless people who died in Saku County!

The Suruga people who besieged Toishi Castle bore the brunt of the attack and were defeated by the Toishi City army who sacrificed their lives.

Before Takeda Yoshinobu made any decision, the brothers Okabe Motonobu and Okabe Masatsuna, who were the center of the Suruga clan, collapsed to both sides "unable to support themselves". As soon as the two of them were defeated, no one in Suruga wanted to fight, and they retreated in panic to make way for the soldiers of Toishi Castle.

It only took a short ten minutes for five hundred people to defeat four thousand people.