Samurai of the Takeda Family

After the first row of ten iron guns on both sides of the western phalanx fired a volley.

A burst of blue-black gunpowder shot up from the gunpowder.

After the shooting, the iron gunners immediately put down their guns, and no one went to see whether the shooting was successful or not. They did not hesitate, one turned back to the right, from the gap between the column and the column, carrying the iron cannon, ran quickly to the last row, then stood in position and quickly filled and reloaded.

While standing on the left flank of the Iron Cannon Team, Xiaoxian Koba retreated to the second row of the Iron Cannon Team, raised the sword in his hand, and shouted: "Raise the gun and aim."

The same iron gun on the right wing also has an iron gun group leader who is responsible for commanding the right wing iron gun team to fire.

At the order of Xiaoxian Oba, the second row of iron guns raised their guns expressionlessly, then aimed at the guns level, and took a small step forward with their left foot to maintain the balance of the body's center of gravity when shooting.

Xiaoxian Koba's eyes flashed, then he waved the sword down, and shouted heavily: "Shoot."

There was another round of gunshots, and the choking smell of gunpowder here in the Takeda Army's Honjin was even stronger. The smoke that had just been shot has not yet dissipated, and now another layer is superimposed.

The densely standing bow-footed light team was hit by the musket platoon again, and this time the two fell to the ground again.

Li Xiao’s iron cannon is lightly equipped. Although the Guoyou barrel produced by Omi Guoyou Village has a range of 50, it basically cannot penetrate the armor at this distance. Only after two rounds of iron cannons fired at a distance of thirty, the power and hit rate of the iron cannons showed their effects.

At this time, the opposing bow-foot light team had just entered its intended shooting position, and was affected by two volleys of iron cannons. Although the casualties were small, many of the bow-foot light movements seemed a little flustered.

Just when Saito Army's bow-foot light team was preparing to shoot at the Takeda Army's phalanx.

The 60 light archers on both sides of the Takeda Army’s auxiliary equipment took the lead in raising a volley of bows and shooting arrows from both sides into the light line of the Saito Army’s arched legs, which lacked armor protection, and immediately rushed to the opponent's formation.

Immediately afterwards, the Iron Cannon Foot Lights from the center of the Takeda Army fired a volley in the third row and the fourth row.

The Saito Army's bow and foot were lightly hit, and the Takeda Army's long-range weapons with bows and arrows and iron cannons, double strikes, immediately suffered a lot of casualties.

Under the command of the opposing general Yuzuqing, the Saito army Yuzuqing reluctantly insisted on being in front of the battle, and hurriedly released two rounds of arrows, then immediately retreated, and did not cause many casualties to the Takeda army. .

This time, Xiaoxian Xiaoxian's iron cannon foot light performed very well, which was far beyond the expectations of others. Under the harassment of the opponent's bow and arrow, the iron cannon foot light team made normal tactical moves despite one or two casualties. , There was no panic from the last military drill.

Saito Army didn't seem to have much expectation for its own bow-foot light team before. After the bow-foot light team retreated, the rear gun-foot light phalanx immediately put down the long spears and set up an impact formation.

After entering the Takeda army's phalanx, the Saito army's front-row spear-foot light squadron launched a charge within twenty distances.

"Let the arrow"

After shooting three rounds of arrows, the bow-foot light people on the left and right of the Takeda army are slightly relaxed. Generally speaking, the bow-foot light is in the battle. They can only shoot seven or eight arrows quickly, and then they will lose their strength.

However, Li Xiao's archers are all professional soldiers, usually well-trained, so they can support up to ten arrows.

At this time, the Takeda Army’s archers shot the fourth round of arrows, but the Saito family samurai Akiras, who were charging ahead, were all draped with merchandise, and Zuqing’s head was covered with iron-clad formations. Therefore, the defense against bow and arrow shooting is still relatively strong.

After a round of arrows, the Saito Army soldiers suffered very little casualties. Several brave warriors, with four or five arrows hanging on their feet, continued to charge as if nothing had happened.

Li Xiao shook his head when he saw this scene. At this time, the armored armor of the Warring States Period has been widely used, replacing the large armor of the previous complicated workmanship. The footwear of the Saito family is a piece of equipment for each person. The popularity of large armor is low, and only wealthy warriors can afford to wear it, and most of them are armors handed down from ancestors and used for generations.

Because of the popularity of the samurai, the defense power of the samurai and the foot light on the bow and arrow is greatly improved. For the Japanese arch foot light who does not have the crossbow technology, their power on the battlefield is getting smaller and smaller.

The Archers of the Takeda Army fired a fifth round of arrows, a volley of sixty people, this time it was only two or three of the opponents. Many samurai and Zuqings had one or two arrows hanging on their bodies. Just charge forward like a okay person.

Just when many people thought that Li Xiao wanted to make the center's guns out of the battle.

The iron cannons on the two wings of the western phalanx roared, and the fifth row of iron cannons fired a volley.

Li Xiao observed the effect of the shooting, and saw that the fifth row of volleys only knocked down three of the opponent’s football team, but among the three, the only one who was shot seven or eight arrows in succession, still brazenly attacked. A samurai charging forward.

Depending on the exquisiteness of the opponent's armor, it should be a famous samurai in the Saito army.

The defensive power of the armor of such a famous warrior is better than that of ordinary ones. After two rounds of bows and arrows, he has hit seven or eight arrows, and still maintains the usual charge.

However, such a brave man still can't resist a shot of an iron cannon.

Li Xiao saw a look of unwillingness in the opponent's eyes, and then knelt on his knees, fell to the ground, and was immediately overwhelmed by the crowd from the Saito family who rushed up from behind.

The Saito Army's forward machine gun was far enough, and the Takeda Army had only fifteen positions.

As the opponent's foot light team gets closer and closer, and the same for the iron cannon, the closer the shot is, the stronger the iron cannon's lethality and the higher the hit rate.

The sixth row, seventh row, and eighth row of the western phalanx fired continuously. The samurai Saito samurai who charged in front was again defeated.

Seeing the Takeda Army’s iron cannon team completely finished firing, Saito Niche could not help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Many warriors don't care about being asked for a rank, because they died in an upright martial arts contest, but they are most afraid of dying like this.

For example, during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Southern Dynasties General Yoshisada Nitta was shot in the center of the eyebrow by a streamer. This disgraceful method of death is called "dog death" in Japan, which means to die like a dog.

Seeing that the terrifying iron gun team of the Takeda army finished shooting, it was estimated that it would take a lot of time for the opponent to fill the bullets. Therefore, the Saito army gun foot team must immediately rush to the front of the Takeda army in this gap and order the opponent’s iron The cannon lost its effectiveness.

The Saito Army's Zuqings renewed their courage to push forward.

At this time, the opponent was close to the Takeda army's phalanx and was only a few minutes away.

Between the two wings of the Takeda Army's auxiliary bow-footed light teams and the gap between the central iron artillery team's loading, they even desperately fired two rounds of arrows.

Although the two rounds of arrows were of no avail, it seemed that they couldn't stop the Saito Gunzu light team from charging forward, but they slightly delayed the opponent's impact.

However, taking advantage of this gap, the Takeda family iron cannon team that originally fired in the first row had already been reloaded at this time.

Due to the tactics of backward loading, the queue is reversed.

Therefore, the iron guns that used to fire in the first row are light enough, but they have now retreated to the back of the original eighth row, so this is another four or five distances away. The front side is the main line of guns that are waiting for you. This distance The above is absolutely safe.

At this time, Xiaoxian Xiaoba ordered the first row of iron cannons that had been loaded to be light enough to fire.

When shooting at this safe distance, there is no need to go backwards. After the first row is shot, the second row takes a step forward and stands at the original first row shooting position. As usual, the third row fills up the second row position. So row by row and so on, but the original shooting of the first row is made up for the eighth row of shooting position.

At this time, the Saito Army of Ranwen Novel Network has entered the maximum killing range of the iron cannon, so the Takeda Army Iron Cannon Team will shoot at full strength without any reservations.

The actions of Li Xiao's iron artillery team were the same as in normal training. They were very fast and effective. After the first row shot, the second row followed the shot, followed by the third row and the fourth row.

Raise the gun, aim, shoot.

This series of usual exercises countless times, and when they are proficient, the iron gunners almost did it subconsciously without even thinking about it.

As long as it is loaded, it will go forward and shoot, so there is almost no room between shots. The time interval between the last salvo of iron cannons and the next salvo of iron cannons is almost only two to three seconds.

The roar of the iron cannons was almost non-stop, and the sound reverberated continuously in the valley for a while.

Under this new round of continuous iron cannon strikes, the foot soldiers of the Saito Army who rushed forward were constantly knocked down by iron cannons. Several samurai bravely took the lead in the charge, and even the Takeda Army’s close-range iron cannons. Boom to death.

After each round of gunshots, several Zuqing fell down. Whenever the Saito Army's Zuqing saw the black hole of the muzzle in front of him, his legs were soft.

"How is it possible, is it possible that the Takeda Army is equipped with hundreds of iron artillery teams? Otherwise, why can't their shooting be stopped?"

This thought suddenly flashed through the mind of every samurai samurai who charged.

In an extremely **** scene, the Saito Army's Zuqing often suddenly stopped his whole body in the process of charging, stopped moving, and then leaned to the side, so that a life disappeared.

He hasn't even swung a knife at the enemy who killed him.

Although his family is noble, and his martial arts is usually outstanding, what about a famous samurai who can block ten, the opponent's lightness only needs one shot to kill him.

The army of the feudal era, in general, suffered 10% of the casualties, and its morale fell frantically, and the soldiers of the whole army would be on the verge of collapse.

The best example is the battle of Sekihara, a large-scale battle of hundreds of thousands of troops, and the number of people involved is only 3,000.

This is the only exception for the Takeda Army and Uesugi Army under the two commanders of Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin. In the fourth Kawasaki Island battle, the two sides had a high casualty ratio.

In general, when rushing into battle, the most brave and elite fighters in the army take the lead. Once these people are defeated, the morale of the whole army will plummet.

Under the double blow of the Takeda Army’s iron cannons and bows and arrows, the guns of the Saito Army’s frontline charge finally reached the tipping point of collapse. The Saito’s Tsukis saw the samurai in their army and the brave ones. Companions fell under each other's iron cannons and bows one after another.

Facing the black hole in front of the muzzle, the enemy who was silent and without emotion shooting at them, finally a sense of inexplicable fear rose in their hearts.

The surviving **** occupies the first place in my heart.

The first place, the Saito family, started to turn around, and ran away from the front line of the charge frantically. With the first one, there was a second, and the third one. In an instant, there were a dozen, twenty, and a few. The rout of ten people began to appear.

However, those who were originally charging, saw their companions retreating, naturally they were not willing to be fools at this time, and continued to rush forward. Everyone turned around and was defeated from the front.

This was a complete defeat, followed by the sound of iron cannons from the Takeda army still firing.

The Saito family, who ran a little slower, was light enough, and a dozen people fell on the way to flee under the shooting of bows and arrows and iron cannons.

Seeing the enemy's defeat, Shigang Yiyu's mood at this moment can hardly be described in words. The previous suspicion of Li Xiao's western phalanx no longer exists.

Shigang Kazuyu was convinced of Li Xiao's heart, and he said: "Does the lord want to let the guns chase?"

Li Xiao shook his head and pointed his horsewhip at the five hundred army forces of the Jinbao family that had not yet taken action, as well as the Saito army’s horse-riding team, and said: "The enemy still has surplus power, and the pursuit now can only be a melee regardless of victory or defeat. ."

After Li Xiao finished speaking, he turned his head and glanced at Honda Zhengxin beside him.

And this Masayoshi Bendo, known as the first wise man of the Matsudaira family, was also extremely uncomfortable at this moment. He was used to seeing the brave fights of the Sanhe Samurai warriors, but he had never seen such a tactic of Li Xiao's army.

In the central long spear phalanx, the two wings of the auxiliary personnel had not been dispatched, and the enemy's offensive was repelled by just the same amount of iron cannons and bows.

With such a powerful force, it seems that victory on the battlefield can be achieved only by relying on iron cannons, bows and arrows.

Why didn't he have heard of this kind of tactics before? Bendo felt deeply in his belief that he was becoming more and more incomprehensible about his lord.

At the same moment, Saito Niche's military manpower had already fallen under the horse unknowingly.

As for the Saito family and the Jinbao family generals around him, they all had dumbfounded expressions.

Especially the horse samurai of the Saito family who had just laughed at the Takeda army's position, he couldn't wait to slap himself in the face at this moment.

Saito's family looked at the mighty and mighty, Takeda Army Iron Cannon Team, all of them pale. With such a fierce attack, the iron cannon team actually fought back. What kind of tactic is this?

It's almost unseen, unheard of.

Xiaoxian Oba breathed heavily, and yelled at the iron cannon, "All return to their positions, and reload them."

"Oh"

The Iron Cannon Foot Lights team shouted in unison, and then stood on the two wings of the center Cannon Foot Light phalanx again.

The iron gunners are still repeating their usual training actions. They first put the muzzle upright with their left hand, and pushed and pulled up and down with the oak push rod to clean the gunpowder residue in the barrel. Then take out the projectile from the small bag on the belt, and then fill the gunpowder and projectile into the muzzle, and then use the push bar to compact the projectile and gunpowder.

Finally, insert the fire rope wrapped around the left wrist into the fire hole.

The full set of actions for filling the projectiles can be done in 20 seconds by a skilled person, but it can't be done by a stranger in one minute.

The huge lethality of iron cannons in actual combat has already been demonstrated. Because the projectiles fired by iron cannons are beginning to be low in this era, once the projectiles hit the human body, they will hardly cause penetrating damage and enter the muscle tissue. There is a certain chance of bursting inside. Caused heavy losses.

Many warriors who were hit by iron cannons were light enough. Even if they were not directly hit by the iron cannons, they could temporarily lose their combat ability due to the non-penetrating damage of the projectiles, instead of shooting four or five arrows like arrows. , Is still a seemingly innocent charge.

In that killing, the Saito army killed nearly a hundred people under the Takeda’s iron cannons and bows, and the casualties caused by the iron cannons were at least twice that of the bows and arrows.

After the iron cannon team reloaded, Li Xiao looked at the Saito army on the opposite side, showing a hint of mockery on his face.

"Get Out"

Under Li Xiao's command, under the banner of the Sun and Moon Shuangwen, the 500 standing equipment moved again, and the Iron Cannon team carried their guns on their shoulders, and three long spear points stood high above the Gun Foot Light Team.

"Go Together"

In accordance with the instructions, the whole army moved forward slowly in neat steps.

During this process, the distance between the front and rear rows is still kept quite a bit, and the queue of the square array is not messy at all. From a distance, the surroundings are as neat as they have been cut with a knife.

This is Li Xiao's continuous daily training in the past two months, and he has maintained such a tight formation.

Now Li Xiao's army is slowly advancing in the direction of Saito army like a huge wall.

The generals of the Saito family have never seen such a beautiful military formation. Generally speaking, when the troops advance, even the well-trained troops, the formation will be scattered. At this time, they can only rely on each The constraints of the team generals to maintain the formation.

The advance of the Takeda army was very strange, they shouted a strange slogan (left and right ~ www.wuxiamtl.com ~ between the troops, the whole is like a person in action.

Even when the opponent's foot is moving forward lightly, the legs that are stepped at the same time are all on one side.

How they did it this way is a concept that everyone can imagine and understand.

At this time, the general of the Jinbao family, Terashima, said: "We must not let the Takeda army go forward, otherwise we will lose this battle without fighting."

"But if the Takeda Army's iron cannons were fired, if we couldn't make a breakthrough, we would only die if we rushed up. After the previous battle, many samurai in the family were killed." Saito Nikkei slammed his fist, obviously. It is in resentment.

"No, no matter how fast the Takeda Army’s iron cannons can be fired, it’s not as fast as a warhorse. We first attack with the horse squads, and then use the iron cannons on both sides of the Takeda Army to attack, so that we can defeat the current one. Takeda Army."

As Terajima said so, the Saito army suddenly realized that, yes, no matter how fast the musket fires, can it be comparable to a war horse? . ..

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