Samurai of the Takeda Family

The orderly stepping sound of the square formation sounded, and Li Xiao's five hundred stand-bys slowly stepped across the pile of corpses in the center of the battlefield, pushing the line forward about a hundred or so distances.

Li Xiao is going to use this kind of advance and persecution, without giving the opponent sufficient preparation time, either forcing the opponent to fight decisively or forcing the opponent to flee.

"stop"

Seeing the changes in the opponent's army, Li Xiao raised his whip and ordered the army to stop advancing.

Li Xiao looked at the Saito army's army formation. The Saito family had adjusted their position, and it seemed that they were preparing to use the horse-riding team to attack the Takeda army's western phalanx.

Li Xiao was not sure enough about whether the iron artillery team could deal with the impact of the Saito cavalry. Just now, the iron artillery team under the command of Xiaoken Xiaoba defeated the Saito army's first attack. Its level of performance has greatly exceeded him. The previous expectations can be said to be level.

But if faced with a well-known riding team, Li Xiao didn't have much confidence.

Li Xiao took a closer look. Although the Saito Army horseback team in front of the formation had only more than forty people, they were all elite warriors. If they attacked, it would be easy to open a gap in Li Xiao's western phalanx.

That's why Li Xiao ordered the troops to stop advancing and prepare to meet the opponent's riding team in place.

The military order to reorganize the queue was passed on.

"Look to the right"

After advancing a hundred distances and crossing the pile of corpses, the queue will inevitably be a little messy, because the iron cannons fire on a parallel plane, which can achieve the greatest salvo effect. Therefore, the western phalanx is very particular about the neatness of the formation. Spend.

This is why, apart from the change of formation, the West Phalanx pays so much attention to formation training.

Rather than saying that the strength of the western phalanx lies in the front, and the fear of attacks from the two wings is actually better, it is more fearful that the opponent will attack the rectangular corners of the western phalanx from an oblique side from a 45-degree angle.

Because from the geometrical point of view, for the iron artillery team located on the flanks of the western phalanx, the distribution of long and short ranges is the most uneven.

After a short period of rectification, Li Xiao Five Hundred Standing had resumed its rigorous formation within a short period of time, and was ready to face the new round of offensive that the Saito army was about to launch.

At this time, Ranwen Novel Network, Saito Army's riding team began to move.

Li Xiao looked from a distance, the horse galloping past, the dust on the ground was slightly raised, and the opponent's horse riding team arranged in a standard triangle assault formation for cavalry assault, galloping towards the Takeda army.

The dull sound of a horse's hoof stepping on the ground, like muffled thunder, made people feel the ground trembling slightly.

Saito’s riding samurai were good at controlling equestrians. The horses galloped from a long distance, began to rise slightly, and then continued to increase, increase, and finally reached the maximum when they approached the forty-five rooms of the Takeda Army.

As the iron cannon general, Xiaoxian Obata was obviously surprised by the speed of the Saito family's horseback riding team. If they really waited for the opponent to enter the actual killing distance of the iron cannon, the iron cannon team would have no time to shoot a few rows.

Xiaoxian Xiaoba immediately ordered the iron cannon team to fire one step forward.

This round of volley is at a distance of forty between the two sides.

Ten iron cannons fired lightly in the first round. After the gun smoke cleared, Li Xiao observed the results of the iron cannon firing, and the opponent's riding team was undamaged.

It was only because of the sound of the iron cannon that one or two war horses looked slightly frightened, but then the frightened war horse was immediately controlled by the riding samurai of the Saito family with outstanding riding skills.

In the blink of an eye, the Saito family's horseback riding team approached to thirty distances from the Takeda army phalanx.

Seen in the first row of iron cannons hitting the air, or being shocked by the instant assault of the Saito Army horseback team.

The second row of iron cannons began to appear to be in a hurry, and the accuracy was undoubtedly greatly reduced under the hastily firing. In this round of iron cannons, the Saito horse riding team still had no casualties.

Two misses, the Saito Army's riding squad became more vigorous, and this time Ranwen Novel Network Saito, the Jinbao Company's Assassin squad, had reorganized the team, followed behind the cavalry team, and quickly pressed on.

Li Xiao's iron cannon foot light team suddenly chaos themselves, and the whole team has a flustered atmosphere, and suddenly reappears, the original panic scene of military exercises.

When the opposing cavalry rushed to the distance, and the western phalanx was only 20 rooms, the third row of volleys from the two wings of the phalanx made another row of volleys.

The result was disappointing, this time the volley missed again.

Li Xiao shook his head when he saw this situation. The training of his own iron cannon team is still insufficient. Before facing the Saito family's light foot team, he played smoothly at the beginning, so he played more and more smoothly afterwards. There was a mistake.

Facing the swift assault of the Saito army cavalry now, coupled with the previous misses, it was a frustration of confidence, and now his true identity was revealed.

In addition, the panic of the Iron Cannon team spread to each other, and the iron cannon's confidence in the back was also lost.

At this moment, Li Xiao's two auxiliary sixty players bowed lightly, and within this distance, they carried out the first round of bow and arrow volley.

The arrow feathers on both wings fired at the same time. Several cavalrymen of the Saito Cavalry squadron, as well as the horseback warriors and war horses, shot their arrows.

After the warhorse hit the arrow, a person stood up with a long hiss, and then its owner overturned the horse. The other warhorse was directly penetrated by the arrow, and was trampled to death by the horse's hoof together with his owner.

Disturbed by the archers, the Saito Cavalry was slightly frustrated, but this did not stop them from assaulting.

"drink"

Suddenly, the Saito family horseback riding team drew out the sword almost at the same time, and under the oblique light of the setting sun, the cold light suddenly shone.

Saito’s riding team made a final charge.

Li Xiao had to admit that the Saito Army's riding team, each of the riding samurai was excellent.

Compared with the previous battle, he deliberately provoke the Takeda army in front of the battle, but now when he is rushing into the battle, every warrior on the horse is firmly attached to the back of his horse and staring at the front with all his attention. This kind of silent bravery , On the contrary, it is more moving than the yelling and fighting.

As the Saito riding team approached, Li Xiao saw the opponent's horse samurai look cold, the horse galloping to the maximum, and the flag pointing against the wind to the maximum. Looking at the past such a mountainous and forest-like momentum is indeed shocking.

"Lord, please immediately order the bow feet to be light and the iron cannon to retreat gently, otherwise, let the other horseback team enter our army's iron cannon team, and the casualties will be high." Shigang Yiyu said loudly.

Li Xiao just shook his head.

The Saito Army’s horse riding team has approached within ten rooms. Within this distance, the cavalry only needs to breathe for a short time to slash the sword to the iron cannon in the front row.

Although the Japanese horses are not tall in this era, seeing that the distance advantage is no longer there, the opposing cavalry is already close at hand, and the fourth platoon iron guns of the Takeda Army have weakened hands at this moment, and almost completed a round of volleys barely.

At such a close distance, this round of volley shot down the opponent's three equestrian warriors. It’s not that the Takeda Army’s iron guns stabilized the emotions with a single touch. It’s just that the shooting at such a close distance, no matter how bad the shooting skills are. Can hit.

It is basically impossible to shoot the next round of iron cannon salvos.

Seemingly realizing that the other party is powerless, the Saito army’s horse-riding warriors all have a grinning smile on their faces. As long as they rush this distance, they can slash and kill unscrupulously and let the sword in their hands stain Takeda. The blood of the army's iron cannon.

"Rushed over."

Seeing that his cavalry team was about to rush into the Takeda army's phalanx, the commander-in-chief of Saito army who was watching the battle, Saito Niche was also excited with a wave of fists, almost dancing with excitement, but considering his own identity, this Suppress it.

Saito Jinbo Army’s observation of several military commanders is also very happy, as long as the riding team can take the lead in the enemy’s position, and then the light team will follow the attack. In terms of their strength, they will inevitably expand the result of the battle and obtain a match. An overwhelming victory.

On the other hand, the general of the Jinbao family, Terashima, looked worried. He suddenly reached out to the direction of the Takeda army and said: "No, our cavalry is so close. Why don't the two wings of the Takeda army have a light bow and foot? retreat."

Saito Niche saw that the Takeda Army's bow feet did not move. According to the truth, when the enemy is approaching this distance, the bow feet are light, and the iron cannon feet should retreat quickly to the formation and let their spear feet come out of the battle lightly. Intercept the opponent's army, but why the Takeda army's position is not moving.

Seeing the enemy's horse-riding team approaching closer, a sneer of sarcasm appeared on the face of the general of the Western Kingdom's phalanx.

Five rooms

The enemy horseback squad forced five distances.

At this time, Shima Katsu suddenly drew out the sword, waved his wrist downward, and shouted: "Kill"

At this time, the central spear-footed phalanx of the Western State's phalanx was already ready. Forty Hida-throwing spearmen stood in the first two rows of the formation.

These Hida mountain people, wearing a sackcloth on their left, half-shouldered shirtless, barely exposed their entire right arm, without armor, because they were worried that it would affect the strength and direction of their spear throwing.

The spears in their hands are also specially made, almost as thick as the mouth of the cup, with sharp blades installed on the front.

Right now, the Hida Spear Thrower was already ready, waiting to hear Shima Katsutake's cry.

I took a step forward, twisted his body, and then rounded the entire right arm. The Hida-throwing spearman in the first two rows almost used all his strength and threw his spear to the ground.

At this time, the Saito horseback riding samurai who was rushing forward saw dozens of spears shooting at them at once, and they shot towards the face.

Seeing this scene, Li Xiao seemed to mutter to himself: "Skewer horse meat, not bad."

As soon as Li Xiao's voice fell, a series of screams of war horses neighed almost at the same time, and then the sound of heavy objects fell.

With a murderous look on Shima's face, he once again swung the sword in his hand and shouted loudly, "The second round."

Just listen to the sound of whirring air from the battlefield.

There was a strong smell of blood all around, and a war horse was pierced by three or four spears and nailed to the ground, but it was still immortal, as if it wanted to struggle to get up again.

A horseback warrior of the Saito army had blood in his mouth. At this moment, he and his horse pierced several spears, pierced through with the horse and the man, and lay on the ground.

Seeing this scene, the Saito Army's subsequent horse-riding team were all flustered for a while. Affected by the spears of the Takeda Army, their impact was already in chaos.

The two wings of the Takeda Army were lightly bowed, and the Iron Cannon Team seized the opportunity to shoot out all the bow and arrow iron cannons in one go.

The sound of iron cannons sounded one after another, and the arrow feathers shot out arcs in the air.

The Saito Army's riding samurai was hit again.

But despite this, the attack by the Saito Army's riding team has not ended.

This was far beyond Li Xiao's expectation. Saito Army's riding samurai team displayed an astonishing spirit of warrior. Despite the majority of casualties, the remaining riding samurai continued to attack the Takeda army's position.

In an instant, two horseback warriors broke through the barrage of the Takeda Army's iron cannon foot light and entered the left-wing iron cannon foot light team of Li Xiaoxi's national phalanx.

Although one person was thrown down by a volley of iron cannon feet from behind, the other person turned red with blood on his body, and rushed into Li Xiao’s iron cannon feet team. It was like cutting melons and vegetables, slashing with swords. kill.

But the iron guns on this wing were too light to dodge, and immediately three or four people were knocked to the ground by him on the spot.

Shima Katsu waited a step too late to stop, and finally the horse samurai who broke through the Takeda army line was assassinated on the horse by a spear that came for reinforcements.

However, Li Xiao's left-wing iron artillery team, because of this person, killed five people and injured seven people on the spot. The current left-wing iron artillery team of forty people lost 12 people.

The same casualties still occurred with the left-wing auxiliary yaw foot, a horseback warrior on the other side, even after hacking and slashing five yaw feet, was killed by the gun foot.

After paying such a price, all the forty horseback samurai teams of the Saito army were wiped out.

Here, Li Xiao secretly feared that if it were not for the blow of the spear throwing soldiers just now, if the Saito army horseback samurai team rushed into the phalanx, I am afraid that his two-winged iron artillery team would be wiped out.

But even so, Li Xiao still feels distressed about the casualties of the left-wing iron artillery team.

Without horse guards and the cooperation of trenches, it is not easy for Li Xiao to defeat an elite cavalry team.

Just now, Li Xiao's iron cannon was light enough to deal with the cavalry's impact for the first time, so he was very panicked, which led to a sharp drop in his shooting level. This was of course due to insufficient training before.

In the western phalanx trained by Gustav II, in order to deal with the opposing cavalry's attack, he let the three rows and three rows of musketeers fire on the shock cavalry to increase the lethality.

In the same way, relying on Li Xiao Tiebao's current training level, he still can't do this.

In the Battle of Volkhov, Gustaf II used regiment medium-caliber guns and company small-caliber guns to kill at medium and long range firepower, destroying the shock formations of the Polish cavalry, and then let the gunners of the Western phalanx. Shoot with a musket.

After the double damage of the artillery and musket, Gustav II finally defeated the Polish cavalry with the Swedish cavalry and spearmen.

As far as Li Xiaoxi’s phalanx has been made, in addition to the important reason for insufficient training, there is no artillery or cavalry at the same time, so the greatest power of the Western phalanx has not yet been displayed. . ..

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