Samurai of the Takeda Family

Chapter 340 Turning History

In the twelfth year of Yonglu, November.

The more China, Toyama City.

After reaching an armistice agreement with Uesugi Kenshin, Li Xiao led the army back to Toyama City, rewarded with merits, and hosted a banquet to entertain the wealthy clans before disbanding the army.

At this time, the heavy snow in Yuezhong has arrived, and winter has officially arrived.

Li Xiao placed the three major reserve teams that suffered heavy losses in the Viet-Central Battle this time in Toyama City to rest for the winter.

In this battle between Vietnam and China, Li Xiao’s three major reserve teams and Uesugi Kenshin’s flags died, and casualties were generally more than 30%.

This ratio of casualties, replaced by an ordinary powerful army, is basically between five to ten percent, and it collapses.

And Li Xiao's standing equipment can continue to fight even if he bears such a huge cost of casualties. It has to be said that Shima Katsumou, Jinbao Nagaken, Kinoshita Koichiro, Fujido Takatora and others are well-trained before.

Therefore, the Yuezhong tycoons saw that Li Xiao's three standing forces were stunned, and they didn't even believe that there was such a strong army.

In fact, with the standing army, which is different from the advantages of the peasant soldiers, after a hard battle, if the unit still has a structure, rests and regains its vitality, the battle will go to a higher level than before.

Throughout the history of the world, the iron army has experienced countless **** battles and fought out, and they are getting stronger and stronger.

As long as the backbone of the army can be preserved and trained after the expansion of the troops, the strength can definitely be raised to a higher level.

The only bad situation is that the institutional system is eliminated, and when the fire is gone, nothing will exist.

Through this winter, Li Xiao not only rested and reorganized, but also expanded these three standing teams into five reserve teams.

First of all, Li Xiao separated the Qibenbei's horse-riding team, emulating the Takeda Army's red-bei, and set up an independent cavalry team.

This reserve team is still headed by the ‘Kagetsu Shoujin’ Tsuchiya Masahiro, who is only sixteen years old and has become the general of the reserve team alongside Koichiro Kinoshita.

This newly formed horse-riding equipment has all the flags and objects with the sun and the moon inserted into it. Li Xiao directly mobilized it, so it was also named the sun and the moon equipment.

The newly formed Riyuebei, expanded from the original two hundred riders to five hundred riders, became Li Xiao's fourth reserve team.

The fifth reserve team is led by Rui Costa.

Since reaching an agreement with Torres and Freus, Portuguese missionaries have already opened churches in Viet-Chong to accommodate believers.

After receiving strong support from Li Xiao, the Portuguese readily offered Li Xiao all kinds of assistance, including the right to buy iron cannons and big barrels.

Although Li Xiao had the ability to produce large barrels, because of his low technical ability, he could only build some mortar guns at most, and the six-pounder guns had reached the sky.

The Portuguese is different. If it were not for the Japanese terrain restrictions, Li Xiao just asked the Portuguese to buy an 18-pounder gun, and they would also agree.

However, Li Xiao thought about it for a while, as long as it wasn't for attacking Odawara Castle, just a nine-pounder and a twelve-pounder was enough to sweep all the cities in the general sense of Japan.

More importantly, the price of the 18-pounder gun was too cheating for Li Xiao, and the Portuguese would dare to call it that price.

So Li Xiao only bought one twelve-pounder and five nine-pounders from the Portuguese.

As for the remaining six-pounder guns, the Rui Costa Nazhangzi factory will continue to produce them. Anyway, the native six-pounder guns, apart from being easy to explode, have no major drawbacks.

Because of the increase in the number of large tubes, it is not suitable for the large tube team to be used as a subsidiary of the flag.

In fact, it has proved that the establishment of the Japanese preparations during the Warring States Period is not suitable for the needs of future warfare.

A three-hundred to five-hundred-man squad is fully equipped, including horseback riding, archery, iron artillery, and gun-footed light teams. This is good for small-scale battles, but when it comes to large-scale battles, it won’t be taken. .

That’s why Oda Nobunaga specially drew out the iron artillery squadrons that belonged to each squadron during the Nagashino battle, forming a 3,000-man iron artillery corps, and bombarding the Takeda army frontally, and finally succeeded. .

With the improvement of Li Xiao's strength, it is no longer at the level of a hundred people or a thousand people. It is no longer at the level of a hundred people, similar to the small fight of the town chief.

Therefore, Li Xiao must form independent large-scale equipment for large-scale battles.

The Swedish Army of Gustav II at that time had both a small-caliber artillery unit that belonged to the company, and a large and medium-caliber artillery unit directly under the team. Later, an independent artillery regiment was created. This is a pioneering work in military history. .

After the expansion, the big tube team is still led by Rui Costa, with a total of 350 people.

After forming two new reserve teams, Li Xiao is also in the original three reserve teams, and Li Xiao also reorganizes.

First of all, Li Xiao made adjustments in the sequence of the Western State phalanx.

Originally a Western phalanx, the standard sequence was two hundred and forty people, of which 80 people were light enough for iron cannons, and 160 people were light enough for guns. Finally, the iron cannons were lightly placed on the two wings and arranged in a 30*8 square. Meet the enemy.

Li Xiao's adjustment did not adjust the number of people, but would increase the number of iron cannons in the western phalanx, while reducing the number of guns.

After the adjustment, the iron gun is lightly composed of ninety-six people, and the spear foot is lightly 144 people, and it is still a square formation of two hundred and forty people.

That is to say, two rows of iron cannons are added to be light enough, and two rows of guns are lighter enough. In combat, they still face the enemy with a 30*8 square array. However, the iron cannons in the first row are lighter than the original ten People, increase to twelve people.

Such frontal iron cannons have stronger firepower.

This is also the result of Li Xiao's inspection of many battles. In fact, in history, with the maturity of the western phalanx, the matchlock gun became more popular.

In the Spanish army, the ratio of musketeers to pikemen was constantly adjusted. Initially, the ratio of musketeers to pikemen in the phalanx was one to two and changed to one to one. In the end, the ratio of musketeers to pikemen was two. Is a ratio of one.

This ratio also says that the status of the musket is becoming more and more important, gradually replacing the role of the pikemen.

Li Xiao’s iron cannons are now bought from the Portuguese. Unlike the big barrels, the matchlock guns sold in Portugal are still relatively cheap.

No way, the rise of the three major iron cannon production centers in Japan has been subject to competition from local Japanese companies. The Portuguese merchants who wanted to sell iron cannons across the ocean to Japan suffered huge losses.

That's why they sold this batch of iron cannons to Li Xiao at a price slightly lower than the market price.

This allowed Li Xiao to make a fortune, with a large number of iron cannons used to expand his armaments.

In fact, in this era, the production of iron cannons in Japan has been greatly matured and popularized. Among them, there are also warring states during the war, and the dynasties who are eager to innovate everything attach importance to iron cannons.

Although the quality of the three major iron cannon production centers in Japan is not as good as that of the European arquebus, they are superior in quantity and the cost is declining.

The proportion of iron cannons in the army is increasing day by day. Compared with the era of the Sichuan-Nakajima war eight years ago, iron cannons are still a luxury.

Iron cannons are now widely used in the Takeda, Uesugi, Oda, and Hojo Army. On average, the iron cannons in the armed forces have reached ten percent.

And a variety of novel iron cannon tactics are also continuously applied.

That is, the era when Li Xiao imagined that he swept everything with iron cannons is gradually passing by.

And Li Xiao also expanded the three major reserve teams. Anyway, he now occupies Yuezhong, grasping the key points of the land passage of Hokuriku, as well as the sea trade of Iwase Minato in Mitsu Seven Minato.

Now that he has new financial support, it is giving him the confidence to expand his army.

Li Xiao is also about to build a new army with a new look, and increase his grasp of the battle with Uesugi Kenshin next year in Vietnam.

This is because Li Xiao paid such a big price and moved the great **** Ashikaga Yoshiaki, only then in exchange for his chance to make a comeback in Viet Central this year.

If it is changed to next year, the situation will be even more sinister for Li Xiao.

Shiina's family has been maimed by Uesugi's family. Even if they are not disabled, Uesugi Kenshin will be scared. If Kenshin fights again next year, Shiina's family can remain neutral and not beat him. It will be a blessing for Li Xiao. .

Once Shiina's assistance was gone, if Li Xiao arrived at the same military strength, Uesugi Kenshin could easily pull the entire Yuezhong up.

Li Xiao also expanded Shengang, Shewei, and Qimotoi.

First, in Shengang, Sheweibei set up two units, each with 480 people, and Kimotobei set up three units with 720 people.

Kamokabei and Sheweibei were all expanded into a team of 800 people.

However, after the Kibmoto team minus the horse riding team and the big tube team, although the number has been expanded, the number has dropped to 1,250.

When Li Xiao recruited new recruits from Toyama Castle, he received a letter from Kai Takeda Shingen and Takeda Katsuyori.

The meaning in Takeda Shingen's letter is concise and concise, meaning that Jiayue is in harmony at the moment, and Hokuriku has no fighting for the time being, so that Li Xiaoyan returned to Jiafei a year ago.

As for why Li Xiao should return to Jiafei, Shingen Takeda did not say, but Katsuyoshi Takeda has already explained the reason.

After covering Takeda Katsura's letter, Li Xiao looked at the flying snow outside the castle tower window, and suddenly thought abound.

History finally took a turning point here under Li Xiao's deliberation.

Takeda Katsuyoshi said in the letter that Takeda Shingen recalled all the generals and retainers of the Takeda army this time, and even Li Xiao stationed in Etchu, Masanobu Kita-Shinano Takasaka, and Masano Naito in Nishiueno were no exception.

The intention was that in front of all the important officials of the Takeda family, Katsuyori changed the Miao character from Suwa to Takeda, and officially confirmed Takeda Katsuyori as the successor of the Takeda family.

In the future, after Shingen surrenders the position of monk ~www.wuxiamtl.com~, Katsuyori Takeda will inherit the 20th generation of the Kai Takeda clan, and will officially take charge of the Takeda family, instead of the inheritance of Takeda Nobuyoshi, the son of Takeda Katsuyoshi. However, Takeda Katsuyori was only seen after Nobatsu, taking charge of the affairs of the Takeda family on his behalf.

This time Takeda Katsuyori was justified and succeeded the family governor.

It is like in the original history, Takeda Katsuyori did not become the prince, and finally took charge of the Takeda family as the regent.

And this time, Shingen Takeda recognized the status of Takeda Katsuyori's son, which is to confirm that Takeda Katsuyori will not need to pass his son in the future, but will be in charge of the Takeda family by himself.

In this way, Takeda Katsuyoshi will go further than in history, and will not only be more plausible, but will also greatly increase his ruling power over the Takeda family.

This was achieved by Li Xiao's many years of hard work. He reversed history and succeeded in helping Takeda Katsurai succeed. Therefore, in his letter, Takeda Katsurai is very excited about the transformation of his ideal into reality, and he also expresses his immense gratitude to Li Xiao. .

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