Samurai of the Takeda Family

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Chapter 363 Trench War

September of the first year of Yuangui.

For the sixth time, Shingen Takeda and Kenshin Uesugi faced off on Chuanaka Island.

The strength of the two armies is 22,000 Takeda Army and 18,000 against Uesugi Army. The size of the two armies surpasses all previous joint battles on Chuanzhong Island.

For Kenshin Uesugi, the Takeda Army attacked Echihou in a three-way attack and flanked the rear. He should have shown a very anxious posture, trying to find Takeda Shingen for a decisive battle.

However, Uesugi Kenshin's tactics were extremely sophisticated and steady and steady. On the contrary, he was obsessed with the local victory and defeat, and continued to fight the Takeda family on this occasion.

Seeing Uesugi Kenshin did not take the initiative to fight, Takeda Shingen saw that Uesugi did not take the initiative to fight, but instead sent out a thousand-man rangers to attack the back of Uesugi's house in a roundabout way, trying to cut the absolute way of food.

Kenshin Uesugi calmly decided to resolve the harassment of the Takeda family one by one.

For a while, there was no large-scale decisive battle between the two peerless famous generals, but the thousand-person-scale battle between the two armies occurred almost every day, each with their own victories and defeats.

But on the whole, the commanders of the two armies are very calm, and with such a long delay, the battle situation must be gradually moving towards the Takeda army.

But just at this moment, after more than half a month of confrontation, Shingen's physical condition had problems, and he was suddenly ill in the army and was unable to be a director.

At the critical juncture when these two families gambled on the national fortune and made the home of the nation to prepare for the battle, Shingen, the backbone of the Takeda family, suddenly fell ill.

This made the Takeda army's servants and the generals at a loss what to do.

Takeda Shingen was on the sickbed and ordered Katsura Takeda to take over the military power. At the same time, Masanobu Takasaka and Nobuya Baba assisted Katsura to handle the military affairs.

So the burden of confronting Uesugi Kenshin was transferred from Shingen's hands to Shenglai's hands.

Suddenly, this sixth battle on the island of Sichuan has greatly increased the variables and the situation is complicated.

But the two armies of the Takeda Army, left and right, still acted according to the plan made before.

The East Ueno strategy of the right wing progressed very smoothly.

Masao Naito, the main force of the Nishi Ueno Army of Nobata Nobata, has now surrounded the Stable Bridge Castle.

The lord of the city Hojo Takahiro shrank his troops, holding fast to the city and dared not fight.

The Sanada family, as a partial army, attacked the city everywhere. The Sanada army first captured the branch of Numata Castle, the famous Walnut Castle on the east bank of the Tone River. Hand-playing mobile phone novel site

After the famous walnut castle was captured, he gained a stronghold on the east bank of the Tonegawa Sanada family, and further threatened Numata Castle.

After the capture of the famous Walnut City, the Sanada Army's offensive became more vigorous, and the Konabuchi Castle and Ogawa Castle in the East Ueno were successively captured by the Sanada family.

Sanada Kotaka is known as the righteous attacker, he is the number one siege fighter of the Takeda family, and his three sons are not inferior at all.

In this battle, in addition to the Sanada family, the Sanada family's Yazawa Raizuna, and his son Yazawa Raiyasu also performed very well, assisting the family superintendent to repel the reinforcements from Numata Castle.

And because of the realization of this three-way attack, the Sanada family was also a few years earlier than in history, and the leading place of the famous Walnut City was incorporated into the Sanada family's direct leadership.

Now in Yuezhong, under Matsakura Castle, Li Xiao's Hida Yuezhong Corps fought against the reinforcements of Naoe Keizuna and Kawada.

Fujido Takatora rode a fast horse and galloped into the main formation of the Takeda Army.

When they approached Li Xiao, the two raised their spears close to each other, and Takatoro Fujido got off his horse and knelt down on one knee and said: "Report to the lord, the Echigo Army repelled and captured 23 heads for us. class."

Fujido Takahu’s face is quite complacent. Because of his outstanding military exploits in the past few years, he has been transferred from Qibenbei to Kamokabei by Li Xiao, temporarily acting as the general general. As a sixteen-year-old young man, so In a short period of time, he was promoted to Li Xiaojun's mid-footed general and temporarily took charge of Shen Gangbei. This promotion speed can be described as very fast.

Fujido Gao Huxin felt that if he went down at this speed, he was not far from his dream of a 100,000-stone name, and even a million-stone name.

Li Xiao put the monocular telescope down from his eyes, and said: "You are wrong. The Echihou Army retreated on its own initiative, not because it was repelled by our army."

Fujitang Gaohu was taken aback when he heard the words, and said: "Take the initiative to retreat?"

Li Xiao nodded, and said: "In the previous battle, the elites of the Yuezhong tribe on the side of Xiuchang suffered a little loss. The real target of Naoe Keizuna's attack in this battle was them, and Kamiokabei was just restraining them. Use it."

As soon as Li Xiao's voice fell, Kinoshita also brought a few slave riders to Li Xiao's main formation.

Seeing Li Xiao, Kinoshita hurriedly got off his horse and pleaded guilty, saying: "Lord, I am weak in command, and I did not resist the offensive of the Echihou Army."

Li Xiao glanced at Kinoshita Xiuchang, this is not his strong point above the command of the decisive battle.

Moreover, it is well known that the Yuezhong army is not as good at fighting as the Echihou Army.

So in the first battle, Hidenaga Kinoshita and Keizuna Naoe were in a head-to-head duel, and they were completely at a disadvantage.

"I know."

Li Xiao thought for a while and said: "Xiu Long, although Naoe Keizuna's tactics are not fierce, but they are very close, one after the other, if you want to defeat him, you can't follow his routine, you must make a surprise. Fight back, hit Luàn his steps, understand?"

When Hideo Kinoshita heard Li Xiaozhi's words, he uttered a loud voice.

Masanobu Honda said from the side: "Lord, Keizuna Naoe is a famous Echigo general, and he is not eager to deal with. We originally wanted to go back to the castle and fight the opponent decisively, but unexpectedly Naoe was not caught in our calculations, but used a war of harassment. The law prevents our army from attacking the city, which is very troublesome."

Li Xiao nodded. His original plan was to encircle Songcang City, and the N*Echihou Army would come to help, and then a decisive battle would be carried out to fight against it.

But he didn't expect that Keizuna Naoe saw through Li Xiao's strategy and did not engage in a decisive battle. Instead, he split into two with General Kawada Nagasaki and engaged in a harassing battle.

If the Takeda Army strikes and seeks a decisive battle, the Echihou Army will immediately retreat, and when the Takeda Army relaxes a bit, it will immediately make a comeback.

In this way, Li Xiao could not concentrate on attacking the city head-on, and at the same time the food path was in danger of being cut off, so it was very difficult for the time being.

Li Xiao turned to the generals and said: "What do you think if our army ignores the harassment of the Etsuhou army and attacks the city?"

General Kano Hideharu, Kimoto Bizuchi said directly: "It was OK before, but now the Naojiang Army has appeared. The defenders in the city have received support from reinforcements, so their determination to stick to it is greatly encouraged. Therefore, it will cost more to capture Matsakura Castle. Some effort."

"So lord, I think it's better to fight back the enemy first."

Kano Hideharu's words were approved by most of Li Xiao's retainers, and it was true that there was such an enemy prying behind them that prevented them from attacking Matsukura Castle at ease.

Li Xiao asked, "But how can the Zhijiang Army fight us decisively?"

Kano Hideji was embarrassed and said, "This minister hasn't thought about it next time."

Honda Masanobu said on the sidelines: "Naoe Yamatoshou, he is very cautious in using troops, and he is not easy to take risks. I am afraid that the opponent will fight decisively."

Li Xiaoyan said: "Since Zhijiang is not willing to get into the suit easily, and will not engage in a decisive battle with our army, then I don't have to worry about it and concentrate on attacking Songcang City.",

"But if it's the Echihou Army, how about harassing the back of our army when our army is attacking the city?"

Kano Hideharu added: "You must know that if you use a reserve team to block the Echihad Army, there will be a large gap between the reserve and the reserve team, between the phalanx and the phalanx, and the Echihad Army can easily get out of the gap. Bypass our army's obstructive forces and directly attack the back of our army's siege troops."

Faced with Kano Hideharu’s question, Li Xiao replied: “It’s very simple. To prevent the enemy from penetrating the gap, then we will not block the situation with the formation, but change the tactics. From now on, we will be behind our barracks. Construct three semi-circular trenches and guard our guards among them."

"The lord, the ministers are unknown, and the three-tier trenches can't resist the five thousand emperor army at all."

Li Xiao replied: "I understand that trenches are not for obstruction. The iron cannons of our army under Songcang City are at least a thousand people. At the time of the siege, these thousand iron cannons are easy to use. Enter the trenches and use iron cannons to block the approach of the Etsu-Hou army."

"The rest of the reserve team responsible for blocking is just behind the trench. If a point is breached later, it will be blocked at which point. So what do you think?"

Li Xiao's intention is obvious, that is, to change the blocking warfare from a military interception method to a similar positional warfare and trench warfare.

Hearing Li Xiao's narrative, his servants were all surprised. This method of tactics is obviously unheard of and unheard of in this era.

But I have to admit that the idea is indeed unique.

Li Xiao looked at Takenaka Re-governance, and said: "Sir, what do you think?"

Since Shigeharu Takenaka became the supervising army of the Hida Vietnamese Army Corps, he had never expressed any military opinions on Li Xiao, and seemed to be dumb.

From the bottom of Li Xiao's heart, he was very hesitant to him.

After hearing this, Takenaka Shigeji smiled calmly as before, and said: "Tajima Shou-sama's strategy is very innovative, I think I can give it a try."

Bendo Zhengxin also said: "Lord, I also think that you can try."

The two famous military divisions of the Warring States had already recognized ~www.wuxiamtl.com~ The rest of the retainers were meaningless, and decided to adopt Li Xiao's suggestion to build a triple trench on the periphery.

Under the same day, the Takeda army gave up its offensive on Matsakura Castle, and only maintained the occupation of Tokai Maru and Shinomaru, while the rest of the army turned to dug trenches under the castle.

This scene made Keina Shiina in the city, and Keizuna Naoe outside the city, Kawada Nagasaki secretly began to apprehend.

However, it was unclear what Li Xiao meant, so he didn't dare to act rashly.

The excavation of the triple trench was completed in just one day for the nearly ten thousand military forces of the Takeda army under the castle.

In addition to the three semi-circular trenches, a lot of channels have been dug between the trenches for communication, so that the front iron cannon is light, and when the block fails, you can calmly retreat to the second and third lines of defense.

So on the second day, after the trench was excavated, a thousand iron cannons from the Takeda Army came into place with ease.

Then in Matsukura Castle, the big tube began to rumbling. . ..