Samurai of the Takeda Family

Chapter 393: See it

Just a few days after the main force of Hida Etsuchu appeared in the county and annihilated the two thousand Oda army, Li Xiao was unforgiving and continued to the south, from Ichiryu Castle to Kajida Castle.

Li Xiao mobilized Kamioka, Snaketail, Banner, Riding, and Big Tube five standing guards, together with the prestigious prefectures on the island, dispatched 4,800 troops to Kajitian Castle.

Jiajitian Castle is near Tangdong Castle, Guancheng, built by the Sato family during the Yonglu period

During Nobunaga's strategy of Mino, the Sato family rebelled for Nobunaga, and Kajita Castle was in Nobunaga's grasp.

During the battle between Seki and Kajida in the eighth year of Yongluo, the Sato family's patron Tadiyasu Sato died in the battle. Later Nobunaga ordered Mitsuko Saito Michiko to surrender to the Oda family's Toriji Saito as the former Patriarch of the Sato family Tadao Sato His adopted son, inherited the famous Sato family, and became the lord of Kajida Castle

In history, Kaji Tanaka, led by Saito Toshiharu, has always served as Nobunaga’s powerful army, and has made great contributions to uniting the world in the Southern and Northern Wars. Therefore, the fighting strength is also excellent.

It takes only half a day from Ichiyanagi Castle to Kajida Castle. The Noo Plain along the way is a plain, surrounded by streams from time to time. The Mino River basically runs from north to south, or from east to west, and descends from the Hida mountain. , Flowing into the sea in the direction of Owari

Along the way, the armor of the Takeda army is bright, and it is slowly approaching Jiaji Tiancheng in an orderly manner.

Li Xiao was riding on a black forge. At this time, a ninja came to report. Just yesterday, Iwamura Castle was breached, and Akiyama's faithful captured the heavy city of Tomino. This situation was a few months earlier than in history.

As soon as the Yancun city was broken, the Akiyama Army began to attack. The remote mountain clans were in the Dongmeno city. These cities include the seedling city, Mingzhi city, Amu city, and Qiandan forest city.

After listening, Li Xiao asked, "What about Gifu Castle?"

Yoshiki Yokotani replied, "Towards Gifu Castle, the army of the Oda family has been standing still."

After hearing this, Li Xiao breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Tell your brother to closely monitor the Oda Army in Gifu City. If there is a slight change, report it immediately."

What Li Xiao is most worried about right now is that he was attacked by the main force of the Oda family led by Nobunaga in the middle of the attack on Kajita Castle.

Therefore, in the direction of Gifu Castle, a large number of ninjas were sent to investigate carefully.

Then Li Xiao asked, "How is the situation in Kaji Tiancheng?"

Yukiya Yokotani reiterated: "The opponent has noticed the intention of our army to attack. At the moment, the opponent's 1,500 soldiers from the castle lord Toshiji Saito and below are all retreating into the city. The intention should be to prepare for a cage battle."

"Cage City War?"

Li Xiao smiled slightly. Although the walls of Kaji Tiancheng are thick, it is not too much in the eyes of Li Xiao who has a big tube.

Li Xiao waved his horse whip forward and said: "Pass the order and advance."

"Oh"

Before noon, Li Xiao's army arrived at the town of Jiaji Tiancheng

Location of Kajita Castle in Fuga Town, Gifu Prefecture

The site of the castle is located on the ancient city mountain at an altitude of 270 meters. The terrain has two rivers, Tsubo River and Kawapu River, with one north and one south sandwiching Kajita Castle in the center.

Li Xiao’s army temporarily built a bridge, and walked across the Tsubogawa River from the bridge, arriving at Kajita Castle, preparing to deploy in the east of the city.

Gucheng Mountain is surrounded by steep rapids on three sides, and only the east side is the only channel for siege.

Demaruing Maru of the castle is located in the east of the foot of the mountain and north of the Kawaura River. It is guarded by the famous samurai Yuasaroku, who is known as a gun master among the Kaji Tanaka.

In addition, there are hills on the north and south sides of the city, and a castle tower is built on top of the main castle tower. The two sculls are guarded by the elder Naguma Santoku and Nishimura Jirou Bingbei.

Li Xiao had a clear view of the deployment of the city from the Qianlitong. As far as the Warring States city is concerned, Jiazhi Tiancheng is very well-guarded, and another 1,500 city soldiers are stationed. If there is sufficient food, grass and water, even if such a city is dispatched 10,000 The army besieged for a month, and it may not be able to win

However, Li Xiao did not have this worry, just as he was about to order the army crossing the river to deploy to the south of the city, and then cover Rui Costa to attack the city with a big tube.

At this moment, I saw the city gate of Kajita City suddenly opened wide. In the city gate, large stocks of feet gushing out and lined up in the open space in front of the city.

Immediately afterwards, the flag of the city lord also appeared outside the city, and the lord Saito Toshiharu led his army to go out of the city and line up behind the city.

In this situation, Li Xiao and the others were all stunned. Could it be that Saito Toriji had such confidence that he was ready to defeat nearly 5,000 of the Takeda army with 1,500 people in a field battle.

After seeing it clearly, the Saito army is indeed not out of the city to surrender, but out of the city to line up after the decisive battle.

All the generals of the Takeda Army couldn’t help but laughed instead. It’s important to know that although the Takeda Army on the siege side has a big barrel, the opponent can still defend for a while, but if it is a field battle, only the strength of the opponent is three times that of the opponent. The Takeda Army can defeat the enemy in less than an hour

This is simply a death

Tsuchiya Masahiro immediately rode his horse to Li Xiao to fight, saying: "Lord, riding on the enemy is still in line, the minister is willing to lead the horse to prepare for the attack, and kill them without a firm foothold."

Li Xiao listened to Tsuchiya's words, but he didn't answer

Seeing that Li Xiao did not answer, Tsuchiya Masahiro thought that Li Xiao was worried and unwilling to take advantage of this danger. He immediately said: "Master, at this moment when it is not the way of samurai, the enemy army is so big, and it is for them. Time of lesson"

After Tsuchiya Masahiro finished speaking, several generals asked Li Xiao for a fight.

But at this time, Li Xiao's expression changed, and he suddenly said: "The order goes on, and he ordered Chuanqi to investigate the west to see if there is an invincible army."

As soon as Li Xiao's voice fell, the top three riders crowed and stepped on their horses and galloped to the west.

Everyone was surprised to see Li Xiao’s face uncertain.

Li Xiao said in a deep voice: "Look at the location of our army. The north and south are the rivers of Jinbao River and Chuanpu River. You can't trek, and the east is Kajitian Castle. There is no way to escape, this is a dead end in the art of war."

Listening to Li Xiaozhi’s reminder, Ponto Zhengxin suddenly realized his words: "Yes, the east of the city is the only place to attack the city. If the enemy leader intends to set ambush, he will definitely choose this place."

"Or maybe I worry too much" Li Xiao said with a wry smile

In the speculation of everyone, at this time, a passer was sent to have returned

This person rushed to Li Xiao and said loudly: "Report to the lord, there is a large number of unknown forces in the west."

The generals of the Takeda army were immediately shocked when they heard the words. They all looked to the west together, and indeed a large amount of smoke was rolled up in the distance. This is obviously a sign of the cavalry's advancement.

"How is it possible that this cavalry team has at least nearly a thousand people," Fujido Takato put down the thousand miles and said incredibly. It was for this purpose that we were attacked on our backs."

Li Xiao's face was green after hearing this, and he didn't say a word

At this time, the second Chuan rode a horse and rushed to Li Xiao, saying: "Report to the lord, you have clearly seen the enemy's military flag behind you."

"Who is it?"

"It's the Golden Banner of Shuangyan, Shibata Shuliang's corps"

"Shibata Katsuya"

Li Xiao shouted angrily, waved his horse whip heavily, and said, "It's really him."

Li Xiao’s anger is justified. Since the battle, he has always ambushed others, but he did not expect to be inferior in resourcefulness today, and was caught by Shibata's trap.

It’s really a feng shui turn. Li Xiao just ambushed the Inaba Ichitsu Army. He didn’t expect that the retribution came so quickly, and he would be met by Shibata Katsura.

The sudden appearance of Shibata's forces in the back line caused the Takeda army to panic.

Not only ordinary soldiers, but also Li Xiaojun samurai, the retainers are also flustered

Shibata Katsuya has always been a general of the Oda family, known as Oni Shibata, and his army is also known as the Oda First Army.

Now that Shibata Katsura comes in person, all the generals of Takeda's army change their faces.

At this time, the third Chuanqi arrived and said to Li Xiaobai: "Report to the lord, the enemy is all Shibata Corps. The previous intelligence Shibata Corps is between 5,000 and 6,000, and more than half of the army is standing. , Are the elite soldiers of the long battle, and among them there are only a thousand horsemen, all the elite samurai of the Oda clan"

"Why is there such a large army of more than 5,000 troops?" Masanobu Honda immediately looked at Yokotani Yukiki, and said angrily: "Asshole, why didn't we detect the movement of Shibata army before and let the other party approach us so far? Just noticed"

"It's not that they are not good at investigating," Li Xiaoshen declared: "I sent troops to Kajita Castle to get through Omeno and Higashi Mino because it was too obvious, so Shibata saw it through, so they set up an ambush here long ago. Lead me into this trap"

The generals then came to their senses

However, the current situation is very unfavorable for the Takeda Army. As Li Xiao just said, the two rivers block the road from the north to the south, and the east and west sides are attacked by the opponent’s superior military forces.

At the moment Takeda Army is in a disadvantageous situation of being attacked by the enemy~www.wuxiamtl.com~ and Shibata Army’s sudden appearance has also dealt a great blow to morale.

And in terms of physical strength, Shibata Army waited for work with ease, and Takeda Army marched for half a day, and had not eaten lunch yet, which was at a disadvantage again.

Fortunately, Li Xiao just checked the Chuanqi in time. Otherwise, if Shibata Army strikes again when the city is attacked, the Takeda Army will be very bad.

At this moment, even Li Xiao did not admire the words: "Shibata Repair is worthy of being a famous general in the Oda family. He actually saw through my military strategy. The annihilation of Inaba Ichitsu before was too smooth. It made me careless and underestimated the Oda family."

At this point, Li Xiao's annoyed expression was gone, watching the crowd gleaming and saying: "But if you hit the plan, it won't matter. , Snake Tail, Kimoto Bei lined up with Shibata Army"

Speaking of this, Li Xiao looked at Shibata Corps, which was suppressed by the Zhengda army to the west, with a sneer in his heart, thinking that since the Oda Army wanted to wipe out Li Xiao and wipe out me under the Kajitian Castle, if so, I would perfect them and let the weaving The Tian family sees the combat power of the Western Phalanx after ten years of hard work."