Samurai of the Takeda Family

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Tianzheng five years, September 25th.

In the early morning, wearing a thick cotton armor and a scarlet cloak on his back, Li Xiao climbed onto the small hill on the main position of the Hida Yuezhong Army Corps and looked down.

As the sky gradually brightened, the legionaries prepared for brisk walks, and entered their respective positions, died down, and the whole position also came to a standstill.

In the Kurobe River and the surrounding dense forests, the sound of the birds singing that used to be in the early morning is no longer heard, and the entire mountain area has fallen into silence.

Occasionally there were only a few figures, and the shadows traveled through the forest, showing a scene of swords and swords.

In front of Li Xiao, the huge Li character flag blasted against the wind.

In fact, since the decision to fight today, a secret confrontation has begun last night.

The two armies saw all the ninjas dispatched.

The first purpose is to detect the enemy's army, whether there is a night attack, or the intention of dividing the troops into a sneak attack.

The second is reconnaissance and spying, the formation of the two armies, the terrain, and the distribution of forces.

Although the Xuanyuan people of the Uesugi family were destroyed, Uesugi Kenshin invited the ninja from the outside world to come and work together.

On the side of the Hida Yuezhong Army Corps, Yokotani Yukishige and Yokotani Yukiki were dispatched together to command the secret battle.

And Li Xiao's ninjas, including Otobe, Anbe Ninja, thousands of ninjas, and more than two hundred ninjas, started a secret battle with Uesugi's ninja outside the house.

The ninjas on both sides spied, infiltrated, and assassinated each other's sentinels. They saw each other and displayed their methods. Before the war broke out, hundreds of people died in this invisible hustle and bustle.

As a result, this dark battle ended with Yokotani's victory.

The my wife ninja, who Li Xiao has run for many years, completely suppressed the ninja from the outside world. Not only did he expand his surveillance network and protect his military situation from being spied on, it was equivalent to abolishing half of Kenshin Uesugi's eyes and ears in disguise.

Therefore, under the circumstances of the Ninja's defeat, this time Uesugi Kenshin wanted to follow the eve of the Kawa Nakajima battle and attacked Takeda Shingen Hachiman at night. Under the circumstances that the intelligence network was abandoned, he would be seeking his own death.

After Li Xiao learned of this, he praised Yokotani Yukoshige, but it was only a praise.

Li Xiao got a certain chance, but today's decisive battle is the highlight, and the strength of head-to-head competition is not the slightest trick.

So Li Xiao picked up the monocular telescope and looked at Uesugi Kenshin's position in the distance.

The battlefield for this battle was chosen near the Shinkawa Plains, roughly located in the Kurobe City of Japan today. To the north of Kurobe City is Shimoshingawa Prefecture Iizen Town and Asahi Town. The two towns are located on the fan-shaped ground of the lower Kurobe River.

Therefore, the battlefield is in the middle reaches of Kurobe River.

It is close to the Tateyama mountain range, and the nearby maple forest and red leaves are very famous.

It is now autumn again, so it is a landscape full of forests.

Except for the battlefield where the two armies are facing each other, there is a section of several square kilometers and a half-long open area, and the two wings are mostly mountainous areas with towering trees. The tributaries of the Kurobe River are very inconvenient for marching and fighting.

Therefore, Li Xiao naturally concentrated the main force on one side of the open area in the center, and put only minor forces on the two wings to guard and alert.

In the main street of Hokuriku Road in the rear, some troops are also put into defense, and at the same time it is used as a maneuvering place.

The battle of 60,000 people was enough to be a great battle to decide the place during the Warring States Period.

As the general in charge of the military, Li Xiao was very cautious and did not rush to attack.

His strategy is very simple, that is, late-breaking.

His own iron cannon is powerful in defensive battles, so defensive instead of offensive is a good strategy.

According to Li Xiao's judgment, although the above-Shan Qianxin's tactics are difficult to predict, the opponent who has always been arrogant and arrogant must take the initiative to attack first in the case of military strength.

This is not Li Xiao's conjecture, when Uesugi Kenshin has seen passive defense in his life for hundreds of battles.

Now that he knows that the opponent is bound to attack, Li Xiao will undoubtedly have to survive the opponent's opening three tactics before making a counterattack.

It seems that the battle looks like, as long as Li Xiao defends the front line of defense, he can remain undefeated even if he can't win the battlefield.

But this is not the case. This frontal line of defense is not easy to defend.

The reason is that this shape is too long and narrow, with a depth of only one kilometer, but the cross-section is more than six kilometers long.

Exclude the two wings, the rear defensive force, and the reserve team.

Li Xiao has 13,000 troops in his hand. It is really a bit troublesome to defend this six-kilometer-long line of defense.

You know, Li Xiao's western country phalanx is applicable to the terrain. The narrower the battlefield on the front, the more powerful it can be.

If the opening is too long, there is a danger of being outflanked by the enemy.

The western phalanx does not have the firepower configuration for shooting in all directions.

It seems that Kenshin Uesugi chose this to fight a decisive battle, and it is indeed a long-term success.

Obviously I did my homework beforehand.

In the art of war, geographical advantage is also an important part, and fighting together is where the masters of the two sides have a tacit understanding.

Therefore, the influence of location is very important, but since Li Xiao and Kenshin Uesugi know the location, they must have their own plans when they choose to fight here.

Uesugi Kenshin is weakening, Li Xiaoxi’s greatest power of the country’s phalanx, but Li Xiao has other ideas.

Seeing the terrain, Li Xiao decisively gave up his plan to fight on the ground with the phalanx of the West.

Instead, a temporary field fortification was built overnight at the front of the open field.

Li Xiao intends to use positional warfare instead of field joint warfare, which is similar to the way that Nobunaga would hold on first and then attack others in the Naga Shino battle.

Li Xiao's field fortifications are built continuously, relying on the mountains behind.

Although Nobunaga was defeated during the battle with Nagashino, his Sandaozha fortifications were indeed good.

Li Xiao intends to follow suit, but there is not enough time, so it must be simplified.

The field fortifications were all hurriedly completed by temporary conquests of local civilians. Since Li Xiao took over Xinchuan County, his popularity has been very good, so he summoned tens of thousands of civilians to build fortifications.

Under the work of a day and a night, two long and low walls were erected on the ground, and a wooden fence was erected on the plains as the first line of defense.

The real point is the six small hills behind the open ground. Li Xiao uses this as the support point of this soil defense line and is guarded by heavy soldiers.

Li Xiao put his most experienced Shen Gang Bei, Snake Tail Bei, Qi Ben Bei, Da Tong Bei, and Li Zheng's own army into the battlefield.

First, these few standings are all elite soldiers, brave and good at fighting. Second, these units have the highest level of firearms, and the equipment rate of iron cannons and large barrels is much higher than the average level of this Warring States period.

In order to meet the Uesugi army.

On each hill, a special artillery position is assigned to place large tubes of various calibers.

The big tube preparation, the big tube attached to the large tube team, were all distributed on the six hills, and field artillery positions were built under the command of Rui Costa.

The large barrels of well-trained artillery have become more and more professional in their operations. They have completed surveying and mapping on the battlefield in advance, and the heights, distances, and various elements of the battlefield have been marked.

What came into Li Xiao's sight now was the field fortifications that had been laid out. The iron cannons were light enough, and the big cannons were all ready, hiding behind the fortifications.

Excellent field fortifications can not only play a protective role, but also obscure the enemy's line of sight.

Li Xiao looked at it, and all the soldiers were hidden in the fortifications, without showing the slightest trace, so that the Echihou Army could not spy on the layout here.

This made Li Xiao nodded very satisfied.

The sun is rising slowly, and the sky is bright.

The golden light of Wandao shines on the snow-covered Tateyama mountain range behind him, and the snow is particularly dazzling.

Standing on the central hill, Li Xiao looked at the opponent's Echihou Army camp and found that the opponent did not move at all.

It stands to reason that at this time, the Uesugi army had already begun an offensive.

However, in the opponent's camp, it was still silent. This scene made Li Xiao somewhat suspicious of his judgment. He wondered whether Uesugi Kenshin had changed his intention to actively seek a decisive battle and turned to defense.

Just when Li Xiao secretly found out, preparing to send envoys to inspect the positions on the two wings.

At this time, the objects looking forward to see the Fasnails, which had already sounded the warning horns. Following the sound of the first Fasnails, the Fasnails rang one after another, and then resounded into one piece.

The black-clad and black-armored Uesugi generals expelled like a black tide, slowly revealing a hideous face on the opposite side.

One flag after another, appeared on the opposite mountain.

The banner is like the sea, and the army is like a mountain.

Soon after, the two flags of Kenshin Uesugi also appeared among the Uesugi army.

The flag of chaos dragon, the flag of admiration.

Li Xiao raised the monocular telescope and looked carefully.

Among the guards of the Uesugi family soldiers.

Uesugi Kenshin rode on the horse, raised his sword high, and slowly pointed it at the soldier behind him.

Where Jianfeng pointed out, all the Uesugi soldiers burst into cheers. Countless Uesugi soldiers faced the incarnation of Bishamon at the moment. The expressions of their lord Uesugi Kenshin were all kinds of uncontrollable excitement. , Worship.

In the enthusiastic cheers, even Li Xiao, who was an enemy, was shocked.

Facing the quiet and quiet Takeda army position, Li Xiao immediately felt envy and hatred. This scene of Uesugi Kenshin's three armies calling together is more like the protagonist of the book than him.

The morale of the Uesugi army, with Uesugi Kenshin personally supervising the battle, suddenly reached its peak.

It was ten o'clock in the morning when the Takeda army was impatiently waiting.

Kenshin Uesugi smashed the sword in his hand, and the Uesugi army finally began to attack.

The three armies shouted together, tens of thousands of horses beating thunder.

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Uesugi's spears are like a forest, and the lineup is prosperous.

On the other hand, there was silence on the side of the Takeda army's position.

After hiding in the fortifications, the Takeda Army’s iron cannons were light enough, and under the orders of their respective generals, they slowly poured the gunpowder in the bamboo tube from the muzzle into the barrel.

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