Chapter 1131: The soldiers have no shape, and the tactics are the strongest generals
Half an hour forward, Takeda Nobushige led thirty-three cavalrymen, chasing the hunters Li Ergou and Cuihua who violated hunting taboos, and rushed into the barren mountains behind the Komaba Valley. Not long after, another team chased behind them.
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A team of fifty Takeda Cavalry appeared in the Komaba Valley again!
They are not the Fudai retainer samurai belonging to Takeda Nobushige!
They are the most elite heavy cavalry of the Takeda family and are directly under the control of the family governor Takeda Shingen.
This team of cavalry had twenty-five cavalry at the front and rear, with a coffin-like red Japanese sedan in the middle. When the villagers along the road saw it, they immediately knelt down and worshiped, saying respectfully:
"Lord!"
This is really a big shot!
Takeda Nobushige led his team and passed by Komaba just now, but these villagers did not kneel down, only bowed and saluted.
The identities of the two people are obviously very different.
Who is this person sitting in the sedan chair?
The answer is obvious, it must be the contemporary governor of the Takeda family: Takeda Shingen.
There are also six young samurai who can prove this person's identity. They spread out and guard closely around the sedan chair. They wear gorgeous kimonos and have hairpins with their own surnames.
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"Lord! The horse prints of our old cavalry team disappeared when they arrived at Koba. Behind them is the barren mountain of Koba. They should have gone over there..."
A young man looked around and reported to a general in the cavalry. Then he hurriedly bent down and approached the sedan to report respectfully.
"The horse seal has disappeared? Then go to the barren mountain and hurry up. I have something very important to see Nobunaga immediately - cough cough cough!"
A very dignified man's voice came from the sedan, followed by a violent cough!
This person is Takeda Shingen, and he seems to be suffering from a very serious illness, because the coughing sound is so unusual and intense.
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The lagging group of cavalry, led by the leading general Hatamoto, quickly followed the traces left by Takeda Nobushige.
"stop!"
While galloping, the general suddenly stopped his horse and raised his right hand!
The general dismounted, pulled out a sword from his waist, also known as a short sword, and observed the surroundings vigilantly.
"There's a fishy smell here! It's human blood..."
Not long after Cuihua shot and killed several knights, military commanders have been on the battlefield for a long time, and it is normal for them to smell the smell of blood.
In the Komachi area surrounded by barren mountains and wild ridges, the governor insisted on meeting his biological brother Takeda Nobushige, but when he came here, he felt a little uneasy.
"Spread around and look for it!"
The general ordered cautiously.
After a while, the cavalry team found the bodies of the four Takeda knights who were waist-deep in the thatch and were shot to death by a series of arrows from Cuihua.
"Whoosh!"
The general quickly walked to the place where the body was found, with anger flashing in his eyes.
In the Mino area, the territory controlled by the Takeda family, some hunters violated the meat ban and dared to openly shoot and kill a samurai as a civilian?
This is the scene of the first battle between the thirty-three knights that Cuihua and Nobushige belong to.
"He is the retainer of the Nobunaga family."
A Takeda knight wearing a red helmet inspected and reported to the general.
"Baga!"
Staring at the four corpses scattered in the thatch, the general let out an angry exclamation.
"Every arrow hit the throat, and everyone's throat bone was shattered by this bamboo arrow."
A man named Xiao came from the side of the sedan. After squatting on the ground to check, he once again gave the general an even more astonishing result.
"Nani? This kind of bamboo arrow..."
The leading general's eyes kept rolling while he glanced around cautiously. He felt a sense of unreasonable fear on his back, and the cold sweat on his back suddenly dripped out.
"Shan County, what happened? I saw your legs are shaking."
In the sedan, an old man with his hair combed in the moonlight emerged.
The old man was wearing a white Japanese-style gorgeous robe. His face was pale and bloodless and his steps were staggering. It was obvious at a glance that he was extremely weak.
He——is the strongest military general in Japan's Warring States Period, especially the Azuchi Momoyama Period, and can also be said to be the most powerful family governor, Takeda Shingen!
Takeda Shingen was proficient in the art of war, and he was most particular about the concept of military use that the shape of soldiers is impermanent and the force of water is impermanent.
And he was also the only general in the entire Japanese archipelago during the Warring States Period who studied Sun Tzu's Art of War every day and put it into use.
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The leader of the cavalry was called Shanxian Changjing. In original history, this man was a retainer who kept his promise. He was born in 1530 and died in 1575.
Yamagata Masakage was a very famous one among the Four Takeda Officials and the Twenty-Four Takeda Generals. His elder brother was Iitomi Komasa. Before he was a minor, he was also called Itogen Shiro.
Yamagata's elder brother assisted Takeda Shingen's eldest son, Takeda Yoshinobu, in his rebellion. However, Yamagata Masakage found out and reported Shingen, and finally committed suicide.
Finally, Yamagata Masakage inherited the Yamagata family and became an important assistant to Shingen.
At the same time, the red-armored cavalry team of the Takeda Army that shocked the islands originated from the Yamagata family's red cavalry.
The Akabi Cavalry is the Takeda family's strongest military deterrent that effectively controls the Kai region.
Whenever a military rebellion breaks out in the Kai area, the red cavalry of Yama County can rush to the scene of the incident with lightning speed and use incredible assault speed and fierce and tenacious fighting will to defeat or destroy the rebellion.
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The Takeda family's cavalry brigade was later expanded to become the Yamagata family's red cavalry.
They are the mobile force with the strongest combat effectiveness in the Takeda Army. They have been serving as Takeda's vanguard in the campaign against the great names of Oda, Tokugawa, and Uesugi.
Not long ago, the famous Tripartite War of the Japanese Archipelago broke out, and the Takeda Army fought alone. At that time, the combined forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu, who were almost as powerful as the Takeda family, formed.
Looking at the overall situation, the strength of Takeda's army in Mikata was actually more than three times that of Tokugawa, that is, 30,000 troops defeated Tokugawa's 7,000 plus Oda's 3,000 reinforcements.
In fact, the only troops of the Takeda clan's Joro army that finally attacked the Tokugawa-Oda coalition were the five thousand red cavalry led by Masakage Yamagata himself.
With these 5,000 red troops, the front line of the Tokugawa-Oda coalition was finally defeated, leading to the complete defeat - Tokugawa Ieyasu fled back to Songbin Castle.
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"Nani? This kind of bamboo arrow..."
As soon as Yamagata Masakage finished speaking, he heard the weak questioning from the family governor Takeda Shingen from behind him.
"Lord!"
"You guys stand down first!"
Yamagata Masaki respectfully saluted Shingen, then waved his hand around and gave orders to the escorts and Takeda Shingen's personal soldiers.
Takeda Shingen frowned slightly, but his eyes showed shock!
Then, Shingen acquiesced to Shan County's order, and the surrounding subordinates and soldiers quickly left ten meters away from the two of them.
Maybe - there are one or two domestic ninjas lurking to protect their respective masters, who knows!
Takeda Shingen had never seen the color of fear on the face of Yamagata Masakei, a military general. This Fudai retainer was not as brave as his brother Kai's Tiger. It can be said that without Yamagata Masakei, there would be no Takeda family.
