Volume 7 Jiangnan Green Looking Maple Red Chapter 1048 Red Leaf 17
The smoke and dust stirred up by the falling shells came before the sound of impact. Shibata Katsuie's horse stamp also fell to the ground in the smoke and dust. Around there, countless corpses of Oda cavalry fell down. There were only a few corpses of Oda cavalry.
The horse that was lucky enough to survive was still whining in a pool of blood.
The Oda cavalryman who was wandering by the bridge was frightened by the explosion behind him. When he turned his head, he only saw the body and horse marks lying in a pool of blood. After the smoke gradually dissipated, Shibata Katsuie's body was found next to him.
Found among a dozen guards.
The cavalry directly under the jurisdiction of the Hokurikudo Army and the Oda Army instantly lost all fighting spirit. Except for the Hatamoto Knight of Shibata Katsuie's subordinates who desperately tried to snatch back Shibata Katsuie's body under the attack of the Red Leaf Cavalry, the rest
The cavalrymen all evacuated the battlefield without saying a word. Some ran towards the southwest where their master's horse seal was, some fled towards Oda Nobunaga's horse seal, and some went directly to the northeast.
Escape the way you came.
At this time, Hori Hidemasa, who was leading the troops under the direct control of the Oda family to storm the bridge that Rakihara Bei was holding, and Hidetaka Hachiya also saw with their own eyes the sudden collapse of the Shibata Katsuie's horse seal. Almost in the next moment, the remaining 130 large barrels on the hill were all gathered together.
They fired in unison, and artillery shells rained down on the Oda soldiers. Such a close salvo of solid bullets caused a devastating blow to the formation and morale of the troops.
"Hurry up and put down the horse seal!" Hori Hidemasa almost yelled and gave the order, but his flag bearer was still at a loss. Hori Hidemasa was so anxious that he rode his horse over, shook the horse seal and gave the order to retreat to the southeast.
With one strike, his horse mark was chopped down to the ground.
Not long after, the 20 twelve-pound cannons under the unified command of Naoe Nohei on the hill roared again, targeting the location of Habuta Yorita's horse seal. Hori Hidemasa watched helplessly as Habuta Yorhitaka and a circle of guards around him were surrounded.
The men, horses and ground were shaken to the sky, and the soldiers were almost thrown off their horses in fear as the bloody rain splashed on their faces.
He turned to look at Oda Nobunaga's horse seal on the bastion. The latter was also waving desperately, signaling the Oda family's troops to give up attacking the hill, leave the shooting range of the Otsutsu team, and instead fight towards the red leaf army's front line in the south. No.
The samurai directly under the Oda family who still carried the flag worked hard to pass on Oda Nobunaga's orders, but those higher and bigger flags obviously received more attention from Naoe Nohei, and soon there was another sniper-like rain of bullets.
Attacking. Inaba Ittetsu, Ando Moriyu, Shiba Hide... As more and more horse seals and family heads on the central battlefield were named and destroyed by Naoe Nobuhei in turn, the morale of the Oda army also rapidly collapsed, and the central battlefield
The collapse of the Kanto Army and the troops directly under the Oda family was inevitable. The solid ricochet fire fired by 150 artillery pieces on the hill was too damaging to the dense formation of the Oda Army. This was originally intended for the Red Leaf Army.
At this moment, the gift was repaid to the Oda family themselves. Seeing this, Rakihara Bei and Tongqiang Bei immediately turned to counterattack and rushed towards the central front of the Oda family, which was retreating in embarrassment.
At this time, on the west side of the battlefield, the Hokurikudo Army on the right wing of the Oda Army. The atmosphere of despair permeated the army, and the pressure of a crushing defeat oppressed everyone. The central front was already about to collapse, so they would go deep alone.
What should the right-wing troops do?
"There's still hope..." Sasana Narimasa finally recovered from the fact that Shibata Katsuie was shot dead, the Oda Cavalry Regiment disintegrated, and many important ministers such as Hachiya Yorotaka were killed in the blink of an eye, and realized that although the current situation has already
It's so bad that it's about to be overturned, but it's not without a chance to win - if you attack the empty Yu Qiu Shang's horse seal now and wash it down, everything will still have a chance.
As soon as the Hui-Yu Qiu Shang Ma Seal arrived, it was the turn of the Red Leaf Army and the Allied Forces to panic like the Oda Army just now.
"Master Maeda, Master Fuwa, come with me quickly!" Sasana Narimasa couldn't help but pull the reins of Fuwa Koji and Maeda Toshiie's horses, and pointed at Yu Qiu Shang's horse seal, "We will kill all the Hongye Army's main formation now.
!There is no one in this formation! We will win if we win this formation!"
"This..." Maeda Toshiie and Fuha Mitsuharu were stunned when they heard this, but they both had their own thoughts in their hearts.
"I'll stay behind to hold off Chosou's troops and Amagabei! Hori-sama's troops alone may not be able to handle it!" Fuwa Koji found an excuse after hesitating for a moment.
"His Majesty Shibata's troops can just stay here. Lord Fuwa, come with the soldiers and me!" Sasanagi Masa said anxiously upon seeing this, but Fuwa Koji was unmoved and turned around and walked back. Sasanagi
Zheng was so angry that he just slapped his thigh, but there was nothing he could do. He looked at Maeda Toshiie and said, "Aquan, will you come with me?"
"That's...okay." Maeda Toshiie couldn't find any reason, so he could only reluctantly nodded in agreement, and slowly led his troops to follow Sasaki Narimasa and break away from the battle line, rushing towards Yu Qiu Shang's horse seal.
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After the troops of Sasana Narimasa and Maeda Toshiie took action, Yu Qiu Shang in the main formation immediately reacted and waved the flag to signal the troops to return for reinforcements. Wan Jun Bei and Jin Cao Bei, whose pressure on the central front was greatly reduced, immediately pulled out a company each.
Rushing back to the main formation, they were originally going to attack the copper wall behind the Oda army. Seeing that the situation was not good, they were also preparing to return through the hole they had just made on the central front - but they were not able to do so easily.
Because Oda Nobunaga also sent out the 3,000 direct banner knights at hand, who marched out from behind the bastion and headed straight for the copper wall.
Tongqiang Bei was about to turn around to camp, but Ryuhara Bei rushed to their side. Yoshioka Katsumasa, who was leading the team, rode on his horse and shouted at Tongqiang Bei's cavalry: "Where is Lord Maeda?"
"Reporting to Yoshioka-sama, Maeda-sama has been killed in action! Now the commander of the second company of Dougobei, Colonel Yoshino Tencheng, takes over the command!" Yoshino Tencheng gave a military salute to Yoshioka Katsumasa on the horse, "May I ask for any instructions!"
"Keiji..." Yoshioka Katsumasa, a big boss, swallowed sadly after hearing such news, but there is no room for affection between children on the battlefield, so he immediately said in a deep voice, "You respond immediately
His Highness’s order is to return to our formation to support us! We will stop those cavalry with our Liaoyuan Preparations!”
"But the Oda family has nearly 3,000 cavalrymen, and just relying on the prairie fire preparations..." Yoshino Tencheng wanted to say more, but Yoshioka Katsumasa directly interrupted loudly:
"Execute the order! Colonel Yoshino!"
"Yes!" Yoshino Tencheng responded subconsciously due to the habit he had developed over the years, "Tongqiang is prepared to carry out the orders of Major General Yoshioka!"
After watching the Tongqiang Bei hurriedly return south, Yoshioka Katsumasa turned to Liaoyuan Bei's troops and said loudly: "Each company forms a hollow square formation to defend itself! Leave a large enough gap between the three square formations.
Distance! Protect the central gap! Cover the copper wall and prepare for evacuation!"
"Yes!" Rakihara Bei's three company commanders immediately began to change their formations after receiving the order, and Yoshioka Katsumasa once again ordered the riders, "Send the order to Senju-sama on the hill and tell him that Rakihara Bei will take the enemy.
Hold back the cavalry and let him bombard these cavalry!"
"Yes!" Upon hearing this, the flag bearer immediately took the blazing fire flag of Liao Yuan Bei and began to pass on the order. The Jingzhe Bei Chu electric flag on the hill quickly responded to the signal and also gave back a message.
instruct.
"Lord Yoshioka!" the flag bearer said nervously to Katsumasa Yoshioka, "Senju-sama replied that our location is the ultimate range of the artillery. He cannot control the accuracy and it may affect us!"
"Let him fight with confidence, start a prairie fire, believe in the brothers!" Yoshioka Shengzheng couldn't help but said in a deep voice, "What if we are hit? What if we are hit? Isn't it a huge profit to replace three thousand cavalry with more than a thousand infantry? Isn't it a huge profit to let a thousand cavalry get hit?
Brigadier General carries out the order!"
"yes!"
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After seeing the Rakihara Bei's road-blocking formation and the non-stop artillery fire on the hills, the Hatamoto knights of the Oda family decisively chose to approach the Rakihara Bei to avoid the bombardment. At the same time, they also detached a detachment of 500 riders to take a detour.
They chased the Tongqiang Bei and killed them. Sure enough, when they approached Liaoyuan Bei's phalanx and continued to shuttle around the gaps between the three phalanxes in search of a breakthrough, all the artillery on the hill went out.
However, what the knights of the Oda family did not expect was that just when they divided and surrounded the three phalanxes of Rakihara Bei from all directions and prepared to launch an attack, the roar of artillery sounded again - this time 150
The deafening roar of the large door tubes almost deprived the knights of their hearing in an instant, and the next moment they were hit by densely packed projectiles hitting the sky. Although the phalanx formations of the Liaoyuan Preparation left a lot of space between each other.
, but at such a long distance, the accuracy of the artillery was really difficult to control. In the first round of shelling, a large number of soldiers were killed by accidental injuries.
However, this round of bombardment obviously had a greater impact on the cavalry. The frightened horses were jumping and scurrying among the pools of blood and corpses, without the control of their owners. Yoshioka Katsumasa immediately led Liao Yuanbei to launch a counterattack,
These helpless knights were beaten to death. Many of the Oda family's knights were so angry that they simply jumped off their horses and fought on foot. The scene was extremely chaotic. From time to time, frightened horses rushed around and knocked down the fighting soldiers of the two armies.
. Some of the Oda family's cavalry tried to retreat north to reorganize their formation, but as soon as they distanced themselves from Rakihara Bei, they were immediately attacked by a new round of artillery fire. The Oda family's cavalry were beaten so miserably that they had no chance at all.
The opportunity to form a formation - but without forming a formation, using only stragglers and personal martial arts to attack the neat spear formation of the Red Leaf Army - is almost the same as death for the cavalry.
"We still have to recapture that damn hill! Those artillerymen have no one to protect them now!" Oda Nobunaga looked at the battle situation in front of him and felt that he couldn't bear the bombardment of Jingzhe Bei. He ordered some cavalry on the central front to turn around and charge towards the hill -
—After all, both the Liaoyuan Bei and the Tongqiang Bei have returned to the central battlefield, leaving only the Jingzhe Bei on the hill.
However, the artillerymen of Jingzhe Preparation have the shooting skills honed day and night. They did not panic about the cavalry that did not follow the zigzag route and rushed straight towards them. They set aside a lead time and started shooting. The solid bullets once again destroyed the groups one by one.
The Oda cavalry were beaten to the point of being knocked upside down. The cavalry who finally rushed to the foot of the mountain were about to launch a charge, but were hit by a round of close-range shots from artillery that had finished reloading - the countless Oda cavalry who were hit were as if they were themselves.
The cavalry stopped suddenly as if they had stepped on the brakes, and were wiped away by countless small and dense projectiles, leaving only the blood spattered and the corpses of people and horses rolling down the foothills. A small number of lucky cavalry finally rushed to the top of the mountain.
, only to be dismounted by the artillery convoy that had been waiting for a long time. The Oda family's special attack on the artillery position on the hill almost ended in the annihilation of the entire army.