Draw your attention back to the Kakita River battlefield.
Although the cross fire arranged by Amakihei brought considerable trouble to the Takeda army, the enemies were after all two famous generals who were two of Takeda's four ministers, so it was easy to deal with them. Gradually, Kosaka Masanobu had suppressed Hosoragi Bite.
The first company is gradually pushing the front line towards Yu Qiuping's Maple Bird Horse Seal.
Just when the Uakiu Army was in trouble, Omaezaki Nakahide on the east bank of the Kakida River was waiting for an important guest. After a long journey, they finally crossed the Nishi-Kanda River and arrived at the front line.
"You are finally here!" Nakahide Omaezaki left the position in person and ran to the rear to greet the dozens of people.
"It takes a lot of work to drag these two big guys on the march with a few horses." Senju Onari smiled apologetically at Omaezaki Nakahide, and then gave a straight military salute, "Tokiwabei and Hosoragibei's
Artillery crew, report to Mr. Omaezaki! The artillery crew of Ming Dybei is far away, and the artillery carriage is broken. It will probably take a while before we can come back! But the infantry of Ming Dybei has already joined our auxiliary camp on the third day.
, Lord Fukuzawa will immediately arrange for them to come over for support."
The ones who came were none other than two artillery groups led by Senju Onari and Naoe Seigenmaru and their two precious three-pound cannons.
"Stop saying anything and start fighting quickly. The Jing family on the west bank will not be able to hold it anymore." Nakahide Omaezaki personally jumped off his horse and helped the artillery crew push the artillery to a nearby small slope. The artillery crew's work
The personnel immediately began to dig and build a simple fort. "Hit Kosaka Masanobu on the other side first!"
"Don't worry, sir, leave it to us. We have spent so much money on your highness to practice our skills, so we will certainly not disappoint your highness and your lord." As he spoke, Okinari Senju knelt down next to the cannon and stretched out his right thumb.
Place it in front of your eyes, close your left eye and start using trigonometric functions to observe the distance to Kousaka Masanobu's location.
After a while, the members of the artillery crew reported to Senju Osari, "Senju-sama, the loading is complete!"
"290 meters." (Meters, decimeters, and centimeters are distance units specially introduced by Yu Qiuping for artillery. He is really not used to using feet. He also plans to further promote the international unit system to the entire army after the artillery experiment is successful)
After hearing this, Senju Onari stopped observing, tentatively spit out a piece of data, looked at each other with Naoe Seigenmaru who was also observing next to him, and nodded in agreement.
After receiving the order, the gunner immediately began to rotate the crank quickly to adjust the inclination angle of the muzzle according to the charge amount and distance. They had memorized this formula by heart. Similar test firings had been carried out countless times, and they had already become
Mechanical memory in the brain. After the adjustment was completed, the gunners standing behind the two three-pound cannons raised their torches and signaled to Senju Ounari.
"You guys from Kai, let's try the Nanban gifts we brought." Senju Oinari laughed evilly and raised his hands high. After a moment, he threw his arms down hard and yelled loudly at the same time:
"fire!"
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"boom!"
The two armies of Yuqiu and Takeda, who were fighting on the front line, only heard two consecutive loud noises from the east of the battlefield. Everyone was shocked, but Hosoragi quickly calmed down - they recognized that this was the fire of their own artillery.
the sound of.
The Takeda Army was instantly confused. For them, who grew up in the remote mountains of Kai, even iron cannons were a novelty that they had only gradually accepted in the past few years. When they saw iron cannons, they couldn't help but point them out.
Give me some pointers, let alone this artillery piece.
"What is this? Could it be a large barrel?" Even senior samurai such as Kosaka Masanobu had never seen a cannon with their own eyes. They had only heard rumors about it. It was a black, super-large one the size of a temple bell.
The iron cannon will shoot out extremely huge projectiles, even bigger than Cuju. People hit by these projectiles will not only be killed on the spot, but their souls will also be smashed out of their bodies and become lonely ghosts wandering in the world.
I can't rest in peace in this life.
Before Takeda's army could violently bombard him,
Slowing down from the sound, I saw two dark iron balls rising from a hill on the east bank of the Kakita River at a speed that was almost impossible to catch with the naked eye, crossing a high arc in the sky, and smashing straight towards Takasaka.
Masanobu's army. An ordinary ashigaru general in Kosaka Masanobu's army just stood there dumbfounded, forgetting to fight, and just stared at the flying cannonball. He looked at the iron ball as if it was tearing apart.
Like breaking through the blue sky, it rushed to the highest point at a very high speed, and then fell towards this side.
Suddenly a thought came to his mind: What would happen if he was hit by this thing?
However, before he had a moment to think about this problem, the radius of the falling iron ball in front of him suddenly increased, so big that it almost blocked the sun. At the moment before his death, he finally realized,
This iron ball was thrown at me.
"ah!"
Screams rang out among the Takeda army, and three unlucky ashigaru and samurai were directly killed by cannonballs. Since Yu Qiupei did not have advanced technology, his cannonballs were just solid iron balls, which could not cause explosive damage and only stayed.
Due to impact injuries, two hot iron balls hit the ground after killing three people, and then bounced high again. The huge momentum knocked two people to the ground. After that, the iron balls gradually slowed down, and soon
It bounced and slid among the crowds of people who stopped to avoid it, and finally stopped unwillingly.
Two three-pounders fired in just one round, resulting in three deaths and two injuries, and also made a mess of Kosaka Masanobu's formation.
"Is this the Otaku?" Kosaka Masanobu looked at his panicked team in disbelief. While ordering the samurai to suppress the troops and calm their morale, he cast his surprised eyes at the position where the artillery was fired. "What does it look like?"
"It's too late, rush down the position before the big tube fires again!" Kosaka Masanobu had a premonition of what kind of panic this new weapon would bring to the troops. Those superstitious and honest Ashigaru might use this
Unknown weapons are regarded as sanctions from the gods, which will seriously shake morale. When the iron cannon first appeared, it had such consequences.
However, the rate of fire of Yuqiu's artillery was as good as their iron cannon. In just one minute, the two artillery fired again, causing two more casualties to Kosaka Masanobu's formation.
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Choji is an ashigaru-head in Kosaka Masanobu's army. He usually relies on his fat body and the strength of an ox to achieve many military exploits. Just like his simple and honest body, Choji is
A silly fat man. He believes in Buddhism, is filial, and is loyal to his friends. Although he is a bit stupid to others who have never seen much of the world, and he does not understand any complicated words or novel things, everyone loves to get along with him.
At this moment, faced with a thunderous roar and an iron ball that fell down without reason and killed people, Choji, who was usually carefree and fearless, panicked.
"What is that! What is that!" Chou staggered and ran away from a stopped iron ball - the iron ball just now almost hit him. If it weren't for
If he hides quickly, he will be like the ashigaru who was standing next to him just now - now lying in a pool of blood.
"There was a bang, and then the ball fell from the sky." Ding Ci looked up at the sky with lingering fear, "God, are you punishing us?"
"The person was gone all of a sudden..." An ashigaru next to Choci also looked at his dead comrade on the ground with some trembling - his head had been smashed open, and his brains flowed all over the floor, and he even shouted
He died before even releasing it. He squatted down timidly and reached out to reach the iron ball that had just fallen on the ground, but Choji grabbed him.
"Are you crazy? You can't touch that thing! You can't touch it! It will kill you!" Choji yelled at his reckless companion, "How dare you touch that thing!"
Just when Choji was about to continue shouting,
The sound of gunfire rang out again in the east. This fat man, who was usually as bold as an ox, was so frightened that he squatted down with his head in his hands, praying to gods and Buddhas not to hit him.
Choji's situation is not uncommon, and many people in Kosaka Masanobu's army have been shaken. Even though the samurai have tried hard to suppress and pacify the troops, telling everyone that they are just larger iron cannons, the chaos is still difficult to calm down.
Once the morale of the army was in chaos, their attack on the first company of Xiliu Bei slowed down, allowing Yu Qiu to stabilize his position.
For a time, the Takeda Army on all fronts in the entire basin was blocked by the Yuqiu Army's use of complex terrain, making it difficult to make a breakthrough. Yuqiuping received news from Fukuzawa Yunan that 8,000 auxiliary troops were already on the way.
After settling down on the 3rd, Tokugawa Nobuyasu gradually stabilized the situation on the Shitarahara battlefield and was not defeated by Okabe Motonobu's special forces. And the Naibeibei led by Charlie had also returned for three days and were rapidly moving south to support. Yu Qiupei
I feel that as soon as Charlie's Mingdi Bei arrives, the situation will really stabilize. All thanks to the desperate delay of the Sui Atomjing and Tokiwa Bei 2nd Company, Yuqiu Army can enter the water network, streams, and woods.
The complicated and narrow terrain with dense hills restricted the flexibility of the Takeda Army cavalry. If the battle really broke out on the third day, Ame Akihira, who only had thin weapons in hand, would be defeated instantly. On the plains, they were scattered.
The coming Tokiwa Bei and Naruhei Bei are no match, so they will probably be quickly outflanked by the cavalry.
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At the second quarter of the day, Takeda Shingen's 2,000 soldiers and Baba Nobuka's 1,000 soldiers climbed onto the hillside at the southern end of the basin, and what appeared with them was the high-flying Fenglin Volcano horse seal.
The Fenglinhuoshan flag seemed to have magic power. His mere appearance greatly boosted the morale of the Takeda Army. After seeing this horse seal, the Takeda Army fighting on various battlefields cheered and roared with excitement.
, the offensive also became fierce. Yu Qiupei suddenly felt a little emotional - perhaps for the Takeda Army, Takeda Shingen was more than just a family governor. As a man who led the Takeda family out of the poverty and chaos of the Kai Mountains,
The leader who opened up new territories along the way, achieved countless victories and glory, and brought the Takeda family to the highest peak. In the minds of the Takeda Army soldiers, he is already close to an invincible myth and a belief. Just because he appears there
, just the presence of the horse seal representing him can give the Takeda Army Ashigaru the belief that he will win.
He vaguely remembered that many years ago, Chidachi, when Imagawa Yoshimoto's red bird flag was raised, not only the Imagawa army was inspired, but even the hostile Oda family was frightened. The magical effect brought by a flag may be that of a
The epitome of the huge impact that outstanding leaders can have.
Yu Qiuping smiled somewhat self-deprecatingly and looked up at his maple bird horse print.
"When will my horse seal be like the horse seal of His Highness the House Governor and the Great Chef, which can make my own side more confident and frighten the enemy?"
Yu Qiuping slowly lowered his head again and looked at Takeda Shingen's Fenglin Volcano flag fluttering in the wind a mile away.
"It is as fast as the wind, as slow as the forest, as aggressive as fire, and as motionless as a mountain."
He murmured to himself, the helplessness in his heart actually overpowering the hostility for a moment, "Koshu-ryu Shiru's art of war is the best in the world. Can such a person really be defeated?"
A gust of south wind blew. What came with the wind was the fighting sounds and sonorous slogans of Yu Qiu's soldiers. What went with the wind was the feeling of powerlessness in Yu Qiuping's heart.
Yes, I don't have the military strategy of a great baker, and I can't fool the enemy into applause. Strategically, I have completely failed. But no matter how good the strategy is, it must be executed by tactics, right?
It's as fast as the wind, as slow as the forest, and as aggressive as fire. I can't do it all.
I only know one trick——
Unmoving as a mountain.
Chapter completed!