At 4:00 p.m. on the afternoon of March 6, on a mountain road 10 miles south of Daojing City, Yu Qiuping and a group of staff were standing on a hill, observing the position of the Sanin Allied Forces ahead.
"Looking at the flag, it's the troops of Ashida Kunizumi and other small wealthy families in Hyouge County, Tanba Hatanoya." Yunan Fukuzawa had done enough work in advance, "There are about 1,000 people in total, and they should all be here."
"The intersection of the mountain road is very narrow. They are all blocking the intersection. We estimate that we can only devote one platoon of troops." Fukuzawa Yunan pointed at the intersection ahead, "It is more difficult. If we can't get out of the mountain pass, we will have to follow up.
No amount of people can deploy it. Our artillery team is still on the mountain road behind and has not caught up. It is estimated that it will not arrive until tonight, and there will be no way to provide cover."
"It's okay. The troops of the small wealthy family in Danba are not elite soldiers like the Koshu Army." Yu Qiuping smiled, took the horse reins, turned around and rode towards the camp. After he returned to the camp with his staff,
, the officers of Tokiwa Bei and Ming Dybei have been waiting for a long time.
"Things are easy to say and difficult to say." Yu Qiuping smiled and played with the simple sand table that the staff had just restored based on the scene. He took a Red Leaf Army chess piece and slid it straight along the mountain road to the Hatano Army.
They were densely packed in the pile of chess pieces at the mountain pass. "There are 1,000 of them and more than 300 soldiers are blocked at the entrance of the valley. The mountain road is too narrow and only 50 people can attack. We have to use 50 people to clear the entrance of the valley from here, otherwise we will
3,000 soldiers can only watch from behind."
"Who wants to take this task?" Yu Qiuping looked around the room. Everyone was eager to try, but everyone looked at each other and no one took the initiative to grab it. Instead, they turned their attention to Yu Qiuping, waiting for him to make a decision.
.Yu Qiuping smiled when he saw this and said without hesitation:
"Jibabei Second Company."
"Here!" Shui Yuanjing responded loudly after hearing the words, and took a step forward.
"Do you have any objections?" Yu Qiuping glanced at the other officers who were not selected. Although they were all a little regretful, they were all confident - no one would question this heroic company.
In the battle, 400 men were used to hold off the Takeda family's 8,000 soldiers for an hour.
"Then I'll leave it to you, Zi Jing! You choose someone to come out and clear the valley mouth for me!" Yu Qiupei raised his hand boldly and pointed straight at the Maru Cross flag of the Hatano family in the distance.
"Don't worry, Your Highness, the Tokiwa Prep Second Company will definitely live up to Your Highness's expectations!" Shui Yuanjing saluted Yu Qiuping with a standard military salute, and then strode away from the main tent. Yu Qiuping climbed up the hill again, preparing to look at the battle ahead.
.After a while, he saw the leaders of the spear platoon selected by Mizu Atomsei from Tokiwabei's second company - Yu Qiushang and Ii Naomasa.
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At the same time, on the other side of the battlefield, Ashida Kunizumi also noticed the red leaf army team heading towards his own position. 50 spearmen, marching in neat steps under the command in Chinese, wearing helmets with red leaves.
, lined up horizontally and vertically, and quickly rushed towards their own position.
"Are we really going to use these 50 people to charge hard?" Kunizumi Ashida couldn't help but beat his drum in his heart.
If someone else's troops were on the opposite side, Ashida Kunizumi might think that the opposite side was a fool. There are more than 300 people here who are impregnable in defense. How could you rush down with 50 people? Although he arrived in a hurry, Ashida Kunizumi didn't have time to dig a trench.
, but he still brought a few rows of fences and antlers. He asked himself, even Akai Naomasa's flag team could not win the position from his 300 men.
However, the troops in front of him were none other than the famous Momiji Army Tsukiwabei. "The strongest Momiji Army in the world, the strongest Momiji Army Tsukiwabei." Takeda Shingen's words spread the reputation of the Momiji Army throughout Mikachi Town.
In the world, the Jobanbei troops that relied on 400 people to hold off the 8,000 main force of the Takeda Army for an hour in Mikaka Town were even more rumored to be miraculous. If they really had such combat power, Ashida Kunizumi was really worried.
No one can hold their ground against them.
"Could it be that these 50 people were among the 400 people in Mikamachi back then..." An unreasonable thought suddenly flashed through Ashida Kunizumi's mind, and it continued to linger in his mind, making him feel terrified.
And Araki Tsuna's unwillingness to leave the city even if he was beaten to death made him even more guilty.
Just when he was thinking about this, the small red leaf forest had already entered the range of the bow and arrow.
"Fire the arrow!" Ashida Kunizumi immediately shouted loudly, trying to shout away the fear in his heart.
The archers of the Hatano Army threw arrows at the five rows of the Red Leaf Army. However, the shots from this distance were as harmless as a drizzle to the Red Leaf Army, which was equipped with a set of iron armor.
"It would be great if there were iron cannons." Ashida Kunizhu muttered quietly. Tamba is not a wealthy place, and small wealthy families like him rarely buy iron cannons. Only important ministers like Akai Naomasa and Tenui Kageye
Only the troops will be equipped with some iron gunners.
The Hatano Army once again fired at the Red Leaf Army, but this time they still made little progress, and the Red Leaf Army got closer. The Hatano Army then adjusted the shooting angle and started a more intense attack on the Red Leaf Army's troops.
Flat shot. This time, an unlucky Hongye Army soldier was shot in the leg that was not covered, and had no choice but to withdraw from the army. In the next round of flat shooting, another Hongye Army soldier was shot in the face, and there was a muffled sound.
He snorted and fell down.
However, this was also the last chance for the archers to release arrows. The spearmen of the Red Leaf Army had already advanced very close to the position, and the archers had to retreat from the gap to seek protection from the ashigaru. The ashigaru of the Hatano Army swarmed them.
The fences arranged in advance were placed behind the horses to guard against the Hongye Army's attack. The archers who retreated behind the formation crossed over their own formation and began to eject. However, the number of the Hongye Army was very small, and it was almost impossible to find a shooting angle for the ejection.
A large number of feather arrows fell behind the Red Leaf Army soldiers, and a small number of the feather arrows that hit were just listlessly bounced off the hard helmets.
The Red Leaf Army rushed to the Hatano Army's fence with an indomitable momentum, and Yu Qiu Shang rushed in the middle of the first row - as long as there was a battle, Yu Qiu Shang would always take the lead.
"Stab!" Yu Qiu Shang shouted, and the spearmen in the first row immediately stabbed forward the sharp iron in their hands neatly. Spear after spear inserted through the gaps in the fence, like a poisonous snake spitting a message.
In an instant, the lives of several Hatano troops standing in front were taken away.
"Second row! Third row! Expand to the left and from the right! The fourth row, and the fifth row, take up the positions of the second and third rows!" Naomasa Ii, who was at the rear, loudly issued the order
, let a platoon of pikemen cover the entire mountain, and kept stabbing at the Hatano Army behind the fence. The Hatano Army did not expect that the defensive fence they set up in advance would actually become an obstacle to restrict themselves. Holding a short
The ashigaru with weapons couldn't reach the Red Leaf Army at all, so they could only stand and be stabbed in vain. And the timing, strength and accuracy of those spearmen's shots were far inferior to those of the Red Leaf Army, and they were stabbed to the point where they were crying for their fathers and mothers. After a while,
, the entire Hatano army behind the fence cautiously took two or three steps back.
"Put the spear under the fence!" Yu Qiu Shang took the lead with his left hand and thrust the spear under the lowest wooden bar of the fence, commanding loudly. The spearmen in the front row followed suit and thrust their spears one by one.
Go down.
"Three! Two! One!" Yu Qiu Shang shouted slowly, and finally shouted with all his strength: "Get up!"
"Get up!" The entire row of Hongye Army spearmen and their young master shouted together. Everyone worked together and raised their spears, directly prying out the bottom of the fence embedded in the soil.
They were picked up and flew towards the direction of the Hatano Army. The dozen or so people in the front row of the Hatano Army were caught off guard and were knocked to the ground by the flying fence.
"Go!" Yu Qiu Shang shouted the order again, and the long gunners of the Red Leaf Army took neat steps and rushed forward fiercely. Those Hatano soldiers who had not had time to get up were immediately stabbed to death by random shots, and the first fence line of defense was broken.
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"It's so fierce...it's outrageous." Ashida Kunizumi saw that the small group of red leaves broke through his initial defense line in one fell swoop, and hurriedly waved his general flag to command the troops to outflank the red leaf army. Although the red leaf army
They were brave, but after all, there were few people. After breaking through the first line of defense, they walked from the valley into the open area, and their left and right wings were exposed to the front of the Hatano army waiting at the entrance of the valley. The Hatano army was immediately attacked by the samurai.
Under the leadership, they rushed over from both sides.
"Fourth row! Turn left! Fifth row! Turn right! First row retreat! Second row and third row merge to the center!" Upon seeing this, Yu Qiu Shang issued instructions quickly like a barrage of fire. The rebels
Among them, the formation and pace of the Hongye Army were not delayed or scattered at all, and they quickly changed their formations under Yu Qiu Shang's orders.
"Make a hollow phalanx!" Yu Qiu Shang shouted loudly, asking his subordinates to form a square, with only the front side being thicker. They covered each other's backs, "Husong! I'll leave the side and rear to you!"
"Yes! Young Master!" Naomasa Ii, who was standing at the back, loudly accepted the order, focusing on maintaining the connection of targets and covering the rear. Yu Qiu Shang, on the other hand, led the spearmen from the second and third rows and continued
Fight toward the depths of the formation.
The Hatano Army, which originally wanted to attack the weak flank of the Red Leaf Army, bumped headlong into the long spearmen of the Red Leaf Army who had quickly changed formations, and was stabbed to death. Several leading samurai immediately tried to attack the back, but failed.
It was discovered that the Red Leaf Army had completed the hollow square formation, and even the rear was impeccable. The Hatano Army launched a siege against the Red Leaf Army from all directions, but they could not take advantage of the uniform spearmen. Occasionally, samurai tried to attack at close range.
They would also be forced back in time by Naomasa Ii, who was holding a katana. The Hatano army could not attack for a long time, but the front was penetrated deeply by Yuqiu Shang, and the entire phalanx was embedded deeper and deeper into the Hatano army's formation.
Chapter completed!