19. Yamauchi's Iron Cavalry Steps on the Enemy's Camp
Takeda Haruno's wise man, he also knew that more than 20,000 Yamauchi's army had to walk on the main road and could not walk on the small road.
At the same time, even if Yamauchi Yoshiji sent hundreds of people to attack the back and enter Kawaaka Island, he would go around the distance and add infantry, not to mention the evening, it would be dark.
But he didn't know that Yamauchi Yoshiji was willing to sacrifice his capital and could gamble on the national fortune. Yamauchi Yoshikazu's troops had 500 horses, but there were 1,670 million mules, horses and animals. Not only did everyone have horses, but there were horses, and war horses were just trotting to raise horsepower.
Such large-scale maneuvers, in addition to occupying the Minami Shinno horse-producing area and having more than 2,000 pack horses with the army, could not find the second person with this ability in Japan for a while. [Note 1]
Takeda Haruno was just due to the limitations of the times. He had seen 500 cavalrymen and also saw surprise attacks and attacks. But he could hardly imagine that he had never seen a huge cavalry team that could mobilize as many as 500 cavalry, equipped with fast mobile warfare of 1,600 horses. (It was so pitiful, the Ming army had seen more of this kind of scene, and even the size of the cavalry was ten times or even dozens of times.)
We modern people think this is so simple and crude tactic, but it was a rare and even unique strategy in the Warring States Period of Japan.
Of course, Yamauchi Yoshikazu's shouting could not really stimulate Takeda Haruno. The army of thousands of people around him had a stable camp, so how could he be defeated by a mere surprise attack team?
He had seen the combat power of the Yamauchi Army, at most 55% of them. Unless Yamauchi Yoshiji personally brought tens of thousands of people to attack with all his strength, he would not be afraid at all.
What he was puzzled was that since there were hundreds of iron cannons attacking, or Yoshikazu Yamauchi led the team, how many Yamauchi's army had arrived.
However, the rumbling sound of horse hooves quickly covered the roar of the iron cannons. Yoshikazu Yamauchi's iron cannon horses only had only sixty horses, even one person had three guns. However, the volleys before the attack were knocked down, and none of the family servants who helped them load them this time.
Takeda Haruno was still commanding the small surnames of his team. Xizhong brought some people to block them first. Then he asked the Ishimin tribe and Hayato to transfer two troops to eat Yamauchi Yoshikazu.
Before his order was finished, a cheer like a mountain and a sea came from Chayu Mountain not far away. The white-patterned horse mark on the horse was cut down, replaced by the sword Babi Shamen Tian and Yamauchi Eryan.
Genjoyama Yamauchi Sen, Major General Yoshiji, comes out!
"Prime Minister of Yamauchi? Impossible! How did he arrive!" Haruno Takeda could not believe it.
When Yamauchi Yoshikaku's surprise attack team appeared, he was already very confused, and Yamauchi Yoshiji's team had arrived!
"Say hello to the Prime Minister Yamauchi on my behalf." Uesugi Keito was also surprised. Before he attacked Murakami Yoshikiro's team, he actually found that Yamauchi, who had high morale and sufficient physical strength, had taken the lead in the Hosokawa Seika women's team to run into the battlefield.
Compared to Takeda Haruno's observation of success or failure, Hosokawa Kazuno was much more refreshed. After observing the situation, he cooperated with the Uesugi army to launch an attack on the main team of Chauuyama Murakami.?
"My Highness will arrive soon and I will send me to help the Lord Guan Zheng." Hosokawa Kazumi saluted Uesugi Keito.
Uesugi Gyuto was naturally surprised that Yamauchi Jun was physically energetic and arrived at the Kawaakashima battlefield at noon, but he didn't ask much, just come.
"Would you like to go down the mountain with me to join us in the big meal?" "I'm sure I wish! I'd like to follow the horse's tail!"
The two of them rushed to rectify the ranks and rushed downwards.
There were actually 4,000 Murakami's army between them and Takeda Haruno, but 2,000 Japanese monk soldiers were just Ikki. Hundreds of the Kiyono team and more than 1,000 generals were not present. Murakami Yoshiki's situation was unclear, and the formation was already in crisis, and it was already panic at this moment.
When the white-backed black-patterned flag on the Maru of Chauuyama Murakami's band fell, the four thousand people collapsed.
The Murakami defeated troops were whistling in the north at this moment. The Uesugi army was whistling in the west, the Yamauchi and Uesugi coalition forces were shaking in the south, the Chiku River with gradually rising water, and the "friendly army" Takeda Haruno to the east.
How do you run?
Relying on his good nature and good health, he ran south with familiar roads. The remaining 3,000 people were like wildebeests migrating on the prairie, and they collapsed towards Takeda's army with no brains.
Takeda Haruno finally panicked, and the situation was beyond his expectations. The snipe and clam fight, and the fisherman gained profits. Unfortunately, he, the "fisherman", had made a mistake in his calculations, and was very wrong.
The Yamauchi army came too fast, almost half an hour later than him. And immediately entered the battlefield, not like the army after a long-distance marching.
"Sher!" The shogunate tent painted with Takeda Riki was suddenly cut open.
"It was my Murakami Zuoma Daiyun Yoshimitsu that first attacked Takeda's main formation! Who will fight me?" Murakami Yoshimitsu holding a spear made a heroic appearance and attacked Takeda Shogunate.
As if to cooperate with his shouting, cavalry from Mount Shan attacked Takeda's main formation.
The originally stable shogunate tent was slashed by war horses and was completely opened to Yamauchi's army. But this also made Takeda Haruno see it clearly. The cavalry of the Yamauchi army was slashing and killing. There were no infantry, all of them were sharp soldiers with excellent martial arts and armor.
Hayato and the Ishimin tribe immediately brought people to fight against the Yamauchi army and ordered Takeda's troops to come and rescue them. However, at this time, Takeda's left wing was attacked by more than 3,000 Murakami's defeated army, and he was unable to take care of himself.
The teams on the right wing, including Kuroshino, Asari, Ganli and others, heard the request for help from their own formation, and each began to leave the formation and move towards Takeda's own formation.
The three Suwa, Oi and Sanada who were originally attacking first left the Suwabe with the strongest troops. The other two also retreated without authorization and marched towards Takeda's main formation.
Of course, Haruno Takeda would not move as if he was as strong as a mountain. He was still confident. It was said that Murakami Yoshiki had already entered the formation, but in fact, his formation was very large. Murakami Yoshiki was at least thirty or fifty meters away from him. In addition, Takeda's soldiers were numerous, and the formation of the entire army was still stable at this moment. Even if Yamauchi Yoshikazu entered the formation, he could still repel it.
But Takeda Zhongzai kept giving him one uneasy news after another.
"Tada Norisaki team was attacked by Murakami's defeated troops, and the formation was in chaos and could not fight."
"So is the case with Team Mino."
"The right-wing teams began to support our team." "Bastard, who told them to move?" Takeda Haruno cursed when he heard this.
He completely forgot that he had just asked Hayato to transfer two teams to come and eat Yamauchi Yoshikazuki's order.
"The first Sanada, Oi teams are also supporting our team."
"The Naito team on the left wing has begun to fight the Uesugi army."
......
Takeda Haruno really couldn't figure it out. He was obviously safe every step, but what was wrong?
[Note 1]: Let me tell you a sad thing. Kenshin Uesugi has been in his life and has not completely controlled Echigo's horse trading until his death. The author once saw a document from Hexagata. The horses they entered from Echigo did not pay taxes to Kenshin Uesugi, which is very telling.
In addition, in history, there were only the Hojo family, besides the three Okinawas who were able to carry out large-scale cavalry wars. In the Hojo family's military account, Iwafu Ota mobilized 500 horses to ride, and Chibasuke Kurama also had hundreds of horses to ride. The cavalry mobilization ability and number of horses were rare in the country.
Chapter completed!