Chapter 10: The enemy is in front ()

On the night of September 9, Li Xiao followed the 8,000 troops of Takeda's army to cross the Qianqu River and set up his own formation at Hachimanhara. In the middle of the night, Hachimanhara gradually became foggy.

Knowing that the war was coming, Li Xiao had no intention of sleeping. He leaned in front of the camp gate, placed his gun on his knees, wiped the sword in his hand, and looked into the depths in the distance. Just a few hours later, the Uesugi family's army, which was like a wolf and a tiger, would appear in the thick fog and launch a fierce attack on the Takeda family's own formation.

Li Xiao did not expect that he would participate in the first battle after coming to the Warring States Period. Well, in the words of the time, it was the first formation, which was the most tragic bloody battle in the history of the Warring States Period. This was really lucky.

The bright moon is in the sky, I guess it is at this time, and the Uesugi family's army has already crossed the river in Yumiao, wading through the Qianqu River stream like silver frost.

Li Xiao cannot change this trend. His butterfly that squirted history is still too small. He can only do it now to save his life in tomorrow's hard battle.

The situation is not optimistic about 13,000 to 8,000.

There were bonfires everywhere in the Takeda family's original formation. Except for the foot soldiers who were keeping watch, most of them fell asleep after the trek in the first half of the night. Li Xiao looked back and saw that the soldiers of the Takeda family with ordinary names such as Shinjiro and Heishiro were sleeping together. Many of them had no tents and just slept in the open air.

As soldiers of the Takeda family, this is not the first time most of them have taken the battle. Shingen's invasion over the past decade has transformed the Takeda army into an elite force who has experienced many battles.

On September 10th, at 7:00 in the morning, the fog on Hachimanyuan was getting thicker and thicker. In front of Li Xiao's vision was, the visibility was no more than twenty meters.

However, at this time, the cold wind blowing from the northeast gradually became stronger. According to the wind blowing and fog dissipated, the heavy fog that covered the sky and the earth was about to dissipate. But now it was still silent in the tranquility of the morning, and there was only the strong wind blowing every Takeda soldier. The "green seal" behind the bag and the flag finger on the back were still rumbling, and occasionally there were a couple of neighs from war horses.

At this time, the soldiers of the Takeda family were eating breakfast. After more than ten days, Li Xiao also integrated into the lives of the warriors. Like every soldier, he poured the water from the bamboo tube into the dry rice and sprinkled with sesame seeds and salt. This is a quick and easy way to eat in wartime, and can deal with sudden wars at any time.

At this moment, the three centipede cavalry rushed through the formation of Takeda Nobuhisa and headed straight towards the formation. One of them was carrying arrows behind him. Many soldiers under Nobuhisa saw this scene. They hurriedly dropped the rice balls in their hands and stood up with their guns.

Some people guessed in their hearts that the Fencing Team had already fought with the Echizen Army so quickly. After a while, Li Xiao could see from afar that the centipede cavalry rushed out from the position of Takeda Shingen's original formation and dispersed in all directions.

A centipede cavalry rushed to Takeda Nobuhima and pointed the bar in his hand towards the front.

"Lord, please ask Mr. Shin-Han to prepare for war, and the enemy is right in front of you!"

A lot of earth was built around the Takeda Army camp. There were many fences set up on the roads that were easy to pass. Outside the roads were mostly harvested rice fields or empty wastelands, which were the grass harvesting fields used by farmers to compose.

In addition to a few low-lying water-stabilizing places, it is very suitable for large-scale corps combat.

After receiving the order to prepare for war, various phalanxes of Takeda Army began to move, moving the horses and the sound of soldiers' footsteps, and they arranged the positions they were in advance to welcome the enemy.

In a vague way, the soldiers of the Takeda family could already hear the sound of a turbulent tide in the heavy fog in front of them. In the overlapping fog, people could also see the movements of people traveling back and forth.

Suddenly, the strong wind in the southeast suddenly turned strong, and the thick fog in front of the soldiers of the Takeda family was completely blown away, as if the window screen was rolled up. Li Xiao clearly saw that countless soldiers in black clothes and black armor were slowly advancing towards the Takeda army's main formation like a black line.

Although it is not clear to see the two white-faced black-line flags that stand in the formation, Li Xiao knows that one of the flags is written in traditional Chinese "Dragon", while the other one is the "Vi" flag. Under the banner is Echigo's dragon Uesugi Kenshin.

The sudden appearance of the Echigo Army and its solemn military appearance brought profound shock to the Takeda Army soldiers.

Now in front of the Takeda Army's array is a team of iron artillery that Shingen spent a lot of money to allocate. In the past, the Takeda family ignored the new technology of the iron artillery, which was a new weapon of killing, and then suffered a crushing defeat in the Battle of the Longitu.

In fact, Takeda Shingen was one of the earliest daimyo monarchs in this era who valued and equipped iron cannons. As early as the time of Shinno's strategy, Takeda Shingen had already formed a large-scale iron cannon army in the Warring States Period. At present, the iron cannon team of about 100 people from the Takeda family stood in a row, half of which knelt down and raised their guns.

As the Echizen Army vanguard entered the range of the iron cannon, the iron cannon team swung the Taidao in their hand and roared: "Anata."

The gun gun spurted out flames, and the Echigo Army was lined up in an orderly array of soldiers, and immediately many soldiers rushed to the ground.

The sound of thunderous iron cannons echoed over Hachimanbara, which was also a warning signal from Takeda Shingen to attack his wife and daughter-in-law ranger.

Takeda Army's main battle crisis!

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After being attacked by iron cannons, the Echigo Army shouted in unison, and the front row of foot soldiers hanged the spear heads that stood up like a dense forest, lifted their guns and rushed towards the Takeda Army formation.

The bloody real scene in front of him made Li Xiao’s heart pound like a big drum.

Takeda Nobuna was very sure that even his two sons were calm. Seeing this, Li Xiao suddenly relaxed a lot. At this time, the iron artillery team in front of the formation had been loaded again, and for the second time, the rear army rushed towards the attack.

The closer the distance was, the lethality was much greater, and more Vietnamese soldiers fell on the road to the impact.

Li Xiao shook his head. Obviously, the use of Takeda Army's iron cannons was not very special. It was just a single soldier who simply filled with ammunition and fired slowly. The time interval between the first and second guns was more than ten seconds.

In the use of iron cannons in Japan, such as the Yaga ninjas hired by Hongan Temple and the iron cannon troops led by Saga Sunshi, the invented "Fishing Bottle Strike" tactics can reach a rate of five or six seconds per shot.

The iron cannon master who was influential in Japan in the future, Oda Nobunaga learned lessons from his nearly ten years of battle with Honanji and trained the iron cannon tactics of "three-stage strikes", and then became maturely used in the battle with Nagato of the Takeda family.

Then the Takeda Army's iron artillery team was about to retreat to the formation, and the lower part was preparing to let the Zuji soldiers come forward to join the Echigo Army.

Seeing this, Li Xiao suddenly remembered another famous iron cannon tactic, so he rode his horse to Takeda Nobuhima and said this. Although Takeda Nobuhima didn't know Li Xiao's meaning very well, he still nodded and did it.

The confrontation between the Echigo Army and the Takeda Army's Football Soldiers began.

The two armies were heads of Foot Light Group, which were low-level warriors, commanded Foot Light Group soldiers composed of peasants and were arranged into human walls to advance. Many peasants who had just fought were so scared that their legs were weak, and Foot Light Group members began to scold, waving the sword in their hands to slash.

In addition to driving his subordinates to fight, these low-level warriors are the backbone of the battle. The warriors of both armies will each find each other's warriors to fight. Generally, the outcome of a battle is mostly determined by the casualties of low-level warriors on both sides.

In terms of fighting, neither soldiers nor individual brave generals can control the overall situation of the entire battlefield.

The Echigo army in front was arranged in an emergency formation, and the Takeda army was attacked by the Takeda army in Takeda Nobuhishi's formation. The Echigo army in the front was estimated to be around 1,5600, while Takeda Nobuhishi's side was only 700.

Takeda Nobuhima beside Li Xiao, closed his lips tightly and suddenly said, "The enemy's banner in front is Keiki Kashizaki, the general of the Echigo Army. You must not retreat and fight with me."

The soldiers on both sides of Takeda agreed.

When Li Xiao was playing the Taige game, he heard about the reputation of the Keika family of Kashizaki. He was the number one general under Kenshin Uesugi and was known as "the unrivaled in the seven Echigo counties."

Li Xiao saw the other party wearing black leather armor, straddling a pitch-black horse, holding a large gun with a spike of four feet long, and the sickle-shaped "front" on the iconic helmet shining in the morning light.

This dazzling and cool outfit seemed to wish that all the enemies on the battlefield would be like that of Kashizaki Jing's family. Li Xiao smiled bitterly. If he had known that he would have to travel through time, he would bring a gun and directly smash Kashizaki Jing's family at this distance, saving so much trouble.

But if it were an iron cannon, at this distance, with the accuracy of the iron cannon hitting this era, Li Xiao would not have any fantasy.

Li Xiao sighed and felt very regretful, but Takeda Nobuyoshi, who was standing beside him, thought Li Xiao hesitated about the powerful military force of the Echigo Army.

At this time, Kashizaki Kei family pointed at the tip of their spear, and their samurai rushed over with him. He pointed directly at Takeda Nobuhishi, with the purpose of seeking the head of the second-ranked figure of Takeda's family.
Chapter completed!