Hattori Hanzo's body suddenly turned into a faint shadow, and the bee-tailed nail immediately seemed to be inserted into the void, piercing the phantom and heading deep into the sky. Before the ninja could return,
When he came to his senses, Hattori Hanzo was behind him and gave him a hard blow on the back of the head!
"What a difficult guy!" Hattori Hanzo said as he leaned down to search the ninja's body. He saw a note hidden in the middle of the clothes in his arms. When he opened it, a strange look appeared on his face.
Smile
After an unknown amount of time, the ninja suddenly woke up and found that he was actually alive and not dead yet. So he quickly checked the secret letter on his body and saw that the note was intact and still in its place. He was immediately relieved.
One breath.
At this moment, a sudden stinging pain came from his foot, and he remembered that his hamstring had been severed. So he gritted his teeth and treated the wound as suggested by himself, and walked back with difficulty with one foot.
Arrive at the camp.
When Takeda Shingen learned that the ninja sent out was attacked, he was a little surprised. When he heard that the ninja responsible for the connection came back alive after being attacked and successfully brought back the secret letter, the expression on his face became abnormal.
Complex: "Hurry up and call that ninja! I want to talk to him personally."
The ninja was very excited when he saw Takeda Shingen. After all, the chance of a low-level ninja like him meeting his coach was very slim, and his immediate superior, Oyamada Nobushige, was just a mere general.
When he saw Takeda Shingen, who had a white beard, wore red vermillion lacquer and was the most handsome man in the world, and wore a tiger-swallowing helmet, he was a little trembling when he spoke.
Takeda Shingen seemed unusually kind at this time. He asked the ninja in detail how he made it happen. When the ninja handed the secret letter to him, he opened it calmly.
I saw a few words written on it: At noon on Sunday, the Oda coalition forces left the city for a sneak attack.
The expression on Takeda Shingen's face froze for a moment as he looked at the secret letter. Suddenly, he smiled brightly, and his laughter made the timid ninja even more anxious and uneasy.
"Hahahaha, thank you for your hard work. You go down to recuperate first and I will reward you later." Takeda Shingen seemed to have encountered a very happy thing. When his military advisor Baba Nobuka entered the commander's camp, he was still chuckling.
, seems a bit neurotic.
"Your Highness, why are you so happy?" Seeing the always serious Takeda Shingen so cheerful at this time, Baba Nobuka asked curiously.
"Hehehe" Takeda Shingen finally stopped laughing: "A few yellow-mouthed children are here with me before their hair has even grown out! Let's see how I deal with them!"
Late one night a few days later, the city gate of Okazaki Castle suddenly opened, and a large group of soldiers suddenly rushed out quietly.
Seeing that there was no movement in the Takeda family camp in the distance, they all quietly climbed up Mount Abi near the city.
The leaders were Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga. They single-handedly planned this unexpected attack. They deliberately let the ninja go, allowing Takeda Shingen to obtain the abandoned plan.
So they quietly mobilized a large group of troops out of the city late at night and stationed themselves on the nearby Abi Mountain. They planned to make a plan when the Takeda family's army appeared at noon the next day. This army would surprise the enemy from the rear.
"This time Takeda Shingen's ape from Mount Kai will be finished!" Oda Nobunaga began to plan a plan after defeating Takeda while observing the movements at the foot of the mountain.
Tokugawa Ieyasu also breathed a sigh of relief. The Takeda family cavalry that had troubled him for a long time might never appear again.
But something unexpected happened. The sun had risen so high that people could hardly open their eyes, but not even a ghost could be seen at the foot of the mountain.
"Did that ninja fail to go back?" Oda Nobunaga asked doubtfully, while turning his gaze to Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Tokugawa Ieyasu was also full of doubts at this time. He stared closely in the direction of the Takeda military camp. He, who had always been calm and composed, began to feel a little anxious.
"No way! It seems that Takeda Shingen doesn't believe it! Did he see through our plan? Damn it! Let's retreat quickly!" After that, he and Tokugawa Ieyasu began to lead their troops to retreat down the mountain.
At this moment, the elusive Takeda Army appeared! They seemed to have expected it and surrounded Abi Mountain as soon as they came up. Instead, they trapped the Oda Allied Forces who wanted to make a surprise attack.
"Trying to use generals with me? You're too young!" Takeda Shingen, who was commanding the army in the distance, looked at the panicked Oda coalition forces on the mountain through binoculars and smiled proudly.
Du Fei, who was staying in the city at this time, was extremely anxious when he saw this scene! What he was most worried about finally happened.
Before Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu prepared to implement this plan, he felt that the plan was a bit risky and the details were not handled well enough. It would be okay if he deceived ordinary people, but considering that the other party had planned well, Takeda Shingen,
Then the result is hard to say.
But at this time, Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga were very anxious. One wanted to end the battle as soon as possible to avoid having to supply so many troops. The other was concerned about the territorial strategy in Kinki. They both lost their former ambitions.
Be patient and sensitive.
Du Fei had clearly opposed this crude plan from the beginning, believing that it was unwise to bet on the outcome of the war. However, both of them were already a little hot-headed at this time and could not listen to a word of dissuasion; in the end, he
He had no choice but to propose that he stay and defend the city to prevent any unexpected events.
The three people now in different situations are full of regrets: Du Fei regrets that he did not dissuade him further, while Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu regret that they were obsessed with self-interest and put themselves and the soldiers in dire straits for the sake of petty gains.
among.
At this time, most of the Takeda Army was concentrated on the troops of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu who were besieging Abi Mountain, leaving only 20% of the cavalry to patrol around the city wall from a distance to prevent Du Fei's troops from leaving the city for rescue.
Du Fei's military commander Oda Shikatsu saw the Takeda cavalry and wanted to order the fire commanders to shoot, but Du Fei stopped him: "The enemy is very cunning! They are just outside the range of our fire commanders and bows and arrows! Shooting can only
It’s a waste of our medicine.”
Kai Soun on the side said worriedly: "I'm afraid that most of the Takeda army is now encircling Oda and His Highness Tokugawa. Once their army is wiped out, it will be our turn next."
Du Fei knew in his heart that the Oda and Tokugawa troops who were besieged in the mountains did not bring much food and grass. Even if they were able to withstand the attack of most of the Takeda family from a high position, if the Takeda family surrounded them at the foot of the mountain without attacking, they would be exhausted in a few days.
die!
"Is there a source of water on the mountain?" Du Fei suddenly remembered another question, and he asked the only Tokugawa general who stayed behind, Qing Rikicho.
The high-definition force leader is a staff member who does not fight and is only responsible for internal affairs. He thought for a while and said: "That mountain has no water source at all."
"Hey" Du Fei lowered his head and sighed: "If there is a water source, they can hold on for a while, but if there is no water source, they will be destroyed by the Takeda Army within two days."
"What can we do about this, Your Highness! You have to think of a way!" HD Lichang suddenly became a six-god master.
Du Fei calculated in his mind that there were only 5,000 troops under his command in the city, and the rest of the troops were taken out by Oda Nobunaga and others. Although his 5,000 troops were all elite soldiers, they did not fight with large-scale cavalry at all.
experience. The people besieging the city now are obviously all the cavalry forces of the Takeda family! That is, their most famous red cavalry.
It is said that this army is all dressed in fiery red armor and rides high-quality horses produced in Kai. They can ride long distances without sleep for three days and three nights. It is difficult to break through their siege and rescue the Abi Mountain army.
Very big.
Because if you are defending a city, your own troops are barely enough. Once you have to go out into the field and challenge Takeda's arms team alone under the cover of no friendly troops, it is simply impossible.
Du Fei, who is familiar with the power of cavalry, has always wanted to build a powerful cavalry team of his own. However, due to the high cost, he only armed a cavalry team of several hundred people.
I regret it: It would be nice if we brought that army out, at least we have something to contain it.
His current opponent is the red cavalry who is known as the best in the world. Of course, the red cavalry of the Fire Team are not all cavalry. At the forefront of the army are infantry, also wearing red armor, and behind them are the elite cavalry. The red cavalry
There are roughly two types of arms, namely infantry and cavalry. To break it down a bit, there are also spearmen, short sword soldiers, and even archers in the infantry. Some soldiers may also be 'comprehensive' infantry who carry bows and arrows and hold weapons.
Of course, the real core combat power of Chibei should be cavalry. Part of their fighting method is similar to the cavalry assault of the Southern Barbarians in the Middle Ages. They fight directly on horseback. However, their cavalry is highly mobile and will immediately dismount when approaching the enemy.
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The power of the Akabi is amazing. Although its founder Iito Toramasa has been executed for rebellion, the Akabi Cavalry he created will always be the Takeda family's biggest trump card!
The biggest difference between Takeda's Akabi and other troops is the personnel. The infantry under the daimyo in the Warring States Period was commonly known as Ashigaru. They included many farmers, businessmen, wealthy people and many other professions. These were not from the samurai family.
Samurai. For example, during the busy farming period, those farmers were worried about their farmland and were distracted from fighting. But Chibei is different. Its organization is made up of samurai from real samurai families, including some ninjas with a strong sense of organization. It can be said that they are born with
It is for combat. When fighting, Chibei pays attention to team division and cooperation, so he can often fight one against two, and sometimes even one against three. Therefore, Chibei's combat power is not as strong as it seems on the surface.
Simple, but there are still some mysteries in it.
Du Fei's troops are mainly composed of Huo Tongbing, mixed with some archers and long poke troops, and a small number of shield troops who specialize in covering and cooperating with Huo Tongbing. In terms of personnel, although some of them are long-term soldiers.
Veterans brought from Kyushu who have been trained on the battlefield, but most of them are ashigaru who are farmers and rush to the battlefield after training. Due to Du Fei's excellent training methods, their combat quality is of course much better than the average ashigaru.
, but compared to the high-quality troops of the Takeda Arms Team, they are still slightly inferior.
Compared with the Takeda family's red cavalry, although they have strong firepower, their ability to resist impact is very weak. When the infantry confronts the cavalry, the most critical thing is whether they can withstand the first wave of the enemy's impact.
Once the momentum of the cavalry is contained, it is no longer the infantry that is looking for a cut, but the prepared cavalry on horseback. Sometimes the higher the target, the bigger the target. The easier it is to be hit by archers and fire commanders.
middle.
Du Fei began to think carefully about how to contain the overwhelming attack of the Red Bei Cavalry. He had thought about the method he had used to use long sharpened bamboo stakes to resist the cavalry, but at this time the city was already tightly surrounded.
, where do you have time to go out and harvest bamboo?
In this way, the day in Okazaki Castle ended with anxiety and the shouts of the Takeda cavalry. Du Fei's dormitory kept an oil lamp on all night.