Chapter 446 The strongest cavalry and the strongest artillery
The next day, the generals were anxiously waiting for Du Fei's instructions in front of Du Fei's house. Du Fei walked out of the house with a tired look on his face, holding a hand-sized weapon with spikes all over his body.
thing.
"Lord! What is that in your hand?" Oda Shisheng gathered around him curiously, looking at the strange-looking thing in Du Fei's hand.
"Don't ask any more questions! Jia Fei! Take this thing down quickly and tell the craftsmen to make five thousand pairs for me today no matter what!" After saying this, Du Fei climbed to the top of the city in a hurry, watching the people walking around.
The Takeda family cavalry patrolling the city.
Du Fei discovered that there were a large number of covering troops behind these red cavalry. The number of pure cavalry troops was only a little over 2,000, and the remaining several hundred people were infantry used to assist the cavalry.
His brows suddenly furrowed, and he suddenly called over his general, Kanbei Kobata, and whispered a few words to him. After hearing this, Kanbei Kobata's face immediately darkened!
"I know this mission is very dangerous, but there is no other way. To defeat the Takeda Cavalry, this is the only way." Du Fei glanced at him: "What's wrong? Are you scared?"
Xiaobata hesitated and said: "I'm not afraid of death, but I'm afraid of not being able to complete the mission. I'll just take Shichiro Tsuno and a cavalry team of dozens of people. This kind of thing, the more people there are, the less likely it is to succeed."
"This operation is directly related to the success or failure of the entire campaign and must be completed! Tell me what items and manpower you need!" Du Fei's tone was extremely firm!
Kobata Kanbei then selected nearly a hundred elite soldiers, mounted the only remaining war horses in the city, and took advantage of the interval of Takeda's cavalry patrol to rush out of the city in a group!
The Takeda cavalry who besieged the city immediately discovered them and followed them immediately! These cavalry had a chance to escape, but they seemed to have deliberately slowed down and waited for the Takeda cavalry to catch up before escaping at full speed.
The cavalry general behind them, Yamagata Masakai, saw that the direction of this small group of enemy cavalry was Takeda Shingen's headquarters and immediately became anxious: "All the cavalry will immediately outflank! This is probably the enemy's assassination team! Absolutely not!"
Let them pass!"
So thousands of cavalrymen in red armor and red helmets desperately chased a small group of miscellaneous cavalrymen. From time to time, some of Kobata Kanbei's cavalrymen were shot with bows and arrows by the Takeda cavalry behind them, and they also began to turn around and use their fire weapons to fight with them.
The Takeda troops behind them started shooting at each other.
Most of the Takeda Army cavalry are only equipped with bows and arrows. Only Takeda Shingen's Guards Cavalry is equipped with fire systems, so they can only shoot with bows and arrows. However, the shooting accuracy of bows and arrows is very poor while running, and at this time it happens to be against the wind.
The strength of the bow and arrow immediately decreased a bit after being shot out, so although the arrows seemed to be raining heavily, very few of the Du Fei cavalry were actually hurt.
Shanxian Changjing also picked up his bow and arrow. At this time, something shocking happened to him: his bow and arrow clearly hit an enemy soldier in front, but the man seemed unmoved and continued to fight desperately with the arrow on his back.
Escape before.
When he took a closer look, it turned out that these people were all carrying shields on their backs. No wonder they did not suffer many casualties in the pursuit of thousands of his cavalry.
Unknowingly, the auxiliary infantry following the cavalry began to fall far behind. Suddenly, the cavalry led by Kobata Kanbei gradually turned to the right, and rushed back with thousands of Takeda cavalry!
At this time, the infantry behind the Takeda family's Akabi cavalry had been far behind. Yamagata Masaki was determined to annihilate this group of cavalry, and unknowingly transferred more than half of the cavalry.
"Follow me! Don't let them escape back to the city!" Shanxian Changjing shouted loudly, and his elite red cavalry also chased with all their strength. Gradually, they caught up with Kohata's troops!
At this moment, in the majestic red ocean composed of red cavalry, many cavalry suddenly fell down without any warning! They were then trampled into flesh by their companions who were running after them. Gradually, more and more cavalry fell down.
The more! Shanxian Changjing was wondering when his tall war horse suddenly seemed to have stepped on something. He heard its leg bones twisting and clicking several times! Both the man and the horse fell down at once.
Shanxian Changjing was immediately thrown out by the huge force of inertia. The moment he landed, he suddenly saw that the ground was covered with balls covered with long spikes. He was shocked! He quickly used the sword in his hand to strike the ground.
With a sudden blow! I saw that the well-made sword was immediately pressed into a rainbow shape, and the momentum of his fall was also fully buffered. The spikes on the ground only punctured his outer armor and did not damage the tough skin inside.
Lining armor.
Just as he stood up in embarrassment, he suddenly heard an overwhelming cry of killing!
I saw a large group of enemy troops armed with fire weapons and long swords suddenly rushed out of Okazaki Castle. They came up and fired a volley of fire weapons at these slumped red cavalry! Those who had just been thrown off their horses were not even able to move north.
The Takeda cavalry who found them immediately fell in large pieces.
Generally speaking, dismounted cavalry may not be as good as infantry, but red cavalry is not an ordinary cavalry. During training, they spend half of their time training horse skills and half of their time training horse skills.
Although most of the cavalry were injured by Du Fei's ground stakes and fell off their horses and lost their mounts, they immediately organized themselves effectively and fell down behind the corpses of the horses to avoid the fierce firepower of Du Fei's fire commander.
Waiting for opportunistic cluster counterattack.
At this moment, the half-tired auxiliary infantry followed. Seeing this, they quickly blocked the shield soldiers in the team in front. They slowly moved closer to the Takeda cavalry who had fallen off their horses.
As soon as Du Fei saw the fat on his lips, he saw that it was about to slip away, so he quickly stood up and rushed to the front: "Rush! If you want to survive, rush! Otherwise, you will be trapped by them sooner or later!"
Du Fei's soldiers have been recharging their energy in the city these days. They have gotten adequate rest and good food. Their energy and strength are obviously much more abundant than those of Takeda's army who are running around all day. They are all lively and vigorous like evil beasts that have escaped from their cages.
Vigorous!
What is surprising is that although the soldiers of the Takeda family were in a very disadvantageous situation, they still resisted tenaciously under the command of Yamagata Masaki and seemed to be very orderly. The shield troops resisted the fierce gunfire and resisted;
The red cavalrymen mingled with the infantry, and they all took out their bows and arrows from behind and started shooting at Du Fei's army.
"Get ready!" Du Fei was very anxious when he saw that the battle situation had reached a stalemate, because he knew that he had to make a quick decision, otherwise the three brigades of the Takeda Army not far away, Feng, Lin, and Shan, would hear the news and come to support.
With such a small number of troops, I still managed to gain the upper hand by playing dirty tricks against the Fire Team. If I had waited for those three teams to arrive, I would probably have been beaten to pieces!
The power of the terrifying big tube (cannon) is known to some of the daimyo in the west because it is close to the Ming Dynasty and often has trade relations with the Nanman; but many of the daimyo in the inland have not seen it yet due to their remote location and inconvenient transportation.
Since then, Du Fei has been trying to obtain such powerful firearms from many sources since he obtained several rusty cannons from Shimazu Takahisa. After his many purchases, he gave
The Nanman merchants he supplied finally got him some relatively advanced Portuguese artillery. Today was the first time to try it out. To be honest, Du Fei was very unsure. According to his previous experience in researching firearms, the thicker the cannons were, the thicker the cannons were.
Firearms are more likely to explode.
After Du Fei gave the order, the four Portuguese artillery placed in place at the top of the city suddenly burst into deadly flames! Black smoke was immediately seen rising from the Takeda Army's formation, and those tough Takeda soldiers were under the power of the big cannon.
I was also stunned. Wherever the artillery hit, I saw broken arms and pieces flying. When the explosion hit, a large number of people fell with broken but incomplete bodies.
"Is this a big barrel?" As the leader of the Fire Team, Shanxian Changjing had heard about this weapon, but he didn't expect to experience its intimidating power in person today.
At this moment, a cannon exploded from beside him! Fortunately, the valet next to him jumped and threw him to the ground. Although he survived, his ears were buzzing from the explosion! The whole world in front of him seemed to be shattered.
Shaking!
"Your Excellency Shanxian! Our shield soldiers can no longer stop the enemy's powerful fire!" A general, half of his body stained red with blood, came to him with his arms hanging.
Shanxian Changjing felt a buzzing echo in his ears, and it took him a while to regain his hearing: "Oh? How is that possible?! Our shields are made of iron!"
He took out a telescope from his current equipment that had been damaged in many places and looked at the front of the team. He saw that more than half of the tough shield soldiers in the front row of his army had been killed or injured. Although some of them gritted their teeth and held on, they already had many wounds.
wounded.
"Their firearms seem to have been improved! I don't know how many times more powerful than the firepower of iron cannons! Lord General, once all the shield troops fall, our army will completely lose the barrier and become a living target for the enemy! I don't think it is better." The general wanted to
He seemed to stop talking.
Shanxian Changjing heard what he meant, and a rush of blood immediately rushed to his forehead. He was about to scold him, but before he could open his mouth to scold him, a cannon roared and landed at the feet of the general.
side.
After another loud noise, the general was blown to pieces with only two feet still standing!
The tough Shanxian Changjing immediately weakened: "Retreat! Retreat quickly!"
Du Fei was surprised to see the power of this kind of cannon produced by the southern barbarians: I didn't expect that those small countries that we regarded as barbarians hundreds of years ago now have such sophisticated craftsmanship! It should not be underestimated.
Then he immediately ordered the entire army to charge! I saw a large number of long-armed soldiers stepping over the corpses of the Takeda family's red soldiers who were killed by fire commanders and cannons, and killed the frightened Takeda family's most elite red soldiers.