Chapter 138 27. Fierce Battle at Cangsheng Mountain

The battle of Uedahara had changed by this time.

Although the Yamanouchi clan had more troops than Murakami Yoshikiyo, the quick attack of Murakami Yoshikiyo's troops at that time no longer existed.

Although most of Itagaki's troops were dispersed, they did not disrupt Takeda Harunobu's main camp as expected. Now it has turned into a direct battle, with more than 10,000 Yamanouchi troops facing Takeda's 5,000 troops.

Takeda Harunobu was still able to command the 5,000 soldiers of the Kai headquarters. Except for the more than 1,000 troops of Koyamada, he only left a small number of hatamoto and close students in his main camp. All the rest of the troops were sent to resist the three-sided siege of the Yamanouchi clan.

Takeda Harunobu relied on the fact that his soldiers had fully rested and had a full meal after marching to Uedahara, while the Ejiri of the Yamanouchi army immediately went into battle after marching here, and their physical strength was not as good as before. The Yamanouchi army (the troops of Kodaira and Yamanouchi Yoshikatsu) had been fighting for three or four hours, and most of them had been fighting for more than an hour, and their physical strength was even weaker.

But the Yamanouchi army had won two consecutive victories over the Takeda army, and the whole army was full of energy, which was a very intangible thing, invisible and intangible. But because of this energy, the soldiers of the Yamanouchi army seemed to have taken an elixir, fighting bravely and fearless of life and death.

In the final analysis, it was now the final test of the will of the two armies. Whoever couldn't hold on first would be finished first.

Fortunately, on the Yamanouchi side, the vanguard was the troops of Oishi Saburo Haruhide, who had not experienced a long battle before. The left flank of the two wings was Kitabatake Daigaku, and the right flank was Uncle Tsunayoshi who was preparing for a flank breakthrough with the hatamoto. As for Yamanouchi Yoshikatsu, who commanded more than 300 cavalrymen, he was guerrilla warfare around the battlefield, looking for the flaws of the armored army.

As for the Takeda Red Guards that were blown to the sky in later generations, I'm sorry, they don't exist for the time being. At this time, there were only more than 200 armored soldiers, mounted samurai and servants on the entire battlefield, and most of them were officers at the grassroots level.

The Kai soldiers were also very clear in the era of Takeda Shinto, and they were composed of brave and brave foot soldiers. There has never been any record of a large-scale attack on the enemy by a well-organized cavalry. Later, Takeda Harunobu captured Shinano, and there were more soldiers, more generals, and more money and food. Finally, the proportion of cavalry in the Takeda army was increased.

In the "Chronicle of Nobunaga", it is often said that hundreds of Takeda soldiers attacked someone, but it is clearly mentioned that the only one who rode on horses and wore red armor to attack Oda Nobunaga's army was the Obata troops of the Nishi-Ueno vanguard. Where were Obata Kenshige and Obata Nobumasa at this time? I'm sorry, they are happily working as the brother-in-law and son-in-law of Nagano Yoshimasa, working for the Minowa Nagano family.

So the scene on the battlefield at this time seemed very strange to Xiao Pingtai. In the game, the Takeda clan cavalry generals, such as Cavalry S, Cavalry A, Red-armored Shadow-thrust Woodpecker, and Speedy Iron Wall Assault III, were leading the foot soldiers to fight fiercely with the Yamauchi army. However, the Yamauchi army, with hundreds of cavalrymen, rushed left and right, creating one trouble after another for the Takeda army.

The long-legged foot soldiers of both sides came and went, and the gap between the Yamauchi army and the A army was revealed. Although the A army was an ordinary formation man, he often took a plain spear and substituted at any time in the rear of the battle group. Almost all the soldiers were combat soldiers. The Yamauchi army still had more than a thousand logistics personnel. These people were still the same as before. They were full of martial virtue when they were hunting, but they were exhausted when they were fighting.

However, the Yamauchi army also had more than 4,000 people on the battlefield, while the A army had less than 2,000. The slight difference in quality could be made up by quantity, not to mention that the Yamauchi army was not a weak chicken. (The Yamanouchi-go area of ​​Uchida County was created from the Ina County area. Historically, the samurai and foot soldiers of the Ina area have always been known for their bravery and fearlessness. In history, Takato Yoritsugu even dared to attack Takeda Harunobu with a small number of soldiers. Moreover, the people of the Ina area have an indomitable spirit. Although they lost to Takeda Harunobu, they prepared their troops and fought again and again for years. Finally, they surrendered when they were exhausted.)

At this time, Kobayata was looking at the battlefield from the back waist position. The Kitabatake University, which took the lead, was obviously no match for the Kyorai Ishimin troops. The troops of Oishi Saburo and Naito Shuuji were evenly matched. Only the wing of Uncle Tsunayoshi began to show a winning trend with its well-equipped armor and many samurai.

Okota Bichu-no-kami Takamatsu, who was opposite him, had only a hundred foot soldiers, and it was difficult to resist the full-scale attack of thirty hatamoto samurai and four hundred foot soldiers of Uncle Tsunayoshi.

Kobayata could see clearly from his horse that the soldiers of Yokota's troops were decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye. It's not that the Jia army is not good at fighting, but that the Jia army's one gun is not as good as the three or four guns of the Yamauchi army. Two fists cannot beat four hands, and a good tiger cannot fight a pack of wolves. The notorious Yokota Bichu-no-kami was shouting and fighting on his horse, fighting against several Yamauchi army flags on horseback. Although he was not at a disadvantage, he was increasingly struggling.

The battlefield was full of dangers. Seeing that the number of his men was decreasing, Yokota Takamatsu led several of his own cavalry to break the siege of the Yamauchi army and tried to kill Uncle Tsunayoshi with his extraordinary martial arts to repel the Yamauchi army.

Uncle Tsunayoshi had just killed Ganli Torayasu, and he was in high spirits. How could Yokota Takamatsu shout and call for a fight? He was not stupid. You want to kill me, and I will still reason with you? He directly asked the old family to hold up the Sunlight and Moonlight horse flag and call the nearby Yamauchi knights to join.

Seeing the Sun and Moon Horse Flags waving, more than 20 hatamoto samurai gathered around Uncle Tsunayoshi and rode towards Yokota Takamatsu. They didn't consider fair fighting at all, friendship was the first priority. Seven or eight long spears were pointed at Yokota Takamatsu, not caring about the moral reputation of the samurai.

After all, Yokota Takamatsu had few men. Two or three followers had a hard time pushing away the seven or eight Yamanouchi cavalrymen who had set out first. He had to fend off the siege of his uncle Tsunayoshi and more than ten cavalrymen behind him all by himself.

The result was obvious. Yokota Takamatsu's horse was stabbed on the spot. A Yamanouchi hatamoto stabbed Yokota Takamatsu's arm. The shoulder armor of the fine armor was chopped to pieces on the spot. Yokota Takamatsu groaned, staggered, and was about to fall off his horse.

Several cavalrymen in the Yokota unit who were still fighting screamed and fled from their opponents. They came over to pick up Yokota Takamatsu who had been chopped off his horse and rescued him.

All they heard was Uncle Tsunayoshi shouting: "Don't run away, Yokota Bichu-no-mori, don't run away, Yokota Bichu-no-mori!"

Looking at Yokota Takamatsu's troops, they were already exhausted, and Uncle Tsunayoshi was about to break through this wing.

Takeda Harunobu's last trump card on the top of Mt. Kurashō was that a group of Oyamada's troops, about 600 in number, led by Oyamada Echinokami, rushed down the mountain to support Yokota's troops.

The battle situation had reached a fever pitch.