Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 111

The Xiu family waited for 4 days in Ruyi Mountain City. The flag of Changzong’s family finally appeared on the opposite bank of Iino Mountain. The distance between the two armies was less than 5km. On the first night, the two armies tacitly did not start a battle. They camped and rested on both sides of the Bachuan River. .

On the second day, Xiujia divided the whole army into three formations.

The first team (from left to right): Qinglongbei (A), Matsuyama all (D), Kurashiki Zuobei (D), Suzakubei (A)
The second formation (from left to right): the left side of the top line (B), the peace line up (B), the right side of the top line (B), and the two battalions of Tie Pao Bei (A)
The third team (from left to right): Takamatsu Bei (B), Kurashiki Ubi (B), Oku Bei (B)

Ruyi Mountain Headquarters: The banner is prepared, and the iron cannon is equipped with the artillery battalion.

Hideka arranged the weakest Matsuyama and Kurashiki Zuobei in the center, and the strongest backup team on the two wings. They must have their own plan to arrange the three long snake formations in the city to meet the enemy.

At this time, when the generals of the Warring States Period fought such desperate battles, they generally placed the strongest reserve team in the center, seeking to break through the center and directly reach the strategy of the main formation.

The Xiu family placed the weakest reserve team in the middle, just using Tian Ji's method of horse racing.

When the two D-type reserve teams in the middle can't support it, their formation will retreat, and the formation of three long snakes will become a formation of crane wings.

The Qinglong and Suzaku standing on the two wings only need to stick to the formation. At this time, the cannons are fired to block the follow-up soldiers of the enemy's central army, and let the directly-administered reserve troops in the second formation surround and strangle Changzong's troops who rushed into the formation. elite.

When this flag head is wiped out, the offensive of Chosoga's clan will inevitably come to a halt. At this time, the Okino and other backup teams waiting in Marugame Castle will come out to cooperate with the frontal battlefield to completely defeat Chosoga's clan.

At 6 o'clock in the morning, the Xiu family was already setting up formations along the river, waiting for the Changzong family to attack, and the senior warriors on the opposite side were explaining something. After a while, the morale of the 2.2 Changzong troops was high, shouting Resounded through the sky.

On the other side, exactly as the Hide family had imagined, 2500 of the most elite Tosas of the Changzong family, led by Uncle Mokichi, came across the river to the east bank of the Bachuan River as spearheads.

It is winter at this time, and Bachuan is in the dry season. The 15-meter-wide river channel has a water potential only in the middle of the river channel, which is less than 3 meters deep, and the water surface will not reach the ankle.

The Tosa crowd rushed very fast, and they reached 200 steps in front of Ukita's formation in a short while. It is obvious that Kiyoshi has studied Hideka. In the last battle of Takata, he was killed by Hideka's longbow. Tosabi, who was the vanguard this time , the ashigaru in front held a wooden pole in his hand, and the ashigaru behind him lowered his head, trying to resist the arrows with a wooden and iron hat.

However, Hideka placed the backup team composed of rich people on the front line this time, they had not received longbow training, and when the Tosas rushed to 50 steps, the sparse arrow rain came from Matsuyama and Kurashiki Zuobei. shoot out.

Obviously, this bit of firepower couldn't cause effective damage. Only a few unlucky ones were injured by arrows, and the teammates directly passed them and continued to charge.

The distance of 50 steps was reached in a short while, and the Tosas were lined up closely together in front of the formation, using gun quilts, and slapping each other with Matsuyama Bei and Kurashiki Zuobei.

On the opposite side, Changzong's army was full of vigor, everyone's eyes were blood red, and the guns were faster and more stable than usual. Many samurai, ashigaru, bent down and passed through the forest of guns , wanting to assassinate the first row of the Ukita Army at close range.

Even though people were constantly stabbed by spears in the process of crossing, there were still people rushing towards Matsuyama Bei one after another.

Hideo raised his binoculars to look at the first formation. Seeing the unusual strength of Nagamune's army, he saw a kind of belief in Tosabi - the will to die.

The relatives who wanted to come to the opposite side must have used words like "The back road is cut off and the food is insufficient. At this moment, the only way to survive is to rush across the Bachuan" to motivate these soldiers who want or go home.

After the Tosas are the 3500 Awazhong, commanded by Kamune Kintai. As a unit that performed brilliantly in the Battle of Nakabucheon, Kamune Kintai has absolute confidence to follow his uncle Chinkichi to break through Ukita's line .

On the left and right flanks, 3000 people from the Nishi Sanuki congregation of Kagawa Omiwa, 1500 from Hatata and 1000 from Takaoka, led by Kira and Satake Momomi.The three acted as the left and right wings of Awa, restraining Qinglongbei and Suzakubei, who were in the first formation of the Xiu family.

As soon as Yuanqin came up, he invested heavily, and directly put half of his own strength up. Seen from the sky, the formation of Changzong's family looked like a triangle, and the spearhead was 2500 elite Tosas.

As soon as the battle started, the Matsuyama people and Kurashiki Zuobei in the first formation fell into a hard fight. They didn't need to be reminded by the generals, and the formation began to retreat continuously. The team is at risk of retreating.

Soon, the formation of Ukita's army began to change into the Crane Wing Formation, and the Tosas had rushed into Hideo's absolute formation, and the upper left and right had circled around the two wings of the Tosas to surround them, and the iron cannons on the right The crowd has also turned their formation to the left, the iron cannon is loaded, and it is aimed at the Tosa crowd.

Hideka saw that the situation was starting to develop as he expected, so he asked his attendant Shimizu Hanbing Weixin to send an order to the Spaniards to fire at the front 500 paces.

The effective range of the 6-pound gun is only 500 steps, and that of the 12-pound gun is 800-900 steps. The two types of artillery can just complement each other in the shooting area. It is a pity that shotguns have not been invented at this time, otherwise they will definitely shoot out a no-man's land.

As Xiujia's order was delivered, the Spaniards ignited the artillery according to the elements that had been calibrated long ago, "boom~boom~"

With the loud noise, shells with a weight of 5.5 kg and 2.5 kg respectively escaped from their shells and flew towards the formation of Abozhong, the clan of Chang Zonggabu.

Chang Zonggabu Yuanqin, who was sitting in Mount Iino, was startled by the sound of the cannon and stood up immediately. He saw the huge projectile flying from the opposite side hit a straight line in his formation. Wherever the path went, he was either killed or injured.

The eldest son Xinqin couldn't believe that there was such a thing in the world, and murmured: "What is that thing?"

The sound of the cannon was an order. With the firing of the cannons in the main formation, the upper left and right spares tried their best to break into the vacuum area near the landing point of the cannons. Although they did not close together, they still half surrounded the elite of the Tosas and some of them. A wave of people, encircling the formation into a gourd shape.

And the 1000 iron guns who had been on the right wing also stood on the dirt hill extending from Ruyi Mountain, posing in a three-stage formation, and fired at Tosabi who was trapped in the formation.

The Shimadzu family often used the geographical advantage to ambush troops, lured the enemy to pursue them, and then fired a salvo of iron cannons on both sides to kill the enemy as much as possible. This is Shimadzu's famous tactic "fishing wild ambush".

In essence, it is not high-end. It has been used for thousands of years on the mainland. It’s just that Ukita’s army and Changzong’s army are facing each other on the Sanuki Plain at this time. The effect is not easy.

If Changzonggabu Chinji and Xiangzonggabu Chintai, who were caught in the battle, did not understand the current situation, Yuanqin standing on the 143-meter-high Iino mountain saw it clearly.

In order to rescue the elite who were trapped in the formation, he asked his son Nobuki to lead two teams of Nobumi and Nagaoka under his direct control with 2000 people to reinforce the left wing Kira Kishi, and strive to defeat Ukita's right wing and break into the second formation to defeat his iron cannon. public.

As the absolute elite of Yuxi Duo, Suzaku, who is in charge of the front line defense on the right wing, is under the command of Captain Takayama Shimune. The front three rows set up a spear formation to challenge the opponent, and the soldiers in the back shoot bows and arrows, covering the enemy with firepower. The peasants and soldiers behind the army (similar to the Qinglong team in the Three Kingdoms War)

Amimi Kira and Amizu Satake, who were holding back Hideka's right wing, were instead being restrained by Suzaku Bei at this moment, and the formation of the team kept retreating.

After receiving the bombardment from the left-flank iron cannon, Chang Zonggabu Qinji, who finally fell into the formation, realized that he was surrounded. This veteran showed excellent commanding skills. He did not order the troops to retreat, but personally led the approach The side crowd rushed to the front line, trying to break Yu Xiduo's front line from the front.

This kind of thinking is similar to concentrating on breaking the wall on one side of the gourd. When you are in a tight siege, if you choose to retreat the same way, you will lose your troops and sink deeper and deeper. At this time, it is better to try your best to break through the bottom of the bottle, or There is a silver lining.

(End of this chapter)