Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 112

The Matsuyama people, who had already been struggling to support, looked shaky under the impact of Tosabi, who was determined to die. Now that Nagamune's department is on the front line again, Tosabi's morale is high.

Matsuyama Bei, who was finally on the front line, had a loophole in the formation. Tosabi seized the opportunity and directly tore Matsuyama Bei's formation with a dash.

"The battle breaker Shinkawa Yubei~" The first to break the formation was Urado Nagamunebu's brave general Shinkawa Yubei. As the flag head led by him broke the formation and illuminated the entire battlefield, Tosabi was even more The blood boils, shouting loudly to cheer up and cheer up "Hehehe~"

Matsuyama Bei, who had been divided into two, finally collapsed in his will to fight, and the right part, which was composed of sporadic wealthy families, fled directly towards Yuxiduo's front.

Fortunately, Xiujia put Heqi Bei as the second team after Matsuyama Bei. Although it is a newly formed directly-controlled reserve team, it has been trained for more than a year due to the influence of Xiujia's military system. Although the cooperation with each other is not as tacit as the old reserve team , but the will to fight is by no means weak.

The gradually moving back line finally stopped here, He Qibei strictly guarded the formation here, the left and right backup of the upper road outflanked from both wings, and the iron artillery equipment focused on Tosa Bei from behind the right backup of the upper road, and the one behind He Qibei was Takamatsu Bei, Kurashiki Ubei, and Okubei's baptism of arrow rain.

There are only more than 2000 Tosas left. The formation has changed from a pointed formation to a circular formation, and the vigor of the assault has been lost. Even though they are not afraid of facing the three directly-administered reserve teams on the front line, they are unable to do so due to the long-range fire saturation of Ukita. They counteracted effectively, like a target, the living people were constantly being harvested.

The Tosas, whose morale was high just because of breaking the formation, may not be weak in hand-to-hand combat with an equal number of enemies, but surrounded by three sides and hit by fire from both sides, their morale began to collapse visibly.

Coupled with the continuous roar of the artillery battalion of Xiujia's main formation, as the second formation, Xiangzong and our troops, Qintai, could not effectively support the old man. The doomsday of the elite who only broke into the center of Yuxiduo's formation as a vanguard was already foreseeable.

A European gunner who is familiar with the use of artillery can complete the loading of the next round within 40 seconds at the fastest, but this is generally done in an emergency without considering the loss of the artillery.

At this time, the European-style artillery was still at the level of bronze cannons. The amount of propellant loaded on the artillery depends entirely on the experience of the gunner. The barrel is cleaned.

Fortunately, the gunners assigned by Opez to the Xiu family are all veterans of fighting pirates at sea all the year round, and the interval between standard reloads is only 2 minutes.

Seven artillery pieces (two 7-pound guns were leased) fired artillery shells at the Chang Zongga family who were trapped in the front line almost continuously, which severely hit the enemy's arrogance.

After all, in the face of this epoch-making weapon, human flesh and wood have no possibility of resistance at all, and they will die if touched.

What's more, this kind of weapon is extremely fast, there is no time to dodge it, and it can take away a row of lives with a series of N.

The Japanese ashigaru, who are deeply influenced by Shintoism and Buddhism, have never experienced this kind of fear. Fortunately, it is daytime, and they clearly know that this is a weapon from Ukita.

If it was in the five-fingered night, this kind of unknown thing that came from the darkness and hid in the darkness took the lives of several people would definitely cause their collapse.

Togawa Hideyasu, who was an old military entourage, also saw the movements of Nagamune's family. He pointed to the Nagaoka people coming down Iino Mountain and said, "Look, my lord, the enemy has come again, and the whole team is full. Wearing armor, you must be an elite, please let me lead a reserve team to stop them."

Matsuyama Zhongkai, who was previously commanded by his son Togawa Tatsuya, became the first reserve team to be defeated since the start of the war. Togawa Hidean felt that his face was dull. Back to honor.

The Xiu family standing on the top of Ruyi Mountain, of course, also saw the actions of Changzong's family. The group of elite soldiers with full armor was coming down from the main formation of Iino Mountain. The pioneer Tosas are nothing, and they should be the directly-controlled elite of Yuanqin Honjin.

Hideya looked at the enemy reinforcements coming from Mount Iino, and evaluated Togawa Hidean's suggestion in his heart. At this time, Togawa Hidean's team, the Matsuyamas, were still retreating and were reorganizing in the rear. It might be difficult to go into battle for a while. .

What Togawa Hidean said probably meant that he wanted to borrow troops from the Xiu family, and he would pick out a reserve team from the people directly under the Xiu family and lead him to confront the reinforcements.

Although Hideka didn't have a good look at Togawa and his son in this world because of what the Togawa family did to Hideka in history.

But at this time, the Xiu family didn't have any reasonable reason to refute the face of the old man who had followed Yu Xi's family for decades, but he was afraid that he might not understand the new command of the reserve team, and might not be able to exert the full strength of the reserve team.

Seeing that the Hide family didn't respond, Togawa Hidean thought he was unwilling, so he knelt in front of the Hide family and asked the Hide family here for instructions, "Your Highness, please allow me to perform meritorious deeds on my son's behalf. If I cannot win, I am willing to die to apologize."

The Xiu family saw that the old man made such a great gift, and quickly helped him up and said, "Don't say such stupid things, victory or defeat is a common matter in military affairs, and there are still many things in the family that need to be guarded, please return with your whole body. "

"I will entrust Okubei to you. Please intercept the reinforcements from the side when you go. Don't line up in front. The enemy's left wing Kira's troops may retreat at any time. I am afraid that you will be defeated by the enemy. Charge back."

"I already know about this matter, my lord, please rest assured." Seeing that Xiu's family had agreed, Togawa Hidean was about to get up and lead the team, but asked Xiu's family to speak here.

Xiujia specially called Banner's preparation captain Zhuang Lin Yixin and said, "Hayato Sato, you lead the Banner team with Togawa-sama, and you can ride and shoot to contain the enemy. If there is a loophole in the enemy's army, you can ride the horse and pierce through the front line. It's all up to you to defeat the enemy."

While reorganizing the Yuxi family's army, the Xiu family still retained the good riders and archers from the original banner group, and recruited good horse riders and archers from each family to supplement them, and taught them how to ride and shoot in the army.

Also, Seto Kichizaemon's merchant ship bought Tohoku horses from Tohoku Daimyo as mounts and transported them to Okayama.With the financial resources of the Xiu family at this time, they can only equip a cavalry team of 600 people, which are the banners and the attendants.

Riding and archery tactics were originally the specialty of Japanese samurai. The authentic samurai singled out is not holding a long spear and cutting with a sword, but riding a horse and shooting arrows at each other in circles. This is also known as "Kamakura ancient style". "

In Japan at this time, Yabusame, which was once able to compete with the Mongols [-]-[-], has gradually become an art form for worshiping gods. With the collapse of the Takeda family, I am afraid that only the Hojo and Satake families in the Eastern Kingdom can still perform. A Yabusame team was formed.

And if you want to find a samurai who can play riding and archery in the collar, I must be a super expert, but most of them are in the eastern country, and the western country has not seen a Yabusame team for decades. How much is left is hard to know.

Today, there are still a large number of samurai who can master the tactics of bow horse and yabusame. They are all characters who are famous in history. Oka Masakatsu is proficient in Yabusame horsemanship.

In history, they broke Hideyoshi's main formation three times and left their own mark. Unfortunately, the number of them is too small to form an effect.

As Hideyoshi captured the defense city, they could hardly be reused.

Based on the principle that the treasure should be used, Hideka directly appointed Yoshioka Jokatsu as the general supervisor of Banmoto, taught them Yabusame equestrianism, and took Yoshioka Jokichi, Yoshioka Masakatsu, and Yoshioka Masanari into Banchu.

It just so happened that Xiujia also knew that Ukita Tadashi's family had a cavalry team of 50 people, all of them were selected according to the standards of ancient warriors, and each was skilled in bow and horse, so Xiujia directly asked Quanjia for them.

Xiujia took them as the model and absorbed the backbone into the Banner team, and asked the family members of the Quan family, Jiang Yuan Jingzong and Yoshioka Dingsheng, to teach the original officials' children in the Banner team.

After a year of rigorous training, he was taught by the Xiu family to use the European cavalry and archery circle, as well as the unique Mongolian cavalry's retreat and archery tactics.The elite cavalry and archery troops that were finally trained.

Xiujia can even say with confidence that at the moment Xiguo Yabusuri's equestrian skills still have to be watched by me, Yuxijia!

The entourage is the personal guard of the Xiu family, similar to the Dianqian Division in the Song Dynasty, and will only move with the main formation of the Xiu family, while the banner team is similar to the commander of the guards and horse troops. Although it is also a personal guard, it will still be placed on the front line by the Xiu family .

Togawa Xiu'an and Zhuang Lin were determined to see that Xiu's family wanted to move the flag team, and stepped forward to persuade them.

Togawa Hidean even knelt down again and said, "My lord's team is already extremely weak. If the banner team is dispatched again, who will protect the lord? If the lord makes a mistake, how can I face Haruka Ryo and others? How can I face it?" What about the late old lord?"

Zhuang Lin Yixin said more bluntly, "Please allow me to accompany Your Highness."

Hideka saw them dumbfounded, and said to them, "Ruyi Mountain is located in the middle of the Marugame Plain. Even if the enemy wants to learn from Haruyuki Yamamoto and play woodpecker tactics, there is no ambush to hide. I can watch even if there are not many operations around. unobstructed view."

"Besides, who told you that I have no one to protect me. The 120 members of the entourage are all wealthy families and heirs of the retainers. Zhongyong has nothing to worry about. Why do you worry about it? Hurry up and don't delay the time Delayed military success!"

Finally, under Xiu's persuasion, the two left the shogunate together.

"My lords! Your Highness has orders, everyone will follow me! Follow closely!" Zhuang Lin gathered the banner team at the entrance of the formation, and the banner team, which originally stood guard on the mountain, quickly gathered and rode on their horses one after another. , Follow Zhuang Lin to go out with one heart.

Zhuang Linyixin joined Hidean Togawa and Masayuki Takashima at the foot of the mountain, and the three of them moved out from behind the front line to the right, turned forward, went to support Suzaku Bei, and blocked Changzong's army who came to help.

Takashima Masanomoto was Hideka's first direct-administered garrison captain, and accompanied Hideka in Sanuki, but was demoted for violating military orders that time.Later, the Xiu family took Yijiu back to his skills, and the Xiu family sent him to organize the county affairs, organize and train the direct-administrative preparations.

This time, Sanuki will play for the second time, and Xiujia will also bring it.This is also the reason why the Xiu family sent him to Hidean Togawa. Presumably, there is such a veteran who is familiar with the new tactics of the backup team and the fighting style of the Nagamune family, and he will give Hidean Togawa a lot of advice.

(End of this chapter)