Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 47

Although there is a numerical disadvantage in the side battlefield, after all, the opponent is just a group of wealthy coalition forces composed of farmers without sufficient resources.On the other side of the unknown stream and on the way across the stream, 1/5 of the unprotected farmers and soldiers were killed by Ukita's rain of arrows.

Faced with this kind of casualties, the coalition forces of the wealthy clan would have been defeated long ago.It is also seen that the number of Ukita Army on the other side is only 400, and the mentality that Ukita Army, who wants to be a long-range shooter, can be easily defeated as long as he is close to him, was able to condense his last breath to fully attack Ukita Army.

But who would have thought that an elite bannerman of the Ukita Army on the other side, with both bow and martial arts skills, seized the opportunity to carry out a counter-attack when the total number was at a disadvantage, and took advantage of the relatively inferior number of Sanuki troops across the river to effectively attack Sanuki. Army kills.

The Sanuki Army, which usually only fights bad battles, has never seen such a scene. The breath that had just gathered was instantly stunned by Xiujia's banner team. The Sanuki Army, which had lost its last psychological defense line, finally couldn't withstand the pressure and began to collapse.

The powerful offensive of Ukita's backup team just now undoubtedly left a deep psychological shadow on the Sanuki coalition forces.

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Just when Hideka mobilized Banabato to the east, Changzong Gabu Senkichi on the other side of the river did not make any moves. According to his cognition, it was only a matter of time before 2000 people overwhelmed 400 people. Meaningless.

Until Xiujia transferred the long boats that had been arrayed on the river side back to the north side of Kamisinkawa, reducing the Ukita Army on the south side to 2000 people, Seizing the opportunity, Chang Zonggabu Kiyoshi immediately ordered the left wing commander 1500 people from Gangzhong attacked Ukita's army.

Facing the Nagaoka people with Wu Chuan was the Togawa people of the Uki family, and the two armies, which were also troops of the wealthy family, exchanged fire. The quilt was facing each other, and the battle situation fell into a fever at the moment of the exchange of fire.

At the same time, 3200 people from Wuchuan and Tosa began to press up the road from the east and south sides.

Kamido, who was about to face a pincer attack, deployed two companies under the command of captain Takayama Ujimune to serve as the flanks of the main reserve team to withstand the 2 people from Wuchuan coming from the east, while he himself faced Tosa who was coming from the front. public.

Different from the Togawa people next door, as one of Ukita's direct-administered reserve forces, Kamichi made full use of the long-range weapons in his hand to kill the enemy before engaging with Nagamune's army.

Under the leadership of the captain, the entire reserve team unswervingly carried out the military orders of the captain in units of hundreds of people.Just like the usual training, after the front row archers fired 2 rounds of volleys, they retreated to the rear of the reserve team. The short iron gunners had already loaded the projectiles, and sparks burst out as soon as the enemy troops walked into the range.

Since there was no preparation of engineering materials such as bamboo bundles in advance, Changzong's army could only rush forward with the firepower prepared on the road.

Fortunately, as the ability of Changzong's family, the one-collar system that has been implemented long ago has made the troops of Changzong's family have a high rate of armor.Only a small number of casualties were caused when facing Xiujia's bow and arrow shooting, but the repeated shooting of 300 iron cannons did cause more than 100 people from Changzonggabu's family to fall.

The two sides were about to enter the battle, and the short iron guns retreated from the gap in the queue again.The archers who were standing in the front row were ready to take over.

Under the leadership of the samurai, the ashigaru formed a three-stage gun formation of high, middle and low to prepare to defend against the enemy. After the interaction, the two sides began to provoke and slap each other in an attempt to defeat the opponent's gun formation.

Hideya looked at the head family who was struggling ahead, and realized that he had made a mistake. The retreat of the Oku people made the two backup teams of the head family on the opposite bank of the Kami Shingawa possible to be surrounded and wiped out by the Chang Zongga family.

It's just that the two sides have fallen into a fierce battle at this time, and the Wuchuan people with more than 1000 people almost cover the area along the upper Xinchuan River, making it impossible for the Xiu family to transfer the Yijiu people back to the other side of the river.

Seeing that the Takayama Clan, who had already been fighting ahead, asked Xiujia to withdraw the upper-dao iron gunners to the other side of the river to shoot at the Wuchuan people who surrounded him from the east. Call out a squadron as a supplement to put pressure on Wu Chuanzhong.

The iron cannons who crossed the river quickly lined up on the opposite bank of the Wuchuan people and fired at the Wuchuan people 30 steps away, "cracking~"

There was a little commotion in the formation of the Wuchuan people who were attacked from the side. The Wuchuan people were mainly the troops of Yuanqin's nephew Kira Kishimi. With only 1000 people in his hands, he could only weaken the suppression of the 400 senior soldiers. Shi prepared to use the reload time of the iron cannon to cross the river to defeat Ukita's army.

At this time, the frontal situation has reached an extremely dangerous situation.After the transfer of 300 iron cannons, only 1000 people in the Shangdaobei have to deal with 500 people from Wuchuan and 2000 people from Tosa at the same time. Even the rigorously trained reserve team is already on the verge of collapse.

Xiujia saw the decline of the frontal battlefield, and immediately moved the main formation forward to the rear of Shangdaobei, feeling the blessing of Fudo Mingwang Ma Yin and Liuqi behind him, and the somewhat low morale of Shangdaobei rebounded, but the defense zone was still in place. Being suppressed by Chang Zong's family, he pushed forward to the river beach.

Taking advantage of the superiority in numbers, Changzong's family is like a bulldozer trying to push all Ukita's troops down to Shangxinchuan to feed the fish.

At this moment, the Wuchuan people who had been organized on the flanks began to cross the river, and faced a volley of Ukido iron cannons, and hundreds of people fell down.

After throwing down more than 100 corpses, the Wuchuan people finally climbed up the embankment and started hand-to-hand combat with the Ukita army. At this time, there were 350 Ukita soldiers on the river bank, which was equivalent to the number of the remaining Wuchuan people.

Hideya quickly seized the opportunity and ordered the only 50-man cavalry squadron, led by the squadron leader Okamoto Iecheng, to attack the Wuchuan people who came ashore from the flanks.

Facing the sudden impact, the Wuchuan people began to collapse, and Okamoto Iesari led the Banner team and the Iron Cannon team to chase the Wuchuan people, and the pressure on Yukiduo's left wing dropped sharply.

When Zhengdou Hideka was secretly happy, Kenjiro threw Hideka to the ground from the side, "Be careful in the hall."

Zhijian has been shooting bows and arrows from the opposite bank, passing by Xiujia's iron pocket. If Kenjiro hadn't rushed to Xiujia quickly, the arrow would have shot at Xiujia.

Hideka, who had just reacted, didn't have time to think about it, and said to Kenjiro, "What about the horse seal, my horse seal cannot be down."

Ma Yin, as the soul of the commander, is equivalent to the ancient Chinese stiletto, announcing the existence of the lord general, and building up the confidence of the soldiers. Seeing that the Xiu family was shot by the arrow rain, Changzong's army on the opposite side began to shout "Ukitabe dies before" La! Ukita's army has been defeated." message.

Kenjiro simply set up the horse seal again with quick eyes and quick hands, and built confidence for Ukita Jun who went back to confirm the situation.

On the other side of the river, the samurai from Wuchuan, who were about to shoot the second arrow after seeing that one shot missed, found that their army began to collapse under the attack of Xiujia's 100 elite banners and 300 Shangdao Beizuqing, and could not control the army formation. However, he was coerced by the rebel army and retreated, and Yuxi was liberated under the pressure of the left wing.

The Ukita Hide family, who had liberated the left wing, ordered the flag bearers around him to walk briskly to the long ship that hadn't gone far to spread the order to make them turn around and come back to support quickly. As long as this new force is there, they will definitely be able to defeat Chang Zongga's troops head-on. Family.

And Xiujia himself crossed the river from here, gathered more than 300 remaining soldiers who had originally resisted the Wuchuan people on the side, formed a force of nearly 800 people, and started the hammer tactics.He would strike from the side the Tosas who had suppressed the Takayama Clan to the river bank.

The Xiu family, who focused all their attention on the frontal battlefield, could not notice the situation in other places. They only knew that Chang Zonggabu's family blew the conch call to withdraw troops not long after.The Tosas showed excellent fighting qualities, and they fought and retreated under the leadership of high-ranking samurai.

At the same time, Nagamunekabe Shinkichi, who had been controlling the overall situation in the rear, also led 1000 people directly under his jurisdiction into the battlefield and began to cover the Nagaoka and Tosa people from the battlefield.

After the Xiu family tried to pursue for a short time but failed, they ordered the iron cannons to shoot to reduce the enemy's vitality as much as possible, but the effect was not good, and Chang Zongga's family still retreated from the battle in an orderly manner.

At the same time, the long boats who will come behind them brought the news that 400 people from the banner team defeated the 2000 Sanuki people.

The Xiu family, who had gone through a tough battle, was even more bleak than the last battle in Fangjiwei City. The helmet was nowhere to be found, and the blood on his face was mixed with gunpowder ash and mud, making his originally handsome face hard to recognize.

Looking at Changzong's army that was slowly fading away, and then looking at his extremely exhausted army, Xiujia couldn't help asking himself, did he think he won this battle?
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Off topic

I think the Xiu family did not win this battle, because in the end Changzong and our troops withdrew from the battlefield in an orderly manner.Therefore, even a draw is a bit far-fetched.

Although the loss of Changzong's family is definitely more severe than that of Yuxi family, but for Changzong's family, they don't need to pay for their own troops to replenish their troops.

However, the military system of the Xiu family after the reform is different. Not only does the reserve team need to undergo long-term and rigorous training, but the Xiu family also needs to equip each qualified reserve team with array hats, round balls, bows, and iron cannons.This can also be said to be a shortcoming of the Xiu family's military system.

But it is also precisely because Xiujia's army has undergone rigorous training that they can persist in confronting Changzong's army when they are extremely inferior in number. This is exactly the point of Ukita's army.

In addition, fighting in Sanuki is equivalent to fighting in the headquarters of the Chosogabe. The Chosogabu family can continuously replenish fresh blood, while the Hideka needs to keep the main troops in Biqian to guard against Maori.

To sum up, the Xiu family's campaign to block Chang Zong's family's relatives failed to achieve its strategic goal, and was severely taught by the old man tactically. It can be said that it was a complete failure.

Many writers of the Warring States period dare not write about the situation of defeat, because for them, the victorious generals are the real cool articles that can attract readers.

I don't think so. My original intention of writing this book is to bring a real Warring States to everyone as much as possible, to tell you that the enemy army is not a tool man, and there is no protagonist who can be invincible when you burst into dominance.

Another point is that Xiujia's directly-administered reserve team is not a permanent reserve, but a system similar to the British compulsory longbowmen. Through compulsory training for a few days every month, it is better than ordinary conscripts.

The separation of soldiers and peasants in Japan at this time is not only extremely costly, but also does not have the disadvantage of being separated from the same township and the same group, while Hideka uses the formation of the same county and different townships to achieve mutual restraint and restraint, so that the people who are selected on their heads Military law can really work.

(End of this chapter)