Pillars of the Wu family

The Fire Bull Formation, which was supposed to win by surprise, led to an unexpected defeat. Akamatsu Yoshisuke and Bessho Yasuji were captured, and Akamatsu Masahide was killed, which led to the total collapse of the Akamatsu Army. The chain reaction spread to the Urakami Army and forced Urakami Munekei to retreat. , There was a small flaw in the formation of the Western Army, and it was precisely this small flaw that gave the Eastern Army a valuable opportunity.

Oda Nobunaga, who was in the middle army, also found that his situation was not good, but at this time the situation in the front was not very good. On the south wing, Shima Tokatsu's mad attack was carried. The generals in the front were the [-] elite Ashgaru led by Mori Kasei, but they still couldn't withstand the attack of Saito Asanobu. It was Sakuma Nobumori and Mizuno Nobumoto. It took four thousand troops to rush to help to stabilize the occupation.

Oda Nobunaga has only 5000 people in the reserve team that can be put into the battlefield. The generals around him are only four generals: Ikeda Hengxing, Niwa Nagahide, Hashiba Hideyoshi, and Akechi Mitsuhide. Oda Nobunaga didn't like it and abandoned it. Other military generals such as Sasama Narumasa, Kajiri Hidetaka, Naomasa Naomasa, Maeda Toshiie and others have some prestige, but they should not be envoys for a group of generals.

As the sun moved to the west, Oda Nobunaga's worries became more and more serious. The soldiers who fought fiercely in front of the battle gradually became tired. Although they were full after a morning meal, they were already empty after fighting for half a day, fighting against the scorching sun. It was even more painful. The entire Western Army was thirsty, hungry, tired, and exhausted. The accumulation of this pain to the critical point was the beginning of collapse.

He can be sure that the front line of the Eastern Army should be the same. The uniform black armor is indeed majestic, but this color can't usually be worn in summer.Not understanding the principle of sunlight does not affect people's understanding of the fact that black is easy to absorb light.Under the same conditions, the Western Army in colorful armor should have an advantage.

Oda Nobunaga stared at the battlefield coldly.He thought secretly: "But there are so many soldiers in the East! They can take turns to fight, eat and drink, bandage the wounded, and hide in the shade of a tree to rest, but we can't! If you want to kill one person in the East Army, the West Army needs to pay twice as much." Even at three times the price, the disadvantage of the troops will become bigger and bigger sooner or later, and this war will definitely fail!"

Perhaps the world thinks Oda Nobunaga is a crazy and arrogant samurai.However, his excellent strategy and accurate judgment, as well as his outstanding talents in both military and political fields, are amazing talents that others envy. More importantly, his fortune is in his hands. , This is also the most convincing point of the Oda family tree generation.

After a short thought, Oda Nobunaga immediately ordered: "Vulture, Katsuzaburo, you two lead an army of [-] to assist Shibata Katsuie, and you must repel Takikawa Tokimashi to open the situation. Once Takikawa Tokimashi leads his troops Retreat. Immediately contact the Mori Dian Stable Temple for support. The battle on Fushimi Mountain is very understandable. The envoys sent by the family have not returned. I need you to send someone to see how far the fight has gone."

"Your servant will fulfill your mission!" Hashiba Hideyoshi and Ikeda Tsuneuki bowed and retreated. Akechi Mitsuhide quietly glanced over Niwa Nagahide's hesitant expression, and then turned to look at Murai Sadakatsu's busy counting losses, and he simply looked down. The head pretended not to know.

Oda Nobunaga looked at the battlefield and said in his heart: "This is the last chance, the Mori family must hold on!"

At this moment, there was a burst of cheers from the front, and soon an envoy rushed over and said excitedly: "Saito Chaoxin led the army to retreat! The Eastern Army has retreated!"

"What? Saito Asanobu retired?" Oda Nobunaga asked anxiously, "Have Takikawa Tokimashi and Shima Tokatsu retired?"

Shifan shook his head in confusion, saying that he hadn't heard the relevant information, and then saw Oda Nobunaga's expression change suddenly, and shouted: "The Eastern Army is going to cheat! Don't chase after the order, organize the formation and cut into the middle trap!"

The response of the Oda Army's main formation is not to be described as unpleasant. It took only a moment for the formation to reorganize and return to the posture of being ready. No matter how many tricks the Eastern Army uses, don't worry about him. No cheating, Saito Asanobu did withdraw, but his retreat was not to replace a new general, but to replace it with a big killer, artillery.

Kato Koaki commanded the gunners to load gunpowder shells, and when the thirty artillery pieces were ready, he drew out his sword and shouted loudly: "Cannons are ready! Shoot!"

Thunderous gunfire sprayed out, followed by billowing gunpowder smoke. The huge reasoning generated by the explosion of gunpowder threw the solid iron ball at high speed, carrying huge kinetic energy across the wide battlefield, and drew a beautiful arc. Submerged in the lead of the Oda Army, a fast-flying shell pierced through the head of a samurai on the spot, and the moment his head exploded, it passed through the body of the samurai behind him at a high speed, crushing the latter's body .

Until the artillery shell smashed into the ground and caused a huge impact, and then set off the flying sand and stones to scatter in all directions. Each stone was like a bullet from an iron cannon. The carrier's huge force hit the body of the Oda soldier, causing death More than 1000 people died, and dozens of people were directly injured. In this way, [-] shells hit the front of the Oda Army, causing more than [-] casualties, which dealt a head-on blow to the morale of the Oda Army that had just been boosted.

The lethality caused by the artillery comes second, and the most important thing is the loud noise made by the thirty and a half snake cannons, which can be heard clearly even in the distant city of Kyoto. Many of them staggered, fell down and sat on the ground with their buttocks slumped. They didn't even care about going into battle to kill the enemy. They put their hands together and prayed devoutly, chanting prayers such as the blessings of gods and Buddhas.

The soldiers of the Western Army were shaken. None of the more than [-] soldiers present had seen the power of artillery. There was no way of knowing the battle for supremacy at sea in Osaka Bay. The only Oyo army with artillery withdrew to the mainland early, and the two kingdoms of Otomo’s family collapsed. It was the Portuguese merchants who reluctantly sent out the three-pound eagle cannon on the armed merchant ship in order to obtain the right to trade. Compared with the nine-and-a-half-pound snake cannon placed in front of the Eastern Army, its prestige and lethality were far worse.

Oda Nobunaga was also stunned by the artillery fire. He watched dozens of corpses being thrown to the ground by the shock wave of the shell. Many years ago, he had heard that Nanban had a magical firearm that could make a sound that could only be made by a god, and could punish sinners far away in the sky, but today he finally saw the true face of this firearm.

Staring at the black and dark objects visited by the Eastern Army, Oda Nobunaga clenched his fists and said angrily: "Kuobeng! It must be the country that Otomo's family once said! A cannon blasted the enemy's country to shatter. The collapse of the country! The precious firearms of the Southern barbarians, which were not worth a fortune, were actually taken out by him thirty at a time! No... not more than thirty, maybe fifty. The remnants of the Awaji Navy once mentioned that the Eastern Army Nanman Galleon and Guobeng, he actually has so many secret firearms, it's really well-intentioned!"

After a while, a young man in brocade clothes came over with the imperial teacher's book in his hand and said, "Let the Oda Senate Hall continue to command, and the generals and soldiers of the Western Army must not disobey you..."

"Wait!" Oda Nobunaga interrupted the envoy's declaration with a wave of his hand, and said impatiently, "Where did His Royal Highness go?"

The messenger said nervously: "His Highness Gongfang said that he is not feeling well, so he will go back to the Erjo Imperial Palace first."

"Huh! Sure enough, you still run first? Let him go!" Oda Nobunaga waved his hand to repel the messenger, took a deep breath and said loudly: "The whole army obeys the order! The artillery in front of the Eastern Army! As long as the firearms of the Eastern Army are destroyed, there is still a chance of victory! Trust me, Nobunaga will never be wrong!"

Oda Nobunaga is still trying to hold on, but unfortunately he doesn't know that the morale of the Western Army has fallen to the bottom with the appearance of the artillery, and the generals of the army have already been frightened by the Eastern Army. When the second round of artillery roared like thunder , The moment the Oda Army continued to wreak havoc on the front line, the generals of each army turned around and retreated almost at the same moment.

The seemingly stalemate situation is just an illusion. At least one hundred thousand elites of the Eastern Army have not entered the battlefield. Perhaps they are waiting for the moment when the artillery is concentrated to show all their strength, and they are exhausted after a long battle like the autumn wind. Clean it up like a fallen leaf, and then look back and see that your persistence and sacrifice are meaningless. Instead of dying meaninglessly on this land, it is better to run as far as possible to seek a chance of life, and go straight to your hometown if you have a home Let's go, and those who have no home will go to Kyoto.

Mori Terumoto reacted faster than them. When the artillery rang, he deeply understood that the Eastern Army would undoubtedly win, and immediately announced the change of banner to the Eastern Army. More than [-] people, as well as more than [-] people from Hojo Takahiro, Kurokawa Kiyomi, and Yasuda Keimoto's troops who were ambushing in the Yamashina Basin, formed an army of [-] and went straight to Yodo Castle, trying to block it while the Western Army had not yet retreated. The way they retreated to Kyoto.

The battle was stalemate until the afternoon Shen Shizheng, entering the period when the Western Army was in total collapse. The generals of each army fled westward desperately with their own troops, grabbing the ferry one step earlier, and grabbing the ferry of the friendly army one step later. It was really crowded. If you don't go up, you will flee to the southwest along the Yodo River. In short, the faster you run, the better. It doesn't matter that the Hanoi Country, Izumi Country, and Sakai Town on the south bank of the Yodo River have already been controlled by the Eastern Army.

Perhaps it was because the total collapse came too suddenly. The formation that was neatly organized just before was disintegrated in a mess. In an instant, the battlefield between the two rivers became a scene of chaos, and only the black armored knights were seen chasing the soldiers of the Western Army around. Fleeing, some brave warriors of the Eastern Army took out the lasso, and bound the fleeing general like a lasso, dragging them all the way around.

The sound of crying and wailing was endless, and the war that was originally evenly matched turned into a one-sided massacre. Surrounded by hundreds of horsemen, Nobunaga Oda slowly left this sad place. He glanced at the battlefield with hatred, and saw the golden armored warrior walking slowly in the turbulent flow under the escort of the white armored cavalry in the distance.

"Saburo Kira, you treacherous and despicable villain! This hatred and shame, I, Nobunaga, will always remember!"