Chapter 497 56. Xiaoping Taiyi Breaks Through the Siege

"It must be that Matsuyama and others heard the sound of the cannons from Tanzheng and risked their lives to break out!"

After a busy day, Kanai Aigoro sat on a small stool and just took a breath. After a series of battles, even an iron man like him was exhausted.

Odaira also guessed in an instant that the besieged Hosokawa Saijo, Nagano Yoshimasa and others heard the rumbling sound of the Portuguese guns, and with no food, they began to make a last-ditch effort.

After all, in the whole of Japan (shielded), only the Uesugi and Yamauchi families may have Portuguese guns. According to the original agreement that if you want cannons, you must preach, and if you want technology, you must trade, the Nanman people taught the Yamauchi and Uesugi families the technology of casting cannons and trained artillery.

Now, although there are cannons, artillery is still being trained. The Uesugi family's route to the Sea of ​​Japan in Echigo Province has not yet been opened up with the Nanman people in Kyushu. Only the routes in Hamamatsu and Kyushu are open.

So if you want to use cannons, you must hire Nanman gunners in Hamamatsu. As important officials of the Yamanouchi family, the Hosokawa father and son knew this. They knew that there were Nanman gunners in Hamamatsu to train the Yamanouchi gunners. If they wanted to use cannons, they must come from Hamamatsu.

When they heard the rumbling of cannons, they could understand that Kobayata's reinforcements had arrived.

But the distance from Tone River to Koshihata Castle was more than five kilometers, and it would take a normal person half an hour to an hour to walk. Not to mention the tens of thousands of troops, the people and horses were mixed, and it was impossible to be so fast.

Haven't you seen that on Menglianggu, not to mention Tang, Huang, Li and others were only a few kilometers away from Menglianggu? In the end, they couldn't walk, and Zhang died in the siege.

Hong Chengchou came to Jinzhou to help, and the whole army arrived at Songshan. Hearing the lights of Zu Dashou and others in the city, he didn't finish this last section of the road. It was cold or cold.

"Ming Goro, what do you think our army should do now?" Kobayata was difficult to decide.

"The decision is up to you! The disaster of the three armies is born from doubt. If you are lucky, you will die. If you must die, you will live!"

"Akigoro, how many months has your baby been?"

"Ah? Seven months."

"Seven months, that means the pregnancy must be stable. If you give birth to a son in the future, the name of the Kanai family will continue!"

"Akigoro?" Kanai Akigoro was confused.

"Can we fight again?" Kobayata said in a deep voice.

"Yes!"

"Good!"

"Send the message to Minowa, Kaizu and others who are waiting for the opportunity. The whole army will rush in and attack Ikunoyama. From me on, everyone must be enthusiastic to achieve an unprecedented feat!"

After that, Kobayata put on the helmet of Yamanouchi Yoshiharu, ordered Nanaki to hold the white flag of the Minamoto clan, and Tatsuzo to hold the bamboo leaf horse flag of Senjyoujin. The Yamaga Ryujin drum was beaten, and the whole army was divided into two groups, one to attack Ikunoyama, and the other to open up the Koshiba Road.

Crossing over a hundred dan, although Yamanouchi Yoshiharu's armor didn't fit Kobayata, the experience of fighting under this flag and this armor for many years immediately infected the foot soldiers of the Yamanouchi army, and the whole army burst into enthusiastic cheers.

The drums were beating, the green bamboo sticks were pointing, and the crowds were jumping for joy wherever they went!

"Danzheng! Look! Kasugayama Kanrei is out!"

Uesugi Terutora finally made up his mind and led the 2,000 people who were still able to fight across the floating bridge and joined Ikunoyama.

"Okay, okay! Send a message to His Highness Kanrei to ask him to attack Ikunoyama, and I will personally open up the Koshibata passage!"

At this moment, the two largest reserve forces of Hamamatsu under Kobayata were Matsushita and Asahina, who had been accumulating strength for a long time. Encouraged by this, they cleared the way for Kobayata on the left and right.

Nagano Yoshimori also knew that the besieged people in Matsuyama were risking their lives to break the siege. Although he wanted to turn around to rescue them, the situation was like this. Kobayata ordered them to stick to the Takeda army and attack Ikunoyama. When the order came, Nagano Yoshimori gladly accepted the order and risked his life to buy time for Kobayata to open up Koshibata.

All 3,300 Minowa troops pressed forward, and Takanari Masayoshi's 5,000 troops had also arrived. Except for the 500 cavalry soldiers who could not go up after a long battle, seeing that the situation was becoming more and more favorable to the Yamanouchi army, they also fought hard under the command of Takanari's generals.

"No matter your origin! The first one to open up the passage, I will guarantee 200 kan of knowledge and action, and immediately block it!"

Facing the blocking Takeda army under the command of Aki Masatomo, Kobayata announced loudly.

The iron cannon troops advanced and fired repeatedly, and the long weapons of the jiu were in front and the short weapons were in the back, first hitting and then beating. In less than five minutes, the Aki team, with only 300 people, collapsed under the attack of Kobayata's 4,000 people.

The second formation of Takeda, Rakuganji team, was not strong in fighting spirit, and as soon as they came into contact, they scattered.

The three formations of Takeda, the main force of the armored army, the Takekawa Suji, the Yonekura, Yanagisawa and other generals wanted to fight, but they had no choice but to send orders to shrink the troops and defend Ikunoyama to deal with the last desperate madness of the Yamanouchi army.

Suddenly, Kobayata's eyes opened up!

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"Father, look, it's the Imperial White Flag and the Thousand Gold Bamboo Leaf Horse Mark!" Although the setting sun was not scorching, under the brilliance, the hundreds of taels of gold were still dazzling.

Hosokawa Harumiya passed the two obstructions of Naito Osamu and Imagawa Ujiki and saw Kobayata's extremely conspicuous horse mark and the Imperial White Flag he had fought for for more than 40 years.

After three hours of hard fighting, the Yamanouchi army, which had not yet broken through, suddenly saw hope, as if they were full of strength and the ability to survive was revived.

"The Takeda army was defeated, and Iitomi Hyobu was killed!"

"Hara Mino was killed!"

"Amari Bichu-no-kami was killed!"

"Takeda Daizen fled alone, and the rest of the army was defeated!"

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The troops of Naito Masatoyo, who were already struggling to fight against the troops of Hosokawa Saione who were full of will to survive, suddenly heard countless shouts, and one after another, the famous samurai of Kai were killed. Even the most determined Kai army had doubts in their hearts.

"Is it really a defeat?"

This thought came to everyone's mind.

Naito Masatoyo saw that Kobayata's troops were advancing in a row and would arrive in less than half a quarter of an hour, and he couldn't believe it in his heart.

Either Takeda Harunobu was surrounded by more troops and could not be stopped. Or he was really defeated by the Yamauchi army, and the Yamauchi army could attack Koshihata all the way.

This general, who was called "Takeda Ichi's deputy general" and "brave and strategic as the stable master", felt a little panic.

The original encirclement and counter-encirclement turned into a two-sided attack with internal and external cooperation. If the soldiers of this era were attacked from both sides, they would have no way to escape and would definitely be finished.

The bells rang, and Naito Masatoyo was determined to save the 5,000 intact troops for Takeda Harunobu, who might have been defeated.

At this moment, seeing that there was hope for survival, the troops of Hosokawa Saime were extremely brave. Even Kiso, Ogasawara and other national troops used all their strength to rush towards Kobayata's Thousand Golden Bamboo Leaf Horse Flag.

Kobayata followed the steps, stabilized the team, and approached Hosokawa Saime's troops step by step.

The sun just sank into the horizon!

The Koshihata people finally escaped!