Today is the 450th Anniversary of the Battle of Nagashino. The battle took place in 1575 when Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu shot the Takeda to pieces. The Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga (p. 226)
"The battle raged from sunrise of the 21st of the Fifth Month to the Hour of the Sheep (around 2 p.m.), the action bearing East by Northeast. The Takeda army attacked in relays, but its soldiers kept being shot down, and its manpower gradually drained away to nothing. Whoever survived gathered around the flag of Takeda Shiro, who realized that the situation was hopeless. All as one tried to flee in the direction of Horaiji. Now Nobunaga's army broke ranks and set off in hot pursuit."
Nobunaga no tame!
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