00:00Did you know one man made the greatest cavalry force in Japanese history completely useless
00:04in less than an hour?
00:05His name was Oda Nobunaga, and on June 28, 1575, at the Battle of Nagashino, he did something
00:12no Japanese commander had ever tried at scale.
00:14He lined up roughly 3,000 soldiers armed with arquebuses behind wooden palisades, and he
00:20organized them into rotating volleys.
00:22While one row fired, another reloaded.
00:25The guns never stopped.
00:26Facing them was Takeda Katsuyori, leading what many considered the finest mounted warriors
00:31in Japan.
00:32His cavalry had crushed enemies for decades.
00:35Their speed and ferocity were legendary.
00:37They charged anyway.
00:39The palisades stopped the horses.
00:40The volleys did the rest.
00:42Within the hour, the Takeda cavalry was broken.
00:45Thousands were dead.
00:46Nobunaga had not invented gunpowder.
00:49He had not invented the arquebus.
00:50He had simply decided that tradition was not a strategy.
00:53One battle did not end the samurai era overnight, but it made clear that the era had already
00:58changed.
00:59Nobunaga just refused to pretend otherwise.
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01:02Been APPLAUSE
