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At the decisive Battle of Nagashino, the combined forces of Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu devastated the Takeda clan with the strategic use of arquebuses.

Nobunaga compensated for the arquebus ' slow reloading time by arranging the arquebusiers in three lines.

After each line fired, it would duck and reload as the next line fired.

The bullets were able to pierce the Takeda cavalry armor, who were pushed back and killed by incoming fire.

From there, Nobunaga continued his expansion, sending Shibata Katsuie and Maeda Toshiie to the north and Akechi Mitsuhide to Tamba Province.