Nangong Mountain is located east of Sekigahara and south of Higashiyama Road, where the Western Army stationed 20,000 horses during the Battle of Sekigahara fifty years ago, directly threatening the flank of the Tokugawa Army.

When the war was unfavorable to the Tokugawa army, Tokugawa Ieyasu personally went to the front of the battle to supervise the battle, and sold almost the entire back of the eastern army to the western army stationed at Nangong Mountain.

However, Yoshikawa Hiroya of the Western Army secretly connected with Tokugawa Ieyasu and said that he would not send troops, and these two and five boys also persuaded Mori Hidemoto to also hold the troops, and only Ankokuji Huiqiong led 1,800 men and horses to fight, because the number of troops was too small, it was difficult to change the overall situation of the Sekigahara Battle.

The Battle of Sekigahara is over, and whenever Tokugawa Ieyasu talks about it, he feels very afraid, if the two two two boys, Yoshikawa Hiroya and Mori Hidemoto, send troops, the Tokugawa army will be copied back, and the history of the Sekigahara War will also be rewritten.

Therefore, Tokugawa Ieyasu repeatedly warned future generations that if the shogunate army fought the enemy again in Sekigahara in the future, it was necessary to seize the heights of Nangong Mountain and seize the geographical advantage.

Sakai Tadashi was a cautious man, and he listened to the earnest teachings of his predecessors, so he decided to order the occupation of Nangong Mountain as soon as possible after the decisive battle of Sekigahara.

He was not worried about others, and was worried about the bad habit of delaying the army on the South Road, so he personally commanded 30,000 troops to march into Nangong Mountain and arrange troops.

Sure enough, the Ming army did not arrive, and the rebels also dragged in the middle of the road.

Sakai Tadakatsu sighed: "These are the experiences of the ancestors, and they are also the advantages of the shogunate army!" ”

On the second day, the appeasement army of Maori and other subordinates, who were responsible for playing the forward, finally arrived.

They looked at the Tokugawa golden three-leaf flag fluttering on Nangong Mountain, and they all frowned.

Maori scolded: "Did the shogunate take aphrodisiacs? How do you run so fast? ”

At this moment, a herald of the Ming army rushed to the place where the famous people watched the battle, and said loudly with the edict in his hand: "Your Majesty has a decree, immediately lead the army according to the Maori outline, and enter Nangong Mountain as soon as possible, Arima Zhonglai is stationed at Sasao Mountain, and the rest are stationed at Matsuo Mountain, there must be no mistake!" ”

When all the daimyo heard this, they all knelt on the ground and said in unison: "Ministers! ”

Maori Outline got up and glanced at the rest of the daimyo, and he saw the same meaning in the eyes of his colleagues: Let's fight, if it's too late, you can only fight, otherwise you won't be able to deal with the emperor!

On the one hand, it is the merit that they want to make urgently.

Under the urging of the holy decree, the 50,000 appeasement army rested for a long time, and seeing that the shogunate army did not take the initiative to attack, the Maori outline seemed to seize the opportunity and ordered the elite of the appeasement army to attack Nangong Mountain.

The 30,000 shogunate troops quickly formed a defensive formation, and the two sides faced each other ten miles south of Nangong Mountain.

The first time he fought against Ming Dad, and he acted as a pioneer, these newly attached Japanese daimyos were all high-spirited.

Due to the Tokugawa shogunate's land reparations, the payment of reparations was suspended at every turn, and in recent years, the life of the daimyo of each domain was very difficult, and even the samurai of the fiefdom ran away a lot, which made the daimyo very distressed.

This time, it was not easy to catch the main master, and it was the big fat meat of the shogunate's pro-domain, and there will definitely be a large number of seizures, and naturally everyone is excited.

The people in the large array of the appeasement army shouted horses and neighed, and the family emblem and banner were like a sea, among which there were dense bamboo bundles and shield carts forming a square car formation, which looked quite imposing.

Some cavalry of the appeasement army bypassed the front and scattered around the camp of the shogunate army in Nangong Mountain with rangers, galloping strangely outside their firing range, creating psychological pressure on the shogunate army to be surrounded.

50,000 to 30,000, the advantage is huge, and the gross profit outline feels still certain.

In the camp of Nangong Mountain, Sakai Tadashi stood on a high ground, staring at the ocean-like crowd of Ming troops in the distance, looking at it for a while, and finally a smile appeared on his face.

He said to several relatives around him: "Don't look at them all under the banner of the Ming army, in fact, they are all poor people who can't even eat." ”

Tokugawa Mitsuyoshi understood and couldn't help but put his mind at ease.

As long as it is not the main force of the Ming army, the other Japanese daimyo are just a group of rookies, and their weapons and horses, including soldiers, will become their own trophies.

If these daimyo were capable, would they be attached to the Ming army?

The daimyo basically provided his own horses and weapons, and according to the regulations of the shogunate, the daimyo of the feudal lord with the greatest military achievements had the right to choose the captured enemy army materials first.

The daimyo had limited fiefs and fortunes to support a large army, and war was undoubtedly the fastest way to obtain supplies.

In the same way, if soldiers want war horses and good equipment, they must kill the enemy themselves and make meritorious contributions.

If Ashigaru wants to be promoted to samurai, he can only rely on military merit, which is the channel provided by the shogunate for them to rise, and it is also the main reason why Ashigaru is willing to fight to the death.

For ordinary ashigaru, only by becoming a samurai can you eat an iron rice bowl and change your life.

The horn of the appeasement army's attack sounded, and the drums and trumpets of the shogunate army sounded, and the men and horses of the shogunate tribes under the leadership of their respective daimyo swarmed out to meet the appeasement army.

Akira Yoshizawa was followed by a shield cart, and his leader, a samurai, issued him a weapon, a wooden stick of poor condition.

Yoshizawa didn't know if this thing could kill the enemy, but in the chaos of the battlefield, it was better to have a guy in hand than to be empty-handed.

Smoke and dust rose from the wide battlefield, and the thousands of shogunate cavalry scattered around suddenly launched at the same time, taking the initiative to kill the appeasement army.

Yoshizawa sighed in his heart, the shogunate elder deserves to be the elder, in the face of so many rebels, he dares to take the initiative to attack, amazing!

Although he thought so in his heart, Yoshizawa still stuck to the back of the shield car, after all, it was not the first time he had encountered such a thing as taking the initiative to attack.

The first two encounters with the Ming army were all self-defeating acts, and it didn't take long for the Ming army to chase them all the way back.

Obviously, the appeasement army was far worse than the Ming army, and just from the loose deployment of the battle formation, it can be seen that they seem to be playing around.

In the face of the approaching situation of the shogunate cavalry, the appeasement army imitated the musket array of the Ming army, and suddenly could not hold back, and the soldiers did not hear the order to fire a salvo of guns in a unified row, so they released their guns in a sparse manner.

Then, thousands of iron cannons (bird guns) were fired together, and the battlefield was immediately filled with white smoke and iron bullets.

It looks awesome, but it's actually a mess.

The harassing shogunate cavalry suddenly turned, and at a hundred paces away, they split in two ways, and turned back from both flanks, making a great circle.

When the guns of the appeasement army were sparse and the ammunition was loaded, I saw the sound of flags and drums on Nangong Mountain changing again, and thousands of shogunate cavalry turned back in circles again, struck from both flanks, and threw bows and arrows at the large array of appeasement troops at a position of fifty paces at the speed of their horses.

If there are generals of the Ming army here, you can see at a glance that this is the shogunate army "deceiving artillery", imitating the tactics of the Eight Banners of the Tatar Qing Dynasty.

Because the appeasement army was composed of Japanese soldiers who had surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, their weapons and equipment were not improved in the slightest (Zhu Cihong prevented them from turning back), and they still used old firearms, which were very difficult to load.

Moreover, these Japanese soldiers were originally the private soldiers of the major lords, and due to economic pressure, the daimyo of the various feudal domains did not have enough money to provide soldiers with training firearms, so that the reloading speed of the appeasement army's guns was unimaginably slow, and it was not as good as the army of the Ming Dynasty.

In the face of the surprise attack of the shogunate cavalry, the appeasement army also deployed troops on both flanks, although the number was small, but it was enough to cause a certain amount of damage to the shogunate cavalry, and batches of cavalry were shot off their horses.

However, the dense array of arrows pierced the sky and rained down on the muskets of the appeasements, causing them to panic visibly.

There are still two brushes in the Maori outline, which will quickly bounce the local chaos.