Section 1341 Deployment of both sides of the Chiba Battle I
The battle must be fought like this, there is no reason for the guests to fight to the death, and the host is standing by and watching.
There are striking similarities in history, the change of Jiashen, Li Zicheng entered Beijing, recruited Wu Sangui, Wu Sangui did not surrender, and also led the Tatars into the customs, Li Zicheng led a large army to attack Wu Sangui, fought in a stone, Wu Sangui was defeated, but successfully consumed Li Zicheng's strength, and waited until the Tatars were killed, and Li Zicheng was defeated.
The precedent is here, how can it not be followed!
It was done, and the people understood the reason, and the two sides successfully reached a consensus.
At this time, there was an urgent report from the front, and the fallen army sent an envoy.
So Baoke Masayuki came forward to receive the military envoys, and soon after returning he said: "They are going to fight with our army!" ”
The joint battle is China's "battle", which refers to the battle between the main forces, the little devils cannot speak, they are good at bragging, and they always call the armed battles between their counties "joint battles", in contrast, the Chinese are humble, even the big battles between provinces and provinces are called battles.
"Together?" The arrival of the Tokugawa family was also supported by the arrival of the Ming army, and he was radiant and said heroically: "Fight, fight hard!" ”
In the past, when Edo was besieged, he wilted like a frost-beaten leaf, and although he was forced to calm down in front of his courtiers, he was still a child after all!
He lost his appetite and couldn't sleep at night, because he knew that if he really wanted to be defeated, he would die and the Tokugawa family would be wiped out, and others might have a chance to survive if they surrendered.
Under such tremendous pressure, the hall was swirling with low pressure, and now, a group of Japanese people shouted as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, shouting "Fight, beat, beat, kill the thief!" ”
After receiving the order to join forces in the "Chiba" area east of Edo, and after replying to the other side's military envoys, he went to the future battlefield with the Japanese daimyo and generals, as well as the generals and staff officers of the Ming army, and made battle arrangements.
As for Yan Changwu and Tokugawa Ietsuna, the two of them had a leisurely meal and tea, and the war was imminent, and Tokugawa Ietsuna no longer took it as a problem, and handed over the affairs to the younger brother to handle, which shows how much confidence the Ming army came to help him.
On May 25, 1654, the Battle of Chiba in the Wa Kingdom was about to begin!
The Chiba region is a long and narrow peninsula with Edo Bay on the west, and the shogunate army attacked from the east to the west, occupying the high ground of a mountain, but the height was limited, at most 300 meters high.
This mountain is called "Xishan", a small stream flows from the mountain to the southeast and gets its name, the stream is not deep, only up to half a person, other than that, there is nothing special about the battlefield, under the mountain is a small plain, thick, a lot of farmland, enough to accommodate hundreds of thousands of people in battle.
They were deployed in Shanxi, while the Ming army was stationed on the back slope.
The Ming army assisted the shogunate army in reorganizing the army, and at the same time, the field hospital prepared a large number of medicines to treat the Japanese people, and after the news spread, it was welcomed by the Japanese people.
The shogunate army was divided into three divisions, Hoshina Masayuki self-general of the middle army, with Matsudaira Nobutsuna, the lord of the Kawagoe domain, as the main general of the left army, he was an important minister in the Tokugawa Iemitsu period, a member of the Tokugawa family, who had fought the Shimabara Rebellion and suppressed the famous Amakusa Shiro at that time, that is, the guy who stated that "the strong man is to go against the sky", Matsudaira Nobutsuna was defeated, and fortunately Yan Changwu participated in the war, which eliminated Amakusa Shiro.
After Iemitsu's death, Matsudaira Nobutsuna assisted the 4th shogun Ietsuna, and in July he suppressed the "Keiyasu Rebellion" that overthrew the shogunate, and was one of the pillars of the shogunate, and was entrusted with important tasks.
The commander of the right army was the lord of the Hirosaki domain of Mutsu Okuni, Tsukami Nobuyoshi, a young feudal lord who was the daughter of Matsudaira Yasuhisa, Keirinin, and was considered to be related to the Tokugawa family.
In 1631, he succeeded to the throne due to the death of his father. Because he was still young at the time, he caused a commotion in the family, but later received help from the shogunate to settle the family affairs, and also actively strengthened the power of the feudal lord of Nobuyoshi. During his reign, he made many achievements such as the development of Tsugaru's Shinta and Otai Copper Mountain.
Due to the development of the copper mountain, there was a mine at home, and with the special permission of the shogunate, Tsugaru Nobuyoshi formed a 3,000 iron artillery team, and he invited outstanding retired officers from the southeast country to form an officer corps responsible for training the army, which was quite effective.
In this rebellion, Tsugaru Shin Yoshikomi led his army to Edo to help in the battle, and with the help of iron artillery, he repeatedly thwarted the attacks of the shogunate army, and did not retreat an inch, and there were many Japanese people who fell in his defense area, so his performance was outstanding, and Hoshina Masashi was in charge of his right flank.
The shogunate army had 18,000 troops, 8,000 armed with cold weapons and 10,000 with iron cannons (muskets), which was the main unit of the Tokugawa family, and its food and salary were sufficient, well-equipped, and well-trained.
The left army was 20,000 people, including 10,000 elite troops, 10,000 of whom held iron cannons, and most of the troops belonged to a group of the Tokugawa family, that is, the troops of the daimyo of the pro-feudal clan; The 25,000 men of the right army were the troops of the daimyo of the Pedigree, and the number of those with iron cannons was 8,000.
The Japanese people have long recognized the power of the iron cannon, and have successively made their own breech arquebus and breech flintlock pistol, of which the flintlock pistol technology comes from the technical support of the southeast country, and there is also a similar military industry supervision in the southeast country, the quality of the iron cannon is excellent, and its productivity is not low, the Japanese people are still diligent, and even got the order of the Ming army.
However, the shogunate army could not achieve one manpower, let alone the equipment of several muskets per man, like the southeastern navy.
First, the technology of the flintlock pistol cannot cover the world after all, and the second is that the initial investment of the flintlock pistol is large, and the cost after that is more.
If you want to have good shooting skills, you can only rely on practice, and the only way to do this is to keep shooting and training, and turn silver into smoke.
However, there is a serious shortage of materials in the Japanese country, and how can there be any surplus materials to make bullets, and it is not very easy to do it like the two Chinas, even if the militia's annual training capacity is 40 rounds of live ammunition, and the Japanese people only have 20 rounds at most.
In fact, if it were not for foreign trade, even if the Japanese produced a large amount of gold and silver, it could be used for decoration at most, and gold and silver could not buy food!
In addition to these troops, there are also 3,000 Imperial Forest Army guarding the general Tokugawa Ietsuna, which can be regarded as a general reserve, in case the war is not harmonious, put into battle, as for the safety of Tokugawa Ietsuna, leaving more than 100 people, so that he and Yan Changwu together, with the protection of the Ming army, is very safe.
The shogunate army lined up at this hill called "Keiyama", and the inverted shogunate army on the opposite side poured into the battlefield in a steady stream, and soon piled up a sea of people!
They were divided into three armies on the left, center, and right plus a rear army, the Tosa Domain's daimyo Nagasumune Morido was the chief general of the Central Army, the left army was the Hizen Domain's Daimyo Nabeshima Mitsushige, and the right army was the Choshu Domain's Daimyo Mori Tsunahiro, and they were ready to be put against the shogunate army from the beginning.
The two armies are deployed, and everyone is full of spirits, ready to have a good liver and live happily!