Chapter 52: The Human Heart
In this war, there is one person who is most uncomfortable, he is the wise Hinata Morimitsu who is leading troops to the aid of Bozhou.
He was ordered to send troops to the rescue with the aim of uniting the feudal lords, but the daimyo of the kingdoms were either killed on the spot or the lords had been annexed.
Worried that the delay in raising military rations would delay the warplane, he sent a friend of his confidant comrade as a pioneer, and his friend was pierced through the chest by an iron bullet, and his head was put into a wooden box and sent back.
On the way to the march, I received a confidant, the head did not have time to grieve, so I had to lead the army out of the battle, according to the danger on the spot, to arrange the defense line, the first day I also heard that the Nizi family had just entered the Tajima, and the day after tomorrow I got the news that my army's strength in Tango's grain road had been cut off by the enemy.
The grain route is not a big deal, when I came, I prepared 40,000 horse soldiers' food, and I didn't need to eat the first 20,000 people in half of the way, and I sent a total of more than 200 miles of troops, and all parts of the country were subjugated to the land of Oda, and even if I didn't forcibly levy it, I could transfer grain and grass from neighboring Tamba and other places, but this was an extremely heavy blow to the overall situation - limited to the fact that the defeated front army was unable to provide reliable information, and Akechi Mitsuhide almost blinded the Ming army.
Only then did he want to divide his troops to search various places to obtain information, but in the blink of an eye, Yamanaka Yukimori had led his troops to attack Tajima, and no one could carefully distinguish where the main force was and where was the partial division.
Thinking that the Ming army was in Dango, there were frequent artillery bombardments in many battles along the coast of Danma, and Hosokawa Fujitaka Yinjian was not far away, so frightened that Mitsuhide did not dare to lead his troops to the front line to explore the terrain, and even the two armies had to set up the main formation on the back of the hillside, which also had to prevent the enemy cavalry from behind the attack from behind.
It's not that the Ming army hasn't done this, Li Rubai likes it, although the environment here makes the important strategy of cutting off food in the Central Plains a little weak, but Li Rubai just likes it.
Not only did he like it, but the Korean soldiers and Jurchen soldiers all liked to plunder the enemy's baggage, and they jumped up with joy when they heard that they were going to take a boat.
In the Central Plains, the strategic significance of attacking the grain route is greater than the practical significance, but here, the practical significance of cutting off the grain route is far greater than the strategic significance.
Li Rubai's army plundered, the purpose was not to cut off food, but to kill the enemy.
Just as he doesn't understand parabola and ballistics, but he understands what victory and defeat are, he doesn't know what post-traumatic stress disorder is, but it doesn't prevent him from issuing orders to his subordinates to make everyone from Kyushu Island to Ezo afraid when they hear the Ming army.
In the reports of the attacks received by Wise Mitsuhide, Li Rubai did achieve his goal.
People remember the Korean archers who could suppress the Ashigaru archers at 120 or 30 paces, the Jurchen warriors who dared to run to 30 or even 5 steps with a bow before releasing heavy arrows one after another, and a Liaodong iron cavalry that was truly worthy of being as fast as the wind and Xu Rulin, especially this cavalry was extremely good at bullying people.
There is a famous samurai from, because he met with the Liaodong Iron Cavalry and survived, he directly asked the lord to resign, gave up his fiefdom and went to Kyoto to write waka - the battle that allowed him to survive was enough for him to blow for half of his life for half of his life.
The sophistication of escaping the battlefield is spread in the sophistication of the ashigaru that no one knows the trick of saving their lives, never turn their backs to the iron cavalry, and some people even practice running backwards, because when people's eyes are fixed on the iron cavalry that seems to be forever roaming the periphery of the battlefield, their horses always pace slowly with heavy hooves, and once they turn around, they will hear the hooves of the horses in the blink of an eye.
People say don't look back, you can die a better death.
Because most of the scars of the corpses of the troops who were chased and annihilated were on their foreheads, they used their hard frontal bones to meet the huge chain flail, and half of their faces were smashed to pieces.
It took a long time for Akechi Mitsuhide to block the land routes, and finally learned from the mouth of the straggler Youyong who escaped from Kiriyama Castle that there were several huge Ming ships docked in the bay during the Battle of Kiriyama, so that the problem of how the Ming army was haunted in various places was solved, but his nightmare was not over.
When he was about to lure the enemy army away from the coast and shrink his forces to set up a formation in Tanba, the enemy army suddenly seemed to disappear, silent, and no longer appeared.
On the contrary, the mountains in the west became more and more courageous, and several times stabbed through the defense line, forcing Akechi Mitsuhide to go to meet the battle - it was not for nothing that the Nizi army suddenly became fierce in battle, the rice fields were ripe, and eating rice balls made of rice grown by other people's families brought extraordinary morale to the Nizi army, and they even wanted to take Tanba in one go.
However, this can only be a fool's dream, the Nizi family has not many troops, and now in the face of the wisdom of Guangxiu's army of more than 18,000 people, it is already good luck to be able to break through the defense for a short time, and he was beaten back in a blink of an eye.
Even when the Nizi Army was at its most dangerous, the annoying Ming army did not appear, which made Akechi Mitsuhide wonder, did they go back?
On the fifth day of leading his headquarters in pursuit of Yamanaka Shikasuke to Tajima Province, Akechi Mitsuhide finally figured out where the Ming army had goneβthey went to Wakasa Province and burned down four castles along the coast in three days, and the Liaodong cavalry ran rampant through the Hokuriku, and even broke through Omi at one point, using artillery to make six large holes in the walls of Niwa Nagahide's newly built castle, and swept away along the way.
And then...... Oda Nobunaga invaded Wakasa and sent someone over to scold Akechi Mitsuhide.
The wise Mitsuhide in this formation had helplessness written on his face, and bowed down to the retainers who came to pass the word: "The subordinates are guilty, please punish the lord." β
Where does he know his sins, and what sin does he know!
scolded him for the crime of unfavorable western attack, and he admitted that after all, the battle was indeed not won, but the affairs of the northern Wakasa country scolded him...... Wise Mitsuhide didn't have time to slander him, so he sent a message to the old god of his retainers to get him up, and then took out another letter for him to bow down again, and then scolded him again with the same words about the unfavorable matter of the western attack.
"Lord Hinatamoru is offended. The Lord's order is fulfilled, and then he will retire. β
At this moment, Akechi Mitsuhide suddenly felt that the demagogic words of Japan's unification and feudal kingdom that the Ming Emperor hoped for, the samurai family's respect for the royal family, and the people's eternal war, did not seem to be bad.
Just think about it, of course.
While Niwa Nagahide was actively preparing for war in Omi and Akechi Mitsuhide was guarding Tanba against an invading enemy from the west, Chen Bachi, who had just led an army to attack Wakasa Province and plunder Zhucheng a few days earlier, had already returned to the waters around Tango with his invincible fleet, put down the warships of Hirojo and Li Rubai, and issued them an order to completely capture Tanba and Tango after the end of the battle.
"After taking Tambodan in this way, isn't it to make a wedding dress for the Nizi family? In this way, the Niko clan has become a big family that can compete with Shimazu and Otomo, and has more territory than us. β
Before the march, Wang Rulong said to Chen Bazhi on the shore: "It is better to set up a government in this place as well, divide the land to the people, and mobilize the people to defend their own land against Oda." β
"Don't worry, General Wang, how prosperous the Nizi clan is now, how worried they will be in half a year - they can't appease this side, don't forget that they have just robbed the land that the people of the two countries have worked so hard to cultivate, and they want to rule here?"
Chen Bazhi smiled and said, "When their faces are red, we will accept it smoothly, not only the land, but also the hearts of the people." β/14_14088/