On a hillside, the captain stared at a spread map, marking it from time to time according to the battle report sent by the staff officer. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The first target chosen by the expeditionary force was the Kumamoto Domain, which belonged to the Edo Shogunate's "Spectrum Domain", as a close confidant of the Tokugawa family in the Kyushu region, the main role of this feudal state was to suppress the entire Kyushu, prevent the appearance of too strong military power here, and defeat this feudal state, even if it was to loosen the restrictions on the ambitious "foreign" daimyo in the Kyushu region.

A high-pitched eagle's cry came from the sky, and the captain's gloomy face showed a hint of a smile.

As the commander of the advance force of the expeditionary force, the captain really loves these falcons.

It has been half a month since the battle against the Wa Kingdom began, but wherever the advance troops went, the Kumamoto Domain had not been able to organize a large-scale counterattack so far, because of the Eagle Falcon's strong reconnaissance ability and quite good individual hunting ability in the open field.

Of course, it is not only the credit of the falcon, after more than 1 year of using the falcon, Chen Xin has formed a complete and efficient battlefield shelter system.

The entire battlefield shelter system is dominated by reconnaissance and search units.

When the finished infantry glyph outflanks the enemy's cities and villages on a large scale, the reconnaissance and search force will insert into the rear of the enemy army, secretly occupy the important road section at the junction with other forces, and begin to cover the battlefield.

The reconnaissance and search unit is a special cavalry unit with the company as the combat unit, and the first link in the battlefield shelter is to use the falcon to conduct large-scale reconnaissance.

In this era when there is no frequent movement between the two villages, the few pedestrians on the road are easy to be locked by the falcons in the sky, and in the current state of war, anyone who is within the range of the target will be regarded as a spy, and the falcon will throw the air javelin, and after shooting the enemy, the reconnaissance force will send someone to check the results of the battle and confirm that the personnel have been killed.

If there is a large number of people who have escaped, the falcon will call the reconnaissance and search forces guarding the various sections, and they will temporarily meet and encircle the enemy under the guidance of the falcon.

If the enemy enters the forest or other difficult terrain, the reconnaissance and search force should also search for the enemy in the form of a small unit with military dogs.

The whole procedure is to make sure that the enemy does not get the news that they have been attacked.

This is also the reason why Chen Xin specially selected elite soldiers and strong generals to join this unit, and it is impossible to accomplish such a complex task without strong individual combat effectiveness.

The benefits of the falcon to your side go far beyond that.

The Eagle Falcon can accurately and quickly deliver letters or small parcels to the target area or troops, which greatly improves the efficiency of communication, and the combat mode of its own army has undergone earth-shaking changes.

In the past, if you wanted to command the troops, you had to gather together, at least as close to each other as possible.

But now it is completely different, in this era of agriculture, except for some special cities, the peasants, who account for the vast majority of the world's population, in order not to waste most of their time on the road, the construction of settlements is quite scattered, according to the current combat effectiveness of the Xuan army, a platoon can easily capture any village.

For the sake of safety, the captain spread out the two squadrons of the advance force in a company grid, and although the various divisions were out of contact with each other, they were still able to complete various tasks in a timely and accurate manner, and quickly swept away all the samurai and nobles in the Kumamoto region.

The captain drew the final strokes on the map, and then let out a long breath, "Finally, the siege of the Kumamoto Domain has been completely completed." ”

The intelligence staff officer next to him also smiled, "Half a month to sweep through the building, and immediately complete the general attack on the building, but it's really fast, after this battle is over, it should be repaired." ”

The captain pondered for a moment and asked, "What is the specific situation of the troops now?" ”

The logistics staff officer picked up a report and looked at it, and said, "My advance troops, the war horses were transported from the northern Korean administrative region after a long journey, and they only rested for a few days, and then hurriedly went to the battlefield. The wounded and sick numbers and horses have been sent to the Hamasaki advance base for treatment. ”

The captain nodded to indicate that he understood, and then said, "I was still thinking of making persistent efforts, but the non-combat attrition actually reached 1 percent, and it seems that it really needs to be repaired, it seems that the staff has long considered this situation, so the troops are separated to carry out the task." ”

After that, the captain's face returned to seriousness, and he asked, "The general has already given instructions that the shogunate cronies like the Kumamoto Domain need to be cut down and eradicated, are your intelligence department personnel in place?" ”

Intelligence Staff Officer Tachimasa Ichimasa "A team has already infiltrated Kumamoto yesterday and reconnoitred the terrain, and they will act according to the plan. ”

The captain clapped his hands, "Okay, then, you can release the bait according to the plan." ”

"Yes."

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Xiao Yuan lay on his stomach in the grass, not daring to move, and only when the people outside came to search for him had walked through the grass did he slowly breathe a sigh of relief.

Ohara Ichima didn't know what was going on, early in the morning, a team of soldiers came to his village, as a samurai, he naturally had to meet the enemy, but before he could put on the bamboo footgear, the village had already been broken.

Those people don't kill innocents indiscriminately, and they don't commit any crimes against women, which in Ohara Kazuma's opinion can't imagine how there can be such a well-behaved army in the world, and such an honest eighty percent of them are recruits who have just enlisted.

Just when he was pondering this kill to show his bravery and make some achievements, someone was faster than him.

It was a samurai who was much older than Ohara Kazuma, and he had fought a few times in the Great Coalition War ten years ago, and he had a lot of experience on the battlefield, and just when he was admiring Jiang for being old and spicy, the old samurai who rushed out had been knocked away with shields by those guys who were previously regarded as recruits, and then stabbed with spears.

Ohara immediately shuddered and hid.

After that, those people gathered everyone in the village to the village drying field, and after some agitation, the untouchables actually helped the outsiders to identify the samurai loyal to the Kumamoto clan in the village one by one.

Watching the samurai who used to be as "noble" as himself being identified, and then having their heads shattered by iron cannons (the Japanese name for firearms), Ohara trembled with fright, glad that he had hid before.

But when Ohara Ichima was happy, the number of dead samurai began to be counted outside, and if he knew that if he hid, Ohara Ichima, who would definitely be discovered, immediately made a decision, looked at a gap, and quickly escaped from the village.

He didn't run far before he was discovered by the enemies in the village, and Ohara Kazuma got rid of this group of pursuers by virtue of his familiarity with the terrain, but in the following days, no matter how he escaped, there would always be some pursuers behind him, and it would have taken only 2 days to run to the location of the feudal lord, but now it has been a full 5 days, and Kumamoto Castle is still far away.

Suddenly, there was a hunger cry from his stomach, and Ohara was stunned, knowing that things were not good.

Sure enough, the group of enemies who had not gone far stopped in unison.

Ohara was in despair, he knew that he was in danger of escaping this time, although these people did not commit any crimes against ordinary untouchables Aki, but they never showed mercy to the samurai loyal to the Kumamoto domain.

At this moment, a strange trumpet sound was heard in the distance, and the group of soldiers listened carefully for a while, and then hurried in the direction of the trumpet. Ohara was ecstatic, seeing the enemy running farther and farther, he knelt directly to the ground, and continued to worship the gods and Buddhas in the air.

What Ohara didn't notice was that when the soldiers ran away, they also breathed a long sigh of relief.

After the team of Xuan soldiers who went away ran away, one of the soldiers sneered and laughed, "This Sun thief, I don't know how to endure it, so loud, I was stunned, if I didn't go to see it, that guy would definitely be suspicious, but go and see, just his high ass, I really can't pretend not to see it." ”

"Yes, I was also stunned, the order was to confine him to the vicinity of Kumamoto Castle, and we couldn't let him notice that something was wrong, but that guy's sound, I couldn't pretend I couldn't hear it, but fortunately the horn sounded in time."

"By the way, squad leader, what does that trumpet mean? There's no such piece in the military drill code. ”

"Hehe, this song is the code that was set at the beginning, and after it sounds, we can stop training with this guy and hide from him, so that he can go to Kumamoto smoothly."

Everyone was stunned.

"Then why let him go to Kumamoto? Haven't we been performing battlefield masking for half a month? When he runs, the enemy will know. ”

The squad leader turned to the person next to him and said, "Staff Officer Liang, can I talk about it?" Wouldn't it be a breach of confidentiality? ”

"It's not a violation."

"Okay, I'll just tell you, the big guy is also happy, we have now completed the sweep of Chikugo, and fully occupied all the Kumamoto domain territory except Kumamoto Castle, it doesn't really matter whether this person escapes or not,"

"Then why do you have to dedicate a play?"

Staff Officer Liang interrupted the questioning and explained softly, "I specially ordered us to play a play, this is the content that needs to be kept secret, and I can't go into details." He blinked as he spoke.

Although this intelligence staff officer sent by this intelligence staff officer is not responsible for secrecy work, after more than a year of training, everyone has become accustomed to consciously maintaining the military discipline of the Xuan Army.

In fact, there is no need to ask this question too much, and if you think about it carefully, you can understand that the command should want to do something with this person before the general attack, and it will definitely be beneficial to its own side anyway.