Chapter 524: The Japanese Samurai
Ning Yuan never knew the specific number of how many food reserves there were in the Condor Empire, he only knew a lot, so he dared to recruit a legion of players to conquer the Japanese island.
He had considered all the circumstances beforehand, but he did not expect to encounter such a lot of pressure in terms of logistics.
Bai Shihai, as one of Ning Yuan's most trusted right-hand men, usually he would not easily complain to Ning Yuan, but now that he has sent several waves of people to warn Ning Yuan in a row, it means that he is indeed under very great pressure now.
After thinking about it carefully, Ning Yuan quickly knew what the problem was.
Although the Northeast Plain is a large granary rich in products, he has not been idle in the past few years.
The Battle of the Korean Peninsula, the Battle of the Outer Northeast, the Battle of the Island of Ice and Fire, the Battle of Taiwan Island, the Battle of Hainan Island, the Battle of the Philippines, the Battle of Vietnam, the Battle of Kalimantan, and now the Battle of the Japanese Island.
It seems that this battle is indeed a bit too much.
With so many battles, ranging from hundreds of thousands of troops to millions of troops, the logistical pressure is indeed a bit great.
Although a lot of food was also captured in the occupied areas, compared to what was consumed by the army, the captured ones were somewhat inadequate.
Now in Japan, there are more than 2 million Condor troops and more than 8 million players, and although more than 2 million people have been killed in battle, they are all resurrected after ten days.
These more than 10 million people, the food resources consumed every day are an astronomical amount, although after so many years of accumulation, the Colorful Harvest Mountain has filled the grain depot of the Condor Empire, but it can't be exhausted all the stocks at once.
It would be too embarrassing if there was an unexpected situation after that, and the Condor Empire was unable to send troops due to lack of food and grass.
So in order to relieve the pressure on Baishihai, Ning Yuan decided to speed up the progress of the attack on the Japanese island, and after the training time, he could not continue to be conservative.
Originally, Ning Yuan was going to let the elite player legion train for a few more months before going to the battlefield for actual combat training, but now due to logistical pressure, he had to let them out of the customs in advance.
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Japan is an island nation with a long coastline, and the Japanese Navy has not been able to recover from the severe damage it has suffered, and now the entire coastline is under the control of the Condor Navy.
Therefore, in order to speed up the progress of the attack, Ning Yuan prepared to use the navy's mobility ability to implement multi-point flowering tactics.
The naval fleet will cover a part of the land forces from different seas to land on the Japanese islands, and at the same time launch attacks from all sides, leaving Japanese players exhausted.
Then the main army would continue to advance steadily, occupying as soon as possible some of the cities on the choke points, using them as bases, radiating in all directions, and eventually joining forces with the armies that had landed elsewhere.
After studying the specific battle plan with Bai Ze, Tie Xiongfeng and others, the Condor Army in Japan immediately went all out.
As the Magical Energy Transports transported armies to different landing sites, the entire island of Japan was filled with the smoke of war.
In order to deal with the multi-point flowering tactics of the Condor Army, Japanese players reluctantly abandoned large areas of coastal areas.
They concentrated their forces in a few key cities, and then implemented the strategy of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness, and they prepared to fight a protracted battle with the Condor.
In the face of the Japanese player's strong wall and clear field tactics, the Condor Army was unmoved, and still firmly implemented its own tactics.
They are capturing city by city, compressing the activity space of Japanese players step by step.
In terms of siege, the main force of the Condor Army advanced smoothly, but in the field, the Huaxia Player Legion, which was responsible for clearing the Japanese players, encountered great trouble.
Japan is a mountainous island country, with mountains ridged in the center of Japan, dividing Japan's land into the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan side, with mountains and hills accounting for 71% of the total area, most of the mountains are volcanic, and the land is covered by 67% of the country's forests.
Because the city could not accommodate too many troops, many Japanese players hid directly in the mountains and fought guerrilla warfare with the Condor Army.
In the mountains, large forces cannot be deployed, where it is more suitable for elite light infantry squads to fight together.
Considering that the players were more suitable for fighting alone, and the heavy armored legion of the Condor Army was not suitable for mountain warfare, Ning Yuan handed over the task of clearing the mountains to the player legion.
After learning that many Japanese players were hiding in the ravines, the Chinese players gladly accepted the task.
At first, their clean-up operation went very smoothly, but they immediately suffered huge losses as they struck out from the mountains in groups of enemies dressed in lacquered armor and with different patterns on their backs.
Through the descriptions of the surviving players, Ning Yuan and the others quickly knew the true identities of these enemies.
The samurai are a cold-weapon unit with unique Japanese characteristics.
They adhered to the principles of bushido and were a class of professional warriors who were brave, honorable, and loyal above life.
Japanese samurai usually wore two swords – a single-edged katana and a shorter "wakicha", which became known as the seppuku sword.
The Japanese katana originated from the Tang horizontal sword of the Tang Dynasty in China.
During the Sui and Tang dynasties, Japan did not have its own sword-making technology, and it was entirely through imitating and learning Chinese knife-making techniques to produce swords, and most Japanese swords at that time maintained the basic characteristics of the Han Dynasty ring head knife.
In the Battle of Baijiangkou in the Tang Dynasty, because the ability and flexibility of the Tang horizontal sword to cut and break armor exceeded that of the Japanese sword of the same period, the Japanese samurai wearing leather armor had no protective ability, and the elite troops of the Japanese nation were defeated, and then the Japanese mainland fell into extreme fear.
After a few years of panic, the Japanese recognized their own strength, so they studied in the Tang Dynasty with a humble attitude, and successively sent more than ten groups of Tang envoys to China for further study.
Many of them were skilled craftsmen in Japan at the time, who brought the sword-making skills of the Tang Heng sword back to Japan, and gradually formed the Japanese samurai sword through imitation.
The Japanese katana occupies an absolute position in the world's cold weapons with its excellent performance, and enjoys the best reputation and reputation.
Japanese samurai are inherently professional warriors, they are very good at fighting alone, and with sharp Japanese samurai swords, it is not a shame for Chinese players in leather armor to defeat them in skirmishes.
After all, the samurai were the most powerful special class of troops in ancient Japan, no matter how they said it.
The Japanese samurai with different patterns and banners on their backs had briefly appeared in the previous siege of Shimonoseki Castle, but during the siege, they had no way to do anything with the heavily armored Condor soldiers, so they soon disappeared.
At that time, the Condor Army did not have any pressure to defend the city, so Ning Yuan did not pay special attention to those special Japanese soldiers.
He never expected that those Japanese samurai would be so strong in skirmishes in the wild, and one person could fight against two or three Chinese players at the same time without falling behind.
Although the Condor Army occupies the city below the mountain, if they can't destroy the enemy in the mountain, their logistics and transportation lines will face endless harassment from the enemy, which will affect the advance of the army, so Ning Yuan must find a way to get rid of those difficult Japanese samurai.