According to Takenaka Shigeharu's request, the Hongye Army changed its deployment. Wan Junbei followed Naibei Bei on the official road to the north, while Junling Bei walked to a path to the south, maintaining a certain distance with Tokiwa Bei who took another path.
distance. Between Wanjunbei and Mingdybei, there is the first connection of copper wall. Between Junlingbei and Changpanbei, there is the second connection of copper wall. Yu Qiuping's headquarters is escorted together with Liaoyuanbei.
Advance with the civilian team, followed by the Third Company of the Tongqiang Preparation Company. On November 22, the team has not yet marched to the bifurcation point of the road, and it will be busy after reaching the bifurcation point - the staff will arrange a large number of civilian soldiers to follow
Each path proceeds separately.
However, before the Red Leaf Army began to worry about diversion, the Uesugi Army had already arrived.
At 6:00 on November 22, Charlie received another urgent report - Uesugi Army troops were discovered in the snowy fields to the north!
"How far is it from here?" Charlie immediately reined in his horse, signaling the whole army to stop, and asked Tan Ma at the same time.
"It's only five miles away." Tan Ma was sweating profusely even in the heavy snow. He must have been in a hurry after riding all the way back.
"Why did you come to report at such a close distance?" Charlie frowned when he heard this - it was too late to withdraw the auxiliary troops from such a distance.
"Previously, Master Sanada ordered to narrow the scope of investigation to expand the density of ninjas and scouts. I have tried my best..."
"Go and explore again." Charlie didn't mean to blame Tan Ma. He waved to him and immediately began to command, "Same as last time, use the company as a unit to form a hollow square formation! All auxiliary troops withdraw from the official road from the south.
, move as far south as possible! Mingdy Bei heads west to cover them! At the same time, ask for reinforcements from the First Company of Tongqiang Bei! Let them rush to support immediately!"
After Charlie gave the order, Ming Dybei immediately began to quickly change formations. Most of Ming Dybei's current auxiliary soldiers were newly recruited civilians. They looked at the auxiliary soldiers who suffered the tragedy yesterday, and their faces turned pale with fear.
, I couldn't help but beat the drum in my heart, and the auxiliary army suddenly became chaotic. No matter how the auxiliary captain maintained order, military discipline was still difficult to control. Someone actually escaped first, causing quite a commotion in the army - this was Hongye.
This has never happened before in the military.
Seeing that the auxiliary troops were still unable to evacuate, Charlie became anxious and cast his eyes eagerly to the west - that was the direction of the copper wall preparing reinforcements.
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The commander of the first company of Tongqiangbei is Colonel Maeda Keiji. After receiving Charlie's request for reinforcements, he did not set off immediately. Instead, he confirmed to the messenger: "How many people are here? Have you seen it?"
Is it Uesugi Kenshin’s flag?”
"No, but please hurry up! It's too late!" The messenger answered the question honestly and became impatient again. "When we found it, it was only five miles away from Mingdybei. There were only a few cavalry galloping.
Breathing matter! Our scouts immediately reported back, and we set off to seek help. How do we know the situation of further exploration? "
"Ah, okay." Although Maeda Keiji had an ominous premonition in his heart, according to the rules of the Hongye Army, unless there is an order from a higher-ranking officer, as a colonel, he must obey Charlie, a major general at this moment.
The command.
Maeda Keiji immediately led the 1st Company of Tongqiangbei to gallop eastward towards the direction of Naruhei Bei. The cavalry galloped and splashed snow all over the ground. When they rushed to the vicinity of Naruhei Bei in a hurry, they found that Naruhei Bei was there.
Bei did not engage in battle with the Echigo cavalry. On the snowfield north of the official road where Ming Dybei was, a large amount of snow mist rose, and it seemed that a large number of Echigo cavalry had gathered - but they did not launch an attack.
"I was wondering if it was a suspected soldier..." Maeda
Keiji's expression suddenly became serious when he saw this, but when he saw the auxiliary troops still noisy on the official road, he shouldn't turn around and leave for a moment, "Send someone to talk to Mr. Charlie and let him cover me! I will take the lead.
Jun, please take a closer look at those people and find out the truth!"
After receiving the news from Maeda Keiji, Charlie immediately commanded the three companies of Ming Dybei to advance towards the snowy mist in the north, while the first company of Tongqiang Bei also quickly advanced with the support of Ming Gaibei. After noticing the movements of the Hongye Army,
, the Echigo cavalry actually advanced instead of retreating, and charged towards the Red Leaves Army. Maeda Keiji and Charlie were both shocked - could everything be a trap. However, just when the two armies were about to meet,
However, the Echigo cavalry neatly made a big turn in the direction to the east where there was no Red Leaf Army cavalry. In the few moments when the snow mist was blown away by the wind, the Red Leaf Soldiers clearly saw the trick of the Echigo Cavalry - on horseback
Large branches were tied to the tail, so that when the cavalry galloped on the snow, they would splash up huge amounts of snow, like thousands of troops.
"Damn, sure enough." Maeda Keiji cursed fiercely, and when the Echigo cavalry turned around and left, he led the troops to turn around without saying a word, "They are attacking in the east and in the west! Wan Junbei is in trouble! Go and tell Lord Charlie,
We will withdraw first! We will also immediately notify the nearby reserve teams to support Wan Junbei!"
Both Wan Junbei and Mingdi Bei were walking on the official road to the north. There was only one mobile cavalry unit near the two reserves, the Tongqiang Bei First Company, which they relied on for support. After the Tongqiang Bei First Company left, Wan Junbei
Jun Bei was faced with the same situation as Ming Dy Bei yesterday. Sure enough, not long after Tongqiang Bei left, Wan Jun Bei's scouting horse discovered a group of Echigo cavalry approaching on the snowy field to the north - in the snow and fog, on that side
The military flag with the word "PI" is clearly visible.
"It's bad to attack in the east...it's broken." Kitahata Kei's face turned pale after learning about the situation. He immediately ordered to recall Maeda Keiji and asked for help from nearby troops. However, the ashigaru who were under great pressure, like Naru Dybei, could not protect them at all.
When the first company of Tongqiang Bei finally came back, the Echigo cavalry that came and went like the wind immediately pulled out their horses and left, but the auxiliary soldiers of Wanjun Bei had already suffered. More than 400 corpses were found on the snowy field.
, nearly 700 people are missing and countless injured.
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"Your Highness! Are you still not joining forces?" As soon as the evening evaluation meeting was held, Maeda Keiji slammed the table and shouted towards Yu Qiupei, "One cavalry company can't protect two reserve teams! The Uesugi army comes once a day. Is it possible?
Are we just going to give them hundreds of corpses every day? Then why fight this battle? It won’t be long before our entire army is dead! It saves a lot of food!”
"Yes, Your Highness, there is really nothing I can do to protect so many auxiliary soldiers." The Kitahata Kage family also protested in line, and Charlie on the side also nodded.
Yu Qiuping glanced at Fukuzawa Yunan with some embarrassment - he firmly refused to join forces due to logistical pressure. But seeing yesterday's tragedy happening again today, he couldn't help but be shaken, pursed his lips and said nothing.
"After all, this is Hanbei's order..." Yu Qiuping hesitated and pondered for a long time, and finally shook his head and said, "He is the chief of staff of the entire army. If you want to join forces, you should ask for his opinion first."
"Suizi, go and ask Mr. Zhuzhong for his opinion." Yu Qiuping waved towards Yegu Suizi at the door, "Show him today's battle report...Oh no, read it to him, don't let him bother you.
, and then asked him what he thought."
"Yes." After Ye Gusuizi took the order and left, he rushed back after a while.
"Master Takenaka said that we cannot join forces, please wait for one more day." Haotani Suiko seemed to be unaware of the atmosphere in the tent, and bluntly reported Takenaka Shigeharu's opinion.
It has to be said that Takenaka Shigeharu is
The prestige of the Hongye Army is still quite high, and his military strategy is beyond the reach of everyone present. Now that Takenaka Shigeharu has spoken, everyone has chosen to accept it. Only Maeda Keiji muttered dissatisfied: "
What... Master Takenaka, I'm afraid he is seriously ill, are you listening carefully..."
"Then listen to Hanbei and wait for one more day." Yu Qiuping pinched his brow bone with his hand, took a breath and whispered, "In the future, you must be careful about making false claims to attack the west..."
"It can't be that easy... Your Highness. If you are careful about the plan of attacking in the east and west, the support action will have to be slowed down. What if the other side comes for real? What should we do? In the final analysis, our intelligence network cannot be expanded, and we can only be passive in the snow.
Get beaten." Maeda Keiji complained angrily. He didn't dare to contradict Takenaka Shigeharu's orders, but he would still find fault with Yu Qiupei's orders.
"Then what can I do? If I can't beat them, I just can't beat them. If the Uesugi family wasn't strong, would the Northern Army Regiment be beaten like that?" Yu Qiuping himself is also a mute, "Be careful tomorrow anyway."
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However, no matter how careful the officers of the Red Leaf Army were, it was useless - because the Uesugi Army did not come to attack them at all on November 23, but went straight to the Hongye Army and Civilian Transport Brigade that had penetrated deep into the territory of Vietnam. There was no protection.
The civilian army seemed to have fallen into hell under the attack of the cavalry. The corpses of civilians were scattered inside and outside the official road. When the third company of Liaoyuan Bei and Tongqiang Bei as the rearguard arrived belatedly, the number of casualties and missing persons of the civilian army had been reduced.
Already close to 1,500 people, the entire transportation and supply line was thrown into chaos due to the attack by the Echigo cavalry. The civilians near the attack position fled one after another, and the front line suddenly fell into a food shortage crisis.
"Your Highness! Why don't you join forces yet? This is already the case!"
At the evaluation meeting that night, Maeda Keiji was already yelling in the tent with some loss of temper, "1,500 people! A total of 1,500 people! We sent more than 30,000 civilians in total, and only half of them were gone in half a day."
one!"
"The morale of the Civilian Corps has been irreparable." At this point, Yunan Fukuzawa, who had insisted on dividing the troops before, also changed his mind, "If we want to reorganize the Civilian Corps... it will take at least three days. During these three days, we
We can no longer transport military rations and can only rely on the stored rations in the front. If the Uesugi army continues to attack the supply line, the supply will be cut off faster than when the troops are united." Fukuzawa Yunan took a deep breath and said lowly to Yu Qiuping.
He said, "Come together, Your Highness."
"Go and ask Hanbei before making a decision, and tell him today's battle report." Yu Qiuping still resisted the pressure and asked Haotani Honoko to inform Takenaka Shigeharu. This time, he could clearly feel that the atmosphere in the camp was a bit depressing.
"I'm afraid Takenaka-sama is confused because of the fever... Your Highness, you have to make your own decision." Maeda Keiji hinted at his point of view in a very subtle way, and uneasily pinched the rope tied to the handle of his sword.
"The result of my own decision was Mikachi Town, remember?" While Yu Qiuping was explaining, Yegu Suiko suddenly came back. She opened the tent door, shook the snowflakes on her clothes, and put a piece of paper
Passed it to Yu Qiuping.
"What did Mr. Zhuzhong say?" Yu Qiuping said as he took the piece of paper.
"Master Takenaka didn't say anything and asked the little girl to bring this piece of paper to His Highness." Ye Gusuizi pointed to the piece of paper in Yu Qiuping's hand. Yu Qiuping looked at the content on the paper with some surprise - he
very familiar.
The standard solution to junior high school mathematics problems: you are given three points, use a ruler and compass to draw a circle.
As for the center of the circle, Takenaka Shigeharu dug a hole in it with his pen.
Chapter completed!