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At the evaluation meeting that night, all senior military officers, together with Yunan Fukuzawa and the staff of the General Staff, Masayuki Sanada and the personnel of the Military Intelligence Department, protested the decision to divide the troops and asked Yu Qiuping to merge the troops immediately.
"Your Highness, do you dare to do it again?" The Uesugi army's repeated attacks left Copper Wall Bei unable to do anything. Maeda Keiji was now extremely annoyed. "The first time it was Ming Gabei's auxiliary troops, and the second time it was Wan Jun.
The auxiliary troops prepared for us, the third time were thousands of civilians, this time it was our main formation, and your life was almost lost! Do you still want to divide the troops?"
Just as Yu Qiuping was about to speak, Maeda Keiji hurriedly said again, "Your Highness is going to talk about supplies again! No matter how important food is, is life important? Even Mr. Fukuzawa, who is in charge of transportation, didn't talk about it.
Do you still want to insist?"
"Your Highness, with all due respect." Fukuzawa Yunan clearly stood on the side of the alliance this time, "Even if the supply problem is difficult, we can still overcome it. The mysterious attack of the Uesugi Army is not something we can overcome. As long as
If we march separately, any one of them will be at risk of being eaten directly!"
"Do you all agree to join forces and move forward as a team?" Yu Qiuping looked around the scene, and all the officers nodded.
"If we join forces, our ninjas and detective horses will be much stronger, and we can also expand the scope of investigation." Sanada Masayuki added, seeming to be very upset about the previous dilemma of intelligence work, "Like before, we were
Things that are only discovered right under your nose will never happen again."
"And since our entire army is united, the Uesugi Army no longer dares to pass by us to attack the auxiliary troops behind us." Kitahata Kageie was obviously irritated by the Uesugi Army's cavalry ignoring him and going straight to the auxiliary troops that day.
"If they dare to do that, we will use cavalry to block their retreat, and the army will surround them and annihilate them on the spot!"
Yu Qiuping couldn't help but feel a little shaken when he saw that the opinions of his subordinates were so unified. He glanced at Haikou Haikou, who had just been called by him to check on Takenaka Shigeharu - the transfer in the snow had troubled Takenaka Shigeharu enough, and he was already
She had been sleeping for a long time, and the fever had not come down. Yegu Suiko noticed Yu Qiuping's expression, shook her head slightly, and told Yu Qiuping that Takenaka Shigeharu still hadn't woken up.
Takenaka Shigeharu, who is the most insistent on dividing the troops, is currently unable to take charge, and all his subordinates are asking to join forces. Although Yu Qiuping himself is inclined to divide the troops, he also feels tremendous pressure. He thinks that he cannot be said to be outstanding in military strategy, and there is no
Confidence is enough for him to defy the intentions of all his subordinates and go his own way.
"Let's join forces." In the end, the Uesugi Army's frequent attacks over the past few days made Yu Qiuping make up his mind. "After joining forces, we must speed up the advance, because the supply pressure will be very great. If we don't
If we divide our troops, there will be no one to protect us on the other roads, and we will not be able to use other roads for transportation, except the official road."
"Don't worry, Your Highness." Yoshioka Katsumasa patted his chest and assured Yu Qiuping, "Our six red leaf troops in reserve will join forces and push forward. Even gods can't stop us!"
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On November 29, the Hongye Army completed its alliance and began to advance forward in a group. Facing the high-powered Hongye Army, the Uesugi Army did not dare to take it on, and immediately withdrew after burning down its camp. However, the Uesugi Army retreated
At that time, all the villages and towns along the road were burned to the ground, leaving the Red Leaf Army with no way to keep out the cold and no place to rest.
On the evening of November 29, the Red Leaf Army had advanced to the foot of Imae Castle.
In the evening, in the red leaf army's medical tent, Taro Wada was packing up and preparing to leave.
"Thank you for taking care of me these days!" Taro Wada bowed to the medical officer in their tent.
"You haven't recovered yet, are you in such a hurry to go back?" The medical officer sat over worriedly and glanced at Taro Wada's slightly red nose.
"I heard that there is a shortage of manpower to transport food, so I rushed back to help." Taro Wada used a smile to hide his inner nervousness. In fact, he had another concern in being so anxious to go back - he had not seen Tachibana Takimaru since a few days ago.
, and heard that Ming Dybei's auxiliary army had encountered an attack. He was afraid that something might happen to his good friend, so he hurried back to the team to confirm the situation.
"Besides, the tent is about to become uninhabitable." Taro Wada walked to the door and opened the door curtain. The cold wind outside the tent made him shiver. He glanced at the crowded patients in the tent, as well as the outside of the tent.
Countless medical tents couldn't help but sigh.
"It's really troublesome." The medical officer rubbed his hands uneasily and bowed to Taro Wada. The number of patients was increasing, with the number approaching two thousand, and the medical soldiers were indeed overwhelmed. He said
Before he finished speaking, two more patients were helped in. He hurriedly apologized to Taro Wada and continued on his way to diagnosis.
Wada Taro hurriedly walked between the medical tents, fearing that he would be infected by other patients. However, the words of the two doctors walking beside him caught his attention and made him pace.
"There are not enough herbal medicines... His Highness prepared so many herbal medicines before the expedition, and we all thought it was too much. Now we see, it is not enough." A doctor said to another man next to him with some worry, "There is no more firewood for boiling water."
There is a bit of a shortage.”
"Even the wood for camping is not enough. It's not easy for His Highness to keep providing us with wood steadily." The other doctor sighed on his hand and looked at the flying snow in the sky, "It's so snowy and freezing.
Cutting firewood is not easy either. Today, our entire army crowded onto this official road, and all the firewood on the roadside was chopped down."
"Can you please bring some more herbs from the rear? No herbs have arrived since last night."
"What are you thinking about? There is not enough food. Now the auxiliary soldiers and civilians who work hard only eat two meals a day. How can we transport herbs?"
"Herbs don't take up space..."
"Don't even think about it..."
The two doctors turned a corner and walked in another direction, and their voices gradually became less clear, but Taro Wada couldn't let go.
"Is everything going to be okay, brother?" Taro Wada muttered to himself.
After walking out of the medical tent, he realized how huge the camp that the Red Leaf Army had set up after joining forces was vast, stretching to the end of his field of vision. He stopped several passers-by and asked for a long time before he found Ming Dy.
A camp for preparing auxiliary troops.
"Taro?" Wada Taro's auxiliary veteran platoon leader happened to be outside the camp and recognized Taro Wada at a glance, "Returned to the team? How is your health?"
"Thank you for your concern, sir. It's no problem." Taro Wada said hesitantly, and was about to ask about Takimaru Tachibana, but the old platoon leader tapped him on the shoulder and pointed to the side.
"Don't blame the captain for being cruel. We are really short of manpower. We lost a lot of old brothers before, and the civilian men who came in to replace them don't know how to work." The old platoon said while lowering his head in embarrassment, "That's Xin Yun over there.
For the iron cannons that have come up, go over there and organize a group of civilians to transport them to the iron cannonmen's camp."
"Okay." Wada Taro agreed wholeheartedly, and immediately went over to help people work. After a lot of effort, he pushed the two carts of iron cannons transported from the back to the front of the camp where the iron gunners were fired.
The person who came to hand over the situation was none other than Kumegoda, the iron gun squad leader.
"Is it just that much..." Kumegoda sighed helplessly after seeing the iron cannons on the two carts pushed up by Taro Wada and others.
"Sir, is this not enough? There must be fifty handfuls in total." Taro Wada wiped the sweat from his forehead and shivered when the north wind blew.
"It's not enough." Kumegoda untied the tarpaulin and picked up an iron cannon from the car. After checking it a few times, he sighed again, "The weather is too cold, and our iron cannon has been frozen a lot.
The gun can't even be fired. Look at this iron cannon. It's almost dying just after it was shipped. It probably won't last a few days."
"Ah?" Wada Taro was surprised when he heard this, "Then how many more iron cannons do we need?"
"Almost over 1,000 guns have been broken just by our firing guns...and more and more are broken every day." Kumegota frowned and spread his hands, "The foreigner in our reserve team is very good at maintaining iron cannons.
They gave us a lot of tricks, but they still broke so many things. The other reserve teams are only more serious..."
"Oh my God." Kumegota's words shocked many of the fellow villagers who came over, "When did this happen!"
"It started a few days ago. Speaking of which, I was the first person to break down the iron cannon in our reserve." Kumegoda laughed at himself, and at the same time stuffed the iron cannon under the tarpaulin and kept it well.
"I finished charging and igniting, but I couldn't fire the gun on the battlefield. I thought I made a mistake in that step, but later I checked and found that everything was fine, but it was frozen. After that, more and more iron
The cannons are all frozen and have problems, and the situation is getting worse the further north you go. The original damage was still within the tolerable range, but after yesterday's battle, a large number of iron cannons had problems. This afternoon, it is said that His Highness is worried."
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Kumegoda is right. Yu Qiupei and other officers are indeed worried at the moment. Although the damage to iron cannons has been reported before, no one took it to heart. Most of the iron cannons were able to fire normally in yesterday's battle.
.However, it was probably due to overuse in the battle. Many iron gunners reported damage to their iron cannons this afternoon. Fukuzawa Yunan then organized all the iron gunners in the army to conduct a test firing. As a result, nearly 40% of the existing iron cannons were fired today.
Can't fire anymore.
"We, the Red Leaf Army, run across the battlefield, relying on the strength of our armored troops. This iron cannon has always been our trump card, forcing all opponents not to dare to fight us from a distance, and can only rush up to attack our gun array." Fukuzawa Yuchi said.
Nan sat down and briefed everyone worriedly, "We have immediately asked the rear to expedite the transportation of iron cannons, and have adjusted the road priority of the iron cannons to the highest level, but there is not much reserve left in Echizen... It is estimated that the transportation will start from Hanoi.
But this snow... I'm afraid it's not easy to survive in Kanazaki, and we might have to go to the waterway. When the iron cannon arrives, our supplies may not be able to sustain it."
"Without iron cannons, what can we do when we attack a city?" Fukushima Yasunari pursed his lips uneasily, "Will ants attack the city?"
"Don't we still have artillery?" Maeda Keiji muttered from the side.
"A lot of the artillery is lagging behind. It's really hard to transport it in this snowy day." The Kitahata Kage family looked at the report in their hands and moved listlessly, "Then what should we do tomorrow? Can we launch the siege as scheduled?
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"We have to fight, and we can't afford to delay it. Food cannot be transported after the troops are united, and the food consumed on the front line every day is already far more than supplies." Hearing this, Fukuzawa Yunan said in a very determined voice, "If we want to maintain the
With normal supply, our food will last for another ten days at most..."
"It's still 60 miles away from Oyama Gobo, and it's 80 miles away from Takaoka Castle. It's not enough time..." The expression on Yu Qiuping's face became solemn, "Maybe it makes sense for Hanbei to keep asking for the division of troops."
"Is Hanbei feeling better?" At times like this, Yu Qiupei felt the importance of Takenaka Shigeharu. He was not only an outstanding chief of staff who analyzed the battle situation, but also played the role of commander - with determination and will.
Implement your plans firmly and won't hesitate like Yu Qiuping.
"Sir Takenaka woke up for a while today and drank half a bowl of porridge, but it still didn't work..." Yegu Suiko whispered with some worry, "Your Highness... Let Mr. Takenaka work now... It's too reluctant. My body..."
To be continued...