Sekigahara was just a little bigger, and the troop movements of the shogunate army could not be hidden from the spies of the overthrown shogunate army, so in the afternoon of the same day, they reported to Mount Sasao, where the leader of the overthrown shogunate army was located.
Shang Yi couldn't help laughing when he received the news, and immediately ordered the main generals of the Central Chinese Army and the Overturned Tokugawa Army to be summoned to the Sasao Mountain Camp to discuss matters.
Alexandra said: "Are you planning to attack the shogunate army?"
Shang Yi nodded and said: "Yes, now is our opportunity to launch an attack."
Toyotomi Kaoru said: "Your Majesty, although the shogunate army sent some troops to rescue Kofu, there are still about 250,000 troops on the Sekigahara battlefield, which is still higher than us, and now they will definitely defend with all their strength. , General common sense in combat is that it is more difficult to attack one side than to defend one, so is it appropriate to launch an attack on the shogunate army now?"
Shang Yi shook his head and said with a smile: "Battles are never determined by the number of troops. In fact, under the current situation, the shogunate army should concentrate its forces and only focus on one end, or attack Guanyuan with all its strength and fight us decisively. The battle will be decided. victory page; or leave a small number of troops in Sekigahara and concentrate their forces to regain Kofu. In this way, even if Sekigahara is not secured, they can still retreat to Edo. However, the shogunate army wants to regain Kofu but is unwilling to abandon the battlefield of Sekigahara. After making such a decision, he dispatched 50,000 to 60,000 troops to recapture Kofu, and the rest of the troops defended Sekigahara. This seemed to be a win-win situation and the best of both worlds, but in fact it was a mistake made by a military strategist who looked forward and backward, worrying about gains and losses. Taboo, because on both sides of the battlefield, the shogunate army actually did not concentrate its forces and had an overwhelming advantage. It can also be seen that the morale of the shogunate army at this time is in chaos, so it is the time for us to launch an attack."
Alexandra also nodded and said: "Yes, although our troops are still smaller than theirs, the gap is now limited, and after our successful assault on Kofu, our morale is high, so we should win this battle." I’m sure, so let’s wait for the good news tomorrow.”
After Tokugawa Yorinobu and Tokugawa Tsusushige led their troops to leave Sekigahara to recapture Kofu, the shogunate's troops in Sekigahara still have about 250,000 troops, still arranged in a triangular formation, with an arrowhead of 62,000 troops. , there are 53,000 on the left wing and 48,000 on the right wing. The strength of the main formation is reduced to 87,000, and the troops are shrinking to defend with all their strength.
The offensive arrangement of the overthrown shogunate army is: first, the defeated daimyo will attack across the board, with 43,000 men from Mouri Hirotsuna's corps attacking the arrowhead of the shogunate army; 42,000 men from Nabeshima Katsushige's corps attacking the right wing of the shogunate army; Arima Forty thousand men from the Tadayori tribe attacked the left wing of the shogunate army. The Chinese troops on both wings were still stationed on the two mountains, waiting to see how the battle situation would change.
Before going into battle, Shang Yi also formally issued an order to all the great figures. This time, they were only allowed to advance and not retreat. Anyone who was afraid of the sword or shrank away from the battle would be beheaded on the spot and would not be spared.
In fact, during this period of time, the morale of the overthrown army had been maintained well, because after all, the Chinese army was behind it. After learning that Kofu had been attacked by the Chinese army, the morale of the entire army was also improved again. The daimyo of Choshu, Saga, and Hiroshima, who had never dealt with the Tokugawa shogunate, were vying for power and preparing for a battle with the shogunate's army. Therefore, the morale of the entire army was high.
On August 22nd, the overthrown shogunate forces launched a full-scale attack and divided into three groups to attack the shogunate army. Another Battle of Sekigahara in Japanese history began.
It was the overthrown army led by Choshu Domain that was responsible for attacking the shogunate army's Shanxi arrowhead position at Nangong. Although the lord of Choshu Domain, Mouri Hirotsuna, was still under fifteen years old, he still went out in person, wearing a jinyu with a cross pattern. Ori, wearing the tachi handed down by Mouri Muji, was guarded by his retainers Masuda Motoki and Anado Yasuji, and stood under the three-star horizontal stripe embroidered with the Mouri family emblem to supervise the battle.
Although Mouri Hirotsuna did not go into battle in person, being able to go to the battlefield to supervise the battle was a great encouragement to the soldiers of the Choshu Domain. After all, they all knew that their lord was only a boy under the age of fifteen. It's a good step to do this.
The first to go into battle was the musketeers of the Choshu Domain. Before the Japanese Civil War began, China had sold 10,000 old-style muskets to the fallen feudal lords. The Choshu Domain was allocated 2,000. This was the first to go into battle. The musketeers were all equipped with purchased flintlock muskets and arranged in four rows. They pushed closer to the shogunate's formation and fired at the same time.
However, the shogunate army was well prepared for this. Tokugawa Naoyi laid out a large number of wooden fences in front of his array to block the horses, and arranged more than 4,000 iron artillerymen of his headquarters behind the wooden fences to compete with the muskets of the Choshu Domain. The team started shooting.
All the time, the muskets in both sides' formations were ringing like beans, and the fighting was fierce.
But the shogunate army used old-fashioned match ropes. Before the Japanese Civil War began, the Tokugawa shogunate also purchased 3,000 suifu guns from the Netherlands. One thousand were left in Edo, and the remaining 2,000 were in Edo. After the Chinese army landed in Japan, most of them were lost in several battles, and now there are less than 600 units left. Tokugawa Yorinobu and Tokugawa Tsusushige led their troops to rescue Kofu and took away some of them. Now only There are only three hundred left, all of which are kept at the main camp in Nangong Mountain.
The old-fashioned matchlock guns used by the Shogunate Army not only loaded slowly, but also had a range of only fifty to seventy meters, while the flintlock guns used by the Choshu Army loaded much faster and had a range of eighty to one hundred meters. , although the difference in shooting range between the two sides is only twenty or thirty meters, it is enough to become a great advantage on the battlefield. Although the number of muskets of the Shogunate Army is more than double that of the Choshu Army, it is still imprisoned by the Choshu Army. The strong pressure stopped, but the shogunate army was on the defensive after all, and had planted a large number of wooden fences to resist the horses. Therefore, the shogunate army found that they were unable to defeat the Changzhou army, so they all hid behind the wooden fence, while the Changzhou army The flintlock guns used still used projectiles, which did not have strong penetrating power. Although wood chips were scattered on the wooden fence, they were not very lethal to the shogunate troops.
But then the Choshu Army brought in artillery, lined up in front of the formation, and launched a fierce bombardment on the shogunate army's wooden fence. The artillery used by the Choshu Army was also purchased together with the muskets, and the Choshu Domain was allocated sixty-seven. Among them, twelve artillery pieces weigh more than 1,000 kilograms and have a caliber of three inches. They can fire iron bullets weighing 24 kilograms. The range is between 800 and 1,000 meters. They are far more powerful than Japan's self-made artillery. Of course, the shogunate also A batch of artillery was purchased from the Netherlands, half of which stayed in Edo and the other half in Osaka. During the defense battle of Hikone, they were all captured by the Chinese army, so there were no artillery that could compete with the Choshu Army.
After the artillery joined the battle formation, it immediately changed the situation of the battle. The artillery with a range of 800 to 1,000 meters fired at a distance of less than 200 meters. The power can be imagined. Muzha simply cannot resist it. , as a result, the broken wooden pillars of the wooden fence that were hit were torn apart, and the force of a shell was too great. After penetrating the wooden fence, it would often fly a distance of two to three hundred meters, or hit three or four times in a row. Only one person could fall to the ground, and the shogunate soldiers hiding behind the wooden fence were beaten to pieces and their muscles were torn apart, screaming in agony.
After more than ten rounds of artillery bombardment, the wooden fence wall of the shogunate army was broken in many places, and Tokugawa Naoyi was also a little discouraged. If this continued, he just wanted to be beaten without being able to fight back, so he immediately ordered his men General Zenju Sugitani led eight thousand shogunate troops to attack the defeated shogunate army.
After the shogunate army broke out of the fence, it was the musketeers of the Choshu army who showed off their power again. They quickly passed the artillery and did not have time to stand in formation, so they shot at the attacking shogunate soldiers and rushed forward. The platoon of shogunate troops was immediately defeated.
However, the musketeers of the Changshu Army were not as well-trained and experienced in battles as the Chinese Army. Moreover, they did not stand in a good formation at this time, and their shooting was uneven. Moreover, the soldiers of the Shogunate Army were outnumbered, so the result was not After a few rounds of shooting, the shogunate army rushed forward. Of course, the shogunate army did lose a considerable number of its troops, but China is still very business ethical. When it sold the muskets to the Japanese, they also sold them with the matching bayonets. When the soldiers of the Shogunate Army rushed forward, the musketeers of the Choshu Army did not panic when they arrived. They immediately inserted their bayonets and rushed forward to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Shogunate Army.
Then the generals of the Choshu Domain, Naoryu Manara, Zuigen Kobayashi, Chumaku Kurosaka, Zaemon Uozumi and other generals led 3,000 soldiers of the Choshu Domain to join the battle group, and the two sides immediately started a fierce battle.
Since the last battle of Sekigahara, the vassals and soldiers of the Choshu Domain have always harbored a deep hatred for the shogunate. It was just that they were not strong enough in the past, so they had been holding back. But now they have finally waited for the time to fight the shogunate army. Therefore, everyone worked bravely and fought to the death with the numerically superior shogunate army. However, the morale of the shogunate army was not high to begin with, and hundreds of people were killed by the musketeers of the Choshu domain during the attack. The morale of the shogunate army was very low. They were attacked one step closer. As a result, even though the shogunate army was more numerous, the two armies were inextricably locked up for a while.
After more than an hour of fierce fighting, the battle situation was still in a stalemate, but several generals of the Choshu Domain became more and more courageous as they fought. Among them was the leader of the battle, Naoryu Manara, who was originally a famous brave general of the Choshu Domain. Holding a long-handled sword with a length of ten feet, he led the soldiers of the Choshu clan to the left and right on the battlefield, fighting back and forth, and at one time they were more than ten steps deep into the shogunate's position.
At this moment, the general of the shogunate army and the three brothers of the Gosaka clan fought out of the army to fight against Mabara Naoryu. Goro Gosaka, the youngest, went into battle first and challenged Mabara Naoryu in a one-on-one duel. In the end, the two only fought against each other. In one round, he was cut in half by the Shinryu, but at this time, the Gosaka clan took advantage of the sneak attack and knocked down the sword of the Shinryu with a bracelet.
Mahira Naoryu immediately drew out the Kodachi he carried with him to fight, but the Kakusaka clan was still defeated. His right arm was cut off by Mahira Naoryu, and he fled with his horse. However, during the pursuit, he was killed by another of the Kakusaka brothers, Kousaka. Jiro succeeds in the attack and hits the back of Mahe Naoryu with his chain hammer. The Gosaka clan immediately returns to his horse, holds the sword with his left arm, and cuts off the head of Mahe Naoryu.
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