When everything is easy, a person can quickly become stupid.

- Gorky (proletarian writer of the former Soviet Union, founder of socialist realist literature)

On a clear early spring morning, the mountains and forests where thousands of birds should have taken off and hundreds of beasts screamed were quiet, and there was not even a trace of natural sounds; on the periphery of the mountains and forests, countless Yanhuang Tangling banners surrounded the mountains and forests like a tide.

Outside the tight encirclement of 120,000 soldiers of the two armies of the Yanhuang family, the four army commanders including Bu Weixin, Anton Jiazhong, Assam, and Valk were discussing in the military tent how to start the encirclement and suppression of the army of the Ita family in Shanlin as soon as possible.

"General, the Date family army hiding in the mountains and forests is only 30,000 people, there is no need to worry at all, as long as you give an order, the 25,000 soldiers of the second legion of our Essini Kingdom can completely annihilate the Date family army before sunset today!"

"Commander of the Assam, I will not doubt the combat effectiveness of your warriors of the Essini Kingdom. Yubu Weixin admonished with a solemn expression: "But the words about the Aceni Kingdom should not be mentioned again in the Yamato Empire. ”

Assam, who had just changed his title to Bai Feng from Governor to Lord Duke a few days ago, smiled with embarrassment: "This...... Please rest assured that the last general will take the teachings of the lord to heart and will not mention anything that should not be mentioned. ”

"That's good. Yubu Weixin didn't say anything more on this topic, he spread out an extremely detailed map of the Higashiyama Road on the table in front of him, and said to the other three: "There are still four days before the lord gives us the time to rush to the aid of Gaoshui Temple Castle and Bian Shi Imperial Palace, so we will completely annihilate the Date army in the mountains and forests within two days, and promise not to let go of a single soldier of the Date army." ”

"The 30,000 men of the Date army have been surrounded on three sides by our army in the mountains and forests, and the mountains to the west are mostly steep cliffs, and as the commander of the Assam Army has said, now we need to send only one army of troops to annihilate the Date army in one day. ”

"Anton Jun, with 120,000 elite troops who have been recuperating for a long time, it is a battle without suspense to annihilate 30,000 tired divisions that have been cut off from food and grass, and the key to the problem is how we can exchange the minimum casualties for the greatest results. ”

Assam and Valk, who were born from the barbarians, were both fierce generals who were brave and resourceful, so they had no other expression on their faces than dazed after hearing Yubu Weixin's words.

Unlike Anton Ietada, who was also the Four Heavenly Kings of Tachibana with Yubu Yushin, he frowned, and after a moment of silence, he said: "If we have enough time, we only need to besiege it with heavy troops to force the Date army, which has run out of ammunition and food, but ......"

Seeing that Anton Jiazhong hesitated, Yu Bu Weixin said directly: "Anton Jun, even if we don't have enough time, it may not be able to force the Date Army, which has run out of ammunition and food, after all, they don't know that we will rush to the front battlefield in four days." ”

"That's just as well. Anton Jiazhong nodded and agreed: "As long as we put on the appearance of only besieging and not attacking, supplemented by some targeted coercion and temptation strategies, there is still the possibility of forcing the Date army to surrender within two days, but we must also be prepared for failure." ”

"It does take two days to march from here to Gaoshui Temple Castle and Bian Shi Imperial Palace, but one day is enough time for us to march at full speed. Yubu Weixin explained: "So, if the forced surrender plan fails, we still have one day to attack. ”

"Okay, then we'll give it a try in two days!" Anton Jiazhong, who had made up his mind, turned to Assam and Valk and asked, "Two legion commanders, do you have any objections to the forced surrender plan?"

"But according to the general's orders!" After expressing his obedience in unison, Assam once again took the initiative to ask for battle: "Two generals, if you fail to force the Date army in the mountains and forests in the past two days, can you hand it over to the soldiers of our Second Essini Army on the third day?"

This time, without waiting for Bu Weixin to respond, Valk, who was also belligerent on the side, stood up impatiently and asked: "Two generals, the combat strength of our Lucy soldiers is no worse than that of the Esini soldiers, and I hope that the general will give us the opportunity to make meritorious contributions to the third Lucy Legion!"

"Haha, the two legion commanders don't get impatient. After a smiling Yubu Weixin and Anton Jiazhong glanced at each other, Anton Jiazhong said: "In the next two days, whichever of your legions performs well will be attacked on the third day!"

"No!" Assam and Valk, who did not belong to a kingdom, glanced at each other with a warlike look in their eyes and turned away without admitting defeat.

After the plan for the forced surrender was determined, Bu Weixin and Anton Jiazhong discussed the specific battle plan and the combat missions of each corps; among them, the 2nd Essini Regiment of Assam and the 3rd Lucy Regiment of Valk undertook most of the combat missions.

For the whole morning, Assam's regiment and Valk's regiment were making various preparations, and when noon approached, the six thousand iron artillery men of the Second Banner Regiment were immediately mobilized at the command of Anton Jiazhong.

Under the leadership of their respective captains, the iron artillery and gunners came to a place only 50 meters away from the mountain forest and lined up in a row; 6,000 iron artillery and gunmen were far from enough to encircle the entire mountain forest, but under the one-on-one protection of the 2,400 young sword warriors and 3,600 monks of the First Banner Regiment, the iron artillery gunners were able to surround the mountains and forests evenly.

The Date scouts, who were hiding in the mountains and forests, discovered all this as early as the iron cannon gunners had just started to act, and Goto Nobuyasu and Katakura Kojuro, who mistakenly thought that the Yanhuang family's army was about to attack, could only prepare to defend the mountains and forests as much as possible.

The mountains and forests with dense trees and birds and beasts can not only weaken the numerical advantage of the Yan and Huang army to the greatest extent, but also cut off the food and grass for the Date army

Provide food to sustain their survival, and Goto Nobuyasu and Katakura Kojuro, who plan to fight to the death, will not easily abandon and take the initiative.

About half of the soldiers of the Date Army, who were mobilized by Goto Nobuyasu and Katakura Kojuro, were held in the front line near the outskirts of the mountains and forests under the leadership of Goto Nobuyasu, and the remaining half remained in the depths of the mountains and forests under the leadership of Katakura Kojuro to prepare for reinforcements of Goto Nobuyasu at any time.

Although the iron cannon in the hands of the iron cannon gunners is one of the hot weapons that crosses the era, its actual lethality and range are very limited, and the use of iron cannons is quite restrictive, and the main long-range troops in Rome are still stronger longbowmen.

Putting aside the disparity in combat power between the iron gunners and the longbowmen, it is impossible for the two battlefield veterans, Yubu Weixin and Andong Jiazhong, to use long-range troops as the spearhead of the attack in the attack, even if these iron gunners are guarded by young sword warriors and monks.

PS: It's still been a trifl lately, but the normal update resumes from today!