Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Battle of Sekigahara

"It's a good place to fight for land." Wang Ying led a large group of men and horses into the east of Guanyuan. He climbed high and looked into the distance, looking at the flags in the distance, each of which represented an army of great names.

But the flag that Wang Ying saw the most was the Hosokawa cherry blossom flag.

It occupies almost half of the total strength of the Western Army, and it is still in the key places.

It existed as the backbone and main force of the Western Army.

The so-called land struggle is a strategic place, and I will benefit from it, and Peter's will also benefit.

This small plain, standing on a high place, can almost see the movement of the entire plain, but in general, there are three places to see, and you can enter and exit.

One on the east side and two on the west side.

The Western Army could not only be used as a logistics base for attacking the Kanto region. It can also prevent the key points of the eastern army's westward advance.

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"Uncle, how should this battle be fought?" Ashikaga Yoshimasa saw the other party's banners all over the mountains at this moment, and his heart was moved for a while, and he even called Wang Ying differently.

Wang Ying said: "Set up camp on the spot and wait for the Western army to attack." ”

The reason why Wang Ying dared to be so sure was calculated from the consumption of both sides.

The Eastern Army stationed in the area around Sekigahara, including the Ming Army, did not exceed 50,000. They are all elite warriors selected by Wang Ying. But the Western Army was several times larger than the Eastern Army.

It's too much to consume each other.

It stands to reason that the Western Army occupies the Gyeonggi Plain, the richest area in Japan, and is much better than the Eastern Army.

However, I don't know that in the first half of this year, hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides were on the Gyeonggi Plain, and you and I fought a fierce battle for three months, and if we count the state of confrontation from last year to the present, the time will be even longer.

The Gyeonggi Plain, Japan's richest region, is in ruins.

There is simply no way to raise an army.

Not to mention an army of hundreds of thousands.

And the burden of the Eastern Army is not light, but with Wang Ying's guarantee, the Sibo family can take out all their savings and support tens of thousands of troops for a period of time.

As for longer.

Don't forget what Wang Ying came from.

He made achievements in the post of chief military officer of the sea, which was favored by Zhu Qizhen. For transporting grain by sea, it is his profession, Japan is short of grain, but the Ming Dynasty is not short of grain.

There is no need to worry about this.

Just as Wang Ying judged. However, on the second day, the Hosokawa army came out of the camp and lined up, slowly approaching the east.

Wang Ying originally wanted to wait for the Western Army to attack.

But soon, he saw quite a few things. He hesitated for a moment in his heart, made up his mind, and said, "Order, the army will go to battle." ”

What did Wang Ying see?

I saw that the equipment of the Japanese Western Army was backward, the organization was also backward, and it was very chaotic in all aspects.

The western army slowly advanced eastward, not because they intended it. It has to be. Otherwise not

I can move forward.

Wang Ying only understood one thing at this time.

From the tens of thousands of people in the Eastern Army, he only picked out about 20,000 troops, which could be seen. Even these people are not all he has seen, but the 30,000 Ming troops have to be used for combat, and some of the logistical burdens still have to be done by the Japanese.

If he really wants to select 10,000 people according to the standards of the Ming Dynasty, it would be good.

At that time, he only felt that the Eastern Army was the general of the defeated army, and the elite were all gone. Now it seems that this is not the case, perhaps the elite of the Eastern Army has indeed been wiped out a lot.

But another reason is that Japan is not much elite in Wang Ying's eyes.

And the organization of the Japanese army is not good.

Even the Hosokawa family's own army is divided into this daimyo and that daimyo. Although Hosokawa Katsumoto is the head of the Hosokawa family, the leader of the Western Army Alliance.

But he can't just meddle in the internal affairs of a certain daimyo.

As a result, the Japanese army was uneven and the command procedures were not too smooth.

What's more.

The Japanese did not join the current wave of popularization of firearms.

The reason why Annan fought with the Ming Dynasty for so long was because the Annan people did not have the number of firearms, and they even surpassed the Ming in some firearms.

But this is not the case in Japan.

He didn't see how many firearms there were in the Japanese army. But according to the constitution of the Ming army, almost every battalion head has a third, or even more, of firearms.

Wang Ying sniffed the opportunity for victory from every angle.

Although the Western Army was superior in numbers, it occupied an absolute advantage. But a lot of the time, the number doesn't make a difference.

Although Wang Ying made up his mind, he did not defend the camp and waited for him to counterattack when he was tired. But he also left one hand, that is, he left Yang Zhen's cavalry at the end as a reserve.

Or wait for the final blow, and come to the final word. Or you can't do anything else, and use it for the queen of the palace.

The Ming army went out much faster than the Western army.

In a moment, in the middle of the camp gate, a rolling red wave rushed out, and in a short time, five phalanxes were listed in the east of Sekigahara.

Without waiting for the Western Army to react, Wang Ying gave an order, and the middle phalanx strode forward, and the phalanxes on both sides, after protecting this phalanx, formed an arrow offensive.

Hosokawa Katsumoto was a little dumbfounded.

He never expected that the Ming army would move so quickly.

It was launched later than the Western Army, but it was arrayed before the Western Army, attacking with less to more.

This fully shows that the combat effectiveness of the Ming army is several grades higher than that of the Japanese army.

"Fortunately, the Ming army only has 30,000." Hosokawa Katsumoto said secretly in his heart. He looked at the main camp of the Western Army, that is, the main camp of Hosokawa Nariyuki.

Hosokawa Chengyuki, a veteran of the Hosokawa family, is considered Hosokawa Katsumoto's uncle, and he can't be calmer, and his subordinates are again

The old team of the Hosokawa family can be said to have experienced a hundred battles.

I think I will definitely be able to resist the attack of the Ming army.

The battalion officer who rushed to the front was Sun Hong.

He is regarded as the son of Sun Bo.

Sun Bo also has a Huai Ningbo because of his previous military exploits. After 14 years of orthodoxy, Jing Nanxun and his family were all suppressed. But on the whole, there are still people in the Jing Nanxun lineage. The veteran Liu Pu, as well as Sun Bo, Zhu Yi, Zhu Yong, and Zhang Mao who is beside the prince.

It can be said that the hundred-legged insect is dead but not stiff.

Sun Hongneng can hold this official position, although he is very capable of fighting, he is now in his forties, and he can be said to be a middle-aged general in the prime of life. He is also one of the people who escaped death from the battle of Maoerzhuang.

is also because of the background behind him, it can be said that if it were not for the background behind him, he would never have been able to recruit one of the several battalion officers of the Eastern Army.

Riding on a horse at this moment, the Ming army stepped on this drum like a wall, and he didn't have to worry about the side, Wang Ying was all arranged, but in front of him was the Japanese Western Army layer after layer of troops.

Sun Hong sneered lightly and said, "Native chicken tile dog." ”

To be honest, even if you don't use firearms, the Ming infantry and the human infantry are not afraid of who will come? During the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty, there were only a few cavalry, and it was not a sturdy infantry formation, which made the Mongolian cavalry helpless.

In Sun Hong's view, there are too many flaws in the Japanese infantry formation.

Speaking of which, Wang Ying was in the naval division most of the time, and he lacked experience and ability to command the army, even inferior to a middle-level general like Sun Hong.

But Wang Ying can see it, and Sun Hong can see it even more.

He simply regarded the Japanese army as nothing. The army strode forward and entered within a hundred paces of the Japanese formation, and did not stop.

But listening to the Japanese army, a shout, a rain of arrows shot out, and then countless bamboo spears were flattened, these bamboo spears were several meters long, and they looked dense and terrifying.

But this situation made Sun Hong want to laugh a little.

Although the Ming army had a lot of armor, it could not do the armor of the whole army, but all the soldiers who walked in the front were armored.

Japan's arrows are very light and can't be shot through at all, and as for Japan's bamboo guns, Sun Hong sneered at them, where is this a weapon. Can't even find a good wooden pole?

Sun Hong waved his hand lightly, the flag behind him waved, and then the sharp whistle of the hundred households below sounded, the army stopped, and then the flag waved, and the firecrackers in the back ran out in small steps from the gap of the soldiers, and for a time more than a thousand firecrackers were arranged in a thin three-layer in front of the Japanese military formation.

The Japanese generals on the opposite side also knew that it was not good, and at the sound of an order, the Japanese ashigaru men rushed up with bamboo spears several meters long.

They were not far from the Ming army's musketers, but they were only a dozen steps away.

But this is a distance they will never reach.

With a "bang", countless firebolts were fired at the same time.