Chapter 1105: Uehara Toda's carelessness
To say that the treatment of the five-star army is very good in peacetime, when there is no war, the wine and meat have not been broken. But the significance of this celebration banquet is different, this is the sixth young master's permission, which proves the special importance of the first cavalry division in the world.
"We have to perform well next, and next time we can't let the first cavalry division of the world be beautiful." Su He, the commander of the New Third Army, called several division commanders under him and said with a high morale.
"Yes, as long as we are willing to work hard, the next celebration will definitely be our New Third Army." Several division commanders said in unison.
The same scene happened in other troops, and even the 4th and 7th Lu Divisions that followed were also not exempt.
Leng Feng represents the most elite existence, but since the emergence of the first cavalry division in the world, I don't know how much limelight has been stolen. For this matter, the commanders of the Leng Fourth Division and the Leng Seventh Division were also very depressed, and they also secretly decided that they would definitely have a better performance in the next battle, and they wanted to prove to the world that Leng Feng was still Leng Feng, and it was still the most powerful synonymous existence.
The morale, equipment, and combat effectiveness of an army are the criteria for comprehensively judging whether the army is strong or not.
It is the people who will be able to think of their own, and how to unify the thinking of these people and bring into play their multiplied power is something that commanders should consider. And once the command is good, it is likely that 10,000 people will exert 20,000 or even stronger combat power. On the other hand, if the command is not good and the people are confused, the 10,000 people may not be able to exert even half of their combat strength.
A permitted celebration banquet ignited the fighting spirit of all troops, which was the embodiment of Yang Chendong's command talent. In particular, Temur received the first Medal of Bravery, which greatly stimulated the others.
Temur used to be a Manchu, and he was a Han Chinese who was promoted to join because of his outstanding performance. He received the first Warrior Medal, which will be more representative, showing the Sixth Young Master's thoughts and views on everyone equally, and at the same time inspiring more people, they believe that as long as they don't look at their background, they will also have better performance and get more honors after hard work.
The appearance of the celebration banquet and the Medal of Warrior had already excited the soldiers of the Five-Star Army stationed in Heiankyo, and they were now eager to go to the battlefield to fight, and they needed an opportunity and platform to perform better.
Yang Chendong didn't seem to care about all this, at this moment he was accompanying Princess Junko in the palace of Heianjing.
When I came back here, the environment hadn't changed much, but the company around me had indeed changed. The father and mother are gone, and the only person Chunzi can rely on in the future is her husband Yang Chendong.
In a long corridor in the palace, Junko Bird leaned on Yang Chendong's arms like a human, and his eyes were looking at Mount Fuji not far away, also known as Cherry Blossom Mountain.
"Wang, you will always accompany Junko until you are old, right?"
"Yes."
"King, you will never abandon Junzi and dislike Junko, will you?"
"Yes."
"Wang, even if Junko is old and no longer young and beautiful, you still like Junko, right?"
"Yes."
"Wang ......"
"Yes."
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Uehara Toda, who was heading from San'in Province to Hokuriku Province, learned that the Five Star Army had captured Heian-kyo.
"So fast." When he got the news, Uehara Toda was resting in a temporary tent, and then a look of horror appeared on his face.
He thought that with the strength of the five-star army, it would only be a matter of time to capture Heiankyo, which was only 30,000 people guarded, but he really didn't think that it would be so fast, and it would only take less than two days from the attack to the end, and the seemingly well-defended Japanese Kingdom Kyoto would fall?
I don't know if I should feel the incompetence of the general's subordinates, or if the five-star army is too powerful. But no matter what the result is, Uehara Toda knows that he should speed up, he wants to take advantage of the time when the general is heavily damaged, he wants to let others know that not only can the five-star army fight, but he is also very good at fighting.
"Tell me to go down, the whole army should not rest, immediately speed up the march, rush to Echizen County earlier, and stab Ashikaga Yoshimasa's ass." Uehara Toda was stimulated and finally decided to speed up the march, but he was in a hurry to make meritorious contributions, not knowing that there was a large ambush circle waiting for him in front of him.
The Wakasa area, Tango-gun, which is adjacent to San'in and Michi, is the gateway to Hokuriku Province.
Uehara Toda suddenly appeared with 70,000 soldiers, seemingly by surprise, and after resisting for a while, the Shogun's army began to retreat, ceding the entire Wakasa area, and allowing Uehara Toda to win the first battle.
Uehara Toda, who won the first battle, quickly swelled up and continued to send troops towards Echizen-gun, in his opinion, when the general of this meeting should be fighting Hiraida with all his might, he could not spare more energy to deal with himself, then this was his chance.
Echizen-gun, one of the major prefectures of Hokuriku Province, where Mori Masanori and 100,000 Japanese troops had been waiting for the arrival of Uehara Toda.
In order to be able to attract this opponent to appear faster, the Japanese army in the Wakasa area took the initiative to retreat, and all this was also an order of the Maori Regularity, in order to make the other side have a proud and arrogant mentality, and then when the other party was most proud and the defense was the most lax, he gave a heavy blow, proving to the Japanese people that the army of the Great Shogun was still the most capable of fighting.
The Ozhi River is the burial place where Mori Masanori prepared the bones of Uehara Toda's 70,000 troops.
It is a river that is brought inland by seawater. At first, it was used for irrigation of farmland, but after the passage of time, it became a large river with a width of 17 or 8 feet, winding along the side of the road, like a long dragon entrenched in this area.
Setting the attack site here, Mori Masanori also carefully considered, relying on the river, once the fight starts, the existence of Ozhiwa becomes an excellent cover location, allowing him to carry out all kinds of attacks as he wants.
The Great Branch River is blocked by a dense forest, and it is precisely because of this wooded area that soil erosion is prevented, and the river continues to expand.
After the general gave him the task, Mori Masanori began to prepare. First of all, he arranged for people to step up the supervision of the construction of catapults. You don't need to attack too far, as long as you can hit forty zhang away, that is, one hundred
Twenty meters away, at that time he was confident that the opponent could only defend and not attack.
The requirements are not high, and it has the full support of the general, and it is built in the dense forest, and the materials can be taken nearby, and the three hundred small catapults were quickly built, and after experiments, it was determined that it could be hit to 50 zhang to 100 zhang full circumference, and the gross profit was already very satisfied.
There were 10,000 troops left in the dense forest, and an average of more than 30 people left in front of each catapult was enough. With the rest of the army of 90,000 Maori, he came to the other side of the Great Branch, and hid five miles away in the uneven terrain. Now all he had to do was wait, waiting for the fish to take the bait.
Ignorant of all this, Uehara Toda, who was eager to prove himself, just arranged for some scouts to fight in front of him, and quickly came all the way to Echizen County. When the scouts passed by the side of the Great Tributary, they did not make any more stops, because this kind of river with wide water was the safest, and it was impossible for anyone to use such terrain to do an ambush, but everyone ignored the dense forest behind the river.
Six days after he was ready, Uehara Toda appeared, and with it appeared a mighty army of 70,000 men, walking on the official road, and from a distance, there was no end. But for many, this will be the last time they will walk on this land, for it won't be long before they will see Hades and become a body without a body, or even a pile of bones without a soul.
Perhaps he was naïve to destroy Uehara Toda, and I don't know what he had to think, but in the afternoon, this man actually ordered the army to stop camping and stop at the edge of the Oji River. Perhaps he thought that resting by the river would be safe and solve the problem of water for the army.
Mori Masanori, who was already ready to attack, almost jumped up in excitement when he heard the news. In the end, he suppressed the excitement, and he decided to change the time of the battle, waiting until the opponent's military tent was set up, and waiting for the opponent's army to eat, and then launch a fierce blow, I am afraid that he will get the best reward.
After more than an hour, the sky gradually got dark, and the smell of food wafted from the large camps by the river. It was at this time that countless boulders suddenly fell from the sky, and some of them threw catapults into the gunpowder made by the Ming Dynasty, and for a time it was like heavy rain falling from the sky, falling into the army of Uehara Toda, and the army of 70,000 people was dizzy.
The sudden attack, whether gunpowder or boulders, mostly fell next to the military tent, and some of them fell very accurately in the military tent, and I don't know how many people were killed on the spot. Uehara Toda, who was lucky not to be hit in this scene, was scared and terrified at the same time.
He didn't expect that the general would send someone to stop him early on, and he thought that his actions were unaware. But at this moment, he didn't have time to think about why the news leaked, why the army that was obviously a great general was defeated again and again, and why he had prepared an ambush in advance and organized this unexpected counterattack. All he was thinking about now was how to fight back and hold his ground.
On Yang Chendong's order, the secret letter written by Dao Xiao forced Ning Kitahide to finally work, giving Ashikaga Yoshimasa more time to react, which led to the current catastrophe of Uehara Toda.