Chapter 100: The Might of the Ming Iron Horse

Hosokawa Katsumoto quickly determined one thing, that is, if he wants to have a say with Daming, he must show his strength today.

This battle must be won, and it will be a big victory.

The best devastating victory.

This can prove Japan's strength and have the right to speak in front of the Ming Dynasty.

Hosokawa Katsumoto carefully observes the battle situation. The decision was made immediately.

He decided to copy the two breads, you hit you.

The Ming army cut into the western army and seemed to be coming straight to Hosokawa Katsumoto's main formation, but it also revealed their biggest shortcoming, that is, the lack of manpower.

The Ming army has maintained the current front and has used its strength to the limit.

Hosokawa Katsumoto wanted to open another front and attack the Ming army's camp from both sides, so as to force the Ming army to retreat, and if the Ming army did not retreat, he would surround the Ming army on Sekigahara, but trap the Ming army.

Only such a victory can deter the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming army was annihilated by 30,000 people at one time, and if it could really be done, it would indeed make the Ming Dynasty angry. Hosokawa Katsumoto's train of thought was not wrong.

But he overestimated himself and the generals under his command.

As soon as Hosokawa Katsumoto gave the order, the western army began to adjust, some troops had to get out of the way, some had to advance, and some had to retreat.

After all, Sekigahara is not too big, mobilizing hundreds of thousands of troops, intensive operations, if there is no order, it is impossible to imagine.

It's just that military command requires experience.

Hosokawa Katsumoto moved like this, and Yang Zhen saw the problem at a glance.

He came to Wang Ying without saying a word and said, "General, please go to war." ”

Wang Ying said: "Wait. ”

Wang Ying was a little uncertain in the face of Hosokawa Katsumoto's offensive, Hosokawa Katsumoto's intentions, he saw it clearly, what he thought of at the moment was whether he would accept it when he saw it, and if he retreated now. The Western Army suffered a lot of casualties today, and it did not dare to attack, so it was left to fight again tomorrow.

Today's victory is enough to stabilize the hearts of the Eastern Army.

It is possible to increase the troops one after another and confront the Western Army here.

"General, there are already flaws in the Western Army." Yang Zhen turned over and dismounted, and used his sword to draw a diagram of the battle between the two armies on the ground, and then the sword slashed, drawing an arc, straight into the place where Hosokawa Katsumoto was in the main formation.

When Wang Ying looked at it, his heart moved, and then he looked at the current Western Army and suddenly saw a problem.

This time the Western Army moved, revealing a passage that could go straight to Hosokawa Katsumoto's main formation.

In fact, it's no wonder that Hosokawa Katsumoto.

After all, commanding an army of more than 100,000 people, this ability is not available to everyone. Looking at the Ming Dynasty, let Zhu Qizhen rest assured that there were no more than ten generals who commanded an army of more than 100,000 troops.

The battles that Hosokawa Katsumoto has fought are more offensive and defensive with thousands of people, and they are active

Shake one or two thousand people is too much.

In the battle of Kyoto, although both sides mobilized more than 100,000 troops, no more than 100,000 actually fought each other, and Hosokawa Katsumoto had no experience in commanding more than 100,000 troops, did Yamana Soquan have it?

Again, no. The two sides are rookies pecking each other.

But although Wang Ying has not commanded, he has seen it. Not to mention, the decisive battle between Daming and Annam, the two sides added up to nearly a million battles, the battle of Langshan, Wang Ying participated in the peripheral battle, and afterwards also studied the battle between Guo Deng and Ruan Chi.

And Yang Zhen is not to mention.

Yang Hong felt that his two sons were not successful, one had died under military law, and the other had mediocre qualifications, and the next generation of the Yang family would count on Yang Xin.

Therefore, after retiring from the cabinet, he was in a state of semi-retirement in the Privy Council, and he gave his grandchildren all his money. To tell the truth, if you really want to say that such an army of hundreds of thousands and a large army fights, Yang Hong is confident that he will be better than Shi Heng and Guo Deng. Unless the British public Zhang Fu rises again from the ground, he will not accept anyone.

Shi Heng is more important about the sense of war, which keenly makes people feel that God appreciates food, and it seems that if he is put to death, he can be reborn. However, although Yang Hong's record is not as good as Shi Heng's, he is more of his own experience from 100 households step by step, and he has a comprehensive grasp of the army.

If there is a metaphor, it is that Shi Heng fights a war, just like Li Bai writes poetry. Can't learn at all. And Yang Hong commanded the operation, but it was more like the Du Gong Department, why is this so, what situation there are several opportunities, and so on.

Although no one learns completely, there is always something to gain.

This is the case with Yang Zhen today.

Although Yang Zhen is young, he can't let him command the large corps to fight, but under the influence of his grandfather, he has a concept in his heart about how to command the large corps to fight.

If Yang Zhen wants to really have the ability to command a large corps to fight, he must have more than ten years of experience, or even a lifetime. For many people, the growth of a person in a certain skill really depends on talent.

But it did not prevent him from using Yang Hong to impart his experience and pick out the details of Hosokawa Katsumoto's mistakes.

Wang Ying pondered for a moment and said, "It's not easy to go here, are you really willing to do this?" ”

Yang Zhen said: "It's better to get a tiger's den, but you can get a tiger." The general didn't think about how the general should deal with himself when the reinforcements arrived? ”

Yes, if the reinforcements from behind arrive, this Zhengdong General Seal is still in Wang Ying's hands.

Wang Ying's heart was horizontal and said: "Okay, I will only give you half an hour, within half an hour, if you can take it, I won't say anything, if you can't take it, I will withdraw the army, what happens to you at that time, I won't care." ”

The withdrawal of troops must have a queen, otherwise it will be a defeat and a solution. And Yang Zhen rushed straight to Hosokawa Shengyuan's main formation, even if he couldn't succeed, he would be trapped in the rear of the Western Army, and Wang Ying could only give up at that time.

Yang Zhen said: "The last general understands. ”

Yang Zhen was born in the door and is a young talent. Naturally, there was a temperament of a newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers, and without saying a word, he returned to his own formation and rushed out with five thousand light horses.

In fact, fundamentally speaking, the flaws exposed by Hosokawa Katsumoto are not big.

Even this flaw Hosokawa Katsumoto has been considered.

But he didn't think about two things.

The first is the gap left by the Kyogoku family's slow movements. Second, the cavalry of the Ming army was so sharp.

After all, the Japanese had not really seen the power of the Ming cavalry. Everything before was in the imagination. I really saw the Ming cavalry on the battlefield. Hosokawa Katsumoto knew that the combat effectiveness of the Ming cavalry was above their imagination.

It's just that it's too late by this time.

Yang Zhen took the lead and put her personal guards at the forefront.

Among these guards, many of them are old men who have followed Yang Hong. It can be said that it is the heritage of Changguo Gong. After all, he is Yang Hong's grandson, and when he goes to the battlefield, how can Yang Hong not make some arrangements.

These hundreds of cavalry can be said to be the elite of the elite of the Ming Dynasty. Even if you meet the tile spur cavalry in its heyday, you will only know who wins and who loses.

At this moment, facing the military formation of the Western Army.

There was no fear at all, relying on the armor on his body and the armor on his horse, he slammed into the military formation of the Western Army, only to stop the sound of countless collapses, and most of the bamboo spears used by Ashigaru broke one after another. The Ming army went straight into the formation.

As soon as the long knife was crossed, countless blood spurted out.

But between breaths, it broke for a while.

The flaw pointed out by Yang Zhen is not that there is really no one to guard it, but that it is either behind the flank or on the side, in short, it is not in the center of gravity of each army. In addition, there is a disconnect between each other.

Therefore, every army formation was hit by the Ming cavalry, and the instinctive reaction was to retreat.

After all, each family's army is Daming's own, and it is his own people who die.

But they withdrew. But Hosokawa Katsumoto was exposed.

Hosokawa Katsumoto saw danger when the Ming cavalry rushed over. Immediately gave an order to prepare for adjustments, but his order was simply too late.

Almost before the order was given, the army that received the order was crushed or withdrawn from its original position.

Hosokawa Katsumoto almost watched Yang Zhen's department mixed with billowing wolf smoke and rushed towards him. Yang Zhen used his actions to prove what it means to be a soldier and a general.

For a time, more than 100,000 Western troops were stunned. Even a few generals in the Eastern Army never thought of this.

Several people looked at each other. I don't know who said: "Is this the power of the Heavenly Empire?" No one answered them, and this scene was imprinted on their hearts, and they did not dare to have a trace of resentment towards Daming for the rest of their lives.