According to the report of Tanma, the Japanese cavalry had nearly 50,000, needless to say, it must be the Honshu cavalry of Utsunomiya Sadatsuna. In addition, there were thirty or forty thousand infantry, and one or two hundred thousand unarmored peasant soldiers. A total of 100,000 troops!

"Within a quarter of an hour, line up to meet the enemy according to the pre-arrangement! Who belongs to Kyushu, fight here! Li Luo ordered.

"No!"

"Wow!"

The Lord will receive the command with a thunderous roar. Now, with the smooth progress and rich gains, Li Luo's prestige in the army is overshadowed day by day. Even the Mongol army was not disrespectful.

Soon, the generals left the tent one after another, and each one took his place, and according to the prior arrangement, the army of 90,000 men was lined up in less than a quarter of an hour.

The camping sites Li Luo chose and the military formations arranged were very particular.

The base mountain, where the eastern army is located, is a gentle slope on the plain, slightly higher in the south and slightly lower in the north. The front has a wide field of vision, which is extremely conducive to taking advantage of the situation.

In addition, the Chikugo River, the largest river in Kyushu, flows through it. Li Luo's army was backed by Chikugogawa, and the Japanese army could not take advantage of the numerical advantage of cavalry to copy from the rear, ensuring the stability of the rear road.

This terrain is suitable for both offense and defense, so Li Luo took a fancy to it. On the contrary, the Japanese came from the north, on slightly lower terrain, and it was easy for the cavalry to drain their horsepower when charging.

Here, the positions prescribed by the Japanese army, the two are empty, there is no danger to rely on, and it is difficult to defend the flanks.

As for the military formation, Li Luo chose the formation of the army in the Timurid River, and on the basis of the Timurid military formation, he played a lot of tricks in combination with the actual situation.

Timur's army was the middle army (reserve) in the rear, the heavy infantry mixed corps in the middle, and the light cavalry in the front. On both flanks were mixed regiments of light intellect.

Li Luo also painted the scoop according to the gourd. But there were more ballistae than Timur.

He put the 10,000 Mongol cavalry of Zheza at the forefront, and listed them as the most attacking triangular formation.

10,000 ballistae and more than 10,000 Goryeo archers, placed behind the Mongol cavalry. As a long-range strike workhorse.

The 10,000 heavy infantry of the Jiangnan Army and more than 2,000 Mongolian Goryeo heavy cavalry formed the middle army and placed it in the middle. And the heavy infantry in front and the heavy cavalry in the back, hiding the heavy cavalry.

Then put his own Chinese army (Xiangyong and Haidong infantry) in the last, leaning against the river, the most general reserve. In short, he will not take the lead with his own lineage.

Finally, Hugu's Haidong cavalry was divided into two and mixed with the four pike regiments of the Jiangnan Army to defend the two wings.

In this way, the frontal attack is strong, and the defense on the flanks is also strong.

The 7,000 elite infantry of the Chinese army can support the front and flanks at any time.

Not only that, Li Luo also arranged a lot of bad tricks and confusing tricks.

For example, in order to prevent the Japanese cavalry from attacking the flank, Li Luo hid a lot of traps on the flank in advance. A large number of rejecting horses were also set up on the flanks, but the flanks were widened to hide the rejecting horses in the military formation, and if the Japanese cavalry attacked the flanks, the flank corps would shrink to the middle, revealing a large number of rejecting horses.

When the Japanese cavalry suddenly saw the rejection of the horse, they fell into a dilemma.

There were a lot of Japanese cavalry, but so what? The Japanese cavalry had poor riding and archery skills, and was essentially dragoons or lancers. And it is made up of many small groups of cavalry, and they don't play cavalry group combat at all. Their 50,000 cavalry may not be able to play with 10,000 Mongolian cavalry.

In addition, Li Luo also has great weapons to deal with cavalry: stone cannons, bed crossbows, and divine arm bows.

Therefore, Li Luo has already made arrangements for tactical cooperation and tactical operation in the military meeting. Even the veterans Jiang Jun and Yang Qingque had to admire, although the two were military advisors, they could not point out the shortcomings of Li Luo's combat plan.

The only problem was that the Japanese army did not fight.

If the Japanese army is not willing to use this place as a battlefield, but chooses to retreat, then some of the damage tactics will not be useful.

However, Li Luo estimated that with the national character of the Japanese people, it was impossible to retreat or avoid war when the number of troops was equal. That hurt their morale a lot.

A lot of times, you really can't go back.

Li Luo was dressed in armor and sat in the rear of the army, and the black-tailed Sulu ingot was inserted outside the big tent, which was extremely eye-catching. Inside and outside the tent were three hundred guards. Outside the personal guards, there were 7,000 elites, namely Xiangyong and Tang army infantry, most of whom wore Tang State Xuan armor.

The whole 90,000 troops were silent, listing six large arrays, waving flags, swords and guns, and the military array was vertical and horizontal for two miles, like a city and a forest, and the army was majestic, exuding a monstrous momentum.

Li Luo's position was the highest, and when he saw the huge military array in front of him, his heart was full of pride and enthusiasm.

After two years, he finally realized his dream of carrying an army of 100,000 troops to conquer Japan.

Although it was achieved by various conspiracy means, it was realized after all, didn't it?

The smug emotion, like a fluffy cat's paw, scratched and scratched in Li Luo's heart, and he almost laughed proudly when he scratched it.

At this time, he had already given himself 10,000 likes and 100,000 rewards.

Awesome my brother.

If he wins this battle, he will be able to get Iwami Silver Mountain, a large number of Japanese laborers, a large amount of sulfur and iron, tens of thousands of elite soldiers from Jiangnan, and a higher official position......

If he loses this battle, he will also go back alive and go back to see Cui Xiuning alive.

The surrounding guards, including Yan Falcon, Liu Dadao and others, didn't know what Li Luo was thinking, they only felt that the lord was sitting upright like a clock, his face was as resolute as iron, and he was really a general, so he was not majestic.

"Report! The Japanese army is within ten miles! "Listen to the horse and report again.

Li Luo said lightly: "Yan Falcon, pass on my military order and confuse the enemy!" ”

"No!" Yan Falcon rushed out of the big tent and came to the big drum of the Chinese army, and with a "bang", the 90,000 troops suddenly looked back.

Then, Yan Falcon played a black flag, drew a circle, and danced again.

This is Li Luo's "order to confuse the enemy" arranged in advance, and the black flag is specially used.

When the officers and men of the whole army received the "order to confuse the enemy," the straight soldiers who were originally standing immediately sat and squatted, and there was no strict military appearance at all, even the battle flags of each army were also crooked.

Suddenly, the strict military formation became loose and collapsed, and it lost its previous momentum.

It didn't take long for an endless brigade of people to appear in the north, and from a distance, a sea of flags was spectacular. At the same time, the sound of bells, drums, wooden pipes, conch sounds, xun sounds, and shakuhachi sounds are played together, and they come slowly.

This is a unique marching music of the Japanese army since ancient times, learned from the Tang Dynasty. But now the Central Plains army has long been gone.

The melody of the marching music is tragic and magnificent, containing the idea that the wind is sluggish and the water is cold, and the death is like home. The Japanese have always favored the beauty of pathos, believing that sadness is more powerful than optimism. This is also the reason why the national anthem of the Japanese country in later generations, "Jun's Generation", sounds like a mourning song.

When Li Luo heard the marching music of the Japanese army, he couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

Speaking of which, Japan is really a good student of classical China. Classical China began to break in the Song Dynasty, and in a sense, the Song Dynasty abandoned many classical Chinese traditions and began a complete secularization.

The secularization of the Song Dynasty was the first emancipation of human nature against feudalism, because it was too advanced, the national self-consciousness awakened too early, and there was no corresponding supporting productive forces, so the nose and face were swollen by the surrounding barbarians.

Slowly, the joy of the march gradually subsided, and the Japanese army had stopped three or four miles ahead, and the whole team was formed.

Immediately afterwards, a Japanese soldier wearing a red carcass pill and two flags on his back "envoy", riding a wooden horse, unhurriedly came to the eastern expeditionary army.

The Japanese "envoy" came to the front of the battle and said loudly in stiff Chinese: "Please allow our army to line up, and when it is finished, it will be fought!" ”

After speaking, he turned his horse's head again and rushed back to the Japanese army.

This is also a rule of the Japanese army's warfare, when the two armies meet, send each other to explain, and line up to fight again.

Of course, this is only for a dignified opponent, and if there is an attack or an ambush, of course it will not be done.

Wasn't the Japanese army afraid of a sudden attack by the Eastern Expeditionary Army?

Unafraid.

At a distance of three or four miles, the armor-piercing infantry rushed over, it was a waste of physical strength, and the army formation would be chaotic, and the general would not take it. As for the cavalry, they don't need to be deliberately arrayed, they can directly meet the enemy.

So, it's just a battlefield etiquette.

However, the Eastern Expeditionary Army did not send an envoy to tell the Japanese army that they were allowed to fight in formation.

"Huh... Meng Yuan is barbaric, and he doesn't know how to be polite! The general in the Japanese army's large array, Shao Er, said with disdain, his face turned pale.

In the past few days, he has been extremely tormented, anxious, and hateful.

He was deceived by the damned Yuankou, and even led his troops north to defend Dazaifu, but he didn't want Yuankou to make a false shot.

The Kyushu sailors were lost, the ships were lost, and he became deaf and blind.

As a result, he actually let Motoko sneak into the Ariake Strait and landed directly in the unsuspecting Omuta!

What made him even more angry was that after Yuan Kou landed, he slaughtered three cities in a row and plundered them on a large scale, treating the people of God so brutally and viciously, it was really a great shame!

After learning the news, Shao Er's capital was shocked, originally thought that Yuan Kou would soon come to Dazaifu, and his troops were insufficient, so he arranged the defense of Dazaifu at the first time, and planned to rely on the strong walls of Dazaifu to defend it to the death.

However, after waiting for a few days, Motoko did not arrive, but Hojo Minimasa, who was guarding Hirado, arrived. The two joined forces, the army was greatly boosted, and the subordinates were excited to ask for battle, and Shao Erjing and others decided to go south to block Yuan Kou and fight a decisive battle in the field.

After the death of the sailors, only more than 80,000 Japanese troops remained. Shao Er's capital urgently mobilized more than 10,000 young and strong peasant soldiers in Dazaifu and gathered 100,000 horses, so he was relieved to boldly go south.

His confidence mainly comes from the nearly 50,000 cavalry of Utsunomiya Sadazuna, as well as the most elite 10,000 "horse Huizhong" ironclad soldiers under his command.

The young and experienced Ma Huizhong (Zhongjun), mainly composed of the children of the low-level samurai royal family in Kyushu, everyone is not afraid of death, and it is a trump card in his hand.

And the nearly 50,000 cavalry of Utsunomiya Sadazuna are also several times the number of Yuankou cavalry.

Plus the mourning soldiers will win, what is there to fear!

With such a military situation, how can he defend Dazaifu greedily and fear death, and let Yuan Kou poison Kyushu?

Therefore, it is necessary to decide the winner in this battle!

"Your Excellency General, what do you think of our army's formation?" The Japanese army quickly lined up their military formations, and then asked Hojo Shikichi about the young man.

At this time, the young and second economic resources are also high-spirited and heroic. Who has commanded an army of 100,000 in this kingdom of God from ancient times to the present day, and fought a decisive battle with the enemy of the country?

There is no more, only he has less money. If he wins this battle and saves the country, he may not have a chance to win the shogunate.

Hojo was appointed by the shogunate as the "Great Shogun of Jinsai", nominally the supreme commander of the Japanese army in Kyushu, but in reality, the supreme commander was still the chief general of the Kyushu defense.

Hojo looked at the large array that was two miles wide, and Tie Qing's face finally showed a smile. "Yo Si. Our army is so powerful, Yuan Kou must be vulnerable. Your Excellency, do a good job. Imagining that Yuan Kou would be defeated soon after, his extremely depressed mood in the past few days had finally eased a lot.

When Hojo said this, of course, he had confidence.

The Japanese generals have studied the "Ten Formations of Sun Wu" and the Central Plains Military Formation very deeply, and Shao Er's economic resources are among them.

The array of Shao Er's economic resources is actually a combination of the two formations, which complement each other. Nearly 50,000 cavalry were in front, forming a "chariot hanging array". 50,000 infantry followed, forming a "fish scale formation".

Why set up a "car hanging" specifically for cavalry? Because the car suspension array was originally a cavalry offensive array, the Japanese army had nearly 50,000 cavalry, of course, it had to be specially arrayed.

The weakness of the senior confidant army relative to the Yuan Kou is that he is not good at group combat and pays too much attention to "one horse fight". In addition, the cavalry was gathered from all over the world, so it lacked the ability to fight in groups.

The car suspension formation can allow the cavalry to maintain an equal distance and staggered before and after, which can not only make up for their own shortcomings, but also give full play to the advantages of many cavalry.

The fish scale formation formed by the infantry is also a frontal attack formation, which is also convenient for moving forward to attack. Cooperate with the cavalry in front to the greatest extent.

As for the flanks, the young two are not worried. Because the Japanese infantry were all Kikuchi pikemen, they could effectively resist the Motoko cavalry.

However, both Shoji and Hojo forgot one thing, or they didn't know much about the Mongol cavalry.

The Mongol light cavalry never stormed the pikemen in a well-formed formation, they could only shoot arrows.

That is, the flank, which the Japanese considered safe, was not at all safe under the tactics of the Mongol cavalry.

Shao Erjingzi wore a gorgeous Tang crown, held a military match (general's fan), pointed to the "Yuankou" military formation, and said with a smile: "Yuankou is not sitting, standing is not standing, the military formation is like this, it can be imagined." Barbarians are barbarians after all. ”

Hojo said: "Don't be careless, who knows if Yuankou shows me weakness." ”

When Shao Er heard it, he also felt that it was not impossible.

But what's the use? Although the Japanese generals thought that Yuankou might be showing weakness and confusing the enemy, the 100,000 Japanese soldiers couldn't think of it, they still thought that Yuankou was loosely disciplined, but that's it.

At this time, nearly 50,000 cavalrymen all armed with swords and guns on their horses, all carrying chrysanthemum patterns and leaning on the flag, discharged a two-mile radius of cavalry, and the momentum was incomparably majestic. The one who pressed the formation was none other than the cavalry general Utsunomiya Sadatsuna.

And the fish scale array behind was also slaughtered by the army. It was Otomo Yoritai who pressed the formation.

A tall triangular horse seal (commander's logo) stands in the middle of the army.

All this looks decent, but in fact, Shao Erjing has never had the experience of commanding a 100,000-strong army in a field battle. Not only him, but the entire Japanese country, there is no such person.

So, in fact, he has a lot of problems with formations and tactics. It is not impossible to put tens of thousands of cavalry in front of you to make a thunderous blow, but it also depends on what kind of enemy you are facing.

"Three offerings!" Seeing that it was past noon, Shao Erjing immediately ordered.

Immediately afterwards, the three pairs of boys and girls held the three kinds of food of "beating abalone", "shengli" and "kelp", respectfully offering them to the young man, and then clapped their little hands together and sang with their heads tilted: "Fight, win, come back with joy!" ”

Shao Er's capital symbolically took a bite of everything, and then waved the military equipment (general's fan), and ordered: "The three offerings have been completed, please military advisor!" ”

Then, an old man wearing a high crown and a twenty-eight constellation costume, holding a yin and yang gossip compass, walked to the young man and the horse.

This old man is a military advisor. The military advisers of the Japanese army mainly used pre-war divination and predicted bad luck. The second is to give advice. Of course, the so-called divination is just a formality.

"Your Excellency, when the sun turned westward, our army won a great victory. Yoshiya! The military advisor said after a decent divination.

The surrounding samurai shouted together: "When the sun turns west, our army will win a great victory!" Yoshiya! ”

Then, the voice spread outward, and finally the 100,000 army shouted together, and the sound shook the heavens and the earth, "When the sun is westward, our army will win a great victory, Ji Ye!" ”

It was Li Luo, who couldn't help but be surprised when he saw this scene.

Little Japan, a little famous, Shinto. At least this momentum and fighting spirit is not bad at all, and even very strong.

"General, the formation of the Japanese army is a car suspension formation and a fish scale formation, which should not be underestimated." Jiang Jun said with a slight sadness.

Is the car overhanging? Li Luo didn't know. But with the Mongol cavalry, he didn't feel much of a threat to the Japanese cavalry. The Mongol cavalry won more with fewer on many occasions, that is, cavalry archery and tactical superiority.

Li Luo also gave the order.

"Order, prepare to attack!"

"Knock knock!"

"Woooo

The sound of drums and trumpets in the formations of the two armies sounded at the same time, and the battle was about to break out, and the tense atmosphere suddenly suffocated the whole world.

"Mordoga!" The Mongol cavalry took the lead in the charge, and under the galloping of thousands of horses, it was like rolling thunder.

"Kill the chicken and give it!" Utsunomiya Sadatsuna, the general of the Japanese cavalry, also gave the order for the cavalry to attack.

"Boom!" Nearly 50,000 Japanese cavalry rolled forward in the form of a chariot hanging in formation, leaning on the flag like a cloud, like an angry tide surging, which was extremely spectacular.

However, if someone stands high in the air, they can see that the speed of the Mongolian cavalry is much faster than that of the Japanese cavalry. Moreover, almost every Japanese cavalry was rocking on their horses, while the Mongol cavalry seemed to be on horses.

Perhaps even Kublai Khan could not have imagined that the Japanese army would be able to dispatch tens of thousands of cavalry to engage in a cavalry duel with the Mongol iron cavalry.

The distance between the two armies was less than four miles, and the distance was quickly shortened under the relative charge. The Japanese cavalry in front of them had already raised their swords and spears, ready to show their skills.

Then, when they were only half a mile away from the Mongol cavalry, they suddenly saw the Mongol cavalry shooting arrows one after another, and in an instant, a large dense rain of arrows burst in.

"Yaga! Ride and shoot! ”

The Japanese cavalry at the front, under the dense rain of arrows, suddenly fell off their horses, once someone fell off the horse, it affected the cavalry behind, and the horses with arrows also fell away, and suddenly, the entire Japanese cavalry originally had an indomitable momentum, and it was a setback.

Although there are many cavalry in the Japanese army, there are very few who are good at riding and archery, and even if there is a little, they will never be able to release arrows easily on a high-speed galloping horse like the Mongolian cavalry, which is not a real cavalry archery.

Japanese cavalry, closer to dragoons or mounted infantry. Their cavalry weapons were mainly knives and guns.

Do you think it's easy to ride and shoot? First of all, you must free your hands, control the horse only by your legs and shouting, and you can't hold the reins. The second strength should be large enough, because it is difficult to draw the bow on the horse's back. Third, there must be an accurate head. Fourth, but also the speed of fire. Fifth, you must be able to dodge the opponent's arrows. Sixth, you must also cooperate with your teammates. Seventh, you have to be able to dodge the war horse that has lost its hooves in front of you...

It's definitely a technical job. Without ten or eight years of hard training in cavalry and archery, it would not have reached the level of the Mongol army at all.

As a result, the Japanese cavalry suddenly became passive, and as more and more people fell off their horses in front, the speed of the entire horse team suddenly slowed down, and the formation was a little messy.

Seeing that the cavalry of the two armies was less than 30 zhang, they could engage in battle in a moment, but before the Japanese army had time to rejoice, suddenly the Mongolian cavalry, which had originally rushed over, actually split from it and galloped to the flanks on both sides.

What's even worse is that the Mongol cavalry separated to the left and right sides, avoiding collision while still firing arrows from the left and right, and continuously outputting blows.

The Japanese cavalry again fell from their horses.

In this way, the Mongol cavalry split into two and successfully circled the two flanks of the Japanese cavalry, constantly firing arrows, and shooting them very accurately.

The formation of the Japanese cavalry suddenly became even more messy.

In a short period of time, there were two or three thousand Japanese cavalry casualties. Even more fatally, the Mongol cavalry interrupted the "momentum" of the Japanese cavalry. Once the "momentum" of the cavalry is interrupted, it is dangerous.

At this time, the Japanese cavalry had no Mongolian cavalry in front, and finally rushed to a distance of more than half a mile in front of the infantry formation of the Eastern Army.

However, at this moment, with Zhu Jaw's order, the infantry in front retreated one after another, immediately revealing a dense array of stone cannons and bed crossbows that had long been ready to be fired.

Nani! The Japanese cavalry, who was about to rush over, was immediately shocked when they saw the enemy infantry suddenly retreating, revealing a large number of crossbow machines.

Stone cannons and bed crossbows are both cavalry nemesis.

Careless.

"Put!" Just when the Japanese cavalry was frightened, with a tingling sound, a large number of stones and huge arrows blasted towards the Japanese cavalry rushing densely.

"Boom—"

"Poof......

"Ahh

A rain of blood broke out among the Japanese cavalry, and a large number of Japanese soldiers suddenly turned on their backs, and the entire front line was completely chaotic, with thousands of dead and wounded.

The Mongol cavalry on both wings kept galloping back and forth, shooting a rain of arrows. The huge Japanese cavalry was thinned in circles.

The Japanese cavalry could not counterattack, although there were tens of thousands, but when they approached the large formation of the infantry of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, they were stopped alive.

Li Luo and other generals are also very nervous, the Japanese cavalry has tens of thousands, and the vehicles are hanging in the array, once they really rush to the infantry array, the infantry phalanx of their own army will definitely be chaotic.

Then, even if you can win in the end, the losses will be extremely heavy.

"Put!" After the stone cannons and bed crossbow cavalry fired, more than 10,000 Goryeo archers also began to fire volleys.

"The Divine Arm Bow... Put! "More than a thousand god-armed archers also shot a dense stream of crossbow arrows.

The Goryeo archers on the front, the divine arm archers, and the Mongol cavalry on both flanks all exported feathered arrows to encircle and attack the Japanese cavalry on three sides.

At all times, a large number of Japanese cavalry fell from their horses.

In the end, the short space of a few dozen zhang was like a forbidden area of death, allowing the Japanese cavalry to fall there and be beaten.

"Kill the chicken and give it! Death! Death! Utsunomiya Sadatsuna, the general of the cavalry in the rear, shouted loudly, and ordered the cavalry to rush slowly and re-accelerate the attack in the rain of arrows.

And the war drums of the Japanese army's large array also sounded sharply.

"Seven lives to serve the country! See you at the shrine! "The Japanese cavalry, having lost their horse speed, rushed into a frenzy, completely ignoring the rain of arrows in front and on both sides. After paying a lot of casualties, he finally urged the horse to speed again.

"It's time to move the heavy load!" Li Luo finally lost his composure and stood up suddenly. Although the stone cannons and bed crossbows were very lethal, each reload took time, and the main ones who blocked the Japanese cavalry were the Mongol heavy cavalry.

Although the Japanese cavalry suffered no less than 8,000 casualties, there were still more than 40,000 capable fighters, and once they really rushed to the infantry phalanx of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, the consequences would be unimaginable.

PS: A big war broke out to decide the ownership of Kyushu Island. It's the end of the month, who will support me more, crab crab.

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