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Nasuno (around Nasu County, Tochigi Prefecture), on top of a boulder.

Li Yan and Yuzao were using a clairvoyant mirror to watch the layout of the Japanese army.

Previously, the Liangshan Army and the Japanese army had fought two battles in Nasuno.

The first battle.

At that time, the Right Route Army had just arrived in Nasuno, and the 150,000 reinforcements sent by Li Yan were still on the way.

At that time, the Right Route Army had only more than 50,000 horses - the Right Route Army originally had 150,000 or 60,000 horses. It can kill 10,000 enemies and lose 3,000 itself, and the right army fought all the way, in fact, it also killed and wounded 30,000 or 40,000 horses. In addition to the dead and wounded, the Right Route Army also divided many soldiers and horses to clean up the remnants of the land and local armed forces (more than 30,000 horses were left in Kyushu alone, and 20,000 or 30,000 horses were left in Chugoku and Shikoku. ）

At the request of the lord of Nasino, Sudo Kashimoru Sadanobu, Emperor Shirakawa and Emperor Toba prepared to take advantage of the unstable foothold of the Right Army to defeat the Right Army and gain bargaining chips.

Therefore, Emperor Shirakawa and Emperor Toba ordered the formation of a crusade army, appointing Yoshiaki Miura, Chiba Sutsune, and Kamisaki Suketsutsune as generals, and Onmyoji Abe Yasusu as a military advisor, sending an army of 135,000 samurai and monks to Nasuno against Nasuno.

At that time, although there were only more than 50,000 horses in the Right Route Army, most of them were horse troops, and there were also ace horse armies such as the First Battalion, Tiefutu, and the Kidnapping Left and Right Army.

On the Japanese side, although the main forces dispatched were also the main forces, these main forces had been defeated by the Right Route Army several times before, and then the reserves that were replenished had already greatly reduced their combat effectiveness.

Speaking of which, some people may ask, how many troops does Japan have, and how can it get a million men?

In fact, the samurai in various parts of Japan were only 300,000 or 400,000 combined, and the reason why he was able to produce a million troops was mainly because Emperor Shirakawa gathered monks and soldiers and organized various localities to recruit men under the age of 65 to serve as reserves.

In the 7th century, shortly after Buddhism was introduced to Japan (equivalent to the early Tang Dynasty), the emperor of the time decreed a ban on the consumption of cows, horses, dogs, apes, and chickens.

After 200 years of repeated emphasis, by the Heian period after the ninth century, Japan's ministers and nobles had developed the habit of basically refraining from eating meat.

During the reign of Emperor Shirakawa, he felt that it was not enough to be pious not to eat meat, and issued a strengthened decree to further prohibit the consumption of fish, shrimp and shellfish, that is, not to eat anything but vegetarian food!

Compared to Emperor Baihe, even Emperor Wu of Liang (the first emperor to establish the precept that monks should not eat meat) who died because of his worship of Buddhism is not pious, because Emperor Wu of Liang only made the monks vegetarian, while Emperor Baihe got the level of vegetarianism for the whole people......

The reason why Emperor Shirakawa was so devout was not only because he believed in Buddhism, but also because Buddhism in Japan achieved the status of the state religion after the ninth century, and Buddhist temples were everywhere, and temples not only represented a huge economic, political and military power, but even achieved absolute dominance, and it was with the support of these temples that Emperor Shirakawa became the supreme ruler of Japan, and ruled for decades.

All in all, in Japan in this era, there were more than 100,000 or even more than 200,000 monks and soldiers.

Moreover, the monks of some sects attacked the monasteries of other sects and looted them, so the monks had become indistinguishable from the militants of the secular feudal lords.

In addition, Japan had a population of nearly 10 million at this time.

In terms of population alone, Japan is among the best in the world.

Therefore, it is normal for the total number of reserves in various localities to be hundreds of thousands.

But—

Although the Japanese army has a lot of troops, the quality of the soldiers is far from good, not to mention those temporarily recruited reserves, even those monks, the combat power is very limited.

The Japanese samurai were a little better, but because of the physical fitness, the degree of tacit cooperation, the gap in equipment, the degree of sophistication in tactics, the spirit of daring to fight, and so on, three Japanese samurai could barely tie with a Liangshan sergeant.

Therefore, although the strength of the army was less than half of the Japanese army, Yue Fei still decisively fought a decisive battle with the Japanese army.

In the end, the 135,000 Japanese army was defeated without suspense.

In that battle, the 135,000 Japanese army only fled back less than 20,000, and the blood of the Japanese samurai and monks dyed the boulder under the feet of Li Yan and Tamamo red.

The second battle.

Soon, Emperor Shirakawa and Emperor Toba organized another 300,000 samurai and monks, and went to ask for help from eminent monks and masters from all over the country.

At that time, only the 30,000 Xuanfeng army led by Wang Yan arrived in Nasuno among the reinforcements sent by Li Yan.

70,000 Liangshan troops against 300,000 Japanese troops.

Relying on advanced weapons and advanced tactics such as thunder carts, conscienceless cannons, bed crossbows, thunderbolts, divine arm bows, elite horse troops, etc., after a hard battle, the Liangshan army once again routed the Japanese army south, killing and wounding more than 100,000 Japanese samurai and monks, while the rest of the Japanese samurai and monks fled back to.

Now this is the third and final battle.

If the Liangshan army wins this battle, then Li Yan can include Japan in the territory of Shuibo Liangshan, and then get eight large counties, the strategic depth will be greatly improved, and he will also have a stable rear, and then get the strength to sweep the world, and Japan will become history completely, and all those ministers and nobles in Japan will become prisoners and let Li Yan slaughter.

And if the Japanese army wins this battle, then the Japanese army is bound to take advantage of the situation to drive the Liangshan army out of China and Shikoku, and then defend it according to Zhoufang, Nagato Tianwei and Shikoku Island, in that case, Japan will be able to keep the region, the Chinese region, and the Shikoku region, and then keep the vitality of Japan, and keep the extravagant life of the Japanese ministers and nobles, and they may be able to recapture Japan in the future, and Li Yan's territory in Japan will be divided into two parts, north and south, and there is a hidden danger of being invaded.

Therefore, this battle was a crucial battle for both Shuibo Liangshan and Japan.

Therefore, whether it is Shuibo Liangshan or Japan, they are all going all out.

Shuibo Liangshan aspect.

Li Yan and Yuzao's former relatives led 120,000 reinforcements to the battlefield and participated in this battle, and the Liangshan army dispatched a total of 190,000 troops to fight the Japanese army to the death.

On the Japanese side.

Emperor Shirakawa and Emperor Toba transferred all the Japanese samurai, monks and reserves guarding the three passes, with a total strength of 500,000, and the ancestors and grandsons of Emperor Shirakawa and Emperor Toba also drove the expedition - in fact, only Emperor Shirakawa was recruited, and the reason why Emperor Toba also came was because Emperor Shirakawa was afraid that Emperor Toba would take away his right to rule after he left, so he forced Emperor Toba to come over.

Both sides started setting up three days ago, and now they are all ready.

The Great War is imminent!

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