When Mao Jue came out of the battle, it was still the spring snow dissipated, the cherry blossoms were blooming, half a year had passed, and now it was a scorching summer, a hundred flowers were contending, and the confrontation in Osaka Castle lasted for almost a month, until the army of Changzong and Suke was less than a week away from Kyoto, and in the last three days of June, the shogunate army couldn't help it.

Early in the morning, when the morning mist from the Seto Inland Sea still filled Edo Castle, the entire castle was already shaken by the loud military horns, and the unwilling souls of the ox in the horns seemed to be still immersed in it, and the slightly sad horn echoed endlessly, which made people's hearts deep and solemn.

With the howl, and the sound of dense footsteps, fluttering and fluttering, dense and heavy, the dense fog was suddenly torn apart, and the dense military array was revealed at once, on this planet, there is really no greater and more cruel creature than human beings, can organize such a scale and such a number of cannibalism, 300,000 troops, immobile as a mountain, moving like a black cloud to crush the city.

It's just that the war is not achieved overnight, after all, in front of the two armies, there is still a Kizu River, and no matter how strong the manpower is, it is impossible to run into the water to fight.

It is estimated that yesterday's shouting to fight the vanguard of the daimyo was a little regretful, although a little disapproving, but on the array, under the intervention of a few stable old ministers of Aoyama Kosei, it was still arranged into a perfect array, the former army Uesugi was determined to win 15,000 troops, Ii Masando 8,000 troops, Date Tadadamune 25,000 troops, Wasuka Zhisho Shikoku Army 13,000 troops, as well as the Tokugawa family family daimyo and Mito Matsudaira Matsudaira 30,000 troops and other more than 90,000 troops formed the vanguard army, firmly putting the Chinese army main team, Tokugawa Iemitsu's 30,000 banner main team as the back.

Before they faced the Western Army, they had to face the raging Mujin River in the summer, and the half-crossing attack was not only particular about China, but also about the Japanese State, and if they wanted to attack it, they had to face the stubborn sniper attack of the Western Army guarding the river on the opposite side, and they had to suffer heavy casualties first.

This head of the flag warrior howled and carried the bamboo row to the river, in the front were three iron gunners, the Wa country did not have a shield, so they made hands and feet on the bamboo row, and inserted two rows of thick protruding bamboos in front, as for whether it could resist the intensive shooting of the Dongjiang musket, it is unknown.

The main formation of the Chinese army, a tall round three-leaf sunflower cloth curtain hung in the air, underneath the cow helmet, long horned helmet, ghost helmet, a group of flag warriors do not know how to fight, but the momentum of the teeth is out, but it is guarded in the middle, the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu is always a little wilted, his chubby hand, constantly playing with a heavy piece of silver, fiddling for a long time, and suddenly angrily slammed the silver to the ground.

"What does he mean by Dongjiang Mao Jue, despising General Ben so much, and rewarding my messenger with a hundred taels of silver?"

The general was angry there, but the general bannermen were speechless, what should they say? Is it true that people show this contempt? Most of the shogunate was a group of samurai with a single brain, and unlike those civil officials in the Central Plains, they were clever and could say that what was black was white, but they could only stare dryly.

Or say that you have to have ink in your stomach to be an official! In a trance, the language was organized, Inaba Masakatsu waited for half a minute, and finally slowly spoke, intending to analyze the situation and morale of the general, and talk about how arrogant Mao Jue was, bringing about his own destruction, and giving his general relief.

But at this moment, a violent bangzi sound actually sounded violently, and the Western Army, which had gathered on the other side of the Mujin River, made a sharp turn, pulling a cannon cart and carrying a flag, and actually turned around and withdrew.

was also surprised by this tactical move, his eyes were rounded for a while, and this Inaba Masakatsu suddenly slapped his thigh excitedly.

"His Royal Highness the General, the one surnamed Mao is self-defeating!"

"Has His Royal Highness the General ever heard of the Battle of the Rivers? In the history of the Central Plains, there was a Yidi who led an army of 980,000 to attack the Central Plains Dynasty, and it was also on the side of a river that met with the 80,000 troops of the Central Plains Dynasty.

It's really a typical Japanese allusion, pointing to the retreating Mao Juejun, this Inaba is dancing and humming.

"The Western Army was originally unkind, such a retreat, the formation will definitely collapse, and our army's morale is booming, and it is a battle against the water, today, it is the blessing of Amaterasu, so that the general can break the enemy in one battle!"

This remark was really uplifting, and even the wilting Tokugawa Iemitsu seemed to be a little interested, squinted his eyes a few times, and then waved his hand violently.

"The whole army crosses the river and attacks!"

"Hello!"

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Without obstruction, the speed of crossing the river was obviously much faster, thousands of bamboo rows swayed back and forth, and the five daimyo of more than 90,000 troops in the front line crossed to the other side of the river almost a time minister, followed by the left and right armies, which said that the western army would be in a big formation, but in the process of crossing the river, it was the shogunate army that was really in a big formation, and the people were 1440,000 troops neatly looking at it at a distance of two and a half miles.

What is strange is that this Mao Jue did not give the order to attack halfway while the shogunate army's formation was messy.

In this hustle and bustle, a morning passed, fortunately there were smart people, and finally connected a few pontoon bridges with bamboo rows, and the army crossed the river faster, or not in the afternoon, 300,000 troops may not be able to cross, and the last to go ashore is Tokugawa Iemitsu's Mikawa Banner team, to be honest, it is said that it is a general, but the Tokugawa family has not been in good health in the past dynasties, this Tokugawa Iemitsu is similar to the Wanli Emperor, the body is fat and sickly, walking so many steps are a little breathing, and his Chinese army was all abandoned under the Osaka Castle, Looking at the big cylinder that was also discarded on the bank of the river because of its heaviness, and some of the war horses that had not had time to cross the river, the general snorted a little angrily.

The larger the legion, the easier it is to be confused, not to mention that the daimyo are not like the Northern Song Dynasty Forbidden Army, which has been practicing the formation for a long time, and it took more than half an hour to sort out the formation with negligent cooperation, and then the morning Wanquan Great Array was restored.

Who knows, this kung fu, beating gongs and drums, the Western Army, retreated again!

If this tactical move is placed in front of the Houjin Jurchens, it is definitely looking for death, and the Emperor Taiji was so happy that he ordered the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry to kick your ass and cut off your head from behind, but for the bulky Japanese army, you can only be angry and stare at you, in the shouting of Matsudaira Tadaaki, Bee Suga Zhizheng and other big names in a hurry, trying to maintain the formation, the mighty Japanese army is also walking to follow.

I really didn't want to fight, it was a bit like an armed parade, one after the other, more than 450,000 troops stared at the chrysanthemums and formed a formation in the plains near Osaka.

This retreat is another ten miles, plus the distance that was originally ceded to the Eastern Army, and the Rinmu Tsugawa River and Osaka Castle, the base camp of the shogunate, are already seventeen or eighteen miles away.

Unconsciously, Matsudaira Nobutsuna's hard-won choice of battlefield fell into the hands of Mao Jue again.

At about two o'clock in the afternoon, the retreating Western Army finally stopped, and the major names of the Eastern Army obviously felt deceived.

Further back is the mountain, next to the Changwei Mountain, Mao Jue has already ordered to build a few fortifications here, a few breastworks more than half a person high, hundreds of forts raised by the earthen ramparts, watching the Western Army enter the position in an orderly manner, and behind him, behind the empty plain is the river, and everyone has an urge to scold their mother.

But there is a good saying, the arrow has to be sent on the string! With the deployment of the Western Army, the shogunate army also began its final adjustments.

At this time, Mao Jue was really a little unimaged, with a grass root in his mouth, one foot still stepping on his heavy six-pounder field gun, looking like a fool, looking at the opposite side of the red ghost well Yi Tonghong put out an attack formation, Mao Jue disdainfully spit out the straw stick.

"Hey, let's get the horses here!"

Almost at the same time, the opposite Jing Yi Masadi put on his blood-red, two half-meter-long cockroach whiskers and went straight to the sky, and immediately slapped the horse's buttocks......

(End of chapter)