Chapter 1145: The Daimyo of the Eastern Kingdom is Coming!
The 50,000 men of the Chuwu Army and the 200,000 men of the Fubo Army were stationed in the eastern hills, and were attacked by the Eastern Army of the Eastern Daimyo of the Eastern Kingdom, and Uesugi Kenshin, the dragon of Echigo, personally supervised the battle.
Uesugi Kenshin, with the support of the military generals of Echigo Province, unfurled the battle flag, and the battle was proud.
Kenshin Uesugi is the embodiment of Bishamonten, and has the SSS-class trait "Bishamonten" that makes the Legion fanatical, similar to Joan of Arc's SSS-class trait "Joan of Arc", which can greatly increase the morale of the Legion and enter a state of fanaticism.
"After 20 years of fighting, this is a strong enemy that I have never seen in my life."
Uesugi Kenshin couldn't help but sigh when he saw that more than 200,000 Xia troops were defending the eastern hills, building simple earthen ramparts, wooden fences, and erecting antlers.
In the battle of Iwaya Castle, Uesugi Kenshin reluctantly joined forces with Oda Nobunaga, and failed to completely annihilate the Leyi army.
The daimyo still didn't dare to go all out.
The pressure on the Xia army is increasing, the war is becoming more and more tragic, and the various daimyo are involved in the war, and the cooperation is becoming more and more tacit.
"If you want to die and you fight, you will live, and if you want to live and fight, you will die." I don't have much time, will you fight with me? β
Uesugi Kenshin's face turned pale and he looked at his retainers.
"We are willing to follow the lord and defeat the strong enemy!"
The morale of the Echigo Regiment, inspired by the head of the family, Uesugi Kenshin, was high.
"The dragon of Echigo is dying, and he will attack at all costs."
The old turtle Tokugawa Ieyasu elected Uesugi Kenshin as the chief general of the Eastern Army, deliberately depleting the Xia Army and the Echigo Army.
The ability of a person who has a will to die to explode before death is quite terrifying.
Tokugawa Ieyasu's Mikawa samurai array, blessed by Tokugawa Ieyasu's "Mikawa Soul", increased its defense.
Tokugawa Ieyasu belongs to the "auxiliary attack" and "defense" types of military generals.
Naomasa Ii, the "red ghost" of the Four Heavenly Kings of Tokugawa, led the Ii Red Reserve and served as the main cavalry force of the Mikawa Army.
The Takeda family and the Sanada family also dispatched their own red reserves!
Toei Warring States, Takeda, Ii, Sanada, all three branches of Akabi are assembled!
That's why Oda Nobunaga saw the Daimyo of the Eastern Kingdom as a force to break the deadlock.
The five great names of Uesugi Kennobu, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Takeda Tadayoshi, Hojo Clanmasa, and Sanada Masayuki besieged the 200,000 Fuba army.
Zhou Yu, Lu Xun, Lu Meng, Chen Lan, and Zheng Zhilong, the five generals of the naval division, were watching the military strength of the four daimyos.
The Uesugi army did its best and sent 100,000 troops.
The Tokugawa army sent 50,000 troops, the Takeda army sent 70,000 troops, and the Hojo army sent 80,000 troops, and the Sanada family, due to the extremely small territory and the losses in the battle of Iwaya Castle, only 3,000 troops remained, and they were already one of the weakest daimyo.
However, the Sanada family is attached to the Takeda family, and Sanada Masayuki and Sanada Yukimura are both famous generals.
The five daimyo sent a total of 300,000 troops, 100,000 more than Zhou Yu and Lu Xun's troops.
"According to the information provided by the scouts we deployed on the four islands of Toei, the Takeda, Tokugawa, and Sanada families in Toei each have a red reserve. There may only be a few hundred people left in the Akabi of the Sanada family, and the Akabi of the Takeda family and the Tokugawa family who are really capable of fighting are still there. Also, watch out for Tadashi Takeda's 'Wind Forest Volcano'. β
Zhou Yu could already see the Chibei cavalry among the five daimyos, and it was also a cavalry with few combat effectiveness in Dongying.
Zhou Yu's ability will decline in field battles, which is not as good as water warfare.
Zhou Yu and Lu Xun have to face the player Daimyo Takeda Tadayoshi who has the characteristics of Sun Wu and Takeda Shingen's "Wind Forest Volcano".
Takeda Shingen has "Wind Forest Volcano", while Uesugi Kenshin has the trait "Bishamonten", and the two of them are already the ceiling of the famous generals of Toei.
There are hundreds of SSS-level characteristics in the Eastern Han District, and Dongying District is equivalent to a state in the Eastern Han District, and there are still SSS-level characteristics, but there are far fewer than that.
Zhou Yu and Lu Xun have a "burning red cliff" and a "burning company camp", which are also extremely destructive SSS-level characteristics, and have the same uses as "Fenglin Volcano" and "Bishamentian".
Zhou Yu observed the military situation of the five Daimyo of the Eastern Kingdom, and said to Lu Xun: "The Daimyo who besieged us may be the bravest of the four Daimyo of Dongying, and only by using the Divine Fire Meter can the situation be broken. β
Lu Xun nodded.
Most of the famous generals of the Great Xia Dynasty who were good at land warfare went to participate in the Western Expedition, and Zhou Yu, Lu Xun, LΓΌ Meng, and Chen Lan also had to go ashore to fight with the Dongying Daimyo.
"His Royal Highness the Prince's side seems to be besieged by a lot of troops, I don't know if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can hold on."
The camp where Chuwu was stationed was besieged by a coalition of daimyo from the East Kingdom, including the Date family, the Mogami family, the Satake family, the Nanbu family, and the Andong family.
Yoshishige Satake sent 35,000 troops, Date Masamune sent 30,000 troops, Mogami Yoshimitsu sent 25,000 troops, and Minami Harumasa sent 15,000 troops...... Some of the smallest daimyo sent 1,000 or 2,000 troops.
More than 20 big names and small names have just pieced together 200,000 coalition troops.
Yoshishige Satake, Date Masamune, and Yoshimitsu Mogami, the three families combined with 90,000 troops, accounting for almost half of the coalition army, so the three of them have the absolute right to speak.
The Warring States of Dongying, like the troubled times of ancient China, is the same as who has the big fist and who has the final say.
As for the emperor, it's just a mascot.
This time, Date Masamune and other daimyo once again besieged Chuwu's legions with 200,000 troops.
The population of the four islands of Dongying is also tens of millions, and the local battles are carried out, and the various daimyo are fully conscripted.
Before the teleportation array was opened, the Japanese army, which mobilized the power of the whole country, gained a superiority in strength on Kyushu Island.
There are several teleportation arrays on Kyushu Island, and the Xia army only has one teleportation array on Hirado Island, and they still need to take a warship from Hirado Island to Hakata Bay, and before Fukuoka Castle is upgraded to Oshiro, the follow-up force supply speed is too slow.
The powerful Eastern Army became the hope of Oda Nobunaga.
Date Masamune looked at the earthen fortress defended by Chu Wu with one eye: "The defense line temporarily built by the Xia army is even more rudimentary than the Yuankou defense line, and it should only be used to block our advance before Fukuoka Castle was upgraded to a large city, and it will be demolished after the battle...... We are fully capable of overcoming the earth barriers. β
The four most powerful daimyos, Takeda, Uesugi, Hojo, and Tokugawa, tried to encircle and annihilate Zhou Yu and Lu Xun's army.
The weaker other Eastern Daimyo formed a coalition army to besiege the smaller Chuwu Legion.
Date Masamune did not know that he was fighting Chu Wu again.
His task was to lead more than 20 Eastern Kingdom daimyo to break through Chu Wu's main formation.
In the battle of the Yuankou fortifications, the Japanese army was on the defensive, while Iwaya Castle and Fukuoka Castle were battled, and Oda Nobunaga gambled on the national fortune and attacked with all his might.
"I wonder who the Lord on the other side will be?"
Date Masamune looked at the opponent's Xia army's defensive line.
While Date Masamune was watching the Xia army formation, Chu Wu was also watching the Japanese army formation.
"Do you have the confidence to defeat the enemy's forces?"
Chu Wu pointed to the military strength of Date Masamune and other daimyos of the Eastern Kingdom.
This was already the third joint battle between the Xia army and the Japanese army, and Chu Wu was no longer so strange to his opponent, so he asked Su Lie's opinion.
At present, Chu Wu's strength includes 50,000 low-level troops, 2,000 low-level heavy cavalry, and two or three thousand high-level troops who survived the battle of Iwaya City.
Su Lie replied: "The last general has never fought with the Japanese army, and it is difficult to say that it can be defeated, but the last general will definitely go all out." β
Zhuge Liang said on the side: "We have stone barriers, wooden fences, and antlers, although they are only low-level troops, they can hold on. In the battle of Iwaya Castle, presumably the opponent's high-level troops also suffered a lot of losses, as long as they were on guard against the samurai. β
"That's true."
The high-ranking troops on Chu Wu's side suffered heavy losses, and Date Masamune's cavalry iron artillery team also suffered many losses.
Except for the most powerful Dongkoku Daimyo who have special troops, the only high-level troops in the other weak Dongkoku Daimyo may only be samurai.
High-level samurai plus low-level Ashigaru pikemen and ashigaru archery are the most common lineups of Toei daimyos.
The Red Reserve Cavalry and the Mounted Iron Artillery Corps are rare special troops.
The proportion of samurai is much less than the number of ashigaru.
The 200,000 Eastern Army formed dozens of military formations, and the daimyo including Date Masamune, Satake Yoshishige, and Mogami Yoshimitsu gathered in the middle on horseback and disputed who would organize the first offensive.
There is no doubt that the first daimyo, who attacked the Xia army's earthen fortresses, will suffer heavy losses.
At this time, the defects of the shogunate system appeared, and the daimyo were reluctant to take the lead, after all, it was their own retainers who were lost.
"Divided into three attack teams and one reserve team, we take turns to attack, and once we lose one-tenth of our troops, we will replace them with another team of soldiers and horses, how about it?"
"Who is in reserve?"
"As the daimyo of the reserve team, if the Xia army goes out to chase and kill, even if the whole army is annihilated, it is no less important to block the Xia army, and the heavy responsibility is no less than that of the attack team."
"Yes."
The daimyo of the eastern kingdom agreed to Date Masamune's proposal.
The 200,000 Eastern Army was divided into four teams, and Date Masamune led an attack team and took the lead in launching the offensive.
Date Masamune had 30,000 soldiers and horses, and several other daimyo put together 20,000 soldiers and horses, combined 50,000 troops, and pressed the Xia army's earthen fortresses.
"Attack with all your troops!"
The "Chaotic Dragon Flag" of the Echigo Army was raised, and the 100,000 Echigo Army attacked Zhou Yu and Lu Xun's defense line in a big way!
Uesugi Kenshin personally supervises the army!
Tokugawa Ieyasu, Hojo Masasa, Sanada Masayuki, and Takeda Tadayoshi served as follow-up offensive forces.
Sanada Yukimura, the first soldier of the Warring States period, was holding a cross gun, and the Sanada Red Reserve, who was only a few hundred people left, held the banner of six mons.
Tokugawa Ieyasu squinted.
This may be the last glory of the Echigo Corps.
If Uesugi Kenshin could achieve military exploits, his prestige in the four islands of Toei would have been even greater.
Zhou Yu and Lu Xun saw the black-pressed Echigo legion dispatching, and they waved the command flag, and the fire arrow team was ready behind the earthen ramparts and wooden fences.
Zheng Zhilong took the soldiers of the Zheng family sailors to fight ashore, which is equivalent to commanding more than 80 generals.
Chen Lan's Daming Lingnan Naval Division, equipped with firearms, had a decrease in combat power after coming ashore, but it could still deal with the iron artillery team of the Eastern Daimyo.
The ashigaru of the Uesugi army held wooden planks and bamboo bundles, pushed the carts, and advanced towards the defense line of Zhou Yu and Lu Xun.
"Volley!"
Zhou Yu gave the order to shoot, and the longbow in the hands of the fire arrow team flexed, pointing straight ahead, and a thousand fire arrows shot out, weaving into a rain of fire, and then fell, inserted into the wooden shield and bamboo bundle of the Uesugi army!
Zhou Yu and Lu Xun's fire attack bonuses caused many bamboo bundles to be ignited, and Ashigaru, who was hiding behind, had to give up the burning bamboo bundles.
The Ashigaru longbowmen of the Echigo Legion also released their bows and arrows at the same time, and the rain of arrows fell like locusts on the earthen ramparts and wooden fences built by the Xia army!