"The Heavenly Soldiers of the Kingdom are really mighty and majestic, I can't wait far away!" Although Li You's army didn't do much today, the power of the cannon still greatly deterred the daimyo of the Eastern Army, Li You came to Tokugawa Ieyasu's tent and sat down, and they sent a series of praises, which made Zong Yoshitomo and Shimazu Yoshihiro, who felt that they were in the limelight, extremely depressed, but they didn't dare to have any dissatisfaction, and hurriedly followed the horse. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Although the cannon of the Ming Kingdom is powerful, it is unparalleled in the world, and Hongmaoyi also has such weapons." A Chechitan daimyo said that he had many dealings with missionaries and had heard about these things, and the people could not help but be a little stunned, how could he dare to say such a thing on such an occasion? Aren't you afraid of the wrath of the generals of the Heavenly Empire? didn't wait for everyone to start accusing him of touting Li You's archery skills, "But General Chen's archery skills are rare in ancient and modern times, and when I saw General Chen shoot to death Daozuo Jin and Gamo Cottage, I thought that it was a divine archer like Yang Yuji and Li Guang who had returned to the world!" It seems that this daimyo is quite literate, and he can't help but be familiar with Western things, and he also knows a lot about the history of the Central Plains.

"I'm afraid that even Yang Yuji and Li Guang can't hit at such a distance, right? Looking down, only the mythical Hou Yi and Fei Wei can be compared with General Chen. "This boast is getting more and more boundless.

Hearing this, Li You was a little uncomfortable, and he raised his hand to stop the compliments of these daimyos, "Okay, after today's battle, I think Ishida Sancheng should also understand that this Daheng City will not be able to stop my Ming Dynasty's artillery fire no matter what, and he will definitely command the army out of the city to meet the battle in three days at most, so let's hurry up and discuss how to deal with it!" ”

Tokugawa Ieyasu retreated several times, and finally took over Li You's words and began to assign tasks to the major daimyo of the Eastern Army, who after seeing the power of the Ming army's artillery fire and Li You's arrows, swept away the decadence of the previous few days, and were full of confidence in the victory of this battle, thinking that as long as this Ming army helped, it would be easy to defeat Ishida Mitsunari.

Then Tokugawa Ieyasu came up with his own plan, he considered it more far-reaching than other daimyos, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was certainly good, but it was a little inappropriate to rely on them to win this battle, not to mention that he could not command this army according to his own ideas, even if Li Youken accepted his suggestion to act as a vanguard, he was a little unacceptable; Because if he relied on the combat strength of the Ming army to win, I am afraid that even if he won, few daimyo would be willing to believe him, and he would still have to rely on his own strength to defeat Ishida Mitsunari in order to lay the foundation for their Tokugawa family to replace the Toyotomi family.

The daimyo of the Eastern Army also had no objection to this, and they all accepted Tokugawa Ieyasu's orders to occupy various important positions on the battlefield, because they also wanted to make meritorious contributions in this battle in order to improve their stone height and expand their territory, so Tokugawa Ieyasu quickly arranged a strategy for the battle.

On the other hand, on the side of Ishida Mitsunari, Li You led the Ming army to appear under the city of Daheng, which made the daimyo of the Western Army have different changes, those daimyo who had invaded Korea were afraid that they would be lent to the Ming army after defeat, so they all threw aside the agreement reached earlier with Tokugawa Ieyasu like Kobayakawa Hideaki, and strengthened their minds to resist, while others gradually gave birth to other thoughts out of awe of the Ming Dynasty, and deeply regretted why they had to stand on the side of the Western Army in the first place.

In this regard, Ishida Mitsunari is worried and happy, worried that Li You's appearance has broken the balance on the battlefield, and his western army will face greater pressure, and the good news is that powerful factions such as Kobayakawa Hideaki and Uta Kihideya have expressed their resolute resistance to him, but the current situation does not allow him to think about it too much, only to defeat Tokugawa Ieyasu first, and then find a way to reach an agreement with the generals of the Ming Kingdom! Looking at the previous dealings with those daimyo who had water masters, it seemed that he didn't have any idea about their territory, but just asked for money, and it was a big deal to double it for him in the future.

"Gentlemen, the cannons of the Ming Kingdom are indeed powerful, it seems that we can't hold Daheng City if we want to!" After everyone quieted down, Ishida Mitsunari began to ask their opinions, "Now that I plan to lead my army out of the city and gather all my forces to fight Tokugawa Ieyasu, what do you think?" ”

"This battle should be sooner rather than later, now Tokugawa Hidetada's nearly 40,000 troops are still in Ueda Castle, and it will take a few days to reach Sekigahara, if we don't take advantage of the fact that the eastern army has not yet been assembled to attack, and when Tokugawa Hidetada arrives, our western army will be even more disadvantaged." The experienced Utakihide family took the lead in expressing his attitude that this battle must be fought, and sooner rather than later, and that a decisive battle must be launched as soon as possible by taking advantage of the current superiority in the strength of the Western Army.

Kobayakawa Hideaki, Nagamune and Ibe Munemori. Mori Hidemoto and others expressed their support, and the rest of the weaker daimyo did not dare to object, and they soon unified their opinions and began to formulate a plan for the final battle; According to Ishida Mitsunari's arrangement, the Western Army will take the Nakasendo Road as the center, with Mt. Sasao and Mt. Matsuo as the two wings, with a slight retraction in the middle, spreading left and right, and arranging a formation of crane wings, looking down on the enemy army, and in front of them there is a relatively gentle open field, where the Nakasendo Road connects the Hokkoku Kaido and the Ise Kaido, like a huge crossroads, and Ishida Mitsunari regarded this intersection as the burial place of the Eastern Army.

And Tokugawa Ieyasu also guessed the arrangement of Ishida Mitsunari according to the terrain of Sekigahara and the military configuration of the Western Army, and he made corresponding arrangements, with the fierce general Fukushima Masanori as the vanguard, facing the main camp of the Uta Kihide family, 21,000 people from Tanaka Yoshimasa, Kuroda Nagamasa, Hosokawa Tadashi, Kato Yoshiaki, Tsutsui Seiji and other divisions, lined up in the north of the Fukushima Army, towards Ishida Mitsunari's headquarters, as well as nearly 8,000 people from the three divisions of Kyogoku Kochi, Terasawa Hirotaka, and Fujido Takatora, arranged in the south of the Fukushima Army on the Fujikawa Heights to ensure the safety of the flanks.

Furuta Shigekatsu, Oda Yurakusai, Kanamori Nagakin, Ikoma Ichimasa and other units lined up behind the north side of the array and acted as guerrilla troops; In addition, there were 500 men of Honda Tadakatsu and 6,600 men of Ii Naomasa and Matsudaira Tadayoshi, who were descendants of Tokugawa Ieyasu and were placed here to supervise the efforts of the armies in front of them.

As for the armies of Li You, Yoshitomo So, and Yoshihiro Shimazu, Tokugawa Ieyasu did not dare to arrange it, and after consulting with Li You, he had to let them do their own thing, and when the time came, they decided how to fight according to the changes on the battlefield.

Li You drove Zong Yoshitomo and Shimazu Yoshihiro to the front to serve as cannon fodder, and he himself took more than 10,000 Zheng Jiajun to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and he planned to wait for Ishida Mitsunari and Tokugawa Ieyasu to be defeated before he came forward to reap the final fruits of victory.