Chapter 766: Joining the War
"Tokugawa Ieyasu has seen Shogun Kamikoku! Mr. Chen came from afar and worked hard all the way! After a long journey, Li You finally arrived at the battlefield before the decisive battle began, Tokugawa Ieyasu hurriedly led all the daimyo under his command to meet Li You, these daimyo had different expressions, some people looked at the brightly armored elite soldiers under Li You with admiration and fear, and some looked at the Soyoshitomo and Shimazu Yoshihiro who followed Li You with sarcasm and disdain, of course, there were also people whose eyes were full of envy for them, hugging the thigh of the Ming Kingdom, Tsushima and Satsuma Domain, I am afraid that the future life will be better, right?
Of course, there are also people who don't dare to look at Li You with their heads down, most of them are daimyo who participated in the invasion of North Korea, such as Fukushima Masanori, Kuroda Nagamasa and others, their former colleagues Konishi Yukinaga and Fujido Takatora died at the hands of Li You, plus Li You came here in the name of cleaning up Kobayakawa Hideaki and Utaki Hideya and other Western military daimyo who also went to North Korea, how can this not make them worry?
Fortunately, Li You did not pay attention to them, but took his lieutenant general and Zong Yoshitomo, Shimazu Yoshihiro and other men to follow Tokugawa Ieyasu into the barracks, the barracks had already prepared a banquet, Tokugawa Ieyasu welcomed Li You into the head and sat down, raised his glass and kept thanking Li You for his assistance, when he saw the elite army under Li You, Tokugawa Ieyasu became more and more confident in the victory of the battle, and received unplanned assistance of 20,000 people, which is a great thing for the Eastern Army that is currently at a disadvantage. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Tokugawa Ieyasu made a strong promise at the table to let Li You choose the spoils of war first after the war, and Utaki Hideya, Kobayakawa Hideaki and others were also at Li You's disposal, and after telling Li You, he assured Soyoshitomo and Shimazu Yoshihiro that after the war, they would definitely raise their stone height and increase their territory.
No wonder it can become a generation of heroes who ended the troubled times of the Warring States and created the Tokugawa Shogunate, this Tokugawa Ieyasu's kung fu to buy people's hearts is really not simple, for Tokugawa Ieyasu's performance, Li You secretly became vigilant, although from the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate to the end, they have long adopted the strategy of closing the door and closing the country, and rarely harassing the mainland, but this is far worse for Li You than letting the Wa State maintain the situation of war, so that it is convenient for the Ming to seek benefits from it.
After the banquet, Tokugawa Ieyasu ordered the people to remove the banquet, changed the map and began to explain his plan to Li You, he did not dare to instruct Li You to do things, he could only tell his plan first, and then see where the general was interested; According to Tokugawa Ieyasu's plan, because the eastern army was better at field warfare than the western army and did not like siege, he planned to bypass the castle of Daheng garrisoned by Ishida Mitsunari and lead his division to break into Omi, release rumors to attack Sawa Yamashiro, so as to lure Ishida Mitsunari out of the castle for a decisive battle.
In the original history, it was because of this, and because of this, and the situation of his daimyo and Tokugawa Ieyasu's secret passage, that he had to abandon Daheng Castle and choose to go out of the castle for a decisive battle, thus suffering a crushing defeat.
However, Li You didn't want the Western Army to lose so easily, so he chuckled, "It doesn't matter if Mr. Tokugawa's army is not good at attacking cities, the army under my command carries a lot of artillery, which is really the best weapon for attacking cities, so it is better to let Ishida Mitsunari see the power of cannons tomorrow, and then make a decision according to the situation." ”
Tokugawa Ieyasu didn't easily refuse the decision of the general of Shangguo, and secondly, he was not absolutely sure that Ishida Mitsunari would go out of the city to meet the battle according to his own ideas, and thirdly, he wanted to see the strength of the Ming army, all of which he had learned from Fukushima Masanori before, and he didn't have the opportunity to witness it with his own eyes, so after Li You made a suggestion, he hesitated and agreed, "Since this is the case, there is General Lao Shangguo!" Tomorrow I will send the general to meet the enemy. ”
On the second day, Li You took 10,000 soldiers and horses, as well as Zong Yoshitomo, Shimazu Yoshihiro and others to Daheng Castle, and Ishida Mitsunari in the city also took Utaki Hideya, Kobayakawa Hideaki and other daimyo to look at this unique army from afar, Ishida Mitsunari couldn't help but be furious, "This is my domestic business, what is the reason why Tokugawa Ieyasu attracted the army of the Ming Kingdom to help!" ”
And Utaki Hideya and Kobayakawa Hideaki and other daimyo who had participated in the war of invasion of Korea were all panicked, they had already received the news that this Ming army had come for them and wanted to capture them to Ming to face trial, they only thought it was just talk, but now the appearance of Li You has broken their illusions.
It seems that this battle can only be firmly on the side of Ishida Mitsunari, and when he goes back, he burns the letters exchanged with Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Kobayakawa Hideaki, who defected and caused Sekihara to win and reverse, made up his mind, and Li You under the castle made him dare not return to Shun Tokugawa Ieyasu, what if Tokugawa Ieyasu sent him to the general of the Ming Kingdom after the war? Similarly, the rest of the Kansai daimyo who participated in Korea also made the same decision as Kobayakawa Hideaki, only by fighting to the death with Tokugawa Ieyasu and defeating this Ming army can they control their own destiny, and surrendering is only a dead end.
I'm afraid the battle of Sekigahara will be more lively now, right? In the original history, in the decisive battle of 200,000 armies on both sides, the eastern army suffered less than 10,000 casualties, and the western army was only 30,000 more.
"Now that the morale of the enemy army under the city is high, if you don't rush and kill for a while and let them attack the city, I'm afraid it will be difficult?" Kobayakawa Hideaki had seen the power of the Ming army's artillery in Korea, and he really had no confidence in whether Daheng Castle could block the Ming army's artillery fire, and since he had already made up his mind to contribute to the Western Army, he should contribute, he observed the situation and immediately said to Ishida Mitsunari.
"Kobayakawa Kongo Nayan-sama is right." Ishida Mitsunari accepted this suggestion and immediately began to arrange for men to go out of the city to attack, "Shimazuo near and Gamo Cottage, you two will lead a thousand people out of the city to rush and kill for a while." ”
"Hey!" Ishida Mitsunari's generals Shima Left and Gamo Cottage led the order, and soon the city gate opened, and they rushed towards Li You's banner with a group of elite soldiers.
"The mantis arm also wants to be a car?" Li You couldn't help but sneer, this little force was just a death to him, and he was even a little too lazy to do it himself, and set his eyes on Zong Yoshitomo and Shimazu Yoshihiro on the side.
"Mr. Chen, this battle will be handed over to my Shimazu family/Zong family!" Soyoshitomo and Shimazu Yoshihiro also thought that this was a good opportunity to pick up a bargain, so they came out at the same time to ask for their lives, and Li Yu complied with their request, and Soyoshitomo and Shimazu Yoshihiro led their respective samurai to meet the enemy.