Chapter 770: I'll Eat First

In the original history, when Ishida Mitsunari ordered the attack, the Yoshikawa Hiroshi family was unmoved, and Mori Hidemoto watched from the wall, and even with the Ankokuji Huiqiong, Nagashu Masake, Nagamune and other people who were originally going to attack, they did not dare to fight, for fear that Yoshikawa Hiroya and Mori Hidemoto would take the opportunity to attack their rear, they urged repeatedly, but Mori Hidemoto said that he had decided to participate in the war, but he should always have a full meal before the war, so this meal was eaten until the victory was announced. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

But now Mori Hidemoto can still take care of eating? He replaced Maori Huiyuan in North Korea but attacked everywhere, the name of the Maori family may have long been firmly in the hearts of the Ming army, if the Western army is defeated, how can the Ming generals on the opposite side spare him? So at the beginning, he cooperated with Kobayakawa Hideaki and began to attack the flank of the Eastern Army.

Yoshikawa Hiroya also went to Korea, he saw the wolf smoke rising from Ishida Mitsunari, and immediately led his subordinates and samurai regiments to rush down from the mountain, and launched an attack on Tokugawa Ieyasu's eastern army.

On the side of the Western Army, even Ishida Sansei personally put on the battle to fight, and the Eastern Army Tokugawa Ieyasu also sent his own men and horses to press the bottom of the box, and he now regrets letting Tokugawa Hidetada's 38,000 army drag behind, without this army, the Eastern Army, which has lost its geographical advantage, has begun to gradually gain the upper hand.

Those Kansai daimyo who had been to Korea knew that if they lost this battle, they would probably not be punished too harshly as long as they surrendered like the previous civil war, so they put them to death and came back to life, wanting to break the illusions of the Ming generals with a victory, and then exchange the money they took from the daimyo of the Eastern Army for the mercy of the Ming Kingdom; For the time being, these people put aside all kinds of grievances in the past and united to attack the Eastern Army.

Although the Eastern Army is in a disadvantageous position in terms of terrain, they also have an advantage, that is, almost none of the major names of the Kwantung have participated in the war in Korea, and their elite troops have been preserved, and their combat effectiveness is not comparable to the mixed formation of new and old soldiers in the Western Army, so although they are at a disadvantage, they still try their best to resist the enemy while looking for a suitable opportunity to counterattack.

Li You took out the "Eagle Eye" skill at this time to observe the flaws of the two armies, but his purpose was not to help Tokugawa Ieyasu win quickly, but to use the two servant armies of Zong Yoshitomo and Shimazu Yoshihiro to continue to maintain the stalemate of the war, if the Western Army attacked the weakness of the Eastern Army, Zong Yoshitomo and Shimazu Yoshihiro would send troops to stop them and keep the Eastern Army's formation intact; If the generals of the Eastern Army discovered the flaws of the Western Army and launched an attack, they would immediately attack together as friendly troops, but on the route of the attack, these friendly troops would be taken to the remote side, so that the Eastern Army would also not be able to break the flaws of the Western Army.

Nearly 200,000 people on both sides combined fought in Guanyuan, shouting and killing, gunshots, and wails were mixed together, which frightened the birds and beasts in the surrounding mountains and forests to flee one after another, but Li You still led the Zheng family army leisurely and leisurely to watch these soldiers of the Japanese Kingdom continue to fall to the ground, what is more pleasant than killing the enemy without having to do it yourself?

"My lord, I'm afraid Tokugawa Ieyasu is struggling? Let the last general lead people to rush and kill for a while, right? Deputy General Chen Silkworm still didn't understand Li You's intentions, and he took the initiative to ask for battle.

"Didn't Tokugawa Ieyasu's men have any sinners who had ever been to Korea?" Li You stretched out his hand and pointed ahead, where Fukushima Masanori and Uta Kihideya were fighting fiercely, "These two were both army commanders when the Japanese invaded Korea, and now they each lead an army to fight and shock, anyway, they are all sinners that my Ming will definitely punish, so why bother to interfere with them, or wait for the victory to be divided and then clean up the mess!" Only then did the generals of the Ming army understand what Li You meant.

As the battle progressed, both the Western Army and the Eastern Army suffered heavy casualties, and by the afternoon, another weakness of the Western Army was exposed, that is, their actual commander-in-chief, Ishida Mitsunari, had too little experience in war, and the nominal general of the Western Army was Mori Hidemoto, but the military command was from Ishida Mitsunari.

Ishida Mitsunari is a small surname who followed Toyotomi Hideyoshi to serve and live, and in the early years, he has been following Toyotomi Hideyoshi to serve and take care of him, and then although he participated in the battle of Yamazaki, the Battle of Shidake and other battles, but he served as a surveillance and other auxiliary work, and there was not much opportunity to lead the army to kill, he was mostly a civilian official under Toyotomi Hideyoshi rather than as a military general, which was also an important reason for his discord with the martial arts faction.

On the other hand, Tokugawa Ieyasu has been fighting on the battlefield since following Oda Nobunaga, and the rich experience he has accumulated has gradually stabilized the situation on the battlefield with this advantage, but the continuous damage of the Tokugawa family's descendants also really distressed him, according to his judgment, even if this battle can be won in the end, he may not have much left of his men, even if there is a Tokugawa Hidetada army left behind, he can't control the entire Wa Kingdom.

Faced with such a situation, Tokugawa Ieyasu set his sights on the Ming army, which still did not participate in the war, and he called his cronies, "You go to General Ming and ask General Chen to send troops to help!" Remember, it is a request, not an order, and you must not offend the general. He didn't dare to give Li You an order, if it wasn't for the fact that he couldn't get away from commanding the battle, Tokugawa Ieyasu would even go and ask Li You himself.

The cronies took the order and went to pay homage to Li Youma, and then put his head on the ground, and respectfully relayed the meaning of Tokugawa Ieyasu, to which Li You agreed without hesitation, "Since this official has formed an alliance with Lord Tokugawa, then it is a matter of course to go to war, but the soldiers have been waiting here for a long time, and they have not yet eaten, if they rush to battle, I am afraid that they will not be strong, and after I have eaten, I will immediately launch a general attack and take down the head of Ishida Mitsunari!" ”

Well, Maori Xiuyuan's method is very useful, and I will use it too; Now that the soldiers on both sides have not died, Li You feels that it is a little early to go to war at this time, so he plans to delay it for a while.

So the soldiers of the Zheng family army immediately got busy, digging earth and stoves on the battlefield, lighting fires and boiling water, and they were very busy, and the envoy of Tokugawa Ieyasu was anxious in his eyes, and now countless Tokugawa soldiers died every quarter of an hour, and the only hope was to eat! However, he did not dare to advise again, so he could only join the team of his men to make a fire and cook, hoping that this would save a little time.