Chapter 773: A Crushing Victory

This battle is about to be won, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who has come to the front of the battlefield, thought, but looking at the corpses of the East and West armies that are entangled in every corner of Sekigahara, and listening to the news that so-and-so Daimyo and So-and-so General died on the battlefield, there is no joy of victory on his face, how much better can such a tragic victory be than defeat?

However, the current situation does not allow him to be too sentimental, and it is precisely because the losses of the Tokugawa army in this battle are so great that it is necessary to seize this opportunity to drive out the western army, if they are allowed to escape, and when they catch their breath and gather together again, whether Tokugawa Ieyasu can still gather enough troops to deal with them is still two words, and the 38,000 people left by Tokugawa Hidetada's side alone may not be enough. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

This is like two samurai who are already covered in injuries, and no one dares to guarantee that they will recover before their opponents, so while they still have a breath, they can still hold a katana, and simply kill their opponents completely, so as to ensure that they will not be killed by their opponents; Therefore, after the Western Army began to retreat, Tokugawa Ieyasu not only did not withdraw his troops and declare victory, but personally led the remaining Eastern Army in pursuit.

At this time, it was getting late, the sun had set, and they only relied on the light of the moon and torches to pursue the enemy, which gave Li You more room to operate, and under the cover of the night, Li You's army launched an attack on the surrounding Japanese invaders regardless of whether they were the eastern army or the western army, as long as they appeared on their left and right, they immediately started to kill; Even if he was discovered by the enemy, he was not afraid, but when it was dawn, he told Tokugawa Ieyasu that the dress of their Japanese army was too similar, and it was not clear at all in the night, so he was injured by mistake, and Tokugawa Ieyasu did not dare to pursue it.

Li You is not a straight line tail pursuit, he usually leads the cavalry in a circle first, crosses an arc to stop them in front of the pursuers, and then rushes back to let these western troops and the pursuing eastern army fight, the desperate western army has to desperately resist the attack of the eastern army, and the scene of the two armies dying together constantly appears on the battlefield, and the casualties of the eastern army and the western army in the process of pursuit have increased again and again.

As for the Zheng Jiajun, because Li You has the bonus of the "Eagle Eye" skill, even in the dark of night, he is well aware of the changes in the battle situation, he commands the Zheng Jiajun to wander in the gap between the two sides, and rarely fights hard battles with the enemy, usually grabs some small armies that are left behind, and chases them fiercely, so they have more results, but the losses are the least.

Ishida Mitsunari unexpectedly launched a counterattack in the process of fleeing, and he ordered his generals to suddenly turn around and launch a decisive attack on Tokugawa Ieyasu's main camp, trying to reverse the current situation by killing Tokugawa Ieyasu like the "Sixth Day Demon King" Oda Nobunaga in a barrel sama surprise attack and killing Tokugawa Ieyasu in the same way that he killed Imagawa Yoshimoto.

At the beginning, this hand did hit Tokugawa Ieyasu by surprise, they even killed Tokugawa Ieyasu twenty steps in front of him, but unfortunately the last twenty steps became a moat, even if they lived their lives, it was difficult to move forward, just when Ishida Mitsunari and others were on the verge of despair, the Tokugawa army in front suddenly became chaotic, I don't know who fired the iron cannon hit Tokugawa Ieyasu's chest, Tokugawa Ieyasu fell off the horse.

"Tokugawa Ieyasu is dead! Tokugawa Ieyasu is dead! Ishida Mitsunari immediately shouted when he saw this, and then he personally waved his sword and rushed forward, wanting to take advantage of this opportunity to cut off Tokugawa Ieyasu's head, and the panicked Tokugawa army went back to look for Tokugawa Ieyasu's figure for a while, and was caught off guard by Ishida Mitsunari to Tokugawa Ieyasu.

But Ishida Mitsunari had fewer men and horses after all, and they were quickly stopped by the Tokugawa army that reacted, and lost the opportunity to kill Tokugawa Ieyasu, but Ishida Mitsunari had already taken this opportunity to see the blood stains coming out of Tokugawa Ieyasu's chest, and it seemed that this shot hit Tokugawa Ieyasu's vital point, so his heart rekindled hope, as long as Tokugawa Ieyasu died, then he still had a chance, and when he escaped from Sekigahara to reintegrate his forces, he would not be able to compete with the Tokugawa army in the future.

But who was the one who shot just now? Looking at it, there were indeed many soldiers armed with iron cannons around him, and they also fired projectiles at the Tokugawa army, but why didn't anyone come out to claim their credit? Could it be that he died at the hands of the Tokugawa army? With such doubts, Ishida Mitsunari fled quickly, and when he came to a safe place to ask his subordinates, everyone was vague, and they never found out who the person who shot him; This has also become a major mystery in later studies of the Battle of Sekigahara, and historians have given many theories, but none of them have been unanimously agreed upon.

In the depths of the jungle, Li You dropped an iron cannon that he had snatched from the Japanese Invaders, and who could kill Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was closely guarded by his guards, in the dark night? You must know that the skill of "shooting tigers" is not only used in bows and arrows; Now that the Eastern Army and the Western Army have won and lost, it would be harmful to his plan to keep Tokugawa Ieyasu, so he has been hiding beside Tokugawa Ieyasu, looking for a suitable opportunity, and Ishida Mitsunari's decisive charge finally allowed him to find a gap to shoot.

Li You then commanded the Zheng family army to begin the pursuit of Ishida Mitsunari, saying that it was a pursuit, but in fact it was an escort, the Zheng family army separated the enraged Tokugawa retainers, so that they could not pursue and kill Ishida Mitsunari, and escorted him smoothly to a safe place, and then turned back to kill the rest of the soldiers.

After this war, the Kansai Daimyo suffered an unprecedented heavy blow and was greatly weakened, so it was necessary to keep Ishida Mitsunari to continue to gather their remnants and reunite the Kansai Daimyo together, so as to continue to maintain the situation of the Wa Kingdom classification, as long as Li You could obtain greater benefits.

As the night passed, when the sun rose again, the Battle of Sekigahara was over, and the Western Army had 100,040 soldiers on the battlefield, more than 56,000 casualties, and many other famous daimyo such as Ukita Hideya and Kobayakawa Hideaki were killed in the battle, and the rest fled in all directions, and Ishida Mitsunari recollected less than 30,000 troops in the future.

As for the Eastern Army, although they won, they didn't get much bargain, they put into the battlefield a total of more than 108,000 soldiers, nearly 50,000 battle losses, nearly 10,000 missing, Fukushima Masanori, Honda Tadakatsu and other famous generals died on the battlefield, Ii Naomasa and others were seriously injured and did not wake up, and what was even more fatal was that Tokugawa Ieyasu, the pillar of the Eastern Army, was shot in his body.