Chapter 72: The Decisive Battle
There are two "official roads" leading to other countries in Higashi-Tosa, one is Nishi-Tosa from Suzaki to Kusayi is the Nijo family, the other is from Toyohisa to Tao to the Shirachi Castle of the Miyoshi family Awa Province, there is a mountain road from Kamu Soyu to Kuwan, which is the Kono family's Okuri Castle area, and there is a long road from the Kitagawa River into the sea to Kuwano Castle of the Miyoshi family. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The three families joining forces must be a thunderous blow, and Changzong and Ibu Tai thought that they would attack from Jiuli, and Ace agreed with Changzong and Ibu Tai after thinking about it.
This will undoubtedly take a detour for the Miyoshi family, so it is impossible for Miyoshi Jiushu to dispatch the whole army, and he will definitely leave a part of his troops to block Hakudi Castle, and the remaining two roads are too risky, and if they don't do it, they will lose Higashi-Tosa, and a decisive battle is inevitable!!
Leading troops to fight is what Changzong and my ministry Tai are good at, so Ace retreated to the second line to help with advice, and Mao Aiqi sat in Gangfeng City to stabilize the people's hearts.
However, it is not Ace's style to sit back and wait, rather than a passive decisive battle, it is better to take the initiative to attack, Ace discussed this idea with Changzong and my department, and the latter greatly agreed, and then pieced together more than 5,000 mixed soldiers to kill Takigawa City.
Takigawa Castle is a front-line city, although there are only 500 standing soldiers, but the fortifications are particularly good, and Nagamune's Tai Gang led people to surround the city, and the reinforcements from the Nijo Akamura Imperial Office arrived.
Five thousand against three thousand, the opposite side is full of elite troops, in comparison, Ace's numerical superiority in the face of the enemy's combat effectiveness, obviously not beneficial.
After a fierce battle, there were still nearly 3,000 people left in the army led by Chomune Ibu Tai, more than 1,000 wounded soldiers, and more than 1,600 people were still alive with reinforcements brought by Kojima Shomasa, and finally entered Takigawa Castle when the opportunity was not good.
Ace can see that this battle has to benefit from the fact that it is Changzong and my department Tai who lead the troops, and the opposite island Shomasa is three points weaker when he sees him, and he also looks ahead and backward to command the army, which leads to a missed opportunity.
Although the preparation time is not long, it is too simple for Ace to create siege equipment to deal with this kind of small city, Ace was most afraid of siege warfare before, and now he likes the enemy who hides in the city and wants to fight a defensive battle.
The so-called soldiers and horses did not move, grain and grass went first, and when Changzong and our troops took Takigawa Castle, the combined forces of the three families were still on the way, which gave them time to rest and refine their plans.
Ace believes that since ancient times, the big battles have been won by more and less!!
Is 10,000 against 1,000, 10,000 more? Is 1,000 people less? What if 10,000 people are divided into 100 squads of 100 people? Sun Wu's "double and divide" should not be done more with Ace's current situation, and then break them one by one? This is what Mao Aiqi said, if you can't finish the tea in one sip, drink it in two sips, take your time, don't be in a hurry!
Those who can be moved, those who can't be moved, are burned down! The destruction of Takigawa Castle, a front-line supply city, undoubtedly bought Ace and them some time.
When Chozong re-deployed his troops in Jiuli, he had already raised the strength of the whole country, and if he won this battle, he would take Nishitosa, and if he lost this battle, he would lose it............
"General Tai of my department, how many soldiers are there on the enemy?"
"Returning to the military division," Chosho said with a worried face, "the Nijo family sent 8,000 troops, the Kono family sent 4,600 troops, and the Miyoshi family sent about 2,000 people. ”
"How's the combat power?"
"The Kono family and the Nijo family have a total of 4,000 elites, and the Miyoshi family is not clear. ”
"It's better for the Miyoshi family to be counted as all standing soldiers," Ace thought for a moment and said, "You divide our men into two troops, one team in ambush in the dense forests of the mountains of Jiuli, and the other team in front of the main road. ”
"Understood, Strategist!"
Not long after, the three coalition forces appeared in front of the Thai army of Changzong and our department, and from the perspective of the national conditions of the Neon Continent, such a formation can be said to be very scary.
In the era of cold weapons, what type of army has the most war attacks?
The answer is, cavalry!!
If you want to divide the enemy with a strategy, not to mention whether you can succeed, in such a short period of time, whether the strategy can ferment is also a question! Therefore, Ace used force to divide the enemy, and for this reason he allocated all the dozens of horses he had to the ambush troops.
The ambush troops were not assigned weapons except for horses, and instead were specially designed "defensive chariots" designed for them by Ace!
On the other side, the allied forces of the three families had already seen the army of Changzong and our Tai, because it was difficult not to see such a high banner! Just when the generals of the three allied armies were about to watch the joke and wonder how they could fight with such a long banner on their backs, the soldiers on both sides had already launched a charge.
Oh sorry!!
It was the soldiers of the three coalition armies who launched the charge, and only a few dozen people from the front row of the Thai army in Changzong ran forward, and immediately retreated, and the large army began to retreat.
If you rush up and fight, although the hope is really slim, at least there is still hope of winning!
The thoughts of the three coalition forces, Changzong and my Tai, can't know, he only knows that the distance between the two armies is already stretched, and because of his own "escape" behavior, the enemy army has slightly widened the distance between his own people in order to rush to attack!!
Draw the flag, turn around, return to the horse - stab.
Since the ambush force has innovated, how could Ace forget the company combat unit? All the swords, spears, and guns are all super lengthened, and then hang a flag on the top to confuse the enemy.
This "super lengthened", in fact, is not long, it is nothing more than a two-person high wooden stick tied to the end, and this thorn easily kills the enemy, and the enemy's weapon - hehe!
For this reason, Ace also borrowed from the three-stage attack of "a certain celebrity", the person with the long weapon is divided into three echelons, and when the person in the first echelon stabs out and withdraws the weapon, the person in the second echelon stabs again...... Compared with firearm shooting, the advantage of this method is that the accuracy is extremely high, almost a stab is a life, and the disadvantage is that the soldier is dangerous when the distance is closer, and the closer it is, the more dangerous it is!
The man with the long knife is dispatched, and it is okay to rush into the enemy line to pick up weapons, pick up horses, grab horses, and kill a few people if you can't do anything!!
"Why are you still stupid?" "The two winter cicadas were furious, "Hurry up and release the arrows!!"
"But, there are our own people!"
"What else, don't you see a one-sided slaughter?"
"It's the head of the house!--Ready, let go of the arrow!!"
The arrows were not released!
Ace's only worry before was being attacked from afar, but he didn't expect the commander on the opposite side to be so "on the road" that he actually chose to engage him in a short battle, and at this time Ace's ambush troops finally acted!
The defensive chariot is not a "car", but it is a skeleton of a rushing chariot surrounded by bamboo around the horses, which is why Ace wants this army to ambush in the mountains, the distance is far away and the horses run away, the impact is greater, and this round of charging will break the three coalition forces into two troops, one long and one short.
The infantry of the three coalition armies couldn't stop the frantic cavalry, so how could those archers resist it?
Although the effect of this trick is obvious to all, these horses ran away after only one time, but these are no longer important! Changzong and our troops saw the right time, and after completely annihilating the separated "short troops" with an order, they retreated again with the spoils of war, including horses--not a lot but better than nothing!