Although there were many soldiers and horses of the shogunate in the distance, everyone was nervous, and they constantly sent scouts to reconnoitre, but they were all repelled and captured by the elite scouts of the Fan family's army.

After landing, Fan Zhuoyuan ordered to occupy the water source and high ground, and build a camp on the spot.

He landed on the Kakogawa River in Harima Province, a place where there was living water, so there was no need to worry about poisoning, and the current was abundant enough to sail on the river.

The battleships went north along the Kagu River into the interior to cover the fire of the corps on the shore, and such a backwater battle had enough retreat and could be fought at will.

After Fan Zhuoyuan led his troops to stand firm on the shore, he frowned slightly as he looked at the continuous fortress defense line in the distance.

This battlefield is somewhat similar to an enlarged version of the First Battle of Miike-gun, where Hojo Munemasa of Miike-gun thought that his side was not good at stragglers, and as a result, he suffered a big loss.

But now that the shogunate must have known about the battle in Miike-gun, he will definitely not easily fight with him.

Even if he has a good way to siege the city, the defense system of the walled wall on the opposite side is too tight, and he makes full use of the geographical advantage, and he may not be able to catch up with the speed of the other party's repair.

But no matter what, you have to come forward and touch it.

He led 20,000 soldiers and horses, accompanied by his adjutant general Zhang Xi, carrying two 500-pound copper cannons, along the bank of the Kagu River, where there were warships accompanying him, and he could meet the back road at any time.

Japan is rich in copper, gold and silver resources, and there are many copper ores that have been mined in the Kyushu Shikoku area occupied by Fan Zhuoyuan.

In more than three months, Fan Zhuoyuan smelted and cast all the copper ore, basically made it into artillery, and built more than 40 guns of different sizes.

The only disadvantage of using copper to cast cannons is that the raw materials are too expensive, but the manufacturing and processing difficulty is much lower than that of steel.

Now let Fan Zhuoyuan use iron to make a cannon, and he doesn't dare to use it when he makes it.

Fan Zhuoyuan led the army to a high ground, this kind of wooden village is a waste to fight with copper cannons, and catapults can be easily smashed.

But it can't stand the huge number and endless.

Fan Zhuoyuan ordered his subordinates to bombard the wooden village, and sure enough, a few cannons blew up a wall, and the defenders inside did not fight at all, and a wall collapsed, and immediately retreated from behind crying dad and shouting mother, most of them turned out to be peasant soldiers.

After Fan Zhuoyuan led his troops to occupy it, he found that in addition to the Kaguchuan River behind him, the surrounding area was surrounded by enemy wooden villages.

Adjutant General Zhang Xi reminded: "Young Marshal, if we attack one of them, I am afraid that the defenders in other places will attack and disturb the flank of our army, and even cut off our logistical supplies."

This place is not conducive to the galloping of cavalry, and after they have finished attacking, if our army pursues it, it will quickly retreat to the wall.

If they pull out the village, while our army is resting at night, they will speed up the repair.

If our army divides its troops to defend the occupied wooden village, but in such a vast area that stretches for dozens of miles, our army's strength will inevitably be dispersed in large numbers, and its strength will be insufficient to deal with emergencies. ”

Wan Hu next to him asked: "Why don't you go straight to the Chinese army, concentrate the troops, and directly attack the central county town guarded by their wooden village cluster!" Laying down the county seat, so many wooden villages will not make any sense. ”

Zhang Xi explained: "How can it be so simple, you use a clairvoyant mirror to see!" ”

Saying that, handing over the clairvoyant mirror to Wanhu, who had just questioned it, he looked in the direction of Himeji Prefecture.

I saw a large area of trenches stretching outside the county seat, crisscrossing them, and the ghost knows whether there were hidden caves in these trenches.

If you don't fill in the trenches, you won't even have a foothold, not to mention that so many wooden villages around you are not dead.

Once they storm Himeji County, they will directly send troops to attack and harass, or outflank the back road and cut off supplies, and the trouble will be great.

The general frowned slightly, shook his head and said: "This kind of city defense arrangement reminds me of the original Xiangfan city defense system, this is by no means a tactic that the Japanese can think of, there should be Song veterans behind the back!" ”

Zhang Xi took the clairvoyant mirror and nodded: "Yes, on the surface, we are dealing with hundreds of thousands of Japanese invaders, but in fact, we also include some Song people who are determined to help the Japanese invaders!" It's a tough battle if this battle is not successful! ”

Fan Zhuoyuan frowned slightly, and said lightly: "First detect the power, order 10,000 soldiers and horses to fight, see how many wooden villages can be broken in half a day, and then discuss countermeasures." ”

10,000 soldiers and horses drove forward, 10,000 soldiers and horses guarded the rear road, broke through three walled forts in one morning, used cavalry to attack, and killed 1,000 enemy troops, most of whom were peasant soldiers with extremely low combat effectiveness.

Fan Zhuoyuan observed with a clairvoyant mirror, and he had a plan in his heart.

At noon, after gathering the troops and horses, the gathering generals held a meeting.

Fan Zhuoyuan was the main general, plus Zhang Xi and other eight ten thousand households, sitting around the bonfire and barbecing wild boar, while looking at the continuous walled fort defense system in the distance, while discussing strategies.

Fan Zhuoyuan tore the cardboard-tough, oil-free wild boar leg in his hand and said: "Known as an army of 400,000, there must be no less than 100,000 soldiers, so many people, horses and livestock, how many logistics supplies do you need?" Have you counted? ”

On the side, 10,000 households put down the shriveled wild boar ribs in disgust and said, "It's just the autumn harvest, and this region is also rich, and the grain and grass collected by the enemy army support it for a few months to half a year, I don't think it's a big problem."

What's more, although we have blocked the sea, they are more familiar with land routes, and there must be transport roads. ”

Zhang Xi frowned and said, "The young marshal wants to cut off the enemy's supplies?" However, Japan's terrain is broken, the mountains are continuous, and we are not familiar with the terrain, so how can we cut off the supply of grain and grass to the other side? ”

Fang Cai's analysis of Wanhu was not wrong, and Fan Zhuoyuan knew it very well in his heart.

In fact, their own logistics are not a problem, after all, they have absolute superiority at sea.

However, the time given by the system is now only more than three months, and no one knows this bottom line.

In this regard, Fan Zhuoyuan had a strategy to force the enemy to fight a decisive battle when he was conducting a powerful reconnaissance in the morning.

He said: "I won't say much else, I have three strategies to force it to fight a decisive battle, and I only need to implement it in the next period of time, and I don't need to ask more."

First, on the frontal battlefield, we continued to bleed, combined forces without dividing troops, and burned the village every day to maximize the consumption of enemy resources, and all units fought in turns to maintain their sharpness.

If you have the opportunity, give priority to destroying the enemy's living forces, and do not rush to annihilate the shogunate army in a short time! Change whale swallowing to cannibalization, piecemeal.

Second, using the rumors of the release of merchants and captives, it is said that the imperial court is about to send 100,000 troops to come, and then they will join forces and destroy the sun in one fell swoop!

Third, a total of 10,000 soldiers and horses, divided into 5,000 cavalry and 5,000 light infantry, took battleships, went straight into the Kanto region of Japan, and went to the rear of the enemy army to sabotage, causing chaos, plundering materials, and cutting off supplies! ”

Except for the third point, the generals had doubts, and it was not a big problem to go around behind enemy lines with 10,000 soldiers and horses, but how could our army, which was not familiar with the terrain, cut off the shogunate's supplies?

As for the first and second points, the generals not only understood it, but they all felt that this was a clever move, especially the second point, if they heard that the imperial court was about to send follow-up reinforcements, then the shogunate would no longer have a military advantage, and they would be in a hurry!

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