Since ancient times, victory or defeat in a war has not only depended on bravery and strategy on the battlefield, but also on logistics. Logistics, as the "lifeline" of war, its importance cannot be ignored. In war, even if the young and middle-aged are finished, there are still old and weak women and children who can go to the battlefield, but if the logistics cannot be maintained, then the combat effectiveness of the army will be greatly reduced.

The famous Tumu Fort Incident in history is a bloody lesson. The 500,000 army of the Ming Dynasty was defeated by the Mongol army of only a few tens of thousands in the absence of water and food. This was due to the fact that the Ming army's logistical supply lines were cut off, causing the soldiers to be hungry and exhausted, and their weapons were ineffective, and they were eventually unable to resist the onslaught of the Mongol army. This example profoundly proves the decisive role of logistics in winning or losing a war.

Similarly, as firearms become the dominant weapon on the battlefield, the reliance on logistics has never been greater. Firearms such as self-generated firearms are as useless as burning sticks once they lose their paper-loaded gunpowder and lead bullets. When faced with elite soldiers in armor, they are far less lethal than traditional heavy weapons such as maces.

At this time, Kyoto of the Wa Kingdom had fallen into the hands of the Ming army, and the shogunate army was in a dilemma.

The 9,000 elite new army, which has been carefully cultivated over the years, has won successive battles and defeated the army of the Dog Slave Country. But when they faced the dilemma of supply shortages, even these elite soldiers lost their original combat effectiveness, and were not even as useful as the army equipped with cold weapons.

The shogunate's general, Yoshitoshi Spo, made a decisive decision. The army that had originally attacked the southern part of the country of Gonu needed to change its marching route, retreat from Tomita County, and return to the division to recover Kosan Castle and other places in order to open up a passage to the land of the Wa country. The main army had to quickly withdraw to Xiaohu Mountain City, and quickly withdraw to the mainland before the Ming army could completely cut off the logistics in the northern region.

However, it is easy for the army to attack, but it is difficult to retreat.

Despite his best efforts to conceal information, chaos within the army was inevitable. All kinds of gossip spread like wildfire, making the already high morale of the army hesitate and panic.

At this time, the 50,000-strong army led by Zhu Neng was like an arrow ready to attack, pointing directly at the direction of Sipo Yimin's main force. Zhu Neng's goal was clear, and he took advantage of the enemy's confusion to launch a fatal blow to completely destroy the main force of the shogunate and lay the foundation for victory in the next war.

Although the news of the rear navy was not received for the time being, the battle plan had already been carefully formulated to eliminate the living forces of the shogunate, seize the strategic initiative, and then pacify the Japanese state.

Although the war lasted less than two months, the devastation caused by the fighting was alarming.

In the early days of the war, the shogunate imposed strict discipline on the military in order to recover from the war, minimizing the harassment of the common people. However, with the supply lines disrupted, Spa had to face reality as well.

He coldly gave an order: "Each team needs to collect at least 10,000 catties of grain. Any team that fails to complete the objective will be severely punished. ”

This military order made the captains of all teams stunned. 10,000 catties? It's almost an impossible task.

Yoshitoshi Spo stared sharply at the samurai, his eyes full of determination and determination. "This is war, you are samurai, complete the goal, otherwise you will bear the consequences."

For a moment, the air seemed to freeze. Each captain understands that this is the cruelty of war and their duty as samurai. Despite the odds, they had to work hard to win.

So, the teams began to split up and try their best to find food. They knew that it was not only for the completion of the mission, but also for the victory of the war, for the honor of the shogunate, and for their own survival.

During the shogunate period, the position of the shogun was supreme, and the military and administrative power of the entire shogunate was concentrated in his hands.

And the current shogun of the shogun is from the Ashikaga clan. Under the Great Shogun were the Shoguns, who were the high-ranking military generals of the shogunate and were responsible for overseeing the military affairs of an army or a region.

The samurai were the core force of feudal society in Japan, and they worked as a family unit to provide military services to their lords. Although the samurai were the lowest class of society, they dominated the military. The samurai fought for the good of their lords with a creed of loyalty, honor, and sacrifice.

The samurai counterpart was the ashigaru, who were low-level infantry, usually consisting of untrained or briefly trained peasants and civilians. Despite Ashigaru's relatively low combat capabilities, their numerical superiority can also play a key role in certain situations.

In addition, there are soldiers of various specialties, such as archers, horse backs or small ones, i.e. cavalry units, as well as musketeers.

Archers are the main force of ranged attacks, capable of providing constant fire support on the battlefield. Cavalry units are good at quick maneuvers and assaults, inflicting a huge impact on enemy troops. With the advent of musketeers, the importance of marking firearms in warfare gradually increased.

It is worth mentioning that the shoguns and shoguns of the shogunate were usually also daimyos.

The daimyo were local rulers with their own domains and armies, and they were nominally the emperor's generals, but in reality had extremely high power within their domains. Samurai loyal to the Great Shogun have a chance to become a Daimyo, but this requires a long period of hard work and accumulation, and there will be a chance of rapid promotion unless in times of great war.

Overall, the military system of the shogunate period was a complex hierarchical structure, with various military forces intertwined to maintain the stability and security of Wa society.

Therefore, after the Ashikaga clan became the new shogun, they naturally would not be alone, but had a group of family forces that coexisted with their interests.

The Hosokawa family, the Yamana family, and the Spo family are also three of them.

These families were closely related to the Ashikaga clan and together maintained the rule of the shogunate.

Compared to the two old families of Hosokawa and Yamana, the Spo family has a slightly inferior status. As a result, they relied more heavily on Ashikaga for support.

If the Hosokawa family and the Yamana family choose to surrender, they will be able to maintain their status after handing over the traitors in the family. But for the Spo family, losing the support of the Ashikaga clan would revert them to a third-rate family, and even face the danger of extinction.

This is also an important reason why the shogun trusted Yoshitoshi Spo. Faced with such a serious crisis, Spa Yoshimin did everything in his power to save the situation on the battlefield so that the family would not be in a situation from which they could never recover.

On the contrary, if it were to be replaced by an established family such as the Hosokawa family, they might choose to stay out of it in order to protect their own interests.

However, Spoishin is well aware of the crisis, and he understands that only by doing his best can he save the day.

So some things that he usually didn't dare to do, for the sake of the overall situation of the shogunate, he dared to break it.

Hundreds of teams of scouts were sent out to collect grain, and their task was to collect 10,000 catties of grain.

As the army retreated, these horses crossed the border like locusts, and carried out brutal raids on the people and landlords along the way.

They not only robbed the people of their food, but also attacked large families, destroying the originally stable human relations.

These things that Rispo Yimin usually did not dare to do, now in order to save the army, he can no longer take care of it. As long as the army could be preserved, the shogunate had hope of continuing to hold on.

On the other hand, on the Ming army, except for the initial rapid entry into the dog slave country and the 50,000 army led by Zhu Neng, the rest of the army was relatively slow.

Fighting on the front line has begun, but there are still part of the army stuck on Jeju Island, Guangdong and other places waiting for transportation, as well as piles of supplies on coastal docks waiting for ships to transport.

Such a large-scale transfer is also a severe test for Daming.

Most of the naval forces of the entire Ming Dynasty were concentrated in this sea area, maintaining the safety of the shipping lanes and assisting in the transportation of supplies. Previous naval sorties have mobilized most of the naval combat power.

For this lonely battlefield in a foreign land, Daming did not dare to take it lightly. The lessons of the destruction of the two expeditions of the former Yuan made Zhu Di very cautious, preferring to move slowly to ensure that nothing went wrong.

It is also necessary and accidental.

Zhu Neng and Sibo Yoshimin are at war in Shenxi City.

Facing the Ming army that followed up, Spa Yoshitoshi understood that this battle had to be fought, and only by defeating the pursuers could the shogunate army retreat smoothly, so he gathered the 70,000 troops at hand.

In order to quell the dog slave country and deal with the threat of the Ming army, the shogunate organized an army of more than 200,000 people, which can be said to be everything, but no one expected that the Ming would be so excited.

An army of 500,000 was mobilized.

The Ming Dynasty claimed to have an army of five million, and this slogan alone frightened many people in the shogunate.

No matter how many soldiers and horses the Ming army actually came, but there were at least tens of thousands of chasing soldiers, plus the intelligence of the Ming army in the rear, the banner that he heard was nearly 100,000, so there should be 300,000 horses.

Spa felt a heavy pressure in his heart and couldn't laugh anymore.

No one expected that Daming's determination would be so great, why, it was an honor or a misfortune to attach so much importance to their country.

Si Bo Yimin, who couldn't figure it out, had no choice but to mobilize the army head-on, not seeking to annihilate this Ming army, so that they didn't dare to continue to pursue themselves alone.

But the idea is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

The transportation of materials in the Ming Dynasty was indeed very difficult, but it still ensured the needs of the front-line army, and Zhu Neng, who was not short of arms, also adopted the old tactics that the Ming army had become accustomed to.

Vehicle-mounted artillery shelled the opposing formation.

Cavalry harassment.

Hundreds of sons and cannons were slammed into the enemy forces close to their formation.

Waiting for the other side to collapse, the infantry bayonet charged, and the grenade opened the way.

With such tactics, the Ming army used a range of tens of thousands of miles, from deserts to jungles, from rivers to the sea, although because of the terrain, the tactics were constantly adjusted, but there was no change in the foundation.

It shows that the army's tactics are stiff, or that the army is a coward hiding in the rear, but it can make the local government have no power to fight back and win victory on the battlefield, that is the tactic pursued by the Ming Dynasty.

With the same tactics, Sipo Yimin was not more powerful than the elite generals under Timur, but because of the poor power of the cavalry, it was not as good as the threat posed by Timur's army to the Ming army.

Zhu Neng routed the shogunate's army at a small cost.

Seeing that the tide was turning, Spa wanted to commit suicide, but was stopped by his younger brother.

"Now the shogunate needs a big brother."

Spa Yoshimin gritted his teeth, he died, and the remaining armies around him were leaderless, and I am afraid it would be even more difficult to escape, for the sake of his family and the shogunate, Spo Yoshimin chose to endure humiliation and steal his life.

In the end, he fled the battlefield with his personal guards, and the Ming army pursued him on a large scale.

Shenxi City does not surrender.

The terrain of this place is dangerous, the Ming army chose to bombard, and the artillery bombardment lasted for three days in a row, destroying the fortifications on the city wall, the artillery fire continued to extend, and the entire city turned into a sea of fire, and the soldiers and civilians in the city could no longer hold on, and chose to go out of the city and surrender.

Santoya Castle, Matsue Castle, Wolsan Tomita Castle, the so-called Chungsan Castle, etc., either fell to the wind or were breached.

At last.

Spa Yoshitoshi was surrounded by the pursuing Ming cavalry in Dashan Temple, because the samurai resisted resolutely, the Ming cavalry did not attack, and sent someone to inform the rear and let the cannons come over.

Although the vehicle-mounted cannon is transported by vehicle, it cannot be easily reached because of its weight, but the Baizi Lianzhu cannon can, not only is it lightweight, but also the explosion of hundreds of lead bullets shoots out, which is even more terrifying in the narrow terrain.

"Boom."

"Rustle."

The dense sound of lead bullets, the samurai turned into blood, and no matter how fierce the samurai was, they fled in confusion, not daring to continue fighting, seeing that there was no hope of breaking through, Spa Yoshimin committed suicide in the temple.

The follow-up reinforcements continued to support, and Zhu Neng's army became more and more, not only recovering the entire dog slave country, but also connecting with the capital city taken by the navy, and the strategic situation had an absolute advantage.

Not only did it occupy a large part of the city, but it mainly wiped out the main army of more than 100,000 of the shogunate.

The shogunate, which has lost more than 100,000 troops, will be far less effective than it is now, even if the army is reorganized, and the shogunate will lose its capital, it is not certain whether it can maintain its own food and grass, not to mention the cost of recruiting an army.

Although the battlefield was defeated, a large number of samurai and ashigaru were left to the people.

In order to completely eliminate these remnants, the Ming army began to sweep the township, and also asked the local landlords to provide the Ming army with grain and grass needs.

The dog slave country looted once, the shogunate army looted once, the rout and harassment continued, and the Ming army came to the door to ask for grain and grass, which was already embarrassed, and the landlords who were lucky to survive wanted to cry and beg for mercy without tears.

More than a dozen routed soldiers hid in the homes of large households.

Met with the Ming army who came to collect taxes, and the two groups of people fought each other in close combat.

"It turns out that the Ming people are so powerful."

The defeated soldiers did not bargain because the two sides used cold weapons, and they were also beaten, and those Ming troops used bayonets as powerful as spears, and the bayonet technique of three or three cooperation, even the highly qualified samurai could not block a hole.

Hearing the movement, the reinforcements who rushed to see that only one of them had been wounded by a knife, and the injuries were not serious, and one of the young men asked unceremoniously.

Wu Zhongming bandaged his comrades, and was very unhappy when he heard the high-minded tone of the comer, although he was valued by Uncle Shi and sent to the pro-conquest army to get a credit, but unfortunately Uncle Shi's relationship here is too shallow, and he has never been able to get any decent credit.

When he turned around and was about to be polite, he was stunned.

Although he was wearing a small soldier uniform, everyone surrounded the young man, for fear that something would happen, and the appearance of the three layers inside and the three layers outside would indeed reveal the preciousness of this person's identity, but even if the enemy found out, there was nothing to be done.

Even mosquitoes can't fly over, and it's even more impossible to sneak attack.

Seeing such a momentum, Wu Zhongming was not a reckless man, and with the mentality of not offending the other party, he calmly answered the question.

Hearing the other party's reply, Zhu Zhanyong nodded with satisfaction.

turned out to be the second generation of soldiers, which can be regarded as loyal and good.

Wu Zhongming's father, Wu Zhenmeng, was not counted in the overseas corps, and the official position when he retired from the Ming army was only the captain, and it was not bad for Zhu Zhanyong to be the second generation of soldiers. (End of chapter)