Qiming 1158

Chapter 1658 How can they sit and eat together?
When Yuan Yoshitsune arrived near the battlefield of Mino Kingdom, it was just before the final decisive battle between the Ming army and the Mino army.

After expressing his intention to participate in the war, the leader of the Mino Army smiled miserably, then shook his head and let Yuan Yoshitsune run for his own life.

The result was of course tragic. His army had no power to fight back, and was "crushed" by the Ming army.

Cold weapons and hot weapons are intertwined. The iron and steel formations of the Ming army crushed the resistance of the Meinong army, successfully broke through the last stronghold of the Meinong army, wiped out all the resisters, occupied all important places, and won the final victory. victory.

Merion fell.

Yuan Yoshitsune, who finally escaped after paying half of the casualties of his cavalry, witnessed the last battle and the final collapse of the Mino Army, and also witnessed the fighting method of the Ming Army, and was greatly shocked.

For the first time, he saw the coordinated and integrated combat method of various arms.

Before this, Gen Yoshitsune had never seen such a combat method.

In his initial military concept, there was no tactical planning such as coordinated operations and detours of various arms. Like others, he believed that the personal bravery and fighting ability of elite warriors were the key to victory in war.

It was not until he read Chinese books on the art of war that he had slightly different military thoughts, and now, the Ming army is showing completely different strategic concepts and tactical execution capabilities in front of him.

He couldn't see the warriors in the Ming army, and couldn't find the super strong man who could win the battlefield. Everyone in the Ming army seemed to be no longer themselves after entering the battlefield, but belonged to a whole.

The role of the individual is masked, and collective attributes take over.

No matter how many people there are, they will only do the same thing, not like humans, but like marionettes.

With an order, the spear stabbed.

With an order, the sharp long knives slashed together.

With an order, arrows rained down.

With an order, the musket roared.

They strictly abide by the general's orders, strictly implement the general's orders, and implement everything to every soldier, forming a powerful collective force, clenching their fingers into fists, and then blasting them fiercely.

It was this way of fighting that the Ming army crushed the last counterattack of the Meinong army at a very fast speed.

More than 100 elite warriors of the Mino Army charged at the Ming army with great courage, holding sabers. The momentum was like a tiger descending a mountain. Yuan Yoshitsune felt that such elite warriors who dared to fight were rare in the whole country.

But in front of the Ming army collectively, they were like vulnerable deer. They were all stabbed to death by the long spear forest in front of the Ming army, and they were not even able to fight back.

After the last samurai was pierced by several spears and vomited blood, Gen Yoshitsune felt hopeless on the one hand, but on the other hand, he felt that they had not completely lost.

After seeing the insurmountable gap in tactics, Gen Yoshitsune noticed another point.

Before he arrived in Izu, he was puzzled by the high-speed advance of the Ming army, and he felt that such a high-speed advance was problematic.

On the one hand, the speed of the army's march depends on the speed of the enemy's retreat. On the other hand, it also depends on the speed of the logistics force, and in the middle, the follow-up speed of the logistics force is the main factor.

In the Chinese art of war, it is often said that the three armies have not moved, and the food and grass go first, which shows that the importance of logistics and food is the number one in the sky.

The rapid march of the Ming army must be related to their extremely fast logistics follow-up speed, and logistics is the biggest weakness of the attackers in the war, the biggest fate.

He believes that the weakness of the Ming army may lie in the rapid logistics. The Ming army must have pushed its logistics to the limit when advancing like this. As long as a little force is exerted, it may be able to force the Ming army to retreat.

So Yuan Yoshitsune instructed two retainers who were very good at reconnaissance around him to change into rags, smear their faces, pretend to be prisoners of war of the Meinong Army after this battle, and infiltrate the Ming army camp to investigate. Discover the secrets of army logistics.

If it can be found out, it is best. If there is danger, then two people will run away with the camera.

Taking advantage of the chaotic moment after the war, these two people mixed into the prisoner team, watched the Ming army's barracks, and saw some things.

Three days later, they used their abilities to escape quietly in the dark, without attracting much attention.

The news they brought to Yuan Yoshitsune, who was hiding in the mountains, surprised Yuan Yoshitsune.

Because they never left the prisoner of war camp, they failed to understand the logistics route of the Ming army, and Yuan Yoshitsune's idea of ​​attacking the logistics route of the Ming army was shattered.

But they saw something else.

First of all, they are not starving, they can eat three meals a day.

Secondly, the people who delivered food and grain to their POW operation were Japanese locals, all of them local civilians. They were very well-behaved, obeyed orders very well, and were very diligent and diligent in transportation logistics, and they did not cheat at all.

At first they thought that these guys were forced to deliver food to the Ming army, which was equivalent to a slave-like status, and the situation was miserable, until they saw that after the food was delivered to them, these Japanese civilians and the Ming army soldiers who guarded them were sitting Have dinner together.

They were shocked.

How can these guys sit and eat with Ming soldiers so naturally?
Moreover, the soldiers of the Ming army did not seem to be uncomfortable, and naturally shared food with them, eating a food called salt and vegetable pancakes together.

They have seen the production method of this kind of food, and it is not complicated. It is a flatbread made by kneading pickled vegetables and noodles together, and then placing them on the stove together with oil.

The baked flatbread is crispy and delicious, and the aroma is compelling. The hot flatbread that has just been baked is very delicious, and it does not taste good.

Even if it's cold, it doesn't feel cold and hard to chew, it still tastes great, and it can replenish the salt needed by the body and even add some fat.

Ming Army soldiers ate with these guys and drank steaming soup together, looking very satisfied.

As prisoners of war, they did not have such treatment. Because they were unwilling to surrender and do things, they could only eat a small number of cold pancakes, and there was no hot soup to drink.

But honestly, it tasted really good and they didn't really starve.

After those guys had the pancakes and the hot soup, they said hello to the soldiers of the Ming Army, and left the following team led by a leader. On the second day and the third day, they all came, and they went on and on, very punctual.

There were no Ming army soldiers guarding them with knives and whips, and they could not understand each other's language, and even had to call and gesture to barely understand each other's meaning.

But they had smiles on each other's faces, and they seemed to get along very well. There was no sense of hostility, and they didn't even feel that the Ming army was the aggressor, while these Japanese civilians were citizens of the invaded country.

What is the situation here?

They couldn't figure it out, but they couldn't stay, they didn't have time.

Because Ming army soldiers and Japanese civilians who transported logistics were sitting in front of them swaggeringly flamboyantly hot salted and vegetable pancakes and fragrant broth every time they nibbled on a small amount of cold flatbread.

The aroma drilled straight into their noses, pulling out their greedy worms with all their might, making them swallow their saliva over and over again.

They were not subjected to any abuse, no one was beaten, no one was killed, they were just greedy, and they were so uncomfortable that they tossed and turned in sleepless nights.

In just three days, most of the Mino Army soldiers, including a small number of captured samurai, could not hold on any longer, and surrendered one after another and expressed their willingness to join the logistics transport team.

The two of them could only use their skills and leave secretly at night, daring not to stay too long, so as not to miss the opportunity to escape.

Yuan Yoshitsune was silent for a long time after learning about this.

(End of this chapter)