Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 48 Xiu Jia's Post-War Reflection (14)

With Chang Zong and my family leaving the battle, Xiujia sat on the ground weakly, panting heavily.Looking back, Okubi, who was originally transferred by Hideo to support the 400 Banner team, was called back halfway, has returned to the front of the formation under the leadership of Masayuki Takashima, and joined the steps of cleaning the battlefield.

With Kenjiro's support, Hideka stood up and saw the setting sun in the west.Let Kenjiro give the troops an order to treat the wounded as much as possible regardless of the enemy's or our own soldiers, and at the same time set up camp on the spot tonight.

At night, the Hide family is holding a military meeting with Togawa Hidean, Takashima Masayuki and others to hear their military loyalty certificates.

Military Loyalty Certificate is a proper term in Japan, which is equivalent to the battle report of China's battle damage and gains, but the Japanese task samurai to die in battle is an honor, so they named it Military Loyalty Certificate.

The first to speak was Hidean Togawa. As the elder of Ukita, he commanded 800 Togawa people to calmly face the attack of 1500 Nagaokabe without losing the wind. This battle lost 45 people, injured 102 people, and won the first level of 132. 23 people were captured.

As the main force of this battle, Kamido prepared 1300 troops to withstand the attack of 3200 Nagamune Tosa Hon's troops on both wings. The situation was extremely critical, and 210 people died in battle.242 people were injured, and almost the entire organization of the top brigades was disabled.

However, brilliant results were still obtained. Because Hideka led the troops to defeat Wuchuanchu in time, he led 800 people to flank the Tosas, so that the Tosas had no time to take away the corpses of their companions when they retreated.

Then some people fell under the shooting of the iron cannons and bows and arrows prepared by the upper road. After statistics, a total of 835 prisoners of the 28th level were captured.Most of it was detracted from the rain of arrows and iron cannon fire in the early stage. When the two sides were in the middle of the gun, the Ukita army was obviously weaker.

On the flank, the 400 Banners defeated 12 Sanuki peasants and soldiers at the cost of losing 2000 of their own, and winning the first level of more than 500 levels is undoubtedly the most eye-catching presence on the entire battlefield.

Of the 4400 Ukita troops who left Bizen after this battle, there were still about 3800 left. They captured more than 1500 enemy troops and captured hundreds of people.Get thousands of sets and hundreds of sets of swords and spears.It can be described as a big victory.

All the generals were amazed at the brilliant results of the Yuki family and congratulated the Xiu family when they listened to the report of the battle results by the follower of the army, Yamaura Yuki.For them, being able to repel 4400 people with 8000 points in an encounter without positional advantages and still get such a victory is undoubtedly a big victory recorded in history.

Even if Yuki Yamaura himself followed the army, in the battle reports that he wrote for the Hide family and sent them back to Bizen, Azuchi, Izumigishi-Wada Castle, he spared no effort to boast of the Hide family's commanding skills, the bravery of Ukita's soldiers, and his support for the commander-in-chief. Zongwo's demeaning as a coward.

Hideka almost became a military god as famous as Uesugi JJ in the bragging of the generals.

But Xiujia knew how rough his command of this battle was. The strategic purpose of this battle was to use a surprise attack to defeat the Changzong Group that was still besieging Shihe City, and to kill and wound the Changzong's new force as much as possible. And then pave the way for the next step to expand the results.

However, the possible raid suddenly turned into an encounter. When facing the superior number of Chang Zong's army, Hideka's entire battlefield tactics were almost led by the opposite heirloom who had lived for 75 years. Walk.

Changzong's family and relatives first used the cannon fodder Sanuki to force Hideo to mobilize the remaining new force to stop it. Even Hideo himself underestimated the combat power of the banner of his family, fearing that the 400 banners of the backup machine would be defeated and the whole situation would be triggered. As a result of the collapse, 800 Eupakus had to be mobilized to support the banner team.

As for the frontal battlefield, due to the transfer of Yi Jiubei, there was a loophole in the frontal battlefield. The old man who had experienced many battles seized the opportunity to stare at Xiujia and play hard.

Although before the battle, Xiujia's Shangdaobei achieved the goal of killing a large number of people in a short period of time by virtue of the number of iron cannons and the design of a large number of bows and arrows, but the semi-agricultural soldiers who lacked training were not the opponents of the "fubing" who were almost full-time soldiers.

Facing the tacit cooperation of the Tosa Hon team, who had a higher armor rate than Hideka, the insufficiently trained Shangdoubi finally showed signs of decline. All of us in Sichuan, the destruction of Shangdaobei is in sight.

What puzzled the Xiu family the most was the old man's retreat. From the point of view of the Xiu family, despite the collapse of the flanking battlefield, Changzong's army still had an absolute advantage in the frontal battlefield.

The Xiu family has used up the last reserve team, and even they have posted it, and the old man still has more than 1000 people in his team, but the old man would rather use his team as the first army to cover the retreat of Tosa and Nagaoka. The Xiu family was puzzled that the entire army did not come forward.

As the largest soy sauce party in this battle—Yijiubei with 800 members, except for running almost all over the map, it failed to play its due role, and it was also the retreat of the Yijiu people that led to the collapse of the frontal situation.This is undoubtedly the Xiu family's command error.

Contrary to the expectations of Hideka and Chosogabe, only 400 banners, relying on their excellent cooperation, defeated and killed a large number of Sanuki people composed of farmers and soldiers.

After summarizing this battle, the Xiu family understood the position of their own troops after paying the price of 800 lives.

First of all, Hatakemoto, which is composed of outstanding second-generation samurai from the family as the backbone, supplemented by ronin and Uki towns without land as a professional army composed of ashigaru, this army has sufficient training and strong personal combat strength .Can easily defeat the enemy army several times its own.

If the Xiu family had a good understanding of Banbei from the beginning, they would certainly not have mobilized Yi Jiubei to support them, and the frontal battle would not have been so difficult.

As the core of Ukido's samurai at all levels, and the peasants in the directly-administered territory as supplementary routine equipment, the upper road equipment itself does not break away from the nature of Japanese farmers and soldiers.

It's just that the Xiu family paid for the food and subsidized the training on the 4th of each month, which made their combat power stronger than the ordinary Japanese giants' reserve team, especially in the long-range killing stage before the battle.In this battle, most of Changzong's army was knocked down by long-range fire on the way to charge towards the home.

And it is such a half-peasant army, when it faces the "fubing" of Changzong's "fubing" with the policy of "one collar is enough", the disadvantages of insufficient combat training are fully exposed.

Although due to the policy, military system and law, this army has the prototype of a modern army, but they still can't get rid of the nature of farmers and soldiers when they fall into close combat due to lack of sufficient training.

To sum up, the Xiu family's direct-controlled reserve team is a group of farmers and soldiers with the morale comparable to that of a samurai army and a high-intensity long-range lethality capability. Their melee combat effectiveness is still stretched.

What impressed Hideo was the fact that he had never looked directly at the Togawa people before. He thought it was just a regular coalition of powerful clans, but he didn't expect that they could rely on the terrain to obtain Local advantages, it seems that they can learn from them.

Another achievement of this battle is that Xiujia straightened his mentality. As a traverser, Xiujia thought that with his hundreds of years of experience accumulated more than the locals, he would definitely be able to block gods and kill gods, and Buddhas to block and kill Buddhas.In fact, the battles in Inaba and other places really made Hideka's mind flutter.

But today's encounter with Old Antique made the Xiu family understand that there are still capable people in the Warring States period, and the old man personally went to the field to educate the Xiu family, it was a hammer and a sap, and almost beat the Xiu family into autism.

At the same time, it also proves that not all the troops of the Warring States Period are stretched like this. There are Sanuki who have 2000 people defeated by 400, and Tosas who bravely rushed into the hand-to-hand fight with Hideka. Hideka must let go of his contempt. Other people's character, don't let them suffer even bigger losses.

For the main family, the Xiu family discovered such a talent as the Gaoshan Clan, and if it wasn't for Shang Dao Bei Gaoshan Clan's request, the Xiu family didn't even think of the plan of transferring the Iron Cannons to Shangxinchuan to bombard the Wuchuan people again.

Although there were many deficiencies in this battle, Xiujia still decided to reward the warriors who fought in this battle, so he asked each reserve team to withdraw several particularly brave samurai, ashigaru, and he personally issued certificates and establishments.

Just when the Xiu family ordered to go down to make preparations, Kenjiro came to the Xiu family and whispered in the ear of the Xiu family, "My lord, the envoy of Nara Yuanzheng from Shengtong Temple City is here."

"What's the matter?" Xiujia asked

"Nara Motomasa seems to want to surrender."

The Xiu family immediately postponed the reward and ordered the warriors outside the curtain to bring the envoy.

"The envoy of Nara Yamato of Shengtong Temple, Nara Hiromi sees Bizen Mori-sama." A samurai in his early 20s came to the shogunate in black and red Serena.

"You also believe in Nara, who are you from Yamato Mori?"

"Ha Yi, I am a member of Yamato Mori's tribe."

It turned out that they were just members of the clan, and the Hide family thought that Nara Motomasa had sent his direct son to negotiate.

"What did Yamato ask you to do?"

"The generals recommended Yamato Shoulai to surrender to His Royal Highness Yuxiduo, and are willing to dedicate the territory to Yuxiduo's pioneer."

This is the common practice of Japan's wealthy families in the Warring States Period. They are too far away to see a lot of them very clearly. What they see is that 2000 people on their own side were defeated by 400 Ukita's army. Yuxi's family had no choice but to retreat after fighting for a long time. 】

For them, taking care of them is like taking care of their son's Changzong Gabu's family and being taken care of by Ukita. Naturally, Ukita is better than Changzonggabu. Besides, Ukiya is on the other side of the sea, and the speed of controlling Sanuki is comparable to that of Tosa The mountain monkeys came over the mountains much faster.

"Which ones are ready to surrender, and what are the conditions?" Xiujia continued to ask

"There are the main family, the Shinomiya family, the Mitani family, and almost the entire Nakasanuki family of the Kannai family are willing to submit to His Highness, as long as they have the ability to be safe."

"What do you mean almost?"

"Yes, Yusa, Maeda is unwilling to surrender and led the troops to leave the team and go back to the city."

"When did you leave, and where did you go?" After hearing this, the Xiu family suddenly wanted to rely on a surprise attack to destroy the two families, but then they thought that this information was only brought by the family that had not yet surrendered. There is no possibility of ambushing the family.

Xiujia was unwilling to risk the troops who had just won a hard battle, and then waved his hand to express that he would not talk about the topic just now, but continued: "I accept Yamato Mori's sincerity, and I can accept your surrender, but you must serve as the vanguard I calm down Yamada. Kagawa. Ano. Uzuki-gun."

"Yes, Yamato Shou told me before I came that these are what they should do, please rest assured, Your Highness. I will pass on the message now."

"Wait" the Xiu family stopped the envoy who turned around and wanted to leave, and said: "Our family is about to start evaluating merits, to celebrate the victory of our clan, I hope Yamato Mori and the adults you just mentioned can come and join our family celebrate."

The envoy was about to leave, but was suddenly stopped, thinking that the Xiu family had some orders, but he didn't expect that the main family came to the Yuxiduo camp to celebrate. Some mistakes raised his head to confirm the information, and the Xiu family agreed after receiving the confirmation. , turned around and left and went back to report.

(End of this chapter)