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Chapter 441 Takeda Shingen's Defense

The first battle was a victory, and the enemy was the Tiger of Kai, one of the two overlords of the main island. Everyone in the Moroboshi family was extremely excited and cheered loudly to celebrate this victory.

Even Yan Xu showed a satisfied smile. It was worth it for him to spend so much energy to build a powerful army. He could rest assured that he would have one less thing to worry about next.

But the good mood only lasted until he saw the mountain castle where the Takeda family retreated. Just one glance and Yan Xu frowned. The originally excited Moroboshi family also put away their smiles and became serious.

The long-term war has made the daimyos of the island country pay great attention to city defense, because as long as the city has not fallen, the enemy will retreat sooner or later. On the contrary, once it falls, the entire territory will be occupied. Therefore, all forces have spent a lot of effort on city defense. For example, this mountain city in front of them is a great headache for the Moroboshi family.

The Moroboshi family, who have the advantage in artillery fire, are never afraid of encountering a fortified city. Unless there is a cover on it, it is only a matter of time before they are bombed into surrender.

But this time they encountered not a small mountain castle like Fushima, nor Amano Castle which relied on the navy for defense, but a defense circle built by the two overlords in the central part of the main island at great expense.

The mountain city in front of us is not a single city, but a defense network composed of a main city, three secondary cities, multiple mountain strongholds and a large peripheral area. The area is very astonishing.

Because the huge defense network also includes the town at the foot of the mountain, if the Moroboshi family wants to set up artillery to bombard the castle, they must first capture the outer area, otherwise the range will not be enough.

Although the Moroboshi family was equipped with a large number of guns and artillery, they were restricted by the roads and environment of the island country and were unable to transport large artillery, unless they were willing to spend a lot of time, energy and resources to fight and build roads at the same time.

Therefore, the main equipment are metal tubes for launching various types of Babao Dahua rounds, and the range is not as high as imagined.

As for sending troops to attack the city, not only are there dense arrow towers on the city walls, but there are also shoji moats and trenches outside the city. The deepest trench can be up to 9 meters. If you want to fill it up, God knows how many people will die.

Moreover, the Onmyoji of the Moroboshi family also felt the existence of Onmyoji and the barrier, which means that the defense network in front of them even took into account the extraordinary power.

This was nothing to Yan Xu, but if he took action, not only would the test of the Zhuxing family be abandoned halfway, but it would also make his subordinates dependent and even feel frustrated.

Given the Japanese people's awkward and twisted personalities, there are definitely more than one or two people who commit suicide because they feel they are useless. It is not impossible that they may develop a rebellious heart, because you simply cannot judge them by common sense.

It's better to just out of sight and out of mind. Anyway, as long as we don't act rashly and advance steadily with the current strength of the Moroboshi family, the Takeda family will be able to retreat back to Amano Castle even if they attack with all their strength.

In fact, the real situation was more complicated than Yan Xu had imagined, but after he made it clear that this was a test, a lot of information was not reported to him unless it was very important, so he didn't know that the Zhuxing family had fallen into the quagmire of war.

Yan Xu only saw the Takeda family's army, but forgot that this was the Takeda family's territory.

During the retreat, Takeda Shingen issued an order for a total war, and as a result, in a short period of time, he gathered more than 10,000 farmers and foot soldiers. Together with the recruited wandering samurai and ronin, he soon gained a strong force.

Using these people on the front battlefield will only facilitate the massacre of the Moroboshi family. Apart from consuming the Moroboshi family's ammunition reserves, they will not play a big role.

So Takeda Shingen broke them all up and attacked in small teams from all directions, destroying roads, assassinating secretly, setting traps, and using various methods to avoid head-on confrontation to cause countless troubles to the Moroboshi family.

Wars are fought with logistics, especially the Moroboshi family, which is highly equipped with firearms and is highly dependent on logistics. The number of civilian laborers responsible for transportation alone is as high as 20,000.

These laborers repaired the roads and transported food and fodder, which was the source of support for the Moroboshi family to continue fighting. However, under the continuous fighting of the Takeda family, the Moroboshi family's farmers and foot soldiers who were responsible for security were unable to cope with the situation, resulting in the laborers being unable to work at ease, and a large amount of supplies were taken away or even burned.

The army of the Moroboshi family needs to carry a large amount of ammunition because of its high rate of firearms equipment, but in order to ensure speed, the army's carrying capacity is limited, thus squeezing the proportion of food and fodder carried.

In this situation, once the logistics are cut off, the army of the Moroboshi family can only hold out for five to seven days.

Therefore, Takeda Shingen's order was a fatal blow to the Moroboshi family's army, and it could be said that it seized the weakness.

In order to ensure the smooth flow of logistics lines, the Moroboshi family had to mobilize a group of elite troops to be responsible for the transportation of supplies, making the already limited military force even more stretched.

There are more than 7,000 people, with at most 5,000 combat soldiers. Using them to capture a huge defensive group defended by tens of thousands of people is simply a joke. The opposite is almost the same.

But thinking back to the test that the lord mentioned, the retainers and warriors of the Moroboshi family will have to be fought whether they want to or not.

Without Yan Xu's knowledge, the Zhuxing family gritted their teeth and launched a tentative attack.

There were five thousand men, including two thousand iron cannon foot soldiers, one thousand artillerymen, and the remaining two thousand were melee soldiers, who advanced in formation under the command of the general.

With such cautious promotion, it is obvious that the Moroboshi family is also well aware that they cannot afford to fail.

Faced with the Moroboshi family, which was at a numerical disadvantage and seemed like it could be defeated in one battle, Takeda Shingen was completely unmoved. He even strictly ordered all his soldiers to defend their positions and not to go into battle even if all of them died in battle. He had to use his defensive advantage to weaken the Moroboshi family's offensive layer by layer.

War is actually a math problem. The number of soldiers, training, equipment, logistics, command, plus the right time, place, and people, are combined in various ways to form a formula to eliminate the enemy in the greatest possible proportion.

Takeda Shingen, who mastered the four major formulas of wind, forest, fire and mountain, was known as the greatest general and the greatest military strategist in the Warring States Period. However, many people mistakenly believed that he was good at attack, especially cavalry. Few people knew that he was also good at defense, because not many people could force him to the point where he focused on defense.

Now the Moroboshi family has done it. They have an incredible cannon with a long range, high hit rate and fast firing rate. As long as they keep their distance, they can crush the cannon formation of any force on the island country.

Coupled with the terrifying number of large barrels and the bloodthirsty and violent samurai, anyone who faces the Moroboshi family will feel suffocated.

Takeda Shingen was sure that even if he sent out his entire army to attack against the 5,000 soldiers of the Moroboshi family, he would suffer at least 10,000 casualties.

If this was the only army, Takeda Shingen would have gritted his teeth and fought. The key is that the strength of the Moroboshi family is unfathomable, and their military strength is definitely more than this.

He had also heard about the person behind the coalition between the Mori clan and the Amago clan. If he had some doubts before, he was now certain that the Moroboshi clan was the person behind the coalition.

Such a powerful force has surpassed the Takeda family, so Takeda Shingen has no choice but to be cautious.

Now he no longer thinks about defeating the Moroboshi family, but instead plans to force the other party to retreat.

(End of this chapter)