On the third day of September, Jiang Chong looked at the rugged mountains in all directions and frowned.
Jiang Chong led the third regiment of the Trap Division into the hinterland of Japan's Koshinyue region, and found that this bandit suppression operation was not that easy.
Looking around, there are nothing but mountains on both sides of the river, and there is nothing but dense forest.
In fact, like the local princes in other areas, most Japanese daimyo in the Koshinetsu area have surrendered. Where there are roads, the Tiger Army can be said to be invincible. The old "iron cannon", that is, the smoothbore matchlock gun, is used in Japanese battles.
The princes could not stop the Tiger Army.
Jiang Chong's regiment went all the way north from Tokaido, Japan, and wiped out three local "daimyos" in ten days. At the beginning, Jiang Chong still felt a bit like a conqueror, but later he no longer felt it at all.
On the one hand, it was because the Huben army was too strong and the local princes were too weak. On the other hand, the prince's military discipline was too strict. Jiang Chong did not dare to let the soldiers burn, kill and loot. Therefore, after capturing the castle, in addition to issuing some bonuses, he did not
Too many exciting things.
Most of the daimyo surrendered, except for a local feudal family called the Sanada family.
This prince called the Sanada family was originally a small prince. According to Japan's stone height system, the stone height of this prince was only 100,000 stone. Compared with the "Tian Ling" of the Tokugawa shogunate with 4 million stone, the 100,000 stone small prince
It should have been a small role that could be ignored.
However, the Sanada family was extremely active at the juncture of Japan's demise.
This family abandoned Matsushiro Castle where the feudal lord lived, and led three hundred samurai to hide in the mountains of central Japan to resist Li Zhi's conquest.
Three hundred samurai are nothing and cannot withstand a single volley from Chiang Chong's regiment. However, the real trouble is the leader of this group of samurai. The leader of the Sanada family is called Sanada Nobuyuki, formerly known as Sanada Nobuyuki, and he is a famous Japanese general.
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The Sanada family rose to prominence in the late Warring States Period and was known for being good at defeating the strong with the weak. It is said that in the "Kamikawa Battle" during the Warring States Period in Japan, the Sanada family relied on the terrain and the city to severely injure five times their own number with 1,500 people.
The Tokugawa Army. After that battle, Sanada Nobuyuki became famous all over the world.
At this time, Li Zhi swept through Japan, and Sanada Nobuyuki was unwilling to accept the fate of his family's demise and stood up to resist.
Samurai from all over Japan heard that Sanada Nobuyuki was organizing a resistance in the Koshinetsu Mountains, and gathered like a tide towards Koshinetsu. Some samurai whose families were destroyed by Li Zhi and became ronin went deep into the mountains, driven by Sanada Nobuyuki without any salary.
Even the original samurai of the Tokugawa shogunate came to the mountains one after another.
Under the leadership of Nobuyuki Sanada, these samurai went into the mountains and became thieves, relying on force to extort food from villagers in the mountains.
Li Zhi wanted to completely conquer Japan, and the samurai thieves in the Koshinetsu area were the enemies he had to face.
Jiang Chong looked at the mountains in front of him and took a breath.
It is too easy to hide tens of thousands of people in these rolling mountains. Jiang Chong's troops are advancing along a small river. There are some farmlands in the valley a few hundred meters beside the river, which can provide the riflemen with a field of vision. But once
Away from the rivers and valleys, there are dense forests everywhere.
Jiang Chong did not dare to enter those forests. If he were ambushed by warriors with superb sword skills in the forest, the casualties of the Tiger Army would probably be huge.
Jiang Chong's regiment consisted of 4,000 men. He originally sent 300 men out to serve as scouts. Now, fearing that they would be ambushed, he sent two more men out to survey the terrain and enemy situation.
Jiang Chong's 4,000 men have been deep into the Koshinetsu area for five days, and today they have entered the hinterland of Sanada Nobuyuki. It is said that they are not far from Sanada Nobuyuki's base camp. Soon, the scouts in front discovered a small stronghold of the Sanada thieves.
"Report to the leader, the road ahead goes around the middle of a hill. On the middle of the mountain, more than a hundred warriors built a small stone fortress to guard it."
Jiang Chong asked: "Can a rifle kill the enemy in the fortress?"
The scout loudly replied: "Return to the regimental commander, the forest there is very dense and the rifle cannot be deployed. But the mortar can probably reach it."
Jiang Chong was stunned and asked: "Can we bypass the mountainous area?"
The scout replied: "There is no way around it. That area is full of woods. If you want to advance north, you must enter the woods."
Jiang Chong hesitated.
However, it was impossible to continue to suppress the thieves without taking this path. Jiang Chong thought for a while and said: "Advance the entire army and set up mortars below the mountainside."
The troops moved forward, leaving the valley and attacking into the woods below the mountainside, where they saw the stone fortress on the mountainside.
However, before the mortar battery could be deployed, the enemy appeared.
Two scouts rushed out of the woods: "Captain! Thousands of warriors from the east have come around and want to cut off our retreat!"
This fortress is a trap, Nobuyuki Sanada is playing tricks!
Jiang Chong felt a thump in his heart and gave up his plan to attack the enemy's fortress. He shouted loudly: "Retreat at full speed and retreat to the river valley to set up a formation!"
However, the soldiers had just taken a few steps when the scouts from the west rushed back: "Captain, there are thousands of warriors from the west coming to kill us and trying to cut off our retreat."
Jiang Chong took a breath and shouted loudly: "Speed up and retreat! Retreat to the river valley!"
Fortunately, Jiang Chong's scouts were far enough away to grasp the situation within a ten-mile radius. Before the thieves and warriors cut off Jiang Chong's retreat, Jiang Chong's four thousand men successfully retreated to the foot of the mountain and returned to the valley.
However, Jiang Chong failed to return to the wider area of the river valley. Instead, he encountered warriors who ambushed him in a narrow area of the river valley that was only three hundred meters wide.
There are mountains and forests on both sides of the river valley. Japanese samurai are hiding in the mountains and forests holding samurai swords, watching Jiang Chong's 4,000 infantry with eager eyes. Jiang Chong's men and horses are crowded around a few dozen meters to the east of the river, and they are stretched into a hundred meters along the river.
A long bar of meters.
If the warriors charge towards Jiang Chong's soldiers from the mountains and forests, they only need to charge a hundred meters to engage in hand-to-hand combat. The warriors in the mountains and forests stare at Jiang Chong's soldiers like wolves. Obviously, they are preparing to kill Jiang Chong's four thousand soldiers.
People will always stay in the narrow area of this river valley.
Jiang Chong looked at the increasing number of warriors in the forest, frowned, and shouted loudly: "In the step phalanx, two thousand Jinwang style troops are deployed on the periphery!"
The well-trained soldiers adjusted their formation and formed a hollow square formation more than 80 meters long and wide. The soldiers holding new rifles walked to the outermost perimeter with their guns raised to confront the Japanese samurai in the woods.
As the force that invaded the most dangerous place, Li Zhi equipped Jiang Chong with two thousand Jinwang-style rifles this time. These two thousand new rifles were the fundamental basis for Jiang Chong to dare to go deep into the mountains and forests.
Jiang Chong's soldiers set up a square formation, and the warriors in the mountains and forests also completed their assembly, and the battle was about to begin.
There was a deathly silence on the battlefield.
Finally, this eerie silence was broken by an old roar.
"Get out of Japan!"
The sound echoed back and forth in the valley, feeling extremely sad, angry and desolate.
With this roar, the Japanese samurai began to charge.
When the warriors rushed out, Jiang Chong realized that there were thousands of people here. At least 20,000 warriors surrounded him.
The samurai who lost their masters all looked a little desolate at this time. They did not wear gorgeous armor in the mountains and forests. Their hair that should have been pulled up high was tied casually behind their heads. It was no longer what it used to be when they were the ruling class.
Decent.
Their faces were full of desperate despair and anger, as well as the resulting feeling of despair.
Holding samurai swords high, they rushed out of the forest like ants and rushed towards the small river valley guarded by Tsuio rifles.
