Volume 7 Jiangnan Green Looking Maple Red Chapter 1041 Red Leaf 10
Looking at the passive battle situation, the officers in the Hongye Army's main formation were anxious. Due to the huge disadvantage in numbers, facing the Oda family's roundabout tactics on the plains, the Hongye Army and the allied forces had to deploy their rear troops to the side again and again.
The two ends of the Red Leaf Army and the Allied Forces' front lines continued to bend backwards, and were faintly pressed into a semicircle, struggling to protect the headquarters behind them.
The deployment of troops by the Hongye Army and the Allied Forces has been stretched thin, and the number of troops maintaining the front has dropped to the minimum theoretically required. Each soldier has to face the attacks of two to three Oda soldiers, struggling to support the defense line. It is even worse.
What's more, the Oda family obviously still has some remaining strength. Behind the Oda family's front, there are still about 30,000 troops that have not been engaged in the battle. Under the command of Oda Nobunaga, they are slowly continuing to outflank from both wings. Wait until the 30,000 troops
If they return to their positions in a roundabout way, the Red Leaf Army will be destroyed from both sides.
To attack more with less, you must rely on pulling, assault, division and encirclement. It is a taboo for military strategists to stand and confront each other on a fixed front line, because the side with more people can easily outflank them like now. However, with the above changes, the Red Leaf Army
However, it is impossible for both the Hongye Army and the allied forces to operate. If you attack forward, you will enter the shooting range of the Oda family's Otsutsu unit. If you pull back, the Hongye Army will have to withdraw from the formation, and the Oda Army will be able to cut off the main force of the Red Leaf Army and attack.
The connection between the troops in the bastion will annihilate the Narubei, Hosiribei, and the special company on the bastion, and the sacrifices of Yushubei and Tokiwabei will be meaningless. If you want to force the Oda army into a narrow terrain and let it
Unable to take advantage of the numerical advantage, the battle line also needs to be pushed north to the Yodogawa River - but that still has to enter the shooting range of the large barrel team on the hills on the other side of the Yodogawa River. In any case, this is a dead situation.
"Your Highness, Tianhe Bei's front can no longer be maintained. Enemies are constantly trying to make detours, asking for support!"
"Your Highness, both Hori Hidemasa and Habuta Noiraka are sending more troops to the left wing. Your Highness, Chomune, can't resist it, so I'm asking for help from you!"
"Your Highness, because Changzong's troops have tightened their defense line, Wan Junbei has lost cover and may have to retreat. Your Highness, please coordinate!"
"Your Highness, the commander of the second company of Jincaobei was killed by a stray bullet just now. Now the formation is scattered. Please retreat and reorganize!"
"Your Highness, His Highness Miyoshi sent an envoy. He was attacked by Takigawa Kazumasu and Nakamura Kazushi. He suffered considerable losses and needs support!"
"Your Highness, the Miyoshi army on the left of Hoshino Bei is retreating, but Niwa Nagahide's troops are still outflanking them. I request further instructions from Your Highness!"
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Seeing the urgent orders flying in like snowflakes, the faces of the warriors in the formation became more and more anxious.
"Your Highness, we really need to send people for support." Sen Kelong's tone was already shaking with excitement. He pressed his hands on the temporary field sand table and asked Yu Qiu Shang for orders, "Once the battle line collapses, everything will be destroyed."
If we lose, the reserve team must be dispatched."
"It's useless. We have 14,000 soldiers on the front line, but the enemy has 70,000 soldiers. Even if we send out all 6,500 soldiers in our formation, what will happen? 20,000 soldiers cannot be maintained in such an open terrain.
Showing a complete display only delays the collapse a little, and you will still lose." Even if the situation is so embarrassing, the determination in Yu Qiu Shang's eyes has not wavered, "The 6,500 soldiers invested in maintaining the front are as good as
It's like a drop in the bucket, they must be used in more important places, in places that can turn the tide of the war."
"But there is no place to display it at all. To retreat is to sell Naibei Bei, Hosoragi Bei and the others on the bastion. To move forward is to enter the range of hundreds of Oda family's artillery." Mori Kolong felt more and more satisfied with the situation in front of him.
Feeling desperate, he looked at Oda Nobunaga's horse seal hiding on the bastion with all his might, "Unless we can rush down Oda Nobunaga's horse seal."
"It's impossible. The bastion where his horse seal is located is located northeast of the main confrontation line between our two armies. If you want to hit him, you must first defeat the left wing of the eastern front of the main force of the Oda Army." Yu Qiu Shang shook his head.
Shaking his head, he kept clenching and unclenching his hands, seeming to be hesitating, "And even if we briefly broke through the left wing of the Oda family, it would take us a long time to rush down the bastion. By then, the center and right wing of the Oda army would be
They will outflank our entire army."
"Then we, 6,500 soldiers, have to rush and have a look. How will we know if we don't give it a try?" Ji Gang Shengzheng slammed the table and said to Yu Qiu Shang in a loud voice, "Your Highness, let's rush and try.
Come on! Don’t rush now, wait
When the front collapses later, there will be no need to rush!"
"Where are the 6,500 soldiers? They are clearly 5,000 soldiers..." Senju Osari on the side poured cold water on his face with a gloomy look, "Jingzhe is nothing without artillery..."
Senju Ounari's words brought the atmosphere in the formation to freezing point, and frustration began to spread. Even Yu Qiu Shang could not think of a way to reverse the situation at this moment - a five-fold strength difference was really too desperate.
, not to mention that the opposite side was still busy building fortifications, and at the same time had an overwhelming advantage in heavy firepower.
If the father were here, what would be done?
Just when everyone was at their wits' end, Naoe Nobuei, who had been muttering to himself "Jingzhe Bei has no artillery", suddenly exclaimed, startling everyone.
"Your Highness, there are artillery!" Naoe Touhei stood up as if waking up from a dream, crossed the battlefield where tens of thousands of soldiers from the two armies were confronting each other, raised his hand and pointed to the hills on the other side of the Yodo River, "Isn't there Ori there?"
Are there hundreds of artillery pieces of the Tian family? As long as we capture that place, will Jingzhe prepare to have artillery fire? That place has an excellent shooting angle. As long as we can fire on the Oda army's lineup there, we can defeat them immediately.
The situation is in chaos."
"Are you dreaming? You're talking nonsense!" Senju Ouchi wanted to slap Naoe Denping hard - if he wasn't Yu Qiuping's son-in-law, he might have done so. "How do you want us to get to that mountain?"
Go up to the post? Fly over the heads of the two armies? Or rush through the 70,000-strong formation of the Oda Army?"
Naoe Tohei was so scolded by Senju Oge that he did not dare to raise his head, so he had to confess repeatedly.
"I was not strict in discipline, please atone for my sins." Senju Oinari was about to apologize to Yu Qiu Shang, but found that Yu Qiu Shang was also lost in thought. After a long while, Yu Qiu Shang slowly raised his head, and the preface did not match.
Later he said: "It's easier than rushing into the horse's seal."
"I said it would be easier to tear a hole in the Oda army's front and rush over than to rush through Oda Nobunaga's horse seal." Yu Qiu Shang paused, organized his words, and then pointed at Oda.
The central front of the army, "The Oda Army made a mistake, not a big one. In order to outflank them, they transferred all the powerful Hokuriku Army and Higashiyama Road Army to the two wings. Only Oda Nobutada was left leaderless in the center.
, the weak Kanto () Army. And many of the troops directly under the Oda Army who were originally following them moved to the two wings because they disliked the slow advance of the Kanto () Army. Therefore, the center of the Oda Army is exactly
Their most vulnerable place. If we charge with all our might, we can rush through from the center."
"But what's the use of rushing over? The Oda family will come back from both sides as soon as they come to their senses. We have no chance or time to send the artillerymen of Jingzhe Preparation up the hill, not to mention that we may not have time to weave.
Tian Jun took down the hill before encircling him." Sen Kelong reminded with a solemn expression.
"How is this possible? We have cut off the Oda Army's front in the middle. In a normal war, wouldn't we win if we break through the center of the opponent's side? Has the morale of the opponent's side collapsed soon?" He recovered from the scolding.
Naoe Touhei came and once again raised a scolding question.
"It's stupid, because usually the commander's main formation and horse seals are in the center. Once the center collapses, the main formation will be gone. The enemy's morale will collapse when they lose the command of the horse seals and cannot find their leader."
Senju Ounari, who studied artillery, knew the childishness of Naoe Nohira's words, and pointed out unceremoniously, "Oda Nobunaga's horse seal is now on the high bastion in the west of Maple Leaf Mountain Castle, and it can be seen from the entire battlefield.
Got it. Even if the battle line is torn apart, the various departments of the Oda family can continue to obey the command of Oda Nobunaga Main."
"Perhaps we can do two things at the same time." Yu Qiu Shang, who was silent for a while, once again proposed a method, "Tear apart the enemy's central front and attack the horse seal at the same time."
"Where did we come from with so many people?" Maeda Keiji spread out his empty hands, "It's difficult for us to do even one thing."
"You don't need to actually rush down to attack the horse seal, as long as you can force Oda Nobunaga to move the horse seal." The ideas in Yu Qiu Shang's mind seemed to have gradually become clearer, and he spoke faster and faster, "
We sent a special force into the central bastion we had laid, and then feigned an attack on Oda Nobunaga's horse seal to draw attention there. This feint attack must be a desperate blow, forcing Oda to
Nobunaga transferred the horse seal. There was a small problem with the sea of bastions built by Oda Nobunaga. The passages between the bastions were sealed and had a roof. In other words, Oda Nobunaga was moving from one bastion to another.
When a bastion transfers the horse seal, it must go through a sealed passage. There will be a period of time when the horse seal is removed and taken away from the passage. During that time, Oda Nobunaga was nowhere to be seen on the entire battlefield.
As for the horse seal, Oda Nobunaga doesn’t know what the situation is like outside. Wasn’t that the case when he transferred the horse seal for the first time just now?”
"We seized the opportunity of the leaderless Oda Army to storm the central front, tearing apart the enemy's defenses, then quickly broke through and captured the hill, sent Jingzhe over, and bombarded the Oda Army with artillery. During this period, Oda Nobunaga
We are unable to command, and all the troops on the battlefield will be in a panic if they don't see the horse seals. They don't know what to do, and they may be delayed and hesitate for a period of time. We will use this time to prepare Jingzhe from the battlefield before the enemy double-teams us.
Send it over in the middle. After Jingzhe prepared to occupy the hillock, he immediately fired from a high position at the Oda family's formation, and we have a chance to reverse the situation."
After Yu Qiu Shang finished talking about his crazy plan, everyone in the formation was speechless for a while. After a while, Yoshioka Shengzheng, who was always the boldest, frowned and muttered: "It's too dangerous.
Alright."
"Let's not talk about whether we can force Oda Nobunaga to move the horse seal with a feint attack. Even if we can really force him to move, the time for the horse seal to disappear in the passage is estimated to be less than 3 minutes. The time is too short.
I didn't even notice that the horse seal disappeared just now." Yoshioka Katsumasa estimated using the Yuqiu family's measurement unit, his brows became more and more frowned, "Even if we take a step back, let's assume that Oda Nobunaga was beaten.
Before moving the horse seal, he was too flustered and did not pay attention to the battlefield situation. Raising the horse seal again after moving the horse seal also took time. Oda Nobunaga himself also spent time reading the battlefield situation. All of the above combined, at best,
Half an hour."
"There is only half a quarter of an hour. We have to break through the center of the 70,000-strong army in half a quarter of an hour, tear open a hole, send Jingzhe out, and take down the hill during this time." Maeda Keiji swallowed.
The muscles on his face were a little stiff, "This..."
"This is our only chance to win." Yu Qiu Shang looked at the shaky front line and said resolutely, "Do you have any other ideas? If not, do it immediately. We don't have much time left."
After everyone hesitated for a moment, they all saluted with a military salute.
"Lord Maeda, first bring a copper wall to patrol behind our army's front line to intimidate the outflanking troops of the Oda family so that they dare not immediately outflank our army and delay time." Yu Qiushang was the first to point to Maeda Keiji.
"When we launched a surprise attack later on, we also used the cavalry equipped with bronze walls as the vanguard."
"Yes!" After Maeda Keiji took the order, he immediately led the cavalry ready to go towards the battlefield.
"Lord Yoshioka, Senju-sama, you two will act together later and follow Tongqiang Bei through the defense line of the Oda Army. Lord Yoshioka will cover Jingzhe Bei up the hill, and then protect Jingzhe Bei's artillery position."
"Yes!" Yoshioka Katsumasa and Senju Ounari also followed the order and began to make preparations for the war.
"Sir Mori, please lead your troops into the central bastion battlefield and storm the West Castle bastion where Oda Nobunaga's horse seal is located." Yu Qiu Shang finally looked at Mori Kolong and asked, "The key to the success of the entire plan is to force
Oda Nobunaga transferred the horse seal and left it to you."
"Aren't there any reserves left in this formation?" After hearing that Yu Qiu Shang sent out all the 6,500 soldiers that he had held in his hands for a long time, Sen Kelong, who had always suggested that Yu Qiu Shang send out the reserve team, was slightly agitated.
He said uneasily, "There are 30,000 soldiers from His Majesty Ikeda, His Majesty Sawaki, His Majesty Tokugawa and the Kanto Daimyos on the Nancheng Bastion. Although they are not very willing to fight, what should they do if they attack our formation?"
"If those 30,000 soldiers really take action, it won't help no matter how much I keep them in this formation. It's better not to keep them at all. Victory or failure depends on this move, the life and death of the Yuqiu family also depends on this move, and whether the great revenge can be avenged also depends on it.
With this move, there is nothing to hold back." Yu Qiu Shang stepped forward and put his left hand on Sen Kelong's shoulder, "Master Sen, please."
"Yes." Mori Koron once again performed the standard military salute of the Red Leaf Army, and at the same time shouted in a deep voice with red eyes:
"I swear to avenge His Highness Hongye and Captain Honda!"