Chapter 2382 The Three Great Masters of the Warring States Period
Chapter 2379: The Three Heroes of the Warring States Period
The war that took place in the Nongwei area can no longer be described as fierce, and it is simply tragic.
In this battle, Oda Tokugawa two coalition forces 380,000 VS Qin, Wei, Song and Wu 320,000 coalition forces.
This also caused 700,000 troops to fight in the Danwei area alone.
Such a large-scale battle is rare even in the Central Plains, let alone Japan, which has a total population of only more than 6 million.
After such a big battle, the entire Danwei area was full of war, and every inch of land was soaked with a large amount of blood and corpses.
Because Shibata Katsuya''s 150,000 Kwantung Army was blocked by Wu Qi''s 30,000 troops in Hachinozi City and was unable to make an inch. Oda Nobunaga''s plan to attack the Qin army on both sides was completely bankrupt, and he had to face the attacks between the four kingdoms of Qin, Wei, Song and Wu.
The Oda Tokugawa coalition has an army of 380,000. Although it is above the four-nation coalition forces, it is already at a strategic disadvantage due to being attacked from both sides of the east and west.
In terms of command, the Oda Tokugawa coalition has many famous generals such as Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Sanada Yukimura, Akechi Mitsuhide, so there are almost no mistakes in command, but this still cannot make up for strategic mistakes.
On the contrary, after the four kingdoms of Qin, Wei, Song and Wu adopted the east-west attack, and gained absolute strategic advantages, they also brought the advantages of elite soldiers and generals to the extreme.
Whether it was the Qin army on the east road or the Wei, Song and Wu coalition forces on the west road, in order to break through the defense line arranged by the Japanese army, they sent a large number of elite soldiers and generals to attack with all their strength.
This attack not only allowed the surrendered army to be cannon fodder in front, but even the Han army also participated, and dared to fight, rush, and dared to sacrifice.
The general responsible for commanding the offensive on the Western Front was Le Yi, while the general was Wang Jian on the Eastern Front. In addition, there were a large number of powerful generals working together to fight, which directly caused the attacking force of the offensive side to increase sharply.
Whether it was Toyotomi Hideyoshi who guarded the western front or Sanada Yukimura who guarded the eastern front, they were all confused. They never expected that the enemy''s offensive would be so fierce.
Under the fierce attack of the four kingdoms of Qin, Wei, Song and Wu, regardless of casualties, within just one month, the east and west defense lines built by Oda Nobunaga were broken one after another, and the army suffered heavy casualties.
The Suruga, Tomeng, Sankawa, and three defense lines on the eastern front were all broken through by the Qin army.
The two major defense lines of Iga and Ise on the Western Front were also broken through by the coalition forces of the Wei, Song and Wu, and continued to approach the Mino defense line.
For Oda Nobunaga, the loss of territory is secondly, and the important thing is that the loss of troops is too great.
Under the attack of the four kingdoms of Qin, Wei, Song and Wu, Oda Nobunaga, with an army of 380,000, lost nearly 200,000 troops in just one month.
These troops were all consumed on the five major defensive lines, and also reduced the troops in Oda Nobunaga''s hands to 180,000.
Although the coalition forces of Qin, Wei, Song and Wu achieved such great results, the price they paid was also quite large. Nearly 100,000 troops were injured and killed. Although most of them were Japanese, the number of Han people was killed and injured was as many as 10,000.
This is also the battle with the largest number of casualties among the Han people since landing in Japan.
In just one month, the Japanese army suffered 200,000 casualties. In addition, the strong cities such as Okazaki Castle, Iga Ueno Castle, Kiriyama Osou Castle and other cities fell one after another, and there were not many places left for the Japanese army to defend.
Therefore, Oda Nobunaga could only shrink his defense line, concentrate his troops to defend Okaku and Mino, and defend Tokyo Castle to the death.
Oda Nobunaga''s strategy of shrinking the defense line is correct. If he lets the front-line army continue to fight against the enemy without occupying the geographical advantage, it will have no meaning except for greater casualties.
It is imperative to shrink the troops, but what Oda Nobunaga most worried about was the morale of the army due to such huge casualties and whether there would be rebel generals.
What Oda Nobunaga most suspected was Sanada Yukimura and Akichi Mitsuhide. After all, neither of these two people were his confidants.
But what Oda Nobunaga never expected was that although the rebel general appeared, it was neither Sanada Yukimura nor Akichi Mitsuhide, but his future brother-in-law, Asai Nagamasa.
Oda Nobunaga''s sister, Oda City, is known as the number one beauty in Japan, and is naturally thought of by many people.
Oda Nobunaga originally wanted to marry Oda City to Susanoi to eliminate the barrier between him and Shinto, but Susanoi only loved his sister Tsukiyuki, and even he was not moved by Oda City, the number one beauty in Japan. So based on interests, he decided to marry his sister to Asai Nagamasa.
Although Oda City and Asai Nagamasa have not yet married, Oda Nobunaga has already regarded Asai Nagamasa as his brother-in-law and trusts and relies heavily on Asai Nagamasa. Asai Nagamasa also has a loyal attitude, but he did not expect that the first person to betray him was this prospective brother-in-law.
Asai Nagamasa''s betrayal directly caused the retreat of Sanada Yukimura to be cut off, and he was completely trapped by Wang Jian and Zhang He and could not escape.
At this time, Akichi Mitsuhide''s army had retreated into Ohara Kingdom and could no longer save Sanada Yukimura. It was obviously too late to send troops to rescue him from Ohara.
The 20,000 troops of Sanada Yukimura are facing a dead end, and they are still the kind of people who have no life.
Faced with such a desperate situation, Oda Nobunaga thought that Sanada Yukimura would surrender. After all, he had tried his best. Even if he surrendered, no one would blame him. Unexpectedly, Sanada Yukimura fought to the last moment.
In the end, the 20,000 troops were wiped out, and all the Sanada ten warriors such as Sasuke Sasuke, Kirigiri Kazuki, and Rokuro Moritsuki were killed in battle.
Yukimura Sanada, who has the "No. 1 Japanese Army" and the "Three Last Tragedy Heroes", was unable to escape the tragedy. After exhaustion, he was killed by Qin general Zhang He, but before his death, he also killed the traitor Asai Nagamasa.
Sanada Yukimura failed to escape back to Tokyo, but Akechi Mitsuhide escaped, with less than 10,000 troops left in his hand, and one out of ten was defeated.
Not only Akichi Mitsuhide, but also the retreat of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu was not going well.
There are more than Le Yi in the famous generals on Wei, Song and Wu. With so many famous generals staring at them, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu want to withdraw without paying any price. This is naturally impossible.
In order to ensure the army''s smooth retreat to Ou Nakaku, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu had to leave behind the army to fight for their retreat to delay time.
The result was that the 20,000 troops that were cut off were completely destroyed, Toyotomizu was all killed in battle, and four of Tokugawa''s sixteen generals were killed in battle.
Although Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu pay a great price, they brought back at least 60,000 troops from the Western Front, which is much better than Akichi Mitsuhide who only brought back 10,000 troops.
After the troops on the east and west sides retreated, the Oda family gathered in Tokyo to reach 140,000 troops, and another 40,000 new troops were recruited, which means that Oda Nobunaga still had 180,000 troops in his hands.
Oda Nobunaga knew the truth that the lonely city could not be defended, so he divided the 80,000 troops to guard Gifu Castle, Oheng Castle, Nakono Castle and Inuyama Castle, so that these four cities could serve as the acropolis of Tokyo, leaving 100,000 troops to guard Tokyo, and the five cities supported each other to form a complete defense network.
In addition to these arrangements, Oda Nobunaga also moved all the people of the other cities to these five cities in advance, and nationalized all the grain and burned the empty city to prevent the enemy from obtaining a grain of food in Ohachi and Mino.
Oda Nobunaga''s scorched earth strategy is correct, that is, it was implemented a little late. He should have implemented it before the Shiguo coalition forces even entered the Noo area, so as to increase the logistics burden of the Shiguo coalition forces. Now the four-nation coalition forces have occupied a large amount of territory and the territory is also quite large. They can collect grain on the spot. Even if the scorched earth strategy is useful, the effect will definitely not be that good.
After Oda Nobunaga made all the preparations, the situation was similar to what he expected. The Qin army on the eastern front and the Wei, Song and Wu coalition forces on the western front all rushed straight to Tokyo, obviously intending to meet under the city of Tokyo.
"Your Majesty, Susanoo, Jiajutu, Oyama Tsumi Kazuna, all four people appeared outside Tokyo City. They claimed that they were here to help Your Majesty and asked to enter the city." Miyamoto Musashi reported in a deep voice.
Oda Nobunaga was overjoyed when he heard this. He had not received any good news in this month, either the city was captured or the army was defeated.
The most outrageous bad news is that a fifty-man Qin cavalry team dared to fight against two thousand Japanese troops head-on, and won, chased and captured more than a thousand people.
It''s simply outrageous.
There has been too much bad news this month, and Oda Nobunaga has changed from angry and confused to numbness.
The initiative of Susano-oka and the four others to help was the only good news that Oda Nobunaga heard in the past month.
"Hurry, bring Susano to see me quickly. No, I''d better pick him up into the city myself." Oda Nobunaga said with an excited look on his face.
Oda Nobunaga obviously arranged heavy troops on the east and west lines, but why was he still defeated so quickly? Although the lack of top players is not the only reason, it is also one of the main reasons.
Now four war god-level fierce generals including Susano are coming to help. This is simply a timely help for Oda Nobunaga. How could he not be excited?
After seeing Susanoo and others, Oda Nobunaga went forward without saying a word and grabbed Susanoo''s hand, looking afraid that he would run away.
Susanoo looked at Nobunaga. The two men looked at each other speechlessly, but both knew the pain and sourness in each other''s heart.
"Sasuke, if you could come early, maybe the situation in the Nono area would not have become like this." Oda Nobunaga said with a wry smile.
Susano no Yoshinobu was speechless. He didn''t know that in just one month, Japan had reached the point of destruction of its country and its race.
Besides, even if you can come here in advance, you may not be able to stop all this.
The four powerful generals of Qin, Wei, Song and Wu were already much more powerful than those of Japan. As a result, the two guys, Yamata Orochi and Shuitun Boy, rebelled, which made Japan, which had fewer war gods even worse.
How could they stop all this with just four gods of war?
Although Oda Nobunaga''s defense in Tokyo was almost perfect, there was no war god-level general. No matter how he arranged it, it could not make up for this big gap. The arrival of the four people including Susano-oku made up for the last shortcomings in Tokyo''s defense.
"Report... Report to Your Majesty, the Qin army on the Eastern Front has begun to march and is expected to arrive at the city of Tokyo in three days."
Hearing this, Oda Nobunaga''s eyes were full of solemn expressions and ordered in a deep voice: "Transfer the order to order Toyotomi Hideyoshi to guard the west gate, Tokugawa Ieyasu to guard the north gate, Akichi Mitsuhide guard the south gate, and I will personally lead the army to guard the east gate."
“Hay.”
[Dingdong, Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu combined the "Three Warring States Masters" launched.
Three Warring States Period heroes: Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu must be present at the same time before they can be activated.
Effect 1. After this skill effect is activated, all three people will have +3 force and commander +2.
Effect 2. If the general comes to the battlefield in person, the military force will be +1, and the overall quality of the entire army will be greatly improved;
Effect 3. When the whole country is united, the military force will be +1 (Note: The effect can be superimposed with other effects).
Effect 4: Protect all generals of the army and reduce all negative effects to half. 】
[Dingdong, the effect 1 of the ''Three Heroes of the Warring States Period'' is activated, all three people have +3 of their force and commander +2.
Oda Nobunaga: Commander 99 (+3), Force 101 (+6), Intelligence 85 (+4), Politics 98 (+15), Charm 95 (+6); Equipment: Sozo Zuowen +1, Chehasebe +1;
Currently, the commander of Oda Nobunaga has risen to 101 and its force has risen to 106;
Toyotomi Hideyoshi: Commander 98 (+1), force 85 (+2), intelligence 97 (+3), politics 99 (+5), charm 97 (+2); equipment: Hammer cut Hasebe, Ma Lin, and Fukuo +1;
Currently, the commander of Toyotomi Hideyoshi has risen to 100 and his force has risen to 89;
Tokugawa Ieyasu: Commander 97 (+1), Force 88, Intelligence 93 (+1), Politics 97 (+2), Charm 95 (+1); Equipment: Great Prajna Long Light +1; Shiraishi +1
Currently, the commander of Tokugawa Ieyasu has risen to 99 and the force has risen to 91;]
Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu are also known as the "Three Masters of the Warring States Period in Japan", and the combination skills of the three are also named.
Under normal circumstances, the combination of the "Three Heroes of the Warring States Period" has no chance of being released at all.
This skill must be gathered together to stimulate it, but Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga are destined to be hostile and have no chance to join forces to fight the enemy.
But now the situation is different. There is only one enemy in the entire Japan, that is, the Central Plains Alliance, Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga both shook hands and made peace, so this skill was stimulated.
With the increase of the "Three Heroes of the Warring States Period", even Tokugawa Ieyasu, the commander, reached a height of 99 points, and it is definitely impossible for a person of the level of the three heroes to have no commander skills.
In other words, there are already three famous generals with more than a hundred commanders in Tokyo.
In addition to the 100,000 army, four gods of war, as well as many powerful generals and strategists, there are abundant supplies and sufficient food and supplies...
Tokyo City is definitely not a soft persimmon. If the Four-Nation Alliance underestimates the enemy, it may also be bloody.
(This chapter ends)