The Age of Lords Reborn

Chapter 484 Arranging the Datong River Layer by Layer (Subscribe)
Similar to the Yalu River, the Taedong River in the south of Pyongyang has also entered a period of freezing after several days of heavy snow and severe cold.

Because it was a time of war, there were very few people to be seen on the vast ice surface.Occasionally, there are several shadows running around, and they are all the Ming cavalry who come and go in a hurry.

Although Mo Xiaobai was certain that Tachibana Somo would make arrangements for the march focusing on Pyongyang, but where and when the other party would come from, they still needed to keep running around and inspecting.

If Tachibana Muneshigeru came, it must be a corps of more than 5000 people.If the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty want to eat this 'reinforcement army', it is not enough to just send some people casually.

On the third day of the battle at Longquan Mountain, the letter was sent to the main camp by Hongyan.Daming Qingqi, who went to the other side of the river to investigate the movements in a radius of tens of miles, finally found the trace of the enemy.

"Quick, go back and tell the lord."

"The number of enemy troops is at least 7000."

Mo Xiaobai sent Qingqi to scout horses, usually in a group of three to five people. After finding the enemy's trail, one person was left to follow, and the rest immediately patted their horses and ran back to the camp through a shortcut in the forest.

Because it was a short-cut ride, it only took a few cavalrymen half an hour to bring the news back.Hearing that there were 7000 Japanese reinforcements coming from the south, all the civil and military personnel in the command tent frowned slightly.

Originally, according to the investigation of Heiyiwei and Jinyiwei, Fengshan and Niufeng had at most [-] Japanese soldiers in their generation.

Now there are seven thousand?
Mo Xiaobai sat on the position of the admiral and did not speak. Li Ji, who was in charge of the actual combat command, thought for a while and said, "It seems that this time, we are going to fight on the glacier."

"General Li Guang, take the tiger and leopard out of the camp first to ambush."

"General Zhang He, you and the deputy general of Ningxia will lead the Miao soldiers and the heavy halberds into battle. You and the others will be the leading force in this battle. You will lead the troops across the river now."

"General Han led the heavy hammer soldiers and the Sichuan soldiers to meet him on the other side of the river. We will not fight the Japanese soldiers, but only want to stop the enemy on the ice surface of the river."

"General Luo's Zhejiang army, together with Datong soldiers and Shandong soldiers, ambushed on both sides of the Nanshan Mountain in Pyongyang. If there are soldiers and horses in Pyongyang who dare to come out of the city to rescue them, you must defeat them in the Nanshan Mountain Road. If Pyongyang does not move, you After the garrison until the end of the war, lead the troops back to the camp."

As Li Ji issued military orders one after another, half of the nearly [-] Great Tomorrow Army was dispatched by him.

It's not that Li Ji made a big fuss, but also to ensure nothing goes wrong.

It has always been a strategist's clever strategy to encircle and fight for aid, but there are also risks in it, that is, it is easy to fall into a double-team dilemma.

Li Ji still has more than 1 troops left untouched, which does not mean that these soldiers and horses have no preparation tasks. With the changes in the battle situation, they may continue to increase troops.

Of course, it all depends on how Pyongyang chooses.

If the Pyongyang side sees the purpose of their deployment and intends to fight directly, Li Ji is also willing to accompany them. After all, the Japanese soldiers in Pyongyang will lose the most important city defense location.

When a famous general led his troops away, Mo Xiaobai smiled and said, "Mao Gong's plan is to let all those Japanese soldiers go down to the river to take a bath?"

"My lord, if the Japanese are defeated in a single battle, naturally there is no need for the last resort."

"That possibility is not great. Tachibana Soshige is a rare powerful character among the Japanese generals this time. You arrange Zhang He and the others to take the lead, and the outcome is actually unpredictable."

Mo Xiaobai has experienced this dungeon, and he has an impression of some generals of the Wa Kingdom.Tachibana Muneshige's position is not high, but he is the most difficult one for Wa on the battlefield in Pyongyang.

If he and President Xiaoxi were to switch their identities, Mo Xiaobai reckoned that the situation of the battle would be different.

However, although Tachibana Zongshige could use his brain, Mo Xiaobai knew it in his heart, so he would naturally take two extra steps. It was because of this that he was sure that he had Tachibana Zongshige in his hands.

Because the opponent is not a general at the level of a legion commander, no matter how much he thinks about, there are not many choices he can make!
"Let's go, let's also go to see if the chariot battalion is ready. If we really want to fight to the end, our chariot cannons will have to win if we want to win."

After Mo Xiaobai finished speaking, Li Ji also nodded and got up.

The two left the tent and headed to the artillery camp. Zhang He and Yang Dengshan, who had been on standby for a long time, had already left the camp first. They would cross the river with the scouting cavalry and go to the other side of the river to stop the Japanese.

Sending troops at this moment is actually no longer an ambush.

But when the two armies met in the wild, one side was already prepared for the contact war, while the other side rushed to the battle. Even if the number of soldiers and horses was superior, it would be difficult to exert their full strength.

"General Zhang, Lao Yang really admires the wonderful deployment of this battle."

Marching all the way to the south, Yang Dengshan was also talking to Zhang Yun: "In the past, when we went to battle, we usually found the enemy, and everyone swarmed up. It is almost impossible to make such a heavy arrangement."

"My lord and General Li's plan, I am deeply impressed."

As the general of Dameng Town, Zhang He has been under Li Ji's command for a long time, and he naturally feels more about Li Ji's formation.

Li Ji rarely fights head-to-head battles, even if his own side has the strength to fight hard.

"That's the admiral, treat our subordinate Erlang as a soldier."

Yang Tengshan clicked his tongue twice. As a general of Yunnan and Guizhou, there are many veterans in the Ming Dynasty at this time. How can he fail to see that Li Ji's various arrangements are to wipe out the Japanese on the one hand, and to preserve the soldiers to the maximum extent on the other hand.

Fight a battle first, and retreat as soon as you take advantage.

Then fight again, and get some cheaper.

Just like this, the repeated contact battles layer by layer made the opponent tired of coping, and at the same time prevented one's own soldiers from falling into endless chaotic battles.

Looking back on the Miao soldiers fighting in the past, although they relied on firearms to kill the enemy, they still had to fight hand-to-hand in the end.

As for other arrangements?
Letting you go is to let you attack with all your strength, either your soldiers and horses are dead, or the enemy army is defeated by you.

As for the death and injury of too many soldiers, is it a pity?

No one in the capital cares, and no one cares about the world tomorrow!

In order to give the children a better advantage in fighting, Yang Tengshan tightened his belt and recruited a team of Yunnan-Guizhou-Miao soldiers whose individual firepower is not inferior to that of Zhejiang soldiers.

Others don't treat his soldiers as human beings, so he can only cherish his subordinates himself.

When this mixed regiment of less than [-] people left the camp and crossed the glacier, the cavalry who had been following the Japanese soldiers and horses returned.

The return of the last explorer means that the Japanese are close at hand!

"Brother, is it really okay for us to go to Pyongyang like this? Will the people of the First Army think that we are competing with them?"

On the south bank of the Datong River, a post road in the mountains five miles away.Seven thousand soldiers lined up in a long line and were gradually advancing towards the river bank.

Hearing his younger brother's inquiry, Tachibana Muneshige immediately said, "If the First Army Corps is still there, it doesn't matter if they have some ideas. I'm afraid that Daming will directly launch a surprise attack on Pyongyang after taking down Longquan Mountain."

"Sneak attack on Pyongyang? That's a big city, so it can't be done easily."

"Maybe it didn't work before, but it's hard to say now, haven't you noticed? The size of the convoy from the south to Pyongyang last time was reduced by half."

Muneshige Tachibana pondered and said with a frown, "Our logistics line has become chaotic. I'm afraid Mr. Konishi Yukina doesn't have enough ammunition reserves, so we must rush to Pyongyang as soon as possible to strengthen Pyongyang's strength."

(End of this chapter)