Chapter 128 16. There Is Destiny in the Dark
Everyone in the shogunate suddenly realized, and looked like they had figured it out. Not everyone has the ability to see the essence through phenomena, and everyone's evaluation of Kobayata has risen to a higher level (in fact, it was because Kobayata knew the process of the Uedahara Battle, how could he be a prophet).
Yamauchi Chief Accountant smiled and said, "I, who have fought for twenty years, can't compare to you, Tanzheng."
"Since we have already predicted the movements of the A army, we should also make preparations early." Yamauchi Yoshikatsu was impatient and immediately unfolded the hastily drawn map and pointed to the reserve troops on the two wings of Tenbai Mountain.
"That's right, we should immediately strengthen the two wings, then select elite soldiers to fight against the front, and finally rely on the advantage of military strength to completely defeat the A army." Yamauchi Yoshiharu also felt that Kobayata's analysis of the A army's deployment made sense, and he responded immediately.
At the same time, the envoys and horsemen inside and outside the curtain were called to Yamauchi Yoshiharu's side, ready to convey Yamauchi Yoshiharu's order to mobilize the army at any time.
They were originally nearby inside and outside the curtain, and after hearing Koyata's penetrating analysis, most of them looked at Koyata with admiration.
Yamauchi Yoshiharu and a few others immediately started a heated discussion, but found that Koyata was holding a teacup that he had found from nowhere, and then blowing the hot steam coming out of the tea, smiling but not speaking, watching them discuss quietly.
After blowing the tea for a while, it seemed that it was still too hot, so Koyata put the teacup on the table, fiddling with a bamboo stick that couldn't be more ordinary, and giving orders casually.
"Koyata, why don't you say anything?" Yamauchi Yoshikatsu glanced at Koyata, and suddenly felt that Koyata looked like he deserved a beating, and he was so calm with me here.
"Itagaki Suruga-no-kami is a famous veteran in Koshin, right?" Koyata drew in the air with a bamboo stick.
"Of course, he is an old general of the Takeda clan and the commander of the Shinshu clan. He has been in the army for more than 40 years since the reign of the previous Takeda Mutsu no Kami (Takeda Shintora, who can also be called Takeda Kyōjo because he also served as Ukyo no Daifu), and has fought dozens of battles, large and small. He is a veteran general who is famous in Koshin." The chief accountant of Yamauchi replied.
"He is a veteran general, but in my opinion, Itagaki Suruga is not a mature and steady general, but an old and foolish general." Several people were very puzzled. Yamauchi Yoshikatsu wanted to ask immediately, but Yamauchi Yoshiharu held him back and asked Kobayata to continue.
"I have heard from others (actually I read it in a novel, if you have the ability, go find the writer) that Itagaki Suruga has been in and out of Shinshu for more than ten years without a single defeat. He killed more than 3,000 people from the Ueno-Shinano coalition in the battle of Odawara. He treated the Shinshu generals as chickens and dogs. In every battle, as long as he got a head, he would not care about the battle on the battlefield at all and would immediately stop the troops to inspect the head and boast about his martial arts. I wonder if the lord has heard of it?"
"It seems that I have heard of it. What about you?" Yamauchi Yoshiharu nodded first, and the other low-level samurai and Makai hatamoto in the other accounts also nodded.
"Then why don't we make good use of Itagaki Suruga's habit of being so careless and arrogant? Make something out of it." Xiao Pingtai thought that this was the battle process that clearly happened in the Battle of Uedawara in history, so how could I be wrong? He continued to pretend.
"Choose a weaker reserve army to take the lead. The left and right wings are also weaker, and let Itagaki Suruga repel. The lord gathers the defeated soldiers in the rear camp, and waits for Itagaki Suruga to be proud of his victory and examine the heads. Then, surprise and attack the armor army, and you can get complete success."
"Let me think about it." Yamauchi Yoshiharu was a little afraid to take a risky move. After all, if Itagaki Nobukata did not stop to examine the heads as usual, but drove the defeated soldiers to continue attacking, even if the defense of the Yamauchi army's rear team was solid, the morale would be weakened.
This is still a good situation. If one is not careful, the defeated soldiers are driven to break through the rear and main camp, and the 7,000 people of the Yamauchi family will have to be explained here.
After all, most of the current Japanese army is what kind of stuff. The samurai present know it in their hearts. If it is a hereditary retainer, then even if the disadvantage on the battlefield is obvious, it may fight to the death. Many famous samurai regard being the rear guard (that is, the rear guard) as the greatest honor. Even later, there was a beautiful legend of "retreat from Sakuma" in Owari, which was all about the loyalty of hereditary samurai. (Of course, if the master family is really going to be destroyed, the loyalty of hereditary samurai will also be questionable.)
But the foot soldiers are all wealthy self-cultivating farmers above the middle class. They fight mainly because of compulsory feudal military obligations, and secondly because they can rob in the enemy's territory. Their fighting will is not as firm as imagined, especially when the wind is against them, they are even more unwilling to work hard.
And Yamanouchi Yoshiharu is not a poor ghost who is willing to fight to the death. (Although many daimyo with big families and big businesses often do all-in like gamblers, according to the general psychology, it should be a more common psychology to cherish life when you have money) He does not need to fight back. He is now a big family with a big business and tens of thousands of soldiers. He is not likely to choose to use surprise troops and tricks. Everything tends to be conservative. It is not that he is a conservative person by nature, but now he has too many concerns and cannot be a gambler.
Kobayata was not stupid, he could understand Yamanouchi Yoshiharu's thoughts and ideas, "I will take the initiative to meet that Itagaki Suruga no Kami. I know that my lord has some concerns, so I only need to take the initiative with 500 people." Kobayata stood up and bowed to Yamanouchi Yoshiharu and said solemnly.
"In addition, please let me command the soldiers with weaker fighting power and weaker fighting spirit in each department." Select some miscellaneous soldiers, so that there is no need to pretend to be defeated. When Itagaki Suruga's army attacks, the miscellaneous soldiers will collapse at the first blow, and a real defeat can be more easily passed off as a real defeat.
Besides, it doesn’t matter if more weaklings die. As long as the main force of capable and honest people is still there, the Yamauchi family will not be hurt. After all, he still has to work hard in the Yamauchi family, and Kobayata doesn’t want too many elite members of the family to die or be injured.
After hearing what he said, the three people sitting opposite the long table suddenly looked at Kobayata unnaturally. Yamauchi Yoshiharu turned his face away and suddenly asked a messenger, "How old are you this year? Have you married? How many people are there in your family?"
Yamauchi chief accountant lowered his head to look at the map sketch that seemed to have flowers on it, and also pretended to discuss with a horseman, pointing his finger at a random place, "Do you think this hillside is not suitable for riding a horse?" The horseman didn't expect Yamauchi chief accountant to ask, "Hmm, ah ah." It made the two people seem to be in a heated discussion, and those who didn't know would think what they were doing.
Seeing that his father and uncle were obviously avoiding the question, Yamauchi Yoshikatsu secretly criticized his two elders and looked at Koyata jokingly, "Koyata, don't you know that the Renchuan people are the Kuni-shu?"
"Of course I know that, what's wrong with the Renchuan people being the Kuni-shu?" Koyata didn't understand why they looked at him like that.
"The Kuni-shu are the weakest in combat power." Yamauchi Yoshikatsu didn't have the heart to criticize Koyata.
Koyata was embarrassed, "Well, it turns out that it's destined that I have to meet the Takeda army."
Two more updates, big brothers, love me again, okay!