Smelting and Exploding the Heavens

Chapter 31
Although there are many shogunate soldiers in the distance, everyone is nervous, and they keep sending scouts to investigate, but they are all repulsed and captured by the elite scouts of Fan Jiajun.

After landing, Fan Zhuoyuan ordered to occupy the water source and high ground, and build a camp on the spot.

He landed on the Kako River in Harima Country, where there is running water, so there is no need to worry about poisoning, and the water flow is abundant, so boats can sail on the river.

The battleship went north along the Kakogawa River and entered the inland area to provide fire cover for the army on the shore. In such a last-ditch battle, there is enough retreat and can be fought casually.

After Fan Zhuoyuan led the troops to form a moon formation on the shore and stood firm, he frowned slightly looking at the continuous fortress defense line in the distance.

This battlefield is somewhat similar to the enlarged version of the first battle in Miike County. Hojo Zongzheng of Miike County thought that he was not good at skirmishing, and suffered a big loss.

But now the shogunate must already know the battle in Miike County, and they will not easily fight with themselves.

Even though he has a coup for attacking the city, the defense system of the wall on the opposite side is too tight, and he has made full use of the geographical advantage. Pulling out one by one may not be able to catch up with the speed of the opponent's repair.

But no matter what, you still have to step forward and touch it.

He led [-] soldiers and horses, accompanied by his deputy Zhang Xi, and carried two [-]-jin copper cannons, and walked along the bank of the Kakogawa River.

Japan is rich in copper mines, gold and silver ore resources, and the Kyushu Shikoku area occupied by Fan Zhuoyuan has a lot of copper ores that have been mined.

Over the past three months, Fan Zhuoyuan melted and cast all the copper ore, basically making them into cannons, and made more than forty guns of different sizes.

The only disadvantage of using copper to cast cannons is that the raw materials are too expensive, but the difficulty of manufacturing and processing is much lower than that of steel.

Now Fan Zhuoyuan is asked to use iron to make cannons, but he dare not use them.

Fan Zhuoyuan led the army to a high ground. It would be a waste to use copper cannons to fight this kind of wooden village, and it could be easily destroyed by catapults.

But it can't stand the huge number and continuous.

Fan Zhuoyuan ordered his subordinates to bombard the wooden village, and sure enough, a few cannonballs destroyed one wall, the defenders inside did not engage in battle at all, and one wall collapsed, and immediately retreated from behind crying, most of them were farmers and soldiers.

After Fan Zhuoyuan led the troops to occupy, he found that except for Kakogawa behind him, the surrounding area was surrounded by enemy wooden camps.

Lieutenant General Zhang Xi reminded: "Young commander, if we attack one of them, the defenders in other villages may come to attack our army's rear flanks, and even cut off our logistics supplies.

This place is not conducive to cavalry galloping. After their harassment, if our army pursues, they will quickly retreat to the village.

If they pull out the stronghold, they will speed up repairs while our army is resting at night.

If our army divides up to defend the occupied Muzhai, but such a vast area stretches for dozens of miles, our army's strength will inevitably be dispersed in large numbers, and the strength will be insufficient to deal with emergencies. "

Wan Hu asked next to him: "Why don't you break through the Chinese army, concentrate your troops, and directly attack the central county town guarded by their wooden villages! If you take down the county town, there will be no point in having so many wooden villages."

Zhang Xi explained: "It's not that simple, use a binoculars to see!"

Speaking of handing over the binoculars to Wanhu who had just questioned him, he looked in the direction of Himeji County.

I saw a large stretch of ditches outside the county seat, criss-crossing. The ghost knows whether there are caves for Tibetan soldiers built in these ditches.

If our own army drove over, if we didn't fill up the trenches, we wouldn't even have a foothold, not to mention that there were so many wooden villages around that were not dead.

Once they storm Himeji County, they will directly send troops to harass them, or outflank the rear and cut off supplies, and they will be in great trouble.

The general frowned slightly, shook his head and said, "This layout of the city defense reminds me of the original Xiangfan city defense system. This is definitely not a strategy that the Japanese pirates could think of. It should be guided by the veterans of the Song Dynasty!"

Zhang Xi took the binoculars, nodded and said: "Yes, on the surface we have to deal with hundreds of thousands of Japanese pirates, but in fact there are also some Song people who are determined to help the Japanese pirates! This battle may be a bitter one! "

Fan Zhuoyuan frowned slightly, and said indifferently: "First detect with power, let [-] soldiers go to battle, see how many wooden villages can be broken in half a day, and then discuss countermeasures."

Ten thousand soldiers and horses marched forward, ten thousand soldiers and horses guarded the back road, broke through three forts in one morning, and used cavalry to attack and kill thousands of enemy soldiers, most of whom were farmers and soldiers with extremely low combat effectiveness.

Fan Zhuoyuan observed with a binoculars, and he had a plan in mind.

After gathering the soldiers and horses at noon, the generals will hold a meeting.

Fan Zhuoyuan as the main general, together with Zhang Xi and other eight ten thousand households, sat around the campfire and grilled wild pork, while looking at the defense system of the continuous fortress in the distance, while discussing strategies.

Fan Zhuoyuan tore the tough cardboard and oilless wild boar leg in his hand and said: "It is said that there is a 40 army, and there must be no less than [-] soldiers. With so many horses and animals, how much logistics supplies are needed? Have you calculated it?"

Thousands of households put down the shriveled wild boar ribs in distaste, and said: "The autumn harvest has just been finished, and the Kinki area is considered rich. The grain and grass collected by the enemy can last for a few months to half a year. I don't think it's a big problem.

What's more, although we have blocked the sea, they are more familiar with land routes, so they must have transportation routes. "

Zhang Xi frowned and said, "The young commander wants to cut off the enemy's supplies? But Japan's terrain is broken and the mountains are continuous. We are not familiar with the terrain. How can we cut off the enemy's supplies?"

Wan Hu's analysis just now was correct, and Fan Zhuoyuan knew it very well.

Our own logistics is actually not a problem, after all, we have absolute maritime superiority.

However, the time given by the system is now only more than three months, and no one knows the bottom line.

In this regard, Fan Zhuoyuan already had a strategy to force the enemy into a decisive battle during the powerful investigation in the morning.

He said: "I won't say much else, I have three strategies to force him to a decisive battle in this battle, and I just need to implement it in the next period of time, without asking too much.

First, on the frontal battlefield, we continue to bleed blood, unite our troops without dividing them, and burn camps every day to maximize the consumption of enemy resources, and each department takes turns to maintain vigor.

If there is a chance, we should first destroy the enemy's vital forces, and don't rush to wipe out the shogunate army in a short time!Change from swallowing to nibbling, piecemeal.

Second, use merchants and captives to release rumors, saying that the imperial court is about to send [-] troops to join forces and destroy the sun in one fell swoop!
Third, [-] cavalry and [-] light infantry, a total of [-] soldiers and horses, took battleships and went straight to the Kanto region of Japan to destroy the enemy's rear, causing chaos, looting supplies, and cutting off supplies! "

Except for the third point where the generals have doubts, it is not a big problem to go around the enemy's rear with [-] soldiers and horses to harass them, but how can our army, which is not familiar with the terrain, cut off the supplies of the shogunate?
As for point one and two, not only did the generals understand it, but they all thought it was a coup, especially point two, if they heard that the imperial court was about to send follow-up reinforcements, then the shogunate would no longer have the advantage in strength, and they would be the ones who were anxious!

In this way, it can turn the customer into the main.

(End of this chapter)