When Minamoto Yoshitsune arrived near the battlefield of Mino Country, it was before the final decisive battle between the Ming Army and the Mino Army.
After expressing his intention to participate in the war, the leader of the Mino Army smiled miserably, then shook his head and asked Minamoto Yoshitsune to escape for his life. He led the army in a final fight with the Ming Army.
The result was of course tragic. His army had no power to fight back and was "crushed" by the Ming army.
Cold weapons and hot weapons were intertwined. The Ming Army's steel formation crushed the Meinong Army's resistance, successfully broke through the Meinong Army's last stronghold, eliminated all resisters, occupied all important places, and won the final victory. victory.
The country of Merion fell.
Minamoto Yoshitsune, who finally escaped after his cavalry suffered half casualties, witnessed the last battle and final collapse of the Mino army, and also witnessed the Ming army's fighting method, which was greatly shocked.
For the first time, he witnessed the coordinated and integrated combat methods of various arms.
Before this, Minamoto Yoshitsune had never seen such a fighting method.
His initial military concept did not include any tactical planning such as coordinated operations of various arms and outflanking. Like others, he believed that the personal bravery and fighting ability of elite warriors were the key to winning or losing a war.
It wasn't until he read Chinese art of war books that he had slightly different military thoughts. Now, the Ming army showed completely different strategic concepts and tactical execution capabilities in front of him.
He couldn't see the warriors in the Ming army, and he couldn't find the super strong man who could win the battle. It seemed that everyone in the Ming army was no longer themselves after going to the battlefield, but belonged to a whole.
The role of the individual is obscured and collective attributes take over.
No matter how many people there are, they will only do the same thing. They are not like human beings, but like puppets on strings.
With a command, the spear thrust forward.
With a command, the sharp swords slashed together.
With one command, arrows rained down.
At the command, the muskets roared.
They strictly abide by the general's orders, strictly implement the general's orders, and implement everything to every soldier, forming a strong collective force, clenching their fingers into fists, and then blasting out fiercely.
In this way of fighting, the Ming army crushed the Meinong army's final counterattack at an extremely fast speed.
More than a hundred elite warriors of the Meino army held swords and rushed towards the Ming army with great courage. Their momentum was like a tiger descending from the mountain. Minamoto Yoshitsune felt that such elite warriors who dared to fight were rare in the whole country.
But in front of the Ming army as a whole, they were like fragile deer. They were all stabbed to death by a long forest of spears in front of the Ming army formation, without even the strength to fight back.
After the last samurai was pierced by several spears and vomited blood and died, Minamoto Yoshitsune felt a sense of despair in his heart on the one hand, but on the other hand he felt that they had not completely lost.
After seeing the insurmountable gap in tactics, Minamoto Yoshitsune noticed another important point.
Before he arrived in Izu, he was puzzled by the high-speed march of the Ming army. He felt that there was something wrong with such a high-speed march.
The speed of the army's march depends on the one hand, the enemy's retreat speed, and on the other hand, it also depends on the speed of the logistics troops, and in the middle, the follow-up speed of the logistics troops is the main factor.
It is often said in the Chinese art of war that before the three armies move, food and grass will go first, which shows that the importance of logistics and food and grass is the number one in the sky.
The rapid march of the Ming army must be related to their extremely fast logistics follow-up speed. Logistics is the attacker's biggest weakness and greatest destiny in war. As long as the logistics weakness is grasped, a way to defeat the enemy will be found.
He believed that the weakness of the Ming army might lie in its fast logistics. The Ming army's advance must have pushed the logistics to the limit. As long as a little force was applied, the Ming army might be able to force the Ming army to retreat.
So Minamoto Yoshitsune ordered the two retainers around him who were very good at reconnaissance to put on rags, smear dirt on their faces, pretend to be prisoners of the Meino Army after the battle, and sneak into the Ming Army camp to investigate. Discover the secrets of military logistics.
It would be best if you can find out. If there is danger, then the two of you can escape with the camera.
Taking advantage of the chaotic moment after the war, the two men infiltrated the prisoner team, watched the Ming army's camp, and saw some things.
Three days later, they took advantage of the darkness and used their abilities to escape quietly without attracting any attention.
The news they brought to Minamoto Yoshitsune who was hiding in the mountains surprised Minamoto Yoshitsune.
Because they were never able to leave the prisoner-of-war camp, they failed to understand the Ming army's logistics route. Minamoto Yoshitsune's idea of a sneak attack on the Ming army's logistics route was shattered.
But they saw something else.
First of all, they don't starve, they can eat three meals a day.
Secondly, the people who delivered food to the prisoner-of-war camp where they were located were local Japanese. They were all local civilians. They were very well-behaved and obeyed orders very well. They were also very hard-working and diligent in transporting logistics, and they were not sneaky at all.
At first, they thought that these guys were forced to deliver food to the Ming army, which was equivalent to the status of slaves, and their situation was miserable. Until they saw that after the food was delivered to them, these Japanese civilians and the Ming army soldiers guarding them sat down. We had dinner together.
They were shocked.
How could these guys sit and eat together with Ming soldiers so naturally?
Moreover, the soldiers of the Ming army did not seem to be uncomfortable at all. They naturally shared food with them and ate a kind of food called salted vegetable pancakes together.
They saw that the method of making this kind of food is not complicated. It is to knead the pickled vegetables and dough together, and then put them together on the stove and bake them with oil to form a flatbread.
The baked flatbread is crispy and delicious, with a strong aroma. The freshly baked hot flatbread is very delicious and tastes delicious.
Even if it is cold, it does not feel cold and difficult to chew. It is still very flavorful and can replenish the salt the body needs and even replenish some oil.
The soldiers of the Ming army ate with these guys and drank steaming soup together. They looked very satisfied.
As prisoners of war, they did not receive such treatment. Because they were unwilling to surrender or do anything, they could only eat a small number of cold pancakes and had no hot soup to drink.
But to be honest, it tasted really good and they didn't really starve.
After eating pancakes and hot soup, those guys said hello to the Ming army soldiers, and left in detachment under the leadership of a leader. On the second and third days, they all came, again and again, very punctually.
There were no Ming soldiers guarding them with knives and whips, and they couldn't understand each other's language. They even had to gesture and shout to barely understand each other's meaning.
But they had smiles on each other's faces and seemed to get along very harmoniously. There was no feeling of hostility. They didn't even feel that the Ming army was the invader, and these Japanese civilians were citizens of the invaded country.
What is the situation here?
They were puzzled, but they couldn't stay any longer, there was no time.
Because every time the soldiers of the Ming army and the Japanese civilians carrying logistics were nibbling a small amount of cold flatbreads, they would sit in front of them and show off the hot salted vegetable flatbreads and fragrant broth.
The aroma went straight into their noses, arousing their greed and making them swallow their saliva over and over again.
They were not abused in any way, no one was beaten, no one was killed, they were just greedy, so greedy that they could not sleep at night.
In just three days, most of the Meinong soldiers, including a small number of captured samurai, could no longer hold on, surrendered one after another and expressed their willingness to join the logistics transport team.
The two of them could only use their skills and leave secretly at night, not daring to stay longer for fear of missing the opportunity to escape.
After Minamoto Yoshitsune learned about this, he remained silent for a long time.
(End of chapter)
