In Xuzhou, a battle against the Japanese army is about to begin next. At this moment, the preparation stage has reached full swing.
Zhou Yu never expected that in the first battle to suppress the Japanese, Zhao Yu, who was the vanguard, had been ambushed by the Japanese army, and he suffered a big loss due to his carelessness.
The Xuzhou Army is not only powerful in all directions among the princes of the Central Plains, but how can the Han Dynasty be compared with the small country of Zuer, which is almost unheard of.
Therefore, from the beginning, Zhao Yuxian, as the vanguard general, underestimated these Japanese troops and did not take them seriously at all.
When Zhao Yu thought about it, even without Zhou Yu as the main force of the Chinese army, his three thousand vanguard troops were enough to smash these Japanese soldiers who knew nothing about life and death to pieces.
But contrary to expectations, the invincible scene that Zhao Yu had imagined did not happen. Instead, he himself suffered a big loss.
Zhao Yu went deep into the army alone, but he fell into Takigawa Kazuki's plan to lure the enemy. Mitsuhide Akechi concentrated his superior forces and besieged him from all sides. The situation suddenly turned against Zhao Yu.
Originally, Zhao Yu wanted to use his own bravery to forcefully rush into the thousands of troops and kill the Japanese generals to reverse the situation on the entire battlefield.
However, rushing into the army to take the general's head is not as simple as talking about it. Otherwise, this battlefield should be dominated by those fierce generals, and there would be no mention of the commanders.
To charge and kill ten thousand troops not only requires your own bravery, but also depends on the quality of the enemy's soldiers and generals. Facing different armies and different generals, even if the number of people faced is the same, the difficulty is enough to be very different, or even vastly different.
Not to mention that Akechi Mitsuhide is not an incompetent person, and he is not considered very powerful among the Han Dynasty, but among Japan, his ability is already quite rare. Moreover, how could Zhao Yu have imagined that a small Japanese army would have such a god-level general as Yamata Enrochi?
In this first battle, the battle between Zhao Yu and Yamama Enryu Zhi ended with Zhao Yu's defeat, but strictly speaking, there was no actual winner between the two sides.
The time for the two men to fight was limited, and it was not time to decide the winner yet, but Zhao Yu had to retreat. With the strength of these two people, the gap between them is limited, and it is not so easy to determine the winner.
After all, his army was defeated, and Zhao Yu, as a general, had to retreat. Ruli Zhao Yu did not leave in time and was surrounded by tens of thousands of troops, plus masters like Yamatano Lu Zhi. It is very likely that even Zhao Yu himself will fall into this battle.
Zhao Yu's vanguard army only had 3,000 people, and there were no generals besides him. But the Japanese army on the opposite side was different. As the main force of the Japanese army, there were also many generals underneath.
Although these generals with first-class strength or even only first-class strength are placed on the battlefield within the Han Dynasty, they will be destroyed by higher-level artillery. But they are still some generals after all, and they are more than enough to deal with some ordinary soldiers. Moreover, the combat effectiveness that an army can exert is absolutely different whether it is led by a general or not.
It is precisely because Akechi Mitsuhide has many generals to cooperate, but Zhao Yu's vanguard army lacks the corresponding generals to stop him. Therefore, Zhao Yu's vanguard army will collapse in a very short period of time.
There is always a mutually reinforcing relationship between soldiers and generals. If there are generals but no soldiers, or even if there are soldiers but no generals, they cannot form a strong combat effectiveness.
But now, with Zhao Yu being entangled by Yamama Enryu Zhi and unable to command the battle, Zhao Yu's vanguard army has fallen into a situation where there are no soldiers but no generals.
After this battle, Zhao Yu's 3,000 vanguard army lost a total of 2,000, and only a thousand people followed Zhao Yu to break out of the encirclement.
This battle was also the biggest victory for the Japanese army represented by Akechi Mitsuhide, Takigawa Kazugoshi, and Hatamato Rochi after they entered the Han Dynasty.
Previously, these Japanese soldiers only dared to loot some villages and even some smaller county towns. However, in those big cities, the Japanese soldiers represented by Akechi Mitsuhide, Takikawa Kazumasu, and Hatamata Enroji did not dare to take action easily.
Those big cities, not to mention the number of Japanese troops, could be successfully captured. Even if we win, how many casualties will we have to pay in the process? What's more, these Japanese soldiers came from afar and did not prepare a large number of siege equipment in their hands, which was simply not enough to support them in conquering a large city.
As for those small county towns, the number of troops stationed in the city is not only limited, but also mainly second-line troops with limited combat effectiveness. Speaking of which, this was the first time that the Japanese army, represented by Akechi Mitsuhide, Takigawa Kazugoshi, and Hatamato Roji, saw a Han army of three thousand people, and it was also a regular force of three thousand.
It was precisely because Akechi Mitsuhide, Takigawa Kazuki and others were influenced by the garrison of the previous county towns and mistakenly underestimated the actual combat effectiveness of Zhao Yu's army that Zhao Yu had the opportunity to forcibly break out of the encirclement.
Otherwise, the trap carefully designed by Akechi Mitsuhide, Takigawa Kazumasu and others was set up with an absolutely superior force to set up an ambush. Inside, the Japanese generals were all dispatched, so how could Tsuji Zhao Yu have the chance to escape easily.
It can be said that Zhao Yu was lucky to be able to lead a thousand people to break out of the siege this time.
Speaking of which, in this battle, the Japanese army represented by Akechi Mitsuhide, Takigawa Kazugoshi, and Hatamatoroji mistakenly underestimated the combat power of Zhao Yu's troops, so that they did not proceed as originally planned. They were completely wiped out, but their gains were equally great.
Two thousand sets of Xuzhou Army equipment was already an immeasurable gain for the Japanese army. These equipment were not comparable to the equipment they obtained from the second-rate troops after they invaded those small counties.
As one of the most famous monarchs of the ancient Japanese kingdom, Zhiten Nobunaga was also quite capable and had a good vision.
In fact, this operation was ostensibly to seize money and food, but in fact the Japanese army, represented by Akechi Mitsuhide, Takigawa Kazugoshi, and Yamata Enroji, had another purpose in this expedition, and that was to seize talents.
And these so-called talents do not refer to civil and military talents like Zhou Yu, Yi Yin, and Zhao Yu, but technical talents in all aspects. It is not necessary for these talents to reach the level of Ma Jun, Lu Ban and others. Even if they only know the basics or even the superficial knowledge, they can directly grab them.
After all, the gap between Japan and the Han Dynasty in all aspects during this period was huge. Even some basic things were enough for their development to take a big step forward.
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