After a month of tireless and frenzied harassment by Liang Chuan, the entire Ping clan's army was on the verge of collapse due to the harassment, and the last straw that broke the camel's back was the supply of Ping clan's logistics.
At present, sea ships from the south are unable to come, and there is not much food and grass left in Kansai. There is still half a month before the next batch of food and grass arrives, and the army has begun to ration food.
This battle was extremely frustrating. He clearly had a stronger force than his opponent, and he had to sacrifice many lives if he attacked the door. However, the other party refused to come forward in the fight.
After Minamoto Yoritomo implemented agricultural reforms, Kanto's grain output was a bumper harvest. After the people overpaid for grain, they actually had more grain surplus than in any previous year. As long as she doesn't run out of food during this expedition, she won't be able to finish it.
Taira Kiyomori sent Ming Yun back to Kobe to collect grain. As soon as the logistics manager left the military camp, he was targeted by people sent by Minamoto Yoritomo. In this battle, Liang Chuan advocated fighting without bloodshed, avoiding head-on confrontation with human sea tactics, and cutting off the enemy's food and fodder. This is the most deadly and thorough tactic.
Whether this battle can be successful or not will be related to the direction of the war. To this end, Genji's core management held a tactical discussion meeting to discuss how to carry out the next offensive.
The die-hards of Hojo's political affairs are of the old school's war thinking, advocating that the Taira family does not have much food in hand, and coupled with the continuous harassment for months, the fighting spirit of the soldiers has dropped to a low point. They should take this opportunity to take the initiative to attack and defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.
Liang Chuan argued that although the Ping family was short of food, it was not a food shortage. A food shortage would lead to military chaos, and a food shortage would lead to a desperate fight with trapped animals. The end of a strong crossbow was even more terrifying. They should avoid their stubborn resistance and cut off their food routes. The Ping clan's current military strength is far superior to ours, and it will be difficult to win under a strong attack.
Liang Chuan gave an example. The reason why Cao Cao turned defeat into victory in the Battle of Guandu was exactly such a tactic.
Minamoto Yoritomo listened to the opinions of all parties. Although Taira Kiyomori suffered more casualties than himself after several battles, the total force was still superior to his. General Fujiwara Hidehiro's main cavalry force still had strength. All her efforts in the next month were in vain. After comprehensive consideration, she accepted Liang Chuan's suggestion to cut off the food supply first and then find a decisive battle.
Cao Cao has moved out and everyone is speechless. The people of the island country have a terminal admiration for the heroes of the Three Kingdoms. Do they dare to say that they are more powerful than Emperor Wu of Wei?
Minamoto Yoritomo's scouts closely monitored the Taira clan's movements, and as soon as Ming Yun returned to Kobe, the news came back. Ye Yuan Yoritomo made a quick decision and immediately asked Liang Chuan Qingqi to catch up with Ming Yun's grain team and annihilate them when they returned.
She personally led the army, with Benkei as the vanguard, to attract Taira Kiyomori's army, and instead of engaging in a decisive battle, she induced a fight.
After Minamoto Yoritomo left Liangchuan, he dismantled his camp and set up a battle formation for Benkei and Fujiwara to fight again. Genji was obviously at a disadvantage, leaving many corpses behind and burning down the military stronghold. Retreat toward Nagano.
Taira Kiyomori was delighted with this great victory, and the sluggish morale of the whole army suddenly rose again. If Genji had not played tricks and tricks, he would still have been defeated. Taking advantage of the victory to pursue him, Taira Kiyomori ordered the entire army to fight to the death and pursue them closely.
He doesn't have much rations for his troops. Nagano is Genji's own territory. Once you get to his territory, you can plunder and plunder without worrying about rations.
He even went so far as to say: "Capture Nagano and let everyone loot it for three days. The property will be yours, and the land will be divided slowly in the future!"
This sentence was like poison that stimulated the ambitions of his soldiers. They were like jackals whose eyes sparkled when they saw their prey.
Minamoto Yoritomo looked at Taira Kiyomori's crazy pursuit with a sneer on his face. Taira Kiyomori was smart all his life but was so confused when he was old. How could he be invincible when he met Liang Chuan, a cunning fox?
During the three months of pre-war mobilization in Nagano, all the residents had already been relocated. The entire Nagano was like a no-man's land, with only grass as far as the eye could see and not a single stitch or thread left.
All that is left are endless traps and mechanisms.
Minamoto Yoritomo had a trap distribution map in the Nagano area. When retreating, he avoided the traps and pits set on the ground in a roundabout way. When Fujiwara saw this retreat formation, he found it strange and immediately explained the problem to Taira Kiyomori beside him. .
Taira Kiyomori was dazzled by the desire for victory. He saw with his own eyes that Genji was defeated and even lost his own stronghold. What could be wrong with this?
Chase, chase me, whoever catches Minamoto Yoritomo will be rewarded regardless of life or death! Fujiwara's advice was just forgotten, and everyone tried their best to catch up with Genji's army.
The cavalry troops charging forward were unlucky. Hundreds of cavalrymen were like a mountain torrent and could not be stopped. Nagano was filled with horse traps, and hundreds of cavalrymen led by Yigu Nao all fell into the horse traps. The cavalry behind wanted to stop the oncoming force, but the horse stopped, and the horse that followed hit him again. For a time, countless people in his army were trampled to death and fell into the pit, causing death and maiming.
Nearly five hundred cavalrymen lost their combat effectiveness forever.
When Ping saw a long and deep trap appearing on the plain in front of him, everyone immediately stopped charging and sent infantry forward to explore the way.
The scouts returned to the team and reported that the Taira army had fallen into a trap. Benkei made a prompt decision and led the cavalry to kill them back.
The Ping clan's cavalry is afraid of the trap and is waiting in place. Can the immobile cavalry be called cavalry? It is less of a threat than infantry!
Benkei led nearly ten thousand cavalry and pressed forward. Fujiwara was so jealous that he saw that all his men were waiting on the spot. How could he have expected that Genji would launch a charge at this moment? But he had no choice but to order everyone to mount their horses and launch an attack immediately. Countercharge!
Traps have a shadow in people's hearts.
Fujiwara's men got on the horses, but they did not dare to urge the horses to run fast. There were traps all over the ground, and many people fell into them again. The wooden sticks immediately pierced their bodies, and both the people and the horses were turned into meat skewers.
Benkei and the others knew the signs of the trap, so naturally they all avoided the trap perfectly and charged towards Fujiwara's cavalry. The Genji army came like an iron stream, rolling into the Taira army, cutting their cavalry and infantry apart, taking away countless heads like wheat, and then went around in a big circle before returning.
Charging is death, standing still is death! Without hesitation, Fujiwara led his men to immediately launch a counterattack. The samurai should die on the way to the charge, rather than sit back and wait to die!
Neither Taira Kiyomori nor Fujiwara expected that they would have such a great advantage. One moment they were chasing after Genji, and the next moment they turned against the enemy and became the lambs under their butcher's knives.
Benkei charged for one round and came back with another harvest. After two rounds of charges, more than 5,000 heads fell to the ground. This harvest was so unexpected that Benkei did not expect that he could seize such a good opportunity.
In addition to the previous skirmish with the Taira clan, the Taira clan lost nearly one-third of their main force of 20,000 cavalry, and countless others were injured, with the battle loss rate nearly half. Fujiwara's heart was bleeding, this was his Life.
Minamoto Yoritomo saw this with excitement. The cost of this small trap was so low that there was no need to calculate it, but it could achieve such a miraculous effect. It was a miracle to cooperate with Benkei's charge. In this way, the military strength gap between the Taira clan and himself was reduced. Disappeared.
After Benkei harvested the lives, he slapped his butt and walked away, leaving Taira Kiyomori in infinite despair, because he found that another large village appeared in front of him, with tall fences and wider and deeper trenches. He had been waiting for a long time.
A month of hard work is still vivid in my mind, is it going to happen again?
Taira Kiyomori turned his horse around and ordered everyone to find a place to set up camp. At the same time, he sent a team of people to prepare for the autumn wind. The team sent out for a long time came back disappointed. They said that the entire Nagano was desolate and they found many villages, but not even a cockroach was found in the villages.
Mrs. Ping secretly thought that something bad was going to happen! The robbery that was originally prepared was afraid that Genji would have to fortify the walls and clear the country, and he would not even be able to get a mouthful of soup!
After setting up camp, Minamoto Yoritomo attacked frequently, and the victory that was finally expanded was urgently needed to be consolidated. On the other hand, Liang Chuan attacked Ming Yun's grain transport team. In order to reduce his pressure, the front line must bite Taira Kiyomori's large force and let him escape. Immaculate.
Liang Chuan led five hundred cavalry in pursuit and pursuit. He became familiar with the route but did not take action in advance. His goal was to provide food and grass instead of killing Ming Yun. After lying in wait for about ten days, Mingyun's food team finally arrived.
For more than ten days, five hundred people gnawed their hands and carried a small amount of dried meat and dry food every day. They followed closely like hungry wolves, but they had to keep a distance so as not to be discovered. Even when they were sleeping, they could only look for them. They slept on a piece of dry grass with their clothes on. If Mingyun didn't show up, they would have to go home in the northwest wind.
Although Mingyun, the logistics minister, came from a religious background, his political skills were not bad at all. The financing and exploitation allowed him to produce 300,000 kilograms of grain. He started from Kobe and took a long way around Nara instead of Nara. Zi is preparing to send grain to Gifu.
Liang Chuan followed the grain delivery team from a distance. He knew that this was still Kobe territory and refrained from taking action. He was afraid that his five hundred cavalry would be exposed. He didn't show his butcher knife to the grain team until they reached Gifu.
The terrain of Heshi is mountainous, which is a significant difference between Kansai and Kanto. Although the mountainous terrain is not conducive to large-scale cavalry charges, there is still more than enough space for five hundred people to pour down from the mountains.
Although three hundred thousand kilograms of grain can last only a short time, it is already the last straw for Taira Kiyomori. The war that cannot catch him can only be declared over. With this end, he will no longer have a share in the struggle for world hegemony. , He Kiyomori can only retreat from this historical stage.
A small number of civilians in the grain transport team used burdens, some used donkeys and mules, and more often used small tools such as wheelbarrows, and only this type of tool transported the most grain. The civilian husband's hands only had no weapons, not even a carrying pole.
More than three thousand civilians were walking along the valley plain, while Liangchuan's cavalry was ambushing in the mountains and forests on both sides. Liang Chuan looked at these hurried civilians on the mountainside, his face as sinking as water, and he looked at the steep mountain. This charge was like Gan Daohui charging at Helm's Deep. By the way, he was also wearing a white robe.
Liang Chuan waved his hand, and the five hundred people all burst out with a killing sound. At that moment, the war horses started to move faster and faster, roaring down the mountain.
The civilian husbands saw that they were actually the target of the massacre, and the opponent was a fierce cavalry. They were so frightened that more than 3,000 civilians dispersed in a hurry. They were not regular soldiers, let alone samurai. They were instinctively afraid when they saw the fighting. , without any resistance, he threw all 300,000 kilograms of grain on the spot and ran for his life.
There were some who resisted, but in front of Liang Chuan's Mo Dao, he cut the horse in half with one knife. The five hundred cavalry dealt with the logistics troops of several hundred people, just like the autumn wind sweeping away the fallen leaves, harvesting them extremely cleanly.
Ming Yun was not a samurai. The moment he saw Liang Chuan's dazzling white robe, he knew the identity of these people. They were the cavalry of the Genji.
There are only a few infantrymen escorting the food and grass around him, and he knows their combat effectiveness. I know better the importance of this batch of food and grass to Ping Qingsheng. Why is he the first among the three people under Ping to manage logistics? The three armies go first before the food and grass are used. Without food, there is nothing.
He snatched a donkey and kicked the donkey's belly frantically. The donkey felt the pain, swung its tail and ran away into the mountains.
Liang Chuan looked at the bald man. Although he didn't know his identity, he knew that Ming Yun, the most important minister of the Ping family, was a monk. How could the bald man escape and urged Texue Wuhen to pursue him.
After all, the donkey is not a war horse. It can carry but is not good at running. Mingyun slapped the donkey with all his strength, which only made the donkey bray more miserably, but it could not run faster.
Liang Chuan chased for three miles and finally caught up with the logistics manager.
Ming Yun turned around and begged for help in the language of the island country. Liang Chuan heard him chirping and didn't know what he was talking about. Seeing how helpless he was, Liang Chuan became even more excited. He caught up with him and slashed his donkey's butt with a knife.
Liang Chuanle turned the horse's head and came back, picked up Ming Yun who had fallen to the ground, hung it on the horse's back, and carried it back.
Liang Chuan really wanted to find a place to move the 300,000 kilograms of grain and store it, so that he could sell it at a good price later. But now he didn't have enough manpower around him, and with the current military emergency, it was even more impossible to pick up sesame seeds and lose watermelons due to small losses. It was too late to miss the opportunity to fight, so they could only bear the pain and completely burn the 300,000 kilograms of grain.
