The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire Chapter 385: Pre-war analysis

The coalition forces that had reached the bank of the river have completely withdrawn, and the remaining 40,000 troops in the dojo have crossed the river together.

Although no enemy can be seen on the river bank at this time, the coalition forces have already retreated to Iiyama Castle four or five miles away.

But for the sake of safety and to really lay a foundation on the opposite side of the river bank, Yoshisari Tomita ordered his army to set up a barracks on a relatively broad plain not far from the river bank.

After a busy afternoon, I kept cutting down trees on the banks of the river, and it was only in the evening that I set up a rather vast camp.

After the camp was built, all the soldiers were exhausted. Except for some people who were left to guard at night, the others all returned to their camps and fell asleep deeply.

The next day, after a night of recuperation, the exhausted army regained energy again, and all of them appeared with full expressions.

However, although the army of the dojo looks quite full, each of them looks full of energy, but their morale is quite low, and each of them seems to be less optimistic about the war.

It’s no wonder that just yesterday, the entire army of 50,000 people lost nearly 7,000 people.

The death rate of 1/7 is quite a terrifying number.

As I said before, if the general army loses more than 30%, it will be on the verge of collapse.

Although the current dojo army does not exceed the three-tier death ratio, it is still quite close.

Not to mention that so many deaths and injuries happened in just one morning, and after careful consideration, you will find that it is extremely horrible.

This kind of terrifying casualties could not help but make the entire army feel extremely confused and fearful of the next fate, and it is inevitable that some sadness will appear.

In order to restore this situation, so that the army will not collapse, but also to stabilize one's power position, so that one's prestige in the army will not be reduced too severely.

Yoshisari Tomita decided to launch the first large-scale battle against the coalition forces the day after crossing the river, which is today.

Although the morale of the entire dojo army inevitably fell into a downturn, and many people were confused about the next war, but many people were extremely angry with the previous aggrievedness.

This is an emotion that can be used.

When you have anger, you are not afraid, and you dare to fight without fear.

Under the current situation, it is a very good phenomenon to dare to fight with the opposing leader and still fight with anger.

The coalition forces are not scary.

This is the true thought of Yoshisari Tomita, and it is also the thought of many high-level generals in the dojo army.

The reason the coalition is called the coalition means that it is an army composed of many forces.

So many forces are mixed together, even if they temporarily cooperate due to external pressure, there are bound to be all kinds of conflicts.

In addition to the previous hatreds, Yoshisari Tomita is almost certain that it is impossible for the entire coalition to concentrate all their forces to fight against themselves.

When the coalition forces fight against themselves, they will definitely have this kind of reservation, whether they are in the idea of ​​preserving their strength, or want to pit their secret opponents, they will not be able to do their best on the battlefield. .

And the dojo armies are united, in order to eliminate the coalition forces and unify the entire Shinano country, the whole army is fighting for this goal and contributing all of their strength.

At that time, one has concentrated all the power, but the other is scattered because of disagreement. You can see which one is better at a glance.

Not to mention that the coalition forces are a combination of several forces that are mixed together. Their members are uneven. Some are brave warriors, some are farmers who eat in the fields, some need good training, some Even the weapon can't be held securely.

This kind of extremely disparity in numbers makes the entire coalition show a deformed state.

Fighting is not that the more people the better, the power that can be really used and the power that can be exerted is the good power.

This is the case with the coalition forces. Their entire structure is polarized, and the gap between them is indescribable.

Of course, the most powerful are those high-ranking samurai masters, each of whom has a second-tier cultivation base, and is born with a noble lineage, who are born under the rule of the poor and untouchables.

But there are very few people in this group. Within the 50,000 coalition forces, they can't even do 3,000 in total, and they only look like 2,600,700. Moreover, these warriors are divided into dozens of forces, all of which are indivisible to each other, and it is difficult to effectively command and use them.

More importantly, because of their noble origins, these warriors have always been masters who command dozens of people, and they have basically not received qualified military training.

These people, except that their martial arts are particularly outstanding compared to ordinary people, they can kill a dozen or even twenty people alone, and they have not trained any joint strikes at all.

When the war started, it was a stubborn, fierce rush, showing extreme personal heroism, and didn't know how to cooperate or how to change the battlefield situation.

Compared with the 5,000 samurai army of the dojo army, this kind of strength is really far from it.

The samurai army present first received a qualified training. Everyone, no matter how strong and honorable he was before, but as long as he became a disciple of the dojo, he would definitely receive a military training.

Since most of these samurai corps came from poor and humble backgrounds, and a large part of them were promoted from the untouchable class, there was not much resistance to this kind of military training.

Some few people after that, even if they were of noble origin, facing this kind of decision that most people obey, their voices are of little importance and can only follow the trend.

So it can be said that the army of the dojo is a rigorously trained army composed of martial arts masters.

This kind of trained corps is not only proficient in killing techniques, but also knows how to cooperate and know how to obey orders.

Compared to those samurai masters who only know the bravery and rebelliousness of one's own performance, and who only know **** and kill, do not know how strong they are.

So not only is the number of people on the dojo in the top combat power, but also the number is too many. The two sides are not on the same level at all~IndoMTL.com~ If you really want to describe it, it is probably the elite. Let the army confront a mob!

Needless to say the low-level combat power, the coalition forces are entirely a group of peasants pulled out, that is, peasants in the ground.

Even if some of these farmers have killed some people, have seen a little blood, and have been on the battlefield once or twice.

But after all, it can't change the fact that they spend most of the year shoveling in the ground and have not received rigorous military training.

So in the final analysis, it is still a group of farmers, a mob.

But the dojo army is different here. Although there are a large number of recruits, these recruits have also received military training for three months to six months, and they are not interrupted every day.

Because of paying the wealth of many local tyrants, Zhong Yu's material reserves are extremely rich, especially in food.

All the food added up is enough for his 200,000 army to fight outside for three years and there is a slight surplus.

So when it comes to training the army, the food problem that many local tyrants worry about does not exist at all.

All soldiers can open up training, don’t be afraid to consume too much energy, because there is not enough food to replenish the body and the body collapses.

Under this situation, an army that is extremely powerful at first glance has been trained.

Really, why say majestic?

Because just look at the faces of ordinary soldiers on the side of the dojo army, and you can see that although they are generally not tall, basically everyone can see a little rosy on their faces and a little bit of flesh above and below their bodies.

On the other side of the coalition, all the soldiers except the samurai. Except for some of the more elite feet, most of them are hungry people with yellow face and thin skin.

How do you compare the two? The soldiers on the dojo are not majestic, what are they?