Global Warring States: Get the Tang Taizong template at the beginning

Chapter 171 Territory Upgrade, the World's No. City (Part )
"General, let me lead the troops to charge again!"

In the main tent of the Ming army, it was raining heavily outside. Cha Dashou threw his helmet heavily to the ground, furious.

He led the Ming army to attack Daoshan Castle many times, but was never able to capture this fortified city.

In the heavy rain, Cha Dashou was hit by arrows from the Japanese army while attacking the city. The injured Cha Dashou was furious and determined to conquer the mountain city.

Inside the tent, the other Ming army generals were all silent.

The Ming army's generals went into battle one after another, almost everyone was injured, and they were unable to capture the mountain city.

Firstly, the island city was built on the mountain, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Secondly, Kato Kiyomasa provided the defenders with a bonus on their main general, which greatly improved the defensive capability of the Japanese army defending Shimayama Castle.

Finally, it rained heavily and the Ming army's Shenjiying was of limited use. They could only rely on cold weapons and close combat.

If you want to capture a mountain city like this, the best way is to besiege it and wait until the enemy runs out of food and water. Being trapped in the mountain city is a dead end.

However, the Ming army's goal was to capture Daoshan Castle as quickly as possible and they could not lay siege for a long time.

This was the difficult situation faced by the Ming army.

"It's raining heavily, the Japanese army won't make any moves for the time being. All camps should go down and rest. Let me think about it."

As the commander-in-chief of the Ming army, Li Rusong's decision was related to the life and death of the entire Ming army, so he had to be extremely cautious.

Li Qian was also in a heavy mood.

Daoshan Castle was definitely the most difficult castle to attack that he had ever encountered.

The Japanese army is sworn enemies with them and will basically not surrender and is determined to fight.

The Japanese army was guarding the most solid mountain city, and there were a large number of reinforcements outside.

The bad weather made the siege more difficult.

It can be said that in the Battle of Ulsan, the right time, right place and right people were all on the other side.

Li Qian led his troops to attack San-no-maru of Shimayama Castle, but was unable to break through to Ninomaru despite suffering huge casualties.

More than half of the elite infantrymen led by Li Qian to attack the city, including the Anxi Army, the Tang Dynasty's Modao Army, three thousand generals, the Women's Army, the five schools of the Northern Army, and ordinary archers, were killed or wounded.

Li Qian had never suffered such heavy losses in a battle.

Li Qian counted his troops and found that even including the elite troops such as the Black Armor Army, the White Robe Army, and the Five Schools of the Northern Army, there were less than two thousand people left in total.

Only 800 samurai, ronin and foot soldiers who were recruited by Tachibana Ginchiyo were left.

The combat effectiveness of these 800 people cannot be compared with the elite troops brought by Li Qian to participate in the national war, and cannot make up for the losses.

Li Qian was in a heavy mood.

Originally, the country could only bring 5,000 soldiers and horses at most. Up to now, there are less than 2,000 people left plus 800 vassal troops. It is simply wishful thinking to want to influence the situation with such a small number of troops.

"Is the Battle of Ulsan going to end in failure?"

Li Qian knew that in history, the Ming army had attacked Ulsan twice, both times ending in failure.

Of course, after the war, Kato Kiyomasa also asked Toyotomi Hideyoshi to abandon Ulsan Castle because of the heavy losses.

The Ming army in the national war could not afford to delay.

If the Ming army fails to capture the island city within one month, the system will judge it as a failure.

The problem that was a headache for Li Qian was how to help the Ming army capture the island city, while he also had the problem of insufficient troops.

It is impossible to recruit soldiers for a national war, and the 5,000 elite soldiers brought by Li Qian would be one less if they were used.

Unless there are special means to replenish the troops.

For example, Qingdi could recruit the Japanese ashigaru to serve him. Although ashigaru was a low-ranking soldier in the Japanese army, there were many elite soldiers like the iron cannon ashigaru.

Not only that, Qingdi, by some unknown means, was able to incite local rebel forces to fight for him.

This special method is somewhat similar to the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

The Qing Emperor was able to replenish his lost troops through this special method, and in every battle he would let the conquered Japanese troops and local rebel forces rush to the front.

Therefore, the further back in time, the faster Qingdi's military achievements improved.

Currently, Qing Emperor is ranked third and is catching up with Yuan Emperor who is ranked second and Li Qian who is ranked first.

Li Qian lacked the means to replenish his troops. The later the war progressed, the more soldiers he lost, and the weaker his force became.

Li Qian, along with his advisers Du Ruhui, Xu Wei, Feng Changqing, and two strategic Confucian generals Wei Rui and Chen Qingzhi, braved the rain to observe the defenses of Daoshan City to see if they could find any loopholes.

Because the Ming army encountered heavy rain and was forced to retreat, the Japanese army reoccupied the entire city of Sannomaru. The next time the Ming army attacked, they would start their attack from Sannomaru.

Headache.

For the first time, Li Qian had the urge to raze a mountain to the ground.

The weather was cold and the ground was cracked, and it was drizzling. The Ming army's Shenjiying used artillery when attacking Chenghuangtang and other strongholds, causing civilian houses to be burned down. The Ming army had no houses to live in and could only camp in the ruins. They encountered heavy rain and their morale was even lower.

The situation in the Ming army camp was even more difficult.

Xu Wei carefully observed the Japanese army's deployment and fell into deep thought: "I have seen a lot of our elite soldiers lost in the battles over the past few days, but the losses of Daoshan Castle are also not small. If the Japanese pirates outside knew that Daoshan Castle was in danger, they would definitely rush to help. Instead of attacking Daoshan Castle by force, it is better to..."

Du Ruhui, Feng Changqing, Wei Rui and others were very intelligent. Although they only listened to half of Xu Wei's speech, they already understood what he meant.

Cheng Yaojin, who was guarding beside him, was so anxious that he scratched his head and said, "Don't keep us in suspense. If you have a good plan, please tell us quickly."

Military strategist Du Ruhui said: "Wen Chang's idea is to use Daoshan Castle as bait to defeat the reinforcements first. This can not only alleviate the external threat, but also shake the morale of the defenders, and then conquer the city in one fell swoop."

"It's a good plan. Military Advisor, what are the chances of success?"

Li Qian asked Du Ruhui about his chances of winning.

Du Ruhui has the god-level strategist characteristic of "interpreting plans", which allows him to roughly estimate the success rate of a plan.

Du Ruhui shook his head: "It depends on how many soldiers we use to set up the ambush, and who will lead the enemy reinforcements, then I can estimate the chances of winning."

What Du Ruhui said was also true. No one knew how many troops both sides had deployed in this battle, so how could he calculate the chances of winning?

Xu Wei came up with a surprising plan to surround the enemy and attack the reinforcements, which Li Qian approved of.

Unfortunately, Li Qian's military strength was far from enough and he was unable to replenish it. It seemed that he could only propose to the Ming army commander Li Rusong to let the Ming army achieve his goal on his behalf.

Personal military achievements are secondary. When it comes to the national war, Li Qian cannot let the Ming army lose to Xiao Rizi.

"The Qing Emperor's military achievements are rising rapidly. I might even be surpassed by her."

When Li Qian saw the national war rankings, he was somewhat worried that the Qing Emperor was likely to surpass the Yuan Emperor and catch up with Li Qian.

The number of troops is getting smaller and smaller, and sooner or later they will be surpassed by the Green Emperor.

Is there any way to replenish troops in the national war?
"Ding, your territory, Tiance Town, has met all the requirements for upgrading the city. Do you want to upgrade it immediately? With this upgrade, you can get another chance to name the territory."

Suddenly, a system prompt interrupted Li Qian's thoughts.

Li Qian was stunned at first, then he became extremely excited.

While Li Qian was away fighting, civil officials such as Sang Hongyang, Deng Zhi, and Wen Tianxiang followed Li Qian's arrangements and successfully built Tiance Town into a city!

"upgrade immediately!"

(End of this chapter)