Chapter 1127 life-saving straw
"The Hutou fight is really stupid, and it's no wonder that the art of art is a bit strange. The battle that can completely wipe out the enemy is going to create those weird things.
In Cai Nan's carriage, Wang Tong smiled while observing the sand table. Cai Nan was also looking at the sand table, holding an account book in his hand and kept writing and drawing records. When he heard Wang Tong say this, Cai Nan pondered a little and said again:
"Sir, this person who shows weakness and chaos can even understand our family. Will the Japanese pirates eat this..."
"Journal newspaper has just arrived. Japanese pirates gathered in Seoul. It seems that they are going to fight to the death with our army, and it will still be effective."
After Wang Tong said this with a smile, he waved his hand and continued:
"I also understand that it is too ridiculous to make any plan to show weakness now. However, the Japanese pirates' retreat was cut off at this time and there was nowhere to go. They would also use a sign of falsehood to seize them. The Japanese pirates were not ignorant of the soldiers. In the battle of Huanghaidao, the Japanese pirates were defeated by their own family. However, this battle made them feel an opportunity. In this situation, for this false opportunity, they must bet!"
After saying this, Wang Qiong patted the desktop with a heart full of heart and said aloud:
"No matter how you fight, our army will win a big victory. But if the Japanese pirates fled into the mountains and fields, they don't know how much effort it will take to clear them. Maybe they have to rely on the local Korean people to be strong. Then there will be another problem. If they can fight in a decisive battle and get rid of them, it will be a one-time and for all."
In early June, three imperial guards led by Li Hutou and more than 10,000 troops from various teams fought against the First and Third Legion of the Japanese pirates in the Haizhou area of Huanghaidao, North Korea.
Heavy artillery bombardment, fire milling, spear advance, and killed nearly 7,000 Japanese pirates. However, Li Hutou's army had too little experience in facing the enemy, did not know the coordination between infantry and cavalry, and relied too much on firearms, resulting in not achieving greater results. Because of the exhaustion of ammunition, the enemy almost took advantage of the loopholes when the infantry team was reclaimed.
The Japanese pirates got this information, and the Korean king and subordinates of Yizhou also got this information. Although Li Hutou fought very hard on the battlefield that day, the battlefield changed rapidly and any situation could happen. Li Hutou was only a general in his early twenties, and it was not impossible for any silence to appear, because everyone knows that most of the victories Li Hutou fought were obtained under the command of Wang Tong, and his own abilities have not been proved yet.
If you think about it again, most of the imperial guards are infantry to win, and they rarely use cavalry. I think the coordination between infantry and cavalry is not very skilled. In the subsequent battle, if you can invest more troops, separate infantry and cavalry, and consume the fire-milled ammunition, there is a chance.
All considerations are biased towards one's own side, thinking about how to win in a favorable situation. In war, such thoughts are extremely naive. If such a situation occurs in a normal war, many people know that this trick is too false.
But under such a situation, the sea route back to Japan was completely cut off. If the decisive battle with the Ming army and the various legions were scattered in various ways, then they would only be completely annihilated by the Ming army with superior forces. If they were scattered in the mountains, they would only delay the process of destruction.
Only by using Seoul as the fortress and defending the flat area south of North Korea from Seoul to Busan, using this operation, may there be a chance to catch your breath. If you can wait enough time, you will have a turning point.
If there is no decisive battle, there is only a dead end. If there is a decisive battle, there may be a glimmer of vitality. Everyone will make this choice. Li Hutou's artificiality on the battlefield in Haizhou is to give the other party a glimmer of vitality. To be more precise, it gives the other party a glimmer of vitality. In other words, the Japanese pirate army would rather believe this illusion, and they have no other choice.
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The Korean Peninsula is surrounded by the sea on three sides, with many ports of all sizes, but after the Ming Navy arrived, all ports were completely blocked.
Originally, there were 4,000 Japanese pirates in the Port of Busan. The Port of Busan is a rare good port, which can provide convenience for the army to enter and exit. It is also to maintain a retreat. In the past, water wars were water wars and land wars were land wars. In fact, there were not many obstacles between the two. If the navy wanted to fight ashore, they would have to fight with Bumu with real swords and guns. However, there were obviously not many people on the Ming Navy and those pirate ships.
However, there were not many people who could go to the sea to fight with each other, but there were still a few people who put together a thousand men. Perhaps the hand-to-hand combat could not defeat the four thousand Japanese pirates on the shore. However, the gunboat's power was amazing. It was so far away that the large ship drove into the coast and blasted ashore, and then the sailors swaggered.
What made the four thousand Japanese pirates even more helpless was that these thousand infantry actually brought more than a dozen cannons, and the thousand infantry actually had more than 500 fire mills, and then ships continued to dock, and the sailors began to land.
If he could not defend Busan, the last glimmer of hope was cut off, and the Korean Peninsula became a desperate situation. The Japanese pirate general Ba Jing considered that he was Buban launched a desperate charge or committed suicide by cesarean section. In a dilemma, the news of the gathering of troops reached Busan. General Ukita Hideaki ordered that all the troops gather in Seoul and fight the Ming army.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a Japanese country in Osaka, was already ill and fainted. Conquering North Korea and then occupying the Ming Dynasty was the most grand plan he made in his life. When 200,000 troops crossed the sea to attack North Korea, advanced all the way north, and reached the border of the Ming Dynasty, this was the most glorious moment in his life.
From the emperor and nobles of the Japanese kings, the military generals Daime below, to the most ordinary samurai, no one looked down on Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who was born as a mate. Toyotomi Hideyoshi also knew the contempt of others. Perhaps when he became the largest commander of Oda Nobunaga's army, no one dared to look down on him, but he himself was so paranoid.
After obtaining the Japanese world, Toyotomi Hideyoshi married the daughter of a noble as his concubine, instead of being a general but becoming the highest position of Guan Bai, which was all due to this inferiority complex.
Turning Korea and the Ming Dynasty into their own territory is a grand plan that has never dared to think about or expect from the founding of the State of Japan. The best era back then was just the establishment of the Japanese prefecture in the southernmost part of the Korean Peninsula. Now it has conquered North Korea and is the first person in Japan in a thousand years. Since the army crossed the sea and quickly occupied the entire territory of Korea, Toyotomi Hideyoshi felt that the world's daimyo treated him much more than before.
The good times did not last long. First, Ping An Road was defeated by the Ming army. Finally, he won a game back under Seoul City. The situation fell into a stalemate, and then he took a sharp turn.
He exchanged hundreds of thousands of stones of fief for the loyalty of the Ming Dynasty's largest sea lord. Two-thirds of the Japanese navy were gathered together. Such a large-scale naval fleet was wiped out by the Ming navy in three battles. He led his troops to fight for so many years, and everyone knew what this meant.
The Ming Navy's blockade was extremely thorough, and news about the Korean Peninsula and Japan was completely cut off. Various rumors began to spread in Japan. There was no pleasant news. The despair would make people despair. The most circulated was that the army in Korea had been completely annihilated by the Ming army.
This conquest was originally intended to consume the troops of the Western countries. Such a huge loss was too much, not to mention that Toyotomi Hideyoshi's own direct troops also suffered great losses. The Western countries have already begun to stir up, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi's direct troops are shrinking. At least, it is necessary to stabilize the surrounding six countries. What made Toyotomi Hideyoshi feel even more uneasy is that someone reported secretly, "The family began to move in Kanto.
The biggest hidden danger in Toyotomi's heart was not the Shimazu family, which had always been rebellious, nor the Maori family, the overlord of the Western Kingdom back then, but the Toku who had been allying with him for more than the time he was an enemy..." Ieyasu, from the prosperity of the Oda family until now, he has never seen Toku. The family has fought a very unremitting battle. It seems that it has always been an alliance between the strong and the strong, showing some backbone, but before he knew it, the Toku "family has become a great name of 2.8 million stones. Toyotomi Hideyoshi has always wanted to find an opportunity to split and destroy Toku, the family, but "Ieyasu has always been respectful and does not give him this opportunity.
For a while, Toyotomi Hideyoshi even thought Tokugawa Ieyasu would obey allegiance. Until now, Toyotomi Hideyoshi realized that Ieyasu was still waiting for an opportunity, but now it was too late to do what he wanted to do, and he could not cause greater chaos in this situation.
And the most important point is that Toyotomi Hideyoshi is old, and the old man's body cannot withstand the torture of illness. The only Maeda Taki family who can help him calm the situation is old. Toyotomi Hideyoshi can only support his illness and stabilize the situation. He also knows that daimyo everywhere, including those loyal to him, are preparing. The world of Japan has been peaceful for a short time and is about to be in chaos again.
During the Warring States Period of Japan for more than 200 years, it had not mobilized more than 100,000 troops to fight, and had no ability to carry out long-term sieges and civil fortifications. It was not until the time of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
The Japanese pirate army of North Korea also used this skill as much as possible. When Wang Tong led the army to enter Gyeonggi Province, the roads were destroyed, with trenches and large pits, and the water sources and wells were also polluted as much as possible. The rivers in this area were crisscrossed and the water sources were dim. As for these obstacles along the way, Wang Tong's response was very simple. He recruited North Korean civilians on the spot. Anyway, it was not his own people's power, and he was just using it.
In the face of the cavalry advantage of the Ming army, the Japanese pirates did not dare to send any light cavalry to harass them, but some ninja teams wanted to set fire to the granary at night, and even entered the camp to cause chaos.
The first battle was between the Ming army's horse exploration, and Ye Busuosuo and Japanese pirate ninjas...
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