Chapter 222: The war between the emperor rises, Shi Xing dismisses his post

As time entered the beginning of the first month of the 25th year of Wanli, the weather was still cold and cold. In the seas where North Korea and Japan were adjacent to it, it was full of tension before the war. In the city of Busan occupied by Japan, more and more Japanese soldiers were crowded with, and behind them, a continuous stream of Japanese troops came from the sea.

In September last year, after the two countries failed to issue tributes tomorrow, Toyotomi Hideyoshi decided to launch another war. In October, the new Japanese commander, Hideaki Kozaki Hideaki, led 10,000 troops to Busan City, which greatly increased the Japanese garrison in Busan to 20,000. In addition, Japanese generals Takahashi Soshima, Hidebay Kozaki Hidehosa, Naoji Takahashi, Yukinaga Asano and others led their troops to re-occupate the Japanese cities along the coast of North Korea. On the ninth day of the first lunar month of the 25th year of Wanli, the Japanese army's troops entering North Korea had reached 100,000. War was inevitable!

For Toyotomi Hideyoshi, this war had to be launched. As early as the 20th year of Wanli, in order to calm the domestic samurai dissatisfaction with land bans and to overwhelm the commotion of local daimyos, Toyotomi Hideyoshi expanded to the outside world and changed the focus. Unexpectedly, he returned in a great defeat, which caused the Toyotomi family's prestige in Japan to plummet, and daimyos from all over the country were even more ready to move.

Because of the clever words of the front-line generals, and because of the peace talks between Governor Konishi and Shen Weijing, Toyotomi Hideyoshi mistakenly thought that the Ming Dynasty was going to send envoys to Japan for peace. How happy and glorious is Toyotomi Hideyoshi? For thousands of years, Japan has been overwhelmed by the huge figure of the Central Plains country. Until today, this is the first time in Japan's history. He Toyotomi Hideyoshi will be famous in history!

In addition to being overjoyed, when the Ming envoy arrived, Toyotomi Hideyoshi forced all daimyos in the country to attend and welcome them, including Tokugawa Ieyasu, just to show off in front of everyone. Unexpectedly, the result of the matter was that he lost face. The Ming Dynasty issued a letter to Japan as a seldom town and claimed to regard Toyotomi Hideyoshi as a barbarian minister. How disappointed Toyotomi Hideyoshi? Especially in front of Tokugawa Ieyasu and others, how could he get off the stage?

Even if Toyotomi Hideyoshi could not see any strange expressions on Tokugawa Ieyasu and others' faces, he could imagine the laughter of these daimyos. It was inevitable that they would start another war to seek face for the prestige of the Toyotomi family.

Of course, although Toyotomi Hideyoshi was short and angry like a furious monkey, he was an outstanding figure in unifying Japan after all, and absorbed the failure of the first war of invasion of North Korea. In this war, he decided to slowly seize North Korea's land and population, no longer as urgent as the first time. He divided his troops into two groups, referring to North Korea's Jeolla Do and Gyeongsang Do, intending to occupy two roads first, then build a city along the coast, consolidate the position, fight the Ming army with the camera, and then advance northward.

Judging from Toyotomi Hideyoshi's deployment, he had no confidence in winning this battle and lacked the ambition to the first invasion of North Korea. For the generals and officials under his command, compared with the first invasion of North Korea, most of them had no previous aura and were seriously war-weary. In particular, many ordinary Japanese soldiers in North Korea were even more fled.

As early as after the First War of Korea, during the two sides' armistice, Toyotomi Hideyoshi made peace with the Ming Dynasty, while ordering the Japanese troops stationed in North Korea to build large quantities of castles in order to occupy them permanently. In a few years, not only did the Japanese people endure a large amount of military service, corvee and tax burdens in order to transport food and pay to the Japanese troops in Korea. Even the Japanese soldiers stationed on the front line of Korea also became coolies, fighting to build those solid Japanese cities every day. They were not full of food and food, which made many soldiers sick and tired. In addition, the cold winter in North Korea made the soldiers on the Korean side generally struggle on the verge of freezing and hunger, lacking medical treatment and medicine, and suffering.

Seeing that they were either exhausted, starved, frozen, or fled back to Japan and beheaded, many Japanese soldiers had the idea of ​​surrendering to the Koreans. Of course, the Japanese army at this time could not be compared with the Japanese soldiers who had a strong fusion of the Bushido spirit and nationalist spirit during World War II. They did not have any national and national concepts. As long as they could survive, what could they not do?

For a time, the Japanese army defected seriously. The most famous one was that Sa Yake, a subordinate of Kiyomasa Kato, led 3,000 troops to defect to North Korea and passed on the iron cannon technology to North Korea. In order to commend Sha Yeke's achievements, North Korea specially gave his name Kim Chung-sun and lived in North Korea forever. In addition, at the end of the 23rd year of Wanli, 3,000 Nagato's troops mutiny collectively and fled back to Japan.

Although at the end of the 24th year of Wanli, with most of the Japanese army coming, the defection phenomenon improved, and then the war-wearing thoughts were still serious among the upper, middle and lower classes of the Japanese army. Especially the Governor of the Lord, Konishi, repeatedly revealed the situation of the invasion to the Koreans. Only Kiyomasa Kato, who captured the Korean prince the last time but did not suffer much loss, was the most active.

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At the beginning of the first month of the 25th year of Wanli, nearly 100,000 Japanese troops had gathered on the coast of North Korea, and war was about to break out. However, at this time, the North Korean country was still carrying out a vigorous party-and-internal struggle.

As early as after the First Battle of Korea, the negotiations between the Ming and Japan were still unresolved. Tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers were still watching the storm along the southern coast. The Eastern Party and the Western Party in the North began to fight happily again. Not only that, the two parties were still idle, and they were also divided into the southern and northern schools, the old and young schools, and continued to fight. In the end, the goal of the party struggle was directed at Li Shunchen, the important minister of the country.

After the First Korean War, frightened by the Japanese army's force and spirit, the North Korean country decided to train troops! They hired Ming army instructors and planned to train 10,000 soldiers in advance according to Qi Jiguang's "Ji Xiao New Book"! In August of the 21st year of Wanli, North Korea established a new army department to recruit new soldiers, train formations, sword techniques, boxing, bow techniques and musket techniques.

According to the teachings of "Ji Xiaoxin Shu", the Korean army also organized each 11 soldiers into a small team, divided into bow squads, musket squads and knife and axe squads according to the ranks. The 11 people worked together to advance and retreat together to form a combat unit. Then the three squads each took one of them and became a combat squad. The three squads were once again a banner, three flags were one column, and five columns were one post. A total of 25 posts were placed in the country, with 5 posts stationed in Seoul, and the remaining 20 posts were distributed throughout the country. At the same time, North Korea also planned to build multiple defensive lines between Seoul and Busan.

However, since most of the North Korean kings devoted their energy and financial resources to rebuilding the palace of Wangjing, the ministers were fighting in the party and internal struggles. The above series of plans became nothing. In the three years of peace talks tomorrow, North Korea wasted its time in vain.

Not only that, North Korea also captured the counter-espionage plan of Japanese spy, Shi Luo. On the 11th day of the first lunar month of the 25th year of Wanli, Li Sun-chen was taken into a prison cart and tied to Seoul. Yuan Jun took over the position of Sandao Navy envoy for the order of resistance.

Originally, the failure of the last Japanese man called the Battle of Manlu, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was analyzed because the sea route was blocked and the biggest obstacle was Lee Sun-sin. So before launching a land offensive, he must eliminate the Korean naval army! And this key figure is to get rid of Lee Sun-sin. Now that the goal is achieved, the Japanese have no worries.

On the 23rd day of the first lunar month of the 25th year of Wanli, Toyotomi Hideyoshi issued a nationwide mobilization order, and the various legions once again launched a battle with North Korea from their nakaya. In the end, nearly 150,000 troops entered North Korea, which was the same as the last time. It was known as the Battle of Qingchang in Japanese history. North Korea called it Dingyou Rebellion, and the Ming Dynasty called it the Second Battle of Aid Korea outbreak!

The Japanese army rushed over and landed on all sides of the North Korean coast. The whole country was shocked! In addition to the reign of the Marshal Kwon Li, the North Korean king immediately ordered heavy troops and took the lead in occupying the natural dangerous grass Liangdao leading to Seoul, he also sent envoys to ask for help on the 25th. The troops in his country were unreliable. At present, the Ming Dynasty had only a few thousand troops stationed in North Korea, and the North Korean king was ready to escape.

The news reached the Ming Dynasty's capital, which was early February.

At this time, Yang Fangheng, the commander of the Ming Dynasty to Japan, led a delegation back to Beijing. The tribute failed. This was a major event. He pushed all the mistakes on Chen Weijing and handed over Shi Xing's handwritten letter. The book contained the words "If the matter is done, recommend Chen Weijing as the governor." In addition, the Ming Dynasty received information from North Korea in advance, Japanese general Kato Kiyoshi had been ordered to go to Korea to rectify the army, and countless warships traveled to and from the horses and Busan to transport military supplies. In the afternoon of the same day, the North Korean envoy arrived at the capital and asked for help from the Ming Dynasty, and this matter was even more out of control.

Emperor Wanli was furious and ordered the Jinyiwei to capture Chen Weijing. Shi Xing, the Minister of War, was also in trouble and was dismissed from his post and was under investigation! Soon, the Jinyiwei found that Chen Weijing was in Qingzhou, North Korea, and arrested him and imprisoned him in the imperial prison. Three years later, Chen Weijing was sentenced to death after being judged by the Ministry of Justice, and was sentenced to death and was executed at Caishikou! This "civil diplomat" finally ended his strange life.

The enthronement failed and the Japanese started war again. Emperor Wanli deeply hated Toyotomi Hideyoshi's rudeness. The North Korean country sought help from the Ming Dynasty. Emperor Wanli followed the flow and decided to send troops to rescue Korea.

Under the strict supervision of Emperor Wanli, the Ming Dynasty discussed the affairs of North Korea with unprecedented efficiency.

On the fifth day of the second month, the Ming court summoned hundreds of officials to discuss the situation of the Korean war and analyze the trends of the Japanese army. On the 11th, the matters of aid to Korea were discussed again, and decided to transfer 7,000 troops from Xuanfu, Datong, Ji and Liao, and recruit 3,700 troops from Zhejiang. He also ordered North Korea to establish a postmaster of the Coast Defense Department.

On February 15, the court decided to send troops to aid Korea again. He ordered the former general officer of Yansui and the general general Ma Gui to be the general officer of the Japanese, commanding the troops from the north and south. Yang Yuan, Liu Jing, Dong Yiyuan and others were deputy generals, commanding more than 40,000 troops, and they entered North Korea to fight against the Japanese today! Among them, 3,000 Yang Yuan's troops arrived in Seoul, and then rushed to Nanyuan, an important town in Jeolla Road, and began to build defensive fortifications.

On March 15, Yang Hao, the right-supervisor of the Shandong Provincial Administration, was promoted to the right-supervisor of the Censor of the Right, and managed the military affairs of Korea. In order to strengthen support and support Yang Hao, he immediately ordered Xing Jie, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of War, as the Minister of War and the Right Deputy Censor of the Censor of the Ministry of War, the military affairs of Ji Liao, and the military affairs of Baoding were also managed to handle food and pay, and the Japanese were controlled. Before Yang Hao arrived, he reported ten things first. Among them, the officials and civilians of Korea were ordered to lose grain, and the ranks were increased, and officials were appointed to atone for their crimes, and the township officials, Ding Fu, were exempted from military service. The emperor and ministers of Korea were also concealed money and food, and did not pay the Ming army to aid the Korean Ming army, and impeached them for their crimes. Therefore, the officials and civilians of Korea were often complained to Yang Hao.

On March 25, Emperor Wanli summoned Huang Laifu, the general of Shanxi Town, to Beijing to discuss the preparations for the food and wages of the Eastern Expedition!

The first candidate for military generals to command troops in this battle of aiding Korea was originally the first thing Emperor Wanli thought of was Li Rusong. Unfortunately, Li Rusong is now fighting against the Tumans of Liaodong, and his clones are powerless. Emperor Wanli thought that Huang Laifu had led the army. After all, Huang Laifu's military achievements over the years were there, and he was indeed a good move in the war. But the important thing is that Huang Laifu is still too young now, only in his twenties, he is the general of a town, and he is also the title of general of the governor and magistrate. If he continues to reward these military achievements, what should he do if he can't reward him at that time? Whether it is Emperor Wanli or other Ming cabinet ministers, they all think that Huang Laifu is so young. If he makes too many contributions, it will not be a good thing for the Ming Dynasty and Huang Laifu in the future.

During the war outside the Great Wall at the beginning of the year, although Huang Laifu beheaded a lot and had great military achievements, the Ministry of War only agreed to reward him and his subordinates with some money, and then raised the imperial edict of Huang Laifu's wife Gu Yunniang a higher level. Therefore, the general of the Japanese army was appointed as the general of the Japanese army this time, Ma Gui was also a veteran. He has worked hard for decades and has rich combat experience. He is a suitable person. Moreover, he is old and can't fight a few more battles, and he is not suspected of being too successful. In fact, when Ma Gui was appointed as the general of Yansui Town, he had written to the Ministry of War several times, hoping to retire early. After decades of military career, he was tired. However, this time he received the appointment from the Ministry of War, so he could only be energetic.

However, Huang Laifu did make money, which was recognized by the entire Ming Dynasty. During this war, the treasury spent money like flowing water. Soon, Emperor Wanli felt that he could not bear it. He didn't know how many years of war it would take, so the preparation of the food and salary of the army aiding Korea became extremely important. The cabinet meant to add taxes to the people of the Ming Dynasty. It turned out that this was done in history. However, at present, Emperor Wanli Zhu Yijun wanted to hear Huang Laifu's meaning, and could he get enough money and food without sending extra money and food to the people.

Against this background, Huang Laifu once again came to the capital with his team and a large number of entourage members.
Chapter completed!