Chapter 245 A Game of Chess in the Far East (12) 8K Holiday Chapter!
The Maori family knows that their strength is just puffy and will break if touched, but this is definitely not the case with the Shimazu family. Their family's situation is very different from that of the Maori family.
Gao Pragmatic smiled at Huang Zhiting and said, "Zhiting, do you know why I chose to use economic penetration to gradually control the Shimadzu family?"
Huang Zhiting frowned and said, "Because his family is particularly short of money?"
"This is indeed the direct reason." Gao Pragmatic chuckled, turned the tea cup around, and said, "However, the strength of his family is also inseparable from this."
Huang Zhiting suddenly looked half-smiling, raised her eyebrows slightly, and said, "Isn't this a metaphor for the wolf soldiers of the Cen and Huang families?"
Gao pragmatic waved his hand and said: "Where did you think of it? I didn't mean it... However, if you insist on comparing it like this, the situations of the Shimazu family and the Cen and Huang families are actually quite similar, but I said
The similarity is not mainly due to lack of money, but that your governance situations have certain similarities."
"Oh?" Huang Zhiting's heart moved and she seemed to have some guesses, but she did not speak.
Gao pragmatically said: "The Ministry of Internal Affairs once reported that before Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Kyushu expedition, the Shimadzu family's various ministries were configured as follows:
From Tadō Ijuin and Tadachi Kawakami, who are in charge of government affairs, and Zenhisa Kayama, who are in charge of diplomacy, to Yoshihiro Shimazu, the general of Higo area who is in charge of all aspects of military affairs, the deputy general of Higo area, Hisashi Shimazu, the general of Bungo area.
Shimazu Iehisa, Bungo's deputy general Shimazu Ikihisa, and navy general Shimazu Tadanagi (Shimazu Yoshihisa's younger brother inherited the Shimazu branch of the Isaku Shimazu family), all of these people came from the Shimazu family.
Branch family or clan.
These people are all relatives of the Shimazu clan, and in the current Shimazu family, basically only samurai who are from the same clan can participate in decision-making, which can be called nepotism."
Huang Zhiting frowned slightly and said seriously: "I know nepotism is not a good word, but nepotism is actually far more stable than meritocracy at certain times."
"That's right." Gao Pragmatic nodded and said: "This is what makes the Shimadzu family so powerful. Since the Kamakura period when they were granted the title of Satsuma, Osumi, and Hyuga in Southern Kyushu, the Shimadzu family has grown rapidly.
Extremely amazing.
During the reign of the second generation Shimazu Tadashi, the Nakanuma, Aso Valley, Yamada, Ijuin, Giri, Machida and other shogunate branches were divided;
When the three generations of Shimadzu had been together for a long time, the Isaku Shimadzu branch was divided;
During the fourth generation of Shimazu Tadamune, the Sado, Shinna, Huashan, Hokugo, and Ishizaka clans were divided;
In the fifth generation, Shimazu Sadahisa divided the Kawakami, Suishu, and Oshu branch families into two branches. Later, the Shimazu-Oshu family inherited the status of the clan. From then on, the head of the Shimazu clan was called Mutsu Mamoru for generations;
The eighth-generation head of the family, Shimazu Hisatoyo, split into two branches: Sashu and Toyoshu;
The ninth generation of Shimazu Tadakuni divided the general branch of Katsura, Kasui, and Kii, and the Xiangzhou Shimazu branch, and inherited the extinct Izuro Shimazu branch with his third son Shimazu Hisayasu, who is also Shimazu Takahisa.
’s great-grandfather.”
Huang Zhiting pursed her lips and smiled, and said: "I am quite familiar with this situation. Not to mention the Cen family, let's just say that our Huang family was in southern Guangxi at the time, and it was almost similar to this situation... So more children, more blessings.
"
Gao Pingshi said with emotion: "But the Shimazu family, in addition to the clan's astonishing reproductive ability, all the common branches are also not lagging behind. Especially the Ijuin family, when the fourth generation Ijuin Tadakuni gave birth to forty-eight children in one breath, so
The power increased greatly, and a large number of common branches were divided into Igakura, Hioki, Mugiuda, Oshige, Kurokuzuhara, Dobashi, Toibatsu, Shibon, Irisa, Nango, Matsushita, Maruta and so on.
Because he was so fertile, in order to win over him, the sixth-generation governor of the Shimazu family at that time, Hisashi Shimazu, had to marry his daughter as his wife, and then married his own daughter to his grandson Ijuin Yori.
for a long time, and got married several times after that.
Up to now, although the Ijuin family is the earliest branch of the Shimazu family, it is more prominent than recent branches and even branch families. Its head, Ijuin Tadō, currently serves as the head of the Shimazu clan."
Huang Zhiting nodded, obviously she did understand this situation very well, but at the same time she couldn't help but have doubts, and asked: "But if this is the case, why did the Shimazu family rule for hundreds of years, and then the outbreak just a few years ago?"
He almost conquered the entire Kyushu once, but he had almost no reputation before?"
"That's a good question. I was quite puzzled about this before. Later, I sent someone to investigate and found out what was going on." Gao pragmatically said: "Actually, it is because the Shimadzu family has too many branches and too many relatives.
Therefore, the Shimazu family has been in constant internal strife for many years, fighting for the status of the clan. It was not until Shimazu Takahisa succeeded to the throne that things were completely sorted out.
It can even be said that Shimazu Takahisa was able to reach the position thanks to a series of opportunities, and it took three consecutive generations of hard work to achieve what he wanted."
Perhaps because the situation of the Shimazu family was somewhat similar to that of the Huang family toast, Huang Zhiting became very interested and quickly asked what was going on.
Gao Pragmatic was very happy to answer her questions, so he said: "Well, that's the case. The first generation is Shimazu Takahisa's grandmother Tokiwahime. She was a beauty from the Shinna family, and her husband Shimazu Zenhisa died young.
Later, she took over the position of the head of the Isaku Shimazu family, and soon gained the admiration of Shimazu Unhisa from the Soshu family. He married her on the condition that she guaranteed the status of her child Shimazu Tadayoshi, and she married Shimazu Unn.
After a long time, her children inherited both the Yi family and the Xiangzhou family, which were closest to the Zong family.
The second generation is Shimazu Takahisa's father, Shimazu Tadayoshi. The Shimazu clan was very weak at that time, and there was still a problem with the status of the family governor, Shimazu Tadakane. He was originally only the third son, and he was adopted into the Yingwa family early.
, it was only because the two brothers who served as governors died early one after another and left no heirs that he relied on the support of Shimazu Minoru (father of Shimazu Yoshitora) of the Sashu family to return to the clan and succeed him as governor, and married
He changed his name to Shimazu Katsuhisa.
However, within a few years of his accession to the throne, Katsuhisa and Minoru had a conflict, so he had to give up the service position of Satsuma Guardian (note: in Japan at that time, official positions were given by the imperial court, and service positions were given by the shogunate).
After a long time, he was almost forced to give up his position as a monk.
So Shimazu Tadayoshi took the opportunity to intervene and gave his legitimate son Shimazu Takahisa to Katsuhisa as his adopted heir and became the heir of the clan. The second son Shimazu Sosho (father of Shimazu Ikuhisa) and the third son Shimazu Naohisa (Shimazu Tadayoshi)
The elder's father), inherited the Shimazu family of Xiangzhou and the Shimazu family of Isaku respectively.
By the third generation, that is, Shimazu Takahisa himself. He exiled Shimazu Sanehisa of the Sashu family and Shimazu Katsuhisa of the clan family to Bungo country, and then blocked Shimazu Sanehisa's counterattack and forced him to
He surrendered to the clan and gave up the position of head of the family to his legitimate son Yoshitora, and then chose to retire into seclusion and arranged for Shimazu Yoshitora to marry his eldest granddaughter Aping (Yoshihisa's eldest daughter) as his main wife.
The Toyoshu family was driven out of the Hyuga Kingdom by the Ito family and could only go to Satsuma to rely on Shimazu Takahisa. After winning the Battle of Ogawa, they returned to the Hyuga Kingdom and obtained the Miyazaki County from Shimazu Iehisa.
territory."
"Wait a minute..." Huang Zhiting wondered: "Shimazu Yoshitora is Shimazu Takahisa's legitimate son. Takahisa, the father, asked his son to marry his eldest granddaughter? Is he marrying his own daughter or niece?"
Gao pragmatic shrugged his shoulders and said: "In Japan, it seems that as long as they are not from the same mother, they have no taboo. In fact, such a connection between the Shimadzu family - that is, marriage - is even more common."
Huang Zhiting put her hand on her forehead and was speechless.
Gao pragmatic smiled and said: "For the Shimazu clan, those relatives need to be attracted, and if they want to promote talents, the relatives throughout the three countries of Southern Kyushu can actually provide enough choices, and even
Marriage basically does not fall outside the scope of each branch family and branch clan.
For example, the current head of the family, Shimazu Yoshihisa, in order to strengthen the bond with Shimazu Naohisa, the uncle of the author, he married Naohisa's half-sister, Mrs. Hanasun, as his main wife - don't glare at me, that's really it.
His own aunt."
When Gao Pingshi said this, it suddenly occurred to him that from this point of view, the union between Yang Guo and Xiao Longnu was actually nothing.
Although Huang Zhiting reluctantly admitted that different places have different customs, she still couldn't help but frowned and said: "But this way of running a family is certainly conducive to ensuring the cohesion and loyalty of the family, but the ability of the relatives is a problem. If the trust is entrusted,
If you are not human, you will probably succeed more than fail."
"Yes, that's the truth." Gao Pragmatic nodded, but said with a wry smile: "However, what is amazing is that most of the relatives who are currently in charge of affairs in the Shimadzu family are actually talented people, and they have great achievements in their respective families.
Nakaya could be regarded as a momentary leader, and these leaders of various branches and clans seem to have all appeared in this period, thus creating the current strength of the Shimazu family."
Huang Zhiting was speechless for a while, then reluctantly said: "It may also be because of the unification and rise of the Shimazu clan that these relatives have a stage to perform, thus surpassing their respective ancestors... Who knows?"
Gao Pragmatic smiled and nodded: "Maybe, but after all, most of the people in the Shimadzu family are very capable. This is always a fact. I am not interested in exploring the reasons. I just need to understand this objective reality.
"
Huang Zhiting thought for a while and analyzed: "In other words, it is really not easy to eliminate such a Shimazu family with relatives all over the territory. It is almost impossible to kill them all. Even if the Shimazu family is eliminated, it will be almost impossible.
A family will emerge from the Oita family to take over and continue to be enemies with the former clan in the name of revenge.
For example, if we want to ruthlessly wipe out all the major branches, there will still be ten or twenty Shimazu clans after that, and then there will be common people in each branch... After all, according to what the master said, for any Shimadzu clan,
The title of the clan means the protection of the three states, the name of the family that lasts for hundreds of years, and the ability to rule the relatives spread across the three states. These are all things that we must strive for, right?"
Gao pragmatic nodded and admitted: "Yes, if I want to be their enemy, then unless I continue to maintain strong pressure on Southern Kyushu for decades, or like Oda Nobunaga's treatment of the Takeda family, I will destroy a family.
Only by annihilating them all, regardless of distance, can this situation be prevented.
However, I cannot guarantee the former situation. After all, it is impossible for me and Kyoka to focus all of my attention on Minami Kyushu. In the latter situation, we will face Shimadzu, who has many times more relatives than the Takeda family.
Home, it is estimated that even Oda Nobunaga’s resurrection may not be able to completely eradicate it.
Because of this, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who inherited his status and career, although he defeated the Shimazu family, still appointed Yoshihisa Shimazu as the guardian of Satsuma and Yoshihiro as the guardian of Osumi, which can be regarded as barely dividing the power of the Shimazu family——
The actual effect is still unknown.”
In fact, Gao Pragmatic has not finished speaking. During the Battle of Sekigahara, Shimazu Yoshihiro participated in the Western Army, and after the Western Army was defeated, in order to find a bloody path, he directly attacked Ieyasu's main formation, and was killed with only a few dozen steps.
In front of Tokugawa Ieyasu himself, the situation was once very critical.
However, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who unified Japan after the war, still did not touch the Satsuma, Osumi and Hyuga prefectures and territories of the Shimadzu family. The Tokugawa shogunate even married the Shimadzu family three times and married the daughter of the Shimadzu family twice.
As the main wife of the shogun, the Shimazu family became the only family among the samurai family that had ever left the Edo Imperial Palace, besides the imperial family, the palace family and the five secretarial families.
It can be seen that although the Shimadzu family's territory seems small, the three countries of Satsuma, Osumi and Hyuga that his family is entrenched in are something that no one dares to set foot in easily. Even the most dominant country in Japanese history
The shogunate, the Tokugawa shogunate, could only rely on financial suppression and marriage to win over each other to maintain the relationship between the two parties.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But at this moment, Huang Zhiting was thinking: "The clan is powerful and it is not convenient for the court to get involved easily. This is the same as when our Cen and Huang families were in the west and south of Guangxi.
That's the same thing. However, the clan power alone cannot do this. You must have enough force to make the imperial court...well, the imperial court also find it a bit troublesome."
Gao Pingshi smiled and said: "Isn't it already obvious how powerful the Shimazu family is? Yes, his family's military strength has always been relatively small. When he conquered almost the entire Kyushu, his family's military strength was only about 25,000.
.
Later, in order to cope with Toyotomi Hideyoshi's 200,000--the so-called 300,000-strong army's Kyushu expedition, the Shimadzu family tried their best but could only raise an army of more than 30,000 people and less than 40,000 people, which is better than you, Cen Huang and Liang.
Home is really different.
However, the Shimazu family's soldiers can be regarded as truly elite soldiers in Japan, and even the performance of his family's peasant soldiers is almost as good as that of the professional soldiers after the Oda family separated soldiers and peasants."
"Really? How strong is it?" After all, there was only one afternoon, and Huang Zhiting seemed to have not yet been able to understand it to this extent, so she couldn't help but raise questions.
Seeing that she didn't believe it, Gao pragmatic said: "How powerful... Well, let me give you a few examples. Several key battles fought by the Shimadzu family in recent years, such as the Battle of Kizakihara where they defeated the Ito family, were three hundred
vs. three thousand; the Otomo family’s battle with Ergawa was 20,000 vs. 35,000;
The Battle of Okita-nobu where the Ryuzoji clan was defeated was 8,000 versus tens of thousands (Note: There is controversy in Japanese historians regarding the Ryuzoji clan’s military strength in this battle. Estimates of the Ryuzoji clan’s military strength at that time ranged from 18,000 to 6,000.
It ranges from 10,000 to 10,000. If you average it out, it would be at least 30,000 to 40,000. In addition, the Shimadzu family directly begged Ryuzoji Takanobu himself in this battle. "Take" is the Japanese special term for fighting.
, similar to calling going to Beijing "Shangluo", etc.);
The Battle of Totsugawa, which defeated the initial formation of the Four Nations Allied Forces, was also fought between 10,000 and 20,000 people. In each of these battles, the Shimadzu family won great victories with inferior forces, and each time they won cleanly and without any dispute."
As soon as these examples were laid out, Huang Zhiting's interest immediately increased. She even sat up straight and asked with bright eyes: "Why is this? Just like the elite of our Cen Huang Lang soldiers, they grew up in the mountains.
, walking on rugged mountainous terrain feels like walking on flat ground. Many people have often fought with wild beasts in the mountains when they were young. Moreover, the folk customs have always been fierce. Are the local people not afraid of death? "
"Oh, that might be a little different." Gao Pragmatic thought for a moment and said, "Their family's strength is actually what I mentioned just now... mainly because their family is so fertile."
Huang Zhiting said in surprise: "Why is this related to Tai Neng Sheng?"
Gao Pragmatic couldn't help but smile bitterly and said: "Because over hundreds of years, due to their divisions, the branches have become particularly fertile, and the men of these divisions have been born as warriors and will not turn into ordinary farmers.
As a result, the Shimazu family had an extremely large number of samurai, far exceeding the ratio among other daimyo in Japan.
You have to know that the so-called samurai in Japan are no less spiritually conceited than the scholars of the Ming Dynasty, but their arrogance and efforts are in different directions. The scholars of the Ming Dynasty aimed at studying and becoming officials, while the Japanese samurai aimed at
The purpose is to show their martial name, so the fighting will of these warriors is strong, far beyond that of ordinary peasant soldiers.
In this way, which military force - oh, the military force is the army - has a higher proportion of samurai, which basically means a stronger combat effectiveness. And the proportion of samurai in the ordinary Japanese daimyo military force is generally the same.
Just about 10% is not bad, but do you know how exaggerated the ratio of samurai is in the Shimazu family’s military strength?”
Huang Zhiting hesitated for a moment and asked tentatively: "...twice as much as a human?"
"Two times? Ha, your guess is too conservative. In fact, it is at least three times as many people. During several battles in their family, the proportion of warriors was always higher than 30%. Even in rare cases, such as using elite soldiers to defeat some of the large armies.
During the battle, the proportion of warriors even exceeded 60% when it was at its highest!"
Gao pragmatic sighed and said: "This is like you leading a thousand people, including nine hundred guardsmen and a hundred servants; I lead five hundred people, including two hundred guardsmen and three hundred servants.
Then you say that if our command levels are almost the same, who has the advantage? What's more, several of the main leading generals of the Shimadzu family are still the choice of temporary famous generals, and the Shimadzu family's "fishing wild ambush" tactic is very popular in Japan.
It’s also a unique skill, wouldn’t this advantage be even greater?”
Huang Zhiting nodded with understanding, but immediately asked: "What's going on with this 'Diaoye Fu'?"
"Diao Ye Ambush... In fact, if you put it simply, it is not complicated. It is what we usually call pocket formation." Gao pragmatic explained: "That is to first lure the enemy into the ambush encirclement using pocket formation, and then cooperate with the main force in the rear
, surround the enemy and annihilate them in one fell swoop.”
Huang Zhiting couldn't help but curl her lips after hearing this: "That's it? Isn't this just a bad tactic? I thought there was something unique about it."
"That's not the case." Seeing that Huang Zhiting's words seemed a bit exaggerated, Gao Pragmatic said with a slight warning: "This tactic is not difficult to say just by talking about it. It is indeed seen many times in our Chinese war history, but
It is actually quite particular and quite difficult to use this strategy to perfection.”
Huang Zhiting smiled and said: "It depends on what kind of soldiers I have. For example, sir, if you ask me to command a thousand guardsmen now, then I will not be able to use the wild ambush tactic, and I will not dare to use it. However,
If I have one thousand wolf soldiers under my command, or troops like the Dingnan garrison, I can deploy this wild ambush tactic immediately."
When she said this, Gao Pragmatic was convinced that she did understand the key to the fishing wild ambush tactic. In fact, the most critical part of this tactic was indeed the advantage of elite soldiers, especially the word "diao" in it.
This chapter is not finished yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! For example, let’s take the battle between the Shimadzu family and the Otomo family. The situation at that time was that the Shimadzu family’s decoy force only had 300 people, with two wings.
There were about 3,000 troops in ambush, with General Shimazu Yoshihiro sitting behind.
At noon the next day, a decoy force of 300 people made a surprise attack on a moving Otomo army, and then defeated hundreds of reinforcements. Sensing that the situation was not good, Tahara Chixen, the Otomo family's leader, sent General Tabei Zhenzhou to lead a counterattack.
The Tsu family decoy troops then retreated according to the tactical arrangement, and Tianbei Zhenzhou pursued them until they were in front of Shimazu Yoshihiro.
Seeing that the time was ripe, Shimazu Yoshihiro immediately ordered the "nobushi" iron cannons (muskets) on both wings to fire in unison, disrupting the formation of the friendly forces first. Then the Shimazu family took advantage of the large number of samurai, and all the samurai under his command threw their guns and drew their swords.
Charge forward bravely.
Although Dayou's army was superior in strength, it was ambushed at first and could not withstand the sudden and explosive charge of this elite army. It immediately became a mess and was soon divided and surrounded. They were annihilated one by one. Tianbei Zhenzhou himself fought on the spot.
die.
At this time, Shimazu Iehisa and Yamada Yunobu, who were originally defending Takashima, also attacked the castle at the right time. Under the attack from the front and back, the Otomo army's main formation collapsed instantly.
Although the Shimazu family dispatched 20,000 people and defeated the Otomo family's 35,000 people in this battle, it was considered a battle in which the ratio of the number of troops between their family and the opponent's army was not particularly large.
However, in fact, the most critical part of the battle was only more than 3,000 people, that is, Shimazu Yoshihiro, Shimazu Iehisa, and Yamada Yunobu, who were responsible for the specific implementation of the "Diao Ye Ambush" tactic. Although there were many people, they
The nature of its attack is more about expanding the results.
Speaking of which, Shimazu Yoshihiro seems to have always been good at commanding and using small-scale elite troops. Whether it was when he fought in Korea or during the Battle of Sekigahara, he actually had only 1,500 people under his command both times.
.However, even in these two times, his performance was excellent enough. It was difficult for 1,500 people or even 15,000 people to achieve results that could be compared.
For example, in Korea, the Battle of Sizhou, commanded by Shimazu Yoshihiro, was a sudden defeat when the Ming army had an obvious advantage in the overall situation. As for the Battle of Sekigahara, he deliberately attacked Germany in order to escape from the battlefield.
The fact that Kawa Ieyasu's main formation almost killed him in front of Ieyasu is enough to show that although the Shimazu family has a small number of troops, its combat effectiveness is amazing.
However, when it comes to the Battle of Sizhou, I have to explain that there is a saying in later generations that the Ming army lost more than 20,000 people in the Battle of Sizhou... I really don’t know which genius came up with this.
How many troops did the Ming army have in Japan at that time? Dong Yiyuan's troops and the Korean servants under him at the time totaled less than 30,000 people. If he really lost 20,000 people in a battle, how big was Dong Yiyuan?
Only by saving Xiang Shang's face can he save Xiang Shang's head? Let alone Dong Yiyuan, even if Li Rusong was in office at the time, in the face of such a huge defeat, that head might have to be moved.
In fact, according to the records of "Records of Shenzong", although Dong Yiyuan was impeached by the imperial censor and was dismissed for a period of time, the Ming court "increased the number of troops, Ma Gui, the commander-in-chief, to supervise the officers and soldiers in the north and south to fight against the Japanese".
He also "used the former commander-in-chief Dong Yiyuan as the counselor under the governor's banner".
This means that Dong Yiyuan still continued to lead the army and command operations, but he was only cut off from his official position as a sign of punishment. He did not even change his original official position (non-service position). Moreover, the court actually took care of his face and did not let him directly
To accept the command of the new commander-in-chief Ma Gui, but to be assigned to the command of the governor-general in name only - the governor is a civil servant and a feudal official, and there is no shame in fighting under the governor-general.
According to the custom of the Ming Dynasty, this move meant that the court did not consider his defeat to be a substantial fault. It was just because he won first and then lost. He lost a bit and lost the court's face, so he had to be fined.
A penalty was imposed, but the court did not believe that this failure had any serious impact on the entire war situation.
Therefore, although this defeat seemed a bit embarrassing, the loss of troops was definitely not many. And judging from the strength of Shimazu Yoshihiro's troops at the time, it was unlikely to actually cause serious losses to the Ming army.
In fact, after the first Battle of Pyongyang in July 1592, the Japanese troops of Konishi Governor's Corps complained to the Korean prisoners, saying: "Who said that the Japanese army is weak? They are very capable of fighting! Although they were defeated today,
The outcome is determined by fate, and it is actually very difficult for them to resist!" He spoke extremely highly of the defeated first batch of Ming troops who entered the DPRK.
But what happened to the defeat of the first batch of Ming troops? It was because Hao Jie, the governor of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, was forced to go out by North Korean envoy Li Dexin, who had been crying and begging for days at his door.
The army consisted of more than 2,300 people from Zu Chengxun's headquarters and 500 Korean servants.
At that time, Zu Chengxun faced 18,000 troops of Konishi Governor's First Army. Specifically, there were more than 10,000 people in Pyongyang City in front of them. And the reason why he was defeated was because North Korea provided a seriously wrong intelligence-the
Intelligence swore that there were only "more than a thousand Japanese troops" in Pyongyang.
As a result, heavy rain during the battle had greatly affected the Ming army's firearms, but what was even worse was that the 400 North Korean servants collapsed at the first touch, which seriously affected the morale of the Ming army. However, the remaining 100 or so North Korean servants were actually friendly with the Japanese troops on the opposite side.
Let's talk...
In the evaluation of the Koreans at the time, Konishi's regiment was considered to be the best fighting force among the Japanese army. However, although Konishi's regiment seemed to have won the battle at this time, he had already shown his horror at the combat effectiveness of the Ming army.
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So a month later, in August, when the Japanese military lords met in Wangjing, North Korea, to discuss the next strategy, President Konishi made it clear at the meeting that the Ming army was very powerful and must not compete with it.
The big names in the Japanese army who attended the meeting were also deeply afraid of it. The generals actually proposed to run away collectively and retreat to Pusanpo, the most coastal area of the Korean Peninsula. This was cruel, because this meant that they were from Korea.
The capital Wangjing went directly to the southernmost coastal border area.
It seems that if the naval forces were not under their control, they would even wish to withdraw to Japan directly. Of course, the proposal of the Japanese generals was not passed because it directly violated Hideyoshi's wishes. But Governor Konishi still sent his younger brother
Returning to Japan, he reported to Toyotomi Hideyoshi face to face and told him directly that it was impossible to succeed in invading the Ming Dynasty.
It was precisely in the environment where the Japanese army was deeply afraid of the Ming army that Yoshihiro Shimazu's victory was extremely dazzling, and the names of "Onishimanzi" and "Onishimazu" resounded throughout the sky.
At this time, Gao Pingshi listened to Huang Zhiting's words and nodded: "Yes, it is not an easy task to lure the enemy to follow the bait into the ambush circle. As a bait soldier, you must be prepared to be surrounded by heavy enemy troops at any time.
As for the preparation for sacrifice, the two teams of Kitago Hisamori and Honda Shinji, who served as bait soldiers to lure the enemy during the Battle of Ogawa, also fought bravely with the determination to die, and in the end they were all killed.
On the other hand, as an ambush soldier, you must accurately grasp the timing of sending troops and coordinate with other ambushes. The closeness of the four Shimadzu brothers and the unity of the retainers made such coordination relatively easy.
It is precisely because these are quite difficult that the Shimazu family's "fishing for wild ambush" tactics are clearly used one after another. It stands to reason that no matter how stupid their opponents are, they should be on guard, but the other daimyo soldiers who are their opponents
However, they will always be defeated by the same tactics.
Therefore, in my opinion, it is not so much that the "fishing for wild ambush" tactic itself is extremely clever and impossible to prevent, but rather that the overall strength of the Shimadzu family's military force is already clearly superior to their opponents.
Even if the Shimazu family doesn't use any tactics, I'm afraid they can still attack the strong with the weak, but after using tactics, they can achieve greater results with fewer casualties."
Huang Zhiting nodded and said thoughtfully: "Well... this is a bit like the battle when I defeated the main force of the Burmese army in Mang Yingli. Although I thought my command was pretty good at the time, looking back, even if I
At that time, we just set up a grand formation to confront them head-on. In fact, we should be able to win, but our own losses may be greater."
Gao Pragmatic couldn't follow her words, so he had to say: "Commander Qi has always believed that the combat effectiveness of the army cannot only rely on famous teachers and generals, but the combat effectiveness of the army itself must be improved as a whole, so that no matter who is commanding the army, it can
Ensure strong enough combat effectiveness.
It was precisely because I agreed with his point of view that I asked him to help train the first batch of servant guards, and then relied on these people as the core backbone to serve as the junior officers responsible for the subsequent training of the guard force. This is how we have
It has surpassed the major garrison armies now, and the difference in combat effectiveness between the garrison armies is not too big."
When Huang Zhiting heard him mention the garrison, she suddenly seemed to remember something, and said seriously: "When it comes to the garrison, I suddenly remembered a big thing, and I want to report it to the master solemnly."
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