Chapter 259: Taking Chestnuts from the Fire (9) Living in this Mountain
Outside Ninja Castle, the pre-battle evaluation of the Toyotomi Army was being held, but the entire evaluation room was filled with suffocating silence. Everyone, including Ishida Mimoto himself, had livid faces and said nothing.
This suffocation comes from the Monomiban Head Army report just received: Toyotomi Hidekatsu's troops were ambushed in a storm and lost eighteen large barrels, thirteen large barrels, and more than 10,000 kilograms of gunpowder were almost completely lost.
At the same time, 347 people were killed, 347 were seriously injured, and 326 were slightly injured. There were also some losses in food, grass, clothing, etc.
Although Mononomiban's words were very tactful, most of the people present here are veterans of the war, including Ishida Mitsunari. Although it was his first time to personally lead troops, he also had rich experience following Toyotomi Hideyoshi. "How to listen to
"Information about the defeated army" It's not that he doesn't understand.
In their judgment, it was basically tacitly understood that Hidekatsubu had some of the gunpowder soaked by the storm, so they urgently dried it after setting up camp. While drying, they were attacked by elite soldiers sent by Ninja Castle with fire arrows, which set off many explosions.
Gunpowder is scattered everywhere.
The giant barrels may have been the main target of the Ninja City sneak attack team. They were blown up one by one, and some large barrels were also blown up. (At this time, the quality of Japanese muskets was pretty good, but the level of artillery was very poor. The No. 3 gun was considered the largest in Japan.
), and because they were unprepared for the sneak attack, and the sneak attack team in Ninja City should all be elite, the casualties were quite large.
However, Toyotomi Hidekatsu's reaction could not be considered slow. He even judged that the opponent's troops were weak when his troops were almost defeated in one fell swoop. He mounted his horse in the rain and clashed with each other in the formation, and finally launched a counterattack. Not only
They forced the surprise attack team back and even killed sixty or seventy people.
However, Toyotomi Hidekatsu himself was also injured. His mount was stabbed to death by a female general, and he fell off his horse on the spot and almost died. Afterwards, a military medical officer checked and found that the adopted son of Lord Seki Haku had four broken ribs and his left forearm.
He suffered fractures, more than a dozen cuts and bruises all over his body, and his face was almost disfigured.
Although he himself was seriously injured, he immediately ordered to continue the pursuit after being rescued. This time more than a thousand people were sent to pursue him. Judging from the comparison of the forces at the time, there was no problem with his order. After all, Ninja City's
There were only about 200 people in the surprise attack team, and they lost 60 to 70 people on the spot. According to the usual practice, some of them would get separated or die of serious injuries. In the end, the remaining ones who could continue to fight were at most a hundred or so.
A pursuit with ten times the number of troops is a sure-win situation no matter how you look at it. Who would have known that even this "sure-win situation" would lead to an accident.
The pursuer pursued them for more than ten miles, and when they were about to catch up, they were "ambushed" again - encountering an "iron artillery reserve" of more than a thousand people.
This "iron artillery reserve" that came from nowhere is not only well-trained, but the key is that the equipment is simply too sophisticated. They are equipped with all long-range iron cannons, and the reloading speed is ridiculously fast. The Toyotomi army's pursuers did not catch up at first
I thought so much and just wanted to get over it in one go. Who would have thought that as soon as they met, they were directly defeated by the opponent's ferocious and abnormal firepower. As an example, a Shidaishou and two Ashigaru generals who rushed in front of the formation were killed on the spot. They
The thick armor on his body was actually all pierced by the opponent's iron cannon bullets.
The final result was that even if the more than a thousand pursuing troops were not chased by the mysterious enemy army, by the time they ran back to Toyotomi Hidekatsu's main team, they had already suffered more than half of their losses. This news shocked those who had just received simple treatment.
Toyotomi Hidekatsu was so angry that he fainted. The so-called reversal of the situation was naturally a luxury.
Since the sneak attack team is led by a female general, it must be under the command of Kahihime from Ninja Castle. Although Ishida Mitsunari's army can be considered to be full of big guys, no matter who the big guys are, they have all been defeated in Ninja Castle before.
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Therefore, in all fairness, Toyotomi Hidekatsu was attacked by Kabihime and his army under such unfavorable circumstances, and he still managed to find a way to counterattack. This is already an outstanding performance. Although the final loss was indeed huge, we can't really blame it.
Guan Bai's adopted son was useless, and it could only be said that time was a matter of fate. Everyone did not want to add insult to injury, and even made up their minds to give Guan Bai a letter to protect Toyotomi Hidekatsu.
However, there are different opinions among Ishida's army regarding the mysterious and powerful iron cannon reserve.
Some people believe that this army was mostly sent by Date Masamune to rescue Ninja Castle. The reason is that Date Masamune has not yet gone to Odawara Castle to express his surrender to Lord Sekihaku, and he does have an army of no less than a thousand people.
The iron artillery team.
Some people think that Odawara Castle may have discovered the support army sent by Lord Sekipaku, so they sent reinforcements through unknown means. This support army finally joined forces with Ninja Castle to give Toyotomi Hidekatsu a "poor bandit"
Experience class of "Don't Chase".
But at this moment, Masayuki Sanada, who was known for his wise generals, suddenly expressed a different view. He put forward a new guess that this army was not a Japanese army at all, but a private company of the Beiyang Sea Trade Alliance that was supposed to be stationed in Misaki Castle.
military.
In fact, he was not the only one who thought this way. As the leader of the Adherent Faction, Ishida Mitsunari knew the strength of the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance far better than anyone else. He also had such suspicions at the time, but he just didn't dare to say it - by the way.
not understand.
He couldn't understand why the Sea Trade Alliance would directly intervene in Japan's domestic war.
The Sea Trade Alliance rented Misaki Castle from the Hojo family. Ishida Mitsunari already knew this news. Not only did he know, he even thought he understood the reason why the Sea Trade Alliance did this, which is what the Sea Trade Alliance himself said
In order to have trading bases in the east and west of Japan.
Ishida Mitsunari believes in this reason, because once Qingshui City and Misaki City become the trade bases of the Sea Trade Alliance, then Qingshui City can radiate to Kyushu, Shikoku and Sanin Sanyang, and Misaki City can radiate to Kanto, Tohoku and other places, which is equivalent to being able to reach nearby areas.
With Japan's two wings conducting trade, the overall trade efficiency will be greatly improved.
As for the core of Japan, the Gyeonggi and central regions, Ishida Mitsunari has always believed that the Sea Trade Alliance did not want to set up a stronghold, but they were worried that Lord Guan Bai would be difficult to talk to, so they had to settle on two ends first, and then go back to talk to Lord Guan Bai - this
It is for the sake of good appearance and convenience for "bargaining" with Lord Guan Bai.
In other words, Ishida Mitsunari is very sure in his heart that the Maritime Trade Alliance does not covet Japan's territory, and only wants to make money. But today's news makes Ishida Mitsunari doubt his own judgment - if it is just to make money, Ninja Castle
It's not a seaport city, so the Sea Trade Alliance came to rescue Ninja City after they were full? What's more, they were fighting against Lord Guan Bai!
Ishida Mitsunari suddenly had a thought: Could it be that the Maritime Trade Alliance is planning to rule Japan if there is a chance in the future?
When this thought came to him, he couldn't help but trembled, and suddenly thought: Nobunaga was so unscrupulous back then, and he never thought about replacing the emperor. He just wanted to imitate some powerful officials in the history of the Tang Dynasty, and deposed and established them once.
, recommending the crown prince to succeed to the throne. Not to mention the lord Toyotomi Kanhaku, he is not from a good background. Because of his blood relationship, he cannot even be a general to conquer the barbarians. He has no choice but to establish a public ceremony of Toyotomi Kanhaku, and it is impossible to replace the emperor.
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But if the Maritime Trade Alliance has the idea of invading Japan, who can guarantee that it is not the Ming Dynasty who wants to annex Japan? The Tang Dynasty has always regarded itself as the emperor. If they invade Japan, how can Japan retain the emperor?
Ishida Mitsunari, as the real top civil servant in Japan, has different understandings of the emperor system from Gao Pragmatic. In fact, because Gao Pragmatic is not Japanese, he is a little bit embarrassed about the "eternal lineage" of Japanese emperors, and has always been worried about "what if in the future"
If the emperor system is to be abolished, will Japan be full of rebellion?" However, Ishida Mitsunari did not see it that way at all.
In fact, this is also a manifestation of Gao's pragmatism, "he is a man but not a god". He actually has a superficial research on Japanese history, but he has never really summarized some "Japanese characteristics".
If he counts, he will find that there are not many emperors who are actually political participants: Tenchi, Hirofumi, Tenmu, Shomu, Xiaoken, Kanmu, Saga, Nimei, Uta, Daigo, Murakami, Shirakawa, Toba,
Go Shirakawa, Go Toba, Go Daigo, Meiji, Showa, a total of eighteen people.
Among the eighteen powerful emperors, Hirofumi was defeated; Shomu was deceived by the Fujiwara four sons into destroying the Nagaya Oman clan, the pillar of the royal family, and the royal family's power has been in decline since then; Kanbu Saga spent all the royal family's purse; Uta and Fujiwara saw each other.
After a lifetime, he finally failed; Daigo was deceived by Fujiwara Tokihei and exiled Sugawara Michizane; Murakami's last strength depended on the lack of support for the Fujiwara family; Goshirakawa played the entire court as a sideline for the samurai family; Gotoba wanted to
After resisting for a while, he was exiled to Yinqi Island; Hou Daigo worked hard all his life and managed to win half of the country, but then it shrank rapidly and was gone sixty years later.
The situations of Meiji and Showa were actually very special. To a certain extent, they could only be regarded as having "very huge influence" but not actual political power.
In this way, there are only a few emperors in Japanese history who have truly wielded great power: Tenchi, Tenmu, Kanmu, Saga, Murakami (for a short time in the later period), Shirakawa (as the emperor instead of the emperor), Toba (same as above)
), there are only seven in total.
As of the time of Gao Pangshi's time travel, there were 126 emperors in total. Excluding the first 28 prehistoric emperors, there were 98 in total. It can be seen that the proportion of emperors who are completely unable to get involved in politics accounts for more than 80%, and they have sufficient power.
The emperor's share of political power is only seven percent.
In fact, Japan was mountainous and its fields were scattered, which led to the prevalence of manor economy in the agricultural era, with lords all over the place, a high degree of feudal autonomy, and a low degree of centralization. During the Warring States Period, the old system was greatly overturned, and several very outstanding people emerged.
Despite his military and political genius, he still could not unify Japan by force and achieve centralization of power.
If Gao pragmatically carefully examines the several "changes of dynasties" in Japan, he should find that the Kamakura shogunate only asked the court to recognize the shogunate's control over Kanto and Ou before the Jokyu Rebellion. It was only after the Jokyu Rebellion that the shogunate extended its hands to the court's inherent territory.
Set up the Northern and Southern Six Boluo Dynasties in Kyoto to manage the affairs of the Western Kingdom.
Rokupola itself has considerable autonomy, and is more like a subsidiary than a branch. Moreover, Rokupola's rule over the Western Kingdom is not solid. The imperial court and Kinai local tyrants are constantly doing things under the nose of Rokupola.
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In just one hundred years, the Kamakura shogunate was riddled with holes. The main force of the 20,000 shogunate was unable to defeat Chihaya Castle with more than 1,000 people in three months. The core foreign relative Ashikaga Takaji who went to reinforce the enemy turned around and killed Rokupora in seconds.
The 20,000 main force actually dispersed directly. This fully exposed the nature of the loose alliance of the shogunate, which would fall apart at the slightest headwind.
The Muromachi shogunate was even more speechless. Ashikaga Takaji (Takashi), it can be said that he did not have the qualities that a founding monarch should have at all. His ability to lead the samurai to open the country basically depended on his direct lineage from Minamotoji.
Yoshino Minami was still alive and well, but his younger brother and younger brother were killed first, causing a fight to the death. After his younger brother killed his younger brother, Takauji, his younger brother, and his eldest son began to fight to the death, and they were still struggling until they died. Until his grandson Ashikaga Yoshi.
After a lot of coaxing and deception, the whole of Japan was nominally unified, and thirty-four years had passed since Takashi left Japan.
The Muromachi shogunate also adopted the model of dividing the Western Kingdom and the Eastern Kingdom. In the Eastern Kingdom, there was the Kamakura Duke's office. The independence of the Kamakura Duke's office was even worse than that of Rokuboro.
With a small move, Kamakura Lord dared to directly rebel and seize the shogunate position, so he started the Eternal Rebellion.
After the Ekei Rebellion, the shogunate's influence on Kanto gradually declined, and Ou's influence was even more waning. Needless to say, in the tenth year of Ekei's reign, the Southern Mutsu nobles besieged the Inamura Lord's house, and Ashikaga Mitsuru committed suicide.
Twenty years later, the Onin Rebellion broke out. A group of daimyo with intertwined interests formed two gangs and fought in Kyoto. They took the emperor from the palace to the shogun's Flower Palace, and then put the emperor and the shogun under house arrest to watch the daimyo fight each other.
This beating lasted for ten years.
After that, the Ashikaga Shogun family was completely ignored by the Hosokawa family, who was in charge. Then the Hosokawa family was completely ignored by the retainers Miyoshi family, and the Miyoshi family was completely ignored by retainers Matsunaga family. Matsunaga Hisashi felt that the general Ashikaga Yoshiteru was not honest enough, so he took
Two younger brothers from the Sanhao family went to make generals for the infamous Yonglu Rebellion. This kind of weird event is probably the only one in world history that is the Scorpion Baba.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The century-old chaos of the Warring States Period has wiped out the grace of many high-ranking celebrities, and countless talented country tycoons have entered the family. It is no longer possible for fakes such as Ashikaga Takauji, who rely on their family status to mix society, to establish a successful career.
However, among this group of truly capable and competent players in troubled times, a figure who completely unified Japan has not yet been born. The Oda Nobunaga Group extends from Harima Sanuki in the west to Kai-Shinano in the east, and they are already known as the people of the world.
The Oda Group is also not monolithic, and its reliability is very worrying. Each of the six legions has its own territory and personal troops. Therefore, once Nobunaga himself died suddenly, the Oda family immediately fell apart. Hashiba Hideyoshi became the leader because of internal fighting.
Nobunaga's "successor".
It can be seen that this kind of environment and system does not have the soil for the development of strong imperial power. The symbolic significance of the emperor himself is far greater than the actual significance. Even the shoguns and shoguns only had symbolic significance for a long time.
Later, Tokugawa Ieyasu promulgated the "Prohibition of Incorporation into Public Laws", which legalized the fact that the entire imperial court, including the emperor, used it as a mascot.
Although there was no "Regulations on the Incorporation of Public Family Laws" at this time, Ishida Mitsunari "knows his own family affairs". He was not like Gao Pragmatic, who had not yet figured out the reason, and believed that the emperor system could not be abolished - the two previous
The reason why the shogunate and the current "Toyotomi Gongyi" were unable to depose the emperor was ultimately because their direct lineage was not strong enough and had to use the name of the emperor to "hijack the emperor to order the princes". It was not at all how sacred and inviolable the emperor system was.
Ishida Mitsunari waited for a long time, but no one spoke first. He couldn't help himself, coughed slightly, and said: "The matter has come to this, it is useless to talk more. In my opinion, this defeat is not a crime of war."
After setting the tone, he paused and continued: "However, if the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance interferes in this matter, it will be of great importance. I have decided to go to Odawara City in person to meet Guan Bai. Your Highnesses, please give me your full support.
I would like to thank Daisuke Shu Dazang for conquering Ninja City. Sancheng is very grateful. Please help me."
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