If someone asks who is the most trusted "diplomat" under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, then the answer is yes: Toyotomi Hideyoshi. This time he sent an envoy to Misaki Castle, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi specially sent someone back to the capital to
Toyotomi Hidenaga invited him over and ordered him to personally go to Misaki Castle to meet Luo Yuan.
Who is Toyotomi Hideyoshi? He is the younger brother of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and his nickname is Koichiro, Kotake. One of his characteristics is that he always takes the surname of his brother Hideyoshi: he was Kinoshita earlier, but after Hideyoshi changed the Miao character to Hashiba, he changed his name to Hashiba Hide
In the 12th year of Tensho (1584), he changed his name to Toyotomi Hideyoshi because Hideyoshi was given the surname Toyotomi by the emperor.
In the 13th year of Tensho (1585), he took over the Koriyama Castle of Yamato and became the Daimyo of 1.1 million koku. In the 15th year of Tensho (1587), he was the Dainagon, so he was called Yamato Dainagon. If we simply evaluate him
Throughout his life, he was the right-hand man of his brother Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He was very active in both civil and military fields and made great contributions to Hideyoshi's unification of the world.
Regardless of whether it was at that time or in later generations, Xiuchang's evaluation of Xiuchang was generally very high. For example, when Xiuchang passed away, there was a comment that "the person who cultivates internal rituals is Zongyi, and the only person who understands the public welfare etiquette is the prime minister (referring to Xiuchang)."
Later generations said that he was "the most talented but least known professional staff member in Japan at that time."
Hideuchi occupies a very important position in the Toyotomi regime. Hideyoshi relies heavily on and trusts Hideyoshi in both official and private matters. Hideyoshi is extremely helpful to his brother, and the two of them cooperate well.
Therefore Xiuchang was raised to a very high level. Generally speaking, it is more pertinent that the relationship between brothers is good.
However, this time, Hideyoshi had no choice but to let his younger brother take action in person, and to some extent he was still feeling guilty and worried. The reason was that after the Kyushu expedition at the end of the 15th year of Tensho, Hideyoshi began to fall ill and could only attend some formal meetings.
Activities that do not require strenuous work, such as the fun-filled excursions mentioned before. In addition, they mostly pray for recovery from illnesses and accept visits from various parties. Therefore, he was not able to participate in the Odawara Expedition and Oshu Expedition in the original history. In the end,
He died after suffering from severe illness for more than three years.
Of course, Hideuchang was not a perfect person, and his shortcoming was that he was greedy for money. For example, during the Kyushu expedition, Hideuchang transported part of the military supplies back to his own territory to prepare for sale ("Kawakaku Taikoki"); in December of the 16th year of Tianzheng,
Kii Zaga's acting official brought the wood to Osaka for sale, but the money he got was swallowed up by Hideuchi's acting official ("Tamonin Diary"). This incident made his elder brother Hideyoshi very angry, and Hideyoshi didn't even let Hideyoshi see him during the New Year.
go.
According to the original history, when Hidenaga passed away, his family had 56,000 pieces of gold, and a house of nearly 13 square meters was filled with silver ("Tamonin Diary"). However, his great achievements can still outweigh his small shortcomings. Other brothers
There was no more discord.
At this time, Hideyoshi was already seriously ill. Toyotomi Hideyoshi specially sent Kato Yoshiaki to pick him up with the armed transport ship purchased by Kyoka. He landed at Nirayama Castle in the east of Suruga Bay and only took a short land route to reach Odawara Castle.
Shihuan Mountain City to the west.
Hideyoshi personally held a grand cleansing banquet for him, and then the two brothers met privately. Hideyoshi gave him some advice and gave him full authority to negotiate with the Beiyang Sea Trade Alliance in Misaki Castle.
However, Hidecho rested outside Odawara Castle for a few more days, and first sent someone to contact Misaki Castle. After the "road paving" was completed, he fell ill and set off, arriving outside Misaki Castle four days later.
Although he was seriously ill, since he entered the Miura Peninsula, he had carefully observed the Sea Trade Alliance's management of the Misaki Castle defenses. Hidecho, who had been a soldier for half his life, discovered that in addition to the main castle, Misaki Castle also had two land defenses in the north.
system.
The first one was near Mount Ohkusu in the southeast of Kamakura. The Maritime Trade Alliance built two "cities" along the mountains and the sea, blocking the Miura Peninsula back to back. One city faced Sagami Bay to the west, and the other faced Edo Bay to the east.
It is said that these two places are cities, but in fact they are only cities in the eyes of the Japanese. In fact, in the eyes of Jinghua, they are just medium-sized fortresses, built at the angles of each other in the mountainous area in the middle of the peninsula.
This line of defense was first proposed by Huang Zhiting. Since the Guandong Squadron brought professionals from Jinghua Infrastructure, it did not take much effort to build two medium-sized bastions. In terms of manpower, the Japanese labor was cheap and it did not cost much. The real cost
Instead, the money came from the iron rods (weakened version of steel bars) and cement that Jinghua sent to Misaki Castle from the mainland of the Ming Dynasty.
Hidenaga continued to move south, and saw the second line of defense near Youhu (place name). This is the closest and narrowest area south to Misaki Castle, with a width of only more than five miles (2.7 kilometers) from east to west. Sea Trade Alliance
He perfectly demonstrated his strength and built a "Great Wall" on this line of defense using very "Tang Kingdom" style methods.
This "Great Wall" is actually a long wall of Qi Jiguang-style forts, with forts set up every two hundred meters. There are three fixed gun bases on the fort, which are divided into three directions: front, left front, and right front.
In fact, this setting is similar to the firepower setting of the bastion, that is, it can fire directly in the distance and form cross fire when approaching the city wall.
In addition, fire ports are designed on the top of the "Great Wall", which are the battlements used by musketeers. In this way, they can not only form a powerful fire suppression from a high position, but also implement traditional city defense strategies, such as dumping rolling logs and rocks.
, fire oil, gold juice, etc. It can be said that as long as there are people guarding the city, it is basically foolproof.
The Maritime Trade Alliance has only been leasing Misaki Castle for more than three months, but the construction of the Great Wall has almost been completed. Such financial resources shocked Toyotomi Hidenaga. Although the height of the city wall does not seem to be as tall as the legendary "Great Wall of the Tang Dynasty"
(The average height of the Great Wall is 7.8 meters, and some parts are as high as 14 meters), but it is also more than two feet high.
For the Japanese, this is completely the standard of a giant city—the height of the walls of Odawara Castle does not exceed this!
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Toyotomi Hidenaga took a breath and finally understood why his brother was so cautious this time. The Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance is indeed extremely wealthy. With their status
With such terrifying strength, I am afraid that an Odawara Castle can be built in one year.
With indescribable worries, Toyotomi Hidenaga passed the Youhu Pass with the release of the Kyoka Marine Corps, and officially entered the theoretical outer city of Misaki Castle. Not long after, he arrived at the castle town of Misaki - in fact, this was Ming.
Misaki Castle through human eyes.
In Japan in the 16th century, most of the Warring States daimyo cooperated with the unification of their territories. With the implementation of the policy of separating soldiers and peasants, the samurai groups and merchants directly under the lords were forced to gather under the castle walls, forming so-called castle towns.
It developed into the political, economic and transportation center of the territory.
For example, the Imagawa clan's Sunfu, the Ouchi clan's Yamaguchi, the Takeda clan's Kofu, the Oda clan's Azuchi, and the Toyotomi clan's Osaka are all famous castle towns.
The reason why it is different from China is that in the past, Japan only regarded the lord's residence as a city. Due to limited economic strength and perennial wars, the Japanese daimyo only had the strength to build their own fortress-style residences and did not take into account the overall situation.
"City" - city A city is originally a city and a market.
The castle town of Misaki Castle originally did not have a serious city defense system, but now that Kyoka has arrived, it is obvious that it cannot tolerate the strange situation of the market without defensive measures, so the construction of the castle town of Misaki Castle is also in progress.
Perhaps because the castle town's defense facilities are not as urgent as the two defense lines to the north, they have not been completed yet and are still being constructed in sections. The completed part is less than two miles long.
However, it was this castle town wall that was less than two miles long that shocked Hidenaga again: this section of the wall should be at least three feet high! A three-foot-high wall is unheard of in Japan, even Azuchi built by Nobunaga.
The city and its defenses are not so strong as to be exaggerated.
In fact, the three-foot-high city wall is not bad even in the Ming Dynasty. Although this 9-meter-high city wall is still a bit childish compared to the real majestic city of the Ming Dynasty, such as the 14-meter-high Datong City Wall, it is not considered
A first-class person can also be considered a second-rate person. In Japan, she can almost be said to be a supermodel.
At least in the eyes of Toyotomi Hidenaga at this time, after the reconstruction of Misaki Castle was completed, even Odawara Castle had to give up its title of "Japan's No. 1 Fortress".
Toyotomi Hidenchou, who was good at building castles, insisted on seeing the city wall despite being seriously ill. Although he was riding in an ox cart, he still insisted on seeing the city wall. Then he discovered that this wall - or rather the entire city defense system of Misaki Castle except for the extremely tall wall.
In addition, many Japanese-style designs are also referenced, such as slits, fan slopes, split levels, etc.
Of course, with Xiuchang's vision, it can be seen that even if the moat has not been excavated (there is indeed a design, but Jinghua does not have the manpower here to start three city defense systems at the same time), but from the height of the city wall and the giant tube of Jinghua of the Sea Trade Alliance (he is
Judging from the range of the No. 2 gun, it is not surprising that the future moat will be one mile wide. As for the design of slits, fan slopes, staggered levels, etc., it is even clearer to see how long it is.
The so-called slits are the perforations of iron cannons (muskets) on the city wall. These perforations are made by cutting out the stones. The whole is funnel-shaped, small on the outside and large on the inside. The outer area to be shot is less than 10x10 cm. Perforations
There is a trapezoidal slope inside, about 40 cm long, 50 cm wide, and a height difference of about 25 cm. Soldiers can lie prone and rest their elbows to shoot stably. The inner wall is smooth and the ergonomics are very good. The perforation distance is about 2.5 meters, and multiple soldiers can take turns.
Shooting from a perforation.
Hide Naga discovered that the Misaki Castle of the Maritime Trade Alliance designed perforations for different weapons. These perforations are different. The iron cannon perforations are square, and the bow and arrow perforations are rectangular. The size is equivalent to two iron cannon perforations.
Convenient for aiming and firing bows and arrows.
Strangely, the construction of the main castle tower of Misaki Castle has not yet started (the Japanese usually build the castle tower first, which is the castle where the castle lord lives). However, according to Hide Naga's understanding, under the defense of such a large castle town, after the castle tower is built, other
There will definitely be multiple shooting platforms that extend about half a meter from the city wall, used to attack enemies that attack the city and are located in the blind spots at the base of the wall.
The fan slope is also a very Japanese design. Similar to many Japanese castles, the walls of Misaki Castle Town are steeply sloped and arc-shaped. Especially the vertical junction of the walls has a larger arc and is obviously elongated, allowing the enemy to climb farther.
The higher you go up, the closer it becomes to vertical. The city wall at the fan slope is made of larger monolithic stones, which are polished smooth and have small gaps between the stones, making it very difficult to climb.
Finally, there is the staggered level. The walls of Misaki Castle are not square, but adopt a staggered level design based on the slope of the bastion to create defense depth, increase the firepower strike surface, and disperse the enemy's strength.
Facing a straight-shaped city wall, the enemy's forces can be pushed in a straight line, and the supporting firepower can cover the entire city wall. The sloping cross and staggered city walls can divide the enemy's forces into multiple sections, and the supporting firepower will also be blocked by the staggered layers.
The staggered city wall forms an L-shaped position, which changes the frontal contact with the enemy into a combined frontal and side contact with the enemy. Cross firepower is formed to attack the enemy from the front and the side. The firepower effect is far better than that of the straight-shaped city wall.
When the attack hits the root of the wall and shoots at the enemy in the blind spot from the front, the defender of the straight-line city wall will have to lean out a large part of his body to complete it, while the split-level city wall can be directly protected by side fire. At the same time, the length of the split-level city wall is about
20 to 50 meters, just within the effective range of iron cannon or bow and arrow.
These are very Japanese city designs. Perhaps because there are many people and little land, and the space for maneuver is small, Japanese military thought has always emphasized frontal resistance, so the details of tactics must be meticulous. This Japanese military concept is even used in
It was also reflected in the battlefields of World War II. For example, it was recorded in "Notes of the Battle of Matsuyama" that the machine gun perforations of the Japanese army's Matsuyama Bunker Group were small on the outside and large on the inside. The firing range was extremely small and the firepower density was extremely high. It was very similar to the slit design of Osaka Castle.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In the Southwest War in Japan during the Meiji period, the rebel samurai relied on complex terrain to launch hand-to-hand charges against the Meiji government troops. During the Battle of Matsuyama, the Japanese army also relied on the cover of vegetation to use cold weapons.
Weapons launched a surprise attack on the Chinese army, which is similar to the Japanese concept of breaking out of an ambush samurai from a dark room.
In the Battle of Matsuyama, the Battle of Iwo Jima and the Battle of Okinawa, the Japanese army relied on solid bunkers to achieve a relatively low casualty ratio, which may also be seen in the Japanese-style city defense design.
In fact, the design of Misaki Castle itself was explained by Gao Pragmatic himself. The reason why Jinghua Infrastructure sent so many people over was just to let them test it out.
As for the reason, it is because Gao Pangshi knew that during the Korean War in the original history, the Ming army was repeatedly trapped by the Japanese-style city defenses built by the Japanese army in Korea. At that time, the top generals of the Ming army reported to many domestic memorials.
They all mentioned words such as "Japanese cities are difficult to attack", and a large part of the casualties were caused by repeatedly attacking "Japanese cities" - in fact, the Ming army's field casualties were relatively small (this may be because the Ming Dynasty army's field casualties were relatively small).
Most of the military aid troops to Korea were elite field armies. If the guardsmen were replaced, the performance and battle damage data would have to be replaced with each other).
In Toyotomi Hideucha's eyes, Misaki Castle's three-layer defense system can be said to be a "combination of the East and the West". Once completed, it will be absolutely indestructible. In fact, he did not know that the defense system of Misaki Castle should be said to be a combination of the East and the West.
A Marine platoon leader who had been following him since he entered the first line of defense saw that the great leader of the Japanese court was silent as he looked at the unrepaired city wall. He was secretly happy in his heart. He raised his chin slightly and reminded:
"Your Highness, Great Nayan, it's already getting late, Commander Luo is still waiting for you."
"Ah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Toyotomi Hidenaga was awakened by him, and even with a hint of humility in his kindness, he nodded at him: "Your Highness, please lead the way, please excuse me."
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