Chapter 277 Aiding Korea and fighting against the Japanese (Twenty-six) The battlefield behind enemy lines
The performance of the North Korean royal family and court can be described as a mess, but surprisingly, the Korean people's spontaneous fight against the Japanese pirate invasion was quite interesting.
As early as the ninth day after Japan landed in Busan, Guo Zaiyu, the son of a landlord in Segan Village, Yinyeong County, Gyeongsangnam Province, organized a group of volunteers to continue guerrilla warfare against the Japanese army. Guo Zaiyu took the lead in the insurrectionary army and was not only famous throughout the world, but also promoted
Within each Taoist movement, there are gradually efforts to form independent rebel armies.
At this time, Japan's 15,000-strong Sixth Division, headed by the famous general Kobayakawa Takakage, was divided into two groups to try to penetrate Jeolla Province, while the 30,000-strong Japanese Seventh Division, led by Mouri Terumoto, was fully occupying Gyeongsang Province.
Shangdao.
Since the Korean army in Gyeongsang Province had fled in all directions, the seventh division had not been harassed by the rebels, so the progress of the Maori troops in Gyeongsang Province was very smooth. The powerful Maori Huiyuan sent retainer Anguoji Huiqiong to lead three troops.
Thousand, the 6th Division affiliated with Takakage Kobayakawa infiltrated into Jeolla.
Here are a few words for readers who are not familiar with the situation in Japan at the end of the Warring States Period: Mouri and Kobayakawa are the same family by blood. If we want to be more precise, there is a special term called "Moori Ryokawa", that is, Mouri, Kobayakawa, and Yoshikawa
These three are actually one family.
The so-called Maori Ryogawa originates from the custom of adoption during the Warring States Period in Japan. The Mori family, which was a local wealthy family and became a great name in the Warring States Period, sent their two sons to Yoshikawa respectively during the Motoji period, and the Kobayakawa family adopted them as adopted sons.
Various means allowed the two sons to completely control the Yoshikawa and Kobayakawa families, and eventually formed the famous Maori Ryogawa.
The Yoshikawa family, whose residence was Kokurayama Castle on the border of Aki and Iwami, could serve as an outpost for the Maori family to advance to Iwami and even Sanin. Judging from the scale of the Maori family at the time, Ogurayama Castle, where Yoshikawa Motoharu was seated, was the largest.
The main enemy is only the Nizi family, but this only enemy is indeed the biggest enemy Yuanjiu has ever faced in his career.
As for the two Kobayakawa families (the main family and the branch family), they are located on the coast of the Seto Inland Sea. Although the enemies they face are not as powerful as the Nishiko family, the situation is more complicated and may not be quelled by force alone. In addition, the Kobayakawa family has another potential advantage.
, that is a military unit that neither Mori nor Yoshikawa has - the navy.
When Takakage Kobayakawa took over the Kobayakawa family, he also brought the navy under his control. Through this water power, he successfully attracted the Murakami Navy, the strongest navy on the west side of the Seto Inland Sea (the Murakami Navy includes Noshima Murakami, who
Shima Murakami, Inshima Murakami), and then incorporated them into the Maori Navy.
The contribution of this new force cannot be underestimated. In the short term, it helped the Maori family win the Battle of Itsukushima in 1555; in the long term, it helped the Maori family gain hegemony over the Seto Inland Sea for twenty-three years!
From the perspective of future development, the two-sichuan system laid the foundation for the growth of the Maori family and helped to dominate the Chinese region (Sanin and Sanyo). From this point of view, the reason why Motonari arranged for two outstanding sons to inherit the Yoshikawa family and Kobayakawa
Jia is well aware of the ebb and flow of local power in Japan and China in the next twenty years. However, what is even more powerful is that he has already clearly seen the characteristics of the second son Motoharu and the third son Takakage.
Yoshikawa Motoharu is brave and good at fighting, and is suitable for head-to-head confrontation with the powerful Nizi family. Looking at the Nizi family, probably only the New Palace Party can rival Motoharu. In addition to giving future generations the impression of being brave and good at fighting, Motoharu is also a literature-loving general. When he attacked the Nizi family,
Forty volumes of the military record "Taipingki" were completed in this formation. This is the origin of Yoshikawa's version of "Taipeiki".
However, Yoshikawa Motoharu, who is good at literature and martial arts, is not good at diplomacy. Facing the dominant Nishi family in Sanin, Motoharu can still compete with him with his literary, military and military skills. However, facing the complicated situation in Sanyang, Kobayakawa Takakage is more powerful than Motoharu.
It is suitable. There are many wealthy families in the Sanyo area, and perhaps some of them are not as powerful as the Kobayakawa family, but if they are attacked with force instead of showing mercy, they will be forced to form an alliance, and the Kobayakawa family will be trapped in a situation where they are besieged on all sides.
Kobayakawa Takakage gives people the impression of being gentle and gentle, not superstitious about using force to solve the problem, and is good at mediating and coordinating. Whenever the wealthy families in Sanyang have disputes, they come to Takakage to intervene. However, he always has no preset position, takes into account the needs of both parties, and provides the maximum
Conveniently, its reputation is accumulated in these small things. Compared with his brother's military conquest, Longjing's attack on Shanyang was more about defeating the opponent with reputation.
In any case, in short, the Maori and River system can be regarded as the Maori family as the main family and the two rivers as the branch family. Now that Mori Terumoto sends his subordinates to Kobayakawa Takakage to take orders, no one has any surprises, and Anguoji Huiqiong himself will not have any surprises.
Resistance psychology.
This Huiqiong of Anguo Temple was originally a diplomatic monk of the Maori clan (many famous people relied on monks for diplomacy in that era), and he could only say that he had a rough grasp of military strategy. Guo Zaiyou learned about Huiqiong's marching route of Anguo Temple, and took advantage of his arrogance and carelessness to attack Huiqiong in Anguo Temple that night.
Set up ambushes wherever you must pass through the mountains.
When encountering the ambush, Anguo Temple Huiqiong was still surprised that there was a North Korean ambush, so he urgently ordered his troops to prepare for battle and shoot the volunteers. Guo Zaiyou ordered the volunteers to set fire to the mountain pass and use rolling stones, bows and arrows to stop the Japanese army.
Anguoji Temple Huiqiong saw that his headquarters was in panic, so he had to order the retreat first. Guo Zaiyou saw the Japanese army retreating, but did not pursue it, and immediately withdrew. After Anguoji Temple Huiqiong had rested and had the sentry to investigate and there was no danger, he marched again.
Who would have known that during the march of the Japanese army, Guo Zaiyou harassed and attacked Anguo Temple regardless of day or night. When the Japanese army pursued him, he fled to the mountains and forests, and attacked the Japanese army's baggage in a roundabout way. After many days, the Japanese army had hundreds of casualties, and Huiqiong of Anguo Temple was a big man.
Angry, he vowed to annihilate all the Korean volunteers, divided into four teams to explore the direction of the volunteers, and marched towards the Nakdong River.
Guo Zaiyu made a plan late at night to defeat Huijiong of Anguoksa Temple. He had people disguise themselves, dressed in red, and led 600 volunteers to lure Huiqiong of Anguoksa Temple into pursuit. He led the main force of the rebels to set up an ambush on both sides of the Nakdong River.
The next day, Huiqiong of Anguo Temple saw a red-clothed general leading hundreds of troops galloping past in front of him on the way. Therefore, when he was harassed by rebels before, it was common to see soldiers leading troops wearing red. Upon investigation, he found out that the red-clothed general was.
Rebel leader Guo Zaiyou.
After confirming this, Huiqiong of Anguo Temple determined that this was the main force of the rebels and immediately ordered the entire army to pursue it. The rebels fought and retreated, fled to the narrow part of the Nakdong River and forcibly crossed it.
Anguo Temple Huiqiong was overjoyed and ordered 500 iron artillery teams to fire along the coast, and also ordered a thousand Zuqing to annihilate the enemy on the river beach. At this time, the volunteers crossing the river suddenly turned back and attacked, and ambushes arose on both sides of the river. Arrows were also fired continuously on the other side of the river.
Then there was a surprise attack by the rebels.
As a result, the iron artillery team was attacked from behind, the Ashigaru team was being restrained, and the Japanese army's main line was shaken. Anguoji Huiqiong saw another general in red coming out of the other side in the distance, and realized that he was chasing only Guo Zaiyou's stand-in, and exclaimed in his heart:
"Kagemusha's plan!"
In order to avoid excessive casualties, the troops were ordered to withdraw. Although Guo Zaiyou set up an ambush, he discovered the weakness of North Korea's combat power during a brief head-on confrontation with the Japanese army. Seeing Anguo Temple retreating, Guo Zaiyou also ordered a retreat.
After the Nakdong River battle, there were only less than 2,000 Huijiong left in Anguo Temple, and they did not dare to march on their own, so they followed the Kobayakawa Yonggyeong march route to Juchang and entered Jeolla.
After Guo Zaiyou heard the report, he quickly contacted Jin Miao, the leader of another volunteer army in Gyeongsang Province. Jin Miao immediately led his volunteers to chase Huiqiong of Anguo Temple. When Huiqiong heard that he was actually being chased by the rebels, Huiqiong was so furious that he ordered iron cannons to take the lead.
The samurai ashigaru lined up behind to attack.
Jin Miao arrived with his troops, but was shot by the iron artillery team, so he immediately retreated in panic. Huiqiong of Anguo Temple ordered the pursuit, and Jin Miao gradually led him into the ambush valley. This time, Huiqiong of Anguo Temple was alarmed that there was a trick and was about to withdraw.
Unexpectedly, Guo Zaiyou and Jin Miao had already ordered archers to shoot firewood and fodder in the valley to block the entrance of the valley with fire. Huiqiong of Anguo Temple fought to the death and retreated with the remaining soldiers.
Not only did the rebels achieve victory this way, but the seventh division in Gyeongsang Province was also harassed by the rebels led by Zheng Inhong, Son Inga and others, and suffered repeated setbacks. They raided the countryside, but unfortunately had little effect. Although they defeated several cities, the volunteers defended the city.
But unlike the North Korean official army, the soldiers and civilians were integrated and had great combat power. The Maori army's progress was slow, and it took one or two days to conquer a city.
Terumoto Mori was extremely anxious and convened the generals Yoshikawa Hiroie, Shuichi Hasegawa and others for discussion. Terumoto Mori said: "It only takes half a month for the first and second divisions to approach Wangjing after they landed in Busan, and Gyeongsang Province's troops are ready."
It has long been defeated, but now our army is slow to attack the militia, what is the reason?"
The reason is that it cannot be said that both Maori and Sichuan are weak, right? Therefore Yoshikawa Hiroie replied: "The North Korean militia evaded the real situation in the mountains and forests, and harassed my logistics and supplies, which was extremely harmful. Previously, Hasegawa Shuichi had more
They encountered a night attack for the first time, but they fled into the mountains and forests in the blink of an eye and disappeared. The militiamen took advantage of the location and were good at transforming soldiers and peasants. Moreover, our army was easy to show off when it was dispatched. When our army first arrived in North Korea, it would take some time to adapt.
"To put it simply, there is no good solution for the time being.
Hasegawa Hideichi said: "After all, the North Korean militia is just a mob, and it is difficult to confront our army head-on. Although it defends the city tenaciously, it is of no avail. In order to speed up the march, all North Korean militiamen who dare to resist should be killed to avoid future troubles!"
Maori Huiyuan frowned and said: "The seventh squadron received military orders to stabilize Gyeongsang Province and ensure logistics. Zheng Inhong, Son Inga, Guo Zaiyou, Jin Miao and others are serious dangers to us, but how can we wipe out all the Korean people? Or occupy Gyeongsang Province first?"
The only way is to appease the people and gradually eliminate the rebels."
In another camp of the Japanese Army's Sixth Division, Kobayakawa Takakage heard that Mouri Terumoto was repeatedly harassed by rebels in Gyeongsang Province and that the advance of troops was slow. He, who was originally calm and wise, could not hide a trace of sadness, which made his old wrinkles more obvious.
some.
Kobayakawa Takakage thought for a long time and said to his subordinate General Tachibana Munesege: "His Majesty Terumoto is young and inconscientious, and he neglects the battle formation. The Seventh Division has 30,000 troops. It is still slow to respond to the Gyeongsang Province militiamen's offensive. It seems that it is difficult to bear the burden of his grandfather."
Mouri Yuanjiu has the reputation of His Highness."
Tachibana Muneshige said: "After all, His Highness Kagumoto is the governor of the Maori family. His Highness Kobayakawa and His Highness Yoshikawa are both sons of His Highness Motonari Moori and uncles of His Highness Kagumoto. Although His Highness Kagumoto's military power has suffered a setback, it seems inappropriate to mock the family master. Kobayakawa
In his early years, His Highness followed Duke Yuan Jiugong in the southern and northern wars, and now he is relied upon by His Highness Taige and is the pillar of the Maori family. Should our army assist the seventh division at this time?"
Kobayakawa Takakage said: "What Somo said is absolutely true. Militiamen can come from anywhere. Our army has failed to infiltrate Jeolla. If we want to avoid being frustrated by the Korean militia, we must stay step by step, fight and defend properly, and not be restrained by the enemy in the dark. Somo, you too
Just chase down the militiamen several times and send a message to the Yoshikawa Hiro family about what you see.
The Sixth Division and the Seventh Division should not deal with the North Korean militia. I informed Ukita Hideie myself and asked him to order the Eighth Division and the Ninth Division to assist and suppress the militiamen." Munesege Tachibana accepted the order and left.
On September 2nd, Governor Konishi's first squadron easily captured the Joseon royal palace as its defenses had already been withdrawn. Governor Konishi personally led the team to break into the palace to search for the royal family, but to no avail. Only when he came to report from the spy horse did he learn that the Joseon royal family had already withdrawn to Kaesong.
Governor Konishi was so angry that he ordered the entire army to rest and prepare to march into Kaesong in one go. In Kaesong, the North Korean King Li Ho was discussing garrison matters with his ministers. The envoy Li Dexin who was originally ordered to negotiate with Governor Konishi suddenly returned to Kaesong. Li Ho
I asked him urgently if he had seen Governor Konishi? He didn't want to know that Wang Jing had been captured from Li Dexin, and everyone was shocked.
Idoshou asked: "When did it fall?"
Li Dexin sighed and replied: "We arrived at the south bank of the Han River yesterday and entered the city today."
Idoushou said in surprise: "This is really unbelievable. How could Wangjing's defense line and the capital be easily breached in less than a day?"
Li Dexin shed tears when she heard this and replied: "It was not because we were defeated, but because Marshal Jin Mingyuan of the capital, Deputy Marshal Shen Ke, and General Li Yangyuan who stayed in the capital had already fled when the Japanese invaders approached the Han River." The ministers heard this.
This statement shocked everyone, and their shock was beyond words.
After hearing this, Li Huan trembled all over, and said to Li Hengfu in a hurry: "Du Chengzhi, Wang Jing is only one day away from here... Ah, no, if the cavalry advances quickly, it only takes two or three hours to catch up to here!"
We all accept the decree and immediately convey my decree. Without waiting for anything else, we will move immediately!" The ministers were shocked again and tried to persuade the king to calm down.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! How could Li Huo calm down? Not only could he not calm down, he even got up angrily, shouting and shouting, and his emotions were almost out of control.
Inside Wangjing, the Japanese army was searching for supplies, eating rice and medical treatment for wounded soldiers. President Konishi personally led the team to patrol the whole city, which not only showed majesty but also comforted the morale of the soldiers.
At this time, an order came from the general Ukita Hideie. Ukita Hideie ordered Konishi Governor to stop the march and garrison Hanyang until the general entered the city. At the same time, he was also asked to gather the fleeing people and appease the people so that they could recruit troops for military service.
After Xiao Xixing finished the inspection, he ordered Zong Yizhi: "Allocate three days' rations from the remaining half-month army rations, and prepare to distribute them to the people and win their hearts." He also ordered the monk Jingzhe Xuansu to say: "Xuansu needs to instruct Shi Wenjuan.
The person writing the calligraphy wrote wall letters in various places with sincere words, expressing to the Korean people that they would never disturb the people, and inducing the people to return to Wang Jing." The two of them took the order and left.
A moment later, Kato Kiyomasa led the troops and rushed to see Governor Konishi and asked him about his crime. Governor Konishi was puzzled and asked: "What crime am I guilty of?"
Kato Kiyomasa said: "There were more than 120 ships on the south side of the Han River when I sent people to investigate. When my base camp arrived, all of them had been burned. Who else could do such a shameless thing except you?
Things!"
President Konishi sneered and said: "Oh, you really want to inflict a crime, so why bother? Kato, I also learned a Tang Dynasty proverb in the past, which is used at this time: A dog's mouth cannot spit out ivory."
After hearing this, Kato was furious and drew his sword at him. He was about to kill Yukino Konishi, but he was naturally stopped by his attendants.
President Konishi was also angry and scolded: "Kato! This matter was clearly destroyed by the North Korean army before they fled. Don't mess around here. Also, if you lose the bet, just admit defeat honestly. It is considered a loss but not a loss. But
Don’t embarrass yourself in front of your subordinates!”
Kato Kiyomasa looked around and felt that his behavior might be looked down upon. He was a man who wanted to save face, so he had to temporarily suppress his anger and ordered the entire army to attack the Korean royal family. Unexpectedly, he was stopped by Governor Konishi with the order of the general. Kato Kiyomasa became even more
Angry and angry, he left.
At this time, the remaining people in Wangjing had already run out of rations and were hungry. After the poster was posted on the wall, although they hesitated, they also rushed to tell each other, and in less than half a day, they gathered in groups to receive the rations.
Governor Konishi had already ordered people to build huts and place straw couches for the people to rest. Anyone who came to receive rations must be given porridge first. He ordered the peasants and soldiers to take care of and serve them wholeheartedly under the arrangements of the samurai, and then receive rice rations.
At the same time, he also called on the people to spread the word widely, and for a while, the people's hearts gathered together.
At this time in Gyeongsang Province, the Gyeongsang Province Observatory received news that Japanese troops were coming to surrender. They were greatly surprised and went to check it out in person. They saw the Japanese general leading hundreds of troops confronting the Yamen soldiers.
The Japanese general shouted: "I am the vanguard general of the second division under Kato Kiyomasa Okamoto Echigo. We have three thousand vanguard troops. We have come to surrender to North Korea. Please believe us!" But the North Korean officers and soldiers insisted on not believing it and were determined to do it.
Fighting to the death with the Japanese army. Seeing this, Okamoto Echigo Mamoru took the lead in taking off his saber, and his soldiers also put down their iron cannons and sabers to show their sincerity.
This move shocked all the North Korean officers and soldiers present, and the Gyeongsang Province observer was even more puzzled. He secretly asked: Why did these Japanese surrender when their momentum was at its peak? Could it be that they committed capital crimes in the army before joining our army?
He thought for a while and simply asked these questions directly. The Okamoto Echigo Mamoru did not show any pretense and immediately replied: "We thought that after the long civil war, we could return to our hometown to reunite with my wife and children and enjoy peace. Who?
Knowing that he was mobilized again, he even traveled across the ocean to fight. I heard that even after defeating Korea, he would not stop and would go to fight the Ming Dynasty. I really don’t know how long the war will last! I don’t want to be tortured by war anymore.
, so it simply dropped."
The Gyeongsang Province observer saw that what he said was sincere. Although he was still not sure whether it was true or not, since the matter had come to this point, he decided to stay with the Japanese troops temporarily and report to the court first.
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