Chapter 280 The Sword Points at Japan (Nineteen) Battle of Wealth
Jinzhou is located in the middle of the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, only about 40 to 50 miles away from Sichuan on the seaside. According to Liu Wei's estimation, after occupying Sichuan, if his troops do not need too much clearing and reorganization but go directly north, then around noon tomorrow
Then we can surround Jinzhou.
However, this idea failed to be implemented because Gao Jingshi decided to temporarily stay in Sichuan. This was an unexpected "change" for Liu Wei, because he originally thought that Gao Jingshi would not go ashore for the time being and would stay in the Pingwa Fleet.
The flagship "Dongchang" will not return to the army until the main force of the Ming army moves south.
Taking a step back, Liu Wei believes that even if Gao Pragmatic lands early, he should choose to stay with his troops - here he refers to his Liu Family Army. Although the soldiers who are currently preparing to stay in Sichuan are undoubtedly "Ming Ming".
"Army", but...how to put it, after all, it cannot be completely regarded as Han soldiers.
Gao Pragmatic was able to make such a decision, and of course it was not a fool's errand. He was well aware of the many chronic diseases of the Ming military system, such as the idea that the chieftains and soldiers were not regarded as one of their own, but only as servants. [Note:
If we want to make an analogy, the relationship between the Ming army and the accompanying chieftain army is somewhat similar to the relationship between the Russian army and the Chechen army in the current Russo-Ukrainian war.]
However, Gao Pragmatic does not hope that the regular army of the Ming army and the chieftain army will always have such a relationship. Although the root of this relationship is that the Ming Dynasty's governance of the chieftains has always "allowed the chieftains to have a high degree of autonomy." Simply relying on the influence of the chieftain army may not necessarily have much effect.
Good effect, but Gao Pragmatic still hopes to try it.
Therefore, Gao Jingshi moved the expedition ashore with only 800 guards and stayed in Sichuan, which was planned to be garrisoned by chieftains. Due to this change, Liu Wei did not dare to go north immediately, but decided to
Stay one more night and try to use this night to investigate and clear out the area around Sichuan, just in case anything happens.
However, the possibility he was worried about did not appear. The Japanese army's defense in the area was really empty. In addition, there were not many Koreans in the area, so it was still very easy to trace them.
In fact, since Sichuan is just a small town, its population before the Renchen year was only about 20,000, and now after the war, it is less than 10,000. That is to say, even if Liu Wei's Liu Jiajun leaves tomorrow, the remaining 10,000
The five thousand chieftain army is already more than the Korean people here. In this case, there will really be no problem with high pragmatic security-unless the chieftain army mutiny.
Chieftain mutiny? Liu Wei is really not worried about this. First of all, with his high and pragmatic reputation and status, it is estimated that no chieftain would have the courage to stage a mutiny against him.
Secondly, this place is North Korea, which is thousands of miles away from the hometown of the chieftains. After the mutiny, there was no sea supply. Do you plan to starve to death here?
Thirdly, the chieftain troops mobilized this time were all well-known by Liu Wei. Among them, the stone and white pole soldiers brought by Ma Qiancheng and his wife were the most famous. And Ma Qiancheng and his wife were famously loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty. Even if there were
When the chieftain's soldiers and horses quarrel, the couple must be the pragmatic type who swear to protect Gao to the death.
Finally, the eight hundred soldiers around Gao Jingshi are no joke. As the last security barrier around Gao Jingshi, they are the real elite carefully selected from the more than 200,000 armed servants of the Gao family of various types.
Martial arts, various tactics and even weapons and equipment are all at the top level of the Ming Dynasty today.
Judging from his sister's past descriptions, Liu Wei believed that even if they faced an onslaught of 3,000 surrendered Japanese soldiers, they would be able to defend themselves. If even Japanese surrendered soldiers could be blocked, Liu Wei would have nothing to worry about.
What about?
Since the safety of the Marquis could be ensured, Liu Wei could sleep peacefully that night, but he still summoned all the chieftain leaders to give them a lecture - after all, they were all Sichuan chieftains, and they were originally under his control.
There is nothing else to say. The only purpose Liu Wei explained is: Although there should be no military danger in Sichuan, if the police are called, your first priority is to ensure the safety of the Marquis. If anything goes wrong in this matter,
Then don't blame me, Mr. Liu, for not talking about our past friendship.
Although Liu Wei's words were serious, the chieftains still understood them. The relationship between the Liu family and Gao Pangshi had never been a secret, so it was natural that Liu Wei attached so much importance to this matter.
However, the chieftains did not feel any embarrassment. For the chieftains, staying in Sichuan this time was a good job. They did not need to contribute to the attack on Jinzhou, but staying in Sichuan and Gao Pragmatic also meant that they could be among the first batch
Obtaining supplies will also lead to great achievements in battle - this is the escort management team!
On this basis, if you can still think of ways to leave a good impression on Mr. Hou, then your life will definitely be better in the future. What a rare opportunity this is!
So Liu Wei was faced with a group of impassioned chieftains who were eager to have their hearts cut open to prove their loyalty. They all expressed their determination and made the protection of high pragmatism seem to be more important than protecting their own ancestral graves, which made Liu Wei very satisfied.
Early the next morning, the Liu Jiajun went north on time. Beforehand, Liu Wei came to say goodbye to Gao Jingshi and asked Gao Jingshi for his instructions on taking Jinzhou. Gao Jingshi said that he had no special instructions, but asked Liu Wei not to go eastward for the time being after finishing Jinzhou.
A small force of troops can just make a reconnaissance posture to the east. Liu Wei understood this and quickly led his troops to the north.
After Liu Wei left, Gao Jingshi issued an order to the Ping-Japan fleet temporarily stationed in Sichuan, asking them to select the fastest ship to start patrolling eastward, making a posture of imminent attack on Busan. This task was directly handed over to Gao Jingshi.
It was given to Chen Lin and Deng Zilong, while the fleet of the Sea Trade Alliance was parked in Sichuan.
After that, Gao pragmatically invited the chieftains headed by Ma Qiancheng to arrange a defense zone for them and blockaded the entire Sichuan, especially the port area. Anyone, including Koreans, would be bounded by twenty miles around Sichuan.
, only allowed in but not allowed out.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In addition, Gao Pragmatic also showed his consistent style and ordered Ma Qiancheng to supervise all the chieftains' soldiers and horses during Liu Wei's absence. Each chieftain must obey Ma Qiancheng's dispatch. In this regard
, Ma Qiancheng and his wife were very excited and even more willing to serve.
At the same time, Gao Pragmatic did not give up the old method and announced the payment of additional allowances to each chieftain. The amount was not large, and one tael of cash was given to each person who sent troops. The general manager did not care about the distribution process and directly distributed it to the chieftains according to the number of troops sent.
in hand.
Don't look at the total of only fifteen thousand taels. As I said before, the characteristics of most chieftains are that they need people to deal with and money. With the power of Huang Zhiting and her family at the time, the amount of money they paid to the court every year was limited.
It's six hundred taels, so one tael per person is a completely unexpected windfall for these chieftains.
Once this money was given, everyone became less resistant to taking orders from the young Ma Qiancheng - just think of it as giving Mr. Gao Ge some face! Small things are all small things.
After arranging these things, Gao Pragmatic seemed to be free and actually took people around to "view the scenery".
He had nothing to do here for the time being, so he might as well talk about Liu Wei first. Liu Wei already knew the general situation in Jinzhou by consulting previous battle reports, but it was only when he arrived in Jinzhou that he realized that his original estimate was a bit off.
According to his previous thoughts, since North Korea was able to win the first battle of Jinju, it meant that Jinzhou was either easy to defend and difficult to attack, or the city defense facilities were strong and complete. Therefore, although his battle may have a certain suddenness,
As a critical battle, I am afraid that some casualties will still have to be paid as a price.
However, when he arrived in Jinzhou, he found that the terrain of Jinzhou was not particularly difficult to attack. Although it was considered an upward attack, the angle of the upward attack was very limited, at least for a large number of artillery vehicles with adjustable firing angles.
It’s nothing to Liu Jiajun.
What really surprised him was the so-called "strong city defense". Jinzhou's city walls were in tatters. Not only did they have many traces of smoke and fire, but there were also gaps or cracks in more places. As for the dried blood stains, they were everywhere.
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He picked up the telescope and looked carefully, and found that there were craters everywhere on the city wall, which had obviously been hit by a large number of musket pellets.
Liu Wei understood that this must be the masterpiece of the Japanese army during the Second Battle of Jinju. It is said that the Japanese army captured this place and killed almost the entire Jinzhou in order to avenge the First Battle of Jinju.
Cleanly, about 70,000 North Korean soldiers and civilians were slaughtered before and after.
Liu Wei secretly cursed: Damn it, these Japanese pirates are more bloodthirsty than I am, and they slaughtered 70,000 people at will.
However, despite the scolding, Liu Wei was relieved, because after such a massacre, the population of Jinzhou could not recover quickly. At this time, there were probably not many people in Jinzhou City at all, and the Japanese army could only defend the city.
It's all up to you, and you can't even coerce the North Koreans to beat them up.
The Liu Jiajun quickly surrounded Jinzhou on three sides. This was a typical besiege of three towers and was a routine operation. However, routine may not be truly routine, because Liu Wei’s purpose of besieging three towers was not to reduce his own casualties, but sincerely
Plan to let go of the Japanese soldiers hoping to escape.
The reason is very simple. Gao Pragmatic's order was that after he finished attacking Jinju, he should not move eastward for the time being, but only need to send a small force to the east to make a reconnaissance posture. This meant that the purpose of attacking Jinzhou was to frighten the Japanese army in Busan.
, not necessarily for Jinju City itself.
Since the main purpose was to intimidate, it would not be right to annihilate the Japanese troops in Jinzhou. Therefore, Liu Wei's approach was simple and crude: after surrounding Jinzhou City on three sides, he pulled out all the artillery and pushed forward directly.
The Liu Jiajun's 15,000 men were equipped with more than 80 cannons in total. Among them, the most common No. 3 cannons of the elite land divisions of the Ming Army were mainly used (the non-elite ones generally used No. 4 cannons, which have relatively weak firepower), but there were also ten cannons.
There were fewer No. 2 heavy artillery pieces among the Ming Army's land divisions.
Since the main force has already moved north, the number of Japanese troops in Jinju City is not large, only a thousand at full strength. Therefore, after learning that Sichuan fell yesterday, the Jinzhou Japanese army has made preparations to cage the city and plans to rely on Jinju City defense to hold on and wait for reinforcements.
However, they originally thought that Sichuan was being attacked by Yi Sun-shin's North Korean navy. Obviously, they did not expect that the elite Ming army would arrive. They especially did not expect that this Ming army would have so many artillery pieces, including ten giant cannons.
This incident suddenly caused the Japanese troops in the city to become panicked.
The name of the Japanese garrison in Jinzhou was Kuwana Yoshinari. This man was a retainer of Chozong Gabu Yuanqin. His original surname was Nakauchi, and his name was Tojiro. Later he became the son-in-law and adopted son of Kuwana Fujizo. After his adoptive father died, he inherited the Kuwana family.
He became the castle representative of Nakamura, Hatata County, Tosa Province.
When he was eleven years old, he, his father, and his elder brother paid a visit to Yuan Qin, and at the instruction of Yuan Qin, he entered the Yuan Dynasty. At the age of seventeen, he first entered the battlefield and attacked Fujime Castle in Zanqi Kingdom.
In the Battle of Nakafuchuan in the tenth year of Tianzheng, when the war horses ran into the enemy's formation while grazing, Ji Cheng rushed into the enemy's formation and recaptured the war horses. After that, he was praised by Yuanqin for his extraordinary courage and bravery. Then he soon followed
He achieved further military exploits during the attack on Awa Ichinomiya Castle and the battle against the Iyo Kanshudera clan.
In the 13th year of Tensho (1585), after Motochin surrendered to Hideyoshi, he served as an envoy to pay homage to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Hideyoshi gave him a pair of saddles and stirrups, and Ieyasu gave him a pair of Wufu.
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In the 14th year of Tensho, under the orders of Hideyoshi, he led the Chosoga troops with Motochi to rescue Bungo Otomo's family. In December of the same year, after suffering a tragic defeat at Tojigawa, he escorted Motochi to evacuate to Fuuchi Castle. The following year, he followed
General Toyotomi Hidenaga attacked Takagi and other places.
In the 16th year of Tianzheng's reign, he served as Kira's supervisor and funeral attendant during the dispute over the succession of the Changzong family. In the year of Imchen, he went to Korea with Yuanqin and led 67 attendants to serve as Yuanqin's assistant.
Guard. This time he still went out with the army and got the opportunity to defend a city alone.
Originally, he thought that even if he could not get much military exploits by defending Jinzhou alone, he would at least gain some qualifications and that he would be able to improve his status in the Chosonggabu family when he returned to Tosa in the future.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Unexpectedly, people are not as good as God. He never expected that staying in the rear area of Jinju would actually encounter a war, and the opponent was not Yi Sun-shin or other North Koreans at all.
Army, but the Ming Army, which made many Japanese soldiers change their colors after hearing this!
At this moment, preparations were made for the cage city. Even if the Ming army came, Yoshinari Kuwana, who was not yet forty years old, was not willing to flee without a fight or raise his hands to surrender. He decided to give it a try no matter what - the first Japanese army
Didn't they capture Jinzhou when they attacked Jinzhou the first time? In the second battle of Jinzhou, the Japanese army used an army of 50,000 to 60,000 to win! It seems that the Ming army did not exceed 20,000 at most. Could they easily capture it?
Jinzhou? Sang Mingjicheng didn't believe it.
However, the performance of the Ming army quickly broke Kuwana Yoshinari's fantasy. Unlike the Japanese army, which did not have much long-range heavy firepower, Liu Wei's troops had no good way to face the city. The Liu Jiajun did not even approach the city to make an appearance of siege.
After the three rows of bayonet and musket arrays, the cannons were fired in a row and began to bombard the city wall round after round.
Yoshinari Kuwana found out angrily that he could not make any counterattack against the Ming army's attack at this distance because there was no weapon available. Even if he had two hundred iron gunners (arquebusiers) in his hands, it would be useless.
The shooting distance is obviously beyond the range of the iron cannon.
Kuwana Yoshinari was extremely angry and cursed angrily. He was suddenly reminded by his subordinates that after the defeat of the Korean army in Jinzhou, there were still three Ming army artillery pieces that were intact and had been kept. Should they be pulled out for use now?
In fact, Kuwana Yoshinari knew about this. However, due to the shortage of gunpowder in the Japanese army, even iron cannons were used sparingly during combat. Therefore, Kuwana Yoshinari had never considered using the "Ming Army Big Barrel" left by the Korean army before, but at this moment he was completely passive.
Beating is definitely not the answer, so we have to treat the dead horse as a living horse doctor. As for the gunpowder... let's save our lives first.
However, Kuwana Yoshinari still underestimated the power of the Keihua No. 2 cannon. This type of cannon, which is more commonly used on naval ships, is completely demolition weapon on land. It may be difficult for them to hit the Ming Dynasty's own solid city walls, but it has long been difficult to hit one.
The scarred Korean city is completely adequate.
Just as Kuwana Jicheng looked at the Ming army's "big barrel" being pulled over with great anticipation, he heard a loud "bang" sound. A section of the city wall west of the south gate of Jinzhou City was hit by several large solid iron bullets in succession.
Then it collapsed!
It’s over!
Yoshinari Kuwana was so frightened that his hair stood on end and shouted: "Block the gap, hurry up, hurry up, the death squads will block the gap, and the iron artillery squad will prepare to stop the enemy!" He originally wanted to add "repair immediately," but when he looked across the way,
The Ming army immediately realized that this move was meaningless.
Because although the Ming army saw that a small section of the Jinzhou city wall collapsed, they had no intention of launching a strong attack here. Instead, they continued to prepare for the artillery bombardment.
Kuwana Yoshinari knew that he was being sentimental. The small gap did not faze the Ming army at all. They planned to continue the bombardment and launch a large-scale attack after the southern city wall was completely destroyed.
We can no longer defend and must retreat! Kuwana Yoshinari suddenly made up his mind at this moment.
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