Chapter 281 The Return of the Japanese and the Japanese (39) The War in Korea Ends
This surge in morale of the Japanese Fifth Army left the Ming army completely confused. The Jurchen Allied Forces, who were actually on the front line, thought that the Japanese army had set some trap in advance, and the boost in morale of the other side meant that they had already stepped into it.
In the trap.
Because of such an inexplicable incident, the Jurchen warriors of the Hada tribe were the first to waver, and even the Ula tribe, which was a little reluctant to send troops in the first place, also wanted to go first. When Nurhachi saw that the situation was not good, he immediately
An Feiyanggu came forward to suppress it.
Who knew that this suppression would cause problems instead. The Hada tribe was extremely dissatisfied with the Jianzhou Left Guard, the former Wu Xia Amon, who in turn yelled at them, and some generals cursed Anfei Yanggu in public.
As one of Nurhaci's top generals, Anfeyangu's temper was obviously not that good. He wanted to enforce military law on the spot. As a result, the Hada Department turned against him on the spot and retreated directly, not playing with the Jianzhou left guard.
As soon as the Hada tribe left, the Ula tribe was naturally eager to leave without even saying hello. Now, it was neither good for the Ye He tribe to leave nor for the Ye He tribe to stay, and they were obviously hesitant.
For the Ye He tribe, they did not want to accept the command of Nurhaci. However, Gao Pragmatic's original intention of going south this time was to consume the strength of Jianzhou's left guard, so Nurhachi sent the most troops. Although the Ye He tribe is the current Jurchen actual
As the overlord, the troops dispatched were only half of those of Jianzhou Left Guard, so they were also arranged to obey Nurhachi's command.
However, in any case, the relationship between the Ye He tribe and the Jianzhou Zuowei was not good in the first place, but as they and the Hada tribe were asked to join the army several times at the same time by the Ming Dynasty, after a few battles, the relationship is now good, and now the Hada tribe is gone.
, it becomes a question whether they should leave or not.
The leader of Ye He's troops was Fei Yingdong. After some hesitation, he still felt that he should not spoil the master's instructions first (see the previous article, theoretically Fei Yingdong is now Meng Guzhezhe's subordinate, so he also calls Gao Pragmatic the master).
Therefore, Ye Hejun was finally ordered to stand by where he was.
However, the retreat of the Hada and Ula tribes has caused the front to waver. Nonsense, how can the battle line not be shaken if the position is empty? Dong Yiyuan in the rear was a little confused at first, and then immediately reacted. In anger, he quickly sent out his cronies with the intention of
Go and stop Hada and Ula Division II.
However, the commander of the Japanese army on the opposite side was no ordinary person. He was Shimazu Yoshihiro. Therefore, taking advantage of the Ming army's vanguard to leak this flaw, the Shimazu army suddenly opened the city gate and launched a counterattack.
Shimazu Yoshihiro had originally deployed a small but elite ambush outside the city. Now that he wanted to counterattack, he naturally ordered the ambush to attack at the same time. The Jurchen coalition forces that fell into chaos were immediately divided and blocked.
Shimazu Yoshihiro's own team also joined the battle. Yoshihiro even personally led the attack and killed four enemy soldiers on the spot. However, Shimazu Tadahashi, a guy who didn't look like a brave general, was actually very fierce and killed first.
He killed three people and was also wounded by a gunshot. However, he did not retreat even after being wounded, and even killed seven Jurchen soldiers.
Nurhaci was furious and wanted to save face, but he whispered some words of admonishment. Nurhachi changed his angry look and shouted an order: "The Japanese pirates are powerful. Our troops should retreat and reorganize before another attack."
war!"
Having said that, Nurhaci led his headquarters to retreat first. Fei Yingdong on Ye He's side was shocked and angry. Fortunately, Ye He did not send many troops and they were very characteristic of his troops - they were all cavalry. Finally, he withdrew quickly enough without being attacked. Too big a loss.
However, the Jurchen coalition forces withdrew all at once, which directly caused Dong Yiyuan's Chinese army to be attacked and soon fell into chaos. As a result, under the counterattack of the Shimadzu army, the Shimadzu army suffered a considerable blow. After pursuing for more than ten miles, the Ming, Dynasty and Jurchen allied forces discarded countless soldiers and armor, and even captured more than a dozen No. 3 cannons.
That night, Shimazu's army held a victory celebration in Torai New Castle, and the Torai War came to an end.
After the war, the combined forces of the Ming and North Korea, which had suspended their retreat, had less than 20,000 troops. Although most of them had fled, Dong Yiyuan was unable to continue the offensive. He could only raise a flag and send out cavalry to summon the defeated army.
Because high pragmatism has changed history, Shimazu Yoshihiro's originally brilliant Battle of Sichuan was not successful, but it seemed that God had his own will. With this battle from the east, he still played "Oni Shimazu" The name "Ghost Manzi" was not only well-known in North Korea, but also spread to the Ming Dynasty.
Then we have to talk about the Battle of Yangshan. Earlier, the Japanese army went to Korea for the second time. Considering that it was very likely to encounter a strong counterattack by the Ming army, the Japanese army built many Japanese castles in various places - especially around Busan. They were originally used as The construction carried out based on the worst-case scenario has now come into play.
Yangsan Japanese Fortress was first built by Ukita Hideie and Todo Takatora. After Gao Pangshi suddenly sent troops to Sacheon, the Japanese army in Busan realized the importance of Yangsan and other places, and once again asked Todo Takatora to strengthen the defense of Japanese fortresses in Yangsan and other places.
At that time, the Port of Busan had been blocked, and Todo Takatora had no other tasks anyway, so he concentrated on strengthening the defense system. After working overtime on civil engineering work, it was announced that the reinforcement of the city had been completed a month later.
Soon afterwards, the main force of the Japanese army, which failed in their plan to attack Sichuan south, returned to Busan. Governor Konishi was ordered to lead his troops into the city to serve as a garrison. Takatora Toudo had gone to sea before due to changes in the situation - and this time he went to sea and was captured. Lower the height and be pragmatic.
After the completion of the Yangshan Japanese Castle, Konishi Yukinacho, Matsuura Jinnobu, Arima Harunobu, Goshima Genya, and Omura Kizen led a total of 13,700 people to serve as the Yangshan Castle garrison. The Ming army was responsible for attacking Yangshan Castle this time. There were 21,900 people led by Liu Wei, and 5,928 people were led by North Korean soldiers and horses, Yu Hou Quan Yingxin.
At the same time, at sea, 19,400 men led by Chen Lin, commander of the Ping-Japanese Fleet, and 7,328 men led by Yi Sun-shin of the North Korean Navy were deployed respectively.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After the battle started, Liu Wei, the general of the Ming Army's West Route Army, led his army to approach Liangshan. However, before attacking the city, the Ming and North Korean coalition forces first adopted tactical deception. The Japanese army claimed to hold talks and planned to try to capture President Konishi alive.
On the 18th of this month, Liu Wei submitted a letter to President Konishi, to the effect that "we will meet for peace talks near Liangshan tomorrow, and I will personally come to greet you."
Governor Konishi believed it to be true and wanted to go to the meeting. Matsuura Jinxin remonstrated: "People in the Ming Dynasty often do hypocritical things, which will be dangerous. Have you forgotten what happened in Pyongyang?" But Governor Konishi did not listen to this opinion.
On the 19th, Liu Wei laid an ambush on the way to the meeting place, and sent another person to pretend to be himself to meet President Konishi. After receiving the invitation, President Konishi went out of the city in regular clothes to the meeting place.
As a result, something unexpected happened. After searching the entire army, Matsuura Jinnobu sent an elite eyewitness squad (exploring horse) to investigate the surrounding situation in multiple directions. As a result, the Ming army's ambush troops failed to wait until Konishi Governor entered the ambush circle.
It was exposed first. There is no doubt that the Ming army's original plan to capture Governor Konishi alive failed.
Since there was no hope of outsmarting the city, the coalition forces had no choice but to seize it by force - Liu Wei immediately changed his tactics and attacked the city by force.
On the afternoon of the 19th, the Ming and North Korean coalition forces launched an attack on Liangshan City from land. A fleet of the coalition navy also fired at the Japanese army from the river. However, although the overall battle situation was that the Ming army was suppressing the Japanese army, the actual effect was
Hardly seen.
On the following two days, the 20th and 21st, the coalition navy broke through the Japanese river defense line, but was repulsed by Japanese artillery after approaching Liangshan City.
At this time, the Ming army discovered that the Japanese army had made some progress compared to the past. At least it had learned to use artillery intensively, and it actually had some artillery reserves. Although judging from the shelling, among the artillery used by Konishi Yukinagawa
Most of them may have been captured from the Korean army, but there are also a small number of Jinghua's No. 3 guns.
This became a problem, because there were no large ships that could sail into the Nakdong River, not even armed transport ships. They were all small boats provided by the North Korean navy, and these small boats could not withstand the Gyeonghwa-3 gun. So, the coalition forces
The surface attack was forced to cease.
Since the Ming army attacked Liangshan from the west to the east of the Nakdong River, the Japanese army not only had a strong Japanese city to rely on, but also had the advantages brought by the Nakdong River itself. Therefore, in the city defense battle in the next few days, the Japanese army marched in Xiaoxi
Under the command of the commander, the Ming and North Korean coalition forces could not take any advantage.
In fact, after Konishi's troops were severely damaged by Ming army Li Rusong's troops in Pyongyang, they had already suffered more than half of their casualties. After several years of rest and recuperation, although they had regained their combat effectiveness, their fighting will was still weak.
"First Evolution"
For this Battle of Liangshan, Konishi Yukinacho's headquarters once again assembled a considerable number of matchlocks, artillery and other firearms. In the past few days, because they had successfully stopped the Ming army's momentum, the morale of the army had been restored.
As mentioned before, the Yangsan Japanese Fortress was built by Todo Takatora, who was a famous architectural expert in Japanese history. Therefore, the Yangsan Japanese Fortress is comparable to the Ulsan Twin Cities to a certain extent, even because Yangshan has more Nakdong River.
The difficulty of covering and attacking may even exceed that of the Ulsan Twins.
Fortunately, Todo Takatora had already voted for Gao Pragmatic at this time, so he obtained the Liangshan city defense situation map from him before the war.
However, this is not of great significance. Liu Wei still has a headache after seeing the defense map of Liangshan City. The city has an echelon of firepower configuration, coupled with the matchlock shooting holes that can alternately form a fire network, making the Japanese defense almost reach the edge.
70% of the castle's ability.
The failure of the coalition's offensive was largely due to the defensive configuration and firepower configuration of the Japanese army, as well as the failure of the expected water suppression to work.
Liu Wei had to temporarily stop the strong attack on Liangshan, and began to make relatively traditional siege equipment such as ladders, siege towers, rams, and shields. At the same time, he began to cross the river in a roundabout way from the north and south, no longer fighting to the death.
The west side of Yangshan West City is close to the Nakdong River.
On the second day of October, after the production of siege equipment was completed, the coalition forces still launched a general attack on Liangshan from both land and water. The army attacked the connection between the inner city and the outer city with the assistance of siege equipment, while the Japanese army relied on matchlock guns and cannons.
They resisted tenaciously and the coalition forces suffered many casualties.
The Japanese army also seized the opportunity to carry out a brief and rapid counterattack out of the city, and set fire to some of the coalition's siege equipment. In just two days of fighting, the Ming and North Korean coalition forces killed more than 800 people, including about 300 Ming troops.
Man, what's too bad is that no substantial progress has been made.
The allied navy's attack from the Nakdong River was also repelled by the Japanese army. The North Korean navy's Snake Dujian made Huang Shide dead in the battle, and the fourth-rank military generals Zhu Yishou, Jin Shengyu, Hainan County Supervisor Liu Yan, Jindo County Governor Xuan Yiqing, Kang
Jin County Supervisor Song Shangfu was actually injured in the battle.
This news made Liu Wei very dissatisfied, and he almost couldn't help but ask Gao Pragmatic for water support. He believed that if a few armed transport ships could be mobilized, at least the water operations would not be unable to withstand the No. 3 gun, and water operations would not be able to withstand the No. 3 gun.
As long as a threat can be created, the land offensive will be much smoother.
However, considering that the Ming fleet was currently preparing for a naval interception operation, and that task was far more important than the current battle of Liangshan, Liu Wei finally held back.
On the third day of the lunar month, Liu Wei issued an order to the North Korean navy to "jointly attack by land and water tonight." The North Korean navy then took advantage of the high tide to approach Liangshan at about 2:00 p.m. that night (around 8 p.m.), and at
Arriving near Liangshan City at midnight, the battle began with the Japanese army.
After all, Liangshan was about forty miles away from the sea, and the tidal effect came and went out faster. During the battle, the tide receded, and a total of 23 Korean warships were stranded. The stranded warships were then rushed up and set on fire by the Japanese army.
The North Korean army suffered many casualties and prisoners, but only about 140 people survived. Yu Shou, a fourth-grade general of the North Korean navy, was also shot by the Japanese matchlock gun, but luckily he survived. The next day, the coalition navy continued to launch attacks
The attack on Liangshan was still repelled by the Japanese troops who defended the city.
The coalition navy launched attacks from the river for two consecutive days, but the army led by Liu Wei did not make any movement. This was not because the army suffered more casualties in the general attack on the first and second days of the new year, but because he had to
Got the news about the failure of the Donglai Japanese Castle strategy.
Liu Wei considered that as long as they could not defeat the enemy from the east, the Liangshan enemy would still have the confidence to hold on, and supplies might not be completely cut off, so he did not launch a meaningless attack on the Japanese army from the land.
Move your whole body, this is an example.
On the seventh day of the lunar month, as it was learned that the offensive situation of various parties was not up to expectations, the Ming and North Korean coalition forces that surrounded Liangshan City began to retreat. The Ming army itself suffered little loss in strength at this time (mainly due to the greater losses of the Korean army). Compared with the attack to the east,
For Dong Yiyuan, Liu Wei's situation was much better. The North Korean navy also lifted the naval blockade of Shuntian on the ninth day of the lunar month and returned to the water village.
Although the attack came to an end, Liu Wei did not intend to give up the operation completely. He changed the goal of his headquarters to monitor the Japanese army near Liangshan, and contained the Japanese army in Liangshan through mid-range oppression rather than actual attack.
At this time, envoys from Japan were able to sneak into Liangshan City after the Battle of Liangshan. After receiving the order, Governor Konishi began to prepare to withdraw the troops and return home.
It has to be said that despite the unfavorable weather and location, the Ming and North Korean coalition forces still failed to achieve their strategic goals this time.
Of course, no matter what, the offensive and defensive relationship of the battlefield situation remains unchanged. Although the Japanese army fought hard to repulse the attack, their own losses were not small, and more and more people began to doubt that in such a passive situation of being beaten, it was really still possible.
Is there any chance of victory? Many people feel at this time that perhaps a decent peace is the only hope of achieving it.
However, this idea soon lost its meaning, because the Japanese army that repelled the Ming and North Korean allied forces' fierce attacks on Daoshan, Donglai, and Liangshan received orders from China to withdraw their troops by October 15th at the latest.
Order to return home.
As a result, Japanese troops in various places began to prepare to withdraw their troops and return home. In late October, Governor Konishi proposed that he reach a contract with Liu Wei by sending hostages to begin the withdrawal.
According to Gao Pragmatic's pre-war deployment, Liu Wei believed that since Governor Konishi himself was a "surrender" among the Japanese generals and ranked low in Gao Pragmatic's attack sequence, the agreement could be agreed to, so he approved Xiaoxi's agreement.
President Nishi's proposal, and soon received the hostage sent by President Konishi.
However, an accident occurred. Due to the high degree of freedom given to each army by the high pragmatism of this operation, each general has his or her own understanding of the "attack sequence". Therefore, when the news was learned by the coalition navy,
On November 10th, the coalition naval forces once again attacked near Liangshan City, implemented a river blockade, and blocked the Japanese retreat along the river.
Governor Konishi had no choice but to bypass the smooth road along the river and march southward in the wilderness, hoping to go to Busan and prepare to board the ship. Unexpectedly, the Ming and North Korean allied forces that originally attacked the east side had regrouped, and the journey south was not smooth, so he had to fight against the North Korean navy.
The attack went straight along the river to the Saxia area west of Busan.
The Shaxia area can be regarded as a peninsula, and it has reached the seaside. Now not only the North Korean navy, but also the Pyongyang Japanese fleet can send warships to bombard his second army - if he dares to stay at the seaside.
In this way, Governor Konishi had no choice but to negotiate with Chen Lin, the commander of the Japanese fleet, by sending hostages in order to withdraw peacefully. However, this peace negotiation was strongly opposed by Yi Sun-shin, the commander of the North Korean navy, who advocated continuing
Attacking the Japanese army, the Ming and North Korean coalition naval forces did not retreat and continued to implement a naval blockade in this sea area.
After learning that the retreat of the Konishi Army was blocked, Shimazu Yoshihiro, Tachibana Munesege, Takahashi Naotsugu, Terasawa Hirotaka, Mune Yoshitomo and other generals who had retreated from the Japanese castle in the east immediately formed a navy fleet.
, went to rescue Yukinagako Konishi, who was besieged by the Ming and North Korean coalition forces.
I would like to add here that Shimazu Yoshihiro originally did not have many ships to mobilize, but because the actual composition of the fifth army under his command was composed of direct descendants of the Toyotomi family, his priority in retreating among the Japanese army was
relatively high.
About half a month ago, three hundred warships sent from Japan were intercepted by the Japanese fleet on the way. The Japanese army suffered heavy losses. However, because the Japanese navy chose to disperse and break out, the Japanese fleet was unable to fight any annihilation battle. The actual attack was
Shen and captured about a hundred Japanese naval warships.
Although more than one-third of the Japanese support fleet was eliminated, after all, two hundred ships can transport a lot of people even if they are squeezed together. Therefore, during this period of time, the transportation capacity of the Japanese navy is still good - of course
, whether it will be intercepted again is another matter.
Returning to the previous topic, Ming Dynasty discovered the arrival of Japanese reinforcements, and the North Korean coalition navy then went to meet them. The coalition forces then encountered the Japanese navy in the Luliang Strait in the early morning of November 18, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides. This battle was also known as
The last battle that took place in Korea in the entire War to Resist Japan and Aid Korea - or the Battle of Bunrok Keichang.
In the early morning of that day, when the Japanese navy arrived at the small island in the northwest of Nanhae Island and the south of Takeshima respectively, they were attacked from the north and south by the Ming Dynasty navy and the Korean navy in Guanyinpo ambushing in the northwest harbor of Nanhae Island. The battle began.
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The Japanese vanguard suffered heavy casualties, but as it was still dark, the artillery accuracy was seriously reduced, and the Ming and North Korean navy vanguards were also repelled by the Japanese to Guanyinpo.
Seeing that the vanguard of the Japanese army was repelled, the main force of the Ming army's Japanese fleet then rushed into the Shimazu army's headquarters and started a melee with the Japanese army.
Deeply influenced by the image of the Sea Trade Alliance fleet, Japan has always believed that the Ming army was only good at artillery. Therefore, the Japanese army did not expect that this Ming army navy would rush up to fight in close combat, so they were carelessly broken into by the Ming army.
Shimazu's army suffered heavy casualties.
Although the reserve force led by Shimadzu Army General Hisaka Kayama successfully broke through the Noryang Strait, his own reserve force was also separated by the coalition navy. Later, due to unknown conditions in the nearby sea area, he accidentally rushed into the North Korean army.
At Guanyinpo, where the naval forces gathered, warships also ran aground on the beach.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Kaguyama Kutaka had to abandon the ship and go ashore, and walked across to the east coast of Nankai Island to escape. The ship on which Captain Shimazu Yoshihiro was also separated from the ship due to the tide.
After the team broke away and was surrounded by allied warships, it was almost in a desperate situation for a while. It was only with the desperate rescue of other warships that it was able to escape from the danger.
The battle situation was extremely unfavorable for the Japanese army. In addition, the sky was getting brighter. The Ming Dynasty's Japanese fleet, which had a huge artillery advantage, was about to show off its power. Seeing that the situation was determined, the Japanese army no longer considered fighting, so they tried their best to distance themselves and retreated. However,
, in order to withdraw the troops, some of the warships that were temporarily unable to escape the battle had to be abandoned, and the overall losses further increased.
After the war, the Japanese fleet counted the results and reported to Gao Pingshi: "One hundred Japanese ships were captured, 200 were sunk, 1,500 Japanese were killed, more than 480 were captured, and countless Japanese drowned." [Here
The Japanese fleet has already joined the fleet in Busan Port.]
What is different this time is that the deputy general of the Ming army, Deng Zilong, was not killed, but the chief general of the Korean army, Yi Sunchen, was hit by a stray bullet during the battle and was seriously injured and fell unconscious. It was not known whether he could save his life.
However, after the naval battle, the Ming and North Korean allied naval forces saw the Japanese retreating and naturally pursued them with all their strength, so the naval blockade of the Shaxia area was lifted.
Seeing that the sea blockade was lifted, the Konishi Army avoided the area where the naval battle occurred on the morning of the 19th. After a large detour from the area between Saxia and Busan, it safely arrived at Geoje Island on the 20th. Also on the 20th, the South China Sea
After collecting about 500 Shimadzu troops from the remaining part of the island, Kawasan Kuaka, they also safely retreated to Geoje Island. The retreat of the Japanese troops in the west was completed.
On the 23rd, Kato Kiyomasa, Kobayakawa Hideaki and others returned from Busan, but they were ambushed by Magibu on their way from Dosan to Busan.
Especially after the ambush, the charge of Li Rumei's cavalry caused huge casualties to the Japanese army. The Japanese army lost more than 17,000 people in this battle. Not to mention being completely maimed, it was just a loss of strength and bones.
On the 24th, Mouri Hidemoto, Mouri Yoshinari and others returned home from Busan. It seemed that they had "excellent luck" along the way. No Ming army actually attacked them.
On the 25th, Governor Konishi, Yoshihiro Shimazu and others returned home. Although they were worried about being intercepted by the Ming army's Japanese fleet, they seemed to have "excellent luck" and did not encounter Ming soldiers along the way.
The military fleet returned home smoothly.
At this point, all the Japanese daimyo who had gone to Korea to conquer Korea had withdrawn from Korea to Japan. Toyotomi Hideyoshi's plan to conquer Korea and the Ming Dynasty was completely ended, and the Battle of Bunroku Keicho came to an end.
In this last Battle of Ulsan - or what should be called the Battle of Busan (and its surroundings), although the Ming and North Korean coalition forces failed to achieve all the pre-war assumptions, the Japanese losses were still much higher than their opponents.
After the entire battle, the Japanese army lost about 40,000 troops, and the navy was even worse. It lost more than 70%, and nearly 80% of the warships were completely broken.
During his lifetime, Toyotomi Hideyoshi spent huge sums of money to purchase more than 30 armed transport ships from Keihua, as well as the newly built and improved Anzha ships based on "Keihua technology". Almost all were lost in this battle. The flagship of the Japanese Navy "Nihon Maru"
The number was also captured.
To exaggerate, the Japanese navy can almost be eliminated. At least, in front of the Ming Dynasty - or even the Beijing Fleet alone, the Japanese navy has lost its ability to resist.
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