Chapter 227 Under the Battle of the Kyushu Allied Forces
After the first total attack, Takaha Soshima calculated the number of casualties in each unit and found that nearly 800 people of the Kyushu coalition had died in battle on the land within 1,000 steps north of Inari River, and more than a thousand injured people. These numbers surprised him and felt sympathy for the troops of various vassals who wanted to give up and were unwilling to continue fighting. Such casualties appeared within half an hour, which was unheard of in the Warring States Period of Japan. The casualties have been recorded.
During the Sekihara war, the East and West Army mobilized a total of about 150,000 troops to be put into battle, but there were only about 3,000 soldiers killed or injured in the actual battle. The few casualties were basically the common characteristics of the major wars of Japan's Warring States Period. Japan's territory was narrow. The enemy side generally does not kill all the enemies during civil wars, and rarely kills the enemy civilians in civil wars. Like the riots that have changed dynasties that have occurred many times in Chinese history, the civilians in their own country are slaughtered. There are not many things. The three kingdoms of Han and Wei, the reciprocity of Sui and Tang dynasties, the reciprocity of Tang and Song dynasties, and the alternation of Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the population of China will be extinct once, and even killing most of the population. If the massacre of this scale was in Japan Once again, it is estimated that this country of Japan will become an unmanned wasteland.
Therefore, when Tachibana Soshima and Tadahoshi Shimazu came to our camp to meet with the general general and the general, Shigemasaki Ionkura, they did not accuse the comrades of cutting off the firewood from the underworld. Instead, they expressed sympathy for the friendly forces who suffered major casualties. At the same time, they asked Shigemasaki Ionkura to go to Okura vassal. The troops of Matsumoto and other troops who were planning to retreat issued direct orders; they asked them to hold on for another day, and after the main force of the Kashima clan and Kumamoto clan arrived, they would concentrate all their troops to attack again.
The military commander Hiromasa Itakura, and the deputy commander Toda Shigeshite did not issue an order immediately, delaying until the next morning. Nearly half of the participating troops of the Okura and Matsumoto Band had returned on their own, Hinata Yukiyoshi, Yoshinori Daming from small places such as Takahashi Motoko in Oka Castle also withdrew his troops overnight, but they did not expose them all, leaving behind a few retainers with the samurai warriors, claiming that because the Chinese fleet launched an attack on the sea, the head of the family returned. The territory has gone to defend itself in the city.
On that night, a thousand kilograms of gunpowder buried in the dangerous area in the Iwasaki Valley northeast of the foothills of the Takahara Soshimazu family accidentally detonated. The dazzling flashes in the darkness were fleeting, and gravels in the valley were flying. The huge rocks rolled down on the top of the mountain, and then the Chinese army ambushed on the ridges on both sides rolled down several large powder barrels, causing more casualties.
The night attack team of the Kyushu coalition failed, and the sneak attack troops, mainly from Shimazu family, suffered more than 400 casualties, but nothing was found.
The next morning, when the Okura and Matsumoto's troops had retreated, the Kumamoto's main troops had more than 4,000, and the subsequent troops of Kashima Fukushima Katsushima's troops arrived at the battlefield one after another. The total strength of the Kyushu coalition forces was still 4. More than 10,000 people.
General Ichikura Shigemasa and Deputy Envoy Toda Ichida took charge of the formation the day before. Today, they rushed to the front line of Takaha Soshima's front line to inspect. They were also surprised by the casualties the day before, so they were like observing the situation of the enemy. At this time, no telescope was introduced. They only saw a wall of earth built in front of the Inarikawa River bank, with guns and heads flashing, and nothing else could be seen.
If the Japanese Kyushu Alliance had enough cannons, this thin earthen wall fortification was simply a decoration.
The problem is that Japan's artillery technology has lagged behind seriously.
Japan did not start making artillery until the beginning of the 17th century. According to Japan's "Talking about the Right and Mistakes of the World of the Dynasties", the earliest Japanese cannon maker was Shimatsuri Yoemon in the Totsu (Saishi). His ancestors were smelting events of ancestors. Living in Beizhuang Ying Street, Jin became the first iron cannon in Japan in the 16th year of Qingchang (1601). Its caliber is 1.3 feet, its tail diameter is 1.1 feet, and its length is 1 zhang. It fires 51,3 kilograms of shells. This is The equipment was manufactured under the order of Tokugawa Ieyasu and was given to the direct troops of the Shogunate, so it was impossible to use it on the Kagoshima frontline.
Ichikura Shigemasa and the deputy envoy Toda Shishima looked at each other and said only a few empty words: "You all work hard, and you must succeed in the battle to ensure the reputation of the Japanese God Kingdom...", and then walked back to the formation. They did not deal with the several daimyos who had withdrawn their troops without authorization, and handed over the front command to Tachibana Zongmao, intending that if the war is unfavorable, the responsibility for this failure could be counted on Tachibana Zongmao, and deliberately drove the Jiuzhou people. The suspicion of the Daming army fighting with the Chinese army will not fall on the Tokugawa shogunate.
They were not interested in fighting for the Shimazu family. The negotiations between the shogunate and the envoys of the six countries in Nagasaki have come to an end. The Chinese army will not continue to attack north. After meeting the request of Yin Feng, the leader of the Chinese maritime merchants, the Chinese army will retreat.
In the view of Hiromasa Itakura and Toda Shimada Tetsuki, the Kyushu Alliance's Battle was a battle for the reckless actions of Tadatoshi Shimazu and for the face of the Tokugawa Shogunate. It has little practical significance; if the Chinese army is defeated, it can still be obtained from Retreat at sea, because the strength of the Chinese fleet is obvious to all, Japan cannot stop the Chinese fleet with its national strength.
When Tokugawa Ieyasu sent them to Kyushu to supervise the war, he had already secretly told them: This battle was used to consume the power of the major names of Kyushu, especially after the Shimazu family passed through the Battle of Sekihara, the fiefdom did not decrease much, Tokugawa Ieyasu's heart Deep down, I was still very uneasy, after all, the Satsuma people have never been a scheming person.
The most concerned thing Tokugawa Ieyasu currently is in Osaka Castle.
What is his ultimate goal to deal with the Toyotomi family in Osaka? In fact, it is easy to understand after examining what the powerful lord did before his death in history. Take China as an example. Emperor Wu of Han took care of everything before his death, and Lian Gouyi The wife was killed. Why? It was to clear all obstacles for the weak son as much as possible? There are countless examples of this. Emperor Taizong of Tang, Emperor Taizu of Song, Emperor Taizu of this dynasty Zhu Yuanzhang, etc., all use this as a method to ensure that the next generation can Growing up healthily, at least, will not encounter major obstacles before growing up.
The situation in Japan was so similar at that time. After several years of peace, the status of the Tokugawa shogunate seemed to have stabilized, and the whole country seemed to be harmonious, but the problem in Osaka was always a stubborn disease. As a result, more than 100,000 leftover ronin and ulterior motives. Missionaries are gunpowder depots that may be triggered at any time. It may be possible to deal with these problems, but after all, Tokugawa is more at ease to deal with them, because this involves many foreign daimyos, Tokugawa Ieyasu deals with Osaka, so The identity of the elders deals with the problems of the younger generation, and the Daemon is beyond reproach. If Tokugawa Ieyasu dies, Tokugawa Hidetachi will deal with this problem. No matter how it is handled, it will leave a tribute to the Daemons, saying that Tokugawa is willing to protect it. Xiu Lai was immediately conspired after the old man died, and the general was really unfilial.
In order not to let his son come out of this situation, Tokugawa Ieyasu will inevitably solve the Osaka problem in his lifetime.
Therefore, the Kyushu coalition's regaining Satsuma war completely became a farce with a start and a slash. The Shimazu family had no sympathy. After the second general attack was launched, only the noble Tachibana Soshimazu family army rushed to the scene. Before, the rest of Daming's troops were responding negatively, and no one was willing to rush to the front.
Before the attack was launched, Tadao Shimazu rode to Tadara Shimazu. In front of Shimazu Kuagata and his son, he handed the sword that Shimazu Yoshihiro passed to him to Tadara Shimazu: "The fate of the Shimazu family depends on it." This battle is here, protect the cross-patterned battle flag, see Shimazu family samurai,"
Shimazu Kuaga watched Tadaeho turn and leave, as if in a heavy mood, he hurriedly asked his father: "What is Mikimaru saying, it seems that the omen is wrong,..."
"Bang," Shimazu Tadao still shook his hand and slapped his son, cursing angrily: "Can you call it a junior like you? Idiot, Tadao is entrusting his funeral.
"What, could you say..."
Tadashi Shimazu still looked at the main formation behind him, and the flag of the shogunate commander was hanging lazily under the scorching sun.
"Edo doesn't want to help us recover lost territory at all. They completely forgot that the shogunate was instigating us to fight Taiwan, Ryukyu, and now the Shimazu family is in trouble. The old fox Tokugawa wants to abandon us. He wants to borrow the hands of the Chinese. Eliminate our Satsuma Shimazu family, so the guys Hiromasa Itakura did not exercise the power of supervising the army at all," Tadashi Shimazu still looked around and whispered to his son: "After the war starts, pay attention to the mountains on the right wing, from there We can go to Ijiyuan and enter the hospital. We want to save some seeds for the Shimazu family. Do you understand?"
The Jiuzhou coalition forces had a great golden drum on the position, and the entire army began to attack with flags. On the nearly four-mile long line from Chengshan to the sea, there were 20,000 Japanese soldiers arranged in densely packed with 20,000 Japanese soldiers.
The massive total attack was like a turtle in slow motion. The Japanese army on all fronts were unwilling to accelerate and were afraid that their troops would be too prominent.
Then, starting from 1,000 steps (about 1,550 meters) from Inari River, yesterday's unilateral massacre began again.
The Chinese Army received assistance from Chen Zhongji's troops of the Ryukyu regiment last night. Chen Zhongji finally solved the Ryukyu problem. He could finally free up his hands and sent Yan Siqi to lead 500 soldiers to Satsuma on the third support fleet.
The third fleet brought several howitzers using flowering bullets in experiments. In the mid-16th century, howitzers in Europe began to use spherical bombs with wooden telescopes, which can be used to kill enemy infantry on land battlefields, and can also be used to Siege, in the 17th century, the name of howitzer officially appeared in Europe. It refers to the firing of bombs and artillery with larger angles. The first to equip howitzers was a British army composed of Dutch soldiers.
With the help of the Dutch, the craftsmen from the Weapon Research Department of China United Company tried to produce a new flowering howitzer. The radius of this bomb is much smaller than that of the Sky-Booning Cannon. The shell is equipped with a fuse and is fired by firing. The drug ignites the fuse, and the shells can explode when they reach a certain range.
Although the explosion power of the howitzer's iron shell is much smaller than that of a large-caliber mortar like a sky-boom cannon, the range is much longer, and the overall weight of the cannon is light and easy to transport.
Li Kuiqi placed six howitzers at the forefront without hesitation. So, after entering the artillery position within 700 steps (1,100 meters), the Japanese army was not only bombarded by more than 150 solid shells of various artillery artillery, but also continuously. The attacks of hundreds of thunder rockets made the Japanese army most frightened by the bombardment of six experimental howitzers. The bombings were able to attack the enemy at such a long distance, which was something that the Shimazu family and the Kyushu coalition forces had not expected.
Within 200 steps from the Chinese military position, dozens of landmines secretly buried by the Chinese military the night before were detonated, and at the same time, they were urgently transported from the Fortress of the Hakawa River to the North Bank of Inarikawa position by five sky-high bombs fired by the 5 sky-high cannons fired by the position on the north bank of Inarikawa. It began to fall on the Shimazu family's forward troops.
Shimazu Tadaetsu's direct troops, the retainer Yamada Minzu, had a total of more than 1,200 Samurai Football Team. More than half of the soldiers were killed or injured at the impact distance of 1,000 steps. When the last half of the soldiers reached within 20 steps from the Chinese military position, they were The grenade, as dense as rain, was dizzy and was also shot by intensively by 6009 muskets from the Third Battalion of the Second Regiment.
In the end, more than 100 Shimazu soldiers climbed over the earth wall fortifications and rushed into the Chinese military positions. In the following hand-to-hand combat, more than 100 Shimazu soldiers were killed, and Yamada Minzu was a member of the Chinese military. The whistleman stabbed him in the trench with a bayonet. The leader of the charge was in trouble and might have been killed in the previous artillery attack.
Almost all the Shimazu family's vanguard troops were broken, and the Kyushu coalition forces on other fronts hesitated, and strange phenomena appeared on the battlefield: the Kyushu coalition forces shouted and killed the sky, but they were retreating step by step.
Tachiha Soshima saw that all the strikers of the Shimazu family rushed into the smoke of gunpowder and did not return. He couldn't help but sigh. Although the Shimazu family and his family were enemies, he thought that the Shimazu family's courage and good fighting were indeed worth it. I admire it.
At present, except for the Kumamoto Band surprise attack troops on the northern foot of the Castle Mountain, there is no news, and the other fronts are retreating. The war is obviously unable to continue. How should the Battle of Kagoshima end? Tachibana Soshima's battle lasts his life, and he has never encountered it. After such a complicated and helpless situation, I couldn't help but feel sad.
The attack on the northern foot of Chuanshan by Kumamoto began almost at the same time as the war on the Inarikawa front line. When the Kumamoto soldiers detoured to the northern foot of Chuanshan, they were attacked by the Luoquan Special Camp, which caused them to reach the starting point of the attack. The originally planned sneak attack in the early morning turned into a strong attack in the morning. However, under the command of Yu Zigao and Yan Cheng, the 400 soldiers of the First Regiment of the Chinese Army relied on the half-person-high civil and wooden fortifications to occupy favorable terrain. He forced more than 2,000 Kumamoto's soldiers to block the foot of the mountain.
When the war was intensified, the Kumamoto soldiers used 300 iron gunners to restrain the firepower of the Chinese army and dispatched almost all the remaining troops, rushing towards the ridge positions all over the mountains.
At this time, Yu Zigao did something he never thought he wouldn't do; he jumped out of his chest wall, threw out a grenade, then picked up the musket with a bayonet and fired it, and then shouted: Take a bayonet, charge,"
When he was a child, he had heard some theories: for example, as a famous general, you don’t need to fight in person; the role of strategy exceeds the function of force and weapons, etc.
Since he started his career as an undercover study at the Military Academy of China United Corporation, his previous worldview has suffered a major blow and his understanding of war has been completely subverted.
What strategy and what strategy can play a great role when both sides have relatively similar weapons and strategies and tactics. In the face of absolute strength, strategies and strategies are all jokes and have no practical significance.
Yu Zigao has great confidence in the Chinese army he is in. The enemy he is dealing with is his father Yu Dayou's lifelong enemy, Japanese pirates. Therefore, his character exploded in the fierce battle and led the bayonet charge. The Kumamoto family was blown up by a grenade. It was so terrible that before they could react, countless cruel Chinese soldiers suddenly rushed out of the smoke and mist, and used bayonets to kill them one by one. The Chinese army launched a condescending bayonet charge, which defeated five times in one fell swoop. The Kumamoto-fan soldiers, who had their own troops, drove them several miles away.