Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 604 Announcing the famous names in the world to participate in the Ming Dynasty

After Xu Yi was taken down, no one was in the mood to continue drinking. Although they didn't understand Hideyoshi's treatment, no one dared to say anything wrong about Hideyoshi.

Hideyoshi sat back in his seat, took a deep sip of sake with the saucer, put down the saucer, and suddenly called out the names of several retainers.

"Toranosuke, Ichimatsu" Hideyoshi called Kato Kiyomasa and Fukushima Masanori first, and after the two responded, Hideyoshi said to them, "How about letting the two of you be the pioneers in this conquest of Ming?"

The two are extreme fighters and believe that war is the fate that samurai should face most. Therefore, when Hideyoshi publicly stated that he wanted the two to be the vanguard, he was naturally very proactive.

"Yes!" The two said in unison.

Hideyoshi was very satisfied with the performance of the two, and publicly stated to everyone, "After taking down the Ming Kingdom, it's not a bad idea to give you 20 'countries'."

The country is the largest territorial division unit in Japan. According to the amount of knowledge and practice, it is divided into three grades: large, upper, middle and lower, corresponding to three grades of more than 20 koku, more than 10 koku, more than 5 koku and less than 5 koku.

Of course, this is not absolute, and it may change according to the distance from the geographical location to Kyoto and whether there are other economic products.

And because the initial division of the country was in the Heian period, and the knowledge and behavior of the leading countries had undergone great changes during the Warring States period, so the initial division was already out of date.

But in any case, having 20 neighboring countries means having a knowledge of no less than a million stones, which is very out of reach for many Japanese Warring States warriors.

Therefore, when Hideyoshi promised in public that the two would get 20 territories, both of them showed great excitement, and even the other daimyos around them were already eager to try.

Xiujia looked at the excitement and excitement shown by the samurai left and right, and you can hardly imagine why they didn't feel that it was wrong to invade other countries during World War II.

In fact, this is not just Japan's inferiority. When Norman landed in England, why didn't he behave like this?This is the inferiority of human beings.

Now that Hideyoshi's goal of boosting morale has been achieved, he immediately issued an order to send troops to North Korea in front of everyone:

Since North Korea sent envoys to surrender (referring to Jiang Hang and other North Korean officials who brought gifts to talk about Hideyoshi's attitude), when the teachers arrive, don't take them captive.If you change the map, how dare you resist and move forward?As for the Han soil, the culture is weak and has become a habit, so I can't be my military master.

With Kato Kiyomasa, Konishi Yukyo, Kuroda Nagamasa, Fukushima Masanori and other soldiers from Kyushu as the vanguard, Mori Terumoto and the same clan as well as Chinese and Shikoku soldiers as the second team, the rest sailed one by one.

Honshu envoys Gifu Youfu (Toyotomi Hidecho), Toyoharu Dainagato Toyotomi Hideka and Sendai Major General (Gamo Clan Township) stayed behind to protect the imperial capital and build Garan.

The generals of the dragon and the tiger, the men of the bears (pí), rush forward with a rush, pass by with lightning, defeat the attack, sing before and dance, more than four hundred states can be determined by taking care of them.

However, there is an order of things, first marching troops from North Korea, setting up a camp at Nagoya, and then Da △ (pèi) will come in person to command the army, and make an unprecedented great achievement for all generations. Wouldn't it be great!

(The original text is from "Old Notes and Miscellaneous Records" and I slightly changed it)
This record shows that at least until the beginning of the war, the Joseon Dynasty's campaign to confuse Hideyoshi was quite effective. The Joseon Dynasty's attitude of sending envoys to Japan to find out the truth at intervals was considered by Hideyoshi to be respectful to himself.

Therefore, Hideyoshi's main goal was to subjugate Daming, and he did not order to attack North Korea. He even asked Zhu Ming to take into account the friendship between the nations and not to carry out plunder in North Korea.

Hideyoshi knew Hideyoshi well. Judging from this eloquent military order, Hideyoshi must have put in a lot of hard work, and it really made things difficult for him.

The reason why Hideyoshi issued military orders that seemed benevolent to North Korea was not because he was benevolent, but because he continued the habits of the time.

Because he has already defined North Korea as his own vassal state, and he will rule North Korea in the future. Naturally, he does not want wanton burning and killing to happen in his future territory.

This will not only deplete North Korea's national power, but may also arouse conflicts and make the people resist their own rule.

In fact, when the Japanese Sengoku daimyo went to war with foreign countries, they always had two sets of combat attitudes.

Take Uesugi Kenshin as an example. When he fought against Hitachi in 1566, he aimed to destroy Hitachi's production, plunder and sell the opponent's population, so he gave the order to burn and kill before going out.

(The righteous general of the Warring States period does not seem to be so righteous.)
Before marching to the Xiazong Kingdom in March, Uesugi Jingsheng uncharacteristically asked the ministries to restrain the soldiers and refrain from committing atrocities against the Xiazong.

On the other hand, the Warring States daimyo's restraint on the behavior of the army outside the country was also to gather the combat effectiveness of the army so that the energy would not be scattered on destruction, and it was essentially serving the war of aggression.

This brilliantly written military order for the expedition was sent to all the famous people in the world along with the flying feet from all over the world, so that those daimyo who did not attend the meeting could also know Hideyoshi's determination.

Along with these flying feet, there were also letters written by many participating daimyo to their retainers.

Take Kato Kiyomasa who was named by Hideyoshi as an example. He wrote to his retainer Kato Shigeji after the fact that Hideyoshi had promised him 20 "country" rewards and instructed Kato Shige to prepare more iron Cannons, pellets, longbows and long guns.

The Hizen daimyo Naoshima Naoshima who received the news also expressed his desire for the land of the Ming Dynasty. He actively mobilized the resources of the Ryuzoji family, and even encouraged the samurai in the family to donate money to buy 6600 catties of tobacco soil from merchants.

Not long after Hideyoshi himself issued the military order, he took Tokugawa, Uesugi, Maeda and other daimyos and their military forces from Osaka to Nagoya, where he will wait for the national army to gather. Issued the final order to fight against North Korea.

The Xiu family was originally promoted by Hideyoshi to entertain the big names, and the Xiu family was planning to pretend to be public and self-serving to declare in front of the big names that they are willing to buy their captives, so that they will not commit some crimes.

However, with Hideyoshi's military order to treat the North Korean people kindly, the human trafficking business at the Hideo family has turned into persecution of the North Korean military and civilians, and the Hideo family can't say a lot of things in the open.

Before parting, even Sakuma Shengmasa, who was close to Hideka Sulai, said that he could only quietly sell some prisoners to Hideka, expressing that he could no longer do business in a blatant manner.

Hideyoshi expressed his understanding of Sakuma's attitude towards Shengzheng, but Hideyoshi knew very well in his heart that it was only for now. When Hideyoshi knew North Korea's resistance to his arrival, he quickly opened his eyes to the actions on the front line. Close one eye and get up.

Before Hideyoshi's daimyo's army went south, Hideka specially called Toyotomi's generals from Toyotomi's family, who were going to battle in North Korea, to Juledi for a meeting, so they didn't go directly to the barracks like other daimyos, for the sake of avoiding suspicion.

Attending the meeting was Masayuki Hanabou, the general of North Korea, and Tatsuyasu Togawa, Toshioka Toshi, Masashige Hanabou, Masatoshi Suga, Masahiro Date, Keiji Maeda, Nobushige Sanada and others under him.

Hideka did not allow the entire red team to go to North Korea, but let Sanada Nobushige lead some elites to organize 500 people into the battle, the purpose is to keep this backbone elite with the feeling of war at all times.

In addition, Hideka saw the face of Kagawa Kagenori in the crowd. Kagawa Kageko was old and would not play again. As his adopted son, Kagawa Kageo led 200 people from his Kagawa family to his legal uncle's actual biological father. Kagawa Kezen, family veterans Kagawa Motoharu and Kawada Yataro led the battle.

Before Xiujia made his deployment, Masayuki Hanafo first introduced the reserve teams that will participate in this battle.

First of all, because Xiujia was favored by Hideyoshi in North Korea this time, he was only allowed to participate in half of his military service account, and in addition to the common habit of staying half behind and half in the battle, in fact, the standard for Xiujia to mobilize in the Kanto region is 50 people per 150 shi, and Iyo's standard is [-] people per [-] shi for mobilization.

This kind of mobilization standard is actually the lowest in Japan, but correspondingly, according to this standard mobilization, Hideka's original military service account's various preparation systems cannot be organized.

Therefore, in the letter written by Hideka to Osafune Sadakin, it was stated that the recruitment should be distributed equally among the neighboring countries, and the purpose was to allow the samurai and ashigaru from the neighboring countries to have experience in foreign warfare.

In this way, taking Huafangzheng as an example, the standard of Huafang’s family is 5.1 shi, and the actual mobilized force is only 255. In fact, such a mobilized number cannot even gather a battalion, and the command system cannot be established.

Therefore, after discussing with other vassals, Osafune Sadakin decided that the main samurai family would send out 100 people per 510 stones. In this way, the Hanafang family would send out 200 people, the Kagawa King family would send out [-] people, and so on.

Even if the chief retainers had enough people to organize a brigade, company or even a battalion, many wandering samurai families could only gather 3 to 5 people according to their military service accounts, and they couldn't even form a small team.

Therefore, in the end, the leading country was used as the boundary, and the big leading samurai families were the main ones, and soldiers recruited from other military service accounts were added to form various reserve teams.

First of all, Hanabou Masanari led his 500 Tochigi people and 1300 people from the surrounding fields to form the main defense team in the city.

It is divided into 4 battalions, namely the Tochigi battalion of 500 Hanabohonke, the Kanuma battalion formed by more than 300 Shimono led by Maeda Keiji according to the military service account, and the 200 Hideka specially drawn from the banner crowd and handed over to him for the banner horseback riding Team, and 300 Hidekas drawn from the regular reserve Gomoto Sentinel.

From the perspective of the structure, the battle of this reserve team is very strong. Except for the chaotic composition of the 300 Kanuma led by Maeda Keiji and the lack of standard combat effectiveness, the remaining 1000 people can be said to be the guarantee of the internal combat effectiveness of the Toyoharu family. .

After Fujido Takatora went to Ezo to serve as the governor, Sanada Nobushige, who was granted 3 koku in Kanbayashi, became the actual banner head of Ueno.

Coupled with his position as the captain of the red reserve team, he actually controls the largest military force in the northern part of the Fengchun family.

In this battle, he brought 500 Chibei people formed by pure Ueno samurai and ashigaru, plus 1650 people formed by the military forces of Yura, Shirakura, Kobata, Fujido, etc., according to the requirements of Hideo. There are 6 battalions with a total of 2150 people, of which 200 people are formed by themselves and others.

This reserve team is also the reserve team with the strongest combat effectiveness other than the one led by Huafang Zhengcheng, so the Xiu family gave him the arrangement of vanguards.

In order to strengthen his combat effectiveness, Hideo organized the Iron Cannon Battalion organized by 500 pure samurai ronin organized by the samurai family that Hideaga had transferred to his own samurai family into the first team of first movers, making the first team of first movers led by Sanada Nobushige The total number reached 2650 people.

What level is this?Kuroda Nagamasa, the daimyo of Kyushu, has a total strength of 6000 troops in the history of crossing the sea. Nobushige Sanada has reached 1/2 of his strength. Hideka's cultivation and trust in him can be seen.

After that, there were 1750 Hitachi backups led by Masatoshi Suga and Togawa Tatsuya, divided into two backup teams, left and right. Most of these two backup teams were formed by powerful families in Hitachi.

秀家此前要求长船贞亲依据常备：守备：预备2:4:4的比例进行征召，但是这个比例不可能完全平摊到各领国，像上野备的2150人中就有500的赤备队，直接占据了1/5的名额。

Therefore, the Hitachi Standing Army led by Masatoshi Suga is actually only formed by garrison and reserve military service personnel, and many of them have not received much training.

However, as the second team, it exists as the support of the first team in many cases. They may not need too much combat power, and they mainly serve as the finishing work of the first team.

The 750 people from Hitachi led by Togawa Tatsuyasu served as the third formation, and together with the 1300 people from Shimozou led by Kajiwara Masakei formed the third formation, Kajiwara Masaki himself replaced Ota Zimasa and led the main force of Sekisudo.

In the fifth formation, there are 1050 people led by Toshi Okano, and Hideie added 400 people from Sagami as a supplement to his formation. Yoshie Satomi and Katsuo Hojo are in this formation.

As one of the few wise generals in Hideka, Kasai Kayoshi will lead Saitama with 1500 people in the seventh team (this team is the sixth team), and Narita's head will play together as a support.

Since Osafune Sadakin could not go to North Korea, his son Osafune Sakayuki went out as the formation representative. Shobayashi Isshin and Ikaruga Heiji served as lieutenants to assist the little boy. They led a total of 1050 Musashi people to the battle.

As the ninth team, there are 2000 Iyo people led by Date Masahiro as the team leader.In fact, Yiyuzhong's strength is not uncommon. As the only ability of the Xiu family that has not changed at present, the reform of the military system is relatively thorough.

In addition, many people in the military account here used to have too many holes, and they were engaged in mining, so their combat effectiveness was still very strong.

But this time when going to North Korea, the Xiu family did not want to affect the output of the Beszi Copper Mine, so Akashi Jingqin recruited some peasants from the land, which weakened the combat effectiveness a lot.

As the elder of the town, Akashi Keiki could not take part in the battle, only Asahi Chiyo's uncle. In the case that Akashi Kagein could not go to North Korea, the entire Iyo belonged to his political status. It was given to him to lead.

But correspondingly, Date Masakura did not trust Hideo's ability, so he was placed in the final ninth formation, mainly responsible for the responsibility of armament care and transfer, that is, logistics management.

This job does not require much ability, as long as you are careful and make no major mistakes, you can get credit. It is very suitable for foreign relatives like Date Masamune to be responsible.

(End of this chapter)