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Chapter 607 Deployment of Invading Troops

The reason why the Xiu family wanted to separate the 5500 people from Hanafang Masayuki and the 5800 people from Ogasawara Hideyoshi is because the Xiu family planned to make a good use of Lee Hyun, the inspector of Jeolla Province in North Korea in Gongju, Chungcheong Province.

For specific reference cases, you can search for the Battle of Yongin, which is the Battle of Yongin in which 500 people from Wakisaka Anji defeated the 6 soldiers of King Jeolla Dokun in North Korea.

It was also by virtue of his achievements in this battle that Wakisaka Yasuji was appointed by Hideyoshi as the commander of the Korean navy, and finally buried most of the Japanese navy's elite in the Luyang naval battle.

In history, Li Wei actually launched two campaigns northward to serve the king. The first time he went northward with 3 people hastily gathered together, but was forced to withdraw his troops because of the fall of Wangjing and the soldiers fled.

Under the verbal criticism of the two classes of nobles in Jeolla-do, who were forced to take an improvised army of 6 people to the north half a month later, in an attempt to regain the capital, they were threatened by 500 people in Yongin. People crushed.

According to the records of "Xuanzu Revision" [In the early days, when I heard about the Japanese, I asked to send troops to move to discuss, and sent letters of praise. 】

It means that the inspection envoy of Jeolla Province in North Korea, Li Wei, after hearing that the Japanese invaders had penetrated Chungcheong-do, wrote a letter to the king of North Korea, Li Yan, requesting the mobilization of the relatively well-preserved Jeolla-do garrison to King Beishangqin, and the king issued an order to commend him.

It can be seen that Li Wei was relatively active in the face of the Japanese invasion.

But no matter whether Li Huan took the initiative to ask for orders or mobilized hastily, the army of Jeolla Province obviously did not keep up with the speed of the Japanese army (Tucao: the speed of the defeat of the friendly army).

When the army marched to Onyang and Cheonan in the north of Gongju, which were still 300 miles away from Seoul, Seoul had already fallen.After getting the news, King Qin's army was in a state of confusion and retreated to the south in a hurry. This became one of the basis for later historical materials to attack Li Wei:

"Xuanzu Revised" came to Gongzhou, and an official came from Beijing, crying into the army gate and shouting: "The superior has been lucky, and the thief has entered the capital."The generals of the envoys guarded the Nishan stone bridge, and the decree was returned, and all the troops marched with bare blades.After returning to the whole state, only a few deserters were captured and beheaded, and the troops were sent out again. [Guan didn't know the military strategy at all, but only searched for soldiers and repaired weapons, the army had no discipline, and he was disrespectful to the scholar-bureaucrats.As a result, the soldiers were afraid of going to the enemy, the scholars blamed them for retreating, the human feelings were obedient, and slanders and accusations arose, causing great difficulties. 】

"Jolla Daodu Inspector Li Gong Xing Zhang" mentions the withdrawal of Li Wei's troops, and basically adopts the content of the above revised memoir: In Gongzhou, some officials returned from Beijing, and they galloped into the battle in pain. , The army broke down in a clatter of noise, the envoys left the generals, guarded the Nishan stone bridge, and the decree was returned.The public had to return to Quanzhou.

Judging from the above records, there is no doubt that Li Wei retreated from Gongju after the fall of the capital and did not actively go north. The main reason for his withdrawal was that after the soldiers in the army heard that the capital was lost, the soldiers fled. Forced to return to Quanzhou to reorganize the army.

In "Reconstructing Fanbangzhi", it is mentioned that Li Wei's emergency service to the king, "the division period is too forced", "Lieyi's order is afraid of being condemned in the later period. Driven by Dao. Travel day and night. Hunger and thirst." This caused the soldiers to suffer unspeakably , which laid the groundwork for the complete disintegration of the army's morale after Gongju withdrew.

At that time, when the Japanese army drove straight in, it was very possible that Li Wei ordered the soldiers to travel all day and night regardless of the actual situation.

However, the "Revised Records" further described Li Wei even worse, saying that he "does not know military strategy", "has no discipline in the army", and "is disrespectful to the scholar-officials".Such a description is obviously contrary to the image of Li Wei, who has been promoted repeatedly and is good at discovering talents, mentioned before the revised memorabilia.

The above records are all based on the main plot of Li Wei's return from Gongju, and various descriptions have been added to create an image of Li Wei's infidelity and incompetence in command.

The fact that Li Gang withdrew his troops is undeniable, but the fact that Gongju's withdrawal delayed the time to go north is undeniable, and Li Kuang must take responsibility for this.

However, in the context of the collapse of the North Korean army across the board, it is impossible for Li Wei to face the Japanese army head-on, and at the same time, the safety of Jeolla Province must also be considered.

When the sergeants were frightened by the news of Wang Jing's fall and the king's escape to the north, the army's morale was broken, although withdrawing the army was passive, it seemed to be a helpless choice.

What the Hide family has to do is to let Hanabou Masayuki and Ogasawara Hidetada make good use of the 1 people in their hands, separate directly from Sanada Nobushige at Gyeongsang Dozensan, and go west to Jinshan to stand by.

After hearing that Li Wei had brought the first batch of 3 people north to Gongzhou, he rushed west from Jinshan, took Huangjian, Wochuan, Lianshan, Enjin and other cities, and cut off Li Wei's retreat.

When necessary, go north to snatch Gongju, hang Li Guanghang in the canyon between Gongju and Onin, and annihilate the 3 main force of Jeolla Province in Chungcheong Province.

The Xiu family has sufficient troops, more than 1 people, and it is more than enough to deal with the 3 people who are exhausted after long-distance raids after the impromptu assembly and assembly, and finally arrived at Wangjing and heard that Wangjing fell.

And because there are people in the Xiu family, it won't be like the battle of Yongin in history. Yasuji Wakisaka can only sit until they are defeated, but there is no way to pursue and annihilate them.

These routs are said to be routs, but after all, they are the garrison troops of North Korea. Although they are not well-trained, there are still exercises throughout the year. After all, they have to pretend to be fake.

If you say that these people have no fighting power, you look down on them. After the North Korean government lost control of the south, these people were recruited by the local nobles, and they became the backbone of the resistance against the Japanese volunteers.

After all, these people are also soldiers. There is no reason for Xiujia to let them become the main force to block our transportation line. Xiujia wants to kill them in Gongju as much as possible to prevent them from fleeing later.

Even if they can't kill so many people, these people eat public food after all, and their strength is much stronger than the yellow and emaciated North Korean people. It is also a good choice to plunder them to Yezo to do coolie mining.

Winning the first wave of 3 people from Lee Hoon is already the limit of the Xiu family. He still has to go to Gangwon-do and Hamgyong-do, but he will take advantage of the effort of transporting people to Pyeongtaek to board the boat, and bring the southwestern plains of Chungcheong-do together. There are still some kung fu show houses that have been mopped up.

According to Xiujia's estimate, it would take about 30 days to delay, but it took only 10 days to annihilate Li Wei's troops.

After Ogasawara Hidetada's troops cooperated with Hanabang Masako to wipe out Li Ji's 3 Jeolla-do garrison, they immediately led people northward along the road of Sanada Nobushige into Gangwon-do, and then began to mop up Gangwon-do.

No matter how you say it, you are following your little brothers, and you have to give them something to eat. The Xiu family eats meat, and the little brothers also have to drink some soup, right?

The Xiu family handed over all the remaining cities in Gangwon Province to Ogasawara Hidetada, Sanada Nobuyuki, Iwaki Ritaka and others in order to let them use the war to obtain certain spoils of war so that they would not come to North Korea in vain.

After 20 days, Hanfang Zhengxing swept away the plain areas such as Deoksan and Dangjin in the northwest of Chungcheong-do. A large amount of loot and supplies were transported on board and transported to Jeju for transit. Hanfang Zhengxing also brought people into Gangwon-do.

At this time, the importance of Jeju Island is reflected. With Jeju Island, the materials looted from Chungcheong Province and Gyeonggi Province can be temporarily stored and transferred here.

After the ships put down the goods and people, they rushed northward to transport the next batch, and it took only one day to go back and forth.

If there is no transfer in Jeju Island, Xiujia's fleet will have to be transported to Iyo to unload the ship and then return to Chungcheongdo to transport the second batch. This trip will not take 3 to 5 days.

The existence of Jeju Island has accelerated the speed at which Xiujia transported wealth and population from the hinterland of North Korea.As for how to transport people to Jeju, there will be several years of effort in the future to transport the Xiu family slowly.

At the same time Hanabang Masako finished dealing with the affairs of Chungcheongdo, he wrote a letter to the head of Konishi and Kato Kiyomasa in the north to buy people from them.

Anyway, these metal assets are under pressure to be shipped, and simply used as assets on the spot to trade dispensable people from other daimyos, it can be regarded as robbed by the enemy and used locally.

When these matters are almost dealt with, it can only be 30 days at most, and Hanabou Masako must go north to support Nobushige Sanada's attack on Hamgyongdo.

Even if Hirasawa, Karatsu, and Wang Jing still have work to do, Hanabou Masayuki can't stay anymore. He is about to leave a few retainers to bring part of the army to end, but the main force must go north to support Nobushige Sanada.

Because the Xiu family was still fighting for time with Kato Kiyomasa in the end, he needed to complete the control of the seaside essence of Hamgyong Road before Kato Kiyomasa got rid of the Guanbei Sixth Town Bing and Wulianghabu.

Remember Xiujia's plan?He wanted to establish another transit base in Vladivostok to replace the interruption of the trade route between Beilu and Ezo.

And Hamgyong Road is very close to Vladivostok, and the straight-line distance between Tumen River and Vladivostok is 200 miles.

After mastering the Hamgyong Road, you don't even need ships to transport, just escort people all the way to Vladivostok to open up wasteland.

Xiujia remembers that the Seto family had been with the Kuyala Department (Hunchun, China, east of the Tumen River in North Korea, near Vladivostok), the Suifen Department (north of Vladivostok, near the Twin Cities), and the Nimacha Department (Xingkai To the east of the lake, near Arsenyev) and the Urin Department (the Linhai Mountains continue northward to near Maximovka) have business contacts.

These savage Jurchens are completely engaged in fishing and hunting. At that time, they can open up colonies here by referring to the way Eizo developed, and expand by supporting agents.

Judging from the rapid expansion progress of Houjin later, the Savage Jurchen is indeed a tribe that is easier to tame, and can quickly provide soldiers for its own side after taming.

Hideyoshi intends to fully refer to the historical attitude of Hou Jin towards the tribes of the savage Jurchen, win over the leaders of the overhead tribes, and divide the small lords below.

Then use migration to assimilate some people into their own military service accounts, add vassals to some remote small lords to set up independent military service accounts, use marriage to strengthen the bond, and manage this savage Jurchen land.

But there is a problem. Jianzhou Jurchen will rise within 30 years. The savage Jurchen provided the initial reinforcements for Hou Jin. At that time, the Xiu family may inevitably have to fight a war between Japan and Jin in Vladivostok with Huang Taiji.

Leaving aside the Japan-Kim War, the people captured by the Xiu family in Gangwon-do and Hamgyong-do, as well as the people traded from Kuroda Nagamasa of Hwangkai-do and Konishi, Pyongan-do, can be transported to Vladivostok by Hamgyong-do. , The Twin Cities are farming here.

Judging from the maps of later generations, this is also the most suitable area for grain storage in the entire Russian Far East, with abundant water resources.

As for the food that is most suitable for planting here, everyone has already prepared it. Naturally, it is a large-scale expansion of potatoes in Kibi, Kanto and Ezo.

After all, there is the experience of later generations of Russia. Facts have proved that potatoes are indeed the most suitable food for farming here. With potato planting, this place can also become a new granary.

Of course, before that, Hideka had already made preparations to purchase food from Japan within five years.

At this point, the Xiu family's military arrangements for the army under its command were all over, and many things that could not be said were all written in the kit by the Xiu family, and mysteriously handed over to several generals of the special task force, and repeatedly asked them to open it. time.

After everyone left, the Hide family left Hanabou Masayuki, Sanada Nobushige, Suga Masatoshi, Osafune Sakayuki, and Date Masakura alone, and repeatedly explained their precautions.

The long boat was scheduled to go with Date Zhengheng, and it was okay. The Xiu family gave them 5000 army funds to prepare for themselves, and used it to mobilize soldiers and local people to build ports and castles.

After all, the flower house was fortunate enough to do business, and the Xiu family handed over the 500 taels of gold, 10000 taels of silver and 3 copper coins that Hideyoshi had previously rewarded.

Although Xiujia believed that recruiting puppet troops in Gangwon Province was not an easy task, they still granted Suga Masari 5000 guanwen and 1000 taels of silver as military funds.

As for Nobushige Sanada, let’s not talk about it, Yongle’s money is 2 guan, the gold sentence is 1000 taels, and the silver sentence is 5000 taels, which is the second most given among all the people.

He didn't need to do business with the daimyo, so Hideyoshi thought it was too much for him to recruit people in Hamgyong-do.

So far, Hideyoshi has given Hideyoshi the rewards for Ou's peace, as well as the internal money that Hideyo got stuck from the Ezoko no Mai gold mine, which can be regarded as clean.

After explaining the matter to them and paying the military funds, the Xiu family greeted them to leave, but the Xiu family's arrangements for North Korea were not over yet.

Many Ou and Kanto daimyos have not arrived in Kyoto, and the Hide family's most important ally, Hidetada Ogasawara, has just arrived in Suruga. They act in concert with themselves.

But it's not a big problem, after all, the credit for annihilating the 3 defenders of Jeolla Province in Chungcheong Province is so attractive, and the military merit here is the existence that many daimyos can't reach in this battle.

In addition to the Xiu family's promise to give them all the main spoils in this battle, they would definitely be willing to make a fortune with the Xiu family.

As for why the Xiu family thought that Jeolla Dao would lead the troops north to King Qin, and why the army's morale was broken and it was impossible to escape.
War is like buying spinach. There is always someone who wants you to take him to play. You can’t persuade him to take him. He will always ask you why you chose this and why there are no other possibilities.
Based on the experience of the Xiu family, whenever encountering such a thing, the Xiu family said to him without hesitation: Don't ask, asking is to question the strategic level of [Xiguo Wushuang]. You don't need to know why, as long as Just know that following the Xiu family can make a fortune.

For the Xiu family, if they had to say something regretful, it would be that they could not lead the troops to conquer North Korea this time.

After all, the two conquests against North Korea in history must have been the first time with a greater advantage. No one likes a headwind. In this time when he was not able to go to the front line to command the DPRK in person, the Xiu family had more or less regrets.

(End of this chapter)