Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 618 Imjin Japanese Invasion ([-]) Change of Hachisuka and Sao Operations on Both Sides of Asahi and Japan

If the Xiu family was responsible for the strategy of Jinzhou City, then the Xiu family would definitely not choose to attack forcefully, because the location of Jinzhou is really suitable for water attack.

The south of the city is next to Licheng on the Nanjiang River, and the south will be an important tributary of the Nakdong River. The water flow has always been guaranteed. In addition, the area of ​​the city is not large, and the terrain is flat from east to west. In addition, there is a large pond in the north of the city. Jinju can be flooded.

In the early days of the Imjin Japanese Invasion, the initiative was always in the hands of the Japanese side, and the last thing to worry about was the Japanese side.

Historically, there have been absolute problems with Japan's strategy. At the beginning, they looked down on North Korea, but the main force has been moving to the north of North Korea, planning to swallow North Korea and Ming Dynasty in a decisive battle.

It's hard to understand this logic right?Otherwise, how do you explain that the Japanese side did not completely clean up the Gyeongsang-do and Jeolla-do in the rear for more than half a year before the Ming Dynasty supported North Korea?
If the Japanese side moved forward steadily, with the attitude of the Joseon court towards the local people, as long as the Japanese side showed a little kindness, how could the rebel army be in a predicament like in history?

The problem of disunity within Yining City has become the most important weakness of Yining. After the Japanese spread their troops and attacked from multiple sides, the dilemma of the defenders in the city not belonging to each other and unable to support each other was completely erupted.

The last time Yining City was defended for 3 days at least, and when reinforcements from Jinzhou arrived, this time it took only 1 days for Yining to declare its fall. This was with the support of 500 prison battalion soldiers and 500 government soldiers. .

Therefore, on the second day after Longjing Kobayakawa deployed his troops in Jinju, the total strength of the Japanese army on the outskirts of Jinzhou City reached 6, while there were only more than 5000 troops of Jin Shimin in the city.

Jin Shimin is a capable minister. Although he has an absolute disadvantage in military strength, he is very good at adjusting the gap between the two sides by taking advantage of geographical advantages.

And in the face of the predicament of breaking the city, he took out the allusion of the massacre of Busan in Dongnae and mobilized the people in the city to join the army.

He stipulated that the strong men distribute weapons to defend against the enemy on the city wall, the strong women are responsible for taking their children to demolish houses to provide wood and stones for the city defenders, and the old people are responsible for the logistics work in the city.

Under his management, Jinzhou's defense became well-organized. Even in the face of successive attacks from 6 troops, it still persisted for 35 days without losing the wind.

After finally holding on for 2 months, due to the exhaustion of available wood and stone in the city, the moat in the north of the city was filled, and a large number of troops were killed, Jinzhou City finally fell. A famous general in history all died in battle.

As mentioned above, there was a reorganization of the army that attacked North Korea in history, and that was because of the impact of the typhoon, which blocked the continued login of the follow-up support troops.

Now that the 15th has passed, and the time has come to May 5th, even Toyotomi Hideyoshi already knows the situation in Jinju and the defeat in Yining.

In the two months since Japan invaded Korea, there have always been triumphant songs, which makes Hachisuka's defeat in this battle very eye-catching.

Now, another month has passed, and the 6 troops from Gyeongsang Province are unable to take down the small Jinju City. At the same time, Fukushima Zhengzheng, who was originally a Xietong, has swept Chungcheong Province and began to enter Jeolla Province to wipe out Kobayachuan Longjing. ass off.

This made Hideyoshi feel that it is necessary to kill chickens and monkeys.

He ordered the Ninth and Tenth Army Corps of Toyotomi Hideji and Toyotomi Hidekatsu to land in North Korea as soon as possible, and be responsible for sweeping the surrounding areas of Gyeonggi-do.

At the same time, Toyotomi Hideji personally went to Chungju to dismiss Hachisuka's housekeeper, and took him back to Nagoya Castle. As for the remaining more than 5000 people under his command, they were all handed over to Toyotomi Hideji.

As for the more than 9000 people including Shimadzu Yoshihiro, Mori Yoshinari, Shimadzu Toyohisa, and Ito Yuhei, it is not enough to form an independent army, so it is split.

Hideyoshi appointed Shimadzu Yoshihiro as the new General of the Fifth Corps, with 6800 people under his command. Hideyoshi added 3500 people from Hosokawa Tadakashi, who belonged to Toyotomi Hideji, to him, plus Sengoku Hidehisa and Hasegawa Hideyoshi. , Kimura Shigezi and others formed a corps of 15600 people.

As for the 2600 members of the original colleagues Mori Yoshinari, Shimadzu Toyohisa, and Ito Yubing, they will be supplemented by Toyotomi Hidekatsu in the Tenth Corps, plus Nanjo Motoki, Miyabuya, Araki Shigeken, etc. The strength of its commander reached 17100.

After the loss of Hosokawa Tadakashi, the Ninth Corps Toyotomi Hideji's department was slightly weak, and Hideyoshi added Katagiri Katamoto, Asano Yukunaga, Ikeda Teruma, Mori Kasari, Tsutsui Sadaji and others to him, and the total strength reached 18800 people were recruited.

Of course, all these changes in military strength cannot be completed overnight. It will not be possible to complete the follow-up troops to North Korea and complete the reorganization in North Korea within half a month.

After Hachisuka’s housekeeping returned to Nagoya, he was nagged by Hideyoshi Shinobu and ordered to go back to the territory to reflect. Hachisuka’s main city, Fukuoka, is very close to Nagoya, but he almost returned to his skills. It was recalled the next day.

It is said that because he was dissatisfied with Hideyoshi's handling of his defeat in the Battle of Yining, he was reported to Hideyoshi after he returned to Fukuoka Castle. Escort will be in Kyoto, and handed over to Xiuchang to take care of education.

Gaiyi is a very serious punishment for a family, and more importantly, Hachisuka's family is Hideyoshi's Conglong family.

Hachisuka Masakatsu, the father of Hachisuka's housekeeper, followed Hideyoshi to climb up step by step from the young lord, and was deeply trusted by Hideyoshi.

Even after he lived in seclusion in his later years and was transferred to the monastic governor, he was still recruited by Hideyoshi as an aide to join the army, which shows his trust in Hachisuka Masakatsu.

Generally speaking, fathers and fathers are good brothers, and they will give their children some leeway, but Hideyoshi actually changed Hachisuka's family directly. This incident is indeed a major event that shocked the Japanese political circle.

Obviously, the day before Hideka had just been praised about Hideyoshi's great achievements in Kyoto, but in the end, he was ordered to take over Hachisuka's housekeeping.

The relationship between Hachisuka's housekeeping and the Hide family is mediocre, so he didn't feel uncomfortable being reduced to the Hide family, but he still had to show his condolences on the scene.

The key point is that a family of important ministers of the genealogy changed it as soon as they said it should be changed, which really hit Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s authority, and at the critical moment of the Korean War, how could such a treatment reassure the daimyos who were fighting on the front line?

Sometimes Hideo really couldn't understand Hideyoshi's operation, and moved himself from the core area to a distant country, and arranged three relatives in Echizen, Mino, and Bizen to guard him. Toyotomi Hideyoshi from Ou was also recruited, and the situation of Toyotomi's family is very good.

Let's take a look at the number of knowledge and practice currently held by the Toyotomi family: about 200 million for Hideyoshi Zang of the main family, and about 120 million for small daimyos such as Ishida Mitsunari and Otani Kichitsugu;
The first relative, the Gifu clan, has two sons, Gifu and Koriyama, with a total of 137 million koku; the Echizen family has three sons, Hideji, Hidekatsu, and Hideho, who currently have 100 million koku; the Toyoharu family currently has only the Hide family. , but owns 200 million shi from Kanto.

The core collars of the entire Toyotomi family now add up to nearly 750 million koku, plus Maeda Toshiie, Tsutsui Setuji, Nakagawa Kiyohide and other close daimyos with more than [-] koku, the total is nearly ten million koku. It is Hideyoshi's confidence to be able to speak for himself in Japan.

However, Hideyoshi's authority is based on the conviction of his subordinates. He needs to rely on the method of contacting Pudai, the small leader daimyo and his relatives, suppressing and contacting the big leader Pudai, and then pulling the hand of the big leader Pudai to suppress those Outer name.

The foreign daimyo and Hideyoshi were not of the same mind. If Hideyoshi really wants to dispose of the daimyo now, he should also deal with the foreign daimyo instead of cutting his own ship at this time.

The relationship between the big leader Pudai and Hideyoshi is obviously not as close as the junior leader Pudai and the relatives, so there is no need for Hideyoshi to fight them to the opposite side.

The most important thing is that when Gamo's township was transferred to the Northeast, the largest genealogy of the entire Kyushu tower was the Hachisuka family, and the location was still in such a critical place as Chikuzen.

You changed Hachisuka's house, who do you expect from Kyushu to help you cut off the connection between Kobayakawa's house and Mori's house?
Is Kuroda with an ambiguous attitude like water?

Or is it Konishi Yukinaga and Kato Kiyomasa whose territory is surrounded by others in Southern Kyushu?

Xiujia really couldn't understand Hideyoshi's move of killing eight hundred enemies and destroying one thousand.

However, Hideyoshi's stupidity is a rare opportunity for the Hideo family. For important officials like the Hachisuka family, their interests have long been intertwined. If it is eliminated, there will definitely be a chance for him to recover the territory.

And right now is the time when Hachisuka's family is in decline, and it is the opportunity for the Xiu family to make friends with the Hachisuka family.

In the future, the Hachisuka family will re-establish the country, and the Xiu family will give charcoal in the face of hardship. Will the Hachisuka family be grateful for this kindness?

In fact, looking at the entire Wanli Korean War, not only did the Japanese bosses frequently make stupid moves, but the reason why North Korea was driven to the Yalu River had a big problem of its own.

For example, after the fall of Wangjing, King Lee Chan of North Korea fled north to Pyongyang, appointed Kim Ming-won as the capital marshal, and stood firm on the north bank of the Imjin River to prevent the Japanese army from crossing the river.

However, at this critical time of life and death, Jin Mingyuan fabricated his military achievements and sent people to lie about his military achievements by expediting 600 miles.

At that time, the Japanese army had not reached Wangjing, let alone went north to Linjin River.But Jin Mingyuan dared to falsely claim that he set up an ambush at Biti and other places on the south bank of the Linji River, and captured many Japanese heads.

When the king sent someone to inspect the heads, he casually killed hundreds of Korean people around, cut off their heads and kept them.

The officials and eunuchs who came to test their merits also needed a reason to please the king, Li Yan, so it was clear that Jin Mingyuan only reported nearly a thousand heads, but with their Spring and Autumn brushwork, it became nearly ten thousand heads. The Japanese invaders were terrified.

At the same time, Wang Jingdu inspector Li Yangyuan reported that he led Li Yi, Shen Luo and other generals and 5000 soldiers to garrison Datan, ready to recover Wang Jing at any time.

This is the same as the 90% and 4% of data fraud at the beginning. For the sake of their own glorious image, they deceived the whole country around.

Everyone in North Korea was very happy after hearing the false news of Jin Mingyuan and others' report. Li Yan even thought that he would be able to return to Luan soon.

As a result, others saw these two people lying with their eyes open. Not only were they not punished, they were even rewarded. Others followed suit to deceive the court.

Gyeonggi-do inspection envoy Quan Zhengchi reported to Pyongyang, claiming that the Japanese army had lost strength due to swollen legs and feet due to the solitary penetration, and he had achieved great victories with some temporarily recruited volunteers.

At the end of the letter, he even wrote that he asked Marshal Jin Mingyuan not to miss the opportunity to wipe out the Japanese army.

This report was widely reprinted, and soon after, officials from other places also reported, claiming that the Japanese army's offensive had been weakened due to unacceptable reasons.

Even Gangwon-do and Hamgyong-do, which obviously did not return the Japanese pirates, wrote memorials, saying how many Japanese pirates they had wiped out.

When the three became tigers, the king of North Korea, Li Yan, was convinced of what he said, so he issued an order to Jin Mingyuan, ordering him to send troops to crusade against the Japanese army.

Han Yingyin was used as the patrol envoy of the capitals of various roads, and ordered to command 2000 forbidden troops and 3000 Huanghai Taoist soldiers, a total of 5000 people, to send troops to exterminate Japanese pirates without being restrained by Jin Mingyuan. (Again, the damn civil-military balance.)
But until the three regiments of Governor Konishi, Kato Kiyomasa, and Kuroda Nagamasa came to Linjin River, none of these two people moved at all. After all, it's fine to tell lies to deceive others, no one will deceive themselves, right?
Facing the nearly 5 troops on the southern side of the Japanese army, Han Yingyin was ordered to take the initiative. He was the main combatant in his bones, and he was ready to lead people across the river to take the initiative to attack as soon as he arrived at the front line of the Linjin River.

But Jin Mingyuan and even North Korea's real strength, sticking to the river's bank may not necessarily win, let alone take the initiative to attack.

Therefore, he could only take all the soldiers to persuade him to stand still for the time being due to the fact that the soldiers were tired from a long distance away and their equipment was not ready yet.

But Han Yingyin didn't know whether he really didn't know the soldiers or was confused by the various lying memorials before. Word.

Gyeongsang-do assistant defense general Liu Keliang is a veteran with rich battlefield experience. He urged Han Yingyin to calm down, but he wanted to kill him on the grounds of shaking the morale of the army. Fortunately, the other generals persuaded him.

Feeling humiliated, Liu Keliang was filled with grief and indignation. He led his troops across the Linjin River and beheaded several [true Japanese invaders], bringing their heads back to the north bank to prove himself.

Liu Keliang's actions deeply irritated the governor Konishi and Kato Kiyomasa of Nan'an. At that time, it was the beginning of May. Although Hideyoshi had not changed Yi Hachisuka's housekeeping, the order to send someone to reprimand him for his crimes and meritorious service had already been delivered.

Hideyoshi thought Hideyoshi was a wimp and asked him to return home because he was carrying this nag on his back and Jinju couldn't attack for a long time.

This reprimand was also spread throughout the Japanese military daimyo, which made Governor Konishi and Kato Kiyomasa very nervous.

Before the three legions arrived at the Linjin River, they were stunned for a while when they saw the huge North Korean army on the opposite side.

Coupled with the turbulent flow of the Linjin River and the wide channel, they dare not cross the river at will to attack.

For them, Hideyoshi's order to quickly enter the capital has been completed, and there is no need to take risks and take meritorious deeds.

Coupled with seeing that the flags on the opposite side are well-organized and the defenses are relatively complete, Renai is not so easy to take down the Linjin River, so the two sides faced off near the river for more than ten days without moving.

But now the North Korean army is taking the initiative to provoke them. If they don't respond, they will be reported on Hideyoshi's side like Hachisuka.

At this time, the news of Hachisuka's change has not yet come. They didn't know that they would face such a severe punishment. They just thought that if they were recalled to Japan, it might be difficult to make meritorious service against Ming. I can't get it.

Based on the combination of the two parties, they decided to mobilize iron cannons to reach the bank of Linjin River to shoot, and at the same time organize ships to cross the river to actively attack the North Korean army.

Of course, the situation must be well controlled. This is just a small-scale troop infiltration operation. The main force remains still. They don't think that a few hundred troops can break down the "bronze wall and iron wall" of the North Korean army.

As a result, the North Korean army never thought that the Japanese army would take the initiative to attack so quickly. They were caught off guard, and they collapsed without making any resistance.

Konishi Governor and Kato Kiyoshi were on the opposite bank and saw hundreds of Japanese troops cutting down the North Korean defense line. Immediately, they felt that there was a lot to be done, and then organized more troops to cross the river to launch an attack on the Korean defenders.

Liu Keliang's friend and colleague Shen Yu [qià] died in the chaos before he could react. Liu Keliang got off his horse and stood on the ground in grief and indignation.

As more Japanese troops crossed the river, the remnants of the North Korean soldiers scattered and fled in all directions, followed by the Japanese troops.

They obviously had weapons in their hands, and their side still had an advantage in numbers, but none of them organized a counterattack. Instead, they threw away the weapons in their hands, hoping to run faster.

As the Marshal of the capital, Kim Ming-won and Han Yingyin, the inspector of the various capitals, were very frightened when they saw this situation. total crash.

Originally, Chief Xiaonishi and the others thought that the battle of Linjin River would be a tough battle, but who would have thought that it would end in such an anticlimactic manner.

What they didn't expect was that it was precisely their side's report of meritorious service, and the Warring States period in it was too prominent, which formed a sharp contrast with Jinzhou City's delay in winning it.

Coupled with the defeat of Yi Ning, which led to the change of fate after Fengsuhe's housekeeping was recalled.

(End of this chapter)