The Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was extremely rebellious

Chapter 360 Toyotomi Hideyoshi is in a big trouble
Wanli made another move.

This time he didn't even send a single soldier, he used troops from his vassal state, Korea.

He also sent a dozen secret guards to serve as military supervisors.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty still had its power, and it would be no problem for Lee Sun-sin to use his imperial edict and the Shangfang sword to mobilize the remnants of the army and various volunteer forces gathered in the vassal state of Korea.

More importantly, he also gave Lee Sun-sin 10,000 sets of sophisticated equipment and promised to provide food and medicine.

The various volunteer armies in the vassal state of Korea were roaring as if they had been injected with chicken blood.

Although Quan Li, the governor of Jeolla Province, was somewhat unwilling to fail to recapture the royal capital, he did not dare to disobey the orders of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Under Lee Sun-sin's deployment, most of the more than 20,000 remnants of the vassal state of Korea and more than 100,000 troops from various volunteer armies began to move towards the southwest line of Gyeongsang Province, while a small part of them hid near the mountain roads of Gyeonggi Province and even Chungcheong Province, preparing to dig pits and cut trees to block the road.

At this moment, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was still unaware of anything.

Because these troops from the vassal state of Korea were walking on mountain trails that they had never been to.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi's attention was still focused on the attack and defense of Yoshizuya, and Konishi Yukinaga would send people on the navy speedboat to deliver battle reports to him every day.

However, the battle reports were not good news.

There were only four or five thousand Ming troops in Yizhou City, but it seemed that these guys had endless kerosene in their hands.

Moreover, the Ming army in Yizhou City later used sky bombs.

That thing can't kill people, but it can make people sick to death.

Even if Konishi Yukinaga filled up the moat south of Yoshizu Castle and built a large siege vehicle to attack the city wall, it would be useless.

As soon as their people boarded the siege vehicles, the Ming army in the city dropped bombs on them. The explosions made their bodies feel as painful as if they were being pricked by needles. Before their people could react, they were stabbed by the Ming army's spears and fell off the siege vehicles like dumplings.

The wooden shields could block that thing, but the problem was that the Ming army threw kerosene at them while they were holding the wooden shields.

This incident made Konishi Yukinaga so angry that he even asked for an iron shield to be made.

Question: Is the iron shield so easy to make?
Konishi Yukinaga's First Legion had more than 18,000 men, but they were unable to defeat the 4,000 to 5,000 Ming troops. He had not expected this.

It would be fine if the Ming army guarding Yizhou City was well-equipped with a large number of muskets and cannons.

The problem is that they are not equipped with muskets or artillery. All they use are kerosene cans and sky bombs.

They can also make these two things, but they just don't have that much kerosene and pottery jars.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi was so annoyed that he was considering whether to dispatch Kato Kiyomasa's Second Corps of more than 20,000 troops to attack the east and west sides of Yizhou City.

At this time, Wanli had already summoned Li Shizhen back to the capital to discuss making medicine to treat the plague.

He asked Yi Sun-sin to mobilize most of the remaining soldiers and volunteer troops of the vassal state of Korea to go to Gyeongsang Province to scare Toyotomi Hideyoshi. It would be a disaster if these more than 100,000 troops were infected with the plague.

At about 5 p.m. that afternoon, Li Shizhen had just returned to the capital. He immediately called the Wan brothers and Li Jianzhong to a side hall where maps were displayed.

At this moment, this side hall has a plaque of the Grand Council hanging on it, and there are also heavy guards outside, so no outsiders are allowed to enter.

Everyone was a little confused. They were here to treat illnesses, not to fight wars. Why did the Emperor ask them to come here?
Wanli didn't waste any time. He pointed directly at the map and said, "The Japanese pirates were brutal. They killed people in Gyeongsang Province, Korea, leaving corpses everywhere. They didn't do anything to stop them. Add to that the hot weather, and many places in Gyeongsang Province are already plagued by plague.

The question is, Gyeongsang Province is where the Japanese pirates landed in Korea, a vassal state. I want to use military force in this area. Can you make more medicine to cure the plague?"

what?
You knew there was a plague raging here, yet you still sent troops here!

The Wan brothers looked at each other, and finally looked at the miracle doctor Li Shizhen.

To be honest, they have little experience in treating plagues. If they had experience, there would probably be only a few of their brothers left.

Li Shizhen could only sigh and say, "Your Majesty, the cure for plague cannot be fully explained by a single dose of Chinese medicine. Plague has more than one symptom, and only the right medicine can be effective. If Your Majesty truly wishes to send troops to this place, then after I have taken care of the aftermath, I will accompany the soldiers on their journey."

This means being ready to sacrifice one's life for one's country.

You are the treasure of the Ming Dynasty, how can you go and die! Wanli shook his head and said: "You can't go, and I am not planning to send Ming soldiers. This time, the ones going are the remnants of the vassal state of Korea and the rebel army.

It doesn't matter how many symptoms this plague has, as long as you have a prescription. We can write a detailed description of the symptoms corresponding to each prescription and attach it to the medicine box. No matter how many types there are, quickly make 200,000 doses of each. I need them urgently."

Doesn’t this mean we need to produce at least two million doses!
Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty now has an astonishingly fast speed in making medicine and an astonishing amount of medicinal materials.

Two million doses actually amount to just over 300,000 boxes. Now, due to the development of overseas trade, their daily output of medicines has reached nearly 300,000 boxes, and the herbs stored in the warehouse are piled up like mountains.

Li Shizhen combined the existing herbs and produced more than 300,000 boxes of medicine specifically for treating the plague in just a few days.

Wanli ordered the navy to send a fast ship to the vassal state of Korea, and more than ten troops under Li Sun-sin immediately followed.

These people all sincerely want to drive the Japanese pirates out of the vassal state of Korea, and they will go even if there is no medicine to ask them to do so.

What's more, the Ming Dynasty has sent them a huge amount of medicine, at least ten doses for each person, so they don't have to worry about any plague. They can even use these medicines to treat civilians along the way.

Then they might as well rush towards Gyeongsang Province like crazy.

Soon, the urgent news flew like snowflakes to Nagoya Castle in Kitakyushu.

Jinzhou was besieged, and Jeolla Province Governor Kwon Li led more than 20,000 remaining soldiers to launch a fierce attack on Jinzhou City!
Hedong was besieged, Goseong was besieged, and several rebel armies in Jeolla Province rushed out, with more than 20,000 men and horses.

Geochang was captured by the rebel army that came from Chungcheong Province!

Miryang was captured by the rebels who came from Seongju!
Several rebel armies in Gyeongsang Province attacked Ulsan and Gimhae like crazy!
Toyotomi Hideyoshi marked the place where the urgent news came on the map and was shocked.

All the cities on the east, west and north sides of Busan Port were either surrounded or captured!
The goal of these remnants of the vassal state of Korea and the rebel army is to capture the Port of Busan and cut off their army's route of return!
However, at this time he had not yet thought about sending reinforcements from mainland Japan.

Because the urgent report sent back showed that these were not the main force of the Ming army but the remnants and rebel forces of the vassal state of Korea.

He believed that these rabble could be wiped out by simply dispatching a few tens of thousands of troops.

Therefore, he directly sent a naval speedboat to pass on the order, ordering several legions in Chungcheong Province and Gyeonggi Province to rush south to provide support.

As a result, within a few days, urgent news from Chungcheong Province and Gyeonggi Province came in like snowflakes.

It seems like all the mountain roads from Chungcheong Province and Gyeonggi Province to Gyeongsang Province were blocked overnight!
Wherever there were trees on both sides of the mountain roads, they were cut down and blocked the road in all directions.

They sent people to clear the trees on the road but were attacked by surprise. People on the hills on both sides threw kerosene and fired rockets.

That guy can set the whole tree on fire in an instant, and anyone who goes to clean the tree will also be set on fire.

It's even more terrible in places without trees. While you are running, the road that seems to be fine will suddenly fall into a big pit. Although those pits are not deep, they are full of sharp thorns and even gold juice. Once a person falls into one, he will be skinned alive if he doesn't die!
Several legions were unable to move forward and had no idea when they would be able to reach Gyeongsang Province.

When Toyotomi Hideyoshi received the urgent report, he couldn't help but curse: "Eight people are marching on the road. Who is the commander of the Ming army?"

This guy is so despicable, he only uses despicable means.

Originally, he thought that as long as he sent troops to attack Yizhou, the Ming army would have to send reinforcements, and then the Ming army would fall into the ambush he had set up.

Who knew that the Ming army would not send reinforcements at all, but instead used bombs and kerosene to defend these things.

Now the commander of the Ming army has set his sights on the remnants of the army and the rebel forces in the vassal state of Korea.

This guy is so cunning!
As soon as he saw the kerosene tanks, he understood that this was definitely done by the commander-in-chief of the Ming army. It was impossible for the vassal state of Korea to have so much kerosene, and not even Japan had that much.

If the several corps from Chungcheong Province and Gyeonggi Province cannot come, Busan and even the entire Gyeongsang Province may fall.

If this is true, then it will be a big trouble. The more than 100,000 troops he sent to attack Korea may be annihilated by the Ming army and the remnants and volunteers of Korea.

If he didn't send reinforcements at this time, the situation would be irreversible.

The question is, who will he send?

This really gave him a headache.

(End of this chapter)