Wanli 1592

Chapter 149
Toyotomi Hideyoshi was originally a smart person, that’s for sure, if he wasn’t smart, he couldn’t have gone from being a slave to where he is today, but he is not young, and his mind is a bit confused. He stays in the Nago house every day, The grasp of the battle situation comes entirely from the letters of the North Korean frontline generals, and those generals are well versed in Hideyoshi's psychology, and they have always concealed defeat and triumphed, and outlined an extremely bright picture of the future for Toyotomi Hideyoshi who is far away in Japan.

That letter was the plan that the Japanese generals on the front line racked their brains for half a month to break the situation.

There is no way, there is really no way, the current situation is that the Japanese army has enough troops to defend Wacheng and the Busan area, but in any case they cannot advance again to compete with the Ming army for other areas of North Korea.

Except for the area of ​​Busan, the rest of the area was recovered by the Ming army and the Korean rebel army. Even Jeolla Province was recovered. The Japanese army was trapped in Busan and could not move. If the sea route was not still open, they would starve to death. up.

Such a tragic situation, coupled with the deaths of several high-level officials, such as Kato Koyasu, Masuda Nagamori, and Kuroda Nagamasa, plus the previous Konishi Governor and Kato Kiyomasa, the remaining Japanese high-level leaders were full of fear of the Ming army, and there was no Gained the courage to continue to enter the decisive battle.

In the Battle of Byekjekan, Takakage Kobayakawa, who was the loudest before, escaped the fastest, even faster than the Ukita Hide family. After returning to Busan, he fell ill and is still bedridden. His situation is worrisome.

The morale of the Japanese army was generally low. They hid in the Japanese city and dared not leave. When they peeped at the majestic lineup of the Ming army from a distance, they were terrified. Occasionally, they panicked for a long time when they heard a few gunshots.

What's even more frightening is that the Ming army built a ten-meter-high Jingguan in front of the Japanese army, all of which were beheaded Japanese pirates' heads. There were often two or three Ming soldiers showing off their force under the Jingguan and firing cannons in a demonstrative manner. They shot and provoked the Japanese army, but the Japanese army could not muster up the courage to fight back, and was completely suppressed by the momentum of the Ming army.

Another day, when Xiao Ruxun had nothing to do, when he called the generals for a dinner, he had a whim, and wrote a letter to the Japanese pirate general Hideo Ukita’s family on the opposite side after studying the story of Zhuge Liang’s humiliation of Sima Yi in "Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms". , and then gave him a set of clothes worn by North Korean women, and a box of rouge, and mocked him that he was no different from a woman in the city, and it would be better to go back to Japan as soon as possible.

As soon as this move came out, all the generals in the army became interested, and they wanted to be arty. Even the old man Yuan Huang couldn't help participating, and wrote letters to the surviving high-ranking Japanese soldiers that Xuansu said in their respective names. Humiliate them by presenting women's clothes and rouge.

Li Rusong is even more wicked. He went hunting for meat in the mountains near Daying when he had nothing to do. He actually caught a tiger and carried it back to show off his strength. At this moment, he took the tiger whip that he treasured Dedicate it and give it to Ukita Hide's family together.

He also said in his letter that it is useless to hear that His Majesty Yuxita’s place is useless, he can’t get up, he is so troubled that he can’t even fight, I really want to help you, so I will give you a tiger whip, I hope you can get up after eating Fight us, if you still can't get up, then I can't help you, you can only wear women's clothes and be a woman or something...

Anyway, the generals tried their best to humiliate and ridicule them, and poured their own malice into these objects, and then sent a captured Japanese prisoner to bring these objects back to the top of the Japanese army as a gift.

After the high-level Japanese army received this generous gift from the high-level collective of the Ming army, they were collectively dizzy, especially Ukita Hideo's family, looking at the women's clothes and tiger whips in front of them, they were so angry that one Buddha came out of their bodies, and two Buddhas ascended to heaven. After getting over his anger, he threw the tiger whip to the ground with a flick of his hand and stomped several times. The young man was so angry that he was about to explode on the spot.

Ukita Hideka pulled out his sword and was about to rush out. He wanted to summon soldiers and horses to fight Xiao Ruxun to the death. He would not be humiliated even if he died.

"This is Xiao Ruxun's trick! You can't fall for it! He just wants to piss you off! He just wants you to fight! You can't fall for his trick!!"

Mitsunari Ishida tried his best to persuade the embarrassing high-level Japanese army, and persuaded them with good words. However, such news had already spread.

When Xiao Ruxun led a group of cavalry to provoke the Japanese army near Wacheng the next day, they also shrank behind the city wall and did not dare to shoot.

Under such a depressing atmosphere, the phenomenon of deserters appeared uncontrollably. For the first time, it was just three people who met to escape, and were discovered by the patrolling officer.

As a result, the second time was a small group of sixteen people who fled together, including the officer from last time, and made a very detailed plan, where there was a boat to escape back to Japan, etc., it was still bad luck, and was arrested. Yoshihiro Shimadzu found out.

Shimazu Yoshihiro, who fled from the Linjin River, was punished after the war and demoted to the military. Because he dared not tell Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the territory has not been weakened, but his status has plummeted, and the famous Satsuma strong soldier And he was humiliated, which made him extremely unhappy. Just when these deserters were caught at this time, Shimadzu Yoshihiro decided to give himself a sigh of relief.

It turned out that these dozens of people were subordinates of the Fifth Corps Masanori Fukushima. Masanori Fukushima felt that he was very shameless. In addition, his subordinates were caught by Yoshihiro Shimadzu, the "runaway general", so he spoke out to cover up his own. His subordinates bit back at Shimadzu Yoshihiro for nothing, and demanded that Shimadzu Yoshihiro be severely punished.

This made Yoshinari Mori very dissatisfied. Yoshihiro Shimadzu's Satsuma soldiers belonged to him, and Masaki Fukushima scolded Yoshihiro Shimadzu for scolding him. How could he bear it?The two first quarreled verbally, then developed into hands and feet, and finally drew out samurai swords to each other and slashed at each other.

The debate ended with the Ukita Hide family coming forward to hit 16 boards each, but on the third day, the [-] people under Masanori Fukushima disappeared. This made him very embarrassed.

So he ordered a thorough investigation. After a thorough investigation, he found out that it was a deserter. On the one hand, he sent people to hunt him down, and on the other hand, he strengthened his defenses. However, this did not prevent the deserters from appearing.

After the first wave of deserters successfully escaped, more and more deserters began to appear. There were 36 deserters in the second time, 57 in the third time, 81 in the fourth time, and [-] in the fifth time.

This number eventually accumulated to the point where the top Japanese army could not ignore it. Under the strong pressure of the Ming army and the inaction of the top Japanese army, the situation was extremely serious.

Faced with such a situation, Ishida Mitsunari had no choice but to issue a strict order. If each legion could not manage the problem of deserters, they should directly hold the head of the legion accountable, urging the head of the legion to use his retainers to manage these problems. Ishida Sancheng and others realized that the withdrawal of troops from North Korea was urgent.

So there was that letter.

(End of this chapter)