Go back to the Ming Dynasty to be a thousand households

Chapter 281
Time entered the first month of the 25th year of Wanli, and the weather was still gloomy and cold. The sea area adjacent to Korea and Japan was full of tension before the war.In the city of Busan occupied by Japan, more and more Japanese soldiers were crowded, and behind them, there was a steady stream of Japanese troops coming from the sea.

In September last year, Toyotomi Hideyoshi decided to launch another war after the failure of the two countries to pay tribute tomorrow.In October, Hideaki Kobayakawa, the new commander of the Japanese army, led 1 troops to Pusan ​​City, which increased the Japanese garrison in Busan to 25.In addition, the Japanese generals Tachibana Soshige, Kobayakawa Hidebo, Takahashi Naoji, Asano Yukunaga and others led the army to reoccupy Angupo, Xishengpu, Gade Island, Takeshima and other Japanese cities along the coast of Korea. .By the ninth day of the first lunar month in the 10th year of Wanli, the number of Japanese troops entering the DPRK had reached [-].War is inevitable!

For Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he had to launch this war.As early as the 20th year of Wanli, in order to quell domestic samurai's dissatisfaction with land entrustment, and to overwhelm the turmoil of local daimyo, Toyotomi Hideyoshi expanded abroad and shifted the focus. Unexpectedly, he was defeated and let Toyotomi's family live in Japan. Domestic prestige has plummeted, and big names from all over the world are even more ready to move.

Because of the cover-up of the frontline generals, and because of the farce of the peace talks between Governor Konishi and Shen Weijing, Toyotomi Hideyoshi mistakenly thought that Ming was going to send envoys to Japan to seek peace. How happy and how happy Toyotomi Hideyoshi was glory?For thousands of years, the small country of Japan has been overwhelmed by the huge figure of the Central Plains country. Until today, the Central Plains country has surrendered to Toyotomi Hideyoshi for the first time. This is the first time in the history of Japan.He, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, will leave his name in history!
Overjoyed, when the Ming envoy arrived, Toyotomi Hideyoshi forced all the daimyos in the country to attend, including Tokugawa Ieyasu, just to show off in front of everyone.Unexpectedly, the result of the matter was to make him lose face. The Ming Dynasty ordered Japan to be a small country, and it was said that Toyotomi Hideyoshi was regarded as a barbaric minister. How disappointed was Toyotomi Hideyoshi?Especially in front of Tokugawa Ieyasu and others, how can he get off the stage?
Even if Toyotomi Hideyoshi couldn't see any strange expressions on the faces of Tokugawa Ieyasu and others, he could imagine the inner smiles of these daimyos.For the prestige of the Toyotomi family, it is inevitable to start another war and save face.

Of course, although Toyotomi Hideyoshi is short in stature and looks like a jumping monkey when he gets angry, he is an outstanding figure who unifies Japan after all. He has absorbed the defeat factors of the first war of invasion of Korea. In this war, he decided to slow down. Slowly seize the land and population of North Korea, no longer as urgent as the first time.He divided his troops into two groups, referring to Jeolla Province and Gyeongsang Province in North Korea. He intended to occupy the two regions first, and then build a city along the coast to consolidate his position.

Judging from Toyotomi Hideyoshi's deployment, he has no confidence in this war and lacks the ambition of the first invasion of Korea.As for the generals and daimyos under him, compared with the first war of invasion of Korea, most of them did not have the vigor of the past, and they were seriously war-weary.Especially for many ordinary Japanese soldiers in North Korea, the phenomenon of fleeing is even more serious.

As early as after the first Korean War, during the truce between the two sides, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, while negotiating peace with Ming Dynasty, ordered the Japanese troops stationed in North Korea to build a large number of castles in order to occupy them permanently.In the past few years, not only the people in Japan have endured a large amount of military service and tax burdens in order to transport the food and salaries of the Japanese army in North Korea.Even the Japanese soldiers stationed on the front lines of North Korea became coolies, working hard every day to build those strong Japanese cities.Day and night, and lack of food, many soldiers fell ill and tired.Coupled with the severe cold of the Korean winter, the soldiers of the Japanese army in North Korea were generally struggling on the verge of freezing and starvation, lacking medical care and medicine, and suffering unspeakably.

Seeing that they either died of exhaustion, starvation, freezing to death, or were beheaded when they fled back to Japan, many Japanese soldiers had the idea of ​​joining the North Koreans.Of course, the Japanese army at this time cannot be compared with the Japanese soldiers who had a strong spirit of bushido and nationalism during World War II. They did not have any concept of nationality and country. As long as they can survive, what can they not do?
For a while, the defection of the Japanese army was serious. The most famous one was Sha Yeke, a subordinate of Kato Kiyomasa, who led an army of 3000 people to defect to North Korea and passed on the technology of the Korean National Iron Cannon.In order to commend Sha Yeke's achievements, North Korea gave him the name Kim Chung-sun and lived in North Korea permanently.In addition, at the end of Wanli 23, 3000 members of the Changzong Department mutinied collectively and fled back to Japan.

Although at the end of Wanli 24, with the arrival of most of the Japanese army, the phenomenon of defection has improved, but the war-weary thinking among the upper, middle and lower ranks of the Japanese army is still serious, especially the leader of the Lord Konishi, who has repeatedly revealed to the Koreans that he wants to invade Case.Only Kato Kiyomasa, who captured the North Korean prince in the previous invasion and did not suffer much loss, was the most active.

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At the beginning of the first month of the 25th year of Wanli, nearly 10 Japanese troops had gathered along the coast of North Korea, and the war was imminent.

As early as after the first Korean War, the negotiations between Ming Dynasty and Japan were pending, and tens of thousands of Japanese troops were still watching the tigers along the southern coast.Not only that, the two parties were still not enough, and they split into the Southern faction and the Northern faction, the Laolun faction and the Young theory faction, and continued to fight. In the end, the goal of the party struggle was directed at the important minister of the country, Yi Sun-shin.

After the first Korean War, awed by the force and vigor of the Japanese army, North Korea decided to train its troops!They hired Ming army instructors, and at the same time, according to Qi Jiguang's "Ji Xiao New Book", they planned to train 1 troops in advance!In August of the 21st year of Wanli, North Korea established a new army division to recruit recruits, train formations, sword skills, boxing skills, bow skills and musket skills.

According to the teaching of "Ji Xiao New Book", the North Korean army also organized every 11 soldiers into a small team, which was divided into bow squad, musket squad and knife and ax squad according to the type of arms.These 11 people work together to advance and retreat together to form a combat unit.Then choose one of the three types of squads to become a combat brigade.The three brigades form one banner, the three banners form one column, and the five columns form one post.A total of 25 outposts are set up across the country, 5 outposts are stationed in Seoul, and the remaining 20 outposts are distributed all over the country.At the same time, North Korea also planned to build multiple lines of defense between Seoul and Busan.

However, because the king of North Korea spends most of his energy and financial resources on rebuilding the palace of the king's capital, and the ministers are fighting among themselves, the above series of plans have become a dead letter. In the three years of tomorrow's peace talks, North Korea will be in vain. Waste time.

Not only that, but the Korean government also fell into the countermeasures of the Japanese spy Yao Shiluo. On the 25th day of the first month of the [-]th year of Wanli, Li sun-shin was put in a prison car for disobedience and sent to Seoul. The post of Dao Shuijun envoy.

Originally, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's analysis of the failure of the last Japanese battle of Wenlu was because of the impassability of the sea. The biggest obstacle to the impassability of the sea was Yi Sun-shin, so he must wipe out the Korean navy before launching a land offensive!And the key person is to get rid of Yi Sun-shin.Now that the goal has been achieved, the Japanese have no worries.

On the 25rd of the first month of the 23th year of Wanli, Toyotomi Hideyoshi issued a general mobilization order for the whole country. All the legions went out of Nagoya to go to North Korea again. Finally, nearly 15 troops entered North Korea, which was comparable to the scale of the last troop dispatch. The Battle of Chang, North Korea called it Ding You Zai Chao, and Ming called it the outbreak of the Second War to Aid Korea!

The Japanese army flooded in like a tide and landed on various places along the coast of North Korea. The whole country of North Korea was shocked!In addition to ordering Marshal Quan Li of the capital to immediately mobilize heavy troops to occupy the dangerous Caoliang Road leading to Seoul, the King of Joseon also dispatched envoys to ask for help from Ming Dynasty on the 25th.The country's soldiers and horses are unreliable, and now the Ming Dynasty's garrison in North Korea is only a few thousand people, and the king of North Korea is ready to flee.

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It was early February when the news reached the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, Yang Fangheng, the envoy of Daming's tribute to Japan, led a delegation back to Beijing, but the tribute failed. Shen Weijing is the Governor".In addition, the Ming Dynasty had obtained intelligence from North Korea, and the Japanese general Kato Kiyomasa had been ordered to go to North Korea to rectify the army, and countless warships traveled between Tsushima and Busan to transport troops and food.That afternoon, North Korea's envoys arrived in the capital and asked Daming for help, and this matter got out of hand.

Emperor Wanli was furious and ordered Jin Yiwei to arrest Shen Weijing. Shi Xing, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, was also in bad luck. He was implicated and dismissed pending investigation!Soon, Jin Yiwei found out that Shen Weijing was in Gyeongju, North Korea, arrested him, and put him in prison.Three years later, Shen Weijing was sentenced to death by the Ministry of Criminal Justice and beheaded at Caishikou!This "civilian diplomat" finally ended his peculiar life.

The canonization failed, and the Japanese went to war again. Emperor Wanli hated Toyotomi Hideyoshi's rudeness, and it happened that North Korea asked for help from Ming Dynasty. Emperor Wanli decided to send troops to rescue North Korea.

Under the strict urging of Emperor Wanli, the entire Ming Dynasty discussed the Korean affairs with unprecedented efficiency.

On the fifth day of February, the Ming court summoned officials to discuss the situation of the Korean War and analyze the movements of the Japanese army.On the 7000th, the matter of aiding North Korea was discussed again, and it was decided to transfer 700 troops from Xuanfu, Datong, Ji, and Liao, recruit [-] soldiers from Zhejiang, and order North Korea to set up a coastal defense officer.

On February 3000th, the court decided to send troops to aid North Korea again.He ordered the former general officer of Yansui and Tong Zhi Magui, the governor, to be the general officer of the preparation of the Japanese army, commanding the northern and southern armies.Yang Yuan, Liu Ting, Dong Yiyuan and others are the deputy commander-in-chief, commanding more than [-] troops, and they will enter the DPRK to fight against the Japanese today!Among them, [-] people from Yang Yuan's department arrived in Seoul first, and then rushed to Namwon, an important town in Jeolla Province, to start building fortifications.

On March [-]th, Yang Hao, the chief secretary of Shandong Province, was promoted to be the censor of the capital of Youqian, and he managed the military affairs of North Korea.In order to strengthen backup and support Yang Gao in managing North Korea's military affairs, Xing Jie, the left servant of the Ministry of War, was appointed as the Minister of the Ministry of War and the right deputy capital censor.Before Yang Gao arrived, he played ten things first.Among them, the officials and the people of North Korea were ordered to lose millet, so that they could increase their ranks, confer officials, atone for their sins, and the township official Ding Fu was exempted from service.In addition, the Korean monarchs and ministers concealed money and food, and did not pay to aid the Ming army, and impeached them for their crimes.Therefore, North Korean officials and people complained about Yang Gao.

On March 25, Emperor Wanli summoned Huang Laifu, the commander-in-chief of Shanxi Town, to Beijing to discuss the preparations for the food and payment of the Eastern Expedition!
Li Rusong was the first person that Emperor Wanli thought of as the general to lead the army in this battle to aid Korea. Unfortunately, Li Rusong is now fighting the local barbarians in Liaodong, and he is powerless.It's not that Emperor Wanli never thought of letting Huang Laifu lead the army. After all, Huang Laifu's military exploits over the years are there, and he is indeed good at fighting.But the important thing is that Huang Laifu is still too young now, only in his twenties, he is the commander-in-chief of a town, and he also has the title of commander-in-chief.Whether it is Emperor Wanli or other ministers of the Ming Dynasty, they all think that Huang Laifu is so young, if he does too many meritorious deeds, it will be bad for Daming and Huang Laifu's future.

During the battle beyond the Great Wall at the beginning of the year, although Huang Laifu beheaded a lot and made great military achievements, the Ministry of War only agreed to reward him and his subordinates with some silver, and raised the order of Huang Laifu's wife Gu Yunniang to a higher level to settle the matter.Therefore, this time, Ma Gui will be the general officer of the Japanese preparations. This old man is also a veteran. He has worked hard for decades and has rich combat experience. He is a suitable person.Moreover, he has also reached his age, and he will not be able to fight a few more battles, so he is not suspected of being a master of high meritorious service.In fact, when Ma Gui was the commander-in-chief of Yansui Town, he had written to the Ministry of War several times, hoping to retire early. After decades of military career, he was already tired.But this time when he received the appointment from the Ministry of War, he could only raise his spirits.

However, Huang Laifu did have a way of making money, which was recognized by the whole Ming Dynasty.During this war, the treasury spent money like water, and soon, Emperor Wanli felt that he couldn't bear it.I don't know how many years of war will be fought, so the preparation of food and payment for the aid of the North Korean army is extremely important.The intention of the cabinet is to levy additional taxes on the people of Ming Dynasty, which is how it was done in history.But right now, Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun wanted to hear what Huang Laifu meant, whether he could get enough money and food instead of sending more money to the people.

Against this background, Huang Laifu brought his team and a large number of entourages to the capital once again.

(End of this chapter)