Xinshun 1730

Chapter 417 The final mobile force
Make bricks without straw.

Ota Ziqing didn't have many soldiers in his hands.

There is no need to mention the feudal clans of Kyushu Island.

The soldiers of the Changzhou Fan must stick to the coast of the Xiaguan Strait.

The Hiroshima Domain just had a riot the year before last, and last year there was a flood, and the poverty was clanging, so they could only cooperate with the Changzhou Domain to defend Shimonoseki.

The father of the Tottori domain to which Yonago belongs, the lord Ikeda Soyasu, just died this year.

As soon as his father died, the people of Inaba and Hoki broke out in the "Yuanwen Yikui" who resisted tax increases.

At this juncture, if the Dashun army shouted a word of benevolence and righteousness, it was really benevolent and righteous. The common people in Yikui were making a fuss, which was the mentality of opening the gate to welcome the king.

The only strong feudal clan that is not bad is the Okayama feudal clan.I have done well in the past few years, and I have some surplus in my hand. They are all nearby, and the Okayama domain is temporarily fine.

But the year before last, he divorced the daughter of the Date family for no reason, and did not report to the shogunate, which led to the severance of relations with the Date family.

At this time, when the army was about to be used, the shogunate had no choice but to declare innocence, and finally formed a field corps with the Okayama domain as the main force.

But this field corps has not many troops, only 7000 people, and it is still used as a reserve force in the central region.

If Dashun goes to fight Shikoku Island, he can cross the strait to Shikoku; if Dashun attacks Osaka, he must support Osaka;

The matter was urgent, and it must be too late to wait for the order from Edo, so it was up to Osaka Castle to make a decision on behalf of Ota Ziharu.

Should we continue to gather and wait in the Okayama domain according to the order of the shogunate?Or take the initiative to support?
In addition, Ota Ziqing also has a mobile corps in his hands. This is the banner sent by the shogunate. It is already the last mobile corps from the west of Nara, with a number of about 1000 people.

Ten thousand and eleven thousand people is already a lot.

Under the helpless reality, we can only follow the method Liu Yu said, and divide a field mobile corps of about 2 people into several theaters.

In each coastal city where Dashun might land, some people were left to garrison them.

What Dashun needs to do is to defend wherever Dashun fights, and then these mobile corps will act as firefighters and run around.

During Tosa's first battle, the Dashun Navy's new artillery told the shogunate that the old mountain city could not be defended for ten days.

According to the strength of the troops of each vassal, they guard their own homes, and if they break down one by one, they will die.

Forming a mobile corps to put out fires everywhere may lead to a battle, but the initiative to fight or not is in Dashun's hands.

If it really dragged on for a year like this, the shogunate and all the vassals would be dragged to death.

I don't want to be dragged to death and learn from the tortoise to defend the city by myself, but if I can't defend it, I will be killed by "benevolence and righteousness".

The tens of thousands of people in the hands of Ota Ziqing are almost the most capable troops near Kyoto and Osaka, and they are also the last fire brigade in the central region.

Of course Osaka cannot be lost.

But it is meaningless to defend Osaka, so the mobile corps of the various domains south of Osaka and the bannermen of the shogunate are all concentrated in Wakayama Castle.

Hold there, Dashun will not be able to cross the Jidan Strait smoothly, and Osaka will not be in any danger.

If Wakayama were lost and the Jidan Strait fell into the hands of Dashun, then Osaka, which is close to the sea, would not be able to defend under Dashun's warships.

Other places are fine, the shogunate is really afraid that Dashun will go to Shikoku Tosa again, and use it as a springboard to go straight to Osaka.

Therefore, the part of the troops guarding Wakayama is not under the control of Ota Ziqing, and he cannot mobilize it.

Now that Dashun's navy is going to fight Yonago with great fanfare, the next plan, in Ota Ziqing's view, is very clear.

It is difficult for Yonago to go east, it is a big mountainous area, and it is difficult to move.

From Yonago to the east, to Tottori, there is only one road, and there are passes on the road.So if you want to fight east, there is no need to fight Yonago at all, but just land in Tottori directly.

Going south, unless General Dashun's brains were eaten by dogs, away from naval supplies, and deep into the vast mountains?
Therefore, the only possibility is to go west, occupy Yonago, attack Songjiang City, strike rocks to see Yinshan, and take Jiangjin.

Needless to mention Iwami Ginzan, Jiangjin connects Shanyin and Shanyang by means of Jiangzhi River. The side facing the Whale Sea is Sanyo, and the side facing the Seto Inland Sea is Sanyin.

Usually you can't see anything, but once someone lands, Jiangjin is a must.

Jiangjin cannot be lost.

If Jiangjin is captured, it means that the connection between Changzhou Changfu and other domains and the east will be cut off.

At that time, the main force of the Tsushima Island will be dispatched to capture the Chofu Domain, control the Shimonoseki Strait, and the Jiangjin River Transport Channel...

Relying on the superiority of the Dashun Navy is tantamount to completely dividing the entire Japanese military force into four parts that cannot be seen from the beginning to the end.

The feudal clans of Kyushu Island, the feudal clans of Choshu and Hiroshima, the Shikoku Islands, and the eastern forces.

At that time, the forces of Kyushu Island and Shikoku Island will be dead, and under the naval blockade, it will be tantamount to nothing, and Dashun can directly sweep eastward.

Even if it wasn't the case, Ishijian Yinshan could still produce several 10 taels of silver a year at this time. If it was lost there, Dashun burned down and smashed the mine, and the shogunate had no money, so it couldn't last for too long.

The reason why Dashun no longer landed directly near Iwami, in the view of Ota Ziqing, was also very simple, there was no good port there.

The Yunyin port in the early years has long been abandoned, and it has been transported by land.Moreover, there is no transfer between Busan and Shijian, and there is also a lack of food there, so it is impossible to raise food on the spot.

The situation is like this, the situation is like this, the soldiers of the Changzhou and Hiroshima feudal clans dare not move, fearing that they will attack the west and lose the Xiaguan Strait, and the situation will change.

All that can be mobilized are the [-] soldiers of the Okayama Domain as the main force, plus the [-] or so soldiers in my own hands.

How to keep it is a big problem.

To attack the enemy must be saved, this is the art of war.

For Dashun, Yonago is a natural good port, a rice producing area, and the closest to Yinqi Island, a transit point. Yonago itself is the place that Dashun must defend, which is the general rear of Dashun's landing operations.

Attack what must be defended, encircle Wei and save Zhao, and save Shi Jian and Jiangjin.

But the problem is the strange topography of the Yumihama Peninsula where Yonago is located. Tens of thousands of people attack, and I am afraid that they will all die there.

The long and narrow peninsula is like a peninsula, more than ten miles long and facing the sea, all of which are natural deep-water ports, without reefs, and the sea conditions have always been excellent.

The peninsula is only less than three miles wide, and the gunboats exert all their strength, and the shells can fly out of the peninsula, completely within the coverage of the warship's cannons.

At the root where the peninsula and the plain are connected, there is also a river.

Crossing the river to attack is mentally retarded. There is only a passable zone less than two miles wide on the east side of the river, and the former Yonago City is still stuck on the road.

Now a decision must be made, whether to let the soldiers of the Okayama domain head north to defend Iwami.

Leading more than 1 troops near Osaka and Kyoto, and risking huge casualties, to attack the Dashun Army on the Yumihama Peninsula?

If you don't, you're doomed.

In desperation, Ota Ziqing had no choice but to report the situation to the shogunate, and at the same time, in the capacity of Osakajo Dai, issued an order to the lord of the Okayama feudal lord to go to Iwami for defense at night.

On the other hand, he led the last mobile force in the vicinity, with the determination to wipe out all these tens of thousands of people, and hoped that Songjiang City could last a while longer, until the troops of the Okayama Domain marched to Iwami.

He knew the terrain of the Yumihama Peninsula where Yonago was, but he had no choice but to bite the bullet and fight.

If they can win, it proves that there is still a need to fight on.

Being able to win the battle proves that Dashun is still unable to hold such an excellent port suitable for defense despite its naval advantages and terrain advantages.

So from then on, we can only learn from the Japanese pirates back then, harassing and harassing everywhere, and attacking every corner, instead of using this large-scale, unprecedented long-distance landing battle.

At that time, the main battlefield can only return to the most suitable island of Kyushu, maybe it will be possible to fight a Mongolian war, and finally drag Dashun to retreat.

If you can't attack, then there is no need to fight.I also tried my best.

There are no clever battles or tricks to use, it is a field battle under the head-to-head narrow and long peninsula terrain.

It is useless to lure the enemy to go deep, and Dashun is not stupid, how could he leave the coast and seaport?

The only way to fight a head-to-head decisive battle is to rely on the obstruction of the Okayama domain and his own detour.

In the order to the lord of the Okayama Domain, Ota Ziharu hoped that he could replicate Toyotomi Hideyoshi's "Miracle of China's Great Return" in the past and arrive at Iwami as quickly as possible.

I don't want to be able to defeat the Dashun army, as long as I can hold back the Dashun army and give him time to march to Yonago.

It's just that Toyotomi Hideyoshi's "Great Return to China" is really difficult for the samurai of this era.

The lord of the Okayama domain had no choice but to abandon the few cannons he had and ran wildly with [-] soldiers from the various domains.

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Yonago Town.

The people welcomed the Dashun Army very much.

In Yuanwen Yikui in history, the feudal lord accepted the conditions of the people and gradually subsided.In Tottori, which has a population of 30 in history, 6 people participated, which can be described as a huge momentum.

Ichikui is not an uprising, but a petition.

Many officers in the navy have participated in Tosa's affairs, knowing that the Wa country has its own national conditions, and they dare not rebel when there is an uprising, and only those who dare to negotiate conditions are willing to join.

However, because of Dashun's war against the Japanese, Yikui, which had calmed down a little, became more intense at this time.

In particular, the feudal lord had just agreed to accept the peasants' request, but the shogunate issued an order to prepare for the war... To prepare for the war, there must be money and food, but the conditions promised before can only be reversed, and the people are required to build cities and transport food.

Repentance is more irritating than no promise, so a more intense struggle begins.

Military officers with Tosa experience, when they arrived in Yonago, shouted slogans such as "No crime in autumn, liberation of the people, and the heavenly court is here to help the people strive for a benevolent government" and the like.

Another group of marines who landed in Weihai for closed training and would not rob. The local businessmen were surprised to find that these Chinese people actually spent money to buy things, and exclaimed that they are the teachers of the real king.

The fact is that Liu Yu has enough money to manage the army in Weihai, and the marines are not sailors. He thinks he is a decent person, not Qiu Ba.Of course, the main thing is that I haven't fought much, so I didn't grab it.

After only three days of landing, several leaders who led Yikui came to Yonago and asked if the Dashun Army really followed the slogan they said.

The military officers who have been to Tosa slightly changed the call to action in Tosa, changed the names of places and people, and distributed them like this.

The granary of the local nobles who smashed the rice seeds distributed grain and rice, and encouraged the common people to help attack Songjiang City.Not to mention being familiar with the road, it is really smooth when encountering this kind of timing when Yikui has already started.

Songjiang City is only [-] miles away from Yonago, and there is an inland sea that can be paddled in a bathtub. We borrow Japanese small boats to transport troops and food; hire Japanese people to carry firewood to fill up the trenches, and almost redo Tosa's work. over again.

The Marine Corps, which is suitable for tossing around at sea and has long been accustomed to fighting immediately after disembarking, continued to increase its troops to Yonago, and broke through Matsue City within a few days.

Distributing grain and rice, hiring laborers, and shouting the slogan "Hit to Iwami's money" with great momentum.

Whether the slogan can convince people depends on the level of the Dashun army's siege. Seeing how quickly Songjiang City was breached, more and more people joined in.

Anyway, there is rice to eat, and the princes on the Tang side have come forward to promise that they will definitely ask the shogunate to order their lords to reduce the collection in the future.

It's just that no one can tell the local people that if it wasn't for the changes caused by Dashun's war against the Japanese, their feudal lord would have agreed to their condition...

(End of this chapter)