Xinshun 1730

Chapter 427 The rise and fall of Japan, in one fell swoop

Xiaobin City is located on the delta formed by two rivers estuary into the sea. A side attack is meaningless casualties, and the only possibility is a frontal breakthrough.

The three-day attack, with a large number of casualties, has brought morale to its lowest point.Now I can and can only fight for the last time.

If you can't take it this time, then you can disperse.

The three-day attack also allowed Jing Yi Naodada to roughly figure out the shooting distance of the Dashun Army's gunboats.

Troops cannot be assembled forward, but must be assembled outside the shooting range of the gunboat.

Looking at Kohama Castle in the distance, Ii Naosada called all his trusted retainers together.

Jing Yi Zhiding didn't encourage his retainers, but talked about things that happened a long time ago, feeling a little regretful about the past.

"At the time of Lord Ieko, Zheng Zhilong asked to send troops. The family ancestor thought that the great powers could not compete for the front based on the affairs of Toyotomi Hideyoshi in North Korea, so he strongly remonstrated and refused to send troops. Afterwards, Can Ming and Zheng Zhilong's sons both asked to send troops, and they put it aside on the basis of the family ancestor's words. discuss."

"If we had known today, we should have dispatched troops on that day. The Ming sent Zhou Cuizhi to borrow troops, promised islands and Zhoushan, and gained righteousness. If it is like the saying in "Guo Xing Ye He Zhan", when the snipe and the clam were fighting, our Japanese would Can benefit."

"If troops were sent out at that time, Li Chuang was defeated, Shun's army was weak, and he united with the captives to fight against the bandits. If he fought hard and divided the north and the south, the great cause would be accomplished. Even if you can't swallow it, you can also separate a place. According to his begging book: Qi Zhi Cunwei, Qin Zhi rescued Chu, and it was successful, just like the seven divisions of Zhou and the death of the three emperors of Han, why bother with Arai Junmei's theory that "each is called China, and those who are far away are barbarians; each is called this period, and each other is called biographies"?"

It is said that the son does not speak of the fault of the father, so what to say about future generations, the descendants should not say the fault of their ancestors who earned the fiefdom for them.But Ii Naodada still talked about his ancestors and used this as an introduction.

Back then, Tokugawa Yoshinobu and the shogunate Tokugawa Iemitsu both strongly advocated sending troops.

At that time, the Warring States Period had just ended, and there were a large number of ronin warriors without fiefs.These "retired" soldiers are still alive, messing around and disrupting law and order. It's better to throw them all to China to fight.

But Jing Yi Naotaka's ancestor Jing Yi Naotaka firmly opposed it, which eventually led to the failure of this matter.

The result is that now that the Dashun Army has reached Kyoto, the hundreds of soldiers in Xiaobin Fan are actually difficult to conquer.

It's a pity that there is no medicine for regret in the world.

As the first genealogy daimyo, the Jingyi family was one of the four Tokugawa kings when they conquered the world. They are on par with Tadakatsu Honda, who is 1.4 meters tall and known as Japan's Zhang Fei, and others.

Since then, the Ii family has been serving as the genealogy daimyo, and as the leader of the shogunate trying to bureaucratize the genealogy daimyo. The great hero of the year, Ii Naosada played with binoculars, and there are some "Nanban treasures" at home, and even a flint made in the Netherlands. Pistols.

He had come into contact with the Dutch in Edo, and he had also read some secret Dutch storytelling books.

In fact, he knew in his heart the backwardness of Japanese ordnance.

It's just that when Shi Shiyong was arranged by Liu Yu to go to Edo to teach riding and archery, it was Naosada Ii's elder brother who was the feudal lord.

His older brother Ii Naosuke was a very orthodox samurai.

He learns riding and shooting, archery, swordsmanship, poetry, and painting, and likes to inspect the market. He really doesn't like the muskets that ordinary people can use to kill samurai by practicing casually.

When Shi Shiyong went to Edo to teach the method of riding and shooting, Ii Naodada's elder brother praised him greatly and wrote Chinese poems to remember it.And he performed well in the falcon hunting exercise later, and was praised by Yoshimune Tokugawa.

Not long after Ii Naosada became the lord of the domain, Tokugawa Yoshimune also slightly lifted the ban on Lanxue. At least the books of Catholic Xu Guangqi and others are no longer banned books, and can flow into Japan through Nagasaki.

But around that time, Liu Yu monopolized Nagasaki's Sino-Japanese trade.

Even Tang Renfeng's storytelling needs to be reviewed before it can be sent to Nagasaki, so what about books?
The ban on Lanxue in Japan was lifted, and there were not many scientific books in Japan, but books such as "Biography of Lie Nu", "Disciple Regulations", and "Six Instructions Yanyi". Liu Yu spent money and sent them to Nagasaki box by box.

Therefore, Jing Yi Naodada also has no choice.

He vaguely knew that Japan was lagging behind, and he had seen the Dutch forty-pound mortar more than a hundred years ago, but under the closed country system, he could still play with gadgets such as clocks and telescopes.

Just how big the gap is, he just knows that there is a gap between Dashun who is occupying Xiaobin at this time, but it is not to the point of despair, and he always feels that he can attack with a little effort.

Complaining about "regret for the past" to the retainers seems to be a complaint about not sending troops to interfere in the chaos of the late Ming Dynasty, but it is actually a complaint about "locking the country" by using the past to satirize the present.

In his opinion, if he had intervened in the chaos at the end of Ming Dynasty, he would have solved the problem of sequestering the country, and he would have gained more advanced knowledge, and he would not be so far behind now.

Some retainers are stupid and some are smart.They are all inherited from father to son, and it is difficult to guarantee the quality of offspring. Stupid retainers thought that the head of the family was just lamenting the opportunity back then, and smarter retainers heard the implication.

One of the retainers surrounding him, Shigeji Uchiyama, understood what Ii Naodada was saying.

His ancestor was called Uchiyama Tazaemon. During the battle of Sekigahara, Uchiyama Tazaemon’s father was in the wrong team and stood on the side of the Western Army; but Uchiyama Tazaemon’s grandfather stood in the East. On the side of the army, Ii Naotaka took care of Uchiyama Tazaemon.

When Ii Naotaka was dying, according to the rules at the time, Uchiyama Tazaemon's father belonged to the Western Army, and normally he would be buried as a sacrifice.Jingyi Naotaka hoped that Uchiyama Taizaemon would not be buried, but live well and assist the next generation.

Yushi Uchiyama clan has been serving as the important minister of the Ii family ever since.The drunken retainer that Ii Nao decided to see with the binoculars before was none other than Uchiyama Shigeji.

In fact, everyone at the time recognized Shigeji Uchiyama as the one who got drunk and made a fool of himself, and Naosada Ii couldn't admit that he was wrong. The telescope given by the Dutchman was the latest model, and it was quite clear.

This matter is not a secret. After Shanuchi knew about it again, he thought it was like the "Great Meeting" in Chu State back then, and the Patriarch gave him enough face.

Since then, I have given up drinking, not even a drop of alcohol, in order to repay the kindness of the Patriarch.

This time, it was Shigeji Yamauchi who proposed the strategy of "surrounding Wei and saving Zhao after Sun Binzhi".

Yamauchi again understood Jing Yi Naodada's implication, and said: "Patriarch, the matter is over, and it's too late to regret it now."

"The Master said: Those who have gone cannot be admonished, but those who have come can still be pursued."

Tang country, big country also.If there is no time when the snipe and the clam are fighting, it is really difficult to fight.Now its military equipment is excellent, far superior to that of the country. "

"The siege of the city is not going well now, but there is no way out. If we retreat, all previous efforts will be wasted. We can only attack with all our strength to break the city."

"In the past, Liu Yu was treacherous. He used the method of cavalry and archery passed down in Edo by the history of warriors, but he compiled an army of firearms. Now if he can break the city, he can capture his warriors who are good at using firearms."

"During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there were envoys sent to the Tang Dynasty, so there was paper; in the Yuan Dynasty, there was the battle of Hong'an, and gunpowder was obtained; Big iron cannon."

"If you can break the city today, you can learn how to use firearms. The head of the family can tell the general to tell the warriors to discard their bows and use swordsmanship to practice firearms. The firearm skills of these people in Xiaobin City are not as good as the unparalleled riding and shooting used in the history of the world. "

Shigeji Yamauchi was still clear-headed. The soldiers near Osaka were all transferred to Tottori by Dashun using naval maneuvers; Wakayama was the head of the shogunate, and it was related to Osaka and the rice bags in Japan as a whole.

If you foolishly go to "King Qin", the lone army of Hikone Fan will surely die.That being the case, it would be better to attack Xiaobin City first.

If it can be captured, the Dashun army must return to help.

If you can't attack...you can't even fight 500 people, why should you fight more than [-] people with cavalry and artillery?

He has no unrealistic illusions about the future.

Dashun was able to assemble four to five thousand troops in Xiaobin. With such logistics and transportation capabilities, it would not be a problem to pile up tens of thousands of troops on Kyushu Island.

How can the feudal clans of Kyushu Island beat those tens of thousands of people?
The [-] to [-] solitary troops who broke into the capital realized that something was wrong, so they ran away. The nearby troops were empty, who could stop them? .

Sooner or later there will be peace talks, it is better to find a way to save some strength for the future before the peace talks.

For example, captured the Xiaobin Fan, captured a group of officers and prisoners of the Dashun Army, and obtained the method of firearms training.

Uchiyama once again felt that the Patriarch was using the past to satirize the present, and by regretting the "founding of the country and exchanges", the meaning of Xiaobin's battle was quite different.

It's like how Japanese porcelain was produced when a bunch of porcelain-making craftsmen were caught in North Korea. In the context of the chaos at the end of the Ming Dynasty, when Westerners could not get the goods, they enjoyed the dividends of the times, and Japanese porcelain was greatly developed as a driving force for export. There was a wave.

Dashun is grinning now, and he can bite Japan, which has not been bitten since Meng Yuan. Who knows if he will start a war with others in the future?
Maybe after the peace talks, the luck of the country will come, just like the development of porcelain, it will get a wave of dividends from the times, and quietly develop firearms.

Looking at it now, the hundreds of soldiers in Xiaobin City are the only chance.

The capital was empty, and the main force of the four or five thousand Dashun Army, as if they were in an uninhabited area, could not be stopped at all.

If you can't control the battlefield, you won't be able to capture any prisoners.If you want to capture prisoners, Xiaobincheng is the best opportunity.

He helped Jing Yi Zhiding strengthen his determination to continue fighting, and Jing Yi Zhiding praised: "Your words, you have lofty aspirations, and your words are true."

"I've made up my mind, I need to attack Xiao Bin fiercely. But, how to fight, what good strategy do you have?"

Jingyi Naodada also wanted to fight, but how to fight, this needs to be carefully considered.

If you want to fight, the only way is to rely on the river, and use the conscripted civilian boats to land the samurai in the blind area under Xiaobin City and the naval guns with the help of the water.

But the problem is that the back of Xiaobin City is very wide, and the gunboats of the Dashun Army can shoot very well, and it is easy to land; but the front is very narrow. distance.

The space is too small, no matter how many soldiers, they can only be deployed in this small space, and the troops can only be sent forward in batches.

The difficulty of the entire siege lies in the connection between the first wave of troops and the follow-up troops: sending too many people at one time, unable to spread out, and crowding together, is to make a target for the Dashun Army; If it goes up, it will become fuel again, and it will not pose a threat.

Uchiyama again pointed to the residential houses in the distant port and said: "The most difficult thing to attack in Xiaobin lies in the navy of Tang State. Without the shelling of the navy, the samurai can gather forward without worrying that the shells will fall into the crowd and cause heavy casualties. So that they lose their courage before attacking."

"Since that's the case, why not set fire to it? Burn all the houses of the common people, ignite smoke and dust, and obscure the sight of Tang's navy? Then march by boat and continue to attack?"

"If it succeeds, the city will be destroyed. Even if there are large navy ships, there will be no harbor to berth. It cannot last long and must be withdrawn."

"If it doesn't work, the houses on both sides will be burned. Once the fire goes out, it will be more suitable for the Tang Dynasty to bombard. But if it doesn't work, how many of the thousands of brave men will be left. If it doesn't work, they can sacrifice their lives for benevolence."

"Success or failure, this is a desperate battle. Whether you can capture a prisoner who is proficient in firearms is also a battle."

"The rise and fall of Japan is in one fell swoop."

(End of this chapter)