Xinshun 1730

Chapter 433

The army did not stay in Kyoto for too long. This place is not suitable for garrisoning troops. Instead, they retreated north and stationed outside the city.

Before leaving, Li Yan asked someone to post a bulletin, saying that the righteousness of the Dashun Conquest against Japan was all because of the Ryukyu.

He also hypocritically asked someone to count the houses that Wu Fangrui had set on fire, and signaled that Dashun, the teacher of benevolence and righteousness, would definitely compensate in the future.

Anyway, the wool comes from the sheep, and there is not much money, and it is not paid by myself.

At that time, use Japanese money to buy the hearts of the Japanese people.

It may not be useful, nor may it be useless, it just depends on whether the purpose of the court negotiations is occupation or something else.

He didn't know the bottom line of the court's negotiations, and many of them were just speculations, so he paved the way first, who knows if there will be any changes in the court.

Japanese king Zhaoren, Guan Baiyi and Jianxiang all marched with the army.

After Li Yan received the news that Xiaobincheng had repelled Jing Yizhi's army, he knew that Xiaobincheng was really impenetrable, and he had no worries about the future, and he did not choose to return from the original road.

First send someone to send the news of the arrest of King Wa back to Xiaobin Xingye, and ask the navy to send someone to inform the court immediately.

Then he walked around Lake Biwa, raised food on the spot, and even Khikogen and other big feudal cities stirred up the Kinki area. He didn't return slowly until the detective told the Japanese people from all directions to gather here. Xiaobin City.

There are no field mobile troops in the surrounding area, and the scattered city dwellings are equivalent to death in front of light cannons.

After circling around, the scouts had discovered the troops led by Ota Ziqing on behalf of Osaka Castle, and they were heading towards Xiaohama Castle along the coast.

But some troops were left behind to suppress Ichikui, a farmer in Tottori.

The retreating troops of the Okayama domain and Ota Ziqing's troops became horns of each other.

Perhaps frightened by the Dashun Army's field combat capabilities, the two troops advanced side by side, maintaining a state of support within two days. The marching speed was not fast, and they did not advance aggressively.

The Japanese from Wakayama also marched here, and there are still some Japanese troops to the east.

Wu Fangrui, immersed in the feat of capturing the Japanese king, was not dazzled by the victory, but checked the situation with the staff of the army staff and decided that he should not stay here.

In fact, if you are more courageous, you can seize the opportunity and annihilate Okayama Fan or Ota Ziqing's part.

But Wu Fangrui and his staff researched it, and thought it was not a risk, but now that all the Japanese troops have been mobilized, there is no need to fight such a stupid battle.

A staff officer gave another reason, and said helplessly: "The navy was brought up by Ying Suobo. When we were in the Qingzhou army, the navy was raised by our own mothers, and we were born by stepmothers. This point The Marine Corps is the elite of the Marine Corps, and it can win if it wins, but if there are hundreds of casualties, the Eagle Saw will point at us and scold our mothers."

Wu Fangrui smiled and said: "That's natural. Not only do you have to scold your mother, but you also have to scold at home. Besides, even if you win the battle, you will still be scolded if there are not many casualties."

"Ying Suo Bo will ask, the Japanese have been mobilized, you have a boat, and you are empty everywhere, why are you foolish to fight in the field? As a staff officer, you don't even have this vision, and you eat steamed buns as pickles for everything you learn?"

The staff officers who were looking at the map all laughed, thinking of Liu Yu's speaking style when he was in Weihai that day, they all scratched their heads and said, "Forget it, we won't fight anymore."

"There are nearly [-] people in the west, and the cowardly ones advance together. They don't dare to rush in. They walk as slowly as bastards."

"The troops in the south don't have many people, but they don't move fast. If we kill the carbine, Ota Ziqing in the west has a brain and marches quickly to surround Xiao Bin. It's dangerous to have tens of thousands of people."

"Even if you capture the soldiers of the Okayama domain and fight a battle, the people who resist the line are all from the navy. If you want to fight a war of annihilation, you have to resist the line, change formations, and outflank, and many people will definitely die. These people are Yingsaobo Those who practice hard will really kill or injure a battalion, and it’s hard to explain when they go back.”

"Get out."

Wu Fangrui also nodded, reported the staff's opinion to Li Yan, and asked Li Yan what he meant.

Li Yan asked: "Now that the troops have been mobilized, let's go back to Yonago to support the local people? Or what? The silver from Ishijian Yinshan..."

Wu Fangrui didn't know that Li Yan had only been in the navy for a few days, and he was no longer the prince who didn't eat fireworks. Instead, he deeply felt the importance of money.

"Your Highness, I have asked. This silver, it doesn't mean that the silver is buried in the ground, just dig it out and take it away. It has to be refined like iron and copper. There is no silver in it, and it is useless."

Li Yan snorted, and said with a smile: "I don't know about this. As a prince, it doesn't matter if you don't know the five grains. Every year, you have to help the plow and plow with your father to be a model for the world. But, I really don't know gold and silver. How did you get it out?"

"Since that's the case, let's withdraw to Busan. General Wu thinks that Yinqi Island needs to keep troops?"

Wu Fangrui shook his head and said: "No. It's useless to keep troops, you just need to take them again. It is impossible for the Japanese to send troops to occupy Yinqi Island. The army stays there for a while and returns to Busan. There is only one thing, please make a decision."

"Say."

"Uh... that is, on the Ezo side, Du Feng supports the marines here, should they go back to Ezo? Or go to Busan together?"

Li Yan asked, "What does General Wu mean?"

"Your Highness, this is a matter of the navy. Please ask your highness to ask the captains what they mean. What you mean is to go back to Busan together. Take advantage of the opportunity that the Japanese troops are concentrated near the royal city, and attack other places. If the army from Weihai is transferred here, I'm afraid it will delay the fighter plane."

"General Wu has achieved extraordinary feats, but he forgot about his comrades who are waiting for food, hahaha..." He made a joke in good faith, and Wu Fangrui thought in his heart whether it was true or not, this is indeed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity , the Japanese forces in the east are completely empty. When the Privy Council gets the news and sends it back to Busan, they will definitely want to take advantage of this opportunity to fight quickly and not give the Japanese a chance to redeploy.

Li Yan already had a little understanding of the navy's combat mode, but he hadn't fought a formal naval battle, and he really didn't understand many things in the navy, so he followed Wu Fangrui's intention and called a few important, A captain who can stand alone.

There is a question about whether the marines who will lose to Du Feng will go to Busan or return to Ezo.

Chen Qinghai said: "Your Highness, the reason why Du Feng dared to mobilize these troops for support is because the strait of Ezo is not frozen all year round. Although the latitude is the same as Vladivostok, Du Feng asked carefully, and the climate is very different from Vladivostok."

"He may guess that there is a warm current passing by, so it is not frozen all year round. Therefore, his warships are enough to defend. If you give him more troops, he will not be able to attack. After all, there are too few elites to attack Xiantai. But for defense, those troops are meaningless and useless at all, and the Japanese cannot fly across the strait."

"Eagle Sobo used to say that you should squeeze your fingers into fists to hit people. Now that you have squeezed your fists, you don't need to let them go."

"The Japanese have been mobilized, and the west is empty. Go back to Pusan ​​quickly. If the Privy Council has an order, then execute the Privy Council's order; if the Privy Council does not have an order, why not attack Hagi Castle of the Changzhou Domain?"

"If the Changzhou Domain comes back to help, we will attack Xiaguan. Once Xiaguan is broken, our navy can cross the Jinghai Sea and the Seto Sea. Now we can only land along the Jinghai line. If Xiaguan is obtained, the north and south will pass through, everywhere can be harassed."

"If the Japanese come to seize it, the troops in the east will be empty. They use their legs, how can they run faster than the sails? If they don't come to seize it, we can harass the east side of Kyushu Island."

This was not only what Chen Qinghai meant, but also what the navy internally meant. They had made up their minds to resolve the Japanese war on their own.

If you really want to solve it, you have to gather the navy's own marine troops together to make big things happen.

If you don't want the army to steal the limelight, you must give full play to the advantages of the navy, mobilize the Japanese by mobility, and turn Kyushu Island into an isolated island.

If it becomes an isolated island, the army does not need to land and fight.And if you want it to become an isolated island, you just need to take advantage of this rare opportunity to attack Xiaguan.

Li Yan has already tasted the sweetness of relying on naval maneuvers, thought about this plan, and said with a smile: "There is only one problem. If Changzhou Fan sticks to Shimonoseki, what about Hagi Castle?"

Chen Qinghai said: "If the lord of Changzhou Fan is a general, he can stick to Shimonoseki. However, it is a fan town, Your Highness thinks, can there be a fan town who sacrifices himself to serve the country? If there is no Tosa, perhaps it may not be possible to return aid; there are Tosa He will come back to help."

"Wonderful!" Li Yan clapped his hands in praise, nodded and said, "It's really like turning the clouds to see the sun. I always forget the chaotic government of the Japanese feudal town, which is very different from this dynasty. If that's the case, then all the staff will withdraw to Busan!"

The fleet set sail, stayed at Oki Island for a while, and immediately returned to Busan.

As soon as the ship docked, someone hurried over and delivered an imperial decree and an order from the Privy Council.

In the imperial decree, the contributions of Li Yan and Wu Fangrui were greatly praised.

The emperor spared no words of praise, comparing this battle to Huo Qubing's penetration into the Xiongnu and Li Jing's defeat of the Turkic captive Jieli Khan.

The highest reward for Li Yan is "Zhenwu Qiliner!"
The highest reward for Wu Fangrui is the sentence "We are so brave to conquer Yili in the west and capture the King of Japan in the east!"

As for the subsequent rewards, gold and silver, and even titles, they may not compare to these two sentences in the imperial decree.If the emperor wants to make people happy, he can just waste a few words.

After the imperial decree came the military order of the Privy Council.

Busan has increased its troops by [-], and ordered the navy to rest for two days, choose the opportunity to fight, attack Hagi City, and delay the attack.

If the Changzhou Fan returns to aid, they will besiege the city to fight for aid, and defeat the reinforcements of the Changzhou Fan in field battles.

If the Changzhou Domain does not return aid, Hagi Castle will be captured.

If he does not return aid, he will strengthen the defense of Hagi City after he captures Hagi City.It is convenient for resupply there. It is by the sea. It is also a city built at the mouth of the river like Kohama. According to the previous investigation, a canal was dug to connect the river and the sea. It is close to the bay. The city is also easy to defend.

At the end of the order, the naval departments were repeatedly warned that if the Changzhou Fan returned to aid and the field defeated it, they could take advantage of the situation to attack Shimonoseki.If they don't come back to help, they can't launch the idea of ​​attacking Xiaguan without authorization, just stick to Hagi City.

The staff officers who were transferred to the Privy Council were not just for nothing. Based on the topographical map after the previous investigation, they formulated a battle plan to beat the time difference.

Before the navy left Xiaohama, the main force of the Japanese kingdom had already begun to gather near Xiaohama.

Relying on the speed advantage of sea transportation, the time difference can be opened up by at least one month.

With the lessons learned from the capture of Kyoto, most of the Japanese would not dare to mobilize all the troops deployed in the center, and there is a [-]% certainty that they will shrink to the line from Kyoto, Osaka to Edo.

Even if the Japanese were out of their minds and did not play cards according to common sense and went eastward with all their strength, the staff of the Privy Council calculated that the Japanese would go hand in hand and become horns of each other because they were worried that light soldiers would rush in and be wiped out.

Even if the navy headed east on the day the navy withdrew from Xiaohama, based on the marching speed, it would still be possible to squeeze out a month's time difference.

Therefore, it is possible to gather the army at Tsushima for repairs, and the warships to harass Shimonoseki, so as to gather troops at Tsushima and attack Shimonoseki.

Give the Japanese in Changzhou, Changfu, Hiroshima and other domains time to react. The navy runs too fast, and the elite army and marines are too well disciplined and trained. Sometimes it is a trouble, and they have to sit and wait for the opposite reaction.

Half a month later, with the wind and the ocean current, they raided Hagi City.The encirclement and slow attack will last for seven days.

If within seven days, the main force of the Changzhou domain returns to aid, they can besiege the city to fight for aid.

If within seven days, the main force of the Changzhou domain does not move, the city of Hagi will be destroyed and the defense of the city will be consolidated.

In this way, even if the Japanese are crazy and completely unreasonable, they can be foolproof.

Later, there are various plans for mobilization, logistics, and troop transport, but they are not too strict, but let the army staff revise and improve.

After Mingmian's order, there was another order with a higher level of confidentiality, which was only allowed to be viewed by a few people such as Li Yan and Wu Fangrui, and it was not allowed to be leaked.

"Hagi City is desirable, but not in a hurry. It is necessary to wait until the army is assembled. It is not beneficial to take Hagi City alone. It is beneficial to wipe out the reinforcements of the Changzhou Fan in a field battle."

"If it doesn't help, it means that the Changzhou Fan knows that they are invincible in the field battle, and the Kyushu Island clans and the Changzhou Fan will also refuse to fight any more."

"If it helps, it will be wiped out, and it will be seen by the feudal clans of Kyushu Island."

"That's why, you can only slow down, not rush."

"If you are anxious: if the Changzhou domain does not help, then the day of peace talks with the shogunate is close at hand, just break the city and defend it, and be self-satisfied; if it helps, the main force is not ready, even if it is captured, it will be no problem to hold it, but I am afraid that the various domains I don't know what to do, thinking that the field battle may not necessarily be lost, but the lack of siege, but it can't deter his heart."

"The battle in Kyoto is for the shogunate. The battle for Hagi is for the southwestern feudal clans to see."

"If the Changzhou Fan returns to aid, it will strive to annihilate the war. When it is annihilated, it will conduct benevolent government in Hagi City, divide the samurai's fields, and exempt the farmers from the tax. fan."

"What the vassals fear is the policy of reducing taxes and taxes. If I can gain a foothold, they will not dare to fight."

"Smart people in charge of the army should know that we are invincible when our army breaks into Xiaobin and goes straight to the capital. But people in the world are not necessarily smart, and there are also stupid as cows. So far, the difficult ones Those who are not smart and know how to fight are really stupid and don't know how to fight."

"It's useless for our army to fight for a long time, and it's a waste of money. The achievements of the kings are gone, so we should seek stability."

(End of this chapter)