Xinshun 1730

Chapter 436

If you want the feudal vassals of Kyushu to follow suit, you have to win.Not only to win, but also to defend the Xiaguan Strait.

The order given to him by the shogunate was also to guard Shimonoseki.

If he didn't defend, he ran directly back to Hagi City to avoid the battle, which would be tantamount to selling the feudal clans related to the Xiaguan Strait.

In case the purpose of Dashun was not to occupy Japan, and the shogunate did not fall, the shogunate could justifiably hold the Choshu Domain accountable for abandoning the Chofu without authorization and causing the opening of the Shimonoseki Strait.

The situation in Changzhou Fan is so disgusting now.

To guard the strait, one must guard the fort.

The navy is disgusting to the Dashun Navy, but they never thought they could defeat the Dashun Navy.

If the navy is determined to fight for the loss of two ships, there will be no problem in blocking the strait.

Unless the Dashun navy enters the strait and is under the fort, suddenly there is no wind at all, and then the windless weather lasts for three days, and the Japanese navy relies on oars to attack, and Amaterasu burns all the ships of Dashun—— This is not impossible, but the Dashun Navy needs to consider the possibility of this eventuality. After all, most of the family bases are here, and the galleons have no oars, while the Japanese boats have oars; In this case, after all, all the family bases are in Kyushu Island, and this little field force was collected. After supporting Changzhou, someone blocked the strait, and watched Dashun practice siege on Kyushu Island. Tian free grain?
The shogunate sold them off, exposed their flanks to Dashun, and slipped away by themselves.

The slogan of the shogunate was loudly shouted, it was a national humiliation, and it was broken. The lower-level warriors were full of enthusiasm, and they all wanted to serve the country and fight to the death.

The wishful thinking of the shogunate can still fool the lower-class warriors and ordinary people.Fooling these feudal lords who have learned the so-called "Emperor Studies", they can't help fooling.

Whether it is cutting the land or occupying the land, Dashun will not go far and cut the land of the shogunate.On Kyushu Island, Nagasaki is under the direct jurisdiction of the shogunate, and there are not even a few genealogical daimyos left, almost all of them are foreign daimyos that the shogunate has been guarding against.

The feudal clans of Kyushu must consider themselves, and the Changzhou feudal clan must also consider themselves.

Now in this situation, we can only bite the bullet and fight.

Shanxian Changzhen's suggestion is not the only method available, but it is the only way to allow the Kyushu feudal clans to support some troops.

In this battle, according to his thinking, the key to the Dashun army's attack was the fort near the Changfu Fan. If the fort was taken down, the strait could be blocked and the navy in the strait would be driven away.

After the navy was driven away, Dashun's warships could enter the strait and bombard Kushizaki Castle, the Changfu feudal hall, which would give full play to Dashun's greatest advantage: the navy.

Otherwise, it would be a land battle, a navy watching a show, and always limping on one leg. This is not a tactic that a wise general would choose.

That being the case, the feudal clans of Kyushu can send some soldiers to help defend the front line of the fort, while the main force of the Changzhou feudal clan hides in the distance.

When the Dashun army attacked the fort, they rushed out from behind, surrounded and wiped out.

After the tactics were determined, some samurai were ordered to closely monitor the movements of the Dashun Army near Ayaraki Village, and Nakasaka Tokun, the elder of the Changzhou Domain, was sent to meet the shogunate Ometsu Inao Masaobu who was coordinating the relationship between the various domains in Kyushu.

A major task of Ometsu on weekdays is to monitor the feudal clans.Since Yagyu Zongmo, an intelligence network covering all Japan to monitor the various vassals has been established.Otherwise, it would be impossible to implement the policy of locking the country and the laws of the martial arts so strictly.

Inao Masaobu doesn't know much about soldiers, but he understands logistics and people's livelihood. In fact, there are not many soldiers in the hands of the feudal clans of Kyushu Island.

The Dashun army attacked the city very powerfully, and the navy could run around. Even with firefighting tactics, it was impossible to gather all the soldiers together.

Today, the total strength of the feudal clans in Kyushu is claimed to be 12.As long as there is the word "title", then there is too much moisture.After removing the water, it's only [-] to [-].

These [-] to [-] are not all the field force, and troops are also garrisoned to prevent the house from being stolen.

In the field troops, most of them are logistics and heavy troops. Excluding the few landing sites and forts that must be guarded, there are only more than 2 field mobile troops, and they must be stationed in the north and south.

Not all warriors can be pulled out to fight in the field.The Kurume domain is making a fuss, and it needs samurai to suppress it.

The only one who doesn't have to worry about the common people is the Satsuma clan.

Because the Satsuma clan adopted the outer city system, throwing low-level samurai to various villages, and the management level of the fiefdoms in the Spring and Autumn Period was completely complete. Maintained the stability of the medieval level.

But this kind of system is very suitable for internal feudal rule, but it is not suitable for external warfare.

It is okay to call these warriors outside the city to defend the city, but it is useless because of the lack of training in field battles and the inability to form an formation.

What's more, in the righteousness of this battle, the Satsuma clan will come here, and the Satsuma clan will not agree to concentrate their troops in the north.

And there are too many places for the northern vassals to defend.

Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Fukuoka, Hirado... These places are all likely to be landed, especially Nagasaki and Hirado.

Hirado, it was the place where the great pirates Li Dan, Yan Siqi, Zheng Zhilong and others lived for a long time in the late Ming Dynasty. It can be said that if Dashun had a heart, they would be very familiar with them.

In Nagasaki, Dashun merchants came every year before the war, and going there was much easier than Dashun going to Tosa and Tottori.

Xiaocang still has to defend, if Xiaocang falls, the strait will be exposed to Dashun, and the navy will be able to pass through unimpeded.

Fukuoka Castle is less than one mile away from the sea, and it is also within the range of Dashun's bombardment.

These places may be landed.Landing a few thousand people here is much easier than running to Xiaohama, so we must guard against it.

To fight a fire, to put out a fire, you have to guard your own home before you can hope to be rescued.The pill is gone, is that a firefighter?That was a parade of arms.

There are many guards stuffed in the main pills of the feudal vassals near the sea.There are not many mobile troops that can be mobilized.

Inao Masaobu coordinated for a long time, and the lords of all the feudal clans did not agree to send troops across the sea to support the Changzhou clan.

The feudal lord of the Shimadzu family has been living in Edo since three years ago because of a hernia, and has never returned.Now the Satsuma clan is very worried that the feudal lord will be thrown to Dashun as a bargaining chip by the shogunate, and it is even more important to stick to Kagoshima, thinking that Kitakami is stupid.

The Kumamoto Domain and the Saga Domain also believed that it was unwise to send troops northward to support the Choshu Domain.How do you know Dashun's plan to divert the tiger away from the mountain?

Gathering warships at Lingluomu today, I thought they were going to land at Lingluomu; tomorrow when Nagasaki will be bombarded, will the Changzhou Fan also transfer all their troops to Nagasaki?

It would take a day for a samurai to cross a strait several miles wide on two legs, tossing back and forth, but taking a boat from Dashun, he could travel from Shimonoseki to Nagasaki and Saga in three to five days.

Saga Castle just caught fire a few years ago, and the city is only a few miles away from the coast. At that time, there will be no reinforcements. Wouldn't it be easy to be captured?

Each vassal has its own interests, anyway, the Kyushu vassals don’t care too much about the Xiaguan Strait: there are too many lice and it doesn’t itch, even if Dashun can’t take the Xiaguan Strait, there are still many places that can land on Kyushu Island.To win the Xiaguan Strait, there are only a few more possibilities for landing.

The Shimonoseki Strait is very important to Japan.

It is not too important to the feudal clans of Kyushu Island.

Therefore, they hope that Masaobu Ohmetsuke Inao, who is adjusted here, can make decisions on behalf of the shogunate. Instead of supporting the Changzhou Fan, it is better to let the Changzhou Fan gather all their troops on Kyushu Island and hold them together. Maybe there is still a glimmer of life.

However, Inao Masaobu did not want to disobey the orders of the shogunate.He wasn't the Daisan, even if he was the Daisan, he was only qualified to mobilize the soldiers of the Western Kingdoms in name, but in fact he had to report to the higher authorities.

The order given to him by the shogunate was not to guard the Shimonoseki Strait, but to coordinate with the feudal clans of Kyushu Island to guard Kyushu Island.

If troops are not deployed, Kyushu Island cannot be defended, so it can be said that it is beyond its power.

But if the troops were transferred across the strait, and Dashun attacked east and west and landed on Kyushu Island, it would be a big responsibility.

Or let the Changzhou Fan give up the Shimonoseki Strait and shrink all to Kyushu Island, the Changzhou Fan will never agree.

After the country was locked down, the shogunate put all its energy on stability. The habit formed over a hundred years made no one dare to "overstep" and issue orders.

The system itself is for internal repression and stability, not for war.

At this time, the pain that Changzhou Fan could feel also fell on Inao Masaobu.

Ban Shicun said a lot of truths that the lips are dead and the teeth are cold, and the feudal clans of Kyushu Island are not allowed to enter.

Inao Masaotake took on a lot of responsibilities, and finally agreed to send two thousand troops to help the Changzhou Domain defend the front line of the fort.

The reason is two thousand, because the ships in the strait can transport two thousand troops at most at one time.

If these 2000 people can go, they must also be able to come back.

If you really can't keep it, you will retreat to Kyushu Island.

Mori Zonghiro knew that the two thousand warriors were already the limit of the feudal clans of Kyushu, and it was better to have something than nothing.

He was worried that once the war started, the 2000 people would run away and run back to Kyushu Island when they saw that the situation was not good. Therefore, he hoped that these 2000 people could be used as a field force, and the soldiers of Changfu Fan and Changzhou Fan would guard the front line of the fort.

However, the generals who brought the troops disagreed at all, saying that the task assigned to them by the feudal lord and Daimu was to defend the fort, not to join the troops of the Changzhou clan in a field battle.

This is almost like a copy of the late Ming Dynasty. Everyone's choice, in the overall situation, is a problem with the head; but when it comes to individuals, it is almost everyone's optimal solution.

Mori Munehiro had no choice but to gather all the samurai from the Chofu Domain, plus a part of the Choshu Domain's troops, together with the Kyushu Domain's forces totaling 5000 people, and set up formations and build fortifications between Kushizaki Castle and the fort.

The rest of the main force is hiding in the north of the Changfu, preparing to lure the Dashun army to attack the fort with a timid posture.

The warriors near Lingluomu kept reporting that the number of naval warships in Dashun was increasing every day.The Dashun Army, which landed on the shore, is capturing the villagers and building some defense and landing piers. It seems that they are going to make a large-scale landing.

After seven or eight days of tossing, Mantou finally received Li Yan's order, and the time for the army to assemble and dispatch has been set.

After calculating the date, Mantou abandoned Lingluomu's landing site, went south, and bombarded Xiaocang.

Dashun didn't know if all the soldiers from the Changzhou Domain were in Xiaguan, but these days they had been pretending to land, even if they weren't there, it was time to transfer to Xiaguan.It's about the same time.

One day after bombarding Kokura, they continued southward and bombarded Fukuoka Castle.

After several actions, every nerve of the feudal clans on Kyushu Island was completely tensed.

Dashun's actions near Lingluomu Village were actually a plan to land on Kyushu Island?

Or is Dashun really going to land in Lingluomu Village and bombard Xiaokura and Fukuoka, is it just a slap in the face?
Unable to guess and understand, the navy retreated in the strait, and could only watch the Dashun army flee after the shelling.

The Satsuma Clan was on the verge of a formidable enemy, and continued to strengthen Kagoshima's defenses, fearing that Dashun would bombard Kagoshima.

However, after waiting for a long time, there was no news that the Dashun Army bombarded Kagoshima. On the contrary, there was news from Hagi Castle that the main force of the Dashun Army had landed in Hagi Castle.

(End of this chapter)