Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1749 Aid Korea to Fight Against the Japanese ([-]) "Great Fortune"

Meng Gu Zhezhe only cared about being shy, but with his pragmatic thick skin, he would not fall into such a predicament. He directly ignored Liu Xin's teasing and talked about the business, saying: "I am a dignified secretary of agriculture, how can I use such tricks to deceive the side generals?" Jailer? What I want to say is the truth..."

"Oh?" Liu Xin couldn't help laughing, her beautiful eyes bent into two crescent moons: "Does Hou have something to say to Nurhachi from the bottom of his heart?"

Gao Wushi smiled slightly, ignoring the obvious disbelief in Liu Xin's words, but said sternly: "I will inform Nurhachi and tell him that Kato Kiyomasa, one of the 'Seven Guns of Chiyue', under Toyotomi Hideyoshi's command, will He will personally lead the Second Corps of the Japanese Army into his territory."

Liu Xin's smile faltered when she heard it, but seeing that Gao Wushi didn't look like a joke, she couldn't help wondering, "Is this true?"

Gao Wushi replied: "Probably there will be no difference."

Liu Xin frowned immediately, but she still didn't understand the situation in Japan as well as Gao Yushi, so she could only ask, "What are the characteristics of Kato Kiyomasa, and what is the strength of the Second Army?"

Gao Wushi replied simply: "Kato Kiyomasa's biggest characteristic is toughness. As for the strength of the Second Army, in terms of military strength, it ranked third among the nine armies sent by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to fight in the first wave. Second only to the 3 troops of the Mori Terumoto Seventh Army and the 5000 Fukushima Masanori Fifth Army, the total strength of the entire army is about 2."

"What is his mission?" Liu Xin asked again.

Gao Wushi said: "Looking at the time, he should still be in Seoul or near Kaijing, but his next task should be to attack Hamgyong Road."

As he spoke, he was afraid that Liu Xin was not very familiar with the situation in North Korea, so he simply asked Gao Mo to fetch a map of Northeast Asia and hang it beside him, roughly explaining the approximate locations of the current Japanese army regiments.

In fact, Liu Xin is very familiar with North Korea's topographical maps. She just doesn't know the progress of the Japanese army's current strategy. After listening to Gao Yu's description, she suddenly said: "That is to say, the Japanese army's next northern North Korea The strategy is basically handed over to Konishi's First Army and Kato Kiyomasa's Second Army.

Among them, Governor Konishi is in charge of the West Road, attacking Pyongan Road, and the main target should be Pyongyang; Kato Kiyomasa is in charge of the East Road, attacking Hamgyong Road, the main target should be Hamhung? "

"You should have guessed the situation on President Xiaoxi's side, but judging from the time, I expect he will be able to take down Pyongyang, and then it will be Li Rusong's turn to beat him." Jingdao area, said: "But Kiyomasa Kato's side may be slightly different from your guess. In fact, I think the Japanese army has a relatively limited understanding of the situation in North Korea, which is why they came up with this deployment of troops."

Liu Xin was a little surprised, and asked, "How do you say that?"

Gao Wushi snorted softly, and replied: "The essence of North Korea lies in the west, not in the east. The so-called 'three capitals', from south to north, are Seoul, Kaesong, and Pyongyang, all of which are near the Bohai Sea. In other words, This is the road that President Konishi is in charge of.

Although Hamgyong Road in Northeast Korea is vast and narrow, it is not well developed and not densely populated. Its current strategic value is far inferior to that of Pyongan Road.

Of course, my Ming Dynasty is well aware of the situation in North Korea, so once troops are dispatched, the main force will also follow this line.However, the First Army of Governor Konishi had only about 8000 people before it was reinforced, which was even fewer than the Second Army of Kato Kiyomasa.You know the soldiers, of course you know what kind of consequences this will lead to. "

He has said this to this extent, of course Liu Xin understood it as soon as she heard it, and suddenly said: "That is to say, President Xiaoxi will face big trouble after Li Rusong sends troops, and most likely he will feel that his troops are seriously insufficient. At the same time, There may not be any Ming army on the side of Hamgyong Road where Kato Kiyomasa attacked, and it is only necessary to eliminate the resistance of some North Korean troops.

Therefore, he may feel that he still has enough energy, hoping to do more things, gain more military exploits in order to obtain more post-war rewards.Therefore, it is very likely that he will continue to advance north after taking Hamgyong Road... This will enter Manchuria. "

Gao Wushi nodded and said, "Not bad."

"But it's not right." Liu Xin wondered: "Since President Xiaonishi will soon feel that there is not enough troops, and Kato Kiyomasa has surplus troops, wouldn't President Xiaonishi go to Kato Kiyomasa for support? At the same time, for Kato Kiyomasa, if he can help Konishi Yukio to defend Pyongyang, wouldn't that be a great achievement?"

Gao Wushi laughed, shook his head and said, "That's not true, because Kato Kiyoshi is from the military commander's school, and Konishi governor is from the pursuit school, and they had a big quarrel in Zhongzhou not long ago, and they almost fought. So, Xiao Nishiyuki Even if the head is in trouble, he probably won't go to Kato Kiyomasa for help, and conversely, even if Kato Kiyomasa receives a call for help from Konishi, he probably won't send troops."

Liu Xin rolled her eyes greatly, and said angrily: "The two strikers in the east and west are at odds with each other? Toyotomi Hideyoshi is really a good soldier."

Gao Wushi said indifferently: "Toyotomi Hideyoshi has always been more strategic than strategic."

"Using troops like this is also one of the tricks?" Liu Xin thought for a while and asked, "Is it out of balance?"

"One is balance, and the other is mutual containment." Gao Wushi said: "For example, there is a great possibility that Toyotomi Hideyoshi has become extremely inflated and thinks that the two forwards can win, so the pursuer faction and the generals faction are separated. If one person is selected, both parties can share in the pioneering work."

Liu Xin thought for a while, and then asked: "Then Kato Kiyomasa's attack on Jurchen...What do you think the final outcome will be?"

Gao Yushi replied confidently: "Victory first, then defeat."

Seeing that he was so confident, Liu Xin already guessed that this might have happened in the original history, but now she and Gao Yushi were not the only two present, so it was inconvenient to ask this question.

But something unexpected happened at this time, Meng Gu Zhezhe said: "Master, does this mean that Kato Kiyomasa will fight Nurhachi, and then win first and then lose?"

This question is difficult to answer, because in the original history, although Kato Kiyomasa was the only Japanese general who attacked the territory of Ming Dynasty (Jurchen is counted as the territory of Ming Dynasty), he did not fight Nurhachi at that time.

Since there are not many records of this matter in history books, and it is rarely mentioned, here is a brief supplement.

The situation at that time was like this: due to North Korea's disarmament at that time, its eight routes almost fell into place very quickly, and Kato Kiyomasa's second army, one of the pioneers of Japan's two routes, defeated North Korea at Seongjin Haitingchang, Hamgyong Province. Han Kecheng, the army envoy of North Hamgyong Province, and the most elite northern cavalry in North Korea under his leadership, unexpectedly broke into the territory of Daming.

Didn't Daming react strongly to such a big event?At the beginning, there was really no such thing, because the other areas of the Northeast north of Liaodong have always been the territory of the Jurchens, and they did not belong to the interior of the Ming Dynasty. Involving the Ming army, the armed forces there are all Jurchen troops.

Then the key question comes, where is the position where Kato Kiyomasa fought the border?On Juzi Street—probably near Yanji City, Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin Province.And this place was roughly at the junction of the Zhusheli tribe, one of the three tribes in Changbai Mountain, and the Ula tribe of Haixi Jurchen.

Here is an interesting point. At present, the Zhusheli tribe has been taken by Nurhaci, but at this period in the original history, what were the Zhusheli tribe and the Ula tribe busy with?They are busy defending against Nurhachi who is preparing to unify the Jurchen.

That is to say, in the original history, after Kato Kiyomasa broke through North Korea, the opponent he faced was either the Ula tribe or the Zhusheli tribe, and it may even be the Nayin tribe, but in short, there is nothing wrong with Nurhachi, and now there is a high probability that he will be with Nurhachi If you encounter it, there is a small probability that you will encounter Nayin or Ula.

[Note: In this book, Nurhachi was forced to move eastward for a certain distance after the "three-point construction of the state" because of high-level practical calculations before. There are two parts. ]
Gao Wushi briefly explained to Meng Gu Zhezhe, but Meng Gu Zhezhe was taken aback and said, "Maybe you might run into the Nayin tribe?"

Her surprise was not surprising, because as I said before, the Nayin tribe has now taken refuge in Yehe, and it is an important production area for the Yehe tribe to obtain ginseng.

However, there is still a problem here, that is, although the Nayin tribe has taken refuge in Yehe, it is because Yehe has actually been supported by Gao Shishi to become the strongest tribe in Manchuria. annexation.In fact, the Nayin tribe and the Yehe tribe do not directly border each other, and there is also the Huifa tribe of the Haixi Jurchen between them.

At this time, Meng Gu Zhezhe's performance immediately made Gao Wushi react, and asked: "Are you worried that the defeat of the Nayin tribe by the Japanese army will affect Yehe's ginseng supply?"

Meng Gu Zhezhe, who had rarely participated in the discussion of Jinghua's internal affairs before, gave Gao Wushi a surprise this time. She shook her head and said, "If that's the case, the situation is not the worst. What I am worried about is that after the Japanese army defeated Nayin, Ye He The reinforcements have not yet arrived, but Nurhachi arrived one step ahead and defeated the Japanese army..."

"Oh, you are worried that Nurhachi will use this as an excuse to stay on the ground in Nayin." Gao Wushi immediately understood.

But I understand that I understand, if this matter develops according to such conjectures, it will be really troublesome.At that time, either Yehe and Nurhachi will fight, or Daming will have to come forward and threaten Nurhachi to withdraw. If Nurhachi takes advantage of the Korean War and refuses to listen, Daming may have to end in person.

Why does Nurhachi always have to retreat, but not Yehe?Because Ye He couldn't afford to retreat, Gao Yushi would not allow Ye He to retreat.As soon as Ye He retreated, the Liao Shen trade was really monopolized by Nurhachi, which was worth 10 taels of silver a year. If Nurhachi completely controlled the pricing power, then the power of Jianzhou Zuowei would expand rapidly, just like the original as in history.

However, at this moment, too much pressure on Nurhachi also has a lot of risks. One of the risks is that Nurhachi will join forces with Japan.This kind of thing did not happen in the original history, but Gao Yushi believes that this possibility cannot be ruled out. After all, the current situation is different from the original history.

In the 20th year of Wanli in the original history, Nurhachi did not unite with Japan because he wanted to take the opportunity to annex the Jurchen ministries.Now if Daming targets him in advance, then he won't be able to develop insignificantly anyway, so why not unite with Japan?But for Daming, this became finding an extra enemy for no reason.

Cao Jun, Bozhou, Japan, plus Nurhachi, Daming has too many troubles, and this was unnecessary.

"In that case, Yehe will make preparations early in the morning." Gao Wushi pondered for a while, and said, "How about this, Meng Gu, you should inform your two elder brothers in advance, saying that I will make arrangements in a few days, and mediate in the name of the imperial court." Some of Yehe’s troops rushed to aid the Nayin Department, in the name of preventing the collapse of the Korean frontier army and the Japanese army’s cross-border invasion. At that time, whether Kato Kiyomasa crossed the border to the Nayin Department or Nurhachi took the opportunity to advance, the Yehe Department would help him to hold on.”

Meng Gu Zhezhe replied: "Yes, master, I will go and talk to Suo Erguo after a while."

As soon as she mentioned Solgo, Gao Wushi thought of Fei Yingdong, the son of Solguo, and simply confessed: "Your elder brothers will return from the expedition. This year, you don't have to lead troops out of the country again, so let Fei Yingdong go to Nayin Let's go." Meng Gu Zhezhe didn't have much opinion on this, so he agreed again.

Liu Xin asked at this time: "Master, didn't you originally mean that Kato Kiyomasa should still meet Nurhachi with a high probability? Now... this is considered a rainy day, but we should still focus on Nurhachi and Nurhachi. Kato Kiyomasa's arrangement after World War I."

She paused and continued: "According to what Lord Hou said, Kiyomasa Kato should win first and then lose. I think Master Hou meant that it might be difficult for Nurhachi to determine the direction of Kiyomasa Kato's attack at the beginning, so Kiyomasa Kato To be able to achieve some results first, and then follow Nurhachi's main force to attack, Kato Kiyomasa is not his opponent... Then, what about after that? If Nurhachi wants to pursue, will the court allow it or not?"

Gao Wushi knew the subtext of Liu Xin's question.She actually knew that whether the imperial court allowed Nurhachi to pursue it was not the problem. The problem was that if Nurhachi chased after Kato Kiyomasa and occupied some places on Hamgyong Road but refused to return it to North Korea, what would Daming do?

He smiled and said, "I know you are afraid of the imperial court's dilemma... However, if North Korea is attached to it, then this problem will be much simpler. At least the imperial court will not have to give North Korea any explanation. Morally lost.”

"North Korea?" Liu Xin was taken aback: "You want Daming to take North Korea?"

Gao Yushi's smile became brighter, and he said: "Otherwise, why do you think I insisted on persuading the emperor to put the aid of the dynasty in the last of the three major events?"

"Oh, you made up your mind a long time ago to make the North Korean monarchs and ministers feel that there is no hope, and take the initiative to mention Neifu Daming." Liu Xin suddenly realized, and sighed: "See you in the picture."

"How can it be said that it's a pity?" Gao Yushi said seriously, "Isn't it the great fortune of the Korean people to have a chance to return to the Celestial Dynasty at the time of the country's subjugation?"
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