Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1852

Jinju is located in the middle of the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, only about forty or fifty miles away from Sacheon, which is located by the sea.According to Liu Ting's estimation, after his troops occupied Sacheon, if they did not need too much clean-up and rectification but went directly northward, they would be able to encircle Jinzhou around noon tomorrow.

However, this idea could not be implemented, because Gao Yushi decided to temporarily stay in Sacheon.This was an unexpected "change" for Liu Ting, because he originally thought that Gao Yushi would not go ashore for the time being, but would stay on the flagship "Dongchang" of the Pingwa Fleet, and would not return to the army until the main force of the Ming army went south. .

Taking a step back, Liu Ting believes that even if Gao Yushi goes ashore early, he should choose to stay in his own unit-the self here refers to his Liu family army.Although the local soldiers who are going to be stationed in Sacheon are undoubtedly "Ming soldiers", but... how should I put it, they cannot be regarded as Han soldiers after all.

Of course, Gao Yushi was not fooling around when he made such a decision. He was well aware of many chronic problems in the Ming military system, such as the idea that the Tusi soldiers and horses were not regarded as their own, but only as servants.

However, Gao Yushi does not hope that the relationship between the regular army of the Ming army and the chieftain army will always be just like this. Although the root of this relationship is that Ming's governance of the chieftain has always been "allowing the chieftain to have a high degree of autonomy", and relying on it may not have a great influence on the chieftain army. Good effect, but Gao Pragmatic still wants to try it out.

Therefore, Gao Wushi moved the Jinglue ashore with only [-] Ding's personal guards, and stayed in Sacheon, where it was planned to be stationed by chieftain soldiers and horses.Due to this change, Liu Ting did not dare to go north immediately, but decided to stay one more night, trying to use this night to investigate and wipe out the surrounding area of ​​Sacheon, just in case of any emergency.

However, what he was worried about didn't happen. The Japanese army's defenses around here were really empty. In addition, there were not many Koreans in the area, so it was still very easy to track them down.

In fact, because Sacheon is only a small city, its population was only about [-] before the year of Imchen, and now it is less than [-] after the war.That is to say, even if Liu Ting's Liu family army leaves tomorrow, the remaining [-] chieftain troops are already more than the Korean people here. In this case, there will be no problem with high-level security—unless the chieftain Army mutiny.

Chieftain mutiny?Liu Ting was really not worried about this.First of all, with his high-practical prestige and status, it is estimated that no chieftain would have the guts to stage a mutiny against him.

Secondly, this place is North Korea, thousands of miles away from the hometown of the chieftains. After the mutiny, there was no supply at sea. Is that going to starve to death here?
Thirdly, the Tusi troops mobilized this time are all well-known by Liu Ting. Among them, the Shibai soldiers brought by Ma Qiancheng and his wife are the most famous. When the soldiers and horses broke out, the couple must have sworn to protect the high-pragmatic kind.

Finally, the 20 soldiers around Gao Yushi are not joking. As the last security barrier around Gao Yushi, they are the real elite carefully selected from the more than [-] armed servants of the Gao family. , various tactics and even weapons and equipment are all at the top level of Ming Dynasty today.

Judging from his sister's previous descriptions, Liu Ting thought that even if they faced the onslaught of their own family's three thousand descendants, they might be able to defend.If he can even stop the surrender of Japanese barbarians, what else can Liu Ting worry about?

Now that Lord Hou's safety can be ensured, Liu Ting can sleep peacefully that night, but he still summoned the chieftains from all walks of life to give a lecture - after all, they are all chieftains from Sichuan, and he was in charge of them in the first place.

There is nothing else to say, the only purpose Liu Ting confessed is: Although there should be no military danger in Sacheon, if there are police, your first task is to ensure the safety of Lord Hou.If anything goes wrong in this matter, don't blame me, Liu, for not talking about our old friendship.

Although Liu Ting's words were very serious, the chieftains still understood it.The relationship between the Liu family and Gao Yushi has never been a secret, and it is only natural that Liu Ting attaches great importance to this matter.

However, the chieftains didn't feel any embarrassment. For the chieftains, staying in Sacheon this time was a good job.Fighting Jinzhou does not require their efforts, but staying in Sacheon and Gao Yushi's side also means that they can be the first to receive supplies, and the military exploits will not be less - this is the strategy of the guard!
On this basis, if you can still think of a way to impress Lord Hou, then your life will definitely be better in the future. What a rare opportunity!
So what Liu Ting faced was a group of impassioned chieftains who were eager to cut their hearts open to prove their loyalty. They scrambled to express their determination, and kept talking about protecting the high and pragmatic as if it was more important than protecting their own ancestral graves, which made Liu Ting very satisfied.

Early the next morning, Liu Jiajun went north on time. Beforehand, Liu Ting came to bid farewell to Gao Yushi and asked Gao Yushi what instructions he had for capturing Jinju. A small group of troops can go east to make a reconnaissance posture.Liu Ting understood, and quickly headed north with his troops.

After Liu Ting left, Gao Wushi gave an order to the Pingwa Fleet temporarily stationed in Sacheon, asking them to select the fastest ships and start patrolling eastward, assuming that they were about to launch an attack on Busan.This task was highly pragmatic and directly handed over to Chen Lin and Deng Zilong, while the fleet of the Maritime Trade Alliance stopped in Sacheon.

After that, Gao Wushi recruited the chieftains headed by Ma Qiancheng to arrange a defense zone for them and blockade the entire Sacheon, especially the port area. , only allowed in and not out.

In addition, Gao Pragmatic also played his usual style, ordering Ma Qiancheng to supervise all the chieftain soldiers and horses during Liu Ting's absence, and all chieftains had to obey Ma Qiancheng's dispatch.In this regard, Ma Qiancheng and his wife are very excited and more willing to play.

At the same time, Gao Yushi did not give up the old method, and announced that he would give extra allowances to the chieftains. The amount is not too big, and each person who sends troops will be given one tael of cash. Regardless of the distribution process, they will be directly distributed to the chieftains according to the number of troops sent. hands.

Regardless of the fact that the total is only 5000 taels, as I said before, most of the chieftains are characterized by being easy to manage and asking for money. Given the power of Huang Zhiting and her family at that time, the annual tribute to the court was only 600 taels of silver. Two, so one person and one tael is an unexpected windfall for these chieftains.

Once the money is released, everyone will be less resistant to obeying the young Ma Qiancheng—just think of it as giving Gao Ge a face!Small things, are small things.

After arranging these things, Gao Pragmatism seemed to be free, and actually took people around to "watch the scenery".

He has nothing to do here for the time being, why not talk about Liu Ting first.Liu Ting already knew the general situation of Jinzhou by consulting the previous battle reports, but it was only when he arrived in Jinzhou that he realized that his original estimate was a bit off.

According to his previous thinking, since the North Korean side won the first battle of Jinzhou, it means that Jinzhou is either easy to defend and difficult to attack, or the city defense facilities are solid and complete, so although this battle may have a certain degree of suddenness, but As a tough battle, I am afraid that some casualties must be paid as a price.

However, when he arrived in Jinzhou, he found that the terrain of Jinzhou was not particularly difficult to attack. Although it was calculated as an upward attack, the angle of upward attack was very limited, at least for the artillery with a large number of adjustable firing angles. It's nothing to Liu Jiajun.

What really surprised him was the so-called "solid city defense". Jinzhou's city walls were dilapidated, not only had many traces of smoke and fire, but also had gaps or cracks in more places. .

He picked up the binoculars and looked carefully, and found that there were bullet craters everywhere on the city wall, obviously hit by a large number of musket bullets.

Liu Ting understood that this must be the masterpiece of the Japanese army during the Second Battle of Jinzhou.It is said that in order to avenge the first battle of Jinju, the Japanese army almost killed the entire Jinju after capturing this place, and about [-] Korean soldiers and civilians were slaughtered.

Liu Ting cursed secretly: Damn it, these Japanese pirates are more bloodthirsty than I am, 7 people will be slaughtered as soon as they say it.

However, the cursing is nothing but cursing, but Liu Ting is relieved a lot, because after such a massacre, the population of Jinzhou cannot recover quickly. At this time, there may not be many people in the city of Jinzhou. All on their own, they can't even threaten the North Koreans to beat them.

Liu Jiajun quickly surrounded Jinzhou on three sides. This is a typical encirclement and a routine operation.But the routine may not be the real routine, because Liu Ting's purpose of encircling Three Queyi was not to reduce his own casualties, but to sincerely intend to let go of those Japanese soldiers who wanted to escape.

The reason is very simple. Gao Pragmatic's order is to not go east for the time being after he finished fighting Jinju. He just needs to send a small force to the east to make a reconnaissance posture. This means that the purpose of attacking Jinju is to deter the Japanese army in Busan. , not necessarily for Jinzhou City itself.

Since the main purpose was deterrence, it would be wrong to annihilate the Japanese army in Jinzhou. Therefore, Liu Ting's approach was simple and rude: after surrounding Jinzhou City on three sides, he pulled out all the artillery and pushed it forward.

The 5000 men in Liu's army are equipped with more than 80 cannons, of which the No. [-] cannon is the most common among the elite land divisions of the Ming army (the non-elite ones are generally No. [-] cannons, which have relatively weak firepower), but there are also [-] cannons in the Ming army. The Ming army's land divisions were equipped with fewer No. [-] heavy artillery.

Since the main force had already moved north, the number of Japanese soldiers in Jinzhou City was not large, only a thousand at full count. Therefore, after learning of the fall of Sacheon yesterday, the Japanese army in Jinzhou had already made preparations for the cage city, and planned to rely on the defense of Jinzhou City to stand firm and wait for reinforcements.

However, they originally thought that Sacheon was attacked by Yi Sun-shin's North Korean navy, but they obviously did not expect the elite Ming army to arrive, especially they did not expect that the Ming army had so many cannons, even ten giant cannons among them. This change caused the Japanese army in the city to suddenly become panicked.

The guard general of the Japanese army in Jinzhou was named Yoshinori Sangming.Later, he became the son-in-law and adopted son of Kuwana Fujizo.After the death of his adoptive father, he inherited the Kuwana family business and became Jodai Nakamura, Hata-gun, Tosakuni.

At the age of 11, after meeting with Yuan Qin with his father and elder brother, he ordered Yuan clothes at the behest of Yuan Qin. At the age of 17, he first went to the battlefield and attacked Fujime Castle in the country of Sanqi.

In the Ten Years of Tianzheng's Battle of Zhongfuchuan, when the horse ran into the enemy's line while grazing, Ji Cheng rushed into the enemy's line and took the horse back.Since then, he was highly appreciated by Yuan Qin for his extraordinary courage and bravery.Then he made another military exploit in the battle against Awaichi Miyagi and the Iyo Kanshuji clan shortly afterwards.

In the 13th year of Tianzheng (1585), after Yuanqin surrendered to Hideyoshi, he acted as an envoy to worship Toyotomi Hidecho, Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Hideyoshi gave him a pair of saddles and stirrups, and Ieyasu gave him a Wufu.

In the 14th year of Tensho, under Hideyoshi's order, he followed Yuanqin and led Changzonga's army to rescue Bungo Otomo's family. After suffering the disastrous defeat at Tojigawa in December of the same year, he escorted Yuanqin to retreat to Funai Castle.In the following year, he followed General Toyotomi Hidecho to attack Gaocheng and other places.

In the 16th year of Tensho, he served as Kira's personal supervisor and funeral service during the dispute over the succession of the Nagamune family.In the year of Renchen, he accompanied Yuanqin to Korea, and led 67 servants to serve as Yuanqin's guards.This time, he still went out with the army and got the chance to defend the city alone.

Originally, he thought that even if he defended Jinju alone, he would not get any military exploits, but at least he could get some seniority, and returning to Tosa would definitely improve his status in Changzong's family.

Unexpectedly, man is not as good as heaven, he never expected that staying in the rear of Jinju would encounter a big battle, and the opponent was not Yi sun-shin or other North Korean troops at all, but it made many Japanese troops change their faces. Ming army!

At this moment, the cage city was ready. Even if it was the Ming army, Yoshinari Kuwana, who was not yet 40 years old, would not flee without a fight or raise his hands to surrender. He decided to try anyway—the first time the Japanese army Didn't they also capture Jinzhou when they came to attack?During the second battle of Jinzhou, the Japanese army took out an army of [-] to [-] to win!The Ming army seems to have no more than [-] at most. Could it be that they can easily capture Jinzhou?Yoshinori Sang Ming didn't believe it.

However, the performance of the Ming army quickly shattered Yoshinori Kuwana's fantasy. Liu Ting's troops were not like the Japanese army, which did not have much long-range and heavy firepower, and had no good way to face the city. After the three rows of bayonet and musket arrays, the artillery was lined up and began to bombard the city wall round after round.

Kuwana Yoshinari found out angrily that he could not make any counterattacks against the Ming army's attack at this distance, because there was no weapon to obtain, even if he had two hundred iron gunners (arquebus gunners) in his hand, it was useless. The shooting distance is obviously beyond the range of the iron cannon.

Yoshinori Kuwana was very angry and cursed in anger. He was suddenly reminded by his subordinates that after the defeat of the Korean army in Jinju, there were still three Ming army artillery intact, and they had been kept. Should they be pulled out and used now?

In fact, Yoshinari Kuwana knew about this, but due to the shortage of gunpowder in the Japanese army, even iron cannons were used sparingly in combat, so Yoshinari Kuwana had never considered using the "Ming army large cylinder" left by the Korean army before, but at the moment he was completely passive Being beaten is definitely not the answer, so I have to treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor. As for the gunpowder...let's talk about saving your life first.

However, Yoshinari Kuwana still underestimated the power of the Jinghua No. [-] cannon. This kind of cannon, which is more used on naval ships, is completely a magic weapon for demolition on land. The scarred North Korean city is completely sufficient.

Yoshinori Kuwana had just looked at the "big tube" of the Ming army who was being pulled over with full expectation, when he heard a loud "bang", a section of the city wall to the west of the south gate of Jinzhou City was hit by several huge solid iron bullets in a row Then it collapsed!

Finished!

Yoshinori Kuwana was so startled that his hairs stood on end for a moment, and he shouted: "Block the gap, hurry up, the death squad is blocking the hole, and the Iron Cannon team is ready to stop the enemy!" He originally wanted to add "repair immediately", but when he saw the opposite side Ming Jun's appearance immediately realized that this move was meaningless.

Because although the Ming army saw a small part of the city wall of Jinzhou collapsed, they had no intention of launching a strong attack on this place, but continued to prepare for shelling unchanged.

Yoshinori Kuwana knew that he was being self-indulgent. A small gap did not move the Ming army at all. They planned to continue the bombardment and launch a large-scale attack after completely smashing the southern city wall.

I can't keep it anymore, I have to withdraw!Yoshinari Kuwana suddenly made up his mind at this moment.
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