Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1882
Coincidentally, when Zhang Wanbang and Li Shanhai reached a cooperation agreement, it happened to be the time when the military situation in the south and center of North Korea underwent new changes.

On this day, on the land in southern North Korea, the four forces are stepping up their mobilization.These four forces are the main force of the Japanese army going south, Gao Yushi's direct headquarters, Liu Ting's department, and Li Rumei's department.In fact, there was also a movement of troops at sea on this day, but it will not be listed here for the time being, and it will be explained later.

In the central part of North Korea, the main changes also occurred in the four forces. The four forces here are the Dong Yiyuan Department of the Ming Army, the Nurhachi Department of the Ming Jurchen Allied Forces, the Japanese Nabeshima Katsushige Department, the Japanese Army Shimadzu Yoshihiro and Kato Kiyomasa Remnant.

Due to the different theaters, the eight forces on land are still divided into two parts, the southern part and the central part.

Let's talk about the south first.The changes in the south began when Gao Wushi guessed that Kuroda Rushui would desperately launch a sneak attack on Sacheon where he was.At that time, Gao Wushi quickly dispatched Ding Shaoqi as a messenger to notify Liu Ting and gave him some instructions, and contacted Li Rumei as soon as possible, and also gave some instructions.

At this time, the Japanese army did two things: First, they held a meeting at the commander-level of the army. Kuroda Rushui persuaded the generals present at the meeting, and won their support. Following him, he launched an all-out sneak attack on Sacheon as quickly as possible.

Second, send people to contact Busan to try to let the Japanese navy stationed in Busan sneak out of the port and block the port of Sacheon.

There is nothing to say about the first point. It is completely within Gao Yushi's prediction. If there is anything that Gao Yushi dare not fully guarantee, it may be the specific marching route of the Japanese army-in fact, there may be three routes. , but the last paragraph will converge into the same one, so Gao Yushi didn't care too much, after all, he himself didn't plan to lead the army to meet the enemy.

The second point is very critical. The Japanese army hoped that the Japanese navy stationed in Busan would sneak out of the port to block the passage of Sacheon to the sea. Is this action possible to succeed?

It really does.

This point needs to be explained. We are still in the age of sailing. First of all, the sea self-sustainability of this ship is far from being comparable to that of later generations.After all, you don't have any seawater desalination equipment. You may be able to persist without other things, but if you don't have fresh water, it's really impossible.

The several methods that Gao Yushi "thought out" in his early years can only be said to be extended for some time, and it is impossible to strengthen them to the point where they stay at sea and do not go ashore.

Therefore, the Pyongwa Fleet's blockade of Busan Port these days is not to pull the entire fleet out of Busan Port to make it look like a chain of iron chains, but to rely on nearby bases to dispatch multiple routes and batches of faster ships in the open sea. Net shuttle patrol.

In other words, the Japanese navy is now looking outside the Port of Busan. There is not a wall there, but one or several steel knives twisting up and down in turn-so theoretically, if they can figure out According to the law of the Pingwa Fleet's shuttle patrol, you can still find opportunities to sneak out.

There is another problem here, that is, the net shuttle patrol of the Pingwa Fleet has a focus.There is no doubt that the focus of the Pingwa Fleet is to cut off the delusion of the Japanese navy fleeing south to Japan (regardless of whether it is loaded with Japanese land divisions), and this means that this patrol is mainly aimed at the coastal waters of the port and the southern waters of this sea area .

The Japanese Navy didn't just sit in the port of Busan for nothing during this period of time. They also sent a few clippers to the sea to deliberately hit a wall, and they basically found out this situation.Therefore, after receiving the news from Kuroda Rushui, Kuki Yoshitaka agreed to this dangerous plan and personally drew up a battle plan. [Note: Historically, Jiugui Jialong had been officially dismissed at this time, but in this book, due to changes in circumstances, this did not happen. ]
Jiugui Jialong believes that although [-]% to [-]% of the nets laid by the navy of the Ming army have been found out, after all, the enemy is extremely powerful, and there may still be some situations that have not been touched, so it must not be like the Lu division. Just as desperately, all the troops are concentrated together to act.

The whole army of the navy will definitely not be able to act together in this battle. In that case, the best result is that the Ming army did not notice it at first, but soon after they found out, they could rely on the advantages of ship size and speed to encircle them. In the end, the Japanese navy was overtaken before it reached the port of Sacheon, and had to fight a decisive battle at sea with the navy of the Ming army-it was a certain defeat, and there was no need to have the slightest chance of luck.

Therefore, the naval generals such as Todo Takatora, Kato Yoshiaki, and Wakisaka Yasuji offered advice and suggestions, and finally Yoshitaka Kuki made the decision: to send about [-]% of the main warships of the Japanese navy in Busan Port to the sea to break through, pretending to send the main force to the sea. The posture of withdrawing to the Japanese mainland attracted the attention of the Pingwa Fleet, and tried to attract the main force of the Pingwa Fleet.

Then, after the Pyeongwa Fleet off the coast of Busan Port left, the rest of the navy ships were quietly sent out of the port, and rushed westward almost along the coastline to Sacheon.

There are two troublesome or dangerous aspects of this plan. One is that the main warships of the Japanese Navy used as bait must be the real main force. Otherwise, the Pingwa Fleet has been exploring Busan Port for so long, and it seems that it is not a real battle. The main force, it will definitely not be fooled, this task of luring the enemy is [-]% impossible to complete.

But here comes the problem. If the real main force, which accounts for [-]% of the total number of warships, is swallowed by the Pingwa Fleet, then the pot will be too big, and Jiugui Jialong can't afford such a big crime-there is not only There is the Nippon Maru, and those of His Royal Highness Taiko's heart in the new fleet.

The second danger lies in how the real large fleet that will go to sea later escapes the inspection of the Pingwa Fleet. They are all transferred to contain this bait, aren't they?Even if they left a few ships around casually and found the Japanese fleet leaving the port, the follow-up operations would basically be in vain.

Due to the obvious difference in strength between the two sides, there is not much room for adjustment in the combat plan itself. Therefore, several generals of the Japanese navy decided to set the time for the decoy fleet to go to sea in the afternoon, and the time for the large fleet to go to sea in the evening.

In the evening, the Ming army also had to eat, and the Japanese navy sailed in the evening, and it happened to be night when they left the port. At that time, the Ming army sailors had just eaten and drunk, and their vigilance was the worst, and they caught up with the very poor vision just after nightfall. , Even if there are still some ships responsible for monitoring the Port of Busan, the chance of discovery is very small.

Another advantage of this is that according to their arrangement, the decoy fleet would have to pretend to be invincible after a while—well, there is no need to pretend—and then retreat to Busan with all its strength.If all goes well, the time period from evening to night happens to be the time when the bait fleet returns to port. If this is done successfully, then this plan is almost completed as a plan to vacate the cage and change the bird.

Kuroda Rushui contacted the Japanese navy and the arrangements after the Japanese navy will stop here first, and continue to talk about the actions of the main force of the Japanese army.As mentioned earlier, Gao Pragmatically judged that there were three options for the main force of the Japanese army to attack Sacheon, and these three options would eventually lead to the same path. Why?

Because since the Japanese army did not go to the west of the Nakdong River where Liu Zhen had set up a posture, they could only cross the Nakdong River south of Changning.It is difficult to determine where the Japanese army will cross the river, but after they cross the river, according to different crossing locations, there are three towns in front of them that may enter and settle. These three places are Gimhae from east to west. , Xiongchuan, Mashan.

The situation in these three places at this time is not the same.Gimhae is located in the east, so it is the closest to Busan, and it is still under the control of the Japanese army; Xiongchuan and Masan have been recovered by Liu Ting before, but no troops have been stationed-this is actually not accurate, because there Although the Ming army was not stationed, Liu Ting's general appointed the leader of the local militia as a temporary guard after recovering the two places.

It is actually enough to have these militia groups to maintain law and order at ordinary times. As for whether they will be useful after the Japanese army is killed, that is of course a matter of course.In fact, Gao Yushi tends to think that once the Japanese army is killed, these militia groups may not even have the ability to report to themselves or Liu Ting, so it is better not to have too high expectations for these people.

Kuroda Rushui did not go to Jinhai, which was still under the control of Japan, but finally chose to attack Xiongchuan immediately after crossing the river.The place of Xiongchuan in the later Korea is probably in Changwon, and it is very close to Mashan in the west, and the distance between the two places is only [-] miles.

Mashan has a low terrain, while Kumagawa has a higher terrain, so when the Japanese army attacked Kumagawa, if Kumagawa could light a beacon or something, Mashan would be visible to the naked eye.

Unfortunately, this of course did not happen.The Japanese army originally marched quickly on the basis of hiding their whereabouts as much as possible. When they reached Xiongchuan, the local area was unprepared. When the Korean militia in Xiongchuan discovered that tens of thousands of Japanese troops had killed them, they raised a white flag to welcome the Japanese army into the city without saying a word. up.Its performance can be described as unusually bachelor, without thinking at all.

Kumagawa's surrender was completely expected by Kuroda Rushui.This is actually not surprising, this is just a small town, so small that tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers could not squeeze in. In fact, Kuroda Rushui only sent 300 people in to control the North Korean militia, and then the attack on Xiongchuan was completed. occupied.

The remaining Japanese troops not only did not enter the city, but did not even take any rest at all. They continued to march westward without stopping, and arrived at Mashan that evening.

Mashan is also a small city, but it is much bigger than Xiongchuan. At least if the Japanese army is willing, they can squeeze tens of thousands of people into the city while driving the Koreans out of the city.However, Kuroda Rushui did not do this.

It’s not that Kuroda Rushui loves the Korean people Ruzi, but what he is most afraid of now is leaking the news. If the Koreans in Mashan City are driven out and they go to inform the Ming army in Sacheon that the Japanese army has captured Mashan, then what will happen? Wouldn't it be a big deal?

But the problem is that the Japanese army marched wildly all the way, and it is time to rest at this moment, so Kuroda Rushui, as a Japanese monk who has become a monk, did a very professional counterpart: supersede North Korea in the city people.

Although tens of thousands of Japanese troops could be squeezed into this small city, the reason why we say "squeeze in" is because the city is indeed not big, and there are not too many Koreans in the city—this place has been beaten twice by the Japanese army , the population has already decreased a lot. At present, there are only more than 4000 people in the city, including a militia group of more than 200 people.

The performance of the Mashan militia was no different from that of Xiong Chuan. They also raised the white flag to surrender on the spot and let the Japanese army enter the city.However, their fate was far from that of Xiongchuan. The Japanese army immediately sent [-] troops into the city to slaughter the militia and the Korean people.The rest of the Japanese army set up a net outside the city to clean up individual fish that slipped through the net.

The bloody city of Mashan could not stop the sleepiness of the Japanese army, and Japanese generals such as Kuroda Rushui seemed to be used to massacring cities—even if there were generals who were not used to it, they would not show it, because they were all "pillars of the Wu family" ", refused to admit that he had any compassion. "Compassion" is a weak and deceptive thing in their concept.

Now let's talk about terrain.From Mashan to Sacheon, the straight-line distance is about a hundred miles, but the problem is that this straight-line distance is not very meaningful, because there is a mountain between the two places. one.

Most coincidentally, the main peak of Lianhua Mountain is exactly in the middle of the straight-line distance from Mashan to Sacheon.In other words, even if people can leave this place, it is certainly not suitable for large troops to cross the border normally.

Where is the road?There is a road from Masan to Jinju. Whether it was the Japanese attacking Jinju when they swept the Eight Provinces of Korea from Busan twice, or Liu Ting sent troops from Jinju to recover Masan, both sides followed this road.

However, although the road is ready-made and completely suitable for the army to march, Kuroda Rushui firmly disagrees with taking this road to attack Jinzhou.

It's a joke, if you hit Jinju, how could Gao Wu not get news in Sacheon?Even if Liu Ting's main force is still foolishly waiting near Sanjia, west of the Nakdong River, he certainly won't leave any troops in Jinju.

The Ming people are not Koreans, and the Ming army is not the Korean militia.The Korean militia would surrender directly when they saw the Japanese army coming, but the Ming army would only light the beacon and send cavalry messengers when they saw them.Neither of these two methods of communication can be stopped by the Japanese army, and it will be broken, so Jinju must not go, at least not now.

Kuroda Rushui demanded that the whole army cross mountains and ridges, cross Lianhua Mountain, and go straight to Sacheon City!

In fact, this order is not unpopular among the Japanese generals, but the matter has come to this point, and the objection is of no great significance. After all, there is no turning back when the bow is opened. 99 prayers have been bowed, and this last trembling cannot be missed.

Therefore, whether the Japanese generals were happy or not, they had no choice but to personally go out to cheer up their subordinates. After being encouraged, they promised various benefits, especially based on the encouragement of "capturing Prime Minister Tang", the morale of the whole army soared .

After the mobilization was completed, the Japanese army marched towards Lianhua Mountain.
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PS: The delay in posting this chapter is not because I fell asleep in the first half of the night, but because I hesitated for a while.The main reason is that I hesitated for a while whether to write according to the timeline like most of the time before, or to finish writing Hanyang first, and then think about it and follow the timeline according to the usual style.

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