Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1887 The sword points to Dongying (Wei [-]) each has its own needs

What are the orders received by Li Rumei and Liu Ting?
"...Now I learned that Naoshima Katsushige, the Japanese chieftain, went south via Jiangling on the [-]th. Erbu has tens of thousands of cavalry and is powerful enough. It is appropriate to divide the division with the camera, and Dong Yiyuan, the chief military officer, will block the south and chase the north to suppress them. In the middle way, don't let them go south to Busan, causing disaster to the southeast.

Nabeshima Katsushige Yongxing was lucky to win the first battle, and his morale is high today.Dong Yiyuan pursued him shortly after he took a rest, fearing that he might not be able to catch him.The Erbu should regard this as the most important thing, and resolutely destroy it, so as not to let the Japanese pirates boast of their achievements.As a matter of fact, all matters are decided by the Ministry itself, and the strategy and practice are not controlled remotely. "

"...I have read the previous report, and I know that Er's troops do not have enough food to encircle the Japanese army, and Mashan and other places are remote small towns, not enough food, so it is difficult to mobilize. Jinglue Xingyuan has ordered all places in Quanluo to hurry up Don't worry about raising grain, once it is in full, it will arrive by sea boat.

Although there are frequent wars at present, the Japanese pirates have been defeated in Lianhua Mountain and cannot advance an inch, and Admiral Ma Gui has led reinforcements to Quanzhou, and they can reach Sacheon within five days, so the journey is not dangerous.

If the Japanese pirates return to the teacher, Erbu should stick to it cautiously. As long as Ma Shan is not lost, it will be a great achievement.If the Japanese pirates go around the city, Erbu can't pursue them, so as not to be trapped.Now that the Japanese pirates' surprise attack has been defeated and their morale is embarrassing, they return to Pusan ​​with no fighting spirit. "

At this time, the Japanese army was arguing very loudly. Suddenly, they heard that the Ming army in front of Lianhuashan abandoned their defense and slowly retreated towards Sacheon.

Seeing Fan Daxie, Shi Youwu came to report that he had intercepted two messengers from the Ming army, each with a military order, and they were supposed to deliver them to Generals Li Rumei and Liu Ting, but they have now been found.

The generals of the Japanese army were ecstatic when they heard it, and immediately unfolded it to look at it.These two military orders were timely rain for the Japanese army. All the generals felt that "there is no unparalleled road" and "our army is saved".

However, Kuroda Rushui was obviously full of doubts, thinking that the cavalry of the Ming army were extremely elite, and their sentry cavalry had never been captured since the Renchen year. How could they capture two at a time today?There may be fraud in this.

His statement is naturally very reasonable, but to put it so bluntly is very offending, especially offending the owner of this branch of things - Mao Lixiuyuan.

The Maori family is actually the most powerful of all the legions in this conquest, with a total of 4 people, almost one family is worth four.Since their family sent a large number of troops, the scale of the Monogamban was naturally large. At this time, almost all the Monogamban distributed around came from the Mori family.

When Kuroda Rushui said this, Mori Hidemoto's expression was a bit ugly, but out of caution, Mori Hidemoto asked with a cold face about the circumstances of the Ming army's messenger being intercepted by his subordinates.

Wu Jianfan reported immediately, and it turned out that the messenger he intercepted was not a sentry cavalry, but a chieftain soldier messenger sent by Gao Wushi.According to the messenger's confession, Gao Wushi sent three messengers to each of the two armies to avoid accidents.

They originally planned to take the mountain road and take a shortcut, so instead of sending the Ming army sentry cavalry, they sent the chieftain soldiers-the chieftain soldiers took the mountain road and took the shortcut sometimes faster than taking the road and galloping horses.

As for why they were intercepted, the main reason was that there were not enough people. There were five messengers on the one route, and the two couriers were together because they had not yet left the Lotus Mountain. There were only ten people in total.

It turned out that it was a coincidence that there were too many people in the Mori family's monogamous group, and a monogamous group of about a hundred people discovered their whereabouts, and finally surrounded and captured them.

Now Kuroda Rushui has nothing to say. After all, it is a routine operation to send multiple messengers during wartime. It is also completely reasonable for the Ming army to use chieftain soldiers to take shortcuts through the mountains.

So, the question now is what significance these two highly pragmatic military orders have for the Japanese army.

President Xiaoxi took the lead to speak, saying: "If this is the case, then the retreat of the Ming army in Lianhuashan can be explained."

Everyone looked at him, Captain Xiaoxi pointed to the map, and said: "Please look, gentlemen, the military order of Gao Yushi mentioned the movements of all parties. The military order he gave to Li Rumei said that His Highness Guodao defeated Dong Yiyuan. Jiangling is heading south—we have heard this news in Changning, so it is undoubtedly true.”

[Note: Jiangling here refers to Gangneung City in Gangwon Province, one of the Eight Provinces of Korea. It faces the sea in the east of Korea and is basically at the same latitude as Seoul.Gangwon-do is named after the initials of Gangneung and Wonju. ]
Everyone nodded, waiting for him to continue.

Xiao Xixing said: "Since the matter is true, then think about it, gentlemen, with the pride of the Ming army, how can they swallow this breath? Of course they can't. So this also explains why Gao Yushi would rather give up on us temporarily. For encirclement and suppression, we must also order Li Rumei to divide his troops to intercept His Royal Highness Guodao."

This statement was immediately agreed by Ukita Hideo's family, who said: "Yes, I also think this statement is reasonable. The Ming army's conceit has long been familiar to you, but Dong Yiyuan, who led an army of tens of thousands, was killed His Royal Highness Nabeshima broke it with five thousand.

Under such shame and humiliation, if the Ming army cannot get revenge on His Royal Highness Guodao as soon as possible, it will definitely lose face, so I think the military order Gao Yushi gave to Li Rumei should be true. "

Everyone also felt that it was reasonable, so Chief Xiaoxi went on to analyze, and said: "Gao Wushi's military order to Liu Ting mentioned that Liu Ting's army was short of rations and could not be mobilized. This is also very likely to be true. It wasn't too far for him to go to Mashan. Even if he went in a hurry and didn't bring enough food and grass, he could still be dispatched by Sanjia or even Jinzhou.

However, there is one thing here that both Gao Yushi and Liu Ting have to consider, and that is the whereabouts of our army.Gentlemen, please think about it, if our army abandons the westward march to Sacheon and diverts to the north, whether it is possible to be intercepted by our army whether it is transporting grain from Sanjia or Jinzhou to Mashan?
Both Gao Wushi and Liu Ting knew that our army was in a hurry to go south, and there would not be too much food in the army, so how could they let our army intercept this batch of food and grass for no reason?
Therefore, in the military order, Gao Wushi planned to take advantage of the sea to collect grain from Jeolla Province and transport it to Liu Chen in Mashan.At this point, it makes sense both emotionally and rationally. "

Mao Lixiuyuan rubbed his chin and asked, "Then, why did the Lianhuashan Ming army abandon the line of defense and retreat westward?"

"His Highness Mao Li has a good question." Xiao Xixing said: "Based on ordinary combat, the Lianhua Mountain defense line is quite strong. Our army has just suffered a setback here. It stands to reason that high-level pragmatism should choose to stick to it. But gentlemen must We know that because Li Rumei's troops have to divide their troops, although our army does not know where the Ming army is in the north, at least the strength of the troops is diluted.

In this case, if our army really bypasses Lianhua Mountain to attack Jinzhou, will Gao Wushi dare to put all his hopes on Li Rumei, who has been divided continuously?I don't think so.

Then, he could only temporarily withdraw the Ming army from Lianhuashan, which wasted a lot of time, and it might not guarantee that the Ming army would be able to return to Sacheon before us, the danger would be too great.

Because of this, Gao Wushi simply chose to withdraw the Lianhuashan Ming army in advance.Although this may make our army no longer actively threaten the Ming army, so that we can concentrate on attacking Sacheon, but on the other hand, as Gao Wushi said, the Magui army has arrived in Jeonju, and it will only take about five days to reach Sacheon.

At this point, the key to the battlefield has become whether our army can break through Sacheon within five days—at present, at least Gao Yushi believes that our army cannot do it. "

Fengsuhe Jiazheng said: "Speaking of which, Sacheon is only a small city, and it would not be difficult to take it down, but if the Ming army sticks to it..." He frowned, and said: "Considering the lessons learned from the Battle of Bichiguan and the The Kuroda army suffered setbacks at Lianhua Mountain, so it may be very difficult to break through the defense of the Ming army."

Mao Lixiuyuan clapped his hands lightly, and said: "From this point of view, these two military orders can be sure to be authentic. Then, how do you think our army should react under such circumstances?"

Chief Xiaoxi was still the same Chief Xiaoxi, and immediately said: "Li Rumei divides the troops, Gao Pragmatically shrinks the defense line, and Liu Chen is trapped in the isolated city. Under such circumstances, our army continues to attack Sacheon. Although there are fewer constraints, it is difficult to finish the battle within five days. It is unwise to break the city and face Magui's army going south.

Since Sacheon can't do anything, then we should take this opportunity to jump out of the encirclement, return to Busan as soon as possible to establish a defense line, and wait for His Highness Taige's order. "

President Konishi himself didn't expect that when he expressed his position this time, he won the approval of most of the generals, especially Naoshima Naoshige simply said: "If you can withdraw to Busan, I am willing to go forward to defend. At the same time, you can wait for the opportunity to welcome my son back to the south."

Naoshima Naoshima is Katsushige Nabeshima's father, and of course he hopes to take his son to the south, not to mention that his son showed him a big face this time. Once he returns to Japan, his reputation is enough to ensure that he will inherit the family business and ensure that the Nabeshima family Fame is not lost - this is the most important thing for Japanese daimyo.

Seeing that the military spirit was so high, Mao Lixiuyuan was not polite, and also agreed.The total Japanese army is only about [-], and Mori Hidemoto's family accounts for nearly half of the troops. Since he made it clear, even the Ukita Hideo family has nothing to do. There is no hope.

Kuroda Nagamasa was in a dilemma, so he could only look at his father helplessly.Heitian Rushui sighed, and said: "Since you have made your decision, I have nothing to say. But this trip to Sacheon was my plan, and now I have failed, I have to take responsibility for it..."

Ukita Hide's family was taken aback, thinking that Kuroda Rusui was going to have a caesarean section, so he hurriedly tried to persuade him.However, what Kuroda Rushui said next made him feel relieved: It turned out that he had misunderstood.

Kuroda Rushui said: "...The Kuroda army is willing to decide for the princes, lest the Ming army find out that our army has withdrawn and change its mind, and come to follow and pursue. Your Highness Mori, Your Highness Ukita, what do you think?"

Mao Lixiuyuan naturally welcomed this, and said with a smile: "Then there will be Master Lao Rushui and Kuroda Jun."

Ukita Hideka's family was a little bit worried, after all, Kuroda Rusui was the military adviser appointed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and if something happened, he would be a bit uncomfortable to explain.

However, he tried a few words of persuasion but was not persuaded, Kuroda Rushui insisted on keeping the queen as "atonement".Yukita Hideo's family had no choice but to agree, but they still told him carefully, hoping that the old military adviser would take care.Kuroda Rushui smiled and said a few words of thanks.

The military discussion was confirmed, and the Japanese army immediately moved into action. Except for Kuroda's army, the rest of the army set off and retreated eastward.However, the way they retreated was not to return the same way, but slightly to the northeast - this move undoubtedly indicated that they planned to bypass Mashan where Liu Ting was.

Kuroda Rushui quietly watched the Japanese troops withdraw one after another, but never said a word.

Kuroda Nagamasa couldn't bear it any longer, and asked, "Why is this so, father? Kuroda's army suffered losses today, and there are quite a few wounded in the army, and now they have to leave behind. Withdraw and attack, the Kuroda army will be in great trouble!"

Kuroda Rushui was silent for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Busan is the place to die."

Kuroda Nagamasa did not expect that his father still insists that Busan is a place of death. It is really a headache. He said helplessly: "Even if Busan is a place of death, at least Busan and several surrounding cities have been improved and strengthened by our army several times. Even if the Ming army wants to Attack, we can defend a little longer, what if His Royal Highness Taige really sent reinforcements?"

Kuroda Rushui raised his chin slightly, and said coldly: "I never put hope on others in my life, my own destiny must be in my own hands."

Kuroda Nagamasa said helplessly: "How can I be sure? My Kuroda army is only about 8000 people and it is still considered complete. Could it be that [-] troops can't take Sacheon, but [-] people can take it instead?"

Heitian Rushui suddenly smiled lightly, and said, "Do you think the [-] army is really powerless to take Sacheon?"

"Isn't it?" Kuroda Nagamasa spread his hands: "Today's battle has once again demonstrated that the defense line of the Ming army is really difficult to break through."

"How many troops did you use to attack the Ming army? It's only about [-]." Kuroda Rushui snorted, "Although the terrain of Lianhua Mountain is not suitable for a large army to deploy, if they don't look forward and backward like this and keep fighting forward and backward, Ming army Lianhua Mountain If the line of defense is fast, it will take two days, and if it is late, it will be defeated in three days."

"Even if it is, but so what?" Kuroda Nagamasa sighed: "Before we didn't know that Liu Chen had no food! Besides, if we kept attacking Lianhua Mountain, how could Gao Yushi order Li Rumei to divide his troops? If Li Rumei went south, we Taking Sacheon is still as difficult as climbing the sky."

"Did Gao Yushi's order mention where Li Rumei was?" Kuroda Rushui asked indifferently.

Kuroda Nagamasa was stunned for a moment, then frowned and said, "Not really, but it must not be too far away."

"Then let me ask you again, Gao Yushi sent reinforcements from Li Rumei earlier, why did he only have [-] cavalry?"

"This... Maybe it's Gao Pragmatic who is too conceited and thinks three thousand is enough?"

"It's a joke." Kuroda Rushui shook his head and said, "That's because although the terrain of Lianhua Mountain is not dangerous, it is still not a good idea to mobilize cavalry to such a place. Three thousand cavalry is almost the limit, and he will not be able to perform any more. effect.

Because of this, even if Li Rumei's department is located somewhere north of Lianhua Mountain, it is impossible for Gao Yushi to order him to enter the mountain in a big way.And if our army can quickly defeat the Lianhuashan Ming army, even if Li Rumei's troops get the news soon, they will have to go to Jinzhou by road first, and then they can rush to Sacheon. "

Kuroda Nagamasa counted the time, but was still puzzled, and said, "Even so, our army will not take more than two days to capture Sacheon. This... I am afraid it will be very difficult to win."

"It's hard not to mean there is no hope, but after going to Busan, there is really no hope at all." Kuroda Rushui sighed, shook his head and said, "But this is the end, and it's useless to talk about it. Let's talk about the present, you know Why do you want to stay behind as a father?"

Kuroda Nagamasa shook his head to express his ignorance, Kuroda Rushui calmly said: "Because I still want to go to Sacheon."

"What!" Kuroda Nagamasa's eyes almost popped out: "If you go to Sacheon now, you will have to die!"

Kuroda Rushui shook his head and said, "No, going to Sacheon now is to survive."

"How is it possible?" Kuroda Nagamasa no longer cared about the dignity of his father and son, or even his face, and said loudly, "We can't even defeat the Ming army in Sacheon!"

"When did I say that the purpose of going to Sacheon is to attack Sacheon?" Heitian Rushui sighed, "The navy doesn't know that our army has withdrawn to the east, and they are still going to Sacheon. We still have a chance to board a ship when we go to Sacheon now. "
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