Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1911 Returning to Japan ([-]) The Work of Kai Ji
After the issue of the status of the Kuroda family was resolved, Gao Wushi finally did not need to stay in Sacheon, but could go to the front line of Gimhae to command the Ming army nearby, and launch the final battle against the Japanese army at any time.

According to Gao Wushi's previous military order, Jinglue Xingyuan and Magui's army should have arrived in Jinhai almost on the same day, and Liu Ting should have cleared the surrounding areas of Jinhai before that to create conditions for Jinglue Xingyuan to station.

But in fact, Magui, who was farther away from Jinhai, arrived first.Obviously, Ma Gui's move was in line with the rules of Daming's officialdom - he couldn't let Gao Gebu and Gao Nanning go to Jinhai to wait for him first.For this reason, Magui's troops marched all the way in a hurry, running faster than when the Japanese army surprised Sacheon, just for fear of delaying the time and breaking the rules.

On the other hand, Gao Yushi walked at a leisurely pace. He even had time to answer letters sent from various places during the march, and he held an armed parade in a serious manner.

Speaking of letters from various places, Gao Wushi replied this time to a letter sent from Japan, written by Narita Kai.

In the past few years, Jia Feiji has often traveled back and forth between tomorrow and tomorrow. Before Gao Wushi went to North Korea, she spent about half of the year in the capital and half of the time in Japan.

During his stay in Japan, he mainly managed the defense of the second city of Kanto, and occasionally involved some espionage matters with a low level of confidentiality.The two cities of Misaki and Yusheng have been built very solidly in the past few years, but the defense systems of the two cities are completely different.

Misaki Castle was built in a very "Jinghua style", that is, it adopted a bastion-style structure. In fact, two fortresses were built-Jojima Fortress and Misaki Castle Body Fortress.

The island of Misaki Castle, this place is basically a tourist attraction in later generations of Japan. The main attraction is the horseback cliff, and the population on the island is not large.

However, at this time, the island of the city was built into a fortress because of the highly pragmatic strategic needs. Its main function was to serve as a strategic fulcrum for "just in case" to ensure that there would always be a place in Jinghua that could not be destroyed by the Japanese. Captured bridgehead.

This task requires two prerequisites. One is that the fort itself is strong enough and there are sufficient supplies stored, and the other is that Jinghua's maritime strength has always stabilized Japan.

Regarding the latter, Kai Ji has no right to interfere, so her focus of work is to supervise the construction of the fortress, especially to make construction requirements for the common methods of siege in Japan.

Kai Ji was in charge of defending the castle during the Battle of Ninja Castle, she became famous. It can be said that she herself is a famous defender of the castle, so with her assistance, the castle island can be called an iron wall after it is built.

In order to demonstrate the indestructibility of the city defense system and to deter the Tokugawa clan, Kai Feiji, Gao Yunping, and Luo Yuan quietly invited Tokugawa Hidetada to visit Misaki Castle.

Tokugawa Hidetada was shocked by the sturdiness of Misaki Castle itself, thinking that it was not inferior even compared to Osaka Castle.In particular, the defensive firepower network formed by more than 300 artillery pieces and more than 1000 musket openings staggered, shocked Tokugawa Hidetada even more.

With the current weapons and equipment of the Japanese army, even if the corpses of [-] troops were dropped outside the city, it may not be possible to capture the city. If you want to win the city, you must spend several years in a long-term siege.

Then he saw Castle Island Fortress.This time, Tokugawa Hidetada was completely desperate for attacking Misaki Castle by force.
As a long island with rocky surroundings, the island of the city was not easy to land on. Now a towering city wall has been built, and the city wall has formed at least dozens of angles, and there are crossfires everywhere.

Looking at its firepower equipment, dozens of Jinghua No. [-] Fortress guns are installed in all directions. The huge black muzzles are like the cold eyes of death. His eyes fell and he fled.

Ships dare not approach at all, so what can I do to land on the island?Swimming over and being beaten into a hornet's nest?

However, the city island is not far or close to Misaki Castle on land. The giant artillery on the north side of the island can penetrate Misaki Castle, but there are only No. [-] cannons in Misaki Castle, which cannot hit the city island. [Note: But in fact, if you hit Misaki Castle from Castle Island, the accuracy is very poor, and you can only cover the strike. ]
what does that mean?It means that even if Misaki Castle can be captured, it cannot be really occupied, because the city is completely within the range of the city's artillery fire.Even if the Tokugawa Army or any other Japanese army really took down Misaki Castle and moved in, justice would soon come from heaven, so such an attack would be meaningless.

The islands and lands are linked together, and the islands are used to control the land. This is the Misaki Fortress completed under the supervision of Kai Jiji.

On the other hand, Kaihime's construction of the Narita family's Tamawa Castle is more inclined to the traditional Japanese-style city defense system, especially the style of the West Japan castle is very obvious.But because she is a highly pragmatic concubine, Yusheng City unexpectedly has another "Jinghua style" besides the architectural appearance.

Tamawa Castle is located in East Japan, but it was built in the style of a West Japan castle, which is obviously very special.Here, let me first talk about the differences between the style of the eastern Japan and the western Japan.

The castles in Eastern Japan include Ninja Castle, which is called "floating city" built on the water, and Ogaki Castle, which is built on a traffic artery and has both transportation and military value. There are even extremely complex structures that took 56 years to build. Xinbatian City.

The appearance of the eastern Japanese city is not as majestic and beautiful as Kinki, and its structure is not as solid as a rock in the western country.However, most of the Dongguo castles have unique styles and are not rigid in their inherent forms. Their practicability and diversity may be extremely rare in Japanese history. The pattern of a hundred flowers blooming.

For most people, the impression of Japanese castles is basically composed of majestic stone walls, water-filled moats, and majestic castle towers, but these are actually concepts produced by modern castles in Western Japan.

Comparing the modern castles of East Japan with those of West Japan, in fact, most of the castles in East Japan are built with earthen barriers, empty bores, and water bores in a complex and delicate way, and there are very few strong castles with stone walls and castle towers.Not all of them, but in the case of Eastern Japan, the way the castles are constructed is truly unique in Japan as a whole.

There are very few castles in eastern Japan with stone walls, especially in the Kanto region, where there are only Edo Castle and Odawara Castle.

In the original history, even in Edo Castle, which was the residence of the generals of the Tokugawa family and was known as "the largest in Japan" in terms of scale, there was only a stone wall under the "Fushimi Yagura" on the right hand side of the famous "Double Bridge". Some parts are almost completely covered by earthen barriers, and even the Edo Castle Nishinomaru, where the shogun Shizu lived, mostly uses this type of earthen barriers.

Therefore, it is only natural that the walls of the Kanto region other than Edo Castle would not have stone walls.The reason is actually very simple, because the stone materials needed to build stone walls are not produced in large quantities in Kanto.

If you have a geological map of the Japanese archipelago, you will find that only the Kanto is unique. It is a concentration zone of diluvial layers, so it will be difficult to obtain stone materials for the castle.The stone used for the stone wall of Edo Castle was transported by ship from the Izu country under the orders of the Tokugawa Shogun's family.In this way, even Mito Castle, which is the residence of the "Tokugawa Imperial Three Families", has no way to use stone walls but to use earthen barriers.

Although the Tohoku region is farther away from the Kinki region, the core of Japan, than the Kanto Plain, it has a certain ability to produce stone in Iwate and Fukushima prefectures in later generations.Even so, there are still only a handful of castles with majestic stone walls.Only Morioka Castle, Aizu Wakamatsu Castle, and Shirakawa Komine Castle are considered to be several large castles built with stone walls in the northeast.This shows that the penetration rate of Ishigaki is low.

Even these three famous cities are nothing compared to the majestic stone walls left by the modern city walls of western Japan, but they are generally regarded as stone wall castles.

Similar to the Kubota Castle of the Satake clan and the Yonezawa Castle of the Uesugi clan, there are almost no stone walls, and the Sendai Castle of the Date clan and the Yamagata Castle of the Mogami clan only built stone walls in important places.In addition, only a few places such as Hirosaki Castle and the Honmaru of Nihonmatsujo have obvious traces of stone walls.

The lack of good stone materials is a problem of land endowment, and there is no way to solve it unless it is transported from other places at a high price.But the fact that the Japanese can't solve it doesn't mean that Jinghua can't solve it. Jinghua can either buy stone materials or find another way.

It costs money to buy stone materials, and the people who make money are other Japanese daimyos who sell stone materials, so Kaiji chose the latter without saying a word-the "other method" is the iron bar concrete method that Jinghua Infrastructure is good at (steel bars in this era would be too extravagant).

The Narita family was originally not considered wealthy, and the cost of building the city with iron bars and concrete was not something they could afford. However, the largest shareholder of the Ming Fed is Jinghua, and Gao Yushi is naturally very interested in lending money to others.

As a result, the Narita family received a huge loan of up to 20 guan Yongle Tongbao with fear. The matter of Japan using Daming copper coins was mentioned earlier in this book. They especially liked Yongle Tongbao. Therefore, there was also a gray business in the Jiangnan area of ​​the Ming Dynasty that privately manufactured Yongle Tongbao and sold it to Japan.

Of course, this deal is now snatched by Jinghua, because Jinghua's technology is more advanced, and the quality of Yongle Tongbao made by Jinghua is better, which can more easily cooperate with the grand strategy of high-level economic control of Japan.

In short, the Narita family, who received a large loan, completely boarded the high-practical thief ship, but they also built Tamanawa Castle into the second Odawara Castle.

After the completion, the new Tamamaro Castle not only has stone walls and castle guards, but also is extremely tall and majestic.However, when there are generally only ten sculls in the cities of Eastern Japan, Tamanawa Castle actually has 32 scull gates, which is simply far from the spectrum.

And because it is backed by Jinghua, Tamanawa Castle also has 24 forts. Although it is much inferior to Jinghua's own Misaki Castle, if Misaki Castle is not counted, it is the only one in Eastern Japan.

The issue of the garrison of Misaki Castle is not within the purview of Kai Ji, so while building the city, she focuses on improving the combat effectiveness of the Narita Army. [Note: Yusheng City also has part of the garrison of Jinghua, which was briefly mentioned in the previous article. ]
The two former generals Shibasaki Izumi and Shumaki Basao under Kai Fei Ji's command were both sent by her to lead the troops, and the Narita family's money earned from the franchise of some Jinghua products was quickly invested in military expansion and training.

Compared with the Battle of Ninja Castle, the Narita Army at this time is much stronger, and the whole army has been organized into an infantry association according to the establishment of Jinghua, that is, 38 people.

Although the number of four thousand troops has not improved much compared to the past, the improvement of the Narita Army mainly lies in weapons and equipment.

Because of Kai Ji's relationship, the Narita Army obtained part of the equipment from the Shenglong Garrison Army and the Jingang Garrison Eliminated from Annan, and established the first professional artillery battalion in Japan.Similarly, they also obtained a batch of Mongolian war horses selected by Jinghua, and established two battalions of cavalry cavalry.

One artillery battalion and two cavalry battalions, this is a standard establishment.Needless to say, the artillery battalion is the first of its kind in Japan.The two cavalry battalions made up of Mongolian horses may have more deterrent power in the Eastern Kingdom than the artillery, because even the Takeda Chibei cavalry, which was so powerful in the Eastern Kingdom, did not have such excellent horses to ride.

Jia Fei Ji's own cavalry battle is the best in the East, so she devoted a lot of effort to this cavalry.This cavalry used the Wanli II-style cavalry and new-style sabers that were comparable to the six major garrison troops and the elite of the Ming army, but they did not get half of the cavalry of the Ming army.

For this reason, Jia Feiji replaced the armor of the cavalry with cheap and light belly rolls suitable for cavalry according to her own preferences.

The belly roll can be described in one sentence: a suspender tight skirt-of course it is made of fine scale-like iron or copper.

The same as the belly roll that Kai Ji herself wore in battle, the belly roll of this Narita cavalry completely reproduces Kai Ji's preferences. The "Sakura Wei" connected to the scale armor is pink but not conspicuous. The belly roll body It is black, and the haori on the outer cover is dark red.

Black and red are the colors of iron and blood.However, because the feather weaving is worn outside, it looks like a red cavalry from a distance, so it becomes a "red equipment".Therefore, when this cavalry of about a thousand people was trained, it was called Narita Chibei.

Narita Chibei is regarded as the direct descendant of Narita Kaibei, and she is usually led by her confidant General Shunomaki Blade. It is said that Ii Naomasa of the Tokugawa Army is very concerned about this Chibei and has always regarded it as a competitor.

Of course, Gao Wushi felt that with Tokugawa Ieyasu's current attitude, the two of them might not have a chance to fight.

After Jia Feiji finished these tasks, she originally planned to stay in Japan and sit in Kanto because Gao Yushi was not in the capital, but she planned to come to North Korea to meet Gao Yushi in person due to an incident not long ago.

What is so important?

Date Masamune secretly contacted Kai Ji, hoping to use her to buy from Jinghua more advanced iron cannons than Japan, as well as the large tube (artillery) that Japan is extremely short of.

Buying weapons itself doesn't matter. What matters is that in Japan, because of the all-in-one order issued by Toyotomi Hideyoshi earlier, the daimyos from all over the country will at least dare not blatantly increase their armaments unless they are recruited to fight in North Korea.

Now Masamune Date secretly contacted her to buy Jinghua's firearms, which is obviously a big problem.

What Date Masamune is going to do, whether these weapons can be sold, whether the Kanto Fleet and the Land Division should be vigilant and vigilant about this...etc.

At this time, Gao Wushi's letter to Tokugawa Ieyasu has been sent, but neither Kai Feiji nor Ieyasu must have received it, so Gao Wushi wrote back to Kai Feiji, allowing her to come to North Korea.

After all, by the time she received this letter from her, she must have already known about the adoptive Gao Yan... I don't know if Jia Fei Ji would be dissatisfied with this?Gao Wushi thought it would be good for her to come here, if she was dissatisfied, it would be convenient for him to persuade and comfort her.
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