Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1939 Returning to Japan ([-]) Adjusting the Fighting Area

If Gao Pragmatic wants to pour cold water on Tokugawa Ieyasu, then the previous tactical layout needs to be adjusted.Of course, since the news of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death will soon spread to the Japanese army in North Korea, these layouts are likely to fail. Accurate.

The previous high-level pragmatic arrangement was roughly like this: First, it was Magui's headquarters, that is, the direction of Ulsan.Gao Pragmatically asked Magui to regroup the army on the spot in Ulsan and prepare for another battle, but for the time being, there is no need to rush to launch a new round of offensive, but to wait for the replenishment of logistics materials and targeted arrangements in other directions.

Then there is the front line of Jinhai, which is Liu Ting's department.During the previous Battle of Ulsan, Liu Ting's troops had advanced to the base of Yangsan Castle, which was located between Gimhae and Ulsan, and it was obvious that Wajo Castle had already been repaired just like Ulsan.

However, the original city of Liangshan was in the plain area below the mountain. Because the main consideration was to defend against the artillery that the Ming army had an absolute advantage in, the Japanese city was built on the mountain to the east of the original city.This made Liu Ting's attack on Liangshan's main city quite smooth, but then he also faced troubles similar to Ma Gui's, that is, it was very difficult to capture Wacheng.

According to Liu Ting's report to Gao Yushi, he believes that although the Japanese city of Liangshan is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is relatively easier to fight than Hailongtun. If you sneak attack and break the door, there is still a good chance of success.The only problem is that Liu Ting believes that the Ming army will lose no less than 5000 people in this way.

Although limited by the weather, geography, and the fact that the Japanese army was really good at building mountain cities, it was true that the Ming army did not use 5000% of its strength to storm the Japanese army's mountain city at this time, but Gao Pragmatism still has a lot of ideas about losing [-] people to storm Liangshan. Difficult to support.

In particular, the Ming army's plan earlier was to attack Ulsan first, and then let Magui and Liu Ting attack Liangshan together after Ulsan was over, so Liu Ting was not in a hurry.

But now Ulsan can't win for a while, especially Hideaki Kobayakawa brought an elite team to help out, which made Gao Yushi have to change his mind.

He ordered Liu Ting to increase the intensity of his attack on Liangshan, but the premise was that the momentum should be large and the losses should be small.Immediately after Liu Ting received the order, he understood Gao Yushi's intention: this was to force Kobayakawa Hideaki not to stay in Ulsan, but to attract him to Liangshan.

However, Liu Ting was not sure whether Gao Yushi wanted to ambush Kobayakawa Xiuqiu between Ulsan and Yangsan.

In fact, Gao Wushi did have this plan, and the order he issued to Li Rumei's department alone was aimed at it.

From the idleness of Li Rumei's troops in the Battle of Dosan, it can be seen that Li Rumei's troops will hardly be useful in the subsequent battles of the Battle of Ulsan. After all, his troops are mainly cavalry, and it is indeed not his turn to attack the city.

Gao Wushi didn't intend to idle such a powerful cavalry force, so he had the idea of ​​attracting Kobayakawa Hideakibe out of the city and fighting him in a field battle of annihilation.If it can be done, it will even be a certain degree of "breaking each other", which can achieve the effect of "breaking one finger is worse than hurting ten fingers".

At that time, Jia Feiji also made some suggestions, including the idea of ​​canceling the blockade outside the port of Busan and preparing for an ambush between Busan and Ulsan sea road.These ideas were originally good, but now it is estimated that it will be difficult to implement them smoothly.

The reason is obvious, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is dead, Tokugawa Ieyasu and Ishida Mitsunari have reached an extremely rare unanimous opinion, and they both believe that the top priority at the moment is to withdraw troops from North Korea.

Now that the troops are about to withdraw, it is impossible for Kobayakawa Hideaki's troops to be attracted out, and even if the Japanese navy in Busan Port finds that the Ming fleet has lifted the blockade, there is no need to go to Ulsan to deliver supplies.Therefore, the two plans to lure snakes out of the cave by the sea and the land are unlikely to have the conditions for implementation.

However, Gao Yushi looked back and found that the development of the matter may still have a chance to follow the trend, and this opportunity is still divided into two parts: land and sea.

Let's talk about the sea first: Japan is an island country. Since it wants to withdraw its troops from North Korea, it must go by sea anyway.However, although the Japanese navy in and around Busan still has a certain scale, it certainly has not reached the level that can transport 10,000+ Japanese troops back to the mainland. Not to mention that although the Pingwa Fleet has lifted the blockade, it does not mean that it will not participate in subsequent battles. .

This means that the Japanese navy must also have the ability to fight against it, at least on paper, lest the transportation fail and feed bastards together.Therefore, the Japanese mainland will inevitably need to send another navy to come and cooperate with the Busan navy to try their best to complete the task of bringing back the army.

However, in the era without weather satellites and radio communications, it was basically impossible for the Japanese naval forces in Pusan ​​and the local side to achieve tactical coordination—that is, one side moved while the other side might not be able to move.

This gave the Ming army's Pingwa fleet a chance to defeat the Japanese navy.The local fleet of the Japanese Navy wants to support Busan, and the starting point is either Nagoya or Hakata Town. In short, it starts from the northern part of Kyushu Island, basically sailing all the way north.

The distance between these two places and Busan is actually not far, both in the early four hundred miles (Note: I said before that this book does not use "nautical miles", a unit that ordinary readers are not familiar with), that is, a little more than two hundred kilometers .At this time, the Ming army could rely on the advantages of speed and numbers to send reconnaissance ships to the relevant sea lanes for prevention, and notify the fleet's berths through letters sent by flying pigeons at sea.

In this way, as long as the main force of the fleet at the berth can set off early, whether it is interception or ambush, there is a high probability that the combat objectives of each defeat will be achieved.

Of course, one of the more important advantages here is the flying pigeons.As far as Gao Yushi knows, this method has not been used in the Japanese army, or at least there is no record of using flying pigeons as a standing method.

Some Japanese naval forces (pirates) used this method in the past, but what is interesting is that almost all of them were closely related to the pirates of the Ming Dynasty. Use this method of communication again.As to whether it was due to financial considerations or what, it is not known.

(The cost of using homing pigeons on a large scale is not low, and homing pigeons suitable for use in maritime activities are even more difficult to cultivate.)
This is the case at sea, but what about land?As soon as the news that Japan's five elders and five pursued a joint request to withdraw troops reached North Korea, the Japanese army in North Korea would be liberated from Hideyoshi's order to defend Busan and even retake North Korea.

If at first the basic task of Hideaki Kobayakawa’s reinforcements was to defend Ulsan, and the advanced task was to find opportunities to counterattack the Ming army and disrupt the Ming army’s siege of Busan, then once the withdrawal order is issued, their goal will become "" Try to get all the armies to withdraw completely to Japan."

But there is a big question here: Who will withdraw first, and who will be the last?You know, this is probably not just a military issue.

The Japanese army at this time is not a national army in the usual sense, it is to a large extent an army of feudal lord alliances. The theoretical core of this army should be Toyotomi Hideyoshi's direct line, and then follow The importance is divided according to the relationship with Hideyoshi, the level of official position, and the number of troops.

Perhaps it can be understood as an onion-like army. The closer the relationship with Hideyoshi, the more it is at the core of the onion, and then go out layer by layer. The outermost layer is the least closely related to Hideyoshi and the most powerful. weak part.

Normally speaking, Toyotomi's direct descendants should be the first to obtain the right to retreat, followed by Hideyoshi's confidant daimyos, then subordinate daimyos, and finally those junior daimyos who have a normal relationship with Hideyoshi and are weaker among the subordinate daimyos.

However, since the actual battle situation is not necessarily suitable to operate in this order, there is a high probability that there will be various disputes within the Japanese army. In addition, it may also be necessary to consider the judgment of each daimyo on the future situation in Japan and even the personalities of the daimyos themselves. ...in short, it will be complicated.

For example, Kato Kiyomasa, he is the direct descendant of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and he should be able to retreat earlier, but now he is an independent daimyo, has his own fief in the central part of Kyushu Island, and as a hardliner, he has always behaved He is very active in combat, and is often willing to help others in the rear, so it is very estimated whether he will withdraw early or late.

Therefore, high pragmatism must use the exclusion method to first determine some Japanese army regiments with a high probability of withdrawing first, and then estimate how they should mobilize their forces and when to withdraw, so as to formulate corresponding interception or ambush plans.

This is a very difficult task, because there are too many uncontrollable factors, and Gao Pragmatic thinks it is difficult to achieve "strike what you want to hit, and let go of what you want to let go".Later, I seriously recalled the Japanese withdrawal in the original history, and then I suddenly realized-hey, how can it be so complicated!
At this time, it is impossible for the Japanese army to have a completely rational withdrawal plan!In the original history, the withdrawal of the Japanese army can only be said to have barely maintained the last bit of rationality, and most of them were actually based on a principle: whoever has ships will withdraw first, and whoever has more ships will be able to withdraw. faster.

As for the big names of the last captains, I'm sorry, but after the other family has withdrawn, if there is room left, I will come to withdraw your soldiers.

There is only one exception here, and that is Yoshihiro Shimadzu's Fifth Army.At that time, Yoshihiro Shimadzu's retreat was relatively smooth, but after he withdrew to the seaside, he suddenly received a request for help from President Konishi-President Konishi was besieged.

Yoshihiro Shimadzu didn't know whether he was out of loyalty or worried that he would be held accountable after returning to his country. He went back very decisively and tried his best to rescue Konishi Yukio. Shimadzu" name.

But the good times didn't last long. Because of this delay, the Second Army and the Fifth Army delayed the boarding time. As a result, when the fleet went to sea, they encountered a joint attack from the Ming and North Korean naval forces, and the famous Luliang naval battle broke out.

Some specific results of this battle are doubtful (as mentioned earlier in this book), but the big record is relatively clear, that is, the Japanese army suffered huge losses overall, including about [-] warships and more than [-] troops. More than a hundred warships were lost.Therefore, the coalition forces of the Ming and North Korea declared a great victory, known in history as the Great Victory of Lulianghai.

After figuring this out, Gao Yushi didn't bother to make extremely detailed pre-war plans as in the past, so he simply asked the conscript fleet of the Maritime Trade Alliance to produce a batch of Japanese family crest maps, which were divided into levels according to the importance, telling Who were the Ming armies mainly attacking and releasing?

Although the various legions in Japan seem to be "nationally organized" today, they are far from it.Although they also fly the banner of the "X Legion" when they go out to battle, apart from this banner, each family will display its own various banners, which use different coats of arms, and soldiers, especially the samurai class There are also coats of arms printed on the armor, some of which are the same as the family crest, and some are different.

In short, there are generally three things to distinguish, including family crests, military flags, and horse seals.

The family crest is the coat of arms of a samurai family in Japan.Almost every Japanese samurai family has its own family crest, and on the battlefield, the family crest on the generals and soldiers is also used to distinguish enemy from friend.In addition, due to factors such as blood relationship, strength and status, many families often have several family crests, such as Oda Nobunaga.

Apparently, the top family patterns that Gao Pragmatic is going to play this time are "Taige Tongwen" and "Wuqitongwen".These two are actually the family crests of the Toyotomi family. At first, Toyotomi Hideyoshi used the Wuqitong pattern, but later he felt that it was not enough to express dignity, so he came up with the Taiko pattern.

In this way, the Taiko pattern is used by Toyotomi Hideyoshi's direct descendants, and the Wuqitong pattern is used by other families with Toyotomi as the Miao character, such as Toyotomi Hidecho, Toyotomi Hideho and his son, or the former Sekibai Toyotomi Hideji. Wuqitong pattern can be used.

Military flags are the most common markers and information transmission channels in ancient human warfare, and Japan is no exception.During the Warring States period in Japan, some individual Sengoku daimyos often wrote some special words or patterns on their military flags to show their identities and ideologies to others.

For example, Takeda Shingen's "Fenglin Volcano" military flag shows Takeda Shingen's military philosophy, Uesugi Kenshin's "Bizi Banner" is promoting that he is the reincarnation of the Buddhist god "Bishamonten", and Oda Nobunaga's "Yongle The "Tongbao" military flag shows his idea of ​​"money is omnipotent", which is also the most curious and even talked about by Chinese people in later generations.

If family crests and military flags are not uncommon in other countries, the "horse seal" is probably unique to Japan.Ma Yin, also known as Ma Biao and Ma Yan, is a marker that specifically indicates the position of generals on the battlefield.Generally, only warriors with more than a thousand soldiers are eligible to use horse seals.

The horse seal of some Japanese generals in the Warring States period is often the military flag, such as Takeda Shingen's Fulin Volcano flag is also his horse seal.However, the horse seals of some Japanese military generals in the Warring States Period are all kinds of weird things, the most famous of which are Toyotomi Hideyoshi's "Sencheng Scoop" and Tokugawa Ieyasu's "Golden Fan".

In addition to Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, Oda Nobunaga's horse seal is a "golden umbrella", Date's authentic horse seal is a "black two-stage bird hair hat", and Maeda Toshiie's horse seal is a golden umbrella. The word "again".These strange horse seals also became a special landscape in the Warring States period of Japan.

Of course, Gao Wushi didn't want the Ming army to appreciate this kind of scenery, he just let the Ming army know which family of Japanese soldiers he was facing, so as to avoid hitting the Japanese army he planned to let go.

Making these brochures is not complicated for the Maritime Trade Alliance, which has been deeply involved in the Japanese market for many years. There are even some of them, and now they are just used to compile them.It does not need to be printed and distributed on a large scale, it only needs to be distributed to generals and even higher-level generals.

So Jin Hai Jinglue Xingyuan quickly issued another order, making a series of adjustments to the previous military orders.The biggest adjustment is to hold down the various previous proactive actions for the time being, and change the thinking of all subsequent offensives, that is, wait for the Japanese army to make a mobilization first, and then the Ming army will take corresponding actions.

In short, Gao Yushi delegated powers to various ministries of the Ming army this time, allowing them to actively exert their subjective initiative and strive to cause maximum damage among the various Japanese troops that Gao Yushi delineated.

As for who is the priority to fight... of course, the direct descendants of Toyotomi's family, and then Toyotomi's cronies—mostly some military generals who joined the Eastern Army in history, and some Western daimyos who have long been listed as key targets by Gao Yushi.
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