Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1941 Return of the Dynasty to Japan (Thirty-nine) The end of the war
The morale boost of the Fifth Army Corps of the Japanese Army made the Ming Army completely confused. The Jurchen Allied Forces, who were actually at the forefront of the vanguard, thought that the Japanese Army had set up some traps in advance, and the boost in morale of the opponent meant that they had already stepped into the battlefield. In the trap.

Because of such an inexplicable incident, the Jurchen warriors of the Hada tribe were the first to waver, and even the Ula tribe, which was a little reluctant to send troops, also had the tendency to "few to leave first".As soon as Nurhachi saw that the situation was not good, he immediately sent Anfei Yanggu to suppress it.

Unexpectedly, this repression caused problems. The Hada Department was extremely dissatisfied with Jianzhou Zuowei, the former Wuxia Ameng, who in turn yelled at them, and some generals cursed An Feiyanggu in public.

As one of Nurhachi's top generals, An Fei Yanggu's temper was obviously not much better, and he was about to enforce the military law on the spot. As a result, the Hada department turned their faces on the spot and retreated directly, not playing with Jianzhou Zuowei.

When the Hada tribe left, the Ula tribe was naturally eager, and they withdrew without even saying hello.Now it's not right to keep Ye Hebu to go, and it's not right to keep Ye Hebu, obviously hesitant.

As far as the Yehe tribe is concerned, they also do not want to accept the command of Nurhachi.However, this time when he went south to follow the expedition, Gao Pragmatic's original intention was mainly to consume the strength of the Jianzhou left guard, so Nurhachi sent the most troops.Although the Yehe tribe is the de facto overlord of the current Jurchen, but only half of the troops sent by the left guard of Jianzhou, so they were also arranged to obey the command of Nurhachi.

But no matter what, the relationship between the Yehe tribe and Jianzhou Zuowei was not good at first, and they and the Hada tribe were asked to be recruited by Ming Dynasty several times at the same time. After several battles, the relationship is now good, and now the Hada tribe is gone. , Whether they should leave or not has become a problem.

Fei Yingdong was the leader of Yehe's troops. He hesitated for a while and still felt that the master's instructions should not be broken first (see the previous article, theoretically Fei Yingdong is now Meng Gu Zhezhe's subordinate, so he also called Gao Yushi the master), So in the end, Ye Hejun was ordered to stand by on the spot.

However, the retreat of the Hada and Ula tribes has already caused the front line to shake-nonsense, can the position not be shaken if it is empty?Dong Yiyuan in the rear was a little puzzled at first, and then immediately reacted. In a rage, he quickly dispatched his cronies to stop Hada and Ula.

However, the leader of the Japanese army on the opposite side is not an ordinary person. He is Yoshihiro Shimadzu.Therefore, taking advantage of the opportunity of the vanguard of the Ming army to leak this flaw, the Shimadzu army suddenly opened the city gate and launched a counterattack.

Shimadzu Yoshihiro originally deployed a small but elite ambush army outside the city. Now that he wanted to counterattack, he naturally ordered the ambush army to attack at the same time, and the chaotic Jurchen coalition forces were immediately divided and blocked.

Shimadzu Yoshihiro's team also joined the battle. Yoshihiro even led the army to attack and beheaded four enemy troops on the spot.And Tadahiro Shimadzu, who didn't look like a brave general, was also extremely fierce. He killed three people first, and he was also wounded by a gunshot wound. However, he didn't retreat even after he was wounded, and even killed seven Jurchen soldiers. .

Nurhachi was furious at first and wanted to save face, but he also whispered a few words of remonstrance, so Nurhachi changed his angry appearance and shouted: "The Japanese bandits are powerful, my department should retreat and reorganize and come back again!" war!"

After all, Nurhachi led his headquarters to retreat first.Fei Yingdong on Yehe's side was frightened and angry. Fortunately, Yehe didn't send many troops and it was very characteristic of his ministry—all cavalry, and he finally withdrew fast enough without suffering too much loss.

It's just that the Jurchen coalition forces withdrew all at once, which directly caused Dong Yiyuan's central army to be attacked and quickly fell into chaos.Therefore, under the counterattack of the Shimadzu army, it was quite hit.The Shimadzu army pursued for more than ten miles, and the Ming, Dynasty, and Jurchen allied forces discarded countless armors, and even captured more than a dozen No. [-] guns.

On the night of the same day, the Shimadzu Army held a victory ceremony in Dongnae New City, and the Dongnae War ended.

After the war, less than 2 troops of the allied forces of Ming and North Korea stopped retreating. Although most of them ran away, it also made Dong Yiyuan unable to continue the offensive. He could only raise the flag and send cavalry to gather the defeated army.

Because of the high pragmatism that changed history, Yoshihiro Shimadzu did not succeed in the battle of Sacheon, which was brilliant in the first place, but it seemed that he had his own will in the dark. With this battle in Dongnae, he still played "Oni Shimadzu" name. The name "Ghost Stone Manzi" is not only well known in North Korea, but also spread to Ming Dynasty.

Then we will talk about the Battle of Liangshan.Earlier, the Japanese army went to North Korea for the second time. Considering that it was very likely to encounter a strong counterattack by the Ming army, the Japanese army built many Japanese castles in various places—especially around Busan. It was originally built as a worst-case scenario. Now Time to make a difference.

The Japanese city of Yangsan was first built by Ukita Hideka and Takatora Todo. After Gao Wushi suddenly dispatched troops to Sacheon, the Japanese army in Busan realized the importance of Yangsan and other places, and once again asked Takatora Todo to strengthen the defense of the Japanese city in Yangsan and other places.

At that time, Busan Port had been blocked, and Fujido Takatora had no other tasks anyway, so he focused on strengthening the defense system.After overtime civil work, the completion of the city's reinforcement was announced a month later.

Not long afterward, the main force of the Japanese army, whose plan to attack Sacheon in the south failed, returned to Busan. Governor Konishi was ordered to lead the army into the city to serve as a garrison. Takatora Todo had gone to sea before that because of the change in the situation—only this time, he was captured Dropped the high pragmatism.

After the completion of Yangsan Wajo Castle, Konishi Xingchang, Matsuura Shinnobu, Arima Harunobu, Goto Genma, and Omura Kizen led a total of 13700 people to serve as the Yangsan Castle defense force.And this time, those who were in charge of attacking Liangshan City were 21900 people led by Liu Ting of the Ming Army, and 5928 people led by Ma Yuhou Quan Yingxin of the Korean Army.

At the same time, at sea, 19400 men led by Chen Lin, commander of the Pingwa Fleet, and 7328 men led by Yi Sun-shin of the Korean navy have also deployed.

After the battle started, Liu Ting, a general of the West Route Army of the Ming Army, led his army to approach Liangshan.But before the siege, the allied forces of Ming and North Korea first resorted to tactical deception, claiming to the Japanese army that they would hold talks, intending to try to capture Konishi Yukio-chan alive.

On the eighteenth day of this month, Liu Ting handed over a letter to Xingxing Xiaoxi to the effect that "tomorrow we will meet and talk near Liangshan, and I will come to greet you personally."

President Xiaonishi believed it was true and wanted to meet him.Matsuura Jinshin remonstrated: "Ming people often do hypocritical things, and doing so will be dangerous. Have you forgotten what happened in Pyongyang?" But Governor Konishi did not listen to this opinion.

On the [-]th, Liu Ting set up an ambush on the way to the meeting place, and sent another person to meet President Xiaonishi under his own identity.Upon receiving the invitation, Konishi Xingchang went out of the city in ordinary clothes to the meeting place.

As a result, there was an accident. After the entire army searched, Matsuura Zhenxin dispatched an elite team of witnesses (explorers) to investigate the surrounding situation in multiple ways, so the Ming army's ambush failed to wait until Chief Konishi entered the ambush circle. It will be exposed first.There is no doubt that the original plan of the Ming army to capture President Xiaonishi failed.

Since there was no hope of outsmarting the city, the coalition forces had no choice but to seize it—Liu Ting immediately changed course and forcibly attacked the city.

On the afternoon of the [-]th, the allied forces of the Ming and North Korea launched an attack on Liangshan City from land, and a squadron of the allied naval forces also fired at the Japanese from the river. Hardly seen.

In the next two days on the 21th and [-]st, the coalition navy broke through the Japanese defense line on the river, but was repulsed by Japanese artillery after approaching Liangshan City.

At this time, the Ming army discovered that the Japanese army had made some progress compared to the past. At least they had learned to use artillery intensively, and they really had a little artillery reserve in their hands.Although judging from the shelling situation, most of the artillery used by Chief Konishi may have been captured from the North Korean army, but there are also a small number of Jinghua's No. [-] guns.

This became a problem, because there were no large ships that could enter the Nakdong River, not even armed transport ships, but all small boats provided by the North Korean navy, and these small boats could not withstand the Jinghua No. [-] gun.As a result, the coalition's surface offensive was forced to stop.

Since the Ming army attacked Liangshan from the west to the east of the Nakdong River, the Japanese army not only had the solid Japanese city to rely on, but also the advantages brought by the Nakdong River itself.Therefore, in the city defense battle in the next few days, the Japanese army under the command of Governor Konishi failed to allow the Ming and North Korean coalition forces to take any advantage.

In fact, after the troops of Chief Konishi were severely damaged by Li Rusong of the Ming army in Pyongyang, more than half of them had suffered casualties at that time. After several years of rest, although they regained their combat effectiveness, their fighting will has not been strong.

For this Battle of Liangshan, Chief Xiaonishi's headquarters once again assembled a considerable number of matchlock guns, artillery and other firearms. In the past few days, because they successfully stopped the momentum of the Ming army, the morale of the army has been revived.

As I said before, the Japanese Fortress of Yangsan was built by Takatora Todo, who is a famous architectural expert in Japanese history. Therefore, the Fortress of Yangsan is comparable to the Twin Cities of Ulsan to a certain extent, and even because of the cover of Nakdong River in Yangsan , The difficulty of attack may have surpassed that of the Ulsan Twin Cities.

Fortunately, Fujido Takahu had already voted for Gao Yushi at this time, so he got the Liangshan City Defense Situation Map from him before the war.

But it doesn't make much sense, Liu Ting still has a headache after seeing the Liangshan city defense map.The city has an echelon of firepower configuration, coupled with matchlock gun shooting holes that can alternately form a firepower net, making the Japanese defense almost [-]% of the capacity of the bastion.

The unsatisfactory offensive of the coalition forces is largely due to the Japanese defense configuration and firepower configuration, as well as the failure of the expected water suppression.

Liu Ting had to temporarily stop his strong attack on Liangshan, and began to make relatively traditional siege equipment such as ladders, siege towers, rams, and shields.At the same time, he began to cross the river in a roundabout way from the north and the south, and no longer clinging to the side of Liangshanxi City that is close to the Luodong River.

On the second day of October, after the siege equipment was completed, the coalition forces still launched a general attack on Liangshan from both land and water.With the assistance of siege equipment, the army attacked the connecting part of the inner city and the outer city, while the Japanese army resisted tenaciously by relying on matchlock guns and cannons, and the coalition forces suffered many casualties.

The Japanese army also seized the opportunity to go out of the city to carry out a brief and quick counter-assault, and set fire to some of the Allied siege equipment.In just two days of fighting, the coalition forces of the Ming and North Korea killed more than 300 people, including about [-] of the Ming army. What's worse is that they still failed to make substantial progress.

The attack of the coalition naval forces from the Nakdong River was also repulsed by the Japanese army. The North Korean navy Snake Crossing Gem envoy Huang Shide died in battle. Song Shangfu, the supervisor of Jin County, was wounded in the battle.

This news made Liu Ting very dissatisfied, and he almost couldn't help asking Gao Wushi for water support.He believed that if a few armed transport ships could be mobilized, at least the No. [-] gun would not be able to withstand the water battle, and as long as the water could pose a threat, the land offensive would be much smoother.

However, considering that the Ming army fleet is currently preparing for sea interception operations, and that task is far more important than the current battle of Liangshan, Liu Ting finally held back.

On the third day of junior high school, Liu Ting gave the North Korean navy an order to "jointly land and water attack tonight".The Korean naval army then approached Liangshan at about [-]:[-] pm (around [-]:[-] pm) at high tide, and approached Liangshan City at midnight, and began fighting with the Japanese army.

Since Liangshan is about 23 miles away from the mouth of the sea, the tidal effect came and went faster, and the tide receded during the battle. A total of [-] warships of the Korean navy ran aground, and the stranded warships were rushed up by the Japanese army and set fire to them.

There were many casualties and prisoners in the Korean army, and there were only more than 140 survivors. Yu Shou, a fourth-rank military general of the Korean navy, was also shot by the Japanese matchlock gun, but he survived by luck.The next day, the coalition navy continued to launch an attack on Liangshan, but was still repelled by the Japanese army holding on to the city.

The coalition naval forces launched attacks from the river for two consecutive days, but the army led by Liu Ting did not make any movement.This is not because the army suffered heavy casualties during the general attack on the first and second days of the first and second day of the junior high school, but because he learned the news of the failure of the Donglai Wacheng Raider at this time.

Liu Ting considered that as long as Donglai failed, the enemy of Liangshan would still have the confidence to hold on, and the supply might not be completely cut off, so he did not launch a meaningless attack on the Japanese army from land.This is an example of the so-called pulling one hair on the battlefield and moving the whole body.

On the seventh day of the lunar new year, knowing that the situation of the various attacks had not met expectations, the coalition forces of the Ming and North Korea that surrounded Liangshan City began to retreat.The Ming army itself suffered little loss at this time (mainly because the North Korean army suffered heavy losses). Compared with Dong Yiyuan who attacked Donglai, Liu Ting's situation was much better.The North Korean navy along the way also lifted the sea blockade against Suncheon on the ninth day of the first day and returned to the water village.

Although the offensive came to an end, Liu Ting did not intend to give up the operation completely. He changed the goal of the headquarters to monitor the Japanese army near Liangshan, and achieved containment of the Japanese army in Liangshan by means of medium-distance oppression without actual attack.

At this time, envoys from the Japanese mainland were also able to sneak into Liangshan City after the Battle of Liangshan. After receiving the order, Governor Konishi began to prepare to withdraw his troops and return home.

It has to be said that the allied forces of the Ming and North Korea still failed to achieve their strategic goals this time, despite the fact that the right time and place could not be taken advantage of.

Of course, no matter how you say it, the relationship between offense and defense on the battlefield remains the same. Although the Japanese army repelled the attack through hard fighting, their own losses were not small. Is there any chance of victory?Many people feel at this time that maybe a decent summation is the only hope that can be realized at present.

However, this idea quickly lost its meaning, because the Japanese army that repelled the onslaught of the Ming and North Korean coalition forces on Daoshan, Donglai, and Liangshan received a call from China to withdraw their troops and return home no later than October [-]th. The command.

As a result, Japanese troops from all over the country began to prepare to withdraw their troops and return home one after another.In late October, President Konishi proposed that he reach a contract with Liu Ting and start withdrawing troops by sending hostages.

According to Gao Yushi's pre-war deployment, Liu Ting believed that since Governor Konishi himself was a "surrender faction" among Japanese generals and ranked low in Gao Yushi's attack sequence, this agreement could be agreed to, so he approved Xiao Nishi's plan. President Nishi's proposal, and soon received the hostage sent by President Xiao Nishi.

However, an accident happened. Due to the high degree of freedom given to each army in this battle, each general has his own understanding of the "attack sequence".Therefore, when the news was learned by the coalition navy, on the tenth day of the first month of November, the coalition navy attacked again near Liangshan City to block the river and block the Japanese army's retreat along the river.

Captain Xiaoxi had no choice but to bypass the smooth road along the river and march southward in the wild, hoping to go to Busan to prepare to board the ship. Unexpectedly, the Ming and North Korean coalition forces that originally attacked Dongnae had already regrouped, and the road to the south was not smooth, so he had to fight against the North Korean navy. The blow went straight down the river to the Shaxia area west of Busan.

The Shaxia area can be regarded as a peninsula, and it has reached the seaside. Now not only the Korean Navy, but even the Pingwa Fleet can send warships to bombard his Second Army—if he dares to stay by the sea.

In this way, Captain Konishi had to send hostages to negotiate with Chen Lin, the commander of the Pingwa Fleet, in order to retreat peacefully. In order to attack the Japanese army, the allied naval forces of the Ming and North Korea did not retreat, but continued to implement a naval blockade in this sea area.

After hearing the news that the Konishi Army's retreat was blocked, Shimadzu Yoshihiro, Tachibana Munemo, Takahashi Naoji, Terasawa Hirodaka, Muneyoshi Tomo and other generals who had retreated from Donglai Wajo Castle immediately formed a navy fleet , Go to rescue Xiaonishi Xingchang who was besieged by the Ming and North Korean coalition forces.

Here is an additional explanation. Yoshihiro Shimadzu didn’t have many ships to mobilize originally, but because the actual composition of the Fifth Army under his command was the majority of soldiers from Toyotomi’s family, its priority in retreating among the Japanese army relatively high.

About half a month ago, [-] warships sent from Japan were intercepted by the Pingwa Fleet on the way, and the Japanese army suffered heavy losses. About [-] Japanese naval warships were sunk and captured.

Although more than one-third of the Japanese support fleet has been wiped out, after all, two hundred ships can transport a lot of people, so during this period of time, the transportation capacity of the Japanese navy is still good-of course , Whether it will be intercepted again is another matter.

Turning back to the previous topic, the naval forces of the Ming and North Korean coalition forces who detected the arrival of Japanese reinforcements then went to meet them.The coalition forces then encountered Japanese naval forces in the Luliang Strait in the early morning of November [-], and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides.This battle was also the last battle that took place in Korea in the entire War to Resist Japan and Aid Korea—or the Battle of Wenlu Qingchang.

In the early morning of the same day, when the Japanese navy arrived at the small island in the northwest of Nanhai Island and the south of Zhudao, they were attacked from north to south by the Ming Dynasty navy ambushing in the northwest harbor of Nanhai Island and the Korean navy at Guanyinpu, and the battle began. .

The vanguard of the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties, but because it was not yet daylight, the vanguard of the allied naval forces of the Ming and North Dynasties, whose artillery accuracy was seriously reduced, was also repelled by the Japanese to Guanyinpu.

Seeing that the vanguard of the self-army was repelled, the main force of the Pingwa Fleet of the Ming Army rushed into the place where the Shimadzu Army's main team was located, and started a melee with the Japanese army.

Influenced by the image of the fleet of the Sea Trade Alliance, the Japanese side always believed that the Ming army was only good at gunnery, so the Japanese army did not expect that this Ming army navy would rush up to fight close combat, so it was inadvertently invaded by the Ming army. The Shimadzu army suffered heavy casualties.

Although the reserve team led by General Kawayama Kudaka of the Shimadzu Army successfully broke through the Luliang Strait, their own reserve force was also divided by the coalition naval forces.Later, due to unknown conditions in the nearby sea area, they rushed into Guanyinpu, where the North Korean navy and navy were assembled, and the warship also ran aground on the beach.

Huashan Jiugao had to abandon the boat and go ashore, and walked across to the east coast of Nanhai Island to escape.The ship on which the Lord Admiral Shimadzu Yoshihiro was on also broke away from the fleet due to the tide. After being surrounded by coalition warships, he was almost in a desperate situation for a while, and was able to escape the danger only with the desperate rescue of other warships.

The battle situation is extremely unfavorable for the Japanese army, and the sky is getting brighter, and the Ming Pingwa Fleet, which has a great artillery advantage, will soon be able to show its power.Seeing that the general situation has been settled, the Japanese army no longer considered fighting, so they desperately opened up the distance and returned to the division to withdraw their troops.However, in order to withdraw troops, some warships that were temporarily difficult to get out of the battle had to be abandoned, and the overall loss further increased.

After the war, the Pingwa Fleet counted the results of the battle and reported to Gao Yushi, saying: "Captured 480 Japanese ships, sank [-] ships, killed [-] Japanese troops, captured more than [-] prisoners, and countless Japanese soldiers drowned." [The Japanese fleet here has joined the fleet in Busan Port. ]
The difference this time is that Deng Zilong, the deputy general of the Ming army, did not die, but Yi Shunchen, the general of the North Korean army, was hit by a stray bullet during the battle, and he was seriously injured and unconscious. It is not known whether he can save his life.

However, after the naval battle, the coalition naval forces of the Ming and North Korea saw the Japanese retreating and naturally pursued them with all their strength, so the naval blockade of the Shaxia area was lifted.

Seeing that the sea blockade was lifted, the Xiaoxi Army avoided the area where the naval battle took place on the morning of the 500th, and arrived at Geoje Island safely on the [-]th after a major detour from the area between Saha and Busan.Also on the [-]th, after the surviving Kawayama Kudaka on South Sea Island collected about [-] Shimadzu troops, he also retreated safely to Geoje Island.The retreat of the Japanese army in the west ended.

On the 23rd, Kato Kiyomasa, Kobayakawa Hideaki and others returned from Busan, but they were ambushed by the Maki Department on the way to retreat from Dosan to Busan. Especially after the ambush, the charge of Li Rumei's cavalry caused heavy casualties to the Japanese army. In this battle, the Japanese army lost more than [-] people, not to mention being completely maimed, which would also be traumatic.

On the 24th, Mori Hidewon, Mori Kisung and others returned home from Busan. It seemed that they were "extremely lucky" along the way, and there was no Ming army to attack them.

On the 25th, Governor Konishi, Yoshihiro Shimadzu and others returned to China. Although they were worried and afraid of being intercepted by the Ming Army's Pingwa Fleet along the way, they seemed to be "extremely lucky" and did not encounter the Ming Army Fleet along the way. , returned home smoothly.

So far, all the Japanese daimyo who went to Korea have withdrawn from Korea to Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's plan to conquer Korea and Ming Dynasty has come to an end, and the Battle of Bunroku Keicho has come to an end.

In this last Battle of Ulsan—or rather, the Battle of Pusan ​​(and its surroundings), although the Ming and Korean coalition forces failed to achieve all the pre-war assumptions, the losses of the Japanese army were still far higher than those of their opponents.

After the whole battle, the Japanese army lost about 4 people, and the navy army was even worse. It lost more than [-]% and nearly [-]% of its warships. It can be said that its backbone was completely broken.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi spent a huge sum of money to purchase more than [-] armed transport ships from Jinghua, as well as the improved Anzhai ship newly built according to "Jinghua Technology", they were almost lost in this battle. No. was also captured.

It is an exaggeration to say that the Japanese navy can almost be removed.At least, in front of the Ming Dynasty—or even the Jinghua Beiyang Fleet alone, the Japanese navy has lost the power to resist.
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