People live in the Ming Dynasty, evil spirits are soaring into the sky

Chapter 379: Japanese village chiefs begin united resistance! !

When Toyotomi Hideyoshi said this, the lords below all had guilty expressions on their faces.

The Ming Dynasty closed its doors to the outside world, resulting in the disappearance of many Tang goods that came from the Ming Dynasty.

However, in Japan, whether in the general public or the upper class, people have generally come to this awareness.

That is, if you want to advance into the upper class and be respectable, you must have a lot of goods from the Central Plains dynasty.

Many of the things that the upper class shows off come from the Central Plains dynasties.

Because Japan has been a country with very scarce resources since ancient times.

Except for sulfur, silver, and gold, which are rare metals, most of their things have to come from outside.

So things that come from outside are expensive, and expensive things can reflect one’s wealth. The symbol of wealth is the symbol of status.

However, since the Yuan Dynasty, there have been constant conflicts among the various small countries in Japan.

As a result, a large number of samurai lost their land and drifted to the sea, becoming pirates and Japanese pirates, and began to plunder Korea.

The Central Plains and other places have been boycotting Japan since the Yuan Dynasty.

Moreover, since the Yuan Dynasty, China has implemented a policy of seclusion and has not done business with the outside world.

People living along the coast are prohibited from going to sea without permission.

This will further increase the demand for goods from the Central Plains Dynasty in Japan.

At the beginning, the Japanese pirates were warriors who had lost their land and were forced to drift to the sea to engage in robbing and looting.

Later, many lords saw the goods looted by the Japanese pirates and made a fortune.

Therefore, this illegal trade, under their processing, became a situation where the lords secretly supported these Japanese pirates to rob.

Similar to the fact that there was once a queen in the UK because the Spanish Invincible Armada was rampant on the sea.

Since the British fleet could not defeat them, they took another approach and supported pirates to rob the Spanish and Portuguese fleets.

In fact, the reason why those pirates and Japanese pirates could become powerful was that they had official support behind them.

The Japanese pirates were similar.

So when Toyotomi Hideyoshi said this, all the lords lowered their heads.

Some were snapping their fingers, and some were scratching the back of their heads.

Everyone knows in their hearts that no one has a clean foundation.

What is their plan?
In fact, everyone knows.

Chen Han led the Ming army here, ostensibly to pursue the remnants of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi who invaded Korea. But in fact, everyone knew that this was just an excuse, they just wanted to destroy Japan.

You can surrender if you want, but aren’t you afraid of being liquidated?
Even if you want to watch us being killed by Chen Han, you won't get anything good.

Now we are all in the same boat. If you jump off the boat you will drown, so you might as well stay on this boat and fight together.

It would be best if we could survive. If not, we can sink together so that we will have company on the road to the underworld.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi said so, and all the lords below knew that since they were tied to the ship of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, they had no choice but to do it.

Finally, one of the lords slammed the table and said, "Okay, stop saying those sarcastic words. You just want us to die with you, don't you?"

Toyotomi Hideyoshi sneered, "What do you mean by following us to die? We all die together. If you don't want to die, let's just fortify our walls and clear the countryside.

Anyway, the number of his Ming army this time is very small, only 10,000. Even if they are all gods, I don’t believe that tens of thousands of us can’t beat their 10,000 people.”

Although Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi had witnessed the power of the Ming army on the Korean battlefield, they might not be able to defeat them.

Because at that time, when their hundreds of thousands of elite troops were fighting the Koreans in the Korean battlefield and making them flee in panic, they were quickly defeated by the 10,000 Ming troops and could not be stopped at all.

They even heard that the head coach was beheaded in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea.

Although they didn't know what was going on, they knew very well that the Ming army probably had some special weapons and were able to capture the city very quickly, leaving no one able to react.

However, in their own homeland, Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi still had some confidence.

They encouraged these lords: "You'd better mobilize the common people and tell them that the Ming army is coming here to massacre and exterminate us.

Because we have what they call Japanese pirates, they are using this as an excuse to exterminate everyone.”

Toyotomi Hideyoshi said this, and the lords below could only accept it silently.

Because this is the only proposal that is relatively reasonable.

Without the support of the people, they only have about 50,000 to 60,000 people in total. How can they compete with others?

Moreover, they were very clear that the 50,000 to 60,000 men they had were the remnants of the last war against Korea and had little combat effectiveness.

How can we survive without relying on these people?
Now the Chinese territory is bound to be completely occupied by the Ming army.

We can no longer rely on Kyushu.

They had no hope against those barbarians in the first place.

Now we can only hope that those barbarians won't take advantage of the situation.

The rest are the Shikoku region and the Gyeonggi region in the south. As for the Ezo people in Hokkaido, they are always on guard, so how could they possibly trust them?

Every year, the Shogun would gain military merit by exterminating the Ainu people.

Although the Ezo people were incorporated into Japan's domestic rule.

But hundreds and thousands of years of hatred stood in their way, so they did not dare to use the Ainu people.

Now the only people who can be mobilized are those from these two places.

So Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi immediately formulated a strategy on how to resist the Ming Dynasty's attack at this meeting.

First, we will deploy our best troops along the boundary between the Chugoku region and the Gyeonggi region.

In order to show their determination not to retreat, Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi placed the so-called battle-hardened troops withdrawn from the Korean battlefield at the forefront.

It is estimated that these leaders knew that the so-called battle-hardened armies of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi had never come into contact with the Ming army on the Korean battlefield.

They even cried their hearts out when they heard that the main force had been destroyed and immediately fled from the Busan port in a panic.

This so-called battle-hardened army, under Toyotomi Hideyoshi's boasting, became an elite force that fought back and forth with the Ming army.

The Japanese have a very old tradition - falsely reporting military achievements.

This tradition has continued from their domestic wars to foreign wars of aggression.

Even when we fought a war with the United States in the Pacific, we were just bragging all the way.

As long as they fought a war, they never lost.

Even though Japan was forced to retreat to its homeland and lost all its surrounding colonies, the people in Japan were unaware that they were losing the war outside.

That's what's great about them.

Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi carried out this tradition and never told the old-fashioned people in the country about the situation outside, nor did they tell them how powerful the Ming army was.

Instead, it encouraged the lords to immediately counterattack Chen Han.

On the dividing line between the Chugoku region and the Gyeonggi region, Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi deployed a total of 5,000 troops.

It's not that they don't want to recruit more people, it's because they don't have enough troops.

There were only 10,000 troops in the entire territory of Oda Nobunaga, and he could not gather more people to be deployed along the line.

As for the Shikoku region, they also contacted it immediately.

They were also very polite and mobilized an army of three thousand pirates.

It is said that they will blockade the Raito Inland Sea and will not allow any Ming warships to pass through their inland sea.

That's very polite.

The three thousand pirate army has more than twenty ships, and spreading them in the Seto Inland Sea is no different from spreading a handful of sand in the sea.

Even if 10,000 warships passed by them, they would not be able to see them. But even so, under the propaganda of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the entire Shikoku region and the Gyeonggi region were like a rope twisted together, and they promoted it as a war to defend the country.

Even according to their propaganda, the Ming army came this time to exterminate Japan.

There is no mention at all that it was Korea, a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, that was the first to attack.

They are here to eradicate the roots of the problem.

But that doesn't happen with them.

We have not been to North Korea.

We just swam around the Tsushima Strait and then came back.

As for the tens of thousands of people who died, they all died in the sea because their boats were overturned by the typhoon.

As for the lost places in China, they are not really lost.

That was because the people in China had no shame and surrendered.

We shouldn't be the ones who surrender.

Because those who surrendered were now executed by the Ming army.

The hilltops in China were covered with corpses.

The level of cruelty was even more brutal than the war among gods six or seven thousand years ago.

Under this terrifying propaganda, the Ming Dynasty threat theory became increasingly powerful.

Soon the common people were frightened and joined the army to defend their country. They brainwashed each other, resulting in a large number of civilians joining the team to defend against the invasion of the Ming army.

Although there are hundreds of miles of mountains at the border between the capital and China, there are only 5,000 elite troops.

However, with the support of the common people, these lands gradually formed small villages one after another.

There are many people guarding every village.

……

at the same time.

Chen Han began to slowly accept the surrender of various small countries throughout China.

Several well-known large countries in the entire Chinese region, such as Iwami Province, Suo Province, Nagato Province, and Izumo Province, have all been conquered.

Among the remaining small countries, there were a few more outstanding ones, one was the Amago family and the other was the Yamaguchi family, who also surrendered quickly.

Chen Han accepted their surrender on three conditions.

First, hand over your elite troops. Each family must hand over at least 1,500 people.

It’s not that Chen Han doesn’t want more, but taking away these 1,500 people would already be a huge blow to every family.

A family only has about 2,500 soldiers.

The remaining one thousand guarded their own families on their own.

If we withdraw it again, our family will be conquered by bandits without waiting for others to attack.

Second, each family must provide 20,000 kilograms of food and corresponding cloth.

There weren't so many of them, so he immediately organized the people in his territory to start weaving cloth and making clothes, of course, according to the sizes of the Ming army.

Third, half of the people in his territory must be sent to the factory in Tangli Port to build warships.

The people were working inside, and Chen Han offered some conditions to pay them.

This wage is even about ten cents higher than the local wage.

Anyway, the wages were not paid by Chen Han himself, but came from the silver vault of the Iwami Silver Mine.

It's true that under the temptation of high salaries and driven by high-pressure policies, hundreds of thousands of people from all over the country flocked to Tangli Port in a short period of time.

Even after hearing about this, many people in Kyushu began to cross the inland sea and head towards Yuri Port.

Wang Hu and Liu Ting have been very busy during these few days.

Originally, the two of them served as Chen Han's bodyguards and often followed Chen Han.

But these days, Chen Han arranged him to be at Tangli Port to supervise the shipbuilding of Japanese laborers.

Since a large number of people along the coast of Japan go fishing, many craftsmen are also produced locally.

All these craftsmen were arranged by Chen Han, totaling four to five thousand people.

Even the Maori family once did not have such appeal.

Of course.

The Maori family is a separatist regime, and most people in these small countries in China do not submit to them.

Now the Ming Dynasty has arrived and demonstrated its extremely powerful strength, conquering them all in one fell swoop.

Chen Han himself did not expect that within these seven or eight days, a large number of small countries would surrender and begin to deploy according to the conditions he set.

For example, sending their own troops over, or sending their own civilians over.

By the way, the people were asked to deliver the food and fodder they were going to hand over.

They also found out that Chen Han was building a warship and was very considerate to send his own craftsmen over.

Under this situation, Chen Han now only has 10,000 elite soldiers.

But they actually captured as many as 20,000 to 30,000 puppet troops.

These puppet troops cannot provide combat power, but they are good as cannon fodder.

……

Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi also learned of Chen Han and his men's current plans.

When they learned from Tangli Port that Chen Han was building a giant warship, they expressed concern.

If Chen Han's warships were completed, he would be able to lead them to land at any time along the coast, which would directly threaten the defense line they had set up on land.

So Toyotomi Hideyoshi immediately made a suggestion to Oda Nobunaga.

Send a special force immediately to raid Tangli Port from the sea. Now is the best time.

According to his estimation, there were only a thousand elite troops of the Ming Dynasty at Tangli Port, as well as two thousand puppet troops, and the rest were tens of thousands of craftsmen.

Those craftsmen and Japanese puppet troops can be ignored; the one thousand elite soldiers are the key target.

As long as those one thousand elite soldiers are killed, the Tangli Port can be destroyed effortlessly.

After destroying the Tangli Port, the Ming army's retreat route was also destroyed.

In this way, the Ming army could be trapped and killed in the vast territory of China.

The plan was quickly implemented.

Oda Nobunaga not only supported the raid plan.

They even gave an extra thousand elite naval soldiers.

A total of two thousand navy troops, plus one or two thousand pirates from the surrounding areas, also joined in this surprise attack.

In other words, Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi believed that the surprise attack army was strong and powerful - with a total of 3,000 people.

The naval army consisting of 3,000 people has never appeared at other times.

Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi even lamented that if it were not for this war to defend the country, they would never have the opportunity to command a naval army of thousands of people.

This is rare in the entire history of Japan...

(End of this chapter)