Ninomiya Kazuya said solemnly: "A true warrior will learn a lesson after defeat, and will take revenge on the enemy in the near future, using the enemy's blood and corpses to wash away the shame!" Ninomiya Katsuto got up and knelt down in Ninomiya In front of Kazuya, he shouted with shame.
Ninomiya Kazuya frowned and asked: "How did you lose? You just said that you were defeated by a strong general of the opponent? And the opponent defeated three thousand of your elites with a thousand troops?"
Ninomiya Katsuto recalled the scene of that battle, still with lingering fear, and said: "The opponent is fighting a very brave warrior! I, my previous thoughts were all wrong! The Ming Dynasty warrior is indeed amazingly brave. I have three rounds He shot down his horse even before I could hold on. If all the warriors had not saved me desperately, I would have died on the battlefield!" Everyone was in an uproar. Although they had just heard Katsuto Ninomiya say that they were defeated by a Ming Dynasty warrior, they still couldn't. They didn't know the details yet, so they all took it for granted that no matter how powerful the Ming Dynasty warrior was, he would have to fight Katsuto Ninomiya for dozens of rounds before he could defeat him. At this time, I heard that in less than three rounds, Katsuhito Ninomiya was shot down and his horse almost died. How could I not be shocked?
Ninomiya Katsuto continued: "More than a dozen high-ranking warriors rushed out to save me. The Ming Dynasty warrior showed no fear in the face of more than a dozen people and urged his horse to fight. I saw him piercing through the middle of our people, and in a blink of an eye he was In the blink of an eye, five warriors were knocked off their horses by him!"
If everyone was shocked when they heard what Ninomiya Katsuto said just now, then they were shocked after hearing what he said now. He fought against more than a dozen high-level warriors and killed five of them in an instant. Such combat power was simply unbelievable! Is this something humans can do? It is clear that only the legendary eight-pronged serpent possesses such terrifying power! For a moment, there was silence in the big tent, you could hear a pin drop, and an inexplicable emotion lingered in everyone's hearts.
Taro Montenegro suddenly shouted: "No matter how strong the enemy is, we can defeat it! We can definitely defeat the Ming people!" Everyone also shouted.
Ninomiya Kazuya asked Ninomiya Katsuto: "How did the enemy defeat three thousand of your elites with only one thousand men?"
Katsuto Ninomiya frowned and said: "They were charging head-on! They were like a group of fierce tigers and like a huge wave. We couldn't resist it at all. In the blink of an eye, the army collapsed!"
Ninomiya Kazuya frowned, his heart filled with shock. At the same time, he also felt that the situation was not at all what he had imagined.
Chozong's subordinate Yoshimori frowned and said: "It seems that we are all wrong. Our army of more than 200,000 was defeated not because of His Highness the Prince's blind command, or not entirely for this reason. The enemy is indeed very fierce. , far beyond our previous imagination." At this time, even Taro Montenegro, who was usually the most arrogant, did not refute.
Ninomiya Kazuya said thankfully: "Fortunately, we were cautious enough and did not attack rashly." After a pause, "The main enemy force should still be on the Nagasaki Peninsula and Oyano Island, and they will not be able to move over in a short time. We still have If you have time to turn in, send the order immediately and the army will turn in towards Saeki." Everyone cheered in unison. Some friends may not understand what "turn in" means. Haha, in fact, this is a unique Japanese military term. It actually means retreat. Among the Japanese, there has never been a word "retreat". It is always called "turn in", even if the entire army is annihilated. Call the whole army to be wiped out, call the entire jade to pieces.
After the turn-in order was issued, the armies of the four countries immediately turned around 180 degrees and headed towards Saeki.
His gaze returned to Kumamoto. Yang Peng regretted it after he couldn't control his emotions and attacked. Originally, Yang Peng saw that the enemy was so arrogant and arrogant, so he planned to deliberately show weakness to the enemy, attract the enemy's main force, and then use the main force to surround the enemy and annihilate them. However, he couldn't bear it anymore and rode out to fight. This victory was a happy one, but it completely ruined his own plan to lure the enemy in. He knew that after this battle, the Japanese would definitely not march towards Kumamoto again after realizing how powerful their own side was. . So Yang Peng immediately canceled the previous battle plan and sent someone to order the main force to come to Kumamoto to rest and recuperate. At the same time, Liu Zhiliang was ordered to lead the elite to wait for an opportunity to seize Nagasaki.
Liu Zhiliang was already in Nagasaki City when he received Yang Peng's order. It turned out that after Liu Zhiliang eliminated Nobuo Uesugi's main force in one fell swoop, he immediately led 5,000 troops to attack Nagasaki. When they arrived at Nagasaki Castle, the soldiers and civilians in the city did not even know that Uesugi Nobuo had been defeated. When Liu Zhiliang launched the attack, the residents of the city did not react for a while. In a blink of an eye, the Ming army had breached the city, the senior warriors who stayed behind committed suicide, and the chief executive surrendered.
After receiving Yang Peng's order, Liu Zhiliang immediately ordered five thousand troops to stay in Nagasaki. At the same time, he ordered all the troops in the south to move to Kumamoto, and he himself rushed to Kumamoto. After several days of fighting, the Ming army was already quite exhausted, so Yang Peng suspended military operations and all armies went into rest and recuperation.
His eyes turned to Kyoto. On this early morning, under the gentle rising sun, the entire Kyoto should have been very peaceful and peaceful; however, news of the defeat on the front line reached Kyoto, and the soldiers and civilians in Kyoto were extremely frightened. Some noble names and civilians were actually panicked. They dragged their families and fled to the northeastern inland farther away from Kyushu. For a while, the entire Kyoto people were in chaos.
Tamamo Mae was still sleeping on the bed as usual, enjoying a comfortable sleep. However, the noise outside woke her up. She wanted to go back to sleep, but the noise outside was like countless flies lingering above her head. Unable to sleep. Tamamo-mae was very angry, sat up and shouted: "Come here!"
The wooden door was immediately pushed open, and a maid lay lying on the aisle outside the door and screamed.
Tamamo Mae asked angrily: "What is going on in the city and why is it so noisy?"
The maid said: "I heard that the front line was defeated! Everyone is very scared. Many people are busy fleeing Kyoto, so it is so noisy!"
Tamamo Mae's charming and charming face showed surprise, and asked: "The frontline was defeated? You mean His Highness the Crown Prince was defeated?"
"Yes. I heard that the more than 200,000 troops under General Minamoto Yoshitsune, General Zushi Shigeo and General Uesugi Nobuo were almost completely wiped out! And the Shikoku army under General Ninomiya also suffered a setback and has retreated. Saeki."
Tamamo-mae said in disbelief: "I heard that there are only thirty or forty thousand Han people. How can they defeat our army of more than two hundred thousand people?"
The maid looked extremely frightened and said: "Master, those Han people are not human at all, they are devils, the demon army under the command of the Eight-pronged Serpent! They are so fierce and cruel that our warriors are vulnerable to them. ! I heard, I heard that even His Highness the Crown Prince almost died in their hands! Master, they are really terrifying!"
Tamamo Mae didn't show any fear, but her pretty face became even more charming, as if she had found the prey that interested her the most.
Tamamo showed a devilish smile in front of him and murmured: "It seems there is a man more brave than His Highness the Crown Prince!"
In Fukuoka, Yonghi received the news that Ninomiya Kazuya led the army to return to Saeki, and he felt a little complicated. Minamoto Yoshitsune came in, bowed to Yongren, and said, "Brother Yu, I just received news that the Ming army has captured Nagasaki."
Yongren frowned and said: "The fall of Nagasaki was expected." Then he asked nervously: "Where is the Ming army now? Is it marching towards Saeki or Fukuoka?"
"According to the information obtained by our scouts, the enemy has suspended its advance, and the main force is now resting in Kumamoto."
Hearing this, Yongren couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief, then frowned and murmured: "After the Han people have rested, they will attack again! What should we do? What should we do?" Minamoto Yoshitsune said: "Brother Yu, I think the Six Path Army should be mobilized." Yongren immediately thought of the last ace who had been training secretly. His originally panicked expression suddenly became as if he had grasped a life-saving straw, and he nodded repeatedly. : "Yes, we still have the Six Path Army! We can still turn defeat into victory!"
Friends who have read the previous article should know the so-called "Six Path Army", which is the most elite unit under Zuoshi Shigeo. However, today's "Six Dao Army" is different from the Six Dao Army at that time. When the Japanese saw the power of the Jin people's fast horse soldiers and the bravery of the Yanyun army in Goryeo, they felt that they had to confront these two powerful empires. With the current Samurai and Ashigaru were absolutely impossible, so Yonghito began to form similar elite troops after he took power. Based on the elite troops under Zuoshi Chengxiong, all equipment and tactics were modeled on the Khitan Army and the Ming Army. A total of 50,000 elite troops were formed, including 40,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry. The infantry were all dressed in similar uniforms to the Khitan Army and the Ming Army. The heavy armor and weapons of the Ming Army abandoned the traditional samurai swords and swords, and used broadswords and battle axes similar to those of the heavy armored troops of the Khitan Army. As for the cavalry, the Japanese lacked war horses, and it was already impossible to form 10,000 cavalry. Although he tried his best, the quality of these war horses was not even comparable to the war horses of the Khitan Army, let alone the war horses of the Ming Army. Therefore, although Yongren wanted to organize these 10,000 war horses into heavy armored cavalry, in the end he could not Only 10,000 light cavalry wearing warrior armor could be formed.
The 50,000 elite troops formed by Yonghito completely broke the traditional hierarchy of samurai and ashigaru, and completely imitated the composition of the Khitan Army and the Ming Army, especially the Ming Army. However, his unconventional approach was dissatisfied by many daimyo and samurai in the country.
Yongren and the entire Japanese high-level have high hopes for this new army, but it is still unclear how capable this army will be in the end.
Yonghito said to Minamoto Yoshitsune: "Immediately send my order to transfer the Sixth Army to Fukuoka." Minamoto Yoshitsune agreed and ran down.
Soon after, Fujiwara Shimitsu and Fujiwara Narichika, who were staying in Kyoto, sent a reply. They actually rejected Yonghito's order. Fujiwara Shimitsu said in his reply: Your Highness Ming Jian, the combat power of the Ming Army far exceeds imagination. Whether the Six Paths Army can compete with them is still unknown. However, judging from the current combat effectiveness displayed by the Ming Dynasty Army, the possibility of the Six Dao Army turning defeat into victory can be said to be extremely slim. If the Six Paths Army is defeated again in Kyushu, then Kyoto and Honshu will lose their most powerful defensive force. Once the Ming army takes advantage of the situation and attacks Kyoto, it will be difficult for us to defend ourselves. This is just the humble opinion of a foolish minister, and I would like to ask Your Highness to learn from it.
Yongren frowned and paced back and forth, hesitant in his heart. He is now in a dilemma. If he wants to defend Kyushu Island, he must mobilize the Six Path Army. However, as Fujiwara Shimitsu and Fujiwara Narihichi said in their replies, no one can guarantee that the Six Path Army can turn defeat into victory. If the Six Dao Army can turn defeat into victory, then it would be best. However, if the Six Dao Army cannot resist the Ming Army, then Honshu and Kyoto will lose their most powerful guard force. At that time, the Ming Army will take advantage of the opportunity to attack Kyoto, and things will be unimaginable.
However, if the Six Path Army is not mobilized, judging from the current situation, Kyushu may not be able to defend it, so the only choice is to abandon Kyushu Island. Thinking of this, Yonghito couldn't help but turn pale and tremble, because he thought that no ruler of the Yamato nation had ever lost such a large area of territory, and if he lost such a large area of territory, it would definitely become the biggest shame in the history of the Yamato nation. .
Yonghito hesitated for a long time, and finally did not dare to take the responsibility of losing the entire Kyushu. He also felt that losing the entire Kyushu could not be explained to the Kyushu samurai daimyo, so he decided to try again. However, Yonghito's idea was not to mobilize all the Sixth Route Army to come to Kyushu to fight against the Yanyun Army, but to mobilize 10,000 Sixth Route Infantry and tens of thousands of samurai ashigaru to support Fukuoka, and at the same time ordered Ninomiya Kazuya to defend Saeki. He felt that as long as these two cities could be defended, there would be hope for recovering the entire Kyushu Island in the future. Immediately, Yonghito passed down the order, and also ordered Fujiwara Shimitsu Mitsuru Fujiwara Marichichi to gather a large number of artillery and gunpowder to Fukuoka and Saeki. He felt that it was impossible to defend these two cities without a large number of artillery and gunpowder. . This time, Yonghito issued the order in a strict tone and form. Faced with such an order, Shimitsu Fujiwara and Narikichi Fujiwara could no longer raise any objections.
On land, the Japanese army retreated one after another, and the situation was gloomy. Shimazu Shigehao, the Japanese navy general, was worried that the enemy's attention would turn to him. At the same time, he also felt that the army had been defeated on land, and his navy would remain there any longer. It didn't make any sense anymore, so I decided to move on.
At this moment, news came from the sentinel ship that a huge fleet coming from the west had been discovered. Shimazu Shigehao was surprised when he heard this. He thought that the Ming navy was going to take action against him. But then he calmed down and thought: 'The enemy's navy is obviously in the north. If they want to attack us, why do they come from the west? 'Immediately, his heart moved, Shimazu Shigehao became excited, and said loudly: "It must be Ming's support fleet! Great, we finally waited for them!" Shimazu Shigehao decided to attack, but to be on the safe side, he did not order the attack immediately. Order, but order the sentry ship to find out the situation of that fleet. Is it a transport fleet or a fleet?
At midnight that day, Shimazu Shigehao received the report and confirmed that the fleet coming from the west was the Ming Dynasty's transport fleet, not a fleet. There are more than a hundred large and small sea-going ships. Shimazu Shigehao was inexplicably excited and immediately ordered all warships to attack. All the warships rushed towards Yanyun's transport fleet like a pack of wolves.
The Ming Dynasty's transport fleet continued to sail northeastward in the night, sailing at night on this sea, and it was almost impossible to distinguish between the sea and the sky which was the sky and which was the sea. A lookout who came to take over came to the bottom of the main mast and shouted to the top: "Hey, I'm here to take over." But the lookout standing at the top of the mast pointed forward and shouted: "There seems to be something in front." Below. The person looked in the direction of his finger and saw that there seemed to be many black shadows heading this way in the dim sea. The lookout on the mast shouted: "It seems to be a fleet, there are so many of them!" The lookout below smiled: "It must be our fleet." The lookout above felt that he was right. He climbed down from the mast and said: "We need to send out a signal to notify other ships and the navy in front." After saying that, he picked up a torch and lit it, and sent out the signal according to the rules that had been established among Yanyun sailors. .
The ships in the transport fleet responded with signals one after another, but strangely there was no response from the navy on the opposite side. At this time, all the ships in the transport fleet had stopped on the spot. Many transport ships sent signals to the opposite navy, but the opposite navy still did not respond, as if they had not seen it. Everyone was very surprised and didn't know what was going on with the navy opposite.
The navy's fleet was getting closer and closer, and finally it was close enough for everyone to see clearly the appearance of those ships. Wherever there were navy warships, they were all Japanese warships. People were horrified and immediately became chaotic. At this moment, the Japanese warships launched an attack, and a hail of fire was seen flying toward the transport fleet. At the same time, fireworks were billowing from some Japanese warships, thunderous noises resounded across the sea, and water columns shot into the sky in the middle of the transport fleet. , the mast fell and the sailors fell into the water one after another, shouting and screaming.
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At noon the next day, the Sentinels of the Ming Dynasty Navy who were leading the navy to be on guard in the southern part of Oyano Island spotted several ships heading this way from a distance. The sentry immediately sounded the alarm. The officers and soldiers of the Ming Army took their positions one after another. Wang Rong climbed onto the observation platform and looked south. Sure enough, he saw several ships coming with white smoke. Wang Rong didn't feel like an enemy. After a while, he found that the ships seemed to be civilian transport ships of his own, and he couldn't help but have a bad feeling in his heart. An order was immediately issued. Without an order, no warships could attack.
Not long after, those cargo ships arrived, and they were indeed our own civilian cargo ships. However, the ship's hull was scarred, and there were traces of being burned by flames in many places. It was obvious that they had just experienced a terrible disaster.
Those cargo ships stopped in front of the warship formation, and the sailors on them were seen waving and shouting in this direction, looking very excited.
Wang Rong ordered people to put down the boat and go to pick them up. After a while, the boat came over with a middle-aged man and an old man. The two of them followed the sailors to board Wang Rong's flagship, and saw Wang Rong in a military uniform. The two common people felt that Wang Rong was the chief general here without being introduced by the sailors, and they immediately worshiped together: "Common people pay homage to the general!"
Wang Rong frowned and asked: "Who are you? What happened?" The old man said anxiously: "General, please send troops quickly, otherwise everyone will be killed by the Japanese slaves!" Wang Rong said: "Don't be anxious, first Explain the matter clearly." The old man cried and said: "We came to support the army with food, grass and baggage under the order of the governor, but we didn't want to encounter the Japanese navy on the way! The Japanese who killed that day killed everyone on sight, and everyone suffered heavy casualties! General, please send troops quickly, otherwise, otherwise..."
Wang Rong understood what was going on, frowned, and asked urgently: "Where were you ambushed?" The old man showed a look of confusion and said: "The common people, the common people don't know where it is? I just know. We were ambushed in the middle of the night yesterday, and our boats ran desperately to the north, and then we met the general."
Wang Rong heard what he said and estimated that the location where the transport fleet was attacked was half a day's sea journey south. An order was immediately issued for a small number of warships to stay in place, while a large group of people rushed to rescue the transport fleet. The sound of the order's horn echoed on the sea surface. The Yanyun fleet weighed anchor one by one, heading south with the cruiser as the forward and the ballista warship as the two wings.
After noon, the Ming naval forces saw a mess on the water ahead. Many ships were half-sunk and half-floating on the water. Bodies and shipwrecks almost covered the entire sea surface. Many people were calling for help in the water. However, half of the Japanese were no longer visible at the scene. It seems that they had already retreated after the successful raid.
Wang Rong was greatly annoyed and immediately ordered the clippers to search for the enemy in three directions: east, west and south. The cruisers were on alert and ballista warships came in for rescue. The navy immediately took action. Clippers searched for enemies from east to west and south. Cruisers were spread out in a battle formation to guard the surroundings, while ballista warships entered the messy sea area to rescue the fallen sailors and fight with the floating corpses and supplies.
Wang Rong frowned tightly as she looked at the scene in front of her. …
Yang Peng received a letter from Wang Rong in Kumamoto and learned that the transport fleet was attacked and almost the entire army was wiped out. Yang Peng was very annoyed, and then he thought about it and murmured: "I was too careless to think that the Japanese navy would not cause any trouble!" Walking to the map, looking at the waters surrounding the four Japanese islands, he felt that he must ensure that now To achieve the fruits of victory and further expand the victory, the Japanese navy must be completely eliminated. As soon as I thought of this, I adjusted the previously designated attack plan in my mind, and decided to attack on land and sea at the same time, so as to completely eliminate the Japanese navy and occupy the entire island of Kyushu in the shortest possible time. The land attack strategy has already been considered, and there is nothing more to consider. But what should we do about the sea attack strategy? Yang Peng fell into deep thought.
Many methods flashed through Yang Peng's mind, but these methods had some problems. Yang Peng couldn't think of a very appropriate method for a while. I simply put this matter aside for the time being, walked out of the palace, looked at the landscape in front of me, and felt so relaxed.
What happened after all, let’s see what happens next.
