Soyoshi turned his head and glanced at the retainer who suggested that he abandon the city and leave. This man was the elder of the Sasu Mori family, the head of the Taima Clan...obviously a loyal samurai!
"Baga!" Zongyoshi really wanted to escape, but he still gritted his teeth and reprimanded, "Sasu! Do you want me to become a sinner who abandoned Japan and fled?"
"But..." Sasumori said, "But the Mongols came too suddenly, and there was no time to gather people. There are only 48 people in Fuchu City now."
The Ma Zong clan is the name of a hundred thousand Shi family. In theory, it can have three to four thousand armed men - this number is of course not a standing army, but the number after mobilization.
However, the family status of the Ma Zong family is fictitious. It only shows the status of the Ma Zong family, not the real territory of 100,000 stones. Because there are mountains everywhere on Tsushima Island, there is not much land for growing rice, so it is also a territory with "no stone height". However, the Tsushima clan still owns a small piece of land in Kyushu Hizen Province with a stone height of 10,000 stone, so the actual stone height is 10,000 stone.
Of course, although the Zong family's actual wealth is pitiful, it does not mean that the family is poor. On the contrary, Tsuima Souji is one of the few wealthy names in Japan, and Souji's money comes from trade.
Because the So clan who had ruled Tsushima for a long time was the bridge between Japan and North Korea in exchanges and trade, the So clan was not only a vassal of the Tokugawa shogunate, but also had the status of a foreign vassal in the Kingdom of Korea. In order to facilitate diplomacy with North Korea, the Tokugawa shogunate also recognized the Sou family's status of "one servant and two masters".
From a legal point of view, the Ma Zong clan cannot be considered true Japanese pirates. They are only "Japanese" and not "bandits". They are a wealthy merchant lord.
Because the Zong family was a foreign vassal of Korea, they were allowed to establish a "Japanese Pavilion" in Busan, North Korea. At the same time, they were allowed to send 20 "annual dispatch ships" to Busan every year.
The Tokugawa shogunate also needed to negotiate with the Kingdom of Korea through the So clan - the Tokugawa shogunate's brain circuit was also quite strange. On the one hand, it wanted to establish diplomatic relations with North Korea and ease the hostile relationship caused by Toyotomi Hideyoshi's invasion of North Korea; on the other hand, it wanted to They are unwilling to have equal diplomatic relations with North Korea, but regard North Korea as a country inferior to Japan.
Due to this unpragmatic concept of diplomacy, the shogunate was reluctant to directly interact with North Korea, so it gave the Zong family great diplomatic authority... This resulted in the Zong family being able to regard Japan-North Korea diplomacy as a business In the past thirty or forty years, he has accumulated a huge amount of wealth, and his financial resources far exceed those of the famous names who truly control the 100,000-stone family.
However, this kind of financial resources cannot be quickly converted into combat effectiveness, because the financial resources of the Zong family are not built on industrial and commercial cities with a large population, nor on farmland with a large population, but on a few merchant ships - The quota of 20 "annual ships" is not equal to 20 ships, but the quota that can enter Busan Port for trade every year. It’s not that far from Busan to Hakata, and a boat can easily make 20 round trips a year.
Therefore, the force the Zong family can control is very limited, which is a small number of retainers and sailors on a few merchant ships. And most of these merchant ships were not in Tsushima, but in Hakata and Nagasaki.
If the Mongolian navy can give the Duima Zong family some time to prepare, the Duima family can spend money to hire soldiers. The most indispensable thing in Japan these days is samurai (rōshi). With the savings of the Tsuima family, tens of thousands of rōshi troops can be found in Northern Kyushu without having to go to Southern Kyushu.
But the Tsushima family didn't expect the Mongols to come at all... What era is this, how could there be an "invasion of Yuan invaders"?
So now there are less than 180 samurai in total on Tsushima Island, and they are still scattered everywhere - Tsushima Island is not an island, but two large islands in the north and south plus many small islands. Although there was only one Fuchu Castle (the other castles were demolished by order of the shogunate), there were still many villages that needed samurai to manage.
Therefore, here in Fuzhong City, Zong Yizhen could only summon 48 people!
Moreover, most of these 48 people were not responsible for killing people. The samurai who were responsible for killing people were called "banyao", and their proportion among the feudal warriors was not high.
Even if these 48 people were all warriors, they would have no chance of winning against the attack of thousands of Yuan pirates who had powerful ships and cannons.
But Zong Yizhen still didn't dare to leave... He wanted to commit seppuku! How painful it is!
"Forty-eight people must fight to the end!" Zong Yizhen gritted his teeth and roared with tears in his eyes, "A man from the Zong family would rather die than surrender!"
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The Japanese pirates against Ma Zongshi are fake, and the Yuan pirates like Ao Bai are also fake, but the war is real, and they are fought very seriously!
Batulu de Velasco of Zhenglan Banner Europa is a serious Spanish naval officer and a senior captain who has participated in at least dozens of maritime operations, combat and navigation. Very rich experience.
In order to avoid being discovered and intercepted by the "Japanese fleet" stationed on Geoje Island, de Velasco commanded his fleet to use the cover of night to bypass the open sea and go directly to the southeast of Tsumanan Island, that is, from near Kyushu Island in Japan. The sea area passed and appeared on the east side of Ibara Town Port.
Subsequently, five Western-style armed merchant ships (not all provided by Japan) used the "New Oriental" as the flagship, set up a bombardment column, and began to use 6-pound naval guns to bombard the entrance to Ibara Town Port. Two small forts.
I didn't intend to destroy it, I just wanted to attract the attention of the Japanese pirates.
At the same time, Manchuria's number one Batulu Obai led his 1,000 "Jianrui Battalion" warriors to land at an undefended bay about 10 miles north of Yanyuan Town and Fuzhong City, and occupied a fishing village. This is the Lao Dynasty's fight against the Japanese pirates!
Oboi, who had heard many rumors about how ferocious the Japanese pirates were from the Koreans, did not dare to take it lightly at this time.
He divided his Jianrui camp into three, with one Niulu guarding the fishing village and building fortifications. The other two Niulu carried "light muskets" produced by "Barcelona of the Republic of Spain" that could be equipped with bayonets. They lit the match, inserted the sleeve bayonets, and walked straight along the mountain road in groups of a hundred people. Go to Fuzhong City.
The landing of thousands of people and the cautious advance delayed a lot of time, and also gave Zong Yizhen, who was once prepared to defend the city, hallucinations. Thinking that he can achieve some kind of miracle where one can beat ten.
Therefore, in the evening of that day, that is, the evening of March 11, the second year of Japan's commitment, it made the wrong decision to take risks and launch a surprise attack.
Due to the previous mobilization for most of the day, Muneyishin's retainers had summoned nearly 300 soldiers from the neighboring Ibara Town, all of whom were fishermen and small traders. At this time, there were enough weapons and armor to arm 3,000 people in Fuzhong City (a family of 100,000 shi can have that much equipment), so Zong Yizhen ordered these miscellaneous soldiers and samurai in the city according to the rules prevailing in Japan at this time. The method of organization (mixing iron artillery, pikemen, and horseback warriors) was organized into a 320-man "Yuan-challenging Army", and then he personally led them out of the city to ambush, hoping to catch the enemy by surprise.
The plan was very good, but something went wrong during execution.
Since most of the warriors and soldiers of the Zong family are not professional in killing people, even if they are professional, they are in battle today, and every one of them is extremely nervous.
So before Obai's leading troops entered the ambush circle, a few nervous and trembling iron artillery soldiers started firing indiscriminately. The remaining iron artillery soldiers were also confused about the situation. When they saw others firing, they also fired together. fire.
The battlefield was suddenly filled with the choking smell of gunpowder smoke!
Unlike the nervous Japanese pirates, the warriors under Obai were all battle-hardened and had been trained by the "European Bannermen". They also secretly learned the "bayonet tactics" of the Ming army, so there was no One person shoots indiscriminately.
Not only did they not shoot indiscriminately, they also directly held up the muskets with bayonets to form several "skirmishing lines" (actually, they were just spread out casually. The terrain on Tsushima Island was rugged and it was impossible to form a serious square formation), and headed towards the enemy. The Japanese pirates who had fired their iron cannons pressed forward.
The samurai and miscellaneous soldiers under Zong Yizhen did not know that there were bayonets at all, and the light was a bit dark at the time. They did not realize that the "short guns" held by their opponents were actually muskets equipped with knives, so they walked out of the forest in confusion. They rushed out and charged against the muskets of the "Yuan Kou"... What awaited them was, of course, rounds of volley fire!
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