Nishisaka-no-oka is located about six miles north of Nagasaki Minato, close to the Nakajima River. Although there is a "hill" in the name, there are no hills, but a relatively flat piece of land. On the other hand, Nissaka-no-oka is surrounded by rolling hills on both sides. Rolling hills.
In 1597, a martyrdom event occurred at Nishisaka Hills. 26 Japanese Catholics were executed here on the order of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the youngest of whom was only 12 years old. So this is still a holy place for Japanese Catholics!
In the original history, there was a major event near here that made the Chinese people happy... Something called an atomic bomb fell near Nishisaka Hill.
And now there is a bastion built with sandbags on Nishisaka Hill, called Nishisaka Castle. The castle stands across the Nakashima River, blocking the wide frontage from Nishihiki County to Nagasaki Town in the south. It is said to be wide, which means that for Kyushu Island, it is actually only three or four miles wide, which can accommodate some troops.
The Shimazu family's army came from this direction and set up camp on the territory belonging to Nishibaki County north of Nishizaka Castle. The camp was set up well, relying on the low hills between Nishibuki County and Nagasaki County, with Omura Bay as its back, occupying a terrain where they could move forward and retreat freely.
However, it was impossible for the Toyotomi army to take Nagasaki by relying on the ability to set up camps, so a big battle was inevitable.
Before the war broke out, there was inevitably a back-and-forth struggle and testing between the two sides. The defensive side should try to keep the "open" area in front of Nisaka Castle as much as possible to prevent the attacking side from building a starting position there.
The attacking side must work hard to expel and suppress the enemy's small forces and advance the front to Nishiban Castle.
Contrary to the expectations of the attacking Toyotomi army (with the Shimazu family as the main force), a group of cavalrymen wearing red mother-in-law uniforms wearing the Tokugawa family's three-leaf sunflower pattern suddenly appeared on the Nagasaki battlefield. Moreover, there are many cavalrymen in red mother's clothes, as many as a thousand!
The 1,000-strong cavalry force in the mother uniforms... is an incredible cavalry force in Japan. According to historical records, the total number of Echigo cavalry, which was dominated by the cavalry for a while, was only 1,300, and it was not a standing cavalry unit. It was just a mounted samurai. It was basically not trained intensively in peacetime, and was only concentrated during war. Get up and launch a charge with dozens of cavalry - this is what cavalry battles were like in Japan's Warring States Period.
And today's Tokugawa shogunate claims that its flag base is 80,000 cavalry... That is simply a lie. Zhu Cixiang's Ming Dynasty only has 80,000 cavalry, including Anxi, Hexi, Shuofang, Anbei, and Da. If you include the cavalry in Jianzhou and Heilongjiang, there may be another 10,000 cavalry in the powerful towns of Ning.
With such a small territory in Japan, how could there be 80,000 riders? In fact, the number of flags in the Tokugawa shogunate was only 5,000. Counting the imperial family members below Omami, the total number of direct participants in all the shogunate was only 17,000. From this point, we can also see the "unemployment rate" of the samurai class. How high!
In the shogunate's flag book, the total number of red mother-in-arms soldiers, black mother-in-arms soldiers, and horse-backed soldiers in the shogunate's flag book totaled more than a thousand.
Now that 1,000 red cavalrymen suddenly appeared on the battlefield of Nagasaki, how could Shimazu Mitsuhisa not be shocked?
Moreover, the horses ridden by those in red mother-in-law uniforms all look very tall, and the samurai on the horses also look quite majestic... These are really the cavalry of the Tokugawa family, not the lancers of the Ming army pretending to be Right?
"That's not the lancer of the Ming army, at most it's the black cavalry." On a forward position occupied by the Toyotomi army, De Velasco put down his binoculars and said to Mitsuhisa Shimazu next to him, "Their horses are too short. No, not an Arabian or Indian horse."
What? Is this still short?
Shimazu Mitsuhisa really didn't know what to say. Those horses were obviously too big to be ridiculous, but they actually said they were short...
Although I am worried, Shimazu Mitsuhisa cannot lose face, otherwise the morale of the military will be shaken!
He snorted and said: "Isn't it just over a thousand cavalry? In the Battle of Bi Tie Pavilion during the Battle of Korea, thousands of Ming Dynasty's cavalry were still defeated by our warriors?"
De Belasco said to himself: That's because your ancestors were lucky. If they were to meet the current Ming army's cavalry, they would probably be without you!
De Velasco, who had spent many days in Japan, was very clear about the advantages and disadvantages of the Japanese samurai army. The advantage of the Japanese army was that the spearmen were very strong - not the iron cannons that everyone imagined, because at this time the iron cannons in the Japanese army were There are not many artillery units, usually only accounting for 10% of the total.
The current Shimazu Army (excluding Toyotomi's other troops) is a special case. Because it has a tradition of using a large number of iron cannons and has received strong support from Spain, it can have more iron cannons and can organize an army of more than 20,000 people. New Army. However, the remaining iron cannons owned by the various departments of the Toyotomi Army are pitifully few, and it is difficult to even reach the ten percent ratio.
The biggest weakness of the Japanese army is that it has no real cavalry - not less, but none! The kind of knights on horseback who are temporarily drawn out to form a group are not actually a real cavalry group, just a group of knights on horseback.
The second weakness of the Japanese army was its weak artillery firepower... Before the remnants of the Spanish Armada Orient joined the Shimadzu family, the Shimadzu family had no real artillery.
The Japanese army, which had no cavalry or artillery and mainly used spears to attack and assassinate, could not be said to be weak, but it was definitely not a first-class strong army.
"Boss, how many more days will it take to prepare for the attack?" De Velasco turned to ask Shimazu Mitsuhisa.
"It will take another 10 days..." Shimazu Mitsuhisa looked at Nishisaka Castle in the distance, "Then it will take another two to three months to extend the siege trench to Nishisaka Castle."
The "parallel siege method" has now spread, and the Spaniards have mastered it. Even Mitsuhisa Shimazu, who followed the Spaniards, can do it.
"Two to three months..." De Belasco nodded slightly, "It's time, it should be time."
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"If you come in time, you will definitely come in time!"
Xie Xun, the Chief Gunnery Instructor of the Nagasaki Army who was born in the Marine Corps of the Ming Dynasty, was in a Western-style building on Dejima Island in Nagasaki. Guaranteed tickets.
"As long as there are two more months, the 20 musketry teams of the Fusiliers Regiment will definitely be able to complete all training...With these 20 teams of fusiliers, there is no problem in winning the joint battle!"
"How many musketeers are there in the 20 musketeers?" Tokugawa Gao, wearing a neat kendo uniform, interjected and asked.
"There are 2,000 musketeers." Xie Xun replied, "They are all warriors recruited through examinations!"
"What decisive role can 2,000 musketeers really play?" Tokugawa Gao was very worried.
"There are still 1,000 female warriors," Baoke said solemnly, "They have been training for a while, and they also have good horses shipped from the Ming Dynasty!
In addition, Daming also provided an artillery battalion with a total of 24 field cannons, which is enough firepower! "
"1,000 women's clothing and 2,000 musketeers are only 3,000 people!"
"There are also ordinary musketeers and pike ashigaru... In two months, it will be enough to draw out 15,000 people!" Hoshina said solemnly, "Including the musketeers and fusiliers, it will be 10,000 Eight thousand people are enough to fight!"
"Yes!" Xie Xun said with a smile, "Our Nagasaki Army will definitely win! Because my 2,000 fusiliers will definitely not disappoint Her Royal Highness the Princess (Takagawa Tokugawa is not a real princess, at least not yet) and Your Majesty of!"
What he said was not a big lie!
Because the Ming army has found the best way to use Japanese samurai - that is, let them march in formation with flintlock guns against the enemy's firepower, and when they are close to the distance 20 steps away, they will use intensive volleys to hit the enemy. collapse!
This tactic is actually a unique trick of the British "lobster soldiers" in history - it is easy to say, but very difficult to implement! At least most of the Ming Army musketeers couldn't do it. Zhu Cixiang's young soldiers might be able to do it, but Zhu Cixiang was not willing to consume them casually. However, Japanese samurai are not afraid of consumption, so they can use it like this...
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