Sony is deceiving Tokugawa Iemitsu and his shogunate ministers based on the version in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in which Zhuge Liang deceives Sun Quan by fighting with the scholars.
But Tokugawa Iemitsu was not Sun Quan, and the elders and senior middlemen of the Tokugawa shogunate were not the Jiangdong celebrities described by Luo Guanzhong.
These people are Japanese samurai who are ready to kill people with just a look!
If they hadn't handed over the knife before entering the Chidori Room, maybe someone would have killed Sony now.
However, Tokugawa Iemitsu's knife is still there, held by his beloved Ryunosuke Matsushita. When listening to Lin Luoshan's translator relay Sony's words, Tokugawa Iemitsu was already looking at his sword out of the corner of his eye...
But at the same time, he also noticed the Nikon who came with Sony. This guy is very powerful. He was born as a white-armored soldier and has been on the battlefield for a long time. He also looks very ferocious, with murderous intent exposed. He is not a good person at first glance.
With him protecting Sony, Tokugawa Iemitsu was not sure that he could kill him with a single sword. If he can't be killed, it would be a bit embarrassing to call the warriors guarding him in the dark pavilion to kill him.
Thinking of this, the murderous look on Tokugawa Iemitsu's face gradually dissipated, and then he followed the script of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and asked: "Why didn't your Qing emperor surrender?"
Sony is just waiting for a sentence! Immediately he spoke plausibly: "I, the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, inherited the valor of my father and ancestors and have the homeland of Goguryeo. I also have 250,000 households of Eight Banners who are unwilling to be slaves of the Ming Dynasty.
Although our lord, Emperor Chongde, is young now, he already has the courage to resist powerful enemies and protect his country. How could he succumb to the violence? "
Lin Luoshan was a great Japanese scholar, and of course he was familiar with "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". At this time, he had already discovered that Sony was playing Tokugawa Iemitsu as Sun Quan.
So he did not translate according to Sony's words, but said to Tokugawa Iemitsu: "Your Highness, this Sony has a very bad conscience. He used Zhuge Sang in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to lobby Jiangdong, fight with the Confucian scholars, and provoke Sun Quan's The routine is against you and all the elders and middle-aged people!"
"Baga!" Tokugawa Iemitsu cursed. He had also read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and so on, but just read it as a casual book. He didn't expect that someone would actually use the routines in the book and practice them. It’s on the head of a famous king like myself!
"Your Highness Gongfang," Lin Luoshan said again at this time, "but the current situation between the Ming and Qing Dynasties and our country is indeed like the Cao, Liu, and Sun families before the Battle of Chibi... And we The situation in Japan is more dangerous than the Jiangdong Sun family!"
"How can it be more dangerous than the Koto Sun clan?" Tokugawa Iemitsu asked.
Lin Luoshan said: "If the Ming Dynasty annexes the Qing Dynasty, its country will inevitably reach its peak, and North Korea will definitely be more obedient and at its mercy. By then, the Ming Dynasty's army will be stationed in the coastal areas of North Korea north of Kyushu... Just like Cao Cao's troops stationed in the north of the Yangtze River. But the Sun family's navy in the east of the Yangtze River is the best in the world and is enough to withstand Cao Cao's troops from the Central Plains. But can our Japanese navy defeat the Ming Dynasty's navy?
If our Japanese navy cannot resist...can the Japanese divine country bow its head and serve China like North Korea? "
"Absolutely not!" Tokugawa Iemitsu said word by word, "We in Japan are protected by the divine wind! We are also protected by our samurai. Even if the Ming army lands, there will be no return!"
As he spoke, his eyes flicked back and forth among the thousands of birds.
Sakai Tadakatsu quickly led Matsudaira Nobutsuna, Abe Tadaki, Hota Masamori and other three veterans to shout together: "Even if we, the Tokugawa samurai, are broken into pieces, we should protect Japan and prevent the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty from occupying Japan." place!"
Tokugawa Iemitsu nodded heavily: "But... as samurai who protect Japan, we should try our best to keep the enemy outside the country!"
"Hai!"
The senior middlemen below shouted in unison.
Tokugawa Iemitsu turned to Lin Luoshan and said: "Ask Zhuge Sony, if Japan is willing to join forces with the Qing Dynasty, how can he defeat the Ming army and make Korea, a pawn of the Ming Dynasty, divided between Japan and Qing Dynasty."
"Hai." Lin Luoshan responded, turned around, and left Tokugawa Iemitsu's question to "Zhuge Sony".
Of course Sony has a solution, and it's very simple.
"As long as the Manchurian cavalry is used in conjunction with the Japanese spearmen and gunmen, we can learn from each other's strengths and defeat the Ming army."
His words were quickly translated into Japanese by Lin Luoshan.
So simple?
Tokugawa Iemitsu was stunned, "Is this enough?"
Seeing Iemitsu's expression, Sony smiled and nodded without the need for Lin Luoshan to translate, and said: "That's roughly it, but the specific implementation requires more careful consideration. For example, the fire blunderbuss in the Ming Army's infantry formation now The proportion of soldiers is usually about 30%, but Japan's gun soldiers seem to account for a little less among the infantry.
Also... I wonder if your country has artillery that can accompany infantry and cavalry on the battlefield and can fire about 3 kilograms of projectiles? You don’t need too many, just a few dozen doors are enough. "
Sony's generation of Manchus are very good at learning, otherwise they wouldn't have achieved such a big success.
After being defeated several times by the Ming army, they have found a way to deal with the Ming army, which is to use their skills to defeat the Ming army!
What are the Ming army's special skills? Isn’t it just that the artillery is sharp, the gun array is strong, the cavalry is insidious, and the artillery, infantry, and cavalry are coordinated and coordinated?
Can't you learn to be a soldier of the Qing Dynasty? How can it be? Even if you don't learn 100%, you can still learn 80%.
However, the population of the Qing Dynasty was too small, barely 2 million, and many Han, Koreans, and Mongolians were also included. Even if these foreigners are reliable, they only number 2 million. How can they compete with the Ming Dynasty, which has a population of 200 million?
Therefore, facing the Ming army with sharp artillery, strong gun formations, and insidious cavalry, the Qing Dynasty was actually powerless... Even if they learned the tactics of the Ming army, they would not be able to fight in the smoke of gunfire and cannons and blunderbuss. A very high exchange ratio on the battlefield.
And how many more victories could the Qing Dynasty endure in which it killed a thousand enemies and suffered eight hundred losses? You can't even win, let alone be defeated?
Therefore, Japan's participation was the hope for the survival of the Qing Dynasty.
"We still have some iron artillery. The reason why iron artillery only accounts for 10% of each domain's army is because this is the number stipulated by the shogunate," Tokugawa Iemitsu said after listening to Sony's words translated by Lin Luoshan. , "As for dozens of artillery pieces that fire 3-pound shells, there is always a way to get them."
The shogunate also had strict restrictions on the military strength of its subordinate vassals. Generally speaking, the official height of 10,000 stone (the official stone height was actually much more) could have a maximum of 200 vassal soldiers, of which only 20 were iron artillerymen.
Of course, each feudal clan cannot have that many standing troops... There are 200 soldiers at a height of 10,000 koku, and there are 360,000 troops in Japan at a height of 18 million koku!
However, each domain will still try its best to reserve weapons and equipment according to the upper limit of military strength corresponding to the table height, in case of emergency. However, the Tokugawa Shogunate's own weapons reserves have no restrictions, and the quantity is naturally larger - after all, this is the Western calendar. In 1635, only 20 years had passed since the Summer Battle of Osaka.
The dream of the Warring States Period is still in the hearts of countless samurai and ronin, including Tokugawa Iemitsu, the third generation general of the Tokugawa Shogunate, and of course those powerful southwestern feudal lords who refused to give up.
Tokugawa Iemitsu thought about it and said to Sony: "The shogunate will buy the artillery you mentioned from the Dutch and try to imitate it. In addition, the shogunate will soon form a Korean expeditionary force, which will have 20,000 troops within the year. Arriving in northern Kyushu, 6,000 of them will be equipped with iron cannons. Next spring, another expeditionary force of tens of thousands will be ready!
If the Qing Dynasty can send troops to attack the back of the Five Roads of Korea, the shogunate can cross the sea and expedition to Korea when the wind direction is suitable. As a condition for the shogunate to send troops, North Korea's Jeolla Province and Gyeongsang Province should be assigned to Japan! "
After listening to Lin Luoshan's report, Sony breathed a sigh of relief. This Japanese general did not have a dark heart. He only took two roads and left three for the Qing Dynasty. Let's see how victorious the Korean War can be!
