The Kyushu offensive began smoothly with the complete defeat of the Japanese army.
On the other hand, Xin Qiji personally commanded the 70,000-strong army to launch the Nagato offensive battle, which also went very smoothly.
Because there was no defense, the Changmen Kingdom was quickly penetrated by Xin Qiji, and then the troops broke into Zhou Fang Kingdom and Shi Jian Kingdom in two groups.
In particular, Shi Jian Kingdom is an important strategic target in this battle. According to the spies, the Big Silver Mine that produces a large amount of silver is located here, so Su Yonglin specifically asked Xin Qiji to capture Shi Jian Kingdom and control Big Silver. mine.
Xin Qiji personally led the army to Shijian Kingdom and quickly made a surprise attack.
Shi Jianguo did not organize any effective resistance. Under the attack of the Ming army, the local armed organizations were defeated and collapsed quickly. The official personnel tried their best to flee to the east, not daring to stay for even a second.
They were stunned by the fast and ghostly attack speed of the Ming army.
The Ming army itself was surprised by such rapid progress.
The Japanese army's combat method is very old and conservative. It belongs to the old type of elite decisive victory and cannon fodder keeping up. There is no mutual cooperation between various arms.
On the battlefield, they should obviously be an army, but they can't see any coordinated fighting posture. You fight yours and I fight mine. There is no feeling of fighting in coordination with their comrades.
This fighting method was evaluated by Ming army officers as not like fighting at all, but more like a gang fight, or a clan fight, or a group fight, without any battlefield style that a regular army should have.
The fighting methods of the Central Plains dynasties hundreds of years ago were more advanced than theirs, and the Southern Song Dynasty army was more like a professional army compared with them.
Therefore, facing the mature large-corps coordinated combat system of the Ming Dynasty, a battalion of the Ming army only needed one stick of incense to defeat the Japanese army that was more than twice their number, even though these soldiers had the most basic courage.
As a result, the Japanese army was defeated like a mountain.
When we hit the back, it was like the Ming army was chasing all the way and the Japanese army was running all the way. It didn't feel like a war at all.
In this case, it was mid-May when Xin Qiji took control of Shijian Kingdom and killed its defender.
It has been more than half a month since the war started, and some Japanese officials do not even know where the large-scale enemy launched a surprise attack on them.
Because of such a chaotic situation, up to this point, the chaotic Heian-Kyohei clan had not been able to determine who the enemy was, how large it was, where the attack would be launched, how the battle was progressing, and other important information.
Under the chaotic situation, it was not until May 17 that anyone arrived in Heian-kyo to inform the Taira regime of the attack on Chikuzen Province.
The Ping regime was greatly shocked by this. A group of leaders gathered together to discuss countermeasures and sent out a large number of sentinels to inquire about the news.
Then there is the endless waiting.
In this era, they could only wait. Apart from sending out a large number of sentries to inquire about the news and waiting for a long time, they had no other way to know what happened.
They need to wait for the return of a large number of sentinels, bring together the true and false information to discuss and judge, and piece together the truth bit by bit before they can finally draw a conclusion.
This process can be long or short. Depending on factors such as traffic conditions and the size of the incident, you can know the general story of the matter within one month at the fastest. If it takes longer, it may not necessarily be one month, two months, three months or even It's possible for most of the year.
There is no way for them to obtain messy battlefield information in advance. Even if someone from the Ming Dynasty betrays and joins them, they will still not be able to obtain complete battlefield information.
The message transmission of the Ming Dynasty was already at the pinnacle of this era. They used a variety of methods to transmit messages, and Japan would only be slower, not faster.
It has to be said that Taira Kiyomori is already a clear-headed hero.
When I learned that Chikuzen Kingdom was attacked by a large number of elite soldiers carried by large ships, and the red flags of the world were hung on the ships, I immediately knew that this was a military attack by the Ming Dynasty.
He was frightened and confused. He didn't know why the Ming Dynasty launched an attack, let alone why he didn't get any news before the Ming Dynasty launched a large-scale attack.
But after a brief moment of panic and confusion, he quickly calmed down.
He judged that the Ming Dynasty was currently attacking from west to east, and the attack speed would not be too fast or too slow. Apart from waiting for news, the only news he could do now was to immediately mobilize the armed forces and do their best in the Heianjing area. Mobilize troops as much as possible and prepare for military battles.
In this way, when the Ming army launched a further attack, he was able to launch a counterattack.
While issuing orders to mobilize the direct troops of the Taira clan near Heian-kyo, he repeatedly sent people to convey orders to the regions controlled by the Taira clan in the east and west, asking the local Taira clan retainers to quickly lead the troops to assemble in Heian-kyō.
At this time, nothing could give him a greater sense of security than holding a large number of troops in his hands.
As for the Lingzhi Kingdoms that were not under his control, he also sent troops deployment orders. In his opinion, the Ming Kingdom came for the entire Japan. If the Ming Kingdom succeeded, everyone would be ruined.
Even if you bastards are unhappy with me, you still have to consider your own interests. If there is an outside winner, it's hard to say how he will rule you.
So, come and help me!
After doing all this, Taira Kiyomori fell into deep thinking.
He strongly suspected that Mingguo knew about his internal affairs, otherwise Mingguo would not launch a war for no reason.
He felt guilty.
But he didn't know how Ming Guo managed to hide it from his eyes and launch a war under his nose, let alone how far the war had progressed.
Has the Chikuzen Kingdom withstood the Ming army's attack?
The Ming army has already reached Chikuzen Kingdom. Does this mean that Tsushima and Isaki Island are finished?
So the Ming army's offensive base should be Goryeo?
Tsushima is so close to Goryeo. Didn't they receive any information in advance?
A large number of doubts and inferences were constantly generated in his mind, and he had a general inference on many questions.
Of course, this is not important, because on the third day of June, a commando consisting of one hundred warships and one hundred troop transport ships led by Kong Zhende, deputy commander-in-chief of the Left Army, had already made a long-distance raid from the Kyushu region and sailed into Settsu at the gate of the country. Big wheel field mooring.
It’s funny to say that Owata Tomo was an important port expanded by Taira Kiyomori in order to expand trade with the Southern Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. There were not only a large number of merchant ships here, but also a large number of naval warships.
Undefended, of course.
Kong Zhende led part of the navy to launch a surprise attack. There were a lot of warships at Daluntian, but they could not play any role. Not to mention that they were unprepared, even if they were prepared, it would not be of much significance.
The Ming warships' artillery roared, and the Japanese naval warships did not know how to fight against them. The Ming warships stunned them with one round of fire and suffered heavy losses.
During the entire battle, only three Japanese warships launched an attack on the Ming warships with great courage, trying to get close to the Ming warships and try to join forces, but this was meaningless. The Ming warships focused their fire and were defeated. Break them into pieces and sink them to the bottom of the sea.
In less than an hour, all the Japanese naval warships in Daluntian Park were wiped out. Kong Zhende commanded the Ming warships to successfully control Daluntian Park and blockade the harbor.
After a round of artillery baptism, all the resistance personnel in the harbor collapsed and could no longer resist. The Ming Navy Marines and the infantry and cavalry of more than 10,000 people from the 41st Division of the 14th Army successfully landed and quickly took control of the harbor. Many people were captured and a lot of supplies were seized.
Then the Ten Thousand Buqi, led by Kong Zhende, launched an attack directly towards Settsu State, preparing to control important military strongholds and then directly attack Heianjing.
(End of chapter)
