Wherever you fall, you get up.
The last time they attacked Ulsan, the Ming army was defeated.
But this time, Ma Gui did not attack in a single line. The other two Ming armies pinned the Japanese pirates in their own defense areas, and Lu Li and Yi Sunchen's navy were watching. Therefore, this battle was considered a fair showdown.
Ma Gui asked the three generals Xie Sheng, Yang Dengden and Pogui to be the vanguard and led Wang Guodong to Ulsan to launch the first attack.
Then, other troops were deployed in Xinning, Yixing, Zuoshuiying, Qingzhou and other places, firstly to guard against Japanese sneak attacks, and secondly to appease local refugees.
Pan Ming was in the vanguard.
According to what the letter said, the generals crossed the island mountains that had been turned into ruins and basins, and rushed straight to Ulsan. The old trick was repeated, with Wang Guodong and Pogui ambush on both sides, while Yang Shanshan, Jie Sheng, and Pan Ming lured the enemy and attacked. Fight back.
At first, Nabeshima Naoshima, who was stationed in the city, heard about it and immediately ordered: "Consolidate the defenses, and we will not be able to escape!"
But when the disbelieving Kwantung generals heard that the Ming army was coming and were provoking outside the city, they immediately opened their eyes wide and became furious. They put on their armor and raised their troops and went out to kill them.
Lu Li speculated that the other party should have known that it was a trap, but because of their unfamiliarity with the situation and their overconfidence, they took the initiative to infiltrate it.
Later... they were besieged until they were defeated.
In fact, his guess was not wrong, and there was another reason:
Internal friction.
As a general of the Western Kingdom, Nabeshima Naoshima would not be able to watch helplessly, but it was different for the Kanto heroes who were naturally inclined to the Tokugawa family.
In the future, if we can't protect everything, we will have to fight with each other. Now we can trap as many as we can.
After a small victory, Ma Gui, who found out that the Japanese army also had reinforcements, was a little hesitant, but he couldn't help but the morale of the actors was high.
In the early stage, all the vanguard officers led cavalry and lacked siege equipment. Seeing that Nabeshima was afraid to leave the city, he huddled in Ulsan City. For a while, he had no choice but to set up artillery in the air.
After all, having experienced such a tragic experience as Dosan, the Japanese went to great lengths to repair Ulsan Castle to make it more difficult to attack than the former.
Several generals, including the actor, met to discuss and decided to build a siege vehicle while surrounding the city.
According to Nabeshima Naoshima's understanding of the Ming army, he thought that the two sides would confront each other for ten days and a half. As a result, he obviously underestimated the madness of the actor.
In fact, Jie Sheng and others were deeply saddened when they returned to their old place. They planned to make a siege posture first, to wear down the Japanese spirit little by little——
Early every morning, the ministries circled Ulsan Castle like radio gymnastics. Whenever they felt like it, they would push their siege equipment up there to destroy the mentality of the Japanese defenders.
However, the actors collectively pretended not to understand, and the first sheep attack turned into a formal attack and a quick attack!
Qualified generals are supposed to take the lead, but how could they risk their lives so early?
This offensive...
Seeing this, Nabeshima Naoshige felt terrified.
Even so, he still died in the hands of his son-killing enemy Pan Ming, and they both died together.
Nabeshima Katsushige.
Nabeshima Naoshige.
Kuroda Nagamasa.
In addition, there are small bosses at all levels and hundreds of low-level warriors.
Sitting on the chair and calculating the results of the final exam for his best friend, Lu Li felt very stable.
"It's considered a happy funeral, right?"
Suddenly, an inappropriate word popped into my mind.
Looking at the commander-in-chief who looked calm and seemed to be a little happy, Chen Li couldn't help but be curious and thought to himself:
Could there be some good news coming?
Or, which route needs naval reinforcements?
During this period of time, all the ministries have become familiar with the Japanese pirate sailors' tactics. However, there are only small battles. Chen Li really wants to have a big battle!
Realizing that the deputy was looking at him curiously, waiting for the next article, Lu Li had no choice but to say casually:
"The East Route Army has made some progress so far, and the leader of the thief, Nabeshima Naoshige, has been killed."
I definitely can’t tell the truth——
[Pan Ming received his lunch box, I am happy for him]
Only the actor can absolutely accept death. Of course, there is an important prerequisite to complete the goals set in advance.
If it is not achieved...
Lu Li really wanted to return anyway, but nearly half of his strength had been wasted. Not to mention the daimyo-level army commanders, even some of the more well-known Japanese generals found it difficult to complete a single kill.
However, since there is still a heavy burden on your shoulders, you must not be passive. Let's see if there is any suitable target and pull a big fish to support it.
From beginning to end, Lu Li never thought about another possibility:
He will live until the end.
After all, since the midterm exam, I haven't had this kind of experience for a long time. Either I died suddenly, or I ended up in a state of confusion.
the other side.
The East Route Army was in a stalemate. With the arrival of support from the Kanto side, Nabeshima Naoshima was the only one who achieved remarkable military success.
And the battle situation of the Central Route Army...
Commander Dong Yiyuan galloped through the starry night and ordered his soldiers to take a short rest in a small town called Sanjia. He continued to lead the army early the next morning and had already reached Nanjiang and was approaching Jinzhou.
The Ming army unanimously believed that the big fish Toyotomi Hideyoshi was hidden here, so Dong Yiyuan was very active and cautious.
Even a veteran who is used to seeing troubles is still a little unable to control himself in the face of such temptation, because the reward for capturing or even beheading the old monkey is no worse than Qi Jiguang!
Prudence comes from reason.
As a being who threatens the Three Kingdoms, how could he be captured so easily?
According to the scouts' observations, the old Japanese's main formation is most likely to be located in Sichuan City near the sea, and Jinzhou is the north gate of this place.
There is Kunyang on the left and Yongchun on the right. These two villages are horns with each other, and together with Jinzhou, they form the peripheral defense line of Sichuan.
Not only that, Sachuan City itself also has two cities, Jinhae and Gucheng, as guards, with an unknown number of troops stationed.
In addition, there is a Dongyang warehouse next to the old city of Sichuan, which stores a large amount of grain, grass and baggage, and is also heavily guarded.
in short.
The limited space from Jinzhou to Sichuan was full of camps. There were eight large camps on the public surface, and they were connected to each other. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the camps were built step by step.
If the impregnable Ulsan City is built to win with quality, then the goal that the Central Route Army has to face is to have both quantity and quality.
Even if we take a step back and say that the quality is not good, the walled city alone is very troublesome, and tens of thousands of lives must be spent to fill it.
"Jinzhou is next to the Nanjiang River. To defend the city, you must defend the river. The Japanese are not stupid. They built a whole row of small camps along the flow of the river between Jinzhou City and Nanjiang."
"Our formation is backed by Wangjin Peak, and the terrain is very dangerous. If we want to attack Jinzhou, we must first pull out this row of fences along the river!"
The atmosphere in the camp was extremely serious.
Generals from all over the world were staring at the mountains and rivers maps and listening carefully to the analysis.
The center army has the strongest strength. If this first battle cannot be won, or if it is delayed for too long, it will cause a lot of negative consequences.
Mao Guoqi, a general of the Zhejiang Army who had previously performed brilliantly in Daoshan, was assigned to the Central Army and could flex his muscles.
At this moment, he carefully analyzed the situation and stated the facts to coach Dong Yiyuan:
"If you want to conquer Sichuan, you must first capture Jinzhou; if you want to capture Jinzhou, you must first defeat the Nanjiang camp; if you want to defeat the Nanjiang camp, you must first defeat the Wangjinfeng camp."
"This is a key point in the defense of the Japanese army. Once it is broken, everything else can be broken down in succession."
With capable people under his command, the coach did not have to worry about everything. Dong Yiyuan asked him directly what method he wanted to use to break through the Wangjin Peak camp.
An inexplicable smile appeared on Mao Guoqi's face, and he said mysteriously: "Shan Ren has his own clever plan."
You must know that war relies not only on soldiers, generals, and logistics, but also on an indispensable but obscure role:
spy.
The Imjin Japanese Rebellion could be suppressed in the past, and patriotic spies were indispensable in it.
Who said that only those who stand in the light are heroes?
As early as when the Japanese mobilized the whole country to prepare for the invasion of China, the Ming Dynasty was already vaguely aware of this matter.
Xu Sanguan was a native of Ji'an, Jiangxi Province during the Ming Dynasty. He made a living by doing business. As a result, he fell into Japanese hands in the South China Sea and was sold to the Satsuma Domain after several twists and turns.
Because of his medical skills, he saved the descendants of the Shimazu Yoshihisa family by chance. Since then, he has been highly valued and received beautiful women, financial rewards, and even a son.
But this king was naturally warm-hearted and patriotic. Although he was out of danger, whenever he saw his compatriots being bullied by the Japanese, he would gnash his teeth with hatred and think about doing something for them every day.
Before Hideyoshi unified Japan and attacked Kyushu, Shimazu Yoshihisa saw that he could not resist the military power, so he opened the city and surrendered in his cassock. When he went to see Hideyoshi, Xu Sanguan, as a retainer, also accompanied him.
When the surrender was negotiated, he suddenly stood up, changed the topic, and told his own experience, hoping that Hideyoshi would punish those pirates severely in the future.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi admired this courage very much. It happened that the old monkey also wanted to clean up the environment for his country's maritime merchants, so he simply made a favor and issued an order to ban Japanese pirates and sent troops to exterminate the pirates.
This incident also made Shimazu pay more attention to Xu Sanguan and felt that he had great courage.
Nineteen years after entering Wanli, Xu Sanguan, who had a higher status, found that the Satsuma domain had become extremely noisy, with a large number of samurai and ashigaru from outside the domain appearing in various parts of Honshu and Shikoku.
His keen sense of smell made him realize that something was wrong, because the Japanese country had been formally unified and there was no reason for a large-scale war to break out.
The only way to go is to use troops overseas!
The Japanese islands are isolated overseas, and the nearest enemy is North Korea, and the Li Dynasty is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. Once attacked, the Ming Dynasty will definitely take action.
Out of concern, Xu Sanguan used his position to secretly conduct a detailed investigation, but found that he had underestimated the Japanese ambitions, and the small Japanese country actually had a big dream of swallowing up the Ming Dynasty!
Therefore, out of his patriotic heart and having already lived a luxurious life, he resolutely decided to put his head in his belt and start doing intelligence work spontaneously.
Gradually, the team expanded.
A Fujianese named Guo Guoan joined in. This man had a similar experience to Xu Sanguan. He was trafficked to a foreign country, but with his talent and quick thinking, he became a junior officer in the Satsuma Domain and commanded a group of Japanese warriors.
The two of them joined forces to describe the Japanese country in terms of military, history, life, etc., in more than 5,000 words, which gave Ming Dynasty a reference for this strange and small country.
Moreover, they also correctly calculated the exact time of the Japanese invasion and sent their most trusted people back home.
But there is no shortage of traitors in any era.
When Xu Sanguan was running around collecting information about the Japanese, he was carrying the little Japanese on his back and acted extremely cautiously, but out of trust, he did not hide it from his own people.
A group of fellow countrymen who also came from China stabbed knives in the back and informed Hideyoshi's cronies Asano Nagamasa in order to get a reward.
When Toyotomi Hideyoshi heard this, he flew into a rage. He was thinking of conquering the Ming Dynasty, but someone jumped out and did bad things. Moreover, he had shown kindness to the other party. He immediately shouted that he would deal with this ungrateful bastard.
While being imprisoned and interrogated, Xu Sanguan endured all kinds of severe torture and insisted that he planned the whole matter alone and did not reveal the names of any of his partners.
The old monkey Hideyoshi also thought of a way to cook it. At that time, the Toyotomi family cast several extra large iron pots, and ordered Xu Sanguan to be thrown into them and boiled to death.
Thanks to Shimazu Yoshiki, he missed his old friendship for a long time and contacted another big shot - Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Hideyoshi was the most troubled and favored daimyo. He had never been defeated by Hideyoshi on the battlefield. He had two million koku in Kanto, and he had many powerful generals under his command, as well as many vassals.
Under Tokugawa's rescue, Xu Sanguan survived and was released to Satsuma Domain with only a symbolic warning.
After his return, the Shimazu family still valued him and treated him with courtesy as before, but he once again risked his life and used his position to send one of his most trusted apprentices to a special merchant ship bound for the Ming Dynasty.
Before leaving, he and his apprentice cried arm in arm. They both knew that they would never meet again in this life. Xu Sanguan wrote a farewell poem:
We meet each other in difficult areas for several weeks, and we go on separate trips for a while.
He diligently enjoined the loyal king and tried his best to exhort the enemy.
Knowing that you have returned to Su Zijing, why should you return to Li Lingqiu?
If Shuangtai asks about things in the world, he will be worried about the suffering of the people of Taosi.
There are no gorgeous words, it is all sincere and full of Xu Sanguan's love for the motherland. He describes himself as Su Wu, even if he is trapped in a barbarian land, he still does not change his integrity.
Throughout his life, he never received any commendation from the Ming Dynasty, nor was he awarded any official position by the imperial court. All his efforts were spontaneous, out of love for his own blood and simple feelings for his motherland.
This patriotism puts Ming officials to shame, and those Chinese people who stabbed people in the back are not worthy of being compared with it.
Xu Sanguan, a commoner, suffered many hardships and finally lived a comfortable life in a foreign country. When he sensed the impending national crisis, he risked his life to make a contribution without asking for any reward.
This is something that should not be forgotten.
And his apprentice, Zhu Junwang, whose ancestral home was in Fuzhou, took the intelligence and lay down at the bottom of the cabin to avoid detection, and did not climb out for forty days.
As soon as the ship docked, Zhu Junwang ignored his physical weakness and immediately went to the local military gate Zhang Ruji to submit the report to the Ming Dynasty officials.
It introduces in detail Hideyoshi's plan to invade the peninsula and invade the Ming Dynasty, indicating the march route map, total military strength, the attitude of the Japanese vassals towards the war, and providing strategies on how to fight against Japanese pirates.
The imperial court praised highly: The prediction of what will happen today is exactly as stated in the deed.
People from the Li Dynasty also agreed: The discussion about the use of troops by Japanese pirates is very complex.
The latter even asked the Ming envoy after the war broke out if Mr. Xu had any subsequent updates.
Xu Sanguan, Guo Guoan and others have always been active in the Japanese camp, staged scenes of thrilling spy battles that took place in the 16th century.
The Central Army and Zhejiang Army General Mao Guoqi relied on the people of the Ming Dynasty, headed by these two people, who were far away from home and had achieved their own achievements.
Due to various reasons, these people, like duckweeds, had no choice but to become Japanese and never set foot on their homeland again for the rest of their lives. However, they did not dare to forget that they were born in the Ming Dynasty and were willing to risk their lives and contribute to their motherland through various channels.
