If Gao Pragmatic wants to pour cold water on Tokugawa Ieyasu, then the previous tactical layout needs to be adjusted. Of course, since the news of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death will soon reach the Japanese army in Korea, these arrangements are likely to be ineffective - after all, with such a big thing happening in the rear, Gao Pragmatic's original judgment on the behavior of the Japanese army will definitely be invalid. Accurate.
Gao Pragmatic's previous arrangement was roughly as follows: first, the Magui headquarters, which is in the direction of Ulsan. High pragmatism asked Ma Gui to assemble the army on the spot in Ulsan and prepare for another battle. However, there was no need to rush to launch a new round of offensive for the time being, but to wait for the replenishment of logistics supplies and targeted arrangements in other directions.
Then there is the Jinhai front line, which is Liu Wei's headquarters. Liu Wei's troops had already advanced to the foot of Yangshan City during the previous Battle of Ulsan. This place is located between Gimhae and Ulsan. Apparently, like Ulsan, the Japanese fortress has already been repaired.
However, the original city of Liangshan was in the plain area at the foot of the mountain. Since the Japanese city was mainly concerned with defending against the Ming army's overwhelming artillery, it was built on the mountain to the east of the original city. This made Liu Wei's attack on the main city of Liangshan quite smooth, but then he also faced the same troubles as Ma Gui, that is, it was very difficult to capture the Japanese city.
According to Liu Wei's report to Gao Pangshi, he believed that although the Liangshan Japanese city was easy to defend and difficult to attack, it was relatively easier to fight than Hailongdun. If he was given tens of thousands of troops to attack in turns, and then suddenly sent elite troops If you score a sneak attack, you still have a good chance of success. The only problem is that Liu Wei believes that the Ming army will lose no less than 5,000 people if they fight like this.
Although due to factors such as weather, geography, and the fact that the Japanese army was very good at building mountain cities, the Ming army would indeed have to use 100% of its strength to attack the Japanese mountain city at this time, but only 30% of it would be used. However, Gao Pragmatic still had the idea of losing 5,000 people and attacking Liangshan. It's hard to support.
In particular, the Ming army's earlier plan was to attack Ulsan first, and then let Ma Gui and Liu Wei jointly attack Liangshan after Ulshan was finished. Therefore, Gao Pragmatic told Liu Wei not to worry.
But now Ulsan can't win for a while, especially since Kobayakawa Hideaki has brought an elite team to help, which makes Gao Pangshi have to change his mind.
He ordered Liu Wei to increase the intensity of his attack on Liangshan, but the prerequisite was that the momentum should be large and the losses should be small. After receiving the order, Liu Wei immediately understood Gao Pragmatic's intention: this was to force Hideaki Kobayakawa not to stay in Ulsan and to attract him to Liangshan.
However, Liu Wei was not sure whether Gao Pangshi wanted to ambush Hideaki Kobayakawa between Ulsan and Yangshan.
In fact, Gao Pangshi did have this plan, and the separate order he issued to Li Rumei's department was aimed at it.
From the fact that Li Rumei's troops were doing nothing in the Battle of Dosan, it can be seen that Li Rumei's troops will hardly be useful in the subsequent battles of the Battle of Ulsan. After all, his troops are mainly cavalry, and it is indeed not his turn to attack the city.
Gao Jingshi did not intend to idle such a powerful cavalry force, so he came up with the idea of attracting Kobayakawa Hideaki's tribe out of the city and fighting him in a field battle of annihilation. If it can be done, this will even be a "breakdown" to a certain extent, which can achieve the effect of "breaking off one finger is worse than hurting ten fingers."
At that time, Kafiji also put forward some suggestions, including the idea of lifting the blockade outside Busan Port and preparing an ambush between Busan and Ulsan sea routes. These ideas were originally very good, but now it is estimated that they will be difficult to implement smoothly.
The truth is obvious. After Toyotomi Hideyoshi died, Tokugawa Ieyasu and Ishida Mitsunari reached an extremely rare consensus. They both believed that the first priority at the moment was to withdraw troops from North Korea.
Since the troops are about to withdraw, it is impossible for Kobayakawa Hideaki's troops to be attracted out, and even if the Japanese navy in Busan Port finds that the Ming fleet has lifted the blockade, there is no need to go to Ulsan to transport supplies. Therefore, it is unlikely that both land and sea plans to lure snakes out of their caves can be implemented.
However, when Gao Pragmatic looked back, he realized that there might still be an opportunity to follow the trend in the development of things, and this opportunity was still divided into two parts: land and sea.
Let’s talk about the sea first: Japan is an island country. Since it wants to withdraw its troops from North Korea, it must take the sea route no matter what. However, although the current Japanese navy in and around Busan still has a certain scale, it is certainly not at a level that can transport hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops back to the mainland. Not to mention that although the Japanese naval fleet has lifted the blockade, it does not mean that it will not participate in the follow-up. fighting.
This means that the Japanese navy must have the ability to fight with it at least on paper, so as not to fail to transport and feed the bastards together. Therefore, the Japanese mainland will inevitably need to send another naval force to cooperate with the Busan Navy to try to complete the task of bringing back the army.
However, in the era without weather satellites and radio communications, it was basically impossible for the Japanese navy in Busan and the local side to achieve tactical coordination-that is, if one side moved, the other side might not be able to move.
This gave the Ming army an opportunity to defeat the Japanese naval fleet. The Japanese Navy's domestic fleet wanted to support Busan. The starting point was either Nagoya or Hakata Town. In short, it set out from the northern part of Kyushu Island and basically sailed all the way north.
The distance between these two places and Busan is actually not that far, both are just over 400 miles (Note: I mentioned before that this book does not use "nautical miles", a unit that ordinary readers are unfamiliar with), which is a little more than 200 kilometers. . At this time, the Ming army could rely on its speed and numerical advantages to dispatch reconnaissance ships in relevant sea lanes to take precautions, and notify the fleet's stationing location through flying pigeons on the sea.
In this way, as long as the main force of the fleet stationed at the anchorage can set off early, whether it is interception or setting up an ambush, there is a high probability that the combat objectives of each defeat can be achieved.
Of course, one of the more important advantages here is flying pigeons to pass messages. As far as Gao Pangshi knows so far, the Japanese army has not used this method, or at least there is no record of using flying pigeons to send messages as a standing method.
In the past, individual Japanese naval forces (pirates) have used this method, but what is interesting is that almost all of them were closely related to the pirates of the Ming Dynasty. However, the Japanese navy, now unified under the banner of Toyotomi, no longer Use this method of communication again. As to whether it was due to financial considerations or what, it is unknown.
(The cost of using homing pigeons on a large scale is not low, and homing pigeons that can adapt to use in maritime activities are more difficult to cultivate.)
This is true at sea, but what about on land? As soon as the news of the joint request of the five elders and five Japanese troops to withdraw their troops reaches North Korea, the Japanese army in North Korea will be liberated from Hideyoshi's lifetime order to defend Busan and even retake Chaonan, and its operational thinking will definitely change drastically.
If the basic mission of Kobayakawa Hideaki's reinforcements at the beginning was to defend Ulsan, and the advanced mission was to find opportunities to counterattack the Ming army and disrupt the Ming army's deployment of siege of Busan, then now once the withdrawal order is issued, their goal will become " Try our best to have all armies withdraw completely to Japan."
But there is a big question here: who will retreat first and who will stay behind? You know, this is probably not just a military issue.
The Japanese army at this time was not a national army in the usual sense. It was to a large extent an alliance of feudal lords. The theoretical core of this army should be the direct descendants of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and then according to the The importance is divided by the close relationship with Hideyoshi, the level of official position, and the number of troops.
Perhaps it can be understood as an onion-like army. The closer the relationship with Hideyoshi is, the more at the core of the onion. Then, layer by layer, the outermost layer is the one with the least relationship with Hideyoshi and the most powerful. The weak part.
So normally, the first to gain the power to retreat should be the direct lineage of Toyotomi, followed by Hideyoshi's trusted daimyo, then the subordinate daimyo, and finally the subordinate daimyo who have a general relationship with Hideyoshi and are weaker.
However, since the actual battle situation may not necessarily be suitable for operating in this order, there is a high probability that there will be various wranglings within the Japanese army. In addition, the judgment of each daimyo on the future situation in Japan and even the personalities of the daimyo themselves may also have to be considered. ...In short, it will be complicated.
For example, Kato Kiyomasa, who is a direct descendant of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, should be able to retreat relatively early, but now he is an independent daimyo with his own fiefdom in the middle of Kyushu Island, and as a hardliner, he has always behaved He is very active in fighting and is often willing to help others in the rear, so we can estimate whether he will retreat early or late.
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Therefore, Gao Pragmatic must use the elimination method to first identify some Japanese regiments that have a higher probability of withdrawing first, and then estimate how they should mobilize their troops and when to withdraw, so as to formulate corresponding interception or ambush plans.
This is a very difficult task, because there are too many uncontrollable factors. After much thought, Gao Pragmatic found that it is difficult to "strike what you want to hit and let go of what you want to let go" in detail. Later, after carefully recalling the Japanese withdrawal in original history, I suddenly realized - Hey, it's not that complicated!
At this time, it is impossible for the Japanese army to have a completely rational withdrawal plan! In the original history, the withdrawal of Japanese troops can only be said to have barely maintained the last bit of rationality, and most of them were actually based on one principle: whoever has ships will withdraw first, and whoever has more ships will be able to withdraw. faster.
As for the names of the last captains, I'm sorry, but after the others have finished withdrawing, if there is still strength left, I will withdraw your troops.
There is only one exception here, and that is Shimazu Yoshihiro's Fifth Army. At that time, Shimazu Yoshihiro's retreat was relatively smooth. However, after he retreated to the seaside, he suddenly received a request for help from Governor Konishi - Governor Konishi was surrounded.
Shimazu Yoshihiro didn't know whether it was because of his loyalty or because he was worried about being held responsible after returning to his country. He went back very decisively and tried his best to rescue Yukinagako Konishi. It was even because of this battle that "Ghost Manko" and "Ghost Manko" were fought. Shimadzu".
However, the good times did not last long. Due to this delay, the Second Army and the Fifth Army were delayed in boarding the ship. As a result, when the fleet went to sea, they encountered a joint attack by the Ming and North Korean naval forces, and the famous Luliang Naval Battle broke out.
Some of the specific results of this battle are doubtful (as mentioned earlier in this book), but the overall results are relatively clear, that is, the Japanese army suffered huge overall losses, including about 500 warships and more than 10,000 troops. More than a hundred warships were lost. Therefore, the Ming and North Korean coalition forces declared a great victory, which was known as the Lulianghai Victory in history.
After thinking about this, Gao Pragmatic was too lazy to make an extremely detailed pre-war plan as in the past. He simply asked the Sea Trade Alliance's expedition fleet to produce a batch of Japanese military family crest maps, which were divided into levels according to their importance, telling them. The various Ming armies decided who they wanted to attack and who they wanted to spare.
Although Japan's various legions now appear to be "nationally organized", they are actually far from being so. Although they also fly the flag of the "Xth Legion" when they go on an expedition, in addition to this flag, each family will fly their own various flags, which use different heraldry, and the soldiers, especially the samurai class, will fly their own flags. There are also coats of arms printed on the armor, some of which are the same as the family crest, and some of which are different.
In short, there are generally three things to distinguish them, including family crest, military flag, and horse seal.
The family crest is the emblem of the Japanese samurai family. Almost every Japanese samurai family has its own family crest, and the family crests on generals and soldiers are also used to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy on the battlefield. In addition, due to factors such as blood relationship, strength and status, many families often have several family crests, such as Oda Nobunaga.
Obviously, the top family patterns that Gao pragmatism wants to draw this time are the "Taige Tong pattern" and the "Wuqitong pattern". These two are actually the family crests of the Toyotomi family. At first, Toyotomi Hideyoshi used the five-seven-tung pattern. Later, he felt that it was not enough to express nobility, so he came up with the Taikaku pattern.
In this way, the Taikaku pattern is used by the direct descendants of Toyotomi Hideyoshi himself, and the Goqitong pattern is used by other families whose Miao characters are Toyotomi, such as Toyotomi Hidenaga, Toyotomi Hideho and his son, or the former Sekishiro Toyotomi Hidetsu. You can use Wuqitong pattern.
Military flags are the most common symbols and information transmission channels in ancient human wars, and Japan is no exception. During the Warring States Period in Japan, some unique Warring States daimyo would often write special words or pictures on their military flags to express their identities and ideas to others.
For example, Takeda Shingen's "Furinvolcano" military flag shows Takeda Shingen's military philosophy, Uesugi Kenshin's "Biji Flag" promotes that he is the reincarnation of the Buddhist god "Bishamonten", and Oda Nobunaga's "Eiraku" The "Tongbao" military flag shows his philosophy that "money talks", and is the most curious and even talked about by later generations of Chinese people.
If family crests and military flags are not uncommon in other countries, the "horse seal" is probably unique to Japan. Horse seals, also known as horse marks and horse seals, are markers specifically used to indicate the position of military commanders on the battlefield. Generally, only warriors with more than a thousand troops are qualified to use horse seals.
The horse seals of some Japanese Warring States generals are often the military flags. For example, Takeda Shingen's Fenglinhuoshan flag is also his horse seal. However, the horse seals of some Japanese Warring States generals are all kinds of strange things, the most famous of which are Toyotomi Hideyoshi's "Sencheng Laopan" and Tokugawa Ieyasu's "Golden Fan".
In addition to Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, Oda Nobunaga's horse seal is a "golden umbrella", Yondamasamune's horse seal is a "black two-stage bird hair hat", and Maeda Toshiie's horse seal is a golden The word "and". These strange horse prints have also become a special landscape of Japan's Warring States Period.
Of course, Gao Wuzhen didn't want the Ming army to appreciate this kind of scenery. He just wanted the Ming army to know which Japanese army they were facing, so as to avoid beating the Japanese soldiers he originally planned to let go.
Producing these booklets is not complicated for the Sea Trade Alliance, which has been deeply involved in the Japanese market for many years. There are even some already, and now they are just compiled. There is no need to print and distribute it on a large scale, it only needs to be distributed to generals and commanders or even higher levels.
As a result, the Jinhai Economic Command quickly issued another order and made a series of adjustments to the previous military orders. The biggest adjustment among them is to temporarily hold on to various previous proactive actions, and change the thinking of all subsequent offensives, that is, wait for the Japanese army to make adjustments first, and then the Ming army will take corresponding actions.
In short, Gao pragmatically delegated power to various departments of the Ming army this time, allowing them to actively exert their subjective initiative and strive to cause maximum damage to the various Japanese armies delineated by Gao pragmatically.
As for who to hit first... of course the direct descendants of the Toyotomi family, and then the close associates of Toyotomi - most likely some of the military commanders who joined the Eastern Army in history, as well as certain Western daimyo who have long been listed as key targets by Gao Pragmatic.
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