This surge in morale of the Japanese Fifth Army left the Ming army completely confused. The Jurchen Allied Forces, who were actually on the front line, thought that the Japanese army had set some trap in advance, and the boost in morale of the other side meant that they had already stepped into it. In the trap.
Because of such an inexplicable incident, the Jurchen warriors of the Hada tribe were the first to waver, and even the Ula tribe, which had been reluctant to send troops, also had the tendency to "almost want to leave first". When Nurhaci saw that the situation was not good, he immediately sent Anfeyangu to suppress it.
Who knew that this suppression would cause problems instead. The Hada tribe was extremely dissatisfied with the Jianzhou Left Guard, the former Wu Xia Amon, who in turn yelled at them, and some generals cursed Anfei Yangu in public.
As one of Nurhaci's top generals, Anfeiyanggu obviously had a bad temper. He wanted to enforce military law on the spot. As a result, the Hada Department turned against him on the spot and retreated directly, not playing with the Jianzhou left guard.
As soon as the Hada tribe left, the Ula tribe was naturally eager to leave, and followed them without even saying hello. At this time, Ye Hebu was either leaving or staying, and he was obviously hesitant.
As for the Ye He tribe, they also did not want to accept the command of Nurhachi. However, this time when he went south to join the expedition, Gao Pragmatic's original intention was mainly to consume the strength of Jianzhou's left guard, so Nurhaci sent the most troops. Although the Ye He tribe is the current de facto overlord of the Jurchens, its troop dispatch is only half of the Jianzhou Left Guard, so it was also arranged to follow Nurhaci's command.
However, the relationship between the Ye He tribe and the Jianzhou Zuowei was not good in the first place, but as they and the Hada tribe were asked to join the army several times at the same time by the Ming Dynasty, after a few battles, the relationship is now good. Now the Hada tribe is gone. , it became a question whether they should leave or not.
The leader of Ye He's troops was Fei Yingdong. After some hesitation, he still felt that he should not spoil the master's instructions first (see above, theoretically Fei Yingdong is now Meng Guzhezhe's subordinate, so he also calls Gao Pragmatic the master). Therefore, Ye Hejun was finally ordered to stand by where he was.
However, the retreat of the Hada and Ula tribes has caused the front to waver—nonsense, how can it not be shaken if the position is empty? Dong Yiyuan at the rear was a little confused at first, but then he immediately realized what was going on. In a rage, he quickly sent out his cronies to stop Hada and Ula.
However, the commander of the Japanese army opposite was no ordinary person. He was Shimazu Yoshihiro. Therefore, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Ming army's vanguard to leak this flaw, the Shimazu army suddenly opened the city gate and launched a counterattack.
Shimazu Yoshihiro had originally deployed a small but elite ambush outside the city. Since he wanted to counterattack at this time, he naturally ordered the ambush to attack at the same time. The Jurchen coalition forces that fell into chaos were immediately divided and blocked.
Shimazu Yoshihiro's own team also joined the battle. Yoshihiro even personally led the attack and killed four enemy troops on the spot. And Shimazu Tadahashi, a guy who didn't look like a brave general, was actually very fierce. He killed three people first and was also wounded by a gunshot. However, even after being wounded, he did not retreat and even killed seven Jurchen soldiers. .
Nurhaci was furious and wanted to save face, but he whispered some words of advice. Nurhachi changed his angry look and shouted an order: "The Japanese pirates are powerful. Our troops should retreat and reorganize before another attack." war!"
After that, Nurhaci led his headquarters to retreat first. Fei Yingdong on Ye He's side was frightened and angry. Fortunately, Ye He sent few troops and they were very characteristic of his army - they were all cavalry. They finally withdrew quickly enough without suffering too much loss.
However, the Jurchen coalition forces withdrew all at once, which directly caused Dong Yiyuan's Chinese army to be attacked and quickly fell into chaos. As a result, under the counterattack of Shimazu army, they suffered a considerable blow. The Shimazu army pursued for more than ten miles. The Ming, Korean and Jurchen allied forces discarded countless soldiers and armor, and even captured more than a dozen No. 3 cannons.
That night, the Shimazu army held a victory celebration in Torai New Castle, and the Torai War came to an end.
After the war, the combined forces of the Ming and North Korea that had suspended their retreat had less than 20,000 troops. Although most of them had fled, Dong Yiyuan was unable to continue the offensive and could only raise flags and send cavalry to summon the defeated army.
Because high pragmatism has changed history, Shimazu Yoshihiro's originally brilliant Battle of Sichuan was not successful, but it seemed that God had his own will. With this battle from the east, he still played "Oni Shimazu" name. The name "Ghost Manzi" was not only well-known in North Korea, but also spread to the Ming Dynasty.
Then let’s talk about the Battle of Liangshan. Earlier, the Japanese army went to Korea for the second time. Considering that it was very likely to encounter a strong counterattack by the Ming army, the Japanese army built many Japanese castles in various places - especially around Busan. They were originally constructed as the worst-case scenario, but now Time to make a difference.
The Yangsan Japanese Fortress was first built by Ukita Hideie and Todo Takatora. After Gao Pangji suddenly sent troops to Sichuan, the Japanese army in Busan realized the importance of Yangsan and other places, and once again asked Todo Takatora to strengthen the defense of the Japanese fortress in Yangsan and other places.
At that time, Busan Port had been blocked, and Takatora Toudo had no other tasks anyway, so he focused on strengthening the defense system. After overtime civil engineering work, it was announced a month later that the city's reinforcements had been completed.
Soon afterwards, the main force of the Japanese army that failed in their plan to attack Sichuan south returned to Busan. Governor Konishi was ordered to lead the army into the city to serve as a garrison. Takatora Toudo had gone to sea before due to changes in the situation - and this time he went to sea and was captured. Lower the height and be pragmatic.
After the completion of the Yangshan Japanese Castle, a total of 13,700 people led by Konishi Yukinacho, Matsuura Jinnobu, Arima Harunobu, Goshima Genya, and Omura Kizen served as the Yangshan Castle garrison. The people responsible for attacking Liangshan City this time were 21,900 people of the Ming army led by Liu Wei and 5,928 people of the North Korean army led by Yuhou Quan.
At the same time, at sea, 19,400 men led by Chen Lin, commander of the Ping-Japanese Fleet, and 7,328 men led by Yi Sun-shin of the North Korean Navy had also been deployed respectively.
After the battle started, General Liu Wei of the Ming Army's West Route Army led his army to approach Liangshan. However, before attacking the city, the allied forces of the Ming and North Korea first adopted tactical deception, claiming to hold talks with the Japanese army and planning to try to capture Governor Konishi alive.
On the 18th of this month, Liu Wei submitted a letter to President Konishi, to the effect of "We will meet and negotiate near Liangshan tomorrow, and I will personally come to greet you."
President Konishi believed it was true and wanted to go to meet him. Songura Jinxin remonstrated: "People in the Ming Dynasty often do hypocritical things, which will inevitably lead to danger. Have you forgotten what happened in Pyongyang?" But President Konishi did not listen to this opinion.
On the 19th, Liu Wei laid an ambush on the way to the meeting place and sent another person to pretend to be himself to meet Governor Konishi. After receiving the invitation, Konishi Yuki went out of the city in his regular clothes to the meeting place.
As a result, something unexpected happened. After the entire army was searched, Matsuura Jinnobu sent an elite eyewitness squad (exploring horse) to investigate the surrounding situation in multiple ways. Therefore, the Ming army ambush failed to wait until Konishi Governor entered the ambush circle. Then be exposed first. There is no doubt that the Ming army's original plan to capture Governor Konishi alive failed.
Since there was no hope of outsmarting them, the coalition forces had no choice but to seize them by force - Liu Wei immediately changed his tactics and attacked the city by force.
On the afternoon of the 19th, the Ming and North Korean coalition forces launched an attack on Liangshan City from land. A fleet of the coalition navy also fired at the Japanese army from the river. However, although the overall battle situation was that the Ming army was suppressing the Japanese army, the actual effect was Hardly seen.
On the following two days, the 20th and 21st, the coalition navy broke through the Japanese river defense line, but was repulsed by Japanese artillery after approaching Liangshan City.
At this time, the Ming army discovered that the Japanese army had made some progress compared to the past. At least it had learned to use artillery intensively, and it actually had some artillery reserves in hand. Although judging from the shelling, most of the artillery used by Konishi Yukinagawa's troops may have been captured from the Korean army, but there were also a small number of Kyoka's No. 3 guns.
This became a problem, because there were no large ships that could sail into the Nakdong River, not even armed transport ships. They were all small boats provided by the North Korean Navy, and these small boats could not withstand the Gyeonghwa-3 gun. As a result, the coalition's surface offensive was forced to stop.
Since the Ming army attacked Yangshan from the west to the east of the Nakdong River, the Japanese army not only had a strong Japanese city to rely on, but also had the advantages brought by the Nakdong River itself. Therefore, in the city defense battle in the next few days, the Japanese army under the command of Konishi Yukinagai failed to allow the Ming and North Korean coalition forces to take any advantage.
In fact, after Konishi's troops were severely damaged by Ming army Li Rusong's troops in Pyongyang, they had already suffered more than half of their casualties. After several years of rest and recuperation, although they regained their combat effectiveness, their will to fight has never been strong.
"First Evolution"
For this battle of Liangshan, Konishi Yukinacho's headquarters once again assembled a considerable number of matchlocks, artillery and other firearms. In the past few days, because they had successfully stopped the Ming army's momentum, the morale of the army had been restored.
As mentioned before, the Yangsan Japanese Fortress was built by Todo Takatora, who was a famous architectural expert in Japanese history. Therefore, the Yangsan Japanese Fortress is comparable to the Ulsan Twin Cities to a certain extent, and even because Yangsan has more Nakdong River Covering and attacking may be more difficult than the Ulsan Twins.
Fortunately, Todo Takatora had already voted for Gao Pragmatic at this time, so he got the Liangshan city defense situation map from him before the war.
However, this is not of great significance. Liu Wei still has a headache after seeing the Liangshan city defense map. The city has an echelon of firepower configuration, coupled with matchlock shooting holes that can alternately form a fire network, allowing the Japanese defense to reach almost 70% of the bastion's capabilities.
The failure of the coalition's offensive was largely due to the defensive configuration and firepower configuration of the Japanese army, as well as the failure of the expected water suppression to work.
Liu Wei had to temporarily stop the strong attack on Liangshan, and began to make relatively traditional siege equipment such as ladders, siege towers, rams, and shields. At the same time, he began to cross the river in a roundabout way from the north and south, no longer fighting on the side of Liangshanxi City near the Luodong River.
On the second day of October, after the production of siege equipment was completed, the coalition forces still launched a general attack on Liangshan by land and water. The army attacked the connection between the inner city and the outer city with the assistance of siege equipment, while the Japanese army relied on matchlocks and artillery to resist tenaciously, resulting in many coalition casualties.
The Japanese army also seized the opportunity to go out of the city to conduct a brief and rapid counterattack, and set fire to some of the coalition's siege equipment. In just two days of fighting, the Ming and North Korean coalition forces killed more than 800 people, including about 300 Ming troops. The worst thing was that they still failed to make substantial progress.
The allied navy's attack from the Nakdong River was also repelled by the Japanese army. The North Korean navy's Snake Dujian made Huang Shide dead in the battle, the fourth-rank military generals Zhu Yishou and Kim Shengyu, Hainan County Supervisor Liu Yan, Jindo County Governor Xuan Yiqing, Kang Jin County Supervisor Song Shangfu was actually injured in the battle.
This news made Liu Wei very dissatisfied, and he almost couldn't help but ask Gao pragmatic for water support. He believes that if a few armed transport ships can be mobilized, at least the No. 3 gun will not be unable to withstand the water battle, and as long as the water can pose a threat, the land offensive will be much smoother.
However, considering that the Ming fleet was currently preparing for a naval interception operation, and that task was far more important than the current Battle of Liangshan, Liu Wei finally held back.
On the third day of the lunar month, Liu Wei issued an order to the North Korean naval force to "jointly attack by land and water tonight." The North Korean navy then took advantage of the high tide to approach Liangshan at around 2:00 p.m. that night (around 8 p.m.), and arrived at Liangshan City at midnight and began fighting with the Japanese army.
After all, Liangshan is about forty miles away from the sea, and the tidal effect comes and goes faster. During the battle, the tide receded, and a total of 23 Korean warships were stranded. The stranded warships were subsequently rushed up and set on fire by the Japanese army.
The North Korean army suffered many casualties and prisoners, but only about 140 people survived. Yu Shou, a fourth-rank general of the North Korean navy, was also shot by the Japanese matchlock gun, but luckily he survived. The next day, the coalition navy continued to launch an attack on Liangshan, but was still repelled by the Japanese troops who defended the city.
The coalition navy launched attacks from the river for two consecutive days, but the army led by Liu Wei made no move. This was not because the army suffered heavy casualties in the general attack on the first and second days of the lunar month, but because he learned about the failure of the Donglai Japanese Castle attack at this time.
Liu Wei considered that as long as they could not defeat the enemy from the east, the enemy in Liangshan would still have the confidence to hold on, and supplies might not be completely cut off, so he did not launch a meaningless attack on the Japanese army from land. It is said that on the battlefield, a single move affects the whole body. This is an example.
On the seventh day of the lunar month, after learning that the offensive situation of various parties was not up to expectations, the Ming and North Korean coalition forces surrounding Liangshan City began to retreat. The Ming army itself suffered little loss in strength at this time (mainly because the Korean army suffered greater losses). Compared with Dong Yiyuan who attacked from the east, Liu Wei's situation was much better. The North Korean navy also lifted the naval blockade of Suncheon on the ninth day of the lunar month and returned to the water village.
Although the attack came to an end, Liu Wei did not intend to give up the operation completely. He changed the goal of his headquarters to monitor the Japanese army near Liangshan, and contained the Japanese army in Liangshan through mid-range oppression without actual attack.
At this time, envoys from Japan were also able to sneak into Liangshan City after the Battle of Liangshan. After receiving the order, Governor Konishi began to prepare to withdraw his troops and return home.
It has to be said that despite the unfavorable weather and location, the combined forces of the Ming and North Korea still failed to achieve their strategic goals this time.
Of course, no matter what, the relationship between offense and defense on the battlefield remains unchanged. Although the Japanese army fought hard to repulse the attack, their own losses were not small, and more and more people began to doubt that in such a passive situation of being beaten, it was really still possible. Is there any chance of victory? Many people feel at this time that perhaps a decent peace is the only hope of achieving it.
However, this idea soon lost its meaning, because the Japanese army that repelled the fierce attack by the Ming and North Korean coalition forces on Daoshan, Donglai, and Liangshan received orders from China to withdraw their troops by October 15th at the latest. Order to return home.
As a result, Japanese troops in various places began to prepare to withdraw their troops and return home. In late October, Governor Konishi proposed that he reach a contract with Liu Wei and start withdrawing troops by sending hostages.
According to Gao Pragmatic's pre-war deployment, Liu Wei believed that since Governor Konishi himself was a "surrender" among the Japanese generals and ranked low in Gao Pragmatic's attack sequence, the agreement could be agreed to, so he approved Konishi's decision. President Nishi's proposal, and soon received the hostage sent by President Konishi.
However, an accident happened. Due to the high degree of freedom given to each army by the high pragmatism of this operation, each general has his own understanding of the "attack sequence". Therefore, when the news was learned by the coalition navy, on November 10th, the coalition navy once again attacked near Liangshan City, implemented a river blockade, and blocked the Japanese retreat along the river.
Governor Konishi had no choice but to bypass the smooth road along the river and march south in the wilderness, hoping to go to Busan and prepare to board the ship. Unexpectedly, the Ming and North Korean allied forces that originally attacked the east side had regrouped, and the journey south was not smooth, so he had to fight against the North Korean navy. The attack went straight along the river to the Saxia area west of Busan.
The Shaxia area can be regarded as a peninsula, and it has reached the seaside. Now not only the North Korean navy, but also the Ping-Japanese fleet can send warships to bombard his second army - if he dares to stay at the seaside.
In this way, Governor Konishi had to negotiate with Chen Lin, the commander of the Japanese fleet, by sending hostages in order to withdraw peacefully. However, this peace negotiation was strongly opposed by Yi Sun-shin, the commander-in-chief of the North Korean navy, who advocated continuing. Attacking the Japanese army, the Ming and North Korean allied naval forces did not retreat, but continued to implement a naval blockade in this sea area.
After learning that the retreat of the Konishi Army was blocked, generals such as Shimazu Yoshihiro, Tachibana Muneshige, Takahashi Naotsugu, Terasawa Hirotaka, Mune Yoshitomo and others who had retreated from the Japanese castle in the east immediately formed a navy fleet. , went to rescue Yukinagako Konishi who was besieged by the Ming and North Korean coalition forces.
I would like to add that Shimazu Yoshihiro originally did not have many ships to mobilize, but because the actual composition of the fifth army under his command was composed of direct soldiers of the Toyotomi family, his priority in retreating among the Japanese army was relatively high.
About half a month ago, three hundred warships sent from Japan were intercepted by the Japanese fleet on the way. The Japanese army suffered heavy losses. However, because the Japanese navy chose to disperse and break out, the Japanese fleet was unable to fight any annihilation battle. The actual attack was Shen He captured about a hundred Japanese naval warships.
Although more than one-third of the Japanese support fleet was eliminated, after all, two hundred ships can transport a lot of people even if they are squeezed together. Therefore, during this period of time, the transportation capacity of the Japanese navy is still good - of course , whether he will be intercepted again is another matter.
Returning to the previous topic, the Ming and North Korean allied naval forces, which detected the arrival of Japanese reinforcements, then went to meet them. The coalition forces subsequently encountered the Japanese navy in the Luliang Strait in the early morning of November 18, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides. This battle was also the last battle that took place in Korea in the entire War to Resist Japan and Aid Korea—or the Battle of Bunroku Keichang.
In the early morning of that day, when the Japanese navy arrived at the small island in the northwest of Nanhae Island and the south of Takeshima respectively, they were attacked from the north and south by the Ming Dynasty navy and the Korean navy in Guanyinpo ambushing in the northwest harbor of Nanhae Island. The battle began. .
The Japanese vanguard suffered heavy casualties, but as it was still dark, the artillery accuracy was severely reduced. The Ming and North Korean naval vanguards were also repelled by the Japanese to Guanyinpo.
Seeing that the vanguard of the Japanese army was repelled, the main force of the Ming army's Japanese fleet then rushed into the location of the Shimazu army's main force and started a melee with the Japanese army.
Deeply influenced by the image of the Sea Trade Alliance fleet, Japan has always believed that the Ming army was only good at artillery. Therefore, the Japanese army did not expect that this Ming army navy would rush up to fight in close combat, so the Ming army broke into it unintentionally. Shimazu's army suffered heavy casualties.
Although the reserve force led by Shimazu Army General Hisaka Kawasaki succeeded in breaking through the Noryang Strait, his own reserve force was also divided by the coalition navy. Subsequently, due to unknown conditions in the nearby sea area, the warship accidentally collided into Guanyinpo, where the North Korean navy was gathering, and the warship also ran aground on the beach.
Huashan Jiugao had to abandon the boat and go ashore, and walked across to the east coast of Nanhai Island to escape. The ship on which Commander Shimazu Yoshihiro was riding also separated from the fleet due to the tide. After being surrounded by allied warships, it was almost in dire straits for a while. It was only with the desperate rescue of other warships that it was able to get out of danger.
The battle situation was extremely unfavorable for the Japanese army, and the sky was getting brighter. The Ming Dynasty's Japanese fleet, which had a huge artillery advantage, was about to show off its might. Seeing that the situation had been decided, the Japanese army no longer considered fighting, so they desperately tried to distance themselves and retreated. However, in order to withdraw the troops, some warships that were temporarily unable to escape the battle had to be abandoned, and the overall losses further increased.
After the war, the Japanese fleet counted the results and reported to Gao Pingshi: "One hundred Japanese ships were captured, 200 were sunk, 1,500 Japanese were killed, more than 480 were captured, and countless Japanese drowned." [The Japanese fleet here has already joined the fleet in Busan Port. ]
What is different this time is that the deputy general of the Ming army, Deng Zilong, did not die. Instead, the chief general of the Korean army, Yi Sunchen, was hit by a stray bullet during the battle and was seriously injured and unconscious. It was not known whether he could save his life.
However, after the naval battle, the allied naval forces of the Ming and North Korea saw the Japanese retreating and naturally pursued them with all their strength, so the naval blockade of the Shaxia area was lifted.
Seeing that the maritime blockade was lifted, the Konishi Army avoided the area where the naval battle occurred on the morning of the 19th. After a large detour from the area between Saxia and Busan, it safely arrived at Geoje Island on the 20th. Also on the 20th, the remaining Shimazu troops on the Nanhae Island, Huashan Jiugao, gathered about 500 people, and then safely retreated to Geoje Island. The Japanese retreat in the west ended.
On the 23rd, Kato Kiyomasa, Kobayakawa Hideaki and others returned from Busan. However, they were ambushed by the Magui tribe on their way from Dosan to Busan. Especially after the ambush, the charge of Li Rumei's cavalry brought great consequences to the Japanese army. Huge casualties, the Japanese army lost more than 17,000 people in this battle. Not to mention being completely crippled, it was just a loss of strength and bones.
On the 24th, Maori Xiuyuan, Maori Yoshinari and others returned home from Busan. It seemed that they had "excellent luck" along the way. No Ming army actually attacked them.
On the 25th, Governor Konishi, Yoshihiro Shimazu and others returned home. Although they were worried about being intercepted by the Ming army's Japanese fleet, they seemed to have "excellent luck" and did not encounter Ming soldiers along the way. The military fleet returned home smoothly.
At this point, all the Japanese daimyo who went to Korea have withdrawn from Korea to Japan. Toyotomi Hideyoshi's plan to conquer Korea and the Ming Dynasty was completely ended, and the Battle of Bunroku Keicho also came to an end.
In this last Battle of Ulsan - or what should be called the Battle of Busan (and surroundings), although the Ming and North Korean coalition forces failed to achieve all the pre-war assumptions, the Japanese losses were still much higher than their opponents.
After the entire battle, the Japanese army lost about 40,000 troops, and the navy was even worse. It lost more than 70% and nearly 80% of the warships. It can be said that the bones of the Japanese army were completely broken.
During his lifetime, Toyotomi Hideyoshi spent huge sums of money to purchase more than 30 armed transport ships from Keihua, as well as the newly built and improved Anzha ships based on "Keihua technology". Almost all were lost in this battle, and the Japanese naval flagship "Nihon Maru" was also captured.
It would be an exaggeration to say that the Japanese navy can almost be eliminated. At least, in front of the Ming Dynasty - or even the Beijing Fleet alone, the Japanese navy had lost its ability to resist.
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