Chapter 55: The wind and the remaining clouds
This is actually quite normal, just like Liu Bang. When conquering the world, he ordered that whoever conquered which city would have all the money and silk for the children in the city. But when the world was established, he killed all the kings of the opposite sex. But the problems faced by the Ashikaga family are different.
That is, the barrels of Ashikaga's guns are not that hard. Not to mention that there are still disputes within the Ashikaga family. There has never been much harmony between the shogunate family and the Kanto Ashikaga family. In this case, how to subdue other princes.
Therefore, in the end, the Ashikaga Shogunate and the Ashikaga family failed to take back power. The weaker they became in the future, the more they understood the need to take back power. Then he did it, and the backlash from below made him weaker. Falling into a vicious cycle, reaching the point where sitting is dead and walking is dead. At that time, the Oda family came.
Facing the land of Goryeo. Ashikaga Yoshimitsu didn't want to keep it all in his pocket. This is not realistic. But he would never let the shogunate, in this military operation, only get the reputation of opening up territories without any benefits.
That's even more impossible.
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu had two options, either to deprive these daimyo of their territories in Japan and transfer them to Goryeo. Of course the territory will be expanded. Or, let the Ashikaga shogunate have territories directly under the shogunate in key and strategic locations.
These two choices are led by the Ouchi family. Neither are very satisfied.
Of course, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu still knows the art of domination. The first thing he did was to kill the Tsushima clan. The Zong family, which had been entrenched in Tsushima Island for many years, transferred its title to Goryeo, leaving this crucial place in the hands of the shogunate and the Ouchi family.
After all, although the Zong family is related to the Ouchi family, the Ouchi family understands the key points of Tsushima better and will not hang it in human hands. Although the Ashikaga family wanted to monopolize it, the Ouchi family would never allow it. This also creates a state of carving up the rivalry.
Just two families stationed more than 5,000 people on Tsushima Island. There are also a large number of ships. The military strength cannot be said to be weak.
That's right. For the Japanese, it is already strong enough.
The Ashikaga Shogunate, which is so powerful in the world, only has two to three hundred thousand troops. Half of the five thousand people are directly under Ashikaga, and half are the headquarters of the Ouchi family. Looking at Japan, they are considered elite. It's just that when Ming really tried his best, this wasn't enough.
Lan Yu had endured it for so long, and when he took action, he didn't care about the casualties at all. When attacking Tsushima Island, Fang Chengfeng sat on the bow of the ship and concentrated more than a hundred cannons to bombard the dock. Immediately, the first person led more than a hundred servants, waded ashore, and then rebuilt the trestle to welcome Zhang Wing ashore.
The Japanese were stunned from the beginning.
They had no idea that the Ming Dynasty's artillery was so fast. You know, a few decades later, a Franco machine gun was still called the collapse of the country in Japan. Nowadays, He Xi himself doesn't know how big the gap is between the Ming army's artillery and the Fo Lang machine gun. Because he has never seen the Folang machine gun.
I don’t know the specific power of the Folan cannon. But this quantity alone makes the Japanese dare not even think about it.
Of course, Japanese samurai are still very tenacious.
They let go of the dock and waited for the Ming army to land and get out of the range of the artillery before engaging the Ming army.
It's just that the Japanese warriors are tenacious, and the Zhang Yi of Heqing Marquis is not for nothing. He concentrated all the armors, and the Ming troops who landed first were all triple armors, with the outermost layer of iron armor. Lined with leather armor, there is also a layer of chain mail between the leather armor and the iron armor.
Trance is a moving iron man.
Yes, the Japanese sword is very sharp, but when faced with such armor, it will break directly. Zhang Yi has repeatedly defeated powerful enemies today. If he still loses in today's battle with such a huge advantage, he will cut off his own head.
Although the Japanese samurai persisted in fighting for three days. But except for the first day, the rest of the war was for the Ming army to search the entire island and encircle and suppress the last Japanese samurai.
Of course, some local people were accidentally killed. This is also inevitable.
In this era, the military only has this kind of virtue. But compared to the Japanese, the Ming army was already doing well.
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The second breakthrough was made by more than ten thousand Liaodong cavalry led by Ye Chen.
Ye Chen set out from Shenyang and first crossed Changbai Mountain. Enter
Jianzhou area in later generations. Then turn back east and enter the Hamhung area. This area is considered a no-nonsense area. On the one hand, it is mostly mountainous and not too close to the core area of Goryeo. The core of the Ming Dynasty's control was the plain on the west coast of Goryeo, which was mainly appeased.
Of course, there are still some forces of Li Chenggui and Li family left here.
It can be regarded as Li Chenggui’s hometown.
Li Chenggui has taken up an official position in the Ming Dynasty today. Japan destroyed Goryeo again, just from this point of view. Xianxing, the Ming Dynasty's twin-city general administration, was also unlikely to surrender to Japan. But not investing in Japan is one thing. Precisely because this is the remaining part of Goryeo. It's just the changing of the king's flag on the city. Therefore, the Japanese are not worried here.
The Liaodong cavalry killed directly along the east coast of Goryeo.
It has to be said that because of Ye Chen's military talent, this kind of attack that traveled thousands of miles, over mountains and seas, only took him more than ten days, and more importantly, he maintained his combat effectiveness. The original defense line of the small court of Goryeo was broken through with overwhelming force.
This is simply bullying the Japanese who are not familiar with the geography of the mainland. It is false to say that the Japanese did not monitor the mobilization of the Ming army. The Japanese monitored the miscellaneous soldiers in the Shuangcheng General Manager's Mansion, and the Liaodong cavalry came almost from a position invisible on the Japanese map. When the Liaodong cavalry came to kill them, they didn't know it yet.
This situation is irreversible.
The Ouchi family organized thousands of infantry and organized a blockade on the main road. It only blocked half the time for a cup of tea. He was defeated like a storm by Ye Chen. In Ye Chen's opinion, there was nothing good to say at all, and when he reported it, he did not regard this battle as a victory. It's just that our army passed through a certain place to record.
It was only later that I discovered this from Japanese records. The Japanese described a battle that shocked the world and made ghosts and gods weep. There are dozens of names on the list of fallen names. All of them are famous.
In fact, I don’t blame Japan for this.
Because the so-called cavalry in Japan and the cavalry in Ming Dynasty are basically two different species.
The Ming Dynasty cavalry actually copied the Mongolian cavalry in its combat methods, and even selected many Tartar generals in the appointment of cavalry generals. Although it may not be as good as the pinnacle of light cavalry, which was the Mongolian cavalry during the Genghis Khan period. But definitely not weak. ..
Now even more so on war horses, weapons, and personnel, they are all in peak condition. It was also because of the lack of horses in the early Ming Dynasty that the selection of cavalry was even more stringent, which shows that all the elites of the army were among the cavalry. This cavalry is the best cavalry in Liaodong. To fight on behalf of Liaodong, one must be carefully selected. Almost all of them were selected from the three guards in Shenyang. It is the general reserve team of Liaodong, and it is also Ye Wang's final trump card in the battle against the Japanese.
And what did the Japanese cavalry look like?
First of all, the Japanese horse is not good. The Japanese horse is something that will come later. Today's Japanese horse is more similar to a donkey. Not to mention, the Japanese cavalry did not have the order of tens of thousands. Faced with such a cavalry group, the Japanese generals did not know what to do.
The second is the unfamiliarity with the Ming army's cavalry tactics and the suppression of equipment.
Everything is unfamiliar and under total suppression, this cannot be saved by personal bravery. Even though every Japanese general is Miyamoto Musashi. Even if a hundred-man army rushes forward, their heads will be lost. It's like chopping vegetables and slicing melons.
Here Ye Chen went straight to Busan, Japan's base camp in Korea. In addition, the real direction of the main attack is none other than Jinzhou City.
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Under Jinzhou City.
Lan Yu looked at everything in front of her indifferently.
Under the supervision of the Ming army, countless Goryeo soldiers rushed towards Jinzhou City like waves. Countless packages of earth and rocks filled the ravines under the city together with the corpses. There was also the faint sound of continuous explosions.
It's not the sound of gunfire.
Although after the Goryeo army retreated, countless Ming army battles were launched, pushing ladders and various siege equipment. The tallest one is Lugongcha which is higher than the Jinju City Wall. The siege equipment seemed to be giants in action, which made the Koreans tremble with fear.
