Chapter 54 The end of the Japanese battlefield
Just when He Xi was preparing for the city of Beijing.
Japan perished.
Japan's demise may seem sudden, but it is not sudden at all.
Fu Youde used extremely cruel bloodletting tactics. The Ming Dynasty would not stop fighting until all the Koreans were dead.
More than two years of bloody battles advanced inch by inch from Kyushu to Kyoto, Japan.
Wherever it passed, there was almost no life left.
It's not that the Ming Dynasty's military discipline was so bad, but that of the Koreans.
If the military discipline of the Ming army is compared with modern military discipline, it is naturally not much better. But the problem is that in this era, they are already top-notch, otherwise Zhu Yuanzhang would not have been called the Bodhisattva Soldiers when he started his army.
The Koreans are different. Say a polite word. The pressure on the Goryeo army was much greater than that on the Ming army.
The Ming army in Japan almost sent out troops with less than a thousand men to perform tasks, with at least one thousand households leading the team.
There are painful lessons in this.
Japan has inherited Bushido for hundreds of years. Samurai practice martial arts as their profession and are the country's ruling class. He is very brave and able to fight. When the Mongols invaded Japan, there were Japanese samurai who brought their own dry food to fight the Mongols in other places, just to make a name for themselves on the battlefield, make a fortune, reach the pinnacle of life, marry the daughter of a daimyo, and become a daimyo themselves in the future.
So they are not afraid of war.
There are specific tactical reasons for hesitating, reasons for weapons, etc. When the army joins forces to fight, as long as the Ming army exceeds a thousand people. The Japanese army generally had no choice. And a few hundred people, or less, can easily be ambushed if they perform a mission.
After all, Japan is an unfamiliar place and you may encounter too many problems.
Poisoning, use of time, etc. are all impossible to guard against.
Japan did not dare to fight a joint war with Ming Dynasty. The Ming army had no reason to separate and occupy various places, so they really divided into small groups to fight. He is from Korea.
Both suffered heavy casualties. There are too many people killed and the hatred is too deep, so there is no question of whether to stop or not.
Wherever the Koreans passed, they left almost no grass behind, and even sent a large number of Japanese to the cities where the Ming army was stationed. After all, where the Ming army is stationed, the Ming army itself will not kill many people.
This kind of cruel bloodletting was unbearable not only for the Japanese, but also for the Koreans and the generals of the Ming Dynasty.
Many generals suggested raiding Kyoto, capturing Kyoto at once and destroying Japan. But Fu Youde saw clearly that Japan's special political structure did not lie in Kyoto, or even in the shogunate. After the shogunate fell, there were still people who continued to fight.
The Japanese nation surrenders to the strong and will not conquer the Japanese. It won't stop.
And how to spend it.
Simple yet difficult, that's killing the server.
Kill until the Japanese can no longer bear it.
And killing people also has side effects. Especially killing civilians. If you do this kind of massacre of civilians too often, people will become wild and their hearts will become twisted. Without a normal mind, many things cannot be done.
Maybe it will have to be dealt with.
Fu Youde has seen too many things like this.
Some of Lan Yu's problems may actually have something to do with his indiscriminate killing.
When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares into you. Did you really not change your character at all when you killed someone? Sometimes, I just don’t feel it.
Therefore, Fu Youde did not want his generals to be involved in such a thing. These hundreds of thousands of Koreans would most likely be sent to Nanyang in the future. Anyway, there was a shortage of people in Nanyang. As long as they could speak Chinese, they would be regarded as Han people there.
Now there is nothing he can do with his subordinates.
It's just that Fu Youde's love for soldiers is not understood by the people below.
Some people felt that Fu Youde's mother-in-law and mother-in-law were not allowed to make meritorious deeds, so they wanted to commit suicide and pursue death in the north. Anyway, the Japanese are low in combat and take advantage. It's just for fighting merit. It's not just killing people, who can't do that? Another part of me felt that Fu Youde had gone too far. After killing Japan into a piece of white ground, why did the imperial court come to attack Japan?
In short, no matter what, Fu Youde still follows his own pace.
No, it should be according to Zhu Yuanzhang's rhythm.
Zhu Yuanzhang naturally would not let Fu Youde order the massacre of the Japanese, but he wanted the Japanese to surrender and achieve long-term peace and stability once and for all, with few casualties. In fact, all Fu Youde's methods have been limited.
This left Fu Youde with no choice but to take this path.
The Koreans couldn't stand it either.
Killing too many people would be a shock to me, not to mention facing reciprocal revenge from the Japanese. The Japanese, whether they were men, women, or even old people, used various methods to deal with the Koreans. Once the Koreans fell into the hands of the Japanese, the fate would be hard to explain. Typing is all mosaic.
In this situation of killing and being killed.
There was a point where the Korean army actually mutinied, leaving Fu Youde in the dark. Fu Youde naturally sent Fu Zhong to go around and review his military exploits. Fighting the Japanese was a military exploit, and counterinsurgency was also a military exploit.
The ones who can't stand it the most are naturally the Japanese.
From the beginning, the Ashikaga family still retained their strength and supported the local daimyo in fighting the Ming and Goryeo armies. However, as time went by, the Ouchi family, the Mori family, and the Ming Dynasty all disappeared, and the remaining ones fled. Surrender of surrender.
The Ashikaga family can only fight in person.
The Ashikaga family's hundreds of thousands of imperial family members still had strength, and they served as the main force in the stalemate with the Goryeo army for more than a year. It inflicted heavy losses on the Goryeo army in all aspects. Even if it wasn't, the Ming army once hid in the Goryeo army and used more than a thousand cavalry to make a surprise attack and broke the Ashikaga family's formation. Maybe the Ashikaga family actually won several great victories.
But it took a long time.
The Ashikaga family couldn't hold on any longer.
The Ming Dynasty's materials and Korean flesh and blood consumed Japan's materials and Japanese flesh and blood. How could you lose?
The progress of the war is not even decided here, but in Nanjing.
On He Xi, the lion opened his mouth and asked the court for a large amount of gold and silver to pay for the construction of the city of Beijing. After Zhu Yuanzhang settled the accounts, he found that the court did not have enough money, so he took another look and saw which projects could be cut. With this pull, I saw the Japanese battlefield.
The consumption of hundreds of thousands of troops is not a small amount. Of course, overall it is profitable. Because the gold and silver transported back to the Central Plains from Sado Island alone is not a small amount. Not to mention, Japanese gold and silver mines. The Iwami Silver Mine is in the tug-of-war between the two sides.
But the ordnance can be simpler, and the supplies can be ignored. But food is not easy to handle. There is simply not enough food in Goryeo. Liaodong is self-sufficient in food at most. After supplying Changchun, there is not much left. Therefore, food on the Japanese battlefield was still transported from Jiangnan.
Fortunately, the Nagasaki-Ningbo route was originally smooth sailing.
Not much consumption.
On the other hand, the Ashikaga family has only a few hundred thousand troops in total, and there are many daimyo below. These daimyo have their own ideas. As the war intensifies, the main force of the Ashikaga family is consumed one by one in the war.
The daimyo below are becoming more and more immobile. It is no longer possible to control the daimyo of Kyushu as easily as before.
The reason why this fight can continue is that Ming Dynasty did not let go. The reason why Ming Dynasty did not relent was because Zhu Yuanzhang did not relent.
From this perspective, Zhu Yuanzhang was much more cruel and superstitious than He Xi.
He Xi is not willing to punish people of this era for things that never happened. Whether they are Jurchens or Japanese. After all, in his opinion, those things will never happen in the future. But Zhu Yuanzhang didn't think so.
Zhu Yuanzhang felt that if something happened in the future, it meant that there was a possibility, and he could not let it go.
In fact, it’s just the Jurchen thing.
The three words "Jianzhouwei" will soon become history.
Because the Jin Yiwei has been hunting down the Jurchen nobles related to the Jianzhou Guard, it is not that Zhu Yuanzhang does not want to kill the Jurchens, but that Zhu Yuanzhang does not know which Jurchen should be killed. The Jurchen genealogy is too messy. Almost an artificial nation.
Tribes everywhere are not the same thing.
And the most suspected one is no longer there.
Now, Zhu Yuanzhang stopped the Japanese battlefield out of the idea of saving money. But the war cannot stop all of a sudden. War also has its own inertia. However, no matter what, this war has come to an end.
The difference is that some people know it and some people don't.
