Hauge, who was accompanying Matsudaira Nobutsuna, and Zheng Zhilong, who was leading the navy, had Class A eavesdropping seeds. Emperor Chongzhen learned from the Class A eavesdropping seeds on their bodies that there was currently no war in North Korea.
Without a navy, the Japanese army would not be able to go to sea to fight Zheng Zhilong's army; Zheng Zhilong's army is a naval force, and land warfare is not its specialty. There is no need to land to fight several times the enemy, but in the Korean Strait Patrolling back and forth to cut off the connection between Japan and North Korea.
Also, Zheng Zhibao from Edo was informed by Zheng Zhilong a few days ago that he had secretly left Edo for Jeju Island. It is estimated that within the next few days, Tokugawa Iemitsu in Edo will get the news that the Korean Strait is blocked by the Daming Navy, no matter how late the news is. No matter how angry he is, even if he is so angry that he vomits blood like Huang Taiji, he must still find a way to contact the Japanese army in North Korea. Therefore, the Japanese side should mobilize a larger fleet to North Korea.
On the North Korean side, Matsudaira Nobutsuna and Inoue Masashige are indeed capable people. The initial riot and collapse of the army have been suppressed by the two of them. Nowadays, these Japanese people are fishing on the beach to supplement their supplies, while eating everything they can on the shore. They even send small troops to the surrounding mountains to raid Koreans hiding in the mountains in order to collect more food.
In addition, while the Japanese army was trying to build a wooden boat to cross the sea to contact the Japanese country, they were making preparations and waiting for the Japanese country to come to meet them. The overall situation of these Japanese troops was basically difficult but not too chaotic. Because they firmly believed that the Japanese country would send troops to rescue them.
After understanding the basic situation, Emperor Chongzhen used a carrier pigeon to convey the situation to Lu Xiangsheng in Liaodong, and issued an order to him. Due to food constraints, if the entire army could not go out to fight, he should at least send an army with sufficient strength. They harassed and suppressed these Japanese troops and did not give them a chance to calmly wait for rescue. If possible, it would be best to annihilate this Japanese army. However, if the Japanese leader can be captured alive, he must be captured alive.
After the decree came out, he inspected the royal textile factory controlled by the queen. It's still very cold in North Korea in the winter, so the troops there need to replace their cotton-padded armor.
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Five or six days later, the message conveyed by the carrier pigeon reached Lu Xiangsheng.
It has to be said that without this news from Emperor Chongzhen, it would be basically impossible for Lu Xiangsheng to obtain this news through Ye Bushou. Not to mention the distance, the most important thing is that his opponent is Matsudaira Nobutsuna, known as the "Smart Izu" of Japan. Therefore, the Japanese army was naturally on guard against the Ming army.
Matsudaira Nobutsuna selected his elite troops and deployed them to the front line of Seoul, using bluffing methods to confuse the Ming army. If you don't know, you will really be confused by him.
After all, he has an army of 100,000 and has never fought a single battle. No matter who his opponent is, he always puts caution first.
But with the plug-in of Emperor Chongzhen, the truth that the Japanese army was nothing but a silver spear and a candle was all placed in front of Lu Xiangsheng.
Lu Xiangsheng was naturally overjoyed about this. He did not expect that the previous encounters with the navy and the rainy season in Korea would cause the Japanese army to suffer such heavy losses! Moreover, the emperor had already made arrangements on Jeju Island. He had already sent Zheng Zhilong's navy to defeat the entire Japanese navy and cut off the Japanese army's retreat and supplies in Korea.
However, the army has to go through the entire Korean Peninsula to fight at the southernmost tip, and the duration of the war is uncertain. Therefore, this food logistics is indeed a problem.
After comprehensive consideration, Lu Xiangsheng finally decided that he would sit on the Yalu River and send his generals to lead more than 10,000 cavalry troops to fight in the DPRK.
Previously, when Emperor Chongzhen returned home in triumph, he left more than 10,000 imperial troops in Liaodong, which were actually cavalry troops from the Hussars Camp and Beijing Camp, as well as some cavalry troops from the various ethnic groups in eastern Mongolia and Liaodong who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty. Now coupled with the original Dongjiang Army, who among these troops should be sent? this is a problem!
Perhaps they saw an opportunity to make meritorious deeds, and the generals who stayed in Liaodong asked for battle one after another. In total, there were generals Li Guozhu, Lu Da, Cao Bianjiao, and deputy generals Li Guo, Li Dingguo and others. Among them, Li Dingguo was originally a staff general, but he seized the grain sent by the Japanese to the Jianlu, defeated Hauge's troops, and even captured Hauge alive. Therefore, in addition to being rewarded with grain fields, he was promoted because he had the "deputy position" A lieutenant general known as "General Soldier".
At this time, looking at the eager anticipation in the eyes of these generals, Lu Xiangsheng knew that their intention was to earn military merit and win a title. However, due to limited food and grass, they could only send more than 10,000 cavalry troops, so they could only choose two or three generals to lead the troops.
After careful consideration, Lu Xiangsheng said to the generals: "According to the emperor's information, there should be about 80,000 Japanese troops on the opposite side, and there are more than 40,000 civilians. The general who leads the army is a famous general of the Japanese country. There are It is known as Wisdom Izu. It once wiped out a very large civil unrest in the Japanese country. But our army can only send more than ten thousand cavalry troops, thousands of miles away. How to deal with the enemy is very demanding for the generals who will lead the army..."
Although the Japanese generals sounded very powerful, the Japanese soldiers had many horses. However, these Ming generals present were all killed in mountains of corpses and seas of blood, so who would be afraid? Therefore, when they heard this, Cao Bianjiao and others all wanted to pat their chests and give assurances, but unexpectedly Lu Xiangsheng did not give them a chance and continued: "Therefore, for the sake of caution and based on past battles, I decided to send Li Dingguo and Lu The senior two will play.”
Hearing this, those who were not named were immediately disappointed. A rare opportunity to make military exploits!
Looking at their expressions, Lu Xiangsheng naturally understood that they were grateful, but regardless of this, he continued: "Lu Da has a stable temperament, while Li Dingguo is resourceful. The two of them are a perfect combination. I believe that you two can achieve what the emperor requires." , put enough pressure on the Japanese army, and on this basis, we can seek further fighter opportunities!"
"General, I will obey your orders!" Lu Da and Li Dingguo responded with fists clasped, both of them overjoyed.
As soon as the military meeting ended, Cao Bianjiao stepped forward and patted Li Dingguo on the shoulder, and said enviously: "Remember to keep some Japanese pirates, don't kill them all. If there is enough food and grass tomorrow, let's go and beat those Japanese pirates together. Brothers, let's have fun together. , it’s better to have fun together, right?”
Hearing his eloquent words, the other generals and eunuchs in the hall couldn't help but laugh.
At this time, when facing foreign enemies, they had no fear at all, and there was no longer the atmosphere of fear that the Ming army had before when they heard that they were going to attack Jianlu. A series of victories and the experience of being able to easily destroy even powerful Jianlu had given them enough confidence.
Daming, invincible!
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At Lu Da, Li Dingguo led the army into North Korea. The navy's transport ships were responsible for transporting grain and grass, and when they headed toward the south of North Korea along the coastline, Tokugawa Iemitsu, who was far away in Edo, had already received news from North Korea. He fainted with a "Ah" sound.
After being rescued, Tokugawa Iemitsu opened his mouth and cursed: "Yaga, what a wise Izu, are you trying to trick me to death?"
Most of the 100,000 Japanese troops in the early stage were within Tokugawa Iemitsu's control. I originally thought that with Matsudaira Nobutsuna's ability, he could at least achieve a great victory. In this case, he could also give other daimyo An explanation, let them see how wise he was in making this decision!
However, under his expectation, the news came back for the first time, saying that as a powerful ally of the Japanese country, the Qing country, which had defeated the Ming Dynasty and almost lost its capital, was actually in danger. Matsudaira Nobutsuna has already led the army to Liaodong for rescue, and asked this side to send reinforcements.
In this regard, Tokugawa Iemitsu was relatively calm and felt that Matsudaira Nobutsuna did the right thing, so he immediately sent out the second batch of troops. At least at that time, North Korea was not already in the hands of the Japanese country, which was considered a big gain. For this reason, there were still 50,000 civilians accompanying the second batch of armies, who were preparing to farm and harvest grain on Korean land, turning it into the actual Japanese territory.
Unexpectedly, the second news came back that after the second batch of troops set foot in North Korea, the Japanese Navy was completely wiped out by the Ming Navy. The flames of Busan Port soared into the sky, and people on Tsushima Island You can see so clearly that even the land is on fire. The fire was so powerful that it might have burned all the military rations and everything else.
The navy was completely wiped out. Tokugawa Iemitsu immediately blamed not Masashige Inoue, the leader of the second batch of Japanese troops, but Nobutsuna Matsudaira. This was because, in his view, the Ming army had all fled to the final destination of Korea. Coming from the south. With such a huge navy, no matter what, Matsudaira Nobutsuna must know and take precautions, right? As for Inoue Masashige, he had just been to North Korea and was not familiar with anything.
Of course, there is another reason, that is, Inoue Masashige is Tokugawa Iemitsu's eyes and the person in charge of monitoring the daimyo in various parts of Japan. It can be seen that Inoue Masashige must be Tokugawa Iemitsu's most confidant. Matsudaira Nobutsuna was in charge of government affairs and could be considered a confidant of Tokugawa Iemitsu, but there was also such a distance between these confidants.
But no matter how angry Tokugawa Iemitsu was, in his opinion, the 150,000 troops and 50,000 civilians who arrived in North Korea must be saved. Not to mention, opening up the connection with North Korea and eliminating the Ming Navy entrenched in the Korean Strait are the most urgent matters.
With no other choice, Tokugawa Iemitsu had no choice but to gather troops. Fortunately, Japan was an island country, and the daimyo from all over the country had access to the sea, so they had a lot of warships at their disposal. They moved together here and there, and finally another fleet came out.
During this period, Tokugawa Iemitsu even went to the Zheng Mansion in person, trying to find out what was going on with the Ming Dynasty Navy, what was its relationship with the Zheng family, and how could it not be so hostile to Japan?
But after all, he wanted something from the Zheng family. In order to show his politeness as a corporal, he did not let his subordinates inform him in advance and prepared a surprise for Zheng Zhibao: The shogunate even came to visit in person, which shows how much he values the Zheng family!
