Chapter 647 Kumagawa Battle
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Zhao Guoliang saw that the Japanese army opposite was wearing colorful flags and strange dresses. He had been in Japan for more than a month. He was still very familiar with the military situation of Japan. Now he saw that five or six kinds of flags were being slapped on the other side, probably because of the Kumamoto family and the Satsuma family organized all the surrounding small feudals to deal with him.
Zhao Guoliang called Yang Shilong beside him and asked, "Look at which vassal lord is on their flag?"
Yang Shilong looked at it and said, "There are Kumamoto and Satsuma vas opposite the adults. I am not very familiar with the other small vassals, but why did the Kumamoto vassals change their family emblems?"
Zhao Guoliang asked: "Aren't you very familiar with the situation in Japan?"
"Sir, I haven't been on the Japanese line for five or six years, and I don't know much about the details."
After Yang Shilong finished speaking, he called his dog-legged beside him and asked, "Look at which family emblem of the Kumamoto lord's family opposite?"
The dog-legged one was Moeshima, who was captured on Fukue Island. He looked up and said, "That is the Hosokawa family emblem. The current vassal lord of the Kumamoto family has been replaced by the Hosokawa family. The original Kato family lord was executed to offend the shogun."
It turned out that Kumamoto was the territory of President Konishi. After the failure of President Konishi to organize the Western Army to fight Tokugawa Ieyasu, the whole family was executed by Tokugawa Ieyasu, and his territory was also handed over to Kato Kiyomasasu. Kato Kiyomasasu was a good vassal lord and built Kumamoto Castle during his tenure. However, after his death, the second Kumamoto lord Kato Tadahiro stood in the wrong team on the heir of the Tokugawa Shogunate and had no choice but to join in the second-generation general Hidetachi's throne. Finally, he was executed by the third-generation shogun Tokugawa Ieko, who came to power, and his territory was given to the Hosokawa family, the former Kato family's subordinate.
Zhao Guoliang listened to the little brother talking about Kumamoto's affairs, not only remembered his current situation. As Zhu Hongsan's direct descendant, Zhao Guoliang did not want to be involved in the struggle between Zhu Hongsan and the princes. According to his Zhao Guoliang's status, he could be granted a marquis after the Ming Dynasty. But now he had no choice but to put Zhu Jiang in his hands and he had become Zhu Hai's chief. The prince had already naturally thought that he was one of Zhu Jiang's backstages. Zhao Guoliang couldn't help but feel very upset when he thought of this.
When Yang Shilong saw Zhao Guoliang not speaking, he asked from the side: "Sir, the navy has already gone to sea, and the battle has probably started! Do we have to wait here?"
Zhao Guoliang was woken up by Yang Shilong and found that the Japanese army opposite had been organized. Ten thousand 10,000 ranks in the first row had rushed towards him. He quickly ordered and prepared to start the battle.
The Japanese are always determined to fight. Whether in the Korean War forty years ago or the Anti-Japanese War three hundred years later, the Japanese had no tactics. They just fought with you to the death and consumed it. If the enemy could not hold on, it would be their own victory.
This combat thinking is not as good as their opponents, such as the North Korean army or the National * Party army, but when it comes to Soviet and American troops who are stronger than their training, number of people, and equipment, it will be completely a death sentence. This is the case in later generations of the Battle of Lushun, the Battle of Nomenkan, and the Battle of Pacific Islands.
Now these Japanese soldiers met the Ming army with stronger firepower than them, so they naturally couldn't get it. The first batch of people ran away with their feet. Their order was to consume as much gunpowder as possible from the Ming army and buy time for the elite soldiers behind them such as the iron cannons, mother-clothed people and other elite soldiers.
As the name suggests, the Iron Cannon Club is the musket team. The Mother Clothes are the elite guards around Daming. They are all wearing bright mother clothes (the Mother Clothes are made of bamboo skeletons to support cloth into a large ball, which is decorated behind the back during battle and can also protect against rash arrows). They ride tall horses. They are the most elite soldiers in Daming, and they all have the title of samurai.
After Zhao Guoliang waited until the first batch of squads entered the range of one mile, he ordered the artillery to fire first. The sound of the cannon frightened the generals of the opposite Japanese. According to their experience of fighting with the Ming army forty years ago, the Ming army's large tube (artillery) range was only 200 meters and the musket range was only more than 50 meters. Why did he fire the gun first when he was so far away?
The Japanese national football team lined up in a tight formation, and the first batch of shells drove more than 30 blood alleys in the team. Because Zhao Guoliang had just gotten off the ship, he did not remove all the artillery, and only removed thirty-six artillery pieces, but it was enough to face the Japanese army!
The first two volleys of the Ming army's artillery were still within the understanding of the Japanese generals. Although the range was very long, they were still solid bullets. However, after entering three hundred meters, the Ming army replaced the shells with shotguns, and the Japanese generals were a little uneasy.
Shotballs face the dense formation, which is a massacre, and the rows of feet are knocked to the ground. The tragic tragedy of hot weapons and weapons wars is not comparable to cold weapons. No matter how high your personal force is, you will be beaten to pieces before your companions can fight with the enemy. Even well-trained soldiers can't stand it.
The front row foot really couldn't stand this psychological pressure, so he ran away in scattering, ignoring the scolding of the team leader behind him.
The Japanese generals who were commanding at the end saw the defeat of their feet, quickly sent out a thousand female robes around them, preparing to use the fast cavalry and horses to attack the formation of the Ming army.
Zhao Guoliang saw the brightly colored cavalry on the opposite side and began to act, coming towards his left wing, and ordered the two musket regiments to retreat left and right, so that the melee teams could face the enemy's foot light, and the musket regiment retreated to the left wing to form a hollow large formation to deal with the cavalry.
The Japanese cavalry was very elite, and the female robes had high force, but the number of people suffered too few losses. If they had 10,000 people, they could not win. However, this was a bit of a dream. The entire Japanese islands (at that time, Hokkaido was not Japanese territory, and the Ainu tribe on it was not recognized by the Japanese government as a minority until 1992). Now there are only more than 10,000 people in the Ishitaka Ban, and the Kumamoto Ban and Satsuma Ban can gather 1,000 people, which has already gathered all the samurai warriors on Kyushu Island.
The result was very simple. The mother-clothed crowd of the 1,000 flag-formed group were all killed in battle under the encirclement of 6,000 musketeers, but they were also very brave and caused more than 100 casualties to the Ming army.
The two hand-to-hand combat teams of the 10th Division here faced the second wave of 10,000. The 10,000-foot-light are the lowest-level soldiers in Japan, and they have to prepare their weapons and armor by themselves. Many of them wear ancestral bamboo armor. Such equipment is not enough to match the Ming army with murder as their profession.
The Ming army's melee team has strengthened its physical fitness and a rich daily supply of food. These guys are no less physically qualified than the white-armored elite soldiers of the Qing Dynasty. They face the Japanese national football team, which can only eat fish once a month, and it is naturally like cutting melons and vegetables.
The iron cannon crowds were originally following Zuqing to charge, wanting to use Zuqing's body to resist the Ming army's bullets, but they overestimated Zuqing's combat effectiveness. After contacting the Ming army, the second group of Zuqing quickly defeated the battle. At the same time, the defeated soldiers attacked the iron cannon crowd behind them in a disastrous manner. Behind Zuqing were six thousand Ming troops armed to the teeth. These people faced the iron cannon crowd without any protection, which naturally allowed the iron cannon crowd to deeply understand the exquisite weapons of the Ming army.
The Japanese generals led by the Japanese saw that things could not be fought any longer, so they quickly left their soldiers and fled with hundreds of people. In this way, the 50,000 army, which was originally high for Kumamoto and Satsuma, fell apart in less than an hour, which was shorter than the time the Japanese navy lasted.
After the Japanese army was repelled, Zhao Guoliang did not order a pursuit. One was because he was in an enemy country's terrain, and the other was that the Ming army's gunpowder was about to come to an end. After more than a month of high-intensity combat, the logistics supply brought from Nanjing was basically consumed almost the same. Now there is still half a month before the second batch of supplies was delivered, so the gunpowder in his hand needs to be saved. This is probably the only shortcoming of the Ming army, which is that it is too deep to rely on logistics.
Zhao Guoliang ignored the defeated Japanese troops and set up camp on the beach, waiting for the navy to return to Desheng.
The navy did not disappoint everyone's expectations. Before the sun was about to set, it finally returned to Qiumochuan. Li Tinglong also brought back good news for Desheng to Zhao Guoliang. More than 100 Japanese naval navy warships were sunk more than 100, and all the large Anzhai ships were sunk. The remaining Guan Ship and the small Zao ships escaped more than 20.
Since then, the battle called the Battle of the Komakawa Battle in later Japanese history books ended with a complete victory in the Ming army. Zhao Guoliang also became the Demon King named with the Mongols in Japanese history books.
This battle basically defeated the organized resistance on the entire Jiuzhou Island in one fell swoop. After that, Zhao Guoliang led his team around the island to rob, and never encountered a large-scale army again.
Zhao Guoliang's troops stationed in Qiumochuan for half a month. After the second batch of supplies arrived, they continued his plan to rob the island.
Starting from Zhao Guoliang's landing on Jiuzhou Island on September 12, the Ming army broke 36 cities in two months and destroyed 18 vassal lords. Three of them were either fled or died. Zhao Guoliang robbed a total of 5.2 million taels of silver, 600,000 taels of gold, and countless jewels of various kinds.
The most important thing is that I have grabbed 3.8 million stones of rice. You should know that Kyushu Island is mountainous and does not produce food except for some plains near the sea. The more than 3 million stones of grain is 80% of the entire Kyushu Island. Now just in October, millions of Japanese people on the entire Kyushu Island have lost their food. Less than half of them can survive until the beginning of spring of the second year, and the rest have died in this man-made famine in the winter of the second year of Shenwu.
The 3.8 million stones of grain were transported to Nanjing, which greatly alleviated the problem of insufficient food in several refugee camps around Nanjing. At the same time, it also made the Huguang people who were dealing with it make money. The locals who were driven out of the Nanjing grain market began to feel dissatisfied with these Huguang men who came to grab business.
Chapter completed!