The generals didn't have so many ideas, and the emperor said whatever he wanted, so the soldiers and horses were quickly assembled and sent to Fujian for training, and then to Ryukyu.When everything was arranged, another half a year passed.The imperial court sent an army of 20,000 men.For the first time, the imperial court also mobilized grain and grass overseas on a large scale, and ships from all over the country kept coming and going.After the army arrived, Zhu Qiming summoned his generals and made arrangements for the operation on Wadao, and the tactics were very simple, first raiding and harassing, then landing, occupying a piece of land as the front line, and finally launching a full-scale attack.………… At this time, inside Kyushu, the military strength of the Matsusaka family suffered heavy losses in the siege, and they had no choice but to abandon all the outer territories and retract all their forces back to Heian Castle.The Matsusaka clan ruled Kyushu for more than fifteen years, which also gave the Matsusaka samurai the courage to move forward, but now they have failed.The object of failure is still a group of small families they once looked down on.This made those families in Kyushu who were still watching began to be tempted, maybe they would be the next Matsusaka family?
The first point of attack that Zhu Qiming chose was also the Matsusaka family, because the information he got was very clear that the Matsusaka family now had no strength to resist.The war in the north of Wajima did not end either.The Fujiwara family and the rebels are still fighting for dominance of Wajima.Zhu Qiming threw all his body and mind into the war, and all the affairs of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs were arranged by Zhang Hao.Nowadays, it is a very common thing for the merchant ships of the Great Song Dynasty to go to sea, and many people have made a fortune from it, but there are also people who have lost their entire wealth because their ships have encountered storms.The matter of Wajima is what Zhu Qiming is most concerned about, but there is less and less news that can be sent there, not because the Nakamura family has any ideas, but because the situation in Kyushu has gotten out of control and it is difficult to pass on the news.The Matsusaka family is really going to be finished.Hao Yunjie has been in charge of Turtle Island for a year and a half.After such a long time, the amount of materials hoarded on Gubei Island has reached an astonishing amount, so to speak, even if he does not rely on Goryeo and the Great Song Dynasty, he is confident that he can rely on these people to resist the all-out attack of Wajima for a year.Under the chaos of Kyushu, he even felt that only the manpower of Turtle Back Island was enough to pacify Kyushu.In the past year and a half, he has wiped out thousands of Japanese people, destroyed hundreds of Japanese ships that have been blown up, and the entire villages and towns near the sea in Kyushu have been cleaned up by him.Nowadays, half of the women on Turtle Back Island are snatched from Wajima.His movements are also becoming more and more obvious, from the very beginning, he plundered a small village and left, and later, he even launched a direct attack on the town, and a coastal family was even removed by Hao Yunjie.Today, countless refugees have left their hometowns and are far from the scope of the Song army's activities.It's not that the Japanese didn't want to deal with the Song army, several families joined forces, and more than a thousand samurai gathered together, wanting to wipe out the plundering Song army in one go, but unfortunately the Nakamura family had already passed on the news, so they ran into the main force led by Hao Yunjie himself.More than 1,000 people, without even making a sound, were all annihilated.Time passed.The civil strife in Kyushu is also getting worse and worse.The strength of the Matsusaka family was seriously damaged, and the long-term war caused them a big problem in logistics, and the Matsusaka family had no choice but to directly start snatching the family that was on their side, so that now the Matsusaka family is in Kyushu, which can be said to be an enemy.They began to unite to wipe out the Matsusaka family once and for all.And the war between the Matsusaka family and the Chubu daimyo began.Eighteen years of Anqing.In the past, Matsusaka Castle, which used to be the most prosperous castle in the whole of Kyushu, is now starving everywhere, and it is all dilapidated.With repeated defeats, the men here were almost completely killed and wounded, but they managed to hold the base camp of the Matsusaka family, but unfortunately, after repelling the Japanese people, they had to face the more powerful Song army.In the past, although the ships of the Song army often attacked the surrounding area with soldiers and horses, everyone thought that the Song army was just for revenge, and no one expected that the Song army would actually land on Wadao Island and launch an attack on them.The goal is Matsusaka Castle.They don't understand why the Song army wants to annex Wadao, they are different from Da Yue and Goryeo, they do not border with the Great Song, even if they defeat them, what benefits can the Great Song get?
It's a pity that Da Song won't answer him this question.In just three days, the 5,000 vanguard army of the Song army broke all the defense lines of the Matsusaka family, and it was about to fall Matsusaka City.At this time, the Matsusaka Shao and the ministers of the Matsusaka family realized that what Matsusaka Akiyoshi said was right, and the Song army really wanted to destroy them.Matsusaka immediately informed Kyoto of the news, and at the same time concentrated all the last forces of the Matsusaka family, but unfortunately, a group of people who had not experienced war were doomed to defeat in the face of the Song army, which had superior weapons and more combat experience.The temporarily recruited samurai were doomed to fail in the face of the Song army, which had been training for more than a year.In the Matsusaka family's house, there was a cry.Every moment, the ministers and samurai of the Matsusaka family died, and even the Matsusaka people were concentrated by tape-outs in the battle, and they survived in the room for seven days, but they still didn't survive after all.At this time, they finally had no intention of resisting, and the city gate was also lost at this time, followed by Zhu Qiming's order to slaughter the city.Resistance is the slaughter of the city.This is an order given by Zhu Qiming a long time ago.The massacre lasted for a day and a night, and there was not a single living Japanese in the entire Matsusaka Castle, and the stench of blood and corpses was everywhere.None of the Matsusaka families survived, and the elderly, children, and women were all beheaded and hung on the city walls.Of course, the Song army did not kill all the people in Matsusaka City, but still left some people to carry the corpses, and when their work was over, they waited for their future, that is, to be coolies for the rest of their lives, until they died of exhaustion.Counting the days, they lived nine more days than the first to die.Everything is going according to Zhu Qiming's ideas, but the only thing that is missing is the will of the Japanese people to resist.As soon as news of the fall of Matsusaka Castle reached Kyoto, the Fujiwara family reached an agreement with the rebels that no matter how many conflicts there were, they could talk about it afterwards, and the first goal was to drive the Song army out of Kyushu first.Goryeo and Daeyue are a lesson from the past, just for their own lives, they can't really let the Great Song Dynasty occupy Goryeo.………… Matsuzaka Castle.Zhu Qiming and his generals sat together, a total of seventeen people."
The scouts came to report half an hour that the Japanese Fujiwara Sato led 100,000 Japanese people towards Matsuzaka Castle, and the generals felt that we should retreat or stay here."
Zhu Qiming sat in the main seat, looked at the deputy generals around him and said."
General, I think that the Fujiwara people have a strong army and are coming with a sense of revenge, so we should avoid their edge and retreat to the sea first."
Adjutant General Lang Ping said. ”The last general disagreed, the Fujiwara people had just joined forces, and they were already opponents who had just been fighting, at this time, as long as they were given a little pressure, they would break down without a fight, and we should take advantage of their unstable foothold to take the initiative to launch an attack and take the Fujiwara people by surprise. ”The partial general Zhang Lan spoke.Both men have a point."
What the two generals said is good, but it is impossible to retreat, otherwise it will be in vain if we have been preparing for so many years, but the enemy army is overwhelming, and it has just reached a coalition, and there is no possibility of infighting in a short time, so we are still safe for the time being, defend the city, avoid its edge, and then carry out a counterattack when the time comes."
Zhu Qiming opened his mouth and said.Although the Song army in Songban City was less than 10,000 people, they had the advantage of defending the city, and they had muskets and artillery in their hands."
We all listen to the general, the grain, grass and gunpowder have been sent here from the Ryukyus, we can stay here for at least a year, I want to see if the people of Fujiwara have the ability for us to fight here for a year."
An adjutant general said with a smile.He is the person in charge of escort logistics, and no one knows better than him how many supplies are piled up in Matsusaka Castle now.When they first took Matsusaka Castle, the grain and grass they had accumulated for so many years were constantly transported from the Ryukyus, and compared to them, the grain and grass of the Japanese people must not be enough, and they would not last long, and they would have to retreat.A week later, the army of the Fujiwara people marched to Matsuzaka Castle.Above the city, Lang Ping and Zhang Lan looked at the menacing Japanese army, and they all shook their heads and sighed.The muskets of the Song army are improving, and the artillery is also improving, when they attacked Matsusaka City, it was the artillery that opened the way, and then the city wall was taken down in two rounds, but these Japanese people, until now, the siege still relies on those simple ladders.If you want to rely on these things to take Matsusaka Castle again from the Song army, it is a bit of a fool's dream.Fujiwara Sato was very confident, and he deliberately used a trump card in order to drive the Song army down from Wajima in one breath this time.Fujiwara people were in the tents of the Chinese military camp, and countless women and children were tied up in rows, crying."
Everyone, go, your Great Song officers and soldiers are waiting for you in the city."
After Fujiwara Sato finished speaking, several Japanese samurai pressed a group of women and children to Matsuzaka Castle.The defenders saw very clearly, many women and children were tied up in a row, walking slowly in the direction of the city wall.Lang Ping immediately had a bad premonition in his heart.Those women and children, could they be Song people?
Zhang Lan and others on the side also realized this."
If those women, girls and children are really Song people, what should we do?"
Zhang Lan asked.One of the generals immediately spoke: "The last general will go and prepare the cavalry, as long as they are far away from the Japanese army, as soon as they get close to the city gate, the last general will immediately attack and escort them back." ”