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Chapter 487: Sagami's Death March


After Yokohama was captured, it was used as a place to care for the seriously wounded, while all the more than 10,000 prisoners marched south to Kamakura under the supervision of the army.

The small town of Yokohama was destined not to let go of so many captives.

Even if it could be put down, the problem of food would not be solved.

How many soldiers would be required to guard the transportation of grain and fodder to Yokohama?

This would simply leave the gate of life to the shogunate army and the daimyo of various places, allowing them to come and cut off the grain road.

Therefore, the right way is to place the 11,000 shogunate's permanent troops under the supervision of the Kamakura garrison and navy, so that they can go into battle lightly.

These captures cannot be lost.

There are six to seven hundred banner warriors here, including the elder Ii Naotaka.

At the same time, except for three thousand miscellaneous troops, the others are all standing troops of the shogunate.

They will be great bargaining chips in future negotiations and must not be given up.

Just so you have to endure a delay of several days, but it is worth it.

Guan Ming, who was responsible for leading the three thousand troops to escort the prisoners of war back to Kamakura, certainly knew that time was tight.

Before leaving, Mr.

Zhao repeatedly told him that he would rush back as soon as he dropped the prisoners of war.

The armies all have war horses, and they all have prepared horses.

Of course, they are different from cavalry and soldiers.

Only a small part of their war horses are Shidao horses, and most of the others are Mongolian horses.

However, their mobility is also very important, especially when Mongolian horses march long distances.

The endurance is better than that of Shijima Horse.

But all the prisoners of war walked, which was the most time-consuming.

At the same time, they would certainly not be very willing to march.

This would make it possible to cover a distance of dozens of miles in two days.

But none of this bothered Master Guan Mingguan.

He ordered that anyone who could not walk thirty miles in one day would be dragged to death immediately.

After the march began, he sent a large number of troops to monitor on both sides of the march.

If anyone could not keep up with the pace of the march, he would immediately kill him or drag him to death with his war horse.

Maybe it seems a bit cruel to many generals and soldiers, but his grandfather and uncle were both killed in the Korean War.

At that time, Guan Ming's father's youngest son was only two years old.

Guan Ming's father grew up eating hundreds of meals. , the only son of the Guan family finally became a man.

It's been a long time, but every time he talks about his childhood, Guan Ming's father can't help but burst into tears.

It's really hard to look back on the past.

Now the retribution is unpleasant.

The Japanese actually fell into his hands.

If Mr.

Zhao hadn't been of great use, let alone these Japanese, even if there were tens of thousands more, Guan Ming would have killed them in various ways.

To relieve the deep-seated hatred in my heart.

A Japanese man may be injured and gradually fall behind.

One of his legs is lame, but he walks hard because he knows that if he falls behind, he will die.

Wang Zheng looked at the Japanese ashigaru who was still struggling but was already twenty or thirty steps behind the front team.

He signaled to the guard and made a dragging gesture with his hand.

The two guards immediately urged their horses up, hearing the sound of horse hooves.

The Japanese man looked at the Akito cavalry approaching behind him in panic.

He trotted forward with all his strength in panic.

His limping posture was both pitiful and funny.

He kept looking back and twisting his poor short legs vigorously.

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When they were ten steps away, a guard quickly threw out a rope and trapped the Japanese pirate.

With a strong pull, the rope immediately tightened.

The Japanese pirate who was running hard suddenly lost his balance and fell to the ground.

The guard shouted loudly, and the horse accelerated forward.

The Japanese on the ground were dragged along like a rag bag, bumping and crying, and the harsh sound could be heard far away.

The guard dragged the howling Japanese man forward.

The Japanese man's body bounced on the frozen ground, and his clothes were quickly worn out.

Flesh and blood left horrific traces on the official road.

Naotaka Ii and Toshikatsu Doi, who were riding donkeys in the middle of the team, looked at the tragedy in front of them with distorted faces, but what could they do, even they were riding donkeys.

Seeing that they were getting older, Guan Ming ordered to find them for them.

As for why he didn't give them war horses, it was because these two shogunate veterans had rare things to live in.

We can't give them war horses, in case they escape at night, but donkeys are different, they can run as far as they want. , So the two feudal lords and Laonaka-sama could only sit on donkeys and move forward.

They couldn't complain because Laonaka Hota Masamori, who was much younger than them, was walking behind them on tired legs.

The two of them were also humiliated severely.

It was not that they had never thought of committing suicide by disembowelment, but if they died like this, it would not help the situation, and they would lose the chance to clear their names in the future.

They endured the humiliation in order to continue their family name.

If they return to the shogunate and wait until the rebellion is suppressed before making new contributions, they believe that today's humiliation will be gone in one day.

As for whether there will be this opportunity, they think it is extremely possible.

If the Ming army once again defeats the reinforcements of the daimyo from various places, then the opportunity will come.

However, the premise is that the Ming army wants to win.

It is simply speechless and sad that they actually want the Ming army to win.

Today they saw the bloody scene of Ashigaru being dragged away again.

Their faces changed, but they finally decided to endure it.

After all, even if they stepped forward to stop it, the Ming army would not stop.

They were just humiliating themselves.

Next, they saw tortures such as beheading, dragging, and whipping one after another.

The purpose was to increase the speed of the march.

Under such high-pressure measures, the marching speed was increased, and it only took half a day to cover more than 20 miles.

You must know that these prisoners of war have been half-starved since they were captured.

It is very simple to make them unable to escape.

This is especially true during the march.

What if you have eaten and drank enough and got into the forest on the roadside?

Therefore, it is obviously not easy to achieve the current speed.

Of course, the more than 200 Japanese who were bloody massacred along the way shocked the other living Japanese and forced them to move forward with their lives.

By the time it got dark and rested, they had traveled more than 30 miles.

They could not rush any further at this time, because the chaotic footsteps of large groups of people at night would cover up the sound of small groups of people escaping.

Therefore, the prisoners of war were gathered together for custody at night.

In this way, by noon the next day, they had completed the fifty-mile journey, and more than five hundred people were missing from the Japanese team.

This incident was later called the Sagami Death March by the Japanese, and was used as one of the evidences to accuse the Han people of atrocities.

However, the Han people never acknowledged the existence of this death march, and no evidence was preserved from that era.

There are only sporadic records in official and unofficial history.

This is one of the topics that the two sides continue to quarrel about.

Anyway, since the Han people landed in Kamakura in the 11th year of Kanei, they have been oppressing the Japanese for hundreds of years, which is the source of the Japanese's nightmares.

Therefore, the complaints of the Japanese are still quite popular in the international community in later generations.

Unfortunately, there is really not much evidence left.

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It is passed down by mouth or from sporadic records in the history of the Japanese people.

The reason for this is very simple.

In the following hundreds of years, the Japanese rulers were oppressed by the Han people.

All books recording this information were burned, and the people were exiled or executed.

Therefore, too few books have survived.

In modern times, with the awakening of national consciousness, the Japanese began to consciously search across the country for evidence of the various crimes committed by the Han people in the Japanese country.

Unfortunately, almost nothing was found.

This was the source of support for the subsequent quarrel between the two sides.

Of course, it was not just the death march.

There were also other major events during this period, such as a large number of women being kidnapped by the Han army, a large number of villages being looted by the Han, money and food being robbed, and houses being burned.

Many people died of starvation and freezing, which was a rare atrocity in the history of the Japanese.

But what about the evidence?

Therefore, the things that have disturbed the relations between the two countries for thousands of years in the future seem to have no signs of stopping.

At the border of Shimono Kingdom, Nan Yong watched the larger village slowly being engulfed by fire.

Many Japanese people kept crying as they watched their homes being engulfed by fire.

Many of the Japanese looked at Akito's cavalry with vicious eyes, as if the sea was deep and their hatred was so deep.

Nan Yong and dozens of guards remained calm under the hateful eyes of hundreds of Japanese.

When all the soldiers returned to their positions, he took a look and found that the Thousand Team now had more than 2,000 horses, and there were more than 1,000 extra horses.

Japanese horses carry a lot of money on their backs.

This is what Kusu Yusen's Corps started from Ueno, passed through Echizen Echigo, Mino, Owari and then returned to Shimono Country.

These are all the gains along the way.

Hundreds of villages on the road were burned and looted by them these days, leaving behind a large number of hungry people waiting for food and a deep-seated hatred for the Ming people.

At this time, Nanyong had been informed that the shogun had sent a message to the name, and the names in various places also knew that their wandering cavalry was gathering troops to strangle them, so it was necessary to retreat, because they had lost the surprise of the attack.

All the soldiers returned from the villages, bringing with them dozens of horses filled with sacks from the harvest.

Nan Yong whispered a few words to Mr.

Bai, who bowed and accepted the order.

The brigade moved towards Sagami Country under Kusu Yong's order, but the last hundred brigade left behind suddenly went on a killing spree before leaving.

They slaughtered hundreds of Japanese before chasing the brigade.

The descendants of the Liao people have experienced the disintegration of Liaodong and the enslavement of the Jiannu slaves.

Some people in their families were tragically tortured and died of hunger and freezing.

They have their own definition of death.

In their opinion, as long as Lord Zhao orders it, they will carry it out.

As for bloody Or not, can there still be the bloodshed they experienced, as long as it is beneficial to their families' lives in Bukhwa and Jeju.

In Mr.

Zhao's words, if the Japanese threaten Beihua and Jeju, then it is just a matter of killing them.

What a big deal.

Also burning, killing and looting were the newly added East Route Army.

A team of more than a thousand people marched east from Ueno through Aizu and Mito, all the way to the Sendai Domain.

They turned the entire Northeast upside down, leaving behind corpses all over the place. , blood and ruins are really familiar to the Jurchens and Mongols.

They have done this a lot in the Ming Dynasty.

This time they are just copying it on the Japanese.

At this time, under the leadership of Kashin, they also began to turn back.

The harvest was large enough.

According to Lord Han Jian's instructions, it was time to return to Sagami and join the army.

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