Chapter 513 The impact of the dog-eat-dog era can cause countless myths.For example, Shenzhen, a small fishing village in China, has grown into a first-tier city in the world in just 20 years, with an economy that exceeds that of more than 160 countries around the world, including Israel, Singapore, South Africa, and Denmark.Under the impact of the Ming Dynasty, even an illiterate peasant may become a wealthy man with billions of assets.Of course, during the Age of Discovery, the Spanish Empire, with a population of only 7 million and a military strength of 300,000 at its peak, became the first empire on which the sun never set.Under the impact of this great era, the hegemony of the Spanish Empire has been crumbling, and of course, all this is somewhat distant for the Japanese.On the other side of the East China Sea, the powerful dynasty that made Japan strong is already in decline, and the Central Plains is competing for power, and the Asian political landscape may be reshuffled.On the west side of the sea, the Westerners have become increasingly powerful, and the things they have brought with them have greatly changed the ancient country of Japan.The arquebuses sold by the Westerners caused a round of earth-shaking military changes in Japan, and finally gave them the capital to cross the sea and fight with the Ming in Korea for eight years, but the Ming slapped Japan back into the dirt.The Western-style trade in Asia turned cities such as Nagasaki and Edo into some of the most prosperous port cities in East Asia, and commerce flourished.But along with these good changes, the Westerners also brought some bad things, such as Catholicism.Catholicism has taken root in Japan, and its ideas of "equality, fraternity, and freedom" have a strong appeal to the Japanese people, and over time, more and more churches have sprung up in Japan, and there is a faint tendency to compete with Buddhism.This caused strong dissatisfaction and rejection of Buddhism in Japan, and Catholicism was not a vegetarian, so they fought back, and the grievances between the two major sects grew deeper and deeper, and a religious war had begun to brew, but it was not known when it would break out.If you help Buddhism, you will offend Westerners, and eventually your trade relations with Westerners will be greatly affected, and your money bags will suffer; If he helped Westerners, he would undoubtedly be regarded as enemies of Buddha by those dead bald heads, and for a person in a high position like him, the consequences of offending Buddhism would be more serious than offending the emperor.He became a rat trapped in a bellows, and he had to be angry at both ends, not to mention that uncomfortable.Now his troubles are one more layer: the Ming Kingdom suddenly sent more than 30,000 troops to invade Kyushu, Japan!
At present, the Ming army has bloodied Tsushima Island and uprooted the clan clan.The Kyushu feudal domains have organized a large army and are fighting fiercely with the Ming army!
The Kyushu feudal clans had always been unruly against the shogunate, and Tokugawa Iemitsu was happy to see them beaten and greatly weakened by the Ming army, and finally sent troops in the form of saviors to help them defeat the Ming army that invaded Kyushu.The Tokugawa shogunate had 80,000 brave and peerless samurai and more than 30,000 Ming troops, and he didn't pay attention to it.What really gave him a headache was Mingguo's attitude.Why did the Ming Kingdom send troops to invade Japan for no reason?
You must know that as a country of non-conquest in the Ming Dynasty, this is the real spread of the Japanese Rebellion in the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty.As a country that is not conquered, why was it requisitioned by the Ming army?
In Tokugawa Iemitsu's mind, it may not be difficult to defeat more than 30,000 Ming troops, but the difficult thing is how to deal with the aftermath, after all, Japan has to face a behemoth with a population of more than 100 million.Tokugawa Iemitsu asked himself if he didn't have the ability of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and he didn't have the courage to play with this behemoth.In any case, Tokugawa Iemitsu was very concerned about the war in Kyushu, and his biggest idea was to take advantage of the Ming army to defeat the Kyushu Domain to the ground, and it was best if he could not take care of himself, so that he could come to Kyushu again as a savior.The ideal is very plump, but the reality is too skinny.The Kyushu feudal alliance in Kyushu was defeated too quickly, so Tokugawa Iemitsu sent the old middle Aoyama Yukinari to Kyushu, the position of the old middle was a high-ranking official in the Japanese shogunate era, directly serving the shogunate, if the shogunate was formed as an uncrowned king, then the position of the old middle is the cabinet elder.Kosei Aoyama was the lord of the Kakegawa domain of Enoe Province, the fourth son of the Tokugawa genealogy retainer Aoyama Tadanari, and a famous general in the Edo period.As the lord of Kyushu's 1.2 million stone fiefdom, the Maeda clan of the Kaga Domain was very powerful, and the Maeda clan alone mobilized more than 15,000 samurai, ashigaru, and peasants in this campaign.Among them, the Maeda family's Kaga domain army had more than 3,000 musketeers, equipped with the most powerful bird guns in Asia, as well as thousands of highly skilled samurai and a large number of experienced generals.In Aoyama's view, even if the Ming army could win this battle, it would definitely suffer heavy losses, and eventually it would have to return to the negotiating table to solve the Kyushu problem.However, instead of going in the direction that Aoyama had hoped, the alliance of the Kyushu feudal lords collapsed.It's not that the Ming army is strong in combat, it's not that their artillery is sharp, it's that they have been tricked.That's right, don't look at Quan Xu in Luzon and visiting the beautiful rivers and mountains of Luzon, in fact, he can directly affect the war on Kyushu Island through the radio.After a ruthless attack in Hakata Bay, these Fukuoka Domain and Karatsu Domain Castle were completely annihilated, and the castle was reduced to ruins, and the feudal lords of the Kyushu Domain finally discovered that the Ming army was so powerful that there was simply no way to contend with it.At this time, Yang Yandong was instructed by Quan Xu to target the Satsuma Domain, the most powerful domain in Kyushu.And to declare to the lords of the Kyushu feudal domains that this time the Ming army sent a large army to attack Japan, the main purpose is to punish the Satsuma clan for invading the Ryukyu Islands for no reason, and it has nothing to do with them, after the Satsuma domain is eliminated, we will withdraw our troops, and the land and population of the Satsuma clan will belong to them, and they don't need to send troops to help, as long as they stand by and watch.When the lords of the Kyushu clan heard such a good thing, they did not send a single soldier to acquire the land and population of the Satsuma domain?
As a result, feudal lords such as the Kaga Domain, the Toyama Domain, and the Daishoji Domain gathered their troops and stopped attacking the Ming army.The Ming army really only attacked the Satsuma Domain, first sinking all the Satsuma Domain's navy with more than 300 small broken ships, and then under the sea and land attack, the Mosa Domain's army, which was originally preparing to unite with the Ming army, was completely annihilated by the Ming army.Subsequently, under the strong attack of the Ming army, the Satsuma clan had to garrison the port, but the problem Kagoshima Castle was very problematic, it was too close to the coastline, only more than 500 meters, but the rocket artillery, long-barreled mortar and howitzer of the whole family army and navy were within range.The samurai of the Satsuma Domain in the harbor looked at the fireworks rising from Kagoshima Castle and cried out: "My home, my relatives!
”The entire families of countless samurai are in Kagoshima Castle, and if the castle is broken, I am afraid that none of them will be spared, and their families are in danger, but they can only watch and do nothing.What a terrible ordeal for a man!
In desperation, the samurai of the Satsuma Domain, who were driven crazy, launched an attack on the warships of the Ming army, and yes, it was better to attack the warships along the sea.The results are self-evident, the soldiers on the warship of the whole family army used crossbows and muskets to shoot them down one by one like rabbits.The knee-deep waters became a formidable obstacle and blocked all possibility of assault.In this wave of desperate attacks, the Japanese samurai suffered more than 3,000 casualties, but the Ming army played zero casualties, no, a gunpowder hand carrying a solid cannonball accidentally smashed a large lead ball weighing twelve pounds on his own foot, in which the little toe was crushed and fractured, in this era, the little toe had to be removed, which was the only casualty in the battle of the whole family army.Only two hours later, the generals of the Shimazu clan could no longer control the samurai under their command, and the samurai of the Satsuma clan collapsed.The city wall was bombarded by the navy's naval guns, and at this time, Quan Xu heard the news and made another suggestion to Yang Yandong: "Lords of Kyushu, now that the city wall has been breached, the property in the city can be taken casually, and whoever grabs it will belong to whomever it wants." ”This proposal was unanimously approved by the lords of Kyushu, and everyone with a discerning eye knew that the Ming army had won the battle, and Kagoshima Castle was in the pocket of the Ming army, and even if the Ming army did not propose it, they would ask for a joint operation to get a piece of the pie.Anyway, I've already cooperated once, and I've offended the Shimazu family thoroughly, so it's better to simply offend a little more ruthlessly and cut the grass to the roots!
The first to react was Matsuno Shigehara.This is the third surname of Japan's domestic slave, he was originally a retainer of Kobayakawa Hideaki, and also the iron cannon head of Kobayakawa Hideaki, equivalent to the position of the Ming Dynasty's fire gun, in the Battle of Sekigahara, betrayed Kobayaka Hideaki, and then surrendered to Tanaka Yoshimasa, and received 12,000 stone of Gaoroku.However, the Tanaka family was cut off and the seal was removed, and Matsuno Shigemoto was taken in by Tokugawa Tadanaga.However, after the failure of Tokugawa Tadanaga to seize the throne with Tokugawa Iemitsu, he ran away again, and when Jeonxu recruited the dead, he was beaten by the Dutch to only half his life because he angered the Dutch, so his son Matsuno Shigemasa died at sea instead of him.When his family army came to Tsushima Island, he became one of the new daimyo and recruited seven samurai, and in Hakata Bay, he recruited nineteen samurai, using natto, which was not uncommon in the Ming army.In this way, when attacking Kagoshima Castle, he was the first to lead twenty-one samurai to storm Kagoshima Castle.What could he do?
Besides, Matsuno Shigemoto had always been poor, and now that he had a windfall in front of him, there was no reason not to take it, so under the cover of heavy artillery fire, he took the lead in launching an attack on Kagoshima Castle.As soon as the mouth was opened, the rest was taken for granted, and the allied forces of the Kyushu feudal domains rushed into the city without much effort, killing people when they saw them, and burning houses when they saw them.Kagoshima Castle was filled with smoke and flames, screams and cries shook the heavens and the earth, and the Japanese samurai with a little strength resisted desperately, and unarmed civilians cried and shouted in the smoke and fire, and the wolves ran after them, trying to escape the samurai of the fierce Kyushu lords, but no matter where they fled, there were people who swung their swords at them.