Chapter 679: The Battle of the New Barrel Narrow
War, there is no such thing as justice and injustice, and for the strong, this is the best era. You don't have to spend too much to get huge benefits, which is why modern China has been repeatedly the result of wars.
The Japanese sailors rushed in and were wiped out in a minute, and the shogunate's land army gradually approached the Nagoya area.
Considering that the 500,000 rebel army was defeated by the Tence army, this time the shogunate dispatched a coalition of 280,000 troops. It was called the Coalition Army because it was a combined force of more than fifty daimyo under the rule of the shogunate.
During the Edo period, there were more than 200 daimyos, which were basically divided into feudal daimyos, pedigree daimyos, and exotomyos.
The political system of the Edo period was the "shogunate system", in which the shogunate and feudal towns jointly administered the country.
Under the shogunate system, the shogun was the supreme ruler of Japan, and the shogunate was the highest organ of power in the country.
The shogunate ruled over feudal states throughout the country. The rulers of each feudal domain were daimyo and loyal to the shogunate, which imposed a system of alternate pilgrimages to them.
The shogun was essentially the lord of the feudal lords, and the daimyo were in a semi-independent state, but still had a great deal of independence, and usually the shogunate did not interfere in the internal affairs of the feudal domains, and they had administrative, judicial, military, and tax rights in their own domains, and they were absolute masters in their own domains, but they were controlled by the "shoguns" and had political, military, and economic obligations to the shogunate.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea had a total of only about 200,000 troops, and this time the Edo shogunate sent an astonishing 280,000 troops, which was considered a battle of the country.
This is also the only way to mobilize so many troops in local operations, and if it is a cross-sea expedition, it will be enough to reach such a scale, because the logistical pressure is huge, and at the same time, it will also test the ability to transport sea.
In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, March 21, 1640.
It took about eight days for the Shogunate coalition to set out from near Edo, and its 5,000 troops reached the Barrel Sama near Nagoya, where they were attacked by a battalion of the Tence Army and then retreated.
After the victory of the Tiance army in the first battle, they did not continue the pursuit, but adjusted their deployment and waited for the arrival of the main force of the shogunate coalition army.
Eighty years ago, the Battle of Barrel Sasama was a very important war in Japanese history, and this war also made the name of one person resounding throughout Japan, and this person was Oda Nobunaga.
Located in the Narumi Hills, the point where Tokaido and Ōtaka do meet, Mt. Tsukasama is 65 meters high, located in the middle of Mt. Tsukake and Ōtaka Castle, and three kilometers from Nakajima in Tokaido.
This mountain is not high, but it is a place where traffic is important and soldiers must fight.
The Battle of Barrel Sasama was a surprise attack, and it was a classic battle in which fewer won more, so it was widely circulated in Japan.
The comparison of the forces of the two sides was 4,000 on Oda Nobunaga's side and 25,000 on Imagawa Yoshimoto's side.
In terms of the scale of the war, it is not comparable to the battle of the new barrel narrows that is about to start. The Battle of Tsukikusama was a battle for hegemony between the princes, and the Battle of Shin-Tsubakusama was a battle against foreign enemies and a battle for the country, and although the shogunate army was a coalition army, the morale was high.
The Tiance Army dispatched two Tiance Army brigades and four security army brigades, with a total of 18,000 troops, and the total strength of the shogunate coalition army was 280,000.
Through the video transmitted by the drone, Wang Yue observed the movements of the shogunate coalition with great interest.
The Shogunate Army was a coalition of feudal clans, and the soldiers of the Shogunate wore small flags on their backs with various family crests on them. Looking at it from afar, hundreds of thousands of small flags of various colors fluttered in the wind, as if covering the entire land, which looked very majestic.
In fact, not all Japanese soldiers were standing soldiers, and a considerable number of them were half-peasants and half-soldiers.
Japan had a large-scale standing army system during the Toyotomi regime, but with the end of the Toyotomi regime, this system was quickly defeated by the conscription system.
In Japan, peasants in the countryside who had the slightest ability to fight could be drafted into soldiers.
The Tokugawa shogunate's pro-feudal daimyo and pedigree daimyo occupied the richest lands in Japan, and with their deep finances, these warlords kept many half-peasant and half-soldier "land servants".
Since the martial spirit of Japan's Warring States period has not subsided, the equipment of these soldiers even exceeds that of the average Ming army. After all, after decades of war in the Ming Dynasty, the economic situation is worse than that of Japan.
Most of the soldiers of the shogunate coalition who kept coming had light armor, which was called a full body, and it weighed about seven or eight pounds. This armor was generally made by the daimyo and issued to soldiers after the peasant soldiers were conscripted into battle.
Therefore, these armors are also called "imperial loans". The front of these feet is often tattooed with the family crest of the daimyo and, together with the small flag on the back of the ashigaru, forms a distinguishing object of friend or foe.
In terms of armor rate, the shogunate coalition surpassed the Ming army, which is related to the current economic level. In terms of artillery, the Ming army was stronger than the shogunate army, which can be seen from the number of artillery on the opposite side.
The proportion of guns equipped by the shogunate coalition was higher than that of most of the Ming army, reaching a quarter of the proportion, and the quality of the guns also exceeded that of the Ming army.
The Japanese called the iron cannon gun, which is an imitation arquebus, and its performance is slightly stronger than most of the guns of the Ming army.
In the Korean War, the Japanese army's iron artillery unit became the main force of the Japanese army, and even a Japanese military general wrote a letter to his homeland asking all soldiers sent to Korea to carry arquebuses with them without other weapons.
However, due to the limited processing capacity and high cost, it was impossible for the Japanese army to be equipped with iron cannons, so most of the soldiers were armed with bows and arrows and spears.
This spear is four and a half meters long, and the barrel is a composite structure, with oak and other wood as the core, and the outer bread is covered with bamboo chips, which are also painted like a bow to prevent moisture, so it has good toughness and is a good and inexpensive weapon.
Most of the other elite samurai, their own soldiers, and generals used katanas.
Overall, due to financial reasons in the Ming court, the equipment of the shogunate coalition army exceeded that of most Ming troops. But it can't be compared with the Guan Ning Army, let alone with Lu Xiangsheng's new army.
The Tiance army arrived first and first occupied the high ground near the barrel saga.
"Report to the commander, after the arrival of the main force of the shogunate coalition army, one of them, two corps of about 50,000 people, is marching from Iwaike to Marune. The other two corps, 50,000 men, were advancing from Aoyama to the mouth of the Narumi River.
From the point of view of the situation, the intention of the Shogunate coalition is obvious, and they are vainly trying to besiege our army near the barrel and narrow room with absolute superiority in troops. Chief of Staff Li Zixiong reported.
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