One hundred and fifty-two The withdrawal of troops brooks no delay
Toyotomi Hideyoshi was originally a smart man, that's for sure, if he wasn't smart, he couldn't go from a slave to today, but he was not young, and his brain was a little confused, he stayed in Nagoya every day, and his grasp of the battle situation came entirely from the letters of the Korean front-line generals, and those generals were well versed in Hideyoshi's psychology and had always been defeated and victorious, outlining an incomparably bright prospect for Toyotomi Hideyoshi who was far away in Japan. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
That letter was a plan that the Japanese generals on the front line had come up with with a sad face and racking their brains for half a month.
There is no way, there is really no way, the current situation is that the Japanese army has enough troops to hold the Waseong and hold the Pusan area, but no matter what, it will not be able to re-advance and fight with the Ming army for other parts of Korea.
Except for this area of Busan, the rest of the area was recovered by the Ming army and the Korean rebels, and even Jeolla Province was recovered, and the Japanese army was trapped in Busan and could not move, and if the sea route was not still open, they would have starved to death.
Such a tragic situation, coupled with the death of several high-ranking officials, such as Kato Mitsuyasu and Masuda Nagamori, as well as Kuroda Nagamasa, plus the previous Konishi Yukinaga and Kato Kiyomasa, the remaining Japanese high-level officials were full of fear of the Ming army, and they no longer had the courage to continue to march into the decisive battle.
In the battle of Bihokan, Takashi Kobayakawa, who was the fiercest shouting before, escaped the fastest, faster than the Ukita Hide's family, and after returning to Busan, he fell ill and is still bedridden, and his situation is worrying.
The morale of the Japanese army was generally low, and they hid in the Japanese city and did not dare to leave, and they were terrified when they peeked at the majestic lineup of the Ming army drilled from a distance, and occasionally heard a few cannon shots and panicked for a while.
And what is even more terrifying is that the Ming army also built a 10-meter-high Beijing Temple in front of the Japanese army, all of which were built with the heads of the beheaded Japanese invaders, and there were often Ming troops showing off their strength under the Beijing Temple, and the demonstrative artillery shot to provoke the Japanese army, but the Japanese army could not raise the courage to fight back at all, and was completely suppressed by the momentum of the Ming army.
Another day, Xiao Ruxun had nothing to do, and when he called the generals of the army for dinner, he had a whim, learned the scene of Zhuge Liang humiliating Sima Yi in "The Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and wrote a letter to the opposite Japanese marshal Ukita Hideya, and then gave him a set of clothes worn by a Korean woman, as well as a box of rouge, mocking him for shrinking in the city and being no different from a woman, it is better to go back to Japan as soon as possible.
As soon as this move came out, all the generals in the army were interested, and they also wanted to be vassals and elegant, and even the old man Yuan Huang couldn't help but take a kick, and wrote letters to the surviving Japanese high-ranking officials in Xuan Su's mouth in their own names, giving them women's clothes and rouge to humiliate them.
Li Rusong is even more evil, he has nothing to do to hunt meat in the mountains and forests near the camp, and actually hunted a tiger, and carried it back to show off his strength.
His letter also said that it was useless to listen to His Excellency Ukita, he couldn't get up, and he couldn't even fight, so he wanted to help you, so he gave you a tiger whip, and I hope you can get up and fight us after eating, if you still can't get up, then I can't help it, you can only put on women's clothes and be a woman......
Anyway, the generals tried their best to humiliate and ridicule, poured their malice into these objects, and then sent a captured Japanese prisoner to bring these things back and give them to the Japanese high-ranks.
After the high-level of the Japanese army received this generous gift from the high-level of the Ming army, they were collectively dizzy, especially the Ukita Hideya, looking at the women's clothes and tiger whip in front of them, angry that one Buddha was out of the body, and the second Buddha ascended to heaven, almost never carried his breath, threw the tiger whip to the ground with a shake of his hand, and stomped several feet fiercely, the young man's anger was great, and he was almost about to attack on the spot.
Ukita Hideya drew his sword and was about to rush out, he wanted to gather soldiers and horses to fight Xiao Ruxun to the death, and he couldn't be humiliated even if he died, and just about to rush out, he was dragged by Ishida Mitsunari to death.
"This is Xiao Ruxun's trick! You can't be fooled! He's just going to provoke you! He's just going to let you fight! You can't fall for his tricks!! ”
Ishida Mitsunari tried his best to persuade the embarrassed and angry Japanese military leaders to persuade them, but such news had already spread, and the news that the high-level officials were collectively humiliated and did not dare to speak out became more and more turbulent, and the morale of the Japanese army further declined.
When Xiao Ruxun led a group of cavalry to the vicinity of Wacheng the next day to show off their might and provoke the Japanese army, they also shrank behind the city wall and did not dare to shoot.
In such a depressing atmosphere, the phenomenon of desertion appeared irrepressibly, the first time it was just three people who escaped together, and were discovered by the patrolling officers, and after being caught, they did not make a noise, but just reprimanded them.
As a result, the second time was a small group of sixteen people who fled together, including the officer from last time, and made a very detailed plan, where to run to a boat to escape back to Japan, etc., but it was still unlucky and was discovered by Shimazu Yoshihiro.
Shimazu Yoshihiro, who fled from the Imzu River, was punished after the war and demoted to a military position, because he did not dare to tell Toyotomi Hideyoshi, so he had not weakened the territory, but his status had plummeted, and the famous Satsuma soldiers were also humiliated because of this, which made him extremely unhappy, and it was at this time that these deserters were caught, and Shimazu Yoshihiro decided to give himself a breath of relief.
As a result, these dozen or so people were Fukushima Masanori's subordinates of the Fifth Army, Fukushima Masanori felt that he was very faceless, and his subordinates still let Shimazu Yoshihiro, the "fugitive general", be caught, so he spoke up to cover up his subordinates, biting Shimazu Yoshihiro for nothing to do, and demanding that Shimazu Yoshihiro be severely punished.
This made Mori Yoshinari very dissatisfied, Shimazu Yoshihiro's Satsuma soldiers belonged to his command, and Fukushima Masanori scolded Shimazu Yoshihiro was scolding him, how could he bear it? The two first quarreled with each other, then developed to move their hands and feet, and finally directly pulled out their katana swords to each other and slashed at each other.
The controversy ended with Ukita Hideya coming forward to play fifty boards each, but on the third day, the sixteen members of Fukushima Masanori disappeared, and Fukushima Masanori was slapped with a big mouth and his face was very swollen, which made him very faceless.
So he ordered a thorough investigation, and after a thorough investigation, it was found that it was a deserter, and on the one hand, he sent people to pursue him, and on the other hand, he strengthened his defense, but this did not prevent the deserter from appearing.
After the first wave of deserters successfully fled, more and more deserters began to appear, thirty-six for the second, fifty-seven for the third, eighty-one for the fourth, and one hundred and six for the fifth.
This figure eventually accumulated to the point that the Japanese military top brass could not ignore it, and under the strong pressure of the Ming army and the inaction of the Japanese military top brass, the situation was extremely serious.
Faced with such a situation, Ishida Mitsunari had to issue a strict order, if the regiments could not manage the problem of desertion, directly hold the regiment commander accountable, and urge the regiment commander to use his own retainers to manage these problems, although the phenomenon of desertion was effectively controlled, but it also made Ishida Mitsunari and others realize that the withdrawal of troops from Korea could not be delayed.
So there was that letter.