One hundred and forty-four uneasy Ukita Hideya
The Japanese army learned to be obedient and knew that the Ming army had strong firepower and field combat power was not weak, so they began to play the tactics of shrinking and being more patient with the Ming army. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
What's more troublesome is that as the Japanese army retreated in great strides and the Ming army made great strides forward, the supply advantages and disadvantages of the two sides also quietly changed, and the supply line of the Ming army was pulled longer, and the transfer was more difficult.
On the other hand, they were very close to Tsushima Island with their backs to the sea, and as long as Yi Sunsin did not come out to make trouble, the supplies of the invading Japanese army could be continuously transported from the sea.
Xiao Ruxun carefully observed these Japanese cities on the front line, and knew that such a military fortress, even if it was bombarded with solid bullets with all the artillery in his hand, it would not be able to be breached, and even if it could be breached, the price it needed to pay was definitely not something that the Ming army of the Eastern Expedition with less than 40,000 people could bear, and a strong attack was definitely not the best choice.
At the moment, we can only see whether those gold and silver mines can impress the Wanli Emperor to dispatch the sailors.
Xiao Ruxun is worried, Ukita Hideya is also worried, and his troubles are not under Xiao Ruxun at all, Xiao Ruxun is waiting for the arrival of the sailor, and the offensive attitude is very clear, while Ukita Hideya looks at the total number of troops that have just been counted and Taiko Toyotomi Hideyoshi's letter asking about the current battle situation with a sad frown.
How to talk to Toyotomi Hideyoshi? Ishida Mitsunari's strategy of reporting good news but not bad news can no longer be sustained, and this big lie has reached the point where it cannot be sustained.
Before the Ming army entered the war, although the battle between the Japanese army and the Korean army was smooth sailing, and there were still some losses, but there were no thousands of losses before and after, but the battle with the Korean rebels and the naval battle with Yi Sunsin caused them to lose more than 10,000 troops, but this was nothing to the Japanese army with 160,000 soldiers.
However, the entry of the Ming army changed the balance of the war, and in the first two battles, the first two battles destroyed the 1st Army of Konishi Yukinaga and the 2nd Army of Kato Kiyomasa, which had 40,000 troops, and then destroyed more than 10,000 people on the west bank of the Kaesong and Imjin rivers, and the main force of the headquarters of nearly 50,000 people in the Battle of Bihokan, and now the Ukita Hideya has less than 50,000 troops that can still be used.
However, the momentum of the Ming army on the opposite side does not seem to have changed much, and it seems that there is not much loss of troops at all, which makes the Ukita Hideya is afraid and incomprehensible, is it true that the Ming army on the opposite side is really a heavenly soldier and a heavenly general who can't be killed? The encirclement of 20,000 people could not eat their 5,000 men, and they counterattacked, which led to the collapse of the whole army, and the Ukita Hideya escaped from Ascension by luck, but they did not dare to stop in Seoul for even a second.
Masuda Nagamori must have died, Kato Mitsuyasu died in front of them without any doubt, Kobayakawa Takakei escaped, but Kuroda Nagamasa has no news, I don't know if he is dead, forty or fifty officers with names and surnames and even daimyo died or disappeared in this battle, and some important generals of the Ukita Hide's family were also killed on the spot, and the Japanese army was really injured.
100,000 people! Nearly 100,000 elite soldiers and horses are finished! Or was he beaten like this by the 40,000 Ming Army, what would happen if Toyotomi Hideyoshi knew about it?
Toyotomi Hideyoshi should have personally crossed the sea to Korea with a reserve of 100,000 men, killed the officers on the front line first, and then personally fought a decisive battle with Xiao Ruxun.
But that will make the whole of Japan collapse, Japan does not have so much manpower and material resources to support Toyotomi Hideyoshi's reckless army, or in other words, half of Japan controlled by Toyotomi Hideyoshi is no longer able to continue to support, if it continues to fight, the strength of Tokugawa Ieyasu's eastern daimyo will surpass Toyotomi Hideyoshi's western country!
It's not that the number of people is not numerous, but the economy of the entire western country is about to collapse, Tokugawa Ieyasu's territory is very large, the population is large, there are no soldiers and horses, and the economy is still intact; If you fight for comprehensive strength, even if you bring 100,000 people from the Daimyo of Dongguo, Toyotomi Hideyoshi himself will have to pay for the food and military expenses, and the economy will collapse!
This is what Masuda Nagamori said before he died in battle.
And more crucially, you don't have the deterrence of the main force of 150,000, and Tokugawa Ieyasu will let Toyotomi Hideyoshi bring their 100,000 men to North Korea to die? Are they all stupid or mentally retarded? If one is not good, they will quickly rebel, and we are all exhausted, maybe we will die directly in North Korea, and none of them will be able to go back!
Regarding some changes in Toyotomi Hideyoshi's spirit and state in recent years, Ukita Hideya saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart, and he couldn't help but think, if Toyotomi Hideyoshi knew all this, what kind of attitude would he use to treat all the officers of the Japanese army invading Korea?
If he knew that his beloved generals Kiyomasa Kato and Yukinaga Konishi had died in battle, if he knew that Masuda Nagamori and Kato Mitsuyasu were both dead, and if he knew that Kuroda Nagamasa was also dead if he didn't do well, would he go crazy?
In all fairness, if Ukita Hideya himself was Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he would have gone crazy, and when Ishida Mitsunari implemented his strategy of reporting good news and not bad news, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was very happy to write letters everywhere to show off his great victory in Korea.
He wrote a lot of ostentatious letters to the Daimyo of the Eastern Kingdom, and the entire Daimyo of the Eastern Kingdom knew that Toyotomi Hideyoshi was going to take Korea and attack the Ming Kingdom.
If Toyotomi Hideyoshi knew now that all this was a lie to him, that none of this was true, and that everyone was just deceiving him and not telling the truth, what would he do?
At the beginning, everyone thought that there was still hope for a comeback, so they agreed to Ishida Mitsunari's plan, but now that the army is defeated, they can't hide it anyway.
Three of the main generals of the eight main battle corps are gone, the formation is destroyed, and the remaining five are shrunk in Busan with the remnants of the defeated army, how can this battle be fought? How else can you hide it? Toyotomi Hideyoshi mentioned Governor Konishi several times, wanting to ask about Governor Konishi, and said that Governor Konishi was a "bastard" for not writing to him, but how did Toyotomi Hideyoshi know that Governor Konishi was no longer able to write to him?
Of course, what Ukita Hideya didn't know was that they were about to be wiped out as soon as they were defeated in Korea, and in Japan, in addition to Toyotomi Hideyoshi and his people around him, the daimyo of Dongguo who had a little ability already knew, and it was not anyone else who spread it, but Tokugawa Ieyasu, Tokugawa Ieyasu was unprepared in order to grasp the news of the Korean attack strategy as soon as possible so as not to be suddenly attacked by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and planted a lot of eyeliner in the Korean attack army.
Basically every legion has it, and it's not just Tokugawa Ieyasu's eyeliner, the 100,000 troops of the daimyo of the Eastern Kingdom are still under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and they are 1,000 and 10,000 unwilling to send troops to Korea.
But if they are really defeated, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is really crazy, and they really may not be able to stop it.
So you can only prepare early.