Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Destruction of the Whole Army
It is said that the army led by Tokugawa Hidetada was the main force of the invasion of Korea, and there were two other armies, one to attack Wangjing of Silla, and the other to monitor the so-called main force of the Ming army at the junction of the three countries.
In addition, there are some garrisons left at the three landing points such as the port of Busan, and some soldiers and horses are slightly left in the cities captured by Gong along the way.
There were also some Fuso warships cruising on the sea, so as not to be copied by the enemy.
The main force of the Fuso army led by Tokugawa Hidetada was ambushed by the Ming army, and about 10,000 people were killed, and most of the remaining 50,000 or 60,000 people were captured, and only a very small part escaped in the dense forest in the chaos.
In addition, there are pack horses, money, grain, cattle and sheep, and even some Fusang people, hundreds of women captured along the way since they landed.
These women thought that there was no hope of survival, but they didn't expect that the Fusang Army, which had been invincible before, would be destroyed by the Ming army.
On the one hand, the Ming army sent people to contact the Baekje government to greet these women, and at the same time, it also arranged for some men to follow the people of the Baekje court to recover the cities occupied by the Fuso army.
The Fusang army in those cities had only a few hundred people in each city, and the others were also some local devils who had been temporarily assembled.
After learning that the main force was annihilated by the Ming army, he lost his courage, and the Ming army casually put a few shots, and these people were frightened, and the two devils immediately had the courage to move against the Fusang devils, and these cities were quickly recovered one by one.
The Ming army temporarily "occupied" these cities in order to prevent the Fuso people from making a comeback, so that those Baekje officials who thought they could follow the Ming army to pick up the bargains were deflated and depressed one by one, but they did not dare to attack, so they could only carefully accompany the smiling face.
In addition, the Ming army sent men and horses to attack the Fusang army left behind in three ports such as Busan Port, and these old and weak people who stayed behind were even more vulnerable, and were defeated by the Ming army, and all three ports fell into the hands of the Ming army.
When the Ming army ambushed the main force of Tokugawa Hidetada, Deng Shichang, the commander of the Wehrmacht, personally led a fleet to besiege the Fuso fleet cruising in the strait.
This Fuso fleet is said to be a fleet, but in fact it is a hodgepodge of pirate ships, civilian ships, etc., and its main role is to transport troops, and most ships are not equipped with artillery.
Even a small number of installed guns are old-fashioned guns that are completely backward in range, accuracy, and power, and they cannot compete with the Wehrmacht fleet.
It is better to say that it is a siege, than a pack of wolves hunting a herd of sheep. Not long after the battle began, the Fuso warships, which were armed with artillery, were hit and sunk.
The remaining ships had no combat effectiveness at all, and before Deng Shichang could persuade them to surrender, these ships raised white flags and asked for surrender.
According to later statistics, there were nearly 1,000 Fuso ships of various types captured in the naval battle, almost all the ships that Tokugawa Hidetada could collect.
The destruction of the Fuso fleet completely cut off the retreat of the Fuso people.
Tens of thousands of Fusang soldiers after the palace of Baekje Wangjing were attacked by three divisions of the Ming army after dawn, the artillery opened the way, grenades assisted from the side, and the muskets ended, the dense and fierce artillery fire made the already panicked and warless Fusang palace troops quickly fell into chaos, and the Fusang army announced its surrender after less than half an hour of fighting, and the final number of killed and captured accounted for half.
On the other side, the Fuso army, which was in charge of attacking the Silla Wangjing, was also surrounded by the 10,000 Ming troops who had already locked on them, and the battle ended after two hours, and the daimyo Noda Masao, who led this army, was killed on the spot, more than 3,000 soldiers were killed, and the rest were all captured.
The reason why Noda's men and horses were annihilated for a little longer was mainly because Noda Masao had the whimsical idea to take people to hunt in the nearby woods, which led to the dispersion of the troops, so it took longer.
The last remaining Fusang army, which monitored the "main force of the Ming army" at the junction of the three kingdoms, naturally could not escape the fate of being annihilated, with more than 6,000 people annihilated, more than 20,000 people captured, and countless materials such as heavy grain and grass seized.
Because of the accurate intelligence preparation in advance, as well as the meticulous and accurate prediction of the battle situation, the Ming army was fully prepared.
Tokugawa Hidetada led an army of 150,000 men across the sea with great ambition, and it took less than a month from the landing to the attack to the kings of Silla and Baekje.
This speed is already very impressive, and it can definitely be said to be overwhelming.
But the speed of their destruction was much faster, the complete destruction of the 150,000-strong army, including the fleet, the whole battle lasted no more than five days, including some marching time or time used to paralyze them.
This can definitely be called a speed of destruction, and it is an all-round crushing, and the so-called bushido spirit of the Fuso Army does not play much role at all, but makes them perish faster.
In essence, this is simply the crushing of science and technology across the era, the doomed victory of the Ming army, and the doomed defeat of the Fusang country.
In this battle with the Fusang Army, the Liaodong Theater dispatched 50,000 National Defense Forces and 100,000 National Guards. And the 50,000 Wehrmacht was only used to suppress the formation, and was not dispatched at all. All the battles were completed by ten National Guard divisions.
Compared with the total annihilation of the Fusang army, the number of casualties of the Ming army was simply small and terrifying, basically negligible, and it can be said to be a complete victory.
The news of the annihilation of the Fuso invading army spread, and the Korean Peninsula cheered, and the people of Baekje, Silla, and Goguryeo poured out of the city, and the way was full of rice wine, all kinds of snacks, melons, fruits and vegetables to welcome the Ming soldiers who returned triumphantly, and even some unrestrained and enthusiastic girls bravely stepped forward to throw their own hand-embroidered sachets to the soldiers they fancied, in order to show their admiration.
The kings of the Three Kingdoms even sent people to reward the Ming army along the way, and sent envoys to send a large number of gifts to meet Marshal Ran Wu of the Liaodong Theater, saying that he would set up a state banquet to entertain him, thanking him for defeating the Fusang invaders and saving the three Koreans.
Ran Wu's gifts were accepted, but the state banquet was all refused. He knew very well in his heart that the real purpose of the kings of the three kingdoms was to hope that he would be able to give up the cities that were temporarily guarded by the Ming army and return them to them, and all the three ports along the coast would also be returned.
The three countries' previous delays in the matter of the Korean garrison's food, grass and military salaries made Ran Wu not have a good impression of them, so he made up his mind to use this incident to teach them a good lesson.
In this world, how can there be a good thing that just takes advantage of the advantage and does not make a difference, your own soldiers fought bloodily, consumed a lot of food, grass, ammunition and materials, resisted aggression for you, and defended the country.
Otherwise, those cities and ports would not have been "managed" by the Ming army.
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