222 The lonely army of grief and indignation
Tokugawa Ieyasu led the army to attack the city in a hurry, and Maeda Toshiya was not ambiguous here, quickly gathered the strength of his family and the strength of his servant daimyo, and assembled an elite army of 30,000 people, Toyotomi Hideji opened the arsenal of Osaka and Kyoto to arm, and raised the combat effectiveness of this army to the extreme. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Then, Toyotomi Hideji sent his powerful retainers to join forces with the fierce generals under Maeda Toshiie, and an army of 10,000 people marched towards the Edo area, preparing to directly attack Tokugawa Ieyasu's lair, using his family as a coercion.
Of the remaining 20,000 people, 10,000 were split up as officers to lead the newly recruited 30,000 horses, and began the training of new recruits under the leadership of the veterans.
It can be said that both Maeda Toshiie and Tokugawa Ieyasu are racing against time, fighting and preparing with all their might for future hegemony, and whoever takes the lead will win, and the reward for winning is very rich, and it will be the whole of Japan.
With the passage of time, the news can not be concealed completely, Tokugawa Ieyasu rebelled, and the matter of killing Toyotomi Hideyoshi has spread all over Kyoto City, and everyone has the psychological expectation that the world is about to be in chaos again, and as far as the current situation is concerned, the two largest forces in Japan are still Toyotomi and Tokugawa, although the Tokugawa clan has achieved a major victory, but the Toyotomi clan is a hundred-legged insect that dies but does not stiffen, Kyoto City is still in his hands, the emperor is still in his hands, and everything is not yet clear.
No one dares to say that they will be able to win, no one dares to say that there are many people in Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Tokugawa Ieyasu will definitely win, and Toyotomi Hideji has few people, Toyotomi Hideji will definitely not win, there are too many examples of winning more with less, and there are many examples in the past few decades, and no one dares to say that they can predict whose victory, so when the recruitment order of the former Tian Toshiya and Toyotomi Hideji was issued again, although everyone did not respond as well as the last time, they did not make a clear posture to avoid.
This is an investment, it is a very risky investment, whoever wins will win the future, and if he loses, he will lose everything, and no one dares to bet on himself.
Those little daimyo under the command of the Toyotomi clan are waiting, and the outer daimyo are also watching, no one dares to say that they will be able to bet on the right treasure, everyone has not much in their hands, once they are all bet, it is really standing in line, the team does not stand well, there is no future, and there has never been any mercy to talk about in the fight for the world.
Tokugawa Ieyasu killed Toyotomi Hideyoshi and wantonly killed those who disobeyed him, although it will make many people feel afraid, but it will also make many Toyotomi Hideyoshi's supporters or sympathizers very dissatisfied, so as to completely fall into Toyotomi Hideji's camp, because Toyotomi Hideji originally had a retainer group, which will make Toyotomi Hideji's power stronger, plus the existence of the Maeda Toshiya family, which is not weak with Tokugawa Ieyasu, Tokugawa Ieyasu does not seem to have much advantage.
The only advantage was the destruction of the main force of the Toyotomi army, and the main force of the Tokugawa army still existed, so in the weakened western country, the Tokugawa army was invincible and invincible, except for the effective resistance of the Satsuma Domain and other places, most of the area fell, and Tokugawa Ieyasu's vanguard general Honda Tadakatsu had already hit Nagato Province, and the front of the army was directed at the Iwami region, and the goal was to take Iwami Ginzan.
At this moment, the Ming army fleet led by Xiao Ruxun has rested on Tsushima Island for a day, and started sailing again, a few days before the storm on the sea, Xiao Ruxun did not order the risk of marching, after a few days of recuperation, and after the storm passed, the army set sail again, straight to the Iwami area, after landing, they were ready to attack Iwami country, more than a dozen Japanese prisoners who were familiar with the terrain of the Iwami area were picked out and were rewarded with a lot of money in exchange for their guides.
The number of artillery of the Ming army was further improved, and Song Yingchang converted all the collected artillery into artillery trucks and handed them over to Xiao Ruxun, Xiao Ruxun's men now have at least 800 artillery pieces that can be used, but there is still a lack of heavy artillery, basically light artillery and medium artillery, and the heaviest is only five or six hundred catties of artillery.
This is not important, a few isolated cities, is unable to stop the Ming army wreaking, the Ming army's equipment and combat effectiveness obviously surpassed the Japanese army at this time, the Ming army that has accumulated rich combat experience against the Japanese army that has no combat experience with the Ming army on the Japanese mainland, the victory of the field battle is beyond doubt.
On February 10, three days before Xiao Ruxun arrived in the coastal area of Iwami, the main force of Tokugawa Ieyasu's department attacked Nagato Province, so that the Honda Tadakatsu vanguard that had been slightly delayed before received sufficient support, Nagato Province's support for Toyotomi Hideyoshi's forces was completely swept away, and the pro-Tokugawa regime was established, Tokugawa Ieyasu symbolically left more than 100 soldiers to say that he would occupy, and he rushed to Iwami Province, as long as he took Iwami Ginzan, he was not afraid of no military spending, and after taking Iwami Ginzan, he could lead the army to take Kyoto, A straight line hits through.
It is unwise and unrealistic to attack all the regions, he has no troops and no time to attack all the world, as long as the other party surrenders and surrenders, the rest can be solved by political means after the world is calmed down, attacking the world is also the enemy of the world, those local real power factions have always been to see people talk about people and talk nonsense, see who is strong, follow whom, these people will obey as long as they face the strong, they will not fight, you want to fight them, isn't it boring to talk to yourself?
But the Iwami area is different, the Iwami Ginzan area was controlled by Toyotomi Hideyoshi after the establishment of the Toyotomi regime, which originally belonged to the Maori family, and after being controlled by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, it was equivalent to taking the Iwami Ginzan over, and the Maori family was of course unhappy.
But in the face of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and most of Japan's daimyo, he really had no confidence and could only admit it, so Toyotomi Hideyoshi set up enough troops here to protect Iwami Ginzan, even when the war was at its most fierce on the Korean battlefield, he did not draw people from here.
So there are almost 8,000 Toyotomi troops in the entire Iwami region that can be mobilized, most of them are still die-hard loyalists of the Toyotomi clan, and they are very loyal to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, after the news of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death came, these troops felt sad and indignant, hating Tokugawa Ieyasu's betrayal, but Toyotomi Hideyoshi was dead, and they were faced with two choices, one was to surrender, and the other was to fight to the end.
They chose the latter.