203 Tokugawa Ieyasu's path to the shogun
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knew that a large group of arrogant soldiers in the army would not be convinced by anyone but himself, especially Li Rusong, so Xiao Ruxun naturally took this into account and made a good calculation for Yuan Huang.
"You carry my sword, this is the sword that His Majesty the Emperor personally gave me, although it is not a Shang Fang sword, but it also has a special meaning, you take my sword to order the three armies, no one dares to disobey, at least Wu Weizhong and Ma Gui will definitely obey your orders, they obey orders, the entire army will basically be in their hands, no matter how arrogant Li Rusong is, there are only 4,000 people under his command, and he can't make big waves."
Yuan Huang pondered for a while, nodded in the end, but still asked: "Ji Xin, no matter what you want to do, the old man knows that you must have your own intentions, and the old man will support you, even if you let it go, even if you can't get anything back this time, you can get back a few million taels of silver alone, and so many captives will return to China to hand over to Your Majesty, it will also be meritorious." ”
"This time the army cost about 600,000 taels of silver, but I will bring back at least five times the income to Daming, and I will definitely let the entire Daming know that war is the fastest way to make a fortune!" Similar to the Japanese clowns, the more the better! ”
Looking at the increasingly determined look in Xiao Ruxun's eyes, Yuan Huang instinctively felt panicked, but for some reason he quickly calmed down, he believed in his own vision, and believed that this young general who had been with him for almost half a year would definitely not be a war maniac who dragged Daming into the quagmire of war.
In the afternoon, after lunch, Xiao Ruxun summoned a senior general, announced that he was going to Japan to preside over the war, and then announced in front of everyone that during his absence, military affairs were handled by Yuan Huang, and the position of the chief general was temporarily replaced by Yuan Huang, and handed over his sword to Yuan Huang, so that Yuan Huang could command the three armies with this sword.
The generals responded to the promise and received the order.
After instructing Yiying to take precautions, Xiao Ruxun took his personal guard to board a Daifuku ship and quickly headed towards the Japanese mainland, and it was expected that he would arrive at the naval division station before noon tomorrow.
Xiao Ruxun and Tokugawa Ieyasu are constantly making big moves here, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi's big moves are not necessarily small, related to the safety of his foundation, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who has the intention of maintaining the hegemony, said that he must hold on no matter what, so he quickly ordered Tokugawa Ieyasu to personally lead 100,000 eastern troops into Nagoya Castle to prepare to help defend the Ming army.
The artillery of the Ming army made Toyotomi Hideyoshi suffer enough.
It's not that he doesn't have no artillery in his hand, he can take out a hundred cannons, although there are only more than 50 artillery pieces in the Nago House, and there are more than 30 that can't be used immediately, and only more than 20 can be used immediately, but that's not a weak firepower, condescending, relying on the height of the mountain city and the Ming army's sailors to shoot, how can it also bring a little loss to the Ming army?
Who knows that the artillery of the Ming army is like having eyes, no matter from what angle they push the artillery forward to prepare for a counterattack, the artillery strike of the Ming army can always accurately descend before their artillery is fired, and then destroy all the preparations, occasionally one or two artillery pieces can be successfully fired, but only have time to shoot a shell, and then they can't even run, they can be covered by the artillery fire of the Ming army in an instant, and they will be finished with people and cannons.
After a few rounds like this, Toyotomi Hideyoshi lost ten artillery pieces, and such a loss made his liver hurt, so he quickly ordered the artillery team not to continue to hold on, to withdraw quickly, and continue to shrink out of the firing range of the Ming artillery.
Outside the firing range of the Ming artillery, but also outside the firing range of the Japanese artillery, although the Ming army could not hit them, they could not hit the Ming army, Toyotomi Hideyoshi listened to the rumbling cannon every day and was about to go crazy, but there was no way at all.
The sailors have been wiped out, and the entire Kyushu Island is stunned that there is no working sailor, and the daimyo who started with the sailors under his command are all fighting in North Korea, and they will definitely not be able to come back, the reserve sailors have been defeated, the transport team is finished, and the frontline is not supplied with food and materials, which is very dangerous! The Ming Kingdom was so big, how could the army be defeated without adequate supplies?
Toyotomi Hideyoshi was so anxious about this, and at a critical moment, he thought of using the power of Tokugawa Ieyasu.
The sailors under his own command are finished, but there must be a considerable number of sailors under Tokugawa Ieyasu who can be used, no matter whether they succeed or not, anyway, they must be used to deal with the sailors of the Ming army and defeat them, otherwise this blockade cannot be broken, even if it is won on land, it is useless, and the front-line soldiers will starve to death.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi issued an order to summon Tokugawa Ieyasu to lead his army into Nagoya Castle to assist in the defense.
Everything was not out of Kuroda Rusui's expectations, after Tokugawa Ieyasu received the summons, he took a deep breath, summoned several bigwigs of the Eastern Army to discuss the details in detail, and made up his mind to go to the road of the shogun - he was born in a noble family, and he had the qualifications to become the general of the shogun, unlike Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a lowly commoner, who could only become a sekibai if he thought that his godfather was desperate, and he also invented a title of Taiko, even the down-and-out imperial family could refuse his request to ask for the general of the shogun.
The wise Mitsuhide who rebelled against Oda Nobunaga was able to get the status of the general of the expedition, not because of other reasons, but because he was born in the nobility, the Japanese aristocracy and the Japanese royal family are the same as the eternal lineage, the Fujiwara clan in the early years, and the later Gen, Heiji clan, etc., Tokugawa Ieyasu is not a little bit more advantageous than Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
Like Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who fought all the way from the bottom of the common people to the status of the world's people, throughout the entire history of Japan, he is the only one, in fact, in China, how few such people are?
Tokugawa Ieyasu's path to the shogun has been opened.
On the 26th day of the first lunar month, when Tokugawa Ieyasu led his army into Nagoya Castle to assist in the defense, it was the time when Xiao Ruxun and Kuroda Rusui had an official meeting on a small boat in the Ming army's naval division.
After Xiao Ruxun arrived on the 25th, he asked the Japanese envoy on the ship to go back and call Tokugawa Ieyasu over, and asked Tokugawa Ieyasu to negotiate with him in person, otherwise everything would be exempted, but Tokugawa Ieyasu had been summoned and could not come, so Kuroda Rushui set off in person in a hurry to meet the famous Ming army commander.
The talks between the two sides officially began, and Jing Zhe Xuansu acted as the interpreter for both sides.
"It's really unbelievable that Admiral Xiao is so young."
Kuroda Rushui's understanding is in place, and he bowed to Xiao Ruxun, Xiao Ruxun returned the salute, and said softly: "Mr. Kuroda has a good reputation, please take a seat." ”
The two sat down together and looked at each other.
Kuroda Rushui is calculating Xiao Ruxun, and Xiao Ruxun is also calculating Kuroda Rushui.