Chapter 57: Recovering Liaodong

There are often traitors among the Chinese, and naturally there are few Japanese traitors who will act as traitors for the sake of profit. After Wu Sinan received Yue Su's letter, he immediately began to look for such a person, but in two days, he found such a person. This old man's name is Ichiro Kiyoizumi, and his profession is a ronin, that is, he has no serious profession and doesn't even have a place to live.

Wu Sinan asked him to pretend to be the son of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the son of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's widow, and also gave him a name, called Toyotomi Fuye, which means to revive the ancestral foundation. At that time, Tokugawa Ieyasu was one of the five elders under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and when Toyotomi Hideyoshi was alive, he asked his son Toyotomi Hideyoshi to marry Tokugawa Ieyasu's granddaughter Chihime as his wife, and the two families were considered sons and daughters. Of course, Toyotomi Hideyoshi didn't want to kill Tokugawa Ieyasu, but Tokugawa Ieyasu was strong, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent the main force to North Korea, was beaten in embarrassment, and finally died of hatred.

After the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the unified Japan was once again in war, and Tokugawa Ieyasu first launched the Battle of Sekigahara and defeated Ishida Mitsunari, the head of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's confidant and head of the Five Commissions, and with this battle, he became the general of the Seiyi. And after this battle, the Toyotomi family was greatly injured and gradually declined. Tokugawa Ieyasu was strong, so he planned to destroy the Toyotomi family. Because there must be an excuse for starting a war, he first made three unreasonable demands to Toyotomi Hideyori: first, let the Toyotomi family submit to the Tokugawa family and go to Edo to meet him; the second is to let Toyotomi Hideyori's mother go to the Tokugawa family as a hostage; The third is to let Toyotomi Hideyori leave his territory and go somewhere else.

How could Toyotomi Hideyori agree to such a request. As a result, the relationship between the two sides officially broke down, and Tokugawa Ieyasu led an army to attack Osaka, and finally broke through Osaka Castle and took the male of the Toyotomi family. Regardless of the old and the young, kill the light.

Although the Toyotomi family was defeated, it still had some prestige in Japan, and Wu Sinan asked Kiyomi Ichiro to impersonate Toyotomi Hideyoshi's great-grandson, and under the banner of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he began to work against Tokugawa Ieyasu. In this case, there are many more excuses for the Ming army to attack Japan, for example. My Ming Dynasty once named Toyotomi Hideyoshi as the king of Japan, but you, Tokugawa Ieyasu, destroyed the Toyotomi family, really didn't give us face for the Ming Dynasty, and dared to send troops to attack our Ming Dynasty. This is definitely something that I can't tolerate. Our Ming sent troops this time, firstly, to avenge Toyotomi Hideyoshi and support Toyotomi Hideyoshi's descendants to regain the foundation, and secondly, to give you Tokugawa Ieyasu a little color to see, so that you know. My Ming Dynasty is not easy to mess with.

This excuse is obviously far-fetched, because Toyotomi Hideyoshi did not accept the canonization of the Ming Dynasty at all, and he also drove away the envoys of the Ming Dynasty. Opposite. Instead, Tokugawa Ieyasu accepted the canonization of the Ming Dynasty and worshiped him as the king of Japan. But this kind of thing. It's just an excuse, whether he's far-fetched or not. Whoever has a hard fist is justified.

It was because of this excuse that the situation in Japan changed all of a sudden. Originally, Tokugawa Ieyasu gathered troops and horses to resist the Ming Dynasty's slogan was to resist the invasion of the Ming Dynasty, which belonged to a foreign war, and of course Japan was united in its own heart. But with this excuse, the foreign war seems to have turned into an internal war.

People have a speculative mentality, and those who mix well under Tokugawa Ieyasu will naturally not oppose Tokugawa Ieyasu, and many of those who are not good have crooked thoughts. Among them, especially the samurai of the original Toyotomi family, because they had no masters, these people became ronins, and those who were hungry and full of food were all sinned. At present, the Ming army is raising the banner of the Toyotomi family, although they know that the Toyotomi family has died, and the credibility of the descendants of the Toyotomi family is very low, but they would rather believe it and join the camp of the Toyotomi family without hesitation.

With the support of many Japanese ronin, some families who were not treated well by the Tokugawa family no longer stood on the side of the Tokugawa family, and the situation of the Ming army suddenly became very good, and Tokugawa Iemitsu's counterattack against Chiba did not make the slightest progress, and the two sides fought a close match. Although it was a draw, the rule of the Ming army in Chiba was consolidated to a certain extent.

Wu Sinan fought fiercely in Japan, and Yue Su was not idle in Beijing, mobilizing an army of 250,000, gathering 120,000 of the Ming army at Shanhaiguan, and an army of 370,000, known as 730,000, advancing by land and water, and attacking Liaodong.

The Jurchens now know that the Huang Taiji who entered the customs and all of them died in the pass, which was a big morale setback, because the Huang Taiji took away all the elites of the Eight Banners, and the rest were mainly Han and Mongolian, and the Jurchen troops only had yellow flags and red flags.

Hearing that the army was coming, Hauge hurriedly mobilized troops and horses, and sent people to Mongolia for help, hoping that the Mongolian departments would send troops to help. The Mongolian tribes had sent soldiers and horses to follow Huang Taiji into the pass, but all the people who went there died in the pass, and none of them came back, which can be said to have hurt a lot of vitality. Now seeing that the Jurchens have come to ask for help again, none of them have sent troops to reinforce them, even if they are friendly with the Jurchens, they have not dared to send a single soldier. The reason is very simple, even fools can see that the Jurchens are going to die this time, and if anyone dares to send troops to help, they are looking for death.

None of the Mongol tribes were willing to send troops, and the Ming army had already reached Jinzhou. Hauge personally led 40,000 cavalry, counting all his cavalry background, to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army. But he didn't expect that the Ming army had more cavalry than him, and Yue Su had surrendered more than 100,000 horses in the pass, and this time he basically pulled the Jurchens to come, ready to give the Jurchens a way to repay the other. Although it is explained that in the army, there are many people who are not from cavalry, only learned to ride horses for more than half a month, equestrianism and Tartar comparison, the difference is far away, but there are many people, the front is the Guanning iron cavalry, the back is the cavalry of Jizhen, Xuanfu, Datong, and the rear is the novice cavalry.

Haoge is a reckless man, marching and fighting, and his wisdom is far behind, although Fan Wencheng is more cunning, Yue Su and Hong Chengchou, who are in charge of the army, are not fools, and the army is a battalion step by step, and it doesn't give you any chance at all. Fan Wencheng was helpless, and finally gave Haoge a way to retreat to Changbai Mountain, give up his territory, and go to the mountains to deal with the Ming army. It's a pity that Hauge didn't listen, so he had to fight, and after the first battle, his family basically lost everything.

Immediately afterwards, Yue Su waved his troops to take Jinzhou lightly, Mao Wenlong led the water division to capture Liaoyang, and the army continued to the east and went straight to Shengjing. The Tatars had lost their ability to resist, and many people began to change their minds, the Jurchens ran to Changbai Mountain, and the Mongols fled to Mongolia. The traitors of the Han army banner secretly communicated with the Ming army, hoping that the Ming army would accept their surrender.

Lord Yue can be said to be a person who does not refuse to come, when he replies to them. You were also forced to surrender to the Tartars at the beginning, and now it's time to go home, as long as you are willing to surrender, the court is not to blame for the past, and what official position did you have in the Ming army before, and what official position will you be given after you come back. And that's not all. The court also gave you the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, a Tartar's head, equivalent to ten silver dollars, the more you kill. The more you give, the more you will be treated. If you can get the heads of some princes and Baylor, the reward will be even thicker, and those who are captured alive will be richer.

The traitors were able to surrender the Tartars. This means that one day they will surrender to others. Since the court has said that the past is not to blame, then what are we waiting for, just surrender. Although it is said that Lord Yue once broke the trust of Huang Taiji at the beginning, we are Han people. It's not the same as the Tartars, anyway. There is a way to survive if you surrender, you can't die with a tartar.

As a result, there were countless traitors who surrendered after hearing the news, and the Jurchens completely collapsed, and outside Shengjing City, Haoge and Dai Shan led the army to a suicidal decisive battle, and finally died in the chaos. Many of the female dependents of the Jurchens were killed by their own men, as if the wives of Huang Taiji such as Bumu Butai and Zhezhe had all been killed before Haoge went out of the city for a decisive battle. and the Han slaves in the city were also killed, and the most unlucky was Fan Wencheng, who was also killed by Haoge and asked him to go down to bury his Lao Tzu. When the city was broken, how miserable the city was, there is no need to go into detail, it can be described as ten rooms and nine emptiness.

After half a year of killing, the Jurchens were basically not seen in the Liaodong area. In the deep mountains and old forests, there can be some survivors.

For the traitors who surrendered, Lord Yue really kept his word this time, and did not kill them all after they surrendered like he did with the Tartars. Some people say that traitors are the most hateful, why didn't Lord Yue kill them, it was really because he deceived the Tartars last time, if he broke his promise again this time and became fat, then how could he be mixed up with Yue Shoufu in the future, this reputation for unreliable speech is not something that anyone can bear.

Moreover, most of the traitors, in fact, are helpless to join the enemy, if they were not caught by the Tartars at the beginning, how could they defect to the enemy. Just like Fan Wencheng, he became a traitor because he was coerced by the Tartars. Many soldiers of the Han Army Banner were forced to surrender to the Tartars because they were plundered back to Liaodong by the Tartars when they entered the customs. The real traitors, such as Tong Yangzhengmen, as well as Li Yongfang and Sun Degong, really did not surrender, and they all died with the Tartars. It's really because they don't have the face to surrender, thinking that after surrendering, they will die even worse. Therefore, the sins of the rest that can be surrendered are not too great.

If you don't accept the surrender, those Han people will not wait for death, they will either join forces with the Tartars and resist to the end, or they will run away and become bandits in the future. These two roads, no matter how they choose, are not good for the Ming Dynasty, either causing more casualties to the Ming army, or affecting the future law and order. Absorb it, if you don't have an official position, give you land, continue to be a common man, and if you have an official position, you will be investigated again, the sin is light, and you were forced to surrender to the enemy at the beginning, for example, you were defeated and captured, and such an official is still reinstated, and it is really written off. If you say that you were bought by the Tartars to join the enemy at the beginning, you will not be disposed of at that time, but you will be transferred to Beijing, given an equivalent official position, put under house arrest, and if you find a stubble in the future, you will be killed.

Liaodong was recovered, and after Yue Su's division returned to Beijing, he had to transfer his troops and horses to Japan to help Wu Sinan solve the Japanese war situation.

Ladies and gentlemen, I didn't update yesterday, I'm really sorry everyone. Because of the stiff neck, even the arms are a little difficult to use, and the neck has not been turned over so far, and I barely wrote a chapter this morning. Fortunately, there is not much content left, and this weekend will almost be finished. Thank you for your continued support to Tsubasa, and I hope that Tsubasa's next book will continue to support Tsubasa. Thank you. (To be continued...... wW