Chapter 487: Sagami's Death March

After Yokohama was taken, it was used as a place for the seriously wounded to be cared for, and all the more than 10,000 captives marched south to Kamakura under the custody of the garrison, and the small town of Yokohama was destined to not let go of so many prisoners. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Even if they could put it down, the problem of food could not be solved, and how many soldiers were asked to take care of the grain and transport it to Yokohama was simply leaking the door to the shogunate army and the daimyo from all over the country, so that they would come and cut off the grain route.

Therefore, putting the 11,000 shogunate standing reserves under the supervision of the Kamakura defenders and sailors was the right way to go into battle.

These captures are not to be missed, there are six or seven hundred samurai here, including the old Ii Naotakaka, and at the same time, except for the three thousand miscellaneous troops, the others are all standing in the shogunate, and they are a good bargaining chip for negotiations in the future, and they must not be given up.

It's just that you have to endure a few days of delays, and it's worth it.

Guan Ming, who was in charge of leading the 3,000 reserve troops to escort the prisoners of war back to Kamakura, of course knew the urgency of time, and when he left, Lord Zhao repeatedly explained to him that after putting down the prisoners of war, he would hurry back immediately.

The reserve army has war horses, and all have horses, of course, unlike cavalry and soldiers, only a small part of their war horses are Shidao horses, and most of the others are Mongolian horses, but the mobility ability is also extraordinary, especially the Mongolian horse's long-distance marching endurance is better than that of Shidao horses.

But all the prisoners of war were on foot, which was the most delayed, and at the same time, of course, they would not be reluctant to march, which would make it good to walk a few dozen miles in two days.

But all this was difficult for Lord Guan Mingguan, and he ordered that if he could not walk thirty miles in one day, he would be killed immediately.

When the march began, he sent a large force of troops to watch on both sides of the march. If someone can't keep up with the march. Kill immediately. Or dragged to death by a war horse.

Maybe in the eyes of many army generals and soldiers, it is a little cruel, who let his grandfather and uncle are damaged in North Korea, Guan Ming's father's youngest son was only two years old, Guan Ming's father grew up eating hundreds of family meals, and the only son of the Guan family finally became a Ding and spread his branches, but every time he talked about his childhood, Guan Ming's father couldn't help but cry. It's hard to look back on.

Now the retribution is not happy, the Japanese people actually fell into his hands, if it weren't for Lord Zhao's great use, not to mention these Japanese people, even if there were tens of thousands more, Guan Ming could also use various ways to play them to death, in order to relieve the bitter hatred in his heart.

A widow may have been wounded and gradually fell behind, and he was lame on one leg, but he walked with difficulty. Because he knows that if he falls behind, he is a dead end.

Wang Zheng looked at the team and led the team at a hundred steps behind the right. He looked at the man who was still struggling, but was already twenty or thirty paces behind the team in front of him.

He motioned to the guard, making a drag gesture with his hand.

The two guards immediately urged the horses to come up, and after remembering the sound of horses' hooves, the widow looked at the Ming cavalry chasing behind him in panic, and he tried to trot forward with all his strength in panic, and the posture of limping was pitiful and funny, and he kept turning his head and swaying the poor little short legs.

When it was close to ten paces away, one of the guards quickly threw out a rope noose, and immediately lassoed the widow, and when he retracted it with great force, the rope was immediately tightened, and the widow, who was running hard, suddenly lost his balance and fell to the ground.

The guard shouted loudly, the horses sped forward, and the Japanese on the ground were dragged on the ground like a rag sack, jolting and crying, and the shrill sound was heard far away.

The guard dragged the howling widow forward, his body bouncing on the frozen ground, his clothes quickly worn out, and his flesh and blood leaving terrible marks on the official road.

Naotaka Ii and Toshikatsu Doi, who were walking on donkeys in the middle of the team, looked at the tragedy in front of them with distorted faces, but what could they do, even they were riding donkeys to hurry.

This is still seeing that they are old, Guan Ming ordered them to find out, as for why they didn't give them war horses, it was because these two shogunate elders were strange goods, and they couldn't give them war horses, in case they ran away at night, the donkey was different, how far could they run. 、

As a result, the two feudal lords and the old man could only walk on a donkey, and they could not complain, because the old man Hotta Masamori, who was much younger than them, was now walking behind them on his tired legs.

The two were also humiliated ruthlessly, the two didn't think about committing suicide by cutting their stomachs, but if they died like this, it would be useless, and they lost the opportunity to clear their names in the future, and they endured humiliation in order to continue their family name, if they returned to the shogunate and waited until the time to quell the rebellion and then make new contributions, they believed that today's humiliation would be dissipated in one day.

As for whether there would be such an opportunity, they thought it was extremely likely, and if the Ming army defeated the reinforcements of the daimyo from all over the country again, then the opportunity would come.

However, the premise is that the Ming army will win, which is simply speechless sadness, they actually hope that the Ming army will win.

Today, I saw the bloody scene of Ashigaru being dragged away, and their faces changed, but in the end they decided to endure it, after all, they stepped forward to stop it, and the Ming army would not stop, they were just taking their own humiliation.

Then they saw torture such as beheading, dragging, and whipping one after another, with one purpose, to increase the speed of the march.

Under such high-pressure means, the speed of the march was raised, but it took more than half a day to walk more than 20 miles, you must know that these prisoners of war have been half-starved since they were captured, very simply, that is, they are unable to escape, and even more so during the march, if they are full of food and drink, what to do if they get into the woodland on the side of the road.

Therefore, it is obviously not easy to have the speed that we have now, and of course, it is also the more than 200 Japanese who were bloodily slaughtered along the way that shocked the other living Japanese and forced them to fight for their lives.

By the time it was dark to rest, they had already driven more than 30 miles, and it was impossible to hurry at this time, because the chaotic footsteps of the large group of men and horses at night would hide the sound of the small group of men and horses escaping, so the prisoners of war were gathered together at night to be guarded.

In this way, by noon the next day, they had completed the journey of fifty miles, and there were more than 500 fewer people in the ranks of the Japanese people, which was later called the Sagami's death march as one of the evidence against the atrocities of the Han Chinese.

However, the Han people never acknowledged the existence of this death march, and there is no evidence of this era, only sporadic records in the official history, which is one of the topics of constant quarrels between the two sides.

Anyway, since the Han people landed in Kamakura in the 11th year of Kanei, they have continued to oppress the Japanese for hundreds of years, which is the source of the nightmare of the Japanese people, so the cry of the Japanese people is still quite marketable in the world in later generations, but unfortunately there is not much evidence left, it is all oral transmission or sporadic records in the history of the Japanese people.

The reason for this is simple: for hundreds of years, the Japanese rulers were oppressed by the Han Chinese, and all the books that recorded this information were burned, and the people were exiled or executed.

Therefore, too few books have survived, and in modern times, with the awakening of national consciousness, the Japanese people began to consciously search for evidence of various crimes committed by the Han people in the country, but unfortunately almost nothing.

This is also the aid of the quarrel between the two sides, of course, not only the death march, but also other major events during this period, such as a large number of women were taken away by the Han army, a large number of villages were looted by the Han people, money and grain were robbed, houses were burned, and many people died of hunger and cold, which was a rare atrocity in the history of the Japanese people.

But what about the evidence, so that what has plagued relations between the two countries for thousands of years seems to show no sign of stopping.

On the border of Shimono Country, Nan Yong watched as the larger village was slowly engulfed in flames, and many Japanese people cried as they watched their homes being engulfed in flames.

Many of them looked at the Ming cavalry viciously, how deep the sea was, how deep the hatred was.

Nan Yong and dozens of guards were calm in the hateful gaze of hundreds of Japanese people, and when all the soldiers returned to their positions, he took a look, and now there were more than 2,000 horses in the thousand teams, and the extra 1,000 Japanese horses were carrying a large amount of silver.

This is the Kusu Yongqian Brigade starting from Ueno through Echizen Echigo, Mino, Owari and then returning to Shimono Province, which is a harvest along the way.

These days, hundreds of villages have been burned and looted by them, leaving behind a large number of hungry people waiting to be shopped, and a bitter hatred for the Ming people.

At this time, Nan Yong had already been told that the shogun had already passed on the daimyo, and the daimyo from all over the country also knew that their scurrying cavalry was gathering troops to strangle them, so it was necessary to retreat, and they had lost the suddenness of the blow.

All the soldiers returned from the village, and they brought back dozens of horses, which were filled with sacks of harvest.

Nan Yong whispered a few words to a Bai Zong, and Bai Zheng bowed down to receive the order.

The brigade marched towards Sagami under the orders of Nan Yong, and the last hundred teams left behind suddenly opened fire when they left, slaughtering hundreds of Japanese people before chasing the brigade.

The descendants of the Liao people experienced the disintegration of Liaodong and the enslavement of Jiannu, and some people in their families were tragically tortured and starved to death, they have their own definition of death, in their opinion, as long as Lord Zhao orders them, they will carry it out, as for whether it is bloody or not, can there be any bloodiness they experienced, as long as it is conducive to the life of their families in Beihua and Jeju.

In the words of Lord Zhao, the Japanese threaten Beihua and Jeju, so it is a killing, what a big deal.

The team of more than 1,000 people from Ueno eastward passed through Aizu and Mito until they reached the Sendai Domain, turning the Northeast upside down, leaving corpses, blood and ruins everywhere, which was really familiar to the Jurchens and Mongolians, and they did a lot of this in the Ming Dynasty, and this time it was just a copy of the Japanese people.

At this time, they also began to turn back under the leadership of Jiaxin, and the harvest was big enough, and according to Lord Han Jian's orders, it was time to return to Sagami and join the army. (To be continued.) )

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