Tokugawa Ieki was the younger brother of the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu and the general of the expedition.

It turned out that when Dolgon's army defeated Guangluyuan, Hong Chengchou was already keenly aware that after this battle, the Jurchens had no possibility of defeating the Tuanshan army.

This is also a very obvious thing, even the most capable Dolgon can't win, and the most elite white swing soldiers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty are still defeated, and the Jurchens' set of mounted archery and foot combat cliffs are unreliable.

After coming to Korea, Hong Chengchou suddenly remembered the past of Wanli - the Wa Kingdom has always been obsessed with Korea, and they do have a strong military force.

During the Wanli period, there were famous generals like Li Rusong in Liaodong, if it was changed to the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was not certain who would win and who would lose the war between the Japanese and the Ming Dynasty.

Now that the Manchu army alone is obviously unable to defeat the Tuanshan army in Korea, why not pull the Wa State into the water?

Hong Chengchou immediately found the Zheng family to match up with Tokugawa Iemitsu, the shogun of the Wa Kingdom. It has to be mentioned here that during the period after Wanli at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Japan was actually very peaceful in the country - this is also the so-called "Warring States Period" in Japan.

In fact, one of the most important reasons why Toyotomi Hideyoshi went on an expedition to Korea and even coveted the Ming Dynasty was not that he was full, but because the problem of "reward" gave him a headache.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who almost dominated the world during the Warring States Period, naturally had a group of brave samurai under his command to work for him. The battle was won, but Toyotomi Hideyoshi sadly discovered that there was no fief in Japan to reward these meritorious samurai.

What can I do? People pin their heads to the waistband of their trousers and follow you to sweep the world, and in the end they don't seal a "city lord" and "country lord", this Nima is the rhythm of rebellion every minute!

So Toyotomi Hideyoshi had no choice but to launch a war of aggression against Korea. It was hoped that land would be acquired in Korea in order to reward the samurai who had made great achievements in war.

It's a pity that there was a famous general Li Rusong in Liaodong at that time. It is also a proper duty for the Japanese to be hanged and beaten. Later, after the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the old turtle Tokugawa Ieyasu rebelled. In one fell swoop, he took over the world and created the Tokugawa shogunate.

However, Tokugawa Ieyasu encountered the same problem as Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and did not have land to reward meritorious samurai. Now in Japan, as calm as before the volcanic eruption, all kinds of careerists and conspirators are waiting for the right time - it just so happened that Zheng Zhihu came to Japan with the Manchu national letter.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty invited the Tokugawa Shogunate to send troops to Korea, and after destroying the Tuanshan Army, they crossed the Han River and ruled it. The north of the Han River belonged to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the south of the Han River went to Japan.

In line with the attitude that more things are better than less, the shogun Tokugawa Iyoshi did not want to agree to this. However, the people below were "surging in sentiment" and kept asking Tokugawa Iemitsu to send troops to Korea.

It is said that several military generals also set themselves on fire in the streets of Edo, and adopted the drastic method of admonishing them to death. After all, Tokugawa Iemitsu was young and vigorous, not as old and cunning as his grandfather Tokugawa Ieyasu, and the temptation to open up territory was really not small, so he agreed to send troops to Korea as soon as his head was hot.

Tokugawa Iemitsu ordered his younger brother Tokugawa Ieki to be the commander-in-chief, and led an army of 70,000 with Maeda Toshitsune, the lord of the Kaga Domain, and Date Tadamune, the lord of the Sendai Domain, to attack Korea across the sea.

Tokugawa Ieki also held back his strength. I want to show my face in front of my brother Tokugawa Iemitsu once, because his own territory is only 100,000 stones, which is roughly equivalent to a county in the Ming Dynasty. If we can capture South Korea, we will have at least 30% of Japan's territory......

Tokugawa Iyoshi glanced at Ichihiro and Ishikawa Kio. He said lightly: "The 40,000 troops of Maeda Hizen and the 30,000 troops of Date Echizen have already marched towards Kaesong, and it is expected that the 70,000 army, together with the Qing army, will definitely be able to eliminate the tension of the Tuanshan army in one fell swoop." ”

Mamoru Hizen and Mamoru Echizen are official names in Japan. "Hizen" and "Echizen" are both place names, and "Shou" is exactly what the name suggests. This official position is roughly equivalent to that of so-and-so Taishou and the like. Of course, official positions in Japan are more of a rank. It doesn't mean that Mamoru Hizen is necessarily in charge of Hizen. For example, Maeda Toshitsune was the lord of the Kaga Domain, and Date Tadamune was the lord of the Sendai Domain, and neither of them had jurisdiction over Hizen and Echigo.

Japan's official position assessment is equivalent to the official system of China's Han and Tang dynasties, and it is still at the level of Taishou and Zhou Mu, at least in this era, Japan is still very backward. The advanced cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty and the administrative system of separating the military from the government in the local government could not be learned.

Honorific titles for the other party's official position are also learned from China -- the Japanese do not have a trade name, and if they are fortunate enough to obtain an official position, then they must want the other party to call their official position.

Naohiro Ii nodded, and replied solemnly: "Hai! Mamoru Hizen and Mamoru Echizen will definitely win! ”

……

Night, pitch black.

The sound of "banging" waves keeps knocking on the reef, which is a hill southeast of Wonsan Port. To the east of the hill are cliffs, and beneath the smooth cliffs lies the unfathomable depths of the sea.

It's inaccessible, and there's not even a single tree on the bare rocky cliffs – that's where birds don't poop. But there are big, jugggy rocks, all of which are good for "hide and seek" - ah, no, good for the army to hide.

Lu Xiangsheng stood in front of a large rock closest to the northwest, staring intently at Wonsan Port in the distance. Behind him, a dense crowd of regimental soldiers lurked behind the rocks, totaling more than twenty thousand!

Yes, behind almost every rock on this hill, there is a regiment of mountain soldiers.

Standing next to Lu Xiangsheng was his younger brother Lu Xiangjin, and now Lu Xiangjin is already an official position in Denglai. After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, all the centers of gravity of the Tuanshan Army were in Korea, and all the official positions and ranks, whether civilian or military, were based on the Ming system, and the tension could not be made to make changes.

Lu Xiangjin glanced at Lu Xiangsheng, who had a solemn face, and said in a low voice: "Big brother, this Yuanshan Port defense is lax, and it should not be difficult to overcome later." ”

Lu Xiangsheng turned his head, shook his head slightly, and said, "Don't be careless." Although the Japanese army has already left the city during the day, our scouts dare not get too close for fear of being exposed, so they can only probe from a distance, and the estimated number is 70,000 or 80,000, but we are not sure how many enemies there are in Wonsan Port. ”

Lu Xiangjin nodded and rubbed his temples: "Big brother has taught him a lesson." This time, Lord Chen, the commander of the regimental water division, temporarily transported us here from Tianjin Wei, and the situation is indeed urgent, so it is better for us to be cautious. ”

Lu Xiangsheng frowned, and after pondering for a long time, he said to Lu Xiangjin: "I don't know how Admiral Chen knew that the Qing army actually colluded with the Japanese - his sailor really made a great contribution this time!" (To be continued.) )