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In the middle of June of the 45th year of the Emori era, under the pressure of the Ryohama group, the Matsumae clan sent a raid team to the Nishi-Ezo clan with the Shinida supervisor as the captain, Matsujing Zumashi as the leader, and Matsumae Heita as the supervisor. (To read the latest chapters of this book, please visit the biquge.info of Wèn Aishang Novel Network)

The entire expedition team included 264 apprentices and doctors, and also 72 miscellaneous servants, including military servants, pyrotechnics, emergency workers, interpreters, armor craftsmen, archers, gunpowder makers, carpenters, captains, boats, flag bearers, taiko drummers, pyrotechnic teams, men, and grooms, and the two hama groups also provided an additional 51 ronin armed forces and 47 armed miscellaneous servants, with a total of 434 men, armed with 60 iron cannons, 20 heavy wisteria bows and maruki bows, 270 guns, 56 swords, and 17 carcass, 20 horses, and 2 ships.

Of course, in addition to the above-mentioned Japanese, the Matsumae clan also gathered warriors from the Higashi-Ezo and the Ainu tribes of Kunashir and the islands, and managed to gather 150 men. Armed with simple hunting knives and bows, these Ainu warriors were more powerful than nothing, but they were very powerful together.

In the face of such a "powerful" opponent, the Ezo Ainu tribes, which usually have twenty or thirty men in the prime of life, are simply unable to fight, and a considerable number of tribes are forced to abandon the areas where they have lived for generations and migrate to the north, and of course, some tribes have taken refuge under the Zheng army.

"The actions of the Matsumae clan are clearly aimed at the main domain." Although Ma Yuan was not good at military strategy, his experience in the boy boy camp made it easy for him to understand what the Japanese were having. "Now that the first gunboat in the dockyard is being built, the supply of timber cannot be stopped at this time."

"But the patrol gunboats of the Northern Fleet have just left, and it will take a month for the next batch to arrive, plus the first and fourth outposts have been bitter with Cao's control to the north, and the second outpost and the Tie Soldier outpost have gone to Wokuowei with the commander of the Ma Sen, and the newly built fifth outpost, the sixth outpost and the Xie deputy commander are still staying in Seogwipo for training, so it is not easy to hold the Ishikari River Fort and the shipyard with the third outpost and the artillery outpost at the moment, and then pull out the field battle with the Matsumae Domain?" Liu Wenlai, the supervising officer of the first regiment of the Hailongxiang Division, who was from the same period as Ma Yuan, complained directly to his old classmates who were his bosses. "If something goes wrong, then you can't make up for it."

Ma Yuan also nodded frequently at first, but when he heard that his eyes suddenly lit up at the end, he immediately hurriedly reminded Liu Wenlai: "Isn't there more than a thousand Qing army prisoners released in the Governor's Mansion?" ”

"Brother Jinping, do you want to use the Qing army to capture and defend the city? This is not possible. Liu Wenlai immediately shook his head. Don't look at them now, they must not have forgotten the misery of being a mining slave in Tamsui, and if you give them weapons at this time, won't you encourage them to take revenge. "For this kind of behavior of rejecting wolves at the front door and welcoming the tiger at the back door, Liu Wenlai obviously resolutely disagrees, but he also dares to say it too bluntly, so he reminded him tactfully." I'm afraid I'll come back after I leave the city and see a mess. ”

"I also know that it is impossible to let these people defend the city." But Ma Yuan still didn't give up, he changed the channel. "Is it possible to take them to attack, I mean, one infantry team and one artillery team each in Ishikari Kawa Fort and Bunba are enough to garrison, as for the remaining men and horses to face the Matsumae Domain, although the number is a little insufficient, it is not impossible to suppress the formation as a prison army."

"Use one infantry team as the overseer team, and another artillery team as support firepower." Liu Wenlai held his breath and thought about it. "There are only fifty people in a foot team, and even if you use the loop shooting method to control the situation, you can't suppress too many teams, three hundred, no, at most four hundred." Liu Wenlai calculated. "But how to solve the weapons of these people, the ugly words are in front, and the firearms are not in the imagination."

Liu Wen is right, these released former Qing troops in the Ezo Governor's Mansion are stored as laborers and farmers, and they have no intention of letting them re-wear the battle in advance, so the armor of Yiying is not prepared, but this is not difficult for Ma Yuan: "There are some iron parts in the shipyard, which were originally used to make iron nails and reinforcing connectors, and now it is too late for blacksmiths to cast swords, but it is enough to shoot the head of the spear."

Unable to resist the repeated requests and orders of Ma Yuan, who was the governor, Liu Wenlai was forced to select 400 people from the labor force for a short exercise, fortunately, these people were all once soldiers, and after two or three days of training, the skills of the year gradually recovered, which made Liu Wenlai, who was suffering from insufficient troops, secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

Some people will say why they should contribute to the Ming Dynasty, "but the soldiers are available, but they can't be used with confidence, so Ma Yuan deliberately mobilized before the war." "There are two reasons, first, the Japanese have always been very brutal, in Jiangnan and North Korea, it was a lot of killings, if they really controlled this land, do you think they will let you go? No, it's impossible. Once defeated, the Governor's Mansion will not even have enough capacity to evacuate the craftsmen and equipment, so naturally the only way to leave you all to the Japanese will be disposed of, and when the time comes, it will be called lucky to cut off your heads, and if you fall into the hands of the Japanese alive," Ma Yuan smiled coldly. "As far as this official knows, the ordinary peasants under the rule of the Wako can only satisfy their hunger with turnips every day, and they can only eat two meals a day, and as for the lives of the slaves who wait for them, you can guess for yourself." What these released Qing prisoners were most afraid of was nothing more than the days they had in the mines, so when they heard that the fate of becoming a Japanese slave was worse than serving in the mines, their originally weak bodies were all the same. "Second, as long as the Japanese are defeated, the Pontus will naturally be rewarded. What to enjoy? It's impossible to let you go back to your hometown, and it's useless for you to have gold, silver, pearls and jade, so what's the reward, woman, that's right, give you a mother-in-law to let you pass on the ancestry. ”

Originally, it was Zheng Kezang's charter that Zheng Kezhang had already set for the labor wives who were converted into prisoners, but now Zheng Jun's main thoughts had just been withdrawn from the mainland battlefield, and he had not had time to take into account the physiological needs of the former captives, so Ma Yuan took advantage of the situation to say this, which immediately caused surprise to the people below.

"And who gets a woman?" Ma Yuan continued. "Naturally, it is the one who cuts off the heads of the most Japanese invaders, the one who cuts down the Japanese generals, and the one who captures the Japanese military flag." Ma Yuan reported a few words. "This official has already sent a letter to Governor Anlong of the Seogwipo Governor's Mansion, asking him to prepare thirty Korean girls, if you want it, you will naturally get it quickly."

Liu Wenlai took the opportunity to reorganize the troops and horses, and assigned 400 men to the regimental commanders and the deputy sentinels and supervisors of the two outposts of the infantry and artillery under the command of the commanders, and under the five commanders, 20 commanders and 80 commanders were temporarily set up, and the command system was initially constructed.

However, before Liu Wenlai could send troops, the convoy directly belonging to the Governor's Office met the ships of the Matsumae Domain in the waters off Okujiri Island. Sekifune claims to be the fastest of all kinds of ships in Japan, but neither the size nor the speed of the ship can compare with the Thousand Tori ships equipped by Zheng Jun. Therefore, although the Matsumae Domain had a large number of sailors and took advantage of the direction of the wind to take the lead in attacking the Zheng army, it did not cause any damage to the Zheng army's large bird boats.

After avoiding the Japanese attempt to ram and board the ship, Captain He Zhichao immediately ordered the bombardment of the Matsumae Domain with the only bow cannon. Artillery is called a large barrel in Japan, and only a few powerful daimyo had equipment during the Warring States period, and after entering the Tokugawa shogunate period, only the shogunate army was equipped with it.

However, the artillery equipped with Ho Zhichao was only a three-inch (6-pound) caliber, and it could only hit one or two times out of ten shells, so although the sailors of the Matsuzen Domain screamed, it seemed that it could not cause more damage to the ship on which it was riding for a while. Seeing that the war situation was about to stalemate, but at this time, the backwardness of Japanese shipbuilding technology became apparent. After holding out under the fire of the Zheng army for a long time, the tenon of the seki ship connecting the ship of the Matsumae domain was deformed by the vibration, and as a result, the hull began to seep water.

The sailors of the Matsumae Domain ran aground on the beach of Okushiri Island in a panic, and when they saw the strange movements of their opponents, they repeatedly bombarded them with artillery after suspecting that they were deceitful, and after dispersing the sailors on the boat, they sent someone to board the ship in a small boat, and then discovered the reason. The elated He Zhichao plundered all the military supplies such as the sword, three guns, rice, and flags on the ship, and then set a fire to the ship. The sailors of the Matsumae clan were forced to languish on a desert island for more than two months, and were finally rescued by a search fleet before the snowfall, but this is a story for another time.

Since the battle had already taken place on the water, Liu Wenlai no longer hesitated, and on June 30, he led a mixed Zheng army of more than 400 and 56 "warriors" from the West Ezo tribe all the way south, and met the raiding party of the Matsumae clan at the Toyohira River, a tributary of the Ishikari River.

Since it was a national war, the two sides, both of whom had exceeded their respective powers, naturally could not start fighting immediately after meeting, so the envoys went back and forth to fight for the commanding heights of public opinion for their own side. The Matsumae clan said that the West Ezo land was the land of Japan, and asked Zheng Jun to leave; Zheng Jun said that the people of West Ezo are the Yi tribe that we protect, and asked the Matsumae clan to go back. Matsumae said that I have the central documents of the two generations of Hashiba and Tokugawa as evidence; Zheng Jun said that I have the certificate of being a minister and paying tribute in the land of West Ezo. Unable to convince each other, the Matsumae clan finally couldn't bear it anymore in view of the loss of food, and the leader of the expedition team, the supervisor of Shinida, issued an ultimatum to Zheng Jun, demanding that Zheng Jun withdraw from West Ezo within three days.

"Go back and tell the Arai leader," Liu Wenlai said in a deliberately arrogant tone, sweeping the Japanese who had come to deliver the war letters. "If he wants to fight, he will fight, and don't talk nonsense." Liu Wenlai signed his name on the war letter sent by the Japanese. "Tomorrow at noon, let's talk with a knife and a gun"

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