263.Raiders (Part II)
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In the history of Chinese warfare, a battle of 1,000 men was just an appetizer before an ordinary battle, and sometimes it was not even an outpost battle, but in Japan at that time, it was a serious "joint battle". (Like this book, please collect biquge.info) It is precisely considering that this is a far-reaching foreign-related war, and it is also considering that the few capitals of the Matsumae Domain are basically here, so the crusade team is extremely cautious about this battle, but the samurai of the Matsumae Domain, who were led by the nose by the merchants, did not seem to have thought that if this war with the Ming and Zheng sides was lost, it would certainly have a great impact on the efforts of the Matsumae Domain, but if it was won by luck, That was the beginning of an even bigger trouble.
At the beginning of the battle, the Shinida overseer, who was in full swing, set up a front arrow formation that was convenient for attacking, with the samurai directly under the domain as arrows, and the ronin provided by the Ryohama group and the Ainu soldiers from Higashi-Ezo and other places as the two wings of the guard, so as to break through the battle line of the Zheng army in one go.
On the first day of the seventh month of the 45th year of the Yongli calendar, at the end of the Chen period, the Matsumae Domain's formation was formed behind the Fa Luo, and the Shinita Supervisor, who was wearing a feather weaving, ordered a full-scale attack on the Zheng army. Under the captain's order, the Matsumae Domain, who was holding three and a half spears, slowly pressed towards the Zheng army in a group battle under the cover of the archers and iron cannons, perhaps in their eyes, the Zheng army's thin front and short spears could not stop their attack at all.
If the ashigaru of the Matsumae Domain can still follow the same pace, then the ronin and Ainu warriors distributed on both wings are absolutely chaotic. At this time, seeing that Zheng Jun's array was relatively thin, he thought that he had a chance to win, so he went faster and faster in the frenzy, not only did the formation loosen but soon surpassed the array of the Matsumae Domain, forming a sudden front wedge; And contrary to the behavior of the ronin is the Ainu warriors from East Ezo and other places, these people are either forced by the power of the Matsumae Domain or because of the feud with the Ainu people of West Ezo, so they participated in this "big war", when fighting the Ainu of the same race, these different tribes of Ainu warriors have no pressure, but to say that in the face of the unfamiliar Zheng army, they can not be fast in their own understanding of Mingzhe's self-protection, so they gradually fell to the rear, so at the beginning of the war, the sharp arrow array laid out by the Shinida supervisor was less than half the way, Morphs into an irregular diagonal array.
Just as the army of the Matsumae family gradually began to accelerate in the march, three loud noises suddenly came from the queue of the Zheng army on the opposite side, and before these far-north earth leopards could understand what they had encountered, three hot lead bullets cut through the barrier of space and fell into the formation.
Shinida had asked the main infantry to make a strong surprise attack when arranging the front and arrow formations, so in order to achieve this goal, the Matsuzen people formed quite a tight formation, and as a result, they fell into bad luck under the shelling. The falling projectiles set off a bloody storm, and a few ashigaru or even confused were killed by the shells, and when the smoke of gunpowder on the opposite side cleared, the Matsumae clan soldiers who came back to their senses found that many more companions with broken limbs were rolling and screaming
The thunderous bombardment not only caused many casualties among the soldiers of the Matsumae Domain, but also made the high-ranking samurai on horseback unable to control their horses.
At this time, the fallen East Ezo Ainu people had already crawled down in horror, in their eyes this was the roar of the gods, and their fellow clan, the West Ezo Ainu people in the Zheng army's array, were no better, and they worshiped in the direction of the artillery one by one.
Although the ronins who had become salient had also seen the changes on the battlefield, they could no longer restrain themselves, so they simply used their roars to dispel their fears, while spreading their legs and rushing forward, trying to rush into the Zheng army's formation to avoid this terrifying killing weapon.
Zheng Jun's artillery corps, regardless of how the three teams of the Matsumae clan reacted, continued to shoot at a frequency they were familiar with, one shot after another, scattering more casualties on the heads of the Matsumae people. After two rounds of firing, the distance of the ronins who rushed forward was already very close, looking at the somewhat turbulent formation of their own formation, and the faces of the ronins who were deformed by fear and yelling, the gun team leader grinned, and then ordered each cannon to replace with shorter but more powerful shotguns. The oblique shotguns stormed the line-up of ronin, and only half of the deranged ronins escaped the hell of the metal storm.
When the artillery fire was once again transferred to the main team of the Matsumae Domain, the morale-boosting left-wing captives and laborers, led by Commander Zheng, rushed forward at the already stumbling ronin with rudimentary spears in hand. Although the ronin, who lost their will to fight in the shelling and lost their strength in the running, fanatically brandished the knives, ribs, and spears in their hands, but in front of the spears stabbed out in unison, their fighting was just a joke, and they all fell in a pool of blood.
At this moment, the Matsumae feudal army, which had been continuously bombarded, also began to show signs of collapse, and some samurai on horseback even chose to flee backwards as soon as they managed to restrain their horses. In view of this state, Liu Wenlai immediately drove the whole army to press up, completely shaking the will of the Matsuzen Domain to resist.
The next thing was the pursuit, and the Matsumae samurai, who had been confident before the battle, spread their legs and ran south, and the small packs in charge of transportation left their taiko drums, fingers, horse marks, dry food, and gunpowder, and the ashigaru abandoned their guns, and the relatively valuable iron cannons were also abandoned on the roadside.
Since the Zheng army had no horses, it was not easy to pursue, but many miscellaneous servants ran to the wrong place in a daze, and as a result, they ran headlong into the former Qing army that was gearing up, which soon became the military merit of these people. As for the brave warriors who shouted "I am Mo Moumou", they were also overwhelmed by the crowd.
The master of the people fled, but the Ainu people from East Ezo thought that this was a curse, and one by one they still knelt there and did not dare to escape, allowing the armed laborers and fellow people of West Ezo to stab themselves to the ground one by one. Fortunately, Liu Wenlai felt that he could not let the labor team cheat the military merits in such a way, so he sent people to stop it in time, and the unilateral killing ended here, and this is the case, and the one hundred and fifty Ainu soldiers have lost more than one-third.
The two of the first two of them ran five miles in one breath (note: one mile is equal to 4 kilometers) before they gathered the team, and at this time, the once mighty "500 army" was left with less than 200 people at this moment, including the bow between the seat Oyster Igo Akiyama, the guard Akiyama Kakutaro, the guard Takahashi Tsushima Mamoru and the fire team Kuemoto Kiyozo, including the famous samurai in the domain were either killed or disappeared in the Zheng army's shelling.
"Songjing-kun, the old man has lived up to the trust of the feudal lord and the trust of Lord Jingyasu." In order to avoid being held accountable, the supervisor of Araida had to resort to the final move. "I really don't have the shame to go back and report the defeat, and I ask the adults to make mistakes for me later." Matsujing's heart was relieved, and Shinida took the main responsibility, and he could escape as a deputy, so he just bowed his head deeply. "If the feudal lord wants to send troops again, please make sure that the left horse leader will do his best to stop it." Seeing that Songjing was not persuasive, Arai Tian sighed a little disappointed, but the words had already been spoken, and it was impossible to take them back, so he had to explain. "The strength of the Zheng army is not something that the Shogunate can match, unless, unless the shogunate sends troops?"
Matsujing 1510, who returned to Matsumae Castle with Araida's corpse, reported the process of the battle and Araida's last words, but Araida's judgment was wrong, and the bigwigs of the feudal clan who learned of the defeat did not even dare to report the true information to Edo, to put it bluntly, they were not afraid of the Zheng army as a visitor from a foreign land, but the Tokugawa shogunate was willing to take this opportunity to put his hand on Ezo, and the shadow of the Ezo had been hanging over the heads of the bigwigs, so even if they needed to pinch their noses and swallow the bitter fruit of defeat, they also admitted it.
Since they had admitted defeat, they naturally would not send any more troops, but in order to restore the economy of Ezo and ensure the income of the Matsumae Domain in the coming year, the Matsumae family had to take the initiative to send people to the Ishikari River to sue for peace with Zheng Jun and propose to restore the distribution of forces before the war.
Faced with the mention of the Matsumae Domain, Ma Yuan invited Liu Wenlai to discuss together: "What does Lan Qing think of the peace of the Matsumae Domain?" ”
"Speaking of which, the Matsumae Domain has been defeated by us, and its current forces are simply not enough to fight against this domain." Liu Wenlai touched the new stubble growing on his chin, and analyzed it calmly. "It's just that if we press too hard, will they lure the shogunate army out, and it will be easy to capture the whole island, but it will be difficult to hold the whole island, not to mention whether we have so many troops to station, the Japanese can still send troops to the island through the Tsugaru Strait, and at that time, we will be exhausted."
"Lan Qing is right," Ma Yuan nodded. "Now we are guests, we can leave if we want, once we are anti-guest, we will be deeply encircled, besides, the most famous thing in Ezo is the catch, but this ocean is thousands of miles away when we transport the catch back to Dongning, it will already stink, so there is no need to compete with the Matsumae Domain for the whole island."
"But it can't be too cheap for the Matsumae Domain," Liu Wenlai thought for a moment. "Since you dare to raise troops to commit, you must not be taught a lesson." Liu Wenlai said. "The Ishikari River, the Tenshio River, and the Kitami region are not allowed to set foot in the Matsumae Domain, and don't Brother Konpei think that Ezo is more suitable for grazing war horses than Jeju? We should also ask the Matsumae clan and the Ainu people not to hunt horses."
The Zheng army's demands were not strict, and the requested territory itself was an area that the Matsumae Domain could not set foot in, so the two sides quickly reached an agreement, so that the Zheng army not only ensured the northwest of Ezo Island, but also blocked the Japanese from shooting at the Kugu region, and also established commercial ties with the northeastern region of Honshu through the Matsumae Domain.
However, the matter on this side was covered up, but the gourd was pressed and the scoop was raised, and in the distant southern country, in order to compete for the Ryukyus, the Satsuma clan had friction with the Ming Zheng side
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