Chapter 764: Sekigahara Battle
"The Tokugawa Uchifu-sama's move is really in line with the will of the people, and it is unreasonable to be invincible, these Kansai daimyo not only boldly offended my Ming clan, but now they are disobeying the Tokugawa Uchifu-sama, which is really a crime that cannot be forgiven. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info "At this time, the envoy of the Ming Dynasty once again appeared in front of Tokugawa Ieyasu, and praised his decision to crusade against Uesugi Keikatsu, before Tokugawa Ieyasu sent troops, Emperor Goyosei gave Ieyasu 20,000 taels of gold, and 20,000 stone of rice to the army. Ieyasu Aizu shook the name of righteousness in his hands before he set out on the expedition, "On the other hand, Ishida Mitsunari and others dared to disobey the righteousness, did not respect the orders of the lord, and most of the troops under his command were defeated generals, and the Lord of Tokugawa Uchifu will definitely win a complete victory in this battle." ”
"Thank you, Messenger." In fact, Tokugawa Ieyasu's Eastern Army also had many daimyo who had participated in the invasion of Korea, such as Kuroda Nagamasa, such as Fujido Takatora and others in the original history, but now Fujido Takatora and Konishi Yukinaga died together, and the strength of the Eastern Army has also weakened, but the weakened ones are not as powerful as the Western Army.
He didn't say a word about the envoys of Kuroda Nagamasa and others, so he didn't think there was such a thing, and put forward the request of the Ming Dynasty, "Since these daimyo who invaded Korea are gathered here, it just saves Lord Chen the pain of going back and forth, so Lord Chen decided to devote all his forces to crusade against Ishida Mitsunari with Lord Tokugawa Uchifu, and bring these daimyo who had invaded Korea back to my Ming Dynasty after the war, I don't know what Lord Tokugawa Uchifu wants?" ”
Sure enough, I'm waiting here, although the sailors of the Ming Dynasty are powerful, and the famous sailors have been swept away by them in just a few months, but when it comes to landing operations, the number of people is still less after all, no wonder the envoys of the Ming Dynasty will come to visit one after another, it turns out that they will use my hands to clean up the Yuta Xixiu family, Changzong and my department Zongsheng them!
Tokugawa Ieyasu already understood the intention of the Ming Dynasty, but he was hesitant to accept the assistance of the Ming Navy, because the victory of this battle would definitely be related to the belonging of the world, and if he used the army of the Ming Kingdom, I am afraid that even if he can dominate the world in the future, it will be a little unjustifiable, and the daimyo in various places may not be convinced.
But if you don't agree, will the generals of the Ming Dynasty give up? Maybe they will turn to support the Western Army in a fit of anger, you must know that Kuroda Nagamasa, Fukushima Masanori and others under their command have also participated in the war of aggression against Korea, and it is reasonable for the Ming army to clean them up; Tokugawa Ieyasu was in a dilemma for a while.
For this decisive battle, the eastern and western armies each gathered 100,000 soldiers and horses, which can be said to have gambled almost all their net worth, and the 30,000 troops owned by the Daming Naval Division stood on that side, and that side would have a great advantage in this battle; Needless to say, the ability of this army in naval warfare, even if it was a landing operation, it was far above the Japanese army, and in the previous several landing campaigns against the Japanese daimyo, the Daming Naval Division won the final victory lightly and easily, and defeated the opponent at an extremely small price, and these things had already reached the ears of Tokugawa Ieyasu.
According to Tokugawa Ieyasu's estimates, the combat effectiveness of this army is even better than that of the Zhejiang soldiers who made a big show in Korea and beat the Japanese army in disarray, and any side of the eastern and western armies wants to resist these 30,000 troops, at least double the strength, and it can almost be said that the Ming War is on that side, and that side will win the final victory.
This chip is so important that it is better to stay with yourself than to let them go to Ishida Mitsunari; After a difficult choice, Tokugawa Ieyasu finally agreed to the envoy's request, and took the initiative to undertake the supply of military rations for this army, promising that after the victory of this battle, Utakihide, Chosamune and Ibu Somori and others would be handed over to the Ming Dynasty, and they were ordered to pay military indemnity to the Ming Dynasty, which had compensated the Ming for its losses in the Korean War.
But Tokugawa Ieyasu was not completely defenseless, he found many excuses to persuade the envoy not to put all 30,000 troops into this battle, 10,000 troops to participate in the battle is enough, he believes that this force is still within his control, even if the Ming army makes any noise on the battlefield, he can completely deal with it.
The envoy seemed to have guessed in advance that Tokugawa Ieyasu would respond like this, and immediately agreed with a smile, but not all of them followed Tokugawa Ieyasu's idea, "General Chen will lead 10,000 Ming soldiers to participate in this battle, but in addition, there are tens of thousands of Japanese samurai who are traveling with us, and many daimyo such as the Zong family and the Kato family have already expressed their submission to my Daming, and they are all willing to help Daming punish those daimyo who have invaded Korea, presumably Lord Tokugawa will not refuse them to join the war, right?" ”
If the Zong family and the Kato family hadn't encountered these Ming troops, they might have joined Ishida Mitsunari's army, right? From this point of view, the arrival of the Ming army is also a good thing; Tokugawa Ieyasu really couldn't find a reason to refuse such a request, and he didn't care much about the combat effectiveness of the clan and Kato clans, so he immediately agreed to the envoy's request.
"In that case, then it is certain that General Chen will lead the fleet to the port of the Tokugawa family later, and lead an army of 10,000 and the men and horses of the Soe family and the Kato family to land, and deal with Ishida Mitsunari's army after the round with the army of Lord Tokugawa Uchifu." The messenger who had achieved his goal went away happily, and Tokugawa Ieyasu began to revise his battle plan, and with the help of such an army, the next battle would be much easier, right?
"My lord, your noble status, how can you rashly go deep into the enemy territory? Why don't you let the last general go on the expedition instead of you? Chen Silkworm persuaded after learning the news.
"I don't think Tokugawa Ieyasu will dare to anger my Daming." Li You didn't care, leaving 20,000 troops weakened his own strength, but from another point of view, it also retained the threat of the Ming Naval Division, if Tokugawa Ieyasu had bad intentions, he would suffer the punishment of this huge fleet, and Li You didn't think that Chen Silkworm could command the Zheng family's army.
Chen Silkworm, whose persuasion was ineffective, had no choice but to stay on the ship with a large battalion, but he also thought of another question, "This Tokugawa Ieyasu's subordinates also have many Japanese who have invaded Korea, should they just be spared?" ”
"Of course not." Li You said categorically, will there be such a good thing? He has never been a magnanimous person, but it is really difficult to conquer the Wa Kingdom with 30,000 soldiers and horses, so he has to borrow the power of Tokugawa Ieyasu first, with this 10,000 soldiers and horses and 10,000 servants of the Zong family and the Kato family, he is also a force to be reckoned with in the Battle of Sekigahara, so let this battle be more intense!