After Zhang Mingzhen sent land and water scouts to quietly investigate, he finally inquired:

The allied forces hoarded the military rations needed during the siege of Oura Castle at Akita Castle, more than 100 miles away from Oura, which later became Akita Prefecture and produced the famous Akita dogs in the Tohoku region of Fuso.

When Zhang Mingzhen heard that the grain was stored so far, he was a little depressed at first. But later his subordinates explained to him that the Fuso shogunate began to implement a decree more than 30 years ago, called the "One Country, One City Order".

That is, each feudal domain could only keep one castle to solve the problem of many castles during the previous Warring States period. Therefore, when the Ming Dynasty called over this time, the pattern of Fusang City that he saw was very different from the Wanli Renchen War. Fuso now has only 66 cities out of the 66 feudal states in the country, and the rest are rural areas without fortifications.

There is only one city in each feudal country, and the cities are far apart. In particular, the northeastern part of Fuso is vast and sparsely populated, and the area of the feudal kingdom is large, so the distance between the castles is even farther.

If it hadn't been demolished, maybe the Fuso army would have been able to store food in Hiyama Castle, but who let Hiyama Castle be demolished in 1620.

Zhang Mingzhen took a look and felt that it was a bit difficult to go to Akita City to rob grain, but it was not impossible to solve.

Since Akita was more than 100 miles away from Oura, the Fuso coalition army would not have expected him to dare to use a small force to make a detour behind enemy lines and carry out another landing and sneak attack.

An idea between Cao Cao's "Wuchao Burning Grain" in Guandu and MacArthur's "Inchon Landing" in the later Joseon Dynasty took shape in Zhang Mingzhen's mind.

He divided his main force of 10,000 men again, and divided 7,000 men to defend Oura Castle, and the other 3,000 men used the few warships he left behind with the army to make a detour back to Akita Castle and re-land.

(He brought with him a total of 12,000 troops, but after a month of fighting, he had already lost 2,000 men.) The Fusang people have been annihilated by tens of thousands, and even if the Ming army has the advantage of weapon generation, it will add up to 2,000 dead and wounded. ）

Some of his subordinates felt that he was too risky, but Zhang Mingzhen insisted on this style of play, in order to stabilize the morale of the army and ensure execution, he decided to personally lead the team to command the sneak attack soldiers and horses, and let his subordinates help stay to defend the city.

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Before launching another landing sneak attack, the Ming army of course had to spend a few days clearing the channel to ensure that the Fuso ships could not go to sea, so as to ensure the suddenness of the operation.

Fortunately, the motive of the Ming army to clear the channel was easy to disguise, because it was the time when Zhang Mingzhen's second batch of supplies for crossing the sea from Vladivostok was about to arrive in Dapu. Zhang Mingzhen was going to put on a posture of "carefully patrolling and escorting to prevent Fusang from attacking the sea transport fleet".

Zhang Mingzhen also specially pretended to be careless, and leaked the date of his supplies to the Fusang coalition army through some means and channels.

When the Fuso people learned that the second batch of supplies from the Ming army would arrive on March 28, they really couldn't help themselves, and they moved the idea of sending fire attack ships to intercept and burn the Ming army's material ships, but unfortunately in the end, because the gap between the strength of the warships and guns was too great, the fire attack ships of the Fuso people could not get close at all, and they were all sunk.

In particular, the fire attack ship was already full of fuel, and if it was hit by a flowering shell from a long distance, it would be completely destroyed, and it would not survive to hit the Ming sea ship at all.

The Fuso people lost more than 100 light fishing boats in vain, and more than 1,000 sailors died, so they had to give up. And the Ming army also took advantage of this opportunity to completely occupy the sea control, so that the Fusang people could not even go to sea to reconnoiter these days.

On the third day after the Fuso people lost the right to reconnoiter at sea, on the second day of the fourth month, the Ming army finally started, and 3,000 people boarded fifteen sea boats, under the supervision and command of Zhang Mingzhen himself, after a day's sailing, arrived at Akita Castle, and then launched another landing.

This time, the Ming army finally took out the cavalry cannon that Zhang Mingzhen had hidden for a long time and used it completely.

Akita Castle is not a strict port castle, but it was built in a dangerous place due to the mountainous terrain. Twenty or thirty miles outside the city, there is a port called Minato no Tsuchi, a place that anyone who has played "Taiko Rishiden" should also know.

Therefore, when the Ming army landed, it landed at Minato Port in Tsuchisaki, and then it had to run for thirty miles before attacking Akita Castle. Some of them are climbing

of mountain roads, so normal artillery marches will be slow.

Because there are no walls and no fortresses, Tsuchizaki Minato Port is purely a commercial port and fishing port, and there are only a few hundred guards in the port area, so it was naturally killed by the Ming army in seconds.

The Ming army only fired two rounds of rifles, killing hundreds of Japanese soldiers and people who spontaneously resisted, and the rest scattered as birds and beasts, and went to Akita Castle and the coalition siege camp respectively to report and ask for alerts and reinforcements.

However, the Ming landing force ignored these people at all, and after spending only a quarter of an hour to clear the port area, they immediately rushed towards Akita Castle without stopping.

One thousand of the 3,000 people were cavalry, which was also the only cavalry among the more than 10,000 troops brought by Zhang Mingzhen this time.

Now is the time for these thousand cavalry to wield their might. They maneuvered quickly, dragged the artillery wagons of the cavalry guns, and got the cavalry guns outside Akita Castle in a little more than an hour.

When the defenders of Akita Castle were attacked at Minato Port in Dosaki, they reacted and hurriedly closed the gates. But they still didn't expect that the Ming army could attack the city with only cavalry! There can also be a high-mobility Hongyi cannon that follows the cavalry to advance rapidly!

With the roar of the Ming cavalry artillery, Akita Castle was soon enveloped in bombardment.

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At the same time, the Japanese army's Kuaima messenger had also galloped to the Oura siege camp in the northeastern three feudatories, warning that the army had made a sneak attack and landed at Dozaki Minato Port and was expected to attack Akita Castle, the rear grain land of the besieging army.

The commander of the coalition army of the Tohoku Three Feudatories was none other than the lord of the Aizu Domain, Masayuki Hoshina, and the half-maternal uncle of the shogun (the same father as the shogun's father, Tokugawa Iemitsu), and also had a status similar to that of the shogunate's auxiliary minister.

This Hoshina Masayuki had just experienced the pain of losing his son more than ten days ago, and one of his sons was killed by the Ming army when he was in Ezo Island and Matsumae Domain's defense of Hakodate. Therefore, of course, Baoke Zhengzhi has a national enmity with Zhang Mingzhen.

He not only needs to avenge the national revenge for the nephew of the shogun, but also needs to find Zhang Mingzhen to avenge the murder of his son!

So after hearing that Zhang Mingzhen actually dared to divide his troops, his hatred was immediately ignited: "The Ming army deceives people too much! Zhang Mingzhen has less than 10,000 soldiers and horses in total, and he still dares to divide his troops? How many enemies are there in Minato Dozaki? When you were defeated, did you not see the reality of the enemy's army?"

The messenger told the truth: "About ...... Three thousand, but there are cavalry, at least hundreds, maybe more than a thousand."

Bao Ke Zhengzhi was furious: "If three thousand people dare to divide their troops and surround the rear, are they not afraid of being surrounded and annihilated by our army? Ordered the soldiers and horses of the Aizu Domain to quickly exhaust all the soldiers and rush to rescue the autumn! Let the Yonezawa Domain of the Sendai Domain continue to besiege Oura! But the cavalry of the Sendai Yonezawa Domain must be drawn out and handed over to me to take to Akita!"

Masayuki Hoshina knew very well that if he wanted to gather the troops of the three feudatories, it would be too late in time, and it was more important to rescue troops than to fight fires.

The soldiers of the Aizu clan were in his camp, and they could immediately go out on the spot without food and grass, and there was no need to waste time discussing the communication. Although the infantry of the other two feudal domains could not be deployed, the cavalry had a speed advantage, and even if it took a few hours to notify and dispatch, they could catch up.

So only half an hour later, he took 20,000 infantry from the Aizu domain and all the cavalry of the three feudal clans to rush to the rescue of Akita.

Fuso is also a country in the northeast region with more horses, and less horses in the south, which everyone who has played the strategy game of the Warring States period knows that Yin Da Uesugi Takeda in the northeast in "Nobunaga Wild Hope" is a strong cavalry domain.

Therefore, the scale of the cavalry of the three northeastern feudal domains is already the highest among the Fusang domains, and today it is also a bloody investment, directly drawing out more than 10,000 cavalry, all of which add up to 35,000 muskets.

In his opinion, there were still quite a few defenders in Akita Castle, if not less than 10,000, at least more than 5,000. Therefore, after the combined forces, the total strength can exceed 40,000, and it is not easy to crush the sneak attack force of the Ming army of 3,000 people?

[In view of the general environment,

This is more than a dozen people beating one, no matter how strong the weapons of the Ming army are, they can't repel more than ten times the Japanese army in the field under the condition that they are surrounded by the enemy on all sides!

If the Ming army wants to turn the tables, the only chance is in Baokezheng

Before he arrived, he would break through Akita Castle! Turn to defend the city! This way, you don't have to worry about being attacked on your back, just concentrate on dealing with the enemies outside back-to-back.

But this is absolutely impossible! Masayuki Hoshina firmly believed that he was marching fast enough, and the Ming army wanted to pull the siege heavy artillery from Tosaki Minato Port to Akita Castle and then complete the deployment of artillery positions, one day was definitely not enough! The previous record of the battle in Daepo Fortress has proven this!

You can definitely get reinforcements before you break the city!

With this belief in mind, the "Light of the Shogunate" Hoshina Masayuki naturally spared no effort and asked the soldiers to spend most of the day running more than 80 miles on foot, which was equivalent to running a full marathon.

But he is in a race against life, he knows the importance of rushing time, as long as he arrives within a day, to ensure that the autumn city is not broken when he arrives, and the army's food is not seized, even if the soldiers only have one breath left, more than ten times the numerical advantage can crush the Ming army that has suffered from the enemy!

What's more, as long as reinforcements appear, so that the Ming army realizes that it is impossible to steal the city, the Ming army may not dare to immediately turn around and rush over to the field. As long as he dragged the Ming army, he could slowly rest and let the soldiers recover their strength, and the loss of running a marathon on a rapid march could be compensated.

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After five hours of continuous marching, 35,000 elite Japanese troops finally ran the equivalent of a marathon at a speed of one-third of the marathon.

The soldiers still have to carry weapons, so naturally they are too tired to do it.

Those soldiers in armor had already lost their armor halfway, and the degree of embarrassment was similar to that of Hideyoshi Hashiba sixty years ago during the "Chinese Giant Turn", and they almost ran out of the tail inflammation and hiccuped directly.

On the evening of the third day of the fourth lunar month, 35,000 Japanese troops finally arrived at the mouth of Mt. Tojo and Igawa Valley, fifteen miles north of Akita Castle.

Masayuki Hoshina finally breathed a sigh of relief, the last bit of the road was downhill, and he didn't see chaos such as fire in Akita Castle in the distance, indicating that the Ming army should not have broken the city yet, and it may not even have started to attack, and it is still waiting for the deployment of siege heavy artillery!

Finally caught up!

However, just when Baoke Masayuki was full of confidence and led the team to rush through the canyon between Mt. Torigami and Mount Igawa, the front army had just passed thousands of nearly 10,000 people, and the rear army had not yet passed more than 20,000.

At the commanding heights on the top of the mountain on both sides, there were about 1,000 Ming rifle teams with bright bayonets Wuchangzao, firing indiscriminately at the valley, and hundreds of Ming cavalry, very bravely plunged down from the top of the mountain, cutting the Japanese army into several sections.

Although the number of these Ming cavalry is small, everyone has a revolver that fires shotguns, which can fire six shots in a row close to the face, and more than 300 people can fire 2,000 shots without changing bullets!

Although the Japanese army had 35,000 men, after all, it had just finished a marathon, and when its physical strength was at its most exhausted and morale was most relaxed, it was suddenly rushed by more than 2,000 Ming troops.

What's even worse is that the Japanese army lost their armor when they forcibly marched to rescue, and now they are basically in a state of no armor. And the most restrained thing about the Daming shotgun is the armorless unit, if you wear a set of cotton armor, this kind of iron sand and lead is not easy to penetrate.

Therefore, the lethality of the shotgun is simply the same as when he dreamed back to Chongzhen for 12 years and dealt with the thieves of the 5th Battalion of Gezuo.

One piece of lead is a big remnant, and two pieces of iron sand are blood.

Rao is Japanese army is fifteen times the number of the Ming army, and it is still defeated by this multiple DEBUFF stack.

One of the cavalry teams of the Ming army, but more than 100 cavalry, happened to be led and commanded by Zhang Mingzhen himself. But because he saw the flag book of Masayuki Baoke, he ordered his subordinates to rush straight up.

Zhang Mingzhen's cavalry was equipped with forged steel cuirass, and there was a cushion lining inside, which could even block the old-fashioned iron cannons of the Fusang people, so he was not worried about the protection of rash killing.

The cavalry of the Ming army had a pistol to open the way, which shocked the cavalry counterparts of the Japanese army inexplicably.

Although among the cavalry units of the Northeast Three Feudatories, there is precisely the "Yin Dajia Horse Riding Iron Cannon" with the strongest cavalry and archery tactics in the Japanese army. But their weapons are the kind of rotten things that have to be reloaded for a minute. The cavalry of the Ming army was six consecutive shots.

The first musketeer battle between China and Japan broke out just outside Akita Castle.

Baoke Zhengzhi put hundreds of Yin Da's horseback iron artillery team by his side, but he still couldn't withstand Zhang Mingzhen's charge. The tired and scattered Yin Da rode iron and fell from his horse one after another, scattering birds and beasts, and there was no elite state.

Masayuki Hoshina wielded the "Onimaru Kunitsuna", known as one of the five famous swords in the world, slashed and killed several deserters, and tried to fight hand-to-hand with the Ming cavalry, but was finally beaten into a hornet's nest by the Ming army's pistol bullets.

This Onimaru Kunitsuna was originally the heirloom knife of the head of the Hojo clan of the Kanto princes during the Warring States period, but later the Hojo clan was destroyed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi and fell into the hands of Hideyoshi, and later the Toyotomi family was destroyed by the Tokugawa family and fell into the hands of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Hoshina Masayuki's biological father was Tokugawa Hidetada (Ieyasu's son), the second shogun of the shogunate, and Hidetada could not recognize the maternal patrimony of Hoshina Masayuki because of his ancestry, so he passed him to the Aizu clan and gave this sword as a souvenir.

Unexpectedly, today, with the Aizu feudal lord being killed by Zhang Mingzhen, Zhang Mingzhen also pocketed the famous knife after cutting off the head of Hoshina Masayuki.

Although he didn't know how to use a sword, since this sword was a token given by the second shogun to the illegitimate son of the foreign domain, it was very valuable.

Hoshina was one of them dead, and the remaining Japanese troops were naturally more like the Imagawa army in the barrel room, and they collapsed directly. It is the extreme exhaustion of morale and energy, and no matter how many people there are, it is useless.

More than 2,000 Ming troops chased and killed more than 30,000 Japanese troops, shot them in rows of guns, killed corpses all over the field, all of them were scattered, and trampled on each other, and countless casualties were also innumerable.

According to the statistics of the Ming army after the war, there were nearly 10,000 Japanese soldiers who were cut off, and at least a few thousand of them were trampled to death or injured by the Ming army on the mountain road.

I only hate that the number of Ming troops is too small, and the Japanese army can't catch up when they scatter and flee to chase them, otherwise they will definitely be able to kill more.

Until the collapse of the Japanese army, there was one biggest problem that could not be figured out: they had already marched so quickly to reinforce them, why did the defenders of Akita Castle be so cowardly? didn't even hold it for a day, and the city was broken by the Ming army?

And the Ming army can not only break the city! After breaking the city, you can still spare time to set up an ambush on both sides of the mountain road fifteen miles north of the city in advance! This means that the siege took only one morning at most!

You really can't blame the reinforced Japanese army for not being strong! The core key is that the defenders of Akita Castle are too wasteful!

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With the disastrous defeat of Baoke Masayuki's reinforcements and huge losses, the remaining remnants of the Northeast Three Feudatories Alliance Army no longer dared to act rashly.

After all, the shogun's own uncle died here, who can afford this pot? Even the lord of the Yin Da family has to worry about whether he will be punished by the shogunate, let alone the rest.

Moreover, the complete change of hands of Akita Castle, so quickly, made the situation of the Japanese army in the northeast completely collapse.

Because the Ming army broke through the city too quickly, the defenders of Akita Castle didn't even set fire to the granary before it collapsed!

That is to say, the Ming army's measures can not only be compared to "Cao Cao's robbery of the black nest", but even much better than Cao Cao's black nest!

Cao Cao was in Wuchao, and that was just burning Yuan Shao's grain, and he didn't get it himself.

Zhang Mingzhen directly took the military rations hoarded by the Northeast Three Feudatories Alliance Army in order to besiege Dapu City for a long time, and directly took it for himself!

That is to say, the Ming army had enough military rations for 80,000 troops to eat for a few months out of thin air! In fact, the Ming army was only more than 10,000 people, and so much food was enough for a year and a half!

If Zhang Mingzhen doesn't have to worry about military food supplies and can live in Ezo and Ozhou for a year and a half, then the entire northeast of Fuso will be completely ruined into a no-man's land!

When the bad news reached Aizu-Wakamatsu Castle and Edo Castle, the people of the Aizu Domain and the shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna wept bitterly.

Shogun Tokugawa's own uncle was killed by Zhang Mingzhen, and the army of 70,000 or 80,000 was defeated repeatedly, and now the military rations have been taken away, and there is a possibility of another defeat at any time, and the Kwantung region is completely damaged.

In addition, Zheng Chenggong in the south also achieved initial results, and Tokugawa Ietsuna had to reconsider whether this war could be fought.

There were already some old staff members around him, and they began to privately persuade the general to cede the land and pay compensation, and he confessed to it.