The words are divided into two ends.

Since the Fuso people decided how the war began, it was no longer possible for them to decide how the war ended.

At the beginning, they were persuaded to hand over the Ezo of the Manchu Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, and then punish the Satsuma Domain, which had secretly annexed the Ryukyus, but they did not listen and had to fight.

At this time, the price that Da Ming asked for again was obviously not the point he asked for at the beginning, so he had to ask for a little more as a punishment.

With Zhang Mingzhen's victory in the Northeast, the shogunate began to turn around, Zheng Chenggong's side has just opened in Kitakyushu, where is he willing to stop now, so that Zhang Mingzhen will steal the limelight?

Zheng Chenggong has more troops than Zhang Mingzhen, the supply route is shorter than Zhang Mingzhen, and the battlefield is closer to the Central Plains.

On the fifth day of April, two days after Zhang Mingzhen killed Hosho outside Akita Castle. At the port of Hakata in Kitakyushu, Zheng Chenggong had already launched a landing operation against Kyushu.

Of course, when Zheng Chenggong launched a full-scale offensive, he didn't know that Zhang Mingzhen had achieved such a great victory, the two places were thousands of miles apart, and he had to rely on Vladivostok to relay news in the middle, and the transmission of military information was still very slow.

Three days before the Hakata landing, Zheng Chenggong had actually arrived in Fuso. The reason why he didn't launch a direct landing in the first place was because he needed to take Tsushima Island, which was blocked between Hakata and Busan, first.

Tsushima Island, when Meng Yuan invaded Fuso, it resisted for a long time, and later generations of Fuso people also used that battle as the material to release the finale of the PS4 era "Ghost of Tsushima".

It's a pity that now in the face of Zheng Chenggong's fierce bombardment of the sail battleship that directly took out 80 heavy guns, Tsushima Island was occupied by the Ming army in just three days.

The islands lacked depth, and the main cities, ports, and populated areas, and did not penetrate deep enough inland, were within the range of naval guns.

The Ming army even saved the link of going ashore to deploy siege artillery positions, and directly opened artillery on the sea to break through the city, and rushed in.

At the same time as seizing Tsushima Island, Hirado Goshima, in another corner of northern Kyushu, there was no need to seize it. Because before the war, that place was the Zheng family's sphere of influence.

Zheng Chenggong's younger brother Tagawa Nanazaemon is there, and Zheng Chenggong's mother, Tagawa clan, is the daughter of a local wealthy family.

Therefore, as soon as the war began, many islands between Kyushu and Korea completely fell into the hands of Zheng Chenggong in a few days.

On the fifth day of the first month of April, after the successful landing at Hakata Port, a relatively large-scale fierce battle gradually began.

Hakata Port was Fukuoka in later generations, so the first to bear the brunt of it was Mitsuyuki Kuroda, the lord of the Fukuoka domain.

Kuroda Mitsuyuki is actually quite depressed, because there are at least three major feudal clans on Kyushu Island that are not very good with the shogunate, and they have accumulated grudges in the process of establishing the rule of the Tokugawa family. Mitsuyuki Kuroda's Fukuoka Domain is an outlier among them.

An important reason for the Ming Dynasty's attack on Kyushu was that the Satsuma Domain annexed the Ming Dynasty's Ryukyu.

After Kuroda Mitsuyuki was bombarded by the Ming army in Hakata Port, he judged the situation and sent an envoy to negotiate with the Ming army, saying: You want to find trouble with the Satsuma Domain, and go directly to Southern Kyushu to land, why do you want to come to Northern Kyushu?

If the Ming army is willing to go directly to southern Kyushu, then the Fukuoka domain can definitely pretend to avoid the war. There is also a certain probability that the shogunate will turn a blind eye, and at that time, it may be that the Higo Domain, the Kumamoto Domain, and the Choshu Domain on Honshu Island will send troops to the rescue-

Historically, during the Meiji Shogunate 200 years later, the Satsuma Domain, followed by the Choshu Domain and the Kumamoto Domain, was the main force of the Satsuma Domain. It can be said that several feudal domains in the southwestern part of Fuso were not dealing with the shogunate.

If the Ming Dynasty had chosen a feudal clan that had not dealt with the shogunate, perhaps the war would not have expanded. When the time comes, only these few clans will report to the group for warmth, and others will watch the play, wouldn't it be beautiful?

However, in the face of Kuroda Mitsuyuki's argument, Zheng Chenggong directly refused.

What the Ming Dynasty wants is the entire island of Kyushu, if the true analysis only deals with the "already guilty" daimyo, then how can the whole island be swallowed?

Can't the Ming Dynasty take the Satsuma Domain, the Kumamoto Domain, the Higo Domain, but leave the Fukuoka Domain still as Fuso territory? Of course, you have to fish in troubled waters to catch a little more.

So Zheng Chenggong said: Although the Fukuoka domain is not the one that directly committed the crime, in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, the Fuso domains are one.

The Ming Dynasty wanted to attack Kyushu, and the shortest route was from Pusan to Hakata via Tsushima Island, which was only more than 200 miles. If you go directly from Ningbo to Minami Kyushu, it will be a voyage of 1,500 miles.

For the sake of the safety of the logistical supply line, who would abandon the 200-mile route and not go 1,500 miles?

If you want to blame, you can only blame the location of Fukuoka Domain, which was born on the transportation artery between the Korean Peninsula and Kyushu!

In the days of peaceful trade, Fukuoka did not suffer from the dividends of foreign trade, but now in wartime, it is perfectly reasonable to have bad luck to spit out a little bit for a while.

Of course, some things are not easy to say clearly, after all, the Ming Dynasty is still a state of etiquette and a state of faith.

Therefore, when Zheng Chenggong replied, in addition to rejecting the other party's conditions, he also re-issued his own conditions.

said that if the Fukuoka clan could agree to this condition, Daming could still not beat him.

The specific conditions are: the Fukuoka Domain must give the Ming a share equivalent to half a year's tax grain according to the stone height of its own territory. Provide military rations for the Ming Dynasty to punish other truly guilty and want to reinforce the Satsuma Domain.

The stone height of the Fukuoka Domain was 550,000 stones, and he publicly took out 300,000 stone of military rations to Zheng Chenggong, and Zheng Chenggong let him go.

After this condition was sent back to Kuroda Hikaru Yuki, of course he could not accept it.

Not to mention that he can't get so much grain at the moment, even if he wants to smash the pot and sell Tie Minao, others will not sell it to him. And after doing this, he will be a proper ** traitor, how will he stand up in Fusang in the future?

Mitsuyuki Kuroda was helpless and was forced to resist.

However, he still used diplomatic means to delay for a few days, and while falsely telling Daming that he needed time to raise military rations for Zheng Chenggong, he secretly urgently requested that the Kumamoto Domain, Satsuma Domain, and Choshu Domain of the Higo Domain come to reinforce him.

Because he is helping the Satsuma Clan to resist the trouble, if the Satsuma Domain does not come, he will lead the way for the Ming army!

Kuroda Mitsuyuki's hand is not a fraud of the Satsuma Domain, and it is really possible for him to do so.

If the Satsuma Domain really doesn't come, the people of the world will know who Qu Zhi is, and when the time comes, he "chooses to lead the way for the Ming Dynasty because the Satsuma Domain doesn't come", it is also forced by the Satsuma people, not that he wants to be a traitor, he was betrayed by someone stabbed in the back, and he can compare himself to Li Ling.

Several other feudal clans also knew the truth of the cold lips and teeth, especially the Satsuma clan would definitely die if they did not resist, so they quickly sent reinforcements.

Shimazu Mitsuhisa, the lord of the Satsuma domain, poured almost all of the troops of southern Kyushu out of the nest, and also frantically mobilized peasant soldiers.

He only has a nominal stone height of 800,000 stones, and theoretically even if all the money is used to raise soldiers, he can only support 40,000 people, not counting the cost of weapons, so in fact it is good to have 20,000 soldiers. But this time, he took out all the savings of previous years, and all the weapons reserves were raised, and he actually pulled 50,000 or 60,000 cannon fodder.

Hosokawa Tsunori, the lord of the Kumamoto domain, and Mori Tsunahiro, the lord of the Choshu domain, were not so exhausted, and together they each pulled about 20,000 soldiers and horses-

This figure is absolutely reasonable, don't believe those who blindly underestimate the Fuso people's stall writings, what "the Fuso national war is just a village brawl", after all, Fuso at this time is a country with a population of 24 million, and there were more than 3 million people on Kyushu Island at that time.

Counting the Choshu Domain, which is on the westernmost peninsula of Honshu, and counting the population of the Choshu Domain, Zheng Chenggong is equivalent to fighting an offensive war with a regime of 4 million people this time, and he has to worry about the Shogunate's troops coming to help.

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Zheng Chenggong's side, of course, also knew that Mitsuyuki Kuroda was stalling for time-

Even if he didn't know for the first two or three days after the other party's reply, when he found out that the army of the Choshu Domain had sneaked across the Shimonoseki Strait at night and came to Kyushu Island, no matter how slow he was, he could understand what was going on.

(Note: The Shimonoseki Strait is the current Guanmen Strait, and the Shimonoseki Treaty was signed there)

However, Zheng Chenggong did not immediately expose the other party, so he pretended not to know, and allowed the Japanese army to gather more troops to the front line near Fukuoka.

Zheng Chenggong's idea is very simple: the terrain of Kyushu Island is complex, and the central Kumamoto region is especially full of volcanoes.

Since the Japanese army does not know how powerful it is now, and Ken is willing to assemble all of them in the Fukuoka Domain and assemble in the northern coastal plain, of course they must be given this opportunity to perform.

Kuroda Mitsuyuki thought that Zheng Chenggong was deceived by him, and he was secretly proud.

At first, when his first batch of reinforcements crossed the Maguan Strait, only a few thousand people went, and he was afraid that if he was intercepted by the Ming army's sailors, he would suffer heavy losses.

Seeing that the first two groups of exploratory troops had gone ashore safely, and that there were no Ming warships to intercept them, he finally magnified his courage and chose to cross the Maguan Strait in the middle of the night on the ninth day of the ninth month of April.

However, just as this last main force set sail, there was no surprise.

Zheng Chenggong's troops, who had been negotiating with the Fukuoka Domain for coercion, suddenly divided dozens of light sail frigates and inserted them into the channel of the Shimonoseki Strait overnight, giving the Choshu Domain's reinforcements a half-crossing attack.

The Japanese transport fleet was caught off guard and had to fight on the spot, firing at each other with rocket muskets and Ming frigates.

The warships and firepower of the Ming army were absolutely crushing, and the battle naturally turned into a one-sided massacre. It's a pity that the Maguan Strait is too narrow after all, and even if the Ming army kills all the Japanese troops on the sea for the first time, there are actually not many-

The general width of the Maguan Strait is between two and three kilometers, and the narrowest position in the northeast corner is even more than 300 zhang wide, which is not as wide as the Yangtze River.

But Zheng Chenggong is very familiar with the terrain and has done solid homework in advance, since he rushed to sneak attack, of course he has a backhand.

The naval guns of the Ming frigates were equipped with a large number of flowering shells, as well as a few newly developed first-generation petroleum-based incendiary bombs, although the performance was still unstable, but it was enough to deal with the Fuso army in the 17th century.

After the Ming army crushed the Japanese army on the water, it launched an artillery bombardment directly on the town of Maguan, where tens of thousands of Japanese troops were stationed, and then sent marines to directly stick to the tail of the Japanese rout to cover the town of Maguan.

Although the strait was narrow, and it was impossible for 15,000 people to go to sea at the same time, the army still had to assemble in the port area before crossing the sea. The Tokugawa shogunate issued a decree of "one country, one city", and of course the residence of the lord of Choshu would not be located in a remote port area like Shimonoseki, so there were only some wooden water fortifications in the area, which could not be held at all.

The Ming army bombarded with bullets and incendiary bombs, and then the bayonet riflemen landed and advanced strongly, and the Japanese army was defeated in the confusion, and those who wanted to resist were also scattered by the chaotic friendly forces.

The Japanese soldiers who swam and escaped back to the shore from the Maguan Strait were tantamount to helping Daming and giving Daming a free pioneer in vain. In order to prevent the formation from being disrupted, the Japanese troops in Maseki Town had to greet them with iron cannons and rockets no matter who they met, and killed many of their own people in the dark.

Of course, in this kind of night melee, the casualties of the attacking side will certainly not be avoidable. But Zheng Chenggong still has a hole card that has been hidden before, and he has not used it before. In this night raid, he took it out to resist injuries and take risks.

It turned out that the landing force that Zheng Chenggong transported ashore was a North Korean rifle team subordinate to Li Yu, the chief soldier of Dongjiang Town, Daming. Five years ago, in the war of exterminating the Qing Dynasty, Li Yu also led 20,000 Korean riflemen to participate in the last battle against Haoge, which can be regarded as a continuous battle.

This time, if we want to deal with the Japanese army, we will still land from Busan, and of course we must use it if there are Korean soldiers who can use it, and the most dangerous and casualty mission will also allow the North Korean soldiers to go first.

However, Li Yu himself didn't think there was anything wrong with this, the Koreans had a great enmity with Fusang during the Imjin Rebellion more than half a century ago.

Later, the Tokugawa shogunate claimed that "it was the Toyotomi shogunate that had an enmity with you, and we overthrew Toyotomi to avenge you, and this matter can be turned over", and the threat of the Manchus was greater at that time, so this matter was revealed.

But now the Ming Dynasty once again asked North Korea to take revenge, and also came up with an ironclad reason: the Fuso people did not change their dead nature and annexed the Ryukyu, a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. Since he dares to swallow Ryukyu today, he will dare to swallow Korea tomorrow, and this thief cannot stay.

When the DPRK lord heard this, it was very reasonable, and he really needed to take precautions. also asked Li Yu to bring 20,000 North Korean riflemen to Zheng Chenggong's help.

Before leaving, Zheng Chenggong also asked Zhu Shuren for some details, and Zhu Shuren told him that in some cases, he should kill his hand, and he didn't have to worry about killing more people.

He also specifically instructed Zheng Chenggong to make good use of his naval superiority, to attack Kyushu is to fight Kyushu, and to destroy the reinforcements sent by the Japanese army from Honshu Island in a timely manner, so the narrowest Maguan Strait between Kyushu and Honshu is, of course, the focus of the focus of the defense.

In addition, Zhu Shuren has a bit of personal emotions, and he also hinted that Zheng Chenggong once he annihilates the enemy in Maguan, he can kill more and deter the enemy. Killing is for a better peace, so that the enemy will not dare to resist anymore.

The regent has already explained this, and of course Zheng Chenggong and Li Yu will not stay. Li Yu, a general from North Korea, just vented his personal grievances.

In the end, the 15,000 reinforcements of the Choshu Domain were almost annihilated in the town of Shimonoseki, and the Korean soldiers also burned and killed them on the border of the Choshu Domain, centered on Shimonoseki, leaving no chickens and dogs in the town, and tens of thousands of people died in the surrounding area.

In fact, no one knows why, Zhu Shuren ordered this, it was completely because later generations Ito Hirofumi liked to sign a treaty in the place of Maguan, so Zhu Shuren had a bad taste, and the small punishment and the big commandment did not leave the chicken dog.

Mori Tsunahiro, the lord of the Choshu domain, personally led the troops that day, and when the troops were destroyed, they were naturally killed, along with several other middle-level generals of the Maori family who helped lead the troops.

Who made the hereditary tradition of the Fuso people so strong, and the generals who came out to lead the troops were mainly "one family", and rarely trusted outsiders as temporary workers. When you die, you naturally have to be a neat family.

After the main force of the Choshu Army was destroyed, Zheng Chenggong and Li Yu took advantage of the situation to burn and kill in the territory of the Choshu Domain, and then collected their troops back to Kyushu Island and continued the battle in the Hakata/Fukuoka direction.

This can be regarded as a warning to the feudal lords on the island of Honshu and the Edo shogunate: for that little in Kyushu, it is best to let the local people in Kyushu settle their grievances with the Ming Dynasty. The feudal towns on the island of Honshu dared to fish across the boundary and wade into troubled waters, and the fate of the Choshu domain was an example.

(End of chapter)