746 The decisive battle between the two armies ended tragically, and Xu Heng was surrendered and took over Kyoto
After some reading, everyone found that this letter was actually written by the Son of Heaven himself. Everyone else wrote regular script and Song style in official documents, and only the emperor and the crown prince wrote a handsome Zhubi Hanli.
It turned out that Masahiro Ouchi had already sneaked to Beijing in person and negotiated with the emperor. The terms of surrender were all negotiated, but Masahiro Ouchi carried it until he completely lost hope, and then fulfilled his agreement with the Son of Heaven.
This is a slippery head, but the Son of Heaven has not been more serious, and Xu Heng does not plan to pursue it anymore.
But there was still a little punishment, and Seo Heng accepted the surrender of Omasahiro Ouchi, but ordered his envoy to go to the Ashikaga Yoshimasa Office again to inform him of the news.
The envoy came out of the big tent of the Chinese army, and his face was full of defeat, like a mourning exam. It would be strange to inform the shogun of the surrender of his own head of the house, and not to be hacked to death on the spot. But I can't help it, I have to go hard.
In the evening, Ashikaga Yoshimasa led his army and set up camp twenty miles from Sakai Port.
As soon as the camp was set up, the envoy of Masahiro Ouchi rushed to report it.
Ashikaga Yoshimasa was surprisingly calm after learning of the surrender of Masahiro Ouchi, and he was too lazy to get angry anymore. But in order to stabilize the morale of the army, he still waved his hand and ordered his soldiers to drag the envoy down and cut down the sacrificial flag.
On the second day of August, the elite of the two armies began to arrange their troops.
Xu Heng did not have the slightest carelessness, and placed three heavy infantry 10,000 phalanx on the front, and 1,500 heavy cavalry on the left and right wings. The rear army was a heavy infantry reserve of seven thousand people.
said that 40,000 is against 40,000, Xu Heng is a person.
Ashikaga Yoshimasa didn't care so much, he put up a crescent array, and pressed all his 30,000 elites, leaving only 10,000 rear teams.
Anyway, it's like this no matter how the formation is arranged, and I don't talk about any tactical tactics, just desperately.
The Ming army was also a little stunned, this kind of lightly armored stragglers rushed to the heavy party formation, which was simply a meaningless death.
The two sides agreed on a fair decisive battle with equal forces, and no artillery or guns were allowed, otherwise the Japanese army would die even more miserably if they rushed in such a way.
The Ming army was not embarrassed to move the bed crossbow out again, but relied on the phalanx, blocked the impact with shield soldiers, and stabbed the enemy with pikemen.
The Japanese army failed to attack the hedgehog phalanx of the Ming army five times in a row, and the soldiers of the Ming army were moved by this kind of heroic courage that was not afraid of death.
At this time, the rear team of the Japanese army held ten luxury carriages and rushed straight to the Ming army formation.
The Ming army formation was miraculously dispersed by the Japanese army.
Because around each carriage, there were soldiers holding several dragon flags. The soldiers of the Ming army all knew that their deposed emperor was picked up by the Muromachi shogunate and re-ascended the throne as emperor.
Everyone knew that the emperor was a puppet at the mercy of others, but no one dared to stab a spear in the carriage.
The Ming army and the Japanese army fought together.
Seeing this, Xu Heng ordered the cavalry on both wings to kill out. It took a lot of effort for the sailor to transport the three thousand war horses, and he couldn't live up to their efforts.
The Japanese advance was completely entangled with the Ming army, but more than 10,000 people in the rear team were exposed to the iron hooves of the cavalry before they had time to join the melee.
I saw the most elite cavalry cavalry battalion rushing back and forth, and the Japanese army fell in pieces.
Xu Heng and others stood on a high platform to watch the battle, and seeing this scene, the civil officials were distressed.
Yue Zheng sighed: "How is this like cutting leeks, cutting one tuft after another." An Guogong, these are our precious miners, you must not kill them all. ”
When Jiang Yuan heard this, he nodded again and again.
The mining task under the emperor was very heavy, and Jiang Yuan and Yue Zheng both pointed to the envoys and prisoners to mine.
Xu Heng spread his hands helplessly: "Then what should I do, I have to kill some, otherwise people won't accept it." Only if they are convinced, when they are miners in the future, it is not easy to manage. ”
Jiang Yuan and Yue Zheng nodded, what they said also made sense. The two stopped talking, but quietly looked at the battlefield, and the more they looked, the more worried they became.
It was a decisive battle, and the Japanese army had a strong will to fight, and it was not until it was demolished that it gradually began to break back.
The Ming army ignored the rout, and went straight to Ashikaga Yoshimasa.
Ashikaga Yoshimasa is too lazy to run away, so what can he do if he runs back to Kyoto, and he has no food to eat when he returns.
In the end, Ashikaga Yoshimasa and more than 20,000 Japanese troops were surrounded.
Jiang Yuan and Yue Zheng didn't want to kill, but the soldiers of the Ming army still wanted to continue. The head is military merit, and military merit is official position and wealth.
Seeing that the Ming army was in a posture of killing everything, Ashikaga Yoshimasa hurriedly ordered his soldiers to hang up the white flag under the strong plea of all the retainers.
Killing and surrendering was an extremely serious matter, and despite the great reluctance of the Ming soldiers, they stopped the attack.
Killing prisoners is ominous, because Bai Qi had no food to eat, he couldn't afford to raise the 400,000 soldiers of the Zhao army, so he was really forced to be anxious.
The situation of the Ming army is different, this year there are bumper harvests in Annam, Champong, Burma and other places, and there is no shortage of food at all.
An hour later, Ashikaga Yoshimasa and Zhu Qizhen were accepted into the Ming army camp.
Huairou rule over the newly occupied areas was a national policy pursued by the Jingtai Dynasty.
Xu Heng, Jiang Yuan, Yue Zheng and other ministers of civil and military affairs, still according to the content of the last peace talks, received Ashikaga Yoshimasa with the gift of the king of Daming County.
Xu Heng prepared a recital, and Ashikaga Yoshimasa prepared a table and sent it to Beijing.
As for Zhu Qizhen, everyone also treated him as a county king, and immediately sent a sailor ship to escort him back to Nanjing.
In the following days, all the Japanese troops near Kyoto were scattered and transferred, and the prisoners were transported to various places to open mines.
The rest will be handed over to Jiang Yuan, Yue Zheng and other civil officials. The amount of wealth in Kyoto, especially gold, silver, and copper, had to fall into the hands of the Ming court.
As for the appearance, it's pretty good-looking. The exchange of grain for gold and silver did not rob openly.
Within a few days, Jiang Yuan and Yue Zheng were overjoyed. Kyoto's wealth is far greater than many people think.
For hundreds of years, a small half of the gold, silver, and copper mined in Japan must have been concentrated in Kyoto, so it is no wonder that the emperor insisted on conquering Japan.
On the sixth day of the eighth month, Zhu Qiyu felt something, got up early, sat at the coffee table and flipped through the military newspaper.
Lin Xiangyu persuaded: "Why did Daddy get up so early, even if the decisive battle in Japan is over, the military report will not be transmitted for more than 20 days." ”
Zhu Qiyu sighed: "I have been fighting Korea and Japan for two years, and I have seen the money spent like water, but I have not seen the benefits of the war, and I am also under great pressure."
I relied on the prestige I had accumulated before, and the government and the opposition were up and down, and the civil and military officials did not make any trouble. But they were already scolding me in their hearts.
I also wanted the war to end as soon as possible, and to show the gold, silver, and copper mines to the government and the opposition as soon as possible.
When the time comes, my prestige will rise to a higher level, and the subjects of the world will truly admire me.
At that time, if someone says something bad about me, someone else will spray it back for me without me doing anything. ”
Lin Xiangyu said with a smile: "I can't finish my heart, you flip down again to see if there is any Mongolian military report, if you can't get them to fight again." ”
Zhu Qiyu was a little unbelieving, so he really flipped it down, and after being stunned, he scolded angrily: "You crow's mouth, slave, see if I don't tear it for you."
Hey, sure enough, the two grandfathers of Ah Ra and Totobu Hua fought again. ”
(End of chapter)