Chapter 798: Take your money and put my name on it!
The winding mountain roads of the Japanese-style castle are the nightmare of the cold weapon era. This is the final product of hundreds of years of war in the Japanese country, and one of the reasons for the endless war in the Japanese country.
No matter who wants to unify the Japanese country, they must face such turtle shells one after another. Each mountain city requires a lot of human lives and a huge amount of manpower, material, and people to wipe it out.
Once you become weak, others will take advantage of it and tear out your weakly defended mountain city.
The already fragmented Japanese kingdom became even more fragmented because of the existence of the mountain city.
The method given by Oda Nobunaga and Hashiba Hideyoshi is that one country, one city, and one imperial system can only allow the existence of one mountain city. If more mountain cities are built, the world's great names will be attacked together.
This decree was not implemented in Oda Nobunaga's jurisdiction, because in the process of unification, if one's own territory was also one country and one city, he would have to face endless harassment from the enemy.
This is only possible after unification.
The reason why Japanese-style castles were able to change the political structure of the Japanese country was entirely because the Japanese country had insufficient gunpowder, artillery, and armor.
Faced with such a mountain city, if we don't want too many military casualties, the best way is to siege rather than attack. After all, it is difficult to supply a mountain city, and it is difficult to farm on the mountain, but sieging a city is extremely expensive.
The siege force must be twice the enemy's strength, and the amount of food and grass consumed by people eating horses and chewing is an astronomical amount.
Qi Jiguang ordered the attack on Zhongzhou City. Chen Dacheng had described in detail how easy it was to defend and difficult to attack Zhongzhou, and hoped that all ministries would be prepared to reduce their troops to a certain extent.
In the early morning of the next day, when the sky was dark, hundreds of boats appeared on the other side of the Tanqintai River, blocking the entire river. The dull sound of drums beat again and again, waking up the dawn.
The sound of the horn pierced the sky, and ships of all sizes rushed towards the other side of the Han River.
Ming's attack began.
Twenty-four thousand rebels led by Yi Sun-shin began to cross the river. Their goal was to attract the attention of the Chungju Japanese pirates to the maximum extent and delay the flank attack.
Qi Jiguang's task for Li Sunchen was to lead his men to attack the piano platform and attract the attention of the Japanese pirates. Even if it only took half an hour, it would allow the Ming army to cross the river smoothly.
As long as the Ming army can successfully cross the river on both sides and deploy their formations, the recovery of Chungju is a sure thing. No matter what happens, even if all the gunpowder in the rear is blown up, it will not hinder the Chungju offensive.
The Ming Army fought with all firearms for just over a year. The elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty's Jingying Camp and the Liaodong Army underwent extremely strict cold weapons training.
The Japanese pirates in Chungju had long noticed the strange movements on the other side of the river.
The ships gathered, all kinds of grain and grass were loaded onto the ships, and the soldiers on the other side of the river were ready. When the horn sounded, the Japanese pirates also began to attack halfway across the river. There were no artillery, but there were various trebuchets, covered with various trebuchets. The oil-growing stones were ignited and thrown by trebuchets, flying towards the ships crossing the river.
All flat-bottomed canoes were manufactured at the Hanjiang Shipyard. They were originally used to transport grain, gunpowder, armor and other items along the Hanjiang River. They are now used to transport troops.
The defenses of the Japanese country were already very tight, and their morale was not shattered by successive defeats. Boats were set alight one after another and rushed to the river. One by one, Korean rebels jumped off the boat and rushed towards the Japanese pirates on the shore. .
"Kill!" Yi Sun-shin jumped onto the shore and rushed over at the lead.
Qi Jiguang put down his telescope and began to give orders. He asked two brothers, Ma Gui and Ma Jin, to lead two infantry battalions and one artillery battalion to prepare to cross the river. This was an additional deployment.
The performance of the Korean rebels allowed Qi Jiguang to make temporary adjustments to his general orders, because the Korean rebels could stably occupy the beachhead.
To be more clear, the Korean rebels won the recognition and respect of Qi Jiguang, who believed that their role was not only to attract attention, but also to perform more in-depth combat missions.
The Korean rebels fought without any rules, no waves, and no formations. They wore less than 10% of the armor, had no firearms, no bows and arrows, and were even a little ragged. They only had long and short soldiers issued by the Ming Dynasty.
But with such crude equipment, the Korean rebels had great morale.
The fortifications of the Japanese pirates guarding the piano platform were attacked one after another with desperate tactics.
Yi Sun-shin's Korean rebels didn't care about their own casualties at all. They rushed forward crazily, using all the weapons and power they could use to kill these Japanese pirates who invaded their homeland. The fearless army killed them with overwhelming force. The Japanese pirates set up a defensive position on the beach and pounced in depth.
Lao Tzu said: People are not afraid of death, so why should they be afraid of death?
Once the people are not afraid of death, then death cannot be used to scare them. The Korean rebels who failed to complete their revenge may be more uncomfortable alive than dead.
In other words, they are dead long ago, hatred dominates their bodies, and revenge is their only goal in life.
If you want the feint attack to be effective, you must make the feint attack have the momentum of the main attack.
Yi Sun-shin did it, and the feint attack turned into a main attack. Ma Gui and Ma Jin, two generals from Datong, Xuanfu, led the infantry and artillery battalions and began to cross the river to suppress the Korean rebels.
When the Ming Dynasty's artillery was placed at the foot of Jiming Mountain and Dalin Mountain, it was too late for Zhongzhou to support it.
Chungju was also unable to provide support because it had too much time to take care of itself.
Whether the fox pretended to be the tiger's power, or the dog fought against the strength of the people, with the Ming Dynasty infantry camp and artillery suppressing the formation, the morale of the Korean army increased again. The Japanese pirates' defense line outside Chungju City collapsed in just three hours.
The fragile city walls of Chungju City could not withstand the artillery bombardment of the Ming Dynasty and were crumbling.
At the foot of Jiming Mountain, the Ming Dynasty's nine-pound artillery had begun to pour out firepower. The entrance to the mountain city had been completely blown up under the dense artillery coverage.
Guarding Zhao Ji buckled the bag. Behind him were 330 people and 30 teams. This was the trap camp. All soldiers in the trap camp selected sharp soldiers to charge forward. They had the highest casualty rate and the most rewards. The equipment is the most luxurious.
There is only one goal when you fall into the camp, go up the mountain.
All strongholds on both sides of the mountain road were pulled out to prepare for the subsequent heavy infantry to enter the city. At the same time, they attacked the castle tower and completely destroyed the enemy's will to resist.
Each infantry camp has its own trapped camp, and the selection of those who advance first is extremely demanding.
First of all, you have to be able to wear the armor. The Iron Hun Armor is a standard five-foot-seven-inch armor, which means you have to be five-foot-seven inches (190cm) tall to wear such armor.
Those who are under five feet seven inches tall are not even eligible to participate in the selection.
The weight is two hundred kilograms. Full body armor requires physical strength. Fifty-three kilograms of full armor does not have enough physical strength to even move, let alone fight.
As for height and weight, these two items can defeat many of the best soldiers in the Beijing camp. If you choose the vanguard first, you will be the best among the best.
For the Ming Dynasty Jingying, they don't have to think about their posthumous affairs. Even from the most utilitarian point of view, the pension they receive after dying in battle is more than being a lifelong soldier of the Jingying.
The soldiers are not stupid. They have calculated that the pensions given by His Majesty, the additional schools, and the benefits that can be inherited for three generations can be converted into silver, which can be 2,500 silver, or even more, because the priority of the martial arts school is Admission is a privilege that money cannot buy.
And a sharp soldier from the Beijing camp, even if he started serving as a soldier from his mother's womb, and worked for seventy years, he would only gain about 2,100 silver in all kinds of things.
In fact, soldiers sometimes feel that His Majesty really doesn't need to pay so much, and that giving them full pay is really enough to make people work hard.
"Click."
Zhao Ji buttoned up his pocket, took out a very small Tuanlong flag and pasted it on the Tiehun armor. The Tuanlong flag was only three inches in size, vermilion red, and looked extremely calm.
The three-inch regimental dragon flag sticker was issued by His Majesty for the purpose of encouragement. It will only be taken out and affixed to the body in the case of a life-and-death battle. It means fighting for the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty will never forget your achievements.
The three-inch regiment dragon flag sticker also has another meaning, that is, those without the regiment dragon flag sticker are all enemies, regardless of men, women, old or young.
There were female warriors in the Japanese country. The female warriors had a special weapon called the naginata. During the Battle of Pyongyang, one of the three people who died in the Ming Dynasty's capital camp, Lu Jinlin in the Buying camp, did not know that there were female warriors and died under the naginata. .
This is a lesson, so when the three-inch dragon flag is raised, it means that no one will be left alive in the mountain city.
The meaning of His Majesty's sending this thing is very clear: the soldiers on the front line do not need to worry. All the crimes of killing evil will be borne by the emperor. If there is retribution, it will be retribution to the emperor, not the soldiers, because the soldiers only obey the emperor's orders. Order.
Three hundred armored soldiers with their coats buckled stood two hundred steps away from the entrance of the mountain city, standing there quietly like a city wall. The golden light of the morning sun shone on them, shining brightly.
A passionate horn sounded.
"Kill!" Zhao Ji drew out his Qi family saber and pointed at the mountain city ahead. After giving the order, he raised his feet and slowly but firmly walked towards the entrance of the mountain city that had collapsed at the foot of the mountain.
The advance of the Ming Army is like a moving city wall. This is the attack of the Ming Army from the perspective of defending against Japanese pirates!
Iron cannons, bows and arrows, and long and short weapons are all unable to cause effective damage. It is more like climbing a mountain than attacking.
Zhao Ji raised his hand, grabbed a naginata protruding from the steps, pulled hard, and pulled down a female warrior. With a clean cut, he cut her neck, freeing her from this sea of sin. .
Iron Hun Armor has cage hands, which are steel gloves.
Female samurai are even more miserable than male samurai. Sometimes, they have to provide some special functions, such as serving as military prostitutes in teahouses.
It was the teahouse that Ling Yunyi saw when he first entered Seoul, which read: "A man serves in the battlefield to sharpen his spear; a young woman devotes herself to her country and country."
For female warriors, this place is no less than hell, and death is a relief.
The trapped camp continued to advance, their steps were slow, but one step at a time, they removed all the strongholds along the way. The way to break the door was not simple, it was to hit hard, use a run-up, knock open the wooden iron door, and then open the door inside. of people killed.
Sometimes, when they encounter a place with a cellar, they will light firewood and throw it in. If anyone shows up, they will kick it down.
Heavy infantry attacks are relatively slow. Upward attacks, mountain roads, and fortifications originally cost huge casualties at every step. However, the heavy infantry took one step at a time, and it took a full six hours for the Ming army to succeed. After climbing to the top of the mountain and cleaning up Jiming Mountain, the Ming Army's record was zero deaths.
Compared with the relaxed atmosphere of Jiming Mountain, the Chungju battlefield was very bloody.
Ma Gui repeatedly emphasized that Yi Sun-shin should restrain the Korean rebels and wait for the artillery bombardment to suppress the Japanese pirates defending the city and open a breakthrough before charging. Otherwise, there would be unnecessary casualties. The Korean rebels listened, but when they started to charge, all the waves were destroyed. Messy.
The Korean rebels rushed to the collapsed city wall in a swarm, and after suffering heavy casualties, they captured the outer city of Chungju.
On the first day of the Battle of Chungju, Tanqintai, Jiming Mountain, Dalin Mountain, and Chungju Outer City were captured by the Ming Dynasty army;
The next day, Chungju Castle, Houshan, and Seokjongsa Temple were destroyed;
On the third day, Nanshan Mountain City was breached. Nanshan Mountain City's resistance was the fiercest, and it even repelled an attack by the Ming army.
The Japanese pirates got a kind of fire oil tank that can spit out tongues of fire for more than ten feet. The Ming army did not know that such a thing existed during the first attack. It suffered heavy casualties. It took four sharp soldiers to withdraw from the battlefield and retreat. After coming down, repeated tests finally confirmed that this kind of fierce fire oil tank is extremely rare.
After several rounds of artillery bombardment, the Ming heavy infantry broke through Nanshan Mountain City. In the end, the entire Nanshan Mountain City was burned cleanly by the Ming Dynasty.
"Qi Shuai! Urgent report! A total of 13 gunpowder depots in Hancheng, Yangping, and Lizhou were attacked by Japanese pirates, and more than 150,000 kilograms of gunpowder were lost!" A Duntai Yuanhou hurriedly rushed into Tianzi Mountain An urgent report was received from the main tent of the Central Army at Wanfu Pagoda Camp!
The generals who were originally celebrating the victory of Chungju suddenly changed their expressions upon hearing this!
The disadvantage is that the fight is fast!
Otherwise, what will happen to morale when such bad news comes during a fierce battle? It is not yet known what direction the battlefield pattern will take.
In order to avoid long nights and long dreams, the Ming Dynasty army tried its best this time and even mobilized the trapped camp. Judging from the terrain of Zhongzhou, it was really beneficial to the defenders.
If they cannot break through quickly, the Ming army will have no choice but to retreat to Lizhou and make long-term plans.
"Fortunately, the Japanese pirates are now defeated and unable to organize a counterattack." Chen Dacheng said with lingering fear.
Qi Jiguang looked at everyone and said with a smile: "It's okay, the loss is not serious. There are still 40,000 kilograms of gunpowder on the front line and 110,000 kilograms of gunpowder on the rear. Even if we hold on, we can wait for logistical supplies."
Qi Jiguang, Chen Lin, and the army and navy coaches all knew very well that the Huang family in Penglai was never just a pretense for the emperor to travel out of the palace. There were 300,000 kilograms of gunpowder in Penglai, which could be replenished within three to five days if needed. Come to Seoul.
Moreover, after the battle of Chungju City, the frontline army still had 40,000 kilograms of gunpowder. If you use it sparingly, it will last a few months.
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The Ming Army explored all-firearm warfare. It was not that they could not fight without gunpowder. On the contrary, without gunpowder, the Ming Army was still crushing the Japanese.
Of course, the Ming army's gunpowder has always been oversaturated.
Qi Jiguang attached great importance to logistics, and even the long-prepared raid by the Japanese pirates did not cause fatal injuries.
"I'm afraid it's due to internal and external collusion." Li Rusong said with a solemn face: "The gunpowder depot has always been heavily guarded. The Japanese pirates can't even find it, let alone the explosion."
"How was the location of the gunpowder magazine leaked? How did someone sneak into the heavily guarded gunpowder magazine? All these require careful investigation."
The Ming army relied heavily on firearms and naturally protected gunpowder very carefully. Without the collusion of insiders, this would never have been possible.
"Leave it to Governor Ling." Qi Jiguang said with a solemn expression: "We need to conduct an internal review, and we will take advantage of the break in the attack to find out if there is an insider."
Emotionally, Qi Jiguang could not accept the appearance of a traitor in the Ming army, but he led the army to fight to eliminate all hidden dangers.
Ling Yunyi was very angry, and the consequences were very serious. In just five days, Ling Yunyi dispatched his own soldiers and led 10,000 people from the Liaodong Army, arrested more than 50,000 people, and interrogated them strictly. People who come into contact with gunpowder are not spared, even the elderly over seventy years old.
Pass one by one!
The reason why Ling Yunyi was so angry was not because he felt sorry for the gunpowder.
Your Majesty has plenty of gunpowder. Thirteen places were blown up, and 150,000 kilograms of gunpowder were used to set off fireworks. It was not scary. Ling Yunyi was afraid that the merchants and postmen accompanying the army might have leaked the news.
This means that there is something wrong within the Ming Dynasty, and unacceptable chaos and losses have been caused. Ling Yunyi, who suggested the meat grinder strategy, has an unshirkable responsibility.
But the result of the investigation was unexpected, and it was North Koreans who did it.
To be precise, it was a fish from the North Korean Civil and Military Squadron who slipped through the net and organized this operation together with the Japanese pirates.
All the prisoners who responded to the case were sent to the capital of the Ming Dynasty, including seventeen Han Chinese. These seventeen Han Chinese were all from Liaodong. They were suspects involved in the case. They were involved, but they were not related to this case. There is only a slight connection between the matter.
Nearly a month had passed since the Great Victory of Chungju. The Immortal Wine from Songjiang Prefecture took the lead and gained the reputation of being the best wine in the world. On June 17, Zhu Yijun received good news from North Korea. The Great Victory of Chungju and a pile of case files.
When Zheng He captured the King of Ceylon in Ceylon, he also brought the King of Ceylon and his son back to the Ming Dynasty to prevent the emperor from thinking that Zheng He was up to no good.
Handing major cases to the court for trial can avoid endless troubles, especially those with Yan Guan's mouth.
"According to the memorial, these seventeen Liaodong soldiers are just acquaintances with these remnants of the civil and military classes. Do they need to be arrested?" Zhu Yijun finished reading the memorial and asked with a solemn face: "Tishuai, have you reviewed it? ”
Zhao Mengyou bowed his head and said: "After review, it is true that they are just acquaintances, and there is no exchange of money. The three of them are responsible for recruiting laborers and transporting food and grass. For the recruitment of laborers, these remnants of the civil and military classes have some connections and can help. .”
"I really didn't expect them to be so bold."
A new file was reviewed by Beizhen Fusi. These seventeen Liaodong soldiers even confessed to peeping in women's bathhouses when they were children. They did not accept bribes and did not have any subjective intention. They were recruiting for military service. .
"Seventeen Liaodong soldiers are more or less corrupt. The most they have stolen is nearly two hundred taels of silver, but they have nothing to do with gunpowder." Zhao Mengyou told the emperor that these seventeen soldiers were not very corrupt either. Clean, relying on his status as the Liaodong Army, he made a lot of money in North Korea.
But I didn't take things that I shouldn't have, such as the transportation of gunpowder.
"Is there any life lawsuit?" Zhu Yijun asked.
Zhao Mengyou shook his head and replied: "There are twelve people with first-level decapitation merit. The most numerous soldiers killed seven Japanese soldiers. There is no case of killing human lives."
Zhu Yijun read all the case files and said with a smile: "Then let it go and don't go back to Liaodong. Marquis Ningyuan has a bad temper. If he loses such a big person, I'm afraid he will kill them and send them to Luzon. Let’s serve as a tooth soldier in the governor’s palace for Mr. Guo Xingye.”
"Tishuai, are you saying that there really was no Ming Dynasty to participate in this gunpowder burning?"
Zhao Mengyou thought for a moment, then shook his head and said: "All the current evidence and confessions show that there is no Ming Dynasty Haoyou involved."
"Your Majesty, the war in the southeast has stretched for thousands of miles for more than 20 years, causing pain not only along the southeast coast, but also in the north."
"At that time, the imperial court had to allocate manpower and material resources to quell the Japanese in the southeast, which led to the conflict between the northwest and Anda Khan. It could only defend but not attack. To a certain extent, the northern pirates and Japanese pirates led by Anda Khan formed an opposition. The Ming Dynasty was overwhelmed by the attacks from the north and the south. ”
Zhao Mengyou is over forty years old, and His Majesty is not a veteran, but Zhao Mengyou has experienced it personally. He knows that at that time, the Ming Dynasty was in turmoil and was in danger, and it looked like a decadent scene that was about to end.
At that time, people were already suspicious.
Even the most loyal ministers will still wonder in their hearts, is the end of the Ming Dynasty?
This is also the main reason why Zhang Juzheng was able to launch the Wanli Reform. The Ming Dynasty was really so bad that everyone agreed to the reform to continue the order.
The biggest beneficiaries of the Wanli Restoration of the Ming Dynasty were still the old powerful right-wingers, rural sages and gentry. They themselves were all rich and gained more wealth during the Wanli Restoration.
Among the emerging bourgeoisie, there are seven families who are powerful and right-wing in their own right, such as the Sun Kehong family in Songjiang Prefecture. They are a family that has been passed down for thousands of years.
How could these aristocratic families that had been passed down for hundreds of thousands of years perish so easily?
They are extremely capable of adapting to the wind and are extremely adaptable. When the wind changed direction, they went to make a fortune just by smelling it.
"Your Majesty, sir has arrived." A small yellow doorman walked in to announce.
"Xuan."
Zhang Juzheng also came here for the burning case of 150,000 kilograms of gunpowder. Judging from the results, the Ming Dynasty lost an additional 150,000 kilograms of gunpowder and captured the territory of Zhongzhou whose terrain was extremely favorable to Japanese pirates.
Zhang Juzheng had already read through these case files before he came. He said solemnly: "I think this matter has nothing to do with the power of the powerful."
"The real point is to interrupt the process of the Wanli Reform. It is also to light the gunpowder at Tanggu Port in Tianjin. There are still 1.3 million kilograms of gunpowder there. It will be useless to blow up the gunpowder on the front line."
"It's more like remnants of the old Korean court and Japanese pirates teaming up to force the Ming army to attack Chungju, taking desperate risks and resisting to the death."
Zhang Juzheng felt that His Majesty's cautious attitude of showing leniency to the enemy was excellent.
But Your Majesty is a bit too lenient when he expects the enemy to be lenient.
"These civil and military 2nd squads, Japanese pirates and other criminals should be sent to the Jiefuan Institute for specimens." Zhu Yijun gave the results of the disposal. If no new decisive evidence emerges in the follow-up investigation, after three replays, the outcome of these people has been decided.
"It is the performance of the Korean rebels this time that impressed me." Zhu Yijun picked up Qi Jiguang's good news. The main force of this Chungju victory was not the Ming army, but the Korean rebels.
A total of 4,500 people were killed by the Korean rebels. The rebel army, which only had 24,000 people, still did not collapse even though 4,500 people were killed. Instead, they captured Chungju in one go.
A total of seven people of the Ming army were killed in the battle, six of them were the first to get into the battle, and one was a sharp soldier in the Beijing camp.
"Courage is commendable." Zhu Yijun gave this group of rebels Zhu Pi four words, praising their bravery in fighting. They may only fight for themselves, but as the emperor, Zhu Yijun still needs praise and rewards.
"In the hands of Li Xin, the North Korean army could lose the entire North Korea in thirty days, but in the hands of Yi Sun-shin, it can pull out its teeth. Your Majesty, after the war, Yi Sun-shin and the rebels led by him cannot stay in North Korea. Send him to the Japanese country to destroy the Japanese." Zhang Juzheng reminded the emperor to be careful about North Korea gathering a new core.
The Ming Dynasty spent a huge amount of manpower and material resources and finally made a wedding dress for Yi Sunchen. Didn’t the Ming Emperor make a loss-making business? How to explain to Daming internally?
"I'll take note of it." Zhu Yijun nodded and agreed.
"How did it go when the imperial court asked the powerful officials to donate money to build a normal school?" Zhu Yijun talked about the alms. The court had no money, and the emperor wanted to borrow money for development, but the powerful officials did not do it. Your Majesty the Emperor shares your worries and solves your problems. This is disloyal!
Zhang Juzheng bowed his head and said: "No one resisted the donation. His Royal Highness King Lu was still frightened when he tormented people last time. This time each family pledged five thousand silver, which is really not too much."
The emperor was very reasonable in his actions, but King Lu was unreasonable in his actions. Last time, he asked each wealthy family in Xitucheng to pledge 50,000 silver. Five thousand silver was paid and a monument was erected to commend his achievements.
Five thousand silver really cannot be exchanged for an inscription that will leave its name in history.
The Ming Dynasty is here, China is here, the Beijing Normal University Hall is there, the inscriptions are there, and the school chronology is there. These luxurious households will be remembered for life, and they may even have statues erected. It is really not expensive.
Some people lamented that in His Majesty's eyes, their family was too poor. They were only given a pledge share of one thousand silver, and they were ranked low in the ranking of erecting monuments.
Once it comes to things like making a list, it's hard to calm down even if you're so powerful, and it's this kind of list that establishes a monument and a reputation.
Zhang Juzheng said with a strange expression: "The Yao family, a wealthy family in Xitucheng, hopes to recognize all the two million silver from this Normal University. They don't ask for anything else, just to keep their name."
The development of things was beyond Zhang Juzheng's expectation.
Wang Chonggu has a way of worshiping the ancients. The inscription written by the emperor himself is more important than the ancestral tablet of their family! Every year, I first go to the inscription place to burn incense.
The meaning of the Yao family is also very clear: take your money and put my name on it!
"Wang Xiyuan refused to accept it. In the end, he only took 200,000 silver. He promised that there would be a building in the normal university hall called Yao Xing Building. The Yao family happily set off firecrackers and set up flowing mats for three days." Zhang Juzheng added the details. .
Two hundred thousand silver can buy the incense and love of a rich family. These big families can last for thousands of years. They are definitely not stupid, they are just bad.
(End of chapter)