Chongzhen and I became partners

Chapter 703 Strategic Layout
Tokugawa Iemitsu was shocked by the news that the Ming army attacked Kyushu Island in Edo, Japan, and the Tokugawa shogunate.

Where is Amaterasu's kamikaze?Why didn't this time bless the Great Wa Kingdom and sink the fleet attacking the Wa Kingdom?
Tokugawa Iemitsu is indeed capable. After knowing that Amaterasu was unreliable, he did not immediately send someone to notify North Korea of ​​returning aid, but immediately assembled the available warships in his hands, about a hundred or so , there are very few large ataka ships, and most of them are seki ships and smaller ships.

If these warships go directly to fight against the navy of the Ming Dynasty, they will definitely not be able to fight.Regarding this point, Tokugawa Iemitsu is self-aware.

He sent Yagyu Zongmo, who was in his dying years, to lead the fleet to the Ryukyu Kingdom to cut off the logistics supply line of the Ming Navy.

Tokugawa Iemitsu did not need to send someone to find out the news first, because he knew that if the Ming Dynasty wanted to attack the Wa Kingdom, there were only two ways. One was to go through North Korea, cross Tsushima Island, and then attack the Wa Kingdom.

This road is the most likely to attack the country of Wa. During the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, it was this way that was used to attack the country of Wa.

The other way is to go north along the island of the Ryukyu Kingdom and finally attack the Wa Kingdom.

Judging from the appearance of the Ming army, it was definitely attacking from the Ryukyu Kingdom.That's why he made a decision to cut off the Ming army's logistics from afar.

In order to prevent accidents, Edo did not stay, and Tokugawa Iemitsu moved to Kyoto.One is to be close to the south to command; the other is not easy to be attacked by the navy of the Ming Dynasty.

If you want to say how worried Tokugawa Iemitsu was at this time, that's not true;

Because in the history of the Wa Kingdom, it has never been conquered by outsiders!
In his opinion, there was none before, and there will never be any in the future.

The only thing he worried about was that when chaos broke out, some daimyo would fish in troubled waters; in addition, the current emperor, Emperor Goko Mikado, had a rather violent personality, was quite critical of the shogunate, and was not very obedient, so he had to be careful.

"Whether you can defeat the invading Ming army depends on you!" When Tokugawa Iemitsu bid farewell to Yagyu Somo, please.

After hearing this, Yagyu Munemo replied without hesitation: "My lord, don't worry, the Ming army cannot have too many troops in Ryukyu. If my subordinates can't cut off the supply line of the invading Ming army, I won't come back to see my lord!"

After making a promise, he set off with the improvised navy.

Afterwards, Tokugawa Iemitsu turned his attention to the invading Ming army, and strictly ordered the Japanese army on Kyushu Island to defend with all their strength, exhausting the Ming army.

As for the North Korean army, he still didn't think about transferring it back.Because in that case, the army will go back and forth, and the consumption of food and supplies will be too great!
Tokugawa Iemitsu hoped that after Munemo Yagyu cut off the Ming army's logistics supply line and exhausted the Ming army's energy, they would join the North Korean navy and the Ming army for a decisive battle.

However, there are some things that he can't do whatever he wants!

The Ming Expeditionary Force led by Zeng Ying actually had three options to choose from.

One is to hit Edo directly, that is, to hit the snake's seven inches;
The second is to block the connection between Kyushu Island and other islands and isolate Kyushu Island;

The third is to attack Tsushima Island, occupy Tsushima Island first, and cut off the connection between the Korean Japanese army and the mainland.

The strategy set by the imperial court is the third plan.However, Emperor Chongzhen also explained in his order to Zeng Ying that he can adapt to the actual situation of the battle.

However, Zheng Sen rejected the first plan, saying that the navy would definitely be discovered by the Japanese country if it went north, and the purpose of the surprise attack would not be achieved.Moreover, even if there is a surprise attack, the shogunate can completely retreat.

As for the second plan, with the current strength of the expeditionary force, even if Kyushu Island is isolated, it cannot be occupied.Not to mention that the number of people is too small, and the main force of the Japanese navy has not been wiped out, the danger is too great.

Therefore, Zeng Ying finally followed the strategy set by the imperial court, and after going all the way north, he attacked Tsushima Island.

The Tsushima Fan on Tsushima Island actually belonged to North Korea at one time in history. Generally speaking, the people on the island belonged to whoever was stronger, North Korea or Japan.

Today's Tsushima Fan belongs to the Wa Kingdom, but it still has trade with North Korea.

Basically, it can be said that Tsushima Fan's own position determines that they must be grass; if they are iron, they will definitely be harvested, and they will not be able to escape.

No, when the main expeditionary fleet led by Zeng Ying arrived at the Tsushima Fan, the lord of the Tsushima Fan directly raised the white flag and surrendered, and offered a large amount of food and supplies hoarded on the island.As for the Japanese, they all fled to the Pusan ​​port on the other side.

Zeng Ying was very happy about this. Considering that the expeditionary force had not rested since its expedition from Ryukyu, he ordered the expeditionary force to rest and recuperate in Tsushima Island first.

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Besides, the main force of the Japanese navy in North Korea returned to the southernmost part of North Korea in a mighty manner, and joined the Japanese fleet from Busan, and the number of ships reached as many as a thousand.

Of course, there are at least 400 ships inside, which were originally used to transport personnel and supplies, not just warships.

Their arrival gave the panic-stricken Busan Japanese a dose of reassurance.But at the same time, they were a little flustered when they were told by the Japanese in Busan.

"It's good that you are here."

"What, the navy of the Ming Dynasty has at least a thousand ships, and they still have a lot of heavy artillery?"

"Is there any iron-clad smoking warship in the navy of the Ming Dynasty? It looks like it is made of iron, and it still emits smoke. Yes, you can see it at a glance. There will be a lot of smoke on the ship!"

"I don't know if it smokes or not, but there are iron-clad warships, and there is a sealed boat among them, which is made of iron-clad warships!"

"What, such a big iron-clad warship? It must have been smoking!"

"..."

Knowing that there was an iron-clad warship in the navy of the Ming Dynasty, Mitsuhisa Shimadzu immediately guessed that it must be an iron-clad smoking warship, otherwise, it would not be fast at sea.I just don't know how many iron-clad and smoking warships there are in the navy of the Ming Dynasty!

This discovery made the Naval Division of the Wa Kingdom a little uneasy. There was a dispute among different daimyos about what to do next.

"The navy of the Ming Dynasty has now occupied the Tsushima domain and blocked our passage back to the mainland. This is not easy to fight!"

"What are you afraid of, now we have thousands of warships, just rush over!"

"But the problem is that the Ming army also has thousands of warships! And our thousands of warships, are the troop carriers included?"

"Do you think that the thousands of ships of the Ming army are all warships? They also need transport ships. And they came from a long distance, so there must be more transport ships than us, and there must be a lot of consumption of supplies."

"That's right, our transport ship has musketeers, so it is also a warship. And the supply ship of the Ming Dynasty, it is impossible to become a warship. Comparing the two, we must have more warships!"

"The navy of the Ming Dynasty has heavy artillery, do we have heavy artillery?"

"It's not like that, we have a lot of people and a lot of ships..."

"..."

The daimyos along the coast of Kyushu Island tried their best to persuade the other daimyos to fight directly there, and severely taught the Ming navy to destroy them; No one was convinced.

At this time, Matsudaira Nobutsuna's messenger had rushed to Pusan ​​and conveyed his order, indicating that the strength of the National Expeditionary Army would not be too large to go ashore to capture the Japanese mainland.Their target is the navy of the Japanese country, so they must obey the military order and not act rashly.If he dared to violate his military order again, he would have to settle the old score.

Obviously, Nobuzuna Matsudaira was not stupid, he quickly analyzed the purpose of the Ming Expeditionary Force, and wanted to go with Jianlu.

After his military order arrived, those big names who were thinking about waiting for an opportunity gained the upper hand.

At this time, the clippers from the Japanese mainland, bypassing the Tsushima domain occupied by the Ming army, also arrived at the North Korean side, conveying Tokugawa Iemitsu's military order.

Tokugawa Iemitsu ordered the main force of the Japanese navy on the North Korean side to contain the Ming expeditionary force, so that the other navy he sent could attack the Ryukyu Kingdom, cut off the logistical supplies of the Ming navy, and finally give the Ming army The army took a fatal blow.

This clipper also brought news of the mainland of Japan, or Kyushu Island.

Except for the Satsuma clan and several other coastal daimyo's port cities, which suffered heavy losses, because the Ming army did not land and fight, the others suffered little losses.

This news gave these big names a reassurance. In the end, the main force of the Japanese Navy formed a consensus: they decided to implement the military order of the shogun, first consume the supplies of the Ming Navy, and then look for opportunities to destroy this army. Ming Expeditionary Force.

Also at this time, Matsudaira Nobuzuna rushed to Busan in one breath, captured Shimadzu Mitsuhisa, the provocative name, and further stabilized the morale of the army.

At this point, he was relieved, and the next time, it was time to consume the supplies and food of the Ming Expeditionary Army.

In the face of many famous names, Matsudaira Nobuzuna said to them: "In this situation, the initiative is already in the hands of our country, and the advantage has already emerged. Next, in addition to waiting, we must also ensure that we contain the Ming Kingdom Expeditionary Force, You can’t let them come back.”

Afterwards, he arranged for the various daimyos to lead their own fleets to harass the Ming Expeditionary Army that was monitoring Tsushima Fan.

This entire strategic layout really left these big names speechless, so they all responded one by one and promised to abide by Matsudaira Nobuzuna's military order.

However, what they never expected was that they were still in the military discussion, and they were interrupted: "It's not good, the Ming Dynasty Navy is calling!"

"Nani?" Nobuzuna Matsudaira was taken aback when he heard that, and hurriedly took his group of daimyos out to see the situation.

Sure enough, in the direction of Tsushima Island, a dense fleet of fleets had already appeared. Obviously, this was coming from Busan.

(End of this chapter)