Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 385 The Great Victory
Seeing the collapse of the Japanese army, Chen Guangping naturally would not give up such a good opportunity, and immediately gave the order to pursue.

The reason why he didn't start shelling with artillery at a distance of several thousand meters was because of this moment.

If you bombarded the Japanese army at a distance of several thousand meters from the beginning, the Japanese army would be defeated even in the end, but at such a long distance, the infantry of the Ming army could not catch up at all.

That's why Chen Guangping took a very risky approach and let his army approach the Japanese army formation more than 200 meters away to attack with artillery.

His purpose was for the moment when the Japanese army was completely defeated.

"Kill!"

Following Chen Guangping's general attack order, more than 3 Musketeers rushed towards the retreating Japanese army.

At this time, the Japanese army was in a mess in a panic. Many people wanted to escape backwards, but the people in front were blocked by those in front.

It's like a traffic jam on the highway, and the people behind want to escape without order, and it's impossible without some time.

On the Ming army's side, although they were charging, they did not rush up to fight the enemy with bayonets.

The musketeers hung behind the enemy and fired with their flintlock guns. At this time, the Japanese soldiers were in a panic and had no organization at all. They could only let the Ming army shoot and kill.

However, occasionally some Japanese officers were able to organize some people to resist. Faced with such a situation, the musketeers used short-barreled flintlocks to focus on a wave of fire.

"We surrender, we surrender."

Facing the Ming army who kept shooting and killing, the Japanese soldiers behind finally couldn't stand it anymore. Many people dropped their weapons and surrendered on the ground with their heads in their hands.

"Don't kill those who surrender." Seeing the surrender of the Japanese soldiers, the Ming army immediately issued an order not to kill prisoners.

Next, the musketeers of the Ming army still attacked the Japanese soldiers who did not surrender, but those who surrendered on the ground were not shot.

Seeing this situation, more and more Japanese soldiers soon followed suit, throwing away their weapons and lying on the ground to surrender.

At this time, the [-] cavalry of the Ming army bypassed the Japanese army and intercepted the fleeing Japanese.

At this time, the defeat of the entire Japanese soldiers has become an indisputable fact. The most important thing is that they need to intercept the high-level generals of the Japanese army, such as Tokugawa Hidetada and others.

However, when Tokugawa Hidetada saw the defeat of the entire Japanese army of 10,000+ and learned that he could not save the situation, he immediately ran away with his thousands of troops.

The other daimyos followed suit and fled with some of their soldiers.

Fortunately, the [-] cavalry did not fail in the end. They intercepted several powerful daimyos in Japan, such as Shimadzu Tadahiro, the daimyo of the Satsuma clan, Maeda Toshinaga, the daimyo of the Kaga clan, and so on.

A few hours later, the biggest war between Japan and the Ming Dynasty in this century was finally over.

This time, Daming dispatched more than 8 troops including auxiliary troops.

On the Japanese side, most of the troops in Japan were mobilized, and the total number of auxiliary troops reached more than 30.

As a result of this war, the Ming army killed more than 8000 Japanese soldiers and captured nearly 12 people. Because the Ming army was short of manpower, 10,000+ people escaped during the pursuit.

Fortunately, Japan's hundreds of thousands of troops were defeated suddenly, and Tokugawa Hidetada had no time to let people burn their supplies, so it was not a problem to feed the 10,000+ captives for a short time.

In this war, the Ming army only suffered less than 3000 casualties, which can be said to be a big victory.

After the victory on land, the navy did not sit idle.

After Tokugawa Hidetada led 10,000+ people to escape, Wei Zhongxian immediately ordered a part of the fleet to go north to bypass Tsushima Island, and then head east to the Shimonoseki Strait to intercept the escaped Japanese army.

Wei Zhongxian's idea is very simple, that is to trap the Japanese army in Kyushu Island, as long as these Japanese troops can't leave Kyushu Island, relying on the strong firepower of the Ming army, they can always be wiped out slowly.

And after they return to Honshu Island, Japan, it will not be easy to eliminate them in the future.

Fortunately, at this time, the Ming army had absolute command of the sea.

Wei Zhongxian has more than 20 Galen warships under his command, as well as hundreds of other warships and countless ordinary sea ships.

From Kyushu Island to Honshu Island, there is only one place in the Shimonoseki Strait that can quickly cross the river. As long as the Ming army’s warships block here, the Japanese in Kyushu Island will not be able to go to Honshu Island on a large scale.

This is like the Qiongzhou Strait in China. As long as the Qiongzhou Strait is blocked, people from Hainan will not be able to go to the mainland on a large scale.

On the other hand, after defeating the Japanese army, Chen Guangping did not pursue the escaped Japanese army on a large scale, but began to clean up the battlefield, such as searching for supplies, burying corpses, and so on.

Fortunately, these jobs can be replaced by surrendered Japanese prisoners.

Nearly 4 people died in the Japanese battle this time, and it took only two days to clean the battlefield.

Two days later, Chen Guangping began to have people screen and count the 12 captives.

After several days of screening, all officers, samurai and ordinary soldiers in the Japanese army were screened out, and then detained according to different classes.

After the officers and ordinary soldiers of the Japanese army were screened out, Chen Guangping asked people to start talking to ordinary soldiers.

Fortunately, there are many businessmen in Ming Dynasty and Japan, and there are many people who can speak Japanese.

Facing the Japanese soldiers, Chen Guangping began to disintegrate them according to the task given by Zhang Qingfeng.

In Japan, there are many classes, among which the king of Japan is only a nominal leader, and the main power is in the hands of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Under the shogunate, there are princes from all over the country, called daimyo in Japan, and there are as many as seventy or eighty.

The grassroots rulers under the princes are samurai, which are equivalent to the grassroots officials of the whole of Japan.

The lowest level is the common people, which is the largest class in Japan.

Between commoners and warriors, there are monks, merchants, entertainers, etc., but these people do not represent the big classes.

The lowest status of civilians in Japan is the ruled class.

Among the 12 prisoners captured this time, there were only more than 200 officers from various Japanese daimyos, and only more than 2000 samurai, and most of the others were civilians recruited from various places.

For these civilian soldiers, Chen Guangping's main purpose is to stir up conflicts between them and the ruling class, and then let them become Ming's helpers.

In the era of the Edo Shogunate, the status of civilians was very low, and they had to bear 50.00% of the tax.

The shogunate stipulated that if civilians insulted or provoked the samurai, the samurai had the right to kill without guilt.

During the period of the shogunate, peasant uprisings often occurred, which shows that the common people have hatred for the ruler.

At this time, Chen Guangping wanted to use this to make the common people of Japan stand up against the rule of the shogunate and various daimyos.

It believed that with the military backing of Ming Dynasty, it would be easy to stir up the resistance of Japanese civilians, and then uproot the entire Japanese shogunate rule.

(End of this chapter)