New Shun 1730

Ohama Castle is located on the delta formed by the estuaries of two rivers. A flank attack will result in meaningless casualties, and the only possibility is a frontal breakthrough.

Three days of attacks and a large number of casualties have brought morale to the lowest level. Now I can and can only fight for the last time.

If we can't capture it this time, we can disperse.

The three-day attack also allowed Naosada Ii to roughly understand the shooting range of the Dashun Army gunboats.

Troops cannot assemble close to the front, but must assemble outside the shooting range of the gunboats.

Looking at Kohama Castle in the distance, Ii Naosada called all his trusted servants together.

However, Ii Naosada did not encourage his retainers. Instead, he talked about things that happened a long time ago and expressed some regrets about the past.

"During the reign of Lord Iemitsu, Zheng Zhilong requested to send troops. The ancestor of the family thought that the great powers could not compete with each other because of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's affairs in Korea, so he strongly remonstrated and refused to send troops. Later, Canmei and Zheng Zhilong's sons both requested troops, but they were shelved based on the words of the ancestor. discussion.”

"If we had known today, we should have sent out troops that day. We sent Zhou Cuizhi to borrow troops tomorrow and promised islands and Zhoushan, and we would gain great righteousness. If it is like what "Guo Xing Ye He Zhan" said, at that time the snipe and the clam were fighting, we Japan should Can benefit."

"If we send troops at that time, Li Chuang is defeated and the Shun army is weak, and we join forces to defeat the invaders, and work together to divide the north and the south, then a great cause can be achieved. Even if we cannot swallow up the whale, we can still separate the territory. He begged for the letter and said: Qi will keep the guard. If Qin saves Chu, then it will be successful, just like the Zhou Dynasty was divided into seven parts and the Han Dynasty was destroyed by three emperors. Why should Arai Junmei's theory of "each is called China, and those who are far away are barbarians"?

It is said that the son should never tell the fault of his father, so future generations should not tell the fault of their ancestors who earned the fiefdom for them. But Ii Naosada still talked about his ancestors and used this as an introduction.

At that time, Tokugawa Yorinobu and Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu both advocated sending troops.

At that time, the Warring States Period had just ended, and there were a lot of ronin samurai who had no fiefdoms. These "retired" soldiers are still alive, wandering around and disrupting public order. They might as well be thrown to China to fight.

But Naotaka Ii, the ancestor of Ii Naosada, was firmly opposed to it, which ultimately led to the failure of the matter.

The result is that now that the Dashun Army has reached Kyoto, the hundreds of soldiers in the Obama Domain are actually difficult to conquer.

It's a pity that there is no regret medicine in the world.

As the first generation daimyo, the Ii family was also one of the Four Tokugawa Kings when they conquered the world. They were ranked alongside Honda Tadakatsu and others who were 1.4 meters tall and known as the Zhang Fei of Japan.

Since then, the Ii family has been the leader of the Daimyo family. As the leading figure in the shogunate's attempt to bureaucratize the Daimyo system, Naosada Ii played with telescopes, had some "Southern barbarian treasures" at home, and even had a gun made in the Netherlands. Fire pistol.

He had come into contact with the Dutch in Edo, and had also read some closely guarded Dutch storybooks.

In fact, he knew in his heart that Japan's ordnance was backward.

It's just that when Shi Shiyong was arranged by Liu Yu to go to Edo to teach the art of riding and archery, the leader of the feudal lord was Ii Naosada's brother.

His elder brother Ii Naoyi is a very orthodox samurai.

He learned horse riding and archery, archery, swordsmanship, poetry, and painting. He also liked to inspect the marketplaces. He really disliked the muskets that could be used to kill samurai if ordinary people practiced them casually.

When Shishiya went to Edo to teach horsemanship and archery, Ii Naosada's brother praised him highly and wrote a Chinese poem to remember it. He performed well in the subsequent hawk hunting exercise and was praised by Tokugawa Yoshimune.

Not long after Naosada Ii succeeded the feudal lord, Tokugawa Yoshimune also slightly lifted the ban on orchid studies. At least the books by Catholic Xu Guangqi and others were no longer banned and could flow into Japan through Nagasaki.

But before and after that, Liu Yu monopolized the Sino-Japanese trade in Nagasaki.

Even Tang Dynasty storybooks need to be reviewed before they can be sent to Nagasaki. What about books?

The ban on orchidology in Japan was lifted, and few scientific books reached Japan. Instead, books such as "Biography of Women", "Disciples' Regulations", and "Six Edicts" were sent to Nagasaki box by box by Liu Yu.

Therefore, Naosada Ii had no choice.

He vaguely knew that Japan had fallen behind, and he had seen the Dutch forty-pounder mortar more than a hundred years ago, but under the seclusion system, he could only play with gadgets such as clocks and telescopes.

How big is the gap? He just knows that there is a gap between Dashun who is occupying Xiaobin at this time, but it is not to the point of despair. He always feels that he can conquer it with a little effort.

Complaining about "I regret it at the beginning" directed at the retainers seems to be about not sending troops to intervene in the chaos in the late Ming Dynasty. In fact, it is making fun of the past and mocking the present, and it is about "locking the country".

In his opinion, if he had intervened in the chaos at the end of the Ming Dynasty, he could have solved the problem of seclusion, gained more advanced knowledge, and would not have fallen so far behind now.

Some retainers are stupid and some are smart. It is difficult to guarantee the quality of the offspring as they are all inherited by the father after his death. The stupid retainers thought that the head of the family was just lamenting the opportunities of the past, but the smarter retainers heard the implication.

One of the retainers around him, named Uchiyama Shigeji, understood the implication of Ii Naosada's words.

His ancestor was named Uchiyama Taizaemon. During the Sekigahara War, Uchiyama Taizaemon's father was on the wrong side of the Western Army. However, Uchiyama Taizaemon's grandfather was on the Eastern side. On the military side, Ii Naotaka took care of Uchiyama Tazaemon.

When Naotaka Ii was about to die, according to the rules at the time, Uchiyama Taizaemon's father was from the Western Army, so he would normally be buried as a sacrifice. However, Ii Naotaka hoped that Uchiyama Taizaemon would not be buried, but live a good life and assist the next generation.

Since then, the Uchiyama clan has been a senior official of the Ii family. The drunk retainer that Ii Naosada saw through the telescope was Uchiyama Shigetsugu.

In fact, everyone recognized that the drunk and embarrassing one was Uchiyama Shigetsugu, and Ii Naosada would not make a mistake. The telescope sent by the Dutch was the latest model and was quite clear.

This matter was not a secret. After Yamauchi Shigetsugu knew about it, he thought that this was just like the "Jue Ying Meeting" of Chu State in the past, and the master of the family gave him enough face.

Since then, he has quit drinking and never touched a drop of alcohol to repay the master's grace of Jue Ying.

This time, it was Yamauchi Shigetsugu who proposed the strategy of "following Sun Bin's siege of Wei to save Zhao".

Yamauchi Shigetsugu understood the implication of Ii Naosada and said, "Master, the matter has passed, and it is too late to regret it now."

"The Master said: The past cannot be rebuked, but the future can still be pursued."

Tang is a big country. If there is no time for the snipe and the clam to fight, it is really difficult to fight. Now their weapons are excellent, far superior to ours. "

"Now the attack on the city is not going well, but there is no way to retreat. If we retreat, all our previous efforts will be wasted. We can only strike with all our strength to break the city."

"In the past, Liu Yu was treacherous. He took the warrior Shi Shiyong to Edo to teach the method of riding and shooting, but he organized an army with firearms. Now if we can break the city, we can capture their warriors who are good at using firearms. "

"During the Sui and Tang dynasties, there were envoys to Tang, so there was paper; during the Yuan Dynasty, there was the Hongan War, and gunpowder was obtained; during the time of Hashiba Hideyoshi, Korea was attacked, craftsmen were obtained, and porcelain was finally obtained; during the war, the Nanman shipwrecked, and iron cannons and large guns were first produced. "

"If we can break the city today, we can obtain the method of their firearms. The head of the family can advise the general to ask the samurai to abandon the bow and take the sword and practice firearms. The firearms skills of these people in Obama Castle are no less than the unparalleled riding and shooting of Shi Shiyong that year. "

Yamauchi Shigeji was still clear-headed. The soldiers near Osaka were transferred to Tottori by the Dashun Army through naval maneuvers. Wakayama was the main base of the shogunate, which was related to Osaka and the rice bag of the entire Japan.

If they foolishly went to "serve the king", the isolated army of the Hikone Domain would surely die. In this case, it would be better to attack Obama Castle first.

If they could capture it, the Dashun Army would have to come back to support it.

If they couldn't capture it... they couldn't even defeat 500 people, so why would they fight more than 4,000 people with cavalry and artillery?

He was not sure about the future What unrealistic fantasies.

Dashun can gather 4,000 to 5,000 troops in Obama. With this logistics and transportation capacity, it is not a problem to gather tens of thousands of people in Kyushu Island.

How can the various feudal domains in Kyushu Island defeat those tens of thousands of people?

The 4,000 to 5,000 isolated troops who broke into Kyoto found that the situation was not right, so they just ran away. The nearby troops were empty, who could stop them? .

Sooner or later, peace talks will have to be held, so it is better to find a way to accumulate some strength for the future before the peace talks.

For example, capture Obama Domain, capture a group of officers of the Dashun Army, and get the method of firearms training.

Uchiyama Shigeji felt that the master was using the past to satirize the present, and using regret to talk about the "opening of the country exchange", so the significance of the battle of Obama was very different.

It was like a bunch of porcelain craftsmen were captured in Korea, which led to the Japanese porcelain, and in the context of the chaos in the late Ming Dynasty, when Westerners could not get the goods, they took advantage of the times and developed greatly with the export as the driving force.

Dashun is now baring its teeth, and it can bite Japan, which has not been bitten since the Mongols. Who knows if it will go to war with others in the future?

Maybe after the peace talks, When the national fortune arrives, it can get a wave of dividends of the times just like the development of porcelain, and quietly develop firearms.

Now, the hundreds of soldiers in Xiaobin Castle are the only chance.

Kyoto is empty, and the main force of the four or five thousand Dashun Army is like entering an empty land, and it cannot be stopped at all.

If you can't control the battlefield, you can't capture any prisoners. If you want to capture prisoners, Xiaobin Castle is the best opportunity.

He helped Ii Naosada to strengthen his determination to fight, and Ii Naosada praised: "Your words are lofty and true."

"I have made up my mind and must attack Xiaobin fiercely. But how to fight, what good plan do you have? ”

Ii Naosada also wanted to fight, but how to fight specifically required careful consideration.

If you want to fight, the only way is to rely on the river, and use the conscripted civilian boats of the samurai to land under Obama Castle and in the blind spot of the naval guns with the help of the water flow.

But the problem is that the back of Obama Castle is very wide, and the gunboats of the Dashun Army can shoot very well, and it is easy to land; but the front is very narrow, from Obama Castle to the narrow embankment that prevents the confluence of the two rivers, there is only less than a hundred meters away.

The space is too narrow, no matter how many soldiers there are, they can only be deployed in this small space, and the troops can only be sent forward in batches.

The difficulty of the entire siege lies in the connection between the first wave of troops and the subsequent troops: sending too many people at a time, unable to deploy, crowded together, that is, to serve as a target for the Dashun Army; sending almost the same people at a time, the subsequent troops cannot be sent up, then it will become a fuel, and it will not pose a threat.

Uchiyama Shigetsugu pointed to the houses on the seashore of the distant port and said: "The difficulty of attacking Obama lies in the navy of the Tang Kingdom. Without the navy's bombardment, the warriors can gather forward without worrying about the shells falling into the crowd and causing heavy casualties, so that they lose their courage before the attack. "

"In this case, why not light a fire? Burn all the houses of the people, ignite smoke and dust, and block the sight of the Tang navy? Then march by boat and continue to attack?"

"If it succeeds, the city will be broken. Even if they have large naval ships, there is no port to moor, they cannot last long, and they must withdraw."

"If it fails, the houses on both sides will be burned, and once the fire is extinguished, it will be more suitable for Tang's bombardment. But if it fails, how many of the thousands of brave men will be left? If it fails, they can sacrifice their lives for the sake of righteousness."

"Whether we succeed or not depends on this decisive battle. Whether we can capture prisoners who are proficient in firearms is also a battle here."

"The rise and fall of Japan depends on this."