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Chapter 468 This Kind of Pediatrics Is Used to Instant Kill

Since the Apocalypse and Chongzhen, although there have been decades of weakness in the Ming Dynasty, it must be said that the determination of the rulers of the Ming Dynasty to die is still deeply rooted in the hearts of the East Asian countries.

Although Chongzhen was incompetent in governing the country and self-willed, he did not counsel until he died. If he said something that cannot be compromised, then he must not compromise, and at worst he would die.

But now it has been 15 years in Longwu, and the Ming Dynasty has once again flourished to the fullest.Back then when the situation was so critical, they were unwilling to compromise, and now of course they do what they say. If they are released, they will never compromise half a step.

Whoever dares to resist Da Ming and be accused of a definite crime, then Da Ming will kill his whole family if he says he will kill him, so he must keep his word.

In the spring of the 15th year of Longwu (1659), after Tokugawa Ietsuna, the fourth general of the Edo shogunate, formally rejected Daming’s request to “abolish the rule of Fuso Ezo daimyo and hand over the power to conquer Ezo to Daming”,
Zhang Mingzhen, the admiral of the North Sea Division of the Ming Dynasty, led hundreds of large warships and more military food transport ships to carry out a conquest against Ezo Island.

If the Fusang people don't give it to you, you can get it yourself.

This operation can also be regarded as the first large-scale battle against Ming Dynasty after it fully followed the Dutch shipbuilding technology, integrated the advantages of oriental shipbuilding technology, and built a new fleet with the combination of Chinese and Western.

Previously, Zhu Shuren enlisted Jansen Tasman, Descartes and other Dutch scientists to be used by Daming. It first happened in 1648, so time flies, and now it has been 12 years since the first batch of Dutch scientists worked for Daming.

Among the first-generation scientists reused by Ming Dynasty, Descartes died of old age last year.If Zhu Shuren hadn't won him over and let Descartes stay in Europe, he would have been tormented by those royal families. According to Descartes' original historical life span, he would have lived seven or eight years less than he does now.

But his contribution to Ming Dynasty, and his historical significance as the first generation representative of "European scientists came to work in Ming Dynasty", will definitely be remembered by Ming Dynasty.

After Descartes, in the past ten years, almost every two or three years, a group of emerging European science and engineering talents were recruited by Daming with a lot of money, which played a catfish effect of mixing water and promoting technical exchanges.

So when Descartes died, Zhu Shuren also mourned him to the utmost, and found a group of great scholars to carry his coffin, just like when Newton died later, the British also asked a group of dukes and marquises to carry the coffin.

This is just a kind of trick that the king of Yanzhao built a golden platform to treat Guo Wei preferentially. In the final analysis, it is to show that the imperial court attaches great importance to scientific talents.

With the support of these Chinese and Western scientists, after more than ten years of development in the Ming Dynasty Navy, the level of warships has been improving with each passing day, and it is far from what it was back then.

It's a pity that when the Manchu Qing finally collapsed five or six years ago, the Manchus didn't have a navy that could fight at all, so the Ming Dynasty's navy was absolutely crushing at the time, with no sense of accomplishment at all, and they couldn't find any decent resistance. .

Now it's finally time to deal with the Fusang people. Fusang still pays more attention to the construction of warships. After all, it is an archipelago country. As early as the Azuchi-Momoyama era, the Fusang people built iron-clad ships.

(The iron-clad ships at that time had muskets, but no cannons. The Fuso people did not start using heavy siege artillery similar to the Hongyi cannon until the final battle between Tokugawa and Toyotomi. Tokugawa Ieyasu’s bombardment of Osaka Castle’s "National Collapse" is Hongyi cannon. Although there were also cannons in the past few decades, the largest ones were only at the level of the Frang machine, and the weight of the cannon body was only a few hundred catties)

Later, during the Imjin Japanese Invasion, they fought with Yi Sun-shin of North Korea, and after being violently beaten by Yi Sun-shin's turtle boats equipped with cannons, the people of Fusang also learned the lesson.

It's a pity that in history, after Fuso stabilized the rule of the Tokugawa family, there was no war in 200 years, so these Fuso warships were useless.

In the history of the Fusang War, there are only those warships equipped with light guns similar to the Frang machine, and there have never been actual combat records of heavy warships equipped with Hongyi cannons.Daming's attack this time can be regarded as taking what they need, and everyone just wants to verify the true strength of their own hands!

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The number of warships that Zhang Mingzhen carried sailors and marines was about [-], and the rest were loaded with rations and supplies.

The number of additional marine soldiers that each warship can carry, depending on the size of the hull, is no more than 50 to more than 100——

After all, this is a cross-sea battle, and it takes more than [-] miles to sail from the Vladivostok port just built by Daming to Hokkaido.Zhang Mingzhen had to consider the military rations and fresh water issues during the voyage, and the number of people on each ship could not be too many.

Originally, if Daming could grow it for a few more days, first control Dead Leaf Island, then build a logistics base on Dead Leaf Island, hoard military rations, and choose to go south from Dead Leaf Island to Ezo when finally attacking, then more than half of the voyage can be saved.

But Daming considered that he didn’t know the year of the monkey and the month of the monkey when he was running Dead Leaf Island, and the excuse for war that “the Ainu people and the local vassals once colluded with the Manchu Qing to violate the forbidden trade” could not wait for so many years, so it didn’t matter, and sailed directly for [-] Incoming!

After all, Zhang Mingzhen looked down on the Fuso defense force on Ezo Island at all, and felt that with a marine team of more than [-] people, it could completely beat the main reinforcements of the local feudal town and the shogunate.

The fleet of the Ming army specially chose to set sail at the end of February in the lunar calendar. After about ten days of sailing, they could land in late spring and early March.

In this way, during the voyage, we can just take advantage of the end of the Siberian cold northwesterly wind, and avoid the most severe winter cold wave and strong wind.

At the same time, there will be several months of typhoon season at the turn of summer and autumn in the Pacific Ocean, which is also a period that must be avoided, otherwise it will encounter the "Kamikaze Protecting the Country" like Kublai Khan.

The current decision-makers in Ming Dynasty fully grasp astronomy, geography, and meteorology. How could they step on the pit like the ignorant Mongols hundreds of years ago.

Daming has already made full use of every favorable climate in the decision-making stage, and every unfavorable climate has been designed to avoid before the war, which can be said to be decisive.

Before the war started, Da Ming had conducted diplomatic negotiations in advance, so the suddenness of the attack was not strong.

The daimyo on Ezo Island and the fourth-generation feudal lord of the Matsumae Clan, Matsumae Shihiro, had already organized a fleet of warships to patrol the waters around the Tsugaru Peninsula before the Ming army attacked. Out of concerns about insufficient patrol density, they even requisitioned Some of the fishing boats were mobilized and the fishermen were ordered to report in time.

In addition, the Tokugawa shogunate also warned several pro-vassal daimyos and powerful daimyos in the northeast of Honshu in advance to send troops on alert in advance. If something happened to Ezo, they must support the Matsumae domain, at least to prevent the flames of war from burning to the northern tip of Honshu island.

Therefore, Date Tsunamune, the third-generation lord of the Sendai Domain, Hoshiyuki Masaoyuki, the lord of the Aizu Domain, and Uesugi Tsunakatsu, the lord of the Yonezawa Domain, also assembled a lot of troops to guard against them.

Anyone who has played "Nobunaga's Ambition" or "Taiko Lizhi Biography" knows that Date's family was the "Northeast King" of Fusang at the end of the Warring States period. Sendai City is also an important town in the northeast of Fusang, and later generations of Mr. Lu Xun studied there. .

Although the Aizu clan is a rising star in terms of strength, it is a vanguard in terms of loyalty to the shogunate, and belongs to the category of "even if you are poor, you are willing to do your best."

Who told Hoshina, the current feudal lord of the Aizu Domain, that he is still the uncle of the current shogun in terms of blood relationship, and he was the Aizu Domain who adopted him when he was the second shogun.

Ietsuna Tokugawa, the fourth general of the current shogunate, was just in his early 20s. A few years ago, when his father, the third general Iemitsu Tokugawa, died, he entrusted his half-brother, Masayuki Hoshina, with more Hoshina Masayuki. The first level of the shogunate entrusted the status of a lonely and important minister.

Therefore, the Aizu clan has always been the strongest pro-vassal daimyo of the Edo shogunate in history. Later, during the Meiji Restoration period at the end of the Edo period, the Aizu clan was still loyal to the shogunate and persisted in resisting to the end.

No one knew much about this information in Daming.But with the spying of Zheng Chenggong and his younger brother, and Zhu Shuren's knowledge of history and the stubbornness of the Aizu domain,
So long before Zhang Mingzhen's departure, Zhu Shuren summoned him face-to-face to give him an opportunity to make him mentally prepared that "Once Da Ming attacks the Ezo Matsumae Domain, the Aizu Domain will desperately come to help".

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With sufficient planning and knowing both ourselves and the enemy, Zhang Mingzhen's fleet was discovered by the patrol fleet under the command of Ezo Emperor Matsumae Shihiro without accident on the second day of March.

Who made Zhang Mingzhen not plan to hide from the beginning? He just went straight to Matsumaecho Port to land. He disliked that other beaches either had too many shoals that made it difficult for large ships to dock, or were precipitous and difficult to maneuver after landing.

At that time, there were only three cities in the Matsumae Domain on Ezo Island. In fact, they only controlled the Tsugaru Peninsula facing Honshu. Seventy to eighty percent of the rest of Ezo Island was controlled by Ezo natives.

In addition to the port of Matsumae Town, there are also two small towns, Hakodate Castle and Oysterzaki Castle.

As for Sapporo, the core city of Hokkaido in later generations, it is still a fishing village of Ezo savages, and there is no civilized rule at all. The administrative system was not established until the Meiji Restoration 200 years later.

To put it bluntly, the Ezo daimyo in the Edo period was actually just a trading base on the Ezo Island closest to Honshu Island, plus some supporting facilities.It is equivalent to Zhangjiakou and other Shanxi merchant bases on the Ming side, responsible for importing and exporting with barbarians.

When the Matsumae family heard that the army was coming, they were quite surprised at first. They didn't expect Zhang Mingzhen to be so straightforward, so they questioned the subordinates who were in charge of the Matsumae-cho Hong Kong feudal vassal:

"How many soldiers and horses does the Ming army have? How dare they land directly at the port? Isn't he afraid of being blocked by our army's forts? There are eight heavy artillery pieces of 'National Beng' in the port of Matsumaecho, and they were sent by the shogunate the day before yesterday. Come!"

The vassal in charge of Matsumae Port was also disheartened. He obviously escaped from the defeat and replied directly in frustration: "The Ming army has a lot of heavy artillery from warships! The eight cannons we have accumulated for so long were all destroyed by the Ming army's artillery shelling! The lord's Shiro led troops to guard the port, together with [-] warriors and [-] peasant soldiers, they were completely wiped out by the Ming army in half a day! The subordinates risked their lives to break out of the siege, so they had to report back!"

Hiroshi Matsumae felt like being poured with a basin of ice water.

He didn't expect that he would become a frog in a well, and the well-prepared anti-landing force would be wiped out by the Ming army's forcible beachhead within half a day.

We must know that at the beginning of the enfeoffment of the Edo shogunate, the Matsumae Domain was deemed to be obliged to bear the daimyo's obligation only according to the stone height of [-] shi.In other words, the Tokugawa family believed that Ezo Island was too cold and wild to grow too much rice, so they decided that the food tax for the entire island was only [-] shi.

Of course, this number is actually a huge underreporting. At that time, the tax-paying agricultural production area of ​​the Fuso people on Ezo Island could provide more than 20 shi a year in tax revenue. Now half a century has passed since the enfeoffment, after continuous With multiplication and development, the stone height of the whole island has been increased to about 50.

What is this concept?At that time, Fusang’s taxation on rice fields was about one shi of rice for less than two mu of land, so 50 shi was equivalent to only 100 million mu of rice fields on the island, plus other vegetable fields that were not used for growing grain, Bad fields should add up to less than 200 million mu.

Considering that the total area of ​​later generations in Hokkaido is 200 square kilometers, and 1000 million mu is equivalent to more than [-] square kilometers, the farmland area of ​​the Fuso people on the island at that time only accounted for [-]% of the total land area of ​​the island. Of course it is very low.

Fewer than 20 Fusang farmers on the entire island of Ezo had planted this little field. At that time, Fusang needed about eight stones of rice a year to raise a military source that was similar to farmers and soldiers with the lowest combat effectiveness.And if you want to reach the level of a warrior and have a certain military quality, at least [-] shimi a year will be used as rations and salary.This is not counting the money for weapons and equipment.

Therefore, all the food levied on the entire island of Ezo was used to raise soldiers, which was enough to feed about 5000 people.If you want to buy weapons, this number will be cut in half at least, and you can barely support more than 1 people.

In fact, at that time, the peace was going on for a long time, and the daimyos and nobles at all levels in the Matsumae Domain also had to spend to maintain a decent life.In peacetime, less than half of the money used to raise soldiers was used, so the whole island tried its best to arm up to 8000 people at most.

The Ming army killed 2000 people in one port, which was equivalent to killing a quarter of the Matsumae clan's wealth accumulated over the past few decades in half a day.

After Matsumae Ujihiro realized his arrogance and underestimation of the enemy, he quickly went to the other extreme. He ordered the whole army to retreat to Hakodate Castle, which was relying on the mountain, and begged the Aizu Domain to send reinforcements from Ezo Island in advance, and followed suit. He defended Hakodate together.

As the lord of the Aizu domain was unable to come to Ezo in person, the general Hoshina was sent to lead the army.

Seeing the menacing Ming army, Baoke Zhengzheng didn't want to go into this muddy water, but wanted to stop the loss in time, so he took some Aizu warriors back to Honshu Island by boat.

But he lacked a channel to communicate with Zhang Mingzhen, and Zhang Mingzhen didn't talk to him either.He had no choice but to try to go out to sea in the dark at night, found some boats and tried to sneak across the Tsugaru Strait.

Unexpectedly, the Ming army patrolled and defended the strait tightly, Baoke's first tentative stealing troops were intercepted and killed, and the warship was directly bombarded and sunk by the Ming warship on the strait, which was completely crushing.

The small warship of the Fusang people, facing the latest Ming army's heavy-duty Hongyi cannon that fired [-]-jin shells, directly penetrated the bottom of the ship and sank after a single shot. Even an iron-clad ship could not hold the [-]-jin heavy iron Bouncing to the top of the near attack.

The Fusang people were frightened dumb by this scene. As dozens of warships and thousands of soldiers were slaughtered in vain, Hoshina had no choice but to take other people and hid in a group with Matsumae Shihiro into Hakodate Castle.

The total strength of the two feudal clans originally exceeded 5000, but unfortunately, thousands of troops were lost in the two wars, and only 3000 remained in the city.

However, not all of Aizu's dark breakout fleets died out. After all, a few ships managed to reach the other side of the Tsugaru Strait, and some soldiers on the sunken ship swam back by luck.

In just a few days, they reported the tragic situation on the island to other northeastern feudal clans. The remaining troops of the three major northeast feudal clans of Sendai, Aizu, and Yonezawa also had to gather in the direction of the Tsugaru Strait for battle.

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On the Tsugaru Peninsula, Zhang Mingzhen's generals saw that the commander had easily landed, wiped out the beachheads to stop the enemy, and successfully surrounded Hakodate City, and they all begged him to launch a strong attack as soon as possible.

But Zhang Mingzhen was not in a hurry. He said to his subordinates in a leisurely manner: "If Hakodate is attacked now, how can you continue to bloodlet the Fusang people? Seduce the Fusang people to come to the rescue?
It is nothing to take down such a remote island, the key is to thoroughly hurt the Fusang people, let them swallow this bitter fruit, recognize the reality, and never dare to come to the rescue in the future!

Divide up!First land thousands of people on the Mutsu Peninsula on the opposite bank, occupy a port city adjacent to the strait, and seduce the Fuso Ou Allied Forces to attack the city and seize the port across the strait!We can kill and injure Fusang's rebellious people in large numbers!
If we don't go ashore, they probably won't dare to go to sea to fight.Moreover, after going ashore, defeating some enemies, they can also take advantage of the situation to plunder their rations, because the rations are used by the enemy to support wars.We came across the sea, and we are not afraid of fighting people, but we are afraid that they will fortify the walls and clear the country. We would rather burn down the city's inventory and spend the scorched earth everywhere with us. "

(End of this chapter)