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Chapter 469

It is not unreasonable for Zhang Mingzhen to pursue the rapid annihilation of more active forces of the Fuso Allied Forces, and even to disregard his own naval superiority, preferring to land on the Mutsu Peninsula opposite Ezo Island.

Because although the fighting power of the Ming army is absolutely crushing, it is fighting across the sea after all, and the logistics are very difficult.The food brought with the ship was only enough to feed the army for one and a half months, which was the limit of a [-]-mile cross-sea voyage.

In fact, considering that ten days of rations are left on the way back and forth, the combat rations for the land warfare window period are only 25 days, a maximum of one month.

Zhang Mingzhen must quickly solve the problem of raising food on the spot during the initial period.Otherwise, the cross-sea supply will continue, even if it will not be dragged down for the time being, but once it comes to the sixth month of the lunar calendar, a typhoon may appear at any time at the end of summer, and sea shipping may be threatened.

It took several days to capture Matsumae Port City and other places, as well as to besiege Hakodate.It took another four or five days to maneuver to defend the Olympiad Allied Forces and San Francisco.Therefore, there are only fifteen days left to raise food for him.

Therefore, in order to prevent accidents, Zhang Mingzhen was less than five days after the unloading of the troops, after Hoshina, who had severely damaged the Aizu Domain for the first time, tried to sneak southward in the Tsugaru Strait.

After confirming that the warships of the Fusang people in the Northeast were of poor quality and had no experience in naval warfare, he decisively sent most of the surplus ships back to Vladivostok to prepare for another round of rations and ammunition to prevent the army from running out of food.The sailors on the returning ship are assigned according to the minimum requirements, and the personnel are kept as much as possible to reduce the load, so that when we come back next time, we can load more supplies.

In Zhang Mingzhen's plan, this should be the last time he raised food and grass from the local direction, just an insurance backup.If he hadn't won a decisive victory in the Northeast of Fusang after all the food was eaten, then he would be ashamed to see Jiangdong's elders.

In addition, according to Zhu Shuren's plan before the war, while repatriating the grain convoy, Zhang Mingzhen also asked the general in charge of the escort to bring back a message confirming that the Fuso people chose to resist and ignore Daming in Ezo and Mutsu. so that Zheng Chenggong can start on time along the way.

Before the war, Zhu Shuren had ordered that Daming should be polite first and then soldiers. If the Fusang people immediately succumbed to their cowardice and cede land to pay compensation after being defeated in Eizo, then Daming would have no excuse to attack Ryukyu and Kyushu again. The diplomatic conditions set out can be reversed at any time, and it is not conducive to disintegrating the will of the enemy.

Now this kind of situation has not happened, and the people of Fusang still resisted resolutely, so Zheng Chenggong's journey can be regarded as a real example.

Considering that sea detour communication requires a lot of time, Zhang Mingzhen has to send a return letter until mid-March. It can be sent to Vladivostok in late March, and then passed by North Korea by land. Zheng Chenggong's fleet can attack from Pusan ​​in mid-April. Tsushima Island, and then attacked Kyushu.

Zhang Mingzhen must set aside time for Zheng Chenggong, because the timing of Zheng Chenggong's army will be at least one and a half months later than Zhang Mingzhen's, and if it is more, it may be two months.

The risk of typhoons in the Fusang area will increase in June of the lunar calendar. Zheng Chenggong only had a short [-] days from mid-April to late May to gain a firm foothold in Kyushu, and he may face the interruption of local shipping at any time in the future.

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The plan has been interlocked, and the rest is to strictly implement it. Zhang Mingzhen knows that he can't afford it, so his execution ability is very high.

On the tenth day of March, they crossed the Tsugaru Strait, landed on their own initiative under unexpected circumstances by the Fuso Ou Allied Forces, and launched an attack on Oura Castle on the Mutsu Peninsula on the south side of the strait.

Oura Castle is the territory of the Hirosaki Domain and the main port on the south bank of the Tsugaru Strait. It is also the site of Tsugaru Nobu in "Taiko Lizhi Biography" and "Nobunaga Wild Vision". Now it has been passed down to the third generation. The current lord Tsugaru Nobuyoshi .

The Hirosaki Domain is not considered a powerful domain, and it is not among the three major domains of the Ouyu Allied Forces dispatched by the shogunate. When Tokugawa Ieyasu was first canonized half a century ago, the Hirosaki Domain had a total of only 23 shi. It is only [-] shi to open up wasteland, farm, and recuperate.

The reason why the Hongqian clan suffered this time was simply because their fate was bad, and the location where they grew up happened to block Zhang Mingzhen's way.Zhang Mingzhen felt that it was the most suitable place to lure the enemy's Allied Forces, so he took Dapu City by hand.

The Fusang army was not on guard, so the Northeast San Francisco had no time to rescue. Zhang Mingzhen had already completed the siege of Dapu City. It only took a day and a half from crossing the sea to marching ashore and completing the siege.

After the siege, Zhang Mingzhen's general advised him to immediately bombard the city with light artillery from the cavalry accompanying the army, trying to break the city as soon as possible.In this way, when the coalition forces of the San Francisco in the Northeast arrived, the Ming army could defend the city and fight by relying on the favorable location.

But Zhang Mingzhen directly vetoed the proposal of his subordinates. He strictly ordered the troops to keep besieging the city, and would rather wait for one more day, and wait for the heavy red cannons to slowly unload from the dock, pull them to the front line, and then start deployment.

Anyway, the fortress part of Dapu City is not too far from the seaside port area, and it is enough to add up for one day.

Seeing this, the subordinate generals anxiously persuaded them: "General! The cavalry artillery accompanying the army is enough to smash the gates of the dilapidated city of these Fusang people! Why use a bull's knife to cut chickens? It is not good to enter the city for an extra day to deploy defenses and deal with enemy reinforcements. Is it?"

Zhang Mingzhen explained sharply: "Using cavalry cannons is called cutting chickens with a sledgehammer! After fighting for the past ten days, a certain person has discovered a blind spot in the Fusang people's combat—they have never seen cavalry cannons, and they don't know the maneuverability of this weapon." Sex, if you hide this point, you can leave an ambush for our army! How can it be easily exposed?

We just want to use the clumsy and slow Hongyi cannons to slowly break through the city, so that the enemy will underestimate our ability to attack in the future! "

The subordinates thought about it for a while, and quickly admitted that this idea was good. Anyway, it is more than enough to capture Dapu City, and it will not miss the big deal by pretending to be slow.

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In contrast, the Tsugaru Nobuyoshi family in Oura City was still very nervous when they first saw the Ming army besieging the city.With a territory of 10,000+ stones, he can only recruit a standing army of up to 4000 people. Even if he temporarily recruits farmers and soldiers, it will not be able to talk about combat effectiveness.The strength of the Hirosaki Domain is less than half of that of the Matsumae Domain on the other side.

However, after the Ming army besieged the city, they were unable to start shelling and attacking the city immediately. They just took the new rifles and fired randomly at the oars and castle towers at the top of the city to suppress them. Tsugaru Nobuyoshi's tension gradually calmed down.

He thought that the Ming army lacked heavy siege weapons, or at least the siege weapons were slow and could only be suppressed remotely.So he just asked the warriors, archers, and iron gunners to hide inside the Loulou and not to show their heads, unless the Ming army charged to shoot arrows and guns.

In his heart, Nobuyoshi Tsugaru only hoped that the coalition forces of the San Francisco in the Northeast would come to rescue him as soon as possible.

It's a pity he couldn't wait for this day.The Ming army only allowed him to live one more day, but the Allied Forces of the Northeast San Francisco still did not arrive the next day, but the dull heavy artillery brought by the Ming army from the port arrived first.

The largest land battle gun of the Ming army is still one or two grades smaller than the naval gun, after all, mobility must be considered.

Now the ultimate naval gun iron bullet is sixty kilograms, and the heaviest land battle gun is forty kilograms.If you use flowering ammunition, because the charge is much lighter than solid iron, the heaviest is only 25 catties.

But even the 25-jin blooming bullet and the 18-jin iron bullet are far from what Fusang people have seen before.Half a century ago, Tokugawa Ieyasu blasted the "National Beng" of Osaka Castle. In fact, it was just an [-]-pound Dutch gun, which was less than [-] Mingjin.

And Osaka Castle was already the largest castle in Fusang at that time, and Oura Castle in front of you is simply a small fish and shrimp.

Nobuyoshi Tsugaru was stunned by the first round of shelling by the Ming army. After a simple calibration, the third round began to hit the earthen wall and the wall, directly blasting the gate and the earthen wall to pieces.

By the fifth round of shelling, a flower bomb and a [-]-jin iron bomb directly hit the castle tower, which was only three stories high.The castle tower was directly bombed and collapsed, and the lord Tsugaru Nobuyoshi was buried alive because of the collapse of the building.

However, the Ming army has not yet launched a charge at this moment, and is still waiting for ten rounds of artillery firepower to prepare according to the drills, and then makes a tentative charge, confirming that there is no decent resistance, and then swarms in—if the resistance is still strong, the first If the defenders on the defense line still do not retreat, the Ming army will bombard for another ten rounds according to the code of practice.It's just that this situation has no chance to happen here.

After the first wave of ten rounds, the Ming army swarmed in. The hundreds of samurai and thousands of ordinary soldiers of the Hongsaki Domain fought chaotically, and were quickly crushed by the advancing Ming army.

The Ming army already had the blessing of queuing up and shooting with new rifles. If the Fusang people dared to use long spears or bows and arrows to fight in arrays, they would be delivering food, and they would not be able to enter the range of the Ming army.Only a small number of samurai charged directly with a samurai sword, had the opportunity to approach the Ming army,
But soon they discovered that even if they escaped the rain of gunfire and bullets, they could not get cheap in front of the bayonet array with their samurai swords alone.

The warrior with the most exquisite martial arts skills in the entire Hongqian Domain is a fierce style of fighting for life in exchange for his life. At most two or three soldiers of the Ming army will be killed in exchange, and then they will be tied into a hornet's nest by the random blade, and more can only be exchanged for death A soldier of the Ming army may be killed in vain on the way.

Although the scene was not comparable to the movie "The Last Samurai" depicting the end of the Bakumatsu, it was almost tragic and of great artistic value.

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The [-] samurai and more peasants and soldiers of the Hirosaki Domain were wiped out by the Ming army within a day, and the difference in weapons was crushed. Bravery and numbers could no longer bridge the gap.

The blame can only be blamed on the Fusang people who have been offline for too long. They don't know how far the East Asian monster room has escalated in the past few decades of technological progress and arms race against the background of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

The Tsugaru family was also killed by the Ming army in the chaotic war, which is regarded as a prestige.

After another half a day, the forwards of the Allied Forces from San Francisco in the Northeast arrived.But seeing that the Ming army was so fierce, their few cavalry units did not dare to step forward easily, but planned to gather their troops first and stalemate and delay.

Zhang Mingzhen let people chase after him for a while, and shot and killed hundreds of Fusang cavalry with his rifle team. In the end, he couldn't catch up because of lack of mobility, so he took back the city when he saw it.

After all, the Ming army came across the sea, and they had to sail continuously at sea for ten days, so the first batch of cavalry was very small, and it was difficult to transport horses across the sea.

The Fusang people were defeated two or three times in a row, and the San Francisco in the Northeast had no choice but to further intensify their mobilization and ask the Edo shogunate for help, trying to use crowd tactics to submerge the much smaller Ming army.

After discussing with all parties in Fusang, they felt that this was the only way.Because the human resources of Fuso in this era are still very sufficient, and the only thing that can be used is human life——

Many Chinese people in later generations have a misunderstanding about the historical interpretation of China and Japan during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, thinking that the population of Fusang people has always been only a few percent of that of Ming Dynasty, but this is actually divided into time periods.

If it was during the Wanli Period and the Japanese Invasion of Imchen, the total population of Fusang during the Warring States Period was always fluctuating between 800 and 1 million due to continuous wars. At that time, there were more than [-] million people in Ming Dynasty, which is indeed at least ten times that of Fusang. five times.

However, during the Ming and Qing wars, natural disasters in the last 30 to 4000 years at the end of the Ming Dynasty were superimposed, and the population of Ming Dynasty fell to over 5000 million at the lowest point. Now, despite the butterfly effect of Zhu Shuren, there are only more than 6000 million people left at the lowest point. Reply now After several years of peace, it climbed back to [-] million.

As for Fusang, the population recovery was the fastest in the first 50 years after the end of the Warring States Period.At the end of the Warring States Period, there were 800 million people, at the end of the Tokugawa period, 4000 million people, and at the time of World War I, 7000 million people.

In the 260 years of the Edo period, at least half of the population growth was completed in the first half century just after peace was restored.When the third-generation general Tokugawa Iemitsu died, the population was about two million in 2000. Now Tokugawa Ietsuna has not counted it, but it is estimated to be around 400 million, which is three times the number at the end of the Warring States Period.

Daming has 6000 million people, and Fusang has [-]. The population of Fusang is actually [-]% of that of Daming!Therefore, fighting for population alone should not underestimate Fusang.

That's why Zhu Shuren didn't want to become a fat man in one go.It is very unwise to directly launch an all-out war against a nation that is equivalent to [-]% of the population of Ming Dynasty.

Now the Fusang people are losing streak, but they still don't want to admit it, and realize that the weapon generation gap is too serious, so they can only pile up lives and explode soldiers.They won't be convinced until they try it.

Only by truly crushing and hurting in all directions can they make them obediently admit defeat like the father who surrendered to the United States in later generations.

The San Francisco in Northeast China and the surrounding slaves are still more than 400 million stone high. The main reason is that the Sendai Domain is relatively large, plus some direct support from the Edo Shogunate.

The Fusang people quickly organized a force ten times the size of the Ezo garrison and twenty times the size of the Hirosaki garrison, that is, about 8 to 1 people. Come to fight with Zhang Mingzhen's mere [-] Ming army water and land soldiers.

And Zhang Mingzhen had kept Hakodate Castle on Ezo Island unbroken before, but just surrounded it without fighting, in order to seduce the Fusang people for reinforcements.Now that the reinforcements have arrived one after another, and the arrow has to be sent out, there is no need to keep the bait.

On March 22, No. 20 days after Zhang Mingzhen landed and fought, the Ming army suddenly launched a strong attack and completely breached Hakodate Castle. All [-] Japanese troops in the city were defeated, thousands of people were killed directly, and the rest were either captured or fled.

The remnants of Hakodate who had broken through were afraid of the Ming army, so they had to go north to burn, kill and loot, and entered the territory of the Ainu people to survive.This aroused the hatred of the Ainu people, and they slaughtered each other with those Fusang remnant soldiers. The flames of war further spread to the Fusang people in the Tsugaru Peninsula in the south of Ezo Island, and the large-scale vendettas of the Ainu people in the vast northern area. The population consumption was more than a few Ten thousand.

In fact, even if the Ming army did not come to punish the people, the Ainu people in history would launch an uprising that lasted for several years under the leadership of the patriarch Xiang Ku Xiangying in 1669. It is "Kuanwen Ezo Flocking".

Now it is just that the dissatisfaction of the Ainu people against the Fusang people broke out years in advance.As long as the Ming army cut off the reinforcements from Fusang Honshu Island to suppress the rebellion, the civilians of the Matsumae clan would not be able to resist if the Fusang people of the Matsumae clan and a large number of Eizu people were allowed to fight each other.

At that time, there were less than 20 Fusang people in the entire Ezo Island, but there were as many as 60 to [-] Ezo people, and the population ratio was at least three times higher.

After Zhang Mingzhen completely destroyed the rule of the Fusang people on Ezo Island, he allowed the Ezo civilians and Fusang civilians to eat chicken and rolls by themselves, while he was able to gather all the Ming troops, a total of more than 1 people, to fight with Fusang around Dapu City The Allied Forces of the Three Kingdoms are in a stalemate.

After the Allied Forces of Fusang and San Francisco assembled their forces, they launched several strong attacks on Dapu City.

Zhang Mingzhen did not expose all the firepower at the beginning, but hid it, seducing many Fusang people to join him, killing more people and consuming more lives.

Fusang people crashed into the fortified area like a stormy sea, and thousands of people were shot and killed.

After two disastrous defeats, the Fusang Allied Forces finally learned their lesson and could only besiege instead of attacking, hoping to rely on the Ming army to cross the sea to fight, and the army could not supply enough food, and finally was weakened by the siege and starvation.

At the same time, as the war stalemate entered April, the Northeast San Francisco repeatedly begged the Edo shogunate troops to send more reinforcements, especially to transport food to the Northeast front.

After all, to pull up [-] to [-] combat troops and more reserve men, the food needed is really astronomical.Previously, in the history of Fusang, only the Battle of Sekihara, the Battle of Osaka, and the crossing of the sea to conquer Korea had such a large-scale logistics dispatch.

The Edo shogunate could only provide the food and grass required by the front line to the best of its ability, but at the same time said that the reinforcements were really gone, and they could only let them catch the strong men on the spot.

The Northeast San Francisco was baffled, and finally found out that it was because the Fusang shogunate dared to resist the reasonable demands of Ming Dynasty, which led to Zheng Chenggong from Kyushu.The shogunate wanted to send reinforcements to Kyushu, so the Northeast had to let the local daimyo solve it by themselves. The shogunate could only give money, food and ammunition but not soldiers.

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Confirming that the battle has entered a stalemate, the Fusang coalition forces want to rely on the front line to store food and besiege the Ming army who came across the sea for a long time.Of course Zhang Mingzhen has a way to break the situation.

He had been hiding it all the time so as not to expose the Ming army's cavalry artillery combat power, wasn't he just waiting for this moment?

Therefore, while he continued to close the city calmly, he sent his secret agents to slowly investigate the enemy's situation and find out where the Fusang coalition forces were storing grain.

The hard work paid off, and the Ming army sentry ships and fine workmen used both water and land, and soon found the food storage area of ​​the Fusang coalition army.

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PS: Try to end the story of Fusang within two or three days, it won't be delayed.

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