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Chapter 470 Kill a Shogun's Uncle Liwei First
After Zhang Mingzhen dispatched land and water scouts to investigate, he finally found out:

The coalition forces hoarded the military rations needed during the siege of Oura City in Akita City, more than a hundred miles away from Oura City-this place later became Akita County, which produced the famous Akita Dog in the northeast of Fuso.

When Zhang Mingzhen heard that the food was stored so far away, he was a little depressed at first.But later, his subordinates explained to him that the Fuso shogunate began to implement a government order more than 30 years ago, called "One Country, One City Order",
That is, each domain can only keep one city to solve the problem of castles in the Warring States Period.So when Daming called this time, the layout of Fusang city he saw was quite different from the Japanese Rebellion in Renchen during Wanli.In Fusang, there are only 66 cities among the 66 countries in the country, and the rest are rural areas without fortifications.

There is only one city for each feudal country, and there are far distances between cities.In particular, the Northeast of Fusang is vast and sparsely populated, and the vassal state occupies a larger area, and the distance between cities is even further.

If it hadn't been demolished, the Fusang Army might have been able to stockpile food in Hiyama Castle, but who made Hiyama Castle demolished in 1620?

Zhang Mingzhen stroked it, and felt that it was a bit difficult to go to Akita City to rob food, but it was not impossible.

Since Akita is more than 100 miles away from Oura, the Fusang Allied Forces would never have expected that he would dare to use a small force to detour behind the enemy's rear and launch another sneak attack.

An idea between Cao Cao's "Wuchao burning food" in Guandu and MacArthur's "Incheon landing" in North Korea later took shape in Zhang Mingzhen's mind.

He divided his own main force of 1 people again, and sent 7000 people to defend Dapu City, and the other 3000 people used the few warships he left with the army to detour back to Akita City and land again.

(He brought a total of 1 troops, but after fighting for a month, 2000 people have been lost. The Fusang people have been wiped out by tens of thousands. Even if the Ming army has the advantage of weapon generation difference, the combined death and injury 2000 deaths are still required.)
Some of his subordinates felt that he was too risky, but Zhang Mingzhen insisted on this style of play. In order to stabilize the morale of the army and ensure execution, he decided to personally lead the team to command the sneak attack army and let his subordinates help to stay and defend the city. There is no technical content, just follow the steps.

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Before launching another surprise landing attack, the Ming army would of course have to spend a few days clearing the waterway to ensure that the Fusang people's ships could not go out to sea, so as to ensure the suddenness of the operation.

Fortunately, the Ming army's motivation to clear the waterway was easy to conceal, because it was the time when Zhang Mingzhen's second batch of supplies for crossing the sea was about to arrive in Dapu from Vladivostok.Zhang Mingzhen was about to put on a posture of "patrolling and escorting carefully to prevent the Fusang people from attacking the cross-sea transport fleet".

Zhang Mingzhen also deliberately pretended to be careless, and through some channels, leaked the date of his supplies' arrival to the Fusang coalition forces.

The people of Fusang learned that the second batch of supplies from the Ming army would arrive on March 28th. They really overestimated their capabilities and moved to send fire ships to intercept and burn the supply ships of the Ming army. Unfortunately, the gap between the strength of warships and guns was too great in the end. Big, the fire attack boats of the Fusang people didn't get close at all, and they were all sunk.

In particular, the Huogong ship was already full of fuel, and if it was hit by a shell from a long distance, it would be completely killed, and it would not last until it hit the Ming army ship.

The Fusang people lost more than a hundred light fishing boats temporarily refitted as fire attack boats, and more than 1000 sailors died, so they had to give up.The Ming army also took advantage of this opportunity to completely occupy the command of the sea, making it impossible for the Fusang people to even go to sea for investigation these days.

On the third day after the Fusang people lost their right to investigate at sea, on the second day of April, the Ming army finally took action. 3000 people took [-] ships, and Zhang Mingzhen personally supervised the battle. After a day of sailing, they arrived at Akita City, and then launched a landing again.

This time, the Ming army finally used the cavalry artillery that Zhang Mingzhen had hidden for a long time.

Akita City is not a strict port city, it was built in a dangerous place relying on the mountain.There is a port twenty or thirty miles outside the city, called Tsuchizaki Minato-cho-those who have played "Taiko Lizhi Biography" should also know this place.

Therefore, when the Ming army landed, they landed at Tsuchizaki Minato Port, and then they had to march for [-] miles to attack Akita Castle.There are also some climbing mountain roads, so the normal cannon march will be very slow.

Tsuchizaki Minato Port has no city walls or fortresses, it is purely a commercial fishing port, and there are only a few hundred guards in the port area, so it was naturally killed by the Ming army.

The Ming army only fired two rounds of rifles, and killed hundreds of Japanese soldiers and civilians who spontaneously resisted.

But the Ming army's landing troops ignored these people at all, and after only a quarter of an hour to clear the port area, they immediately rushed towards Akita City without stopping.

One thousand of the 3000 people are cavalry, and this is the only cavalry among the more than 1 troops brought by Zhang Mingzhen this time. Who makes it difficult to transport horses across the sea.

Now is the time for these thousand cavalry to show their power.They maneuvered quickly and dragged the cavalry cannon's artillery cart, and within more than an hour they got the cavalry cannon outside Akita City.

When the defenders of Akita Castle were attacked in Tsuchizaki Minato Port, they reacted and quickly closed the city gate to defend.But they still didn't expect that the Ming army could attack the city with only cavalry!There can also be a highly mobile Hongyi cannon that quickly advances with the cavalry!
With the roar of the cavalry artillery of the Ming army, Akita City was soon enveloped in the bombardment.

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At the same time, the urgent messenger of the Japanese army has also rushed to the Oura siege camp in San Francisco in the northeast, warning that the army has landed in a surprise attack after rounding Tsuchizaki Minato Port, and it is estimated that they will immediately attack the rear of the siege army. Akita Castle.

The commander of the coalition of the Northeast San Francisco is none other than Masayuki Hoshina, the lord of the Aizu Domain, and the half-grandmother of the shogun (same father and mother as the shogun’s father Tokugawa Iemitsu), and has a status similar to that of the shogunate assistant minister.

This Hoshina had just experienced the pain of bereavement more than ten days ago, and one of his sons was shot dead by the Ming army when he was assisting the Matsumae clan in the defense of Hakodate on Ezo Island.So of course Baoke Zhengzhi has a national and family hatred with Zhang Mingzhen.

He not only needs to avenge the country's revenge for the shogun's nephew, but also seek Zhang Mingzhen to avenge his son's murder!
So after hearing that Zhang Mingzhen dared to divide his troops, his hatred was immediately ignited: "The Ming army is too deceitful! Zhang Mingzhen has less than [-] troops in total, how dare he divide his troops? How many enemies does Tsuchizaki Minato have? When you were defeated, didn't you see clearly the reality of the enemy army?"

The urgent messenger told the truth: "There are about... three thousand people, but there are cavalry, at least several hundred, maybe more than a thousand."

Masayuki Hoshina filled his chest with anger: "With 3000 people, they dare to split up and surround them. Aren't they afraid of being surrounded by my army? I ordered my Aizu Fan soldiers to quickly mobilize all soldiers and rush to rescue the autumn! Let the Sendai Fan Yonezawa Fan continue to besiege Oura! But the cavalry from the Second Yonezawa Domain of Sendai must be drawn out, and all of them must be handed over to me to take them to Akita!"

Baoke Zhengzhi is very clear that if he wants to gather the troops of the San Francisco, there will be too little time. Rescuing soldiers is like putting out fires, and quickness is more important than having more people.

The soldiers of the Aizu domain are in his camp, and they can be dispatched immediately without food, grass and supplies, and there is no need to waste time discussing communication.Although the infantry of the other two domains could not be dispatched, the cavalry had an advantage in speed. Even if it took several hours to notify and dispatch, they could still catch up.

So only half an hour later, he took [-] Aizu domain infantry and all the San Francisco cavalry to rush to rescue Akita.

Fusang also has more horses in the Northeast than in the South. Anyone who has played the strategy game with the background of the Warring States Period knows this. In "Nobunaga Ambition", Date Uesugi Takeda in the Northeast is a strong cavalry vassal.

Therefore, the scale of cavalry in the Northeast San Francisco is already the highest among the Fusang clans. Today, they also spent their money and directly drew out more than 1 cavalry, adding up to 5000 cavalry and muskets.

In his opinion, there are still quite a few defenders in Akita City, even if they are less than ten thousand, at least there are more than five thousand.So after joining forces, the total strength can exceed 3000. Wouldn't it be easy to crush the [-]-man sneak attack troops of the Ming army?

This is surrounded by more than a dozen people. No matter how powerful the Ming army's weapons are, it is impossible to repel the Japanese army more than ten times in the field when surrounded by enemies on all sides!

If the Ming army wants to come back, the only chance is to break through Akita Castle before Hoshina Masaoyuki arrives!Turn to defend the city!In this way, you don't have to worry about being attacked from the back, you just need to concentrate on dealing with the enemies outside.

But this is absolutely impossible!Hoshina Masaoyuki firmly believed that he was marching fast enough, and the Ming army had to pull the heavy siege artillery from Tsuchizaki Minato Port to Akita Castle, and then complete the deployment of artillery positions, one day was absolutely not enough!The previous battle records in Dapu City have proved this point!
If you march in a hurry, you can definitely get reinforcements before breaking the city!

With such a belief, Hoshina Masanoyuki, the "Light of the Shogunate", spared no expense in horsepower, requiring the soldiers to run for more than 80 miles on foot for most of the day, which is equivalent to running a full marathon.

But he is running a race against life. He knows the importance of racing against time. As long as he arrives within a day, he can make sure that the autumn city is not broken and the army's food storage is not captured when he arrives, even if the soldiers have only one breath left. Double the number of advantages can also crush the Ming army who is suffering from the enemy!
What's more, as long as reinforcements appear and the Ming army realizes that stealing the city will not succeed, the Ming army may not dare to turn around and rush to the field immediately.As long as I hold back the Ming army, I can rest slowly to allow the soldiers to recover their strength, and the loss of running a marathon can be made up for.

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After marching for five consecutive hours, [-] elite Japanese troops finally ran a distance equivalent to a full marathon at one-third the speed of a marathon.

The soldiers still had to hold weapons, so they were naturally exhausted.

Those soldiers wearing armor had already lost their helmets and armor on the way, and they were as embarrassed as Hashiba Hideyoshi 60 years ago during the "China Uprising", and they almost ran out of appendicitis and belched directly.

On the evening of the third day of April, [-] Japanese troops finally arrived at the mouth of Mt. Torigami and Igawa Valley, fifteen miles north of Akita Castle. Standing on a high place, one could see Akita Castle in the distance.

Hoshina Masaoyuki finally breathed a sigh of relief. The last part of the road was downhill, and he didn't see any chaos like fire in Akita Castle in the distance, which means that the Ming army probably hasn't broken the city yet, and maybe hasn't even started the storm yet. , Still waiting for the deployment of the siege heavy artillery!
Finally caught up!
However, just when Bao Ke Zhengzhi was full of confidence and led the team to rush through the canyon between Niaoshang Mountain and Jingchuan Mountain, the front army had just passed tens of thousands of people, and the rear army still had more than 2 people. Going up to the top of the mountain, and the top of Hejingchuan Mountain, the banner of the Ming army suddenly appeared.

On the commanding heights of the mountains on both sides, there are about [-] Ming army rifle teams on each side, holding glaring bayonets made in Wuchang, firing indiscriminately at the valley, firing guns repeatedly, and hundreds of Ming army cavalry bravely pierced the mountain Come down and cut the Japanese army into several sections.

Although the number of these Ming cavalry is small, everyone has a revolver that fires shotguns, which can be fired in six bursts against the face, and more than 300 people can fire [-] shots without reloading!

Although the Japanese army had 5000 men, they had just finished a marathon after all. When they were most exhausted and morale was most relaxed, they were suddenly rushed by more than 2000 Ming troops.

To make matters worse, the Japanese army lost their helmets and unarmored during the forced rescue, and now they are basically in a state of no armor.And the Ming Dynasty shotgun is most restrained by unarmored units. If you wear a set of cotton armor, this kind of iron sand and lead will not be easy to penetrate.

Therefore, the lethality of the shotgun is almost the same as when I dreamed back to Chongzhen for 12 years and dealt with the bandits from the fifth battalion of Gezuo.

A piece of lead is a big disability, and two iron sands are a trace of blood.

Even though the number of the Japanese army was fifteen times that of the Ming army, they were still defeated by the superposition of multiple DEBUFFs.

One of the cavalry of the Ming army, with only a hundred or so cavalry, happened to be led and commanded by Zhang Mingzhen himself.But because he saw Hoshina Masaoyuki's banner, he ordered his subordinates to rush straight over.

Zhang Mingzhen's cavalry were all equipped with forged steel breastplates, and there was a buffer lining inside, which could stop even the old-fashioned iron cannons of the Fusang people, so they were not worried about the protection of rashly charging.

The cavalry of the Ming army fired pistols to clear the way, which shocked the cavalry counterparts of the Japanese army inexplicably.

Although among the cavalry troops of the San Francisco in the Northeast, there happened to be the "Date Family Iron Cannon" with the strongest cavalry and shooting tactics in the Japanese army.But their weapons are also the kind of crap that takes 1 minute to reload each shot.The cavalry of the Ming army fired six consecutive shots.

The first gun cavalry battle between China and Japan broke out just outside Akita City.

Baoke Zhengzhi put the hundreds of horse-riding iron artillery team of Date's family by his side, but they still couldn't withstand Zhang Mingzhen's charge.The tired and disorganized Yida cavalry were shot and fell off their horses one after another, scattered like birds and beasts, without any elite state.

Hoshina Masayuki wielded the "Onimaru Kunizan", known as one of the five famous swords in the world, hacked and killed several deserters, and tried to fight hand-to-hand with the Ming army cavalry, but was finally beaten into a hornet's nest by the Ming army's pistol rain.

This Onimaru Kunizan was originally a famous heirloom sword of the head of the Hojo clan of the Kanto princes during the Warring States Period. Later, the Hojo clan was destroyed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi and fell into the hands of Hideyoshi. Later, the Toyotomi family was destroyed by the Tokugawa family and fell into In the hands of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Hoshina Masaoyuki's biological father was Tokugawa Hidetada (son of Ieyasu), the second-generation shogunate general of the shogunate. Due to blood problems, Hidetada could not recognize Hoshina Masayuki's humble maternal lineage as his ancestor, so he was adopted by the Aizu Domain and gave him this sword as a gift. commemorate.

Unexpectedly, with the lord of the Aizu domain being killed by Zhang Mingzhen today, Zhang Mingzhen also took the famous sword into his pocket after beheading Hoshina Masaoyuki.

Although he didn't know Japanese swords, since this sword was a token given to the illegitimate son of the foreign domain by the second shogun, it was very valuable.

Hoshina died, and the rest of the Japanese army naturally collapsed just like the Imagawa army in Ozama.The morale and strength are exhausted to the extreme, no matter how many people there are, it's useless.

More than 2000 Ming troops drove more than 3 Japanese soldiers to chase and kill them, and they were shot in a row.

According to the statistics of the Ming army after the war, nearly [-] Japanese soldiers' heads were cut off, and at least a few thousand of them were trampled to death or injured by the Ming army on the mountain road.

I only hate that the number of the Ming army is too small, and the Japanese army can't catch up even if they are scattered in all directions, otherwise they will definitely kill more.

Until the collapse of the Japanese army, there was one biggest problem they couldn't figure out: they had already marched in such a hurry to reinforce, why would the defenders of Akita Castle be so useless?The Ming army broke the city without even defending it for a day?
And the Ming army can not only break through the city!After breaking the city, you can still find time to set up an ambush at the peaks on both sides of the mountain road fifteen miles north of the city ahead of time!This shows that the siege took only one morning at most!
It really can't be blamed for the lack of reinforcements from the Japanese army!The core key is that the defenders of Akita Castle are too useless!
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Following the disastrous defeat of Baoke Zhengzhi's reinforcements and huge losses, the remaining remnants of the Northeast San Francisco Allied Forces no longer dared to act rashly.

After all, the uncle of the shogun died here, who can bear the blame?Even the feudal lord of the Date family is worried about whether he will be punished by the shogunate, let alone the rest.

Moreover, the complete change of hands of Akita Castle and such a quick change of hands brought the situation of the Japanese army in the Northeast into a complete collapse.

Because the Ming army broke through the city too quickly, the defenders of Akita City didn't even set fire to the granary before they collapsed!
That is to say, the actions of the Ming army can not only be compared to "Cao Cao robs Wuchao", but even do much better than Cao Cao in Wuchao!
When Cao Cao was in Wuchao, he just burned Yuan Shao's food, and he didn't get it himself.

However, Zhang Mingzhen directly took the military rations hoarded by the Allied Forces of the Northeast San Francisco for the long-term siege of Dapu City, and directly took it for himself!
That is to say, the Ming army had enough rations for an 1 army for several months out of thin air!In fact, the Ming army only has more than [-] people, so much food is enough for a year and a half!
Let Zhang Mingzhen not have to worry about military supplies and live in Ezo and Oshu for a year and a half, then the entire northeast of Fuso will be completely messed up into no man's land!

The bad news spread back to Aizu Wakamatsu Castle and Edo Castle, and the clansmen of the Aizu Domain, as well as the shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna, all wept bitterly.

General Tokugawa's uncle was killed by Zhang Mingzhen, and the [-] to [-] troops were repeatedly defeated. Now that the army rations have been taken, they may be defeated again at any time, and the Kanto is completely damaged.

Coupled with the fact that Zheng Chenggong in the south is also gaining preliminary results, Tokugawa Iezuna had to reconsider whether the war could continue.

There are already some old staff around him, and they began to privately persuade the general to cede the land and pay compensation, and let it go.

(End of this chapter)