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Chapter 471 Zheng Chenggong Exterminates the Changzhou Fan
The words are divided into two parts.

Now that the Fusang decided how the war started, they could no longer have the right to decide how the war ended.

At the beginning, they persuaded them to hand over the Ezo who had illicitly confiscated the Manchu Qing Dynasty to Daming, and punished the Satsuma clan who had encroached on Ryukyu privately, but they refused to listen and insisted on fighting.

At this time, the price that Daming asked for again was obviously not what he asked for at the beginning, and he asked for a little more, as a punishment.

Following Zhang Mingzhen's victory in the Northeast, the shogunate began to turn around. Zheng Chenggong's side had just opened in Kitakyushu. How could he be willing to stop now and let Zhang Mingzhen steal the limelight?
Zheng Chenggong has more troops than Zhang Mingzhen, the supply route is shorter than Zhang Mingzhen, and the battlefield is closer to the Central Plains. At least double the results are needed to be worthy of his huge investment.

On the fifth day of April, just two days after Zhang Mingzhen shot and killed Hoshina outside Akita City.At Hakata Port in Kitakyushu, Zheng Chenggong has launched a landing operation on Kyushu.

Of course, when Zheng Chenggong launched an all-out attack, he didn't know that Zhang Mingzhen had already achieved such a great victory. The two places were separated by thousands of miles, and Vladivostok was needed to relay the news in between. The transmission of military information was still very slow.

Three days before the Hakata landing battle, Zheng Chenggong had actually arrived in Fusang.The reason why he didn't initiate the landing directly at the beginning was because he needed to take Tsushima Island, which was blocked between Hakata and Busan, first.

Tsushima Island, when the Mongols invaded Fusang, resisted it for a long time. Later generations of Fusang people used that battle as a material to publish the final masterpiece "Ghost of Tsushima" in the PS4 era.

It's a pity that facing Zheng Chenggong's sailing battleship that directly took out [-] heavy guns, Tsushima Island was bombarded and occupied by the Ming army in just three days.

This kind of small island lacks depth, and the main city port and densely populated areas are not deep enough inland, so they are all within the range of naval guns.

The Ming army even skipped the step of deploying siege artillery positions ashore, and directly bombarded and smashed the city on the sea, rushing in.

While seizing Tsushima Island, there is no need to seize the Hirado Five Islands in another corner of northern Kyushu.Because before the war, that place was the Zheng family's sphere of influence.

Zheng Chenggong's younger brother Tagawa Qizaemon was there, and Zheng Chenggong's mother Tagawa was the daughter of a local wealthy family.

So as soon as the war started, many islands between Kyushu and North Korea completely fell into the hands of Zheng Chenggong within a few days.

On the fifth day of April, after the successful landing in Hakata Port, the relatively large-scale fierce battle gradually started.

Hakata Port is the Fukuoka of later generations, so the first to bear the brunt is the Fukuoka feudal lord Kuroda Mitsuyuki.

Kuroda Mitsuyuki was actually quite depressed, because there were at least three vassals on Kyushu Island who didn't get along well with the shogunate, and had accumulated hatred during the establishment of the Tokugawa family's rule.However, Kuroda Mitsuyuki's Fukuoka domain is one of the outliers.

An important reason why Ming Dynasty attacked Kyushu this time was that the Satsuma Domain annexed Ryukyu, a vassal state of Ming Dynasty.

After Kuroda Mitsuyuki was bombarded by the Ming army in Hakata Port, he judged the situation and sent an envoy to negotiate with the Ming army, saying: You want to find trouble with the Satsuma domain, go directly to Southern Kyushu and land, why come to Kitakyushu?
If the Ming army is willing to go directly to southern Kyushu, then the Fukuoka domain can definitely pretend to be cowardly and avoid the war.There is also a certain probability that the shogunate will turn a blind eye and turn a blind eye. At that time, Higo Domain, Kumamoto Domain, and Changzhou Domain on Honshu Island may send troops to rescue——

Historically, during the downfall of the Meiji 200 years later, among the four feudal clans that were the main force in the downfall, the Satsuma clan was the first, followed by the Changshu clan and the Kumamoto clan.It can be said that the several domains in the southwest of Fusang were at odds with the shogunate.

If the Ming Dynasty had chosen to attack the vassals that were at odds with the shogunate, maybe the war would not have expanded.At that time, only these few vassals will report to the group to keep warm, and others will watch the show, wouldn't it be beautiful?
However, in the face of Kuroda Mitsuyuki's argument, Zheng Chenggong directly refused.

What Daming wants is the entire Kyushu Island. If you really only deal with the "guilty" daimyo, how can you swallow the whole island?
Couldn't it be that the Ming Dynasty took the Satsuma Domain, the Kumamoto Domain, and the Higo Domain, but left the Fukuoka Domain as the territory of Fuso?Of course, we have to fish in troubled waters to get a little more.

So Zheng Chenggong said: Although the Fukuoka domain was not the one that directly committed the crime, in the eyes of Daming, the Fusang domains are one.

The Ming Dynasty wanted to attack Kyushu, and the shortest route was from Busan to Hakata via Tsushima Island, which was only a 200-mile voyage.If you go directly from Ningbo to South Kyushu, it will be a [-]-mile voyage.

For the safety of the logistics supply line, who would abandon the route of [-] miles instead of walking [-] miles?
If you want to blame, you can only blame the poor location of the Fukuoka Clan, which happened to be on the traffic artery between the Korean Peninsula and Kyushu!

In the era of peaceful trade, Fukuoka did not lose the dividends of foreign trade. Now that it is wartime, it is completely reasonable to spit out a little bit of bad luck for a while.

Of course, there are some things that are not easy to say so clearly. After all, Daming is still a country of etiquette and faith.

So when Zheng Chenggong replied, in addition to rejecting the other party's conditions, he also re-offered his own conditions.

Said that if the Fukuoka clan can agree to this condition, Daming still can not beat him.

The specific condition is: the Fukuoka domain must give Daming a share equivalent to half a year's tax and food according to the stone height of its own territory.Provide military rations for Ming Dynasty to punish other really guilty and those who want to reinforce Satsuma.

Fukuoka's Shigao was 55 shi. He publicly offered 30 shi of military rations to Zheng Chenggong, and Zheng Chenggong let him go.

After this condition was sent back to Kuroda Hikaru, he certainly couldn't accept it.

Not to mention whether he can afford so much food right now, even if he wants to sell iron and steel, no one will sell it to him.And after doing so, he is a proper traitor. How can he gain a foothold in Fusang in the future?
Kuroda Hikaru was helpless, forced to resist.

However, he still used diplomatic means to delay the time for a few days. While falsely expressing to Daming that he needed time to raise rations for Zheng Chenggong, he privately urgently requested Higo Domain, Kumamoto Domain, Satsuma Domain, and Changzhou Domain to come to reinforce him.

Because he is helping the Satsuma clan to fight against things, if the Satsuma clan doesn't come, he will lead the way for the Ming army!
Kuroda Mitsuyuki's action is not considered to deceive Satsuma, and it is really possible for him to do so.

If the Satsuma clan really doesn’t come, people in the world will know who Qu Zhi is. At that time, he “chooses to lead the Ming Dynasty because the Satsuma clan didn’t come.” It was also forced by the Satsuma people, not because he wanted to be a traitor, but because he was behind the scenes If you stabbed and betrayed, you can compare yourself to Li Ling.

Several other feudal clans also knew the truth of the death of lips and cold teeth, especially the Satsuma clan would surely perish if they did not resist, so they quickly sent reinforcements.

Mitsuhisa Shimadzu, the lord of the Satsuma feudal clan, sent out almost all the troops in Southern Kyushu, and mobilized farmers and soldiers frantically.

He has only 80 Shi Gao in name. Even if all the money is used to raise soldiers in theory, he can only support 4 people, and that's not counting the expenditure on weapons, so in fact, it is not bad to have [-] soldiers.But this time, all the savings from previous years were taken out, and all the weapons reserves were also taken out, and they actually pulled [-] to [-] cannon fodder.

Tsunatoshi Hosokawa, lord of the Kumamoto domain, and Tsunahiro Mori, the lord of the Changzhou domain, were not so exhausted. Together, they each pulled about [-] troops——

This number is absolutely reasonable. Don’t believe those street stalls who blindly underestimate the people of Fusang, saying that “the national war of Fusang is just a village fight.” After all, Fusang at this time is a country with a population of 400 million. There are more than 300 million people.

Considering that the Changzhou Fan is on the westernmost peninsula of Honshu, and the population of the Changzhou Fan is also counted, Zheng Chenggong is equivalent to fighting an offensive war with a regime of 400 million people this time, and he also has to worry about the help of the shogunate troops of Honshu.

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Zheng Chenggong, of course, knew that Kuroda Mitsuyuki was stalling for time——

Even if the other party didn't know it for the first two or three days after the reply, when he found out that the Changzhou Fan's army sneaked across the Maguan Strait to Kyushu Island at night, no matter how dull he was, he could understand what was going on.

(Note: The Shimonoseki Strait is the current Kanmon Strait, where the Treaty of Shimonoseki was signed)

However, Zheng Chenggong did not expose the opponent immediately, but pretended not to know, allowing the Japanese army to gather more troops to the front line near Fukuoka.

Zheng Chenggong's idea is very simple: Kyushu Island has a complex terrain, and the central Kumamoto area has many volcanoes, especially if there are many vassals in the area, and even the Japanese army hides in the volcano for guerrilla warfare, then the Ming army will definitely have a headache.

Since the Japanese army doesn't know how powerful they are yet, and they are willing to gather all of them in the Fukuoka Domain and the northern coastal plain, then of course they have to be given this opportunity to perform.

Kuroda Guangzhi thought that Zheng Chenggong was tricked by him, and he was secretly proud.

Maori Tsunahiro of the Changzhou Clan is also getting bolder and bolder. At the beginning, when his first batch of reinforcements crossed the Maguan Strait, only a few thousand people went there. , will suffer heavy losses.

Seeing that the first two batches of tentative voyage troops had landed safely, and there were no Ming army ships to intercept them, he finally became more courageous, and chose the third batch of [-] main forces in the middle of the night on the ninth day of April. One-time sailing across the Maguan Strait.

However, just as the last batch of main forces set sail, something unexpected happened.

Zheng Chenggong's Department, which had been negotiating threats with the Fukuoka Domain, suddenly dispatched dozens of brisk sail frigates, inserted them into the waterway of the Maguan Strait overnight, and attacked the reinforcements of the Changzhou Domain with a half-cross.

The Japanese transport fleet was caught off guard and had to fight on their own, using rockets and muskets to shoot at the Ming frigate.

The warships and firepower of the Ming army were absolutely crushing, and the battle naturally turned into a one-sided massacre.It's a pity that the Maguan Strait is too narrow after all. Even if the Ming army killed all the Japanese troops on the sea in the first place, there were actually not many——

The general width of the Maguan Strait is between two and three kilometers, and the narrowest point in the northeast corner is only more than 300 feet wide, which is not as wide as the Yangtze River.

But Zheng Chenggong is very familiar with the terrain and has done solid homework in advance. Since he came to sneak attack, of course he has a backup.

The naval guns of the frigates of the Ming army were equipped with a large number of flowering bombs, and there were also a few newly developed first-generation petroleum-based incendiary bombs. Although the performance was not stable, it was enough to deal with the Fusang army in the 17th century.

After destroying the Japanese army on the water, the Ming army launched an artillery bombardment directly at Maguan Town, where tens of thousands of Japanese troops were stationed, and then dispatched marines to cover and kill Maguan Town directly by sticking to the tails of the Japanese army's rout.

Maseki Town is the port area of ​​Shimonoseki City in later generations. Although the strait is narrow and it is impossible for 5000 people to go to sea at the same time, the army still has to gather in the port area before crossing the sea.The Tokugawa shogunate issued the "One Country, One City Order". Of course, the residence of the Changzhou feudal lord would not be located in a remote port area like Shimonoseki, so there are only some wooden fortifications in the area, which cannot be defended at all.

The Ming army exploded with bombs and incendiary bombs, and then the bayonet riflemen landed and advanced strongly. The Japanese army was defeated in chaos, and those who wanted to resist were also dispersed by the chaotic friendly forces.

The Japanese soldiers who swam in the Maguan Strait and fled back to the shore were all doing Daming a favor, giving Daming a free vanguard in vain.In order to prevent chaos, the Japanese soldiers in Maguan Town had no choice but to use iron cannon rockets to greet anyone they met, and killed many of their own people in the dark.

Of course, in this kind of night melee, the attacker's casualties are definitely unavoidable.But Zheng Chenggong still has a hole card that has been hidden before in this battle, and he has not used it before.In this night attack, he used it to resist damage and take risks.

It turned out that the landing force that Zheng Chenggong brought ashore was the North Korean Rifle Squad belonging to Li Yu, the commander-in-chief of Dongjiang Town in the Ming Dynasty.Five years ago in the war against the Qing Dynasty, Li Yu also led [-] North Korean riflemen to participate in the final battle against Hauge, which can be regarded as a result of years of fighting and training.

This time, to deal with the Japanese army, we still need to land from Busan. If there are North Korean soldiers who can use them, of course we must use them. The most dangerous and easy-to-casualty tasks are also let the North Korean soldiers go first.

However, Li Yu himself didn't think there was any problem with this. The Koreans forged a big enmity with Fusang during the Imjin Japanese Invasion more than half a century ago.

Later, the Tokugawa shogunate claimed that "it is the Toyotomi shogunate that has enmity with you. We have avenged you by overthrowing Toyotomi. This matter can be turned over." This matter is considered to be revealed.

But now Daming once again asked North Korea to take revenge, and he also presented an ironclad reason: Fusang people did not change their nature and annexed Ryukyu, a vassal state of Ming Dynasty.Since he dares to swallow Ryukyu today, and North Korea tomorrow, this thief cannot stay.

The lord of North Korea made a lot of sense when he heard it, and he really needed to guard against it.So Li Yu was asked to bring [-] North Korean riflemen to help Zheng Chenggong.

Before setting off, Zheng Chenggong also asked Zhu Shuren for some details, and Zhu Shuren told him that under certain circumstances, he should kill him, and he didn't have to worry about killing too many people.

He also specifically instructed Zheng Chenggong that to make good use of his naval advantages, to fight Kyushu is to fight Kyushu, and to wipe out the reinforcements sent by the Japanese army from Honshu Island at the right time, so the narrowest Shimonoseki Strait between Kyushu and Honshu is of course a mark The focus of the focus.

In addition, Zhu Shuren had some personal emotions. He also hinted to Zheng Chenggong that once he annihilates the enemy in Maguan, he can kill more points to stand up and deter the enemy.Killing is for better peace, so that the enemy will not dare to resist.

The regent had already explained this, so of course Zheng Chenggong and Li Yu would not hold back.Li Yu, a general from North Korea, just happened to vent his personal grievances.

In the end, the [-] reinforcements of the Changzhou Clan were almost wiped out in Maguan Town, and the Korean soldiers also burned and killed them on the border of the Changzhou Clan with Maguan as the center. Tens of thousands of people around died.

In fact, no one knew why, Zhu Shuren gave such an order, it was entirely because the later generation Ito Hirobumi liked to sign the treaty in Shimonoseki, so Zhu Shuren took a bad joke and punished the small dog with a big punishment.

Tsunahiro Mori, the feudal lord of Changzhou, personally led the troops that day, and when the troops were destroyed, they were naturally killed. There were also several other middle-level generals of the Mori family who helped lead the troops neatly.

Who made the hereditary tradition of the Fusang people so strong? The generals who came out to lead the army were mainly "one family" and rarely trusted outsiders' temporary workers.When you die, you naturally have to keep your family neat and tidy.

After the main regiment of the Changzhou Army was destroyed, Zheng Chenggong and Li Yu took advantage of the situation to burn and kill the Changzhou Domain, and then returned to Kyushu Island to continue the battle in the direction of Hakata/Fukuoka.

This can be regarded as a warning to the feudal clans on the island of Honshu and the Edo shogunate: it is best to let the local people of Kyushu settle their grievances with Daming about the bad things in Kyushu.For the feudal towns on the island of Honshu, those who dared to cross the border and waded into the muddy water, the end of the Changzhou feudal clan was an example.

(End of this chapter)