Qian Song

Chapter 474 Tokyo Massacre (please vote for me!)

Chapter 474 Tokyo Massacre (please vote for me!)

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No one expected that the generals sent by Li Cun to recover Japan were not Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Wu Jie, Liu Qi, Zhao Li, Li Yanxian, Wu Lin, Zhao Haner, Kong Lengzi, Yang Yizhong, Wang Yan and others. The famous generals who became famous were not Zhang Xian, Niu Gao, Wang De, Yang Zheng, Guo Hao, Wang Sheng, Wang Gui, Xie Yuan, Zhang Zigai, Zhao Lu and other generals, but a man named "Li Shifu". "The young general.

To say that Li Shifu is a young general is not necessarily true. After all, Li Shifu is now 35 years old, only six years younger than Yue Fei.

But in this case, why do you still call Li Shifu a young general?

Answer: Just because Li Shifu debuted a little late.

Li Shifu came from a family of generals in the Zhao and Song Dynasties. When he was 17 years old, he followed his father Li Yongqi into battle.

When the Daqian Dynasty destroyed the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty, Liu Qi conquered Yan'an, and both Li Shifu and his father Li Yongqi were captured by the Qian army.

Liu Qi had an old relationship with Li Yongqi and personally persuaded Li Yongqi to surrender.

Under Liu Qi's persuasion, Li Yongqi and his family surrendered to the Daqian Dynasty.

Li Shifu was also among them.

After entering the ranks of the Qianjun, Li Shifu accompanied the Qianjun in the north and south, and made many military exploits.

but--

Because when Li Shifu came to Qianjun, Yue Fei and others had already become the commander-in-chief, and he himself was not well-known in the Song army. This made it possible for him to spend so many years and barely climb to the position of ordinary commander.

Although it seems that there is only one word difference between "control" and "capital control", in fact, there is a gap-like distance between them.

Let's put it this way, there were more than 500 governors in the Daqian Dynasty, but there were less than [-] governors in the capital.

The key is that even if they got into the command of the capital, such as Zhang Xian, Niu Gao, Yang Zaixing, Yao Xing, and Zhai Xing, they all failed to become the commander-in-chief of one party.

After Li Shifu was summoned to the capital by Li Cun for an interview, Li Cun renamed Li Shifu "Li Xianzhong" and promoted Li Xianzhong to deputy marshal of the anti-Japanese army (Zhao Li, who was stationed in Jidi, was promoted to marshal of the capital of the anti-Japanese army). Let Li Xianzhong be responsible for the military task of conquering Japan, and let veteran Zhao Li watch the enemy formation for Li Xianzhong.

In addition to appointing the young general Li Xianzhong as the commander-in-chief of the war against Japan, Li Cun also carried out a massacre in the Indochina Peninsula, almost killing all those who were unwilling to submit to the Daqian Dynasty in the Indochina Peninsula. Song Jiang and Wu Yong were transferred When they go to Japan, let one of them serve as the propaganda envoy and the other as the production envoy.

Song Jiang and Wu Yong were the most famous evil stars in the Daqian Dynasty. Wherever they went, rivers of blood flowed, and even millions of corpses were buried.

It can be said that whenever Li Cun felt that someone was difficult to conquer or difficult to govern, Li Cun would dispatch Song Jiang and Wu Yong to deal with it.

For example, Li Cun asked Song Jiang and Wu Yong to deal with the 37 Wuman tribes in Dali that had repeatedly rebelled and surrendered. After these two went there, they killed all those who refused to cooperate with the immigration policy of the Daqian Dynasty. Jing, so frightened that the 37 Wuman tribes were frightened by the news, and they all moved to the city built for them by the Daqian Dynasty to accommodate them. The troubles that had not been completely solved in the 200 years since the founding of Dali made these two people completely eliminated in less than half a year. solved.

Such examples abound.

Song Jiang and Wu Yong were all present in Goryeo, Jin Kingdom, Xixia, Grassland, Tubo, and Indochina.

It can be said that anyone who is unwilling to obey the resettlement policy of the Daqian Dynasty will eventually fall into the hands of Song Jiang and Wu Yong, and then the place will become a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood, and the bloody storm will last for a long time.

Nowadays, Song Jiang and Wu Yong are so famous that adults use their names to scare children.

This time, Li Cun sent Song Jiang and Wu Yong to govern Japan. Everyone in the Daqian Dynasty felt that Japan was going to suffer a lot of bad luck this time.

In addition, because this is a cross-sea operation, the cooperation of the navy will definitely be indispensable.

After careful consideration, Li Cun sent both the North Sea Navy and the East Sea Navy to Japan, trying to destroy Japan with overwhelming force.

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Not long after the anti-Japanese army set off, Li Cun received battle reports from the front one after another.

——Apart from the fact that the pro-military Duwei Mansion and the Military Intelligence Department would send Li Cun battle reports back to the front line every day or even every moment, Li Xianzhong was also an extremely careful person. No matter how busy he was, he would send Li Cun every day. A battle report was sent back (if he had time, Li Xianzhong would write the battle report to Li Cun himself. If he didn't have time, Li Xianzhong would ask his staff to write the battle report for him, and then stamp it with his own seal of command.)

The general course of this battle is:

On the first day of June in the 23rd year of Hongwu's reign, the vanguard of the South Route Army set out from Hepu (near Mashanpu, later known as Zhenwan) and successfully landed on Tsushima Island three days later, completely wiping out the Japanese defenders on the island.

On the evening of June [-], Commander Li Shu (one of Li Cun's sons) led more than a thousand people from his headquarters to land on Iqi Island. The Japanese guards led more than a hundred cavalry to intercept them and were completely wiped out. The defenders then led more than [-] cavalry to fight with Li Shu's troops. There was a fierce battle, and Li Shu's troops responded with squatting tiger cannons, thunderbolts, and flintlock rifles. The Japanese army was defeated and retreated to the city.

Li Shu was another one of Li Cun's sons who had great commanding talents. He had only been in the army for less than two years before he was promoted to commander by Li Xianzhong, who did not know his identity. A pioneer in World War I.

The next day, Dong Xian, the commander of the South Road Pioneer Army who arrived later, personally led the South Road Pioneer Army to attack the city.

In just one meal, Tsushima Castle was completely defeated by the vanguard of the South Route Army. Seeing this, the defender chose to commit suicide with integrity.

The vanguard of the South Route Army, led by Dong Xian, then prepared to land at Hakata Bay.

Unfortunately, when the vanguard of the Nanlu Gan Army approached the coastal islands of Hizen, they encountered a heroic resistance from the Hizen defenders.

After a fierce battle between the two sides, the Japanese army was defeated and suffered heavy casualties. After the vanguard of the South Route Army successfully landed at Hakata Bay, they advanced towards Imatsu.

The terrain here was not conducive to the deployment of large forces, and it was only one day's journey from Japan's Dazaifu, so Dong Xian withdrew to the ship that night, preparing to land again early the next morning to launch an attack.

The next day, Dong Xian divided the vanguard of the South Route Army into East and West Route [-] and landed at Hakata Bay.

Emperor Toba, who had already received the news that the Kanjun army was coming to attack Japan, announced through the lower chamber of the court that he had gathered a total of about [-] Japanese samurai troops from Kyushu countries to prepare to prevent the Nanlu Ganjun army from landing on Kyushu Island.

Dong Xian detached [-] cavalry troops led by Li Shu and landed at Momochihara. The Japanese army sent [-] cavalry troops to fight.

Li Shu led [-] cavalry troops to successfully land at Hakata Hakozaki in the east of Hakata Bay, defeated [-] defenders who came to meet the enemy on their own initiative, occupied the pine forest on the shore, and then raided from behind the vanguard of the southern route army led by Dong Xian at Momochihara. The main force of the Japanese army fighting.

The main force of the Japanese army was attacked from both sides and suffered heavy casualties. The remaining troops retreated towards Dazaifu Suicheng.

After the first confrontation, Emperor Toba already knew the power of the Ganjun, so he issued an urgent order: Guards from all regions returned to the country and recruited men under the age of 65 across the country to serve as reserve soldiers. Monk soldiers from various temples were also mobilized to defend the country and strengthen armaments.

At the same time, Emperor Toba also made a detailed division of labor for samurai from various countries: samurai from Shikoku and Kyushu strengthened their local defenses; samurai defense from China could be called the Western Gate Key's Zhou Defense and Nagato, and were always ready to support the war of resistance in Shikoku and Kyushu. ; The samurai from the Gyeonggi and Kanto regions rush to the aid of Kyoto; the samurai from the Ou region must also be ready to fight at any time.

It is not difficult to see from the deployment of Emperor Toba that Emperor Toba has realized that this will be a war that will overwhelm the country.

However, Emperor Toba was still a frog in the well. He simply did not understand that even if Japan surrendered in a battle, they would have no chance of winning.

A few days later, Li Xianzhong led the main force of the South Road Army to attack Dazaifu.

Dazaifu is the local administrative organ of Kyushu, Japan. It is equivalent to the local capital and the capital of Japan. It is the western capital of Japan connecting the world.

In short, Dazaifu is extremely important to Japan and cannot be ignored.

Therefore, the Japanese court had to organize a hundred thousand troops to fight the Qian army.

In this battle, Li Xianzhong personally took command, opened the way with red cannons, and defeated the Japanese army. In the end, less than [-] Japanese troops fled to the four countries, and the rest of the Japanese troops were killed or captured. Kyushu Island was thus drawn into the Daqian Dynasty. territory.

Li Xianzhong used Dazaifu as the rear area of ​​the Ganjun in Japan, leaving the governor Zhang Goudan to sit here. At the same time, he left Dong Xian to lead the vanguard of the Southern Ganjun to clear out the remaining Japanese troops on Kyushu Island, and then continued to personally lead the Southern Ganjun. The main force went north to attack Zhou Fang and Nagato, hoping to completely open the door to Japan.Li Xianzhong detached another partial division, led by veteran Wang Zhen, to attack Shikoku Island.

——If the Gan army can capture Shikoku Island, they can counterattack the dangerous Shufeng and Nagato from behind.

In short, whether it is the main force of the southern army or the partial division, as long as there is a way to win, Japan's door in the south will be opened.

It was only over 20 days after the war started that such great results could be achieved. It would be an understatement to say that the troops on the South Route were unstoppable.

It should be noted that at the beginning of the war, just in case, Li Xianzhong also set up another insurance, that is, the Beihai Navy Commander Li Bao and the Daqian General Zhang Xian led the Beilu Gan Army to land in northern Japan. , and then fight from north to south.

There are actually some deviations here.

According to the original plan, Li Bao and Zhang Xian should have landed on the beach in the Ou area of ​​Japan.

However, due to the sudden appearance of an unexpected typhoon, the Beihai Navy deviated a little northward. In the end, the North Route Army had to land in Ezochi (later Hokkaido).

The Ezo Land of this era was not yet a part of Japan. It was inhabited by the Ainu people. They were extremely backward, and they were divided into small factions by the local indigenous people.

Seeing the invasion of foreign enemies, various small forces in the Ezo region launched attacks on the Gan army one after another.

There is no suspense in such a war.

The process can completely refer to the war between Europeans and Indians, so the process will not be described in detail.

However, for Ganjun, the real trouble is not the war, but the unfamiliarity with the road and language.

It is no exaggeration to say that Zhang Xian and the others almost searched all over Ezo before they found a Japanese samurai who knew a little bit of Chinese.

Under the leadership of this Japanese samurai, the North Route Army advanced by land and water to the south.

A few days later, the North Route Army crossed the Tsugaru Strait and landed in Dewa Country.

The Ou area at this time was actually governed by the old indigenous separatist rule before the conquest by the Japanese court. It was similar to the colonies of later generations. In terms of civilization, the Ou area was slightly better than the Ezo area.

The Beilu Ganjun completely experienced the "simple customs" of primitive society in the Ou area. The land was vast and sparsely populated, slash-and-burn farming was practiced, wild animals were infested, and even a decent city could not be found. To put it more vividly, the living conditions of the people here were, Not as good as the Jurchens before their rise.

In fact, this is also a very normal thing.

The birth of Japanese civilization was already in the second century AD.

The prototype of the Japanese imperial court did not take shape until the sixth century.

The Heian period began in the ninth century.

Therefore, even if the Central Plains Celestial Dynasty vigorously imports Central Plains culture to Japan, it is really difficult for the Japanese to take a rocket directly from the primitive tribes that cultivated slash-and-burn farming and drank blood to the stage of a unified feudal country.

Just imagine what China in the Xia Dynasty must have looked like, and you won't feel that the development of Japanese society in this era was slow.

What's more, although the country has not yet been truly unified, the nobles and ministers who ruled Japan have already decayed early.

They put aside the important task of expanding the territory, enriching the country and strengthening the army, and devoted themselves to the mountains and rivers, burning incense and worshiping Buddha, reciting poems, studying calligraphy, and cultivating their sentiments.

Therefore, Japan at this time was a deformed society that was completely disconnected from top to bottom. The only civilized city was Kyoto, and the rest of the places were all frontier and poor areas.

The Kanto Plain, where the prosperous Tokyo will be located in the future, in the current Japanese concept, is similar to the Great Northwest in the impression of our later Chinese people. The several famous samurai families that emerged there were actually the first ministers of Kyoto. Send away the production and construction corps that consolidated the border areas.

These poor Japanese samurai had to work hard to resist the attacks of separatist terrorists (primitive tribes indigenous people, such as the Tosei, Ezo people, etc.), and at the same time they had to reclaim land to grow rice to be self-sufficient. The conditions were extremely difficult.

As for the ministers who were sent here to serve as state ministers and other positions, they were basically equivalent to the cadres who would assist the northwest in later generations.

Of course, because the Ou area is already a border of Japan, there were actually more than [-] Japanese samurai stationed here.

However, some time ago, the Nanlu Gan Army captured Kyushu Island and was launching a fierce attack on Shufang, Nagato and Shikoku Island, causing the samurai in the Ou area to go south to Mutsu Country and be ready to support the battle to the south.

It is precisely because of this that the Northern Route Army can easily enter Dewa Country.

The North Route Army quickly occupied several important places and dangerous checkpoints in Dewa Country, and then continued southward to Mutsu Country.

In Mutsu Country, the North Route Army encountered its first real resistance.

On the Kanto Plain, 3 Japanese samurai wanted to fight a decisive battle with the [-]-strong Northern Army.

——The North Road Ganjun originally had 1 troops, but along the road Zhang Xian left many troops to guard important places and important passes and suppress captives, resulting in a sharp reduction of more than [-] troops in the North Road Ganjun.

The Japanese army wanted a decisive battle, which was very consistent with the strategic purpose of a quick victory formulated by Li Xianzhong.

As a result, the Japanese and Japanese armies staged a one-sided massacre in Tokyo on the Kanto Plain.

In short, more than 3 North Road cadres relied on the coverage of the super-large-caliber red cannons on the Beihai Navy warships to kill [-] Japanese samurai, leaving even [-] alive. Nothing left.

In the end, except for the two or three thousand Japanese samurai who escaped to the Gyeonggi and southern Kanto areas due to their quick legs and unfamiliarity with the terrain, the rest of the Japanese samurai who were lucky enough to survive were all scared and knelt down to surrender. There were even some Many people took the initiative to ask to be the leader.

Led by a large group of Japanese traitors, the North Route Army successfully occupied several important areas and passes in the Mutsu Kingdom, and then continued south to attack Japan's Gyeonggi area.

After Emperor Toba learned the news, he quickly sent people to organize samurai from the Gyeonggi and Kanto regions to go to Nakono (which was later known as Nagoya) to resolutely resist the North Route Army.

At the same time, due to the natural dangers of Shufang and Nagato, which can be called the key to the west gate, the left army of the South Route Army was blocked from the main island and could not move forward.

The right-leg army of the South Route Gan Army encountered resolute resistance from the samurai and monk soldiers on Shikoku Island, and was unable to land on Shikoku Island for a while.

However, anyone with a discerning eye can see that these are only temporary.

——Today, Japan only has its core area of ​​Gyeonggi and the surrounding Shikoku Island, Nakono and other places that have not been captured by the Gan Army. The north and south armies of the Kan Army have surrounded the Gyeonggi area of ​​Japan. The Daegan Dynasty has The two naval forces are also attacking major ports in the Gyeonggi region of Japan. As long as one of these areas is successfully broken through by the dry army, the Gyeonggi region of Japan may be in danger.

Forced by the military threat from the Gan army and the political pressure in Japan, Emperor Toba sent three waves of envoys to the Ogan Dynasty, claiming that Japan was willing to control Shufang, Nagato, the entire area south of Shikoku Island and north of Naguno. ceded to the Daqian Dynasty, the two sides will use the areas they currently occupy as the national boundary between the two countries. At the same time, Japan is willing to pay tribute to the Daqian Dynasty as a vassal. He himself is also willing to send protons to live in the Daqian Dynasty for a long time. The compassionate Li Cunneng showed mercy and spared them Japan, so that Japan and the Daqian Dynasty would forever be friends...

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