Chapter 606
Deployment Targets of Invading Troops: 5 Horses from Jeju Island
Chapter 606 Deployment Targets of Invading Troops: 5 Horses from Jeju Island
Hideyoshi's tasks for each legion are very clear, and there cannot be any legion that is solely responsible for North Korea's mission.
For example, Konishi Governor and Kato Kiyomasa received very clear orders, that is, after logging in from Busan, quickly break through the Daegu prison camp in Gyeongsang-do, go north to Chungju, the capital of North Chungcheong Province via Mungyeong, and then continue to go north to take Wangjing quickly.
Like Kuroda Nagamasa of the Fourth Corps, they are responsible for landing in Busan behind them. Although they are going northward quickly, they need to destroy the Ulsan Korean Left Barracks on the east side, and take down Gyeongju, Yongchuan, and Andong before following Kato Kiyomasa Step into Chungcheong-do.
The task of Kuroda Nagamasa and the Fourth Corps is to sweep the Huangkaido. Before that, it is only necessary to protect the flanks of Kato Kiyomasa and Konishi Yukata.
In Hideyoshi's plan, the key to the Korean War is speed, which is a bit like the blitzkrieg idea of the mustache uncle in later generations.
The first five legions will not attack Sangqing-do and Jeolla-do. These two Korean administrative regions closest to Japan are actually handed over to the Seventh Army Takakage Kobayakawa and the Eighth Army Mori Terumoto.
As in history, Takakage Kobayakawa was in charge of the invasion of Jeolla-do, and Terumoto Mori was in charge of sweeping Gyeongsang-do.
Historically, Terumoto Mori landed in North Korea half a month late due to the typhoon blocking the route. In the end, the cities of Fenghua and Ninghai in the north of Gyeongsang-do were still returned from the south of Hamgyong-do by Mori Yoshinari, Ito Yubing and others. Responsible for mopping up.
The task assigned to this generation's show family is very simple. After following Kuroda Nagamasa, suppress Gangwon-do and Hamgyong-do via Gyeonggi-do.
But this does not mean that Hideka must follow Kuroda Nagamasa completely. Although Gyeongsang-do is rich, but it is too close to Japan, it is not convenient for Hideka to make small moves.
Hideka intends to follow in the footsteps of Kiyomasa Kato and quickly cross Chungcheong Road, but he will not continue northward to Wangjing with Yukiko Konishi and others, because it is meaningless, even if he goes, everything is over.
At this moment, Xiu's family has already made an agreement in his heart, he is playing a big game of chess, which has long been beyond Zhongqing Dao.
Just when everyone thought that the Xiu family would arrange the vanguard mission first, the first ones called by the Xiu family were Osafune Dingxing from the eighth formation and Date Masahiro from the ninth formation.
"Lieutenant Yoshihei, Shimamori" Hideka called out the names of Osafune Sakayuki and Date Masahiro and said, "You take the eighth and ninth formations under your command to board the ship in Hirado with my warrant. Coordinate the ships there for you.
With more than a thousand people from the eighth formation under your command, you invaded Jeju Province in the south of Jeju Province after sailing from Hirado, requiring at least three ports and strongholds to be established in the south, east and north of Jeju Province to occupy dangerous points. refused to defend. "
The three places Xiujia points to are naturally one of the few ports in Jeju Island in later generations: North Jeju, Dong Wutiaoli, and Nanjiao. Although they are all ports that call at small fishing villages at the moment, they are used to berth ships during the Warring States Period, and used It is more than enough to be used as a material transfer station.
Throughout the early days of the Wanli Korean War, neither China, Japan, nor Korea paid much attention to Jeju Island.
For North Korea, Jeju Island is an island of exiled prisoners with harsh living conditions. What is the life and death of those exiles? Even the officials sent to Jeju Island are regarded as exiles in North Korea.
Jeju Island has never been the core of North Korea's development, so naturally it doesn't care whether the island is occupied by the Japanese army.
For Japan, the initial situation was so strong that they didn't care about an island facing southeast, which was of no help to Japan's strategy.
It wasn't until Japan's defeat in Pyongyang, the rear logistics line was blocked by rebels, and the loss of sea control that Hideyoshi paid attention to this remote island. He tried to invade Jeolla from Jeju Island.
As for the Ming Dynasty, after October 1593, when the situation entered a calm period, the Ming Dynasty realized that Jeju Island could not only block the supply route of Japanese pirates, but also an important geostrategic stronghold that could push Japan. This is the time when the Joseon court first discussed the geopolitical value of Jeju Island.
In other words, during the peace talks from 1593 to 1596, Jeju Island, as a springboard for Japan to seek Shandong and the Liaodong Peninsula, and a stronghold for the Ming Dynasty to contain Japan's ambitions, attracted the attention of both sides at the same time.
In addition, from the fact that the Joseon court issued more and more frequent orders to Yi sun-shin to "support Jeju Island", it can be seen that the Joseon court itself is paying more and more attention to the geopolitical value of the island.
During the Battle of Keicho, the second Japanese invasion, none of the three countries changed their focus on Jeju Island. Toyotomi Hideyoshi ordered the attack on Jeju Island in June-July 1597, considering the occupation of Jeju Island as a comprehensive strategic plan a part of.
However, the Japanese naval forces were defeated in the Battle of Myeongryang, and fell into a situation where they could not occupy Jeju.
On the other hand, the Ming Dynasty was worried that once Jeju Island was occupied by Japan, enemy ships would be able to travel freely on the sea, and quickly made a decision to send troops to North Korea. This was based on the judgment of Jeju Island's geographical value.
For the same reason, many pastors and judges of Jeju Island also strongly advocated to the Korean court to send military officers to defend.
As a result, although no battle broke out on Jeju Island in the end, from the second half of 1593 to the end of the war, Jeju Island still attracted the attention of neighboring countries because of its geographical value.
Xiujia, who is familiar with this period of history, is naturally very aware of the importance of Jeju Island to North Korea's strategy. After taking Jeju Island, the Japanese navy has a more outpost suppression base for the Mokpo Military Port, and the scope of action of the Admiral Yi sun-shin navy is squeezed. Pressed in Jeolla-do.
In history, the reason why Yi sun-shin's navy was able to defeat the Japanese army was due to the merits of its effective command and the Japanese army's ignorance of water patterns, as well as the long marching route of the Japanese navy's mobilization.
After taking Jeju Island, the Japanese Navy can use Jeju Island as a base to suppress Geoje Island and Mokpo Military Port nearby.
Taking a ten thousand step back, Yi sun-shin's navy only had a few ships, and he could only sit on the ground. The Japanese army could use the two islands of Jeju Island and Tsushima Island as their forward bases, and give them to the East Route Army and the West Route Army respectively. For the army to transport food, could Yi sun-shin's navy be divided into two to attack the two transportation routes?
As long as the food landed, the Japanese army's transport troops would always have a way to suppress the volunteer soldiers wandering around.
In the later period, the Japanese army’s logistics line was stuck at Mount Gyeongsangdo and could not go north. It may be because the sea route support was cut off, which made the Japanese army’s morale on land slack. Can't beat them all.
Xiujia sent people to occupy Jeju Island to wipe the ass of Hideyoshi's strategy, and the 3050 people were just an outpost.
When the Seventh Corps Kobayakawa Takakage sweeps Jeolla-do, it is entirely possible to send a letter to Tachibana Muneshige to lead people to support the long boat, and then Kobayakawa Takakage will report to Hideyoshi, asking him to send a navy to strengthen the water defense of Jeju Island and Jeolla-do.
The Xiu family didn't really want to wipe Hideyoshi's ass. This time, his allies and himself were really successful. The logistical support of these tens of thousands of soldiers must be guaranteed.
It is impossible for Hideo to watch his retainers and samurai starve to death in North Korea, and it is impossible to watch Ogasawara Hidetada, Sakuma Shengmasa and others lose their troops due to lack of food supply.
There doesn't seem to be much downside for Japan to gain an advantage in North Korea.
And after occupying Jeju Island, there is another benefit for the Xiu family.That is, the materials, goods, and people collected in Chungcheong-do and Gyeonggi-do do not need to cross mountains and ridges to Gangwon-do before boarding and transporting them.
It can be boarded directly from Pyeongtaek, Dangjin and Incheon, directly from the Han River and Anseongcheon, and transported to Kanto to fill the population after being transshipped on Jeju Island.
And the most important benefit is that Jeju Island is the official horse farm of North Korea. In North Korea, there is a proverb that "send to Hanyang after giving birth, and send to Jeju after giving birth to a horse".
Since the 13th century, horses entered Jeju from Mongolia, and have been raised on a large scale since then, which played an important role in the development of Jeju's farming culture. At its peak, the number of horses reached about 2.
The Mongol rule was an opportunity for the rapid development of Jeju horse breeding technology.In the 14th year of Emperor Yuanzong (1273), Mongolia established Tamna General Administration Mansion in Jeju Island after it pacified Sanbyechao, and used it as a military horse base to raise a large number of horses, preparing to capture the Southern Song Dynasty and Japan.
The vast grassland without beasts is the best environment for raising and grazing horses. Mongolia has successively transferred 3 stallions to Jeju for breeding. The Mongolians with advanced animal husbandry technology inevitably passed on the technology in the process of raising horses in Jeju. To the people of Jeju Island.
Although Xiujia does not have specific horse data in his hands, it should be no problem to collect 2 war horses and pack horses from Jeju Island.
This is a purebred Mongolian war horse!An excellent horse breed that was officially transported and bred by the Mongolian court!
Even if there are only 5000 war horses in it, it is not a small fortune for the Xiu family. According to the guaranteed reserve price of 200 guan for a good Japanese horse, it is worth 100 million kanwen.
However, more historical evidence from later generations believes that in the 16th and 17th centuries, the number of horses on Jeju Island definitely exceeded 5, so it seems that the number of war horses should not be less than 1.
Big fortune! ! !
Pack horses can be used for animal labor in the development of Kanto, Ezo, and Vladivostok, while war horses can save a lot of expenses for the construction of Xiujia's standing cavalry team.
The most important thing is that the Iyo and Ezo horse farms in the hands of the Xiu family only provide the Xiu family with 500 war horses a year, excluding those listed for trading and those selected by the family's important ministers, it would be good if there are 300 horses that actually fall into the army .
However, there is a shortfall of 2000 horses for each standing cavalry team in the hands of the Guangxiu family. This is not counting the expansion of the banner and the replacement of old horses. It is very difficult to complete the equipment within 10 years.
Winning Jeju Island was a lot of blood for the Xiu family. The Xiu family could not wait to send all the craftsmen and stallions who were good at raising horses to Ezo and Kanto to raise war horses on the spot.
Therefore, both public and private, Jeju Island needs to be occupied by Xiujia in advance.Moreover, the warhorse of Jeju Island was the reason why Xiujia had to occupy Jeju Island in advance before Hideyoshi could react.
How can such a good thing be shared with others, of course I want it all!
Of course, it is impossible for the Xiu family to tell everyone about the arrangement of the war horses. After all, there are many people talking about this matter. command action.
The defense force of Jeju Island is not strong. It should not be difficult to take it down and wipe it out with the 3000 people of Longboat Dingxing and Date Masakura, plus the bravery of Zhuanglin Yixin and Ikaruga Heiji.
Moreover, although Jeju Island is a place where prisoners are exiled, there are tens of thousands of Koreans here for thousands of years. It is also a good choice to transport these people to Kanto and Ezo.
After arranging his thoughts on Jeju Island and war horses, Xiujia's 13000 team has lost a fraction, and the total has dropped to less than 10000.
But the Xiu family was not worried. Mori Kisung's 2000 people swept Gangwon-do, and went back and forth to the south of Hamgyong-do and the north of Gyeongsang-do. There is no reason that 9000 people with strong combat effectiveness can't handle these tasks.
"Genjiro (Nobushige Sanada), Rokunosuke (Masatoshi Suga)" In the anticipation of everyone, Hideo finally remembered his vanguard general.
"You take the first group of 2650 people and follow Konishi Yukyochang and Kato Kiyomasa to enter Gyeonggi-do, then pass through Yeoncheon and Shunyeong, enter Gangwon-do, enter Hamgyong-do through Cheorwon, Jincheng, and Huaiyang, and directly face Ham The mirror path invaded.
Liu Zhisuke took the second formation to press the formation, divided the troops to occupy Cheorwon, Jincheng, and Huaiyang, and waited for the arrival of Chun Gongliang's troops. "
Received the military order from Xiujia, but Sanada Nobushige's face was full of sorrow, and even Hanabou Masayuki asked Xiujia worriedly: "My lord, the 4400 people who are close to Genjiro and Rokunosuke are going to deal with the defenders of Gangwon Province again." Would it be too strenuous to go north to Hamgyong Road again?"
The Xiu family is familiar with history, so they naturally know how easy this road is, so they said to them: "I will also give you a bag here, open it after entering Gangwon-do, and act according to the strategy inside."
What is written in the Xiujia kit is to let Sanada Nobushige not wait for Suga Masatoshi's support, first go north to occupy the cities of Deokwon and Muncheon in the south of Hamgyong-do, and then recruit local rebels who have betrayed the Joseon court as assistants to strengthen their own forces. At the same time, waiting for the guidance of Haruka Ryo.
For this reason, the Xiu family specially approved him 2 Yongle money, 1000 taels of gold, and 5000 taels of silver as military funds. The Xiu family will give him the money after the meeting.
As mentioned above, North Korea’s rule over Hamgyong-do is very weak, and there are rebels who oppose the rule of the Joseon Dynasty everywhere.
As long as there are military funds and food and salaries in hand, it is definitely no problem to win them over to become the North Korean puppet army. As long as a 5000-man army can be gathered, Sanada Nobushige will have the capital to continue northward.
At that time, the puppet army will be like Kato Kiyomasa's men in history, with more and more servants, and even the main force to resist the Ming army, the Korean army and deal with Wuliangha Jurchen became the group of Korean puppet troops.
Being hated so much by his own people, and even fighting so hard for the enemy who invaded him, it is no wonder that the Korean monarchs in history would angrily call Hamgyongdo "Nidong".
Moreover, they are different from the puppet army that did not eat and work during World War II, and even had some conflicts with their traitor status. They originally opposed the rule of the Korean Dynasty, and they were more similar to the Vietnamese puppet army established by Japan in the southeast peninsula. They dealt with the French It is more ruthless than the Japanese.
Hamgyongdo has the strongest sergeant in the six towns of Guanbei in North Korea. This was set up by North Korea to guard against the Jurchens in the north. However, for this reason, he is mostly deployed in Jiangjie, Cicheng, Yurui, Cities such as Wuchang are far from the southern coastal cities.
As long as Nobushige Sanada's main force doesn't threaten Xianxing, the soldiers in the six towns of Guanbei will not be concerned. As for this tough bone, it is naturally left to Kato Kiyomasa who came north from Huangkai Road to chew on it.
Hideka also handed Sanada Nobushige a kit, telling him that after receiving the news that the six towns in Guanbei went south to fight Kato Kiyomasa, he quickly marched to take Hamxing, and sent as much as possible to Jingcheng, Funing, and Qingxing in the northeast move closer.
So far, 13000 of the 7450 people in the hands of the Xiu family have been allocated, which has been reduced by more than half at once, and only 5550 people are kept in the hands of Hanafang Masayuki.
The reason why the Xiu family divided the general power into three parts was because he still had arrangements for the greenhouse. The scale of 5000 people was just enough, and there was also enough time. area, and it is still too late to support Nobushige Sanada.
(End of this chapter)
Hideyoshi's tasks for each legion are very clear, and there cannot be any legion that is solely responsible for North Korea's mission.
For example, Konishi Governor and Kato Kiyomasa received very clear orders, that is, after logging in from Busan, quickly break through the Daegu prison camp in Gyeongsang-do, go north to Chungju, the capital of North Chungcheong Province via Mungyeong, and then continue to go north to take Wangjing quickly.
Like Kuroda Nagamasa of the Fourth Corps, they are responsible for landing in Busan behind them. Although they are going northward quickly, they need to destroy the Ulsan Korean Left Barracks on the east side, and take down Gyeongju, Yongchuan, and Andong before following Kato Kiyomasa Step into Chungcheong-do.
The task of Kuroda Nagamasa and the Fourth Corps is to sweep the Huangkaido. Before that, it is only necessary to protect the flanks of Kato Kiyomasa and Konishi Yukata.
In Hideyoshi's plan, the key to the Korean War is speed, which is a bit like the blitzkrieg idea of the mustache uncle in later generations.
The first five legions will not attack Sangqing-do and Jeolla-do. These two Korean administrative regions closest to Japan are actually handed over to the Seventh Army Takakage Kobayakawa and the Eighth Army Mori Terumoto.
As in history, Takakage Kobayakawa was in charge of the invasion of Jeolla-do, and Terumoto Mori was in charge of sweeping Gyeongsang-do.
Historically, Terumoto Mori landed in North Korea half a month late due to the typhoon blocking the route. In the end, the cities of Fenghua and Ninghai in the north of Gyeongsang-do were still returned from the south of Hamgyong-do by Mori Yoshinari, Ito Yubing and others. Responsible for mopping up.
The task assigned to this generation's show family is very simple. After following Kuroda Nagamasa, suppress Gangwon-do and Hamgyong-do via Gyeonggi-do.
But this does not mean that Hideka must follow Kuroda Nagamasa completely. Although Gyeongsang-do is rich, but it is too close to Japan, it is not convenient for Hideka to make small moves.
Hideka intends to follow in the footsteps of Kiyomasa Kato and quickly cross Chungcheong Road, but he will not continue northward to Wangjing with Yukiko Konishi and others, because it is meaningless, even if he goes, everything is over.
At this moment, Xiu's family has already made an agreement in his heart, he is playing a big game of chess, which has long been beyond Zhongqing Dao.
Just when everyone thought that the Xiu family would arrange the vanguard mission first, the first ones called by the Xiu family were Osafune Dingxing from the eighth formation and Date Masahiro from the ninth formation.
"Lieutenant Yoshihei, Shimamori" Hideka called out the names of Osafune Sakayuki and Date Masahiro and said, "You take the eighth and ninth formations under your command to board the ship in Hirado with my warrant. Coordinate the ships there for you.
With more than a thousand people from the eighth formation under your command, you invaded Jeju Province in the south of Jeju Province after sailing from Hirado, requiring at least three ports and strongholds to be established in the south, east and north of Jeju Province to occupy dangerous points. refused to defend. "
The three places Xiujia points to are naturally one of the few ports in Jeju Island in later generations: North Jeju, Dong Wutiaoli, and Nanjiao. Although they are all ports that call at small fishing villages at the moment, they are used to berth ships during the Warring States Period, and used It is more than enough to be used as a material transfer station.
Throughout the early days of the Wanli Korean War, neither China, Japan, nor Korea paid much attention to Jeju Island.
For North Korea, Jeju Island is an island of exiled prisoners with harsh living conditions. What is the life and death of those exiles? Even the officials sent to Jeju Island are regarded as exiles in North Korea.
Jeju Island has never been the core of North Korea's development, so naturally it doesn't care whether the island is occupied by the Japanese army.
For Japan, the initial situation was so strong that they didn't care about an island facing southeast, which was of no help to Japan's strategy.
It wasn't until Japan's defeat in Pyongyang, the rear logistics line was blocked by rebels, and the loss of sea control that Hideyoshi paid attention to this remote island. He tried to invade Jeolla from Jeju Island.
As for the Ming Dynasty, after October 1593, when the situation entered a calm period, the Ming Dynasty realized that Jeju Island could not only block the supply route of Japanese pirates, but also an important geostrategic stronghold that could push Japan. This is the time when the Joseon court first discussed the geopolitical value of Jeju Island.
In other words, during the peace talks from 1593 to 1596, Jeju Island, as a springboard for Japan to seek Shandong and the Liaodong Peninsula, and a stronghold for the Ming Dynasty to contain Japan's ambitions, attracted the attention of both sides at the same time.
In addition, from the fact that the Joseon court issued more and more frequent orders to Yi sun-shin to "support Jeju Island", it can be seen that the Joseon court itself is paying more and more attention to the geopolitical value of the island.
During the Battle of Keicho, the second Japanese invasion, none of the three countries changed their focus on Jeju Island. Toyotomi Hideyoshi ordered the attack on Jeju Island in June-July 1597, considering the occupation of Jeju Island as a comprehensive strategic plan a part of.
However, the Japanese naval forces were defeated in the Battle of Myeongryang, and fell into a situation where they could not occupy Jeju.
On the other hand, the Ming Dynasty was worried that once Jeju Island was occupied by Japan, enemy ships would be able to travel freely on the sea, and quickly made a decision to send troops to North Korea. This was based on the judgment of Jeju Island's geographical value.
For the same reason, many pastors and judges of Jeju Island also strongly advocated to the Korean court to send military officers to defend.
As a result, although no battle broke out on Jeju Island in the end, from the second half of 1593 to the end of the war, Jeju Island still attracted the attention of neighboring countries because of its geographical value.
Xiujia, who is familiar with this period of history, is naturally very aware of the importance of Jeju Island to North Korea's strategy. After taking Jeju Island, the Japanese navy has a more outpost suppression base for the Mokpo Military Port, and the scope of action of the Admiral Yi sun-shin navy is squeezed. Pressed in Jeolla-do.
In history, the reason why Yi sun-shin's navy was able to defeat the Japanese army was due to the merits of its effective command and the Japanese army's ignorance of water patterns, as well as the long marching route of the Japanese navy's mobilization.
After taking Jeju Island, the Japanese Navy can use Jeju Island as a base to suppress Geoje Island and Mokpo Military Port nearby.
Taking a ten thousand step back, Yi sun-shin's navy only had a few ships, and he could only sit on the ground. The Japanese army could use the two islands of Jeju Island and Tsushima Island as their forward bases, and give them to the East Route Army and the West Route Army respectively. For the army to transport food, could Yi sun-shin's navy be divided into two to attack the two transportation routes?
As long as the food landed, the Japanese army's transport troops would always have a way to suppress the volunteer soldiers wandering around.
In the later period, the Japanese army’s logistics line was stuck at Mount Gyeongsangdo and could not go north. It may be because the sea route support was cut off, which made the Japanese army’s morale on land slack. Can't beat them all.
Xiujia sent people to occupy Jeju Island to wipe the ass of Hideyoshi's strategy, and the 3050 people were just an outpost.
When the Seventh Corps Kobayakawa Takakage sweeps Jeolla-do, it is entirely possible to send a letter to Tachibana Muneshige to lead people to support the long boat, and then Kobayakawa Takakage will report to Hideyoshi, asking him to send a navy to strengthen the water defense of Jeju Island and Jeolla-do.
The Xiu family didn't really want to wipe Hideyoshi's ass. This time, his allies and himself were really successful. The logistical support of these tens of thousands of soldiers must be guaranteed.
It is impossible for Hideo to watch his retainers and samurai starve to death in North Korea, and it is impossible to watch Ogasawara Hidetada, Sakuma Shengmasa and others lose their troops due to lack of food supply.
There doesn't seem to be much downside for Japan to gain an advantage in North Korea.
And after occupying Jeju Island, there is another benefit for the Xiu family.That is, the materials, goods, and people collected in Chungcheong-do and Gyeonggi-do do not need to cross mountains and ridges to Gangwon-do before boarding and transporting them.
It can be boarded directly from Pyeongtaek, Dangjin and Incheon, directly from the Han River and Anseongcheon, and transported to Kanto to fill the population after being transshipped on Jeju Island.
And the most important benefit is that Jeju Island is the official horse farm of North Korea. In North Korea, there is a proverb that "send to Hanyang after giving birth, and send to Jeju after giving birth to a horse".
Since the 13th century, horses entered Jeju from Mongolia, and have been raised on a large scale since then, which played an important role in the development of Jeju's farming culture. At its peak, the number of horses reached about 2.
The Mongol rule was an opportunity for the rapid development of Jeju horse breeding technology.In the 14th year of Emperor Yuanzong (1273), Mongolia established Tamna General Administration Mansion in Jeju Island after it pacified Sanbyechao, and used it as a military horse base to raise a large number of horses, preparing to capture the Southern Song Dynasty and Japan.
The vast grassland without beasts is the best environment for raising and grazing horses. Mongolia has successively transferred 3 stallions to Jeju for breeding. The Mongolians with advanced animal husbandry technology inevitably passed on the technology in the process of raising horses in Jeju. To the people of Jeju Island.
Although Xiujia does not have specific horse data in his hands, it should be no problem to collect 2 war horses and pack horses from Jeju Island.
This is a purebred Mongolian war horse!An excellent horse breed that was officially transported and bred by the Mongolian court!
Even if there are only 5000 war horses in it, it is not a small fortune for the Xiu family. According to the guaranteed reserve price of 200 guan for a good Japanese horse, it is worth 100 million kanwen.
However, more historical evidence from later generations believes that in the 16th and 17th centuries, the number of horses on Jeju Island definitely exceeded 5, so it seems that the number of war horses should not be less than 1.
Big fortune! ! !
Pack horses can be used for animal labor in the development of Kanto, Ezo, and Vladivostok, while war horses can save a lot of expenses for the construction of Xiujia's standing cavalry team.
The most important thing is that the Iyo and Ezo horse farms in the hands of the Xiu family only provide the Xiu family with 500 war horses a year, excluding those listed for trading and those selected by the family's important ministers, it would be good if there are 300 horses that actually fall into the army .
However, there is a shortfall of 2000 horses for each standing cavalry team in the hands of the Guangxiu family. This is not counting the expansion of the banner and the replacement of old horses. It is very difficult to complete the equipment within 10 years.
Winning Jeju Island was a lot of blood for the Xiu family. The Xiu family could not wait to send all the craftsmen and stallions who were good at raising horses to Ezo and Kanto to raise war horses on the spot.
Therefore, both public and private, Jeju Island needs to be occupied by Xiujia in advance.Moreover, the warhorse of Jeju Island was the reason why Xiujia had to occupy Jeju Island in advance before Hideyoshi could react.
How can such a good thing be shared with others, of course I want it all!
Of course, it is impossible for the Xiu family to tell everyone about the arrangement of the war horses. After all, there are many people talking about this matter. command action.
The defense force of Jeju Island is not strong. It should not be difficult to take it down and wipe it out with the 3000 people of Longboat Dingxing and Date Masakura, plus the bravery of Zhuanglin Yixin and Ikaruga Heiji.
Moreover, although Jeju Island is a place where prisoners are exiled, there are tens of thousands of Koreans here for thousands of years. It is also a good choice to transport these people to Kanto and Ezo.
After arranging his thoughts on Jeju Island and war horses, Xiujia's 13000 team has lost a fraction, and the total has dropped to less than 10000.
But the Xiu family was not worried. Mori Kisung's 2000 people swept Gangwon-do, and went back and forth to the south of Hamgyong-do and the north of Gyeongsang-do. There is no reason that 9000 people with strong combat effectiveness can't handle these tasks.
"Genjiro (Nobushige Sanada), Rokunosuke (Masatoshi Suga)" In the anticipation of everyone, Hideo finally remembered his vanguard general.
"You take the first group of 2650 people and follow Konishi Yukyochang and Kato Kiyomasa to enter Gyeonggi-do, then pass through Yeoncheon and Shunyeong, enter Gangwon-do, enter Hamgyong-do through Cheorwon, Jincheng, and Huaiyang, and directly face Ham The mirror path invaded.
Liu Zhisuke took the second formation to press the formation, divided the troops to occupy Cheorwon, Jincheng, and Huaiyang, and waited for the arrival of Chun Gongliang's troops. "
Received the military order from Xiujia, but Sanada Nobushige's face was full of sorrow, and even Hanabou Masayuki asked Xiujia worriedly: "My lord, the 4400 people who are close to Genjiro and Rokunosuke are going to deal with the defenders of Gangwon Province again." Would it be too strenuous to go north to Hamgyong Road again?"
The Xiu family is familiar with history, so they naturally know how easy this road is, so they said to them: "I will also give you a bag here, open it after entering Gangwon-do, and act according to the strategy inside."
What is written in the Xiujia kit is to let Sanada Nobushige not wait for Suga Masatoshi's support, first go north to occupy the cities of Deokwon and Muncheon in the south of Hamgyong-do, and then recruit local rebels who have betrayed the Joseon court as assistants to strengthen their own forces. At the same time, waiting for the guidance of Haruka Ryo.
For this reason, the Xiu family specially approved him 2 Yongle money, 1000 taels of gold, and 5000 taels of silver as military funds. The Xiu family will give him the money after the meeting.
As mentioned above, North Korea’s rule over Hamgyong-do is very weak, and there are rebels who oppose the rule of the Joseon Dynasty everywhere.
As long as there are military funds and food and salaries in hand, it is definitely no problem to win them over to become the North Korean puppet army. As long as a 5000-man army can be gathered, Sanada Nobushige will have the capital to continue northward.
At that time, the puppet army will be like Kato Kiyomasa's men in history, with more and more servants, and even the main force to resist the Ming army, the Korean army and deal with Wuliangha Jurchen became the group of Korean puppet troops.
Being hated so much by his own people, and even fighting so hard for the enemy who invaded him, it is no wonder that the Korean monarchs in history would angrily call Hamgyongdo "Nidong".
Moreover, they are different from the puppet army that did not eat and work during World War II, and even had some conflicts with their traitor status. They originally opposed the rule of the Korean Dynasty, and they were more similar to the Vietnamese puppet army established by Japan in the southeast peninsula. They dealt with the French It is more ruthless than the Japanese.
Hamgyongdo has the strongest sergeant in the six towns of Guanbei in North Korea. This was set up by North Korea to guard against the Jurchens in the north. However, for this reason, he is mostly deployed in Jiangjie, Cicheng, Yurui, Cities such as Wuchang are far from the southern coastal cities.
As long as Nobushige Sanada's main force doesn't threaten Xianxing, the soldiers in the six towns of Guanbei will not be concerned. As for this tough bone, it is naturally left to Kato Kiyomasa who came north from Huangkai Road to chew on it.
Hideka also handed Sanada Nobushige a kit, telling him that after receiving the news that the six towns in Guanbei went south to fight Kato Kiyomasa, he quickly marched to take Hamxing, and sent as much as possible to Jingcheng, Funing, and Qingxing in the northeast move closer.
So far, 13000 of the 7450 people in the hands of the Xiu family have been allocated, which has been reduced by more than half at once, and only 5550 people are kept in the hands of Hanafang Masayuki.
The reason why the Xiu family divided the general power into three parts was because he still had arrangements for the greenhouse. The scale of 5000 people was just enough, and there was also enough time. area, and it is still too late to support Nobushige Sanada.
(End of this chapter)