110 The Whirlwind of Fear Blowing in Seoul (Part 1)
In the 34th year of Jiajing, when the Ming Dynasty was suffering from the enemy's southern Japanese and northern Japanese, North Korea also encountered great trouble. A Japanese pirate under Wang Zhi landed in North Korea and ravaged North Korea's border defense and coastal defense for several months. Fortunately, the number was not large and was defeated by the Koreans using a plan, which was the "Yimao Japanese Rebellion".
The local military system in Korea originally adopted town control. This system was similar to the Chinese military governor, delegating military power to local roads and subscribed to various inspection envoys. However, since the Yimao Wo Reformation, the Li Dynasty government was afraid of the autocratic power of the Taoist government and removed the command of the local army from the Taoist government.
They also built an independent system, and the military power was dispersed and belonged to the military and water envoy of the original Taoist, and then to the defense general, then to the defense envoy, the border envoy, and the Marshal of the Capital, who were in charge of all the Taos, and they were not allowed to interfere or command.
To put it bluntly, in fact, the administration and the army are divided into two management lines across the country, parallel to each other, and no one has to listen to each other. If there is any enemy situation, the Taoist government can discuss with the commander of the military region. If the two have a good relationship, they can cooperate with the action. However, if the commander of the military region does not pay attention to the civil servants of the Taoist government, the civil servants will not have any mistakes at all.
This system of separation of military and political affairs is quite advanced and effective. Military power is attributed to the court, and civil officials in the local government shall not interfere. The chief commander of the army is appointed by the King of Joseon himself, so military power is assigned to the King of Joseon and civil officials shall not interfere.
Therefore, when the war first began, generals like Li Jue and Park Hong dared to retreat thousands of miles and ignore the constraints of Song Xiangxian, Park Jin and other envoys, because of this manifestation of mutual incompatibility between military and political parties.
When Xiao Ruxun heard Liu Chenglong talk about this, she felt very interested. She asked Liu Chenglong to talk about it in detail. Liu Chenglong smiled bitterly and said, "This method is good, but once she encounters such an extremely powerful enemy's invasion, the disadvantages will emerge."
The local military and political system are different. Some military generals fled when they resisted the civil servants, while others fled when they fled. If the two sides do not cooperate, the government will not be able to gather all their efforts to fight against foreign enemies. Although the royal power is guaranteed, it is inconvenient for the country.
Xiao Ruxun thought to himself. In fact, at the beginning, the Ming Dynasty did the same. The Wei Office and the Governor's Office of the Five Army became a military management line and the civil service system without interfering with each other. However, before and after the Tumu Fort's Incident, the Wei Office system declined, and the quality of the Ming generals and soldiers were greatly reduced, and they were completely unable to adapt to the needs of the country.
To put it bluntly, it was the fundamental mistake of the system designed by Zhu Yuanzhang to defend the country from generation to generation. It determined from the root that the collapse of the Wei system was inevitable. The decline of military generals would inevitably lead to infringement of civil servants. After the Tumu Fort change, the civil servant group selected through the imperial examination continued to join in with fresh blood, and the military general group was passed on from generation to generation and its quality could not be compared with civil servants, so it was difficult to avoid being invaded and seized military power.
Lao Zhu had no vision and made the Ming Dynasty like a bamboo. From the seed planting, it was doomed to perish regularly. If you want to change all this, you must take the initiative to attack the ward designed by Zhu Yuanzhang to fundamentally solve the decline of the Ming generals. It is best to establish a military academy to train generals and let the generals rise again.
But that would be too big, and the civil servant group would not allow the military general group to grow. Even with the support of the emperor, it would be difficult to achieve results without 20 or 30 years. During this period, the group of party sticks who fought in the internal affairs and foreign affairs had a little trick, and a big hat of "tampering with the ancestral system" could make their efforts go to waste, and the risk would be too great.
Using the three major battles and the Ming-Myanmar War to train a group of powerful generals can only improve the situation of generals for a while. With the arrival of peaceful development, the status of generals still cannot be improved. Moreover, after that, the Ming Dynasty will be at its survival, who has the time to do these actions?
What should I do?
After reprimanding the Korean ministers and making them dare not speak out about the war again, Xiao Ruxun ordered the army to set up in Pyongyang, and all the materials accumulated in Yizhou and Dingzhou Anzhou were transferred to Pyongyang. It was completed within ten days. Then he ordered the mail cavalry to go south to explore the information of Japanese pirates. Xiao Ruxun entered Pyongyang to take charge of the overall situation.
North Korea, Lee Kyung, ordered officials of all sizes to rush to various places in Pyeong An Road and Hamkyung Road to restore rule and production, appease refugees, and begin to treat the country ravaged by Japanese pirates.
They had no time to harass the Ming army for the time being, and Xiao Ruxun also received a precious rest period, allowing the slightly injured soldiers to undergo recuperation and return to the team as soon as possible, stabilize the injuries of the seriously injured soldiers, and stay in Yizhou to recuperate, ensuring the integrity of the Ming army's combat effectiveness.
Xiao Ruxun's approach was extremely correct. After annihilated 36,000 Japanese troops, the 45,000 Ming army still maintained about 42,000 capable troops. It was basically not weakened in the battle, and its morale was even better. The battle loss ratio reached an astonishing 1 to 20. It has to be said that it was a solid victory.
This great victory laid the foundation for Xiao Ruxun's unmatched position in the Ming army in the Eastern Expedition, and also caused this name to set off a whirlwind of fear in Seoul. On the sixth of November, the Seoul Front Army heard the news of the Ming army's fierce attack on Pyongyang from the few men of the Fengshan Army who escaped by chance. Next, on the eighth of November, the Japanese command of the Seoul Front welcomed three special envoys.
Three Japanese prisoners who were not dead in the Pyongyang encirclement and annihilation battle were hiding in a dry well. They were only searched by Chen Xie after the war. They were about to behead him, but Yuan Huang stopped him and wrote a letter, and asked them to take the head of the younger leader of the Little West and the head of the Tsushima Island Master to Seoul to "report good news" to the Japanese Commander.
The three people came back with the two thousand reinforcements brought by Otoyo Yoshimo and were shocked by the annihilation of the two thousand reinforcements. He weighed the pros and cons and felt that the consequences of defending the Hwangkaido would only be worse than that of Governor Konishi. His third legion had only more than 10,000 people, and he had lost one-third of his troops to the battle. So he gave up the Hwangkaido directly and pulled the remaining troops to Kaesong and Takake Kobayakawa, and came to Seoul himself.
So the Japanese Command learned that the 15,000 First Legion of Governor Konishi's troops was wiped out and basically killed. Only the three of them were released. Governor Konishi was not dead yet, but was caught and prepared to send it to Beijing to present it to Emperor Ming. The other generals, such as Nobunaga Matsuura Town, Matsuura and Ma Qing Nobunaga, had all died in battle.
The Japanese commander Ukita Hidea, two years younger than Xiao Ruxun and only twenty years old, was shocked and inexplicably. He was originally sent by Hideyoshi Toyotomi to increase his knowledge, and he did not expect him to make much contribution. He just did things according to the opinions of the elder group sent by Hideyoshi to him and established his prestige steadily.
He is a young man valued by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and plans to cultivate his hard-core confidants to enhance his voice, as well as an existence that he can entrust orphans after his death, so he attaches great importance to it.
But in this situation, Ukita Hidea, who had been smooth sailing, panicked.
He quickly convened a presbyterian meeting and told the elders the letter and the news. The elders looked at each other, and only then did someone remember Kurota Rushui's unpleasant advice when discussing the war in Pyongyang.
Kuroda Rumizu's name is not often known. What everyone is more familiar with is the name of Kuroda officer and Weiwei and the title of "Rare Famous Military Advisor". It can even be said to be Guo Jia of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Moreover, Kuroda officer and Weiwei also let Toyotomi Hideyoshi dominate Japan. Although it is not actual, in terms of relative achievements, Kuroda Rumizu cannot be underestimated.
It is precisely because of his wise and extremely intelligent plan that he was strictly guarded by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Toyotomi Hideyoshi told the people around him more than once that if the regime is unstable after his death, Kuroda Rushui will definitely be the one who can win the world.
Chapter completed!