Chapter 287
The Battle of Kumamoto ended only for one day. The Samurai Warriors in the Satsuma family suffered almost all losses in this battle and did not exert their legendary magical power at all.
The Satsuma clan was like their fate and would soon be crushed by the powerful Ming army.
Han Junyang led the Ming army to Kagoshima and captured the city without losing one soldier. The Satsuma family, a Japanese vassal state with a history of hundreds of years, was completely destroyed.
Maoriji personally hid in Kagoshima City and knelt on the ground to surrender to the Ming army. However, for such guys who dared to provoke the Ming Dynasty on their own initiative, the Ming Dynasty could accept their surrender, but they could only become slaves for the rest of their lives and would be free laborers for Daming until they died.
After capturing the entire Kyushu Island, the Ming army quickly landed on Shikogawa Island and Honshu Island. The Tosa Island was the Tosa Domain. The Tosa Domain area was ruled by the Nagazozomoto clan (the family meaning) at the end of the Warring States Period. During the Battle of Sekigahara in the 5th year of Keizao (1600), Nagazomoto Murakami Morien participated in the war as a Western army. After the war, he was demoted and his territory was removed and replaced by Yamanuchi Ichito clan. Yamanuchi Ichito was a favorite general of Tohokawa Ieyasu. His original territory was Kagawa Castle in Togeri Kingdom (now near Kagawa City, Shizuoka Prefecture). Kagawa Shigao (the annual grain output of the territory is the quantitative basis for measuring the amount of rewards received) was 69,000 stones. The Takashimamoto clan had 200,000 stones, which was greatly improved. In this way, the Yamanuchi clan ruled the area until the Meiji era.
At this time, the strength of the Tosa vastiva was not as strong as that of the Nagashu vastiva and the Satsuma vassal state, but under the efforts of the vassal lord Yamauchi, the strength was still greatly improved compared to the previous generations. This time he only sent more than 5,000 people to participate in the downward battle, and scattered the main force in the Tosa vastiva. After hearing that the Ming army landed on Kyushu Island, he gathered all the troops near the capital Kochi, here to prepare to resist the Ming army's attack.
Based on the current situation, Han Junyang decided to divide the troops of a division and let the navy respond and land directly in Kochi. He was preparing to land on Hiroshima and eliminate the so-called inverted army entrenched there in one fell swoop.
On August 1, 1786, Kochi Shikokushima and Yamauchi of Tosaba, Tosa's wife were watching Japanese dramas in his room, accompanying his concubines. But he was in no mood at all. No matter how exciting the drama was, the scattered news from the spies recently made him feel sad.
After the Ming army landed in Kitakyushu, it was unstoppable and quickly swept away the Hoshima family and Satsuma family. Although he did not know the specific details, it can be seen from the speed of the Ming army's advance that the Ming army's advance was very fast this time.
Moreover, the Ming army also had a powerful navy. The last surprise attack on Edo and Kyoto was relied on the landing operation of the Ming army's very powerful navy. Kochi was not far from the coast. If the Ming army launched another surprise attack, the amount of troops in his hands... it really doesn't feel at ease.
But he had no choice but to do anything. Now he could only count on a day. The consequence of directly surrendering to the Ming Dynasty was to become a slave. He would rather die than do that.
"Report!" A lower-level warrior ran past, disturbing Yamauchi's thoughts.
"What's so panicked?" asked Yamauchi Yuyong. He prayed to Amaterasu in his heart, not to be the news of the Ming army landing.
"The vassal lord...the Ming army is here." The warrior was almost crying. The brutality of the Ming army made all the Japanese very scared. The arrival of the Ming army will only bring disaster to them.
"What?" As soon as Yamauchi Yuyong heard the news, he just screamed strangely, and then he fainted on the ground. The people around him quickly called the doctor to rescue him.
However, Yamauchi Yuyong suddenly died of cerebral hemorrhage. The Ming army captured Kochi without bloodshed, and the Japanese Tosa family, which had been passed down for hundreds of years, was destroyed.
The 100,000 inverted troops on the island of Honshu fell into a state of headlessness due to the death of the leader, and it became a very simple thing to eliminate them.
On August 5, 1786, the sea was scorching, and two divisions led by Han Junyang personally arrived at the coast of Hiroshima with the assistance of the navy.
The city was founded in 1589 and later became the capital of the Choshu vassal state. This sinister city was the location of the Imperial Parliament during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. Hiroshima City served as the main supply and logistics base for the Japanese army until World War II.
Hiroshima was also the site of the 5th Division, which was known for its fierce combat in the future. Its headquarters was set up in Hiroshima. It is Japan's "military capital". It has convenient railway transportation and a seaport, the Ministry of Transport, the engineering workplace and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, the most important military-industry enterprise in Japan at that time, were all located here.
As an important military port, Hiroshima has always been the place where troops gathered and sent troops in the Sino-Japanese War in modern times. During the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Japanese army's base was located in Hiroshima, and the Imperial Conference was also held here. War materials were transported from the Upin Railway Line. The Japanese Navy set off from Upin Port in Hiroshima to the Yellow Sea and defeated the Beiyang Navy. The 5th Division headed to the Liaodong Peninsula to participate in land operations against China.
Zhu Haitao also had the order to completely destroy the Ming generals after asking him to completely destroy the place.
This evil city should have disappeared from the earth like Nagasaki.
Han Junyang stood on the deck, holding a monocular telescope and looking at Hiroshima Castle in the distance. Due to the fierce naval artillery fire, the buildings here were burning with raging fires. The Japanese inside were screaming and fleeing everywhere, but there was no turmoil in his heart.
In his eyes, these Japanese people were no different from those of the South China Sea. After years of indoctrination by Zhu Haitao, the Ming army was filled with the idea that the people of the Tianhan were the best nation in the world, and other nations were barbarians.
"Okay, let our Ming army land in a nearby port. These Japanese are no match for us at all!" Han Junyang put down his telescope and said to the adjutant beside him.
"Yes!" the adjutant shouted, then went down to convey the order.
Two divisions of the Ming army landed on the beach near Hiroshima and soon established a beachhead position.
However, they did not fight with the Japanese immediately, and the 100,000 inverted troops seemed to have disappeared and never appeared again.
Chapter completed!