Chapter 468 This kind of pediatrician is used to kill instantly
Author: East Zhejiang Pifu
Chapter 468 This kind of pediatrician is used to kill instantly
Although the Ming Dynasty has been in decline for decades since the Apocalypse and Chongzhen, it has to be said that the determination of the Ming Dynasty rulers to fight to the death is still deeply rooted in the hearts of the countries in East Asia.
Although Chongzhen was incompetent in governing the country and stubborn, he did not give up until his death. If he said something that could not be compromised, then he absolutely could not compromise, and the worst he could do was die.
Now, it has been fifteen years since Dulongwu reigned, and the Ming Dynasty has once again revived and reached its peak. Back then, when the situation was so critical, they were unwilling to compromise. Now, of course, they are even more committed to what they say. If they are released, they will not allow even half a step of compromise.
Whoever dares to resist the Ming Dynasty and is found guilty of a real crime will have his whole family killed if the Ming Dynasty says he will be killed. He must keep his word.
In the spring of the fifteenth year of Takamu (1659), Tokugawa Ietsuna, the fourth shogun of the Edo shogunate who was only 18 years old, formally refused to the Ming Dynasty to "abolish the rule of the Fuso Ezo daimyo and hand over the power of conquering Ezo to the Ming Dynasty"
After the request,
Zhang Mingzhen, the admiral of the Beihai Navy of the Ming Dynasty, led hundreds of large warships and more military food transport ships to conduct a conquest of Ezo Island.
If Fusang people don't give it to you, then go get it yourself.
This operation can be regarded as the first large-scale operation after the Ming Dynasty fully followed the Dutch shipbuilding technology and integrated the advantages of Eastern shipbuilding technology to build a new fleet combining Chinese and Western skills.
Previously, Zhu Shuren recruited Dutch scientists such as Jansen Tasman and Descartes to work for the Ming Dynasty. This first happened in 1648, so time flies, and now twelve years have passed since the first batch of Dutch scientists worked for the Ming Dynasty.
Among the first generation of scientists who were reused by the Ming Dynasty, Descartes had died of old age last year. There was nothing that could be done about it, after all, people's age was there. If Zhu Shuren hadn't won over him and let Descartes stay in Europe, he would have been killed by those royal families.
After all, according to Descartes' original historical lifespan, he would have lived seven or eight years less than he does now.
But his contribution to the Ming Dynasty and his historical significance as the first generation representative of "European scientists came to work in the Ming Dynasty" will definitely be remembered by the Ming Dynasty.
After Descartes, in the past ten years or so, almost every two or three years, a group of new European science and engineering talents were recruited by the Ming Dynasty with huge sums of money, which had a catfish effect of muddying the waters and promoting technological exchanges.
So when Descartes died, Zhu Shuren paid him the utmost honor and made great arrangements for him. He found a bunch of great scholars to carry his coffin, just like when Newton died in later generations, the British also asked a bunch of dukes and marquis to carry his coffin.
This is just a trick to imitate King Yan Zhao's trick of building a golden platform to treat Guo Wei favorably. In the final analysis, it is to show that the imperial court attaches great importance to scientific talents.
With the blessing of these Chinese and Western scientists, after more than ten years of development, the level of warships in the Ming Dynasty's navy has improved rapidly, which is far from what it was back then.
It's a pity that when the Qing Dynasty finally fell five or six years ago, the Manchus didn't have a navy that could fight at all. So the Ming Dynasty's navy was absolutely crushing them. There was no sense of accomplishment at all, and they couldn't find any decent resistance even if they wanted to.
.
Now it is finally the turn to deal with the Fuso people. Fuso still attaches great importance to the construction of warships. After all, it is an archipelago country. As early as the Azuchi Momoyama period, the Fuso people built ironclad ships.
(The iron-clad ships at that time were equipped with muskets, but no cannons. The Fuso people did not begin to use heavy siege artillery similar to the red cannon until the final decisive battle between Tokugawa and Toyotomi. The "National Collapse" when Tokugawa Ieyasu bombarded Osaka Castle was
Hongyi cannon. Although there were cannons in the past few decades, the largest ones were only at the Folang machine level, and the cannon body weighed only a few hundred kilograms.)
Later, during the Imjin Japanese Rebellion, they fought against North Korean Yi Sun-shin and were beaten violently by Yi Sun-Shin's turtle ship equipped with cannons. The Fuso people also learned their lesson. After returning, they also began to try to move the Hongyi heavy cannon onto the warship.
It is a pity that in history, after Fuso stabilized its rule under the Tokugawa family, there was no war for two hundred years, so these Fuso warships had no use.
In the history of the Fuso War, there are only those warships equipped with light artillery similar to the Fo Lang machine. There have never been any actual combat records of heavy warships equipped with Hongyi cannons. This time the Ming Dynasty attacked, everyone got what they needed, and everyone just happened to
Let’s all verify the true strength of our hands!
…
The number of Zhang Mingzhen's warships carrying sailors and marines was about three hundred, and the rest were loaded with military rations and supplies.
The number of additional marine soldiers each warship can carry, depending on the size of the ship, only ranges from fifty to more than a hundred——
After all, this was a cross-sea operation, and it would take more than 1,500 miles to sail from Vladivostok Port, which had just been built by the Ming Dynasty, to Hokkaido. Zhang Mingzhen had to consider the problems of military rations and fresh water during the voyage, and each ship could not carry too many people.
Originally, if the Ming Dynasty could breed for a few more years, first control Kuye Island, then establish a logistics base on Kuye Island, stockpile military supplies, and choose to go south from Kuye Island to Ezo when they finally attack, then more than half of the voyage could be saved.
However, the Ming Dynasty considered that it was too late to operate Kuye Island, and the pretext of "Eni people and local vassal towns once colluded with the Manchus in prohibited trade" to start the war could not wait for so many years, so it didn't matter and just sailed for 1,500 years.
Coming!
After all, Zhang Mingzhen looked down upon the Fuso defense force on Ezo Island and felt that with a marine force of more than 10,000 people, he could completely defeat the main reinforcements of the local feudal town and the shogunate.
The Ming fleet specifically chose the end of the second lunar month to set sail. After about ten days of sailing, they could land in late spring or early March.
In this way, during the voyage, we can take advantage of the last stage of the Siberian cold wave northwest wind, and avoid the most severe period of the winter cold wave wind.
At the same time, there are several months of typhoon season in the Pacific at the turn of summer and autumn, which is also a period that must be avoided, otherwise you will encounter the "divine wind protecting the country" like Kublai Khan.
The current decision-makers of the Ming Dynasty have a full understanding of astronomy, geography, and meteorology. How could they possibly fall into the same trap as the ignorant Mongolians hundreds of years ago.
Every favorable climate was taken advantage of by the Ming Dynasty in the decision-making stage, and every unfavorable climate was avoided by design before the war began.
Since the Ming Dynasty had conducted diplomatic negotiations in advance before starting the war, the attack was not sudden.
The daimyo of Ezo Island, Matsumae Ujihiro, the fourth generation lord of the Matsumae Domain, had already organized a fleet of warships to patrol the waters around the Tsugaru Peninsula before the Ming army attacked. Worried about insufficient patrol density, he even requisitioned
Some fishing boats were seized and the fishermen were ordered to report the news in time.
In addition, the Tokugawa shogunate also warned several pro-vassal daimyo and powerful daimyo in the northeastern region of Honshu to send troops on alert in advance. If something happens to Ezo, they must support the Matsumae clan, at least to prevent the war from burning to the northern end of Honshu Island.
Therefore, the third generation lord of the Sendai clan, Date Tsunamune, the lord of the Aizu clan, Hoshina Masayuki, the lord of the Yonezawa clan, Uesugi Tsunakatsu, etc., also gathered a lot of troops to be on guard.
Anyone who has played "Nobunaga's Ambition" or "Taiko Satoshiden" knows that the Date family was the "Northeast King" of Fuso at the end of the Warring States Period. Sendai Castle was also an important town in the northeast of Fuso, and later generations of Mr. Lu Xun studied there.
.
Although the Aizu clan is a rising star in terms of strength, it is a vanguard in terms of loyalty to the shogunate. It belongs to the category of "even if it is poor, it is willing to do its best".
Who made the current lord of the Aizu Domain, Masasayuki Hoshina? In terms of blood relationship, he was the uncle of the current shogun. He was the adopted successor to the Aizu Domain when he was the second shogun.
The fourth generation shogun of the current shogunate, Tokugawa Ietsuna, is just in his early twenties. When his father, the third generation shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, died a few years ago, he left his half-brother Masayuki Hoshina in his care, so he still has more.
He became the sole and important minister of the shogunate.
Therefore, the Aizu clan has always been the most loyal feudal daimyo of the Edo shogunate in history. Later, during the Meiji Restoration period at the end of the shogunate, the Aizu clan was still a die-hard loyalist to the shogunate and persisted in resisting until the end.
No one originally knew much about this information about the Ming Dynasty. But with the spying of Zheng Chenggong and his brother, and Zhu Shuren’s understanding of history and the stubbornness of the Aizu clan,
Therefore, long before Zhang Mingzhen set out, Zhu Shuren summoned him to give him an interview and asked him to be mentally prepared that "if the Ming Dynasty attacks the Ezo-Matsumae Domain, the Aizu Domain will also fight to the death to come to the rescue."
…
With adequate planning and knowledge of ourselves and the enemy, Zhang Mingzhen's fleet was, as expected, discovered on the second day of March by the patrol fleet under the command of the Ezo Emperor Matsumae Ujihiro.
Who made Zhang Mingzhen not plan to hide from the beginning? He went straight to Matsumae Town Port to land. He disliked other beaches because they either had too many shoals, making it impossible for large ships to dock, or they were steep cliffs, making it difficult to maneuver after landing.
At that time, the Matsumae Clan had a total of three castles on Ezo Island. In fact, it only controlled the Tsugaru Peninsula from Ezo towards Honshu. The remaining 70% to 80% of the area on Ezo Island was controlled by the Ezo indigenous people.
In addition to Matsumae Town, which is a port, there are also two small towns, Hakodate Castle and Uyizaki Castle.
As for Sapporo, the core city of Hokkaido in later generations, it is still a fishing village for Ezo savages. There is no civilized rule at all. The administrative system of that place was not established until the Meiji Restoration two hundred years later.
To put it bluntly, the Ezo daimyo in the Edo period was actually just a trading stronghold on Ezo Island closest to Honshu Island, plus some supporting facilities. It was equivalent to the Shanxi merchant strongholds such as Zhangjiakou in the Ming Dynasty, responsible for tracking
Barbarian import and export.
Matsumae clan heard that the Ming army was attacking, and was quite surprised at first. Unexpectedly, Zhang Mingzhen was so straightforward, so he asked the subordinates in charge of Matsumae Town Port Domain:
"How many soldiers and horses does the Ming army have? How dare they land directly at the port? Isn't he afraid of being blocked by our army's forts? Matsumae Town Port has eight "National Collapse" heavy artillery, or was it sent to Matsumae Domain on the order of the shogunate the day before yesterday?
Coming!"
The feudal lord in charge of Matsumae Port was also disgraced. He had obviously escaped from a defeat, and he directly replied in frustration: "The Ming army's warships have a lot of heavy artillery! The eight cannons we have saved for so long were all destroyed by the Ming army's naval gunfire!"
The Lord's Shiro led troops to guard the port, together with 300 warriors and 1,500 peasant soldiers, and they were completely wiped out by the Ming army in half a day! His subordinates risked their lives to break through, so they had to come back to report the news!"
Matsumae Hiroshi felt as if a basin of ice water had been poured over his head.
He did not expect that he would become a frog in the well, and the carefully prepared anti-landing force would be annihilated by the Ming army in half a day.
You must know that when the Matsumae Clan was entrusted by the Edo shogunate, it was deemed that they only had to bear the daimyo obligation based on the stone height of 10,000 koku. In other words, the Tokugawa family believed that Ezo Island was too cold and wild to grow too much rice, so
It is determined that the island's food tax revenue is only 10,000 shi.
Of course, this figure was actually greatly concealed. At that time, the Fuso tax-paying agricultural production area on Ezo Island could provide more than 200,000 koku in tax revenue for a year. Now half a century has passed since the enfeoffment.
With continuous reproduction and development, the stone height on the island has increased to about 500,000.
What is this concept? At that time, Fuso's tax on rice fields was about one stone of rice for less than two acres of land, so half a million stone was equivalent to only one million acres of rice fields on the island.
The total amount of other vegetable fields and inferior fields that are not used for growing grains should be less than two million acres.
Considering that the total area of Hokkaido in later generations was 80,000 square kilometers, and two million acres were equivalent to just over 1,000 square kilometers, the farmland area of the Fuso people on the island at that time only accounted for 1.5% of the island's total land area.
The level of development is certainly very low.
This small amount of land could be cultivated by less than 200,000 Fuso farmers on the entire Ezo Island. At that time, Fuso raised a soldier who was similar to a peasant soldier with the lowest combat effectiveness, and needed about eight kilos of rice a year. And if he wanted to raise samurai
Rank, have certain military qualities, at least twenty kilograms of rice a year as rations, and salary. This does not include the money for weapons and equipment.
Therefore, all the food collected from the entire Ezo Island was used to feed the troops, which was enough to feed the 25,000 people. If they wanted to buy weapons, the number of people would be cut by at least half, which would barely support more than 10,000 people.
In fact, at that time, the peace was long and the daimyo and nobles of Matsumae Domain at all levels had to spend money to maintain a decent life. In peacetime, less than half of the money used to raise troops was less than half, so the whole island tried their best to raise up to seven or eight thousand people.
of arms.
The Ming army attacked a port and killed two thousand people, which was equivalent to destroying a quarter of the wealth that the Matsumae clan had accumulated over decades in half a day.
After Matsumae Ujihiro realized that he was arrogant and underestimated the enemy, he quickly went to the other extreme. He ordered the entire army to retreat to Hakodate Castle, which relied on the mountains, and begged the Aizu Domain to send reinforcements from Ezo Island in advance, and also followed
Together he worked hard to defend Hakodate.
As for the Aizu Domain, since the feudal lord could not come to Ezo in person, the general he sent to lead the army was Hoshino Shosumi.
Seeing that the Ming army was approaching fiercely, Hoshina Hoshino wanted to stop his losses in time and take some Aizu clan warriors back to Honshu by boat.
Unfortunately, he lacked channels to communicate with Zhang Mingzhen, and Zhang Mingzhen refused to talk to him. He had no choice but to go out to sea in the dark at night, find some boats, and try to sneak through the Tsugaru Strait.
Unexpectedly, the Ming army patrolled and defended the strait tightly. Baoke Zheng's first batch of tentative sailing troops were intercepted and killed. The warship was directly sunk by Ming warships in the strait. It was completely crushing.
The Fusang people's small warship faced the Ming army's latest heavy-duty Hongyi cannon, which fired sixty-pound shells. With one shot, it penetrated the bottom of the ship and sank. Even an armored ship couldn't carry a sixty-pound iron cannon.
The bullet reaches close to the top.
The Fuso people were immediately frightened by this scene. As dozens of warships and thousands of soldiers were slaughtered in vain, Hoshina had no choice but to take other people and hide in Hakodate Castle together with Matsumae Ujihiro.
The combined strength of the two vassals originally exceeded 15,000, but unfortunately thousands of them were lost in two battles. In the end, only 13,000 were reduced to defend the city.
However, not all the Aizu clan's breakout fleet was wiped out. After all, some ships successfully reached the other side of the Tsugaru Strait, and some soldiers on the sunken ships were lucky enough to swim back.
Within just a few days, they reported the tragic situation on the island to the other Northeastern feudal clans. The remaining troops of the three powerful Northeastern clans, Sendai, Aizu, and Yonezawa, also had to assemble towards the Tsugaru Strait to prepare for war.
…
On the Tsugaru Peninsula, Zhang Mingzhen's generals saw that their commander had easily landed, destroyed the beachhead to stop the enemy, and successfully surrounded Hakodate Castle, so they all requested him to launch a strong attack as soon as possible.
But Zhang Mingzhen was not anxious at all. He calmly said to his subordinates: "If we attack Hakodate now, how can we continue to bleed Fuso people? Seduce Fuso people to come to the rescue?"
Taking over such a remote island is nothing. The key is to give the Fuso people a thorough beating so that they can swallow this bitter pill, recognize the reality, and never dare to come to the rescue in the future!
Divide your forces! First, land thousands of people on the Mutsu Peninsula on the other side, occupy a port city adjacent to the strait, and lure the Fuso-Ou coalition forces to attack the city and seize the port across the strait! Only then can we kill a large number of Fuso's rebellious people!
If we don't go ashore, they probably won't dare to go to the sea to fight. Moreover, after we go ashore, we can defeat some enemies and rob their rations, because the rations are used by the enemy to support the war. We came across the sea and are not afraid of fighting.
, I am afraid that they will fortify the walls and clear the country, and would rather burn down the city's inventory and consume the scorched earth everywhere."