Chapter 1344 The Battle of Chiba

This realization was not only achieved by ordinary Japanese people, but also by Sakai Tadakatsu, a high-ranking official in charge of liaison with the Ming army, who had only come to visit the resting Ming army on behalf of the shogunate.

After turning around, when he returned, he described his mental state as "lost and depressed".

Ordinary Japanese people envied the abundance of materials of the Ming people, while Sakai Tadakatsu saw the wealth and strength of the Ming Kingdom.

Rich and strong!

Well-equipped, ordinary Ming people eat so well, you can imagine how rich the Ming Kingdom is!

What made him pay more attention was that in addition to eating and drinking, there were many people reading pocket books, he once read a book of a lieutenant-level officer, it was a "Spring and Autumn Period", one of the famous four books and five classics in China, and the other book belonged to a young soldier to read, it was a "book of making", which belonged to a reference book, and when he saw Sakai Tadashi asked, the soldier shyly said that he was going to take the military academy examination--- Sakai Tadashi was very fluent in Chinese, and there was no obstacle to communication with the Ming army.

He sighed in his heart, it seems that many Ming people have broken through the poverty of life and begun to pursue spiritually.

Watching "Spring and Autumn"?

This is the performance of Guan Yunchang during the Three Kingdoms, and the allusion is ...... He wanted to mess with the courtesy of his monarch and ministers, so that Guan Gong and his second sister-in-law shared a room. Guan Gongnai stood outdoors with a candle, reading "Spring and Autumn" at night, and he was tired from night to night.

Guan Gong is a general, and he can still do it with a copy of "Spring and Autumn", while ordinary Ming army officers have watched "Spring and Autumn...... Sakai Tadashi talked to Yang Tiansheng about this, and Yang Tiansheng told him: "His Royal Highness the King of the Southeast attaches great importance to Chinese studies, and the Four Books and Five Classics are compulsory subjects for the examination of officers and civil officials. ”

Sakai Tadashi asked a question and said: "The civil officials also take the four books and five classics, and the officers also take the four books and five classics, can those old officers pass the test?" ”

After all, the Four Books and Five Classics are not easy to ponder, there is a certain degree of difficulty in learning, if you learn well, you can use it to test Xiucai, the old officer used to be illiterate, after literacy, literacy, literacy, but learning the Four Books and Five Classics has this ability? Even if it is a Chinese who is born to learn, Sakai Tadakatsu seriously doubts!

Yang Tiansheng laughed and said: "I have Chinese characteristics, the old methods of the old people, the new methods of the newcomers, all the new officers have closed-book exams, and all the old officers have open-book exams!" ”

Tadashi Sakai bows down!

With a large number of artillery, muskets and bombs, the long-lasting shogunate army can still withstand it, and the attacking shogunate army suffered heavy casualties, and the corpses piled up to the height of one person in some places!

The two sides are deadlocked, the fallen shogunate army can not break through the position of the shogunate army, time passes, gradually to noon, the two sides take a break and eat!

Everyone unanimously stopped fighting, hurry up and eat, eat the same, all eat rice balls, that is, sushi, a layer of seaweed, kelp and other things of rice dumplings, before the battle has been prepared, the white rice is cooked, the white rice is eaten directly in the morning, and the rest is added salt and miso (soybean noodle paste) to make rice balls, divided into two parts in the middle and evening, and carried with you for easy access in wartime.

With salt, the rice balls can be left for a long time, but in fact, they often change their flavor and can't help it, so they can eat it hard.

Since it was wartime, they all ate impure white rice, white rice mixed with a lot of rough grains, and in peacetime, they could only eat rough grains.

White rice, also known as silver relics in the Wa Kingdom, is a coveted food for the Wa people.

Some ashigaru also keep some side foods and snacks in a "lighting bag" tied around their waists, such as umeboshi, dried miso, dried natto, pepper, dried squid, soldier food balls, and even garlic, among which umeboshi is the most valuable, which can be used to quench thirst and boost appetite.

Their officers were treated with some stinky salted fish, dried scallops, and bacon meat, and the shogunate was treated well, and the soldiers were able to get a small amount of meat, while the cannon fodder of the fallen shogunate army didn't have to think about it, they chewed white rice balls, and they were very satisfied.

Compared with the Ming army, the Japanese are incomparable!

The snacks of the Ming army are better than them, and the staple food is not worse, that is, hard biscuits, dried meat and dried fruits.

The types of hard biscuits come from the navy, after years of careful preparation, the nutrition is sufficient, the taste is delicious, there are five kinds of red dates, coconut, peanuts, sesame, minced meat, and scallion oil!

At that time, the people were honest, the biscuits were solid, and the taste would not be made by adding flavors, but by putting in various ingredients.

The Ming army basically drank tea, they would rather not eat hot food, but also boil water to make tea to drink, seeing the Ming army behind the position of the cauldron boiling water, the Japanese people all shook their heads, thinking that the Chinese are too expensive, who does not drink cold water!

The coal stoves and small boilers used to boil and fire in the rear of the Ming army's position were constantly burning, and coal was used to supply heat, and in order to provide sufficient supplies, the Ming army's military workers and hired Japanese people opened up a road to facilitate the supply ships to transport the supplies on the donkeys!

Drinking hot boiled water is a luxury for the Japanese people, the Japanese drinking utensils are made of bamboo tubes, gourds, and there are also water cylinders made of wood, metal, wading paper (double wrapping paper coated with persimmon kernel liquid), etc., all kinds, many of which cannot carry hot water, the shogunate army is a little better, they imported tin military kettles from the southeast, there is a lot of tin in the southeast, and the tin products are so cheap that the shogunate imported a batch for their own troops.

After eating and drinking enough, the inverted army that used strength and morale to revive fought a wave of climax, and the main general of the right army of the shogunate army, Tsugaru Nobuyoshi, died in battle!

The right army of the shogunate army was a hodgepodge, a ragtag army composed of the troops of the daimyo of the spectrum, with the largest number of troops and the weakest combat power, which became the focus of the shogunate's preparation for a breakthrough.

The elite soldiers of the Tosa Domain, Hizen Domain, and Choshu Domain are in battle!

They first used cannon fodder to consume the firepower and energy of the right army of the shogunate army, and when they were sluggish, they suddenly invested heavy troops and attacked the shogunate army.

The shogunate army was caught off guard by them, and in the blink of an eye, a large piece of the shogunate army in contact was cut down, and everyone was immediately panicked.

Tsugaru Nobuyoshi, who had fought all the way in the battle, was no longer the first brother, and he calmly commanded his three thousand musketeers to shoot continuously in the direction of the raid of the Shogunate Army, three hits!

Then organize a group of men and horses to block in front of the musketeers as cover, and the muskets shoot fiercely, and the fallen army falls one after another.

Annoyed and angry, the fallen shogunate lit bombs and brazenly opened the way with them, throwing them under the banner of Tsugaru Shinyoshi.

The bombs that came in one after another made even the armored musketeers unable to resist, and the fallen army did not hesitate to pay the cost, and hundreds of bombs flew away, blowing up people in a mess, and a bomb exploded next to Tsugaru Nobuyoshi, and he fell to the ground, and the frightened soldiers pounced on him, and found that the young feudal lord's right eye had been pierced!

Not just his right eye, his entire face was blown up.

Tsugaru is faithful, and he is killed!

The news of his death in battle seriously affected the shogunate army, and the army of the right army, which was composed of the troops of the daimyo of the daimyo, was panicked and disagreed with each other, even if a daimyo stood up, the other daimyo did not bird him, not that they wanted to escape, after all, the shogunate made it clear that whoever escaped would be deprived of the status of the daimyo, not a joke, no one dared to run away after the arrival of reinforcements from the Ming army.

Instead, he couldn't cooperate: "You are a daimyo, and I am also a daimyo, why should I listen to you!" Wouldn't it be shameful for me to listen to you?! ”

Unable to cooperate, it caused it to be divided and surrounded by the Fallen Curtain Army, and the Fallen Curtain Army took the opportunity to attack, and for a while there was a lot of noise, only to feel that the position was full of Fallen Curtain Army, and many people began to run away, and the formation was broken only overnight.

The daimyo participated in the consultation, but fortunately, there was a strange army on the position, that is, the officers sent by the Ming army, led by Major Ren Xiaowen, led by three lieutenants Liu Gang, Bian Jihua, and Xu Junwu.

The king of the southeast attaches great importance to the collection of military history and intelligence, and he must sum up the battles he has fought and send observers for the battles of others.

Seeing that the situation was critical, Ren Xiaowen stepped forward and shouted, "Resist!" For the sake of the general, resist! ”