879 The End of Resistance
Marching and fighting, the most important thing is not the strength and equipment or even the grain and grass, etc., but the military heart, the army heart is stable, then the army will be stable, whether an army can achieve proud results, it all depends on whether the military heart is stable, whether the general has the military heart, if the general has the military heart, it is easy to say, if the army can not win the heart of the army, then no matter how good the equipment is and how sufficient the grain and grass are, it is all vain, for example, Xie Wan, who led the army to the Northern Expedition in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was born in the high-quality clan, looked down on the generals and soldiers, and called them strong pawns......
The status of the Eastern Jin Dynasty warriors is low, saying that they are strong pawns is equivalent to scolding and insulting people, the generals are very resentful, almost to mutiny and kill them, this person was naturally defeated by the Northern Expedition later, was dismissed from the official position and demoted to a concubine, the following year depressed and ended, Xie Wan's defeat caused a great loss of Xie's prestige, directly triggered the famous historical event "Xie An's resurgence of Dongshan", stabilized Xie's position, and then had the famous battle of Xishui.
Therefore, when marching and fighting, as a commander general, the reward for the soldiers below is very important, especially in the disposal of the enemy's surrender, it is more necessary to consider, if you blindly think that the person who comes to surrender is a disloyal minister without integrity, then it will chill the heart of the enemy who intends to take refuge, the two armies are fighting, and it is not at fault to weaken the enemy by any means, if you blindly kill the person who comes to surrender, it will only make the enemy who is originally at a disadvantage unite as one, causing great losses to your own side.
If those famous bigwigs in history blindly kill those who come to surrender, how can they have a great cause? If Cao Cao beheaded Zhang He Gaoran, but would there be a famous Wuzi general? If Jia Xu is beheaded, will he have the name of a famous poisoner? Those who come down should not be killed at will. Instead, it should be used at the right time to make an example to the enemy, and it is more beneficial for you to surrender than for you to desperately resist me.
Therefore, after dawn on the night of the Tang army's landing, Quanzong Saburo was appointed as the brigade commander by Suning, led more than 100 Japanese troops under his tent, and rewarded him with gold silk cloth and meat wine.
Get this picture. The Tang army was like a tiger with wings. The main reason for the coastal defense and Kyushu Island soldiers and horses in seven days comes from this map, which details the locations and troops of all the Japanese military fortresses and some important roads that he knows in the current period, and he was a middle and high-level general in the Japanese army before, and he knows these things in detail. Suning was overjoyed. Qin Qiong was also overjoyed. Dequan Sozaburo is equivalent to having a pair of clairvoyance and a pair of ears.
The Tang army's march was able to have a detailed plan and purpose. Kyushu Island was swept away so quickly, and there was also a great credit to Izumi Zong Saburo, so Suning immediately wrote a note for Izumi Zong Saburo to Li Er Majesty Xià, hoping to reward the title and official position, in order to calm his heart, Izumi Zong Saburo was even more grateful, more dedicated to the Tang Army to guide the way, will lead the way to the end, and also played his role in some very special moments.
For example, when Suning led the army to attack the fortress that must be passed through to the capital of the Japanese State, the Japanese State had learned that the Tang army had landed on a large scale, the coastal defense was exhausted, and the entire naval division was wiped out.
This fortress group is probably the largest fortress group in the Wa Island, and it is also very easy to defend and difficult to attack, the Tang army used artillery to destroy the fortress of one or two lines of defense, killing more than 20,000 Japanese soldiers, but the most important third line of defense built by the mountain has always been difficult to break through, thirty artillery bombardment for an hour still can not destroy the mountain, Suning ordered to stop the shelling, to keep iron bullets and gunpowder to ensure that there is enough supply when attacking other Wa cities.
Qin Qiong was at a loss, and decided to order the soldiers in the army to form a death squad to attack the mountain, but was stopped by Quanzong Saburo, he patted his chest and said that the master of the third line of defense would be his friend, and he could persuade the main general to lead his personal guards to surrender and give up the third line of defense, but the soldiers and horses were the central army of the Japanese Kingdom, and they were all strong soldiers and horses composed of the private soldiers of various nobles, not his main general's friend who could control zhì, except for his own personal soldiers.
Suning felt that this was a solution, so he asked Quanzong Saburo to set off with a few people, that night, a person next to Quanzong Saburo sneaked back, reported to Suning that the fortress gate had been opened, and asked the army to attack the fortress immediately, breaking the news of the Japanese army, Suning did not doubt him, suppressed Xue Rengui's opposition, won Qin Qiong's support, and personally led a thousand brave soldiers to attack the fortress with the hundred Japanese army, and really broke the Japanese defenders.
Qin Qiong saw the signal flares and fires at the foot of the mountain, and immediately raised a large army to attack the fortress at night, and finally broke through the most important and final third line of defense of the Japanese fortress group at dawn, and annihilated all the remaining 30,000 elites of the Japanese army, except for the main general named Qing Shuizhi and his own 150 personal guards.
Quanzong Saburo continued to make great contributions, so that the generals in the original army who were dissatisfied with Suning for his meritorious service and seeking the title had nothing to say, and acquiesced in Quanzong Saburo, the "traitor" in their eyes, who was about to become the person with the title of the Tang Dynasty, because as far as this battle is concerned, because of Quanzong Saburo's dedication, yes, the Tang army has taken too many detours, and this dangerous fortress was also indirectly taken down by him, and the generals no longer have other opinions, watching Suning reward Quanzong Saburo.
As for Shimizu Zhi, although he had the sin of resisting the army before, but for the sake of his repentant face at the last moment, Suning promised to pardon his sin and let him lead the one hundred and fifty soldiers who surrendered into the team of Izumi Sozaburo, a total of two hundred and thirty-one people, with Izumi Sosaburo as the captain and Shimizu Zhi as his deputy, and they were also under Suning's command and became a special unit.
After Zhang Liang's naval and land coalition army occupied the whole island, Zhang Liang left his lieutenant general to guard and guard the prisoners of war, and transported the prisoners of war back and forth one by one, and rushed to gather with Qin Qiong's main force of the Eastern Expeditionary Army with 10,000 soldiers and horses. After meeting the army, when the march reached another fork, it was sent by Qin Qiong to attack Shikoku Island, and Qin Qiong then led the main army to attack the big island of Honshu.
The current Wa Kingdom is a Wa State that has not undergone Dahua reform, and it still belongs to the era when the Su I family was in power, and the Wa King is just a puppet, and the Su I clan is the real power. The territory of modern Japan is very different from the territory of the Yamato monarchy before the Taika Revolution. It probably occupied two-thirds of the current Honshu Island, all of Shikoku and the northern half of Kyushu, half of which had already been conquered by the Tang Dynasty, and the southern half of Kyushu Island had not yet come under the current administration of the Wakoku Kingdom.
Beginning in the second half of the fifth century, the Yamato monarchy gradually overwhelmed the power of the local nobles. It symbolizes the gradual pacification of local chaos. The Yamato royal power, as the co-lord of the world, occupied the mainstream. However, the so-called Yamato royal power itself was not stable, and it had been monopolized by some wealthy families for a long time, and the so-called emperor of this period was just a puppet. Today's country is under the rule of the Soga clan, and the suzerainty of the Soga clan is called Soga Ezo.
After defeating the old enemy and gaining the strength to hold the throne a few decades ago, the Soga clan began to manipulate the selection of the Wa King, although the Wa family is claimed to be a thousand years of extinction, but for most of the entire history, the emperor is just a puppet, symbolism, whether it is ancient or medieval or modern, until the Meiji period, the emperor really grasped the real power, but this real power only lasted for about a hundred years, and was destroyed under the atomic bomb of the American army.
The royal family of the Wa Kingdom is not so much the royal family that has been in existence for the longest time, but rather the royal family with the longest puppet history.
The Tang Dynasty is not at war with the Wa King, but at war with Su I Ezo, the previous command and various troop allocations are all arranged in a hurry by Su I Ezo, on conspiracy and manipulation of authority, Su I Ezo is still a little bit of a look, but if it is about military talent, it is really not flattering, especially in the case of strict internal fighting, Su I clan is very cruel to those who dare to resist their clan rule, and Izumi Sozaburo is a victim of the political struggle.
The sacrifice of the sacrifice can not keep it stable, after the Tang Dynasty tried its best to expand externally and the envoys of the Japanese State were collectively beheaded after such an important signal was released, the Japanese State still could not be unanimous with the outside world, and the power struggle between the various wealthy clans and the Su I clan was still in full swing, until the Tang Dynasty Expedition and the Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Army Qin Qiong sent someone to issue a declaration of war, the Imperial Court of the Japanese Kingdom briefly entered the state of unanimous external affairs, even so, some people still put forward the idea of asking the Tang Dynasty to surrender.
If the Tang Dynasty has mastered the country, in order to stabilize the hearts of the people, it will definitely find someone to kill the chicken and set an example for the monkey, at that time the Su I clan is the most dangerous, so everyone can surrender, but the Su I clan can not surrender, and the plan to send the Tang envoy to steal the skills of the Tang Dynasty is also led by the Su I clan, and there are many people in the court who opposed it, and Su I Ezo insisted on going his own way, so there was this disaster.
Now that the Tang army has come over, it has swept away 70,000 soldiers and horses along the coast and 30,000 troops on Kyushu Island in just a few days, and even the natives in the south of Kyushu Island who have not been conquered have also been conquered, and the strength of the Tang Dynasty does not need words to describe it.
There is already a saying in the court that let the Su I clan step down and return to the emperor, Su I Ezo scoffed at this, return to the emperor, it sounds good, the puppet family has been a puppet since its birth, and has never held real power, you let them ascend the throne and return to the government to re-divide the power, in a collective overhead of the imperial family, to put it bluntly, it is to fight themselves down, and everyone divides the power together, but they don't want to think about it, the Tang Army is close at hand, when can they be united at this time?
At this time, the news that the Tang army came to the royal capital, there were many armies along the road who surrendered without a fight or retreated without a fight, the Tang army was strong, those who surrendered could live, and those who resisted were all beaten into slaves, and even more were slaughtered all over the house, the commander-in-chief of the Tang army even said that one person resisted, and the city was all enslaved, and all the wealthy clans were frightened to the heart, and finally gathered together to ask for advice from Su I Ezo.
Su I Ezo looked at these people with disdain, and then took out the map and pointed out the most important fortress located on the road that the Tang army must pass, as long as this fortress is held, the Tang army comes from afar, and the transportation of grain and grass is difficult, as long as it persists until winter, the Tang army is short of grain and grass, and it will inevitably retreat, at that time we will be safe, so on the premise that the main army loses 100,000, the Zhuhao clan gathered 50,000 private soldiers and handed it over to Su I Ezo command, and Su I Ezo arranged the 50,000 strong army in the fortress, hoping to resist the pace of the Tang army's attack.
However, the end of the fortress defenders told sù Suga Ezo that the end of resistance was not a joke. (To be continued......)