When Tokugawa Ieyasu ran away, so did the Toyotomi clan.
The sudden attack made them confused. When they judged that it was not the Tokugawa clan that attacked them, but the Qin Army, a strong sense of fear instantly filled the hearts of every leader of Toyotomi Group.
Did the Qin Army really come?
Didn't they say they wouldn't come?
This couldn't be true, right?
When something that was thought to be absolutely impossible happened, the people involved would definitely panic. But after the panic, someone had to stand up to solve it. Sometimes someone could stand up to solve it, and sometimes no one stood up.
Because those who could solve the problem were often killed by those who had a fluke mentality before the problem happened.
So the extremely absurd thing of killing the person who raised the problem when the problem couldn't be solved appeared.
However, this kind of thing happened again and again in the long river of history.
Asano Yukinaga wanted to kill Ishida Mitsunari who raised the problem, but fortunately, Toyotomi Hidetsugu was a little bit smart. In order to protect his power and status, he protected Ishida Mitsunari and let him continue to solve the problem with his wisdom.
But now that things had come to this, Ishida Sansei didn't have any better ideas.
Escape was the most important thing.
Everyone knew where to escape, so they just needed to escape with the elite guards. They didn't need to care about the others. Toyotomi Hidetsugu needed to protect himself first.
Then it was Ishida Mitsunari. Ishida Mitsunari found Toyotomi Hidetsugu first and ran with him.
"What about the others?"
"They all have their own guards. They can escape."
"What about the army?"
"As long as His Highness is still alive, soldiers can continue to be recruited. If His Highness is gone, everything will be over!"
Ishida Mitsunari's words were very reasonable, and it gave Toyotomi Hidetsugu enough psychological comfort. Therefore, Toyotomi Hidetsugu decisively abandoned everyone and took the lead to escape. Ishida Mitsunari also followed him.
While everyone was panicking, Toyotomi Hidetsugu retained his last bit of sanity. He knew that he needed someone who could stay calm to come up with a plan. Therefore, he had to bring Ishida Mitsunari with him. Otherwise, he would not be able to handle the situation on his own.
The Qin Army had invaded on a large scale. No one knew how many people had come.
He didn't know where they came from or how many groups they had split up into.
I don't know what the strategic objective is.
He did not know who the general was.
They didn't know anything. They were blind, deaf, and could only be beaten up passively.
In such a panicked situation, Ishida Mitsunari remained calm. He called over his henchmen and told them to stay in hiding and gather information. At least, he had to figure out the number of the Qin Army and the purpose of this war.
Wars could never be solved by fighting. If there were enough benefits, diplomatic means could also be used to end the war. It was just a matter of paying more money. If it could avoid the disaster of war, it was not impossible to pay more money.
But if the purpose of the Qin Army was the worst ending Maeda Toshiie had predicted, and Xiao Ruxun wanted to expand his territory and show the power of his country, then it would be really bad. Ishida Mitsunari had no confidence to defeat Xiao Ruxun's army.
But at least, he had to get some information.
Just like that, with more than a thousand defeated soldiers, Toyotomi Hidetsugu and Ishida Mitsunari ran all the way to Kyoto. They didn't care about anything else other than getting back to Kyoto as soon as possible.
The significance of the capital was self-evident. As long as there was the capital, the emperor, the government, and the foundation, then there was still hope.
If they couldn't get back to the foundation, couldn't get back to the capital, and couldn't command the world, then they would be rootless duckweed, wandering ghosts, and would be finished sooner or later.
The Toyotomi Clan had no idea what had happened and what would happen. And the Qin Army's attack was very fierce, not giving them any face at all.
On the 15th of April, Ma Hu dealt with the Shimazu Clan's resistance, massacred the main city of Satsuma, and basically controlled Satsuma Country. Then, he marched towards Ōyu.
Also on the 15th of April, Chai Guozhu defeated the main defense force of the Tokugawa Clan in Feiqian, which consisted of more than five thousand people.
These five thousand people were equipped with cannons and cannons. Their firepower was decent, but against the superior firepower of the Qin Army, they quickly fell into a disadvantageous position. The Qin Army bombarded them with ten Hongyi cannons, and used cavalry to charge in and break through the enemy's formation.
Once the formation was broken, the infantry was a live target. Chai Guozhu finally commanded the infantry to line up, step by step, and completely annihilated the Tokugawa Clan's resistance force. Feiqian Country basically fell into Chai Guozhu's hands.
On the 15th of April, Li Rusong's army defeated a resistance force of more than a thousand people at the foot of Mount Fuzhi in Amada Prefecture. It only took a round of charge to trample them into meat paste. Then, he ordered his troops to loot everywhere to replenish military supplies. On the 16th of April, he marched to Funai Prefecture.
Also on the 16th of April, Ma Wei led the main force of the crusade army of 50,000 people to occupy Ishiami Country. On the one hand, he immediately resumed the mining of Ishiami Silver Mountain. On the other hand, he sent troops south to Anyun Country, and then marched in the direction of Nagato Country, ready to meet with Chai Guozhu's Kyushu Crusade Army.
After that, Ma Wei met with the infantry left by Luo Shangzhi. He learned that Luo Shangzhi and Qi Jin had divided their troops to pursue the Toyotomi Clan and Tokugawa Clan. He did not object and incorporated these infantry into the army. Then, he led the main force eastward to the Empress Country, ready to push all the way to Kyoto.
The incident happened suddenly, the Japanese army was defeated like a landslide, the main force was scattered in Luo Shangzhi's sneak attack, they fled one after another, causing panic everywhere, great chaos, all kinds of rumors were flying everywhere.
For example, Daqin sent a million troops to crusade against R, and everyone fled quickly.
If Xiao Ruxun knew this, he would really want to laugh.
His reorganization plan was to use five years to prepare a standing army of one million, which was almost his limit. You want him to use a million troops to attack R?
It was estimated that the food of the whole Daqin was not enough for them to eat R, so they had to fish on the sea for a living.
Not to mention a million troops. 100,000 troops were enough to wipe out the two central resistance forces of R. The next task was to capture them.
Xiao Ruxun did not intend to properly govern R as a colony at all. Instead, he planned to capture most of the elite population and bring them to the mainland of Daqin to do hard labor to increase the population.
The remaining small part would be left as the foundation. As for the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, they could wait to die.
As for the matter of giving land to the generals and ministers, he would let the generals and ministers think about it themselves. It was none of his business to recruit their own people to open up and manage it.
Anyway, he would leave some people for them to toss. If they lived, it would be their ability. If they died, it would be their incompetence. The emperor would give them land.
Xiao Ruxun did not take R as a big deal at all. Therefore, it did not matter whether to build or not. It did not matter whether to preserve the essence or not. Except for Kyoto and Nara, which must be kept as the direct jurisdiction of the central government, other things were up to the generals.
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