That was right. The only thing that could bring Tokugawa Ieyasu an opportunity was Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death. The most regrettable thing was that Toyotomi Hideyoshi was still immersed in his own dream and lost in the illusion in front of him. He did not realize the extent to which the real situation had reached. The retreat order that the Ukito Hideyoshi's family and the others did not hesitate to deceive him did not come. Instead, they came into Toyotomi Hideyoshi's dream.
Those seven conditions were clearly out to take their lives …
The high-ranking officials of the Japanese army in Pusan gathered together and looked at the letter and the requirements in the letter with bitter faces. They swallowed buckets of medicine for regret, and their intestines were green with regret.
Xiao Ruxun could not feel their sorrow, and there was no need for Xiao Ruxun to feel it. Although they could not force the Japanese too much, they still had to at least attack. Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain to their own people and the imperial court. It would not be good to appear as if they were afraid to fight. Therefore, Xiao Ruxun would occasionally send a small unit to fire a few cannons at a certain castle to stimulate the nerves of the Japanese and let his own people vent their emotions.
Xiao Ruxun felt relieved when he learned that the imperial court's navy had been dispatched. However, he did not know much about naval warfare, and the emperor had given him the authority to command the navy's dispatch. Generally speaking, the navy could fight independently and form a system. The commander-in-chief of the navy only fought in coordination with the army, but they did not have a superior and subordinate relationship. However, this time, Zhu Yijun had also given him the authority to command the navy. The commander-in-chief of the navy, Chen Lin, had to listen to his orders before he could go into battle.
This made Xiao Ruxun feel both sweet and troubled. Of course, it was a sweet thing to have more power, but how experienced was Chen Lin, a 60-year-old old general? It would be strange if he listened to him! Was Zhu Yijun doing this on purpose or on purpose?
Li Rusong, who was in his forties, was already a headache for him, not to mention an older one. In the entire army, no one could surpass him in age and experience except for Yuan Huang, not to mention that this god had been fighting against the Japanese in the southeast since the Jiajing era. He was on the same level as Yuan Huang. If he was not a little greedy, he would probably only be a little bit weaker than Li Chengliang.
Chen Lin was indeed a hero, but this hero had a fatal shortcoming — greed. Probably because of the same experience as Li Chengliang, he became a little sophisticated and greedy. But Chen Lin did not have Li Chengliang's alertness and adaptability, and he was not good at judging people. Therefore, every time he bribed a civil official, he would always bribe the wrong person. He would either be reported or humiliated, and then he would be dismissed. If it were not for his ability to lead troops to war, he would never be used again.
This time, he was used again at the age of 60, but he still had to listen to the command of a 23-year-old boy. One could imagine how angry Chen Lin was.
Therefore, even though he was suspected of not respecting the old, Xiao Ruxun still planned to use a heavy punishment to make this excellent veteran bow down to his orders. He would obediently take over Tsushima Island and complete his strategic plan.
Therefore, Xiao Ruxun needed to cram some knowledge about naval warfare and ships. Yuan Huang only had a rough understanding of this, but he could not explain it thoroughly. He probably was no match for Chen Lin. Xiao Ruxun thought of one person and ordered him to be summoned from Jeoluo.
Yi Sun-sin.
This rare genius in naval warfare.
Times create heroes. Yi Sun-sin was the purest hero created by the game between the three countries of Tomorrow and Korea. He flourished for this and died for this. He flourished at the beginning of the Battle of Korea and ended in the last battle of Korea. It was as if he had prepared for this battle all his life. When the battle ended, he had completed his historical mission and disappeared from this world.
Xiao Ruxun had always wanted to meet this most legendary hero. The modern Koreans whitewashed many of their own miracles in the Battle of Korea, as if they could have won the battle without the Ming Army. However, the only hero who could be recognized without boasting was Yi Sun-sin.
We can mock the Koreans for being a small country with few people, but we can't mock Yi Sun-sin, who was worthy of being called a hero.
From the beginning of the Battle of Korea, he had nothing to do with the support of the imperial court. From the beginning to the end, he led the army alone and fought alone. Without the support of the imperial court and the government, he was trapped in the southernmost part of the enemy-occupied area. With only his own fleet, a port, some supplies, and a piece of land in Jeoluo, he repeatedly created miraculous results in naval battles against the Japanese. He lost more than he lost. He was the Korean general that the Japanese feared the most in the entire war.
If he had enough ships and cannons, he would have had the ability to annihilate the main force of the Japanese navy in naval battles. Even when he did not have enough ships, he still relied on his inferior military strength to repeatedly inflict heavy losses on the Japanese navy. He messed up the shipping routes of the Japanese navy. Of the seven hundred Japanese warships, he destroyed a hundred within a month. The rest hid in the port and did not dare to go out to battle. During his most active period, he even destroyed seventy percent of the Japanese's shipping capacity with his own strength.
It could be said that Yi Sun-sin's activity indirectly greatly limited the Japanese's ability to advance. It also bought precious time for Xiao Ruxun to send out his troops.
It could be said that during this period, Yi Sun-sin was the overlord of the sea that the Japanese could not defeat. Of course, this was also related to the war mechanism of the Japanese. The reason why the Korean navy had the advantage was that the commander was good at concentrating superior forces. The failure of the Japanese navy could be blamed entirely on the daimyo.
However, there was no other way. The 9,200 people of the Japanese navy were actually divided into nine major parts. The commander-in-chief Kuki Yoshitaka had 1,500 people, Tendo Takahu had 2,000 people, Wakisaka Anji had 1,500 people, Kato Yoshiaki had 750 people, the Raishima brothers had 700 people, Suga Tatsunaga had 250 people, Kuroyama Kazuharu had 1,000 people, Kuruchi clan had 850 people, and Suga clan had 650 people.
At that time, Japan did not have a unified military system. The daimyo brought their own men and horses to the battlefield, so when fighting, the soldiers followed their masters. Each daimyo was an independent military unit, and naturally, they had to put their own interests first.
This gave Yi Sun-sin a chance to defeat them one by one. After the three naval battles of Tangpu, Goseong, and Kuripura ended, the Japanese navy was unwilling to lose. After learning from the painful experience, they decided to gather all their forces to fight Yi Sun-sin. This was the naval battle of Idyama Island.
As a result, Japan lost nearly 100 warships again, especially the super warship "Nippon Maru" that the commander-in-chief of the navy, Kuki Yoshitaka, had built to please Toyotomi Hideyoshi, which was also sunk by Yi Sun-sin. This directly caused the Japanese navy to lose their fighting spirit.
Unlike the lies of the army, the navy did not hide anything from Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Toyotomi Hideyoshi did not have much hope for the navy from the beginning, so when he heard the news of the defeat of Idyama Island and Angupo, he was silent. Not only did he not reprimand the defeated, but he also sent a letter of thanks to the seriously injured Wakisaka Anji.
It seemed that at this time, Toyotomi Hideyoshi no longer had any illusions about defeating Yi Sun-sin, but Yi Sun-sin had made a mistake.
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