The general content of the letter that the merchant translated was as follows.
I respectfully inform the Japanese clown, Hideyoshi.
You are cruel and heartless, arrogant and conceited, you rashly started a war, you used an immoral army to attack a righteous country, burning three of its capitals, burning eight of its roads, annihilating its armies, massacring its people, seizing its money and goods from its counties, burning, killing and looting, committing all kinds of crimes, your misdeeds are too numerous to be recorded. The people of Korea have been suffering for a long time, their hope for the arrival of the Daming Heavenly Army is like the hope for rain after a long drought.
Since the Heavenly Army arrived, they conquered Pyongyang in the first battle, conquered Kaesong in the second, and conquered Han City in the third. They annihilated a hundred thousand of your unscrupulous troops. The Heavenly Army's sharpness was unstoppable, and it was all because of your unscrupulous immorality! Today, a hundred thousand soldiers have gathered at Pusan, and the remnants of your troops have been beheaded. Your navy has sunk to the bottom of the sea and been buried in the stomachs of the fishes. The Heavenly Army and the Navy have set sail on an expedition. They will set out in the morning and arrive in the evening. They will attack your homeland and destroy your country as easily as taking something out of their own pockets. I hope that you will do your best and surrender yourselves so that your people will not suffer from the flames of war.
The commander-in-chief of the Daming Army, Xiao Ruxun, who was responsible for defending the seas and defending Liao, Baoding, Shandong and other places against the pirates.
The merchant used common Japanese to explain the meaning of the letter to Toyotomi Hideyoshi. After a brief explanation, Toyotomi Hideyoshi looked at him with a strange expression. He then reached out and took the letter. With a wave of his hand, he beheaded the merchant and handed the letter to a monk.
"You say it!"
The monk was scared out of his wits. He kept kowtowing and begging for mercy. Hideyoshi lost his patience. With a wave of his hand, he handed the letter to another monk.
"You say it!"
The monk was relatively quiet and did not scream like the others. He took the letter and looked at it, then raised his head and said, "Taige, this is a letter from the Daming Commander-In-Chief Xiao Ruxun, who is in charge of defending the seas and Liao, Baoding, Shandong and other places against the pirates. The one who attacked the house should be the Ming …"
Before he could finish his words, another slash came.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi wiped his sword and complained to the terrified guard beside him, "What are you doing? They couldn't even find a literate person?! They were obviously the rebel army, but they treated them as the Ming Army! Simply absurd! Go look again! If you can't find it, then you'll be the one to say it! "
The guard shuddered and immediately scurried out, rolling and crawling in a sorry state. Only Toyotomi Hideyoshi was left in the main hall. He looked at the letter in his hand and ignored the corpses on the ground. He muttered to himself, "There's not a single literate person here."
He was destined not to find anyone who could read.
On the other hand, Tokugawa Ieyasu and Kuroda Rusui were much more rational. They had received very accurate information that the one who attacked the house was not Toyotomi Hidetsugu and Maeda Toshiie. The two frustrated people were probably crying in a corner of the capital and had no intention of rebelling. The one who attacked the house was the enemy they did not want to meet the most — the Ming Army.
The Ming Army Navy. Hundreds of ridiculously large warships lay across the sea near the house. From time to time, they would bombard the city, causing the people in the house to panic. They had even sent a troop to attack the house. The thousands of troops outside the city did not last long before they were defeated. Corpses were everywhere. The Ming Army easily retreated after fighting for a while. They even wrote a letter to Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The contents of the letter were still unclear.
However, being rational did not mean that he was not afraid. Tokugawa Ieyasu hated things that he could not control. Whether it was a friend or an enemy, everything that was beyond his control would be the target of his fear. He would find a way to get rid of it. However, the target this time was something that he could not get rid of no matter what. In fact, he did not even dare to do anything to it.
The Ming Army and the Daming Empire behind him.
Tokugawa Ieyasu's face turned purple. He could not help but look at his advisor.
The lips of the rare military advisor trembled. Perhaps he thought of his eldest son who had died tragically in Korea, or perhaps he thought of the artillery fire of the Ming Army. He instinctively sensed that the attack of the Ming Army the day before this big operation was to be carried out would completely disrupt his original foolproof arrangement. His arrangement would be completely destroyed by the artillery fire of the Ming Army.
"Since the Ming Army has come, it proves that Kuki Yoshitaka is finished. The last troop in Pusan is also finished. The Ming Army has completely recovered Korea. Ukito Hideyoshi's family is completely finished. We have lost all the direct subordinates under Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Even Tsushima Island may be occupied by the Ming Army. We have lost 150,000 elite soldiers and tens of thousands of young and strong people."
With his lips trembling, the rare military advisor tried his best to maintain the operation of his brain and perform his duties with all his strength.
Tokugawa Ieyasu swallowed his saliva. It was always annoying to find that the development of things was beyond his imagination.
"Will the Ming Army officially attack Nihon?"
Tokugawa Ieyasu was most concerned about this question.
The rare military advisor was stunned again. After a while, when Tokugawa Ieyasu could not help but ask again, Kuroda Rushui slowly shook his head. Tokugawa Ieyasu was relieved. He thought that Kuroda Rushui would say no, but Kuroda Rushui blurted out that he did not know.
"I don't know, I don't know what is written in the letter. Today's attack is probably just a warning, or … a test, to test our strength and the strength of the Namoya. The fact that the Ming Army fleet has not left is proof. They may continue to bombard and continue to attack, and seize a nearby port as a military port to station troops. Once the ships of the Ming Army stay, it means that they are ready to attack."
"Taikaku has completely angered the Ming Army, right? The Ming Army will retaliate crazily, right? "
Tokugawa Ieyasu could not suppress the fear in his heart.
"I don't know, I don't know. Based on the current situation, if the Ming Army wants to officially attack, it will definitely not just be a few hundred ships. There will be more ships coming. We can't resist the artillery of the Ming Army. We can only retreat, and we can't fight on the sea. Our ships can't be equipped with artillery, but the ships of the Ming Army are full of artillery. They will be sunk before the battle begins."
Kuroda Rushui's mind was in chaos.
"Then our plan … no … what should we do? Taikaku will definitely let us go to the Namoya to help defend! What should we do? "
From the bottom of his heart, Tokugawa Ieyasu did not want to fight with the Ming Army. He did not want to have a conflict with the Ming Army. He only had the ambition to replace Toyotomi Hideyoshi, but he did not have the ambition to covet the mainland. He was also very clear that attacking the mainland was definitely a road to death. It was impossible for Japan to annex the Daming, not even thinking about it.
"We … we can only deal with the changes by not changing. We know too little information, and it is impossible to analyze. What does the Ming Army want to do? We have to send people to find out, and we also need to know what Hideyoshi is thinking …"
Kuroda Rushui could not continue. His mind was in chaos, and he could not make the most accurate judgment. This was also the situation that Tokugawa Ieyasu did not want to see the most. He was not good at dealing with sudden events. He needed someone to analyze for him, help him plan, help him formulate a plan, and then deal with it slowly. He had to spend a lot of time for this to ensure his victory.
"In just a quarter of an hour, the Ming Army defeated more than 2,000 people in Taikaku, and they have so many cannons. I will never allow my troops to fight with the Ming Army. Absolutely not!"
Although Tokugawa Ieyasu did not know how to deal with the situation in front of him, there was a bottom line that he had to adhere to, and that was to absolutely not allow his own strength to be greatly damaged, especially in a situation where such a strong enemy was approaching.
"Hideyoshi will soon think of you, and soon he will let you enter the Namoya to help in the battle. This is also something that can be known without thinking."
Kuroda Rushui suddenly laughed self-deprecatingly. "The 150,000 elites of the western army are already finished. We have already lost half of our military strength. Hideyoshi will drag the 100,000 eastern army to die with him. The whole of Japan will be destroyed by him. With the combat power of the Ming Army and the population of the Ming Kingdom, as long as they are willing, it will not be difficult to occupy the whole of Japan."
"Then what if we directly contact the Ming Kingdom?"
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