Chapter 145 General Attack
Excessive elevation and excessive belittlement should be rejected by an excellent politician.
A realistic evaluation helps human progress and restores historical truth.
Eunuch Wei readily accepted the title of "The Strongest Man in East Asia". He did not think there was anything wrong with this title.
Compared with the title of "the strongest man on the surface" - "the strongest man in East Asia", the title is still very realistic and very intimate, at least easy to understand.
On the same day, my father-in-law's Lubo had a long banner of "the strongest man in East Asia" and issued a general offensive order against Miyakoshima that day.
This battle gathered more than 20,000 sea and land officers and soldiers. Not only did Eunuch Wei take the lead in the front line of the supervisor, but there was also a special observation team.
This team is a "battlefield observation group" composed of students from the senior training class of military supervisors, with the full name "battlefield observation group of the Ming Emperor's personal military supervisors".
After the New Year, in order to implement Eunuch Wei’s spiritual instructions that “the military eunuchs must understand practical combat and participate in practical combat”, the military eunuchs’ senior training camp located in Tamsui, Taipei began to organize students to go deep into various war zones to observe on-site.
Two batches of 45 students have been organized to go to the Taiwan Security Division to study in depth the "rolling barrel-style three-layer blockade" adopted by the division to wipe out Taiwanese savages.
During the observation process, the eunuchs in the military inspectors first came into contact with actual combat, and felt the cruelty of war for the first time, and fully understood how the various tactics learned in the classroom were specifically applied on the battlefield and achieved good results.
The 26 students selected this time are outstanding students who graduated from the first phase. According to the instructions of Eunuch Wei, this group of students will follow the army to observe tactics and tactics and learn from various troops. It is expected that after the end of this year, this group of students will be competent for the supervisor of each department.
The father-in-law has written to His Majesty the Emperor and requested that the position of guards be divided into various vassals and places in Japan after the expedition. At that time, the guards in various places will be selected from the students of this imperial army's battlefield observation group.
Once you take office, you will start at the seventh grade.
Of course, whether His Majesty the Emperor approved the plan was not sure for the time being. But what is certain is that there would never be any big lord in the inner court against this letter, because these eunuchs and students in the military supervisors were selected by various yamen.
In essence, they do not belong to Eunuch Wei, but to the entire inner court.
In order to strengthen the regularization of the battlefield observation regiment, the students were wearing flying fish uniforms. They were now gathered under the leadership of the Guards Division and relevant staff of the Joint Fleet to analyze and study the sand tables arranged based on the terrain of Miyako Island and the Japanese defense forces to deduce the pros and cons of the offensive and defensive aspects of the enemy and us in the subsequent battle.
Each student was equipped with three full-time entourages, two of whom were Japanese soldiers from the Japanese training camp, and one was a master of the Japanese language.
Some of these Han people are the wandering people (pirates) captured by the Imperial Army for many years, and some are the children of the coastal maritime merchants who actively sent them to get closer to the Imperial Army.
The fire of stars can burn the earth.
Eunuch Wei has high hopes for every member of the battlefield observation group. He believes that eunuchs who have undergone professional political training and military training will surely shine with the light of the Imperial Ming in Japan in the future.
The battle against the Japanese army of Ryukyu has never been the focus of Eunuch Wei, and his sight has always been in the farther north.
Since the Japanese nation claims to be a branch of the Chinese Han nation, Eunuch Wei and the Imperial Army soldiers who came from afar, representing their motherland's mother, will treat them as brotherly feelings and treat them as fellow flesh and blood compatriots.
Before the expedition, the governor of Zhejiang Gao Ju wrote a letter to Eunuch Wei in his private name, asking where the supply of food and grass for the Imperial Army came from after the expedition.
There are also concerns about Fujian. After all, this is the first expedition since the founding of this dynasty and has not received any support from the court.
Since ancient times, food and grass have been the first priority since the expedition.
If the food and supplies are not good, the army will return without success at the least, and the army will be wiped out at the worst.
Because Zhejiang and Fujian provinces are the basic foundation of the Zhejiang Party, they have a deep degree of participation in maritime affairs. In particular, the two provinces have begun to mobilize manpower and material resources to develop Taiwan. Some maritime merchants have even signed contracts with the maritime yamen to jointly carry out maritime trade in Ryukyu. Therefore, if the Imperial Army cannot defeat Japan, all their efforts may be gone.
Therefore, as the governor of Zhejiang, the pressure of lifting up was also great. Those gentry who had been involved in too deep had no choice but to use Eunuch Wei, but there was a way to treat him as the high school chief.
Eunuch Wei replied to the high school chief in this way, and he said: "The Kingdom of Japan is with me, and the Confucian scholars of his country claim to be the Han people, and regard the country as the son of our Chinese. The promising people of Japan regard the Imperial Army as the rescuer. There is no need to worry about the Central Chief of Food and Grain."
After receiving this reply, the high school chief did not understand what Eunuch Wei was saying for a long time. He had to say what answer he gave, but nothing was wrong. If he had to say there was no answer, Eunuch Wei went to the battle himself.
Later, Siming's husband Shen Yiguan, who was seriously ill, gave a word of answer - "grab".
"Solve the lack of food on the spot, and fight hand-to-hand combat if there is insufficient ammunition!" - Some fanatical officers of the Joint Fleet and Guards Division also gave the answer.
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The Japanese troops stationed at Miyakoshima actually did not have many troops, less than a thousand people, and the leader was the Karayama army who followed the Taro Koshima.
According to the Japanese army organization explained by Ichiro Sanada and others, Eunuch Wei believed that this army was equivalent to the position of Chief of Staff, and was responsible for mobilizing troops and commanding operations according to the orders of the general. The army followed the following officials, including flags, bows, guns, soldiers and grains.
Miyako Island is actually far from Ishigaki Island in the Yaeshan Islands where Kazuo Kawayama led the main force of the Japanese army, and is essentially an isolated army. Due to the blockade of the joint fleet, the Japanese army on the island has actually lost contact with the main force. There are about 20,000 Ryukyu residents on the island, and it is these more than 20,000 Ryukyu people who support the Japanese army in Kojima, which allows them to persevere until now.
Miyako Island is mainly plains, with half of the land as arable land. There are more than 100 meters high Yokoyama Mountain on the island, which makes the Japanese army guarding the island have a territorial advantage and can repel the attacks launched by the Imperial Army from a high point.
If the Marine Forces of the Joint Fleet and the First Regiment of the Guards Division can be mobilized, there will be no problem in solving the Japanese army on Miyako Island.
The bad thing is that the Imperial Army still needs to distribute troops to besiege the main Japanese army in Yaeshan, which has led to the delay in solving the problem of Miyakoshima's Japanese army.
Now, the problem of insufficient troops has been solved.
A total attack is about to begin.
After combining the actual situation of the Japanese and Imperial Army, Eunuch Wei ordered a 500-person suicide squad.
The suicide squad was selected by the Japanese soldiers training camp and the Taiwanese volunteer team, and the leader was Akian Murayama's subordinate Akian Murayama who surrendered earlier.
"Your goal is Yokoyama, Koshima Taro. You and your subordinates must work hard for it. Even if you die, you must win!"
With the inspiration of Eunuch Wei, fellow Daoist Akashi took a deep breath, bowed 90 degrees and led the suicide squad to a location less than two miles away from the Japanese army in Hengshan.
However, instead of attacking immediately, they stopped and started to dress up. Some people were even holding makeup boxes in their hands and were blackening their teeth.
Eunuch Wei was very surprised and was very puzzled by fellow Taoist Akashi's actions.
"Reported to my father-in-law, Akashi is a samurai. He believes that he cannot die in sloppy when he goes to the battlefield, as it will damage the image of the samurai." Yukiji Yamamoto.
"A warrior?"
Chapter completed!