stjorthotic Chapter 827: Taking Over Tsushima Island, The Japanese Country Fought With Local Villages [Please Su
Chapter 827: Taking Over Tsushima Island, The Japanese Country Fought With Local Villages [Please Su
In addition to Tamra Island, Ming Dynasty also captured Tsushima Island at the same time.
Yan Changqing said before that "if we can start from Busan, Goryeo, it will be closer to Japan, about fifty kilometers away, and we can reach Japan in half a day", referring to Tsushima Island.
Since Tsushima Island is one of the territorial islands of Japan, it is not wrong to say so.
If it's a clear day, you can even see Busan on the Korean Peninsula from the high platform of Tsushima Island.
If you are lucky, you can swim from Tsushima Island to the opposite Korean Peninsula even holding a wooden board.
In fact, there are many Japanese pirates who don't even have boats. They just choose a sunny day and carry a wooden board from Tsushima Island [and then put on the wooden board enough food and water for ten to two days.
In the end, they just crossed fifty kilometers and swam to the opposite side of the Korean Peninsula to burn, kill and plunder.
From Tsushima Island to Fukuoka, the closest city in Japan, the distance is about 120 kilometers.
So if you set out from Tsushima Island to Fukuoka, Japan, you can basically reach it in about a day.
However, Tsushima Island is smaller than Tamna Island, with a land area of only about 700 square kilometers, which is equivalent to about two-fifths of the area of Tamna Island.
Moreover, Tsushima Island lacks various resources, with more forests and less farmland. Even if there is a small amount of farmland, they make a living on dry fields.
For example, if Tamna Island is fully developed, there will be no problem in supporting at least a population of more than 500,000 to less than 1 million people on its own.
However, even if Tsushima Island is fully developed, it will be difficult to be self-sufficient in supporting a population of more than 100,000 people.
Therefore, it turns out that the Tsushima So clan on Tsushima Island has always traded with Goryeo on the Korean Peninsula, or with Kyushu Kingdom on the Japanese island of Kyushu, in exchange for various necessary living materials to support the island. The Japanese from the Kingdom of Ma.
But even so, at this time, the year-round Japanese population in Tsushima Kingdom on Tsushima Island will not exceed 50,000.
Generally, there are about 30,000 to 40,000 people. If there are any more, even if we conduct trade transactions with Korea on the Korean Peninsula or other island countries of Japan, we will not be able to support them.
After all, Tsushima Island cannot produce that many valuable materials that can be traded with Korea on the Korean Peninsula, or with other island countries in Japan.
This is also the reason why the Ming Navy was able to capture Tsushima Island so easily.
After all, the entire Tsushima Kingdom on Tsushima Island, plus the number of their own Japanese people, is not as large as the total number of Ming Navy soldiers.
And if calculated based on the number of unemployed people who pay for one in thirty, or one in fifteen, the number of Tsushima soldiers on the entire Tsushima Island is only about one thousand to two thousand.
If the army is more aggressive, the number of people in this field may be increased to 3,000.
The number of three thousand armed soldiers, if placed in the Japanese country, would be considered a first-class local daimyo.
Like the Warring States Period (1467-1600 or 1615) after the Japanese Kingdom, the country was divided into sixty-six kingdoms.
If we compare the territory of the Ming Dynasty, the territory of the Japanese country is approximately equal to the Yunnan Province of the Ming Dynasty.
In such a small place, it is divided into sixty-six countries.
If divided according to average area, then the area of a country is approximately the same as the area of a county.
And this is still the most ideal situation, because although there were many famous names at that time, there were also many famous names with little strength.
They are likely to organize some local forces and then rise up. After that, they can become a so-called daimyo and establish a country.
But if you look into it carefully, the territory of their country may only be equal to the size of a township, or even the size of a village.
Under such circumstances, the number of soldiers that these orders can support is generally from a few hundred to a few thousand.
Under such circumstances, a "war" involving tens of hundreds of people among the local lords of Japan can be regarded as a "war".
Because to a certain extent, the "war" of these hundreds of people has already exhausted their "power of a country".
For example, the Battle of Okehazama, which is highly sought after by the Japanese. In this battle, Oda Nobunaga's army was about 5,000 men, Imagawa Yoshimoto's army was about 25,000 to 45,000, and Oda Nobunaga's surprise attack force was about 5,000. Two thousand people.
But if you look closely, you will find that these soldiers are all composed of multiple daimyo.
Just like Oda Nobunaga's five thousand soldiers, a large part were soldiers of the Shibata clan, the Hayashi clan, the Sakuma clan, the Ieki clan, the Niwa clan and other retainers.
Strictly speaking, the number of soldiers who truly belonged to Oda Nobunaga was only about 2,000 to 3,000.
There was also the Sekigahara Battle, which was touted by the Japanese nation as a peerless battle that would determine the future direction of Japanese history.
In this battle, Tokugawa Ieyasu's Eastern Army had a total of about 70,000 to 104,000 troops, while Ishida Mitsunari's Western Army had more than 80,000 troops. The two armies combined almost exceeded 200,000. people.
It sounds like the amount of troops invested by both sides is also very objective, and it seems that it can be called a real war.
But if you look closely, you will find that the combined army of more than 100,000 people from the east and west armies in the Battle of Sekigahara was actually made up of nearly forty daimyo.
Among them, the largest daimyo sent out about 30,000 soldiers, and the smallest daimyo sent out only a few hundred soldiers. [On average, the number of soldiers among the ten daimyo is only 4,000!
So from this perspective, the Tsushima Kingdom on Tsushima Island has between one thousand and three thousand soldiers, which can be regarded as a very good local daimyo force.
Even the central shogunate of the Japanese country had to be polite to the Ma Zong clan when they had one thousand to three thousand soldiers.
But if you look back at the armed fights between villages in the Ming Dynasty, you will find that the armed fights between the local villages in the Ming Dynasty are not much worse than the so-called "war" during the "Warring States" period of the Japanese state.
For example, the biggest village-to-village fight in the Ming Dynasty was between Jiujiu and Yongkang. The two sides fought over the mines.
In this village armed fight [both sides invested a total of more than 40,000 people in the armed fight!
On average, more than 20,000 people were mobilized in one village!
It can be said that the armed fighting that broke out between these two villages over the mines alone has destroyed more than 99% of the "war" in Japan.
For example, Qi Jiguang later selected 4,000 people from the villagers of these two villages to become one of the soldiers of the Qi family army.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the armed fighting between the natives and the foreigners was also very serious, and the number of people participating in the fighting between the two sides even exceeded 100,000.
Moreover, during the armed fighting, weapons such as blunderbuss and artillery were also used.
It can be said that the scale of the armed battle is no worse than the so-called Sekihara Battle of Japan.
And this was just local village fighting during the Ming and Qing Dynasties!
This is also the reason why many people in Yan Changqing's previous life referred to the so-called "war" of the Japanese state as the "Warring States Period" as local village fighting.
Because the scale of its "war" was indeed equivalent to local village fighting in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Like the "wars" during the "Warring States" period of the Japanese state, the reason why they can be called wars is just because they are between villages and counties [counties and counties are named after the country].
That's why the battle between them was elevated to the level of a battle between "countries" and was called a so-called "war". 303 But in Ming's eyes, this was not a real war at all, it was just children's play.
Faced with the unscrupulous artillery bombardment of the Ming Dynasty navy officers, the two or three thousand soldiers of Tsushima Kingdom on Tsushima Island could not even survive the first round of bombardment, and more than half of them were killed.
The remaining half who fled in all directions were completely wiped out by a casual volley of bows and arrows from the archers of the Ming Dynasty Navy.
And as the two or three thousand soldiers of Tsushima Kingdom were all wiped out, the so-called Tsushima Kingdom was naturally destroyed by the Ming Dynasty navy generals.
As for the remaining tens of thousands of Tsushima Japanese, they all became prisoners of the Ming Navy officers and soldiers.
During this period, the Japanese on Tsushima Island could not even escape from Tsushima Island and asked for help from the Japanese nation of Kyushu on Kyushu Island.
After all, the Ming Navy fleet besieged and sealed off the entire Tsushima Island from the very beginning.
As long as the ship wants to leave Tsushima Island, it will basically be directly sunk by the Ming Navy fleet.
After that, the Ming Dynasty Navy fleet transported various limestone, iron ore and other raw materials from the Korean Peninsula, and also used these raw materials to produce concrete, cement, steel bars and other materials by the captives.
Then let them use the produced concrete, cement, steel bars and other materials to build military facilities including but not limited to building concrete cement roads, concrete and steel reinforced cities, concrete and reinforced bungalows and other military facilities.
There is only one purpose, and that is to build Tsushima Island into a suitable military base that can be used by the Ming Dynasty Navy fleet for temporary repairs, or to shorten the journey of the eastward expedition to Japan.
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