Chapter 404: Is this the end of the fight?
"Grandfather, why did you take so many Japanese prisoners?"
Seoul, the former residence of Bangzi's 'Monarch Wolsan', and now the headquarters of the General Manager of Biwa, Wang Bing, the General Manager of Biwa, could not help but be speechless at this moment.
After Jianzhou was asked to 'process' a group of Japanese who surrendered on the battlefield, during the entire Battle of Bijiguan, the Yulin Guards and the Jianzhou Army did not want a single Japanese prisoner. Unexpectedly, after arriving in Seoul, in the blink of an eye, not a single Japanese prisoner was wanted.
However, the God of Defeat got himself a bunch of Japanese and stick prisoners.
There is no way, who said Seoul was too easy to take, and who said Shimazu Yoshihiro was too soft!
It turned out that when Wang Bing led the Yulin Guards and the Jianzhou Army to fight against the Japanese, the Undefeated Army God and Ma Gui led an army of 30,000 people to first capture the Longshan Granary as quickly as possible, and then followed up with the Japanese lurking in Seoul.
Jin Yiwei got in touch.
In the end, after Guo Guoan and Jin Yiwei "incited a rebellion" and defeated the "naturalized army" of Bangzi who had surrendered to the Japanese, they captured Seoul almost without bloodshed.
After the city was broken, facing Qi Jiguang, the 'Qi tiger' in the eyes of the Japanese, Shimazu Yoshihiro, who couldn't resist at all, simply surrendered with the Shimazu family and the Japanese left by Kuroda Nagamasa.
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Together with Ishida Mitsunari and Kuroda Nagamasa who later "took the initiative" to surrender, the Undefeated God of War accepted a total of more than 20,000 Japanese prisoners. If we add the 20,000 "anyway" stick army, there are now more than 40,000 prisoners.
"This is your business. I only care about fighting, and I will leave these matters to you as the general manager, hahahaha!"
Seeing Wang Bing's speechless expression, the Undefeated Army God looked gloating and didn't care at all.
"Hey, aren't they just a few prisoners? Just leave them to the Jianzhou Army to deal with!"
What Qi Jiguang didn't expect was that Wang directly handed over this 'problem' to the Jianzhou Army, and prepared to continue to use the 'old method' to deal with the matter.
"Boy, you are really ready to kill all these wimps..."
After making a chopping motion, the Undefeated Military God, who had looked 'gloating' just now, could not help but look condensing at this moment.
"Boy, it was nothing for you to let the Jianzhou Army deal with those Japanese scoundrels on the battlefield before. But now...if the imperial officials in the court know about it, this is not a trivial matter!"
Hearing the Invincible Military God's inquiry, Ma Gui on the side couldn't help but persuaded with a solemn expression.
"You've already violated the military regulations of beheading, so you don't have to worry about being charged with killing prisoners. Anyway, if you have too many debts, you don't have to worry about it. If you have too many lice, you don't need to itch. If they impeach them, I will live with mine, hehehehehe!"
Regarding the kind reminders from the two coaches, Wang Bing smiled and didn't pay too much attention!
In fact, long before the oath sworn issued the order not to accept the surrender of the Japanese, and when Wang Bing had just accepted the general strategy of preparing the Japanese, he had already "reported" this matter of not taking prisoners to the little fat man.
"Haha, I know that Your Majesty won't care about such trivial things like you killing prisoners, but boy, don't you think it's a pity to kill such a good free laborer like this? Now this is the land of the Ming Dynasty, and the post-war reconstruction
, we need manpower!”
Seeing that Wang Bing didn't care at all about killing the prisoners, the Undefeated Army God suddenly laughed and said another way to 'dispose' these prisoners.
"Well, it would be a good idea to let these Japanese scoundrels work as laborers to atone for their sins!"
After thinking for a moment, Wang Bing couldn't help but nod in agreement with the suggestion that the Japanese captives, like the previous Tatar captives, contribute to the construction of the new Ming Dynasty.
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"By the way, Grandpa, you won't really burn all the food in the Longshan Granary, right?"
After deciding on the matter of dealing with the Japanese prisoners, Wang Bing asked about the granary of the Invincible Army Shenlong Mountain.
"Do you think I'm a loser like you who doesn't know the price of food and rice? You just burned hundreds of thousands of dan of food?"
Curling his lips, the Undefeated Military God looked at him with an expression that looked like a prodigal son.
Indeed, although the situation of setting fire to the enemy's grain is not uncommon in history books, it is a helpless choice only when there is no way to transport the grain away. Like this time, there is no need to transport the grain away at all. How can the undefeated military god
Might be so wasteful.
"Hehe, I just saw the smoke billowing from the Longshan Granary before and thought... uh, hundreds of thousands of stones? Li Hao accumulated so much grain in the Longshan Granary? He actually let the Japanese eat horses and chew them for more than half a year, and still have this
many?"
Wang Bing, who only realized that there was so much food in the middle of the sentence, couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised.
You know, although the Longshan Granary used to supply Bangzi with food for the whole city of Wang Jing and Seoul, after being ruined by the Japanese, Wang Bingyuan thought that it would only be enough for a hundred thousand dan at most, but he did not expect that there would be so much.
"Boy, this food is not just accumulated by Li He. At least half of it is military food transported by the Japanese across the sea!"
Seeing Wang Bing's unseen look on his face, Ma Gui, the commander-in-chief of Xuanda who wanted to 'sell' his granddaughter to him, now no longer calls him 'Marquis', but like the undefeated military god.
, shouting "boy" one after another.
"It doesn't matter whether he is a stick or a Japanese, anyway, now the army does not have to wait for the food to be transferred from Dingzhou. With this batch of food, we can really clear the peninsula before the imperial meeting at the end of the year and report victory to His Majesty, hahahaha!
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Ignoring Ma Gui's teasing tone, Wang Bing was already thinking about ending the war on the peninsula before the New Year.
"Report~ The Royal Navy and Li Shuai have military reports arrived!"
Just when Wang Bing was planning to use the food from Longshan Granary to completely wipe out the Japanese invaders on the peninsula before the New Year and prepare for the invasion of Japanese invaders in the coming year, he did not expect that Li Rusong and the Royal Navy would send a military report at this time.
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"Uh! Is this the end of the fight?"
Looking at the military report in his hand, Wang Bing, who just now was thinking about clearing the peninsula before the end of the year, could not help but feel a little unfinished.
It turned out that after taking Gangwon and closing the 'inner gate' of Chungcheong Province, Li Rusong did not stop. After leaving part of his troops to garrison Chungju Choryeong and other dangerous places, the rest of the troops continued their sweeps non-stop.
The Japanese were from Shangqing and Jeolla provinces.
Later, Li Rusong got in touch with the Royal Navy. With the cooperation of the Royal Navy's artillery fire, on November 20, the 20th year of Wanli, he captured Busan Castle, which was last held by the Japanese Japanese, such as Masanori Fukushima, Hidekatsu Hashiba and other Japanese.
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At this point, compared to six years of incessant fighting and procrastination in the original history, the Ming Dynasty was consumed nearly 8 million taels of silver alone, which also led to the loss of all the elites of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, so that the Jianzhou Jurchens later became the powerful anti-Japanese
The war was completely over in just over five months this time.
And more importantly, this time, except for the more than 20,000 Japanese prisoners taken by the Undefeated Army God in the Battle of Seoul, the other armies strictly followed Wang Bing's order not to accept surrender.
In other words, in addition to the more than 20,000 Japanese Japanese in Seoul now, the hundreds of thousands of amphibious and land-based Korean Expeditionary Forces sent by the 'Monkey' Toyotomi Hideyoshi have all returned to the East at this time, instead of most of them like in the original history.
Withdrew from Japan.
"Boy, don't look anymore, this battle is over, hahahaha!"
Seeing Wang Bing's unsatisfied way of checking the military report, the two veterans, Undefeated Army God and Ma Gui, couldn't help but look teasing!
Chapter completed!