Chapter 412: Want peace talks? Bring money and land!
"Prepare to attack the city!"
While Tokugawa Ieyasu was still waiting for a reply on whether Toyotomi Hideyoshi would negotiate peace with the Ming army, Wang Bing, who led the remaining 20,000 people to successfully land on the beach after the 6,000 Habayashi Guards and the Kenshu Army occupied the beach, at this time
With an army of 30,000, he was ready to attack the city.
Speaking of which, in the "big military camp" specially built by the "monkey" to invade the Ming Dynasty, in order to be ready to support the landing on the peninsula, after the 150,000 troops were sent out in advance, the monkey recruited from various famous places.
Hundreds of thousands of troops are stationed here.
Therefore, even if we subtract the nearly 20,000 people who were annihilated when the Ming army landed before, there are still more than 100,000 troops in the city at this moment.
The first batch of Japanese conquering armies led by Wang Bing at this moment only have 15,000 people each for the Habayashi Guards and the Jianzhou Army. In other words, Wang Bing is planning to use these 30,000 people to attack Nago, which is defended by 100,000 people.
House city!
You know, the way of using troops since ancient times has been to surround an enemy with ten, attack with five, and fight with ten! Especially in siege warfare, it is rare to hear that there is a time when a small number is used to attack a large number.
Therefore, when they saw the Ming army preparing to attack the city, including the old turtle Tokugawa Ieyasu who was still waiting for Toyonari Hideyoshi to fight and decide, he couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief and felt relieved.
There was no way. Although they had suffered losses in the field battle with the Ming army, in the eyes of Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Japanese generals, it was just because they were inferior to the Ming army in terms of weapons.
So if the Ming army really attacks the city, it means that the Ming army has given up the advantage of firearms. After all, you have sharp weapons, but you have to stay close when attacking the city, right?
Once the Ming army began to attack the city at close range, its artillery, cannons, iron cannons, etc. would have a place to be used.
"There is an order from the Supreme Court. In order to prevent the soldiers from dying innocently and ruining their lives, I ordered the powerful Natsuyan Tokugawa Ieyasu to be the envoy to discuss peace talks with the Ming army!"
What the Japanese soldiers did not expect was that while they were waiting for the Ming army to attack the city, the order for Tokugawa Ieyasu to negotiate peace with the Ming army was suddenly passed down.
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"Are you Tokugawa Ieyasu? Don't we talk about it after a real fight with the monkey? Hehehehe!"
Looking at the short but fat old Japanese in front of him, Wang Bing couldn't help but asked with a joking look on his face.
"Lord Taige also wants to avoid unnecessary casualties between the two armies and to avoid the loss of life... Therefore, I have specially ordered you to come to discuss peace talks!"
Facing Wang Bing's joking expression, Tokugawa Ieyasu really lived up to his title of "Old Turtle", and he really used the word "forbearance" to the extreme.
"Haha, the monkey now knows that the people of the country are in ruins. Then when he launched an army to invade North Korea and even wanted to devour our Ming Dynasty, why didn't he think about the ruins of the people? Is it possible that only the people of your Japanese country are living creatures?"
Directly ignoring the extremely humble etiquette of the 'Old Turtle' Tokugawa Ieyasu, Wang Bing's expression suddenly changed and he directly rebuked Toyotomi Hideyoshi for his wolfish ambition to embezzle the Ming Dynasty.
You must know that in the original history, although the "monkey" ambitions also failed to succeed, it was precisely because of this invasion that not only cost the Ming Dynasty countless money, but also lost all the elites of Liaodong, which gave Nuerhachi the throne.
This opportunity caused the entire Liaodong to be corrupted and the Han people became slaves.
"This is a huge misunderstanding, Lord Champion! Lord Taige sent troops just to punish North Korea for being rude to our country. It was by no means intended to offend the Ming Dynasty..."
"Misunderstanding? Is it also a misunderstanding that the words 'Drive straight into the Ming Dynasty, change the customs of the Wu Dynasty in the four hundred states, and transform the political capital of the Shi Dynasty for hundreds of millions of years'?"
Glancing at Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was still quibbling, Wang Bing directly read out the content of the letter that the monkey had originally written to Li Haoguo.
"This, maybe this was just a drunken joke made by Mr. Taige!"
Faced with the evidence written down in black and white, Tokugawa Ieyasu had no choice but to find a drunken excuse to defend himself.
"Go back and tell that 'monkey' that peace talks are not impossible. Agree to my terms and avoid the disaster of weapons. If you dare to say no, I will take this city first, and then destroy this small country like you." !”
Just when Tokugawa Ieyasu was trying to defend himself with an awkward look on his face, Wang Bing suddenly changed the subject, and then threw a pamphlet he had prepared in front of Tokugawa Ieyasu.
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"This, this, Champion, with such terms, is it...is it..."
Opening the pamphlet of peace negotiation conditions that Wang Bing had prepared long ago, the old turtle, who was always known for his endurance, couldn't help but his face suddenly turned red.
"Is it too loose? Haha, I also think it is a bit loose. Let's just wait until I think of something again, and then I can add more!"
Looking at Tokugawa Ieyasu who was stuttering in anger, Wang Bing simply ignored what he meant and said carelessly that he would add other terms.
"The Champion has misunderstood! What I want to say is that such terms are too harsh! And this matter has nothing to do with His Majesty the Emperor, how can..."
"Are they harsh? Compared with the conditions offered by that 'monkey' of yours, the conditions I have offered are already very generous to you! As for the Emperor, I, the Ming Emperor, am the Son of Heaven, but you guys have messed it up." What does it mean when the emperor comes out? Do you want to be my Ming Dynasty father?"
Before the other party could finish what he said, Wang Bing's expression immediately changed and he scolded him with a stern voice.
It turns out that Wang Bing's terms of peace talks, in addition to the marriage clause, are almost completely in line with the terms of the peace talks proposed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and there is also one that their "emperor" must cancel his imperial title and can only be called "Emperor". king!
In addition, there are of course some 'subtle' differences in some specific aspects. For example, in terms of compensation for the losses of the Ming Dynasty and North Korea, according to Wang Bing's conditions, based on the Japanese population of 14 million, each person will pay compensation. The Ming Dynasty's ten taels of silver only totaled 140 million taels of silver.
Although the amount seems huge, compared with the silver compensation that the Japanese country asked the Pig Tail Dynasty to compensate in the original history, it is only half the amount.
In addition, compared with the land area of South Korea that Toyotomi Hideyoshi requested to cede, what Wang Bing asked for was only the "mere" Kyushu and Shikoku islands!
In addition, Wang Bing also directly gave up the request for "protons", and only asked Toyotomi Hideyoshi to go to the Ming Dynasty to make amends in person, and did not let the Japanese prince or Toyotomi Hideyoshi's son go to the Ming Dynasty as a hostage.
So in general, although the peace negotiation conditions of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's marriage, land cession, compensation, and proton were compared, Wang Bing only asked for land cessation and the conditions for compensation were indeed much looser.
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"Lao San, not to mention ceding Kyushu Island and asking Monkey to go to the Ming Dynasty to make amends, it is impossible for these Japanese to agree to the 140 million taels of silver alone, right?"
After Tokugawa Ieyasu left with Wang Bing's terms of peace talks with a grimace on his face, Qi Panzong and other leading generals could not help but smack their tongues at Wang Bing's appetite.
"Haha, do you know what negotiation is? Do you know what raising the price from the ground up is? At this point, you are really far behind Li Chengming!"
After glancing at everyone, Wang Bing couldn't help but smile jokingly.
Chapter completed!