The Life of the Characters in Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Works

Toyotomi Hideyoshi was born in Nakamura, Aichi Prefecture (now Nakamura, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture) to a poor peasant family. His name is Tokichiro. Bamen's father Muxia is a poor farmer (some people say he is a young soldier), and his mother is later Dazheng. He lost his father in his early years and left home because of disagreement with his stepfather.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi was born in the lower class. She didn't call herself "Muxia" until she married Ningning. In his childhood, he was named the pill of the sun (ひよしまる, the pill of the sun), and after becoming a soldier in Noyong, he changed his name to Niichiro Natsume (きのしたとぅす). ), bald rat (see the letter from Yeyong Zhitian to Ningning), the picture book Taige Ji records that Xiuji's date of birth is 65438+1October1(1February 2, 536), but Toyotomi Hideyoshi's actual date of birth is February 6 (new calendar/kloc-0). Because Hideyoshi's background is not noble, the literature about his early years is very limited. I only know that he was active in Zhangwei, Sanhe, Hejun and other places when he was a teenager, and made friends with Xu He, a local native bee of Zhangwei (but I'm not sure that this bee Xu He is the clan of Hachisuka Masakatsu who will be an official in Xiuji in the future). He once led Macheng to become a slave of Panasonic (Kaxi, the subordinate of Duke Miweilong) in Yuanjiang, and ran away from home as a teenager. But the reason for leaving is unknown.

When Hideyoshi divided the site at 1590, he gave Jia Bingwei a stone from kuya City 16000. In addition, there are some legends about his interaction with ninjas. In any case, when he was young, Hideyoshi was probably a ronin seeking a samurai position. Xiuji's birthplace, Zhang Wei (now Aichi Prefecture), is a fertile plain between Kyoto and Dongguo, which can be said to be an advanced zone after Kyoto. Businessmen in this place are bustling and have access to information from all over the world.

In this environment, Hideyoshi certainly got some business information. He was born smart. During the trip, he changed Yongle money into a portable commodity "kapok sewing needle", and then sold the sewing needle at a profit as a travel expense. When Hideyoshi ran away from home, he met a local bee-Xiao Liu Youji (Hachisuka Masakatsu), who later became an important general under Hideyoshi.

Finally, Hideyoshi finally got his wish and entered the home of Matsushita Kashi in Yuanjiang (now Shizuoka Prefecture) as a domestic servant. Hideyoshi's first job was to help the owner carry slippers. Because working in the samurai's house is his greatest wish, Hideyoshi worked hard, and was soon valued by Kashi, who was promoted to cashier manager. However, the good times did not last long. Xiuji's ability and diligence are envied by his colleagues. A large group of people often denigrate Hideyoshi in front of Kahee. Although Kahee protected him again and again, they couldn't stop everyone from slandering him, and finally Kahee was fired after kindly explaining the reasons.

Hideyoshi worked in Matsushita Kashi's home for four years. Although he was dismissed, he thanked Kaxi for his promotion and care. Later, after Toyotomi Hideyoshi dominated the world, he sent someone to look for Matsushita Kashi and gave him a territory of 31,000 stones in the long-term land of Yuanjiang, which made him famous. 1554 (23 years of astronomy), 22-year-old Xiuji returned to Zhang Wei to work for Lord Nobunobu Zhang Wei. As a light-footed man, he became Oda's servant. At first, Xiuji was just a handyman, but his intelligence was appreciated by strolling, and he gradually upgraded from a servant to a junior soldier. Won nobunaga's love, and his position as a weaver has been continuously improved.

1560 or so, Hideyoshi became the leader of Oda's Zuguang group (Zuguang was a temporary peasant soldier, and the leader was equivalent to the squad leader), and participated in the famous battle of narrowness. It is said that after the war, the Ministry of Information betrothed her adopted daughter Ningning (translated as Mimi, hereinafter referred to as Ningning) to Asano Nagaakira for her merits. 156 1 year, 25-year-old Xiuji married Ningning. This Miss Ningning later became Toyotomi Hideyoshi's wife, and she had a great influence in the Fengchen regime, so she was called "Beizhengsuo".

Nobunagawa, after killing Imakawa Governor Imagawa Yoshimoto, formed an alliance with Matsubara Yasunari (later Tokugawa Ieyasu), which was independent from Imakawa, and then consolidated the eastern defense line, and then turned to attack the Saito family in MINO.

1566, Nobunaga decided to build Muruocheng after many failed attacks on Saito, but Nobunaga of Shibata Katsuie and Sakuma successively lost. Hideyoshi is in danger. With the help of Hachisuka Masakatsu, he successfully completed the task. It is said that Mocuo City was built overnight, which was further appreciated by Nobunaga and praised by later generations. (According to Kung Fu Nighttalk, Xiuji once built a city in the alluvial delta of the Como River overnight to attack MINO for Anba County, and repelled Ushinosuke's army in Shencun. If the room is completed, Nobunaga will move his residence to Xiao Mu Mountain City (formerly Cheongju City), which is closer to MINO. Soon after, in Mino, Hanby was occupied by the Seventeen Riders (Saito occupied the city), and Hanby gave up the Inaba Mountain City afterwards. After learning this, Hideyoshi summoned Hanbee to his men with the gift of "three cares", and with the help of Hanbee's strength, let the three men (Inaba Yitie, Ando Shoujiu, Ishiguro Incomplete) surrender. In the second year, Nobunaga sent troops to this rice-leaf mountain city. In the case of betrayal, Takashi Saito was defeated and captured.

Nobunaga then moved to Gifu City (that is, Inaba City) and started the war to unify Japan in the name of "Armed World".

1568, Ashikaga Yoshiaki, the younger brother of former outward general Ashikaga Yi Hui (killed by the Sanliang family) came to MINO for help, so Nobunaga sent troops to Shangluo in the name of helping the general family. Shiyilang was renamed Kinoshita Hideyoshi on 1568.

1570, after defeating San, Zhao Yi was appointed as a general. Nobunaga then sent troops to the barn on the grounds of disobeying the general's orders. Nobunaga Asakura Yoshikage was forced to retreat because of a raid in Azai Nagamasa, but was hinted by his ally Azai Nagamasa's betrayal in Kanazaki, and was attacked by Asai Army on his way back. Hideyoshi is responsible for the rear of the house, protecting Nobunaga and Konka from safe evacuation. Historically, it was called "the back of Kanazaki Temple".

In the first year of Tianzheng (1573), Nobunaga defeated Azai Nagamasa and committed suicide. Asai's hometown is ODA's. The 37-year-old Xiuji was named the Lord of Bincheng, a city near Jiangguo. He dug a shallow well near Jiangcheng in the north and drew 220,000 stones. He renamed the city Changbincheng and began to rank among the heroes of the Warring States Period. At the same time, he created a new Miao word-Yu Chai from the names of famous weavers Shibata Katsuie and Niwa Nagahide, saying that Yu Chai Xiu followed the front of the building (guarding the front of the building is an official position).

1576, supported Hokuriku Shibata Katsuie in the fight against Shangshan Army. When Toyotomi Hideyoshi saw that Katsuya was in the ascendant, he immediately quit. As a result, Katsuya lost the battle to seize Sichuan, which made Katsuya and Nobunaga dissatisfied. Under the command of Oda Nobutada, Toyotomi Hideyoshi took part in the battle against Matsunaga Hisahide.

1577, Song Chi Ze Fang, Biesuo Chang Zhi and Xiao Si were under the command of Nobunaga. Hideyoshi was ordered to attack China and become the king of Bomo. According to the city, Himeji is the city. Shortly after receiving the order, Biesuo Changzhi and Araki Village rebelled against Nobunaga, and Hideyoshi fought with them.

1579, Futian completely surrendered to Oda clan. 1580, Biesuo Changzhi and Araki Village were defeated again, Biesuo was arrested and cut off the road. Araki ran away and the whole family was killed by Nobunaga. Toyotomi Hideyoshi began to fight against Maori and Yamamoto, and captured Tottori, Miki, Takamatsu and other important strongholds. Hideyoshi fought a long siege war here-starvation (dry killing), and let the enemy surrender in Kaesong early. Famous battles such as "Birds Get Grain" and "Takamatsu Flood" not only prevented the Maori from advancing eastward, but also forced Ukita Naoie to land, which even the Maori could not cope with. 1582, the change of Benneng Temple, 46-year-old Hideyoshi unexpectedly learned that Nobunobu died young and implemented the "China Retreat".

At that time, Xintai's powerful etiquette was not with Xintai. For example, Shibata Katsuie fought Uesugi Kagekatsu in the Vietnam War (Toyama Prefecture), Niwa Nagahide and Xintai Xintai were preparing for an expedition to Shikoku in Osaka, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi led 30,000 troops into a state of preparation, and they were attacking the Maori army Takamatsu City with water. In order to weave the heavenly army, Gaosongcheng was the first line of aggression against China. For the Maori army, Takamatsu City is the breakwater in front. The city is a natural key, surrounded by swamps. When Toyotomi Hideyoshi led an army to surround Gaosongcheng in April, there were 5,000 people in the city, including ordinary people. Duke Shimizu Zongzhi originally didn't want ordinary people to guard the city, but ordinary people volunteered to sign up for guarding the city. It can be seen that the duke is good at politics on weekdays and won the hearts of the people.

The consultant of this water attack is Toyotomi Hideyoshi's strategist Gao Qiao Kuroda. Toyotomi Hideyoshi mobilized neighboring villagers at a high price. It took 12 days to build a three-kilometer-long, seven-meter-high dam around the swamp area of Gaosongcheng, and then introduced the river, making Gaosongcheng a water city floating in the lake. Ten days after the water attack, Kikkawa Motoharu (the second Maori) and Kobayakawa Takakage (the third Maori) arrived with fifteen thousand reinforcements, but they could only be deployed on the mountain overlooking the Toyotomi army. Because as long as the Toyotomi army breaks a corner of the dam, turbid water may devour the whole city.

At this time, Hideyoshi could have made a great contribution, but he was afraid that he was too proud to stand out. So he sent a letter for help, asking Nobunaga to send reinforcements. Nobunaga ordered Akechi Mitsuhide to start first, and he himself lived in Benye Temple in Shangluo on May 29th. On June 2, the Beno Temple incident occurred. Akechi Mitsuhide, who raised the flag to rebel, wrote a confidential document that day and sent it to the Maori army, demanding that the Maori army never surrender. Unexpectedly, the messenger did not know that Gao Songcheng was caught in a flood. Xixia arrived in Gaosongcheng, but could not enter the city at all, and was caught by mistake. That is to say, Toyotomi Hideyoshi learned about the Hongye Temple incident at around 10 on the night of the 3rd, and then listened to the advice of military adviser Don Simon, decided to conceal the bad news and immediately made peace with the Maori army. The Maori army is worried that Nobuo Noda will bring reinforcements, so it has sent messengers, but the terms of each other can't be discussed properly, and peace is temporarily on the rocks.

Since Nobunaga is dead, and he died at the hands of one of his own, Akechi Mitsuhide, it is impossible for ODA's reinforcements to come. The most important thing for Toyotomi Hideyoshi now is to win Takamatsu City as soon as possible, and immediately withdraw its troops and return to Himeji City. Therefore, he secretly asked the Maori army to make peace, and let the monk Ankokuji Ekei go to the town alone to convince the Duke. As a result, the duke promised to commit suicide by caesarean section on the condition that everyone in the city would not be killed. All this was done behind the scenes of Maori reinforcements.

At three o'clock in the afternoon on the 4th, in front of the inspector sent by Hideyoshi, it is said that the Duke went out of the city by boat and performed a laparotomy ceremony in the lake. Before, Maori reinforcements delayed accepting peace in order to save the duke's life. Now that the Duke has performed caesarean section without authorization, there is no need for Maori to drag on, so they exchanged vows and made peace.

After exchanging vows, Hideyoshi left immediately. Two hours later, the Maori army also received the news of the Hongnuoji Temple incident, which clearly showed that they had been taken in by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. At that time, Kikkawa Motoharu advocated immediate pursuit, but his younger brother Kobayakawa Takakage suggested "observing the central situation first". My brother Kikkawa Motoharu is a tiger general, and my brother Kobayakawa Takakage is a wise general. Ri Terumoto, the general of the Maori army, listened to his uncle's advice and decided not to move. If the Maori army immediately sent troops to pursue at this time, Toyotomi Hideyoshi would certainly not be able to take away the pies in the world, and the Maori family also protected General Ashikaga Yoshiaki. With luck, the Maori family is likely to establish a Maori shogunate. Unfortunately, there is no word "if" in history, but it is precisely because M not Riterumoto decided not to pursue it that he and his second uncle Kobayakawa Takakage can sit on the five old thrones of the future Chen Feng regime, and even Ankokuji Ekei, the abbot of the temple who is responsible for persuading the duke to have a caesarean section, has also boarded this famous throne.

At that time, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was probably worried that the Maori army would chase him, so he didn't rush back to Himeji City directly. He led the troops to leave Takamatsu City on the afternoon of June 6 and spent the night in Maenuma City (east of Okayama Prefecture). Because it was rainy, it was said that in order not to let the troops disperse, Hideyoshi ordered the cavalry not to ride, and at the same time ordered the infantry to take off their leggings and run barefoot in order to keep up with the cavalry. Pioneer is the home of Yuji Duoxiu, the mayor of Numa City. Yukita went to the swamp city first and immediately ordered people to light torches along the street to prepare dinner for the army. This is how Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Return of China, who robbed the world pie, began.

Toyotomi left Numa City on the morning of the 7th and arrived in Himeji City in Somo (Hyogo Prefecture) that night. It's about 70 kilometers from Takamatsu City to Himeji City. Even if we don't rest in the swamp city and go on without sleep, it is impossible for 30 thousand troops to reach Himeji City in a day and a half, which is also the biggest miracle and doubt of "the return of China." Compared with modern soldiers, infantry equipment (weapons and food) usually weighs about 30 to 50 kilograms. According to the "operational priority order" formulated by the old Japanese army 1938, it is stipulated that the marching speed of fully armed infantry is 4 kilometers per hour and the marching distance is 24 kilometers a day. During the Warring States period, the fully armed infantry also used weapons such as spears, bows and arrows, gun handles, etc., and the weight was similar to that of modern soldiers, but modern soldiers used cars more when moving, while the infantry during the Warring States period relied on two legs. In this way, the March speed of Toyotomi Army is more than 30 kilometers a day, and it is a huge army. Is this possible?

In a word, the historical fact is that the Toyotomi Army set out from Takamatsu City on the afternoon of June 6 and arrived in Himeji City on the night of July 7. Depart from Himeji City on the morning of the 9th and arrive at Akashi in the evening; /kloc-depart from Zimingshi on the morning of 0/0 and arrive in Hyogo at night; 1 1 Depart from Hyogo in the morning and arrive in Nisaki in the afternoon; /kloc-depart from Nizaki on the morning of 0/2 and arrive in Futian at night; On the 13th, he fought Yamazaki. At 4 pm, he fought Zhi Jun in the rain. Two hours later, he was defeated by Zhi Jun..

It is about 70km from Takamatsu City to Himeji City, and about110km from Himeji City to Yamazaki, and the whole journey is180km ... Although later generations can't prove how Toyotomi Hideyoshi did it, he did it. Because it is finished, we can grab the pie in the world and establish the regime of Chen Feng. Some experts alleged that Toyotomi Hideyoshi is likely to be amphibious, that is, let cavalry and infantry unload all their equipment and go by land, while weapons and materials will be transported directly from Murakami Suigun to Osaka. Osaka Bay is close to Futian. If this is achieved, "the great return of China" will be possible.

Whether Toyotomi Hideyoshi used land and sea for the first time or not, in short, he let the whole army arrive in Himeji City on the night of June 7, and then announced that Akechi Mitsuhide's head must be cut off, and then the soldiers were allowed to eat and drink, and all the military expenses and rations in the city were distributed to the generals. Doing so is tantamount to burning your bridges, but it also shows Toyotomi Hideyoshi's determination to put all your eggs in one basket. No matter how tired the soldiers are, they will feel happy and encouraged. After all, this is a crusade with a sense of honor and fame.

1 1 In the afternoon, when they arrived in Nisaki, other military commanders joined the camp, even Nobunobu Oda and Captain Niwa Nagahide, who were preparing to crusade against the four countries in Osaka, came to help. Now, Nobuyuki Oda's three men have joined the camp. Toyotomi Army has become an "official army" and the wise army has become a "thief army". Thirty-five thousand people against sixteen thousand troops, "officials" against "thieves" ... the result can of course be imagined.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeated Akechi Mitsuhide in the battle of Yamazaki. Finally, when Akechi Mitsuhide escaped, he was killed by the villagers who were chasing the dead soldiers. Hideyoshi took control of Kyoto, but he couldn't stop the faction division within Oda clan. The main departments are Shibata Katsuie, Oda Nobutaka, Oda Nobutaka and Yukio Hatoyama. At the Cheongju Conference in the same year, he won the support of most of Oda's old ministers, but he became hostile to Shibata Katsuie. In the same year, Hatoyama Hideyoshi, Shibata Katsuie, Niwa Nagahide and Ikeda Hengxing held a meeting in Qingzhou to discuss Oda's inheritance. As a result, with the support of Niwa Nagahide and Ikeda, Hideyoshi suppressed the winner and actually became the ruler of Oda. Hideyoshi won the support of most of Oda's clansmen and family ministers at the Cheongju meeting, and established three infant wizards (Fu Yuan was later called Hideyoshi Oda) to succeed Oda's clansmen as family governors. However, this offended Shibata Katsuie, who was also an important official of Oda, and led him to set up Nobu's third son, Nobu Oda, to fight against Hideyoshi. The following year (1583), the two sides broke up, and Hideyoshi first forced Shinfilial piety to surrender. Later, Yuchai and Chai Tian fought a decisive battle in Jian Yue. At first, the winner was in the lead, and Nakagawa was killed by surprise. However, Toyotomi Hideyoshi led his troops to the front, which made the situation change rapidly, and finally Toyotomi Hideyoshi won. As Yuchai Army surrounded Zhuangcheng in the north, Katsuya and his wife Oichi died of self-immolation, another important official, Yoshitaka Suichuan, was forced to live in seclusion, Nobunobu Oda was soon forced to have a caesarean section, and Ikeda Hengxing surrendered, which largely quelled the anti-Hideyoshi forces in Oda's family.

1583, Toyotomi Hideyoshi built Osaka Castle on the site of Shishan Temple. At that time, a visit to ōtomo Sōrin was called "the city unparalleled in the Warring States", but the castle also had some shortcomings in defense. In the winter battle of Osaka, Shinoda was built to strengthen defense. This Osaka Castle was burned down by the Tokugawa Army in 16 15, and today's Osaka Castle Heaven was rebuilt with reinforced concrete in19310/year.

One day in 12 (1584), Oda, the second son of Shinbu, who cooperated with him, joined forces with Tokugawa Ieyasu to oppose Hideyoshi, and Yuchai launched a war with them, which is known as "Komatsu's battle with long hands". At the beginning of this war, Yuchai army, which occupied military superiority, went straight to Tokugawa territory, and the two sides confronted each other in Xiaomushan. In order to break the deadlock, Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent Ikeda Hengxing and others to attack the Three Rivers in Konka, but they were ambushed by Konka, but they were ambushed by Tokugawa Army on the way. Ikeda and Mori Nagayoshi, a general known as "Ghost Musashi", died in battle. Toyotomi Hideyoshi surrendered Nobuo Oda with amazing diplomatic skills, and Konka was forced to retreat. The Tokugawa Army and the Yukio Hatoyama Army reached a peace agreement without fighting, and Konka sent the second man Xiukang as a hostage.

1585, the four countries conquered and surrendered to the Changzong family, and surrendered to China and Sassa Narimasa in the same year. Take office as Guan Bai.

13 (1585), Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent his brothers, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Kobayakawa Takakage and other generals to attack the patriarch of our department who just unified the four countries, and used the strength gap to force him to surrender, leaving only Tosa. In addition, Toyotomi Hideyoshi also sent troops headed by Fujitani Gao Qiao to pacify the miscellaneous people, and Suzuki, the leader, was beheaded and put to death. In addition, Hideyoshi sent heavy troops to attack Sassa Narimasa, China, and was surrounded by a large army, and surrendered without a fight. In the same year, Toyotomi Hideyoshi hoped to become a general who conquered foreign countries, but under the dissuasion of the officials, he applied to the court for the title of Guan Bai. Because of this, Hideyoshi once intended to recognize the former Jin Wei as the adoptive father, and got the surname "Jin Wei" (because Japanese tradition thinks that Bai can only be inherited by "five photographers" from Fujiwara clan, such as Jin Wei, Yi, Er and Jiu). 1585, 1 1 In July, the court allowed him to become the son of Jiu Jude and Guan Bai, and gave him a new surname "Chen Feng" at his request.

1September 9, 586, Toyotomi became the fifth largest surname after Yuan, Ping and Orange. However, "Chen Feng" failed to develop like the other four surnames, because it was extinct after only two generations. After obtaining "Toyotomi's surname", he changed his name to Toyotomi Hideyoshi. 1586, Hideyoshi married his sister Jixu to Tokugawa Ieyasu as the general affairs office of Konka, and sent his mother Taisho as a hostage. Since then, Tokugawa Ieyasu has been a minister of self-cultivation. On February 25th, he became the Minister of Zheng Tai. In the same year, the famous ōtomo Sōrin Xiang Xiuji of Kyushu requested support.

1587, Kyushu was conquered, and the show was sent to attack the branch city of Shimadzu and surrender to Shimadzu. Shimadzu was assigned to Satsuma and Otsuka after the war. In the same year, Christianity was banned.

1588, Xiuji began to implement the "sword hunting order", which strengthened the policy of separating soldiers from farmers. 1589- 1590, Odahara War was launched, the North Island family was destroyed, and Japan was basically unified.

After 1589, Kunbangxian, the retainer of the North Second Army, seized the famous Hutao City under the jurisdiction of Sanada Masayuki, which led Hideyoshi to order all Japanese to crusade against the North Second Army. Those who did not obey would be punished for losing their territory. Hideyoshi led 200,000 troops to attack the Northeast, captured all branches of the Northeast, and gradually surrounded Odawara City. In July, Gaosi and Zhi Zi surrendered in Kaesong. And Shi was exiled to Mount Koya. After the war, Toyotomi Hideyoshi enfeoffed new territories for major companies.

159 1 year, he gave the position of Guan Bai to his nephew Toyotomi Hidetsugu, calling himself Taige (former Guan Bai's honorific title). 159 1 year, Toyotomi Hideyoshi fought the last Japanese civil war in his life-pacified nine political chaos. , Paipusheng Township, Asano Nagaakira Changzheng and Ishida Mitsunari United to quell the chaos of nine households in the name of the Northeast. In the same year, Toyotomi Hideyoshi ordered Morino, a tea man, to have a laparotomy, for unknown reasons. After Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan, the country was well governed, and Japan, which had been in war for years, was prosperous and peaceful for a while. Seeing that Japan had settled down, he sprouted an Asian empire, and he was determined to show it in a wider space than Japan. Conquer Korea first, then China, then India, and build a great Asian empire including Japan, China, India and Korea.

1592, Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent 200,000 troops to conquer Korea, and the soldiers were mainly famous western Japanese soldiers. This war was called "The Battle of Luwen Evergreen" in Japan (because of the title at that time), "The War of Patriotic Defence in China" (because 1592 was a non-Chen year) and "Wanli Korean War" (because of the title at that time).

1September, 598 18, Toyotomi Hideyoshi passed away at Taoshan Castle in Fuji at the age of 62.

Expeditionary troops

The Japanese army is divided into nine corps heads: the first army, Konishi Yukinaga, 1 1000; The second army, Katou Kiyomasa, twenty-two thousand; The third army, Haruhiko Kuroda 1.2 million; The fourth army, Shimadzu, Hony, fourteen thousand five hundred people; The fifth army, Fukushima masanari, twenty-five thousand people; The sixth army, Kobayakawa Takakage, fifteen thousand people; Seventh Army, ri Terumoto, 30,000; And the eighth army. Nine armies have more than eleven thousand manicures, and Chai Xiusheng has eleven thousand. Among them, more than one manicures are marshals, and he is a pioneer. Nine Ghost Ankylosaurus is the commander-in-chief of the water army, with two hundred thousand infantry, nine thousand water troops and more than seven hundred warships. Ming Shenzong crossed the Korean Strait in April of the 20th year of Wanli (A.D. 1592) and was on the front lines of Busan and Gyeongju.

War process

At the beginning of the war, the battle-hardened Japanese army attacked fiercely and was on a roll. At an extremely fast speed, it captured Wang Jing, Seoul and Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, and quickly captured a large number of major cities in North Korea, heading for the border of the Ming Dynasty. The king of South Korea immediately asked the Ming Dynasty for help. After Toyotomi Hideyoshi captured Seoul in May, he discussed the idea of moving the capital to Beijing. He dedicated the 10 "country" around Beijing to the imperial court, paid salaries to officials and gave subordinates 10 times the original territory, and even ordered Toyotomi Hidetsugu to be the official of the Tang Dynasty (China). In Japan, Guanbai was ruled by Yuchai Xiuqiu or Yuduoxiu, while in North Korea, it was ruled by Yuchai Xiusheng or Yuduoxiu.

In the 20th year of Wanli (1592), Li, the company commander of Liaodong, was appointed as the prefect, and Song Yingchang, assistant minister of the right Ministry of War, led more than 40,000 people to cross the Yalu River and enter Korea to fight against the Japanese army on February 26th that year/kloc-0. Under the counterattack of the Ming army (more than 40,000 people) and Li Shunchen, the prefect of three divisions of the Korean Navy, the Japanese attack was blocked.

Finally, in 1593, the Japanese army suffered losses (that is, in the twenty-first year of Wanli 1593, Li recovered Pyongyang, and the first Japanese army suffered heavy losses. According to the Japanese war history, the original strength of Konishi Yukinaga's First Army was 18700, and the number of people assembled in Seoul on March 20th after Pingyang War was 6520), so Toyotomi Hideyoshi held peace talks with the Ming Dynasty.

Konishi Yukinaga, a Japanese representative at that time, was born in a merchant family and was good at business strategy. He forged Xiuji's surrender and made peace with the Ming Dynasty, and Shen Weijing, the messenger of the Ming Dynasty, was an ordinary rogue, so he said Xiuji's purpose was to restore bilateral trade. The two sides then concluded a peace treaty and the Japanese army temporarily withdrew from Busan. Japan called the invasion of Korea the battle of Leuven (Korean conquest), North Korea called it the disaster of Japan and the battle to defend the country, and China called it the Wanli Korean War, which was listed as one of the three characteristics of Wanli.

1595, Toyotomi Hideyoshi exiled Toyotomi Hidetsugu to Koyasan, and then sentenced Hidetsugu to death. In addition, it cut off Hidetsugu's supporters, including Maeno Changkang and others. The cause of death may be the disorderly behavior of "killing the living and closing the white people" (Toyotomi Hidetsugu's nickname) circulated by public opinion at that time. Hideyoshi planned to take the young two-man show as the heir in the family, so Hideyoshi decided to execute the relevant personnel.

A few years later, in September of the fifth year of Luwen (1596), Xiuji welcomed the envoys of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty made peace with North Korea, and Xiuji gave a banquet. But only after reading the credentials did I know that peace was actually granted, and Daming wanted Hideyoshi to be the king of Japan. Xiuji felt cheated and said angrily, "I have mastered Japan. If I want to be king, I will be king. Why did you capture me? " ! And I am the king, how can I be the emperor! "Want to kill the Ming dynasty envoys, dissuade others, so ordered the expulsion of the Ming dynasty envoys. Hideyoshi soon invaded North Korea again. The Japanese army occupied Busan and then advanced to Hanyang. However, after the Ming reinforcements (about 80 thousand, with Ma Gui as the company commander) joined the battle, the Japanese offensive was blocked again and forced to defend the coastal castle. History is called "the Battle of Qinglong".

1August, 598 18, Toyotomi Hideyoshi died in Fujian Taoshan Castle. However, under the orders of the five elders and the arrangement of the five leaders headed by Ishida Mitsunari, the Japanese invaders concealed the death of Hideyoshi from the Ming Dynasty, then made peace with the Ming Dynasty and gradually withdrew from Korea. However, the Japanese army suffered heavy losses in this battle, which laid an important foundation for Tokugawa Ieyasu to become a general who conquered foreign countries in the future. The relationship between Japan and North Korea did not return to normal until 1607.