Volume 3: Confrontation! The Run of Civilization Chapter 512: Po Jun is in a desperate situation
"Onboard~!"
"Fuego~!"
Dadada, dadada…
In a dense jungle, the Japanese, who were trapped in a desperate situation, launched a board charge with great inertia, and in response to their roars was the cold mechanical sound of the Maxim heavy machine guns of the Spanish New Army.
"Gongfangdian, the enemy is coming, you'd better leave quickly!"
Looking at his subordinates whose faces were covered in stains and blood, Tokugawa Yoshinao was so sad that he could not even cry.
What's wrong with this world? After all, I am considered to be knowledgeable about military affairs among the time travelers. Although I was suppressed by the old turtle Tokugawa, I have not been slow in climbing the technology tree. How come after only basking in the sun in Hawaii for more than two years, the Spaniards even have heavy machine guns and breech-loading rifles?
How could the Japanese soldiers armed with muzzle-loading flintlock rifles fight against their Indian allies?
In June 1619, after his defeat in the Battle of Kyoto, Tokugawa Yoshinao fled to Hawaii and arrived safely in August of that year.
Since Siam was defeated in 1618, Tokugawa Yoshinao had a premonition of Japan's defeat. Therefore, he prepared for this escape a long time in advance. In addition to 3,000 elite hatamoto on hundreds of retreating ships, he also took more than 20,000 strong men and women from Japan. In addition, he also dismantled and loaded the complete set of equipment of the gun factory that had just been built, and brought a lot of raw materials such as saltpeter.
After arriving in Hawaii, except for a battle when Zheng Wei and others encountered the Japanese cruise fleet on their way back from America, the rest of the life was basically very comfortable.
The Hawaiian natives naturally had no resistance to the Japanese elite troops, and they were taken down with just a light contact. Although this place is small and lacks resources, it has a pleasant climate and beautiful scenery. To be honest, the more than 20,000 people he brought with him were still panicked when they first arrived in Hawaii, but it didn't take long for them to completely like this place and settle down.
This kind of stability is also what Tokugawa Yoshinao needs: if the general abandons his country and flees overseas, the loyalty and faith of his subordinates will definitely be greatly reduced. If he does not spend some time to win them over again, he cannot guarantee the stability of his position. So in the first two years in Hawaii, Tokugawa Yoshinao also basked in the sun in Hawaii honestly. Even though the Philippines was still in the hands of the Spaniards at that time, and the treasure fleet passed through the waters near Hawaii every year, he had no intention of robbing at all.
Because Hawaii was too small and too far away, Zhu Youdong and Philip had no intention of bothering him: After all, time travelers have the ability to accurately locate each other, so how can you develop in Hawaii? You can go there in person when you have time.
Originally, this comfortable life could have continued for a while, but at the end of 1620, an earthquake occurred in the sea near Hawaii, which triggered a tsunami. This made the almost completely limp Japanese alert again: Isn't it because our Yamato people have been tirelessly coveting the land of the western continent for thousands of years because our homeland is barren and there are constant natural disasters such as earthquakes? Are we really going to be savages on this island for the rest of our lives? It doesn't matter if we are savages for the rest of our lives, but what about our descendants?
The idea of fighting back has once again become mainstream.
Tokugawa Yoshinao therefore made good preparations: he expanded the army by recruiting one thousand men from the 20,000 elite soldiers he brought with him, and another one thousand men from the local natives.
After his troops expanded to 5,000 people, he left 500 people to guard the house, and he took 4,500 people to sea eastward in April 1621, and successfully landed on the North American continent in early June of that year.
The landing site was carefully selected by Tokugawa Yoshinao: north of California, at the border between Washington and Oregon in the 21st century.
This place in this era was densely forested and fertile. The tall Rocky Mountains blocked the Arctic cold current from Canada in the north, ensuring that the lowest annual temperature in the area was no more than minus five degrees Celsius. The Okanogan Plateau had all the resources needed to develop the First Industrial Revolution, and the Columbia Basin was suitable for developing agriculture... Of course, the most important thing was that this place had not yet been colonized by Spain or other white European countries, so there were no less than 100,000 Indians living here, a huge treasure trove of human resources.
In Tokugawa Yoshinao's view, the core interests of Spain's colonies in the Americas are still in Central and South America. North America only has California, which is considered a corner. I have landed outside your corner, and the stimulation to the Spanish twins should be small - further north is Canada, which is too cold and cannot be developed.
Arriving in June 1621, until the beginning of 1622, life was relatively comfortable: there were 100,000 Indians in this place, but they belonged to more than 200 tribes, and some tribes did not speak the same language. Over the years, various tribal feuds had led to generations of hatred - there was no way to unite to deal with them.
Therefore, within a few months, the Japanese rapidly expanded their power and discovered several large coal and iron mines. New artillery factories and other things were also under construction. At the beginning of this year, even large areas of paddy fields were sorted out, waiting for the weather to warm up before planting rice!
Unfortunately, this good momentum came to an abrupt end in February 1622.
As a time traveler, Tokugawa Yoshinao certainly sensed that Tianxuan had come to America - this was really beyond his expectations. Hey, Your Majesty Philip, aren't you afraid that I will tell Tianxuan the truth and cause you brothers to turn against each other?
Regarding the relationship between Tianshu and Tianxuan, he also discussed it when he met with Luojiafutu. At that time, Luojiafutu pointed out that according to Philip's own letters and the descriptions of Western missionaries, the cooperation between Tianshu and Tianxuan was very close and well coordinated. And the emergence of this situation must be due to someone who did not know all the rules of the game. And it is most likely that it is Prince Rudolf, whose natal star is Tianxuan.
However, Tokugawa Yoshinao could not care what Philip thought, but had to face Rudolf's brutal attack.
After the prince came to America, he went to Mexico City to take charge and summoned the governors of each viceroyalty in turn to strengthen logistical support, but the army he trained was not idle.
Starting from February of this year, the new Spanish army began to enter the dense forest on a small scale to conduct reconnaissance on their own forces.
What annoyed Tokugawa Yoshinao the most was that he landed here last year and quickly gained a foothold thanks to the disunity of the Indians. And now, because of the disunity of the Indians, the Spaniards could easily find a guide: Tribe A followed the Japanese, so Tribe B and Tribe A have been fighting each other for a thousand years, and there is absolutely no reason for us to rely on the Japanese. Now that the seemingly more powerful white people have come, we should rely on the white people.
Therefore, how many Indians Tokugawa had to help often meant how many Indians the Spanish had as guides - the dense jungle was no longer a refuge for the Japanese.
Due to the generation gap in weapons and the huge disparity in troop strength (the new army Spain deployed to America consisted of three divisions and 45,000 men), once the Spanish understood the situation and launched a truly large-scale attack, the Japanese were simply unable to stop them.
Especially when Rudolf went north in person at the end of March of that year, because the time travelers could accurately locate each other, wherever Tokugawa Yoshinao appeared, the enemy would focus on attacking. After all, Tokugawa Yoshinao was the leader of the Japanese, so the Japanese had to desperately rescue him.
With this, guerrilla warfare was impossible, and a protracted war was even more absurd. The Japanese, with one-tenth of their troops and weapons that were a whole generation behind, fought the Spaniards for two months, which can be said to be quite tenacious.
However, no matter how tenacious the soldiers were, they could not hold on by May of that year: all the strongholds had been lost, and the remaining one thousand or so Japanese retreated into the deep mountains and forests. But with the shining beacon of Tokugawa Yoshinao, the Spaniards never worried about not finding their target - the encirclement was getting smaller and smaller.
As for retreating, don't even think about returning to Hawaii. Rudolph was a military man, so he wouldn't make such a common sense mistake: the fleet he brought from Spain was now in the Atlantic Ocean, but the fleet that retreated from the Far East to America was docked on the Pacific coast! Don't say that the Ming army didn't make things difficult for the Spanish in the Philippines because the Spanish surrendered so quickly. Take the Aragon, which is now docked on the east coast of the Pacific Ocean. It was able to defeat all the Japanese warships, but it was still able to defeat them all the way. Therefore, the Japanese fleet had long been completely destroyed by the Spanish.
"I can't fight, and I can't leave. I really have no choice but to seek survival from death." After two days of starvation, the Heisei otaku who was afraid of death finally figured it out: "Someone, come here, raise the white flag and go out to negotiate. I want to meet with Prince Rudolf of the other side!"
