TOEHISA SIMADZU Biography

Member of Japanese invasions in Korea - years. The nickname is "Damn Simadu." In the year, Yoshihiro received “Battle Baptism” in the battle with the Kamo clan, after which he was granted the Castle of Ivatsuruga in Osumi Province. In the course of the expansion of the possessions of the Simaju family to the northeast, he was constantly on the forefront and alternately controlled the fortresses of the Ob and the Ino of the Province of Hug.

In the year, Yoshihiro led the capture of the Magosi castle, and in the year he took part in the battle of Hontinbar. In the year, commanding the three hundreds of samurai, he defeated the 3,000th Army of the clan in the battle of Kizakibar, who secured Simaju's rights to own the Province of Osumi and the southern part of the Hyug province. In the X years, Yoshihiro took an active part in the conquest of the island of Kyusu, fighting with the powerful births of Otomo and Ryudzoji.

He captured the castles of Taka, Minamat, Oka, Horikiri and others. Thanks to the activity of Yoshihiro, almost the entire island was under the rule of Simadu. However, in the year, the conquest of Kyusu by the unification of Japan Toyotomi Hideyoshi began, during which Yoshihiro and his family were surrendered. Simazu recognized their dependence on Toyotomi, and Yoshihiro himself received the Osumi Province.

During the years, Yoshihiro commanded a group of Japanese armies during the war in Korea. He distinguished himself in the battle of the Sachon of the year, in which the local fortress defended the local Samurai Corps. Within a month, Yoshihiro repulsed all the assault on the thousandth Sino-Korean army, putting 80 thousand enemy soldiers and officers under the fortress walls.

For this, the Koreans called the Yoshihiro "Demon Simazu." In October, at the very end of the campaign, he, along with his son, Tadatsune, defended the Sachon Castle. The Chinese, preparing the storm of Sachon, advanced to Chingju and sent a forward scouts behind the river to us. Upon learning of the approach of the enemy, Simadu evacuated his avant -shanks, taking all his troops inside the castle.

Simazu Tadatsune insisted on an attack, but his father forbade him to do so. He understood that the Chinese were too numerous and set to act actively, so the attack would be doomed. Indeed, the Chinese troops soon appeared, which moved by three columns of the total number of people. Father and son of Simadzu followed the movement of the enemy with two towers flanking the eastern gate of the castle.

On the orders of Yoshihiro, the Japanese kept the system. When one or two people fell, struck by Chinese arrows, Tadatsune again offered to attack, but Yoshihiro again did not agree with his son’s proposal. Now the Chinese approached the very walls and attacked the main gate with the help of an unusual siege machine, combining the gun platform and ram.

The shelling in combination with Taran destroyed the gate and thousands of Chinese soldiers rushed into the break, and also began to storm the walls. At this critical moment, the Japanese managed to set fire to the siege car. The fire caused an explosion of the stock of gunpowder inside. The explosion was heard in the thick of the Chinese troops. This case broke the battle.

Seeing the confusion in the ranks of the Chinese, Simazzu Yoshihiro led his soldiers in counterattack. Thousands of Chinese were killed or driven into the river, to cross through which the units managed to cross. Sachhon became the most severe defeat of the Chinese at the hands of the Japanese. In the area of the castle and now there is a huge mound, where the order of the dead Chinese soldiers is buried.

It is curious that all the discovered skulls do not have nasal bones, since the noses were cut off and sent to Kyoto as evidence of the faithful service of Simazu. In the year, Yoshihiro took part in the battle of Sekighara on the side of the Western coalition. Despite the defeat of the allies, he successfully retreated from the battlefield, choosing the tactics of the frontal breakthrough.