The other party was so cooperative, which made Zhu Cihong a little unexpected, but this is a good thing!

He smiled and said: "Therefore, I personally commanded the army to conquer, one is to protect the safety of our Ming people, and the other is to hang the people and kill the Japanese people. ”

"A few of you, you can follow the time and stick to the righteousness, it is really commendable, and after I sweep away the Japanese rebellion, I will definitely reward you and others!"

Zhu Cihong's remarks were high-sounding, and he insisted on saying that the conquest of Japan was to do the right thing for heaven and uphold justice for Japan.

No one is a fool, Maori Outline and others are very shocked, they have already heard the meaning of the Ming Emperor want to rule Japan.

After being stunned for a moment, Kamei Takanao, the lord of the Tsuwano Domain, took the lead in expressing his position: "The ministers must do their best to fight with the Great Tomorrow Army!" ”

Maori outline woke up like a dream, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty the Great Emperor, I and other Japanese feudal lords have been oppressed by the Tokugawa shogunate for a long time, just because the shogunate is powerful, and they have to submit for decades. ”

Zhu Cihong nodded slightly, Xiao Japan's words were very good, and his attitude was also very humble, and he had no reason to refuse this kind of self-deprecating touting.

He said: "I am in charge of everything in Japan, so you can rest assured." ”

At this time, Maori outlined again: "His Majesty the Great Emperor has been tired of boats and horses all the way, and his subordinates have prepared a palace for His Majesty in the city. ”

Zhu Cihong smiled faintly, what kind of he said! I need a few of you Humpty Dumpty to take care of your daily life? What about playing sumo?

He said bluntly: "I don't need to look at it. ”

The Maori Outline and the daimyo were stunned, and said, "Then where does Your Majesty plan to stay?" ”

Zhu Cihong pointed to the balcony on the hill outside the window, and said with a smile: "I see that small building is good, the negative mountains face the sea, the morning sun and the sunset, the weather is thousands, I will live there." ”

The reason why he chose to stay in the seaside building near the temple is because this small wooden building is the temporary headquarters of the Ming army and the coalition army, and the temple with black tiles and red walls next to it is the Akama Shrine dedicated to the spiritual seat of Emperor Atoku of Japan.

It makes sense that the Fallen Curtain Alliance chose to be stationed here.

Zhu Cihong's choice of this place also has significance, this place is in another time and space, the location of the Chunfan Tower, which was the site of the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki.

Before the crossing, he had traveled abroad to Japan on official business and made a special trip to visit here.

The Japanese daimyo didn't understand why the Ming Emperor took a fancy to Linhai Tower, but since the Emperor had sent a message and named him to live here, he could only do so.

The Maori Outline immediately ordered the people of the Linhai Pavilion to move out immediately, immediately, immediately! Make room for the Ming Emperor!

The rest of the daimyo also took action, ordering people to move all the prepared attendants and utensils to the waterfront building, including a group of fresh, beautiful and lovely Japanese girls, which is an old Japanese tradition.

Xu Sheng also took the Imperial Forest Army ashore first, stationed around the Linhai Tower, and arranged the royal driving sentry posts.

After Zhu Cihong settled in the Linhai Building, he held the first pre-conquest meeting in the hall to discuss the battle plan of Honshu Island.

In addition to the participation of the generals of the Tianwu Army, several feudal lords such as the Maori Compendium were also invited to attend, after all, fighting on Japanese soil was indispensable for the Japanese traitors to lead the way and the puppet army.

In the battle hall, Zhu Cihong was dressed in the uniform of the commander of the Ming army, sitting on a high chair, and in front of him was a long conference table with a long map of Japan.

On both sides of the conference table, on the left are the generals of the Ming army, and on the right are the generals of the Japanese army.

The generals of the Ming army were okay, they all sat upright, putting their hands on their thighs, while the Japanese generals were a little at a loss.

They are used to sitting on their knees, sitting on a chair with a twist, they are not used to it, they force it to hold on, just like a sculpture, it is very unnatural.

To use an inappropriate analogy, if you kneel for a long time, you can't sit steadily.

Zhu Cihong didn't care if they were down-to-earth, knocked on the table and said, "How is the shogunate's strength now, and where are the troops stationed?" ”

Li Shaoyou, who was in charge of the situation in Japan, hurriedly got up and said: "Back to Your Majesty, the shogunate recently learned that my Ming Dynasty sent troops, and basically withdrew all the soldiers and horses out of the Chinese region and assembled in Osaka City. ”

"According to the information sent by Nishikiewei, the defender of Osaka Castle was Sakai Tadashiyo, with about 70,000 troops, and other information showed that the shogunate elder Sakai Tadakatsu left Kyoto the day before yesterday and personally went to Edo and Kanto to gather the daimyo and the daimyo of the pro-feudal clans to gather people and horses to help Kyoto."

Zhu Cihong looked at the map on the long table, his eyes swept to the "China" area of Honshu Island, and then looked at the location of Kyoto and Edo.

The "Chugoku region" here is the geographical concept of Japan, and the Japanese named the land according to the distance and proximity to Kyoto, which is equivalent to the concept of "Central China" and "East China".

Japan's Chugoku region is mainly in the southwestern part of Honshu Island, including Tottori, Shimane, Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi and other areas, and Shimonoseki, where the Ming army is located, also belongs to Chugoku.

As for Kyushu Island and Shikoku Island, they are already the territory of the Ming Dynasty and belong to the real China.

Sakai Tadashi, the Japanese commander stationed at Osaka Castle, and Sakai Tadashi, the shogunate elder, looked like brothers in their names, but no, they were just the same clan.

And the historical Sakai Tadashiyo, after the death of Sakai Tadakatsu, became the boss of the Tokugawa Ietsuna era, and controlled the power of the shogunate.

After Li Shaoyou finished his report, Xu Qingshan, the commander of the expedition, spoke: "Your Majesty, the minister feels that the terrain of Shimonoseki is remote, and there are many mountains leading to Kyoto, and our army has little room for maneuver. ”

Zhu Cihong took a sip of tea and motioned for Xu Qingshan to continue.

Xu Qingshan pointed to the map and said: "Now the strength of our army on Honshu Island has reached 60,000 (including 30,000 troops to conquer the east). ”

He glanced at the Japanese daimyo opposite: "Oh, plus the 20,000 horses of the Japanese friendly army, a total of 80,000, in the mountainous China region, it is difficult for us to deploy so many troops, which is not conducive to the battle of the large army." ”

Xu Qingshan picked up the baton on the table and said: "The road from Osaka to Kyoto is flat and wide, but it is only a hundred miles, and there are wide rivers that can be used as the logistics supply channel of our army. ”

Zhu Cihong pondered, Xu Qingshan's battle plan, he had also considered it before.

This is equivalent to the later Anti-Japanese War, Japan fought a Battle of Songhu in Shanghai, and then took advantage of the victory to advance westward, capturing Nanjing in one fell swoop, in an attempt to force the government to submit.

Of course, the Battle of Songhu was planned by Chang Kaishen, and in order to cope with the complicated situation after the "77 Incident", he decided to take the initiative to force the Japanese army to change its strategic intention from north to south, and guide the change to change from east to west, so as to facilitate the long-term operation of the national government.

Although Chang Kaishen was defeated, his strategic intention was achieved, which was still more beneficial to China at that time.

Perhaps for historical reasons, Zhu Cihong was reluctant to attack Osaka first, and he was also worried that the Tokugawa shogunate was using a strategy similar to Chang Kaishen to force the Ming army to attack Osaka and buy them time for a long-term confrontation.

If the Ming army is unable to make a quick victory with Japanese warships in the short term and end the war with Japan, then it will face a fatal strategic weakness in the quagmire.

War consumes a large amount of people's livelihood and resources in China, and cross-sea operations consume even more, and if it drags on for a long time, the national strength will decline.

Therefore, Zhu Cihong has strived to be fast, accurate and ruthless in all foreign wars! Fought quickly, without ink, rarely fought a long-term war of attrition for more than a year.

Now that the Tokugawa shogunate has transferred the shogunate army in China to Osaka, Zhu Cihong suspects that the shogunate is playing a strategic intention similar to Chang Kaishen.

Moreover, if Zhu Cihong wants to annex the whole of Japan, the best way is to take it step by step, occupy it one by one, and manage it while occupying it.

These two strategic methods made him a little entangled.