On the same day that Li Luo set off from Tsushima Island, Haidong's "Dark Route Army" was also about to set off.

More than 4,000 land divisions, more than 2,000 naval divisions, and more than 6,000 elite Tang Army troops were all assembled in Luoning Port by the sea. Cui Xiuning, the wife of Tang Guo, personally came to the beach to see her off.

Together with the sailors and the "military medical team", the entire fleet consisted of more than 7,000 people, more than 2,000 war horses, and more than 1,000 mules.

Among them were the Guards Regiment, the Tiger Warrior Regiment, the Guards Cavalry, the Flying Eagle Cavalry, and Zheng He's ocean-going fleet.

He was accompanied by Jiang Jun, Yang Qingque, Wanyan Hugu, Yang Xu, Zhu Jie, Zhang Yong, Shen Huahua, etc., all of whom were front-line generals of the Tang Army.

Of the fifty medium-sized warships captured from Pu Shougeng, forty were taken away, and eighty of the captured Pu merchant ships were taken away.

The size of the entire Tang Army fleet reached more than 150 ships, and they were all medium and large sea vessels. The fleet carried more than 7,000 people, 100,000 stone of newly harvested grain, as well as 5,000 pieces of armor and ordnance captured from Pu's family, Haidong's homemade ordnance, fresh water, dried fish and other materials.

But even though a lot of things were carried, the fleet was still only lightly loaded. Most of the vacated carrying capacity was used to carry the remnants of the Yuan army.

Except for Cui Xiuning, all the officials above the eighth grade of the entire Tang Kingdom came to see him off.

"Madame, don't worry, we will meet you soon, and it will be foolproof." This was stated by the commander of the ocean-going fleet, Zheng He.

Cui Xiuning looked at the three poles of the day, nodded and said, "Set sail and set off." Mrs. Ben has only one sect, and if things don't go well, you can't force it, and you can return immediately. It is especially important that Tang Hou must return safely. ”

"No!" Zheng He and others bowed solemnly.

"Raise the sails! Set sail! With an order, the fleet led by the new sail battleships "Chang'an" and "Jinyang" slowly left Luoning Port and set off north in the wind and waves.

Cui Xiuning looked at the huge fleet that set off with a little worry, and only then did he lead the "hundred officials" to leave the port until the fleet was far away.

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July 18, sunny, southerly wind, hot.

Today, the Dark Route Army finally set off, and after all, Li Luo has been gone for fifty days, and I am really getting more and more worried. However, I must relax and try to maintain an optimistic attitude.

Because, I'm really pregnant. Anxious emotions are poison and can impair the healthy development of the fetus. For the sake of my future children, in addition to arranging scientific meals and schedules for myself, I also have to adjust my mood.

I don't know if it's a man or a woman. Li Yuan is estimated to be a boy, but I don't think she's sure. It would be amazing if Chinese medicine could really judge men and women in two months.

As for the sour men and hot women, I don't believe it. The pregnancy reaction is not strong, and the taste neither likes to eat sour nor spicy, but prefers light.

Today's Haidong Tang Kingdom has just had a bumper harvest, and a summer tax of more than 100,000 stones has been collected, but almost all of them have been taken away by the Dark Road Army.

During this time, the focus of the work of the Special Investigation Bureau shifted to Liaodong. The new news sent back today by Zong Day, who was sent to Liaodong, was that he had made initial contact with the retainers of Wang Naiyan of Liaodong, and in the name of Nanyang slave traders, they exchanged salt for convenient activities in Liaodong.

My plan is to take advantage of the fact that my father-in-law is still tough, and take advantage of the opportunity of the Yuan court's limited control over Liaodong to smuggle tens of thousands of Jurchen remnants from Liaodong to Haidong.

According to the father-in-law, if this immigration plan is successful, there will be an additional 5,000 elite Jurchen veterans. These Jurchen veterans, as long as they can come to Haidong, will definitely obey orders.

The father-in-law is trustworthy, he has no children and no daughters, he is almost old, with the last bit of Jurchen elite soldiers, he can't do anything, and he can't have ambitions that shouldn't be. I trust my own judgment.

Li Luo's battle to conquer the sun could not be ended at all in half a year. His troops are definitely overstretched, and he will even face great danger. If he had sent 5,000 Jurchen veterans as reinforcements, he would have been much safer.

Therefore, the plan for Jurchen immigration must be accelerated. The plan to exchange salt and Nayan for horses should also be implemented as soon as possible. The best reinforcements to send at that time are mainly cavalry.

I also ordered the formation and training of 1,000 new soldiers, bringing the number of remaining regular troops to 5,000. Plus 10,000 peasant soldiers, it is enough to ensure the safety of Haidong.

Don't worry, you're pregnant. If you don't write it, after doing the maternity exercises, you have to give a lesson to the intelligence trainees. Tonight, you must go to bed early and don't stay up late.

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Li Luo's fleet arrived on Yakushima on July 22. The fleet of nearly 100 ships immediately alarmed the Japanese people on the island.

Without saying a word, Li Luo ordered the blockade of Yakushima and prevented a single Japanese citizen from escaping to the sea.

Soon, the only dozen or so families on the island were all arrested in front of Li Luo.

Yakushima and Kagoshima, the southernmost point of Kyushu, are separated by the Osumi Strait, which is more than 100 miles away. Therefore, Yakushima is only a remote island for Japan, with a small population and no attention.

Similarly, Yakushima was not on the radar of the three Ryukyu countries.

This is also the reason why Li Luo chose Yakushima to hide soldiers.

"Lord Lang, kill or not?" Yan Falcon, the captain of the guard, asked.

Li Luo said: "These are just ordinary fishermen, don't kill them." They all know the Japanese language, and it should be useful then. "There are only dozens of Japanese people, most of whom are still old and weak, women and children, so there is no need to make a fuss and have to be killed.

As a result, dozens of Japanese people escaped, but became Li Luo's prisoners. Li Luo let them stay with Shao Erxinzi and put them all under house arrest.

Li Luo hid the fleet south of Yakushima Island, so that it would be more hidden and would not be discovered by the Japanese or Yuan forces. This sea area is nearly five hundred miles away from the battlefield of Kitakyushu, and if this is discovered, it can only be said that Li Luo is too unlucky.

Li Luo arranged to build a simple water camp, and then held a military meeting, mainly to tell the Jianghua Naval Division and the Ninghai Division, that a partial division of the Jiangnan Army would come to converge.

The generals of the Jianghua Water Division and the Ning Sea Division really had no doubts. Where could they have thought that it was not the Yuan army that came to converge but the Tang army?

At dusk, a large fleet of ships appeared in everyone's field of vision. Li Luo's cronies and subordinates immediately knew that the Haidong Army was coming!

However, Luo Yu, the commander of the navy, immediately issued an order to be on full alert.

When the fleet approached and saw the Yuan army battle flag fluttering on the ship, Luo Yu was sure that the "Jiangnan Army Division" was coming.

Why did you want to join up with a Jiangnan army? What are the plans of the big handsome? Was all this arranged by Xin Du Dashuai? Luo Yu didn't know. Since Li Luo didn't say it, he wouldn't ask. All he had to do was carry out the order.

When the fleet was close in front of him, Luo Yu saw the two mighty big war ships, and couldn't help but think: "This ship is really extraordinary, I have never seen it before, is it a new ship of the Jiangnan Army?" Oh my God, this ship has too many equipment, right? ”

Luo Yu was an old sailor, and he could see at a glance that these two new ships were more powerful than all the warships he had ever seen.

Suddenly, Luo Yu's eyes were a little hot.

The Tang army slowly approached the shore and threw his sights, and then a group of black-clothed soldiers stepped off the boat.

When Luo Yu saw these soldiers and horses, he couldn't help but be stunned again. What armor do they wear? It looks very spiritual, more eye-catching than ordinary armor, but it is neither iron armor nor leather armor, and it looks like ...... Cloth. This, does this work?

For a while, Luo Yu even doubted whether the other party was wearing armor. However, after all, he was an old soldier, and he judged from the footsteps of these black-clothed soldiers when they descended the ladder that their black-clothed clothes had weight, and they must be armor.

Well, it should have been covered with cloth on the outside of the armor again. Luo Yu immediately figured it out.

Soon, on the tall and mighty new warship, a young man with more ornate armor came down. After this person got off the boat, he came to Li Luo and saluted: "Zheng He, a thousand households of the Jiangnan Army, meet Li Shuai!" ”

Immediately afterwards, a group of generals with black armor embroidered with cloud patterns disembarked and saluted together.

"Humble Jiangnan Army Thousand Households Yan Hugu, meet Li Shuai!"

"Yang Xu, a thousand households of the Jiangnan Army, meet Li Shuai!"

"Humble Jiangnan Qianhu Jiang Jun, meet Li Shuai!"

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Li Luo smiled: "No courtesy, no courtesy." Ben is not a senior official, so there is no need to salute. ”

Zheng He said: "Fan Dashuai ordered us to obey Li Shuai's orders. Although we are partial teachers, we also want to unify the power, and the so-called snake has no head. ”

Li Luo said: "Okay, then the handsome man will be the one to do." ”

When all the Tang troops disembarked, Li Luo immediately raised the military account.

The first thing is to form the two partial divisions into a rearguard army, which means the rearguard of the Japanese army.

Then, Luo Yu was temporarily appointed as the commander of the Guard Army's naval division, and Zheng He was appointed as the deputy commander; appointed Jiang Jun and Yang Qingque as left and right military advisors; Hu Gu was appointed as the commander of the cavalry, Yang Xu as the left commander of the infantry army, and Guangxia as the right commander of the infantry army. Zhu Hao and Zhang Yong also have their own functions.

In this way, the two armies become one. There were 7,000 sailors, 2,000 cavalry, 5,000 infantry, and 14,000 soldiers. Plus sailors, sixteen thousand people.

Luo Yu saw that Zheng He and the others were carrying a large amount of food and surplus ordnance, and guessed that the purpose of forming a guard army above should be just in case. In the event of the defeat of the main forces at the front or the exhaustion of military supplies, the rearguard army will be able to support in time.

Because Li Luo concealed no flaws, he still thought that the formation of the guard army was the intention of Xin Du and Jin Fangqing and others.

Li Luo concealed it so out of helplessness. Because the Jianghua Naval Division and the Ninghai Naval Division combined with four or five thousand people, they were the main force in the naval battle. But they were not Li Luo's private army, but the official army of Goryeo and the Yuan court. How can you do it without concealing it?

In order to conceal it, Li Luo and Cui Xiuning arranged for the members and backbones of the army to do relevant secrecy education for the soldiers very early, so that every soldier of the Li family army was tight-lipped. Moreover, those who supervise each other and violate military discipline of secrecy shall be dealt with under heavy military law.

The second thing in the military discussion is that Li Luo used the matter of ghosts and gods to win the hearts of the army.

"Ben Shuai had a dream last night and dreamed of Taishang Laojun. Lao Jun told Ben Shuai that within ten days, there would be a hurricane at sea, which was extremely dangerous, so he asked Ben Shuai to stay on this island for a while, and wait for the hurricane before he could act. ”

As soon as these words came out, all of Li Luo's old subordinates looked solemn, and they had no doubt about Li Luo's words. Because the miracle of the lord being blessed by the old king has been more than once, and it has been fulfilled every time.

This shows that the lord is definitely a person with great luck. This time, Lao Jun dreamed again, and it must be true.

But Luo Yu and the others were very skeptical. But Luo Yu didn't want to question it directly, but said euphemistically: "Since Lao Jun entrusted the dream to the marshal, should the marshal report this matter to the marshal of Xindu?" ”

Li Luo shook his head and said, "It's just a dream, how dare Ben Shuai take it seriously?" How can military affairs be child's play? If this marshal solemnly reports this dream, it will cause people to laugh at the least, and shake the morale of the army at the worst. He will be punished. ”

Luo Yu and others think about it. They still don't believe in this strange dream, let alone those Mongolian officials who are high up and stubborn for their own use? It's not fun to look for yourself, and even ask for trouble. If Li Luo really wanted to report, they would have to persuade him.

Li Luo said again: "However, my rearguard is fine now, so it is better to stay on this island and train sergeants." In short, once there is something on the front line, we will wait for reinforcements as soon as possible. ”

Luo Yu and others received orders one after another. Even more than 2,000 war horses also went to Yakushima to carry out cavalry training.

Li Luo didn't want the soldiers and horses to rest for a day.

Of course, Li Luo's dream of Lao Jun's dream spread throughout the army, and even the Goryeo sailors knew about it.

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Li Luo hid in Yakushima to secretly train soldiers and horses, the Yuan army and the Japanese army in Kitakyushu, but it was rare to be quiet for a few days.

After the last bloody battle, Xin Du also knew about the arrival of Japanese reinforcements, and also learned the tenacity of the Japanese army. He knew that if he attacked Kitakyushu hard, he would probably not be able to defeat it, and he would have to lose many soldiers and horses. If you continue to fight like this, no matter how many people there are, you can't bear it.

Eventually, the stubborn Xin Du accepted the advice of Kim Fangqing, Fan Wenhu and others, and abandoned Kitakyushu in favor of attacking Minami Kyushu instead.

Although southern Kyushu is far away from Dazaifu, as long as it can land, Xin Du is fully confident that it will be pushed from south to north all the way to Dazaifu, and it will take more time to go on horizontally.

The Japanese army headquarters in Dazaifu also paid close attention to the movements of the Yuan army. The last bloody battle also hurt the Japanese army. In particular, the loss of 3,000 heavy horses made Utsunomiya Sadazuna almost turn his face with Shao Er.

This is half of the heavy cavalry of the Kingdom of God, and it was buried by Shao Er's capital, as the general of the cavalry, how can Utsunomiya Sadazuna, not be angry and distressed?

Fortunately, Hojo Shimasa, who was appointed by Hojo Tokimune as the general of Jinsai, finally came to Kyushu on July 20.

General Zhenxi was the nominal Supreme Commander of the Resistance to the Yuan. However, after Hojo Shimasa arrived in Dazaifu, he did not take over the command of the young man. The first thing he did was to cheer up the Japanese army on behalf of the imperial court and the shogunate, and then reconcile the tension between the young man and the Utsunomiya Sadatsuna.

However, Hojo did not bring new reinforcements. Although more than 100,000 Japanese troops were still being mobilized in Honshu, the shogunate did not decide to immediately commit to the battlefield in Kyushu.

Why?

The first is that Honshu also needs to be vigorously defended, and who knows that Motoko will not abandon Kyushu and attack Honshu instead? Therefore, the state must be guarded by elite soldiers.

Second, and more importantly, once the hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops in Honshu are deployed, a huge amount of money, food, and materials will be consumed, and the shogunate's finances will be in deficit, and Hojo Tokimune will of course be worried.

Therefore, the second batch of reinforcements from the shogunate will not come to Kyushu unless necessary. First, it costs money like water.

Hojo Tokimune's wishful thinking is that it is best for Kyushu to complete the heavy task of resisting the Motokou with the current soldiers and horses. If he couldn't resist it, he would hemorrhage profusely and send a second batch of reinforcements.

The military situation in Kitakyushu is reported daily to Hojo Tokimune of the Honshu shogunate. Hojo Tokimune judged that although many samurai were killed on the Kyushu front and the battle was very hard, for the time being, the Motoko could not succeed, and after repeated defeats, morale must have declined, so there should be no cause for concern.

With the existing forces in Kyushu, most of them can be defended. Then, there is no need to send a large number of reinforcements again, regardless of the blood cost.

Even if the current situation is maintained, the shogunate's finances are very tight. The post-war accounts, especially the promises made to the samurai who participated in the war, may not be kept.

On July 27, the Yuan army, which could not take advantage, left 1 Gi Island and headed for southern Kyushu after repairs.

When the Japanese learned that the Yuan army was moving south, they immediately judged the intentions of the Yuan army. While ordering the pirate coalition army of Takeki Jichang to harass the pace of the Yuan army that was delaying the southward movement, Shao Er Jingzi personally led an army of 90,000 (including the water army) to defend Satsuma in the south.

In fact, the Yuan army actually had a very clever tactic, which had always been a concern for Shao Er. That is, the main force of the Yuan army continued to move south, north, south, and north, so that the Japanese army could be exhausted and tired to death.

Because, whether the Yuan army went south or north, it relied on ships and the power of sails. However, the main force of the Japanese army moved north and south on land, relying on manpower and horsepower.

In this way, the Yuan army only consumed time, while the Japanese army consumed physical strength. This is repeated several times, and the Japanese army will definitely be defeated. Moreover, the main forces of the Japanese army will not be able to cooperate without cooperation. Otherwise, when the Yuan army arrived in southern Kyushu, and the main force of the Japanese army was still in northern Kyushu, wouldn't it really allow the Yuan army to land calmly?

However, the Yuan army did not implement this tactic, which the Japanese army feared most.

Is Yuan Jun stupid?

Of course not.

Instead, the generals of the Yuan army found a very serious problem: the ship could not work.

The large and small ships of the Japanese army exceeded 3,000. But the generals knew very well that the ship's problem was getting worse and worse. Many ships are beginning to be scrapped.

Whether it is a ship made in Goryeo or a ship supervised by Fan Wenhu in Jiangnan, the quality is generally problematic, not only cutting corners, but also shoddy workmanship, which cannot withstand too many storms.

If the Japanese army's most feared tactics of exhausting the enemy were implemented, and the north and south went back and forth several times, the Japanese army might be exhausted, but the ships of the army would also fall apart.

Therefore, the strategy of the Yuan army is to take advantage of the fact that there are no large-scale problems with the ship, quickly solve the battle, land in one fell swoop, as long as the ship is occupied, the ship is not afraid of breakdown, and the big deal is to force the Japanese people to build a new ship.

Some people are very puzzled, can't the Yuan army just find a place and land before the Japanese army deploys defenses?

No.

Because the coast of Kyushu has very few flat beaches, and most of the places are steep cliffs, so it is difficult for large armies to land. This is also the reason why Kyushu is surrounded by the sea and guards huge fishery resources, but the people have always been very poor.

Some people may wonder why the Yuan army has to fight Kyushu? Isn't it possible to hit the east coast of Honshu, which is easy to land?

The east coast of Kyushu is full of flat beaches, and the Japanese army can't defend it at all.

Still won't work. Because, the Yuan army is very unfamiliar with the geography of Japan, and it is completely in the clouds. Even Goryeo, which is surrounded by water, has very little understanding of the geography of Japan.

In this case, how could the Yuan army run thousands of miles by sea and make a big detour to hit the east coast of Honshu? Even if they were willing, they would not be willing to ship unqualified ships.

Of course, Shao Er Jingzi didn't know that there was a quality problem with the Yuan army's ship, and he thought that the commander of the Yuan army was a Hu man, and his brain was too bad.

The Yuan fleet was harassed by the pirate coalition of Takeki Kicho all the way, and it was not until July 30 that it came to the vicinity of Eagle Island, north of Ivan Bay.

At this time, the sea breeze was getting stronger and stronger, and many experienced sailors said that the hurricane was coming, so please stay for the time being and wait for the hurricane to pass before leaving.

Xin Du had no choice but to order the fleet to dock at Hirado Island and Eagle Island, but did not arrange any measures to defend against hurricanes. In the Yuan army, only Zhang Xi, the Jiangnan military commander of Wanhu, ordered the warships to be separated by 50 paces, so as not to be too windy and cause the hulls to collide.

With Zhang Xi's qualifications and official position, he was fully qualified to make suggestions to Xindu and popularize such measures throughout the army. But perhaps Zhang Xi himself didn't take it too seriously. Anyway, there were tens of thousands of Yuan troops, and only Zhang Xi's subordinates distanced the ship.

In the early hours of the night, the wind became stronger and stronger, and countless warships began to shake violently.

In the distance, the sea gradually raised a terrifying mountain and sea waves, like thousands of troops, carrying the power of the mountains and seas rolling in, and the howl of the hurricane was like the roar of an ancient giant beast, which was terrifying.

The 50,000 war horses and mules on the transport ships of the Yuan army neighed in horror one after another, intertwined with the exclamations of the Yuan army, as well as the roar of the hurricane and the roar of the waves.

"Boom ......"

As the hurricane hit, the torrential rain also poured down, accompanied by lightning and thunder...... A great terror between heaven and earth!

This rare hurricane finally came, like the Yaqi snake in the hidden sea, showing its fangs to the Yuan army.

Perhaps it was the prayers of the Japanese people that finally moved their "eight million gods". The sudden hurricane wantonly teased thousands of Yuan warships in the dark night, and threw the Yuan warships into the air and then into the sea with huge strange force.

"Boom ......"

"Whoa......

It is not known how many ships, crashed together, or began to disintegrate in a hurricane.

The flagship of the Chinese army in Xindu is one of the very few well-made sea ships in the Yuan army, and it is also a big war ship, so the shaking is not too bad, at least it will not sink and fall apart.

The boats of Jin Fangqing and other senior generals are also well-made ships.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of other ships are not qualified.

A huge wave hit, and Xindu's battleship shook suddenly, slamming Xindu on the floor of the knight's room.

"Dashuai!" Several of the pro-soldiers also rolled to the floor.

Xin Du got up in embarrassment, he never knew what fear was, but now, he was really scared.

Is the sea really so scary? Is it more terrifying than the white-haired wind on the grassland?

Xin Du's face turned pale and he looked out of the cabin, and a bolt of lightning struck, illuminating the huge waves like mountains and the ships that were torn apart under the hurricane.

Finished.

Xin Du could no longer bear to kneel down and pray for the blessing of the immortal heaven.

Jin Fangqing of the Goryeo Army and Fan Wenhu of the Jiangnan Army also turned pale at this time, like a mourner.

It's over. The Eastern Army is over.

While the Yuan army was in despair, the Japanese troops in Kyushu let out excited cheers, and many samurai burst into tears.

"Kamikaze!"

"Kamikaze !!"

"Kamikaze... God bless the kingdom! ”

PS: The hurricane is finally coming, so let's give us some support, crab crab. Rolling on the ground......

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