Ge Saburo quickly understood what Wei Gonggong meant, what his father-in-law said about the imperial army needs friends, referring to the tactical aspect, the Italian Ming Emperor's pro-army needs the help of Japanese people of insight and local forces, and must not fight alone.

Obviously, Gonggong Wei will not really support any new Japanese heroes to replace the Tokugawa shogunate, but at the tactical level, the emperor's army must be assisted by all Japanese forces, so that the current shogunate will once again face the situation of strife during the Warring States period, which will be conducive to the imperial army's crusade against the shogunate.

It may seem that there is a conflict between the two, but there is no conflict in substance.

Because time will solve this problem.

"What is a real hero, only Wei Gongye!"

Katsuzaburo wrote only this sentence in his diary that day.

"Count the romantic figures, but also look at the present."

Father-in-law Wei, who doesn't like to write diaries very much, also opened a small notebook that day and wrote such a sentence. Father-in-law Wei, who closed the diary, came to the bedroom leisurely with twelve points of yearning.

Then, an unknown, angry roar came from the city of Tsuchihara: "Xiba, how can it be a man!" ”

After dawn, Gonggong Wei, who had been seriously deceived and had dark circles under his eyes, ordered all the geisha in the city to be collected and shipped to Jingshi, saying that they were "for the amusement of the princes of the inner court." ”

Fortunately, a notice submitted by Ge Saburo called "Open and Honest Advice to the Heroes of Dongying" made Wei's depressed mood slightly better.

This notice was written by Ge Saburo last night after staying up all night, for which he drank several jugs of water, and Zhonghua also smoked three packets, and the pots were full in the morning and night, and the nostrils were also yellow.

Father-in-law Wei attaches great importance to this notice, and after reading the full text, he couldn't help but reward Ge Saburo with a thousand taels of silver, saying, "The sky is falling, and the tears are moving, and the talent of the gentleman deserves this reward!" ”

The full text of the notice is only about 2,000 words, and although it is not long, it is quite a grasp of the main points.

At the beginning of the proclamation, it began with the Tokugawa shogunate's theft of Japanese power, saying that Tokugawa Ieyasu was a despicable villain, neither a virtue nor a meritorious person in Japan. At that time, Haojie was invincible by force, swallowing hatred and holding anger to this day, covering the so-called people who win the sky, and now it is also the time when the sky will defeat the people.

Subsequently, the proclamation carried out an all-out attack on the shogunate's domestic and foreign affairs, especially the cruel persecution of Catholics, declaring that "the heavens are tired of their virtues, and the people are tired of their rule", so the defeat of the Japanese army again and again is that "the Tokugawa gas is exhausted, and the world is also the cause of abandonment".

At the same time, the notice said that the imperial army "is in the shogunate, not in the Japanese people", "the Japanese nation and our emperor and the Ming nation are of the same species, the same culture, the same ethics, there is a friendship of harmony and glory, and there is no hatred with hatred", and called on the Japanese people to "never be suspicious, to observe the direction of heaven and man, and to follow the general trend of the world, sing the righteousness of the four countries of Kyushu, and entangle the strong men, in order to chase the Tokugawa shogunate, and raise the true heroes in the recklessness to support the great cause, and then reform the government, eliminate the harm of the people, and follow the will of the sages and Confucianism." ”

Finally, he called on the people of all parts of the country who had been persecuted by the Tokugawa shogunate and the various forces of the past to help the Imperial Army, so that Japan could become a true imperial paradise.

"Wait for the day, don't be laughed at by Guan Bai."

The ending sentence was added by Father-in-law Wei, but it was full of essence in just ten words.

"Printing and sending quickly, this proclamation must be known to the Japanese countryside and to the heroes."

In the afternoon of the same day, Gonggong Wei met with more than 100 Japanese samurai who had just been called to join the imperial army, and these samurai were all summoned by the emperor's order, and before that, they were actually not considered samurai.

The Tokugawa shogunate, which ended the chaotic Sengoku period, implemented the shogunate system for the purpose of unifying the government and restoring order, and greatly weakened the privileges of the daimyo of the feudal states, which made the samurai who were originally dependent on the daimyo no longer become the privileged class of the feudal states, and the feudal states could no longer support such a large number of samurai, so a large number of samurai were "laid off" and either became ronin or went home to farm.

As a result, a large number of samurai were among the fallen shogunates, intent on overthrowing the Tokugawa shogunate so that they could regain their former status and privileges.

The arrival of the Ming Imperial Army gave these laid-off warriors a new hope, far more powerful than the Fallen Shogunate Army.

The samurai have no sense of family and country, and even now Japan does not have the concept of home and country, who gives money for whom is the truest portrayal of the Japanese samurai in this era.

The Ming Imperial Army offered a price code and gave the system, and it was more tempting to become an "imperial army" than to become a ronin and a lowly peasant oppressed by the shogunate.

Since the proclamation was issued, there have been laid-off samurai from Tsuchihara Castle one after another, and there are even official samurai from the Satsuma Domain, and there are hundreds of them.

The Guards Division and the Second Mixed Brigade of the Imperial Allied Army, which was being formed, were being ordered to receive these warriors, and it was actually the fourth group that Gonggong Wei met today.

According to the plan, these samurai were to be handed over to the 3rd Infantry Wing, which was carrying out the plan to attack Kyoto, because the training and military qualities of the samurai could not be well integrated with the Guards Division, so the Guards Division adopted a compromise plan, that is, each wing formed a separate special attack team composed of samurai. In this way, it can not only affect the combat effectiveness and establishment of divisions and regiments, but also give full play to the combat effectiveness of the samurai.

"The Battle of Kyoto is a battle that will decide the fate of Japan, and I hope that all the kings will fight bravely to kill the enemy!"

"There will be a place for the monarchs in the Imperial Meritorious Pavilion!"

"Please!"

At the sound of the horn, the officers and men of the 1st Wing of the Garrison Division and the Phishima Special Detachment, which had just arrived from Taiwan, stepped on the ships of the Combined Fleet together with the samurai special attack team, and they were to land at Osaka to attack Kyoto, echoing and coordinating with the landing from Tsu City to the main force of the Guards Division, which had already occupied Nara.

Two months had passed since Gonggong Wei had promised to "eliminate Xiuzhong in three months", but the imperial army had still not been able to launch a general attack on Kyoto (Luoyang).

The standing army of the shogunate had already rushed to Kyoto under the leadership of Tokugawa Hidetada, and formed a defensive circle around Kyoto, and according to reliable information from the Kikubu Agency, it was very likely that Tokugawa Hidetada would lead the main force out of Kyoto to attack Nara, and stabilize the hearts and minds of Kyoto, Edo, and even the feudal domains of the shogunate with an active offensive posture.

If Tokugawa Hidetada won the battle, the shogunate would receive more troops, which would be extremely disadvantageous to the Imperial Army.

"As soon as the war began, there was no retreat!"

In the city of Tsuchihara, Gonggong Wei handed over the responsibility of defending Tsuchihara to Yan Siqi, and he himself would go to Nara three days later to personally command the battle.