After the first battle of Jiahe County and the complete victory, Zhu Youxiao, who was addicted, ordered 70,000 soldiers to take turns to rest.

After dawn, the soldiers cleaned up the battlefield, had breakfast, and continued the swaggering march.

The advance of the army, not in a hurry, not fast or slow, just took three days, an army of 70,000 soldiers, and only then did it come to Nagoya.

Nagoya, a Japanese city, is less than 500 miles away from Osaka, and all the way is a plain terrain, and there are no mountains and rivers to hinder the march, but Zhu Youxiao led the army, but it still took three days to arrive.

Although most of the time, the soldiers dismounted and walked, and during this period, 10,000 soldiers were also assigned to make a detour to the coast to receive a batch of logistical and military supplies sent by the large fleet, but there was also the intention of deliberately delaying time.

Zhu Youxiao and Zhong Jixiang wanted to give the Tokugawa shogunate enough time to gather troops, and then the two sides started a decisive battle.

In order to complete the battle in one battle, lest the Japanese invaders scatter and flee into the mountains and forests, and it will be very troublesome to clear them up like that.

Unconsciously, a month and a half has passed since Zhu Youxiao set out from the capital and then led the Royal Navy fleet on the Shandong Peninsula, and the time has officially entered the early winter of October.

In the past two days, as a cold snap moved south from the north, the weather suddenly became a little colder, and from time to time even a north wind blew.

Fortunately, the soldiers have prepared autumn and winter clothes and pants, and the logistics materials are sufficient, so they have not been greatly affected.

"Your Majesty, five miles ahead, is Nagoya, there are not many enemy troops, ...... of them."

At this time, a team of scouts came to report and explain the situation in Nagoya one by one.

"Good!"

Zhu Youxiao waved his hand indifferently, and ordered to Zhong Jixiang on the side, "Zhong Jixiang, you lead a Royal Marine Brigade of 10,000 soldiers to take down Nagoya as soon as possible!" ”

"Yes!"

Zhong Jixiang was very excited and received his order excitedly.

This guy is a battle maniac, it's only been three days, and there is another battle, and I feel very enjoyable in my heart.

"All the officers and men of the 3rd Marine Brigade of the Royal East Sea Fleet, immediately line up and go with me to attack Nagoya!"

A moment later, a 10,000-strong ironclad cavalry brigade that had completed the formation of the army galloped away at a rapid pace with Zhong Jixiang, who was in the lead.

For this battle, Zhu Youxiao had no interest.

He had already received a report from the previous scout, and learned that there were not many samurai and ronin in this ancient house now.

This adds up to less than 3,000 enemies, how can it stop the rush of 10,000 marines?

It is estimated that in less than half an hour, the news of the occupation of Nagoya will come.

Nagoya, the fourth largest city in the Wa Kingdom, is located in the central part of Honshu, bordering Ise Bay, and is an important area for east-west transportation in the Wa Kingdom.

The city is mainly located on the hot field terraces, most of which are 100 to 150 meters above sea level, and are not flooded.

Nagoya has a mild climate throughout the year and is the political, economic, cultural, and transportation center of the Wakoku region in central Honshu, with a population of about 100,000.

Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Tokugawa family, built a huge castle here, and residential areas were spread out in areas such as Higashiyama, hills, and surrounding terraces.

The three most famous heroes in the history of the Japanese Kingdom: Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu, were all born in Nagoya.

It's not unreasonable to call Nagoya a place of great people.

The Japanese in Nagoya are now very weak, and according to the investigation report of the Military Intelligence Agency, there are not many samurai among them, and most of them are some ronin guarding and living in them.

In this case, it should be that after knowing the route of the Ming Empire expeditionary force, the Tokugawa shogunate knew that this was not an ideal place to fight the enemy, so it did not send any reinforcements.

Not only were no reinforcements sent, but even the samurai of Nagoya itself were taken away. Naikan bar Chinese network

As a result, Nagoya is now a city that was temporarily abandoned by the shogunate, with extremely weak defenses.

They are not afraid that the city will be occupied by the army of the Ming Empire, after all, who on both sides can have the last laugh depends on the decisive battle between the enemy and us that will be held in the near future.

Needless to say, the winner will lose almost everything.

This is a real life-and-death national war, and no one can afford to lose.

Sure enough, as expected, after Osaka, Nagoya was also bloodied by the soldiers of the Royal Marine Brigade, and more than 3,000 Japanese samurai and ronin in the city were slaughtered.

The remaining nearly 100,000 Japanese people were also forcibly gathered and formed into a labor camp, guarded by 2,000 logistics soldiers, and began the renovation and sanitation of Nagoya's old city.

Although these large and small cities of the Japanese Kingdom, which were swept all the way by the Ming New Army, have been occupied, in order to start the promotion of the two basic national policies of the Ming Empire, it is still necessary to occupy Edo before it can be implemented.

There is no way, in a foreign country, it is taboo to divide troops, and Zhu Youxiao will not divide troops to guard various places and cities unless it is absolutely necessary.

We must wait until all the resistance forces of the Japanese kingdom have been wiped out before we can consider this matter.

In the past, Osaka Castle and Nambatsu Port were for logistical needs, and it was necessary to obtain a stable forward base so that they could attack boldly and without worries.

However, in Osaka Castle and Nambatsu Port, Zhu Youxiao only left 10,000 soldiers of the logistics army to be responsible for the repair of the city and the defense of Nambatsu Port.

Nagoya had been captured, but Zhu Youxiao did not enter the city.

His tent was set up outside the city, and although he was accustomed to killing people and seeing the dead, he did not want to see the tragic scene of corpses and blood all over the city.

In the evening, Zhu Youxiao had eaten the dinner carefully prepared by the imperial kitchen, and was sitting in the military tent pondering, when a footstep came from outside the big tent.

"Your Majesty, Huang Jianjie, deputy director of the Royal Military Intelligence Bureau, asks to see you."

A general of the Guards guarding the gate of the Chinese army's tent immediately reported it.

"Xuan!"

He said lightly.

Subsequently, when he looked up, Huang Jianjie, deputy director of the Military Intelligence Bureau, entered the military tent with light steps.

He reported to Zhu Youxiao: "Your Majesty, there is a big movement in the Tokugawa shogunate today. ”

"Oh?"

Zhu Youxiao hurriedly signaled to the general of the Royal Guard on the side, spread out the march map on the line, and continued to ask, "Tell me quickly, what are their actions?" ”

After the general of the Royal Guard spread out the map, Huang Jianjie pointed to the map and said in a solemn tone: "This is Uenohara, and the latest information is about this narrow low-lying land." ”

"According to the intelligence officers of the Ministry of Military Intelligence, in Uenohara, the Wakuni has gathered about 200,000 troops of the Tokugawa shogunate, of which at least 100,000 are elite samurai, and the rest are temporarily recruited by Ashigaru."

"In addition, there are quite a few Japanese ronin, who continue to come in response to the shogunate's call, and the final number is estimated to exceed 500,000, and it is even possible to add up the large army of Kanto and Kansai to a total of 780,000 Japanese army."

Even Huang Jianjie didn't expect that this time, the shogunate, the general of the Wa Kingdom, would move so big!

According to current information, the size of the Kanto army assembled by the Wakuni shogunate at the eastern exit of the Uenobara Grand Canyon alone is likely to reach about 500,000.

Moreover, there are also personnel from the Royal Military Intelligence Bureau, who have sent back some information: in the Kansai region of the Wa Kingdom, those daimyo have begun to draw a large number of samurai and ronin.

These large armies that are being assembled in the Kansai region, regardless of whether they ask, the target is still the army of the Ming Empire that came from an expedition!

There is no doubt that under the call of the shogunate, the military and civilians of the whole country eagerly responded to the call of the Tokugawa shogunate to resist the invaders, and the desire for war was extremely enthusiastic.

In this case, the enemy and the enemy are already ready to shoot and have to fire, and the decisive battle is already on the verge of breaking out.