When the spring breeze first rose, the Southeast Fleet once again made a strong attack, and Yan Changwu took eight battleships, eight fifth-class cruisers, and twenty sixth-class cruisers, plus a large number of supply ships and transport ships, and went straight to the Japanese state.

Ren Er was cunning again, and there was no reason to prevent thieves for a thousand days, and the Southeast Fleet went straight to the Satsuma Domain, sweeping away its merchant ships, fishing boats, and warships!

The fleet is cool, fight as much as you want, the cruiser catches up with the opposing fishing boats and sinks them unceremoniously!

The method is: we chase after it, surrender immediately, and do not kill. Run, catch up, sink and kill the fishermen!

It's not that we are easy to kill, who called them ignorant!

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Hearing the rumbling of artillery overseas, the Japanese people watching the war at home were in pain in their hearts, helpless!

The other party's advantage is too great, and the Japanese are at the point where people want to fight them, and at the moment, the feudal lord Shimazu Tadashi can only hope that the Choshu Domain, which is in the way, can withstand it, otherwise the lips will die and the Choshu Domain will fall, and it will be the turn of other vassals.

Shimazu Tadashi once wanted the four feudatories to unite with Shangluo again to attack instead of defend, but!

The Southeastern Fleet inflicted terrible damage on Choshu, Hizen and Tosa, many things were robbed, the people were in extreme difficulty, food was scarce, and even maintaining the army became a problem, and they survived a difficult winter and were unable to fight again!

The Satsuma Domain was covered by many mountains, volcanic terrain (its capital was on the edge of the volcano) and typhoons, and the land was not produced much.

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"His Highness Yan!"

"His Royal Highness Tokugawa!"

"Hello!"

The two highnesses saluted each other, held hands and held each other tightly!

On his face, there was a "sincere" smile!

The personnel on both sides were smiling, and the Chinese and Japanese coalition forces met at the beautiful Lake Biwa!

The Edo Shogunate officially asked the Southeast Army to intervene in the Japanese Civil War to help the Shogunate quell the civil strife!

Yan Changwu brought a full 10,000 artillery infantry and 3,000 people to list the majestic military formation by the Biwa Lake!

They are tall and strong, their faces are black and red, they are full of energy, and they are murderous!

Let the shogunate army use the strength of milk, collect 12,000 Japanese troops, arrange them on both sides, the Japanese people shook their heads, the Japanese soldiers really can't put on the table, short and not counted, even if they feel that they are really obscene (have to admit it), the equipment is not good, or cold weapons are the majority, and the southeast army is completely hot weapons.

Fortunately, the Southeastern Army is its own friendly army!

The only place that is better than the southeast army is that the armor of the generals of the Japanese state is very drifty, and the basin helmet of the southeast army is extremely ugly, wearing cloth military uniforms and vest armor, which looks quite old-fashioned.

Of course, the armor of the Japanese army is not practical, it is mostly bamboo armor and leather armor, which is like the vest of the southeast army is leather armor inlaid with steel plates, and the difference between high and low protection is clear at a glance!

A high platform is built on the edge of the lake, and ancient decorations such as armor warriors, banners, treasure covers, halberds, Changge, Huang Yue, Bai Xuan, Zhu flags, and soap silk are listed on all sides.

The leaders of the two sides took the stage from the east and west, Yan Changwu from the west, and Tokugawa Iemitsu from the east, meeting in the middle of the stage.

They worshipped heaven and earth and the gods they worshipped, the southeast province was Mazu Niangniang, and the Japanese people were Shinto gods.

Under the witness of heaven and earth, it is about a fraternal state, and China and Japan are friendly, advancing and retreating together!

The Tokugawa family is young and brothers, and Yan Changwu is young and brothers, and the two are about brothers!

This is nothing, the actions of politicians, Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga were also brothers at the beginning, not dog eat dog!

To tell the truth, for Yan Dashao, who was born as a red soldier in the Celestial Empire, occupying the Wa Kingdom is an emotionally tempting goal to avenge the deep blood feud before he came!

However, from the point of view of interests, the country is really a chicken rib------ the place is too poor, and there are typhoons, volcanoes and earthquakes.

There is a serious lack of resources, there are no birds, although there is some silver, but the poor mountains and bad waters are out of the people, he X, there are tens of millions of people in a small place, if they are chaotic, the sea is full of widows, how many cruisers do you have available?

In contrast, Southeast Asia is full of gold, and Yan Dashao's strength is limited, so he has to let go of the Wa Kingdom and focus on Southeast Asia.

Aligned with Tokugawa Iemitsu to appease the hearts of the Japanese people.

Then Yan Changwu and Tokugawa Iemitsu agreed to fight the rebellious four feudatories, and if they were not peaceful, they would not return the army!

That night, the two armies congratulated the alliance, and the high-level banquet was held, and the Japanese people did everything they could to entertain Yan Changwu and his party.

The Japanese people eat their own things, they are not used to it, this His Royal Highness Yan does not like to eat yusheng, he is afraid of parasites, because of this ridiculous reason, the Japanese people have to cook everything and eat it!

The next day, the shogunate army dispatched 30,000 elites, and another 30,000 to support logistics, while the southeast army was 13,000 people, and they took Choshu along the coast!

The catastrophe of Choshu is coming!

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The lord of the domain, Mori Hidemoto, was a general from the Azuchi-Momoyama period, and he was not afraid of war, but his army was weak enough, and the enemy was really strong!

He did everything he could:

Cut off roads and smash bridges to slow down enemy invasions and increase logistical pressure.

Fortify the walls and clear the wilderness, gather the people in the cities or into the mountains, and prevent the enemy from requisitioning the people and the people to fill the ravines.

Send out small elite troops to try to harass the enemy and attack when the opponent is outnumbered.

But!

His poor mind could not have predicted the power of the Sino-Japanese alliance to fight the Japanese.

If Yan Changwu practiced the Japanese alone, at most it would be an invasion by the sea, after all, he did not have many troops.

Although the shogunate army was numerous, it was likely to be broken under the fortified castle of the Choshu Domain.

Now that the two armies were marching together, the Choshu Domain destroyed roads and bridges, and the shogunate army, which was outnumbered, rebuilt the roads and built the bridges.

When you get to the fortified city, you will first persuade you to surrender, if the other party does not agree, it will be the time for the Southeast Army to show its talents!

They took fifty-six field guns, light and nimble, dragged them to the bottom of the city, and bombarded them at the city!

Don't smash the city, just use shotguns to hit the defenders at the head of the city!

Then under the cover of muskets, the grenadiers approached and threw bombs.

Boom Boom Boom ......

The city is full of flowers of death, and the bright red colors are rendered to the earth like ink paintings!

"Enough! That's enough! "The poor Japanese people clung to the battlements, crying bitterly and thinking about it, looking forward to not eating any more projectiles every second, but it backfired, the southeast army opened artillery and threw bombs wantonly, and the four city walls were taken care of meticulously, and from time to time there were Japanese people who were blown up and flew into the sky, and their broken arms flew wildly!

Even their own allies couldn't see it, and they asked bitterly: "Don't you want money for you to shoot cannons and throw bombs like this?" ”

The artillerymen of the Southeast Province said triumphantly: "This is called a saturation attack, and we overseers said that we should not let people go where we can send shells!" ”

Because it is a friendly army, in order not to irritate them, the Southeast Army cannot say another famous sentence of Yan Dashao: "The best Japanese are the dead Japanese people!" ”

Hearing these words, the faces of the officers and soldiers of the shogunate were as wonderful as they were.

Thankfully, they're our allies!