"The unauthorized actions of the First Army are contempt for the established battle plan of the base camp, which is intolerable to the base camp and must be punished!"

After receiving that the First Army had crossed the Nara line and advanced into Kyoto on all fronts, Chief of Staff Jiang Xifeng was furious, because this move meant that the First Army would become a lone army, and before the "Xuewen Detachment" on the left and the "Yuki Detachment" on the right flank could not reach Kyoto as soon as possible, the First Army, which had ventured into the army, was likely to be surrounded by the main force of the Japanese army.

The opinion of the senior staff officers of the General Staff Headquarters was the same, and they all expressed their indignation at the fact that the First Army did not seize the time to rest its troops after the victory in the Battle of Nara, and that it dared to attack Kyoto while waiting for reinforcements from the left and right flanks to arrive.

However, the middle and lower-ranking staff officers were not impressed by the indignation of their superiors, and instead praised the bold move of the First Army, believing that since the Japanese army had changed from a great retreat to a great rout, the First Army had no reason to let them flee.

Wei Laojiu, the captain of the personal guard beside his father-in-law, may have dealt with the officers of the staff headquarters for a long time, and he was also deeply affected by them, and said: "War determines the battlefield trend by the number of enemies killed!" He believed that the bold action of the First Army was a breakthrough and decisive action, and that this action was likely to establish the overall victory of our army over the Japanese army! ”

"Father-in-law, the First Army despises its opponents too much! Although the Imperial Army of Nara World War I achieved a major victory, Tokugawa Hidetada's vitality was not injured, and intelligence showed that a large number of Shogunate troops in the region were moving towards Kyoto, and it was very likely that Hidetada, who had received reinforcements from these Domains, would gather heavy troops and give the First Army, which was alone in the depths, a head-on blow! ”

Jiang Xifeng, as the chief of staff of the base camp, is responsible for the war as a whole, so naturally it is impossible to be as radical as the people below.

It was necessary for him to remind Gonggong Wei that the Japanese army that might gather in the vicinity of Kyoto would never be less than 100,000 men! Tokugawa Hidetada, who had an absolute superiority in troops, even if he had just experienced the defeat in the First Battle of Nara, he had enough strength and confidence to counter-encircle the advancing First Army.

"It is said that it was the unauthorized actions of the Fifth Infantry Wing that forced the First Army to attack on all fronts."

Cheng Qing, who served as the staff adjutant of the base camp and the former commander of the Wusongshui Battalion, wanted to say some good things for the First Army, and if it was really to be held accountable, punishing the Fifth Infantry Wing was the best choice and the best result.

"Is it Ding Xiaogong?"

Father-in-law Wei grabbed a handful of fried soybeans on the table, chewed them, and clapped his hands, "Since the matter has happened, what the base camp needs to do now is not to hold anyone responsible, but to study how to control the situation." ”

After saying that, my father-in-law put on a cotton coat in the army, and it was still quite cold in Japan in December.

"Are the soldiers' cotton clothes ready? The base camp of materials to keep out the cold must be guaranteed, whether it is domestic transportation or local settlement from Japan, the base camp must first ensure that every soldier of the imperial army does not starve and freeze! If a soldier freezes to death, our family will have their head cut off! ”

"Father-in-law, don't worry..."

Jiang Xifeng hurriedly gave a brief report on the allocation of winter clothes and cold materials, and pointed out that in some areas, the imperial army demolished a large number of Japanese temples and monuments in order to protect against the cold, including many well-preserved Tang Dynasty buildings, which made people feel very sad.

"Is it possible to give orders to the units to prohibit the destruction of Japanese monuments?" Jiang Xifeng inquired.

Gonggong Wei waved his hand and said, "If the building is gone, it can be rebuilt, how can people be regenerated if they are gone?" ”

Jiang Xifeng hurriedly nodded yes.

"However, the Son of Heaven and the noble concubine Niangniang believe in Buddhism, and they want to come to Japan to keep a lot of rare things in these ancient temples, and it would be a pity if these things were destroyed, so they could be widely collected and transported to the capital."

It is true that it was transported back to Beijing, but it is difficult to say if it is not filial piety to the emperor.

At present, the antique market in Jiangnan is very prosperous, and a large number of good things shipped back from Japan have become the playthings of the rich gentry in Jiangnan.

To a large extent, part of the rations of the imperial army were solved.

The "Mei Plan" is not only for Father-in-law Wei to collect treasures in Japan for his own use, but for the country and the people.

"Father-in-law, the current situation is unbearable for the base camp!"

Jiang Xifeng turned the focus of the discussion back to the current situation of the war, in any case, the unauthorized actions of the First Army were beyond the scope of the First Army's decision, and if they were not warned, where would they be based on their base camp?

"The situation of the battle is ever-changing, and the First Army cannot report the battle situation to the base camp in a timely manner, so the decision-making power of the fighters should be delegated."

Wei Gonggong acquiesced in the actions of the First Army from the practical perspective of the war and the delay in the transmission of information back and forth.

"Will be outside, the king's order will not be affected. The base camp can't be the Privy Council of the Song Dynasty, and everything must be on the front line. ”

Father-in-law Wei got up and took his hand.

"Order the First Army, no matter how many people die, Kyoto must be taken!"

"The herald Youxi detachment, the Xuewen detachment, must rush to Kyoto within three days, if the delay is delayed, the military law will be engaged!"

The strict military orders made the generals present shiver.

You know, one of the commanders of the two detachments is the brother-in-law of the father-in-law, and the other is the eldest nephew of the father-in-law.

In the afternoon, when his father-in-law was preparing to leave for Nara from Osaka, he cordially met with Yukari Oshima and his party.

Oshima brought a group of people to meet his father-in-law, who were the leaders of the Shogunate Army in Kyushu and Kansai. Some were Catholics, but some were anti-Tokugawa forces. There are also a few of them who are the secretaries of the feudal states controlled by the shogunate.

After reiterating that the Emperor had no territorial ambitions for Japan, that the expedition to Japan was entirely at the request of the Catholic Church, and that he had come to punish Japan's aggression against the Emperor and his vassal Koreas and the Ryukyus in recent decades, his father-in-law further pointed out that the various forces in Japan should no longer wait and see, but should immediately mobilize and march to Kyoto.

"During the Qin and Han dynasties in China, there was a king who entered the customs first, and if there is anything you don't understand about this allusion, you can find a Confucian to ask."

After telling this allusion meaningfully, Wei Gonggong actually listened to some practical difficulties of the anti-curtain movement by the anti-curtain righteous people.

Considering that these anti-shogunate forces had to a certain extent pinned down the feudal states close to the shogunate and part of the standing army of Tokugawa Hidetada, his father-in-law instructed the headquarters to provide these anti-shogunate weapons assistance, including a large number of mines.

My father-in-law intended that the mines were simple and cheap to make, easy to use, and could cause great harassment and damage to the army under the shogunate.

Even in the Kanto Plain, in order to completely solve the problem of counter-army mines, my father-in-law had to wrap a Japanese farmer's headscarf in the scorching summer sun to clear mines himself.

Yaga's very.

The next day, his father-in-law drove to the Kizu River, which had been occupied by the First Army, and in this small castle, his father-in-law was warmly welcomed by the Japanese residents of the city.

Holding small pennants with the word "Ming" written on them, these Japanese residents lined up along the sides of the town streets, shouting "welcome, welcome" in Chinese, and some Japanese girls even danced and sang in makeup, the scene deeply touched Grandpa Wei.

The old man turned over from the horse, took out two pieces of candy from his pocket, walked cordially to a Japanese child, pinched the other party's little face, stuffed the candy cube into the other party's hand, and then took the other party's little hand, and said affectionately to the residents: "I am the son of an ordinary farmer in Huangming, I love my motherland, I also love Japan, in the future, every Japanese people will be like me, forever bathed in the sunrise of the emperor!" ”

As soon as the father-in-law's words fell, the surrounding Japanese residents cheered in unison: "Long live the empire!" Long live the Emperor! ”

The reporter of the "Huangming Daily" who accompanied the army deeply remembered this scene, and quickly drew the "East Asia Co-prosperity Map" that would become a household name in the future.