"Is it finally here?"

Zhu Youxiao stood up, "Listening to what you said, this Osaka is worthy of being called the second largest city in the Japanese country, and it's pretty good." ”

After listening to the brief introduction of Huang Jianjie, a guy known as a "jack of all trades", Zhu Youxiao suddenly thought of something and asked him:

"What is the condition of the road from Osaka to Edo?"

"Not ideal."

When Huang Jianjie heard this, he shook his head and hurriedly replied, "On the way from Osaka to Edo, we have to cross the Kiso Mountains, the Akaishi Mountains and the Kanto Mountains, and our soldiers of the Ming Empire will have to detour from the canyon between the mountains. ”

"Therefore, the distance from Osaka to Edochi is only about 800 miles, but the actual distance is more than 1,400 miles!"

"Moreover, in the middle of this road, the road is difficult and the terrain is complicated, and it is very easy to be ambushed and attacked by the enemy, which is not very conducive to the cavalry movement of our Royal Marines."

Zhong Jixiang scratched his head on the side and said with some doubts: "Your Majesty, since we have to walk such a long way from Osaka to Edo, and it is easy to fall into the ambush of the Japanese invaders on the way, why don't we take the sea route?" ”

"It's not me bragging, as long as there is the Royal East China Sea Fleet, those few broken sailboats of the Japanese really don't dare to come out and be embarrassed."

Zhong Jixiang glanced at Zhu Youxiao, saw his encouraging eyes, and was sure in his heart, and then said:

"If we take the sea route, our Royal Combined Fleet will be able to pass through the Uraga Waterway between the Boso Peninsula and the Miura Peninsula and go straight to Yokohama, Kawasaki, or even land directly in Edo."

"With the combat effectiveness of our Royal Navy officers and men, it is impossible for the shogunate army to rush to the battle to prevent the large-scale landing of our Royal Marines."

Everyone was also a little curious, why didn't His Majesty the Emperor launch a surprise attack on Edo first, and destroy the Tokugawa Iemitsu entrenched in the Edo region first.

Facing the confused eyes of the generals, Zhu Youxiao looked at Zhang Guangzhe, who was thinking on the side, and asked, "Zhang Guangzhe, what do you think?" ”

Zhang Guangzhe said: "If this battle is only to occupy Edo, of course, it is the best plan to land directly from Edo." ”

"However, the strategic goal of our Ming Imperial Fleet in this cross-sea expedition is to first destroy the resistance of the Wakos, and then destroy and occupy the Wa Kingdom, rather than simply occupying Edo."

"Therefore, I thought that I should still land from Osaka."

"Why?"

Puzzled, Chung asked, "Why can't a direct landing from Edo destroy the determination of the Japanese to resist, and then land from Osaka and then take a long detour to attack Edo?" ”

"Regardless of the process, isn't the result always the destruction of the enemy and the occupation of Edo? What's the difference? ”

"Of course there is a difference."

Zhang Guangzhe nodded cautiously, "If we combine the Ming Imperial Fleet and land directly in Edo Bay, the shogunate army will be caught off guard and hastily respond to the battle, and it is certain that we will fall in a battle." ”

"But this will not affect the support and recognition of the Tokugawa shogunate by the princes of the Wa Kingdom."

"They will think that the Tokugawa shogunate was defeated because of lack of preparation, and they will still support the Tokugawa shogunate, resist stubbornly, and make enemies of our Royal Navy Combined Fleet."

"In other words, the various resisting armies and people of the Wa Kingdom have not been scattered with the fall of Edo."

After such an explanation, Zhong Jixiang somewhat understood the thoughts of Zhang Guangzhe and His Majesty, and then asked: "What is the difference between landing from Osaka?" ”

Zhang Guangzhe continued: "If the officers and men of the Royal Navy land in Osaka, it will take more than 1,000 miles to march from Osaka to Edo, and the road conditions are not good, and it will take about ten days at the earliest. "Fresh

"With these ten days or so, there is enough time for Tokugawa Iemitsu of the Tokugawa shogunate to mobilize troops from all over the country and prepare war materials."

"And our Royal Navy officers have to cross the Kiso and Akaishi mountain ranges and the Kanto Mountains on the way, which gives the shogunate army a lot of opportunities for sneak attacks, harassment, and blockade."

"This is like a dignified battle, our officers and men of the Royal Navy are putting on a posture and blatantly hitting the door, if the Tokugawa shogunate is still defeated and loses Edo Castle, what will the Japanese think at that time?"

Zhong Ji glared and asked, "Then what will they think?" ”

Zhang Guangzhe smiled indifferently: "At that time, all the Japanese soldiers and the people will think that our officers and men of the Ming Royal Navy are invincible!" ”

"With the defeat of the Tokugawa shogunate and the fall of Edo Castle, the determination of the scattered vassals to resist has been destroyed, and the battle will be much easier for us."

Zhu Youxiao listened to it from the sidelines, and he wanted to applaud, but Zhang Guangzhe said everything he wanted to say.

The facts may not be exactly the same as what Zhang Guangzhe analyzed, but they will never differ too much.

As a traversal reborn with a vision that transcends an era, Zhu Youxiao knows the power of this.

He is deeply aware of how serious the destruction of a nation's self-confidence is by the vigorous advance of such armed forces of "swaggering," "sounding bells and drums," and "flaunting their might"!

In the history of the previous life, the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Coalition in the 19th century and the Japanese invasion of China in the 20th century caused the national self-confidence of the Han nation to be completely destroyed with the fall of the two capitals of the north and the south?

Since then, until the 21 st century, although the motherland has achieved economic take-off, its national self-confidence has not been restored.

Even those so-called national elites and brick families call beasts, most of them believe in their bones that compared with foreigners from all over the world, the Han nation is an inferior nation in the world.

They have sucked up the people's fat and ointment, but they go around to curry favor with foreigner countries, competing to be licking dogs.

Even if they lick until they have nothing left, they are willing, just to get a word of recognition and appreciation from those foreigners.

Therefore, in wars between countries, defeat is not terrible, the most terrible thing is to kill people.

"That's a good point."

Zhu You praised Zhang Guangzhe, and then said loudly: "The reason why we chose to land from Osaka is for only one purpose!" ”

"That is to use our invincible force and show off with great fanfare to completely destroy the national self-confidence of the Japanese and the will of the Japanese army and people to resist, and to reduce the pressure on a series of actions in the future."

"The population of the Wa Kingdom is too large, and their will to resist is also very strong, we can't kill all the Wako, so the most important thing is to destroy their confidence."

"Moreover, the habits of the Japanese are two extremes, after the destruction of the Japanese state, they are the best candidates to form a cannon fodder force, and provide us with a large number of executioners to clean up those Nanyang natives in the near future!"

Zhu Youxiao took into account that in the history of his previous life, the Japanese pirates liked to use other ethnic groups as cannon fodder, and he happened to follow the example, and when he cleaned up those Nanyang natives in the future, it was appropriate to use the ferocity of the Japanese to kill people with a knife.

At this time, everyone suddenly came to their senses, unified their thoughts, and began to prepare for landing.

After a while, the huge fleet had already arrived at the port of "Nambatsu", and Zhong Jixiang immediately ordered the Royal Navy Combined Fleet to set up an offensive formation as soon as possible and launch an attack on these unprepared Japanese invaders!

As the herald's command flag kept changing, the Royal Grand Fleet, with divisions and regiments as units, lined up one by one and rushed into the firing range of its own naval guns.

In a moment, one after another, the big warships quickly turned sideways and raised their muzzles!

The swarthy cannon, just waiting for the order to bombard, launched the first shot of the Great War against the Japanese Kingdom!