In June of the 19th year of Wanli, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the former prime minister of the Wa Kingdom (the former prime minister of Guan Bai), sent an envoy Zong Yizhi to inform the king of Goryeo, Seonjo Li Hao:

"Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the Wa Kingdom, I would like to reply to the King of Goryeo. The roads of our state have been separated for a long time, abolishing the discipline of chaos, and blocking the emperor's life. Hideyoshi was indignant, and he was stubborn and persistent, and he fought in the west and east, and in a few years, more than 60 countries were determined.

Hideyoshi is also contemptible, but when he is in the womb, the mother's dream day into his arms, the occupant said: 'The sun is coming, it is not thorough, and the prime of life will show off the eight watches.' 'Therefore, the battle must be won, and the attack must be won. Today, the sea is governed, the people are rich and wealthy, and the prosperity of the imperial capital is incomparably ancient. The residence of the lady has been less than 100 years old since ancient times, and An can live here for a long time?

I want to pretend to be your country, beyond the mountains and seas, straight into the Ming Dynasty, so that its four hundred states can be fully transformed into our customs, and the king will govern in the billions of years, which is Hideyoshi Sushi. All the overseas vassals, those who have served are not relieved. Your country first repairs the coin, and the emperor is very good. On the day Hideyoshi entered the Ming Dynasty, he led his soldiers and soldiers to the military camp, thinking that I was the leader. ”

This is Toyotomi Hideyoshi's intention to attack the Ming Dynasty in the spring of the 20th year of Wanli (this year) under the pretense of Goryeo, and asks for his assistance.

Goryeo as a vassal of the Ming Dynasty refused because of the long-term affairs of the Ming Dynasty, at that time, Goryeo's eight military equipment was abolished, Li Hao emphasized literature and light military force, and the court faction was fiercely infighting, so that "people did not know the soldiers for more than 200 years", which was completely a copy of the Ming Dynasty.

However, what the Goryeo court did not know was that Toyotomi Hideyoshi's real target was not the Ming Dynasty, but Goryeo.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who basically unified the Wa Kingdom in the 16th year of Wanli, took charge of the military and political power of the entire Wa Kingdom, and in order to satisfy his own rapidly expanding ambitions, and also to transform the contradictions between the domestic daimyo on the feudal lands and weaken the power of the various daimyos, he decided to send troops to the outside world to obtain more land.

Goryeo became the first target of Toyota Hideyoshi, if he could successfully occupy Goryeo, then the Ming Dynasty would become the new target of the Wa Kingdom, and then seek Tianzhu, and then dominate Asia.

Toyota Hideyoshi was also worried that the Japanese would send troops to Goryeo, and would let the Ming Dynasty, the suzerainty of Goryeo, send troops to support, but the situation in the Ming Dynasty reassured Toyota Hideyoshi, and the Ming Dynasty had a strong enemy in the south, and it was impossible to draw troops to support Goryeo.

In order to invade Goryeo, Toyotomi Hideyoshi began preparations last year, and in the first month of the first month, he had already issued a conscription and mobilization order for the soldiers of the naval army to the major names:

"From Tokichi in the east, through the South China Sea to Shikoku and Kyushu, and from Akita and Sakata in the north to Chu/Kuni, the territories of the daimyo of the coastal countries, two large ships are prepared for every 100,000 koku.

Ten sailors for every hundred households in each seaport, on ships built by the great names of various countries; If there is any surplus, it will be concentrated in Osaka.

The ships used by Hideyoshi's army were three large ships and five medium ships per 100,000 stone built by daimyo of various countries. The cost of construction was allocated by Toyotomi Hideyoshi;

The daimyo of each country will report the construction cost in a budget table, allocate half of it first, and pay it off after the ship is completed.

The sailors were given two men of rice, and their wives were given food rations. and the wives of those employed in the army were also given food. ”

Today, ships and sailors have been concentrated in the ports of Settsu, Harima, and Izumi, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi has also officially issued a conscription and mobilization order for army troops, mobilizing a total of 306,250 troops, with an army force of 158,700 divided into nine army corps to cross the sea to Goryeo, with Ukita Hideya as the commander-in-chief.

In addition, in addition, in order to replenish the supply of troops, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Maeda Toshiie, Uesugi Keikatsu, Gamo Clan, and Date Masamune were ordered to gather their troops in Hizen Nagoya (Saga Prefecture) as a reserve, a total of 105,000 men.

Strategically, Toyotomi Hideyoshi adopted Tokugawa Ieyasu's proposal and determined the tactics of "advancing by land and sea," "bullying the weak with the strong," and "quick and quick victory," and using the navy to ensure the supply of strategic materials for the army, and the army marched in three directions to occupy Goryeo in one fell swoop.

With so many troops, it was more than enough to conquer Goryeo, which was weakly armed.

The Wa Kingdom was almost ready to start a war, but the Goryeo court did not even react at all, no one talked about the movement of the Wa army, and no one thought that the Wa Kingdom had invaded Goryeo.

The Goryeo court is like this, and the Ming court is even more ignorant at all, the Ming court is now focusing most of its energy on the people's army, and the people's army has some precautions against the ambitious Wa State, but the people's navy is still weak, and the Wa State wants to attack the land of China is also to occupy Goryeo first, and then Goryeo invades the land of China from the land, and the north is still the area ruled by the Ming court.

Fang Nam didn't have much feeling about the invasion of Goryeo by the Japanese State, but the Ming Dynasty was a subject country, nominally an enemy of the People's Army, in Fang Nan's plan, when the People's Army destroyed the Ming Court, even if Goryeo asked the People's Army for help, the People's Army would not come to the rescue, and when the People's Army was ready, the army was dispatched to destroy all the Goryeo and Japanese armies and occupy the land of the former Goryeo.

On the land of China, the pace of war is approaching day by day, but it has not affected the progress of spring ploughing.

In the KPA-ruled areas, half of the KPA's troops and all the recruits in the training bases go to the countryside in squads and platoons to help the common people do farm work.

The people of Guangdong Province have become accustomed to the arrival of the People's Army, and the people of the other four provinces are no longer afraid when they look at the soldiers of the People's Army, and welcome the arrival of the People's Army soldiers with bright smiles.

In the Ming Dynasty, spring ploughing in most areas is also in normal progress, especially the landlord armed forces that have surrendered to the People's Army, under the orders of the People's Army, only a small number of people are left in the escort team, and the others are engaged in spring ploughing.

As far as the landlords and armed forces of the Toucheng People's Army are concerned, this year is probably the last year for them to obtain a large amount of profits from the land, and when the People's Army comes, the land will be taken away by the People's Army and distributed to the people at the bottom.

Compared with spring ploughing, the Ming court was more concerned about war, and the Ming court successively issued orders to the Ming army in various places (the landlord armed forces also nominally belonged to the Ming army), mobilizing a total of more than one million horses, requiring the Ming army to arrive on the north bank of the Yangtze River before September to deploy defenses to resist the people's army.

Nanzhili is very important to the Ming court, but there is no natural danger south of the Yangtze River that can resist the People's Army from entering Nanzhili, so Nanzhili can only be abandoned.

However, after the transfer of the Ming court is sent out, how many Ming troops will obey the dispatch, and the Ming court is very unconfident.

Some officials proposed to use the "feudal king" to let the Ming troops in various places fight, but few people in the court expressed their support, because they knew that the role of the "feudal king" was too small and too small.