"Chapter Seventy-Six: The Yamato Empire"
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Standing on the deck of the three battleships, Bai Feng watched with his own eyes as the soldiers of the First Army led by Licinius defeated an army, captured an army, and cleaned up the battlefield in just one hour. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Whether it was the defeated and withdrawn ink-suited army, or the red-suited army controlled by the captive, they all had extraordinary significance in Bai Feng's eyes, because the weapons and equipment used by these two armies were obviously the weapons and equipment of the Warring States period of Japan.
Could it be that the island in front of us is not just a lone island in the ocean, but a group of islands consisting of four large islands and countless smaller islands, just like Japan? So, how many forces will these islands have? Is it really as chaotic as Japan's Sengoku period?
Full of doubts and expectations, Bai Feng personally came to the land under the escort of Maxi and Darnell, and at this time, Licinius's First Legion and Antio's Second Legion had all landed, and the large number of troops shocked the three members of the Sanada family.
They originally thought that this mysterious army was only a few thousand in size at most, but they did not expect that the black-suited army that finally landed on the shore would exceed 20,000 people, and they were all the kind of elite divisions that were extremely powerful at a glance.
Sanada Masayuki, who has been fighting all his life, has never looked at any person or a side of the force, so he believes in his own vision.
When Bai Feng came to the shore, he first listened to Li Sini's report, and then the three members of the Sanada family wearing red armor walked into their military tent; looking at the three people in front of him with a smile, Bai Feng already knew that they could understand the lingua franca of the mainland.
As for why all the civilized countries and barbarians on the continent use the same language, even this kind of overseas land also uses this language, Bai Feng himself does not quite understand, he only knows that such a fact is very beneficial to himself.
"Sanada Masayuki, the current governor of the Sanada family in the Lower Yamato Empire, together with his eldest son Sanada Nobuyuki and second son Sanada Nobuyoshi, have met His Excellency the Governor of Rome;
Yamato Empire?Sanada Family?Sanada Masayuki?Sanada Nobuyuki?Sanada Nobuyuki?Sanada Nobuyoshi?
This series of nouns came out of the mouth of this veteran who called himself Sanada Masayuki, but it shocked Bai Feng, who was already skeptical, and if all this was a coincidence, it was too unbelievable.
After Sanada Masayuki finished what he had just said, he took his two sons and knelt down in front of Bai Feng with the honor of the Yamato Empire, and no one in the quiet military tent made a sound, and Bai Feng, who was in a state of shock, did not speak for a long time.
After a long time, Sanada Nobuyuki, who was irritable and irritable by nature, was already a little impatient, and if it weren't for the strong combat effectiveness of the opposing army, the dissatisfied Sanada Nobuyuki would have stood up and scolded Bai Feng a long time ago.
"You said that you are the head of the Sanada family, Sanada Nobuyuki, then your army should be the army of the Sanada family, and now I am curious, which family's army is that ink-suited army, and why are they attacking your family's army?"
"Your Excellency the Governor, it was the Michinoku Army's forces that guarded the Southern Family that attacked our Sanada Family, and their commander was the Southern Haruki of the Southern Family, and Southern Haruki attacked our Sanada Family in order to curry favor with the Overlord of Higashiyamado, the Oda Family. ”
"The southern family of the Mutsu Province, the overlord of the Higashiyama Road, Sanada Nobuyuki, I believe you can also see that we are not the native forces of your Yamato Empire, and before I understand the situation of your Sanada family, should you introduce me to your home country. ”
Since Bai Feng personally made this request, Sanada Nobuyuki, who was a prisoner under the order, naturally did not dare to refuse, and soon, he took out a map of the Yamato Empire, and introduced the situation of the Yamato Empire to Bai Feng against this shoddy map.
The so-called Yamato Empire, in the final analysis, is just a nominal country, basically no different from the Warring States period of Japan, which Bai Feng is familiar with;
Although the seven provinces and sixty-six provinces were nominally under the rule of the emperor of the Yamato Empire, in reality no one obeyed the emperor's orders, and the current emperor was reduced to the predicament of not having the money to hold an enthronement ceremony after seven years on the throne.
Unlike Japan's Sengoku period, the Yamato Empire, which was nominally ruled by the emperor, did not have a shogunate during the Sengoku period, which meant that the powerful daimyo of the Yamato Empire could do whatever they wanted within the empire with their own strength.
The Saikaido family, which has the land of ten countries, is jointly dominated by the Shimazu family, the Ryuzoji family, and the Otomo family, while the Nankaido, which has the land of the six countries, is ruled by many families, and there is no strong family that can dominate the land of one country.
The Sanyang Province with the land of the Eight Kingdoms and the mountain *** with the land of the Eight Kingdoms are dominated by the Maori family, one of the strongest families in the world, and the other Shanyang Daoshan families have to rely on the Maori family to exist.
Hokuriku Province, which has the land of seven kingdoms, is also controlled by one large family, the Uesugi family, and Tokaido, which has the most fifteen countries, is jointly dominated by the Oda family, the Hojo family, the Takeda family, and the Tokugawa family.
Higashiyamado, the land of the Eight Kingdoms, the area where the Nanbu and Sanada clans were located, was jointly dominated by the Oda and Date families, and in addition to the Seven Provinces, there were the five kingdoms of Kinai under the direct control of the emperor and the official office, which were also ruled by small and fragmented clans.
Among the ten most powerful families in the Yamato Empire, the Mori family, which dominates both Sanyodo and Yama**, is undoubtedly one of the strongest families, and the Oda family, which spans Tokaido and Higashiyamado, is not weaker than the Mori family.
The Sanada family offended the powerful Oda family, and was exterminated by the Oda family several times, so you can imagine what the situation of the Sanada family was; what is even more tragic is that the Sanada family, who fled all the way north to Mutsu Province, still failed to escape the pursuit of the Oda family.
Although there is an equally powerful Date family between the Nanbu family and the Oda family, the internal division of the Nanbu family has made the Sanada family lie down, and this matter has to start with the current governor of the Nanbu family, Nanbu Harumasa, who is seriously ill.
The governor of the southern family, Nanbu Harumasa, was terminally ill and would die if he was not careful, and Nanbu Harutsugu and Nanbu Nobunao, who were supported by many retainers, were both strong contenders for the next governor.
To make matters worse, the Date family, which was close to the Nanbu family, expressed their support for Nanbu Shinao, so Nanbu Harutsugu, who felt very isolated, planned to get a ride with the Oda family by eliminating the Sanada family and seeking a strong external supporter for himself.