Su Po led hundreds of soldiers and boatmen and sailors, and the soldiers took down Namba without bloodshed, which was undoubtedly a good start for the surprise attack. But what happened next turned into a complete disaster.

Because it was getting late when Namba Castle was occupied, and the 300 Zhao soldiers who could be put into battle at any time were unable to control the whole city, in order to ensure the safety of the landing ground and protect the more than 100 soldiers who were tortured by sea and were physically weak, Su Po only left a small number of troops in the city, but arranged the main force at the pier and the commercial port adjacent to the pier. There is nothing wrong with this arrangement, and in an unfamiliar battlefield environment, whether it is offensive or defensive, concentrating forces is the simplest and most effective way. As a result, the wharf was safe, but when Duan Si brought a group of generals of the navy and army ashore, most of the Japanese people who had taken refuge in the city yesterday had already escaped, and the rest were basically old and weak women and children who couldn't run. There were so many Japanese people who escaped that the Zhao army had neither the energy nor the strength to capture them all. This directly led to two serious consequences: the first was the loss of the concealment and suddenness of the campaign. There will always be people who flee to Heian Castle, and the Fujiwara clan will definitely prepare for war when they receive the news, and the tactics of surprise attacks and sneak attacks are not used, and the rest can only be prepared for field siege. Of course, Duan Si couldn't help but admit that Zhao Jun itself did not have the strength to surprise attack Ping'an City. After half a month of drifting at sea, at most four sentry soldiers of the four battalions of the land division could barely be put into battle, and at least two-thirds of the 2,000 soldiers who boarded the ship in Mingzhou needed to rest. Fortunately, he still has more than 1,000 sailors in his hands, and he can't be counted on to attack actively, but it's still safe to protect himself passively. But that's not the point. For Duan Si, the most important thing at the moment is that he doesn't have enough manpower, and the things brought by the fleet can't be transported to the shore at all.

Originally, in the Eastern Japanese strategy, the main point of the southern front battle was to raid lightly, but the military department that got millions of yuan from the hands of the first three people was rich and wealthy, and all kinds of materials and baggage were added to the strategy as if they didn't need money...... As long as I can think of it, write it down, and as a result, the logistics supply list is getting longer and longer. After Duan Si arrived in Mingzhou, he was afraid that the army would be short of this and less when he arrived in Dongwei, so he waved his hand and added thirty percent to each of the things listed on the supply list, so the thirty or forty sea ships originally envisaged became one hundred and thirty or forty, and the lightly armed raid also became a heavy raid. And that's not even the worst. What is even more unfortunate is that the entire Da Zhao, from the secretary of the military department to an insignificant pawn in the naval division, including those maritime merchants who have been adrift at sea for many years, no one has ever seen the sea voyage of a large formation, and no one knows what will happen to such a huge fleet of ships that bear military combat tasks after arriving at their destinations, and the officers of the naval division responsible for the formation of the fleet are completely in accordance with the standards of marching in the plain area to formulate and direct the entire formation, and still divide the fleet into forwards and left and right escorts according to the combat effectiveness and the weight of the load, the Chinese army and the rearguard. At the time, no one could see what it meant. After the fleet was formed off the coast of Meishu, it made a mighty journey north, and with the guidance of experienced sailors and luck that was unmatched, it crashed into Namba Bay, successfully opened up a landing field, and occupied Namba City. Now the problem arises, the smallest of the more than 20 ships sent as the vanguard is also a 2,000-stone sea boat, and the unladen draft is nearly five feet deep, and it must be landed two miles away from the shore, otherwise it must be carefully stranded. As a result, more than 20 large sea ships and geese were berthed, and the entire port was immediately blocked, and all large and small ships behind it were not allowed to pass. The ship in front of it fell to the ground, and the back was naturally Xiao Gui Cao, and the boats set sail one after another. One hundred and thirty or forty large sea boats occupy most of Namba Bay, and under the blue sky above the blue waves, the boats are like mountains and tall masts like forests, and they are mighty and majestic, but the problem is that only by relying on the more than 30 six-oared boats and eight-oared boats brought by the fleet to the shore in the year of the monkey? Even if it was transported ashore, but the Japanese ran clean again, where could they find enough people to carry it? As a result, the materials that had been brought ashore with great difficulty could only be piled up on the dock in a chaotic manner.

If what is brought ashore can come in handy, that's fine. But look at what these are shipped first? 30,000 copper coins, 2,000 pieces of silk, 800 horses of coarse cloth, 230 quintals of tea, nearly 100,000 catties of porcelain, porcelain plates, porcelain bowls, porcelain plates and other porcelain tied with coarse hemp rope piled up on three docks, making the already very tight berths more and more insufficient...... The sailors who were on guard duty transferred half of the rowed boats to rush to transport the armor and feather arrows, and it took three and a half days to send all the hundreds of thousands of ready-made feather arrows and more than 7,000 sets of armor brought by the fleet to the shore. These supplies were enough for the officers and men of the naval division stationed ashore to receive an average of three bows or crossbows, seven hundred feathered arrows, and more than ten sets of armor...... As a result of this, until the morning of the sixth day, more than 300 Liyuan forbidden troops did not disembark. And by this time, there were no more ships left to carry them ashore, because there were no more boats. It was only in the evening of the previous day that the officers were surprised to find that there was not enough food on the shore, so they had to rush to transport food for the next three days. It is necessary not only to rush to transport grain, but also to rush to transport the forage and concentrate of war horses. These more than 100 Hedong horses are carefully selected equipped war horses, in order to bring them to Dongwei safely, the whole army does not know how much thought and effort has been spent, so no one can treat these animals badly! Even the three hundred Liyuan forbidden troops trapped on the ship were waiting and riding these war horses.

In addition to the troubles on the ships at sea, there are also many things on land. The Japanese were short in stature, so their houses were naturally built low, whether it was a house in a commercial port or a hall in Namba City, the soldiers and civilians of Dazhao were very uncomfortable to live in. There is no kang or bed when you sleep, there is no chair or stool when you sit down, you have to break the thatched roof when you stretch your waist, and you can accidentally hit the door frame when you go out. There were hundreds of marching tents, but they couldn't find a boat to transport them, so everyone had to make do with the open air. Fortunately, it's July, and I don't feel cold when I lie down at night. Eating is also a big problem. The stone bowl and wooden bowl used by the Japanese people are not as big as anyone's fist, and when the rice is opened, the cake bun in the hand is not missing, and the noodle soup is gone, what the hell is this? So earlier, people didn't transport anything, and they sent porcelain bowls and plates ashore first, and it wasn't completely for no reason.

Another important thing is to build a city, or build a fortress. According to the standards of Zhao Jun's camp, Namba Tsuchijo is basically useless except for the large enough radius. The city wall is too low, it is not rammed earth, and it is a pit with two kicks, and with a sharp hand and foot, you can dig a ladder on the earthen wall with the blink of your eyes; There are too many buildings in the city, and they are all made of planks and thatch, and it only takes a few torches and rockets to throw them on them, and the whole city can be burned to the ground in an hour or two at most. The key is such a big city, there are only three wells in the city, one is in the city lord's mansion and the other two are in the temple. Especially considering that the buckets and tanks used by the Japanese people are similar to their dishes and plates, all of which are small dolls making games, and no one dares to stay in the city. Faced with this situation, and considering that the large amount of baggage supplies brought by the fleet needed to be properly kept, Duan Si discussed with Qin Gan and them, and finally decided to build a new big fortress in the place north of Tucheng near the river, relying on the terrain. One is to store supplies, the second is to hoard troops and horses, and the third is to treat this place as a fortress, pinch the Jingshi portal of the Dongwei people to teach them to taste the taste of a fish in their throats. In the future, when the Fujiwara clan is pacified, it will be able to compete with Kagoshima in the southwest and Iwami Province in the northwest......

As a result, the soldiers and civilians of Dazhao, who crossed the sea, were desperately transporting supplies to the shore on the one hand, building a fortress on the banks of the Namba River, and still seizing the time to rest and recuperate, and the days were both busy and lively.

The port of Namba at the end of June and the beginning of July is a chaotic place. This confusion is understandable, because these soldiers from Dazhao have neither received combat training in amphibious landing, nor have they learned much about overall planning and management, let alone advanced communication tools that can make it more convenient for them to carry out dispatch and command in a more convenient and ordinary manner, so any mistakes they make can be forgiven. At the same time, the confusion is acceptable. In any case, even though they were weakened by the chaos, their enemies did not take advantage of this opportunity to attack. Since there is no attack, then there is no loss, and chaos and weakness are only temporary phenomena, there will always be a day when order will be restored, and the bad situation will be corrected and alleviated. In fact, these people are slowly groping and learning in the chaos they have created, learning how to carry out large-scale amphibious landing operations across thousands of miles of oceans and in unfamiliar places without bases and reinforcements. What's more, in the process of learning, they also unwittingly turned the surprise attack, which originally belonged to the tactical category, into a strategic action......

On the ninth day of the fleet's arrival at Namba Port, Tachibana Naganori, the brother of Tachibana Ishidaku, who was close to the Towa royal family, secretly sent a letter to Tachibanashi. Tachibana Nagata said in the letter that Fujiwara Yoritsu had recommended Masahiro Bunmuro as the general of the expedition, and then opened Dazaifu, and awarded Masahiro Bunmuro with the authority of "fake festivals, gathering soldiers and horses from all over the world, and commanding to conquer and fight"; Masahiro has already recruited tens of thousands of people in Heian Castle, together with the original 3,000 soldiers and horses, as well as the samurai and retainers sent by the ministers, plus the reinforcements of the four kingdoms of Tamba, Yamashiro, Kawachi, and Settsu, a total of 100,000 horses, and will send troops south in the near future.

Orange Stone received this letter at the end of the afternoon of the same day, and before the beginning of the day, the letter reached the first three people.

The first three were almost stunned by the number on the letter. He didn't dare to slack off at all, and hurriedly ran to the "construction site" outside Beicheng to find Duan Si.

Right now, the banks of the Namba River are full of cowhide tents; Supplies piled up as high as a hill, covered with large sheets of felt cloth, guarded by soldiers with swords and spears; In four or five makeshift iron shops, hammers and iron blocks clanged; From time to time, I can still hear a few slang songs that I don't know where it is, and the singers are pulling their throats and howling nonsense, which wins people's applause or curses......

Duan Si's big fortress has not yet been erected, but it is only slightly outlined. Thousands of boatmen and sailors brought in from civilian ships were working day and night. People cut down the big trees in the upper reaches of the Namba River, and then floated them down the river, and then scooped up the wood downstream, without even peeling off the bark, sawed directly to the same length, and buried them side by side around the fortress into the ground, and then fastened and locked them with iron nails and pins, which was a piece of deer firewood; Take three steps around the deer firewood and then surround a circle of higher wooden piles, pour soil between the two circles of wooden piles, repeatedly tamp down, and then lay wooden planks on the top, this is the walled wall. As long as the wall is erected, the rest of the matter is relatively easy, just some civil construction......

When the first three arrived at the Chinese army's big tent, Duan Si had just returned from patrolling the camp.

Duan Si hadn't finished reading the letter yet, and Qin Gan had also arrived. Duan Si stuffed the letter to Qin Gan easily, and spoke to the first three first: "Great monk, I was saying that I wanted to find you." One by one, I heard, what are you going to give those two people to ......" He stopped, frowning, apparently forgetting the names of those two men again.

"Nakamaro Takeuchi. Orange feet. The first three said. Although he tried his best to maintain the solemn expression on his face, facing Duan Si, the corners of his mouth still involuntarily showed a hint of sycophancy. Duan Si's hand held his future, and he couldn't be solemn even if he wanted to.

"Oh yes, it's these two!" Duan Si nodded vigorously and said, "I heard that you plan to promote the two of them to be your left minister and right minister?" ”

The first three immediately denied that there was such a thing. Although he had already sworn to Takeuchi Zhongmaro and Tachibana Stone, that after he became the king of the Wa, he would immediately promote the two of them to the left and right ministers of the two of them, but in front of Duan Si, he would never dare to admit it. Just kidding, his current identity is just a monk, and the holy decree of the Great Zhao Tianzi to pardon him as the king of the Japanese has not yet been read out in public, so why did he promote Wu Nei Zhongmaro and Tachibana Shizu? He believed that if he dared not take the prestige of Da Zhao Tianzi seriously, Duan Si would definitely hack him alive on the spot. Anyway, there are people who want to be the king of the widow everywhere, Duan Si can completely refer to the deer as a horse, and just pull someone out and say that this is the first three mouths of the new king of the widow forgiven by the Son of Heaven, who dares not believe it? Who dares not to believe it, stand up and try?

Duan Si smiled and waved his hand: "I just heard about it, don't worry, don't be afraid." He stood up, took a cup of hot tea and handed it to the first three mouthfuls. He didn't sit back in his chair, paced back and forth in the tent for a few steps, and saw that the first three still had a panicked look on their faces, so he smiled and said, "Great monk, you really don't have to worry about this." Think about it, what did Lao Qin and I come to Dongwei for? Isn't that just trying to help you get into that seat? Otherwise, we are willing to take such a big risk to cross the ocean to this place where birds don't? In fact, in our eyes, your great monk has long been the king of the Japanese, but he is just about to read the holy decree. ”

The first three people were originally put back by him, and listened to him mention the "holy decree" coldly, and jumped up from the seat again, most of the hot tea soup was sprinkled on his hands, but he didn't care about the hot tea soup, and hurriedly defended himself: "General Duan, you can't be honest with the instigation of those villains!" Me, I...... How could I do such a rebellious and unethical thing! ”

"You sit, you sit down and talk." Duan Si waved his hand and taught him to sit down. At this time, Qin Gan had already finished reading the letter. He put the letterhead on the case, and did not talk about military affairs, so he said to the first three mouths: "Great monk, what General Duan means is not that you are rebellious and reckless in disregard of Jun'en, but that he wants to give you a wake-up call." You see, my Great Zhao's martial rank is from the halberd captain under the ninth rank to the Zhenguo general under the first rank, a total of nine and fifty-four ranks. Why are there so many titles? I just want to leave people with a hope, a thought. For example, my medal is guerrilla general, and the purpose of my coming to Dongwa is to accumulate military merits so that I can be promoted to a ranger general; And General Duan, a guerrilla general who leads the rank of ranger general, his real idea is to change this rank to a real title. When we are all promoted to the general of the rangers, the next rank is General Huaihua Lang or General Ning Yuan under the positive fifth grade, and then General Dingyuan on the positive fifth grade...... And so on, slowly step by step, step by step, step by step. Needless to say, I can do it from the fourth grade of General Mingwei, it is all a matter of green smoke on the ancestral grave; But General Duan is different, he has a great future, and one day he will be the founding marquis of Jin Zhu State. It's ironclad......"

Duan Si's face was full of red light by his words, and he knew in his heart that this was Qin Gan taking the opportunity to show favor to himself, but everyone loved to listen to good words, and sat on his back in the chair with a big grin, only swinging one hand around, but he was reluctant to say a word of correction. Who doesn't believe in a good mouth? Naturally, he is not exempt from vulgarity. And Qin Gan just said what was on his mind, the higher rank Lord Lu didn't dare to hope for it, he really wanted to have the day when he could enter the Pillar Country and become the founding marquis......

Qin Gan ignored him and continued to talk to the first three: "...... Great monk, you are the one who has seen our commander. The credit of our Governor is big enough, right? But his title is only the Shangzhu State of the third grade, and he is still two orders away from the general of the Zhenguo of the first grade; His Juelu is only the county uncle of the fifth generation, and he is still four levels away from the Guogong, and these two orders and four levels are his thoughts. Comparing the situation of our Governor and General Duan, do you think that you should or should not promise those two people to be ministers of the left and right now? What's more, these two people have not made an inch of merit until now, and if they say that the sky is broken, they will only have a little bit of merit in support. I didn't see them running for you, I didn't see them go into battle for you to kill the enemy, and I couldn't see my ability, if the papier-mâché thing showed its original form with a poke of your fingers, what would others think of you? And you suddenly promote them to such a high position, they want to be motivated and have no position to be motivated, what strange things will happen next? He stared at the first three mouthfuls and said meaningfully, "Great monk, the scourge of the Fujiwara clan ......"

The first three were not stupid in the first place, but after being picked up by Qin Gan so little, they immediately understood the truth. He stood up and gave Duan Si and Qin Gan a deep salute, and sincerely asked, "General Duan, General Qin, what should I do now?" I, I ......," he sighed in shame, "alas, I have been bewitched by demons, and have promised them the affairs of the ministers. This, this, if you regret it, you will be afraid, you will be afraid......"

Qin Gan nodded and said: "The gentleman relieves his promise, as a vassal king, you must strictly abide by your promise." But it's not all out of the ordinary. He put his hand towards Duan Siyi. This matter can teach General Duan to relieve the siege for you. ”

"General Duan," the first three looked at Duan Si with eager eyes.

Duan Si pulled two pieces of red silk from the big case, and said with a smile: "Great monk, don't look at me, if you want to thank General Qin, it was General Qin who came up with this idea." He handed the red silk to the first three. This is the death of two seven-rank officials issued by the ministry. You are the king of the Eastern Wa Domain, who was pardoned by the Emperor of Zhao, and your subordinates naturally have to be sued by the imperial court to be truly justified. You first take these two notices and ask the two of them, whether you want to be the seventh-rank official of Da Zhao first, or the left and right ministers first. ”

…… After sending the first three mouths away, Duan Si and Qin Gan began to meet the military. As for the 100,000 Japanese soldiers mentioned in the letter, they both agreed that it was just a "claim". Not to mention the city lord's family with half a warehouse of surplus grain, it is the Liyuan battalion where more than 200,000 forbidden soldiers are stationed, and if there is no preparation at all, it is impossible for 100,000 people to open within ten days. As far as they knew, the entire army of the Great Zhao Zhuwei could form a team within two days after receiving the order, and there was only one Qian Lao Third Brigade of the Yanshan Central Army; Ji Zhengfan's whole brigade and the cavalry brigade stationed in Yanshui led by Sun Zhongshan were much worse than Qian Lao's third brigade. It takes about three days for Ji Brigade to become an establishment operation, and it takes at least five days for Sun Brigade to become a formation......

The two of them discussed for a long time, and they both felt that the Fujiwara clan must be enough to mobilize 100,000 people, but to say that there are only a few thousand people, it is too much to underestimate the Fujiwara clan that covers the sky in the Eastern Wa Kingdom. 100,000 people definitely don't, 20,000 or 30,000 should be about the same. But there are twenty or thirty thousand people, which is enough for Zhao Jun to be busy. The point is that the fortress here will definitely not be able to stand up without ten days and half a month, and Heian Castle to Namba is less than a hundred miles in total, even if the enemy walks slowly, five days is enough time to climb from Heian Castle to Namba.

Time, time, where can I find another five days?

Duan Si and Qin Gan scratched their heads together.

Duan Si grabbed the letterhead and was silent for a long time, and suddenly asked, "You say, is this general of the Eastern Empire a person who can conquer and fight?" ”

"What do you mean?" Qin Gan was confused.

Duan Si pointed to the name on the letterhead and said, "If this scholar Masahiro is not a wine bag and rice bag, we can scare him." I'll give him a suspicious plan......" As he spoke, he lowered his voice and muttered to Qin Gan. Qin Gan applauded and laughed and said, "Okay! Let's do it! ”

Half an hour later, Su Po and Hou Ding, with 300 foot soldiers and 50 cavalry, followed a black line along the road towards the upper reaches of the Namba River.