"Japan is a feudal country with a good military tradition, and at the same time it is an island country composed of many islands, and the terrain above the Japanese archipelago is very complex, with dense mountains and narrow plains, which is very conducive to the existence of small separatist regimes.

Therefore, it is very difficult to hope that with a large army and navy, Japan will be able to strike a short-term blow and bring it to its complete submission. On the contrary, it will face a situation where the gains outweigh the losses...... You know, Japan's military power is made up of countless feudal samurai families, which are very scattered, and often small but powerful. It is unlikely that the invaders will be annihilated in a few large-scale battles. Even if the assembled samurai army was severely damaged, it did not mean that colonial rule could be established quickly. Because the Japanese military force based on the samurai family can be quickly replenished several times. After all, a samurai family usually doesn't have only one male who can fight.

However, Japan's military strength also has a fatal weakness! Even as an island country, Japan has long pursued a closed country, so it does not have outstanding seafaring capabilities, and there is a serious shortage of sailors and maritime merchants in the country, so it cannot build a strong navy......"

The one who was explaining the strategy of conquering Japan to Zheng Jiangong and Li Yuanyin on the Flying Ship was none other than the Admiral Tasman of the Allied Fleet.

Tasman went out with illness, his health was not very good in the past two years, and he was getting older, so he didn't plan to go to sea again, but he couldn't resist Zheng Jiangong's request, so he had to go out to the mountains to be the admiral of the coalition fleet. In fact, he, the admiral, did not have the physical strength to command the battle, and he could not manage the daily affairs of the fleet, so he left them all to David. Jones and Zheng Jiangong were in charge.

However, he did not take a good salary of an admiral for nothing, and he had already formulated a guide for the Ming to "conquer Japan...... It can't be called a plan, because there are not many specific implementation methods, only a major policy.

Don't underestimate this old Dutch sailor's understanding of Japan - the Dutch East India Company is very "knowledgeable", and Tasman has been in Japan for a long time and knows Japan very well.

Moreover, the Dutch East India Company also planned to "conquer Japan" in its early years, but had to abandon it because of the high cost.

Of course, the so-called "conquest" of the Dutch was not to establish the autocratic rule of the Prince of Orange in Japan, which was not autocratic in the seven provinces of the Netherlands, let alone Japan.

The conquest of Japan by the Dutch was actually to manage Japan subordination, so that the samurai of Japan had nowhere to go.

In fact, the Japanese samurai who have gone through the baptism of the Warring States have always been very strong! In such a small country, two or three hundred thousand soldiers can be mobilized at any time, and they are quite brave, if the equipment and training are in place, Emperor Zhu's Ming army is not sure to wipe them all out.

But the power of the samurai of Japan is only on land!

In the 17th century, no one believed in the so-called pioneering spirit of Japan's maritime civilization...... How could the foundation of maritime civilization be based on the "stone high" theory of feudal samurai? Japan in the 17th century was a typical land-based feudal land-based state, with no maritime merchant class at all, so there was a serious shortage of sailors and no large-scale shipbuilding capacity.

For the Ming Dynasty, which was both strong at sea and land, the best way to bring Japan into the circle of the Celestial Empire and make the fierce samurai uniforms fit well was not to conquer the Japanese archipelago with a large army, but to take advantage of the sea superiority to occupy some important islands around the Japanese archipelago with a small number of troops, and then use the small islands as a naval base to control Japan's external sea traffic chokepoint.

As long as these small islands are pinched in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, no matter who rules Japan, they will have to be lackeys for the Celestial Empire......

"So the first goal of the allied expedition to Japan is the Goto Islands! The second target is Tanegashima! Tasman continued to explain his plan, "The Goto Islands are very close to Nagasaki and guard the outer shipping lanes of northern Kyushu, Japan, as well as the western exit of the Tsushima Strait. Moreover, in the northwest of the Goto Islands, there is also a relatively ideal anchorage, which is a bay protected by several narrow islands, and only two small islands need to build batteries and deploy artillery to effectively protect the entire bay. The area inside the bay is very large, including four small deep-water bays, which can fit all the naval ships of the Ming Dynasty!

Tanegashima is located in the sea south of Kyushu Island, and it is just right to guard the exit of Kagoshima Bay. Although Tanegashima Island does not have a good harbor for the Grand Fleet, the water and soil of this island are quite good, and there is a lot of flat land on the island, so there are many fertile fields. If the Celestial Empire occupies Tanegashima, it will not only obtain a base to monitor Kagoshima Bay nearby, but also obtain a food supply base for the fleet and army stationed around the Japanese archipelago.

As long as you master the Goto Islands and Tanegashima Island, the traffic to the west of Kyushu Island will be completely controlled! And once the traffic to the west of Kyushu Island is controlled, the complete submission of Japan will be just around the corner......"

Tasman's plan was not the most thorough, but it was certainly the least costly way to conquer Japan!

Zheng Jiangong, who was very familiar with the situation in Kyushu and Japan's foreign trade, nodded again and again when he heard this, and the melancholy that was originally floating on his face disappeared.

He knew that the Goto clan (Goto family) was the current ruler of the Goto Islands, a descendant of the Goto Naval Army, a famous Japanese daimyo during the Warring States period, and the lord of the feudal domain, named Goto Morikatsu, had a fief of 12,000 koku...... Because of the implementation of the lockdown order, the Wudao Navy has long been a thing of the past, and at most there are a few fishermen left!

The Wudao family, which does not have a naval army, is just a small feudal lord of 12,000 stones, and it is good to be able to pull up an army of two or three hundred people, how can it resist the 15,000 heavenly soldiers of the Ming Dynasty?

As for Tanegashima, it is no longer the territory of the famous Tanegashima family, but the direct domain of the Shimazu family. Because of the "One Country, One City Order", the castle on Tanegashima has been demolished, and only the Shimazu family's jinya remains.

There was no castle, and there shouldn't be many samurai garrisons, so Tanegashima was just as vulnerable to the Great Akira soldiers...... After taking Tanegashima Island, the coalition's Grand Fleet will begin to blockade Kagoshima Bay, and will also try to land on Sakurajima, Oshima Island, in Kagoshima Bay.

If we succeed in establishing a fort in the western part of Sakurajima, then Kagoshima Bay will be under the control of the Ming army!

"Boom, boom, boom......"

At this time, the faint sound of cannon reached the stern of the Feixiang, which was a battery on the Goto Islands firing to deter the Ming warships that tried to approach!

Tasman nodded, smiled at Zheng Jiangong and Li Yuanyin, and said, "It's started...... The Goto Islands will soon be the territory of the Celestial Empire!

Then it's Tanegashima and Sakurajima in Kagoshima Bay! ”

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"Your Highness, the world of Japan originally belonged to the Toyotomi family, and the daimyo and samurai who received the favor of His Royal Highness Taiko and were dissatisfied with the Tokugawa shogunate are all looking forward to His Highness standing up and raising the banner of the downfall! So don't hesitate any longer, Your Highness, please order the banner of the Toyotomi family to be raised in Funai Castle! The royal flag and the golden gourd horse seal are ready for you! Your Highness, please give the order! ”

"Your Highness, please give an order......

Just when the Goto Islands were invaded by the Ming army, in the inner city of the Funai of Bungo Province, a farce was being staged.

Toyotomi Kunimatsu, who was forced to take the throne, is just a flag book of 5,000 stones, and because of the favor of the three generations of shogun Iemitsu, he has been living a good life, and he has never thought of reviving the Toyotomi family...... In his opinion, this is impossible! The Toyotomi family has no strength, and the people are thin, just him and his two sons Yanzhi and Yanming, a total of three Toyotomi, how to revive the Toyotomi family? By Shimazu? By Maori? It's not reliable to think about it!

In the past, when the Osaka Winter Battle and the Osaka Summer Battle were in place, Shimazu and Mori both sent troops, but they were on the side of the Tokugawa family and watched the Toyotomi family disappear!