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At the end of October, Li Yan finally got the news of the Left Route Army.

It's just that this news was not sent back by the flying slaves, but by one of the commanders of the left army of the Sunset Fleet.

It turns out -

The Left Army's initial march went very smoothly.

But just as the Left Route Army was about to land on the shore, a huge typhoon suddenly blew that lasted for two days and two nights.

That typhoon not only destroyed nearly 100 warships of the left army of the Sunset Fleet, but also caused the Sunset Fleet to lose its way.

At that time, among the nearly 100 warships destroyed, there were several warships carrying the Ministry of Communications, and the communications system of the Left Route Army was almost completely destroyed.

Faced with this unfavorable situation, some people suggested that Li Jun and Han Shizhong withdraw and then discuss it again in the long run.

But Han Shizhong disagreed.

He said to the people, "There is no way forward as much as there is to the back, and Japan stands like a long belt in the east, so if we go east, we will always reach Japan." ”

After careful consideration, Li Jun resolutely supported Han Shizhong.

Eventually, the Left Army continued its march eastward with the loss of its way.

After seventeen days of driving, the Left Route Army finally landed.

It was also the luck of the Left Route Army, when they were about to land, they actually hit a fishing boat.

Led by the fishermen on the boat, the Left Army reached a port-like area, captured it, and landed from there.

After the landing, the Japanese samurai brought by the Left Route Army repeatedly confirmed with the locals, only to know that the place where they landed was Ezo, which later became Hokkaido.

(At this time, Hokkaido was not part of Japan, and it was inhabited by the Ainu people, who were extremely backward, and it is not an exaggeration to say that Rumo drank blood.) ）

Ezo was divided into small forces by the local natives, and there was some connection between them.

Seeing the Left Army invading their homeland, they quickly united in some and then organized an armed force of more than 30,000 men to resist the invasion of the Left Army.

There was no suspense at all in that battle (refer to the war between the Europeans and the Indians) - the Left Army wiped out the Ainu coalition with almost zero casualties, and then occupied several major areas of Ezo.

But—

The occupation of Ezo was not the strategic goal of the Left Army, which was to make a surprise attack on the Japanese capital of Kyoto.

According to the Japanese samurai, Ezo is farther from Kyoto than Kyushu from Kyoto, and is separated by the Ou region (the northeastern part of Honshu Island, which is the one on the map from Tokyo upwards).

Han Shizhong and others repeatedly studied the map, but they didn't know what to do?

In the end, Han Shizhong gritted his teeth and decided to continue advancing towards Kyoto by land and water.

Han Shizhong said this to the generals and Wenchen of the Left Route Army, "This battle is not a battle of our Left Route Army, there is also the Right Route Army, and the hundreds of thousands of troops in the base camp, we will inevitably be caught off guard by Japan when we go south, and Japan is bound to send a large army back to block us, in that way, the pressure on the Right Route Army will be greatly reduced, and maybe we will be able to break through the defense of the Japanese army in the south, and then achieve the final victory in this battle." ”

Han Shizhong finally convinced everyone, and then Han Shizhong left a battalion of men and horses to clean up the remnants of the Ezo land, and led the remaining army south to attack the Ou area.

A few days later, the Left Army landed in Dewa Province.

At this time, the Ou region was also self-governing by the old natives before the conquest of the Yamato Imperial Court, similar to the colonies of later generations.

In terms of civilization, the Ou region is stronger than Ezo, but it is also very limited.

The Left Route Army completely appreciated the "simple customs" of the primitive society here, the land was vast and sparsely populated, slash-and-burn farming, and wild beasts were infested, and even a slightly decent city could not be found, and the living conditions of the common people were not as good as the Jurchens before the rise.

Actually, there is no way around it.

The birth of Japanese civilization was already in the second century AD.

The Yamato Imperial Court did not take shape until the 6th century, and the Heian period began in the 9th century.

Therefore, even if the Central Plains Celestial Empire vigorously imported the culture of the Central Plains, it is really a bit difficult for the Japanese to go from a primitive tribe of slash-and-burn cultivation and blood-drinking to a unified feudal state stage by rocket.

(Imagine what China in the Xia Dynasty should have looked like, and you wouldn't feel that Japanese society was slow in society during the Heian period.) ）

What's more, although the country has not yet been truly unified, the aristocratic ministers who rule Japan have already decayed early.

They let go of the heavy responsibility of opening up the territory and expanding the territory, enriching the country and strengthening the army, and devoted themselves to the mountains and rivers, burning incense and worshiping the Buddha, reciting poetry, studying calligraphy, and cultivating sentiments.

What's more, the ministers and nobles at that time still regarded the rest of Japan as "countryside" or even as "ghost land", believing that going to those places would be tainted with bad luck, and they wanted to retreat to the beautiful scenery and Buddhist temples of Kyoto for the rest of their lives.

Occasionally, there are a few guys who leave Beijing, most of them are either exiled or degraded, or they run away to avoid **** - the people who leave and the people who send them are crying, and some even have to leave a suicide note, and as soon as they get to the ground, they look forward to coming back as soon as possible.

As a result, Japan at this time was a deformed society that was completely disconnected from top to bottom.

At this time, Kyoto was the only civilized city in Japan, and the rest of the country was a poor area.

In the future, the Kanto Plain, where the prosperous Tokyo is located, is similar to the Great Northwest in the impression of later generations of Chinese.

The first few famous samurai families that rose there were actually production and construction corps sent by the Kyoto ministers to consolidate the frontier.

These poor samurai had to work hard to defend themselves from separatist terrorists (primitive tribes, such as earth spiders, Ezo people, etc.), and at the same time cultivate land to grow rice for self-sufficiency, and the conditions were extremely difficult.

As for the ministers who were sent there to serve as state secretaries and other positions, they were basically equivalent to cadres who would assist the Great Northwest in later generations.

Of course, because the Ou region has begun to engage in ethnic integration and assimilation with the Yamato people, and this is the frontier of Japan, there were actually more than 100,000 Japanese samurai here.

However, some time ago, the Right Army captured Kyushu Island, and it was launching a fierce attack on Shubo, Nagato, and Shikoku Island, so that the samurai in the Ou region went south to Mutsu and were ready to support the battle in the south.

It is precisely because of this that the Left Route Army can easily enter the country of Dewa.

The Left Route Army soon occupied several key points in Dewa Province and then continued south to Mutsu Province.

When Zhu Neng led his headquarters fleet to contact the Xuanfu Division and returned to report the news, Han Shizhong was seeking a decisive battle with the samurai of the Ou region.

Therefore, the news after the Left Route Army, Zhu Neng did not know, and he had to wait until the Xuanfu Division established contact with the Left Route Army again.

After listening to Zhu Neng's report, Li Yan breathed a sigh of relief in his heart!

Although the Left Route Army lost nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses in that typhoon, and did not complete the battle plan formulated before, in any case, it was finally connected, and the main force did not suffer too many casualties, and it was still actively fighting.

This is the great blessing in misfortune.

The Left Route Army also knew that they had made extremely serious mistakes in this battle, and if Li Yan was held accountable, they would never be able to escape the charge of "delaying the fighter plane."

Therefore, Li Jun, Han Shizhong and others together sent a hundred Japanese beauties to Li Yan to "bribe" Li Yan.

These 100 Japanese beauties are the daughters of Japanese nobles captured by Li Jun and Han Shizhong in Mutsu and Dewa countries.

And when Zhu Neng came back to report the news this time, he sent these Japanese beauties to Li Yan......

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