In early October 1792, the vanguard of the Chinese army joined forces with the anti-Oda coalition forces of Fuso.

At this time, the landing force of the Chinese army consisted of 1,500 troops, 1,000 marines (the marines in China belonged to the marine corps and did not undertake the combat mission of the fleet), as well as some sailors ashore and members of the former enemy command of the general staff, totaling 3,000 people.

At this time, Fuso, because the previous Nobunaga encirclement network had been broken through, and the anti-Oda daimyo forces suffered heavy losses, and at this time, only 12,000 troops from Mori Terumoto, 5,000 from the Ryuzoji family and 3,000 from the Otomo family were able to help Huaxia.

Mori Terumoto told Lieutenant General Feng Sanhu, commander of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, that if the Chinese were willing to wait a few more days, he could send someone to contact the Nagamune of Shikoku and the few surviving members of the anti-Nobunaga encirclement network in northern Honshu.

They were all scared by Oda Nobunaga, and no one thought that the introduction of Huaxia, an outsider, would bring down the Great Demon King of Oda, and everyone still hoped that they could win over all the anti-Oda forces as much as possible and rebuild the Oda siege network.

However, Feng Sanhu was dismissive of these defeated generals, believing that relying on the Chinese army itself was enough to eliminate Oda Nobunaga and complete the task of splitting the General Staff into Fuso and maintaining the situation of the Fuso division of the civil war.

As for the role of the local allies in Fuso...... it was able to give the Chinese army a foothold, and they would complete their mission by providing part of the military rations, animal power, and labor.

On the other hand, Feng Sanhu was a little cautious and didn't tell anyone - he knew that this attack on Fusang and the battle to destroy Xia were actually going on at the same time.

The commander-in-chief of the Battle of Annihilation Xia is Li Jinghuai, as Xu Shiyang's earliest personal soldier captain and deputy captain, the two of them currently have a strong sense of competition, because this may mean the question of the selection of the third chief of general staff of the empire (the first Xu Shiyang, currently the second Gongsun Sheng).

Feng Sanhu felt that he should solve the Fusang problem before Li Jinghuai destroyed Xia, because in the eyes of the domestic people (he himself had this idea), the combat effectiveness of the Fusang Wazi was far inferior to that of the Party Tartars.

Therefore, Feng Sanhu did not plan to wait too long, as soon as the follow-up troops of Huaxia arrived, he would launch an attack, and he felt that when he defeated the main force of the Oda army, the follow-up Goryeo army and other armies of the Fuso daimyo could come forward and beat the water dogs.

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Oda Nobunaga, of course, knew that the foreign Huaxia were organizing the third Oda siege (although there was no siege, only anti-Oda).

In fact, after he issued a "slave ban" prohibiting the sale of captives taken from other Fuso daimyo as slaves to the Chinese people, it became clear that the relationship between the Chinese merchants and him was rapidly becoming cold.

By the time he ordered the use of gold coinage as a substitute for Chinese paper money and iron coins, and began to strictly control the export of gold and silver, the relationship between Oda Fuso and Huaxia was almost at a freezing point.

Although Oda Nobunaga did not know how much his population and gold export ban would cost the Katsuka, as a native of Fuso, he at least knew that the merchants who had suffered heavy losses would definitely encourage the Kagō to change the situation.

Therefore, in fact, since the issuance of those two orders, Oda Nobunaga has actually begun to prepare for the retaliation against Huaxia.

At a time when Chinese merchants were still negotiating with him in the hope of negotiating a solution to the ban, Oda Nobunaga took advantage of the merchants' luck and snapped up large quantities of weapons, including arquebuses, gunpowder, saltpeter, and lead.

He then carried out large-scale land seizures within his own territory and, as far as possible, carried out a policy of separation of peasants and soldiers, and began to try to form a professional standing army.

At present, according to the Fuso's own calculations, Oda Nobunaga has a territory of almost 8.6 million koku, and the mobilization is carried out according to 300 troops per 10,000 koku, and Oda Nobunaga has prepared an army of almost 250,000.

In order to arm these 250,000 men, Oda Nobunaga prepared about 17,000 muskets (20 per 10,000 koku) by purchasing, making and seizing them.

Oda gave himself almost 300 rounds of ammunition for each musket, but this figure was calculated with a reduced charge, and this was not the base required for a campaign, because this figure was calculated after taking into account all the gunpowder and saltpeter in the Oda army's reserves, that is, at least for a year, the Oda army could not be replenished with more gunpowder.

As a powerful daimyo, Oda Nobunaga even prepared a relatively strong naval division, which he planned to use to block the attack of the Chinese navy.

The fleet consisted of 700 ships, including six giant Ataka ships that even had iron plates wrapped in key parts.

Oda Nobunaga had some artillery known as the "Kokurai", but there were few of them, and he could only equip a few of his own guards, so although there were many ships of the Oda Naval Division, there was no artillery equipment.

Their tactic is to close the distance as much as possible, suppress the enemy with muskets, and then launch a hand-to-hand battle.

Oda Nobunaga believed that the six giant Ataka ships would be able to defend themselves against the Chinese artillery and cover the other ships—and he was confident in the white-knuckle abilities of his samurai.

In addition, Oda Nobunaga had a staunch ally, another Fuso daimyo Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was able to mobilize about 50,000 soldiers.

A total of 300,000 people, enough to use gunpowder for one year and enough food for three years, to defend the homeland.

Oda Nobunaga thought that this was enough, and he didn't ask much, as long as he could hold off the Chinese army for a year, let the Chinese army know that the attack on him would not outweigh the losses, and he had to give up his support for the remnants of Nobunaga's encirclement network, even if he was victorious.

After that, he will unify Fuso, and then continue to maintain trade with Huaxia, if there is a chance, of course he will expand, but if there is no opportunity, it is not impossible to limit himself to Fuso for the time being.

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On October 15, Vice Admiral Feng Sanhu, commander of the Fuso Army of the Chinese Empire, officially ordered an attack on Oda Nobunaga, the daimyo of Fuso, and the first action was, of course, the navy.

The Chinese Navy dispatched six 56-gun battleships (600 tons, 16 kg of 30 kg naval guns, 16 kg of 20 kg naval guns, 12 kg of 10 kg deck guns, 12 kg of 6 kg deck guns), 22 28-gun cruisers (400 tons, 12 kg guns, 8 kg guns of 10 kg, 8 kg guns of 6 kg), and 60 armed transport ships of various types (carrying 6 to 12 guns, all deck guns).

The 12,000 troops participating in the battle, including 1,000 marines, were to sweep across the Seto Inland Sea, eliminate the Oda Naval Division, occupy Awaji Island, cut off the Oda headquarters on Honshu Island from the Oda territory on Shikoku Island, and release another anti-Oda daimyo Nagamune force to officially join the anti-Oda coalition with Huaxia as the core.

Of course, a more realistic benefit: control of the Seto Inland Sea would directly threaten Oda's money bag, Sakai, and the newly rising Osaka.