According to the plan of the Tang Privy Council, all the army units located in the Ryukyu Province and the colonies in Fuso were placed under the command of the 17th Army.

The 17th Army is also the latest military-level unit established by the Tang Army in the Tang Empire in recent years, and the combat direction of the unit is to be responsible for the Ryukyu Province and the Fuso Islands.

At the same time, the 15th Army, which was stationed in the Goryeo Peninsula area of Liaodong Province, was also responsible for combat missions in the Fuso region to a certain extent, such as the garrison on Tsushima Island, which was under the command of this army.

However, according to the Privy Council's plan, in principle, the 15th Army is not responsible for shouldering the combat mission of the Fusang Islands and is only responsible for defensive operations unless there are special circumstances, because the 15th Army does not have any main force under it, and the unit only has a few reserve divisions under its jurisdiction, and its main task is to suppress the Goryeo Peninsula, and foreign operations are not its main task.

Therefore, this time the operation against Osaka will be undertaken by the 15th Army independently!

At present, the army has the 1st Mixed Brigade, the Ryukyu Garrison Regiment, the Osumi Garrison Regiment, the Osaka Garrison Regiment, the Edo Garrison Regiment, and more than a dozen garrison battalions of various colonies.

Moreover, it was the 1st Mixed Brigade that fought all of them, leaving no room for effort.

This is to achieve a quick solution and avoid the war from prolonging and other changes.

At the same time, it was also to intimidate other daimyo in the Gyeonggi region, lest they have any idea of taking advantage of them.

A quick battle and a thunderous deterrent are the operational guidelines formulated by the army this time.

After the transfer of the 1st Mixed Brigade, the garrison of Osumi Prefecture will be in charge of the Osumi Garrison Regiment, which has a strength of 2,000 troops, which is the strongest garrison regiment among the Fuso garrison regiments, which is enough to defend the safety of Osumi Prefecture.

In addition, after the coordination of the army and navy, the navy will not send marines to land in Osaka for operations, and the 6th Marine Regiment of the navy stationed in the Fuso area will continue to garrison Osumi Prefecture partly, and the other part will go to sea with the fleet, but they will not land in Osaka, but will maneuver and wander with the main fleet to guard against any change in the situation in Fuso.

In this way, some marines and the Osumi Prefecture garrison are stationed on the Osumi Prefecture side, and the naval blockade of the Osumi Strait can ensure that nothing goes wrong.

If you give the Fuso people a hundred more courages and increase their strength by a hundred times, it will be impossible to break through the naval blockade of the Oriental Fleet of the Tang Navy and then land in Osumi County.

After several days of deliberation, the top management of the 15th Army and the top generals of the Oriental Fleet formally decided on the battle plan, and then they acted quickly; according to the relevant regulations of the army and navy in advance, when the 15th Army and the Oriental Fleet launched a battle in the Fuso area, as long as there was a request from the Fuso Affairs Yamen, then they could directly send troops, and at the same time they sent troops, they could report to the country, and they could only act without sending a request and getting approval.

And once the war starts, then the 15th Army and the Oriental Fleet will have a high degree of autonomy, they can decide to fight any kind of battle in the Fuso area, and the command structure of the army and navy in the country will not interfere in any way, well, in fact, because of the distance, it is difficult to interfere.

The 15th Army directly dispatched the 1st Mixed Brigade to prepare for the battle in Osaka, and the navy dispatched a large number of main fleets, and at the same time requisitioned the merchant ships of the Tang Empire from the surrounding navies as transport ships.

In the end, a huge fleet led by cruisers, three frigates, more than 10 large merchant ships, and more than 20 small and medium-sized merchant ships was formed.

With the Tang Empire's increased control of the Oriental route and the establishment of the Oriental Fleet, a large number of capital ships in the sea area were equipped with a large number of capital ships, which was to completely control the Fuso sea area.

In order to control the sea area of Fusang, the Tang Navy also completely blocked the routes to the Oriental trade very strongly, regardless of whether the Portuguese, the Spaniards, or the merchant ships of other forces, they were not allowed to go to Fusang.

This is also a feature of the Age of Discovery, the Tang Navy blockaded the Fuso Sea, while the Portuguese blocked Malacca and the coast of India, and the Spaniards controlled a large area of the sea off the east coast of the Americas.

And after sinking, no one knows whether they were sunk by pirates or by the Imperial Navy, and there is no evidence in the vast sea.

After years of purging by the Tang Navy, the pirates in this area are basically extinct, well, even the sea power of the Fuso daimyo along the coast has been basically wiped out, because the Tang Navy always kills the sea power of the Fuso people in the name of fighting pirates.

The Datang Navy does not allow the emergence of the premise of the maritime power in addition to the Datang Navy, regardless of whether it is a pirate or the Fusang Daimyo Navy, all of them will be killed directly, after a long time, those Fusang people are also dead, completely stop developing maritime power, and even large-tonnage merchant ships dare not develop anymore, because in addition to the merchant ships of the Tang Empire, even if it is the merchant ships of the Fusang people, if they dare to go to sea, they basically have no return.

The Datang Navy doesn't care if you are a Fusang warship, a merchant ship, or a pirate, anyway, you see one and kill one!

After years of purging, the current Datang Navy can be very proud to say that the only merchant ships running the Oriental route are the merchant ships of the Tang Empire!

Even in the offshore and inland seas of Fusang, the ocean-going ships are only the ships of the Tang Empire, and the local ships of the Fuso people are only some small boats near the sea.

In this environment, the Tang Empire also changed the armed policy of merchant ships in the sea area accordingly.

Ordinary private merchant ships are not allowed to be equipped with large-caliber naval guns and other armed forces, but can only be equipped with self-defense armed forces such as small- and medium-caliber artillery and arquebuses, while the merchant ships under the command of the trading companies controlled by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises continue to be equipped with large-caliber naval guns.

However, the above-mentioned policy is limited to merchant ships running in the Oriental Seas, while merchant ships running the South China Sea route continue to be allowed to be equipped with large-caliber naval guns, and as for the ships of the Indian and European routes, only the merchant ships of the Western Trading Company have a fleet, let alone armed merchant ships.

This change in policy can also reflect some of the attitudes of the Tang Empire towards armed merchant ships, that is, if conditions permit, the official does not want to see ordinary merchant ships equipped with a large number of naval guns, because even if the control measures are strict, it will be easy to have accidents, at most, they are allowed to be equipped with small and medium-caliber naval guns and light weapons, so that they have a certain self-defense ability.

With a huge fleet of more than 30 ships, it only took half a month from preparation to departure, which also shows how strong Datang's military mobilization ability is.

Of course, this is also related to the prosperity of Oriental trade, with a large number of Datang merchant ships active in this sea area, otherwise, the navy would not be able to recruit so many merchant ships for a while.

After the fleet went to sea, it headed straight for Osaka!

After many days of sailing, many Fuso people also knew that the Tang Empire had dispatched a huge fleet, especially when the fleet entered the Seto Inland Sea, such a huge fleet was directly exposed to the eyes of many Fuso people.

However, the Fuso daimyo who learned of the situation in the surrounding area did not show any hostility towards this, let alone go directly to the sea to intercept or the like, they still issued an alarm, and then improved their coastal defense forces to guard against this huge fleet.

And when the fleet appeared in the Kitam Strait in the eastern part of Awaji Province, it caused panic to control the Miyoshi family of Awaji Province.

Because this huge fleet, after entering the Kitan Strait, did not continue to advance, but instead anchored on the central part of the strait on the sinking mainland country 'Yu Island'.

In order to ensure the safety of the sea passage in and out of Osaka, the Tang Empire landed on this small island very early, and forcefully expelled the original small number of natives on the island, and then built a fortress here, deployed a fort, and built a small port.

Relying on this small island, the Datang Navy can proudly say that it has completely strangled the Jidan Strait!

Of course, the control of this strait does not rely on a single strait, but on the great strength of the Tang Empire, and the strength of the Osaka Squadron is enough to crush any Fuso daimyo who tries to get their hands on this strait.

Even the most powerful daimyo in the nearby region, the Miyoshi family, had to obediently admit the Tang Empire's control of Youdao.

Because although the Miyoshi family is the most powerful in the nearby area, and it is also a daimyo who controls the huge naval force, its sea power is still vulnerable!

There are many ships in Miyoshi's family, but the largest tonnage is no more than 100 tons!

It's not that they didn't have such a big ship before, but they were all sunk by the Datang Navy!

Otherwise, why do you think the Miyoshi family would obediently assume the control of the Tang Empire over Youdao is because they were beaten hard, and then they have to admit it.

After two days of anchoring on the island of Tomo, after a little rest, the fleet set sail again, and then headed for Osaka, although there are material reserve warehouses and ports on the island of Tomojima, but the scale is too small to give the fleet any beneficial additions, at most it is to rely on the berths here to simply rest, and at the same time make the best preparations for landing.

After setting sail, the fleet headed straight for Osaka!

And at this time, almost all the Fusang daimyo in the surrounding areas also knew the destination of this huge fleet of the Tang Empire.

Many daimyo were quite panicked, they were afraid that this huge fleet was going to attack them, especially the Miyoshi family, and they had been sending envoys on small boats for many days to try to meet the commander of the fleet.

But many people didn't expect that the purpose of this huge fleet was not the surrounding daimyo, nor was it the Miyoshi family, which had been suppressed by the Tang Dynasty, but the Ishiyama Honganji Temple, which was friendly with the Tang Dynasty.

The reason for this is not because Ishiyama Honganji is fighting against the Tang Empire, but because Ishiyama Honganji intends to independently develop the national defense industry and accumulate strength.

It is also because Osaka is located in a strategic geographical location, and the Tang Empire needs to control this area in order to implement the strategic intention of continuing to divide Fuso!