Li Zhi stood in the palace of Honmaru in Edo Castle, looking at the huge map of Japan hanging on the wall. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

This map of Japan was drawn by Zheng Kaida who hired spies in Japan over the years, and it shows the geography of Japan's mountains, rivers, roads, and rivers, which are very detailed.

Even the location of the mountains in the Koshinetsu area is shown on the map, so you can see it at a glance.

Li Zhi pointed with a stick at the position of the Vietnamese department of Jiaxin and said, "Jiang Chong has stopped advancing?" ”

Zhong Feng arched his hand and replied: "Back to Your Highness, the ronin warriors have gathered in the mountains and forests, and they may ambush our soldiers and horses at any time. Jiang Chong walked to the mouth of Konoha and found a river valley to meet the enemy, where he fought a great victory, annihilating 11,000 Japanese samurai. But further on, there are no more river valleys without mountains and forests, and there are all rolling mountains. If we fight the samurai in the mountains and forests, I am afraid that our casualties will become very large. ”

"So after all considerations, Jiang Chong stopped advancing and stationed in Konohakou to wait and see the situation."

Li Zhi thought for a moment and asked, "How many soldiers and horses do you need to forcibly enter the mountains and forests and annihilate the recalcitrant warriors?" ”

Zhong Feng arched his hand and said, "According to the report from the front, after the samurai in the Koshin-etsu region were killed by 10,000 people, there are probably more than 30,000 people. If we don't care about casualties, 40,000 men would be enough to annihilate these warriors. ”

Taking a breath, Zhong Feng said, "It's just that Lord Wang, there is a war in the mountains and forests, and there is no vision. Once the soldiers encounter an ambush, they will enter a white-knuckle battle with two shots, fighting for the lives of the soldiers. I think we will have no problem in mobilizing 40,000 people into the mountains to win the war, but at least 10,000 casualties will be required. Since the establishment of our Tiger Army, we have never suffered such heavy casualties. ”

Li Zhi looked at the mountains on the map and frowned.

This rolling mountainous region of Japan can be tricky indeed. Although Li Zhi has 100,000 tiger troops, he is not willing to use 10,000 people as cannon fodder.

Zheng Kaicheng looked at Li Zhi's face and said, "Lord Wang, I think it's better to do it, let's not rush to exterminate the thieves and warriors in this mountainous area first." Even if they let them control the Koshingo Mountains, it wouldn't hurt. Leaving the Koshinetsu Mountains, the rest of Japan is now under our control, and in a month's time, we will be able to effectively control 90% of Japan's land. ”

Zheng Kaida pointed to the map and said: "The Kaga Domain, which is north of central Japan, is vulnerable, and it has been attacked by 10,000 soldiers and horses led by Zu Dashou three days ago. The Kaga clan had 5,000 iron gunners, but they were all old-fashioned arquebuses, and they didn't even have a chance to shoot in front of our standard rifles. The lord of the Kaga domain died in the castle tower, and all the samurai below the lord of the domain fled or surrendered. ”

"We did not spare the samurai who defended the city, and after the city was broken, we killed more than 2,000 people."

Zheng Kaida pointed to the Plain to the west of the Plain and said, "The Tokugawa family of the Owari Domain has been destroyed by Xue Sanku, the deputy commander of the Election Division. The castle built by the Tokugawa family was very high, but it looked like a target in front of the mortars. After Xue Sanku besieged the castle, it only took half a day to blow up the castle tower of Nagoya Castle. ”

"After the fall of the Owari Domain, we killed more than a thousand samurai who held the castle."

"Because of our iron-blooded policy, the small feudal towns around the Kaga and Owari domains were very afraid. In the Plain, more than 20 small feudal towns have voluntarily surrendered and surrendered their territories. ”

"In the northeastern part of Japan, our soldiers and horses are also overwhelming."

Zheng Kaicheng finally said: "I'm afraid that in just another month, the whole of Japan except Koshin-tsu will be completely pacified." ”

Hearing Zheng Kaicheng's report, Li Zhi nodded.

As for the local feudal towns in Japan, Li Zhi has not worried about it before, and he will not worry about it in the future. These small feudal towns were outdated in weapons and outdated in military thinking, and they were no match for the Tiger Army. The Tiger Army's response to these small feudal towns was basically a sweep, and it was only a matter of time before the whole of Japan was wiped out.

What worries Li Zhi more is the Japanese farmers.

Now that Li Zhi has killed the emperor of Japan, the Japanese peasants are very hostile to Li Zhi, and Li Zhi is worried that there will be one peasant uprising after another.

After listening to Zheng Kaicheng's report, Li Zhi said: "Let's go, go out of the city to see the situation of the peasants." ”

Zheng Kaicheng and Zhong Feng chanted loudly, followed Li Zhi out of the palace, and rode to the countryside outside Edo Castle.

The Japanese used rice as the superior food and cultivated rice wherever it could be cultivated as paddy fields. It was the middle of September, and the rice in the fields was ripe. Just outside Edo Castle is the Kanto Plain, the Great Plains of Japan, and the fertile fields are thousands of miles away, and at a glance you can only see a field of golden ripe rice.

The rice rises and falls in the wind, like a sea of gold.

Li Zhi walked into a village and saw the villagers preparing farm equipment.

The first to enter the village were Li Zhi's personal guards, who controlled all the key places in the village. Then they were followed into the village by ceremonial personnel holding guards of honor. Although Li Zhi has done everything simply, he has also mobilized more than 20 people to play a guard of honor before and after him, and all kinds of umbrella covers and flags are very gorgeous.

Seeing Li Zhi's gorgeous guard of honor entered, the villagers in the village all hid in their houses. However, Li Zhi is here to understand the people's feelings, how can he let the peasants hide? The guards drove the peasants out of their houses with their swords.

More than 100 male and female peasants knelt in front of Li Zhi.

Unlike the richly dressed samurai, the Japanese peasants were very poor.

They were dressed in tattered clothes and covered in patches. There are no shoes on the feet, they are all barefoot.

Their heads are shaved in the middle of their heads, modeled after the samurai, and tied up with the same "Tsukiyo head" hairstyle as the samurai. However, the peasants did not take care of their hair very often, and their heads, which should have been bare, had short hair, which looked very rough and unseemly.

The poverty of the Japanese peasants can also be seen in their houses. The houses built by these peasants were all thatched huts, without even a single brick or tile. The only thing in the whole village with tiled roofs are the three samurai courtyards in the middle, which are made of wooden walls and black tiles, probably the local "ground servants" samurai.

Of course, by this time, the samurai had already fled and did not know where to hide in the mountains.

Li Zhi walked up to the kneeling peasant and sat down on a chair.

Looking at the Japanese peasants, Li Zhi asked loudly: "Japanese people, what do you think of this king abolishing the emperor?" ”

The interpreter translated Li Zhi's words into Japanese and asked the Japanese peasants loudly.

Hearing the interpreter's question, the atmosphere of the peasants on the ground suddenly changed.

They stared at each other for a moment, their faces getting more and more agitated. Some of the young men even breathed thickly, kneeling on the ground, as if trying to suppress their resentment.

For the Japanese, the emperor was their god, and yet this god was killed by Li Zhi. So far, Li Zhi has no plans to support a new emperor.

Suddenly, a young peasant raised his head and shouted, "The emperor is onboard!" ”

Hearing the peasant's roar, the other two young peasants also followed aloud and said, "The emperor is onboard!" Onboard! ”

"Onboard!"

The shouts of these young peasants were so contagious that they seemed to stir up other peasants.

However, their roar did not last, and Li Zhi's own soldiers rushed into the middle of the peasants, stabbing their waist knives into the bodies of the three peasants.