"Generalissimo, the general of the Fourth Field Brigade did not listen to the command, and he has already returned to the main island with the general of the Third Detachment on a battleship." Kong Youxing's henchman general reported.

Kong Youxing waved his hand helplessly, "Forget it, let them go, you give an order, let the First Field Brigade stay, so set up a suspicious formation, cover our evacuation, we go back to Nagasaki County, we are not defeating the Japanese now, but to keep the current achievements and the current soldiers and horses, leave the First Regiment of the Second Field Brigade, and let them escort 30,000 people back to Nagasaki as soon as possible." ”

Then he said to his henchman next to him: "Write me two urgent letters, one to Lord Feng, ask him not to mobilize the garrison troops on the main island, stay and stabilize the political situation on the main island, we don't need it here, let the Seventh Field Brigade camp on the spot, while training the 100,000 young men, while waiting for orders, you are not allowed to act casually without my orders." Let the 8th Field Brigade return to Kagoshima Prefecture to stabilize the situation somewhere. ”

As for the fourth, fifth, and sixth field brigades, Kong Youxing is no longer counting on it.

The eldest prince and the second prince already controlled those three troops, and it would be good not to trouble him on the way to retreat. Thinking of the way to retreat, Kong Youxing had a headache, these two troops were firmly in the way of his retreat, although it was only 12,000 troops, but he let his 36,000 front-line troops have nothing to escape, and the Japanese island is too narrow and long.

I didn't know that fleet was loyal to Feng Quan, so I rashly summoned a fleet, and my landlubbers were likely to become fish and meat on someone else's board, and let people knead them casually.

Kong Youxing's second letter was written to Chen Hui, the general of the naval division, asking him if he could send a fleet to pick him up.

It was necessary to return to the prefecture of Nagasaki before knowing the attitude of the two field brigades, quickly gather the field brigade, strengthen its own forces, and control the 100,000 newly recruited youths, and train while dealing with the changes in the DPRK, mainly to deal with the counterattacks of the Japanese.

The Japanese had 500,000 soldiers and horses, and with the strengthening of the support of the Taixi people, he had seen that the Jingai 1 arquebus in the hands of some Japanese soldiers and horses had been replaced by the Jingai 2 arquebus.

This has leveled the gap between the weapons of the Lu army and the Japanese army, and all that remains is that he is stronger than the Japanese in the use of firearms, but there is a huge gap in strength that cannot be made up.

In the past, they were tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to fight the enemy's 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers and horses, and the enemy was either a samurai army carrying iron cannons, or a cold weapon army wielding a big sword and spear, which was naturally decaying and withering, and the enemy had more soldiers and horses, but just wasting some more ammunition, and he had fought 30,000 enemies and 80,000 of them, but now the enemy is 150,000 firearms troops, plus more than 350,000 cold weapons troops, which has almost weakened their firepower advantage a lot, and the Japanese are much braver than the Qing army in the land of the Ming Dynasty. Those people are the dead people who are generally deceived and lame and don't know what death is, they are dead soldiers, for which the Lu army has paid a lot of casualties, and has to fight a cannon fodder war of attrition with them.

Tens of thousands of Japanese people were killed by the Japanese people who were recruited before, and 12,000 people died by Lu people, which was already a bone break for the Lu country, which had only a population of more than 100,000 in the entire kingdom.

Fighting with the current Japanese soldiers and horses is tantamount to a war of the country.

A few days later, Kong Youxing took 35,000 soldiers and horses, 26,000 people, and some hurriedly ran through the suburbs of various county towns in Japan, he did not even dare to enter the county seat, and gathered the retreating Lu officials and some troops defending the city along the road, and the strength reached 35,000 troops.

On the third day after the Japanese found out that their soldiers and horses had retreated, the First Field Brigade had already set off for a day, and more than 30,000 people with the army discarded their baggage and slowly followed.

Behind Kong Youxing was about 60,000 Japanese regular troops, and a force of 100,000 young farmers was chasing him.

Feng Quan's letter has already explained that Chen Hui only controls one-third of the fleet, about 100 1,000-ton warships, more than 80 800-ton warships, and 450 600-ton to less than 300-ton warships, which obviously cannot compete with others, and at the same time, Chen Hui's fleet has retreated to Kagoshima County to maintain order, and only a small part of the fleet is in the main island port.

The 4th Field Brigade controlled by the Great Prince has returned to the main island, the Great Prince has 3,000 garrisons, 6,000 field brigade troops, and Feng Quan controls 4,000 garrison troops, 10,000 militia troops, and 3,000 sailor troops.

The second prince had only 1,000 gathered family members, 600 Japanese samurai, and mastered about 3,000 regular army troops and 10,000 militia troops scattered on several islands.

At the same time, he also has a third of the fleet controlled by his son, and it can be said that the soldiers and horses of the Lu State have been divided.

The third prince has 6,000 troops near Kagoshima, one-third of the fleet strength, and most of the civil and military officials, it seems that the strength of several parties has no way to annex the others, and because the division is too strong, whether it is in Japan or Lu State, the three princes and Feng Quan have not achieved the overwhelming strength that determines the other party, and they are all not strong enough in the places where they want to enhance their strength, but the local strength that they don't want to enhance is very high.

For example, the fleet controlled by the second prince and his son surrounded Japan on the sea on the side of Hokkaido, Japan, and the soldiers and horses they controlled were in the middle of the Japanese island, and now they are mobilizing the fleet to withdraw their troops.

The strength of the third prince was trapped in Kagoshima, because the people there listened to Feng Quan, and Feng Quan was supposed to send 10,000 garrisons there, but it didn't make the trip, and it was divided by the three princes.

Feng Quan has the support of the Huaxia Army, others dare not touch him, Feng Quan has prestige among the hundred officials, they are the patriarchs of the Lu State.

But he has no righteousness, he can't move a few princes, and he doesn't have many troops in his hands.

Chen Hui took care of Kagoshima for him.

Although the eldest prince has great righteousness, he only has the strength of the main island in his hands, and does not have many fleets, and the fleet that transported troops back before was quickly mastered by the third prince, and he only has a few ships to escape.

Several princes who have the strength to compete for the throne can't help each other, Feng Quan too, although the Huaxia Kingdom supports him, it can't give him too much support, and has already told him that he will not take the initiative to meddle in Lu's internal affairs, and can only ensure his life's safety, so Lu can only play by himself.

And the most urgent thing is Kong Yousex, he was chased by the Japanese behind his ass.

If you don't run, you will be attacked by superior forces, if you run, the troops of the second prince in front are obviously waiting here, forcing him to support the second prince, Kong Youxing wants to scold the second prince, when is it, still play this hand, if you are wiped out by the Japanese, can your two troops be fine?

Can you withstand the Japanese attack?

Kong Youxing was very helpless, at this time he could only choose to fight, defeat the two troops in front of him, and then flee to Nagasaki County as soon as possible to organize troops to resist.

Or, he looked up in the distance, Jinling Mansion across the sea, it was not bad to take refuge in the Huaxia Kingdom, but the niece of the nephew was the princess.

(End of chapter)