At sunset, in response to Mao Jue's order, the northernmost Jiuzhou County was also accompanied by a group of men brandishing sabers running in the sunset, shouting that the lost youth fell in response, and the sixty-eight orders of the Japanese kingdom and the territory of 210,000 stones fell into the hands of Mao Jue.

However, it seems to be quite remarkable, but in fact, the territory captured is only the size of a county, and the difficulty is even a few points lower than Li Zicheng's capture of a county in Daming, no way, too unexpected!

As soon as Mao Jue came from the sea, even in the war-torn Warring States period of Japan, there were only a few naval battles, and the Japanese people almost didn't have this concept. Second, Tokugawa Ieyasu pacified the troubled times and promulgated the "Laws of the Samurai", and the samurai of one family could not enter the territory of another family without the permission of the shogunate, and conversely, if they entered, they would definitely be allowed.

There is also the third point, Mao Juejun is too tall and strong, and he still has money to buy armor, so that people in the country must only have the samurai class, not some bandits, cats and dogs, those people can't eat enough, let alone grow such a body of tendon meat.

This world is really desperate, you have to look at your face to fight, with a fierce face, more than 200 defenders of the four counties died under the knife without explanation, it is really called a ghost and confused.

In the evening, Mao Jue also got his first bonus when he came to the Wa Kingdom, almost 70,000 stone of grain, about 10,000 taels of gold and silver.

"General, please don't take it lightly, most of the samurai, the pillar force of the Heavenly Family, are scattered in the countryside, especially the Pudai retainers, there are hundreds of retainers of the Heavenly Family before yesterday, more than 10,000 people, although this can ascend to the country is barren, there are also about hundreds of retainers, and it is not a small force to gather."

"Oh? Ben got it! ”

Listening to Kuroda Nobuhide's advice, he raised his eyebrows and Mao Jue nodded slightly.

The system of the Wa State is really very similar to the Spring and Autumn Period in China, the emperor is the nominal and substantial, the Zhou Tianzi, the Warring States Daimyo, that is, the monarchs of the various vassal states, and the retainers under their command are similar to the ministers under the command of the vassal states, the large and small landlords, and the samurai below are the scholar class, which is completely feudal, but since the Qin Dynasty in China, there has been this kind of feudal transformation into a unified bureaucratic society, and the Wa people still maintain the primitive feudal class, layer by layer of loyalty

Just like Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who was a man of the world back then, he could only order his retainer Honda Tadakatsu through Tokugawa Ieyasu, and he could not let Honda Tadakatsu be directly loyal to him.

These large and small landlord families called retainers were scattered in the territories of the daimyo and shogun, and their land was called Zhixingdi, which was considered the smallest feudal lord, and in times of war, they needed to send troops to fight with the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, there are also a large number of lower-level samurai and banners who do not know how to act, and live directly in the military camp of the daimyo castle, living by receiving support rice and money, so they are thorough professional soldiers, although the combat effectiveness is not good.

If you want to invade the Kanto Plain on a large scale, it is essential to have a strong foothold on Honshu Island, and the terrain of the Noto Peninsula is really suitable for the Dongjiang River of the land and water armies, and he glanced at the rice grain being transported to the ship a few times, and after a while, Mao Jue's eyes suddenly became fierce, and he did not look back, and waved his hand directly at Liu Xingzuo.

"The last general understands!"

He ran quickly to the horse, turned over and got on the horse, and the murderer roared loudly.

"Go with Lao Tzu! Kill!"

Amid the sound of the horse's hooves, the Saiwai Iron Rider rushed out again with a bloody saber.

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When the matter of destroying the door was in the Kuroda family, the five brothers of the Liu family were already familiar with the road, and several manors in the nearby villages of Jiuzhou County were the first to be unlucky, and the manor door was blocked unreasonably, and a few torches were thrown into the thin wooden houses of the Japanese people, and several teams of cavalry held a few doors, and one came out to hack one to death, which was cruel and outrageous.

But Ci is not in charge of the army! Don't look at the war so far, everything is going smoothly, it seems that Mao Jue is bullying the Japanese people, in fact, it is a lonely army town in Dongjiang against the Japanese country with a population of more than 20 million, one is not careful, his whole army is wiped out and then it is easy, Mao Jue is the general of Dongjiang, and he does not have the strength and realm of internationalist soldiers, so he cannot afford to lose every step, no matter how innocent these retainers of the Tiantian family are, since they have entered this war, those who can bring a threat to his rear must be killed! When the moon was dark and the wind was high, when people were killed and set on fire, in one night, all the 23 Maeda retainers of Jiuzhou County were destroyed, and none of them remained.

The bloody brought unprecedented efficiency, the narrow exit of the Noto Peninsula was blocked by Mao Jue, and the retainers of the former day who were unwilling to be killed gathered more than 1,000 samurai, and the foot was light, and they rushed to the Dongjiang army to kill the main formation.

In the afternoon, Mt. Fukutake.

But all the peninsulas have mountains as their bones, although the peaks here are not high, only three or four hundred meters, but they are enough to occupy a military advantage.

Mao Jue has not been defeated so far, a big reason is because most of the battles are his preset battlefield, and then defend and counterattack, rarely take the initiative to attack, to be honest, this belongs to the ranking of general ability, Mao Jue commands the operation to the timing, the battlefield, the terrain is too demanding, lack of initiative, it is easy for the enemy to slip away in front of him, or fall into passivity.

Fortunately, Mao Jue has always been lucky, and the opportunities that fate threw at him were all superior, and this time it was about the same, early, the sixth, eighth, and tenth regiments that landed from the fleet had already set up three military camps on Fuyue Mountain, between the valley roads, and as these warriors advanced, the three phalanxes marched out with neat guns in the sound of battle horns, and laid down the formation on the mountain and down the mountain.

To tell the truth, in the past, it was more to fight less, but this time it was difficult to fight more with less, and the Dongjiang Army was still a little uncomfortable, and even the commander had a little acquiescence, one by one the iron guards held their bayonets high, shouting provocatively, it seems that this is not a big battle of life and death, a bit of a game.

Mao Jue didn't have the heart to look at this must-win battle, he took Adriana and Yu Le'er and the two girls, and the vassals elegantly boiled tea under a big banyan tree behind the military formation.

But now it seems that God will not let him have time to be lazy, and the development of the battle situation has developed in the direction of sharp drama, this Mao Jue's tea has not yet boiled, and the tenth regiment is still lined up halfway up the mountain, and the sound of cold and fierce fighting suddenly sounded.

I'll go, a thousand miles away? Sprinkle beans into soldiers, and this is a fight?

Shocked to throw away the tea, Mao Jue ran to the hillside in three steps and two steps, only to find that the tenth regiment was as confused as himself, looking down, it was indeed a lively fight, the battlefield was ups and downs, blood was dripping, climaxes were repeated, and one by one the Japanese warriors would be full of blood, and their personal bravery was exerted to the extreme, and the cold and shining blades flew by, and they could always bring out a lot of blood.

The only thing that was wrong was that more than 70 retainer families and more than 1,100 widows fought on their own.

The head is flying, this situation is almost impossible to fake a fight, but what kind of routine is this? Knowing that he is dead, there is revenge and revenge? Or do you want to fight before you start it, and let yourself see how unafraid of death they are?

The battlefield is more than 300 meters away, in the plain of the mountain nest swirling, more than 1,000 Japanese people are fighting how lively and lively, after watching for a long time, the Ming army of the three regiments simply sat down and looked at it, and followed the enthusiastic high hand to cheer up, although what they shouted, the Japanese people did not understand, and the Japanese people fought whom, they did not know.

"Come on! The sun helmet, kick his ass, kick, kick! ”

"Stab him, stab him! That guy with bull horns on his head, you're a fucking bull? Stabbed with a knife, I didn't let you stab with a horn. ”

Officers and soldiers are not allowed to leave the formation, but officers can run around in the name of exchanging military information, holding Yu Le'er who is now learning and selling, and boiling green tea, Mao Jue is speechless looked at Shen Rong and Zhao Tiehan, and actually bet a few taels of silver, betting that the one with the papaya pattern flag can win, or the one with the fan pattern flag can win.

The Japanese people are ruthless, and they cut their own people mercilessly, it is really a life-and-death fight, killing until the night, more than 1,100 samurai died more than 400, of which 21 lines of the samurai family were killed, and the remaining more than 50 retainer families are also scarred, they can be counted as a winner, it's their own time, right? The officers and men of the three regiments, who had been doing it for a day, sat up suddenly, and laid out their bayonets at the officer's shouting, and marched forward in a neat manner under the snare drums.

However, it is really like the non-violent non-cooperation movement, this group of samurai who have been fighting for a long time seem to turn a blind eye to the approaching Ming army, just sitting cross-legged and gasping, and the whole afternoon of fighting is also a great burden for these samurai who are already weak in physical strength.

Immediately afterwards, facing the advancing Dongjiang Army, more than forty old devils staggered out, knelt in front of the battle, and held the bloody katana with both hands and put it on top of their heads.

Only then did Mao Jue understand that he was worthy of being a retainer of the family the day before yesterday, the master would judge the situation, and the retainers would also, and they fought with each other for an afternoon, and they were not afraid of death, in order to surrender.

But this is not unreasonable, for the family, more important than loyalty is inheritance! When everyone is dead, what's the use of loyalty?

This war is completely different from the traditional war of the Japanese people, others attack, are trying to encircle local families like them, and transform them from foreign retainers to ordinary retainers, which can be regarded as a complete increase in power, such as the Warring States Period, the Kanto governor Uesugi Ken signaled that he was a god of war, able to fight well, and repeatedly defeated the Kanto heroes, but his territory growth was the slowest, on the contrary, known as Tanuki Taigong, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who had been beaten by Takeda Shingen, who had pulled his pants, was able to quickly seize the world, It's because the retainers of the Tokugawa family are much stronger than the Uesugi family.

But I met Mao Jue, who was unreasonable, and as soon as he came up, he was to destroy the door and eradicate the roots, and he had the posture of killing more than 100 feudal retainers who could ascend to the country, and in the face of the life and death of the family, these local tyrants who were unwilling to die quickly made their positions clear.

So the next day, after a "friendship exchange" of the Noden family, laying out the facts and reasoning, the twenty-three retainers of the Qiantian family who did not agree to surrender were persuaded to be "happy and convinced", and they also presented their heads with both hands, and the remaining retainers were united and friendly under the banner of the Dongjiang River, and fought sincerely for Mao Jue.

If there is a Guinness record in this era, what Mao Jue broke must be the Guinness record for the fastest pacification of a country.

There is no need to continue to destroy the door, today's more than 400 heads are used as a vote, which is enough for the remaining families to no longer be tolerated by the family the day before yesterday, and according to the rules of the Japanese people, each family has sent four or five boys and girls under the age of ten to Mao Jue as hostages, that is, the kind of attendant with a small surname, if according to the level of the Japanese country, as long as he can hold this can ascend the country, he can also be regarded as a 210,000 stone daimyo with retainers.

It's just that now Mao Jue is not as domineering as Oda Nobunaga was back then, and the battle still has to be fought, in the depression of the five brothers of the Liu family and the three regiments that participated in the war, Mao Jue announced the pardon of these fifty or so retainers of the Maeda family who could climb the trench.

On the third day, the dividends brought by the pardon began to appear in front of the Dongjiang army, these people were all local leaders, and controlling them was equivalent to controlling more than 70,000 Japanese people in Nengdeng.

Noto Province is a peninsula that hangs alone in the Sea of Japan, the narrowest place is only more than ten miles wide, and there are mountains in the middle to rely on, early in the morning of the third day, this narrow place becomes lively, a steady stream of Japanese farmers, fishermen were driven out of the land, took hoes, and began to work for Mao Jue.

Cement is really a good thing, as a pressure cabin stone, this thing Mao Jue brought a lot more than gunpowder grain plus a piece, in Iki, this facing the island and Nagasaki outside the city transport, that end with a land rock replacement, two months Mao Jue only used two-thirds, the rest, just used here, under the drive of the whip, these Japanese first dug out a trench more than one meter wide, more than one meter deep, with planed stones mixed with cement slurry, both sides with the ship's spare ship board for repairing ships, In the middle, the steel bars brought by the Dongjiang River are inserted, and the side walls are repaired.

It is really worthy of the samurai ruling class that has ruled the Wa Kingdom for more than 500 years, and it doesn't even need the Ming army to intervene.

It's just that at this time, all the main forces of the Dongjiang Army, the five Iron Righteous Regiments, the three Xiongjin mercenary regiments trained according to the Dongjiang model, and the main force of Jeju Island with 3,000 men and horses were all stationed south of the stone wall of the building.

At this time, the defense has not been built, and it is considered the most vulnerable time for the Dongjiang army, if the Kaga Domain's army attacks, Mao Jue will have to use valuable troops to fight one-on-one with the Japanese army on the plain.

But in Mao Jue's worried eyes, on the fourth, fifth, and sixth days, until February 20, the vigilant soldiers and horses of the Kaga Domain did not come, but behind the scenes, after packing up the ordnance and food abandoned by Matsudaira Nobutsuna outside Nagasaki City, Li Shanhai led more than 26,000 Li Dynasty soldiers and horses, and followed the support to Noto.

These days, the trench has been dug to three meters wide, more than two meters deep, and the low wall behind it is piled with cement gravel, which is also two meters high and more than two meters wide, although these have not yet reached the peak, but there is also the capital of the First World War, and the army is withdrawn back behind the stone wall, Mao Jue began to look forward to the arrival of Maeda of the Kaga Domain.

However, twenty-five, twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh, until the end of February and the beginning of March, eighteen days after occupying Noto, Mao Jue still did not see a single soldier of the Maeda family, and even next to the Kaga country on the border of Noto, the retainers retreated back.

Standing on the stone wall, Mao Jue, who was looking south, was looking far away, and he never saw anyone beating him, so he knocked on the freshly solidified cement, and shouted extremely sadly.

"This surnamed Maeda is too cowardly!"

(End of chapter)