The second prince fled to Osaka, and hurriedly organized his own forces and army, a little depressed, although there were still 50,000 soldiers and horses, but this force really made people have no confidence, the key is the population.

In terms of population, he robbed and coaxed him, but he only brought a total of 30,000 people, as well as dozens of low-level officials and more than a dozen cabinet officials in the DPRK and the Central Committee.

After searching Osaka, he found 20,000 people of Han Chinese descent, who were willing to submit to him and become the people of his power and support his rule.

In this way, he had a total population of 50,000, which did not even exceed the population of the small prefecture of Osaka, and the population of the Japanese daimyo in the nearby countryside was dozens of times that of his.

What's worse is that the Japanese have already attacked from Hokkaido and recovered most of the island.

Japan is divided into island-like terrain from north to south, and there are five island-like areas of different sizes: Hokkaido, Honshu, Chugoku, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Kyuji.

Of these, Shikoku is the smallest, Chugoku is the second-to-last smallest, Kyushu is the third-smallest, and the short-distance is the fourth-smallest, then Hokkaido is relatively medium, and Honshu is the largest.

These areas are small on both sides and large in the middle, and then have a direct narrow land border in the marginal area, or intermittent small islands, and it is obvious that several land plates of different sizes in the form of islands are slightly connected.

Among them, the short-term road is connected to the two tectonic plates of China, and the short-route is connected to the island of Honshu the most, and the others are only connected by islands, or a continental shelf, with seawater in the middle, and the rivers are divided, and Shikoku and China are connected by a wide seawater in the middle.

Hokkaido is directly connected to the island of Honshu by a strait that is several tens of kilometers wide.

If you compare the form of Japan, it is like a fish lying on its side, Hokkaido is the head of the fish, Honshu Island is the main body of the fish, the shortcut is equivalent to the lower waist, Shikoku and China are two legs, Kyushu Island is equal to a calf, Shikoku Island is equal to a thigh without a shank and feet, Kagoshima to Nagasaki is equal to the ankle and foot surface of this calf of Kyushu Island, which is almost equal to an irregular fish tail.

The shortcut can be seen as a part of the island of Honshu, similar to the fins of a fish.

Osaka is a little closer to the connection between the fins and the body.

The second prince found that he was now very bad and disadvantaged, because the Japanese had occupied most of the island of Honshu, and the daimyo generals of the defeated Tokugawa shogunate Ietsuna had come back to recover their lost territories, and hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops, with his current strength of less than 10,000 regular army of Lu, 40,000 militiamen and peasants could not have an advantage in numbers, so he set his sights on Shikoku Island, where almost all sides were surrounded by sea water, if Shikoku could be occupied, Taking advantage of the fact that the Japanese who were still in Kyoto Prefecture did not react, they seized a base area, and then tried to counterattack Lu or go to Honshu Island to fight a decisive battle with Japan in the future.

Anyway, the naval division strength he has now does not dare to fight with the size of the small naval division of the Japanese, otherwise hundreds of cannons will teach the Japanese how to behave.

Going to Shikoku Island is also conducive to avoiding the Japanese soldiers, so that the Japanese tossed around the Chinese Island before, and when those daimyo generals of the shogunate regain the lost territory, they must meet Feng Quan and Kong Youxing, the two anti-bones, as long as they are not hit by the Japanese on land, then they can hold Shikoku Island, let Feng Quan and Kong Youxing have a headache.

This is a bit like the situation of the eldest prince and the third prince of the Lu country, the eldest prince will definitely recover most of the Lu islands, but the three princes' naval divisions have a lot of troops, as long as they are not wiped out by the Lu army that pounces on the island, then with the naval division, they can hold the big island that is only a few dozen nautical miles away, this is the largest island in the Lu country, and it looks a little larger than the main island of the Ryukyu Kingdom that is raised by a long string of water beads, mainly because it is concentrated in land, and the main island of the Ryukyu Kingdom is relatively narrow and long, the eldest prince cleans up the chaos and suppresses the time of other small islands, It is enough for the third prince to gain a firm foothold.

It will take some time for the eldest prince to restore the Lu State, and the second prince knows that it will also take some time for the Japanese daimyo generals to regain their rule in their original territory, and the first thing they have to face is the fishtail part occupied by Feng Quan and Kong Youxing, because the land is directly connected there, and it is much easier to fight than him here, and Kong Youxing and Feng Quan's naval division are the smallest of these forces.

Among all the people, the second prince has changed from the previous advantage to the most unlucky, occupying the inferior side.

Because his greatest danger comes from Japan, the shogunate forces that have been fought by the Lu State for so long and almost completely wiped out have now regained control of most parts of the island of Honshu, and they are about to come to the city, and the Japanese people who were originally managed by the daimyo around them are also in chaos, but due to the inertia of being ruled, they will still soon become the arms of the Japanese daimyo generals to expel the Lu forces.

The little prince, the son of the second prince, immediately led 3,000 regular soldiers, 8,000 militiamen, plus 3,000 people, and crossed the sea to Shikoku Island under the cover of his own fleet of thirty thousand-ton ships and one hundred merchant ships.

The 3,000 regular troops all use the front-loading smoothbore guns purchased by Hong Chengchou as the main weapons, the 8,000 militiamen use arquebuses and 2 weapons, and the 3,000 militiamen transport materials, and they have all kinds of weapons, armor, broadswords, spears and other weapons made by the Chinese army, which is much more powerful than the Japanese using kitchen knives, wooden sticks, bamboo poles, wooden shields and so on from local materials, and it can be said that these people can be used as the main elite troops of the Japanese.

Well, what is said is that in the past, after suffering the loss of the Lu army, the Japanese have at least replaced the weapons and armor that they bought from the Lu country before, these are all made by Hong Chengchou in the Lu country, and some were made in the early stage of the Ryukyu Kingdom, or the cold weapons that were replaced by the original weapons of the Ryukyu Kingdom, in order to develop when the port was first opened, the Lu country and Japan were still allies, of course, they had to create some opportunities.

So he provided free support for a batch of cold weapons, which were much better than the original messy weapons and armor similar to the Stone Age in the hands of Japan, although they all looked like they had been used, they must have been used, the weapons of the Ryukyu Kingdom must have been used, the Lu State and the Huaxia Army fought life and death on the mainland, and the weapons and armor captured from the Qing Army and the Huaxia Army were also used.

Hong Chengchou studied the Huaxia Army, but he studied everything, including this kind of behavior of changing new weapons and equipment, immediately disposing of old weapons to his weak opponents, and exchanging money for money.

Support a batch, sell a batch at a low price, if you want it again, you have to buy it at a high price, and so on until you make the last calculation, the average price Lu Guo still made a lot of money, the Ming officials are actually businessmen, they are more businessmen than merchants, more treacherous, many weapons are found to be very old in the end, but they are sold at a higher average price than new weapons.

At the same time, you finally find that after selling these to you, the weapons in the hands of those merchants immediately take on a new look, much more powerful than the ones you hold in your hands, and then sell them with a smile and then sell them to a small amount of new weapons that can make your eyes hot, the price of the new weapons is so high that you are startled, but you can't help but buy it again, but there is no market, and you can't buy it with money.

When the daimyo general who secretly went to the island to clean up the island on the island of Japan and led the 10,000 troops he had gathered to meet the little prince, he found that even when they were equipped with a batch of Jingai-2 arquebuses that the Dutch urgently gave them, they were still inferior to the enemy in terms of overall firepower.

(End of chapter)