The second prince and the little prince, as well as Prime Minister Yan Cheng, as well as the Englishman Taim, the Dutchman Ike, and the Tokugawa family Shogun will meet, and they are now in the county seat of Kagawa Island, which is close to the short-term area of Japan's Honshu Island, opposite the port of Kobe, not far from Osaka, the territory occupied by the two princes.

Kagawa Island is currently under the management of Prime Minister Yan, and the four countries where the second prince is located use a shard management system for important figures, and the ministers and generals are equivalent to the Jiedu envoys of the Tang Dynasty, and they have military and political power.

Why implement such a system, in fact, the second prince has no way, these officials and generals he brought are a bit like the situation of Longwu who just fled to Fuzhou, the generals are powerful, the ministers are powerless, everyone has their own power, he is supported, after all, in fact, the throne of Lu has already been decided, the primogeniture inheritance system, he does not have that appeal, he has loyalty, and there are those who are close to him and eventually have to follow him, as well as the military generals who support the army and respect themselves, these are the sequelae brought by the Ming Dynasty, At the same time, there is also the Japanese family power left behind by the local daimyo shogun, and it can be said that his power is a hodgepodge.

The Japanese power is too strong, and the combat effectiveness of the army directly under his kingdom is not weak, if it cannot merge, then it will bring him a devastating impact, so he has to compromise among various forces, let them support themselves as the master, and at the same time implement the system of separation, if this system is not implemented, the first four million Japanese people will not be able to control.

Because they were the territory of the old Daimyo Shogun of the Japanese, the Daimyo Shogun fled, but the forces under the Daimyo Shogun did not flee, and these forces that were not united forced him to continue to implement the feudal system, so he can only do this now.

Prime Minister Yan was the former Lord Yan of the Lu State, originally thought he was dead, but then he actually fled, fled to the Qing army, hid to the Yang Lord, and then because the Han officials in the Great Qing State really couldn't eat, he secretly returned to the newly established Lu State on Ryukyu Island, and at the beginning he served as a county governor, which was equivalent to judging cases, or serving as a secretary and clerk for the leadership.

At that time, there were still many officials of the Lu State who fled with Hong Chengchou, but Lord Yan was actually abandoned, and those who could finally board the ship were the cronies that Hong Chengchou was willing to take away, although Lord Yan also made great contributions before, but he opposed the retreat, so he was abandoned and lost the trust of Hong Chengchou, until Hong Chengchou's death, he served as the second assistant of the Lu State from the identity of the second prince who rose all the way, and the second prince took him away when he fled.

Now he is the largest civil official in the group of the second prince, the prime minister.

Although this is Prime Minister Yan's territory, the second prince is the nominal supreme leader here after all, the king of the four countries, the little prince is still a prince, so Yan Cheng is very polite to them, the second prince's power came here, the water and soil are not adaptable, and he was assimilated by the Japanese system, and regressed from the feudal dynasty to the medieval feudal system, but let him get benefits, although he is the prime minister of the country, but in fact he is equivalent to the king of Kagawa County.

Presiding over the meeting of the coalition forces, Prime Minister Yan sat down and watched the second prince and the little prince talk, as well as the Dutch, the British, and the daimyo generals sent by Tokugawa Ietsuna of Japan.

But the mind was spinning, Ehime Prefecture had been occupied by most of the army of the Shinro Province, and they stabbed them in the back, and the third prince attacked head-on, defeating the 200,000 four national soldiers at once.

Due to too many troops, lack of training, limited weapons, the Qing Dynasty only supported some old-fashioned bird guns, arquebuses, Japan supported broadswords, spears, bows and arrows, short war horses, iron cannons, most of the militia are equipped with these things, some elite generals are deployed to equip Jin Gai 1 and Jin Gai 2 arquebuses, only the direct troops of the little prince and the second prince, about 10,000 people are equipped with smoothbore guns provided by the Dutch, single flintlock pistol, the quality is not very good, the good ones are supported by the Dutch to the Japanese, Where are the Japanese armed with good quality smoothbore flintlock pistols.

I heard that the guards of the Japanese daimyo generals were armed with singles rifled front-loading flintlock pistols, which were supported by the British and Dutch.

Where did the eldest prince hear that it was supported by the Spaniards, the Dutch and the British also moved around, but not much, the Dutch and the British mainly did human trading with the eldest prince, supporting the eldest prince Some Southeast Asian natives and the indigenous population of Nanyang, in order to support the great prince's military consumption, although the Spaniards provided weapons, but the weapons were really not very good, they were all old arquebuses that needed to be set up with a tripod, and they were not as good as the imitation gold arquebuses produced by Lu before.

Now the main equipment of the eldest prince is the gold to 1 arquebus, that they are mature in technology, because there are some old craftsmen left by the original Lu State Arsenal, so there is no difficulty in producing imitation gold arquebuses.

With such firepower and such a quality of soldiers, how can they fight with the troops of the third prince who have been trained by the instructors of the Huaxia Army, I heard that they have lost most of the islands of the Lu Kingdom, and can only shrink to the main island of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and the main island of the Lu Kingdom is surviving, and the Spaniards are almost ignoring them, just providing some food for them to maintain, because they do not have enough returns.

Those Tessians value profit over favor.

Now it seems that Shikoku is about to fall into the embarrassment of the eldest prince.

The 200,000 troops were scattered, and now there are less than 30,000 troops that can be recovered, and Ehime Prefecture has no troops to defend.

The second army of the Shinro Prefecture and the troops of the third prince had already joined forces on the border between Kagawa and Kochi Prefecture, and whether they were going to attack Kagawa Prefecture next, which made him feel uneasy, and he wondered where he would go if Kagawa Prefecture was breached.

The troops under his command have all been transferred, and there are still 2,000 generals trained by himself, and 5,000 militiamen guarding the county seat, all of whom are Japanese.

Prime Minister Yan closed his eyes and thought, listening to the second prince arguing with those people, listening to the situation, the second prince also felt that he couldn't hold on and hoped to retreat to the Japanese shortcut area with the remaining 200,000 troops, but the Japanese did not agree.

The two sides quarreled for many days, and today they still can't make up their minds, the Dutch and the British both support the second prince and they retreat to Osaka County, a shortcut area in Japan, to continue to resist the Xinlu army in China, and the Japanese do not agree, and now the Japanese side has increased troops on the opposite side of the coast, and the two sides are originally hostile to each other, and the coast is heavily defended, and now the Japanese have deployed 200,000 soldiers and horses on the coast, and if you add the Japanese soldiers and horses near Kitakyushu, the Japanese have deployed 500,000 soldiers and horses in the direction of Shikoku Island and Kyushu Island.

This can't help but make Prime Minister Yan worried, and now he can see that the second prince's power has actually come to an end.

The soldiers of the Taixi, the Dutch and the British are very powerful, at least they are better at fighting than the Japanese and the Han, and they are well-trained, but they are too far away, it is not easy to come once, the Chinese army and the navy division blockade the entire ocean, and the surrounding islands and sea areas have deployed wandering sailor fleets, to pass through the blockade zone of the Huaxia army is tantamount to suicide, and can only take a long detour, from the depths of the ocean to Japan.

In this era, your sailboat does not sail close to the shore, and there is no way to even call for help if something happens.

Just when Prime Minister Yan was thinking, General Daimyo, the representative of Japan, shouted loudly: "We don't agree with you going to our shortcut area, but we can support your troops, 300,000, 500,000, we will give them all, this is the final bottom line, if not, we have nothing to say, you wait to perish or prepare to escape." ”

(End of chapter)