The Tiance Army is indeed a guest army from afar, and Japan is a country with a large population and a small place.

Under normal circumstances, in order to attack Japan, it is necessary to occupy a piece of territory as a foothold and provide security for subsequent reinforcements and logistics before continuing to advance inland.

But the Tiance Army is a cross-era army, and the Tiance Army is not exactly a guest army, because the foothold is ready-made, and it also has a leading party.

Although the naval fleet of the Tiance Army was anchored on the sea, and the Righteous Army also monitored the Tiance Army, Wang Yue was well aware of the dynamics of the Righteous Army's area.

"Hehe, it seems that the rebels are actively preparing for war!" Wang Yue said.

The UAV of Tiance Army is a portable police UAV, with a flight radius of 80 kilometers, which still cannot meet the needs of longer distances.

Therefore, the carrier-based helicopter regularly conducted routine reconnaissance of the interior, and the movements of the rebel army were fed back in time.

"These white-eyed wolves forget their mothers when they have milk." Feng Yuanshan Road.

Wang Yue said: "Some people will change with the environment, most of the leaders of the rebel army may have been ordinary farmers two years ago, but now they have hundreds of thousands of troops in their hands, and they don't know what their surnames are." ”

Gu Xiuquan reported: "Since we sold weapons to the Righteous Army, we have sold a total of 23,000 Type 37 rifles, 160 Type 37 artillery, and about 200,000 cold weapons of various types to the Righteous Army, of which most of these rifles and artillery pieces are equipped with the subordinates of the Four Kings of the Southeast, Northwest, and Northeast of the Righteous Army. ”

In addition to these weapons, the rebels also captured a lot of guns and artillery pieces in various places, including about 8,000 guns and more than 100 guns of various calibers. ”

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Sounds very powerful." All the officers in the room laughed.

The General Staff Department had already planned the attitude of the rebels, so Li Zixiong asked: "Commander, when will we act?" ”

Wang Yue said: "Set off tonight, heading towards Sasebo Port." ”

Sasebo was an important military port in Japan during World War II and was a natural port, but now it is only a small port and is part of the traditional domain of the Hirado Domain.

It is more than 20 kilometers away from Hirado, and although it is not as prosperous as Hirado, it is suitable for the landing of the Tence army, and the landing ground is set up, and the distance from the contact zone between the Hirado Domain and the rebel army to Kumamoto Castle is shorter.

On the morning of 2 March, the naval fleet of the Tiance Army arrived at the port of Sasebo, and the army began to land.

Those who came to greet him were Matsuura Kushin, the lord of the Hirado Domain, and related personnel of the Tence Army stationed in the Hirado Domain.

"Matsuura welcomes Lord Shaobao to Hirado." Matsuura Jiuxin bowed to Wang Yueshen and said.

Looking at the Tiance Army coming down from the landing ships and passenger ro-ro wheels, as well as various types of vehicles, Matsuura Jiuxin's legs were a little weak.

The Hirado Domain had a force of 5,000 men, which was his starting force and his core main force. After the rebellion, the Hirado Domain also swelled dramatically, and its strength expanded to more than 60,000 people, a twelve-fold increase.

More than 20,000 of these Type 37 rifles were equipped with the Hirado Domain's army, and these riflemen were the elite of the Hirado Domain, and it was these riflemen who repeatedly defeated the shogunate army and were able to block the attacks of the rebels.

However, the Tiance Army is a rifle with a lot of unknown equipment, and it is full of spirit, which is not comparable to the Hirado Domain.

Wang Yue looked into the distance and said, "Are those the soldiers that Matsuura-kun brought?" ”

Matsuura Jiuxin said: "These are the elites of my Matsuura family, a total of 5,000 troops, Lord Shaobao wants to crusade against the rebellious people, Matsuura is duty-bound." ”

Wang Yue didn't ask the Hirado Domain to be the main force, just to lead the way, so Matsuura Kushin didn't bring many troops, after all, the area occupied by the Hirado Domain was not small, and more troops were needed to stabilize the place.

"Elite? I don't think that's it! Li Shu, the commander of the North Korean army who came together, pursed his lips and said disdainfully.

Wang Yue said: "Okay, I hope you two can unite sincerely." ”

"Yes, Lord Shaobao!" Li Shu is very dogged.

The three forces of China, North Korea and Japan, the Tiance Army is the offensive force, and the other two will be used as auxiliary forces. In this punitive battle against the rebels, there are two operational purposes, one is to severely damage the main force of the rebels, let them know how many eyes Ma Wang Ye has, and the other purpose is to capture Amakusa Shizhen alive.

On March 3, the Tence Army set out from Sasebo and attacked Saga Castle from the area controlled by the Hirado Domain, and on the same day, Saga Castle was taken, and the 3,500 defenders were wiped out along with Saga Castle, and none of them surrendered.

On the 4th, the headquarters of the rebel army received the news that the Tiance army was coming from the direction of Zuohe City, and the northern king Ping Qiusheng led the headquarters of 80,000 troops from Zhuhou to meet the Tiance army.

On the afternoon of the 4th, the two armies met on the banks of the Huazong River, and the brigade of 1,000 men of the vanguard of the Rebel Army of Ping Qiusheng had an encounter with a reconnaissance platoon of the Tiance Army.

"Yaga! What did you say? The strength of a large brigade was defeated by dozens of people from the Tiance Army, and less than half of the men and horses came back, which is a shame for the Heavenly Army. Ping Qiusheng was furious, opened his bow left and right, and kept slapping his mouth on the face of the captain who ran back.

"Hi, hi!" Ping Qiusheng snorted, and the captain was high, and he stood respectfully.

Ping Qiusheng felt that his hands were a little numb, so he stopped beating and said, "Say, how did you lose?" How far is the enemy from us? ”

The captain's face was swollen, and he reported inarticulately: "Report, report to His Royal Highness the King of the North, our brigade suddenly found dozens of enemies in Dachuan, they have three strange cars, and their subordinates think that they have few people, so they want to catch a few live mouths and ask for some information."

Unexpectedly, these dozens of Tiance troops turned out to be very powerful, the bullets they fired were as dense as raindrops, and what was even more terrifying was that that kind of strange car was also equipped with firecrackers, and it could be fired continuously, and our army immediately suffered heavy losses.

I ordered the brigade to attack once, but it also failed, and seeing that more than half of the casualties were lost, my subordinates had to order a withdrawal and report the situation to His Royal Highness the King of the North, and now the enemy is still about twenty miles away from us. ”

"Your brigade is equipped with a hundred infantry guns and two hundred iron cannons, is it a burning stick?" If it weren't for Ping Qiusheng's hands being throbbing, it would be like slapping him twice.

The 37-type rifle of the Tiance Army is called the infantry gun by the Japanese, and the self-produced arquebus is called the iron cannon to show the difference.

The captain said: "The soldiers of the Tiance Army are too treacherous, they hide behind trees and stones and shoot at us, and they shoot at us from two hundred paces away, and it is difficult for our infantry to hit them. ”

Since the rebels were already equipped with more than 20,000 Type 37 rifles, which had an effective firing range of 400 meters, the Tiance army adopted covert shooting.