Another strange sight appeared in the main hall of Hagi Castle.

Ordinary samurai retainers knelt on the futons on both sides, but the head was no longer the Maori head who knelt and sits, but put a large table, Yuan Chonghuan, Song Xiance, Mao Jue, these generals from the Dongjiang River of the Ming Kingdom were discussing around the table.

The dozen or so samurai retainers below could only wait for small eyes, and some of the famous family masters who had not recruited simply followed and squeezed aside, staring.

To tell the truth, when he came back from Yizhou Lovely Chuan, Mao Jue was not happy, and it was not easy for him to get rid of the identity of 10,000 households, and he had a mighty army of 100,000 in hand, just wanted to pretend to be forced, good guy, the other party may come 300,000.

In other words, it still can't be hard.

After all, the Maori family who can't escape has just been disabled, and there are a total of 15,000 or 60,000 troops left, which can be relied on, 20,000 Japanese ronin, you can rely on a part, but the combat effectiveness is average, don't look at the Kyushu coalition army as many as 60,000, these guys, full of wall grass, are likely to be Mao Jue's Nangong Mountain without fighting, which also includes the Kuroda family, which seems to be the loudest slogan, God knows if he is the next Sekigahara God of War of the Western Army, and the main force that he really counts on is still more than 30,000 troops on the Dongjiang River.

And this thing is still talking cool here.

"General Mao doesn't need to worry, the shogunate army is too much, in vain, the daimyo of Hokuriku may not work hard for the Tokugawa family, what needs to be worried is only the army of more than 100,000 relatives of the Tokugawa family in the eastern area, I believe that with the general's military fortune, it should be no problem!"

Do a line of love and love a line, the old guy's Nanjing official dialect is getting better and better, but what he says is nonsense.

Like Ishida Mitsunari's Western Army, Mao Jue's Western Army can be regarded as a cluster of contradictions, just take Kuroda Tadashiki as an example! He recognized Mao Jue's strength, so he encouraged Mao Jue to fight to the death with the Tokugawa family, just like Kuroda Rushui back then, no matter whether the Eastern Army won or the Western Army won, the appeal of his Kuroda family could be caught in the fire, but this time, the Kuroda family will definitely not do Tokugawa Ieyasu a big favor again, persuade Kobayakawa Hideaki, and directly end Kuroda Nagamasa in the Battle of Sekigahara.

The little abacus of the Kuroda family, Mao Jue, didn't know how, so he looked at the map, did he have the right to fart this old guy, or was it tasteless, so he went directly to the left ear and went out of the right ear, and ignored it.

Shimazu Mitsuhisa and Nabeshima Konmatsu are obviously not proficient in business, so they can only listen to the interpreter on the side of the translation, and their faces are still confused for a while, which can be ignored for the time being.

However, despite the disparity in strength, Mao Jue is not without a chance of winning, compared with the shogunate, he still has a great advantage, the navy.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty in later generations, the British army fought two opium wars, and the 800,000 Qing troops in the northern and southern provinces of 25,000 people could not find the north, relying on the navy to march all the way along the coastline, and no matter how many Qing troops could not touch the sea, now, Mao Jue's fleet is like a British devil fighting the Qing Dynasty.

used to be the old Dongjiang Pipe Fleet, and he was considered Mao Wenlong's confidant, but now Yang Liandong, who was also promoted by Mao Jue to be a general of the Navy, knocked his fingers on the map with great interest.

"General, let's go to the water master this time! Anyway, the last time I walked around Wajima, we are all familiar with the road! ”

"This time, we won't spend time with these dwarves, the army will go straight to his Edo Castle, take his capital, and see how he plays with the Tokugawa family devil!"

"General Mao, it's not proper!"

Regardless of the fact that he has also become an old devil in the mouth of General Yang Shen, he is short, Kuroda Tadako quickly interjected and vetoed.

"Even if the general takes Edo Castle, the Tokugawa family can completely transfer the city, as long as the coalition army is defeated in the western country, he is still the shogunate, Tokugawa Ieyasu used to do this, deliberately left Fushimi Castle under the attack of Ishida Mitsunari, and this may not affect the shogunate to raise troops, the ancestor of the family also had the world in mind, and sent troops to attack the territory of the western daimyo in the west, but during the Sekigahara War, the western daimyo still entered the war."

"It's better to put the Dongjiang Naval Division into the frontal battlefield!"

Here, it seems that the Kuroda family is from the Eastern Army at the time of Sekigahara, and the "chrysanthemums" of many people present have exploded.

It's just that in order to persuade Mao Jue to dispel his mind, the old guy can't take care of it.

Indeed, this idea Mao Jue was a little moved, but it was only an idea, because he didn't have time.

From the seventh year of Chongzhen to the ninth year of Chongzhen, it seems that there are still two or three years, but these two or three years are too short for even the small world of the Wa Kingdom, looking at Tokugawa Ieyasu is an example, the old guy survived Takeda Shingen, survived Mori Motoon, survived Oda Nobunaga, and survived Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and finally the Sekigahara War was fought and was not willing to die, until the Toyotomi family was completely wiped out, and then he kicked his legs, a full fifty or sixty years.

But although the current war is a challenge to Mao Jue, it is also an opportunity, Tokugawa Ieyasu spent a lifetime to have the prestige, the army, now Mao Jue has a small half, at this time the entire Japanese daimyo are watching, if the main force of the shogunate is defeated in a war, although it may not be able to destroy the Kanto Tokugawa family in one go, but the hegemony of the Toyotomi family in Kansai will definitely be determined, as long as it can be Chongzhen ten years ago, even if there is only half of the Japanese country, for Dongjiang has achieved the goal.

How to choose is really a difficult problem for Mao Jue.

But either the opportunities are for those who are prepared, just when a group of big people are deadlocked, a ronin actually appeared underneath, about twenty years old, most of the standard ronin, open-chested striped gown, shabby black pants, moon head mustache, only carrying a knife, and smiling to the edge of the table.

"Ladies and gentlemen, General Mao, attack Shikoku Island!"

"Who are you, barking here? Do you have a part in speaking? ”

The one who is standing is either a daimyo or a general of Dongjiang, and a ronin stops here, just like a group of Wall Street bigwigs in the later generations discussing the direction of the stock market, and coldly coming in to sell toothbrushes, Kuroda Tadashi was the first to impatiently slap over.

"In Xiadao, he is the grandson of Changzong's countrymen, and he has also sailed in Zhoushan in the East China Sea, served in Hangzhou for General Mao, and served in Daoyuan."

Kuroda Tadayuki was dumbfounded all of a sudden, although the Changzong clan was destroyed, it can be regarded as a famous family, and even the family is higher than his Kuroda family, and this kid's words also revealed that he was Mao Jue's old subordinate, which made Kuroda old fox a little jealous.

But for Mao Jue, he doesn't know what Changzong is in my department, as for the pirates of the East China Sea, he has hired not 10,000 but 8,000, and he can't remember those pirate leaders, let alone any cats and dogs, listening to the translation, Mao Jue snorted impatiently.

"Why attack Shikoku?"

"The general wants to support the Toyotomi family, and the best way for the Toyotomi family to re-establish is to recapture the Settsu country, Osaka 650,000 koku, and compared to the Kansai mountains, taking the sea route to Osaka, for the general, is also the shortest, and!"

It's actually sold here, and this product was deliberately delayed for a moment to show off such a fist.

"In the lower part of the country, in the Shikoku Saku, the Kochi domain has connections, if the general wants to attack Shikoku, in the lower can be cited as an internal response!"

"General Mao, you can't believe this person! His Nagazong family is a former Tosa daimyo, he is just seeking to restore his family's rule, the army does not move lightly, once Matsudaira Nobutsuna the whole army is dispatched, Hagi Castle, Nagato, our army's back road is cut off!"

"So, this person really has a way to go on Shikoku Island?"

I really didn't expect to meet a leading party again, such a person Mao Jue is comer did not refuse, and he couldn't help but squint his eyes, his expression, Kuroda Tadashi who saw it couldn't wait to give himself a slap.

If he can take Shikoku Island, it will be a good move for Mao Jue, Matsudaira Nobutsuna can gather 300,000 troops, but the price he can pay will also have to prepare 300,000 army rations.

The shogunate's main military food transportation route was Osaka to Shikoku, and then transported to Aki Province, seizing Shikoku Island, threatening the shogunate army's back road, not to mention, had to take the western mountain road to transport logistics grain and grass, and the shogunate army had to pay at least twice the price.

As for leaving Hagi Castle, the back road is cut off? Mao Jue is not afraid of others cutting off his back road, his whole army is a guest soldier, it's a big deal like Zuo Liangyu, where to grab there, plus the Dongjiang River, the Li Korean combined fleet has more than 400 large and small ships, more than 8,000 sailors, can't beat and run, can still run, what I'm really worried about is the Shimazu family, the Kuroda family, the Nabeshima family, these servant troops, the Shimazu family was like this, 3,500 people were on the expedition, and they didn't contribute when they needed to fight, as a result, Ishida Mitsunari was defeated, and the Shimazu army that played soy sauce fell into an encirclement, Of the more than 3,000 people, it is said that only about 20 people returned to Kyushu alive.

Thinking about it this way, if the back road is cut off, it will still be a good thing for Mao Jue, at least when the battle is about to be made, these wall grasses will have to weigh the fate of those who fell on both sides after the last Battle of Sekigahara.

And take the initiative to fight, and there is a right in your own hands.

Preset Battlefield Rights!

This is particularly important for the Dongjiang Army, which relies on firearms.

"What do you want?"

There is no idiot's lunch in the world, if you want to win the four countries, the danger you pay is also proportional, maybe if you fail, the last branch of the Changzong clan will have to disappear in the long river of history, since he jumped out, it is natural to achieve comparable benefits, Mao Jue is interested in leaning down.

"Tosa Ichikuni!"

Speaking of which, this calm ronin voice like Yasuo also trembled a little, no one knows better than these famous ronins what it is like to lose territory and wander around, more than ten years ago, in order to get back the fiefdom, Changzong and my department fought for the Toyotomi family, and fought for the entire clan, and now it is his turn to help.

"Add another Awaji country."

After glancing at him twice, Mao Jue's fingers actually clicked a few more times on the map, and landed on a series of small islands connected to Shikoku Island and Honshu, which is the territory of 200,000 stones.

For the samurai, there is nothing more attractive than the territory, originally the Kyushu daimyo followed Mao Jue to kill, a big reason is that the Dongjiang soldiers were forced to do so, but now, a carrot hanging in front of the donkey's head is appearing.

Seven or eight out of ten daimyo in the world, more than 20 million stone of territory are on the side of the Tokugawa family, although the risk is extremely high, but if it is really done, the benefit is definitely not small, a million stone daimyo is not a dream!

Unconsciously, in this hall, the originally lifeless atmosphere suddenly became turbulent.

On April 15, under the active preparations of the shogunate Ishu Kawaikawa, the western army that had swallowed Hagi Castle moved, and even the Mori family poured out, a total of 140,000 troops marched north along the east coast of Honshu Island, and there was a tendency to go straight to Osaka Castle.

Matsudaira Nobutsuna, who was preparing for war in Aki Country, his original strategy was obviously disrupted.

(End of chapter)