After Xue Hong received the task, he negotiated with Hong Tianpao for fifteen days, Hong Tiancang really didn't want his army to fight, in the face of the situation that the Ryukyu Kingdom was in ruins, he felt that it was time to recuperate, but the toughness of the Huaxia Kingdom and the conditions for them to send troops made him have to make up his mind to cooperate with the Huaxia Army.

He successively transferred 25,000 regular troops on the island, 50,000 militiamen, 50,000 militia servants, one from each Southeast Asian native, forming a 30,000 people's team, 10,000 Nanyang natives, and 60,000 Japanese aborigines.

With a total strength of 225,000 troops, they boarded the Ryukyu Kingdom's naval warships and troop carriers.

Today, through the previous battles, the Ryukyu Kingdom has 300 warships of more than 300 tons, 300 merchant ships of more than 300 tons, and 500 patrol ships, transportation ships, and fishing boats of less than 180 tons.

Originally, Xue Hong told the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that he wanted him to raid Hokkaido Island, but Hong Tiancang and his generals also had their own plans, and it was too far to go to Hokkaidao Road, and it may be unlikely that their old ships would be moved.

After Xue Hong reported to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Gu Yuesheng instructed him that it didn't matter, as long as they sent troops, the Huaxia Kingdom didn't want to face the Japanese alone, and fight with the Japanese, let the third prince fight with them.

Then he promised to give 220,000 troops and 300,000 loads of food every month, and gave a batch of old firearms from Xinlu Mansion to the third prince, so that he could arm his militia servant army, and the others were only the third prince who could figure out his own way.

The second prince is not out of the question, the eldest prince still has a lot of weapons that he has not had time to take away and destroy, swords, swords, halberds, Portuguese arquebuses, Spanish arquebuses, Dutch arquebuses, and even heavy arquebuses of the Russians, everything, as many as 50,000, in addition to Dutch armor, Spanish plate armor, Portuguese cuirass, Spanish spears, Portuguese swords, Dutch heavy swords, as well as Ming Dynasty Yanling knives, Pu knives, bows and arrows, Qing Dynasty heavy horn bows, everything.

Just rummag around, his servant army and militia are all armed, even the cannon fodder people are each armed with a big knife, spear, spear, bow and arrow, etc., his Praetorian Guard, but also a water of Spanish plate armor, Dutch helmets, Chinese army smoothbore flintlock pistols, 5,000 soldiers and horses equipped with the luxury.

The 20,000 garrison troops left on the island are the Huaxia Army's Jingai 2 arquebuses, wearing Spanish plate armor, carrying a heavy horned bow of the Qing Dynasty on his back, hanging an arrow pot in his waist, twenty-four heavy arrows inserted in it, and a Ming Dynasty Yanling knife hanging on the other side of his waist, which can be said to be strange and abnormal.

Although the third prince has also experienced the war, but he lacks some comprehensive military edification, with the conceit and vanity of a literati, such an armed luxury army, so that he has face on his face, compared to the Chinese army usually wears a Portuguese cuirass, which is covered with the standard military uniform of the Chinese army, and wears a helmet like a hat like the Ming army on the top of his head, he feels that his army is still mighty.

His army was loaded with 550 ships and sent to Japan after being armed with weapons from all nations, and he did not tell the Huaxia Army where he was going to land, and the general of the First Fleet of the Huaxia Army stationed on the island was urgently summoned by Xue Hong and issued an order to send three 300-ton Galen warships to follow and monitor.

According to the order jointly issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of National Defense, no matter how high your military rank or level is, the troops stationed abroad must be under the joint command of the Ministry of National Defense and the personnel dispatched by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the commander-in-chief shall be the owner of the Chinese Commercial Pavilions stationed abroad.

Therefore, the general of the naval division immediately sent three warships to follow him to sea.

On the third day, Xue Hong received a carrier pigeon from the military attache on the ship of the sailor who sent him, and the fleet of the third prince did not go to the east of the sea, but bypassed from Xinlu Province to prepare to land on the Chinese island opposite Kitakyushu Island.

Xue Hong had to worry about this arrogant third prince, where did you gather 500,000 Japanese samurai who were ready to attack Kitakyushu Island, although your force is higher than others, and your combat effectiveness is stronger, but in the face of 500,000 troops, how can you fight 220,000? And how do you get on someone else's island?

He hurriedly went to meet the third prince, the third prince received him eagerly, heard his worry, and said with a smile: "Haha, I will be so stupid, here, I will fight here first, and then use this as a starting base, and then fight on the Chinese island after recuperating for a while, when the time comes, I will immigrate 200,000 people to this island to serve the army, if the army is damaged, my 200,000 people can arm at least 50,000 soldiers and horses, and then these 50,000 soldiers and horses to support these 220,000 soldiers and horses, how can I also teach the enemy some lessons, and drag down the enemy's forces for you." , so that General Kong Youxing will be able to fight through Kitakyushu and land on the island of China. ”

When Xue Hong saw it, he jumped up and roared angrily: "That's Jeju Island in Goguryeo, are you going to attack Jeju Island?" "He has experienced a new type of official training, in order to broaden their horizons, Zhang Qiang personally gave them a few strategic lessons, he knows what Jeju Island is, that is the island of Goguryeo, and now the Japanese have not solved it, the third prince is ready to provoke Goguryeo, although Goguryeo is unbearable, but behind them stands the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty has conquered Goguryeo, and the troops of Goguryeo have become the servant army of the Qing Dynasty, they are inferior to those who are high-eyed, they only know how to bend bows and shoot arrows, The Qing army, which was slashed on horseback, was superior to the Japanese in terms of firearms.

The third prince said proudly: "Our Lu country, oh no, now it is my Ryukyu Kingdom, and we need a bigger place, which can't even fit a million people, and I can't feed it, so I need a bigger territory, and Jeju Island is a very suitable place, not far from Amami Island, not far from Japan, so that we can not only support you nearby, but also find a place that can feed us, Jeju Island is vast and sparsely populated, but suitable for planting, Where the grain produced in one year is enough to feed the population of the Ryukyu Kingdom for two years, and you can also raise horses, it is a very good place, where it does not belong to the Huaxia Kingdom, I didn't do anything to the Huaxia Kingdom to be sorry for them, it's very good. ”

Xue Hong smiled slightly, worthy of being a member of the old Hong family, even if he is not a smart son, he will be so calculating, now he can't break this relationship, let the third prince have a dirty relationship with them, as an old official who has been managing business abroad for several years, Xue Hong's brain is still very smart, and he said a few innocuous words and went back.

Then he wrote a report to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs overnight.

(End of chapter)