Chapter 621: Dongying
A few days later, in the distant East China Sea, the waves were rough.
At this moment, more than a dozen small boats are heading west.
There were dozens of people sitting on the boat, and these dozens of people were all dressed as standard Toei samurai! They had katanas in their hands, and some practiced their swordsmanship in small boats, slashing a few times from time to time.
However, the vast majority of Toei samurai had a lonely expression on their faces.
Now is the era of regency politics in the history of Toei, the nobility of Toei is in charge of the government, and the emperor is just a puppet in the hands of the nobles! And now the largest aristocratic family is the historical Fujiwara clan, the Fujiwara clan is called the "regent", and the patriarch of the Fujiwara clan is the regent of Toei! This political situation has lasted for more than 300 years now, and it is getting closer and closer to the era of the samurai shogunate in history!
These dozens of samurai wanted to support the emperor and assassinate the Fujiwara clan, but they were discovered by the Fujiwara clan, and in the end they had to wander overseas, and in the future they would become Japanese invaders.
"Soon we will be able to go to the Central Plains, where gold is everywhere and beautiful women are everywhere! The Han people there are extremely weak, and it is very easy to snatch wealth from them! A tattered-clad Toei samurai stood at the bow of the ship, yelling as if venting.
"Let's go to Jiangnan in the end, Jiangnan is the richest, and Jiangnan's defense is the weakest!" There is another bushido.
"His Majesty the Emperor is still under the control of the Fujiwara clan, and it is really uncomfortable to think about it! If His Majesty the Emperor is under the control of our samurai, we samurai can control the entire country, and then we can become strong in Dongying, and we can even invade Goryeo and then use Goryeo as a springboard into the Central Plains! "A bushido with unusually messy hair.
Historically, it was not until the 16th century that Toyotomi Hideyoshi truly unified Dongying for the first time, and Dongying had a centralized government for the first time, when Dongying began to invade Goryeo, but was quickly defeated by the Central Plains regime! It is still 400 years old from that era, but the ambitions of the Toei samurai have already been revealed.
"The aristocracy of Kyoto does not want to make progress, and the country is in chaos, like scattered sand, how can such a country be compared to the unified power of the Central Plains?" The Toei samurai standing at the bow of the ship hated that iron could not be made of steel.
"All this has nothing to do with us, we can't go back to Dongying! Let's go to the Central Plains and enjoy the world of flowers in the Central Plains! An elderly Toei samurai behind him sighed.
More than ten small boats continued to move forward against the wind and waves, the sky was slightly dark, and there were some Dongying warriors sitting quietly on the boat, at this time, there was a sudden exclamation around the surroundings, and those Dongying warriors who were meditating came to their senses.
"What happened?" A meditative bushido.
"Look!" Someone shouted ahead.
The warriors looked ahead, and their faces turned pale.
A black line appeared on the sea in front of them, and the black line was getting closer and closer to them, and it could be seen that an endless number of warships were coming in this direction! Now that it's dark, they can't see where the end of the battleship is, and they don't know how many warships have entered this sea!
In July of the 11th year of Xuanwu, Wu Yu and Wu Ling led the navy from Pyongyang, Ganghwa Island, Jeju Island and other places in Goryeo, and they gathered on Tsushima Island to rest for three days, after which nearly 1,000 warships and more than 300 logistics ships transporting supplies entered the Sea of Japan in the future! The total strength led by Wu Jue and Wu Ling reached 90,000, and the total strength reached 110,000 with the militia transporting logistics materials!
And at the same time as they entered the Sea of Japan to the east, Wang Gui led 500 warships and 50,000 navies to the vast sea with Binfu, which was later known as Vladivostok, and headed in the direction of Dongying!
The dozen or so boats were drowned by the rain of arrows before they could escape, and none of the Dongying samurai survived!
On July 23, the autumn rain continued throughout Dongying, and more than 1,000 warships led by Wu Jue and Wu Ling landed in the Ruofjord on the west coast of Dongying!
The local lords of the Dongying region in the area of the fjord kowtowed to meet them, and then these local lords led the Song army in the direction of Kyoto!
The rain was heavy, but the Song army was advancing extremely fast, and not a single soldier was delayed because of the rain.
They have been in Goryeo for more than two years, training hard every day, and now it's finally time for the tigers to come out!
Those Dongying lords who led the way were shocked in their hearts, they had never seen so many troops since they were born! At this time, there were almost no formed armies in Toei, and most of the lords had samurai, but the size of the samurai was extremely limited. They were secretly glad in their hearts, and felt that they were right to join the Great Song Dynasty.
From the landing on July 23, the Song army had almost no rest for four days and four nights, and on the afternoon of July 27, the Song army came to the border west of Kyoto!
At the same time, the 50,000 Song army led by Wang Gui entered the narrow lake north of Kyoto by sea, Lake Biwa, and in the middle of the night on July 27, Wang Gui's army landed east of Kyoto, and a large amount of ordnance and military supplies were transported!
Overnight, more than 100,000 Song troops surrounded Kyoto.
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At this time, Kyoto was the capital of Toei, but the level of urban construction was very low. Inside the city walls, there are buildings that look like paupers' cellars! Further inside the city walls, the buildings are sparsely built, and there are some courtyards, but most of them feel dilapidated.
It wasn't until the innermost part of Kyoto that the buildings gradually increased, and the gardens here were much more splendid than the outside! Toei's Imperial Palace is also here! However, the imperial palace in Dongying is far inferior to the Yanjing Imperial Palace, the former Bianliang Imperial Palace, and the Hangzhou Imperial Palace! The imperial palace here covers an area of just over 40 acres, with only four palaces and three attics.
The rain still didn't stop, the sky was dark, and the whole of Kyoto was in chaos!
The poor people of Kyoto are hiding in their homes, and the samurai of Kyoto have come to the city walls and are ready to defend the city! There were also some warriors who came to the palace to petition and go out of the city to fight the Song army!
In the palace, the nineteen-year-old Emperor Toei Toba's face was pale, and more than a dozen Toei ministers sat cross-legged below.
One of the leading ministers looked to be in his sixties, wearing a gray kimono with a nonchalant expression on his face, and this person was none other than Fujiwara Izumi, the head of the Fujiwara clan, and the regent of Toei in this era.
All eyes were on Izumi Fujiwara's face, and no one looked at the emperor! The emperor is just a puppet, and if it weren't for the stakes, these people wouldn't have entered the palace to see the emperor at all.
"Fujiwara-sama, who the hell is out there?" A minister couldn't help but ask.
"It should be Song Jun! The local lords, they can't build such an army! Izumi Fujiwara.
"The Song army is extremely powerful, how do we deal with these Song army?" The minister said.
"The city of Kyoto is very strong, and it is almost impossible for the Song army to defeat it! You know, there are more than 40,000 samurai in the entire Kyoto Castle, and almost half of the samurai in the entire Toei are here! Moreover, the Song army fought across the sea, and the logistics supply must be insufficient, and they will inevitably retreat after a long time! Izumi Fujiwara.
In fact, Fujiwara Izumi is just pretending to be calm, since the founding of the country, until now, they have never dealt with the Han army! Every Dongying person knows that the Central Plains is strong, prosperous, and civilized, but they don't know what the strength of the Central Plains is! Faced with such a situation, he was also terrified.
"Fujiwara-kun, we should call on the samurai of the world to help Kyoto!" It was at this time that a samurai dressed humanely.
This person is Oda Mitsukei, the sect secretary of Emperor Toei, and the so-called priest is the teacher! On the other hand, this person is also the most famous samurai of Toei, and it can be said that he is the samurai leader of the entire Toei!
This era has reached the end of the Regency politics, and the power of the samurai group is increasing, and this Oda Mitsukei is the only person in the entire Toei who can compete with Fujiwara Izumi.
Hearing Oda's words, Izumi Fujiwara fell silent! He naturally wanted to drive away the Song army, but he couldn't tolerate the fact that all the samurai from all over the world would gather in Kyoto, so the strength of the samurai would definitely increase greatly! If the samurai were able to defeat the Song army, it was very likely that the samurai group would replace the aristocratic forces in the future.
"Fujiwara-kun, I'm thinking about the whole of Toei! The Song army was menacing, and it was difficult to stop the Song army with tens of thousands of samurai in Kyoto alone, and only by relying on the arrival of samurai from all over the country could they resist the Song army! Oda Mitsukei said sincerely.
"I still have to think about it." Izumi Fujiwara frowned.
They were talking here when suddenly there was a sharp noise outside, and in an instant the sound of the rain seemed to disappear!
"What happened?" Izumi Fujiwara exclaimed.
"It's the sound of bows and arrows! But this voice is so loud, how many bows and arrows must be shot together! Oda Mitsukei's face also changed suddenly!
In the early morning of this day, the Song army fired thousands of arrows and began to attack Kyoto Prefecture fiercely!
The walls of Kyoto are full of samurai, but most of the Toei samurai fought with Toei swords, and most of them did not have bows and arrows! Although the walls of Kyoto are high and strong, the entire city has not coped with such a large-scale war, and they basically have no weapons to defend the city!
The sound of shouts of killing, the sound of bows and arrows, the sound of stone throwers, and the sound of siege trucks hitting the city gate were constantly heard, and no other sound could be heard in the whole of Kyoto, Fujiwara Izumi, Oda Mitsukei, and others were shocked by such sounds, and they hurried out of the palace and braved the rain towards the city gate.