On the vast sea, wisps of black smoke rose and drifted in all directions with the breeze.

They seemed to want to break free from the shackles of nature, as if they wanted to soar into the sky, but they could not avoid the damn current, and when they rose to a certain height, the black smoke began to gradually dissipate, and then disappeared completely.

The huge fleet of ships frightened the natives along the coast.

But if you're scared, you're scared, it's not a big deal.

Today's Yamato Kingdom is actually in name only, and the epic war between the Monobe family and the Suga family is earth-shattering because of the Tang Dynasty's secret troublemakers.

According to incomplete statistics, in the past ten years, the number of people who died in the war has exceeded four million, which is almost half of the population of Yamato.

This war is almost impossible to fight, but now, they have no choice, both sides have killed the red eye, and even the emperor has become an ornament, no, the emperor has long since lost his place, maybe he has long died.

After the previous arrogance, the Wubu family has become a lot more cautious now, but it is useless, and the support of the Suga family is still not small.

Even the musket that was eliminated by the Tang Army before appeared on the battlefield of Yamato, although the performance was backward, but after training, it was still an invincible weapon to kill the enemy on the battlefield.

Datang, a fisherman, finally couldn't bear it after more than ten years of operation and after receiving and paying North Korea.

Since last year, the Tang Dynasty has been continuously transporting supplies to the southern ports of North Korea by sea, and now the materials hoarded there are enough for 200,000 Tang troops to fight a high-intensity war for no less than a year.

At the beginning of the twelfth year of the Shenyuan Dynasty, it was led by the Fourth Army, followed by the Twelfth Army, the Twenty-fourth Army, the Twenty-sixth Army, and the Thirty-first Army, with a total of 220,000 land troops from the five armies.

Together with the five divisions of the Marine Corps, more than 70,000 men, a total of 300,000 troops were formed, which set out from the Korean Peninsula and crossed the Tsushima Strait under the cover of nearly 1,000 transport ships and nearly 100 warships of the naval division.

The 26th Army and two divisions of the Marine Corps went straight to the southern island of Yamato Province, that is, Honshu Island, and the Fourth Army led the remaining three corps and three marine divisions to land directly on Honshu Island.

Compared with a few years ago, the current Datang Army has reached a new level in terms of equipment strength.

Although the overall is not large, and it is even experimental, it is undeniable that the Yamato Kingdom, which has suffered a great loss of vitality, cannot stop the offensive pace of the Datang Iron Cavalry.

Yes, it's an Iron Horseman, a real Iron Horseman, not the kind of Iron Rider who stands on a horse and wears armor.

The Fourth Army, as a pilot reform force, reorganized an infantry regiment into an armored infantry regiment, and large-caliber artillery has not yet been able to be put on combat vehicles, but small-caliber ones are no problem, and the recoil is negligible, for a large and heavy body.

Armored infantry regiments are equipped with two types of equipment, one is a tank equipped with small-caliber artillery, and the other is the first type, with a machine gun mounted on the turret, which can take on the task of a firing point and at the same time be responsible for transporting supplies.

Under the leadership of the armored regiment, the troops of the four divisions were brave and invincible, and they fought directly all the way.

There is basically no army left in Yamato, and the elite have long since died and can no longer die, and the rest are all old, weak, sick and disabled, and these people are still struggling to support them.

When the Tang army came, the Wubu family and the Su I family were completely confused, although they had long expected that the Tang Dynasty might want to profit from the fisherman, but they had no way to stop it, even if it was a truce, they couldn't stop the Tang army.

The only way is to take out the opponent and then surrender to the Don army.

But they didn't expect that before they could kill their opponents, the Tang army came, and an armored regiment rushed directly over, devouring the remaining elite forces of the two families.

In two months, it took only two months for 300,000 Tang troops to announce the full occupation of the Yamato Kingdom, and they couldn't wait to announce that the Yamato Kingdom had joined the Tang Dynasty and became part of the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

From planning to real occupation, it took more than 12 years, less than 13 years, and after the currency reform, up to now, the amount of gold and silver that Datang has obtained from Yamato has exceeded 40 million taels, and the total value is close to 100 million.

In the past thirteen years, the total GDP of the Tang Dynasty has only just exceeded 400 million, which is the GDP and is a figure obtained by multiplying the taxes received by the imperial court by thirty.

That is, in the thirteen years of the imperial court's official tax revenue is only more than 13 million, through plunder, the wealth obtained is nearly nine times, sure enough, war, invasion is the best way to make a fortune.

The war in Yamato is over, and the naval division does not need to prepare for war urgently, only need to leave part of the main warship patrolling.

And at this time, the imperial court finally took out its energy to do something they had always wanted to do.

Over the years, Datang has reserved a lot of talents in navigation, which is the result of the past ten years.

And now, under the escort of eight capital warships, a huge formation of one hundred and nine transport ships is heading north along the coastline of Yamato.

Their task is to follow the main route, all the way, to the north, after leaving the Yamato mainland, to the northeast, after seeing the island, and then to the east, there is a compass on the ship, not afraid of getting lost.

As for their purpose, no one knows, and His Majesty did not say it explicitly, but only told them that the voyage would last for four months, and when the four months were up, they would be able to return.

All in all, this trip will take about a year to a year and a half, or even two years.

It's a new journey, a strange voyage, and everyone doesn't know what awaits them.

"Will there be anyone up ahead?" Pang Bing looked at the vast sea and said a little confused.

As the most experienced person in the entire transport fleet, and the person who has encountered the most crisis situations, he deservedly became the commander of this formation.

They don't have anything to worry about the ocean anymore, they were very worried and scared at the beginning, but after experiencing it, they will find that it is actually nothing.

They walk along the coastline, even if they encounter strong winds and waves, they can directly dock to avoid the wind, and hundreds of boats are connected together, which is enough to ensure safety.

Besides, there are two new guys like steel battleships in the fleet, terrifying guys.

Pang Bing was thinking, ahead, will there be an island similar to Yamato? Will it be inhabited by people too? Will those who have never been known by them really exist?