In the distance in Sagami Bay, there was a faint sound of cannons, and after hundreds of miles of transmission, it had become similar to the faint sound of thunder. This is the Zhou army's "Truth"-class gunboat harassing and attacking a castle (later found to be a temple) off the coast of Sagami Province in order to attract the attention of the Japanese samurai of Sagami and Musashi countries. A hundred miles to the northeast, the main force of the Great Zhou Navy's Oriental Fleet, as well as the transport ship regiment loaded with the 1st Marine Brigade and the 2nd Brigade and the 6th Division of the Army, had already rushed into Musashi Bay with murderous violance and came to the ocean off the Tama River.

This is an unprecedentedly powerful expeditionary fleet, consisting of more than 30 "Beiyang"-class, "Toyo-class" (Toyo-class is an improved version of the "Beiyang-class"), "Truth"-class artillery warships, covering more than 300 transport ships, and more than a dozen flat-bottomed galleys towed to Musashi Bay by large gunboats.

These sailing ships, large and small, formed a moving city on the dark sea, pressing towards the coast near the Tama River in Musashi, Japan.

It is already October of the thirteenth year of the Republic of the Great Zhou Dynasty (1128 AD), and because it is the lunar calendar, it has already entered winter. And it's still the Xiaoice period, and the climate is very cold. In October, heavy snow has fallen in many parts of eastern Japan. Even if it doesn't snow, it won't snow for a few days.

Considering the speed of the Japanese imperial court's reaction, this is definitely the best time to raid Musashi Bay.

And for this raid, the Overseer Division of the Japanese Legion prepared for a year and a half!

The first is to concentrate forces on Hirado!

The Japanese imperial court allowed the Great Zhou Republic to lease Hirado to establish a commercial market and a commercial port, which eventually proved to be a big trick to lure the wolf into the house.

After more than 10 years of development and construction, by the 13th year of the Republic, Hirado Island already had a well-equipped port, a trading market, and a castle.

And these facilities, which took more than ten years to build, are very important for an expeditionary army.

With these facilities, coupled with the strong maritime capabilities of the navy and maritime merchants of the Great Zhou Republic, the Overseer Division led by Wu Yiyong was able to slowly stock up on food and supplies at the doorstep of the Japanese, and at the same time build a camp that could be used by tens of thousands of troops.

With food, supplies, and camps, the hoarding of troops on Hirado Island was nothing more than transporting people across the sea.

Kamikaze or something, you can't save Japan at all!

And the second step in the invasion of Japan, of course, was to deceive the false as the real.

By the time the army arrived on Hirado Island, the Japanese Dazaifu had already discovered that something was wrong.

In their opinion, the invading army of Storm Zhou should land in the northern part of Kyushu.

Therefore, while mobilizing the samurai of Kyushu, they marched to the Great Zhou Merchant Hall and the embassy in Hakata.

The so-called merchant halls and embassies are, by Japanese standards, two "castles". The Great Zhou Republic stationed marines there, along with light artillery and heavy muskets.

As a result, the attack on the Hakata Merchant House and the embassy by the Kyushu samurai soon turned into a disaster of casualties.

After the Japanese attacked first, Wu Yiyong immediately sent a small number of reinforcements to Hakata, repelled the chaotic Kyushu samurai army, and completely occupied the entire Hakata trading port.

However, he did not immediately expand the war, but slowly increased his troops to Hakata and built a city in Hakata according to the rhythm of the Japanese fighting village wars in this era.

Subsequently, a small number of troops were sent to land on both sides of the Kanmon Strait (the closest point between Kyushu and Honshu Islands) and built two castles, Moji Castle and Shimonoseki Castle.

After taking control of the Kanmon Strait, the Zhou fleet entered the Seto Inland Sea. Then, while sweeping away a small number of Japanese naval forces, he occupied the islands in the Seto Inland Sea, and put on a posture of preparing to attack Namba.

At the same time, Namba's Great Zhou Merchant House and embassy also entered a state of battle.

Now the Japanese court can be paralyzed by fright!

How have the Emperor of Shirakawain and a group of otaku ministers seen this formation? And I didn't think about it. So their Heiankyo doesn't even have a city wall!

Seeing that the Tyrannical Zhou army was about to fight, Emperor Shirakawa had no choice but to make preparations for moving the capital to Shinano Province, and at the same time let the heads of the two samurai groups of the Taira clan and the Genji gather their subordinates to join King Jingqin.

A large number of Kanto samurai from the Genji family, under the leadership of Minamoto Yoshi, Minamoto Yoshimitsu, Minamoto Yoshitomo and others, came to Luo one after another.

The Kanto Plain has become extremely empty for a while!

Wu Yiyong's plan completely succeeded!

After successfully attracting the Kwantung samurai King Kamirakin, a bold battle plan to bypass the island of Kyushu and suddenly surprise Musashi Bay directly from the southeast of Honshu in Japan began to be carried out in full swing.

This is a feat that has never been done before in military history, at least in the military history of East Asia.

A fleet of more than 300 large warships and transport ships, carrying an infantry division, two marine brigades, and nearly 23,000 landing troops, quietly set off from Hirado Island and headed south, through the Osumi Strait in the southern part of Kyushu Island, and then turned back to the northeast. The fleet traveled nearly 2,600 miles in total, took 6 days and 6 nights, and finally arrived at the predetermined landing sea area in the early morning of October 18, the thirteenth year of the Republic of China.

Oh, and not all of them arrived, a dozen transport ships were left behind, and I don't know where they have gone at the moment?

But it doesn't matter, at least 20,000 landing troops are already in place!

And the coast of Musashi, Japan, is empty and completely unprepared.

The combat operation of the raid on the Kanto Plain of Japan is in sight, and success is in sight!

On the raised stern of the "Toyo," Wu Yiyong, who had been busy for today's battle for more than a year, was holding his breath and staring intently at the hazy ground ahead.

It's already dark! The first few boats were already carrying the warriors of the marines, and they were approaching the entrance to the Tama River.

These small boats were all hanging and landing, and in the hazy morning mist, I watched a few bright lights rise and fall, slowly moving forward.

The speed of forward propulsion looked quite slow, but Wu Yiyong knew that the strong man on the boat was already paddling hard.

It's low tide, and it's hard to swim against the tide.

I don't know how long it took, but a few fires suddenly appeared over the beach in the distance.

This is a successful landing of marines launching signal rockets into the air.

"It's done!"

Wu Jue, the chief military aircraft of the Japanese Dispatch Corps, breathed a sigh of relief and said to Wu Yiyong beside him: "Go up!" Tama River Beach is empty, and our plan has succeeded! ”

Wu Yiyong smiled: "Those who travel a hundred miles are half ninety...... Jin Qing, this is just the beginning! Success now is taken for granted, because they are not going to fight yet. But the ability to fight a war will be honed little by little, just like the Western Song Dynasty.

So we must kill as many as we can while they can't, especially in the Kanto Plain. Kill more now, there will be fewer people who will rebel against us in the future, and there will be more land that can be distributed! ”

While preparing for the attack on Japan for more than a year or two, Wu Yiyong conducted an in-depth study of Japan's military strength.

The results of the study led him to believe that the so-called Japanese samurai could not actually fight!

Some of them may be brave enough, but fighting a war and being brave are two different things, and fighting a war is a technical job! If we cannot receive systematic military education, we can only slowly explore it in practice.

Therefore, Wu Yiyong estimated that in the early days of the war, the Japanese samurai who could not fight would be very easy to destroy.

So be sure to kill a little more!

Kill a little more now, and the next war will be easy to fight.

At this time, the morning sun had already sprinkled from the sky, dispelling the morning mist on the sea and on the Tama River, revealing a peaceful and beautiful land to the eyes of the Great Zhou invaders, oh, the liberators, armed to the teeth.

At this time, everyone, including Wu Yiyong and Wu Jue, did not expect that their conquest of Japan was actually a starting point.

The beginning of a new world!

For people in the East Asian world, Japan is the starting point for their future journey to the New World.

In the future, all East Asian races, including the people of the Japanese island, will benefit from this conquest.

Therefore, in the history books of later generations, the words "invasion of Japan" or "conquest of Japan" do not exist, only "liberation of Japan...... This war was a just war of liberation to overthrow the rule of the corrupt Japanese emperor and minister, liberate the oppressed Japanese samurai and civilians, and turn Japan into a paradise of common prosperity in East Asia!

Therefore, Wu Yiyong was also called "Liberator Yiyong" by the people of the later Japanese provinces.

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"It worked! My lord, the news of Hirado Island, the eldest brother's soldiers and horses have successfully landed near the Tama River in Musashi Bay, Japan! After the troops landed, they encountered resistance from the Musashi and Sagami Genji samurai regiments...... Fought on both sides of the Tama River, won a great victory, killed and captured more than 6,000 enemy soldiers! ”

The good news of the victory was only transmitted back to Xuzhou, the winter capital of the Great Zhou Republic, at the end of November of the thirteenth year of the Republic. It was personally reported to Wu Haogu by Wu Yijiu.

The news is very good! The landing went unusually well, and after the main force completed the landing, the Japanese samurai armies of Musashi and Sagami were ushered in, numbering as many as seven or eight thousand!

As Takeshi had predicted, these so-called samurai had no idea of real warfare – the samurai era in Japan had not yet begun! Where do they go to learn the art of war? When encountering Wu Yiyong and Wu Jue, generals of the Zhou State who have been trained as warriors since childhood and have been on the battlefield for more than ten years, of course there will be no good end.

And Wu Yiyong also had weapons that these Japanese samurai could not believe - muskets, artillery! Also with 1800 cavalry! 900 of them can also be used as armored cavalry!

Therefore, after the first battle of the Tama River, Wu Yiyong gained the prestige of a "military god", and it soon spread throughout the Kanto Hachishu!

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