Heavy warships and large gunboats were moored outside the harbor, and there were transport ships carrying farmers and cattle, and a large area of black pressure occupied the southern tip of Kagoshima, and Hojo Tsukasa, who was already leading the defense on the island, trembled nervously.

He had 13,000 samurai stationed in the port of Kagoshima, which was also his biggest responsibility in the Hojo family, and in the past, with his status, he could only lead a team of 500 people at most, and he couldn't play any more.

Li Mingyi only has one month, how to occupy this island, and also purge all the forces of resistance, is it a bit too big? It's definitely not an exaggeration, in fact, Li Mingyi guessed Zhao Tianyou's mind correctly, according to Zhao Tianyou's plan, no matter how many Japanese people there are on this island, their fate is very little to choose from, either disobey the order and surrender as a prisoner of war, or jump into the sea by themselves, and the last one is to move their heads and die.

It is much easier to destroy an island and occupy it completely than to defeat the people on the island, and before the 3,000 shirtless samurai stationed in the port of Kagoshima could figure it out, the shells fell all over the world.

No matter how tenacious the spirit of resistance these samurai is, they are not worth mentioning in the face of powerful explosions, and taking off their clothes can only be more vulnerable, and will never add the slightest bonus to their own combat effectiveness.

It is everyone's instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm, and the formation of samurai who had been lined up on the dock was blown to pieces, leaving patches of dead and wounded in place, and the rest of the samurai began to flee in all directions, dodging the shells that continued to fall.

"Don't run, don't run!"

Hojo Shizuo roared loudly everywhere, these three thousand samurai actually stepped forward to fight with the determination to die at the beginning, and took off their coats to expose their bodies, just to show their fearless determination to die, but they didn't expect that they didn't even see the Song soldiers, and they were blown up.

Before the majesty could be displayed, this open space was already covered with corpses, and the relatively short Japanese samurai were already lying on their stomachs, hiding everywhere where they could hide their bodies and shivering, where did they dare to stand up to meet the enemy.

They had not experienced the explosion and bombardment of cannons, and the technology of black powder had not been fully introduced to Japan, and some of the fireworks and firecrackers that could be seen on the market were purchased by those wealthy big trading houses from the Great Song Dynasty at a high price, specifically to satisfy the enjoyment of some noble families.

The identities of these samurai were originally in the middle level, even if they had seen fireworks and firecrackers, they could not bear the rumbling sound like thunder, even if they were not killed or injured by the explosion, they were all frightened and did not dare to come out to observe the situation.

The Song army's troop transports carried the vanguard and landed on the port of Kagoshima without the slightest hindrance, and a solid defensive line was quickly established on the beachhead, and Hojo Tsukasa's left led several charges, all of which ended in complete defeat, leaving only more corpses behind.

In the constant roar of artillery, the large forces of the Song army continued to rush to the beach, and in only one day, only 13,000 samurai of Hojo Tsukasashi left, only more than 3,000 people were left to flee for dozens of miles, and the entire Kagoshima harbor area was completely occupied by the Song army.

Carefully inspecting the equipment of the samurai army of the Japanese Kingdom on the battlefield, Li Mingyi originally had a trace of nervousness and completely let go, if the army of this island country is at this level, then the time to take this huge island may be faster.

Zhao Tianyou roughly estimated the size of this island for him, the boundary within a radius of several hundred miles is not very large, and no one knows how many farmers and troops there are on the island before it is completely occupied.

The next day, the area occupied by Li Mingyi advanced dozens of miles to the periphery, and the people and materials on the transport ships began to dock at the port, and the people's grain, cattle and materials were unloaded from the port little by little, and transported to the suitable places for habitation and cultivation on the island.

Perhaps this was the first purposeful cross-sea migration program in history, more than a little bit earlier than the European nations that discovered the New World and began to colonize hundreds of years later.

Zhao Tianyou didn't say it explicitly, but the generals under him were not stupid, and if they figured out the boss's thoughts, they would basically not get too bad, so Li Mingyi knew very clearly that his purpose of taking this island was to take it.

This huge island with a radius of several hundred miles, from the moment the Song army landed today, it belonged to the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and from now on, only the Chinese Han people were qualified to multiply here.

After several days of non-stop advancing battles, Hojo Tsukasa and the other two generals who were responsible for leading the protection of the troops had been beaten by the Song army, and most of the 30,000 soldiers had been lost, and there were many casualties, and there were not even 10,000 people who could participate in the battle.

However, they are aborigines after all, and there are still hundreds of thousands of cultivators living on the island, although ordinary people are not qualified to participate in the war, and it has reached this critical time, even the Hojo family will not care about letting the farmer carry a hoe and rush to the front of the queue.

Then the war fell into a stalemate, those farmers with ragged bodies and vegetable faces were not the target of the Song army's want to slaughter, as long as they did not participate in the war and found a way to leave here, the Song army would definitely not fire at them.

However, the peasants of the Wa Kingdom under the control of the Hojo family had their minds restricted, and everything had to be done by the will of the emperor and the shogun, as long as they were asked to go into battle to meet the Song army, I am afraid they would all die happily.

However, the Song army is not a person who pities the fragrance and cherishes the jade, they have no burden on the consequences of civilians participating in the war, as long as they are people who go into battle with a stick, they are the objects to be completely wiped out in the eyes of the Song army.

Under the greeting of artillery fire and long-range crossbow arrows, the samurai army of the Hojo family stationed in the prefectures of Kyushu Island was reduced from more than 30,000 to less than 5,000.

Only the elites in the middle and high classes can understand why this country treats the poor people like this, and why it would rather rot the grain, fish and meat than give the servants around them a taste.

Fools can be bullied, as long as the Hojo family does not do anything particularly excessive, the power of this country will be used by him, the most obvious is the Hojo Shizuo, who has fallen into a desperate situation, and the many population resources in his hands are said to be useless.

"General, the boats are ready, we are able to evacuate more than 5,000 people a day, and this is still the best place to find dozens of fishing boats going to sea in the offshore range. The hard work of changing people without changing helmsmen, when the final veil is lifted, is also the state of your final life.

Put these more than 100,000 ordinary people, all on Kyushu Island, and assign them a business that can support their families, although we have no disagreement with parents and children, but we must make preparations and precautions in advance.

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