The Toyotomi clan was planning an all-out war with the Tokugawa clan.

This news is absolutely true.

The news that spread from Kyoto soon spread throughout the Toyotomi clan's territory, and then spread to the surrounding area, including the entire common people.

In fact, the people did not know and could not be, because when the army went to war, the people had to transport grain and grass from the rear to the front as usual, which was their obligation.

Since the people knew, then there would be no one who didn't know, and those who knew naturally included the Tokugawa spies hidden in the Toyotomi clan's territory, and they easily knew where the Toyotomi clan's goals were.

So the spy acted quickly and sent the news to Iwami when the Toyotomi clan gathered a large army and prepared to attack Iwami.

When Naomasa Ii learned of this, he immediately passed the news back to Tokugawa Ieyasu's location and asked Tokugawa Ieyasu for support from the army.

He knew very well that the one who came back this time was not a simple 20,000 people, it was likely to be the main force of the Toyotomi clan, at least 70,000 or 80,000 people, and he was not sure that he would take the 4,000 Red Reserve under his command and the 20,000 people of Kamihara Yasumasa against the other party's army of 70,000 or 80,000, which was no different from looking for death.

The arrogant capital of the Red Reserve often comes from the main force behind him, and the combat effectiveness of the main force units is far inferior to that of the Red Reserve, but it is not so difficult to clean up the Red Reserve Team together, after all, not everyone is as fierce as Zhao Zilong, and he can kill seven in and seven out in the Ten Thousand Army Array.

Naomasa Ii had a full understanding of his own strength, so he quickly asked Tokugawa Ieyasu for help, and at the same time rushed to build a defensive system, intending to have a decisive battle between Iwami and the Toyotomi clan.

Naomasa Ii doesn't have much idea about opening a mining cave now, and he really can't afford it, so he sent miners to explore little by little, but the result is still a lot of traps, and the miners are killed and injured, which causes many miners to resist entering the mine, and the efficiency is greatly reduced.

Since occupying Iwami for more than half a month, only five mines have been opened for mining, and the rest have not been opened, many miners are afraid to enter, and the animals used to break through the trap have died too much, and Naomasa Ii feels that he can't afford that expense.

Damn the people of Qin, how many traps have they set!!

Although he defeated Yukinaga Asano, the joy in Naomasa Ii's heart quickly faded, and there was a lot of gloom, and the psychological shadow was expanding indefinitely.

This is all due to the trap of the Qin army.

However, no matter what, he still has to continue to hold on and empty all the traps in the mines, so that the miners can carefully break through the traps in the mines and resume silver mining, so as to give the Tokugawa clan's finances a shot in the arm.

After Tokugawa Ieyasu received the victory report and warning from Naomasa Ii, he also made a lot of arrangements.

He gathered 30,000 elites of the main camp and about 50,000 troops of his daimyo, and the main force of about 80,000 people had almost been assembled, including the 20,000 vanguard troops brought by Iwami brought by Kanhara Yasumasa, and he himself carried 60,000 main forces behind.

The logistical problems were also coordinated, and 60,000 people and 80,000 carts were requisitioned to prepare for the transportation of grain and grass, and when everything was ready, he could march to Iwami, and he himself had already left Kyushu and set foot on the land of Honshu, ready to support Iwami at any time, so that Ii Naomasa and Kamihara Yasumasa would continue to hold on.

The Toyotomi clan should have more troops than him in terms of numbers, but their combat effectiveness and quality are probably not as good as his, because most of them are newly recruited, and there are probably not many veterans who fought with Toyotomi Hideyoshi or even Oda Nobunaga in the beginning.

Either died in Korea or died of old age, the quality of the Toyotomi army greatly declined, although the number was large, but the combat experience was seriously insufficient, just like the 20,000 people of Asano Yukinaga's army who had been easily defeated by Ii Naomasa.

So Tokugawa Ieyasu was not worried that he would not be able to defeat the Toyotomi clan, what he was worried about was that the Qin State would come in from behind, catch him off guard, and then turn the whole situation around in an instant.

If this is also overturned by the Qin army, then the whole of Japan will really be over.

He and the Toyotomi clan are fighting for the hegemony of the Japanese people, if Japan's basic plate is gone, is there any point in fighting for hegemony?

He was not completely unsuspicious of the movements of the Qin army, in fact, he was still a little suspicious, so the vigilance and intelligence have never stopped, and he has been marching towards Iwami while dealing with the information of the Qin State from overseas.

However, after the unification of the Qin State, the efficiency of counter-espionage was greatly improved, and the spies he stationed in the coastal interior of the Ming Dynasty in the early years were annihilated by a special black-clad unit of the Qin army, tortured intelligence, and eliminated seventeen or eighteen intelligence points in a row.

His intelligence personnel suffered heavy losses, so he had to send people from the mainland to try to re-enter the Qin State to spy on intelligence.

Tokugawa Ieyasu was very alarmed by the intensity of Qin's crackdown on spies, and at the same time, he also felt that if the Qin army had such a strong means of fighting spies in his own territory, would there be an equally elite spy force operating in Japan?

He couldn't control the Toyotomi clan, but he could call the shots on his own one-acre and three-thirds of land, so he also launched a crackdown on the Qin army's spies in his own one-acre and three-point land.

But the effect was very small, and only now seven or eight suspects were caught, and they still refused to admit it, crying and shouting that they had been killed by him, making him wonder if he had arrested the wrong person.

The Ming intelligence network he worked so hard to build in the past seven years was completely uprooted after Daqin settled the world, which made him unexpected, and he didn't react fast enough, and he almost became blind on the issue of targeting Daqin, and now it seems a little too late to make amends.

But he must fight this battle, even if he is uneasy, he must continue to fight, if he doesn't fight, he can't do it, if he doesn't fight, the Toyotomi clan will not let him continue to divide Western Japan.

No way, had to do it.

It's just that he still has doubts in his heart, and he always feels that he has to leave a back road for himself, just like when he fought with Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi before.

He also left behind enough elite troops in his lair to immediately escort his family and important property to leave by boat and head to the northeastern part of Japan, the unexplored Ezo region, if things go wrong.

In his opinion, if he was unfortunately attacked by the Qin army, then he would not be able to run away on land, and it would disturb his march and battle, so he simply let his family and property flee directly to Ezo by sea, and when he learned the news, he would run away without distraction, and he would not worry about this or that.

As the existence of the king of turtles, Tokugawa Ieyasu is an absolute expert in escape and survival, the king of extreme survival, and the king of ninjas.

In contrast, the Toyotomi clan was much worse, wholeheartedly preparing for war, wholeheartedly preparing for war with the Tokugawa clan, and decided to completely annihilate the main force of the Tokugawa clan in Iwami and unify Japan.

It was still when Daqin couldn't react.