"That's very good. I hope that the Taoist Alliance will be loyal to the empire in the future, and there will be no more such things as the White Lotus Sect, and I can raise Taoism and destroy Taoism. Zhu Youxiao said.

"The new Taoism will definitely be a Taoism that is loyal to the monarch and the country." Zhang Tianshi said respectfully.

……

Zhu Youxiao's attitude also made Zhang Tianshi completely let go of the stone in his heart, but Zhang Tianshi also knew that there were some things that could not be mentioned, as if it had never happened, as soon as he left the palace, he began to Zhang Luo Taoist Alliance.

Zhu Youxiao is already working on writing his "Ten Articles of the New Deal," and he must submit them to the cabinet in April, and he does not demand that these ten points be implemented immediately, but that they should be implemented throughout the country in different periods of time. Zhu Youxiao wanted to use the "Apocalypse Big Bang" incident in May to attribute the ten points of the new deal to "heaven and man induction".

The Apocalypse Explosion, the Death Hill Incident, and the Tunguska Explosion are known as the world's three natural mysteries, and the cause of this explosion is unknown, the phenomenon is peculiar, and the disaster is huge.

But the thing that makes Zhu Youxiao most entangled now is to let this incident happen as scheduled, causing a huge impact, but reducing casualties as much as possible.

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Xu Xinsu's last group of volunteers recruited at this time had been completed, and Xu Xinsu had recruited a total of 53,000 volunteers, except for the volunteers recruited in the Beijing Division, the rest of the troops had already arrived in the Satsuma Domain at this time. Although the Satsuma Domain entered a period of peace on the surface, in reality there was constant friction, and both sides were actively preparing for war.

In addition to the 12,000 men recruited by the Kyoto Division, Yan Siqi now had an army of 60,000, including 50,000 volunteers and an army armed by 10,000 locals of the Satsuma Domain, and the Satsuma Domain's army was rapidly expanded from 20,000 to 100,000 through forced conscription, and it was also supported by the Hizen Domain. With the rapid expansion of the military forces of the two sides, the war between the two sides has already started at a moment's notice.

Most of the soldiers in Yan Siqi's hands are veterans, especially the border soldiers from the Ming Dynasty, whose combat effectiveness is still very strong and they are familiar with firearms. Moreover, Yan Siqi purchased 100,000 bird guns and a large number of ammunition from Zhu Youxiao, and he could not support so many soldiers in Fangjin alone, so he had to expand his territory, and after getting the support of the Yijiyuan family, Yan Siqi finally couldn't hold back and decided to send troops on March 20.

Yan Siqi divided the army into two routes, one route was Yang Tiansheng as the commander, and Chen Xinji was the deputy commander to lead 20,000 troops to the city of Yuzhi, which set off five days earlier than the other road; On the other hand, the 40,000-strong army led by Yan Siqi approached Tsurumaru Castle in the Satsuma Domain.

Ichiuji Castle was originally the base camp of the Ijiin clan, and after Shimazu Tadashi killed Ijiin Tadado and his son Ijiin Tadashi, and suppressed the support for the Nakato clan, the Ijiin clan's forces were lurking. Now that Yan Siqi is attacking Shimazu Tadashi and has received the covert support of the Ijiin clan, Yang Tiansheng has taken Ichiyuji City almost bloodlessly.

And Yan Siqi's army and Shimazu Tadashi's army encountered Shimazu Tadashi's army of 100,000 at the foot of Jinfeng Mountain. When Shimazu Tadashi learned that Yan Siqi only had an army of 40,000, he decided to abandon the defense and took the initiative to attack Yan Siqi.

The biggest problem of Yan Siqi's army is that the run-in time is too short, but it has to have an advantage in weapons, and they are all veterans, the biggest problem of Shimazu Tadashi's 100,000 army is that most of the 100,000 troops are new recruits, and the weapons are still at a disadvantage, but the Satsuma clan has a geographical advantage, and their army has occupied an extremely advantageous position before Yan Siqi arrives.

At that time, the armies of both sides began to enter the battlefield one after another. By three o'clock, the two sides had completed their formations, and war was about to break out.

Yan Siqi personally led an army of 20,000 in the center, the left flank was the 10,000 Dongying army led by Yijiyuan Zhongjiu, and the right flank was the 10,000 army led by Wang Yingshen. Wang Yingshen was the highest-ranking general to join Yan Siqi's army. Since the reorganization of the army, he felt that it was too dangerous to stay in Daming, so he took the initiative to come to Dongying, and sure enough, as soon as he came to Dongying, he was reused by Yan Siqi.

On the Satsuma Domain's side, Shimazu Tadashi led an army of 40,000 to defend the middle road, Kayama Hisadaka led an army of 30,000 to defend the right road, and Kamejuhime led an army of 30,000 to defend the left road.

At the end of the day, Kamejuhime's army of 30,000 men was the first to attack, and the two sides began to fire muskets first. As early as the mid-16th century, the Dongying army was heavily equipped with arquebuses, but the number of arquebuses was far inferior to Yan Siqi's army, and the tactics were not as good as Yan Siqi's army. Seeing that the shot was at a disadvantage, Kamejuhime did not hesitate to take the lead in the charge.

Although Wang Yingxian was corrupt and took bribes, he also had some ability, and in the face of the attack launched by Gui Shouji, he faced it very calmly. For a while, the two sides were indistinguishable from each other.

At two o'clock, Kayama Hidaka launched an attack on the army of Tadahisa Ijiin. Ijiin Tadahisa's 10,000 Dongying army is also mainly recruited, but Ijiin Tadahisa and Shimazu Tadashi are enemies of life and death, and for him, he has no way to retreat, only to fight to the death.

Although Kayama Hisaka has an advantage in numbers, Ijiin Tadahisa has the advantage of weapons and the determination to die, and the two sides are also difficult to distinguish between victory and defeat for a while.

The war in the middle did not begin until the end of the day, and at first both sides only attacked tentatively, and the intensity of the war was not as fierce as the two wings, and the most fierce was the battle between Kamejuhime and Wang Yingshen.

Shimazu Tadashiko's troops of Kamejuhime's division launched a charge on the left side of Wang's department, and the infantry attack could not threaten Wang Yingxing at all, and most of Shimazu Tadashi's troops died in the charge.

On the first day of the war, the two sides could only be regarded as a draw, and it should be said that there were winners and losers for each other. Yan Siqi's left flank was slightly at a disadvantage, while the right flank had a slight upper hand, but both sides in the middle only made tentative attacks.

"Where has the natural army gone?" Yan Siqi asked.

When Yan Siqi sent out his troops, Yan Siqi originally planned to take Tsurumaru City directly with the whole army, but Wang Yingshen considered that one Uzhi City had an internal response, and proposed that the troops be divided into two routes, and after obtaining one Uzhi City, he would join forces to take Tsurumaru Castle in one place. But no one expected that Shimazu Tadashi would take the initiative to attack, and the two sides launched a decisive battle at Jinfeng Mountain.

Although the plan has changed, it is also an opportunity for Yan Siqi's side, if Yang Tiansheng's army can suddenly be in the rear of Shimazu Tadashi, the chances of winning from both sides will be greater.

"We won't be able to reach the battlefield until noon the day after tomorrow at the earliest." Li De replied.

"You hold on for another day and a half, and once we are born to reach the battlefield, we will have victory in sight." Yan Siqi encouraged.

(End of chapter)