October 16 of the fourth year of Xuanhe. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Lin Dengwan collected more than 60 large and small ships [most of them were merchant ships purchased from Goryeo], 1,267 officers and soldiers, 1,739 auxiliary soldiers [mostly from the Tianhu thieves], and 473 Japanese people leading the way [headed by the father and son of Zong Chongshang], carrying various firearms, and set out from the port of Tengu on Tsushima Island to conquer Kyushu, Japan.

The fleet crossed the Tsushima and Iki Straits, and arrived at Chikuzen Province on the island of Kyushu in the early morning of the 19th, but did not land directly to launch an offensive, but continued to move north along the coast, and arrived at Bunzen Province, known as the gateway to Kyushu Island, two days later.

On the evening of the 21st, the Red Turban Army landed in the Fengqian state-owned enterprise to save the county, and the pioneer Yue Fei drove straight into the road with firearms, and it took less than half an hour to capture Kokura Castle, the first important town on Kyushu Island, and captured more than 100 high-ranking samurai such as Nobuo Minamoto in the west of the town and Muto Yoritaka, the guardian of Toyozen.

On the 22nd, Lin Chong, Wang Gui, Tang Huai and others stayed in Fengqian Country and set up tiger squat cannons at various ferries to prevent the Japanese people in Benzhou from rushing across the sea to help.

At the same time, Lin Dengwan, Li Jun, Zhu Wu and other generals led more than 1,000 people to attack the country of Zhuqian; Yue Fei led Niu Gao, Bian Xiang, Zhang Xian and others to raid Fenghou Kingdom.

At about 9 o'clock in the morning of the 25th, Niu Gao, the vanguard of Yue Fei's department, captured Hita Castle in Fenghou Kingdom.

At about 11 o'clock, the Lynden Mansho Department burned down Fukuoka Castle in Chikuzen Province.

On the 29th, Lin Dengwan waved his army and invaded the country of Hizen; Yue Fei's troops captured the country of Zhuhou.

Relying on the power of firearms far beyond those of the same era, the Red Turban Army can be said to be invincible on the island of Kyushu!

By the third day of November, the five northern countries of Kyushu Island had been basically pacified, and the casualties of the Red Turban Army were very small, and most of the losses were auxiliary troops, and the combat effectiveness had not decreased in the slightest -- it was reasonable to say that the next step should be to sweep the southern part of Kyushu according to the original plan, but the two troops invariably stopped at the border of Higo Province.

It's not that the strength of this Feihou country is extraordinary, and its combat effectiveness far exceeds that of the previous five countries, but this place is too barren, and even the Japanese natives rarely set foot in it, only some wild people who drink blood are scattered among the mountains and forests.

Moreover, after a simple investigation, it was found that the rest of the countries except for the southern Kyushu, although they were nominally under the control of the Japanese emperor, were actually barren land that was sparsely populated, and there was really no value in raising troops to fight.

So after exchanging opinions through letters, the two armies merged into one and returned to Bunzen Province, the gateway to Kyushu.

On the ninth day of the first month of November, after a brief two-day rest in Bunzen Province, Lin Dengwan and Yue Fei led their people to force their way across the Kanmon Strait, preparing to take the westernmost three kingdoms of Honshu, Nagato, Aki, and Zhoufang, in order to make up for the loss of abandoning southern Kyushu.

And this time the forced crossing, the Red Turban Army finally encountered some decent resistance.

Because as early as half a month ago, it was learned that thousands of pirates had attacked Kyushu, and several guards of Sanyo Road joined forces to gather more than 700 samurai and nearly 10,000 peasant soldiers in Nagato Country.

Lin Dengwan set up more than 400 tiger squat guns on the opposite bank, and before the fleet approached the dock of Shimonoseki, he suddenly ordered all the artillery to open fire together.

The sea at the Xiaguan Ferry is only 700 meters wide, so the entire Shanyang Dao coalition army is within the range of the tiger squat artillery, and tens of thousands of lead bullets are pouring down like a torrential rain, almost instantly extinguishing all the illusions of the Japanese coalition army!

In this battle, the Red Turban Army suffered less than half a hundred casualties, beheaded more than 3,500, captured countless samurai and peasant soldiers, and completely disintegrated the defense forces in the northwest of Honshu.

After that, it was only half a moon, and the Red Turban Army divided its troops and quickly occupied the six countries of Nagato, Aki, Shufang, Iwami, Bigo, and Izumo with the momentum of sparks, and the 100,000 households of the Japanese people under its jurisdiction and the population of nearly 400,000, and successfully occupied the Iwami Silver Mountain and Izumo Iron Mine, and collected more than 1,000 craftsmen.

The harvest was gratifying, but by this time, the expansion of the Red Turban Army had almost reached its limit.

After all, counting the Japanese people leading the way in Tsushima Island, there are only 7,000 soldiers and civilians under the Red Turban Army, most of whom still do not understand the language of the Japanese people, and they control nearly half the size of Shandong Province, which is already stretched.

In this case, it is obviously not suitable to continue to expand.

But just when Lin Dengwan planned to stop this battle at Izumo and Bigo, a sudden accident disrupted his wishful thinking.

More than 400 people from Tang Huai and Zhang Xian's department, because they accidentally heard the news of the copper mine, rushed into the ambush of the Japanese people in the mountains and forests of Izumo Province, and were suddenly rushed out of the mountains and forests by hundreds of Japanese samurai with short blades, and it was difficult to use firearms for a while, and the soldiers were not as brave as the Japanese samurai, so it is not surprising that they ended up in a big defeat.

In the end, Tang Huai was killed by an arrow, and Zhang Xian only broke out with more than ten people, carrying 20 tiger squatting cannons, 50 large lifting poles, and a number of grenades, all of which fell into the hands of the Japanese people.

If you want to talk about this loss, the Red Turban Army can't afford it, and it's terrible that those Japanese people will imitate it after taking away the firearms!

At present, although the Red Turban Army occupies half of Kyushu, as well as part of Sanyang and Shan**, a total of thirteen countries [Tsushima Island and Iki Island are also counted as two countries], but Kyushu has always been barren, and the total population is only more than 100,000, counting the six countries located in Honshu, the total population can only break through the 500,000 mark, compared with the million population in the hinterland of Gyeonggi, Japan, there is still a big gap.

Once the Japanese cracked and imitated firearms, it would be difficult to defeat them like this time.

Therefore, after Lin Dengwan and Yue Fei and others urgently discussed, they decided to grit their teeth and squeeze out a team of 1,000 people, carry a large number of firearms from Bigo Province to the sea, raid the hinterland of Honshu by boat, and then go straight to Heiankyo!

Once Heiankyo was breached and the Japanese emperor was captured, the emperor could be temporarily narrowed to order the princes; If they fail to capture the emperor alive, they can at least destroy the power center of Japan, so that they will not be able to concentrate manpower and material resources to crack and imitate firearms in a short time.

This plan came from the cooperation of Lin Dengwan and Yue Fei, but the two had serious disagreements about who should carry it out - after all, this was an extremely risky operation, and even with the help of a large number of firearms, the chances of success were less than half.

Lin Dengwan believes that he has the responsibility to command the whole army.

Yue Fei thought that the coach should not take the risk himself, and should be led by him, the deputy marshal, and he also wanted to atone for Tang Huai and Zhang Xian.

The two sides insisted on their own words and quarreled for two whole days, but in the end, Lin Dengwan still gained the upper hand by virtue of his familiarity with firearms.

On November 29, Lin Dengwan led 1,300 officers and soldiers, and more than 200 Japanese people led the way, and once again crossed the sea to launch a surprise attack on the Gyeonggi region of Japan!