After taking control of Gunzhou, the town of King Lu, Wang Haizhou led 3,000 cavalry troops to escort more than 100 carts to the northeast. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Along the way, he did not hide his whereabouts as he came, and accelerated his speed to catch Gunzhou by surprise, but marched slowly, and at the same time showed the officials along the way the fierce image of the all-armored iron cavalry of the Broken Army.

In Zhao Lie's words, he asked him to lead the troops to go to various parts of Shandong to demonstrate and intimidate, and see which other officials dared to face the enemy of the Broken Army after seeing the fate of the officials of Gunzhou and King Lu, so there was no need to hide this trip at all.

Along the way, the government was extremely silent about this army, and it was simply ignored, no one stopped it, and no one greeted it, as if this army had never passed.

When passing through the territory of Qingzhou, Liu Zeqing, the chief soldier of Shandong, dispatched 3,000 soldiers and horses to dot behind Wang Haizhou's headquarters.

Of course, Liu Zeqing also did this step, and his soldiers followed thirty miles behind the soldiers of the Broken Army, until more than 3,000 cavalry of the Broken Army left the Qingzhou Territory Liu Zeqing did not return.

Wang Haizhou was only slightly wary of Liu Zeqing, and the combat strength of the soldiers under Liu Zeqing's command was really not mentioned.

Of course, he also knew that Liu Zeqing secretly reached an agreement with adults, and now he is secretly selling salt, cement and other items to Qingzhou and Jinan Mansion, and is making a lot of money.

Now the imperial court only demoted him by half an official rank, and let Liu Zeqing stay in office, which seems to be a great grace, but in fact, he took a fancy to him and Zhao Lie, which allowed him to stay in office to contain Zhao Lie's department, but the court said that he didn't expect Liu Zeqing to have any discipline at all, and the real milk is a model of motherhood, and he has already hooked up with Zhao Lie's department for money.

Liu Zeqing saw very clearly through Zhao Lie and his own experience in the past, everything else is virtual in the troubled times, only a strong army in hand is real, where does a strong army come from, of course, it must be built with silver money, and when it is always silver money as the foundation.

Zhao Lie's subordinates marched in the Shandong territory, and Zhao Lie was not idle at this time, and his official office welcomed the old lieutenant Sakai Tadashi from the Wa Shogunate.

Sakai Tadashi had been on a sea ship for more than ten days before arriving at Denglai Water City, but he was told that Lord Zhao Lie was now stationed in Shidao, so he hurried to Shidao to meet Zhao Lie.

Mizujo sent two sea ships to lead Sakai Tadashi's three ships to Ishishima.

When Sakai Tadashi saw dozens of Galen warships and merchant ships in Shidao Harbor, he couldn't help but feel that the general had been defeated unjustly, and Zhao Lie's sailors were not at all comparable to the Japanese state.

Just how many warships were moored in this bay, and how many warships were in Jeju and Ezo, you can imagine the huge size of Cho Yeol's naval division.

However, it was too late to say this, and now the Tokugawa family's rule in the Wa Kingdom was crumbling, the west was not peaceful, and the Sendai domain in the northeast also had different aspirations, and not only expelled the military art teacher sent by Iemitsu Daishi, but also refused to send reinforcements to Edo.

And those alien cavalry in the rebellious army of the Choshu Domain made the shogunate jealous, and it was unable to dispatch a standing crusade from Edo for a long time, after all, whether these cavalry were driven by Zhao Lie was extremely suspicious.

If you don't figure this out, who would dare to make the decision to go west, otherwise that damn Zhao Lie will attack Edo again, who can say for sure, yes, there are still a large amount of arrears that have not been paid off, but Zhao Lie may take advantage of the opportunity to win again and propose more harsh terms, do you sign it or not.

So this is the Ming trip of Sakai Tadashi.

Zhao Lie was discussing general affairs with Zhao Meng and others in the Shidao Government Office at this time, and now Zhao Lie is concerned about two things, one is the reserve of silver money, in order to prepare money and food for the war that will intensify in the Ming Dynasty in the future, Zhao Lie estimates that this is a bottomless pit, how much swallows up how much, the more the merrier, don't look at Zhao Lie now for this bottomless pit prepared three million taels of silver, it is estimated that it is not enough.

And then there is the purge of the army, just recently, Zhao Lie is preparing to reorganize all the troops, which is conducive to the smooth command and improves the combat effectiveness of the whole army.

The deployment of mounts as soon as possible and the purge of the Korean army and the human army are also extremely crucial.

To put it bluntly, these soldiers are consumables, and Zhao Lie had no choice but to introduce these soldiers based on his vigilance against the rapidly growing Han army in Jiannu and his helplessness at the stagnation of the number of broken soldiers.

Of course, these soldiers are still very particular, and the North Korean musketeers are quite well trained

Since the Japanese rebellion, the Korean soldiers suffered a great loss from the Japanese iron gunners, the Korean monarchs and ministers learned from the pain, and vigorously prepared the musketeers, and now the Korean gunners are more well-trained than the ordinary Ming army gunners.

Zhao Lie said to himself that if he didn't guess wrong, Huang Taiji, who had suffered a big loss of broken weapons, would definitely let the Han army flag be equipped with a large number of guns and artillery, so that in another big battle, the firearms of both sides would be extremely miserable, and the damage would be extremely heavy.

The Japanese are also known for their ferocity and difficulty in close combat, which will also have a great impact on the battle situation when the two armies are at a standstill.

If Zhao Lie is allowed to choose, if it must be consumed, it will still consume the lives of outsiders.

Of course, from an economic point of view, the dead North Korean soldiers may only need to give them a pension of dozens of silver dollars, and Xuntian is even more unnecessary, which will allow the broken army to save a lot of money.

Of course, these cannon fodder are not the same way as the broken army at all, and it is a bit difficult to train to the level of the broken army, but we still have to try our best to keep in line with the broken army, otherwise it will be the hind legs of the broken army, and not only will there be no help in the battle array, but there is also the possibility of collapse.

Of course, in order to enhance their combat power, Zhao Lie also tried his best to prepare the armor for them, which could not be saved, but it could greatly enhance their combat power and affect the outcome of the joint battle.

Since it is armor, then it is money and food, not in the past two days, the Zhao brothers are discussing how much armor to build, and these cannon fodder war horses also have to be bought with money, to put it bluntly, it is all money.

When the news came from the dock, the Wa Shogunate sent someone to pay a visit, the two brothers smiled knowingly, yesterday Zhao Lie also said that the Wa Shogunate was afraid to send someone, after all, according to the news from the Choshu Domain, the Choshu Domain has recovered the land of the Three Kingdoms, and its momentum has been achieved, and the cavalry of the Broken Army has also been revealed, I am afraid that the Shogunate should not be able to sit still.

Zhao Lie didn't come out to greet him, now that Jiaguang himself comes, he won't come out to greet him, the strength and weakness are reversed, and now the broken army is the sky above the Wa Kingdom, and how the Wa Kingdom changes depends on the operation of this sky, and the shogunate and daimyo below have to look up to see how the sky is doing.

When Tadashi Sakai walked all the way to the government office after he landed, Shidao gave him the impression that it was wide and clean, and that it was relatively affluent with many pedestrians.

Sakai was impressed by the wide, straight avenues, the castle town lined with shops, and the people with relaxed expressions and neatly dressed people.

Along the way, he knew that the governance of the place was quite good, and his years of experience in running a bookstore in the shogunate allowed him to judge this at a glance.

When passing by a place that covers an extremely large area, Sakai Tadashi thought that he had arrived at Zhao Lie's official office, but they passed by, and Sakai Tadashi inquired that this was the Ishishima Loyal Martyrs' Shrine.

A magnificent and extensive area is the Martyrs' Shrine, Sakai Tadashi immediately understood Zhao Lie's intentions, this is a thousand gold to buy horse bones, with the establishment of the so-called Hachiman God Protection, to inspire the samurai to dare to fight is the same thing, Zhao Lie's command is not afraid of melee combat This is also one.

By the time he arrived at the humble official office, Sakai Tadashi already had a rough idea of what kind of person Zhao Lie was, this person was brave and good at fighting, had a strategic heart, was good at controlling the morale of the army, and could control his own desires.

A military general can reach the status of Zhao Lie, especially if he defeats the shogunate, he must be brave and brave and good at training.

Otherwise, just hearing about the shogun and the name of the 80,000 standing guards would have dispelled the plot to conquer Japan.

And when it comes to Zhao Lie's position, the official office is still so simple, it can be seen that Zhao Lie is extremely restrained in his own desires, otherwise he can't get what he wants, as for the official office like Anju, think about the general's town town Edo Castle and Uchimaru, compared with Ichishima, this gap is not a plan.

"After a long time, the boss is fine." Zhao Lie came out of the official office.

"Sakai Tadashi pays a visit to the general soldier of Ming Guo Zhao." Tadashi Sakai bowed deeply.

Sakai, the man in front of him, knows his power deeply, and in a sense, he can decide the direction of the Tokugawa family.

After the two finished greetings, Zhao Lie introduced Zhao Meng to Sakai, and the two finished the salute and entered the official hall.

"I don't know what Sakai-sama has done when he came to Ishishima thousands of miles away."

Zhao Lie seemed to know nothing.

"Bing Zhao General Soldier, some time ago, my country's Chōshū Domain's Maori family rebelled, and other places that captured other daimyos, my general was about to raise troops to fight, and found that there were alien cavalry under his command that Zhao General Soldier commanded when he arrived in our country last time, I don't know if Lord Zhao knows about this."

Sakai Tadashi stared at Zhao Lie.

Zhao Lie looked very dazed, "I don't know anything about this matter, but I'm afraid you don't know, these alien cavalry will give their lives to whoever gives them money." They are not subordinates of Ben General. ”

Sakai Tadashi looked at Zhao Lie suspiciously, this matter sounded a little hanging.

"Lord Sakai, don't you know, they are all alien races in the north of the Ming Dynasty, they are divided into many tribes, each tribe has clan soldiers, I'm afraid there can be hundreds of tribes."

Zhao Lie laughed and pushed it clean.

Sakai Tadashi smiled, there are such tribes, how did they land in Japan, and where did the sea ships come from.

Is it possible to pass through this sea area without being known by Zhao Lie's department, I think this is what Zhao Lie did. (To be continued.) )