After letting the first assistant of the cabinet stay in Beijing and be responsible for handling the government during his absence, Liu Jun left Beijing.

didn't move the crowd too much, and there was no big pomp, Liu Jun ordered 5,000 guards and pro-army, and he didn't bring palace attendants, let alone concubines, so he went out of Beijing directly. The royal driver arrived in Tianjin first, where the royal task force was already waiting.

Both detachments of the Royal Task Force arrived, each with fifteen capital ships, three of which were first-class battleships. In addition, there is the emperor's ship, the Shenlong, which is the largest and most powerful warship in the empire.

The emperor inspected the fleet in Tianjin, then led his troops to board the ship and sail eastward.

The sea went smoothly, and the fleet arrived at the port of Hirado without any problems.

"Your Majesty, the soldiers are at the port to greet you!"

Liu Jun stood on the deck and saw that there were indeed many people greeting the port in the distance.

"Today is a good day." Liu Jun said with a smile, at the beginning of the sunny day after the rain, there were rainbows in the port, and there were two rainbows.

The Royal Task Force, guided by the Tokai Fleet's guide ship from Hirado Port, slowly sailed into the harbor.

Nabeshima Katsushige stood on the pier, watching from afar as the huge fleet entered the port, his heart full of amazement. There were already a lot of warships in the Dahan Navy in Hirado Port, and he thought that Hirado's warships had gathered the main force of the empire, but unexpectedly, another huge fleet arrived.

He clicked, and a total of thirty-one huge ships arrived, all five-masted sail battleships with three gun decks, followed by many frigates and transports. Hundreds of ships, large and small, with white sails covering the sky.

Hirado Island was the concession of the Han Dynasty, and the Han army had been operating here for nearly three years, and the Seventh Fleet of the East China Sea Fleet also used it as its home port, operating like an iron barrel.

When the emperor arrived, the Han army, merchants, and immigrants from Hirado Port came to greet him.

After disembarking, Liu Jun entered Hirado Castle.

"Four people from Xuanguo Island."

Liu Jun also ignored the fatigue of the journey and entered the city. asked people to announce the four feudal lords such as Nabeshima to meet in person.

After Liu Jun set up a plan to fight for the curtain, Liu Yunsheng in Japan took active action, and when Liu Jun had just left Beijing, he had successfully rebelled against the four feudal lords.

Saga Domain, Nabeshima Katsushige, Hirado Domain, Matsuura Tsuga, Satsuma Domain, Shimazu Mitsuhisa, Choshu Domain, Mori Hidesa. Three of the four feudal clans were in Saikaido, and the Mori family of the Choshu clan was on Sanyo Province, but it was also close to the island of Kyushu.

These four people are obedient to the Han, and they all have their own reasons.

Among them, the Matsuura family was originally small. The stone is no more than 60,000 high, and the territory is in Hirado and Iki Island. Later, however, Liu Jun bombarded Japan, and the shogunate leased the five islands of Hirado and Tsushima to China, and in fact the Hirado domain had no territory. Originally, the shogunate promised to give the Matsuura family a new territory, but until now, the shogunate has not fulfilled its promise, and the Matsuura family has become a daimyo with no actual territory.

They still live in Hirado, but everything in Hirado is decided by the Han people, and they are the people under the rule of the Han people.

The Matsuura clan relied entirely on a little rent from the Han Dynasty and income from doing business. They were already dissatisfied with the shogunate, and when the envoys of the Great Han promised that as long as they joined the shogunate army, when the matter was completed, they would give the Matsuura family a million stone territory. When he moved to the more affluent territory of the former Tokugawa family, Matsuura did not hesitate to join the Shogunate.

The Matsuura family were a fierce group of people who lured Chinese pirates to Hirado and made big deals. Even following Chinese pirates to plunder China and Korea and other places, the Matsuura family also served as a pioneer in the Japanese war of aggression against Korea. It's a pity in the Battle of Sekigahara. They were on the wrong side, and as a result, Tokugawa's eastern army won, and although the Matsuura family finally kept their territory, the Tokugawa family has been looking for an opportunity to settle accounts with them, and their territory was taken to the Han concession, and the Matsuura family wanted to change the territory, and the Tokugawa family would really agree.

Besides, there is a Lord everywhere, where to change? Unless the Tokugawa family comes up with their own territory, of course the Tokugawa family will not do such a thing.

In the past few decades, the Tokugawa family has cut and reduced the seals of the daimyo in various ways, and they only enter and do not leave.

The Matsuura family of the Hirado Domain was 60,000 koku, the Nabeshima clan of the Saga Domain was 360,000 koku, and the Mori clan of the Choshu Domain was also 360,000 koku, but the Satsuma clan was as high as 720,000 koku.

Whether it is the Choshu Mori family or the Satsuma Shimazu family, both of them were once super powerful clans.

Mori Kyo once owned 1.2 million stone high, and a hundred years ago, the Mori family Mori Yuan took Aki as the foundation and occupied the land of the Ten Kingdoms, with 1.2 million stone high. Later, Mori Terumoto, the grandson of Mori Moto, confronted Oda Nobunaga, and after Nobunaga's death, he compromised with Toyotomi Hideyoshi and participated in the government, becoming one of the five elders. After Hideyoshi's death, his strength was second only to Tokugawa Ieyasu.

During the Battle of Sekigahara, Mori Terumoto was the general of the Western Army, and after that battle, the Western Army was defeated, and the Mori family was also reduced, leaving only 360,000 stone from the two countries of Zhou Defense and Nagato.

From more than 1 million stones to more than 300,000 stones, the Maori family is resentful in their hearts.

Therefore, when the naval warship of the Han army was outside the mountain pass of the Maori family, and the muzzle of the gun was facing the Maori family, the Maori family was very happy and knowledgeable about the current affairs, so they surrendered to the Han and were willing to join the great cause of the curtain.

The Satsuma clan had always been a powerful feudal domain in Kyushu, and their family once controlled most of Kyushu, but later Toyotomi Hideyoshi pacified Kyushu, and the territory of the Shimazu clan was greatly reduced.

Previously, the Satsuma Domain sent troops to the Ryukyus according to the instructions of the Tokugawa Shogun, and after the Ryukyu was defeated, the Tokugawa sealed the Ryukyus 120,000 koku in the 600,000-stone territory of Shimazu, making the Satsuma Domain's stone height 720,000 koku.

However, as soon as the Han army requisitioned, the immediately frightened shogunate ordered the Satsuma clan to let the Ryukyus out. The Satsuma clan made so much effort before and after, and finally knocked down the Ryukyus, but the shogunate said to let it go, and there was no compensation afterwards, which made the Shimazu clan very dissatisfied.

Although the Ryukyus were taken by the Han army, they could not defeat the Han army, and as a result, the new and old hatreds were counted together, and all of them were counted on the head of the Tokugawa clan.

When the Han warships appeared in Kagoshima, the Han envoy brought a promise of one million koku, and after careful consideration, the Shimazu clan of Kagoshima decided to follow the Han army in the crusade against Tokugawa.

Combined, there are more than one million feudatories, but less than one-twentieth of Japan's strength.

However, Liu Jun just wants a name, if all Japan is so aware of current affairs, Liu Jun still feels troublesome. has done Shunmin, Liu Jun is embarrassed to rob again.

The four feudal lords and the various branches of the four feudal domains, as well as their important retainers, visited Liu Jun together.

For these leading parties, Liu Jun was very polite, and promised again to wait for the curtain to be successful. At that time, they would give each family a million koku territory, and they would divide it from the four million koku directly under the Tokugawa family, and then they would all move to the fertile land near Edo.

For this reason, Liu Jun also specially enshrined the four feudal lords as the founding earls of the major Han Empires, and their branch feudal lords were also named viscounts, and important family elders were named barons.

The total stone height of the four feudal domains now reached nearly 1.5 million high, and Liu Jun ordered each of the four feudal domains to assemble soldiers and horses according to the number of five soldiers sent out of 100 stone according to the height of the territory and the number of five people sent out of 100 stones.

According to this figure, the four families and their vassals had to send a total of 75,000 troops. In addition, all their samurai had to be mobilized. The total number of samurai in the four feudal domains was about 15,000.

The samurai in Japan were a special class, similar to the knights of medieval Europe, who belonged to a privileged class and were considered aristocracy. It is said that the total number of samurai in Japan reached four or five hundred thousand, and the Tokugawa family alone claimed to be 80,000 banners.

Although Liu Jun did not praise the Japanese samurai very much, these samurai were almost equivalent to the family soldiers of the generals in the Ming Dynasty, and they were elite soldiers, and as for the other soldiers, they were almost all peasant soldiers. Even if there are many of these peasant soldiers, it is still more useful for the Japanese to fight in the village by themselves, but if they fight against the giant ships and cannons of the Han Dynasty, they are cannon fodder.

Liu Jun's first goal. Or sweep Kyushu Island, this big island, Liu Jun has already regarded it as a bag. Now that there are four feudal clans in front of them, it is just right to use them to clear the various feudal domains on the island.

Although Kyushu is the Saikaido of the Seven Provinces of Japan's Gorgi. It is far from Edo and Kyoto, but there are several powerful feudal clans in the area, with the exception of Satsuma. Kumamoto and Fukuoka were both large feudal domains with a height of more than 500,000 stones.

Kyushu now has a total of 23 feudal domains, and the three feudal domains of Sa, Hirado, and Saga have been surrendered, and the territories of the two feudal domains of Tsushima and Goto have become the concessions of the Han Dynasty have long been the same as Hirado.

Therefore, in this way, there are still eighteen feudal domains on Kyushu Island.

"Your Majesty, the minister is willing to go to the Kyushu domains for Your Majesty and persuade them to join the Han Empire." Nabeshima Road.

Liu Jun waved his hand and asked Liu Yunsheng.

"Have you sent someone to talk to the Kyushu clans before?"

Liu Yunsheng nodded, "All the feudal domains have sent envoys to convey His Majesty's will, but the feudal domains have not replied. ”

"That's fine, since they're obsessed, there's no need to waste their tongues. Let's send troops! ”

Liu Jun walked to the map, looked at the feudal domains of Kyushu Island, and pointed to Tang Jin with his hand, "Take this domain first." ”

Karatsu is a small feudal domain, located northwest of Saga, bordering Fukuoka in the east, Nagasaki in the west by Imari Bay, and adjacent to Tohan and Takeo in the south.

Because this is the port where Japanese ships went to China during the Tang Dynasty, it was named Karatsu.

Because of his support for the Tokugawa clan in the Battle of Sekigahara, he was given 40,000 koku of Amakusa after the war, but after the Shimabara War a few years ago, Amakusa's domain was confiscated, and the current feudal lord is Tera Tsu Kentaka, who owns the domain of Karatsu 80,000 koku.

Songpu Dong also asked to persuade him to surrender, but Liu Jun was planning to kill the chicken and make an example of the monkey, and the ruler of Tangjin Temple was such a good chicken, how could he let it go.

Choosing Tangjin as the first target, Liu Jun also carefully considered, first of all, he was close to Hirado and Tsushima, and at the same time he was a port, Tangjin City was built in the port, and the Han army was the easiest to attack.

After the Tokugawa clan established the Edo Shogunate, in order to limit the military power of the local lords, the system of one country and one castle was implemented throughout the country, and it was required that only one castle be allowed in the daimyo country, that is, within the domain, which was the daimyo himself. The small and medium-sized samurai, who had been scattered all over the country, had to destroy their castles and move to live in and around the daimyo castles.

As a result, there was only one castle in one domain, and the military strength of the daimyo was naturally greatly reduced, and the threat to the Edo shogunate was greatly reduced. However, in this way, it also made Dahan's attack very favorable.

The Karatsu clan had a territory of 80,000 koku, but there was only a very small Karatsu castle in Karatsu Port.

The Imperial Navy could directly sail into the port of Karatsu and directly bombard the small Dangjin Castle from the sea, capturing the castle in one fell swoop. As long as Karatsu City is taken, the Karatsu Domain will have no city to defend, no danger to rely on, and it will be difficult to resist.

Liu Jun wanted to thank the Tokugawa Shogunate, how could he think of such a magical strategy to build a country and a city, but thinking that the Edo Shogunate was still closed off the country before, he also knew that the Tokugawa Shogunate was still full of the turtle flow of Tokugawa Ieyasu, an old turtle.

Since the Warring States Period, Japan has gradually implemented the system of separating soldiers and peasants, thus forming a samurai class that is completely separated from agricultural production and specializes in military warfare.

The samurai were only responsible for the battle, and when they performed meritorious deeds in battle, their lords gave them all the land with different grain production capacity, as well as the peasants who lived on it and cultivated it, as their personal property.

An intermediate samurai can generally reach a hundred stone high quarry.

The requirements for the position of the shogunate elder are that the territory stone is more than 100,000 koku high, and there are not many daimyo who can meet this requirement.

Before the Tokugawa shogunate, Japan was in chaos and war. Lords large and small, and their warriors, all built castles in their domains.

Today, however, the one-country-one-city system has allowed the daimyo of each domain and their samurai to live together.

As soon as the emperor gave the order, the imperial admirals immediately began to rush to war.

Everyone knew that the Karatsu Domain was only 80,000 koku, which meant that all their samurai combined might be less than a thousand, and even if they mobilized peasant soldiers, they would have at most three or four thousand.

A comprehensive mobilization can only raise 1,000 soldiers, 4,000 auxiliaries, and there is only a city in Lingang, which is a piece of fat meat, you can take it with your hand, who doesn't want to compete for this first merit.

In this Eastern Crusade, in order to train troops in actual combat, the navy's five major fleets all sent fleets over, and even the Yangtze River Naval Division, an army division unit, was unwilling to be lonely and sent more than a dozen warships over.

In the end, it was Liu Jun who made the decision himself.

"Since it's the first battle, then this opportunity should be handed over to the Seventh Fleet, they are the landlords here, so don't take the lead."

After receiving the emperor's name, Zheng Lian, the commander of the Seventh Fleet, was flushed with excitement.

"The last general will not fail in his mission."

Nabeshima Katsushige and the other four feudal lords also stepped forward and knelt down together to ask for battle, "Please allow Your Majesty to lead our troops to join us in the battle!" ”

Liu Jun smiled slightly.

"The small city of Tangjin can be destroyed in an instant, and the Imperial Navy can't wait for you to mobilize troops and horses. But since you have the heart, why don't you go and watch the battle with you. ”

Although the Seventh Fleet is not as good as the Royal Task Force, the two sub-fleets under its jurisdiction each have fifteen capital ships, but the Seventh Fleet also has ten capital ships. Not to mention the other fourth, fifth and sixth class battleships, these ten main battleships alone are enough to bombard Tangjin City with one salvo. (To be continued.) )