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Three days later, the 25,000 standing army of the shogunate's banner, which had gathered southwest of Edo, marched southwest along the official road under the control of dozens of generals, under the command of Naotaka Ii, Toshikatsu Doi, and Masamori Hotta.

This time, the shogunate dispatched 4,000 cavalry, led by the cavalry general Hirota Katsu, more than 2,000 iron cannons, there are self-produced iron cannons and iron cannons purchased from the Dutch Portuguese, these two standing equipment are the most expensive items, even the shogunate is not able to equip too much.

Not to mention the value of the horses, even the iron cannons, especially the Nanban iron cannons with a long range and not easy to explode, cost at least sixty or seventy silver small judgments, that is, the shogunate can afford to support them, and they bought hundreds of them, but they consumed a lot of ammunition just for practice.

In addition, the most is the spear ashigaru, which is the largest share, which is also the main force of the Wa country, the difference is that all the ashigaru of the shogunate are armored, a small part is iron armor, and some is leather armor, of course, most of it is made of bamboo, but it is also luxurious enough, after all, many daimyo ashigaru can't even afford to be equipped with bamboo armor.

Of course, the daimyo from all over the city who lived in Edo Castle also contributed 3,000 soldiers, and according to the shogunate's system of confession, the daimyo from all over the country lived in Edo for half of the year, and the shogun asked for gifts, and the people and horses on the road had to be expensed, and Edo had to have a place to live while waiting for the pilgrimage, so all kinds of things exhausted the daimyo in each region and weakened their strength.

Of course, they contributed to the prosperity of local commerce and the prosperity of Edo, and Edo Castle became the most prosperous city in the Kanto region of the Wa Kingdom for 30 years, and their contribution was not small, but of course only they knew how the daimyo were so inward-flowing.

And because of that. The number of their guards in Edo is also quite large, which is why Edo Castle has an inner castle, so let's take precautions.

This time the shogunate's crusade against the Ming people was the time when the daimyo in Edo curryed favor with the shogun Iemitsu, and besides, who dared not send troops. Some important ministers of the shogunate crooked their mouths, and a certain daimyo avoided the battle when the general's banner was standing with the army, so that the general remembered the grudge, and in the future, he would have to cry to death.

Therefore, these daimyo are all knowledgeable things, and they dedicate half of the attendants around them, which is also a sacrifice, but it is a person who is not a thing.

The shogunate marched southward with a standing banner and armor, and the whole procession stretched more than ten miles to the south. Meandering forward, the majestic and murderous air pointed directly at Kamakura.

Kamakura was now extremely busy on the docks and inside the castle, and after three days of rest, all the soldiers were recuperated and their horses were refreshed.

The camp of the Broken Prisoners in the north of the city began to be active, all the soldiers began to be prepared, the scouts had been reported, and there were a large number of Japanese scouts in the northeast and west. There will definitely be changes.

In the afternoon of that day, Zhao Lie received the news that a group of 100 people had come back from Edo. The night with a small number of people is not closed, and the left and right of the Japanese people cannot be approached.

At the beginning of the second day, 2,000 cavalry, 9,000 soldiers, 6,000 Beihua reserve soldiers, 2,000 Korean soldiers, plus 500 gunners and 50 six-pounder and nine-pounder marching guns, and more than 30,000 horses marched in a majestic northeast direction.

Naotaka Ii recommended himself as the general in front of Tokugawa Iemitsu and led the army out of Kamakura.

But his always cautious personality determines that he is not a bloody warrior like Hotta Masamori.

"Bingjiadu, the Ming people's soldiers and horses are estimated to have 20,000. It's all riding, full body armor, not the likes of ashigaru. A middle-aged samurai drenched in sweat said prostrately.

"Uh," Naotaka Ii nearly tore off his beard, and he looked at the samurai on the ground in surprise. "You're sure you're right."

"The subordinate is the family governor Jian pulled out in the end, never dared to deceive the old man, the subordinate is risking death this time to approach the official road, from the mountains and trees lurking for two hours, only then hit the horse gallop back, the subordinate is clear to see, will not be mistaken."

The samurai kowtowed.

"Ikeda Justice, it's not that the Governor doesn't believe in you, it's really the surprise of the Ming Army, how is it 20,000 full armor standing up... Jing Yi Naoxiao muttered to himself, he thought that since Ming Ren dared to come to the door, he must have some dependence.

This is also the reason why he cautiously sent his own vassal Ashigaru General Ikeda Masayoshi to investigate, but he didn't expect that there were 20,000 people in the Ming Dynasty, or even all of them, because they were too far away to see clearly, and they didn't know whether it was iron armor or leather armor, even if it was all leather armor, it was terrifying enough.

This is not the most surprising to him, what surprised him the most was that the Ming army was all cavalry, which was unimaginable, to know that a war horse in the Wa country cost seventy or eighty silver small sentences, many poor warriors could not afford to buy it.

The Ming people turned out to be all cavalry, how much silver money is this, which shows that this Ming people have strong financial resources, he is the elder of the Tokugawa family, that is, the old man of the pen family, and he is also the lord of his own Shirai Domain.

Otherwise, in the Warring States Period, why did the daimyo dig gold and silver mountains one after another, and expand the castle town and Rakushi Rakuza, all in order to open up financial resources, and only with money and food can the standing army armor be prepared, and only when they go out can they have an advantage.

This Ming army is full of sharp armor and war horses, if they say that their combat power is unbearable, who believes this.

Jing Yi Naoxiao couldn't help but doubt, his confidence in victory is there, after all, the concept of people who are unbearable in the Ming step battle is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, although there is armor to protect themselves, but they dare not fight hand-to-hand combat and bloody battles are all false in the end, but this Ming people are not good, if it is a tragic victory, it is defeat.

This will have a great adverse impact on his status as the elder, and even directly cut off his status as the elder.

Naotaka Ii immediately ordered the general Hirota Katsu to lead 3,000 cavalry to advance and resist the Akito in Yokohama before the army arrived in Yokohama.

Ii Naotaka is now planning to fight a decisive battle with the Ming people in Yokohama, although Yokohama is not a small city, but no matter how bad it is, it is also a city, and it is much better to fight according to the city, and to deal with the Ming people who are all cavalry, than to fight against cavalry in the wilderness.

The shogunate army finally arrived in Yokohama at noon the next day, and the Akito's army had not yet arrived in Yokohama, but it was only ten miles away.

Naotaka Ii felt a sigh of relief, and he immediately ordered the whole team to be formed at the West Gate in Yokohama.

At this time, Doi Toshikatsu, who was sitting in the rear, sent someone to report his bad news, and a cavalry of the Ming people suddenly appeared in the northern part of Sagami, the western part of Musashi, and the area around Ueno and Shimono.

Everywhere he went, he burned down villages, towns, monasteries, killed and injured local people, looted money, and turned the area into white land in three days.

The strength of the daimyo everywhere is insufficient, generally it is a standing reserve of 1,800, and when encountering this Ming cavalry, it is not an opponent at all, and it was defeated in two interceptions, and this Ming cavalry will never attack the city, but just wander around this area, so that the daimyo everywhere have no choice but to report to Edo urgently, asking the shogunate to send out the cavalry to strangle this Ming people.

When Naotaka Ii heard this, he immediately knew that it would not be possible to drag it back, otherwise the cavalry would not be able to be transferred, and he could only let this Ming people mess with the rear, and the shogun and the shogunate would lose face.

In a village five miles south of the town of Ueno Kunibashi Domain, a group of iron-clad figures entered and exited the houses, and there were constant cries and howls in the village.

The only street in the village was littered with dead bodies, some with bamboo guns in their hands.

Smoke and flames rose from many houses, and some figures wearing lightning rods and iron armor began to appear in the streets, holding small packages in their hands, walking towards the official road at the entrance of the village.

"Etuhun, tell them to hurry up, don't just care about women, and go north." The lightning rod helmet and the new one are not very good-looking, and a village that has been delayed for so long must not only rob the silver, but also the little things under the waistband of the trousers.

The problem is that the advantage of the cavalry is guerrilla, and the order given by the adults is to reduce losses and destroy more Japanese villages and towns.

In response, Etuhun rushed into the village and began to whistle loudly, scolding a group of Jurchens and Mongol subordinates.

Jiaxin took off his helmet and let his mind relax, this heavy lightning rod has been worn for a long time, it is really uncomfortable, but this is the armor style left by his ancestors, and he Jiaxin really can't throw it away.

Canada is extremely satisfied with the situation it is in.

Lord Zhao collected more than 1,000 Jurchens and Mongols who had feuds with the Jurchens of Jianzhou from Denglai and Liaodong, and greatly enriched his subordinates, and now there are 1,800 people under his command, of course, 700 people here are controlled by Bagen, but after all, the commander is him, and Bagen is only a deputy.

From a Jurchen escape, in the end can only become a slave, now in charge of more than 1,000 armor soldiers, the key is that the day when he returns to Liaodong to avenge Ye He is getting closer and closer, what is there to dissatisfaction with Jiaxin.

One after another, the soldiers ran back from the village, and they put the gold and silver judgments in their hands or in their arms, and even the gold and silver jewelry, into some saddle bags guarded by the soldiers around Bagan.

These will be selected as their reward after the inspection in the future, although Bagen is relatively quiet, but he is never greedy for ink in these things, these soldiers are assured.

Bagen saw that the saddlebags of more than fifty war horses were almost full, and he couldn't help but shake his head, this area of the Japanese people is also considered rich.

"Mr. Qian, find more horses in the future, although the horses of the Japanese are short, but the camels are worth some gold and silver."

Bagan shouted to Kashin.

"Well, Ben is just worried about their lack of stamina, which is dragging us down on the march." Kashin was extremely disdainful of the horses of the Japanese people.

"Something is better than nothing." Bagan shook his head, it's better than nothing.

Jiaxin didn't say anything, and he urged the whole team to continue to march north.

On the city of the town of the Stable Bridge Domain, Sakai Tadashi, the son of Sakai Tadashi, looked at the smoke and fire rising in the north with a hideous face, and hated it in his heart, but the only three hundred cavalry he sent was defeated by the enemy, and only ran back more than 100 cavalry, how could he fight again, although there were thousands of ashigaru standing in the city, but the infantry attacked the cavalry no matter how it looked unreliable.

He could only watch as the Stables and Bridges erupted in all directions.

The weakened strength of the various daimyo of the Wa Kingdom and the situation of fighting their own battles were destined to be unable to stop the vertical and horizontal of more than 1,000 fully armored cavalry, not to mention that most of these people were Jurchens and Mongols who were experts in this field.

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