"Angel is really a talent, worthy of being a figure in the Central Plains." A slight smile suddenly appeared on Tachibana Muneshige's face, "Will the angels stay in Japan after the war?" ”

This is both a gesture of favor and a temptation, Zhou Pu now promised to give the Tachibana family 500,000 stone of territory, but if he is transferred back to the court after the war, then even if he agrees to more conditions, his successor is likely to rely on the promise, so he needs to confirm the same.

And Zhou Pu certainly understood the other party's intentions.

"If nothing else, I should still stay in Japan, do some trivial things, and continue to strengthen the diplomatic relations between the two countries." Zhou Pu's face also showed a slight smile, "After all, there are not too many people in my country's court who know about Japan. ”

"Well, I'll ask the angels to take care of me in the future." The old man arched his hand slightly, then nodded slightly, and saluted.

"It doesn't matter." Zhou Pu also arched his hand, "As long as it can be conducive to the diplomatic relations between the two countries and the well-being of your country, I am willing to do ......it."

The Tachibana family needs to find a backer for themselves in the future and maintain their status and territory; And Zhou Pu also needs to have some helpers in Japan in order to strengthen his control over Japan.

This subtle union, in the smiles of the two people, everything is silent.

Tachibana Muneshige slowly put his hand on the saber on his right waist, and his expression had become very solemn at this time, and he could no longer see the exhaustion and nervousness he had just now.

Then, with incredible speed, he suddenly pulled the knife out.

With the sound of "bang", the bright cold light swept through everyone's eyes.

"Then ...... Let's fight to the death with the Tokugawa family! ”

"Hay!" With this shout of Tachibana Somao, the elders of the Tachibana family who were present echoed at the same time.

Like Tachibana Soshige, they also had a sense of happiness after escaping death, originally they were worried that once they were regarded as an enemy by the Han Dynasty, they would have to burn the jade stone with the Honda Domain, but they did not expect to meet the Han envoy, after some negotiations with the lord of the domain, the Envoy of the Great Han not only promised to protect the domain, but also promised to give the domain 500,000 stone of land as compensation.

Although this compensation will be made in other parts of Japan, and it is likely that they will face the consequences of moving out of the Yanagawa domain in the future, as long as the territory can be expanded fivefold, everyone will definitely enjoy a higher status and treatment, so why not move out of Kyushu Island?

Besides, these people were originally dissatisfied with the shogunate, but now they can get a chance to take revenge on the shogunate, which makes them happy for a while.

Under the orders of Tachibana Muneshige, these important ministers rushed out of the feudal castle one after another, and went to various parts of the domain to gather the assembled feudal soldiers, firstly to prepare themselves, and secondly, to avoid clashes with the Han soldiers—after all, today, when the Great Han is going all the way deep into the interior of Kyushu Island, it is very likely that the two sides will face each other.

This concern is not out of context.

In the scorching midday sun, a group of Han soldiers in red uniforms hit the edge of the Liuhe Domain, their faces covered with gray and black, and the constant sweat mixed into a strange mass of colors. Moreover, their steps were a little messy, they looked very tired, their red uniforms were already very messy, some places were covered with dust, and in other places they had turned black and brown from the clotted blood, and they had turned into a monstrous-looking and terrible killing god.

In front of them, there was also a group of people running forward, but although they were running, their speed was not fast, they just moved forward weakly, compared to the red-clothed soldiers behind them, they looked much more embarrassed, their clothes were ragged, and their eyes were bloodshot, and they looked very painful.

These people are the remnants of the Fukuoka Domain, and they have been defeated after the first battle with the Han army, and then they chose to flee, and there were many fleeing people who originally gathered, but after the pursuit of the Han army all the way, the number has become more and more scattered.

They have lost any courage to resist, and it is clear that the number of pursuers behind them has always been far inferior to their own, but they have no courage to turn back and resist at all, and there is no longer a formation to speak of, they just run forward desperately.

Forced by hunger and exhaustion, even their courage to escape slowly faded, and from time to time along the way some people stopped because they couldn't walk, and sat on the ground in a daze, even when the pursuers behind drew their swords and slashed at them, they did not make any resistance.

The red-clad soldiers, though equally tired, were much more energetic, and the excitement of the victors and the desire to capture more military exploits kept them in pursuit all the way, so that they had already separated themselves from their own large forces. Before they knew it, they had been chasing the enemy for several days, penetrating half of Kyushu Island.

They were about to reach the Liuhe Domain now, but of course the soldiers were ignorant of the situation, and they didn't really care which domain it was. In their opinion, the enemy in front of them will collapse at the first touch, and everywhere is a smooth road, they can fight wherever they go, and whoever stands in the way will be defeated.

In order to save their physical strength, they followed the defeated soldiers in front of them unhurriedly, leisurely harvesting the lives of those enemy soldiers who had fallen behind, as if they were playing cat and mouse. This enemy army, in their eyes, is already in the bag, and can be harvested at any time.

However, just as they were about to launch another assault and completely destroy this enemy army, suddenly a group of people came running from a distance, holding in their hands and, it seems, it should be a group of feudal troops.

"Alert!" The officer who led the team, Lian Zheng He Gui, hurriedly ordered his subordinates to form a formation and be on guard.

He was an officer in the 1st Regiment of the Provisional Japanese Army of the Han Dynasty, and was also a member of the Liaodong Army before. He was originally a small soldier in the Zhao Zi battalion, and because of his diligence and bravery, he became the Lian Zheng of the Liaodong Army after several expansions of the Han Dynasty, and then followed Zhao Shuai and Bi Tuanzheng to Kyushu.

After the Liaodong Army pacified the Jianzhou Jurchens, large-scale wars began to decrease day by day, which made the officers and soldiers of Liaodong who were used to fighting really unaccustomed to it.

So he wasn't really interested in why this war was fought, he was just happy that there was finally a war to fight after being idle for so long, and for him, he only had the obligation to obey, and he would fight wherever His Majesty and the generals above pointed him.

After setting foot on the land of Kyushu Island, he and other officers were originally very skeptical of the combat effectiveness of the Japanese shogunate, and the victory in the first battle further boosted his confidence, and after getting the order of Bi Tuanzheng to pursue with all his strength to expand the results of the battle, he took his subordinates to pursue it all the way, because the speed of the pursuit was too fast, and now even about half of his subordinates have left the team, and only a few dozen people are by his side.

After hearing his order, his subordinates immediately began to take up the battle according to the drill of the Han army, preparing to meet the enemy. Although they were exhausted from days of pursuit with little rest, they quickly assembled a battle formation and waited for the battle with the enemy army, relying on the experience accumulated from their rigorous training.

The combined number of the soldiers who came and the defeated soldiers they pursued before far outnumbered them, but these Han officers and soldiers were not afraid, and the years of conquest and continuous victories had already made them accumulate incomparable confidence, and they dared to face any enemy.

The Han officers and soldiers were like facing a great enemy, but the shogunate soldiers who were being pursued and panicked all day were already overjoyed, they shouted for help, and then they didn't know where they got their strength, and they accelerated to these new feudal soldiers. In their opinion, although these newly reinforced feudal soldiers did not know which feudal they were, their appearance meant that they had escaped from death, and even if they couldn't stop these Han Kou, at least they could buy them time to escape.

However, to their surprise, they were greeted by merciless butcher knives, and when the two sides approached, these rushing feudal soldiers suddenly pulled out their weapons and stabbed the group mercilessly. Already exhausted and hungry, they have almost lost all their fighting spirit and the Fukuoka Domain's soldiers, where is the strength to resist in such a situation?

Under the shadow of the sword and sword, a dull scream sounded, although some people wanted to escape in another direction, but where they could outrun these feudal soldiers, they were quickly killed one by one, and no one remained.

The Han officers and soldiers in the array were all surprised to see this strange scene happening in front of them, they didn't understand why these feudal soldiers would kill each other, but of course they would not relax their vigilance because of this, and they still lined up to look at the remaining feudal soldiers in front of them, ready to fight them at any time.

However, these feudal soldiers had no intention of fighting the Han officers and soldiers at all, they stood far away, and then one of them shouted to the Han officers and soldiers in half-baked Chinese. "Don't get me wrong, sir! We are the people of the Liuhe Domain, and we are allies of the Great Han! ”

They shouted like this continuously, and the sound also reached the ears of the Han officers and soldiers, and provoked them to look at each other with suspicion. Although the Chinese on the other side were not proficient, they could barely understand the meaning.

"Lian Zheng, they mean it's on our side?" An officer cautiously asked He Gui, "Is this a bluff to us?" Haven't you heard of any of our allies in Kyushu? ”

"Don't talk nonsense!" He Gui scolded him, "Who said we don't have helpers here?" ”

As an officer, he knew more than anyone else, and before the fight, the officers of the Han Dynasty and the Japanese army were summoned many times, and someone conveyed to them some things that they wanted them to pay attention to, in addition to the clichés of military discipline and Japanese customs and geography, there was also an analysis of the situation in Japan.

The senator told them that Japan did not hold all the land of the shogunate, and that there were still many feudal states scattered across the territory of Japan, and that some of the feudal states might be inclined to the Great Han, and that the Son of Heaven had sent envoys to encircle some feudal lords who might be inclined to the Great Han, so they should be careful not to attack these feudal domains after receiving the news, so as not to disrupt the strategy of the imperial court.

However, although he had heard about it, he was not sure whether the feudal soldiers in front of him belonged to that group of people. Even though they had slaughtered the fleeing feudal soldiers just now to show their sincerity, who knew that they didn't mean to lure the enemy? It's better to be cautious, he doesn't dare to joke with the lives of his subordinates.

"Lay down your arms first!" He shouted, "Send someone who can speak Chinese, and the others are not allowed to move, otherwise they will be killed!" ”

After he gave such an order, the other party did not dare to slack off, and immediately threw down the weapon in his hand, and then two or three people walked out of the feudal army array.

When he saw that the other party really obeyed his orders, He Gui believed their words a little.

Soon the men were in front of him.

"The contemptible person is Masahiko Asakura, a feudal priest of the Yanagawa Domain, and he has seen an adult." A young man dressed as a samurai bowed respectfully to He Gui.

"Liuhe Domain? The Yanagawa Domain of Bungo Province? ”

He Gui himself is a small officer, and he has always had to ******** in the army, but today he was a little happy to see someone groveling to him like this, and his attitude towards speaking became a lot softer.

As he spoke, he took out a simple map of Kyushu from his pocket, and determined his position - they had run so fast during the pursuit that they could no longer determine their position.

"It's indeed the Yanagawa Domain of Bungo Country." Asakura Masahiko nodded hurriedly, and his heart was shocked by the quality of the Han officers and the details of their preparations.

Even the person in front of him, who was obviously a petty officer, knew so much about the situation in Kyushu, how could the shogunate be undefeated? Then he glanced at the Han officers and soldiers next to him, these officers and soldiers were all solemn, and the blood stains on their bodies made him feel a chilling pressure.

He didn't dare to look more, and continued to kneel on the ground, waiting for the other party's inquiry.

"When did your clan form an alliance with our Great Han? How did I not know? He Gui asked again.

"We formed an alliance with the Great Han today, and now the envoy of the Great Han is still in the domain!" Asakura Masahiko hurriedly replied.

"Okay, get up, don't kneel on the ground, it's inconvenient to speak." He Gui waved the saber in his hand, "You mean that the envoy is in your domain city now, right?" Well, then, let the messenger come to me, for I will not be able to believe your words until I have seen the messenger. ”

"Now the lord of the feudal domain is talking to the envoy......" Asakura Masahiko hesitated.

"Alright, didn't you hear my orders?!" He Gui scolded the other party impatiently, "If you push me back, then who can see your sincerity?" Is it trying to deceive us? ”

Although he only had a few dozen people now, he was still arrogant, and he didn't pay attention to these Liuhe Domain soldiers in front of him at all, and Asakura Masahiko's face was like earth, and after hesitating for a moment, he knelt on the ground, "Please wait here for a while, and we will let people go back to their lives immediately." ”

"Go!" He Gui waved his saber again, urging impatiently.

Soon, Asakura Masahiko returned to the army formation of the Yanagawa Domain, and then rode a fast horse towards the Yanagawa Domain.

After seeing these people leave, He Gui sat on the ground with a big grin, and then beckoned his subordinates, regardless of the fact that there was a group of feudal soldiers on the other side. "The people in the seventh row are on guard, and the people in the third and ninth rows are resting! In a quarter of an hour, let's take a break here and wait for the brethren to come over! ”

After receiving the order, the officers and soldiers of the Han Dynasty, except for some who continued to be in charge of guarding, immediately sat down on the ground, and then some began to light fires on the spot, while others simply lay on the ground and took a nap.

After several days of pursuit, he and his men were so tired, they were nervous because they were still chasing the enemy, but now when they relaxed, the fatigue and sleepiness could hardly be stopped.

"We're rushing too hard." He Gui scolded secretly, "I don't know what kind of medal I can change after I go back." ”

Soon, a soldier brought him the soaked food, and he took the basin and poured it into his mouth, and when he had finished eating, he sighed contentedly, as if it were some kind of delicacy.

In order to facilitate the officers and soldiers to fight, the combat units of the Han Dynasty had special food supplies, both dry and cooked. Dry food is baked bread, which tastes average but is very filling and can be eaten at any time. Cooking grains are fried noodles mixed with minced meat, salt and spices, which can be quickly made to satisfy hunger while camping.

Before, because they were busy chasing the enemy army, this group of Han officers and soldiers rarely camped, and when they were hungry, they ate some dough cakes directly, and their mouths were already too light. Now that they finally have the opportunity to camp, as soon as they eat these flavorful fried noodles, He Gui and his subordinates feel that it is a rare enjoyment in the world.

Soon, the Han officers and soldiers who belonged to him or not also rushed over from behind, and also camped beside them amid He Gui's laughter and scolding, and for a while this temporary camp became very lively, and a large number of soldiers in red clothes decorated the green field with great brilliance.

Seeing that there were Japanese feudal soldiers on the opposite side, these Han soldiers who had caught up originally wanted to continue the attack, but He Gui told them about the situation he had just encountered, and finally stopped them temporarily - plus they really needed to rest, so everyone also camped on the spot.

Just as they had rested for a while, regained their spirits, and had begun to be a little impatient with the soldiers on the other side, a large group of men and horses finally rushed over from the direction of the Liuhe Domain, and the leader was none other than the Yanagawa Domain's priest Asakura Masahiko who could speak some Chinese just now.

However, he was obviously not the most important person in this group, and under the vigilant gaze of the Han officers and soldiers, a young man came to the front of the battle without hurrying.

"Zhou Pu, the envoy of the Han Dynasty, has now persuaded Liuhe to surrender to our country. Ladies and gentlemen, hard work! ”

The initial cooperation between the Han army and the Japanese daimyo was then realized.