Compared to Hokkaido, Toei's defense on Honshu Island is more perverted.

Bounded by Edo, Mikasa Castle had three steel lines to the south and four to the north. As for the defense of the main ports, it will only be even crazier than Hokkaido.

Keisuke Honda's strategy is clear, which is to hold on for a month.

Han Xin naturally scoffed at this, no matter how good the defense was, it was just a decoration in the face of a super attack. There is a saying in the art of war: "The best defense is offense." ”

As for how to attack Honshu Island, Han Shin already has a complete set of combat plans.

On 7 June, the Northern Route Army began to move.

Guo Ziyi led the Flame Army across the strait and landed on the northernmost tip of Honshu Island, responsible for sweeping all the way down from north to south. The 1st Army of the City Guard, the 1st Army of the Tiger Army, and the 1st Army of the Eagle Yang Army were divided into three squads and landed at three different ports north of Honshu Island to meet the Flame Army.

There are too many ports on Honshu Island, and the Toei army is limited, so it is impossible to defend impenetrable, and once Han Shin catches the loophole, it will be the time when the enemy army collapses on all fronts.

In addition, the expeditionary force has a large rear in Hokkaido, ensuring a steady stream of food and grass materials to the front line, even if it is a four-front battle, it is still at ease.

It can be seen from this that the strategic significance of the expeditionary force to take Hokkaido is greater than the actual combat significance.

As for how the Fourth Route Army broke through the steel defense line set up by Dongying near the port, it was not difficult to have the experience of Ran Min leading his troops to take Kushiro Port.

"It's nothing more than a question of how many big war losses can be sustained." Han Xin said.

As the so-called "mercy does not take charge of the army", when it is time to be ruthless, Han Xin can also attack his own people. For the sake of the final victory, sometimes it is impossible to sacrifice a group of troops.

There is no immortality in war.

In addition to these four armies, General Han Xin personally led the Leopard Tao army to the vicinity of Edo, intending to attack the northern part of the island while sweeping the fortress outside the river, clearing the way for the final siege.

Han Xin's arrangement saved the time of the national war to the greatest extent.

The more Dongying tried to delay, the more Han Xin wanted to make the enemy scramble, and he couldn't drag it out at all. Of course, the final siege also required the cooperation of the Southern Route Army.

Not to mention anything else, the million-strong forbidden army stationed in Edo alone was not something that the Northern Route Army could deal with alone.

In the past two days, under the pressure of public opinion in the outside world, the Southern Army has slightly accelerated the speed of its sweep, and a few days ago it has almost taken the entire territory of Kyushu Island and established a large rear.

In the near future, the Southern Route Army will continue to move north to attack Shikoku Island.

Even so, the progress of the Southern Route Army is still very lagging behind, which makes Ouyang Shuo quite dissatisfied, but fortunately, he still has a trump card in his hand, which can turn things around at a critical moment.

This trump card is only known to the leader of the national war as the attacking side, even Keisuke Honda does not understand.

Sometimes, Ouyang Shuo even wished that Emperor Chen would die like this. If that's the case, he will send a big gift to Di Chen, but he doesn't know if Di Chen can stand it.

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In the following week, the three major battlefields related to China all entered a period of attack.

Except for the army led by Han Shin who "made waves" in the northern part of Dongying Honshu Island, set off bursts of killing, and gradually dismembered the so-called steel defense line built by Dongying, the other two battlefields were also fierce.

In Goryeo, the army led by Li Jing was still unstoppable, and in just ten days, it had taken the entire northern region of Goryeo and officially reached the foot of Seoul, the royal city of Goryeo.

Unlike the Dongying battlefield, Li Jing planned to besiege Seoul without attacking it, and then take this opportunity to sweep the southern part of Goryeo in one fell swoop, turning Seoul into an isolated city.

Prior to this, Great Xia had already destroyed the four kingdoms, and this strategy of first sweeping away the outer barrier and then attacking the royal city finally had been tried and tested, and had proven to be the most effective way to destroy the country.

The root cause probably lies in Gaia's setting of the forbidden army in the royal city. Even in the fifth year of Gaia, compared to the royal city forbidden army, the territorial army was still in a disadvantageous position, and it was a relatively easy side to break.

This situation is not only very common in small and medium-sized game regions such as Star Country and Annan Kingdom, but also in super regions such as Huaxia District, where there are global hegemonic territories such as Great Xia and Handan City, and the situation is still the same.

Moreover, before the national war, the royal city and the territory were often in a hostile state, especially for those who only had one royal city and one territory in a game area.

In fact, the two sides are in a state of competition in peacetime, and both sides are trying to compete for dominance in the region.

When the national war comes, although the two major forces are together, after all, it is only a temporary cooperation with a forced nature, how can it really be close?!

Therefore, when the territory is swept by the enemy, the royal city forbidden army will generally not attack.

Just like in Toei, Emperor Meiji supported Mikasa Castle and allowed it to operate on the periphery, with Edo's million-strong forbidden army stationed inside the castle as immovable.

Since Keisuke Honda's biggest goal is also to hold out for a month, Edo is the last barrier, and the stronger the Edo garrison, the longer it can hold out.

Therefore, although he was unwilling, Keisuke Honda still did not raise any objections.

It is foreseeable that after the national war, even if Toei can keep the territory, Mikasa Castle is afraid that it will be completely scorched in this war, and it will no longer be able to dominate the situation in Toei.

Perhaps, Emperor Meiji will be the biggest winner of this war.

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In addition to the duel between field troops on the Goryeo battlefield, there is another point that is very noteworthy, the spicy is that the game between the naval divisions of the two sides at sea is much more exciting than the naval battle on the Dongying battlefield.

Not because of anything else, but because Goryeo has a famous sailor - Yi Sunsin.

This legendary figure, who was once rated as the first military general in Asia by the Koreans, is the most noteworthy battle in history is the famous Battle of Luliang in history.

The Battle of Luliang took place at the end of the 16th century A.D., named after the place where it took place, and was fought between the Ming Dynasty and the Goryeo allied forces and the Shimazu Tachibana part of the Dongying army.

The commanders were Chen Lan and Deng Zilong of the Ming Dynasty, Yi Sunsin of Goryeo, and Konishi Yukinaga and Shimazu Yoshihiro of Toying, and the result ended in a victory for the coalition forces.

At that time, the real ruler of Toei was Toyotomi Hideyoshi, one of the three heroes of Toei's Warring States.

In this national war, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was appointed by Keisuke Honda as the chief guard of Kyushu Island and Shikoku Island, and Oda Nobunaga was naturally the town guard of Honshu Island.

Speaking of the Battle of Luliang, this naval battle had a very important position in the history of maritime warfare in China and even in the world, and greatly affected the geopolitical situation in Northeast Asia at that time.

The Battle of Luliang was also rated by West Point as "one of the eight ancient naval battles in the world".

In this battle, Yi Sunsin led the Goryeo "Turtle Boat" fleet to defeat the Dongying army with few victories, and finally died heroically. In fact, the real commander of this battle was the commander of the Ming army's naval division, Chen Luan, but this credit was snatched away by the Korean Yi Sunsin. Yi Sunsin has long been regarded as the hero of this great war, and he has become a great hero in the hearts of the people of the Goryeo Peninsula, and he was given the nickname "Chungmu" after his death.

The Koreans even used this as a background to shoot the movie "The Battle of Mingliang", which made history in Goryeo in terms of the number of moviegoers and box office records.

Although Yi Sunsin was a little too boasted by the Koreans, it was indeed not a wasted person, and the Goryeo fleet led by him had a wonderful showdown with the coastal fleet led by Qi Jiguang.

Turtle boats, unique to Goryeo, also came into the spotlight for the first time.