Tan Lun immediately followed and said, "What Lord Xu said is right, since you are watching the fire from the other side, it is better to pour two more barrels of oil on it to make this fire burn even stronger!"

In this era, the harsh, barren and impoverished island country had no value to the Ming Dynasty at all, and the Ming Dynasty, which occupied the fertile land of the Central Plains, had no interest in continuing to expand its territory.

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Naturally, the news of the fall of Kyushu Island by Wang Zhi spread to the whole of Japan, and the Ashikaga shogunate immediately convened a meeting and called on all the princes of Japan to gather and discuss important matters.

Although there were many Japanese princes, they were at war with each other...... But after all, they are all Japanese, and in the face of the invasion of Wang Zhi, an outsider, they will naturally unite spontaneously.

Tokugawa Ieyasu said: "Ladies and gentlemen, we all know very well that Wang Zhi's rapid rise and development is inseparable from the continuous transportation of all kinds of money, food, and materials from the mainland...... We, the princes, could not afford a tenth of their supplies, and it is expected that Wang Zhi, a pirate leader, would have only one Nagasaki, and even if he controlled Japan's maritime trade, he should not have come up with so much money......

Tokugawa Iekan paused and said, "So it's obvious that the Ming officials are supporting him!"

As soon as Tokugawa Ieyasu said this, the princes all thought so.

They didn't expect that it was the private merchants who were funding Wang Zhi, firstly, they did not know how rich Gu Jin, who inherited the merchant group of Wanguizang, was, and secondly, they did not think that a profit-heavy merchant was willing to spend all his wealth to support a pirate.

In fact, Gu Zhen was also very secretive when he did things, but such a huge scale of material dispatch lasted for two whole years, and it was impossible to hide the eyes of these warlords.

Takeda Shingen said: "As far as I can see, the ambition of the wolf son of the Ming Dynasty is clearly to take advantage of the civil strife and send troops to completely annex our Japan...... And that Wang Zhi is just a lackey of the Ming Dynasty, what they plan is to completely occupy Kyushu Island, and then slowly plot against the Four Kingdoms, and finally attract the Ming Dynasty officials and troops to attack the island!"

Everyone's face is not good-looking, after all, Japan is just a small country, how can it compete with the Ming Empire?

Tokugawa Ieyasu said impassionedly, "Since the Ming Dynasty is coming to invade us, we have no choice but to fight against the water...... Instead of sitting and waiting, it is better to take the initiative to attack, taking advantage of Wang Zhi's failure to gain a firm foothold in Kyushu, we will quickly send troops to defeat Wang Zhi with a thunderous momentum and recapture Kyushu Island! Show the Ming our military strength and determination to resist! Let them know that even if they can eat Japan, they will have to break a few teeth!"

Hojo Shiyasu nodded and said, "Although the Ming Dynasty is powerful, it is also plagued by foreign harassment on the border, and it is quite difficult to prevent the Mongol invasion every year...... As long as we strictly defend and insist on fighting a war of attrition with him on the mainland, maybe the Ming Dynasty will not be able to hold on to it first."

Almost all the lords present were in favor of sending troops into battle...... It's just that there are big problems about how to fight, who will send how many troops, who will be the commander, and who will supply logistics supplies...... After all, dozens of princes jointly sent troops, and there were too many places that needed to be coordinated and coordinated.

Probably this is where division is better than unity......

In this way, more than a month has passed, and Wang Zhi has basically occupied the entire Kyushu, although there are occasional rioters in various places, but they were quickly suppressed by Xiao Qiuyu.

Generally, after the Japanese warlords fought and captured the other party's daimyo, they were basically imprisoned and imprisoned, and rarely cut them directly...... Abide by this unspoken rule, and if you are defeated in the future, you will have one more way to live.

But Xiao Qiuyu is an outsider, he will not follow this set of unspoken rules of Japan, and all the Japanese lords who have been broken by him, if they refuse to surrender, will be publicly beheaded to show the public.

After basically occupying Kyushu, Xiao Qiuyu left Kyushu with 6,000 soldiers and horses on a ferry, and launched an attack on Shimonoseki, the westernmost part of the Japanese island, and such an arrogant attitude immediately angered all the Japanese princes.

Since Xiao Qiuyu dared to attack the main island of Japan with a swagger, it was tantamount to showing his ambition to annex the whole of Japan to many Japanese warlords, so that the warlords, who were still arguing every day, quickly reached an agreement and formed a large army to rush straight to Xiaguan.

Originally, the headache of the Japanese warlords was that Wang Zhi's sea fleet was invincible in the world, and if the other side arranged a blockade at sea, then the Japanese princes and coalition forces had a powerful army but could not land on Kyushu proper...... And now, Wang Zhi was so stupid as to take the initiative to kill the army on the main island of Japan, so that they could directly kill the infantry for local operations.

And the reason why Xiao Qiuyu did this was also after careful consideration.

The horror of the hidden dragon is that it sweeps the sea water up the continent, thus creating a terrifying tsunami, once used, the scope of the impact is extremely alarming, if used in Kyushu itself, once used, it will bring great damage to the people's livelihood here.

At that time, the fertile fields will be submerged, the cities will be reduced to rubble, and countless Lebanese people will die in the tsunami...... This is not what Xiao Qiuyu wants to see.

According to Xiao Qiuyu's plan, he used Kyushu as a springboard to stabilize his rule here, and then used it as a logistics base to provide logistical supplies for the Ming official army fighting on the front line...... In this case, Kyushu must be stable, so it is absolutely not possible to use hidden dragons on Kyushu Island to destroy the environment here.

The second is that if they wait for the Japanese princes' coalition forces to return to Kyushu, who knows which direction they will choose to attack? It's okay if you specialize in a little, but what I'm most afraid of is that they will bloom as much as Xiao Qiuyu's previous tactics......

Taking the initiative to attack the main island of Japan is tantamount to choosing a location to invite the other side to fight...... In this way, the enemies can be brought together in one go, so that they can be wiped out with the use of the Hidden Dragon.

The hidden dragon is a hole card held in the dark, when the enemy is completely unaware of its existence, the first attack will inevitably bring amazing results, so Xiao Qiuyu is more willing to gather all the enemies in one place and then annihilate them in one fell swoop.

After breaking through the city, Xiao Qiuyu quickly established a military fortress in Xiaguan, hoping to resist the fierce attack of the enemy......

After waiting patiently for half a month, the Japanese warlords really raised an army of up to 140,000 people and slaughtered Shimonoseki.

Although Japan's Sengoku period has long been ridiculed for fighting with village chiefs, if all the princes of Japan gather their forces together, then the scale is still very considerable. In the Battle of Sekigahara, the largest in the history of Japan's Warring States period, almost all warlords participated in it, and in the end, the Eastern and Western armies totaled more than 100,000 people in an unprecedented and tragic battle.