Li You's fleet docked at the port in the Tokugawa Ieyasu domain, and the Tokugawa retainers, who had been waiting here for a long time, greeted the 10,000 soldiers and horses led by Li You, as well as the servant troops of Yoshitomo Zong and Shimazu Yoshihiro, to the land, arranged camps for them, and then sent wine, meat and drinking water to the troops left on the ship. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Looking at the large and small ships full of prostitutes constantly coming and going back and forth in the fleet of the Zheng family's army, Li You was a little dumbfounded, it seems that the tradition of the Japanese country to comfort foreign armies has long existed, I only heard that the Mi army base enjoyed such treatment, but I didn't expect that now my army has also been treated in the same way; But then again, the current Ming Dynasty is no different from the later generations of the United States, and they are all invincible existences.

After resting for one night, seeing that Li You's army had no intention of attacking the local area, the retainers of the Tokugawa family breathed a long sigh of relief, it seemed that this time the generals of the Celestial Empire had really come to help the head of the family punish the Western Army, so they began to lead Li You's army to the assembly place of the Eastern Army.

Along the way, these retainers also continued to introduce the pre-war situation to Li You, and now the eastern and western armies are concentrated near the Mino Kunigano area, and both sides have gathered 100,000 troops, and the general of the Middle East Army, Tokugawa Ieyasu, led 30,000 men to defend the rear of the Mochipai Mountain, and Tokugawa Hidetada and Okubo Tadashi, who mainly assisted him, led 38,000 men to march along the Nakasendo Road from Edo Castle; Fukushima Masanori led 6,000 men, Tanaka Yoshimasa 3,000 men, Tsutsui Joji 4,000 men, Kyogoku Kochi 3,000 men, Hosokawa Tadashi troops 5,000 men, Kato Yoshiaki troops 3,000 men, Kuroda Nagamasa 5,400 men, Matsudaira Tadashi troops 3,000 men, Ii Naomasa 3,600 men, Honda Tadakatsu 500 men, Furuta Shigekatsu 1,200 men, Oda Nagayoshi 450 men, Kanamori Nagashi 1,140 men, Ikoma Kazumasa 1,900 men, Terasha Hirotaka 2,400 men, Ikeda Terumasa 4,560 men, Asano Yukinaga 6,510 people, Yamauchi Kazutoyo 2,000 people, Arima Toyo clan 900 people and other daimyo are all close to being assembled.

The Western Army, headed by 8,000 people of Ishida Mitsunari, had 4,100 troops of Otani Yoshitsugi, 400 troops of Toda Shigemasa and 900 troops of Hiratsuka Ihiro, 500 troops of Akaza Naobo, 2,000 troops of Ogawa Yutada, 500 troops of Kuchigi Mototsuna, 1,000 troops of Wakisaka Yasuji, 15,000 troops of Mori Hidemoto, 3,000 troops of Yoshikawa Hiroga, 1,800 troops of Ankokuji Keikyo, 1,500 troops of Nagasaki Masaka, and 6,600 troops of Nagamune Mori. Kobayakawa Hideaki's troops were 5,000 people, and Ukita Hideya's troops were 17,220 people.

Compared with the original history, the Eastern Army had 2,500 fewer Fujido Takatoras, and the Western Army had 4,000 fewer Yukinaga Konishi, who had been wiped out by Li You off the coast of Busan; Shimazu Yoshihiro, who originally joined the Western Army, followed Li You on the side of the Eastern Army, and Kobayakawa Hideaki was worried about being attacked by the Daming Water Division, so he only brought 5,000 people to the battle, which was 10,000 fewer than the original history, but this was not a good thing for Tokugawa Ieyasu, because Kobayakawa Hideaki had been rebelled by him, and the two sides agreed that Kobayakawa would rebel in front of the battle and attack the Western Army when the battle came.

However, the addition of more than 20,000 soldiers under Li You's command is more effective than Kobayakawa Hideaki's rebellion, because whether Kobayakawa Hideaki will dare to rebel at that time is still two words, Li You's 10,000 elite and 10,000 servant troops are real, and the joining of the Zongjia and Shimazu families in the Eastern Army will also make those daimyo who border their territories jealous, worried about whether their territories will be attacked by the Zongjia and Shimazu families.

Although Tokugawa Ieyasu also had to worry about whether Li You would make something bad when the war was going on, it seemed that the advantages of his joining still outweighed the disadvantages.

First of all, the 38,000 men led by Tokugawa Hidetada were successfully lured by Sanada Masayuki of the Western Army, and they were firmly pinned to Ueda Castle with only 3,000 men, and it was very likely that they would not be able to catch up with the final decisive battle.

Li You has a different guess about this, even if Sanada Masayuki can fight, his strength is too different from Tokugawa Hidetada's strength, if he really wants to rush to Sekigahara, can Sanada Masayuki stop it? This may have been Tokugawa Ieyasu's plan to preserve his strength, so that the daimyo of all walks of life would fight to the death in Sekigahara first, and when they were both defeated and the battle was nearing the end, he would leave his main camp in the rear and Tokugawa Hidetada, who arrived even if he arrived, to clean up the mess.

In this way, when this battle is over, whether it is the Eastern Army or the Western Army, except for the Tokugawa family, the rest of the daimyo will suffer heavy losses, so that their strength will be greatly reduced and they will no longer be able to compete with the Tokugawa family, and then they will smoothly ascend to the throne of the first person in the world, and Tokugawa Ieyasu is really good at it.

Li You did not question this, because the weakening of these daimyo was also good for him, and in terms of weakening the daimyos, Li You and Tokugawa Ieyasu had very similar interests; As for the Tokugawa family, they had their own way to clean them up after the war.

Up to now, the news from various channels has been extremely beneficial to the Western Army, the commanding heights near the Nakasendo Road are basically in the hands of the Western Army, the main force of the Eastern Army is cramped on the gentle slope of the plain, the west and south sides are the enemy's army, in a situation of being semi-encircled, in the case of equal forces, whoever occupies the geographical advantage will occupy the initiative on the battlefield, at least on paper, if the war starts immediately, the probability of the Western Army winning will far exceed that of the Eastern Army.

But the Western Army is not without hidden dangers, first of all, Ishida Mitsunari wants Toyotomi Hideyori to come to the battle in person, as long as the banner of the Toyotomi family is played on the battlefield, and then the Toyotomi clan can be set up on the Sekigahara front; Both the eastern and western armies are calling for maintaining the unity of the Toyotomi clan and crusading against rebellion, and if Hideyori's horse mark can appear behind the Western Army array, then the righteous name of the Western Army will naturally completely overwhelm the Eastern Army, and it is expected that the Daimyo of the Toyotomi clan such as Fukushima Masanori will never dare to fight against their own lord, and they have no other way but to retreat.

However, Ishida Mitsunari's idea was not realized, and Toyotomi Hideyori's mother, Yodohime, that is, the daughter of Asai Nagamasa, the lord of Omi Province, and Oda Nobunaga's sister, Chacha, the first beauty of the Warring States, refused Ishida's request in the name of being young, the head of the Toyotomi clan, and a member of the world, and could not leave Osaka without permission, so that the Western Army lost a great opportunity.

During this time, Tokugawa Ieyasu continued to contact the major names of the Western Army, bribing and dividing them, which made the military spirit of the Western Army constantly waver, forcing Ishida Mitsunari to speed up the preparations for the decisive battle.