In the seventh year of Taiping, the first day of the fifth month.

In Japan, in the waters off the Yoondo Peninsula, a huge fleet is heading north at a speed of about 12 knots on the ocean five to ten nautical miles from the coast of Japan.

The lineup of this fleet is so large that it has reached the point of appalling! There are a total of 10 Hongwu Emperor-class battleships, 10 Prince-class battleships, 10 Guogong-class armored cruisers, 20 Lushun-class cruisers, 20 Ningyuan-class cruisers, 20 Chongmingdao-class cruisers, 40 Xinchang-class destroyers, 6 fast supply ships, 6 fast coal carriers, 2 fast medical ships, and 10 fast troop carriers.

There were 152 ships, and the billowing smoke almost obscured the sky...... Oh, and there are 120 Wyvern III airships in the sky. Such a spectacular scene made the officers and men of the Ming Navy on the deck and in the airship, as well as the officers and men of the army on the troop transport, very excited. These 142 ships are the blood capital of the three major fleets of the Ming Navy, the Nanyang, the Beiyang, and the mainland coastal waters, and more than ninety percent of the capital ships and cruisers of the three major fleets have come, and the naval aviation has also taken out the old ones, and 120 airships have been produced in one go. What makes these officers and men of the Navy and Army even more excited is that what they are going to carry out this time is not a drill or a peaceful cruise mission, but a crushing war!

This is the first war that the Ming Empire has fought independently since the death of Zhuge Wuzhong! And the enemies of the Ming Dynasty in this war are only evil, weak, and Japanese traitors who do not know the height of the sky.

During the emergency training before the dispatch of troops, all the officers and men of the Ming army and navy had been told that they were not going to invade Japan, but to maintain stability and collective security in East Asia, to strangle the problem of Japanese pirates in the cradle, to prevent Japan from falling into an endless civil war, and to prevent Western colonists who coveted the wealth of East Asia from using Nagasaki, Japan, as a base for colonial expansion.

And this operation will also be invited by the Emperor of Japan or (perhaps "and") the Edo Shogunate!

After successfully completing the help of the Japanese counterinsurgency and eliminating the Japanese and Xiyi lackeys entrenched in Nagasaki, the Ming army would immediately withdraw and would not be stationed on Japanese soil, let alone use this as an excuse to occupy Japanese land...... In short, the Ming Dynasty is definitely the righteous side in this military operation, and it will definitely be the victorious side.

As for why the Grand Fleet did not go straight to Nagasaki, but ran outside Edo Bay, of course, it was to be reviewed by the shogun Tokugawa Ieki! I have to let the Tokugawa family see the strength of the Ming Navy, and I have to let him know that justice is in the Ming Dynasty!

However, in the flagship Hongwu Emperor, Zhuge Weiyong, who served as the commander-in-chief of this temporarily formed "Japanese Aid Fleet", was a little apprehensive, and he was even a little restless when standing in front of a map of Japan's coastal defense deployment.

Well, because the coastal defense of the country, especially the coastal defense of Edo Bay, is still very stable.

Although the Ming Dynasty has always been reluctant to accept Japan as a dog, the Tokugawa Shogunate, which rules Japan, has always felt very good about itself, feeling that the Ming must be planning to invade Japan day and night, to make the Japanese emperor the king of Japan, and to turn the Tokugawa Shogunate into the lackey of the Ming Dynasty...... In order not to be the dog of the Ming Dynasty, the Tokugawa shogunate worked hard to carry out the Ming Movement for the Founding of the Republic of China and the Restoration of the Ming Dynasty in an attempt to increase the national strength; On the one hand, efforts were made to develop the navy and army, and to develop the military industry, and a large number of artillery batteries were built around the three major sea ports of Japan, such as Edo, Nagasaki, and Osaka, to prevent "white ships from attacking."

According to intelligence, the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan also imported the technology of 11-inch rear-loading howitzers from the British, and a total of more than 300 howitzers were built, all of which were placed around the ports of Nagasaki, Osaka, and Edo. Although this howitzer has a short range and poor accuracy, it is an 11-inch cannon shell after all, and Rao is Hongwu Emperor level can't stand it!

If Zhuge Weidao can't persuade the Tokugawa family to give in with his three-inch incorruptible tongue, then the next battle will be difficult to fight!

Thinking of this, Zhuge asked in a low voice: "Has the Lushun arrived at Hayakawa Port?" ”

A staff officer of the "Aid to Japan Fleet", who is also a member of the word "for", Zhuge immediately took the question and replied in a low voice: "Back to the Admiral, the Lushun has arrived at Hayakawa Port before twelve o'clock at noon today, and the one hundred and eighth brother should have entered Odawara Castle and met General Tokugawa by now." ”

Zhuge Weiyong nodded, and muttered in a low voice: "If Admiral Tokugawa sees our fleet, he should understand the kindness of our Ming Dynasty, right?" ”

"Yes, definitely!"

......

"This, this, is this to destroy the Tokugawa family?"

Tokugawa Ieki stood in the Honmaru of Odawara Castle, looking at the hundred or so warships spread out on the sea and the hundred or so airships in the sky, and he was already so frightened that he was about to speak.

He rushed from Edo Castle to Odawara Castle after learning that the Grand Fleet of the Ming Navy had come to Japan with good intentions to help the Tokugawa Shogunate suppress thieves, and that Zhuge Weidao also wanted to hold talks with him in Odawara Castle - he also wanted to see the kindness of the Ming Dynasty with his own eyes!

It was only under this look that he knew Da Ming's kindness...... It's so unbearable!

This is no longer killing chickens with a cattle knife, but carrying an eighty-two-pound Qinglong Yanyue knife to kill chickens...... When this chicken sees such a big knife, how desperate he must be in his heart!

And Tokugawa Ieki is now the chicken who saw the Blue Dragon Glaive Knife!

"Please don't, don't worry, Lord Gongfang...... The navy of the Ming Empire is not here to destroy our country, they are here to help us! ”

The person who was trembling and talking was the royal merchant of the Tokugawa family, the big boss of Edo Ginza, and the old man who was also Zhuge Dao, Daikoku. This big black is often dressed as a samurai, and he has shaved his head for a month, and he stands beside the general with a sad face.

His daughter Daiheku, now called Tokugawa Sora, stood on the other side of the general, looking at the large fleet on the sea, and her pink little face was also inexplicably surprised - what did the Ming court want to do? Do you want Michiko to be Japan's general of Zhengyi?

Thinking of this, she looked at her cheap father Tokugawa Ieqi again, and then also helped her own father and said: "Father, please rest assured, my daughter will do everything to protect the Tokugawa Shogunate, and will never let the foundation of Tosho Daisu's power be cut off in the hands of our generation!" ”

You're here to guard? Your generation? Why does that sound so awkward?

When the Tokugawa family Qi was thinking that his cheap daughter couldn't speak, a rush of footsteps came from outside the castle tower of Odawara Castle, followed by the voice of Tokugawa Qizhao: "Gongfang, Gongfang, Zhuge Michiko has arrived outside Odawara Castle......"

"He, he's coming?" Tokugawa Ieki hurriedly said, "Then, then invite him to the castle quickly!" ”

"Going to the city now?" Tokugawa Qizhao was stunned, "Lord Gongfang, Zhuge Daozi has not yet mastered the etiquette of the audience......"

The Tokugawa shogunate was still very particular about red tape, and there were certain requirements for foreign envoys to meet with them, so the envoys who visited Edo for the first time would receive some training so that they would not be too "polite".

"No, there's no need," Tokugawa Iechi said, pointing to the fleet and airship fleet in the sky on the sea outside, "this is the etiquette of the audience...... This is the most solemn rite of the audience! Go and invite Zhuge Gong to the city! ”

Okay, Zhuge Weidao is now "Zhuge Gong"!

It seems that this Japanese general is still a little cowardly!

Zhuge Gong Weidao was dressed as a lupine scarf at this time, standing outside this famous Warring States city that had witnessed the glory and extinction of Houhojo, and next to him stood Zheng Guoxian, who had already hung the rank of lieutenant colonel of the Ming Army, and in front of him and Zheng Guoxian, there was also an old shogunate, and Okubo Tadada, who was also the lord of the Odawara Domain, was really sweating profusely waiting for the general's order...... Don't fight! If you want to fight, the Tokugawa family can still carry it, but Odawara Castle and the Okubo family are completely finished!