In the early spring of the twenty-sixth year of Guang'an.

After a whole year of preparations, after Emperor Guang'an Zhu Jianji returned from a tour, he put the agenda of the expedition to Japan on the imperial court - the court, regardless of the government or the opposition, everyone knew that this would be the last major event during the tenure of His Majesty the Guang'an Emperor.

Because after Emperor Guang'an returned to Gyeonggi, he said to Zhu Youzhen: Prince, you will arrange for Mount Tai to seal Zen in October this year.

This sentence says so much.

Zen was enshrined in October this year.

In other words, the Ming expedition to Japan must be completed before October.

Another meaning is that everyone has figured out that His Majesty Emperor Guang'an has already laid flat, and now he is going to seal Zen when he hits Japan - he is indeed qualified to seal Zen again.

But this time there may be another meaning for the Zen canon: Zen position.

Moreover, some old ministers vaguely know that the grievances and hatreds between His Majesty Emperor Guang'an and Emperor Fu Ming of the puppet Dashun Dynasty, and some of His Majesty's words and deeds over the years also show that he is determined to win Japan.

Therefore, this expedition was full of excitement throughout the country.

The current size of the Ming Dynasty, as long as Japan is defeated, and then the weak chicken-like Luzon Island will be taken in the future, with the strength of the Ming Navy, the entire sea area outside the coast of the Ming Dynasty will be under control.

And this year's preparation, Zhu Youzhen also tried his best.

The Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of War, and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies fully cooperated.

The two major fleets in the East China Sea and the South China Sea are ready to go.

The household department has directly filled up the combat power, prepared food and grass for millions of people, and has already recruited the people in advance to prepare for the war at the ports of Dengju and Busan.

The Ministry of Industry is also at full capacity, and the abundance of ammunition is breathtaking.

In the words of the two houses, you can wash the entire island of Japan again!

Of course, the Ministry of Industry and the Donggong Military Research Institute not only prepared ammunition, but also added 50 steam tanks to each of the tank 1 and 2 guards, that is to say, now the tank 1 and 2 guards have a total of 400 steam tanks.

And the production capacity of a hundred steam tanks a year, which is very stressful for Daming.

It's just that for the sake of an expedition to Japan, other developments have been abandoned.

After all, it is the long-cherished wish of His Majesty Emperor Guang'an.

In order to cooperate with this expedition, the ship base in Quanzhou spent a year frantically increasing the production capacity and increasing the number of transport ships of the Ming Navy by ten, reaching the scale of twenty.

In other words, 80,000 people can be transported across the sea at one time!

All the major metropolitan divisions, including the garrisons in Yunnan, Sichuan, Hunan, and Shanxi, including Hami and Hetao, whether or not they had any hope of participating in the expedition to Japan, spent the whole last year preparing for it, trying every possible way to create conditions for the non-commissioned officers of the metropolitan division, and conducting naval combat training for the non-commissioned officers of the metropolitan divisions -- not to make sure that all the non-commissioned officers could become naval non-commissioned officers, at least when crossing the sea on a transport ship, they would not get seasick.

Anyway, the possibility of a naval battle is slim to none.

The naval forces of the puppet Dashun Dynasty were almost negligible in front of the two fleets in the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and the real battle should still be the advance after the landing.

Since Zhu Jianji returned to Gyeonggi, Zhu Youzhen has only dealt with people's livelihood and political affairs in the Qianqing Palace.

All military affairs related to the expedition to Japan were decided by the Wenhua Palace.

Zhu Jianji didn't plan to delay any longer, in the twenty-sixth year of Guang'an, he was fifty-one, and Zhu Qizhen was almost seventy years old, if he didn't fight Japan, Zhu Qizhen would die of old age.

Therefore, Zhu Jianji immediately strategized and began to dispatch troops.

Jinge Group Army, half of which was transferred.

150,000 people.

The capital divisions near the sea in the garrison areas of the whole country, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Liaodong, and even the two major capital divisions of the north and south of Korea, and even the Jiaozhi capital division, have all transferred a large number of soldiers.

A total of 200,000 people.

There are two major fleets in the East China Sea and the South China Sea, with a total of 150,000 men.

That's half a million people.

However, Zhu Jianji still felt that it was not enough, and transferred 300,000 people from Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi, Huguang, Shaanxi, Shanxi and other major capitals

The 50,000 guards and 50,000 people who were transferred from the 26th guard of the pro-army who were reorganized into the Jinge Group Army - these people did not participate in the war, but were only responsible for guarding Zhu Jianji's side.

Tank 1 and 2 guards, only the tank 1 guard who changed to Gyeonggi left 100 steam tanks under the control of the prince, and the remaining 300 steam tanks were also planned to be shipped to Japan.

All kinds of artillery, mortars, light and heavy machine guns......

It is no exaggeration to say that this is a nationwide battle, and the number of troops that can be put into the battlefield alone exceeds 900,000 people, and if you add the people on the logistics line, more than 3 million people have been mobilized.

In the mid-spring of the twenty-sixth year of Guang'an, after Zhu Jianji, the emperor of Guang'an, swore in Gyeonggi, the army was opened.

The two major fleets in the East China Sea and the South China Sea were the first to set off and arrive at Pusan.

After that, depart from Busan and sail to Japan.

Zhu Jianji finally set off on a warship of the South China Sea Fleet, accompanied by hundreds of Ming officials, all of whom had to follow His Majesty Emperor Guang'an to witness this grand event in person.

After the two fleets in the East China Sea and the South China Sea arrived at the coast of Japan, in accordance with the strategy previously arranged, coupled with the spy reports transmitted from Tokyo, Japan, and according to the enemy's position along the coast, they first selected a weak place and launched an artillery bombardment.

Well, only shelling.

Because they came across the sea, if the enemy was strong during the landing, their own battle losses would be very high, so according to the strategy, the two fleets in the East China Sea and the South China Sea would use powerful artillery to directly and completely destroy the enemy's defenses on the coastline, and then the large army would land and occupy a stronghold, and then use this stronghold as a base camp, and then advance in the north and south directions of Japan.

The two fleets of the East China Sea and the South China Sea, more than 40 steel warships, especially the power of the main heavy artillery, it is called a madness, and the defense line built by the pseudo-Dashun Dynasty with a lot of money, no matter how powerful the artillery bombardment, it will not last for a few days.

After a continuous and dense artillery wash, the city collapsed and the garrison collapsed.

After that, the transport ship landed.

The first to land was the Jinge Group Army, and before reaching the enemy's city, mortars, light and heavy machine guns were even more costly, and they were frantically exported, and the defenders of the Dashun Dynasty, who had collapsed in the city defense, could not resist at all and fled in a hurry.

After the Ming Dynasty successfully occupied the stronghold after the landing, twenty transport ships traveled back and forth between the Ming Dynasty and Japan day and night, transporting the main army of the expedition to the Ming Dynasty to the stronghold, and transporting a large number of civilians to provide logistical support for the advance of the army.

After that, the two fleets of the East China Sea and the South China Sea dispatched warships to attack other important towns along the coast of the puppet Dashun Dynasty, and used the remaining warships, together with transport ships, to cooperate with traditional wooden warships to transport grain, grass, ammunition and logistics for the Ming expedition to Japan.

After that, it was the war between the main forces of the Ming Dynasty and the puppet Dashun Dynasty on this island country.

From the stronghold, it advanced to the north and south at the same time.

Although Lanshan Nan and Lanlu have a firearms unit of 50,000 people in their hands, it is an old-style Dongfeng rifle, and the Ming Dynasty is no longer what it used to be, and a backward firearms force of 50,000 people cannot stop the full advance of the expeditionary force at all.

The war was one-sided.

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