Chapter 30: The Crusade against the Shogunate
When these 100,000 soldiers of the Southern Song Dynasty completely took root in Japan and had children, they would be a powerful anti-Yuan force twenty years later.
As soon as Kublai Khan died, the Great Yuan would enter the government of several generations of powerful ministers, and the court would be corrupt and dark, and perhaps there would be a chance to rebuild the Han family.
Fan Zhuoyuan led the army to march, entered the territory extremely quickly, and quickly swept through the four countries and China.
At this time, the shogunate was in charge of Hojo Tokimune in Harima Province near Kyoto, and he had mobilized a total of 200,000 soldiers and horses from all major wealthy clans under the control of the shogunate, including regular troops and peasant soldiers, and claimed to be 400,000 to the outside world.
As early as during the frequent storms at sea, when Fan Zhuoyuan led a large army to train on Kyushu Island, Hojo Tokimune had already marched to Harima Province by land, and prioritized the battlefield.
Although he has a large number of troops, he also knows that this is not the military power of all Japan.
Because there are still many ronin no samurai and wealthy families who claim to be loyal only to the emperor, they do not gather here.
Most of them are wall-to-wall grass and sit still, and some of them have been summoned by the emperor to gather in Kyoto, and there are also 20,000 or 30,000 troops.
Surrounded by mountains on three sides, facing the sea on one side, the terrain is complex, and it is located in the region, which is more conducive to defense and has sufficient logistics.
The only drawback was that if Kyoto was attacked, it would be difficult for the shogunate to send troops to support it.
But he doesn't care, Kyoto is not his base camp, and the fall will fall.
If Genko dared to attack Kyoto, he would dare to attack Shikoku and China and cut off their back roads.
It was just a strategic situation with Kyoto, but Hojo Tokimune did not expect the emperor's 30,000 troops to support him.
Today, the 80,000 troops composed of pure samurai directly under the shogunate have been trained for three months under the training of Hu Qi and others of the Song Dynasty, and they have become quite capable of fighting in battle.
Continue to train for another month, relying on the strength advantage of many wealthy clans, it is enough to go to the battlefield and fight with the Yuankou.
Thinking of this, Hojo Tokimune seemed to have seen that he had defeated the Yuan Kou on the battlefield, chased the death and chased the north, and once again pushed the prestige of the shogunate to the highest, and ordered all the wealthy families in the world who were unwilling to surrender to themselves to kneel at their feet to serve!
As for the emperor, he was originally abolished, and when the time came, he would dance in front of him to celebrate.
Only by ruling the shogunate can you fully control the whole of Japan!
After conquering Shikoku and China, Fan Zhuoyuan spent another ten days completely sweeping away the scattered samurai groups in Shikoku and China.
The implementation of the ban on martial arts was extremely cruel, killing people to the core, and a Beijing temple was built at the gate of every city, and he had never had a good patience for those who did not obey his rule.
As for the ordinary people and businessmen who obey him, he can give quite preferential policies to win over.
So the ruling class and the ruled class were divided by him.
In the morning, Fan Zhuoyuan finished inspecting the troops.
Now all the troops that had swept away the enemy from all over the country had been concentrated in Tokushima Prefecture, Awa Province, which was close to the port, and Awaji Island, which was the springboard for his attack on Kyoto, was no more than fifty miles away by boat.
At present, Fan Zhuoyuan has gathered 80,000 troops, which can be said to be strong and strong, and the morale is high.
There were still 1,500 warships at sea, and 2,000 warships docked off the coast of Tosa Province on the island of Shikoku to transport supplies, which was enough to sweep away and crush the entire Japanese fleet, causing the shogunate to completely lose its sea supremacy.
But Fan Zhuoyuan did not use troops immediately, and he did not ignore the actual situation of the war because he was in a hurry to complete the tasks assigned by the system.
From the recent detection, Fan Zhuoyuan already knew that the shogunate's 400,000 elite soldiers were gathered in Harima Province, which was in a dangerous terrain that was conducive to defense.
The other party did not block the gate of Kyoto, but deliberately opened the gate of Kyoto, with the purpose of using Kyoto as bait, so as to send elites from China to attack Kyushu and cut off their own supplies.
The idea is very good, but Fan Zhuoyuan is not a fool.
Fighting this kind of war to destroy the country is never the best choice for invading the opponent's capital.
Only by completely annihilating the enemy's vital forces can we be at ease and have no worries when destroying the country.
Therefore, Fan Zhuoyuan's strategy was to fight a decisive battle with the Kamakura shogunate in Harima Country, completely annihilate its main force, and achieve the most difficult task of the system.
Now, he is ready to officially march into the war to destroy the sun.
On the same day, Fan Zhuo ordered troops from afar and crossed the sea to attack Awaji Island.
The guardians of Awaji Island didn't even have the courage to fight with Fan Zhuoyuan, so they simply led their troops to Harima Province by boat.
But he didn't expect that 10,000 soldiers and horses were intercepted by Fan Zhuoyuan's fleet at sea, and in front of the shogunate army on the land of Harima Country, they were all annihilated at sea, and no one survived.
This move is aimed at showing off his might and demoralizing the enemy, and once again reminding the shogunate to govern Hojo Tokimune that fighting at sea is up to our Fan Jiajun!
After this war, even fishermen in the neighboring countries of did not dare to go out to sea to fish.
After that, the fleet continued to attack the fortifications and barricades built along the beaches of Harima Province with trebuchets, bed crossbows, and even newly built artillery.
At this time, the typhoon season is over, and the sea is calm.
Thousands of warships bombed in turn day and night, and the fortifications such as the Yuankou fortifications built by the shogunate following the example of Shaoji could not be defended at all, and they were all swept away in half a month.
After the landing area was vacated, Fan Zhuoyuan led the army to cross the sea and detour, enter the Kakogawa River, the largest river in Harima Province, and then go up the river to find a landing site.
This battle will surely determine the fate of Japan in the future!
For the Kamakura shogunate, this was a life-and-death battle with no way out, and if it was defeated, even if the shogunate's ruling Hojo Tokimune managed to escape and did not fall into the hands of the Fan family, the many samurai forces he usually used to pinch together would take the opportunity to counterattack him.
For Fan Zhuoyuan, the 80,000 army is all he has, and if he lands on the island in this battle, there is no way to retreat if he is defeated, and the whole army will be wiped out!
Then the loss of Kyushu Island is also a consensuing thing, and then it must be the collective revenge of the Japanese samurai, as well as the accountability of the Mengyuan court, and the destruction of his Fan family!
But since he led 100,000 Southern Song Dynasty troops to set foot in the Hyuga Kingdom, Fan Zhuoyuan has never had any way back except to move forward!
On the waves of the sea, more than 1,000 warships lined up, one after another, extremely spectacular!
Today, there are no fortifications of the shogunate army within five miles of the sea, let alone a single defender.
Five miles away, they took advantage of the mountainous terrain to reconstruct the continuous fortress defense system, and due to the abundance of manpower, the construction speed was surprisingly fast!
These forts were enough to limit the use of Fan Zhuoyuan's cavalry, and at the same time, the shogunate army was condescending, and it was also possible to avoid a large-scale battle with Fan Zhuoyuan's army.
Purely compared to the strength on paper, no matter how elite Fan Zhuoyuan's army of 80,000 is, it is impossible to defeat the other party.
Five miles on the bank of the river, Fan Zhuoyuan commanded the army to calmly land on the shore and build a camp.