Tokugawa Iemitsu raised his arms and called out that the Kanto region had long been favored by the Tokugawa shogunate, and the pro-feudal and universal feudal clans gathered to respond.

The banner of the crusade against the rebellious Shimazu family was erected, and the eastern army slaughtered Kansai in one go.

Kansai also has some small pro-feudal and universal domains, they occupy the only fertile land in Kansai, although the territory is not large, but Shigao is on par with the Kansai outer domain, and the strength is not small, so they naturally want to participate in the war.

In fact, at this time, only the Shimazu family of the Satsuma Domain and the Mori family of the Choshu Domain of the Kansai Outer Domain had publicly collapsed, and although the other foreign domains had already prepared for the fall, they were still waiting to see the lessons of the Uesugi family's demise.

Both Tokugawa Iemitsu and Matsudaira Nobutsuna were ruthless people.

They didn't give these foreign daimyo time to prepare at all, and the Kanto clan and the Pudai clan were killed directly from the Sekigahara line, and they were not reluctant to go to Kyushu to fight the Shimazu family of the Satsuma domain, but to fight the Maori family of the Choshu domain who did not obey orders and were not cannon fodder.

At this time, the Mori family was in Nagasaki, and after they destroyed the Dutch people, they announced the fall of the Satsuma domain.

Yan Siqi, who occupied the Hirado Domain in the north, got Wang Hongyu's generals and officially started his army.

He called on all the Chinese on the island, all the Japanese who were unwilling to be enemies of the Chinese, to participate in the downfall.

The island of Kyushu became the base of the fall of the Western Army, and the three forces of Yan Siqi's Hirado Domain, the Satsuma Domain of the Shimazu family, and the Maori Choshu Domain who lived in Kyushu quickly swept away the Fukuoka Domain of the Kuroda family, the only one on Kyushu Island with some resistance.

At that time, Kuroda Kanwei, who was famous in the Warring States of Wajima, and his family was destroyed.

Under the command of Yan Siqi, the three main forces of the fallen shogunate destroyed the three Pudai domains on Kyushu Island, and at this time Kyushu Island was no longer the power of the Tokugawa shogunate.

After leaving the forces to protect Kyushu Island without paus, they united with the outer domains of Kyushu Island and directly crossed the sea to kill Choshu Domain, Hiroshima, and Shikoku.

The shogunate assigned one pro-feudal domain and one fudai feudal clan to deal with the Choshu feudal domain, which had left the main force, and the other pro-feudal and fudai feudal clans attacked Hiroshima and Shikoku respectively, and wanted to take the Kansai outer domain outside Kyushu Island in one go.

At this time, the Choshu Domain relied on the favorable terrain and the fortresses of the villages could barely support the columns, but because the main force was not there, they defended very hard, and the old, weak, sick and disabled all participated in the battle.

At this time, almost all the villages and towns of the entire Choshu Domain were fighting, but fortunately, the main force left a large amount of gunpowder and arrows behind, otherwise the Choshu Domain had already been taken by the Tokugawa shogunate at this time.

The Kwantung clan and the Pudai clan surrounded almost every village and town, and attacked them in turn day and night. When Mori Hidemoto rushed back to the Choshu Domain with the main force of the Choshu Domain, he saw flames rising in each village.

It turned out that these Kwantung clans and Pudai clans couldn't beat the fortress, so they cut down trees and attacked them with fire, but the old, weak, sick and disabled guarding the fortress couldn't let them get close, and the few bird guns became blocking guns.

The Chōshū Domain, regardless of whether it was a retainer or a common man, was a battle-hardened warrior, and many of the elderly had served as retainers when they were young, and many of them were wounded and sick who had been left in demand to defend their families.

Generally, when the enemy gets close to 50 paces, there will be cold guns at any time, and the Kanto Tokugawa shogunate army can only set fire to the periphery, and it can't burn the villages and towns at all, and the road is that there is a fire at night, and the Tokugawa shogunate army will be discovered if they want to get closer, and they will only be greeted with guns and bullets. These shogunate troops were afraid of too many casualties, so they organized several group charges, and there were too many casualties to charge again.

The shogunate army believed that the main force of the Maori family had gone to Kyushu Island, and that the old, weak, sick and disabled left behind would not last long before they surrendered, and that the Choshu Domain was already short of food, and that Mori Hidemoto must have taken most of the food with him.

In fact, they underestimated the will of Mori Hidemoto and the Mori family to resist.

Mori Terumoto was weak and incompetent, and in the Battle of Sekigahara, as the richest and second strongest daimyō, he behaved like a clown, and was extremely disintegrated by the Tokugawa family like a dog.

But the Maori lords and retainers were ashamed and brave, and they met every year, and every year they discussed that it was time to raise troops.

At this time, although the entire Eastern Army went straight to Choshu, the will to resist was very amazing, completely beyond Tokugawa Iemitsu's expectations.

The Choshu clan was a Maori family that worked hard

The fortress-like strong feudal domains built by Dou, each fort had tall and strong walls and moats, and Mao Li Xiuyuan received a large amount of food support from Yan Siqi during his southern expedition.

Not long ago, they entered Kyushu Island and destroyed the Dutch people who had been entrenched for a long time, seized a large number of guns and furlong cannons, and the Dutch also resold grain from Kanto to Kyushu Island, Shikoku, Choshu Domain, and Hiroshima. The seized food was enough for them for a year.

Of course, Yan Siqi alone can't make such a big deal, and behind it is Wang Hongyu's chief planner.

In fact, the Maori family was not a good person, but they had the largest silver mine in Asia at this time, Iwami Ginzan.

Iwami Ginzan made the Mori family a mere mountainous area, but it became the richest daimyo in Wajima.

There is a proverb in Wajima that the Tokugawa family's grain can be spread from Edo all the way to Kyushu. The money of the Mori family can be spread from Hiroshima all the way to Hokkaido.

Even though the Mori family was later demoted to an upper-middle daimyo by the Tokugawa family, Iwami Ginzan was mined all the time. From the 16th to the 18th centuries, the Maori family supplied one-third of the world's silver.

Wang Hongyu is here for this.

He asked for three things in the kingdom: silver, silver, and silver.

Of course, the rest of the manpower and food are not bad, which can be used as a supplement.

Wang Hongyu knew that in the current situation, the Maori family could not protect Iwami Yinshan.

The Tokugawa family, Gojin, and the Netherlands all coveted the silver here.

Of course, Wang Hongyu instructed Yan Siqi to "keep" the Changzhou Domain, and it was best to defeat the Maori Ding to the end, and the Eastern Army could not take Changzhou, and finally it was used by Yan Siqi and himself.

The fighting in the Choshu Domain was extremely fierce.

Each village had a strong fortress, small cannons, enough food, and a certain number of bird guns, and large towns also had furlong machine guns, so the siege tactics of the shogunate army naturally could not be effective, and they held out until the return of the main force without defeat.

Mori Hidemoto divided the 6,000 retainers into a team of 20 people to support the villages, and the towns added a few more teams, and launched a full-scale attack on the same day.

In the face of the devastated villages, few people in the Choshu Domain shed tears.

The Wa Kingdom spent many years in war, and there was no delay in grain production, and the Kansai daimyo had an unquestionable rule that the war must not destroy the crops, otherwise they would be besieged by all the large and small feudal domains.

But the Eastern Army was in a hurry and began to set fire to the village to burn grain.

After driving out the Kwantung shogunate army, Mori Hidemoto immediately organized relief for the old, weak, sick and disabled, but still lost most of his grain production.