Chapter 297: The Battle of Gyeonggi

The shogunate hastily prepared an army of 50,000 troops, including its own 5,000 elites, as well as samurai and a large number of monks and soldiers from the daimyo around Gyeonggi.

It was really Zhao Hengyi's behavior of returning power to the emperor and the imperial family that made everyone unable to sit still.

Needless to say, the daimyo had fiefs around Gyeonggi, and once they were returned to power by the emperor and the imperial family, the emperor and the imperial family would need a large amount of fiefs to meet their expenses, and the corrupt ministers would inevitably encourage the emperor to demand more benefits.

There was only so much land in the vicinity of Gyeonggi, and if the emperor wanted to get the imperial land when he returned to power, he had to cut the flesh from these daimyo and take the land from their fiefdoms to serve as the imperial land, so he did not want to lose the closed Daimaki, so he could only support the shogun's shogun.

And the three major sects that had already had conflicts with Zhao Hengyi before, and were even publicly accused by Zhao Hengyi of falling into the evil way, faced the same troubles as the daimyo families near Gyeonggi, and at the same time, Kai faced disputes in terms of beliefs, and in terms of the strength of support for the shogunate, it was even better!

In the past, it was not without daimyo or shogun of the shogunate who blamed the three major sects.

It's just that those people, out of their own interests or beliefs, will at least defend one or two of the three major sects while accusing one or two!

Those so-called accusations or attacks by force were originally only entanglements in interests, to put it bluntly, they were only redistributed interests within a specific scope, and the basic plate of the entire interests remained unchanged, and the three major sects that ruled the people's beliefs were after all.

As a religion, no matter which school of thought gains the upper hand temporarily, it is actually a harmless thing, but the struggle and development between schools can effectively promote the expansion of the entire religion if it is controlled within a certain intensity, and at the same time, it can also keep other sects out of the door of interests.

But right now, the Marquis of Qiongzhou, who is from the Celestial Empire, does not play cards according to the routine at all, and directly classifies the three major sects into one altar, showing the momentum of overthrowing them all!

For the monks of the three major sects, once the shogun is defeated, once the marquis of the upper kingdom wins the final victory, and once the emperor returns to power, then the three major sects that have offended the marquis of Qiongzhou before will inevitably all be hit!

This is already a crisis for the entire sect, and once it fails, it will be the legendary era of the end of the law.

The battle of faith is far more fierce and bloody than the world knows, once the whole sect declines, then other sects will inevitably take advantage of the situation, the three major sects in the Wa Kingdom to fight against each other, you sing, I will never see the grand occasion of the stage again!

Whether it is from their own interests or from the interests of the entire sect, the monks of the three major sects will definitely not tolerate Zhao Hengyi winning this war!

Even the monks who had been expelled by the three major sects in tandem with the daimyo of Kyushu in order to obtain Zhao Hengyi's understanding were all recalled to the mountain gate.

These monks were so bold that they openly proclaimed that the Marquis of Qiongzhou from the Great Yan Kingdom was the Sixth Heavenly Demon King!

Zhao Hengyi, who heard this rumor, scoffed!

Although Zhao Hengyi, the son of the three major sects, does not know much, he has heard of some things.

Zhao Hengyi believed that once he defeated the shogunate's army, then the monks of the three major sects would obediently give themselves a bodhisattva position...... Or it is not impossible to directly place the identity of a god and Buddha!

These guys are all the way to the civil official group of the Great Yan Kingdom, and even rely on the identity of the so-called monks, and they are even more shameless than those civil officials!

This is not that Zhao Hengyi is biased, but it is clearly written in the history books of later generations!

The army organized by the shogunate was still converging towards Gyeonggi, but Cho Hyung-yi did not intend to give those follow-up armies a chance.

Completely knocking down the shogunate, or even directly killing the shogun or abolishing it, did not conform to Zhao Hengyi's previous plan.

The ultimate goal of Cho Hyung-yi is to completely wipe out the elite of the shogunate, to root fear in the mind of the shogun, to limit the strength and prestige of the shogunate to a certain range, and to maintain a delicate balance between it and the emperor and the imperial family who have returned to power!

So in this battle that took place on the outskirts of Gyeonggi, the Qiongzhou regimental training showed unprecedented ferocity!

As long as the Japanese army appeared on this battlefield, whether it was the elite of the shogunate, the samurai of the surrounding famous families, or the monks and soldiers gathered by the three major sects, they were all listed on the list of clearance!

Thanks to the special war mode of the Wa Kingdom, as well as the special equipment of these clearance targets, these guys are highly recognizable on the battlefield!

Not only were all the flying thunder cannons pulled onto the battlefield, but even the gunpowder bags for trebuchets on the sea ships were all brought to land!

The trebuchets made by the Qiongzhou regiment were more than enough to deal with the shogunate's army, and with the beginning of the war, flying thunder cannons and gunpowder packets rained down on the heads of the shogunate army with passwords and roars!

It was like a meteor rain summoned by gods and demons, and it was like a divine punishment from heaven, and the roar produced when the gunpowder exploded was like a rapid drumbeat, instantly dominating the entire battlefield!

The shogunate army, which had not learned from the coalition army organized by the Kyushu daimyos, lined up in a dense formation on the empty battlefield, and even deliberately separated the two sides in order to ensure that the elite was not affected by the combat effectiveness of those peasant soldiers, leaving enough space in between.

Worried that the peasants and soldiers would not be able to withstand the blow of the Qiongzhou regimental training, the guy who was responsible for arranging the troops put all the peasants on the two wings and rear of the battle array, and the scattered peasants and soldiers created an illusion that was all over the mountains, so that the guys of the shogunate were full of confidence one by one!

And the samurai of the real elite and famous families, as well as the monks and soldiers of the three major sects, were all placed in the front center of the battle array.

It can't be said that the guy in charge of arranging the formation is wrong, after all, with his cognition, putting on such a conservative and stable formation is already cautious enough, and it also gives Qiongzhou regimental training enough respect and attention.

However, such a deployment of troops just gave the Qiongzhou regiment the opportunity to practice fixed-point strikes!

Whether it is Zhao Hengyi or the soldiers of the Qiongzhou regimental training, no one has ever taken the peasants and soldiers of the Japanese country seriously, these farmers who were still plowing in the fields with hoes in their hands the day before have no meaning and value for their killing, and the peasants and soldiers will never appear on the list of targets for the Qiongzhou regimental training, but when they are defeated, these peasants and soldiers are like a plague, spreading fear and chaos in all directions, which is the most hopeful thing for the Qiongzhou regimental training!

When the thunderbolt cannon and gunpowder pack smashed into the area in the center of the shogunate army's front, the end of the whole battle was already sealed!

When the so-called elite loyal to the shogun launched the final assault in despair, but saw the muzzles of the guns in the hands of the soldiers in front of them who were neatly arranged in Qiongzhou regimental training bloomed with brilliant fire, the future situation of the entire Wa Kingdom was also doomed!