Zhu Zaiqi, the king of Yue, was drawn together with the Beijing camp generals who went to Yunnan and Guangxi, and he and Wang Zhu Zaiqi went with the Beijing camp generals who "reinforced Dongying".

The emperor's two sons were surrounded by elite soldiers from Beijing, with a total strength of 40,000 people.

What does His Royal Highness the Crown Prince think?

Zhu Zaiqian didn't think much about it, he believed in his father, and he also believed in this brother and his own brother.

On the one hand, he is the lord of the feudal kingdom that can be sat on smoothly, and on the other hand, he is taking a big risk to try it?

At least not at a time like this, when my father called it the "last hurdle."

The news was delivered faster than them, and the news arrived in North Korea first, and Cho Cha and Jang Jing were dealing with the counterattack of Hamgyong Province and Gangwon Province.

Although the mountainous terrain is theoretically easy to defend, the roads between them were not originally borders. On the long line of division, it was inevitable that the remnants of the army familiar with the terrain would attack and harass the countryside outside the many major cities of Pyongan Province, Hwanghae-do, and Gyeongsang-do.

In the six provinces that have been under the rule of the new dynasty, even inside and outside Seoul, there are not a few incidents of "righteous soldiers" and "dead soldiers" who have appeared from time to time to assassinate Ming officials, Ming people, and Korean scholars who came out of the new dynasty.

Conquest is never easy, even if the new dynasty treats the people well, but for some of the previously high-ranking clans here, it is a different hatred of the sky.

Zhang Jing is the general staff of military affairs here, and Cao Cha is the prime minister and minister of state here.

"Your Majesty and the princes of the court judge like this?" After reading the secret letter, Zhu Xianzhuo, the current lord of North Korea, looked at his ministers anxiously, "In addition to the Jurchen and the Korean rebels, there are also Tartars behind them, and it is very likely that they will break through from North Korea into the Ming Dynasty?" ”

"Your Majesty!" Zhang Jing saluted, "The 30,000 people in the Daming Jingying camp reinforce Dongying from North Korea, and they helped North Korea suppress the rebel army along the way. If I really watched behind, it would not have appeared before the reinforcements from Beijing had successfully swept through Korea and left North Korea to reinforce Dongying. ”

"When we take advantage of the situation to fight back, and then build a walled fort at the pass, we can't miss this year's agricultural time." Cao Cha also expressed his opinion, "Now the new dynasty only bases on six roads, and does not invade eastward. Hamgyong Province and Gangwon Province are barren, and there is an illusion of giving up corners and stabilizing the hinterland. If there are many passes in Pyongan Province, Hwanghae Province, Gyeonggi Province, and Gyeongsang Province, it will make the enemy thieves think that the Ming Dynasty and our new dynasty are only trying to stabilize the current territory. ”

"They just wanted to make Daming tired." Zhang Jing said categorically, "When reinforcements arrive, they will definitely retreat first." What is the number of 30,000 people eating and chewing? If you add a walled fort, you don't know how much it will cost to build a walled fort. At the beginning of the new dynasty, there was no recuperation, and it was also an internal worry. When the reinforcements leave and the new dynasty slack, it is the time for them to make a comeback! ”

To cooperate with the strategy of the Ming Dynasty, the Korean monarchs and ministers will also make arrangements.

At this point, North Korea is indeed a vulnerable link.

Foreigners have taken over, and the roots of the old local forces are still there, and there is still an "orthodoxy" in Hamgyong Province and Gangwon Province.

Anton Gongli is very nervous now, for fear that he will still be considered to have some possible ideas of taking advantage of the situation.

You must know that on the side of Hamgyong Province and Gangwon Province, the banner now is to serve him as the master, but the descendants of the previous lord have been found as "regents".

This is naturally to drive a wedge between the two sides, but the "righteous men" and "dead men" that pop up from time to time do make him face the strange eyes of many officials.

Standing next to Shen Lian, he struggled to suppress the uneasiness in his heart and asked, "What is Admiral Shen's royal order?" The minister will obey! ”

Shen Lian is now in charge of the Praetorian Guard and the General Department of Public Security in North Korea, he only smiled and said: "A group of dead soldiers who have been captured alive in the past few months have to be visited by Anton Gong to see if he can identify them." ”

Obviously, he was born as a jinshi, but there was a shortage of people in North Korea, so he reluctantly changed to this kind of military position with some Jinyi Wei characteristics.

It turned out that it was quite suitable, and Shen Lian did a good job.

"Admiral Shen, please lead the way!" Li did not dare to be perfunctory at all.

He could already imagine how much gibberish he would hear when he went there.

Last time, after a "dead man" saw him, he was very sensible and tacit, and suddenly struggled to find death.

Fortunately, this Lord Shen was just smiling, and he was safe and sound later.

Da Ming and the king did not seem to suspect him.

Or rather...... Don't care about him at all......

……

The news spread to Dongying again, and now this side is already encircling Kyushu Island.

Under the command of Yu Dayou, with the help of various pure cold weapons Mandarin Duck Array, Gun Shield Mandarin Duck Array, and Artillery Shield Mandarin Duck Array, the so-called brave generals, heroes, swordsmen, and samurai here really face the power of the formed firearms unit.

Since appearing in Izumo in the early autumn of last year, the elite soldiers of the Beijing camp led by Yu Dayou went southwest in two ways after taking Izumo.

After capturing Iwami Ginzan along the way, he continued to the west, first sweeping the flatter areas along the coast; All the way to the south, after being prepared, it was pushed all the way to Aki Province, which was originally occupied by the Mori Yuan, and finally to Hiroshima, where the castle had not yet been built.

This strategy is because this part of the area originally belonged to the Niko and Maori clans.

After Yoshitaka Ouchi took this place, he did try to digest it by various means. But after the Ming army arrived here, they were invincible, and Mao Li Yuan died in battle as a "Junjie", and the old retainers and samurai of the Nizi clan and the Mao Li clan were first digested by the Ming Dynasty.

The way is naturally to allow the future of this part of the people, including their daughters and granddaughters who were sent to the Ming Dynasty.

Since then, in fact, from Izumo to Hiroshima, the Ming Dynasty has first built a road defense line to defend the east.

For this reason, the Kyoying Army, which was later pushed from Iwami and Yasui to Ouchi Yoshitaka's base camp of Zhou Fangguo, was already only 8,000 troops—to leave a large number of generals to defend and stabilize the territory that had been taken.

Fortunately, the Beiyang Naval Division led by Xue Han also exerted its strength in the Changmen Kingdom to the west of Zhoufang. Along the coast of Nagato, the main line of defense previously arranged by the Imperial Coalition was also in Nagato. The Beiyang Naval Division has a Xuanlong ship, although it does not dare to drive too close to the coast because of the deep draft, but the deterrent power is too strong.

Under the bombardment of the fleet, the marines finally found a chance to land.

Once the land battle is reached, and it is on the seashore, and the small and medium-sized warships arrive close and bombard the distance, and the marines have been trained in Taiwan and are better equipped, the allied forces will naturally suffer defeat again.

Then they were compressed along the coast in the direction of Kyushu.

When Yu Dayou, Xue Han, and Yan Shifan began to besiege Zhou Fangguo from several directions, Ouchi Yoshitaka himself was the first to collapse.

In the early days, the rebels and reinforcements arranged by Hosokawa Haromoto, plus the Imperial Guardian Alliance, fell to the ground and could only retreat to Kyushu Island.

For them, it was the worst battle - they wanted to go to Kyushu, even though the narrowest part of the Shimonoseki Strait between Kyushu and Honshu was only a mile, but it was at sea after all.

Under the artillery fire of the Ming Beiyang Naval Division and the Dongyang Maritime Division, the Maguan Strait was red during that time.

The so-called western half of China on the Sanyang Road and the mountain vagina on Honshu Island, plus Shikoku Island, this is the current record of the Ming army.

Shunyuki took the marines of the Toyo Naval Division and nearly ten warships of all sizes on Shikoku Island, although the number was small, but with the current sea capacity of the Hosokawa shogunate, it was difficult for them to organize an effective offensive across the sea.

The coalition forces on Kyushu Island are already turtles in urns. The military quartermaster in the east could not break through the Ming blockade on both land and sea, and Kyushu Island really became an isolated island.

"The situation has changed."

In the Izumo Taisha Shrine, Xia Yan took the letter sent by him and handed it to Yu Daiyou, who had rushed back from Yamaguchi Castle.

This was sent at the beginning of the first month after the strategy was roughly discussed according to the situation.

Yu Dayou said softly after reading it: "It's so daring......"

"In any case, the situation has changed, and the imperial court can no longer help the Eastern Expeditionary Army." Xia Yan said very simply, "The remnants of Kyushu Island are already the turtles in the urn, Shisuke, I want to stay in Dongying, and now I have to change my strategy." ”

"What do you mean?"

"It is necessary to stabilize the land of several countries here, and for the time being, it will depend on many Japanese people." Xia Yan said very simply, "The more stable they are, the more people you can bring to the east, and they can still serve to fight." In order not to distract you, there is a matter that I have been ordered to keep secret. ”

Yu Dayou was stunned: "What's the matter?" ”

"When we were reorganizing the army on Tsushima Island, Xingguo Gong led more than 100 elites of the special operations battalion, and they had already set off to go deep into Gyeonggi and Kanto. Now that a few months have passed, with Xingguogong's ability, it should be a mess over there. Quickly cut through the mess, Shisuke, all the way through, the surrender of the surrender. Even if there are some troubles in the future, the situation in Dongying is still good to see the real chapter early. ”

“…… Xingguo Gong actually came? Yu Dayou was shocked.

"Your Majesty's clear decree that the Duke of Xingguo will not do anything here, but only help the war!" Xia Yan told him clearly, "Now as long as the Beiyang Naval Division locks Hiroshima to Shikoku Island, if the army advances eastward, they can't care about the death or life of the remnants of the Kyushu army." The army went east from Nasanyodo Road, and together with the Toyo Naval Division, they conquered the coastal flats and took Namba and Kyoto. As soon as the thief chief is defeated, he can be pacified and used to settle the situation. ”

Yu Dayou didn't say much, and after thinking about it, he said: "In other words, we can't expect more logistics transfer?" ”

"Expeditions of thousands of miles can only be fed by war. The hidden dangers buried will be handed over to me in the future! Xia Yan was categorical, "Besides, this Dongying is not as good as the Ming Dynasty, and anyone who can fight elite soldiers is a human being." Ordinary people, poor as slaves, you can't pay anything. With the courage of the Ming soldiers, break the city all the way to fight fast. As long as you enter Kyoto, you will be decided! ”

Yu Dayou thought silently for a while.

What he could bring over was a total of seven or eight thousand marines from the Beijing camp plus the Dongyang and Beiyang naval divisions.

With such a large army, if it drove straight into the area like this, leaving behind the rear that was not fully controlled, it would really have to rely on looting all the way there.

If it is safe, in fact, the best way is to completely wipe out the remnants of the army on Kyushu Island first, and then digest the existing territory, determine the new order, and then move forward steadily.

But the current situation is very simple: there are enemies on all sides in the Ming Dynasty, and Yu Dayou and Yan Chunsheng, who will not stay in Dongying, it is best to go back as soon as possible.

They are the most prestigious generals of the Ming military today.

Yu Dayou thought about it but shook his head: "I only bring 10,000 from Jingying." To make Taiwan, I fought all the way through, and the military food routes of the coastal cities relied on the good use of the marines of the naval division and the attached servants to help me stabilize. Dongying is mountainous, and it is not easy to govern, so the imperial court should also send more ministers over as soon as possible. Is there a way to contact Shangxing Guogong? ”

"I can't." Xia Yan thought for a while and said, "Since Shisuke only brings 10,000 elites from the Kyoto camp, then I will go from Izumo along the coast of the mountain to Kyoto to join Shisuke." In the rear, it was handed over to Yingde to move from Shikoku to the mountain city of Anyi County! ”

“…… Who guards Shikoku Island? ”

"Let Hu Ruzhen go!"

"Controlling Taiwan and leading the army eastward, who is the general in the rear?"

"In the Battle of Changmen, Qi Jiguang was brave and difficult, and he was already quite prestigious among the marines. He once escorted the prince on his travels, and was a disciple of the new public relations sect, and it was convenient for him to lead a brigade of marines to supervise the attached army to temporarily stabilize it. In extraordinary times, we should use extraordinary people, and believe in the people of His Majesty's discernment! ”

Yu Dayou didn't think much about it now, and only nodded.

The new strategy also required the availability of personnel, as well as the mobilization of military supplies that could still be transferred from the Ryukyus and Tsushima Islands.

On Kyushu Island, there are still nearly 100,000 people in the Imperial Guard Coalition Army and various coalition forces, plus the rebel army on the island.

But as long as you go to the sea and escape, it is a life of death.

If you don't go to the sea, you still have the strength to fight.

The island of Kyushu is big enough not to be unable to support these soldiers.

It's just that now I'm alone, and I feel extremely bad.

The devastating Ming army brought them great fear.

There weren't many samurai who could wear armor, and their katana didn't have time to slash at the enemy, and flintlock muskets, which were already fired much faster, would hit them with projectiles.

What's more, there is enough artillery in the back to bombard beyond Rich?

Most of the Dongying generals who rushed into battle with footsteps were far from the impact of cavalry.

That's just a matter of spending your life.

But even if they were lucky enough to rush to the front of the formation, the front of their battle line was basically a group of mandarin ducks.

Historically, when dealing with the Japanese invaders, the Mandarin Duck Formation played an exaggerated battle loss ratio, and it seems that it has only exerted its full power here.

Under the narrow terrain, the inability to fall down the comrades really made these Imperial Defender Coalition troops who had escaped to Kyushu Island unable to raise much confidence to resist.

However, the original generals on Kyushu Island suspected that they were not brave enough.

Yoshitaka Ouchi broke down emotionally during the siege that day and committed suicide by seppuku.

The current retainers of the Ouchi clan have been headed by Tao Longfang. But a retainer is a retainer, and without a lord, there is always a feeling of scattered sand.

In a hurry, he supported a person from the Ouchi clan as the family governor, who made Ouchi Yoshitaka have no son?

However, the morale of the army had been dispersed, and many of the rebels and reinforcements who had come from, the eastern half of China, the Shikoku area, and even the Kanto region were now trying to escape back to the east by sea.

Shimazu Takashi didn't have that prestige to rule them for a long time, and the families on Kyushu Island also tried their best to place their forces in the mountain castle where they were located.

In order to be able to sustain themselves for a longer period of time, the armies of the various parties with complicated routes competed for easy and difficult to defend and difficult to attack, and raised food and military funds, and I don't know how many internal contradictions have arisen.

The fragile island of Kyushu seemed to collapse when the Ming army landed, but the Ming army no longer moved, and only the Ming warships patrolled the Maguan Strait and the northeast of Kyushu Island.

"It's almost summer, and there will be a kamikaze!"

I don't know how many people are praying.

"The kamikaze is coming, and their ships need to dodge too! At that time, let's break into Shikoku Island together, from Uwakai! The power of Shikoku Island must be the weakest, if you can go to Shikoku Island and kill all the Akito on the island, then you can change the tide of the war! ”

Takahisa Shimazu heard such discussions, but it was difficult for him to change anything.

His old nest is on Kyushu Island, can he abandon this place and go to Shikoku Island together?

Spring is blooming, and on the Ming side, the farmers still planted summer grain as usual.

The Ming Dynasty was surrounded by enemies on all sides, but the hinterland provinces could not feel the slightest.

If there's anything you can feel, it's that the government is still calling.

"Go to Dongying, everyone has three wives and four concubines!"

Is there such a good thing? Can you afford it?

Can the body stand it?

On the Xuanfu side, Zhu Houxi could stand it.

This time, I was afraid that I would have to stay for a long time when I went to Xuanfu.

In the harem, there were also several people accompanying them, including Tana and her son from Duoyan, Agala who was originally offered by the Ordos Department of Hetao, Achara Kamara from Lanna, and the Shen sisters of North Korea, plus the two concubines selected before.

Anyway, there are so many feudal kingdoms that have jumped out, and after this time, they all have to be flat!

(End of chapter)