When the army goes out on the march, every minute of delay is an extra point.

Going to see the Korean monarch Li Fangyuan was just a procedural need, after all, there were two supply lines for this expedition to the Japanese state.

One was from Shandong and sent directly to the Wa country by the fleet, and the other was to go through Korea and be mobilized from Shuntianfu, Kaipingwei and other places, and then transported to the Wa country through Korea.

After seeing Li Fangyuan, knocking on the side and shocking him, and asking him to take care of the supply line of North Korea, Zhu Zhanyan rushed to the first goal of this battle non-stop.

Tsushima.

Tsushima Island is a large island between Korea and the Japanese state, which has been under the control of the Japanese state before, and is an important transit point for the Japanese state, especially the Japanese invaders to go north to Korea and south to the Ming Dynasty to plunder the sea frontier.

North Korea's repeated defeats in the confrontation with the Japanese have a lot to do with the Falklands.

Similarly, when he knew that the Ming soldiers were pressing the border and were about to take action against him, the Wa State immediately sent a peace edict to the Ming Dynasty, but there was no response.

In fact, there should have been a response, Huang Huai, Xie Jin, and Hu Yan all wrote to suggest that Zhu Di accept the edict of the Japanese state to sue for peace, and let the Japanese state compensate the people who were plundered by the Japanese in the coastal area, and then make peace.

But!

This time, without waiting for Zhu Di to speak, Zhu Gaochi was the first to open his mouth to advise, urging Zhu Di to use war to solve the Japanese rebellion.

If Zhu Gaochi didn't speak, then Huang Huai and the others would definitely give up, even if they were beaten back by Zhu Di, they would not give up, but now that Zhu Gaochi has spoken, they will die down.

Afterwards, people only knew that Huang Huai and the other three stayed in the Wenhua Hall for a whole day, and no one knew what they said.

And after not getting a response from the Ming Dynasty, the Wa Kingdom immediately began to prepare.

Although he knew that it was unlikely that he would win a head-on battle with the Ming Dynasty, no one would be caught.

What's more, fighting on the Wa State itself, the Wa State actually has an advantage, because they are not like the Ming Dynasty, they have to achieve results, they can drag.

dragged until Daming could not withstand the consumption of hundreds of thousands of troops, and at that time they would be considered to have won.

Similarly, after determining that they want to resist, the Wa Kingdom will naturally not give up on Tsushima.

Between Korea and the Wa Kingdom, the significance of this to the Falklands is the same as that of Kaiping and Daningwei of the Ming Dynasty.

Kaiping and Daning two guards are the two nails that were nailed into the grassland during the Hongwu Dynasty, and they defend each other with the momentum of the horns, and they are the bridgeheads of the Ming Dynasty to advance to the grassland.

And for the Wa Kingdom, Tsushima Island was the bridgehead for them to advance to North Korea and even to the Ming Dynasty.

Through the monoculars, Zhu Zhanyan looked at the Japanese soldiers on Tsushima Island, and the corners of his mouth rose.

"Li Bin!"

"The last general!" Li Bin stepped forward very excitedly, but Zhu Zhanyan's words poured a basin of cold water on his head.

"Pass the order to Liu Sheng, this pair of horses is handed over to him, if you can't take it within a day, then let him respond to the heavenly plea by himself!"

"Wang Jinghong! Order to turn around! Target...... Nagato! ”

"Yes!" Wang Jinghong's heart sank, but he still bowed down in response.

And Li Bin on the side was different, his eyes were full of surprise, admiration, and ...... when he looked at Zhu Zhanyan Fear.

What is Nagato? This is to be said from the current situation of the Japanese country.

The current emperor is Emperor Gokomatsu, but the real ruler of the country is the shogun, Ashikaga Yoshinori.

The emperor was overthrown, the shogunate was in power, but it was not completely in power, and the current system of the Wa Kingdom was actually very similar to the feudal system of the Zhou Dynasty, which was divided into more than 70 vassal states, large and small, and the rulers of such vassal states were called great feudal lords.

And the names of these vassal states were often the surnames of the great feudal lords.

Nagato, that's it.

Nagato is located at the southwestern tip of Honshu Island, across the strait from Kyushu Island, and is the gateway to Honshu Island.

Generally speaking, in foreign wars, the first line of defense in the north of the Wakuni Kingdom was Tsushima Island, and the first line of defense in the south was the Ryukyu Islands.

The Ryukyus here are not the Ryukyus as commonly understood, but an archipelago to the south of the Wa Kingdom, and this Ryukyu Kingdom did not belong to the Wa Kingdom today.

In the future it will have a name: Okinawa Islands.

However, although the Ryukyu Islands were the first line of defense in the southern part of the Wa Kingdom, they never came in handy, because no one would choose them as the first battlefield in the era when navigation technology was not developed.

Therefore, generally speaking, Tsushima Island is the first line of defense in the foreign war of the Wa Kingdom, just like the previous Yuan Dynasty attacked the Wa Kingdom, they all attacked Tsushima Island first, then Iki Island, and then pointed directly at Hizen and landed operations.

Hizen, the northernmost point of Kyushu Island.

But this time, Zhu Zhanyan changed his strategy and asked the Shenji Battalion to contain Tsushima Island, abandon the Tsushima Strait and the Iki Strait, and turn around from the Mijima Strait to Honshu Nagato!

This can be said to be a blow to the west.

Inertial thinking will make people fall into the misunderstanding, and when dealing with the Ming Dynasty's conquest, the Wa State still deployed defenses on Tsushima Island in accordance with the experience of the previous confrontation against the Yuan Dynasty, and then set up heavy defenses in Hizen and Higo on Kyushu Island.

However, the Ming Dynasty was not the Yuan Dynasty, and it had navigation technology that the Yuan Dynasty could not match.

Wang Jinghong's navigation ability is very good, in Zhu Zhanyan's opinion, he is not under Zheng He, or in that sentence, he was born at the wrong time.

In the era when navigation was mainly based on wind power, manpower was only an auxiliary, and it was already quite capable to control an entire fleet.

"What time is it?" Looking at the looming land ahead, Zhu Zhanyan looked up at the sky, trying to see the time from the position of the sun.

"Your Highness! It's already a quarter of a day! There was excitement in Li Bin's voice that couldn't be hidden.

In his opinion, the battle is already close at hand.

"What about Tan Zhong? Ordered him to go up and open the way with a swarm of rockets and artillery, creating a time and place for the beach-grabbing landing! ”

"Yes!"

Woo~

A low but penetrating horn sounded, and under the command of Wang Jinghong's command, the formation of the fleet soon changed.

Originally, the ship that Zhu Zhanyan was on was in the second echelon, and after the horn sounded, the first echelon became the second echelon, the second echelon became the third echelon, and the third echelon became the first echelon.

The third echelon is the Shenji Battalion.

There are only about 5,000 people in the Shenji Battalion, and if you use treasure ships, those two ships can almost fit it, but that is only counting people, not considering weapons, baggage, and firearms.

Therefore, Zhu Zhan Yan transferred three of the five ships of the Shenji Battalion, leaving only two for Liu Sheng.

After all, it's just a feint, and in terms of firearms, Da Ming hasn't been afraid of anyone.

The noise on the sea was too loud, and the command was very affected, and it was difficult for Zhu Zhanyan to receive the news from the front as soon as possible.

However, the sound of artillery cannot be muffled.

When the cannon sounded, Zhu Zhanyan immediately pulled out the monocular.

In the first act of this war, he couldn't give up.

(End of chapter)