Chapter 159: Just Give Them One Way

"Ben Hou has the idea."

Chen Cao picked up the shelf of the Heavenly Dynasty at this moment, and then stared at the Ukita Hidejia and said, "The Choshu Domain now has a strong army, and it is not a situation that you know. ”

The people in the palace were shocked, and when this kind of words came out, people with a little brain knew that this was a spy from the Ming Kingdom.

Shimazu Tadashi was only thinking about how many Ming State spies like him in his Satsuma Domain, in addition to the inconspicuous low-level samurai of Hirata Zhaoichi.

Everyone had different thoughts, so they listened to Chen Cao and continued: "According to the information of the Marquis, in order to prevent the shogunate's suppression of them, the Choshu Domain, like your Satsuma Domain, has reserved a large number of reserve soldiers, and if they go all out to resist, they can recruit at least 100,000 people. ”

Lakh?

This number is a shocking number for the Japanese people.

The people in the hall were silent for a while, their sources were basically all from Shimazu Zhongheng, and now that Chen Cao dared to say so, it meant that the people of the Ming Kingdom must have accurate information.

"Hui Yuan is waiting..."

Ukita Hideya pondered before speaking: "In the battle of Sekigahara, Terumoto was already half-pushed and half-done, although the Mori clan suffered the benefits of Sekihaku-sama, but in the end, he did not defect like Kobayakawa Hideaki during the war, and his character is still okay;

He is waiting for the first battle between our army and the Tokugawa family..."

After Chen Cao listened, he interjected: "Lord Xiu's insight is correct, the Maori clan must be waiting for you to fight a decisive battle with the Tokugawa army now, if this battle is won, or maybe after the battlefield situation changes, the Maori clan may directly help you on the battlefield." ”

Everyone's eyelids jumped, and Sanada Yukimura suddenly spoke: "Dingwu Hou, this battle will definitely be earth-shattering, does your army have a charter?" ”

Chen Cao knew that they would definitely ask: "General Hideyori has now dominated Kyushu Island, and he has not actually fought directly with the Tokugawa family, so this battle is a key battle for General Hideyori, and General Hideyori must also come forward to face this battle, and I believe that the people from the Tokugawa family are not small;

Therefore, in order to lay the foundation for your footsteps in the Japanese country, this battle must be contributed, but...

Benhou has other things to do, and after these things are done, the rest will be left to you. ”

Ukita Hideya was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look at Sanada Yukimura, Sanada Yukimura was silent and thought for a while, and suddenly raised his head: "Dingwu Hou, could it be..."

"There's no need to guess," Chen Cao stood up and moved his muscles: "I might as well tell you directly, you have contained the army of the Tokugawa clan in the territory of the Maori clan, and Benhou will go to Edo Castle in Musashi Province by sea and smash Huanglong..."

The people in the hall were frightened, and the people of the Ming Kingdom were really bold, if this kind of thing really wanted to be done, I am afraid that only the fools of Owari Guoda would do it madly.

"A word to wake up the dreamer..."Sanada Yukimura sighed: "After this, I really have to work harder..."

Ukita Xiujia bowed down towards Chen Cao: "Everything is handed over to Dingwu Hou..."

Seeing this, Xiu Lai also understood Chen Cao's ultimate intention, and then bowed and saluted: "After he regains power in Japan, he will definitely instruct his descendants to pay tribute to the heavens and the kingdom every year..."

"Your task is not small, because Benhou predicts that the enemy you will face head-on should be as many as five times as many as you, so how long you can hold them down is your business, if Benhou has not captured Edo Castle and your whole army is defeated, this is also a number of days, and Benhou can't do anything..."

The crowd was silent, they numbered a hundred thousand, and five times as many, that was a whole five hundred thousand.

"Lord Xiu's plan originally coincided with Dingwu Hou..."

Sanada Yukimura lamented that Ukita Hideya's suggestion to use Hizen Province as a bait to urge the shogunate army to come to the decisive battle as soon as possible was also a big plan, so the shogunate would definitely not make any adequate preparations, and they were waiting for work to attack this tired army in a big battle.

Now that the shogunate's ban on the sea is issued, all the ships of the shogunate are no more than a hundred, and with the strength of Chen Cao's sailors, it is enough to wipe out all the warships of the entire shogunate after a naval battle.

The people present were all Hideyori's henchmen and the Shimazu clan who had been tied to the warship, so naturally no one would gamble with their own lives.

But Sun Chuanting is still worried that someone will use this as a bargaining chip in exchange for the trust of the other party, such as the Shimazu clan.

Chen Cao naturally knew what Sun Chuanting meant before, so he told Sun Chuanting before: "When the news reaches the shogunate, his son will definitely be killed, and the reason why the Shimazu clan surrendered and pledged allegiance again was that they still couldn't give up the honor of the lord of Kagoshima and the Satsuma country that the Shimazu clan had run for hundreds of years, so when they took our news in exchange for the forgiveness of the Tokugawa clan, there were only two outcomes...

First, the news is true, but the Tokugawa clan will still not let them go, even if the Shimazu clan is not destroyed after the war, it is absolutely impossible for the Satsuma clan to take the land of the Three Kingdoms again;

Second, the Tokugawa clan thought they were spreading false news and ignored them at all.

Therefore, I also tend to favor the Tokugawa clan to choose the second point. ”

At that time, Sun Chuanting had one last question: "What if the shogunate is serious and sets a big trap in Edo Castle?" ”

Chen Cao's answer: "Our sea ship is convenient, it only takes two days to arrive by sea, and the back and forth is very fast, unless the Toyotomi clan is a pig, and when the time comes, turn the gun and kill them a horse gun, their main army will definitely be defeated, so how to calculate the profit of the fisherman is just me..."

"Master Hou also has spies in Edo?"

Chen Cao's proud expression at the time: "Don't forget that Ben Hou is from Jinyiwei." ”

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"There's only one way for them..."

Chen Cao broke the silence in the hall: "The official road behind the mountain in the place where Togaga-gun and Atsusa County meet in Nagato Province is called Kamiya River, and that is the entire plain, and this place happens to be a decisive battle with the Tokugawa army. ”

Sanada Yukimura was shocked, what he was worried about was that the people of the Ming Kingdom actually found out the location of the other party.

Ukita Hideya nodded: "The subordinates also think so, there are two places covered by high mountains, which can be used as a cover barrier for the surprise attack troops, and the topography of the Kamiya River presents the 'eight' mouth, and it is the official road of Fengpu County, which is the only way for them;

The decisive battle between Lord Sekihaku and the army of Ryuzoji Temple was precisely in this Kamiya River. ”

Sanada Yukimura did not participate in Toyotomi Hideyoshi's western expedition, but his father Yukimasa did, as the core of the Toyotomi family's military generals, Sanada Yukimura, if he really fought a decisive battle with the Tokugawa army in the Kamiya River according to the arrangement of the Ukita Hideya, the first thing he had to do was to personally explore the terrain of the Kamiya River.

"Benhou's task is to assist General Hideyori to regain the power of the Wa Kingdom, as for the war, now that General Yukimura is here, Benhou will not do too much guidance, after all, it is also a major event to go deep into the territory of Musashi, Benhou hereby wishes General Hideyori a victory in the first battle of the Kamiya River, in this way, Benhou can also be regarded as completing the task assigned by His Majesty."

Xiulai and the others hurriedly bowed down and saluted, and then Chen Cao left with people, he did not live in Kumamoto Castle, but lived in the camp of the Dingwu Army outside the city, far away in other countries, for a person like him who was very suspicious, his own military camp was the safest place, and if he was killed by the assassins of the Tokugawa family in Kumamoto Castle, it would be the blood mold that had fallen for eight lifetimes.

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"What other valuable news do our spies have?"

Chen Cao took a sip of strong tea in the camp to relieve hangover, and then looked at Liao Yaowen.

"Hyaknohesho, who is in the territory of the Choshu Domain, is doing its best to survey the terrain of the Kamiya River, and it is only necessary to wait for a few days for the sailors of the sea route to return, and then they can bring back the topographic map of the territory of Musashi Province."

Chen Cao nodded, his arrangement several years in advance has finally shown an improvement now, but what he is more worried about now is that this year is already April of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, and it is also the time when Wei Zhongxian's party and his party began to vigorously develop the highest tide of the independent side, because there are not a few Donglin Party members who died this year, and it is also the most fierce year for the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party.

And now Chen Cao is most worried about whether Xu Kaixian, the commander of the Nanzhen Fu Division, can stand alone to keep Chen Cao's Donglin Party members who have some good friends in Nanjing City, as well as Zhang Wenda, one of the Donglin Party bosses.

'Tick tock.. Tick tock..'

Chen Cao's fingers were regularly tapping on the desk, and now he was waiting, there was still one last big thing to do in the Wa Kingdom, that is, after completing the decisive battle between the Toyotomi Army and the Tokugawa Army, they could only return to China after they were evenly divided in the Wa Kingdom, otherwise there would be endless troubles.

"Is Master Hou worried about the war?"

Sun Chuanting was like a roundworm in Chen Cao's stomach, and after entering the big tent, he sat quietly on the chair opposite Chen Cao.

Chen Cao was still knocking on the desk, but his eyes had already looked over: "Boya thinks we have a chance of winning this sneak attack on Edo?" ”

Sun Chuanting thought for a while, and then said: "If there is no thief, the chance of winning this sneak attack on Edo City should be ninety percent." ”

"Oh?"

"The lower officer carefully inquired about the officials who knew the situation in the Japanese country, and if the Tokugawa family sent a large number of troops, their so-called own soldiers must be many, and these soldiers were all gathered in Edo Castle, so if the strength of the army was indeed about 500,000, then the Tokugawa army had at least 50,000 soldiers;

In this way, there will definitely not be too many soldiers in Edo Castle, and even if there are, I heard that it is also in the hands of the so-called 'Gosanya' daimyo in the surrounding area, and our army has war horses, which can be quickly interspersed, so even if they react and send a large army to rescue Edo Castle, we have already completed our task by that time, caught up with the warship and sailed away. ”

Chen Cao stopped tapping, and then stared at Sun Chuanting: "Boya, your idea is good, it's the same as mine, now we just need to wait for the sailor who comes back from the sea, whether it succeeds or not, hehe..."