In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Yuanzhang held the letter of state sent by Ashikaga Yoshimitsu in his left hand, which stated that he was willing to obey all his wills, and only asked the Ming Dynasty to open up sea trade and trade with the Japanese court.

And on his right hand is a secret letter sent by Li Wei!

In this letter, Li Wei made his plan clear, only after Kyushu attracted enough Japanese soldiers and horses, he would lead the army north to destroy the Japanese Kyoto!

However, Zhu Yuanzhang saw his clever plan, but his face was not good-looking: "This dog thing is getting bolder and bolder!" ”

When the Ming army set out, he had clearly stated the purpose of the expedition, and now on the letter of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, both the Ming Yuan and the Daikakuji Temple have agreed to his requests, and it stands to reason that now the purpose of the Ming army's conquest has been achieved, and it is time to retreat.

However, Li Wei smashed Huanglong this time, and wanted to destroy other people's countries, not to mention whether it could be done, even if it did, it would do more harm than good to Daming!

The Huaxia suzerainty can dominate the Quartet, relying not only on strong force, but also on generosity and benevolence, just as Ashikaga Yoshimitsu thought, he did not want to directly destroy the Wa Kingdom, if he really did this, then the other vassals must be frightened.

The strong kill the weak, no matter whether the weak is wrong or not, others will think that the strong rely on the strong to bully the weak.

Just like he faced these founding nobles, although these nobles had illegal acts, if he really killed them according to the law, others would definitely think that he was cooking rabbits and dead dogs, and they wouldn't care if these nobles really deserved it!

The same is true of the relationship between the clans and vassals, the Ming Dynasty is strong and the countries are weak, and only by giving wide benevolence can all countries come to the court.

Putting these aside, this time Li Wei made his own decision and went north to exterminate the Japanese without authorization, which also made him very angry!

Although it is said that the general will not be subject to the orders of the foreign monarch, it only refers to the impromptu response during the battle, and Li Wei is not even subject to the purpose of the battle, which is too much!

If he could, he would definitely immediately issue an order to recall the Daming Naval Division, but Li Wei was probably already about to arrive at the Imperial Division at this time, if he refused to cooperate, the Ming Naval Division would run out of ammunition, and I am afraid that there would be a danger of annihilation of the entire army, so that Li Wei and this Naval Division would be buried in the Imperial Kingdom, which was a loss that he absolutely could not bear!

"Humph! Dog thing, see how we clean you up when you come back! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang threw Ashikaga Man's national letter on the imperial case, and snorted angrily as he grabbed the secret letter in his hand.

After deciding on the decision, he ordered someone to summon Wang Jinghong and asked him to go to the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry to dispatch grain, grass and ammunition, and immediately send them to the place designated by Li Wei.

After Wang Jinghong heard what was going on, he didn't dare to delay and immediately took the order out of the palace.

Zhu Yuanzhang finished arranging these, and his brows were still tightly locked.

Li Wei suddenly came this time, if he really succeeded in destroying the Japanese country, such a military feat was enough to push his prestige in the army to a point comparable to that of Feng Shengtang and other founding princes, even if it was not as good as Xu Da, it was not far behind.

In addition, the civil officials are now obedient to him, so that he is almost equal to the Huaixi nobles, and even has hidden in real power.

This made Zhu Yuanzhang even more vigilant against him.

Several veterans in Huaixi are old, Li Shanchang is 70 years old, and Xu Da, who was sitting in Beiping some time ago, is also sick, these people may be gone when they will be gone, and who will be able to balance Li Wei who is in power at such a young age?

Zhu Yuanzhang's face was cloudy, and his eyes were silent as he stared at Mixin.

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On the sea, Li Wei stood on the bow of the ship, his clothes were blown by the sea and he was hunting, and the navy army had been driving on the sea for three days, and the terrain of the Wa Kingdom was long and narrow, and it was nearly a thousand miles (500 kilometers) from Kyushu to their Kyoto, and although it was much faster by sea than by land, it would take three or four days.

Fortunately, they are all faster than the Japanese people, not to mention that the Japanese people may still think that they have withdrawn from the army, and when the army arrives, they will definitely be able to catch them off guard.

Thinking that he was about to destroy the Japanese kingdom with his own hands, Li Wei couldn't help but feel excited.

Every four days, the coastline of the Wa Kingdom finally appeared in the distance in front of the fleet, and Li Wei immediately took his glasses and watched.

However, to his surprise, the sparsely populated coast of the Wa Kingdom was now covered with the shadows of some Wa cavalry.

While he was watching the Japanese people, they also saw their huge ships.

Although the Japanese did not have a telescope, such a big goal of the Ming Army's sailors was easily discovered by them.

The Japanese people in charge of the inspection immediately patted their horses and went back to report to the two Persian generals, and the Persian generals immediately ordered the army to concentrate in the direction where the Ming army was coming, and waited for it!

Li Wei frowned slightly when he saw this, but he didn't expect this widow to react quite quickly.

But it doesn't matter, the shogunate's troops are all stranded in Kyushu, and the defense forces near Kyoto must be greatly reduced, and it will take more than ten days to return reinforcements, he only needs to destroy Kyoto in the Wa Kingdom first during this time!

"Order the army to dock, prepare the naval artillery, let them taste the power of the artillery first!"

Li Wei commanded in a cold voice.

"Yes!"

Lu Tang agreed, turned around and went down to give the order.

In Kyushu, in order to set up an ambush, the Japanese did not resist when they landed, and the artillery on this ironclad ship and nearly a thousand ships had not yet had time to exert their might, so it was just right to try these Japanese people.

The Persian generals and the Yamada family gathered on the coast, looking at the huge ships of the Ming army like mountains, and their hearts were shocked!

Fortunately, they didn't plan to go to sea to fight a naval battle with the Ming army, otherwise they would have no power to resist in the face of such a huge ship.

The fleet of sailors gradually approached, and the huge size of the ironclad ships brought a great sense of oppression to these Japanese people, and even the Persian generals couldn't help but swallow their saliva.

They didn't have any special means of attack, nothing more than bows and arrows and some trebuchets, at this time they could only watch the Ming ships approach, and wait for them to attack when they reached the firing range, of course, the most important thing was to intercept them when they disembarked and landed.

However, the Ming ships did not go as they had hoped, but stopped advancing two or three miles from the shore, and then began to adjust the angle and line up the ships horizontally.

When General Persian saw this, a bad feeling suddenly rose in his heart: "What are they going to do? ”

Tian Shan's family was also puzzled.

But they didn't have to wait long, and a loud explosion made them understand!

"Boom!"

"It's not good, it's artillery!" The Persian righteous general shouted!

They already knew from military intelligence that the Ming army had artillery, but they had never seen a warship attack with artillery.

At this time, the ships of the Ming army were equipped with naval guns in the real sense, although the Song and Yuan dynasties also used firearms on the ships before, but those tattered ones could not be compared with them at all.

More than 100 naval guns exploded in unison, allowing these Japanese people to experience once again what it means to reduce dimensionality. (End of chapter)