"Li Dan and the others have already captured Ryukyu, right?"
"Only Okinawa is still resisting. There are a few Japanese ghosts waiting to be reincarnated. Marquis Pingliao. I heard from the sailors that there will be another typhoon in the next few days. Will the army's landing on Tsushima be postponed?"
Liu Zhaosun put down the teapot and looked at the huge map of Kyushu hanging in the tent with a gloomy expression.
After a long time, the commander of an army of 120,000 men covered his face and fell into deep thought.
On the second day of October, Kaiyuan's army gathered in North Korea, and Ping Liaohou's Chinese army tent also moved forward to Busan. Jin Yuji accompanied her husband on the expedition, and her daughter was left behind in Wendeng.
The sixth day of October is getting closer and closer, and Marquis Pingliao is getting more and more uneasy.
This was the first expedition of the Kaiyuan Army, the first real expansion of territory.
Although they only attacked a small island of Tsushima, they had already conducted more than a dozen drills to prepare.
The image of Kublai Khan's failed conquest of Japan kept appearing in front of his eyes. Marquis Pingliao had asked Qiao Yiqi and others many times to discuss the details of the failure of that war.
For the ancients four hundred years ago, they were able to analyze the Yuan-Japanese War from different perspectives and give travelers more ideas.
Before the war begins, think about failure first and seek victory where you fail. This is Liu Zhaosun's military philosophy.
Maybe the kamikaze really is blessing Japan.
However, there is no turning back when the bow is fired. There is absolutely no reason to withdraw troops at this time. When Tokugawa Hidetada senses that the situation is wrong and mobilizes reinforcements, it will be much more difficult to conquer Kyushu.
Liu Zhaosun stood up and walked to the door of the tent. He looked at the endless large and small ships on the coast. He turned back to Deng Changxiong, Wu Aheng and others:
"There is no need to postpone, everything will be carried out according to the content of the exercise. On the 6th of October, we will cross the sea to attack Tsushima Island, and then attack Iki Island, fight the rabbit with the lion, and attack the Japanese pirates with all our strength."
Ping Liao Hou dismissed all his subordinates, leaving only his wife Jin Yuji in the tent.
Jin Yuji was fully clothed in armor and dressed as a guard to guard her husband, and she regained her heroic appearance.
After Liu Zhaosun and his subordinates all walked out of the tent, he looked back at Jin Yuji, who was dressed in military uniform, with love in his eyes.
"How long has it been since Madam went to war with me?"
Jin Yuji counted her fingers and said with a smile: "I'm afraid it will be a whole year."
Liu Zhaosun stepped forward and took her little hand, and said affectionately:
"That day in Hunhe, I made a vow to you that we will never be separated in this life. From now on, even if we die, we will die together."
Jin Yuji felt that her husband was a little abnormal these days, but she didn't know what was wrong. After hearing this, she felt a little calmer.
"I heard that Tokugawa Ieyasu fought in all directions during his lifetime, and was always accompanied by a woman. Like my concubine, she was dressed as a man and made great contributions to the Eastern Army."
Liu Zhaosun burst out laughing after hearing this. Unexpectedly, Jin Yuji also knew a lot about the Japanese anecdotes. As expected, children who love reading know a lot.
"How can a woman from Tokugawa Kamesun be better than you, madam? I just hate that Tokugawa Ieyasu died early, otherwise I would meet him on the battlefield this time."
Why can't women fight on the battlefield? Is it because they can't shoot a hard bow or use a fire blunderbuss?
"My husband seems to hate the Tokugawa family deeply. I wonder why?"
Liu Zhaosun laughed and did not deny it.
As Jin Yuji said, he hated the Tokugawa shogunate with all his heart.
The reason for this, in addition to actual conflicts of interest, was more because in his previous life, he had heard a classmate around him bragging about the Japanese Warring States generals, all of whom could crush Liu Guan and Zhang, and instantly kill the ancient Chinese heroes.
This is considered a personal reason.
"There is no reason. They were born in the Land of the Rising Sun, but they always behave like animals. I just followed the destiny and let them know what awe is."
Liu Zhaosun led Jin Yuji all the way out of the big tent and walked towards the Busan Port where there was a forest of masts and masts. After walking a few steps, Jin Yuji quickly opened her hand to prevent the soldiers from seeing her.
The officers and soldiers who came towards him kept saluting Marquis Pingliao, and Liu Zhaosun returned the salutes to them one by one.
"The Japanese are a hundred times more hateful than those who established slaves in Mongolia. They fear power but not virtue. If you want to create eternal peace for your descendants, you must clean up all these wolves. Now is the best time. When the shogunate's rule is stabilized, Kyushu will not be so It will be easy to defeat. The Kaiyuan Army will carry out a comprehensive transformation of the Japanese country, so that we will have a safe backyard without the evil wolves that come out to eat people from time to time."
Jin Yuji nodded thoughtfully and stopped asking about the matter.
The two walked up to a large rock on the coast of Busan and looked to the south. Tsushima Island, fifty or sixty miles away, could be seen vaguely, like a sleeping giant. It had not yet realized that there was an unprecedented storm. It's coming soon.
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On October 6th, possibly as a sign of disaster for Japan, a northwest wind suddenly blew from the sea.
The Kaiyuan fleet, which was in the upwind direction, immediately dispatched. The twenty-five flat-armored ships were divided into two teams, marching east and west in a mighty force. The two forces planned to finally land in the middle of Tsushima Island to join forces and cut the island's defenders into two. Intercept and annihilate them respectively.
According to the report of the Mori Guards, the Kyushu Domain samurai ronin stationed on Tsushima Island at this time only numbered five to six hundred. Their firearms were poor, and many of them were not even wearing armor.
To deal with such a weak opponent - at least on the surface, he was weak - Marquis Ping Liao did not hesitate to use all his strength.
Use the lion to fight the rabbit and do it with all your strength.
Liu Zhaosun knew very well that if the army marches thousands of miles away, if it loses once, the whole situation will be passive, and if it loses again, it will be like a frightened bird, with no bones left.
So this time, he couldn't make any mistakes.
Things developed much more smoothly than expected. On October 6, the first year of the Apocalypse, the army approached Tsushima. The Satsuma clan sent 200 ships to fight. They only lasted for two hours before they were attacked by the Kaiyuan army's flat-armored ships. Sinking into the sea.
On October 6, Kaiyuan's army landed on Tsushima Island, and more than 500 Japanese pirates who stood on the island were killed.
The next day, the Kaiyuan Army continued to attack Iki Island, which is close to Kyushu, without rest, and began to approach the Hizen coastal islands. Two hours later, hundreds of Japanese samurai were killed.
On October 18, the Kaihara troop transport sailed into Hakata Bay. After nearly a hundred warships prepared artillery fire for two hours, the landing battle officially began.
Three thousand soldiers from the forward mountain special operations battalion swarmed forward, and in just half an hour, they easily broke through the Kyushu clan's coastline defenses, which were fought on their own and were as thin as white paper.
However, due to the complex mountainous terrain of Kyushu Island, breaking through the coastal defense line is only a trivial first step.
At that time, the Mongolian army was pushed back into the sea by the samurai ronin of the Kamakura shogunate after breaking through the long wall of Kyushu Island.
In the next three days, troop transport ships continuously transported 60,000 Kaihara warriors to the main island of Kyushu. After they completed their assembly on the shore, they divided their forces deep into the interior of Kyushu Island to hunt down the Satsuma and Hizen samurai.
On October 21, Liu Zhaosun, surrounded by guards, set foot on Japanese territory for the first time.
At the port of Hakata Port, on the deck of the Hiryu flagship, Marquis Heirayo delivered a speech that was later recorded in history regarding the upcoming battle to land on the island.
The content of the speech was imitated from the speech delivered by German Emperor Wilhelm II when he bid farewell to the German Expeditionary Corps in Bremerhaven on July 27, 1900.
"When you land on Kyushu Island, remember not to forgive and not to take prisoners. Because what you will face is an enemy more ferocious and hateful than Jiannu and Liao Town. The Japanese pirates have suffered a lot in the past three hundred years. , burning, killing, looting, and committing all kinds of evil in China..."
"Your mission is to open up a bloody path for Kaiyuan, for Liaodong, and for the survival of China, with your swords and arrows!"
