As the mobilization horn sounded, a large amount of supplies were sent to Busan in an orderly manner from various regions in Goryeo for hoarding.
The locals in Busan began to fully mobilize and began to be ordered to build a large number of warehouses and temporary barracks to prepare for the temporary consolidation after the arrival of the army.
They do not hesitate to do this work, because not only are they guaranteed food rations, but they can also receive wages. The established collective farm system also prevents them from worrying about their agricultural harvests being affected. The collective farms will give them a guarantee.
Therefore, the construction period is very fast and the quality is very good.
Xin Qiji took a boat across the sea and arrived at the Port of Busan in early April.
Hu Wei and other key administrative personnel of Goryeo all went to Busan to work nearby.
Kong Zhende and other main Beihai Navy commanders led the entire Beihai Navy to station around the Busan Port.
As the commander of the Fifth Corps and the deputy commander-in-chief of the crusade, Su Jue will arrive in the Busan area with the last arriving army.
In mid-April, the Ming Army's general headquarters for the crusade was established in Busan Port, formally establishing overall command of the crusade, the Fifth Corps, and the war command system began to be established.
On April 18, the last Ming army arrived at the Port of Busan under the leadership of Su Jue, the deputy commander-in-chief of the crusade.
At this point, the two armies of the Ming Army, navy and land, have all arrived in the Busan area and are ready for combat. They only need to wait for the final action order from the general headquarters to launch operations in accordance with the action order.
This conquest of Japan was another large-scale campaign carried out by the Ming Dynasty several years after its conquest of the Western Regions.
In this battle, 110,000 combat troops were mobilized, approximately 240,000 civilians, auxiliary troops and other support staff were mobilized, and the total number of mobilization personnel reached 350,000.
In addition to manpower mobilization, mobilization in other aspects is also very large.
For example, 120,000 war horses, steeds, donkeys, mules, etc. were used to fight and transport livestock, more than 50,000 vehicles of various types were used for transportation, 500 warships were used at sea, and more than 1,000 transport ships were used at sea.
For this war, the Ming Dynasty carried out extremely complete and huge military mobilization and material preparations. All indicators were prepared towards the indicators of the war of annihilation, and in some aspects even exceeded the peak of Japan's overall resistance.
Even if Japan had the ability to launch a general mobilization and create a resistance army that was more than twice the total strength of the Ming army, the Ming army would still be sure to defeat them all.
All in all, this battle was destined to unfold from the moment Hu Wei's five-year plan was completed, and Japan's fate was also destined at this moment.
On April 23, the general headquarters of the crusade summarized reports from all parties and determined that all preparations for the battle had been completed. Xin Qiji, the commander-in-chief of the crusade, held the last pre-war review meeting to ensure that all parties were fully prepared.
On April 24, Xin Qiji issued an order to mobilize troops.
In the early morning of April 25th, the Ming army took the oath, and Xin Qiji read out the six crimes of the Japanese Taira regime, announcing the strategic goal of formally crusading against the Japanese Taira regime and liberating Japan's territory.
At early noon that day, the main force of the Beihai Navy attacked under the command of Kong Zhende.
The Thirty-seventh Division of the Thirteenth Army attacked together with the main force of the North Sea Division, preparing to decide Tsushima Island in a battle and land on Tsushima Island in the first battle, making it a springboard for the army to attack Kyushu Island and Honshu Island.
When the Ming army officially attacked, the ruler of Tsushima Island, Abiliu Kunizada, had no idea that the Ming army was planning to attack them.
Tsushima Island is very close to the mainland of Korea. Commercial exchanges with Korea have begun a long time ago, and official and private business relations have been maintained between the two places for a long time.
After the Ming Dynasty unified the country, Japan defined its main trade route as the route from the Seto Inland Sea to Quanzhou. The trade route from Tsushima Island to Goryeo basically belonged to the regional trade between the small areas of Tsushima Island and Goryeo. In terms of the overall situation of Japanese business and trade, it is just a branch.
Tsushima is a small island with poor soil and limited products. It needs to trade with Goryeo to obtain necessary supplies. Therefore, it has always attached great importance to this trade route and has good connections in the coastal cities in the south of Goryeo.
However, after the Ming Dynasty took over Goryeo and implemented a large-scale democratic revolutionary system, Japanese businessmen on Tsushima Island were forced by the situation to leave their commercial residence together with the Goryeo escapees and return to Tsushima Island and the Japanese mainland.
Local merchants may not care much about this route, but Tsushima cannot lose this trade route.
One year after everyone evacuated, the ruler of Tsushima Island, Abiriu Kunitada, tried to send people to negotiate with Goryeo to restore commercial relations.
At this time, Hu Wei, who was in charge of Goryeo, considered the need to deal with Japan in the future and could not let them be wary too early, so he decided not to allow Tsushima merchants to arrive at the home port of Goryeo, and only allowed them to conduct business on Jeju Island in the southwest waters of Goryeo. trading.
The trade between the two sides can continue, but it must be moved to Jeju Island as a transit point. Japanese merchants are not allowed to set foot in Goryeo.
In fact, this matter does not have a great impact from an economic perspective. As long as commerce can continue, it is nothing more than a change in trade routes, and you will get used to it after a while.
However, Hu Wei, who was in charge of Goryeo, did not allow Japanese merchant ships to reach the mainland of Goryeo. This aroused the attention and concern of Abiliu Guozhong. He suspected that the Ming Dynasty who ruled Goryeo might be dissatisfied with Japan to some extent, so he reported the matter to Ping Qing Sheng.
After Taira Kiyomori learned about the incident, he didn't pay much attention to it. He thought it was no big deal. He asked Abiliu Guozhong to maintain the situation and not to conflict with the Ming Dynasty, and then ignored it.
Ping Kiyomori didn't care. After much thought, Abiliu Guozhong could only stop delving into it. He just ordered his subordinates to find some familiar Korean businessmen to find out specific information while doing business in Jeju Island.
But the idea didn't pan out.
The Goryeo merchants who had some relationship with them before had already reached a considerable part of Tsushima Island during the Ming army's attack on Goryeo. The rest were either dead or had no news, and were most likely dead.
There are only one or two people alive who are still engaged in maritime trade, and they are not merchants, but translators and guides who are familiar with the roads, providing services to Ming Dynasty merchants who come to Jeju Island for trade.
Those doing business with Tsushima merchants were no longer local merchants from Goryeo, but merchants from the Ming Dynasty.
However, the subsequent trade with the merchants of the Falklands and the Ming Dynasty was quite good, and the trade results were not small. They made a lot of money, and Abiliu Kunizhong gradually indulged in the successful trade.
After the Ming Dynasty took control of the trade on Tsushima Island, the number of goods imported to Tsushima Island increased and the quality improved. Ming Dynasty merchants were honest and trustworthy, paid attention to morality, and pursued long-term business development, so the relationship with Tsushima merchants was good. Very good.
Feeling this, Abiliu Guozhong's worries and wariness about the Ming Dynasty gradually disappeared.
Until mid-March 2017, when a caravan returning from Jeju Island reported the results of the transaction to him, they casually mentioned that they had seen many large ships crossing Jeju Island towards the mainland of Korea.
It looked a bit like a battleship. The ships were very large, the largest they had ever seen. There were about thirty ships in number.
Abiliu Kunizada didn't care about this. He was planning to further promote trade with the Ming Dynasty and was thinking of inviting some Ming Dynasty businessmen to visit Tsushima Island to confirm more and larger trade orders.
However, his son Abiliu Cathay has some ideas about this.
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