This is a strange book that strangely fell into his hands after passing through countless hands.
It is also a strange book that has long been banned by the Taira regime.
Ever since he got this book three years ago, Minamoto Yoshitsune couldn't put it down. He read the entire book many times and tried to send people to obtain the rumored second and third volumes, but failed.
But just from the first volume, he has already seen how a "man of the world" with a broad mind and world-wide aspirations came from humble beginnings, destroyed the foreign dynasty and re-established the Han dynasty.
The series of principles he expounded, the series of human truths that were so real that they even made the well-educated Minamoto Yoshitsune break out in cold sweat, were all the foundation of the Ming Dynasty.
Minamoto Yoshitsune maintains a strong curiosity about such a country that is completely different from the world. He does not know whether what is said in this book is true or false, and he does not know whether the Ming Kingdom is really a new country, so he is curious.
And with the outbreak of this war, he was able to get a glimpse of the situation and understand a little bit about the actual state of the Ming Dynasty.
Just a little bit, a little bit.
The thing that allows local Japanese civilians to cross all obstacles and sit and eat together with Ming army soldiers has made the entire Japanese army, including the strongest man, unable to parry.
In "Hongwu Political Treatise", Su Yonglin made a judgment, saying that empires and kingdoms with feudal and slave-type oppression systems would definitely collapse under the Ming Dynasty's offensive and cease to exist.
Their citizens will automatically pursue the system of the Ming Dynasty, support the system of the Ming Dynasty, and spurn their former country.
Even if this country is their homeland.
Even though it was not the messengers of peace who brought them these things, but the trumpets of war.
None of this prevents people from automatically pursuing what they need - happiness.
Whoever can give them happiness will win the final victory; whoever tries to take all the happiness into his own hands and hide it secretly will be torn apart by the people's anger.
And now, who is the person who will be torn apart?
Minamoto Yoshitsune closed the book in his hand and sighed softly.
That strong premonition came again.
Japan is over, Ming Dynasty will definitely win the final victory, these people will eventually be swept into the garbage dump of history, and no one will miss them or remember them.
Because they have done nothing for this country and its people.
All they do is satisfy their own selfish desires, and for this, they do not hesitate to sacrifice everything.
In their eyes, the lives of the people are just a simple price for gaining power. If it is gone, it is gone and not worthy of pity.
These hateful people can even pity a dog next to them, but they have no pity for people of the same race. It is really abominable.
Occasionally, Minamoto Yoshitsune would come up with such thoughts that would make him sweat.
He believed that the war was over.
But Minamoto Yoritomo didn't believe it, and neither did Hojo Tokimasa. They tried their best to mobilize troops and generals, organized more troops and supplies, prepared to enter Shinano Country, and supported the protection of Shinano Country and the Ming army's operations. The Shinano Kingdom contained the Ming army's advance.
But before they could act, more bad news came.
A partial division of the Ming army broke through Ise State, completely annihilating Ise State's army, and was crossing the sea to attack Owari Province and Mikawa Province. Owari Province and Mikawa Province were greatly frightened, and while arranging people to prepare for resistance, they sent people to ask for help.
On the other side, there was a partial division of the Ming army in the northern region that successively defeated the garrison armies of Wakasa and Echizen countries, completely wiping out the official forces of the two countries. The army was advancing towards Kaga and Hida countries.
The Ming army's aggressive advance and the comprehensive defeat of the local defense forces greatly exceeded the expectations of Minamoto Yoritomo and Hojo Tokimasa.
They expected that the Ming army was good at fighting and that the local defense force was insufficient, but they did not expect that the enemy army would retreat so quickly.
At this time, it was only July 25th, and it had only been more than ten days since the Ming army last launched an attack. The first line of defense in the East Japan region had collapsed, and the second line of defense was being attacked by the Ming army.
The Ming army was advancing so fast that Minamoto no Yoritomo's strong will wavered slightly, and he doubted whether the resistance he led could succeed.
Hojo Tokimasa had no time to worry about this. It took him more than a month to finally organize an army of less than 30,000 people. If he wanted to continue to expand the army, it would take more time. But in this situation, it seems that there are no more troops. Time was left for him.
At this time, the population of Japan was mainly concentrated in the central region with Heian Kyo as the core. The further east, the sparser the population became. A population of 100,000 in a country was considered normal, and a population of more than 200,000 was extremely rare.
Therefore, after the Heiankyo area was captured by the Ming army, Japan actually lost the possibility of a protracted war.
Because there are only about two million people left in the entire area under their control, even with a full-scale military mobilization, the 200,000 combat troops would be the peak.
A full-scale military mobilization would take at least half a year to a year, and the speed of the Ming army's attack was calculated in terms of "days".
At this point, it was because the logistics could not keep up so fast that we slowed down the progress a little.
It was difficult for local Japanese civilians who had not received mobilization training to keep up with the Ming army soldiers. For the sake of their lives, the front line was forced to slow down the pace of the attack so that they could breathe.
Now that the war has started, the situation is actually quite clear.
The Ming Army did not send many political cadres to promote the Ming Dynasty among Japanese civilians, because they did not have time to gather so many political cadres who knew the local language. Even if all the Skynet Army spies were used to fill the number, it would not be enough.
But some things can be understood without language, and some relationships can be maintained without language.
The Pancake Offensive replaced the political offensive and formed a fierce offensive against the vast number of farmers and urban poor in rural areas of Japan.
Starting from Kyushu Island, Shikoku Island and the western part of Honshu Island, a large number of local civilians have become an indispensable part of the Ming army's logistics and transportation team.
What they pursue is nothing more than a full meal, a bite of solid pancakes baked with salted vegetables, fragrant grains, and enough salt. Then they will be very happy.
On this basis, if they did not scold or beat them at every turn, they would be happier. They would feel like they were living in heaven, and they had never been so happy in their lives.
Although the task of transporting grain for the Ming army was urgent and the time was tight, the daily working hours were very long and very tiring.
But you can eat three flatbreads a day.
Fill your stomach with every meal.
They used to be happy if they could eat two meals a day, they were extremely happy if they could eat porridge and pickles, and they were satisfied if they could fill their stomachs with water.
But now we can eat solid flatbreads baked with salted vegetables, which are grains, and there are enough salted vegetables with enough salty taste. The simple wild vegetable soup also has salt in it, which tastes very good.
This simple marching and fighting meal is no different from the delicacy of the world to them.
(End of chapter)
