Chapter 2359 Ming Kingdom participated in the war, Zhu Di personally fought


    Chapter 2356: Ming Dynasty participated in the war, Zhu Di personally fought


    Zhou Yu ordered Xu Huang to lead an army of 10,000 and surrendered troops to land in Shi Jianguo first, which was naturally because most of Shi Jianyinshan was in Shi Jianguo.


    Yes, Shijian Yinshan is not a mine, but a whole mine mountain range.


    There are also many silver mountains in the territory of Izumo, Anyi and Beihou, which is the main reason why Zhou Yu won all the six western countries in Honshu.


    After distributing 20,000 troops, Zhou Yu had 60,000 troops to be dispatched, and he personally led the landing from Echigo in the central part of Honshu Island, mainly attacking Echigo, Echigo, Echigo, and the land of the four countries.


    The reason why Zhou Yu chose to land in Echigo is naturally because Echigo has the largest gold mountain in Japan, Sado Jinshan, which is also the goal that Zhou Yu must win this time to conquer Japan.


    Echigo is the territory of the Uesugi family, which means that Zhou Yu will once again face the old rival Kenshin Uesugi this time.


    As for the Jiafei gold mine of Jiafei Kingdom, after taking over Shi Jian Yinshan and Sadu Jinshan, Zhou Yu will naturally send troops to occupy Jiafei Kingdom.


    Zhou Yu didn''t know that Kenshin Uesugi was just Shang Shanshan, the maid who had served him. If he knew about it, he would probably be scared to sweat. After all, Shang Shanshan had more than once a chance to kill him.


    This time, the four kingdoms of Qin, Wei, Song and Wu made an appointment to send troops to Honshu together. The wealthy Qin army chose to directly divide the troops into two groups, and at the same time landed from Ishimiguo in the west of Honshu and Echigo in the central region. The three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu were far less wealthy than the Qin army, so they all concentrated their troops to attack the whole route.


    The Wei army would land in the Kingdom of Infan, mainly attacking the four countries of Infan, Boqi, Danma and Danhou.


    The Song army will land in the Beiqian Kingdom, mainly attacking the four countries of Beiqian, Beizhong, American and Bomo.


    The Wu army will land in the Tango Kingdom, mainly attacking the four countries of Tango, Tanba, Wakasa and Ome.


    If the four countries are deployed in this way, the entire western and central part of the state will face the military fronts of the Japanese coalition and will be divided up by the four countries.


    Just before the Four-Nation Alliance was about to invade this state, something unexpected happened, that was, the Ming navy suddenly appeared and attacked the Four-Nation Island by raid.


    The sudden participation of the Ming army in the war not only caught the Japanese forces off guard, but even the princes of the Central Plains were extremely surprised. Obviously, they did not expect that the Ming Kingdom would come to grab the cake.


    Zhu Di originally intended to obtain a large amount of money and grain by conquering Japan to develop his internal affairs. The reason why he was still uncontrollable was that he wanted the four-nation coalition forces to take the lead and test the reality of Japan.


    After receiving the news that the four-nation coalition forces had occupied Kyushu Island in just one month, Zhu Di felt that Japan was simply vulnerable, so he decided to personally lead 20,000 navy troops and 40,000 troops to conquer the Japanese, hoping to strengthen himself by sucking the blood of Japan.


    Zhu Di originally wanted Zhu Tianpeng to be the leader of the Japanese conquest, but was persuaded by Fan Zeng. The reason was very simple and he could not add Zhu Tianpeng''s prestige.


    Zhu Tianpeng has always wanted to promote the merger of Ming and Qi, but the process was not smooth, and not all Qi generals were willing to join Ming.


    The Ming Kingdom, which is already weak, does not have the financial resources to digest Qi in one breath, and forcibly merged will only lead to indigestion.


    Therefore, even though Qi and Ming are now in the same country, Zhu Di still did not officially announce the incorporation of Qi into Ming.


    As long as this merger statement is not announced one day, even if Qi Ming has merged militarily, from a legal perspective, the two countries are still not the same country, and Zhu Di and Zhu Tianpeng are also equal.


    Zhu Tianpeng''s prestige is already higher than Zhu Di. His selfless action of incorporating Qi into Ming State has gained a lot of favor from the Ming army. If he is allowed to serve as the commander of the Japanese conquest and continue to establish his authority, he will really be of great contribution to the master.


    Fan Zeng prevented him from becoming the chief general in order to protect Zhu Tianpeng and proposed that Zhu Di personally conquer the Japanese and establish his authority.


    Nowadays, there are many generals in the Qi army who have complained about Zhu Tianpeng''s surrender to the Ming Dynasty. There are even some Zhu Tianpeng''s confidants, who think that Zhu Di is not as good as Zhu Tianpeng at all, so the Ming Dynasty should be incorporated into Qi.


    Zhu Di''s prestige was not enough to convince the generals of Qi, so he had to make contributions to improve his prestige. This time, the conquest of the Japanese was a good opportunity for Zhu Di to achieve meritorious service.


    As for whether Zhu Di''s personal expedition would encounter danger and be targeted by the four-nation alliance? Even a war broke out?


    Fan Zeng believes that it will never be possible. After all, the main themes of all countries are cultivation now, and no one is willing to take the lead in breaking the current balance.


    Among the four Central Plains countries, no matter which monarch is in turmoil, the only one who benefits from the end will be Qin.


    Therefore, if Qin State targeted Zhu Di, the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu would never sit idly by and even stand up and stop it.


    Besides, Zhou Yu is also a smart person. Before completely solving the Japanese local forces, he will never risk turning against his allies to target Zhu Di.


    Zhu Di felt that Fan Zeng''s words made sense, so he decided to conquer the Japanese in person.


    This time he personally went to Japan with the mentality of establishing his authority and subduing the generals of Qi, so he naturally did not dare to be careless, and the lineup of generals who conquered the Japanese was also extremely luxurious.


    Ming army chief: Zhu Di


    Military Advisor: Yao Guangxiao


    Generals of the army: Zhang Yan, Zhou Cang, Zang Ba, Xiang Zhuang, Li Yan, Li Guo, Chang Yuchun, Chang Mao, Tang He, Mo Ying, Lan Yu, Feng Guoyong, Feng Sheng, Fu Youde, Kang Maocai, Guo Xing, Guo Ying, Zhou Dexing, Wang Yanzhang, Wang Yantong, Xia Luqi…


    Military force: 20,000 naval forces, 40,000 army forces (3,000 overlord cavalry, 3,000 five military camps)


    Among the Ming army in the Japanese army, there were three gods of war, Chang Mao, Wang Yanzhang and Xia Luqi.


    Even among the four coalition forces of Qin, Wei, Song and Wu, only the Great Qin dispatched more gods of war than the Ming Dynasty.


    Zhu Di''s deployment of such a lineup shows how determined he is to conquer the Japanese.


    Zhu Di did not rashly attack this state, but instead firefighters Zhou Yu and built a stable logistics base first.


    So the Siguo Island, which the four-nation coalition forces looked down upon, became the target of the Ming army.


    80% of Shikoku Island is mountainous, and the arable land area is sparse, and there is no gold and silver mine yet, so it is extremely barren, with a total population of only 500,000, not even half of that of Kyushu.


    It is precisely because Shikoku Island is too barren and cannot squeeze out too much oil and water, let alone the four countries have cut it.


    Therefore, after the Four-Nation Alliance captured Kyushu Island, it never thought about attacking the Four-Nation Alliance, but chose to directly attack our state.


    The Siguo Island, which the four-nation coalition forces look down on, is because they have tasted the sweetness on Kyushu Island. They are used to eating big meals and naturally cannot eat Kangyan’s vegetables. But Mingguo just wanted to use the Four Kingdoms as a springboard, and if he could monopolize the entire Four Kingdoms Island, the population and resources on the island would be a delicious meal, so he targeted the Four Kingdoms Island.


    There are only two forces in Shikoku Island, Imakawa and Hojo, but neither of them are the local forces of Shikoku. Instead, they were forced to retreat to Shikoku Island after being destroyed by the Oda family, and then they destroyed the major forces in the Shikoku Island in Shikoku Island in two.


    Imakawa Yoshimoto and Hojo Izuyasu both received news that the four coalition forces of Qin, Wei, Song and Wu were about to send troops to attack Honshu.


    Both of them realized that the Central Plains coalition might not look down on the barren Siguo Island. Although they were a little humiliated, they were more relieved and relaxed a little in their defense.


    Imakawa Yoshimoto and Hojo Ichiyasu never expected that the Han coalition forces that conquered the Japanese would have another country, Ming, in addition to the Qin, Wei, Song and Wu, and would also target the barren Shikoku Island.


    The sudden attack of the Ming army caught the two Imakawa Hojo''s family off guard. After reacting, all 40,000 Ming troops had landed and sent naval troops to destroy major ports, preparing to completely block the entire Shikoku Island.


    After learning about the Ming army''s actions, the two families of Imakawa Hojo were frightened and quickly formed a coalition force to fight against the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, they contacted the major forces in the prefecture to seek support and hoped that they could send people to support the four countries.


    Six daimyos of the six major forces in Honshu Island, Oda Nobunaga, Takeda Shingen, Uesugi Kenshin, Ida Masamo, Motoki Motoki, and Tokugawa Ieyasugi were all frightened after receiving the accusation from Shikoku Island.


    After all, the four kingdoms of Qin, Wei, Song and Wu are enough for them to bear. Now there is another Ming Kingdom. Will this allow people to live?


    Although the six daimyos all wanted to support the four countries, the army of the Qin, Wei, Song and Wu was clearly about to attack our province, and they didn''t know where they would land.


    The coastline of Honshu Island is too long, and the six countries rely on sea countries. They are not strong enough to defend their own coastline. They lack a sense of security when they are passively beaten, so how can they distribute troops to support Shikoku Island?


    But if you don’t help at all, once the Ming Kingdom completely occupied Shiguo Island, it will definitely use this as a springboard to attack our state, and the pressure on our state will be even greater.


    Therefore, for the forces in this state, the best situation in the battle situation in the Four Kingdoms is to trap the Ming army in the quagmire of Four Kingdoms Island and unable to distribute troops to attack the Four Kingdoms Island.


    Although the six families could not distribute troops to support Shikoku Island, they were able to provide military and material support to help the two Imakawa Hojo families expand their troops, so as to use the two Imakawa Hojo families to delay the Ming army.


    As for the four kingdoms of Qin, Wei, Song and Wu, the attitude towards the Ming Dynasty''s conquest of Japanese troops was naturally welcome.


    After all, everyone is Han, and the territory of Japan is not small. Ming Dynasty wants to fight his freedom. As long as it does not steal the territory designated by the four countries, it will affect their respective interests.


    However, in order to prevent everyone from strife over interests in the future, Zhou Yu decided to send an envoy to express his attitude to the Ming Dynasty on behalf of the four-nation coalition forces.


    The Four-Nation Alliance can allow the Ming Dynasty to enter Japan, or it can not interfere with the Ming army''s actions, or even accept the Ming army into the alliance, but the Ming army cannot harm the interests of the Four-Nation Alliance, nor can it attack the territory that the Four-Nation Alliance has occupied, otherwise it will be suppressed by the joint efforts of the Four-Nation Alliance.


    Zhu Di had no intention of being an enemy of Zhou Yu. He had only two purposes for conquering Japanese Japanese: one was to accumulate merits and the other was to make money.


    Since everyone''s purpose is the same, and the cake of Japan is big enough to be divided by five countries, there is no need to fight for it. It is the best way to defeat Japan first.


    Therefore, after learning that the four-nation alliance of Qin, Wei, Song and Wu had set their sights on the western and central regions of the state, Zhu Di decided that after occupying the four-nation alliance, he would lead his army to attack the eastern regions of the state, and avoid the four-nation alliance as much as possible without conflict with it.


    But whether to join the Four-Nation Alliance?


    Zhu Di originally intended to join, after all, the other four countries were all ally, and one of them was fighting alone, which was too weak. However, under Yao Guangxiao''s persuasion, he finally gave up this idea.


    The Ming Dynasty was different from Qin, Wei, Song and Wu. The reason why the four kingdoms of Qin, Wei, Song and Wu were able to form an alliance and cooperated with each other was because the other three kingdoms were all the younger brothers of Qin.


    Ming State is not the younger brother of Qin, and he is unwilling to be the younger brother of Qin. If he joins the alliance, he will be more likely to be targeted by the four countries in secret, so it is better to fight alone.


    Zhu Di politely declined to join the alliance and wrote his thoughts in the letter, asking the envoy to pass them on to Zhou Yu.


    Zhou Yu wanted to dig a hole for Zhu Di, but after reading Zhu Di''s reply, he realized that Zhu Di had a master around him and was unlikely to easily fall into his plan, so he temporarily gave up the plan to continue digging him.


    April 10, the second year of Shenwu.


    Qin general Xu Huang led an army of 20,000 to land on Ishimiya, Honshu Island, opening the prelude to the war in Honshu.


    Immediately afterwards, the army of the Wei, Song and Wu also landed in Yinban, Beiqian and Danhou.


    For a time, there were wars everywhere in the western and central areas of Honshu Island.


    Oda Nobunaga, Motoki Motoki and other daimyos were frightened after receiving the news and quickly mobilized a large army to resist.


    In fact, after the Battle of Tsuma, Oda Nobunaga, Takeda Shingen and Kenshin Uesugi made a lot of preparations to fight against the Central Plains coalition during the period after they fled back, such as: rebuilding warships, building weapons on a large scale, and promoting the cruelty of the Han people to the inside.


    If the states and countries living in the islands do not regain their sea control power, they will be passively beaten and there will never be any end.


    Therefore, even though we know that Japan''s shipbuilding technology is not as good as the Central Plains, all major forces still choose to continue to build ships, which can at least shorten the gap.


    But warships that can go out to sea are not the same as weapons, and they cannot be built in a short time.


    Therefore, in addition to shipbuilding, the six major forces are also building weapons and promoting the brutality of the Han people, in order to inspire people''s hatred for the Han people and expand their army on a large scale.


    In addition, Oda Nobunaga even summoned the coalition forces to prepare to be transferred to Kyushu Island on the front line to help Otomo, Maori and Shimazu fight against the Central Plains coalition forces.


    But what Oda Nobunaga and others didn''t expect was that before their army was recruited, Kyushu Island had fallen.


    The Han coalition took less than a month to destroy the two families of Otomo and Shimazu, but also occupied the entire Kyushu Island.


    The speed was so fast that Oda Nobunaga and others had no time to react.


    Now that the entire Jiuzhou Island has fallen, the Han navy has blocked Jiuzhou, and the supportive army cannot reach Jiuzhou Island, so naturally it loses the meaning of rushing for assistance.


    (This chapter ends)