Koga Prefecture is located more than 200 miles northeast of Osaka.

A day ago, the Royal Joint Fleet of the Ming Dynasty was divided into three, leaving behind 10,000 logistics soldiers and 100 armed Dafuku ships, responsible for guarding Osaka Castle and handling aftermath, and creating a complete large logistics base.

All the remaining Royal Navy soldiers divided into two groups, advancing towards Edo, and began the continuous rushing work along the way to Japan.

All the way, led by Zhu Youxiao and Zhong Chuxiang, there were three soldiers from the Royal Marine Cavalry Brigade, all of which were cavalry.

There were also 30,000 Marines and 10,000 logistics soldiers accompanying each other, and a total of 70,000 soldiers advanced by land.

This army of 60,000 Marine soldiers and 10,000 logistics troops from the two royal fleets marched from land.

Mainly, it is necessary to fight in the enemy's territory, which requires too much logistics supplies, and the road is rugged and difficult to travel, which is very inconvenient, so the size of the troops cannot be too large.

However, it is enough to have a well-armed 60,000 Marines and a large army of 10,000 logistics soldiers to sweep and advance within the territory of Japan.

At least in this era, there is no enemy that can defeat this army before the ammunition of this large army is exhausted.

With a large fleet not far away advancing from one side of the sea and land, there is still no problem with the logistics of this army.

When you want to replenish military supplies, you can approach the beach and quickly replenish military supplies.

On the other side, there are 110,000 Royal Navy soldiers, a large fleet of 10,000 logistics soldiers. While advancing along the coast with the Marine Corps, they also need to be responsible for regularly providing military supplies to the army.

In addition, they are also responsible for cleaning up all the large and small islands, villages and towns where the large fleet passes, and all the large and small islands, large and small islands, villages and towns, where Japanese pirates live along the way.

Only in this way can we destroy Japan within this year and turn it into a direct prefecture of the Ming Empire.

Zhu Youxiao even named this prefecture, and it is called Yingzhou.

Zhu Youxiao originally decided the time required to attack Japan, and the task of extermination of Japan must be completed before the end of this year.

The army of 70,000 troops set out from Osaka yesterday morning, and only reached the territory of Koga Prefecture this evening.

It is conceivable how difficult this journey is.

Fortunately, before the large group of troops arrived here, a 10,000-man iron armored cavalry brigade of the Royal Marine Corps of the Ming Dynasty had already captured the town of Jiahe County.

It was already dusk, and the capture of this county town was also exempted from the worries of the army from camping in the wild. It was easy to enter the Koga County town and rest for one night.

Just as the army was moving forward in large numbers, which had been cleaned up and had been in control, a team of scouts came quickly.

"Your Majesty! General Zhong! There is an update."

A loud voice suddenly sounded behind Zhu Youxiao. When he looked back, it was Huang Jianjie, deputy director of the Military Intelligence Bureau who came with the army.

"Your Majesty, the scouts and the military intelligence agencies have received rewards, and the shogunate army has been found in the three places in front of Hino, Nagatoji Temple and Miri in the south!"

"However, their number is not too large. There are about 50,000 people in total. Should we send several cavalry brigades to destroy them?"

"Don't pay attention to them."

Zhu Youxiao said calmly, "This is just the outpost of the shogunate army, coming to spy on the virtual and real of our army."

Zhu Youxiao originally intended to leak his marching route and marching targets to the Tokugawa Shogunate, so that the Tokugawa Shogunate could assemble all its troops and launch a decisive battle with the Royal Marines.

Since we should not hide the marching route or launch a sudden attack, why bother to eliminate the outpost troops of the Shogunate Army?

Wouldn't it be better to keep your energy and fight the shogunate army with your own energy?

"Abide by the order!"

Huang Jianjie respectfully agreed to the promise, "If Your Majesty and General Zhong have no other arrangements, I will immediately give orders."

"Yeah, go."

Zhu Youxiao said happily, "Don't forget to send more secret scouts and strengthen contacts with the intelligence agency."

Ignoring the enemy does not mean that you do not need to be vigilant.

You should know that Japanese pirates are the best enemies in night attacks and sneak attacks. You should not be careless at all, so as not to capsize in the gutter.

That will not only cause heavy losses, but also cause the enemy to die of laughter!

Although T34, which is extremely alert, basically has no such concern, the 70,000 army is so wide that the alert range of T34 is only a mile in size, and there is no way to take care of so many places.

Huang Jianjie quickly gave the emperor a decent military salute and immediately took the order and left.

Watching the once nauseating dog licking and the quickly leaving figure, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but nod.

Obviously, Huang Jianjie has changed a lot now and has completely entered the role of a qualified senior official of the Military Intelligence Bureau.txt Bookstore

Now this guy's performance makes him very satisfied.

Huang Jianjie is not only talented, smart and flexible, but also likes observation and learning.

After learning various routines of the Intelligence Bureau during this period, a series of practices and theory were combined. In just two or three months, he, the deputy director of the Military Intelligence Bureau, was already quite qualified.

Zhu Youxiao had just led the army into Jiahe County, but found that most of the Japanese pirates here were very simple and dirty.

How to stay in such a place?

So he had no choice but to let the army leave the city, and camped on a large plain not far outside the county town, and continued to march tomorrow.

However, Zhu Youxiao and Zhong Chuxiang never expected that at this time there was actually a team of Japanese pirates, who were thinking about themselves and waiting for others!

This guy is Abe Tadaki, a famous general of the Japanese pirates. He is the double lord of the Shirno Kingdom Rensheng vassal and the Musashi vassal. He has a fiefdom of more than 10,000 stones and is considered a big name in size.

This guy is twenty-six years old this year, fierce and fierce. He has a very famous reputation in the Tokugawa Shogunate. He is a powerful general under Tadao Sakai, the master of the shogunate.

A few days ago, Tada Abe and Masamoto Oda visited Nagoya with Tadao Sakai, and they heard that the Ming army attacked Osaka and easily occupied Osaka Castle and the port.

After confirming the authenticity of the news, Tadae Sakai was shocked. While rushing back to Edo to report to Tokugawa Iemitsu, Tada Akira and Masamoto Oda, he ordered Tadao and Masamoto of the Junior High School to stay and reconnaissance and surveillance the Ming army.

At this time, Tadao Abe and Masamoto Oda were stationed in Yongyuan Temple, more than 20 miles north of Koga County. The two men had an army of about 20,000.

The 20,000 people were partly the shogunate elite soldiers who came to Edo, and the other part was the two of them, all composed of all samurai.

In Japan, samurai are professional soldiers. They are different from the light-footed infantry, that is, light-footed infantry. They are full-time and do not need to rely on farming to obtain food.

They can receive salary directly from the king, so they have more advanced equipment and more sufficient training, and their combat effectiveness is far from comparable.

Several teams of scouts sent by the two of them sent back to Yongyuan Temple like flowing water.

Among these information, not only are the most of the information of the current 70,000 Ming army, but also reports on the previous battle of Osaka and the army of the Ming Empire, along the way.

After learning about the general information of the Ming Empire's advancement of the army on both sides of the land and sea, as well as the army's actions in Kaga Prefecture, Tadaki Abe's face turned green and roared with his thick and short neck:

"It's so arrogant. These damn Ming people are so proud! They have to pay the price for Osaka and the numerous evil deeds they have committed along the way!"

Masamoto Oda and Tada Abe are ranked as two generals under the elder Tadae Sakai. They are not fame. They are truly talented and can be called two war geniuses.

Compared with Tada Abe's bravery and good fighting, Masamoto Oda appears more cautious and steady, and is a commander of the wise general.

Seeing Abe Tadaki's face turned red and his neck was thick and his hands were dancing, Masamoto Yuda knew what he wanted to do, and hurriedly advised:

"Abe-kun, the task assigned to us by Lord Sakai is just to monitor and spy on the truth of the Ming army, but we did not let us take action without authorization..."

"Dig Tianjun!"

Before Masatori finished his words, Abe Tadaki interrupted him rudely and said sternly, "As the most heroic and noble samurai in the Sunrise Country, you can bear this shame when you witness the Ming Dynasty killing people on our country's territory?"

"Anyway, I can't stand it. I must make the Ming Dynasty pay the price! The price of blood! Eye for an eye, tooth for an tooth!"

"But we only have 20,000 people!"

Tadao Abe said anxiously, "But the Ming Dynasty had at least 70,000 troops, including 30,000 iron-armored cavalry!"

"Not only that, they even had an artillery team with nearly a hundred cannons!"

Masato Yuda said with some concern, "Although I don't know how powerful their cannons are, they can easily lead the army to operate, but they must not be easy to deal with."

"So what about the 70,000 army? So what about the 30,000 iron-armored cavalry?"

Tadao Abe said disdainfully, "When Lord Toyotomi Hideyoshi was expeditioning to Goguryeo, thousands of samurai could defeat tens of thousands of Ming troops without leaving any armor. Have you forgotten?"

"Now we have 20,000 brave warriors, and everyone has been through the battlefield for a long time. Are you still afraid that you can't deal with these mere 70,000 Ming troops?"

"Our warriors are good at concealing techniques and attack suddenly at night. Although the Ming Dynasty army has complete guns and cannons, nearly half of them are armored cavalry, so what's the use?"

"No matter how good the military equipment of the Ming army is, it will not be of any use during the night raid. Cavalry that cannot play a role is even worse than infantry!"

Daotian Masato was silent and could no longer find a reason to dissuade him.

Although Tadaki Abe is fierce by nature, he is not a reckless man.

On the contrary, this guy was still a very scheming person. He knew that the cavalry and guns of the Ming Empire were powerful, so he came up with a method of sneak attack at night.

Masamoto Oda was also a little moved by him. If Tadaki Abe succeeded in the night attack on the Ming Dynasty army, he would probably have achieved great results.

Not only can it avenge the casualties and wounded soldiers and civilians in Osaka, it can also seize a large amount of military supplies, and even the best war horses, iron armor, and guns that Japan is in urgent need of.
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