After a great victory in the battle in Koga County, Zhu Youxiao, who had a good time, ordered 70,000 soldiers to take turns to rest.

After dawn, the soldiers cleaned the battlefield and marching in a swagger after breakfast.

The army advanced without panic, neither fast nor slow, and it took three days to stagger, and a large army of 70,000 soldiers, Fang Zi came to Nagoya.

Nagoya, a Japanese pirate city, is less than 500 miles away from Osaka, and it is full of plain terrain along the way, and there are no mountains and rivers to block the march. However, Zhu Youxiao led the army and walked for three days before he arrived.

Although most of this time, the soldiers dismounted and walked, and during this period, they also distributed 10,000 soldiers to detour to the coast and received a batch of logistics and military supplies sent by a large fleet, they also had the intention of deliberately delaying time.

Zhu Youxiao and Zhong Chuxiang wanted to give the Tokugawa shogunate enough time to assemble the army, and then the two sides started a decisive battle.

In order to achieve his merits in one battle, it will not cause any Japanese pirates to scatter and escape into the mountains and forests. It will be very troublesome to clear them up like this.

Before we knew it, it had been a month and a half since Zhu Youxiao set out from the capital and then led the Royal Navy fleet to war on the Shandong Peninsula, and it had officially entered early winter October.

In the past two days, as a cold current moved south from the north, the weather suddenly became a little cold, and north wind even blew from time to time.

Fortunately, the soldiers prepared autumn and winter clothes, and with sufficient logistics supplies, they were not affected much.

"Your Majesty, five miles ahead is Nagoya, there are not many enemies, among which..."

At this time, a team of scouts came to report and explained the situation in Nagoya one by one.

"good!"

Zhu Youxiao waved his hand indifferently and ordered Zhong Chuxiang on the side, "Zhong Chuxiang, you will lead a thousand soldiers from the Royal Marine Brigade to take down Nagoya as soon as possible!"

"Abide by the order!"

Zhong Chuxiang was very excited and took the order excitedly.

This guy is a fighting maniac. It has only been three days since there has been another battle, and I feel very satisfied.

"All the soldiers of the Third Land Brigade of the Royal East China Sea Fleet immediately line up to reorganize the army and follow me to attack Nagoya!"

A moment later, a brigade of iron armored cavalry that had lined up to complete the army quickly followed Zhong Kuixiang, who was leading the horse.

Zhu Youxiao had no interest in this battle.

He had received a reward from the previous scouts and learned that there were not many samurai and ronin in this Nagoya now.

This total is less than three thousand enemies, so how can we resist the raid of ten thousand Marines?

It is estimated that in less than half an hour, Zhong Chuxiang will bring news of occupying Nagoya.

This Nagoya is the fourth largest city in Japan. It is located in the middle of Honshu and is located outside Ise Bay. It is an important area for east-west transportation in Japan. The terrain is high in the east and west.

The city is mainly distributed on the Retian platform, most of which are 100 to 150 meters above sea level and are free from floods.

Nagoya has a mild climate all year round, and is the political, economic, cultural and transportation center of Japan in central Honshu, with a population of about 100,000.

Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first general of the Tokugawa family, built a huge castle here, and the residential areas were distributed in the higher terrain of Higashiyama, hills and surrounding terraces.

The three most famous heroic figures in Japanese history: Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu, were all born in Nagoya.

It is also not impossible to call Nagoya a place of outstanding people and spiritual powers.

The Japanese pirates in Nagoya are now very weak. According to the revelation of the Military Intelligence Bureau, there are not many samurai among them, most of them are guarding and living in them.

This situation should be because after knowing the marching route of the Ming Empire Expeditionary Force, the Tokugawa Shogunate knew that this was not an ideal place to fight the enemy, so he did not send any reinforcements.

Not only did not send reinforcements, but even many samurai in Nagoya themselves were transferred away. Naikanba Chinese website

Therefore, Nagoya is now extremely weak in defense and is a city temporarily abandoned by the general shogunate.

They were not afraid that the city would be occupied by the army of the Ming Empire. After all, who could laugh at the end of the day depends on the decisive battle between the enemy and us soon.

Of course, there is no need to say much about the winner, the loser will lose almost everything.

This is a real battle for life and death, and no one can bear the price of failure.

As expected, Zhu Youxiao did not expect that after Osaka, Nagoya was also bloodbathed by soldiers of the Royal Marine Brigade, and more than 3,000 Japanese pirates and ronin in the city were slaughtered.

The remaining nearly 100,000 Japanese pirates were also forced to gather together and formed a labor reform team. They were guarded by two thousand logistics soldiers and started the renovation and sanitation cleaning of Nagoya.

Although these small and small cities in Japan that were swept through the Ming New Army have been occupied, if they want to start the promotion of the two basic national policies of the Ming Empire, they still need to occupy Edo before they can be implemented.

There is no way, it is a taboo to divide troops in a foreign country. Without any necessity, Zhu Youxiao will not divide troops to guard various places and cities.

This matter must be considered until all the resistance forces of Japan are wiped out before they can be considered.

The previous Osaka Castle and Nambatzu Ports were for logistical needs, and they had to obtain a stable forward base in order to be able to attack with confidence and boldness and avoid worries.

However, in Osaka Castle and Namba Tsuen Port, Zhu Youxiao only left 10,000 logistics soldiers, responsible for the city repair and guarding Namba Tsuen Port.

Nagoya has been captured, but Zhu Youxiao has not entered the city.

His military tent was located outside the city. Although he was killed so much and used to seeing dead people, he did not want to see the tragic scene of corpses everywhere and bloody ground in the city.

In the evening, Zhu Youxiao had dinner carefully prepared by the imperial chef and was sitting in the military tent and pondering. A sound of footsteps came outside the tent.

"Your Majesty, Huang Jianjie, deputy director of the Royal Military Intelligence Agency, asked for a visit."

A guard general guarding at the entrance of the central army's tent immediately reported.

"Prince!"

He said lightly.

Then, looking up, Huang Jianjie, deputy director of the Military Intelligence Bureau, stepped into the military tent with light steps.

He reported to Zhu Youxiao: "Your Majesty, there is a big change in the Tokugawa shogunate today."

"oh?"

Zhu Youxiao quickly signaled to the Royal Guard general on the side, spread the marching map on the marching table, and continued to ask, "Tell me quickly, what are their actions?"

When the Royal Guard general spread the map, Huang Jianjie pointed to the map and said in a serious tone: "This is Uenohara, the latest information is about this narrow and low-lying land."

"According to the intelligence personnel of the Military Intelligence Department, Ueno Haraji, Japan has assembled about 200,000 troops of the Tokugawa Shogunate, of which at least 100,000 are elite samurai, and the rest are temporary summoned."

"In addition, there are many Japanese pirates and ronin. They responded to the call of the shogunate and rushed over. The final number is estimated to exceed 500,000. Even the total number of Japanese pirates in Kanto and Kansai is possible to reach 700,000 or 800,000."

Even Huang Jianjie didn't expect that the general shogunate of Japan would be so big this time!

According to current information, the scale of the Kanto army gathered at the eastern exit of Uenohara Grand Canyon could reach about 500,000.

Moreover, there were personnel from the Royal Military Intelligence Agency who sent back some intelligence: in the Kansai area of ​​Japan, the daimyos began to draw a large number of samurai and ronin.

These large armies that are gathering in Kansai area, without any questions, are still targeted by the Ming Empire army coming from an expedition!

There is no doubt that this time, under the call of the general shogunate, the military and civilians across the country were responding enthusiastically. The Tokugawa shogunate's call to fight against the invaders and his desire to fight was extremely enthusiastic.
Chapter completed!