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"There are also Hao Yaoqi, Liu Tichun, and Yuan Zongyi together." The secretary finished the remaining half of the sentence with a tense body.

"All the five tiger generals of the Chuangjun are here?!" Zheng Chenggong was startled, thinking that this is no small matter, no wonder he can be greeted in person.

There are several major factions in the military system of the Ming army. The Zheng family has the largest number of people, but the Chuang family has the most generals.The Li Yan family is Zhu Youjian's direct line, consisting of the Li Yan brothers and the Yuanchuan military family, with the most middle and low-level officers; the original Western Army, since the child army was placed, the Western Army has been ignored except for Li Dingguo.However, Li Guo, the leader of the Chuangjun, brought the five tiger generals in person, and Zheng Chenggong of the Zheng family greeted them personally, which was a reciprocal face.

This Li Guo, although his skills are not ranked high in the military system, but his qualifications are old enough, as long as Li Guo is facing the court, no one in the entire Chuang family will object.Therefore, Zhu Youjian also gave in to Li Guo if he could, and coaxed him if he could.

In the past few years, the imperial court has invested a lot of money in northern Shaanxi, so that the income of the people in northern Shaanxi is almost equal to that of Jianghan.To Li Guo's delight, he dragged a group of veteran generals from the Chuang Department back to his hometown in northern Shaanxi every year.

"Commander Li, you have worked hard all the way. Are you still used to it on the boat?" On the pier, Zheng Chenggong smiled and saluted Li Guo as soon as he saw Li Guo get off the boat.

"Master Guoxing, a certain family has come to trouble you." Li Guo laughed, and behind him stood a row of popular army generals, all of whom were in their prime of life and majestic.Zheng Chenggong counted in his heart. He estimated that these few people could mobilize one-third of the Ming Dynasty's army. Now they are dispatched together, which is really a posture of destroying the country.

"Didn't your majesty say that each military region only transfers one army to experience it? Why did you startle me?" Zheng Chenggong asked half-seriously and half-jokingly.

"Our old brothers are getting old soon, but the younger generations still need to be supported. No, let everyone come here together, it can be regarded as a battle for Lai Heng's nephew." Li Guo said very frankly, probably already on the boat. Think about your speech.

Zheng Chenggong was in charge of the navy, and Li Laiheng was in charge of the landing, but Li Laiheng had only one army in his hands to do maneuvers.Each military region transfers an army to Japan, it is not their own people.Li Guo really came to help Li Laiheng, and all the elites of the Chuang department were on board, but he couldn't do it for a small Japanese.Li Laiheng is the hope of breaking into the future, and he is also a senior general trained by Zhu Youjian.

Hearing this, Zheng Chenggong suddenly felt that the Zheng family was still too immature. Zheng Zhilong was full of hope that his young son could last a few years in the court, but Zheng Chenggong knew that he was not in good health, should he train his son Zheng Jing? up.

Thinking of this, Zheng Chenggong had an idea. He planned to quietly send Feng Xifan to Taiwan to be Zheng Jing's teacher.As a senior official, he knew that Zhu Youjian didn't care about a little Feng Xifan, he was just using him.Since Feng Xifan hooked up with the Japanese again, it can only be regarded as giving Zheng Jing a way to contact Japan in advance.

However, what should Zheng Chenggong do for the rest of the matter about destroying Japan?

"The generals have come from afar to work hard, please hurry up." Zheng Chenggong hurriedly invited the people from the Chuang family into the carriage. He needed to find out Zhu Youjian's real intentions for Japan from these people.

It is necessary to clean up the dust. How can we say that half of this war is to help the Zheng family. Of course Zheng Chenggong will entertain Li Guo and others.But this banquet was too superficial. In terms of drinking, the people brought by Zheng Chenggong could not compete with the Northwest men of the Chuang family, and the people in northern Shaanxi were not used to drinking Japanese wine; Li Guo and others from seafood can't urinate in a pot at all.

Zheng Chenggong understood that this was a contradiction deliberately arranged by Zhu Youjian!It's no wonder that when Li Dingguo wanted to come, Zhu Youjian refused to let him go. The roots are buried here.

During the banquet, they didn't talk too much. After all, between Northern Shaanxi and Hokkien, it is estimated that a translator is needed. Fortunately, Zhu Youjian has promoted Nanjing Mandarin over the years, and the basic meaning can be understood.

Zheng Chenggong saw that the wine had been served three rounds and the dishes had five tastes, so he was about to inquire.Li Guo blocked the middle with a slap and said, "Master Guoxing, this is the end of today's wine. We brothers all understand what you want to ask. We will definitely not hide what we can say. If we can't, we still have to ask." Please forgive me, Mr. Guo Xing."

Li Guo's words choked Zheng Chenggong to death, he really didn't know what he couldn't say, at least he was also the commander of Daming's navy.

"The emperor knows that your mother is Japanese, and he is worried about your reputation. He can't bear you to lead the army ashore. This is for your sake. But I don't know why the Japanese are so hated by the emperor. The emperor hates the Japanese so much." The Jurchens are even worse, we can't ask if it's true." Li Guo's words were heartfelt.

When Zheng Chenggong heard it, he felt cold for a while, and he didn't know how the Japanese provoked the emperor.But Li Guo's words have made it very clear, he hates the Japanese more than he hates the Jurchen.

"I just want to ask Commander Li a word: Will many people die?" Zheng Chenggong was trembling in his heart, and he was worried about this.Because according to Zhu Youjian's method of dealing with Hou Jin, not many real girls died, and he wanted to treat them kindly.

"No. You don't know the emperor, he was never the master of random killings." Li Guo replied affirmatively.

Zheng Chenggong felt relieved. He was afraid that the Ming army would come and kill innocent people indiscriminately. As a half Japanese, he couldn't bear it.However, after seeing Zheng Chenggong's relaxed expression, Li Guo raised his head and poured a glass of wine, and said in his heart: Fortunately, he didn't say it was worse than killing indiscriminately.Sometimes, life is worse than death.

Five days later, the royal family in Kyoto received a summary of intelligence from all parties.It was determined that 5 people from the Ming army would land in Osaka, the chief general was Li Guo, and the actual commander was Dang Shousu, Chief of the Army General Staff of the Ming Army.However, if the royal family directly sued for peace, it would be tantamount to surrendering without taking possession, and the emperor of the Ming Dynasty might not accept this sentiment. It is not certain whether the shogunate will take the opportunity to further weaken the power of the royal family.

Therefore, the best way is to fight a battle first, if you can draw or lose not so badly, then you can still fight for the status of the royal family.Also let the opponent see the strength of the royal family, and dare not underestimate the fighting will of the Yamato nation.All these judgments are eager to a sentence given by Zheng Chenggong: The Emperor of Ming Dynasty will not kill innocent people indiscriminately.

"The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty did not kill indiscriminately because of his daring to fight in the late Jin Dynasty." These are Zheng Chenggong's original words, and it can be regarded as repaying the Japanese's love for giving birth.

At the same time, the Zheng family's fleet was desperately delivering combat supplies to Nagoya, and Li Laiheng's troops were accumulating strength to prepare for the landing in Osaka.And Zheng Chenggong is building a landing fleet, planning Wakayama as a temporary base. The landing force will send two divisions to land on Wakayama and attack Osaka by land. The navy and the remaining troops plan to storm Osaka, and the Marine Corps will send two regiments to cooperate with the beach.

Zheng Chenggong still didn't understand why it was the Marine Corps who fought the land battle this time, but it was the field army who actually fought the landing battle, obviously putting the cart before the horse.But such an obvious loophole in tactical command does not belong to him, so he can only watch, not ask.

Chapter 676: Burning Osaka Three

The shogunate did not want to become sworn enemies with the imperial family, this was clearly seen by the shogunate.Of course, the Zheng family never thought of offending the Japanese royal family, and people like Tagawa Jiro even hoped to make friends with the emperor.Therefore, the royalists believe that this war must have a limit, as long as they compromise, the war will stop.

Wakayama is located in the southwestern part of the Kii Peninsula in Honshu, Japan, facing the Pacific Ocean, bordering Osaka Prefecture on the north, Nara Prefecture on the east, Mie Prefecture on the southeast, and Tokushima Prefecture on the southwest across the Kii Waterway. The terrain is complex and has a total length of about 650 kilometers. The ria-style coast has towering coastal cliffs, continuous, and 130 islands of different sizes.

The Hidaka River is also a big river, just beside Wakayama. Although there are many hidden reefs in Wakayama, the mouth of the river is a very good port.Therefore, it is perfect to use Wakayama as the first landing point.

At this time, Wakayama was just a small town, and the Ming army's landing place did not capture the town, but chose to be on the north bank of the Hidaka River.

When the first two warships were in the vanguard and lined up on the Hidaka River, the Japanese did not even resist, and the only team of 200 people panicked and shouted desperately along the river bank.These short Japanese soldiers looked like local security forces. Not to mention uniforms, they only had a few bows and crossbows.A long distance away, the arrows shot weakly into the river, but the courage of the Japanese army was not weak, and they put on various threatening postures.

The Ming army on the battleship was disgusted by this group of chattering enemy troops, so they turned two cannons and aimed at the shore, which was two shells.

With two bangs, the shells exploded at the head and tail of the Japanese army, and two groups of flames rose into the air. On the spot, five or six Japanese soldiers were blown to the ground and remained motionless like mud.

With a whoosh, the group of Japanese soldiers disappeared, and they all hid in the bushes on the river bank.This was the only resistance the Ming army encountered during the Wakayama landing.

Off the coast of Wakayama, Zheng Chenggong put away his binoculars, frowning a little unhappy.He thought that the Japanese army would definitely deploy cannons at the narrowest part of the Kii Waterway to block the waterway. He thought that the Kii Waterway was only ten kilometers wide. According to the range of the Houjin Hongyi Cannon, forts could be built on both sides or on the islands in the middle to block the waterway. The warships of the Ming army, but he did not expect that the Japanese did not do this at all.

In fact, Zheng Chenggong was too worried. Japan's iron cannons were very clever, but in the 17th century, Japan's cannon-casting technology was worse than that of the Ming Dynasty in history. The cannon's range was two or three miles, and it was impossible to block the Jiyi waterway.

It was not until later that the Japanese built a second fort on the island in the middle of the Kii Waterway, and it was kept until later.

"It seems that Commander Li was overly cautious." Zheng Chenggong smiled, and then disappeared quickly.

"It's okay, let the boys on the boat get off the boat early, so that they don't suffer from seasickness every day like me." Li Guo forced himself to hold back his vomiting, his face turning purple.When he was crossing the sea before, he sat on a luxury transport ship. It may be because he was too comfortable, but he didn’t feel seasick. However, from Kagoshima to Wakayama, he was on a battleship, which shook violently, but he showed his original shape, standard Landlubber.

Li Guo's worries were not groundless, these young soldiers who came here from various military regions were indeed dizzy after sitting on the boat for two days.It is also fortunate that the Japanese army did not have a blocking force on the shore, otherwise they would not have dared to let the soldiers land.

"Let the engineers land first to open the way!" Seeing that Li Guo was not in good condition, Dang Shousu gave the order instead.

Following the order, several ships larger than warships began to sail slowly towards the shore, and anchored at a distance of tens of meters from the shore.A small boat rowed over, and then the side baffles on both sides were lowered. A long string of wooden barrels connected by ropes was pushed into the sea by engineers. The small boat pulled in front, and more and more wooden barrels floated on the water.

The site where Ming army engineers practiced erecting pontoon bridges was either the Yangtze River or the Yellow River. A pontoon bridge at this distance is simply of the pediatric level.

In about an hour, the construction of three floating trestles connecting the transport ships was completed.Then, a large number of transport ships under the escort of several warships began to approach the three transport ships, whether they were personnel or cargo, they used these three ships to block the temporary dock.The advantage of this is that there is no need to build a temporary dock, and the cargo is equivalent to unloading directly on the direct deck. The only difficulty lies in the load-bearing of the pontoon.

Seeing countless small railroads rolling from the boat to the pontoon, and then from the pontoon to the shore, Zheng Chenggong couldn't help asking: "What's in it? Why don't you use a big barrel?"

"Hey, this is a special oil from northern Shaanxi, and it's the best to use for lighting." Hao Yaoqi said with a smile.

"Lamp oil!" Zheng Chenggong didn't think too much about it. Anyway, there is a kind of lamp that is popular in Ming Dynasty now. It's called a wind lantern, and it's filled with special oil. .It is suitable for signaling ships on long voyages at night.

"Where do you need so much oil?" Zheng Chenggong thought that so much oil was used to light the lamps.

"The emperor said that this is war supplies, it doesn't matter if you bring more." Yuan Zongdi pushed Hao Yaoqi away and continued.

If the oil contained in the small iron barrel was a bit strange, then even stranger objects appeared again, and some simple wooden shelves were also carried ashore.When Zheng Chenggong saw these wooden frames, he couldn't think of weapons. Judging from the shape, it looked like a very large and good slingshot. What is this thing for?It's a pity that after a while, the generals of the Chuang Department all ran ashore, and no one answered his question.

Unlike Li Laiheng's side, this time the field army landed with horses, and they also brought two regiments of cavalry, and 48 carriages, all of which were military carriages.The Field Army also had more cannons than the Marine Corps. The two divisions that landed had [-] cannons alone, which was more and bigger than the Marine Corps alone.Therefore, these cannons need to be drawn by horses.

After the troops landed, Li Guo soon stopped feeling dizzy. Seeing Zheng Chenggong's main fleet going away, Li Guo straightened his back.

"Listen up. All these years, did that kid Zhu Youjian raise us as a stepmother?" Li Guo's expression changed, and he asked the others with a dark face.

"It goes without saying that Zhu Youjian has treated us well. The brothers in the old camp have lived well all these years. During that war, he didn't treat us as outsiders. He still keeps his promise." Dang Shousu took the initiative In reply, he is regarded as a general of the Chuang family who is highly valued by Zhu Youjian.

"Since the brothers know it well, this time we will sell our lives for Zhu Youjian. Firstly, it is to repay his favor; secondly, it is also to accumulate some military exploits for Laiheng's nephew. When we grow old, the younger generation They all point to him being able to talk in the court." Li Guo continued: "We've done the job of killing people, and we can't take the credit with Lai Heng, do you hear me?"

"General, look at what you said, we will take the credit for Laiheng?" Yuan Zongdi said.