Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 553 Japan in this era (please subscribe!)

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At the end of October, Li Yan finally got news from the Left Route Army.

However, this news was not sent back by Fei Nu, but by Zhu Neng, a commander of the left army of the Sun Never Set Fleet.

turn out to be--

The Left Army initially marched very smoothly.

But when the left army was about to land, a huge typhoon suddenly blew up and lasted for two days and two nights.

That typhoon not only destroyed nearly a hundred warships of the left army of the Never Setting Sun Fleet, but also made the Never Setting Sun Fleet lose its direction.

At that time, among the nearly [-] warships that were destroyed, there were several warships carrying the Ministry of Communications. As a result, the communication system of the Left Army was almost completely destroyed.

Faced with this unfavorable situation, someone suggested that Li Jun and Han Shizhong withdraw and then discuss again.

But Han Shizhong disagreed.

He said to the crowd: "Now we can't find a way forward as well as backward, and Japan stands like a long belt in the east, so as long as we go east, we can always reach Japan."

After careful consideration, Li Jun firmly supported Han Shizhong.

In the end, the left army continued to march eastward despite getting lost.

After driving for seventeen days, the Left Route Army finally landed.

It was also the luck of the Left Route Army, that they bumped into a fishing boat when they were about to dock.

Led by the fishermen on that fishing boat, the Left Route Army reached a place similar to a port, captured that place, and then landed from there.

After landing, the Japanese samurai brought by the Left Army repeatedly confirmed with the locals, only to know that the place where they landed was Ezo, which is later Hokkaido.

(In this era, Hokkaido was not part of Japan. It was inhabited by the Ainu people. They were extremely backward. It is not an exaggeration to say that they drink blood.)
The land of Ezo was divided into small forces one after another by the local aborigines, and there was some kind of connection between them.

Seeing that the left army invaded their homeland, they quickly united in some places, and then organized an armed force of more than 3 people in an attempt to resist the left army's invasion.

In that battle, it can be said that there was no suspense at all (you can refer to the war between the Europeans and the Indians)-the left army almost zero casualties wiped out the Ainu coalition forces, and then occupied several major areas in the Ezo land. area.

but--

Occupying Ezo is not the strategic goal of the left army. The strategic goal of the left army is to surprise the capital of Japan, Kyoto.

According to those Japanese samurai, Ezodi is farther from Kyoto than Kyushu Island, and there is also the Ou area (the northeastern part of Honshu Island, which is the piece from Tokyo on the map) in the middle.

Han Shizhong and others studied the map repeatedly, not knowing what to do?
In the end, Han Shizhong gritted his teeth and decided to continue to advance to Kyoto by land and water.

This is what Han Shizhong said to the generals and civil servants of the left army, "This battle is not a battle between our left army and one army. There is also the right army, and there are hundreds of thousands of troops in the base camp. We must go south. If Japan is caught off guard, Japan will definitely send a large army back to stop us. In this way, the pressure on the right army will be greatly reduced, and it may be possible to break through the defense of the Japanese army in the south and win the final victory of this battle."

Han Shizhong finally convinced everyone, and then Han Shizhong left a battalion of troops to clean up the remnants of Ezo, and led the remaining army south to attack the Ou area.

A few days later, the Left Route Army landed in Dewa Country.

At this time, the Ou area was also governed by the old indigenous separatists before the conquest of the Yamato court, similar to the colonies of later generations.

In terms of civilization, the Ou region is stronger than Ezo, but it is also very limited.

Here, the Left Route Army fully appreciates the "simple and simple style" of the primitive society. The land is sparsely populated, slash-and-burn farming, and wild animals are infested. They can't even find a decent city.

In fact, this is also impossible.

The birth of Japanese civilization was already in the second century AD.

The prototype of the Yamato court was not formed until the sixth century, and the Heian period began in the ninth century.

Therefore, even if the Central Plains Celestial Dynasty vigorously imported the Central Plains culture, it is really a bit difficult for the Japanese to directly enter the stage of a unified feudal country from the primitive tribes of slash-and-burn farming and drinking blood so quickly.

(Imagine what China in the Xia Dynasty should have looked like in general, and you won’t feel that the development of Japanese society in the Heian period was slow.)
What's more, although the country has not yet been truly unified, the nobles and ministers who ruled Japan have already decayed early.

They put aside the important task of expanding the territory, enriching the country and strengthening the army, and devoted themselves to the mountains and rivers, burning incense and worshiping Buddha, reciting poems, studying calligraphy, and cultivating their sentiments.

What's more, the nobles at that time still regarded the rest of Japan as "countryside" or even "ghost land". The city of Kyoto, with its beautiful scenery and numerous Buddhist temples, refuses to come out.

Occasionally there are a few guys who leave Beijing, most of them are either because of exile or relegation, or they are fleeing to avoid the persecution-the people who leave and those who send them off are crying, and some even leave suicide notes, and they are always When I got to the ground, I looked forward to returning as soon as possible every day.

Therefore, Japan at this time is a deformed society that is completely out of touch.

At this time in Japan, the only civilized city is Kyoto, and the rest are poor areas.

In the future, the Kanto Plain where the bustling Tokyo is located, in the concept of the Japanese today, is similar to the Great Northwest in the impression of our later generations of Chinese.

The famous samurai families that emerged there were actually the production and construction corps sent by the ministers of Kyoto to consolidate the frontier.

These poor warriors must work hard to resist the attacks of separatist terrorists (primitive tribes, such as soil spiders, Ainu people, etc.), and at the same time, they must reclaim land and grow rice for self-sufficiency. The conditions are extremely difficult.

As for the ministers who were sent there to serve as the state secretary, they were basically equivalent to the cadres who would assist the Northwest in later generations.

Of course, because the Ou region has begun to engage in ethnic integration and assimilation with the Yamato people, and this is the frontier of Japan, there were actually more than [-] Japanese samurai here.

However, some time ago, the right-hand army captured Kyushu Island, and was launching a fierce attack on Shufang, Nagato, and Shikoku Island, causing the samurai in the Ou area to go south to Mutsu Country, ready to support the battle in the south at any time.

It is precisely because of this that the left army can easily enter Deyu country.

The Left Route Army quickly occupied several important places in Dewa country, and then continued south to Mutsu country.

When Zhu Neng led the headquarters fleet to contact the Xuanfu Division and came back to report, Han Shizhong was seeking a decisive battle with the samurai in Ou.

Therefore, Zhuneng didn't know about the news after the Left Route Army. They had to wait until the Xuanfu Division established contact with the Left Route Army before they could know.

After listening to Zhu Neng's report, Li Yan let out a sigh of relief!

Although the Left Route Army lost nearly ten thousand troops in that typhoon, and did not complete the previously formulated combat plan, but in any case, they finally got in touch, and the main force did not suffer too many casualties, and they are still fighting. actively fighting.

This is the great fortune in misfortune.

The Left Route Army also knew that they made an extremely serious mistake in this battle. If Li Yan pursued it, they would never escape the charge of "delaying the opportunity of the war".

So, together, Li Jun, Han Shizhong and others sent Li Yan a hundred Japanese beauties to "bribe" Li Yan.

These one hundred Japanese beauties are the female relatives of the Japanese nobles captured by Li Jun and Han Shizhong in Mutsu and Dewa countries.

And when Zhu Neng came back to report the letter this time, he sent these Japanese beauties to Li Yan...

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(End of this chapter)