Daming Greedy Wolf Star

Chapter 146 Doing the opposite

When the army goes out for battle, every minute of delay will lead to one more point of consumption.

Going to see the North Korean king Li Fangyuan was just a procedural requirement. After all, there were two supply lines for this expedition against Japan.

One is from Shandong and sent directly to the Japanese mainland by the fleet. The other is to go to North Korea, mobilized from Shuntianfu, Kaipingwei and other places, and then transported to the Japanese country via North Korea.

After seeing Li Fangyuan, and shocking him with insinuations and asking him to take care of the North Korean supply line, Zhu Zhanhe rushed to the first target of the battle non-stop.

Tsushima Island.

Tsushima Island is a large island between North Korea and the Japanese state. It has always been under the control of the Japanese state. It is an important transit point for the Japanese state, especially the Japanese pirates who go north to Korea and south to the Ming Dynasty to plunder the sea.

North Korea's repeated defeats in its confrontations with Japan had a lot to do with the Tsushima Islands.

Similarly, when the Japanese knew that Ming troops were approaching and were preparing to attack themselves, the Japanese country immediately sent a peace edict to Ming Dynasty, but received no response.

In fact, there should have been a response. Huang Huai, Jie Jin and Hu Yan all wrote letters, suggesting that Zhu Di accept the Japanese peace edict, let the Japanese compensate the people along the coast who had been robbed by the Japanese pirates, and then end the matter peacefully.

but!

This time, before Zhu Di could speak, Zhu Gaochi was the first to speak out, urging Zhu Di to use war to resolve the Japanese pirate rebellion.

If Zhu Gaochi hadn't spoken, then Huang Huai and the others would definitely remonstrate, even if they were beaten back by Zhu Di, they would not give up, but now that Zhu Gaochi spoke, they died down.

Afterwards, people only knew that Huang Huai and three others stayed in the Wenhua Hall for a whole day. As for what they said, no one knew.

The Japanese country immediately started preparations after receiving no response from Daming.

Although they knew that the possibility of victory in a head-on battle with Ming Dynasty was unlikely, no one would just surrender.

What's more, when fighting on the Japanese mainland, the Japanese actually had an advantage because unlike the Ming Dynasty, they had to achieve results and they could delay.

If Ming Dynasty cannot bear the consumption of 10,000+ troops, then they will win.

Similarly, after deciding to resist, Japan will naturally not give up on Tsushima Island.

Between Korea and Japan, the significance of Tsushima Island is the same as that of Kaiping and Daningwei in the Ming Dynasty.

Kaiping and Daning were the two nails driven into the grassland during the Hongwu Dynasty. They defended each other at an angle and were the bridgehead for the Ming Dynasty to advance towards the grassland.

For the Japanese nation, Tsushima Island was their bridgehead to advance toward North Korea and even the Ming Dynasty.

Through the monocular, Zhu Zhanhe looked at the Japanese soldiers on Tsushima Island with the corners of his mouth raised.

"Li Bin!"

"The general is here!" Li Bin stepped forward excitedly, but Zhu Zhanhe's words poured cold water on his head.

"Send the order to Liu Sheng. Tsushima Island is handed over to him. If he can't get it within one day, let him respond to God's apology!"

"Wang Jinghong! Order to change direction! Target...Nagato!"

"Yes!" Wang Jinghong's heart trembled, but he still bowed and answered.

But Li Bin on the side was different. His eyes looking at Zhu Zhanhe were full of surprise, admiration, and... fear.

Where is Nagato?This depends on the current situation in Japan.

Japan is now in the era of the Muromachi shogunate. The current emperor is Emperor Gokomatsu, but the real person in power of Japan is the shogun, Ashikaga Yoshimichi.

The emperor was sidelined and the shogunate took power, but it was not completely in power. The current system of the Japanese country is actually very similar to the enfeoffment system of the Zhou Dynasty. It was divided into more than 70 vassal states, large and small. The leaders of these vassal states are called As a great feudal lord.

The names of these vassal states are often the surnames of the great feudal lords.

Nagato, that's it.

Nagato is located at the southwest end of Honshu Island, across the strait from Kyushu Island, and is the gateway to Honshu Island.

Generally speaking, in foreign wars, the first line of defense in the north of Japan was Tsushima Island, and the first line of defense in the south was the Ryukyu Islands.

The Ryukyu here is not the Ryukyu that most people think of, but an archipelago to the south of Japan, and this Ryukyu Kingdom does not belong to Japan now.

In the future it will have a name: Okinawa.

However, although the Ryukyu Islands are the first line of defense in the southern part of the Japanese country, they have never been used, because in the age when navigation technology was underdeveloped, no one would choose this place as the first battlefield.

Therefore, generally speaking, Tsushima Island is the first line of defense for Japan's foreign wars. Just like the Yuan Dynasty's previous attack on Japan, they attacked Tsushima Island first, then Iki Island, and then directly aimed at Hizen for landing operations.

Hizen is the northernmost tip of Kyushu Island.

But this time, Zhu Zhanhe changed his strategy and asked the Shenji Battalion to contain Tsushima Island, abandon the Tsushima Strait and Iki Strait, and divert from the Mijima Strait to Honjo Nagamon!
This can be said to be a false accusation.

Inertial thinking can lead people into misunderstandings. When dealing with the Ming Dynasty's conquest, the Japanese country still followed its previous experience against the Yuan Dynasty and deployed defenses on Tsushima Island, and then set up heavy defenses in Hizen and Higo on Kyushu Island.

However, the Ming Dynasty was not the Yuan Dynasty. It had navigation technology that even the Yuan Dynasty could not match.

Wang Jinghong's navigation ability was very good. In Zhu Zhanhe's opinion, he was not inferior to Zheng He. As the same saying goes, he was born at the wrong time.

In the era when sailing mainly relied on wind power, manpower was only an auxiliary. Being able to control an entire fleet was already a very capable person.

"What time is it?" Looking at the looming land ahead, Zhu Zhanhe looked up at the sky, trying to tell the time from the position of the sun.

"Your Highness! It's already three minutes later!" There was excitement in Li Bin's voice that could not be concealed.

In his view, military success was just around the corner.

"Where's Tan Zhong? I ordered him to go up and use a swarm of rockets and artillery to clear the way and create time and place for landing on the beach!"

"Yes!"

woo~
A low but penetrating horn sounded, and under the command of Wang Jinghong's flag, the fleet's formation quickly changed.

Originally, Zhu Zhanhe's boat was in the second echelon. After the horn sounded, the first echelon became the second echelon, the second echelon became the third echelon, and the third echelon became the first echelon.

The third echelon is the Shenji Battalion.

The Shenji Battalion only has about 5000 people. If a treasure ship is used, the two ships can almost fit it, but that is only counting people and not considering weapons, baggage and firearms.

Therefore, Zhu Zhanhe transferred three of the five ships of the Shenji Camp, leaving only two for Liu Sheng.

After all, it was just a feint. In terms of firearms, Daming had never been afraid of anyone.

There was too much noise at sea, which greatly affected the command, and it was difficult for Zhu Zhanhe to receive news from the front immediately.

However, the sound of artillery cannot be covered up.

When the artillery sounded, Zhu Zhanhe immediately pulled out his monocular.

He couldn't give up on this first act of the Japanese war.

(End of this chapter)