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Chapter 378: After taking over Izumo, Japanese warriors surrendered one after another! !

The Iwami Silver Mine was a place that Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi were determined to obtain.

They knew very well that the reason why the Mori family was able to rise and prosper was all due to the silver produced by the Iwami Silver Mine.

Although what they are facing now is that the Ming Dynasty is closing its customs and not many overseas ships can come out.

However, smuggled goods were continuously shipped from the ports of the Ming Dynasty and then transported to Japan.

The Ming Dynasty needs silver to buy things.

The Mori family used the silver from the Iwami silver mine to trade with smuggling ships on the sea, and obtained a large amount of materials from the Ming Dynasty, which enabled them to rise rapidly.

And to a certain extent, it has become the largest territory in Japan.

Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi had long coveted this silver mine.

Now that the leader of the Mori family, Mori Motonari, has died on the Korean battlefield, this silver mine can be easily taken over in their eyes.

But before Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi could succeed in their plan.

The fleet led by Chen Han has already arrived at Iwami Province.

And quickly took over the Iwami Silver Mine.

In fact, Iwami Silver Mine was guarded by a lot of elite soldiers at the beginning.

However, because Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi were rapidly annexing the lands of other lords, the Mori family had no choice but to withdraw the elite troops stationed at the Iwami Silver Mine back to their own capital for defense.

But they didn't expect that Chen Han and the others would benefit from it.

When the Mori family heard that the Iwami Silver Mine had been lost, they immediately sent troops to rescue it. However, they were no match for the Ming army and were defeated.

More than 1,200 people came and left 1,200 bodies at the foot of the mountain.

After seeing this situation, the Maori family immediately panicked.

Only now did they realize that the Ming army was already many times stronger than the Japanese army.

Their Mori family can be regarded as the best in the entire Japanese army, and their armor coverage rate is very high.

In the era of cold weapons on ancient battlefields, the number of troops wearing armor demonstrated their combat effectiveness.

When cold weapons hit armor, they cannot take the soldier's life. This is how they can truly have strong combat effectiveness.

But they didn't expect that the muskets they used could penetrate their armor from more than a hundred meters away.

Fighting in the mountains shows even greater advantages.

It felt so good to be a short dwarf squatting on the hillside and hitting the little Jap devils rushing up.

Even Cao Zhengchun doesn't need to take action, as he can kill all the Japanese devils in the cradle.

After this battle, the lord of Iwami Province immediately surrendered.

Chen Han led his 10,000 men to take over Iwami Province.

Iwami Province originally belonged to the territory of the Mori family, but from this moment on it became Chen Han's colony.

Chen Han directly occupied the capital of Iwami Province, and then asked more than 4,000 people of Iwami Province to start building large ships for him day and night.

In order to land in Japan and transport a large number of people from Japan, Chen Han made great preparations.

He carried a lot of blueprints with him.

For example, he took out the drawings that Zheng He used when he sailed to the West from the archives of the Ministry of Industry and made a copy.

The purpose is to have professional ships.

If they really land in North Korea or Japan, they can quickly build huge ships for transportation.

Although Japan is relatively small, it must be said that there were very few Japanese people at that time, so the timber resources were abundant.

Chen Han mobilized more than 4,000 laborers to cut down trees and began to build ships according to their construction drawings.

After taking over Iwami Province, the news quickly reached the ears of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

At the beginning, Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi thought that Chen Han and his men would stop after driving the Japanese army away in Korea because there was no way to land directly.

Kublai Khan of the Yuan Dynasty had tried twice to land in Japan to fight, but his ships were overturned by typhoons both times.

It was because of these two typhoons that the famous Kamikaze Special Forces were born.

They believe that typhoons are blessings from the gods, so they are very superstitious and believe that no one can land on their Japanese mainland from other places and they can only take the initiative to attack.

Even because of these two typhoons, their confidence is overflowing.

But what they didn't expect was that it was because Kublai Khan, a grassland people, had no idea about the monsoon on the sea.

Many people don't know when a typhoon will come.

But Chen Han knew that he had calculated the exact day before going out to sea.

And it comes from the Tsushima Strait, thus reducing the huge winds and waves faced in the vast Yellow Sea and Sea of ​​Japan.

Even though there are some strong winds and waves from North Korea to the Tsushima Strait, there are some islands where you can stay so that you won't be blown over.

That's the benefit from the future.

When this news reached the ears of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, many lords were actually very happy.

Although they were also afraid that the Ming army would directly destroy them.

But for some reason, these people who admire the strong feel that it is right to be controlled by the Ming army.

But he would never accept being controlled by Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

Because they have always believed that the Central Plains dynasty has been very powerful since the Tang Dynasty.

They were deeply convinced to be conquered by such a strong man.

But they would never accept being conquered by the conspiracy of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

They would resist Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, but not the Ming army.

So many people just stood by and watched, thinking that Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi had gone to Korea to fight against the Ming army.

This time they crossed the sea directly from Korea to wipe out Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi completely.

Therefore, no one resisted Chen Han.

We even secretly sent a number of envoys to Iwami Province to meet Chen Han and tell him that we were willing to surrender.

We are willing to do anything for you.

We are even willing to worship you as the King of Japan.

Chen Han was actually prepared for such a situation.

When he destroyed all the Japanese troops in Korea, he found that Japan must be short of troops.

Being able to dispatch hundreds of thousands of troops to the Korean battlefield at one time was already the limit for Japan.

The rest were either the old, weak, sick or the troops that were once distrusted.

Since you are no longer trusted, why should you still fight for your former master?
I'll keep my life to work for anyone.

This thought was imprinted in their minds.

Then, faced with such a powerful military force of the Ming Dynasty, it would definitely be a one-sided surrender.

However, how could Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi not bring down others?

They knew that Chen Han must be chasing them this time using the excuse to destroy them, otherwise there would be no excuse to start a war.

Because if you do that, the people in Japan will think that it is none of our business and it is a problem between you warlords.

You warlords invaded Korea, a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, so you were pursued by the Ming Dynasty. That is as it should be.

If we were the Ming Dynasty, we would also hold you accountable.

Who told you to invade other people's territory at every turn?
You are going to seize territory, that is none of our business.

So after Chen Han arrived in Japan, he was surprised to find that the people here did not have a strong sense of resistance.

Unless some real stakeholders. One thing that must be mentioned is that although later generations of Japan are very disgusting and disgusting.

But this is part of the extremism.

Some people do not have such a strong sense of resistance.

Anyway, it’s the same as the people of the Ming Dynasty. Your war is the business of you upper-class people and has nothing to do with us ordinary people.

This was especially true during the Ming Dynasty.

So Chen Han did not say in general terms that he wanted to massacre or do anything else.

The only goal was to bring these population resources to the Ming Dynasty to work as workers.

Whether they can survive depends on their own abilities.

Anyway, didn't our people still live like this when we were invaded by Japan?

Chen Han was quite relieved to see that these people did not resist.

So he mobilized all the troops in Iwami, two thousand "troops", and spread the news everywhere under the banner of the Ming Dynasty.

Resistance means death; if you don’t resist and surrender, your life may be better than it is now.

You have already seen the power of the Ming Dynasty.

If we can land here and fight you, we can destroy your country.

But on the contrary, it can also ensure that you can live a better life in the future.

If you still want to be slaves to these lords, you must resist to the end.

Anyway, all your lords have died in battle in Korea.

They invaded the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, so they deserve to die, but you people are innocent.

If you are willing to die for them, then you should resist.

If you don't want to, surrender immediately.

When the fate of the Ming army comes, you just need to follow the orders of the Ming Dynasty and you don't need to worry about anything else.

After these two thousand people spread the news under the banner of the Ming Dynasty, they soon received a response.

A large number of people chose to surrender, and a large number of cities immediately raised the banner of our allegiance to the Ming Dynasty.

Many cities are called cities but are actually small villages or towns. There are not many troops inside, only five or six hundred people at most.

If five or six hundred people go to resist an enemy of ten or twenty thousand people, isn't that courting death?

Moreover, every soldier in the Ming army was wearing armor.

It's not like in Japan, where all the fighting is just farmers fighting each other.

Samurai accounted for less than one percent of these armies at most.

The common people won't be so stupid as to be buried with you.

Even some lords, especially those belonging to the Mori family in Chugoku and the Otomo family, Ito family, Sagara family, and Shimazu family in Kyushu, all sent signals of surrender to Chen Han.

Originally, when the Maori family occupied the entire China area, there was a lot of resistance.

Now that the patriarchs of the Maori family have died on the Korean battlefield, the local area has immediately dispersed.

The original Iwami Province, Izumo Province, Nagato Province, Suo Province, etc. began to become independent.

After Iwami Province was occupied by Chen Han, Izumo Province in the east immediately surrendered.

Because at that time the Mori family withdrew a large number of troops from Izumo Province.

Therefore, the Izumo Kingdom, which had only 1,100 troops, knew that there was no way to resist and surrendered instantly.

After the surrender of Izumo, Chen Han arrived in mainland Japan and occupied the two small countries of Iwami and Izumo in less than two days.

Suo Province, located southwest of Iwami Province, is also actively joining in.

A large number of lords in Nagato Province and Kyushu in the west began to discuss how to show their sincerity.

Even many lords in Kyushu were puzzled, because the Ming army clearly landed on Tsushima Island, north of our Kyushu.

Why would we go so far as to travel more than a hundred nautical miles to land at such a small port in Iwami Province?

Is it just for that little bit of silver from the Iwami Silver Mine?

They were right.

Because Chen Han had his eyes on the Iwami Silver Mine in Iwami Country.

The Otomo family in Kyushu was very cunning and immediately sent their own fleet to drop 7,000 kilograms of grain on Tsushima Island.

Even though they knew that there were no Ming troops stationed on Tsushima Island.

But they understood very well that Tsushima Island would definitely become a supply station for the Ming army.

After doing this, the Otomo family immediately passed the news to Chen Han who was stationed in Iwami Province through Nagato Province.

What this means is that although we have not surrendered directly now, we have shown enough sincerity.

When Chen Han received these letters, he felt very emotional.

Otherwise, why do we say that Japan is a place where both the people and their lords are quite interesting.

When a sufficiently powerful force intervenes in their country, they will quickly collapse and seek refuge.

Their subconscious action is to seek shelter rather than resist immediately.

Because they think that since the other party has the ability to land in their country, they must have the ability to deal with them.

Especially the families in Kyushu are more interesting.

Because Kyushu is the westernmost region.

It was not originally in the eyes of the major regions such as Chugoku, Shikoku, and Gyeonggi.

People in these places think that the people in Kyushu are just rude savages.

But precisely because Kyushu is a very barbaric place, some of the soldiers there are very tough and are the source of elite troops for Japan.

Therefore, the Kyushu region has always been exploited and oppressed by local lords.

Now that the Ming Dynasty had arrived, there were not many elite soldiers left in Kyushu, so they immediately sent a signal of surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi panicked after receiving the news.

However, several lords who were detained by them were particularly happy when they heard the news.

Everyone wants to see the joke of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

But Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi were not given for nothing.

He immediately summoned those lords who were watching the joke.

Just say it directly.

"Now the Ming army has entered my homeland of Japan. I know you all want to see the Ming army kill us.

But do you think that if you kill us, the Ming army will retreat?
Not also!

You have to know that we have sent countless Japanese pirates to the Ming Dynasty over the years, burning, killing and looting, causing countless deaths and injuries to the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Do you think this blood debt will only be blamed on our family?
This will be blamed on all the Japanese warlords.

At that time, in order to avenge the people living along the coast, it would be necessary to destroy all the Japanese warlords who had sent pirates to the southeastern coast of the Ming Dynasty to rob.

Don't tell me, those are all defeated warriors.

What a joke! If they really lose the war, who will provide them with weapons and food supplies? "

As soon as these words came out, many lords began to get nervous...

(End of this chapter)