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Both publicly and privately, given the relationship between Li Ji and Jia Xu, Jia Xu still offered a seemingly unintentional reminder.

"Zikun, it's best to silence some people completely, only then can you ensure the truth is thoroughly buried."

"There's no need for that."

Li Ji admired the snow, sipped his tea, and spoke with a somewhat lazy tone.

"Let future generations judge my actions, and leaving behind some unofficial history for them to laugh about, isn't that a kind of fun?"

Upon hearing this, Jia Xu pondered for a moment before raising his cup to Li Ji, saying.

"Zikun's magnanimity is something I cannot match."

Of course, Jia Xu admired Li Ji's actions in his heart, but that didn't mean he agreed with them.

If it were Jia Xu, no matter how many times he repeated it.

Jia Xu would still choose to silence most people, even directly sinking Luo Bin and the others' ship on their return journey from Yamatai, pinning the crime of killing Han envoys on Yamatai.

Of course, Jia Xu also knew that Li Ji's actions could be considered a weakness, but conversely, they were also so reassuring.

There was no need to worry that at some point he would be silenced by Li Ji simply for knowing too much, otherwise Jia Xu would really have to think about when would be a good time to pack his bags and run, or retire to the countryside.

"This isn't magnanimity, but rather, Wenhe, you're in the mood to enjoy tea and flatter me here. I wonder if the mobilization of troops within Japan is proceeding?" Li Ji asked.

"Within Japan, all matters, large and small, are under control…"

After a pause, Jia Xu asked with some puzzlement.

"However, with our army's combat strength, we could directly conquer Yamatai. Why do you want Japan to mobilize its entire force? This also requires our army to provide a lot of food."

It wasn't that Jia Xu was arrogant and looked down on Yamatai, but in Jia Xu's view, Japan's military strength was simply not worth mentioning, and gathering them would only waste military rations.

Unlike the Han's military system, Japan was simply unable to support a large number of soldiers on a daily basis, so the number of soldiers that could truly be called soldiers throughout the country was only a few thousand.

The three thousand Japanese soldiers led by Himiko, the queen of the Kunu Kingdom, to welcome Li Ji at the Han army's garrison last time, were already the vast majority of the soldiers that the Kunu Kingdom supported on a daily basis.

And the wars on the island of Yamatai, in addition to these soldiers, would also mobilize a large number of farmers as militiamen to participate in the battle.

But even the real soldiers of Yamatai were weak in Jia Xu's eyes, and those farmers who usually cultivated the land were no different from pigs in Jia Xu's view.

If they were placed on the Central Plains battlefield, not to mention the Han's local troops, I'm afraid even the Yellow Turban Army's combat strength would not be as good.

"Looking at the immediate gains and losses, the quickest way is for me to gather the Han army now, go straight to the capital, and flatten Yamatai, directly destroying this small country."

"But from a long-term perspective, it will leave hidden dangers for controlling Yamatai."

"The more ignorant people are, the more they will only believe everything they see before their eyes. I don't want to see that after unifying Yamatai, there will still be Japanese people who dare to rebel occasionally, forcing the Han army to constantly run around Yamatai like swatting flies."

"I want one battle to make nearly a million Japanese people on Yamatai tremble at the name of the Han people. I want to make the Japanese people regard the Han people as gods from now on, and dare not look them directly in the eye…"

When he said the last sentence, Li Ji's tone was still calm, but there was a chilling coldness faintly revealed.

(PS: According to historical records in the "Records of Wei: Account of the Japanese," the population of Yamatai was over 500,000, so it is inferred that the population of the Kunu Kingdom was also close to Yamatai, so the real population of Yamatai at this time was over one million.)

That feeling of disgust for the Japanese people was almost impossible to conceal.

This made Jia Xu, who was never very kind-hearted, couldn't help but silently mourn for the Japanese people.

'Li Zikun is so kind-hearted, he will surely give nearly a million Japanese people on Yamatai a bright future…'

While Yamatai entered the winter snowfall period, which was not suitable for using troops, Li Ji continued to explore the locations of various mineral veins on the one hand, and on the other hand, he was slowly drawing out all the young and strong militiamen in Japan.

Moreover, Li Ji did not deliberately block this news, and even secretly allowed this news to be clearly leaked to the Yamatai high-level officials.

As a large number of Japanese militiamen really began to gather, the Yamatai high-level officials also realized that the Kunu Kingdom, which had been renamed Japan, was actually planning to take the initiative to start a war with Yamatai.

Immediately, Yamatai, regardless of being still in winter, began to quickly gather militiamen from Honshu Island.

Li Ji knew that the military system of Japan and Yamatai was backward, and in addition, Yamatai was mountainous and the roads were difficult to travel, so the efficiency of gathering soldiers was slow, so he gave Japan and Yamatai a full winter.

After a winter, Li Ji had already explored the locations of most of the gold and silver mines in Kyushu and Shikoku Islands in his memory.

And Japan and Yamatai almost exhausted their national strength to gather all the young and strong men as militiamen, and gathered two huge forces that even Jia Xu was a little stunned.

Japan gathered nearly 100,000 young and strong militiamen, and the number of young and strong militiamen gathered by Yamatai, which occupied Honshu Island, was as high as 120,000.

According to Jia Xu's knowledge of the population of Yamatai, which was about one million, under this strange military system of Yamatai, it was possible to draw out nearly a quarter of the population as military force.

Excluding the old, weak, women and children among the Japanese people, this was undoubtedly more than half of the young and strong men of the entire Yamatai.

As the spring came, this war, which had been brewing for a whole winter, also broke out.

Li Ji directly mobilized all the ships to transport troops for Japan, and transported all the Japanese troops across the sea to a hinterland of Honshu Island not far from the capital of Yamatai.

By the time Yamatai belatedly discovered it, after two voyages of ships, the entire 100,000 Japanese troops had landed in the hinterland of Yamatai, and then began to advance towards the capital of Yamatai.

This prelude of "the start of the war is the decisive battle" was completely unexpected by the Yamatai people from top to bottom.

But what made Yamatai feel fortunate was that the place where the Japanese troops landed was still some distance away from the capital.

This small distance was just enough for Yamatai to gather the troops concentrated in different areas around the capital to meet the enemy.

Finally, under Li Ji's secret guidance, the Japanese and Yamatai armies met and broke out a great battle in a flat terrain called "Sekigahara".

The conflict between Yamatai and Japan had a long history, and the two sides had been fighting continuously for more than a hundred years. The accumulated hatred from generation to generation made the battle between the two sides almost enter a white-hot stage from the beginning.

However, this white-hot stage was probably only limited to the "Japanese" view.

Perhaps, the number of troops gathered by Japan and Yamatai by exhausting the young and strong men of the whole country reached more than 100,000, which was still considerable.

But the quality and equipment of these militiamen, in the eyes of Li Ji, Jia Xu, Zhang Fei and other Han people who were overlooking from a distant mountain, were simply unbearable.

Not only did those short and thin militiamen only know how to squeeze together without any formation, but most of the militiamen also held mostly temporary wooden spears and bamboo spears.

"Tsk tsk, why do I find this so funny? Even the women and children in the Yellow Turban Army can mostly have a hoe in their hands, but these Japanese people are actually holding wooden spears and bamboo spears."

"Moreover… in the battle between the two armies, they are just stabbing and stabbing from a distance, and sparsely throwing some bamboo arrows. Can they really be lethal?"

"I think according to this way of fighting, these one hundred and twenty thousand people will have to fight for several days and nights to determine the outcome? In the end, whichever side runs out of military rations they carry with them will declare defeat…"

Listening to the ridicule from Zhang Fei, Gan Ning, Sun Ce and other generals, Li Ji did not stop them.

After all, compared with the war history of the Central Plains, which has developed for more than a thousand years, the internal chicken pecking of Yamatai will inevitably make a group of generals laugh.

In the original trajectory, Yamatai was also when firearms were introduced in the Age of Discovery, that their military strength began to rapidly catch up with the Central Plains.

Finally, in the Ming Dynasty, Toyotomi Hideyoshi of Yamatai even had the ambition to establish an Asian empire, first conquering the peninsula, and then conquering the Central Plains. He led an army of more than 100,000 to occupy the peninsula, and then fought with the Ming Dynasty, triggering the "Wanli Korean War".

However, the current combat mode of Yamatai is indeed extremely slow.

The militiamen in the front of the two armies constantly collide with bamboo spears and wooden spears, and only after the other side's bamboo spears and wooden spears are broken, will they take the opportunity to try to stab forward.

This efficiency of killing enemies… is shockingly low!

Originally, Li Ji wanted to wait until the situation on the Japanese side was unfavorable before taking action to determine the victory in one fell swoop.

But after a full half an hour, the number of militiamen who actually died in the battle between the two sides was only a hundred, most of whom were unlucky enough to be shot in the throat by bamboo arrows.

If the two sides were really allowed to fight like this, without a few days of grinding, the situation would not change at all.

"Stop it."

Li Ji sighed, really didn't have the patience, and said.

"Each general can act according to the previous arrangements."

"Yes!"

Immediately, the expressions of the generals, who were already listless, were shaken, and they responded in unison.

Then, in the envious eyes of Sun Ce, who was still young, the generals all left to lead their orders, only he needed to stay here to continue to lead the two thousand personal guards.

Li Ji noticed Sun Ce's expression and asked. "What? Is Ce'er unwilling?"

"I dare not…"

After a pause, Sun Ce bit his teeth and said. "However, I am also willing to avenge Master on Yamatai."

"Good, good, good."

Li Ji comforted Sun Ce and said. "Since Ce'er has this intention, then after we defeat the enemy army, you, Ce'er, will trample on the capital of Yamatai, how about that?"

Sun Ce was overjoyed upon hearing this and said.

“Thank you, teacher!”

Just at this moment, a burst of rousing drumbeats echoed across this place called "Sekigahara," its sound carrying for miles, causing the warring Japanese on both sides to momentarily pause.

In the next moment, the great Han army banner, protected by Han infantry marching in formation, appeared in the distance in the eyes of countless Japanese.

(End of chapter)