At a distance of three thousand meters, the observations of veteran sailors are unmistakable. Siam certainly does not have so many warships. The reason is, of course, that the Siamese fleet joined the Spanish Manila fleet on its way north.

Therefore, after the captain of the Suzhou saw this formation, he turned around and left without hesitation: Yes, the Chongming Navy of the Ming Dynasty has had the slogan of fighting the enemy when it sees the enemy since the day it was founded. But when it comes to hitting an egg with an egg, the Navy of the Ming Dynasty cannot

will do.

And just as the Siamese navy and the Spanish fleet were rushing towards Ming Dynasty's Hainan Island, thousands of miles away in the northeast, many pirates, merchants and fishermen on Tsushima Island were frightened.

I saw a huge fleet with countless strangely-shaped flags roaring past the sea!

This is a huge fleet with a total of more than 800 warships. Except for ten 1200-ton class and thirty 700-ton class new sailing warships, the rest are all various large-scale house ships, Kanshu ships and even small ships.

Of course, except for the eighty new warships led by Yagyu Kanbei, which are responsible for escort missions, the other ships are basically troop and grain transport ships.

"Your Excellency Nakagan, we have passed Tsushima Island."

"Yoshi, the wind direction is really good today. We will drive here from Nagoya, but it won't take more than half a day, right?"

"Yes, we set off last night. It's noon now and we have already walked most of the distance."

"Very good. Here's the order. Except for the Yagyu fleet which will continue to undertake the escort mission, the entire army will be divided into three teams: left, center and right. With Kohaya and Sekifune in front, all will be deployed."

"Hi!"

The Nakagan here is of course Date Masamune. Although he himself did not want to leave Japan, he was also planning to let Date lead the Date family samurai on his behalf. But how could Tokugawa Yoshinao, a time traveler, do this?

Let him go? After a period of hard and soft tactics, Date Masamune was forced to serve as the general of the first army in the Korean expedition.

Speaking of which, this was also the first time that Date Masamune commanded so many troops.

This time Japan sent troops to conquer Korea. The total strength of the army was: 6,300 samurai warriors under the command of daimyo from various places, and 60,000 old-style ashigaru. They came from Date, Maeda, Uesugi, Mori, Shimadzu and other foreign daimyo, as well as various families.

Matsudaira, Ii, Honda, Sakakihara and other daimyos were passed down.

As a time traveler, Tokugawa Yoshinao knew very well that Japan did not pay much attention to logistics even in the World War II era of the 20th century. They often said that "logistics are considered soldiers, and dragonflies can also be considered eagles." This led to the Japanese army fighting abroad.

At that time, logistics supplies were often insufficient. Then, in order to avoid being hacked to death by their own soldiers, the officers would naturally indulge the soldiers to burn, kill and loot the local people - thus arousing fierce resistance from the people in the occupied areas.

Therefore, this time, Tokugawa Yoshihiro equipped this old-style army with a total of 10,000 civilians - this is only the initial stage. Later, more civilians in the country will be mobilized, ready to drive various types of weapons at any time.

Ships provide logistical support to the troops at the front.

This is true for the old army, not to mention the new army in this large fleet.

The First Division of the Japanese Shogunate's New Army, with a total strength of 15,000 people, provides logistical support for this army. In addition to the grooms and military doctors in the own division, there are also those assigned to this division who are responsible for operating ships to transport food and ammunition.

There are nearly five thousand people!

In other words, this fleet, together with the top and bottom, totals nearly 100,000 people!

And the new fleet led by Yagyu Kanbei is still beyond this!

In short, although it did not come from the whole country, this attack launched by Japan was, for the small body of North Korea...

In 1392, Wang's Goryeo general Li Chenggui launched a mutiny, and the newly established regime was given a new country name: Joseon by the Ming Dynasty. As a result, the peninsula entered the era of Lee's Korea.

As a regime that comprehensively studied Chinese Confucian civilization and was more pious than the Central Plains Dynasty in China, Lee's Korea was naturally getting weaker and weaker. The royal family gradually lost its effective control over the country, and the civil servants completely suppressed it.

The warriors then ignored the king and began endless internal fighting.

Scholar-officials in North Korea are basically hereditary, which is the so-called "Yangban". Like Chinese scholar-officials, the Yangban nobles continue to expropriate the country's land and people, causing national financial difficulties - as a result, the country's national defense strength has also

Extremely weak.

With the development of time, the number of the two classes of nobles is increasing, and North Korea is such a large country, and it is not like China's Central Plains Dynasty that can support two or three hundred years. So when the third generation of the Lee Dynasty, Gongding

When Wang Lifangyuan was in power, he had to divide the children of the two classes of nobles into legitimate concubines: the legitimate children were still the two classes of nobles and could be officials. The concubines were classified as the "middlemen" class and could only be officials and medical officers.

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Even so, this country is still too small, so in order to compete for limited official positions and resources, the two groups of nobles inevitably fell into internal fighting.

First, the scholar-bureaucrats split into the Eastern Party and the Western Party, the Eastern Party split into the Southern Party and the Northern Party, and the Western Party split into the Old Uncensored Party and the Young Uncensored Party. The political struggles in Lee's Joseon were comparable to those of his contemporaries.

The Ming Dynasty was much more bloody and cruel, with physical destruction at every turn.

There is really no way to do this. As long as the yangban hereditary system still exists. Then, in this country with scarce natural resources, such bloody political struggles will continue - even during the period of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's massive invasion of Korea, Korean scholars

The internal fighting among the Korean people did not stop. This point was deeply felt by Xing Jie, Yang Hao, even Li Rusong and Liu Wei who were stationed in North Korea at that time.

In the 21st century, Japan has a land area of ​​377,000 square kilometers and a population of nearly 130 million. At the same time, North Korea and South Korea combined have a land area of ​​about 220,000 square kilometers and a population of nearly 80 million. In this era, although Japan has many famous names in the country,

exists, but the size of the domestic population is still very clear: close to 20 million.

And North Korea at this time?

Before Toyotomi Hideyoshi's invasion, the population in the national register was more than 5 million. After the war, there were only more than 2.3 million in the national register. Although the government only has this much population, this data is certainly not North Korea's.

Actual population. In any case, the population of North Korea in this era should be at least 10 million.

The reason why there is such a big deviation is of course that these populations are under the control of two groups of nobles and cannot be reflected in the national census.

Therefore, for such a country that was originally poor and weak, its national power has been severely weakened due to the terrible political system in the country. For such a small body, there is no doubt about the outcome of Japan, which is blessed by time travellers.

On April 6, 1617, the Japanese army landed in Busan, and the Korean defenders fled without a fight. After that, the Japanese army was divided into three groups: Date Masamune and others led the army directly north, planning to sweep Gyeongsang Province and then enter Gangwon Province.

At the age of fourteen, Tokugawa Yoshinao's younger brother Tokugawa Yorinobu led a group from Busan to the west and entered Jeolla Province. Naotaka Ii led the first division of the Japanese New Army from the northwest and entered Chungcheong Province.

, and points to Gyeonggi Province in the distance!

On the 10th, when King Li Hui of Korea in Seoul received the news that Japan was once again invading his country, he immediately started to pack his bags. Of course, this name must be the Jurchen remnant from the north who invaded the border, and the king wanted to conquer it himself. At the same time,

, he sent three groups of envoys one after another to seek help from Ming Dynasty!
Chapter completed!