General Li in Numazu City soon received news that the navy had successfully attacked Edo Bay. Zheng He wrote a letter saying that he had killed more than 7,000 Japanese navy, burned more than 3,000 ships, and seized more than 1,000 ships. It was a great victory.

The two great victories on land and at sea made the morale of the Eastern Expedition Army even more high, making Li Luo’s prestige in the army unrivalled.

The Navy of the Eastern Army was strengthened before departure. Li Luo once allocated 3,000 Jiangnan Army, who had served as a navy, to join the navy, so that the navy's troops reached 18,000.

Now that a great battle has come, although the navy has suffered another three to four thousand casualties, the number of naval soldiers is still as high as 15,000. Compared with the Japanese navy, which fled to the land, has only thousands of remaining troops, has an overwhelming advantage.

"General, the Japanese army retreated. Should we pursue it like pursuing prey?" Zhezha's cavalry observed that the Japanese army retreated north and asked for instructions to pursue it as soon as possible.

Li Luo shook his head and said, "The Japanese army will definitely defend more this time, and your cavalry will not take much advantage. However, you still have to chase after you, and chase it all the way to Kamakura City!"

There is only one purpose for this. It will keep the Japanese army in a strict formation and march on the way north, making the Japanese army exhausted and return to Kamakura Castle with a low morale. At the same time, Mongolian cavalry appeared under Kamakura Castle, which could greatly increase the majesty of the Eastern Expedition Army.

"Zhezha!" Zhezha smiled and thought to himself that the general is really a famous general.

When Zhezha left, Hu Gu said, "Master Lang, now the victory of water and land is great, and the Japanese army is terrified. What should our army do next?"

Li Luo rubbed his eyebrows and thought for a while, "The main force of the Japanese army withdrew from the city, and there is no big battle yet. Next, we have to get some benefits. You and Zong Zhou lead the Jurchen cavalry to capture all the Japanese swordsmen within a hundred miles."

Japanese knife craftsmen are very important talents. They have completely inherited and carried forward the knife making technology of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The knife making technology has been ahead of East Asia. Li Luo has been jealous of it for a long time.

"No!" Hu Gu and Zong Zhou received the order. Both of them were very happy. The Jurchen cavalry finally came in handy.

Li Luo smiled again and said, "We cannot weaken the strength of the Japanese army too much. Not only can we not weaken it, but we also have to give them the opportunity to accumulate strength. Otherwise, we will not be able to use the Japanese army to consume the Yuan army. Therefore, we can only grab the small amount, not the big amount."

Jiang Jun asked, "What does the infantry do?"

Li Luo said, "Do nothing for the time being, just wait for the cavalry to harvest. After the cavalry captured the craftsmen of Japan, we took a boat to the south, landed in Matsusaka Bay, and entered the Kyoto of Japan in the west! We got all the emperors and nobles of Japan, as well as books and classics."

Yang Qingque smiled and said, "My lord Gao Ming, captured the Japanese emperor and sent it to Kublai Khan. It was another great achievement. And it would not affect the mobilization of the shogunate."

Li Luo said, "No, there is another thing that can arouse the Japanese resistance and make the Yuan army coming later more trouble, and then the Yuan army will kill more and more fiercely. Finally, kill all the rebellious nobles and powerful men."

Li Luo knew very well that if Japan was given a period of time, the strength of the Japanese army would double. The Japanese country in this era was unified and had a large population, but it was not as fragmented as in the Warring States Period. As long as the time was sufficient, it would not be difficult to mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops.

During the Warring States Period, dozens of warlords fought in a melee, with tens of thousands of warlords and thousands of small warlords, which combined more than half a million.

There is no reason that Zhao State, which has a population of 5 million, can mobilize 400,000 troops, while Japanese State, which has a larger population, cannot. You should know that when the millions of Sui army attacked Goguryeo, Goguryeo, which has a population of 3 million, can mobilize 300,000 troops.

Li Luo was interested in history before. He once asked him the master of the "cultural relics expert" why the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty did not have such mobilization power? If there were, with the population of more than 100 million of the Song and Ming Dynasty, how could the Mongolian Yuan and Qing dynasties be allowed to occupy the world?

The master replied that because Song and Ming dynasties were bureaucratic politics. Bureaucrats could not replace the role of aristocratic tyrants.

The aristocratic tyrants have far better control over local and population than local officials. However, officials' acceptance of foreign rule is far better than that of the aristocratic tyrants.

In the aristocratic era, once foreign races invade, the powerful people from all over the country will mobilize population expansion under the banner of the central government. Although it weakens the central government, it will greatly mobilize the forces to resist foreign races.

This is why a warlord or governor could beat the alien races in the late Han Dynasty and the late Tang Dynasty. The powerful people of the aristocratic clans were the most conservative vested interests, and the alien races were the most harmful to their interests, so their will to resist was the strongest.

In the bureaucratic era, the powerful aristocratic people no longer exist. Once the aliens invade, local officials are unable to mobilize them. As long as the aliens kill the central government, officials will most likely change their bosses and pay their wages.

To put it bluntly, the aristocratic tyrants are shareholders, while the bureaucratic tyrants are just professional managers. When facing malicious acquisitions, the aristocratic tyrants must of course be on the same mind as the chairman. But it would be nice for professional managers not to sell commercial secrets to the malicious acquirer. Who would work for?

In the north of the Five Barbarians invaded China, due to the existence of aristocratic races, the Han people were always fighting back and finally turned the tables. However, in the Song Dynasty, the Han people in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun were the Khitan people for two hundred years. The Song army attacked the northern expedition, but instead scolded the Song army.

Despite this, once Li Luo really has the fate of seizing the world, he will not resurrect aristocratic politics. Aristocratic races do have a positive effect on resisting foreign races and inheriting culture, but the disadvantages are still too great.

Just talk about Japan, assuming that the shogunate completely loosened the wealthy families in various places and asked them to mobilize their forces to resist the Yuan army, even if the Yuan army is driven away, the central authority of the shogunate will no longer exist.

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On October 2, the Jurchen cavalry who had been out for several days finally returned to Numazu Castle. Sozu and Hugu brought back nearly a thousand Japanese craftsmen, mainly knife craftsmen and blacksmiths.

The Mongolian cavalry have not been idle these days. With Li Luo's consent, they burned, killed and looted everywhere. Many Japanese cities and villages were hit by rice, and no less than 100,000 died. Not only did they kill and rob, but they also lewd and insulted Japanese women. What they did was just like the Han people in the Central Plains, which was outrageous.

Even the other soldiers of the Eastern Expedition Army could not bear to see the brutality of the Mongolian army.

When the Mongolian soldiers left the camp, they did not bring a grain of food. But when they came back, they were big and small carts, pigs, sheep, cattle and horses, money, grain, cloth and silk. Even women and slaves were connected in strings and tied to their ponytails and brought back.

As for those who escaped and resisted, of course they all killed them.

"My heroic Zhezha, thank you for your hard work, and you didn't embarrass the Mongolian warriors. Come and drink!" In the big tent, Li Luo raised his glass to "celebrate the merits" of Zhezha and other Mongolian generals.

"Hahaha, thank you General!" Zhezha drank a big bowl of sake very happily. "General, the untouchables in this country are not honest, just like the horns of an elk, and they still want to push them twice. But what's the use? Kill them, and they will be honest."

Although Li Luo's face was smiling, he really hated him. These Mongolian cavalrymen were all butchers.

The Jurchen cavalry went out and killed a lot of people, but they did not kill indiscriminately, which was much better than the Mongolian soldiers.

"General, the last general has captured more than 4,000 young women this time. I want to take out half of them to the general!" Zhezha said with great filial piety.

Li Luo smiled and said, "Then I will accept it. Well, I have already waited for you to show my merits to the court last time. Zhezha, I believe that it won't take long to be the real Mongolian households. And you can also be the real thousand households."

Zhezha was overjoyed when he heard this and immediately stroked his chest and said, "The general's mind is as tall as Mount Altai. The last general's gratitude to the general is like a full wolf to the brave and wise wolf king. Although the general is not a Mongolian, he has the power given by Genghis Khan. May Tengri bless the general as much as the Mongols."

A group of Mongolian households promoted by Li Luo's fire also bowed together and said, "A good horse will not forget the way home, those who enjoy the shade will not forget the people who plant trees, we will not forget the kindness of the general! May Tengri bless the general!"

Li Luo said, "No gifts are not needed, there is no need to do so! We are fighting for the Dayuan and the Khan!"

Of course, Li Luo would not want the woman from more than two thousand days. When he returned to Haidong, he would not be missing other than craftsmen and coolies. Of course, it would be not a disaster for the Japanese women to capture Haidong. Li Luo did not have that heart. They were wives and concubines for the soldiers under their command.

On October 3, the Eastern Expedition Army left Numazu Castle, and one day later arrived at Ito Bay, where the navy's huge fleet was waiting.

Nearly 100,000 people sailed south with water and land, and seized a large number of ships, war horses, craftsmen, and children's jade and silk from Japan.

The news that the Eastern Expedition Army had withdrawn from Kanto Hirano immediately made the shogunate, which was fully defending, breathed a sigh of relief.

Hojo Toshizo leaned against the arms of a Japanese woman with a pale face and coughed from time to time. Although he was now sleepy, his power was still invisible.

A large group of military generals, Akimu knelt on both sides in an orderly manner, waiting for Hojo Toshizo's instructions. Even the shogun Prince Weikam sat respectfully on the side and even served the medicine himself.

Hojo Toshizo was in poor health. Last time he received news of the cavalry's defeat, he vomited blood and fainted. After he recovered, he learned that the Edo Bay Navy had been defeated and the ship was destroyed, and he vomited blood and fainted again.

This is also the reason why the Japanese army withdrew from Kamakura Castle.

In the past few days, bad news caused by the Yuan gangs were everywhere. The Mongolian army massacred, robbed, and so on. Even the Mongolian cavalry rushed to the city of Kamakura and showed off their power.

The shogunate army could not retreat, but could not take the Mongolian cavalry.

Finally, I waited for good news.

"Hmph, the Yuangang did not evacuate, they were going to attack Kyoto." Hojo Toshizo didn't look happy when he heard the "good news" reported by his retainers.

Nani? Fight against Kyoto?

The generals looked at each other, and the more they thought about it, the more they felt that what the ruling highness said was very likely.

It has to be said that Hojo Toshizo is indeed an extremely smart and superior. Otherwise, he would not have defeated his political enemies when he was a teenager, and controlled the power of Japan at a young age and eliminated the opposition.

In history, the Yuan Dynasty repeatedly suffered defeat in the hands of Hojo Toshizo, and the Emperor and the General were also suppressed by him, which is not without reason.

Therefore, when Hojo Toshizo heard that Li Luofu went south, his first reaction was not that the Yuan bandits evacuate from Honshu, but that the Yuan bandits might want to attack Kyoto.

"Lord, will the Yuan Kou land in Matsusaka and then enter Kyoto west?" said Rai Tsuna, Jialing Hei.

Hojo Toshizo nodded, "It's probably true. If this hall was a general of the Yuan Kowloon, he would have landed in Matsusaka and entered Kyoto west. The purpose of the Yuan Kowloon landing in Kanto last time is now clear. They are trying to destroy our ship. We have been trapped in the plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain."

Qianye's servant said, "Since the lord judged that the Yuan gang would attack Kyoto, the humble minister was willing to lead the last cavalry to support him."

Hojo shook his head indifferently, "Just fight, they can't destroy the Kingdom of God even if they conquer Kyoto, but it will be a pain to His Majesty the Emperor and all the ministers of the court."

The shogun General, Prince Weikang, changed his face and suddenly knelt down and cried, "Your Highness, please send troops to rescue Kyoto! Your Majesty the Emperor and my father are both in Kyoto! Kyoto is the place where the imperial court is located, and Your Highness cannot ignore it! Please!"

Hojo Toshizo said erectly, "Your Highness, you must not do this! How can you kneel down as a minister in the world? What kind of morality... Cough cough... General, please get up quickly..." The two warriors immediately stepped forward and helped Prince Wei Kang up with the help of the general.

"General, our army has fewer cavalry and navy. How can we save the capital? Do I dare not go to Luo to rescue the lord? It's really impossible!"

Hojo Toshizo said as if tears were falling, and he pounded the bed hard and shouted, "Your Majesty, I am incompetent and cannot go to Luohe to save me! If I am a traitor, I hope that God will punish him, and God will punish the traitor! Cough cough..." As he said, his face was red with a cough.

Prince Wei Kang's face was immediately full of embarrassment and thought to himself, "What are you pretending to be? Who in the world doesn't know that Hojo Toshizo is Cao Cao?"

Prince Kane complained about Hojo Toshizo's hypocrisy, but he was also acting when he asked Hojo Toshizo to rescue Kyoto just now.

Now that the situation is so difficult, Hojo Toshizen certainly won’t rescue Kyoto, it’s just a waste of effort. He just asks for it again, it’s useless.

The reason why Prince Katsuko knelt down and begged was that his identity was placed here and he had to ask for it. Although he was a general of the Kamakura Shogunate, he was also a descendant of the royal family. Yu Zhong and Xiao Xiao should show his attitude. If he did not beg the Hojo family to rescue Kyoto, it would damage his reputation.

But I didn't expect that Hojo Toshizo could act better than him, coughing and crying, and even making a vow to the sky.

The generals immediately looked at the shogun General with dissatisfaction, and Hei Rai Gang said aggressively, "General, Your Highness, the ruling highness is loyal to the Kingdom of God and His Majesty. God Amaterasu is also grateful. Why should you force me like this?"

Qianye's servant even shouted with the aim of angrily, "General! My lord worked hard for the country, and his accumulated worries have become sick. Now he has not recovered from his illness. Please respect yourself!"

Prince Wei Kang was a shogun, a shogunate general, and was scolded by his subordinates. He was really embarrassed and angry. But he could only swallow his anger and bowed to Hojo Toshizo and said, "I would like to ask the ruling temple to comfort the Kingdom of God and take care of the precious body, please!"

After saying this, the shogun no longer had the face to stay in Uchiyama Hall, but returned to the general's Imperial Hall in shame.

When the shogun left, Hojo Toshizo finally talked about military affairs.

"The command of the General Craftsman Institute told all the craftsmen institutes across the country that from today on, the first priority will be to make the Song Dynasty's divine arm bow and bed crossbow, and the second priority will be to make two-meter-long spear. As for the Taidao, it is not allowed to be done again!"

Hojo Toshizen's orders really made it difficult for the samurai to accept.

You are not allowed to make a too-kill sword. The too-kill sword is actually a symbol of warriors. However, no one dares to object, nor will it object. Because the decision of the ruling temple is right.

Facts have proved that the effect of Taidao against the Yuangang army was minimal, far less effective than two-meter-long spear. Moreover, the cost of a Taidao is equivalent to more than a dozen long spears, and the labor hours are dozens of times that of a long spear. Moreover, the production difficulty is much higher.

There have been many exiled Song people in the Japanese country over the years, so the Japanese have been able to prevent divine arm bows and bed crossbows, but they have not been manufactured on a large scale.

Hojo Tomozo banned the production of Taidao, and used the god arm bow and bed crossbow as the most preferred ordnance, of course, to deal with the Yuan cavalry.

In fact, these two weapons are indeed the ones that pose the greatest threat to cavalry.

"Your Highness, where is the Domain (armor)?" Chang Lu guarded the Routo Shigei. The questions of the Routo Shigei were also the questions of others. Didn't Domain have been made?

Hojo Toshizo gritted his teeth and said, "What should I use for the peasant soldiers mobilized in the future? Just let them use spears and wooden shields! Now, only the divine arm bows, bed crossbows, spears, feather arrows, and no more."

"I am sending the command of all countries that within one month, every man in the Kingdom of God, who is more than fifteen or fifty, must have a spear. If the craftsmen are not enough, let the peasants do it themselves. If the iron is not enough, they will turn the hatchet into the spear head! If there is no spear, behead!"

The generals all looked shocked, so cruel.

This is a soldier for everyone, isn’t it too much?

But this trick is indeed very powerful.

A simple spear is nothing more than a stick and a spear head. Even the farmers themselves can make simple spears. It is not difficult to make all young and strong people in the country have spears.

Then, there are more than two million spearmen! Even if there are mobs, the number is so huge, it is definitely an extremely terrifying force.

But even if the Yuan gang was driven away, it would be difficult to deal with the aftermath. Millions of peasant soldiers were armed... Isn't this drinking poison to quench thirst?

"Your Highness, please think twice! If we were to arrange this, there would be so many peasant soldiers, and we would be afraid that we would die without a place to bury ourselves in the future."

"Yes, lord, so many farmers have weapons and will burn us to ashes!"

The great samurai were afraid of the order that the entire Hojo Toshizo was soldier. They were afraid of the Yuan bandits, but they were also afraid that the peasants would be armed.

"Baga!" Hojo Toshizo couldn't help but curse. He was not a good-tempered man.

"You guys! The Yuan gang will not give up until the Kingdom of God is destroyed! There will be a second and third batch of Yuan gangs soon! What will the Kingdom of God be able to resist? Well?!"

"There is no end to the eggs when the nest is destroyed! Don't you know the lesson of the Song State! The hearts of Mongolian barbarians and jackals are like hell on earth! Shouldn't farmers fight to survive!"

"The Yuan bandits are cruel and cunning, but the peasants are ignorant. After the Yuan bandits are beaten away, no matter how many peasant soldiers are, they will be easier to deal with. At worst, they will reduce taxes and promote some leaders to become officials. If they are divided and disintegrated, there will be no peasants rebelling."

"Even the farmers are afraid, can you still defeat Yuan Kou? Cough cough cough..." The man's face was flushed because of his anger.

The generals dared not persuade him anymore. After thinking about it, there was no way to do so, so they had to obey the order.

"Your Highness, please take care of your health..." The generals bowed together.

Hojo Toshizo straightened his breath and said again, "Mr. Chiba, you go to the Ekima Land (Hokkaido) yourself to meet the Ekima King. Tell the Ekima King, lend me five thousand Ekima Cavalry..."

Qianye's servant knelt down immediately, "Lord, you must not. How can you believe the barbarians of Maofan and barbarians behave like wildly? Wouldn't you lead a wolf into the house?"

Hojo Toshizo smiled and said, "The people of the Hokkaido are ignorant and have only good things in their eyes. You promise them that they are salt and iron, and they will come naturally. Besides, their unsatisfactory cavalry are completely disorganized. How can they be the opponents of the Mongolian cavalry? It just happened to be removed by the hands of the Yuan Kou. Moreover, it can consume some Yuan Kou cavalry."

The Ekima people make a living by fishing and hunting, and because they live in a bitter and cold area, they are very tough. They have been entangled with the Japanese for thousands of years. The so-called Ekima King is just the chief of one of the largest tribes. Although they also have horses and are skilled in riding, they really do not have the rules of cavalry.

If they are organized, they can still play the role of cavalry.

Hojo Toshizo believed that as long as you give enough iron and salt, the greedy and stupid chieftain of the Hokkien would probably lead the young and strong tribe on horseback to head south.

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On October 4th, the Eastern Expedition Army fleet indeed arrived at Matsusaka Bay and landed directly in Matsusaka.

The samurai soldiers and horses in Matsusaka Castle have been air-conditioned and easy to fight. But Li Luo did not attack the city at all. He was too lazy to pay attention to Nara and Osaka, which were not far away, but went straight west. At most, he could reach Kyoto in four days.

Of course, Li Luo would never take four days. He ordered Zhezha's cavalry to go first and surround Kyoto City within two days.

However, this time, Li Luo banned the Mongolian cavalry from attacking the city and also forbidden them from massacre and destroying the city. Don’t delay your efforts on the road because of burning, killing, looting and looting.

Zhezha led the Mongolian cavalry to the west under the guidance of the Japanese traitor, and Li Luo's Sulu Ding Crown followed behind, marching neither fast nor slow.

The Japanese people can see the rising sky from a distance, and then they can see the overwhelming army.

The villages, towns, cities, and manors along the way were all trembling. Both the people and the rich hid and dared not let the Yuan army discover it.

The way for children to stop crying is to come to the Yuan gang.

Therefore, although the army was in a densely populated place, there was no sign of people for a long time, and even chickens and dogs were hidden.

Going further west, mountains slowly appeared, and the village was empty, but smoke rose from the mountains.

Needless to say, the Japanese people are hiding in the mountains.

However, Li Luo only thought about Kyoto and had no time to take care of him, but he was completely unreasonable.

On the morning of October 8, Li Luo led his army to cross the low Inari Mountain and passed the Inari Shrine. Kyoto was at the foot of the mountain.

Li Luo looked up at the top of the mountain and saw a glorious city.

What a grand city!

This is the Japanese Kyoto Heian Kyoto, which was completely imitated by Chang'an City.

The name of the entire city is Ping'an City, which is also imitated by "Chang'an". This is a high-quality imitation version of Chang'an City. Many things that have disappeared in the Central Plains are in Ping'an City.

Therefore, Li Luo will definitely not allow it to be destroyed.

At this time, outside Ping'an City, war horses were neighing, and they were the Mongolian cavalry besieged. They arrived two days in advance and had blocked all the city gates.

When Li Luo's Sulu Ding Crown and Canglang Battle Banner appeared under Ping'an City, the nobles and nobles in the city immediately fell into complete despair.

I'm here, Kyoto!

Li Luo looked at Ping'an City, his eyes full of unconcealed pride.
Chapter completed!