Compared with the South China Sea, the Bohai Bay is much more stable.
Because the most powerful countries nearby are only small countries like Silla and Baekje, even the pirates quickly retreated after seeing Su Chen's ferocious warship.
After a seven-day voyage, the warship successfully arrived in the waters near the Japanese state.
Su Chen was lazily basking in the sun on the deck.
Lao Zhuang walked over quickly and reported: "Master, we are expected to arrive in Japan tomorrow morning. What should we do next?"
Su Chen replied: "Don't act rashly yet, just dock directly."
"Can we get by with such arrogance? What if we encounter the Japanese navy?" Lao Zhuang asked with some worry.
Su Chen chuckled lightly and said, "Don't worry, Japan has no navy!"
Su Chen's words were soon confirmed.
From the time the battleship docked until everyone came ashore, not even a single person came to ask!
The backwardness of the Japanese country simply exceeded Su Chen's expectations.
Because they were dressed completely differently from the locals and were heavily armed, all the Japanese people avoided them and traveled unimpeded.
This small town is not big. After walking around for a while, Su Chen lost interest.
Through this small town, it is enough to judge the overall situation of the Japanese country.
Poor, really too poor!
It’s really hard to believe that they can be so poor despite having unimaginable wealth?!
"Laozhuang."
Su Chen ordered: "Take a few people with you to get information. You must find out the situation of the Soga clan and the Mononobe clan, and find out which clans are at war."
After hearing what he said, Lao Zhuang looked embarrassed and said, "Master, I can't understand what the people here are saying!"
Su Chen waved his hand casually and said: "These are not problems. The Japanese country has often sent people to the Central Plains to study since the Sui Dynasty. There must be many people who understand our language. You just need to look more."
Lao Zhuang nodded, and then asked: "Master, what if they don't cooperate?"
Su Chen pointed to the saber on his waist somewhat speechlessly and said, "Do you still need to ask this kind of question?"
"If you don't cooperate, I'll kill you!"
"Is your knife just for display?"
Lao Zhuang laughed sarcastically and said, "Aren't I afraid of causing trouble to the young master?"
Su Chen said casually: "What's there to be afraid of? You have to remember that we are here to steal their gold. If they don't hear about it, just kill them. There is no need to reason with the barbarians!
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"yes!"
Following Su Chen's instructions, Lao Zhuang took action quickly.
Things progressed faster than he expected, and the task was still completed very smoothly.
There are quite a few people in this small town who can speak Datang dialect.
I heard that they came from the Tang Dynasty and were heavily armed. The barbarians were scared to death.
They basically asked and said what they asked, and were very cooperative. None of the plans prepared in advance were put to use.
It only took him two hours to successfully complete the task assigned by Su Chen.
After returning, Lao Zhuang immediately came over to report.
"The current situation in the Japanese country is exactly as the young master guessed. It is simply a mess!"
"The Soga clan and the Mononobe clan have been fighting with many small clans, and not even the king of Japan can stop them."
"It is said that the most lively fighting place is not far from our current location. We only need to travel more than fifty miles north. In Chinese parlance, there is a city called Sangyu where a decisive battle is currently taking place!"
"Both sides are using their best talents to determine the outcome in this battle!"
Su Chen asked with some confusion: "Sang Yu?"
"Are you sure it's called this name?"
"Yes, Master De."
Lao Zhuang nodded and said: "I was worried that they were talking nonsense, so I asked several people to ask questions, and the results were exactly the same!"
Su Chen nodded and continued to ask: "Do they know the scale of the war?"
Upon hearing this, Lao Zhuang's expression suddenly became a little strange.
"The Japanese people said that nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses were dispatched by both sides, and the elites of the two clans were deployed. Whoever wins this decisive battle will become the first noble of the Japanese country..."
Everyone listening to the two men talking was dumbfounded!
The final battle?
Each side dispatched 20,000 troops and horses, so the total number was only 40,000.
Can this also be called a decisive battle?
Although these people are not good at using force, they are all from the Jinwu Guards and are very familiar with fighting. Naturally, they know the scale of the battle between these 40,000 people.
It’s just like playing house!
Before the Eastern Turks and Tubo were destroyed, the number of troops dispatched for each harassment war at the border was around 30,000 to 40,000, which could only be regarded as a small group of troops. Unexpectedly, in the Japanese country, it became a national war...
Everyone looked at each other, a little dumbfounded.
Su Chen was not surprised at all when he heard the news.
A few decades later, the Japanese country officially entered a feudal society and established a country following the example of the Tang Dynasty. The whole country could barely mobilize an army of 60,000. After being killed by the Tang army, it took more than thirty years to recover.
vitality.
Now their entire country together probably only has a million people, less than one-tenth of the Tang Dynasty.
These two clans can dispatch 40,000 people, which is already a very exaggerated thing for the Japanese people.
According to Su Chen's calculations, excluding these 40,000 people, the Japanese country should not have much of an army.
Looking at it this way, the king of Japan was really frustrated because he didn't even have a decent army under his command.
"Master, what should we do next?" Lao Zhuang continued to ask.
"set sail!"
Su Chen said: "Let's also go to Sangyu City, move all the wooden boxes to the hot air balloon, prepare according to the previous grouping, and let's add fuel to this decisive battle!"
As soon as he finished speaking, things started to get busy on the inside.
Fifty-one hot air balloons were neatly arranged on the deck, wooden boxes containing cannonballs were carried up one by one, and coal was fully prepared.
The battleship sets sail again!
The distance of more than fifty miles is not that far, and with the current wind direction just right, it only took more than an hour for the warship to arrive.
After docking, Su Chen finally understood something.
What Sangyu!
Isn’t this Fujiwara Kyo?
That is what became Nara.
This is a royal city!
How dare these two clans dare to fight in the royal city?
I really don’t take this generation of kings seriously...
In this situation, Su Chen suddenly became excited!
What a coincidence that he came!
If it had come later, by the time this war was over, the king of Japan would have stepped down and the feudal system would have begun to be established.
This is a very crucial war.
It was from this time that the Japanese country began to develop slowly.
