Li Zhi stood in the imperial palace of Edo Castle Honmaru, looking at the huge map of Japan hanging on the wall.
This map of Japan was drawn by Zheng Kaida who hired spies in Japan over the years. It shows Japan's mountain geography, roads and rivers in very fine detail.
Even the locations of the mountains in the Koshinetsu area are marked on the map, making it clear at a glance.
Li Zhi pointed at Jiaxin's position in Vietnam with a stick and said, "Has Jiang Chong stopped advancing?"
Zhong Feng cupped his hands and replied: "Your Highness, the ronin warriors gathered in the mountains and forests and may ambush our troops at any time. When Jiang Chong reached the mouth of Konoha, he could still find a river valley to meet the enemy. He fought a great victory there and annihilated a group of soldiers.
There are thousands of Japanese samurai. But if we go further, there are no valleys without mountains and forests. They are all rolling mountains. If we fight with the samurai in the mountains and forests, I am afraid our casualties will become very large."
"So after comprehensive consideration, Jiang Chong stopped advancing and stationed himself at Konoha Pass to wait and see the situation."
Li Zhi thought for a while and asked: "How many soldiers and horses are needed to forcefully invade the mountains and forests and annihilate the stubborn warriors?"
Zhong Feng raised his hands and said: "According to reports from the front, after 10,000 warriors in the Koshinetsu area were killed, there are probably more than 30,000 people left. If we don't care about the casualties, dispatching 40,000 people is enough to annihilate these warriors."
After taking a breath, Zhong Feng said: "It's just your prince, fighting in the mountains and forests, there is no vision. Once the soldiers encounter an ambush, they will enter hand-to-hand combat after firing two shots, and the lives of the soldiers will be at stake. I think we mobilize 40,000 people into the mountains."
, there is no problem in winning the war, but there will be at least 10,000 casualties. Since the founding of our Huben Army, we have never suffered such heavy casualties."
Li Zhi looked at the mountains on the map and frowned.
The rolling mountainous areas of Japan are indeed very tricky. Although Li Zhi had a hundred thousand tiger troops, he was not willing to use 10,000 people as cannon fodder.
Zheng Kaicheng looked at Li Zhi's face and said: "Your Majesty, I think it would be better if we don't rush to wipe out the thieves and samurai in this mountainous area first. It doesn't hurt to let them control the Koshinyue Mountains. After leaving the Koshinyue Mountains, other places in Japan are now
They are gradually coming under our control, and in another month we will be able to actually control 90% of Japan's land."
Zheng Kaida pointed to the map and said: "The Kaga Domain in the north of central Japan is vulnerable. It was invaded by 10,000 troops led by Zu Dashou three days ago. The Kaga Domain has 5,000 iron gunners, but they are all old-fashioned matchlock guns.
, we didn’t even have a chance to shoot in front of our standard rifles. The lord of Kaga Domain died in the battle on the castle tower, and all the samurai below the lord have fled or surrendered."
"We did not spare the warriors who defended the city lightly. We killed more than 2,000 people after breaking the city."
Zheng Kaida crossed the Kinki Plain to the west with another fingernail and said: "The Tokugawa family of Owari Domain has been attacked and destroyed by Xue Sanku, deputy commander of the Chosen Division. The castle built by the Tokugawa family is very high, but it is vulnerable to mortars.
It was like a target. After Xue Sanku laid siege to the city, it only took half a day to blow up the castle tower of Nagoya Castle."
"After the fall of the Owari clan, we killed more than a thousand samurai who defended the city."
"Because of our iron-blooded policy, the small feudal towns around Kaga Domain and Owari Domain are very afraid. In the Kinki Plain, more than twenty small feudal towns have voluntarily surrendered and handed over their territory."
"In the northeastern part of Japan, our troops are also overwhelming."
Zheng Kaicheng finally said: "I'm afraid that in just one month, the entire Japan except Koshinetsu will be pacified."
After hearing Zheng Kaicheng's report, Li Zhi nodded.
Li Zhi had never worried about the local vassal towns in Japan before, and he would not worry about them in the future. These small vassal towns had backward weapons and outdated military ideas, and were no match for the Huben Army. The Huben Army basically swept through these small vassal towns and wiped out the entire Japan.
Just a matter of time.
What worries Li Zhi more is Japanese farmers.
Now that Li Zhi has killed the Emperor of Japan, Japanese farmers are very hostile to Li Zhi, and Li Zhi is worried that there will be one after another peasant uprisings.
After listening to Zheng Kaicheng's report, Li Zhi said: "Let's go out of the city and see the situation of the farmers."
Zheng Kaicheng and Zhong Feng sang the promise loudly, followed Li Zhi out of the imperial palace, and rode towards the countryside outside Edo Castle.
The Japanese regard rice as the best food and plant rice wherever they can be reclaimed as paddy fields. It is already mid-September and the rice in the fields has matured. Outside Edo City is the Kanto Plain, the great plain of Japan.
, the fertile wilderness is thousands of miles away, and at a glance you can only see a golden field of mature rice.
The rice undulates with the wind, like a golden ocean.
Li Zhi walked into a village and saw villagers preparing agricultural machinery.
The first people to enter the village were Li Zhi's personal guards, who took control of various important places in the village. Then the ceremonial personnel holding ceremonial guards followed into the village. Although Li Zhi had kept everything simple, he also used more than 20 people to guard the village.
I held a guard of honor before and after, and the various umbrellas and flags were very gorgeous.
Seeing Li Zhi's gorgeous royal guard entering, the villagers in the village hid in their houses. However, Li Zhi came to understand the people's sentiments, how could he let the farmers hide? The guards waved their waist knives and drove the farmers away.
Evicted from the house.
More than a hundred farmers, both male and female, knelt in front of Li Zhi.
Unlike the gorgeously dressed samurai, Japanese farmers were very poor.
They were wearing tattered clothes, covered with patches. They had no shoes on their feet, so they were all barefoot.
The hair in the middle of their heads was shaved off like a samurai, and they had the same "tsukiyo" hairstyle as the samurai. However, the peasants did not take care of their hair often, and short hair grew on their heads that should have been bare.
, looks very rough and unseemly.
The poverty of Japanese farmers can also be seen from their houses. The houses built by these farmers are all thatched houses, without even a brick. The only ones with tile roofs in the whole village are the three samurai courtyards in the middle.
The samurai courtyard has wooden walls and black tiles, probably for the local "ground servant" samurai.
Of course, those warriors had already fled at this time and hid in the mountains somewhere.
Li Zhi walked to the kneeling farmer and sat on a chair.
Looking at the Japanese farmers, Li Zhi asked loudly: "Japanese people, what do you think of my king deposing the emperor?"
The translator translated Li Zhi's words into Japanese and asked the Japanese farmers loudly.
Upon hearing the translator's question, the atmosphere of the farmers on the ground suddenly changed.
They stared at each other for a while, their faces becoming more and more excited. Some young people even breathed loudly and knelt on the ground, seeming to suppress their resentment with great strength.
For the Japanese, the emperor is their god, but this god was killed by Li Zhi. So far, Li Zhi has no plan to support a new emperor.
Suddenly a young farmer raised his head and shouted: "The Emperor is on board!"
Hearing the farmer's roar, the other two young farmers also shouted and said: "The emperor is on board! On board!"
"Onboard!"
The roars of these young farmers were so contagious that they seemed to incite other farmers.
However, their roar could not last. Li Zhi's soldiers rushed into the middle of the farmers and thrust their swords into the bodies of the three farmers.
