Great Ming National Teacher

At the same time that Lu Xiangsheng occupied Kyushu Island, Yuan Shu was also attacking Hokkaido.

Unlike the gathering of merchants in Kyushu Island, the power of the Tibetans here in Beihai is relatively weak, but there used to be Ainu people living here. The living areas of this family are mainly in Sakhalin Island, Hokkaido, and some islands in between. The terrain is in the north, and the winter is relatively cold. During the Sengoku period in Japan, few daimyos came here, but after the shogunate established the unified country, it was also ruled by the shogunate, but the Ainu people did not get along so well with other Japanese... ...Yuan Shu took advantage of this and asked the Ainu people on Sakhalin Island to contact the Ainu people on Hokkaido Island to make them surrender to Ming Dynasty.

When Yuan Shu first came to Sakhalin Island, the Japanese had already occupied the southern part of the island first, but their forces were weak and were easily wiped out by the North Sea Fleet. At present, the Ming army has been operating in Sakhalin Island for more than two years, building cities, ports, Roads, primary schools, and the original Feiyaka, Hezhen, and Ainu peoples on the island have all integrated into China. Some went to Beijing to receive education or work, and those who were unwilling to leave, the state loaned them new-style fishing boats to fish. Or directly join the Ming army. There are people from these ethnic groups in the Marine Corps of the Beihai Fleet. Yuan Shu sent them to Hokkaido Island to lobby some Tibetan lords and people who were oppressed by the Japanese.

The conquest battle of Hokkaido Island was different from that of Kyushu Island. The Ming army on Kyushu Island did not directly participate in the battle. Yuan Shu of Hokkaido Island first sent warships to the Tsugaru Strait between Hokkaido Island and Honshu Island to completely seal it off. Heijiao led four ships Patrol Yaksha, four killer whale ships, and 32 sea shark ships lined up, like hungry sea behemoths, lurking in the dark sea, quietly waiting for the prey released by Honshu Island to appear.

After splitting Hokkaido Island, Yuan Shu ordered all [-] marines to land on the island. Under the leadership of the guide, the three divisions were like a steel knife, directly inserted into the heart of the island. The Japanese lords organized military resistance. The war is limited, if you have tens of thousands of people, it is considered a large-scale war. Fan lords, when they saw the Ming army landed, they immediately summoned warriors. The Ming army besieged the island for two years. Died of starvation, the Tibetan lords knew that the Ming army was preparing for a thunderbolt attack, and they were always on alert, not daring to relax for a moment. This time, in addition to the samurai they raised, farmers and craftsmen from their respective domains were also mobilized to fight against the Ming army together.

War has always been the best way to temper soldiers. Just like China's Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period, there were many famous generals. Japan's Warring States Period also produced many famous military strategists, and the overall combat level has risen by one level compared with before the Warring States Period. Grades, including smelting technology, forging technology, armor making technology, etc., have also been greatly improved.

However, due to the limitations of Japan's population and land area, as well as land resources and other aspects, all improvements are very limited, even compared with the original Ming Dynasty, let alone it has experienced rapid development. In the Ming Dynasty of the ten-year industrial revolution, the weapons used by the Japanese army, except for the more famous swords and ribs, mostly used katana swords, and some muskets were filled with gunpowder, iron beads or iron sand, and then ignited and fired. Neither is the flintlock. It is still in the age of arquebus. Facing the rifles that the Ming army began to gradually automate into the city, as well as the smaller and smaller field guns and mortars, there is no way to fight back.

Within half an hour of the sound of gunfire and artillery, the Japanese army collapsed, leaving corpses all over the ground, most of which were left by the warriors who chanted slogans and were loyal to the master.

While the Japanese army was fighting the Ming army on the front line, the Ainu people in the various vassal states began to rebel, linking up with other ethnic groups, and even the Japanese civilians took up arms to attack the territory of the lords, and rushed into the lords one by one. They robbed their homes, robbed their property, and killed their family members, from top to bottom, men, women, old and young, without leaving any chickens or dogs behind!

The war on Hokkaido was not as severe as that on Kyushu, and the number of casualties was far less than on Kyushu, but it took a long time, and the battle was not completed. The Ming army occupied the main towns, and then broke up the marines and organized Many young and middle-aged people were militias, and surrounded and suppressed the remnants of the wealthy and stubborn remnants. It was not until the end of the 13th year of Chongzhen that all the rebellious forces were wiped out.

The Ming army completely controlled Kyushu Island and Hokkaido, and the two fleets of the North and the South tightened their grip on Japan. The warships circled the remaining two islands of Japan and fired on the shore every day, especially in the autumn of the 13th year of Chongzhen, when the crops were harvested. They fired artillery and set fire, and even landed briefly, destroying houses, farms, and crops on the island.

This is a bit similar to the way Japanese pirates harassed the generation along the southeast coast of China back then, except that the Japanese pirates used to rob things and kill people along the way, while the Ming army did it for the sake of sabotage. As long as no one came to stop them, they would not intentionally kill people, but the consequences would be even worse. Seriously, after winter, famine broke out on Honshu Island and Shikoku Island, and then caught up with the volcanic eruption, and earthquakes occurred in many places... The major Tibetan owners used their greatest efforts to exploit the food from their desperate hands. Hiding in the cellar of their own house, raising warriors who obeyed their orders, countless ordinary civilians starved to death, and riots began. In order to suppress, the Tibetan lords needed more resources and food, and this formed a vicious circle. The more riots, the bigger the chaos. The more insecure the Tibetan masters were, the more they had to hoard food and raise more warriors to protect themselves. The more the Tibetan masters did this, the more riots there would be.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng and Yuan Shu went south and north, and started to add fuel to the flames. They didn't have to do anything, they just had to throw swords, spears, strong bows and crossbows on the shore, and if they were picked up, they would use them to rob others. After Yunya received the call, he and Zhu Youjian urgently transferred more than 3 spears, more than 2 long knives, more than 5000 pieces of armor that had grown hair or were eaten by insects, and more than [-] bows that were eliminated. More than [-] arrows were all transported to Lu Xiangsheng by sea cattle.

So many weapons flowed into Japan, and almost all of them fell into the hands of civilians, so more and more riots began. From south to north, from east to west, there were wars everywhere and bloodshed everywhere.

This is Lu Xiangsheng's strategy of suppressing the Japanese. Because the Japanese are fierce and brutal, the island's terrain is complicated, and the population is too large. Form a closed space, and then reduce the living materials on the island as much as possible. In the end, the people on the island will definitely start killing each other in order to fight for the right to survive. Lu Xiangsheng named this strategy, "ten thousand rats compete for food" ", is a deformed version of "Two Tigers Competing for Food".

War is cruel, either you die or I die. As the saying goes, kindness does not control soldiers, and victory with the least casualties is the only ultimate goal that a general should strive to achieve!

This "competitive food" chaos lasted until the next spring, delaying cultivation and production. No one cultivated, and even if they were planted, they would be robbed by others. In summer and autumn, the famine became more serious, and corpses were everywhere. The situation where everyone cannibalize each other, and after catching up with a few typhoons, the environment can no longer persist. The Tokugawa shogunate tried their best to stabilize the situation and sent out the remaining ships. Even the fishing boats went to the battlefield. Fight to the death.

This is the second large-scale naval battle since Tomorrow's Battle. Unlike the previous one where the battle was concentrated in the Sea of ​​Japan, this time the battle was relatively fragmented, starting from Yokohama near Tokyo, along the border between Shikoku Island and Honshu Island. In the strait, there are warships fighting all the way to Kyushu Island, the sound of guns is rumbling, and the sound of gunfire is dense. Dozens of iron-clad ships of the Ming Dynasty are rampaging. The fire dragon's nest was opened, and rockets were fired condescendingly, burning up the Japanese ships in pieces.

The naval battle lasted for two days, and the Japanese ships were either sunk or captured by boarding. It can be said that the entire army was wiped out.

The failure of the Japanese army directly led to the decline of the power of the shogunate, and the prestige was severely damaged. The local lords revolted one after another, the ronin ran amok, the country was torn apart, and it returned to the Warring States era of fighting each other again.

At this time, the Tibetan master sent people to contact the Ming army three times in a row, willing to convert to Ming Dynasty, hoping to be canonized by the Emperor of Ming Dynasty.

Lu Xiangsheng proposed that they should make meritorious service before they could receive rewards, and he promised to sell them guns. These Tibetan owners immediately bought guns with all the family belongings accumulated by their ancestors like chicken blood. Bullets, some take ancestral jade, some take family heirloom knives, there are all kinds of things, of course the most direct way is to buy them with silver. Japan has silver mines, but the stock is not very large, and it has been mined later. Japan The metal resources in the country are relatively scarce, but there is still a large amount of copper, the most of which are sulfur, coal, limestone, etc. Lu Xiangsheng used the [-]-ton large elephant cargo ship produced in Geoje Island to load these things on board, one ship at a time. Shipping back to the country.

The Tibetan lords got more advanced flintlock guns and granulated gunpowder fixed bullets, all of which were like chicken blood, screaming and killing to Tokyo, fighting with the shogunate for a few months, as the saying goes, the tiger can't stand the pack of wolves , the shogunate was finally defeated by the partnership of the lords, the Tokugawa family was ransacked and exterminated, and the accumulated property was divided up by several great feudal lords.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng took out the rewards, the title of a Japanese king, and the titles of four generals, and let them divide them by themselves. Dao, think about it, the Japanese king must be in command of the whole of Japan, and the four generals can only be ranked under the Japanese king... Soon, a powerful Japanese leader was assassinated by a ninja, and another melee broke out , I ran out of bullets in my hand, so I exchanged resources with the Ming army.

Lu Xiangsheng received a letter from Li Yunya asking him to solve the Japanese problem as soon as possible, and even frantically sold the old-fashioned grenade, which was the early-rising grenade made by Li Yunya when he was in Chongzhen for two or three years. The kind where all the nails jumped out exacerbated the melee between the major lords, and turned a good Edo city into ruins.