Qiming 1158

Chapter 1647 The War Begins

With the sound of the mobilization horn, a large number of materials were sent to Busan from various regions of Korea in an orderly manner for storage.

The locals in Busan began to mobilize in an all-round way and were ordered to build a large number of warehouses and temporary barracks to prepare for the temporary rectification after the arrival of the army.

They do not contradict this work, because not only are they guaranteed food rations, but they can also receive wages. The established collective farm system also allows them to not worry about their agricultural harvest being affected, and collective farms will give them a guarantee.

Therefore, the construction period was carried out quickly and the quality was very good.

Xin Qiji arrived at Busan Port by boat across the sea in early April.

Hu Wei and other major Korean executives all went to Busan to work nearby.

Kong Zhende and other major commanders of the North Sea Division led the entire North Sea Division to station around the Port of Busan.

As the commander of the Fifth Corps and the deputy commander-in-chief of the crusade, Su Jue will follow the last army to arrive in the Busan area.

In mid-April, the General Headquarters of the Ming Army Crusade Campaign was established in Busan Port, and the overall command of the Crusade Army, the Fifth Corps, was officially established, and the war command system began to be established.

On April [-], the last Ming army, led by Su Jue, the deputy commander-in-chief of the crusade, arrived at the Port of Busan.

At this point, the two armies of the Ming army, the navy and the land, have all arrived in the Busan area and are ready for combat. As long as the general headquarters issues the final action order, the action can be launched in accordance with the action order.

This crusade against Japan was another large-scale campaign in the Ming Dynasty several years after the crusade against the Western Regions.

In this battle, 11 combat troops were mobilized, about 24 civilian laborers, auxiliary soldiers and other logistics personnel were mobilized, and a total of 35 people were mobilized.

In addition to human mobilization, other aspects of mobilization are also very large.

For example, war horses, rough horses, donkeys, mules, etc. were used to fight, 12 livestock were transported, more than [-] vehicles of various types were used for transportation, [-] sea warships were used, and more than [-] ships of various types were used for transportation.

For this war, the Ming Kingdom has carried out extremely complete and huge military mobilization and material preparations. All indicators are prepared for the indicators of the war of annihilation, and even surpassed Japan's overall resistance peak in some aspects.

Even if Japan has the ability to mobilize and create a resistance army that is more than twice the total strength of the Ming army, the Ming army is sure to defeat them all.

All in all, this battle was destined to unfold from the moment Hu Wei's five-year plan was completed, and the fate of Japan was also doomed at this moment.

On April 23, the general command of the crusade campaign summarized the reports from all aspects and confirmed that all preparations for this battle had been completed. Xin Qiji, the commander-in-chief of the crusade campaign, held the last pre-war review meeting to ensure that all parties were fully prepared.

On April 24, Xin Qiji issued an order to mobilize troops.

In the early morning of April 25th, the Ming army swore an oath, and Xin Qiji read out the six sins of the Heira regime in Japan, announcing the strategic goal of formally attacking the Heira regime and liberating Japan.

At the beginning of noon that day, the main force of the Beihai Division attacked under the command of Kong Zhende.

The 13th Division of the No.37 Army, together with the main force of the North Sea Division, attacked Tsushima Island in preparation for World War I. It landed on Tsushima Island in World War I and used it as a springboard for the army to attack Kyushu Island and Honshu Island.

When the Ming army officially attacked, Abilyu Guozhong, the ruler of Tsushima Island, had no idea that the Ming army was planning to attack them.

Tsushima Island is very close to the Koryo mainland. It has already started business exchanges with the Koryo region a long time ago, and the two places have maintained official and private business relations for a long time.

After the Ming Dynasty unified the whole country, Japan defined the main trade route as the route from the Seto Inland Sea to Quanzhou. The trade route from Tsushima Island to Koryo basically belonged to the regional trade between Tsushima Island and the small area of ​​Koryo. It is only a branch in the overall situation of Japanese commerce and trade.

Tsushima Island is small in size, with poor soil and few products. It needs to trade with Korea to obtain necessary materials. Therefore, it has always attached great importance to this trade route, and it also has good connections in coastal cities in southern Korea.

However, after the Ming Dynasty entered Goryeo and implemented a large-scale democratic revolutionary system, the Japanese businessmen on Tsushima Island were forced to leave their commercial residence with the Goryeo fugitives and returned to Tsushima Island and Japan due to the situation.

Local businessmen may not care much about this route, but Tsushima must not lose this trade route.

A year after they were all evacuated, the ruler of Tsushima, Abilyu Guochuan, tried to send someone to negotiate with Goryeo to restore business relations.

At this time, Hu Wei, who was in charge of Goryeo, took into account the need to deal with Japan in the future, and he could not let them be on guard too early, so he decided not to allow Tsushima merchants to arrive at Goryeo's native port, and only allow them to conduct operations on Jeju Island in the southwest waters of Goryeo. trading.

The trade between the two sides can continue, but it must be transferred to Jeju Island as a transit point, and Japanese businessmen are not allowed to set foot in Korea.

In fact, the impact of this matter is not very big from an economic point of view. As long as the trade can continue, it is nothing more than a change in the trade route. After a while, you will get used to it.

However, the fact that Hu Wei, who was in charge of Goryeo, did not allow Japanese merchant ships to arrive in Goryeo, aroused the attention and concern of Abiryu Guozhong. He suspected that the Ming Dynasty, who ruled Goryeo, might have some degree of dissatisfaction with Japan, so he reported the matter to Peaceful Qingsheng.

After Ping Qingsheng learned about the matter, he didn't pay much attention to it, feeling that it was no big deal, and instructed Abi to stay with Guozhong to maintain the situation, not to conflict with the Ming Kingdom, and then leave it alone.

Ping Qingsheng didn't care, and Abi stayed in the country after thinking about it and could only stop looking into it. He just instructed his subordinates to inquire about the specific information from those familiar Korean businessmen while they were doing business in Jeju Island.

But the idea didn't work out.

The Koryo merchants who had a little relationship with them before had already gained a considerable part of Tsushima Island during the Ming army's attack on Koryo.

There are only one or two people alive who are still engaged in maritime trade, and they are not merchants, but translators and guides familiar with the road, providing services for merchants from the Ming Kingdom who come to Jeju Island to trade.

It is no longer the local merchants of Goryeo who do business with the merchants of Tsushima Island, but the merchants of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the trade with the merchants from the Falkland Islands and the Ming Kingdom was quite good. The trade results were not small, and they made a lot of money. Abi Liu Guozhong gradually indulged in the successful trade.

After the Ming Dynasty controlled the trade on Tsushima Island, the goods imported into Tsushima Island increased and the quality improved. The merchants of the Ming Dynasty were honest and trustworthy, paid attention to morality, and pursued the long-term development of business, so the relationship with the merchants on Tsushima Island was is very good.

Feeling this, Abi Liu Guozhong's worries and precautions towards the Ming Kingdom gradually disappeared.

Until the middle of March [-], when a caravan returned from Jeju Island to report the transaction results to him, he mentioned that they saw a lot of large ships crossed Jeju Island and headed for the mainland of Korea.

It looked a bit like a battleship. The ships were very large, something they had never seen before, and there were about thirty ships in number.

Abi Liu Guozhong didn't care about this. He was planning to further promote trade with the Ming Kingdom, and was thinking of inviting some Ming merchants to visit Tsushima to confirm more and larger trade lists.

On the contrary, his son Abi Liu Cathay had a little idea about this.

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