Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 368 The Land of Exile
Horio Tadaharu, lord of the Matsue Domain and ruler of the Izumo Kingdom, was killed in battle.

The lord of the Kaga Domain and the Shogun Maeda Toshitsune committed suicide.

The army of the Tokugawa shogunate was defeated and almost wiped out.

This is not an exaggeration at all.

Horio Tadaharu was indeed dead, and Maeda Toshitsune had indeed committed suicide.

Except for the more than [-] troops who surrendered, almost all of the Tokugawa shogunate army died in battle!

Of course, the battle was not as brutal as imagined. Except for the fact that the shogunate army actually fought two battles with the Shenji Battalion when they attacked An Nong County for the second and third times, the other battles were basically one-sided crushing.

Although the number of the elites of the Shenji Battalion and the iron cavalry of the Shenwu Battalion in Daming is quite terrifying, the casualties themselves are not very large.

Among them, the elite of the Shenji Battalion suffered more than ten thousand casualties, and only a thousand were actually killed.

The iron cavalry of the Shenwu Battalion had fewer casualties, and even fewer were actually killed.

However, the 40 army of the Japanese shogunate was indeed almost wiped out, and it is estimated that few escaped alive.

The demise of Dongpu seems to be only a matter of time. The armies of Shenji Battalion and Shenwu Battalion are already unstoppable on land, and the Dongyang Navy and Beiyang Navy have long since lost their opponents at sea.

Taichang seems to be able to destroy Dongying in one fell swoop as long as it continues to make great strides.

However, he did not do so.

After taking Izumo Kingdom, he stopped there without moving.

Because he was short of people, quite short of people, to be precise, he was short of people stationed at the place and people who took care of the captives.

This is Dongying, the place where Japanese pirates live together.

This kind of place is definitely not finished after being shot down.

If you dare not send people to garrison after the defeat, it is estimated that people will rebel as soon as the army leaves.

And those captives, if there are not enough people to guard them, let alone let them work, it will be considered good if they don't kill you in turn.

Therefore, at this moment, not only do people need to attack the city in the front, but also keep people in the rear.

There are only nine vassal states in Kyushu Island, so he had to call tens of thousands of guards to garrison them, and leave [-] Shenji Battalion infantry to deter the place and guard the captives.

Otherwise, the Xintang Palace may be in chaos.

If calculated in this way, after the 66 countries of Japan are taken down, at least 40 troops will be needed to deter the place and take care of the prisoners.

This is not an exaggeration at all, because if there are not enough troops left to deter the newly occupied area, the Japanese or Japanese pirates will not be honest.

Especially in a place like the Iwami Silver Mine, if he hadn't left tens of thousands of people to guard it, it would be no wonder that the captives who were taken to mine for the mine didn't rebel.

If he really dared to lead the troops of Shenji Battalion and Shenwu Battalion forward all the way, if he really cared about his head and disregarded his back, then it is very likely that as soon as he leads the army to the front, the land he just won behind will be turned upside down!
Don't think about it, absolutely, if the Japanese pirates are so easy to subdue, they won't be called Japanese pirates.

The problem is that the Shenji Battalion and the Shenwu Battalion have a total of 40 troops. If he wants to leave all of them in shocking places, then where will the troops come to expand the territory?

Therefore, he had to stop and expand the army first, or mobilize a large number of guards to garrison the place first, otherwise, the Shenji Camp and the Shenwu Camp would be stuck and they would not be able to continue fighting.

Now he is neither short of money nor food.

The income from the Iwami Silver Mine is enough to support the salaries of 50 million people. As long as Dongfan sends more people to open up wasteland and farm, food will definitely not be a problem.

The problem is, it is not as simple as before for him to mobilize the guards.

Because the coastal guards must be reserved for the navy to prepare, and he has transferred more than half of the inland guards, and most of these are real. At this moment, most of the capital guards in Ming Dynasty still have a lot of vacancies. Woolen cloth.

In other words, there are not many guards in the guards of each capital, and it will take a long time to mobilize tens of thousands of troops.

What to do now?

In the meeting hall on the top floor of the Aegis ship, a group of sailors and infantry generals were quite excited.

Because they have won the battle!

The 40 troops assembled by the Tokugawa shogunate were all wiped out by them, and Japan was basically over. Even if they were ruthless, they would not be able to mobilize so many people at once to fight them desperately.

In other words, it is only a matter of time before Japan is wiped out, and it is certain that all 66 countries of Japan will be included in the territory of Ming Dynasty.

What is the credit for opening up such a large territory?
At that time, it will be no problem for everyone to be named Marquis and Jinjue!
Can they not be excited?
However, when Taichang mentioned the matter of intimidating the place and guarding the prisoners, they lost their excitement in an instant.

They don't want to stay in the back to take care of the prisoners in a deterrent place, they all want to rush to the front to expand the territory!

Question, where will we mobilize so many guards in the near future?
Everyone frowned and pondered for a while, and Lu Xiangsheng, Minister of the Ministry of War, finally said: "Your Majesty, we don't need to mobilize 50 million guards at once. We can mobilize as we go. Anyway, it won't be overnight to win Dongpu. We can After a fight, stop and repair, wait a while, wait until the guards guarding the place are mobilized, and then continue to fight, this will not waste much time."

This is true.

After all, the Tokugawa shogunate did not give up resistance, and it was impossible for them to rush all the way to wipe out Japan in a month or two.

Based on the remaining territory of Japan and their advancing speed, it would be considered good if they could wipe out Japan this year.

In other words, he doesn't need to be too anxious, it's okay to mobilize the guards while fighting.

Taichang nodded slightly, and then couldn't help but sighed: "The problem is that we must at least mobilize tens of thousands of guards to defend Nagato, Zhou Fang, Iwami, Anyi, Izumo, and Iwami Silver Mine. Keep moving forward, otherwise, you will have to leave another [-] soldiers from the Shenji Battalion or the Shenwu Battalion, who of you would like to stay and guard the place?"

Just kidding, what a great opportunity to do meritorious service, who wants to stay behind and stare blankly!
They still remember the sad look in Ma Xianglin's eyes when he was sent to guard Kyushu Island.

Cao Wenzhao led [-] iron cavalry from the Shenwu Battalion to rush over, and they also saw how much military merit they had won.

This contrast is too obvious, no one wants to give up such a good opportunity!
All the generals hurriedly turned their brains to think of a way. They really didn't want to be left behind, not even for a day.

The question is, where will tens of thousands of guards be mobilized at this time?

Suddenly, Sun Zushou had an idea: "Your Majesty, isn't there still fifty thousand guards in Fengyang?"

At the beginning, he, Hu Dawei and others were in charge of staying in Fengyang, but before the conquest of Dongpu this time, the emperor expanded his pro-army massively, so they were transferred to Shenji Camp and Shenwu Camp.

However, the 5 people under their command were left in Fengyang, because there were still a lot of royal families whose titles had been cut off.

He probably felt that those royal families who had their titles cut off were not capable and didn't need so many guards to guard them.

Those people can't even plant the land well, what can they do?
Hearing this, Taichang couldn't help but think of those royal families who lost their titles.

That's right, the vassal princes of the Eighteenth Route should have been pulled over and thrown on a certain island long ago!

In this way, he can solve many hidden dangers.

After all, those royal families who lost their titles are also royal families. Although their status is gone, their identities are not convenient. If they are left in the mainland of Daming, something will happen sooner or later.

Only by throwing them on the island so that they cannot return to Daming can this hidden danger be solved once and for all.

Question, which island should I lose?
Except for Kyushu Island, it seems that there is no such a big island in the territory he won now!

You know, there are only more than 100 million Japanese civilians on Kyushu Island at this moment.

The eighteen princes and their children and grandchildren are as many as hundreds of thousands!
In other words, he had to find at least an island half the size of Kyushu Island to accommodate these people.

The problem is that there are only four big islands in Japan!
It is definitely not acceptable to throw those royal families who have lost their titles to Kyushu Island. That is purely to add chaos to Tang Wang Zhu Yujian.

It is also impossible to lose Honshu Island. Honshu Island is such a big place that it is no problem to feed millions of people. It would be a waste of resources to throw hundreds of thousands of royal families who have lost their titles to Honshu Island.

As for Hokkaido, he doesn't know if it will work, and even if it works, he will have to wait a few months.

Now it seems that the only way to lose the hundreds of thousands of royal families who have lost their titles is to Shikoku Island!

The size of Shikoku Island is just right, and it is also a good choice to attack Shikoku Island next.

Anyway, there are only a few small Japanese princes on Shikoku Island, and they can be taken by sending 10 people over there.

After taking Shikoku Island, he will be able to throw away those royal families who have lost their titles. Next, as long as the guards are sent to guard all the ports connecting Shikoku Island with the outside world, the Eighteenth Route vassals will not be able to play any tricks. up.

And at the moment, Shikoku Island only has a few ports connected to the outside world at most, so there is no need for many people to guard it.

After the [-] guards in Fengyang Mansion were mobilized, most of them didn't need to stay on Shikoku Island to guard them.

That is to say, as long as Shikoku Island is brought down, not only will the vassal king of the Eighteenth Route have a place of exile, but he can also transfer [-] to [-] guards to guard other places.

It took time for them to take down Shikoku Island. If tens of thousands of guards can be added after taking down Shikoku Island, they will not waste much time waiting for the guards.

This is simply serving multiple purposes!

why not?

(End of this chapter)