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Chapter 475 Supporting the Shogunate Plan

The Kyushu Army has nine infantry regiments and one guard regiment.The Second Corps and the Guards Corps were near the capital, and the rest of the Corps were assigned to guard various places. Facing the vast territory, the strength of the troops was really stretched.

As early as on the way to eliminate the Dashun Army, Chu Yun had already wanted to intervene in the affairs of the Eastern Kingdom, but Chu Yun was powerless, and attacked the Dashun Army and Nanming at the same time, from the capital to Nanjing, Sichuan, Yunnan and other places, occupying A large number of troops in his hands.Even for quite a long period of time, Chu Yunlian's troops guarding the vicinity of the capital were only about a few thousand.Only after Yunnan and other places were pacified, the overall situation was settled, and the Kyushu Army reorganized, Chu Yun was able to gather two corps near the capital, with 3 people guarding the capital.

It may be far less than the number of troops defending the capital in the past dynasties, but these 3 people have the most sophisticated weapons in the world, which makes Chu Yun feel more at ease than the infantry in the era of [-] cold weapons.And now that Monan Mongolia and Moxi Mongolia are attached to the Central Plains, the threat from the north that the Ming Dynasty has suffered since its founding has disappeared.

Chu Yun looked at the map, and there were only a handful of big forces nearby, and almost none that could pose a threat to the Kyushu Army. As long as his internal affairs were stable, he could go around and bully the surrounding forces.

"There is Moxi Mongolia in the northwest, Siberia may encounter Tsarist Russia in the west, Koryo and Dongying in the east, and Annan Kingdom, Toungoo Dynasty, and Siam in the south. In addition to the distant Tsarist Russia, Moxi Mongolia, Koryo, Dongying, An Nanguo and these places are areas where we have been influenced by our Chinese civilization, and are within the scope of Zhongzhou in our Great Kyushu plan. This time we will start with Dongying Kingdom first, and take the lead in increasing the influence of our Chinese civilization in Dongying Kingdom." Chu Yun With a slender baton, he pointed to the island of Honshu on the map of East Asia hanging in the middle of the hall.

This is a map drawn by the Map Department based on Chu Yun's dictation, the memories of the talents summoned by the system, and the map brought by the missionaries. The accuracy of the map is already very high.

"I initially divided it into four steps. The first step is to intervene in the internal war of Dongying Kingdom and seek more land and privileges in the war. The second step is to use the acquired privileges to annex their domestic market and control All economic lifeline industries and scarce resources. The third step is to set up private schools there to teach Sinology, and provide some new courses to improve the influence of Sinology private schools, and at the same time promote the positioning of our Chinese culture as aristocratic culture. The fourth step is to After the cultural influence is deep, seek to absorb them.” Chu Yun proposed a four-step plan for foreign colonization.

From military to economic to cultural and finally political unity.Chu Yun knew that such an expansion path was more thorough than direct violence.Direct conquest by force will only produce hatred among civilizations, just like after Genghis Khan conquered Central Asia, West Asia and other places, the Mongolian Empire was soon torn apart after Genghis Khan’s death, and the Central and West Asian civilization that hated Mongolia carried out a tragic attack on Mongolian civilization revenge.

Some of the high-ranking military officers in the audience listened to Chu Yun's advice, and their hearts were overwhelmed!Perhaps in the past dynasties, no emperor has been able to look down on the world like this, and regard all the forces around him as objects of cannibalism!And it also proposed a huge plan that has never been seen since the Chinese civilization!
This means that they, as military officers, can change from senior military officers of a country to the most powerful group of commanders in human history who control the whole world!
"Master, according to the intelligence of our military department, Dongying Kingdom is now divided into a group of shoguns, who occupy the land in the east and north of Dongying Kingdom, and a faction of the Allied Forces. They marched from the southwest and gradually conquered Kyushu Island, Shikoku Island, The western and central parts of Honshu Island own half of the territory of the Eastern Kingdom. At present, the Fallen Allied Forces have secretly cultivated new troops and new firearms. In addition, some people are dissatisfied with the decision of the Shogunate to cede Yokohama, and they have joined the Fallen Allied Forces. The upper hand. The shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu retreated to Edo Castle, if there is no reinforcements, it is very likely that Edo Castle will be captured by the coalition forces." Military Adviser Zhao Youguang said.

"How many main forces are there in the fallen coalition forces? How many people are there in the Tokugawa shogunate?" A senior officer asked.

"Our staff estimates that the number of new-style troops of the fallen coalition army is less than 2. Apart from the firearms purchased from us in the past few years, some of these [-] soldiers use their imitated firearms and old-style matchlock guns. However, they copied our training methods and were more disciplined than the shogunate soldiers, so they were able to win many battles and defeated the shogunate army led by Tadakatsu Sakai and Iemitsu Tokugawa in two major battles in Kyoto and Osaka." Zhao Youguang said.Apparently he had made full intelligence preparations for this meeting.

Among the senior officials of the Kyushu Army, everyone knew that when Chu Yun entered the pass to attack the Dashun Army, he heard that there was a movement to collapse the Dongying Kingdom, and he had long intended to intervene in Dongying's affairs.So Chu Yun's decision was expected.They were ready to enter Japan in advance.

"The Shimadzu family is not simple. As soon as they knew our power is strong, they sent samurai to study abroad and bought new firearms from us. They must have secretly observed our drills and exercises in the past few years, and then used them to train new troops. Above. Not only that, they even united with Tosa, Changzhou, Higo and other vassal states to train the new army, which shows that Shimadzu Tadahiro is an old fox." Chu Yun was quite emotional.

Even he didn't expect the Shimadzu family to make good use of the opportunity of cooperating with the Kyushu Army to make themselves the most powerful daimyo other than the Tokugawa shogunate, and the most rare thing is that he knew that with the power of the Satsuma domain Still unable to compete with the Tokugawa shogunate or even the Kyushu army, he pulled a group of daimyos around him into the rising chariot, hoping that Dongying Kingdom could catch up with the train of this change.

"They have been holding back until we entered the customs and did not take any action. It seems that they are afraid of us intervening in the affairs of Dongying Kingdom. I heard that Dongying Kingdom has just ended the chaotic Warring States Period, and Shimadzu Tadahiro survived that chaotic era. Veteran, he also participated in the Wanli War with our Ming Dynasty and Goryeo, so he must know how big a threat a unified and prosperous China is to them, so he took precautions early." The Third Corps dispatched from Jiangbei and Xuzhou Deputy Corps Commander Lu Xiangsheng said.

The head of the Third Corps was promoted by Liu Xingzuo, who had done a lot of hard work, and Lu Xiangsheng, as the number one person recognized by Chu Yun, was appointed as the deputy head of the Third Corps.

(End of this chapter)