Japan is now in the Warring States Period, but the Muromachi shogunate basically unified the north and south. There is a very funny thing. On China, there is an adjective about the chaos during the Warring States Period in Japan.

Village war.

It means that wars between various forces are equivalent to wars between various villages in China.

Why do you say so?

The Muromachi Shogunate's direct troops were only about 5,000, and they were divided into five branches to protect the general imperial ward in Kyoto, that is, there were only 1,000 people in one branch.

This is still the strongest Muromachi shogunate. How many other famous military forces can there be?

So it is no exaggeration to say that it is a village war.

After all, a small country.

The population is there. If you only have a small population, you can only support a small army. Because Japan is limited by resources for a long time, there will be people who cannot survive and become Japanese pirates.

Of course, among the Japanese pirates, regular military forces do robbery under the banner of pirates.

In other words.

In fact, the Japanese navy's strength is still quite considerable.

Because the Ming Dynasty beat Japan was known to everyone, especially the establishment of the War Preparation Department, Yoshihisa Ashikaga felt the danger, so the grandson was married and the three Zhu family members were assassinated at the same time.

And during this period, all the Japanese pirates along the coast of China disappeared.

There is only one reason.

All of them were recalled to Japan by Ashikaga Yoshiki.

There is an operation here. These pirates and Japanese pirates do not listen to Ashikaga Yoshitsuka, so it sounds very simple, but in fact, Ashikaga Yoshitsuka has been busy for a long time.

He needs to convince those famous and powerful military forces to unite against the enemy.

Of course, this is not difficult.

Because of the Ming Dynasty's external expansion, everyone can see that the Mobei and the Jin Horde were defeated, and after destroying the hidden danger of Jurchens, North Korea asked to return.

Even Bangladesh, which is west of the Indochina Peninsula, was beaten by the Ming Dynasty.

So, the only thing that needs to be fought in the Ming Dynasty is actually Japan left - you are harassing my Ming Dynasty's border every year, who will you hit if the Ming Dynasty doesn't hit you?

So it was almost effortless to convince Japanese military forces.

Everyone understands the principle of losing lips and cold teeth.

What's more, the Muromachi shogunate originally unified the north and south of Japan, and is considered a complete country.

In this case, you have three or five thousand "village soldiers", I have three or five hundred and two thousand "village soldiers", and dozens of forces combined, and there are about one hundred thousand people.

Of course, there are not many elites.

Moreover, because they knew that the Ming Dynasty was coming to fight, the Muromachi shogunate was crazy and violent during this period. Now there are about 200,000 troops gathered across the country to deal with this battle of national destruction.

Of course, the first war to come into contact with must be naval warfare.

Therefore, the Japanese pirates and regular navy were integrated early, and they were violent and crazily produced warships, and they formed a huge fleet of about 100 warships.

This is a very large fleet. If the Ming Dynasty had not developed the navy in advance, I was afraid that the Ming Dynasty in history would have to return in a defeat to fight the current Japan.

But there is an embarrassing problem.

There are very few firearms.

But it is not completely none. Japan is a country with strong learning ability. Seeing the Ming Dynasty's firearms so crazy and arrogant over the years, how could it not be possible to learn?

So Japan actually has firearms.

As for where its firearms come from, on the one hand, they are old-fashioned firearms purchased outside, and on the other hand, they imitate and produce them themselves. In the Japanese army, the number of firearms is actually not small.

However, due to the limitations of resources and population and manpower, it is not as crazy as the Ming Dynasty.

But even so.

Among the 150,000 infantry forces in Japan, the number of people with firearms reached about 20,000, and there were also artillery. More than half of the fleets of more than 100 warships were equipped with artillery.

It was also learning from the Ming Dynasty to develop firearms that gave Ashikaga Yoshi's confidence and did not want to learn from Li Ji to be a "traitor" general, so he brazenly launched the assassination of the grandson's wedding.

In other words, this is a battle for students to fight against teachers.

Fortunately, too.

The industrialization process and external expansion process of the Ming Dynasty were relatively fast. During this period, the war against Japan was launched. If it was about ten years later, I was afraid that Japan would have learned from the Ming Dynasty and all its employees would be fired.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty would pay a greater price.

Now that the Ming Navy has arrived in the waters outside Matsuura, Ashikaga Yoshiki actually arrived here very early. According to the terrain of the Ming Dynasty, North Korea and Japan, Ashikaga Yoshiki analyzed that if the Ming Dynasty wanted to attack Japan, it must have landed from the south.

So he arrived at Danai early.

The Ouchi connects Matsuura to the south and Niko to the north, so it can be very good to go up and down the south, beware of the situation of attacking the north and south in the Ming Dynasty, but Ashikaga Yoshitsushi obviously thought too much.

In the Ming Dynasty today, there is no need to play such fancy operations.

So when the Ming fleet arrived at the waters outside Matsuura, Ashikaga Yoshiki immediately led his follow-up troops to the Matsuura area and entered the garrison position. He even personally directed the navy's blocking battle against the Ming Navy in the coastal military facilities.

Anyway, it's the time of naval warfare.

The infantry was useless, and no matter how powerful the Ming navy was, it might destroy the military alms on the shore at sea. Ashikaga Yoshiji came to the forefront with confidence.

At this moment, standing on the top of a hill.

In the distance, you can see your own warships swaying from time to time, but you cannot see the Ming fleet.

The Ming Dynasty's fleet is still on the sea.

If you want to come here, you need to break the interception network composed of more than 100 warships, so Ashikaga Yoshiki didn't believe it at all. The Ming Dynasty could land on five warships.

The soldiers who sent the mission heads back came back to report, and only five warships came to Daming.

And it was led by Zhu Di himself.

Under his command are Zhu Gaoxu, the King of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zhanji, the Grand Grandson of the Ming Dynasty, and the demon minister of the Ming Dynasty, the lineup is so luxurious that it is unbelievable that four of the five most powerful and most prestigious people in the Ming Dynasty came.

So after learning about this situation, Ashikaga Yoshihiro was very angry.

What a guy, do you dare to come to the expedition to Japan for five warships?

Although these five warships are so huge, there are only five after all.

How much contempt is this?

Moreover, Zhu Di was in charge of the army, taking Zhu Gaoxu, Zhu Zhanji and Huangwu with him. He really thought he could win safely. Don’t you know that if you lose, four of the five strongest people in the Ming Dynasty would have to feed the fish in the sea?

But Ashikaga Yoshika is very calm.

He was not angry.

The Ming Dynasty has hardly lost the foreign expansion war in recent years. If it is not sure, it is impossible to easily lead a fleet across the ocean to fight Japan, and Zhu Di would not have taken risks so easily.

Obviously, Zhu Di, Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Zhanji, and the four of them at dusk had great confidence in these five warships.

Did the Ming Dynasty really rely on five warships to destroy more than 100 Japanese fleets?

Ashikaga Yoshiji was a little puzzled.
Chapter completed!