859 sails north
Once the Ryukyu war machine was activated, it naturally exploded with unstoppable momentum, countless warehouses opened their doors, and logistics officials began to mobilize supplies with a list signed by officials.
Brand new uniforms, freshly opened butter-smeared Mausers, boxes of bullets, loaded into wagons and shipped out. Not to mention the latest individual rations, canned meat, milk chocolate candy and spirits, which are indispensable for fighting in the cold zone.
In the final analysis, the war is about logistics, and in the final analysis, it is the comprehensive strength of a country, of course Xiao Letian knows that the strength of the Ryukyus is not comparable to Russia, but Xiao Letian knows very well that his strength is above the Russian army in the Far East.
Before the completion of the Trans-Siberian Railway, if you want to transfer troops from Europe to the Far East, you have to travel for more than half a year, and the Agubo rebellion in Xinjiang has also attracted a large number of Russian troops, and there are more than 3,000 army and navy in the Far East, and the warships are the oldest models for more than ten days.
If this little force can't be eaten, Xiao Letian will simply abandon all his ambitions and honestly go to North and South America to be a rich man.
Long Ye and Sister Wu took more than ten guards from the Guotou Military Port to board the ship all the way north, before leaving, everyone sprinkled a glass of wine on the statue of the water ghost in the country, if it were not for the water ghosts of Guotou Village to protect the Beishan defense line with their lives, I am afraid that Ryukyu would have been destroyed by the French a long time ago.
The Kunigami has now become a totem of the Ryukyu Navy, symbolizing the spirit of fighting to the death.
"Brothers who ascended to heaven first, I'm going to fight!
The trade route from Ryukyu to Japan was very safe, the island chain led to Kyushu, the telegraph line could be connected to Ryukyu Fuso at any time, and the powerful Ryukyu navy dispersed all the pirates, so the merchants had no worries at all.
Don't even worry about the annual summer hurricanes in the Pacific, there are plenty of sheltered docks built on this chain of islands where ships can be rescued.
The boat sailed all the way north, passing through Kyushu and Shikoku without stopping, although the Shimazu family and the Yamauchi family sent envoys to invite Ryuye ashore for a drink, but they were politely refused.
Long Ye knows very well the thoughts of these daimyos, and all the daimyos in Japan are staring at him with more than a thousand levies, this is a thousand opportunities.
The Japanese samurai were never afraid of war, they were most afraid of no war, and the 200 years of rule of the shogunate allowed the Japanese archipelago to enjoy a long-lost peace, but for the samurai, such a day was hell.
The entire Japanese class has become ossified, what you are born like and what you are like when you die, and the promotion space for the upward mobility of talents has been completely locked.
Back then, Sakamoto Ryoma just wanted to break away from the feudal domain and go to the world by himself, so he almost killed his whole family, and if it weren't for the intercession of countless friends, Sakamoto Ryoma wouldn't have survived at all. In this way, one of Ryoma-kun's sisters was forced to die, that is the real samurai class, you can imagine how miserable the wild samurai at the bottom have lived one by one.
In fact, Xiao Lotian himself didn't expect that after he erected the banner in the Ryukyus, the most excited people were not Chinese but the Japanese, countless wild samurai, pirates, thieves, and ninjas...... There are even side descendants of famous families with names and surnames, all of whom are crazy and rush to the Ryukyus.
In fact, it is just an opportunity for upward mobility, especially since Prime Minister Xiao Cheng has always been both civil and military, and he has not said anything wrong with discriminating against anyone, as long as he has a fair environment, there are many people who are not afraid of death.
The information that Ryuye was going north to Fuso to select a thousand samurai has now spread in southern Japan, and the major names have gathered the young talents of their families to try their best to grab more places.
If a family wants to prosper forever, it can't sit and eat forever, the territory demarcated by the shogunate is just a little stone high, even if it is intensively cultivated, there is a limit, and if you don't work hard to create a new living space, the family will have no future.
The stories of Noheita and Hyotaro have become a legend in Japan, inspiring countless young Japanese samurai.
A ronin swordsman, a Ryukyu pariah, just got the opportunity given by Prime Minister Xiao Cheng, and now he has become the leader of the sword drawing team, and even went to Europe to kill a circle.
Those people even got their own land in the Qing Dynasty, although the land is not much and they do not have the right to operate, but the property rights are very clear.
Being paid a full salary every month and getting the fruits of the land every autumn was a paradise for the Japanese samurai. Unfortunately, there were not many opportunities offered by the Ryukyus, and the elite military policy could not satisfy the samurai who tried to advance at all.
Don't mention those little lords like local tyrants, and now even the four major feudal clans of Maori, Shimazu, Nabeshima, and Yamauchi have thrown olive branches to Long Ye, and small boats with invitations are moored on the sea, just waiting for Long Ye to arrive.
Annoyed all the way, Long Ye was still interested in negotiating a few words at first, but later there were too many invitations, so he could only order to speed up the ship and head north, and he was ready to go ashore in Osaka and secretly enter Fuso.
Whether Long Ye likes it or not, but it is a matter of success or failure of the task, he still has to ask Sister Wu at the critical moment, and Sister Wu did not show jealousy, she said very calmly.
"The situation in Japan is very complicated, and according to the particularity of this mission, I would like to make two suggestions, one is that we must choose the samurai of northern Japan, who can easily adapt to fighting in the alpine region, and second, we should try to choose the samurai of the great masters outside......"
"What, what kind of name?" asked Long Ye, puzzled.
"After Tokugawa Ieyasu unified Japan, he divided the world daimyo into three categories: kin-feudal daimyō, pedigree daimyō, and exo-daimyō...... Among them, the relatives were all relatives of the Tokugawa family, and the daimyo of the spectrum were all Sengoku daimyo who stood firmly on the side of the Tokugawa family during the Battle of Sekigahara......"
"The daimyo of the outer daimyo was the daimyo of Toyotomi Hideyori at the time of the Battle of Sekigahara, and after the defeat he had to submit to the daimyo of the Tokugawa family. The daimyo were the most undesirable in the shogunate, and for 200 years their territories were not only remote but also under surveillance...... So in this curtain downfall operation, the most ferocious ones are all the big names of the outside!"
"Shimadzu and Mori are typical daimyo ......"
Long Ye frowned and muttered, "Can you still live if you are defeated?" Didn't the change of dynasty in the world have to sweep away the forces of the previous dynasty......?
When Sister Wu heard this, she was angry, "Fusang is not China, we don't have so many lives to spoil ...... Under the sky, you Chinese are so perverted, and the defeated have no way to live?"
"If Japan also changes its dynasty like your China, how many people will still be left in Japan?"
The little ghost looked at Long Ye with a cold face, and his eyes were covered with a layer of moisture.
Note: It's been the moon now, things are really a lot and busy, the time for code words is not enough, in order to update the urgency of my blood pressure has gone up these days, and the low pressure has soared to 120, what a terrible thing.
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