Sun Tzu said: The time, the place, and the people, the three are not allowed, although there is a victory. Translated into meaning, if any of these three conditions are missing, even if a temporary victory is achieved, hidden dangers will be left. Mencius also said: The time is not as good as the location, and the location is not as good as the people. It can be seen that people and talents are the key to the three elements.

What is harmony? Harmony is the heart of the people, this is the so-called win the hearts of the people win the world, so whether it is the two countries fighting each other, or uprisings and rebellions, both sides will find their way to seize the moral high ground, flaunting that they are the righteous side, while the other party is evil and unreasonable.

Now Xu Jin can be said to be a veteran of the battlefield, naturally knows the importance of people's hearts, so after he occupied Osumi Island, he immediately spread the word to all parts of the Japanese country, and counted the various crimes of the Japanese invaders on the coast of the Ming Dynasty, and severely reprimanded the Japanese emperor and the Muromachi shogunate for their inaction, and connived at pirates and warlords to plunder the Ming coast, causing the lives of the Ming people to be miserable. At the same time, he solemnly stated that the Ming Dynasty's dispatch of troops to Japan this time was entirely to punish those in power in Japan, and did not target any civilians.

In this way, it can not only weaken the hostile psychology of the civilian class of the Japanese state, but also allow their own side to occupy the moral high ground, so that the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty can wave the butcher's knife on the territory of other countries with peace of mind, and pull the plate machine without hesitation.

In addition, Xu Jin's essay also has the meaning of agitation. Because although the Ming army is well equipped, but after all, it is a labor expedition, both the strength and logistics are at a disadvantage, if you take the initiative to attack, once the battle line is too long, in the end it will inevitably be unbearable, the failure of the Mongolian expedition to Japan is a lesson from the past. Therefore, Xu Jin deliberately provoked the warlords from all over Japan and asked them to take the initiative to attack Osumi Island, so that the Ming army could occupy a favorable position and wait for work.

As a result, those Japanese warlords really fell for the plan, and on the eighth day of the ninth month, the 30,000 Kyushu Island coalition led by the Ouchi clan and the Hosokawa clan brazenly sent troops to attack Osumi Island.

It is worth mentioning here that since the "Onin Rebellion", the Wa Kingdom has entered the Warring States Period, and there are many warlords all over the country, fighting each other endlessly, the population has plummeted, production has stagnated, and materials are extremely scarce. Whether it is the common people or the army, they are all as poor as calling Huazi, otherwise there would not be so many Japanese people who went to sea as pirates and went to the coast of Daming to loot for a living.

Therefore, this improvised Kyushu Island coalition army is really not an ordinary shabby, only half of the 30,000 people are equipped with regular weapons, and a considerable part of the weapons are old-fashioned goods, and the soldiers are all in rags, most of them are barefoot, and they don't even wear pants, which is unbearable to look at. How could such a team be a well-equipped and geographically advantageous opponent of the Ming army?

Boom Boom Boom ......

As soon as the fleets of the two sides exchanged hands on the sea near Osumi Island, the Kyushu Island coalition forces were dizzy by the fierce artillery fire of the Ming army, and after several waves of indiscriminate bombardment, the fleet of the Kyushu Island coalition forces was even more crippled, but the sea was full of broken wood and floating corpses, as if Shura hell.

Where did the remaining coalition ships dare to fight, turned around and fled to the island of Kyushu. Xu Jin gave an order, and the Ming fleet immediately bit its tail and chased after it, and it was the cannonballs and bullets that flew together, and the blood was the same color, and the Japanese army was so killed that the sky should not be right, the earth was not spiritual, and the sea and sea were killed!

In this battle, the Kyushu Island fleet was almost completely exhausted, more than half of the 30,000 people died in the sea, some were captured by the Ming army, and finally only 3,000 people escaped back to Kyushu Island alive, and the leaders of the Ouchi clan and the Hosokawa clan were killed in this battle.

After the news of the total annihilation of the coalition forces on Kyushu Island spread, the whole country of Wa was shaken again, and other local warlords who were eager to try it were so frightened that they died down, including the shogun Ashikaga Yoshiharu, who had been clamoring to fight for the emperor and fight for honor, all fell silent, and stepped up to strengthen the city defenses of Kyoto in case the Ming fleet took advantage of the situation to kill them.

However, after Xu Jin annihilated the Kyushu Island coalition forces in one fell swoop, he did not take advantage of the victory to land on Kyushu Island, but ordered the fleet to return to Osumi Island to rest and continue to build and strengthen the fortifications on the island, and at the same time passed the message again, ordering the warlords of Kyushu Island to go to Osumi Island within five days to confess their crimes, and stated that all warlords who went to Osumi Island to ask for guilt within the time limit could be exonerated from their crimes, except for the Ouchi clan and the Hosokawa clan.

The warlords on Kyushu Island were originally inseparable, but they were united by the pressure of the Ming army, and as a result, the 30,000 allied troops were wiped out after only one round of competition with the Ming army.

Therefore, as soon as Xu Jin's text spread, the warlords on Kyushu Island began to have their own thoughts, and the united front immediately fell apart. Soon, several minor warlords went to Osumi Island to plead guilty to Xu Jin, and Xu Jin also absolved them of capital crimes, but only on the condition that they hand over one-tenth of their property in their territory as war compensation to the Ming army.

It was not unacceptable for these warlords to hand over a tenth of their property to buy peace, and Xu Jin also promised these warlords the benefit of allowing their caravans to trade freely at the treaty ports of the Ming Dynasty.

You must know that what these warlords lack most now is not silver, but materials, so after receiving Xu Jin's trade promise, they left Osumi Island one by one, and after returning to their respective territories, they immediately sent people to send one-tenth of their property.

In this way, one after another, local warlords came to Osumi Island to ask Xu Jin for guilt, and took the initiative to offer one-tenth of their net worth in exchange for the opportunity to trade with the Ming Dynasty. As a result, Xu Jin made hundreds of thousands of taels of silver without wasting a single soldier, and also dissolved the warlord alliance on Kyushu Island.

The war between the two countries has never been a simple military contest, and soft power is also the key, for example, Xu Jin has made full use of the soft power of the Ming Dynasty, using trade as an inducement to divide and disintegrate the local warlords on the island of Kyushu.

The Ouchi clan and the Hosokawa clan were the two most powerful warlords on Kyushu Island, and when they saw that the other warlords had surrendered to the Ming army, they were like sitting on pins and needles, so the heads of the two families sat together to urgently discuss countermeasures, and finally decided to unite the Orishin family to fight Xu Jin to the end.

The Orinobu clan was also a powerful local warlord, but the Owari province ruled by the Orinobu clan was not on the island of Kyushu, but on the island of Honshu in central Japan, so the Ouchi clan and the Hosokawa clan decided to send an envoy to the Orinobu clan for help.

However, as soon as the envoys of the Ouchi clan and the Hosokawa clan left Kyushu Island, the Ming fleet also sailed away from Osumi Island, and after landing at a port somewhere on Kyushu Island, 3,000 heavily armed Shenji battalion soldiers rushed straight into Ouchi's territory.

Because the other warlords along the way surrendered and pleaded guilty, the Ming army was like no one along the way, and ran for hundreds of miles in one day, directly killing the territory of the Ouchi clan, and attacking the city with lightning speed, and destroying the Ouchi clan in a nest.

At the same time, the wolf soldiers led by Xie Erjian and Cen Lan also attacked the territory of the Hosokawa clan, and the strength of the Hosokawa clan was obviously much stronger, but in the face of the wolf soldiers' sharp guns and heavy artillery, after all, they hated the spot, and the Hosokawa family, which had been prominent for a hundred years, was finally uprooted by the wolf soldiers.

Xu Jin wiped out the two most powerful warlords of the Ouchi clan and the Hosokawa clan with lightning speed, and the rest of the warlords on Kyushu Island were all silent, and no one dared to look directly at the edge of the Ming army.

At this point, Kyushu Island was equivalent to falling into the control of the Ming army, and Xu Jin could finally breathe a sigh of relief. Because the cold winter is coming, when the northeast wind blows, it will be difficult for the Ming army to get domestic support, and now that it has control of Kyushu Island, the Ming army can fight and obtain a stable source of supplies, but there is no need to worry about the problem of logistics not keeping up.

The first step was to occupy Osumi Island, which is a small island that is only suitable as a military base, and Kyushu Island is a super large island, accounting for about one-tenth of Japan's territory, which can provide the Ming army with materials to feed the war.

Xu Jin did not intend to conquer the entire Wa Kingdom, after all, relying on only 10,000 Ming troops, even if he defeated the Wa Kingdom, he would not be able to defend it, of course, it was still possible to hold Kyushu Island, and then it was time to use diplomatic means.