Chapter 621: Landing on Honshu Island
On the 11th, off the southeast coast of Honshu Island, near Shikoku Island, thousands of ships carrying a large number of Ming soldiers continued to sail towards the coast of Honshu Island, preparing to land in Hiroshima Prefecture.
When landing on Honshu Island, not only 60,000 regular troops, but also more than 100,000 garrisons on Kyushu and Shikoku Islands will follow and land together.
After five days, all the 400,000 captives on Kyushu Island have been transported to Korea by sea, and the 200,000 Japanese prisoners on Shikoku Island will be escorted to Korea in a few days, and by then all the 140,000 garrisons will be liberated, and at least 120,000 will be able to land on Honshu Island with the regular army.
As the black fleet approached the coast of Hiroshima Prefecture, the Japanese soldiers, who had been closely monitoring the seashore, saw so many Ming ships and widened their eyes and realized that the Ming army had finally begun to land on Honshu Island.
"Quick, go and report to the master, the Ming army has landed on Honshu Island!" There were Japanese generals shouting.
Immediately, several Japanese soldiers mounted their sparse horses and galloped quickly northeast, and Tokugawa Iemitsu set up camp twenty miles away.
Although Tokugawa Iemitsu could not know the news of Kyushu Island and Shikoku Island because of the annihilation of the naval army and the blockade of the coast by the Ming warships, he knew that the Ming army would definitely land on Honshu Island, so on the coast of Honshu Island, he arranged a large number of surveillance spies, and once the Ming army began to land on Honshu Island, he immediately reported the news to him.
Soon, the Ming ships docked in the shallows, and the Ming soldiers on the ships began to quickly wade to the coast.
"Login!" After the run-in of the landing of Kyushu Island and Shikoku Island, the Ming soldiers landed a lot faster than the previous two times, and almost every incense stick time could land thousands of people, and in about an hour, the first batch of 30,000 Ming troops could all land.
Just when the Ming army landed on a large scale, Tokugawa Iemitsu finally received the news.
Tokugawa Iemitsu looked solemn: "Did the Ming army begin to land in Hiroshima?" After saying that, his face turned gloomy.
What does the Ming army begin to land on Honshu Island explains, it shows that the Ming army should have captured Kyushu Island and Shikoku Island, it has only been more than ten days, Kyushu Island and Shikoku Island together have more than 200,000 troops, and they all fell so quickly, and the combat effectiveness of the Ming army is amazing.
In fact, what Tokugawa Iemitsu didn't know, if it weren't for the Ming army to implement Zhu Cijiao's purge strategy, and carry out a large-scale purge every time he captured a city, he would not even need the Ming army to capture the two islands in half the time.
In any case, Tokugawa Iemitsu's mood was extremely heavy.
Of course, he did not lose confidence in defeating the Ming army, and he still had hundreds of thousands of shogunate elites in his hands.
"Enlighten the Shogun, the 200,000 Shogunate elites have all gathered!" A general of the Japanese army came to report.
"Immediately send troops!" Tokugawa Iemitsu ordered.
"Hay!"
These 200,000 so-called shogunate elites were different from ordinary Japanese troops, they were all the elite of the Tokugawa family, and they were also the most elite army of the Japanese country.
You must know that among the 150,000 Japanese soldiers that Tokugawa Ieoka brought to Korea at the beginning, there were less than 100,000 real shogunate elites, and the Tokugawa family only had 300,000 such shogunate elites in total.
In addition to the nearly 100,000 lost on the Korean battlefield, Tokugawa Iemitsu concentrated a full 200,000 at this time, which is almost all of the current shogunate elite.
The reason why such a powerful force was used in the first place was to win the first battle.
The first battle was very important, as long as the first battle could defeat the Ming army, not only to hit the morale of the Ming army, but also to improve the morale of his own side, this battle against the Ming army, Tokugawa Iemitsu had more than seventy percent confidence to win.
In addition to the 200,000 shogunate elites, Tokugawa Iemitsu also mobilized another 100,000 other troops, for a total of 300,000 troops to attack the coast of Hiroshima.
"Boom!" Tokugawa Iemitsu pulls out his katana: "Kill Gaga"
An army of 300,000 marched rapidly under the leadership of Tokugawa Iemitsu.
Twenty miles away, in less than an hour, Tokugawa Iemitsu and other 300,000 Japanese troops arrived, and at this time, the first wave of the Ming army's landing also entered the end, 26,000 people have landed, and the last 4,000 people are still on the ship.
The Ming soldiers who landed had already set up defenses on the perimeter, machine guns and infantry front-line battle formations, and the scouts had already walked out.
"Newspaper"
"Marshal Qiyu, a few miles to the northeast, a large number of Japanese robbers are rushing towards this place, the speed is very fast, and there are at least more than 200,000 people!" The scouts of the Ming army rode back and reported to Yan Yingyuan.
"At least two hundred thousand?" Yan Yingyuan frowned slightly, but then stretched out again.
Although he was surprised that the Ming army was able to quickly mobilize so many troops to come, Yan Yingyuan was confident in the combat effectiveness of the regular army of the Ming Dynasty under his command, not to mention that the Ming army had landed more than 20,000 people, even if it only landed 10,000 people, as long as the defense was done, with the firepower of the Ming army, it would be useless for the Ming army to come as many people as they came.
"Pass the order, all battalions are on alert and ready for battle, and they will attack the Japanese army at any time!" Yan Yingyuan calmly ordered.
The order was passed down, and the Ming soldiers on the front line of defense opened the safety and adjusted the muzzle of the machine gun.
Yan Yingyuan also waited quietly.
About a stick of incense later, at this time, the Ming army had landed 29,000 people, and only the last thousand people and a large amount of supplies remained.
And at this time, the army of Japanese invaders finally appeared in sight.
In the center of the "Kill Gaga" Japanese Army, Tokugawa Iemitsu waved the katana in his hand and roared with a hideous face.
Under the order of Tokugawa Iemitsu, the soldiers of the Japanese army seemed to be stimulated by something, and one by one they roared angrily and rushed towards the Ming army on the seaside
, the momentum is quite terrifying.
There were 300,000 Japanese soldiers, and they were endless, and they seemed to be endless in the eyes of the Ming soldiers.
If this is an ordinary Ming Dynasty, it will inevitably be captured by the momentum of the Japanese Invaders, but it is a pity that the Japanese Invaders are facing the Ming regular army, the Ming regular army that has won many battles, and some of the predecessors are even the original Ying Long Army.
I haven't seen any kind of scene in these Ming regular troops, and the Japanese can't scare them at all.
As the Japanese got closer and closer, the Ming soldiers at the forefront even showed a cold and disdainful smile at the Japanese invaders, as if the Japanese soldiers were not here to fight them, but to send them to death.
"The Japanese didn't use a bow and arrow, and put the Japanese in and fought again!" Feng Houdun, one of the commanders of the Fourth Army, ordered.
The Japanese were accustomed to fighting with samurai swords and rarely used bows and arrows, so Feng Houdun, who was commanding the defense at the front, decided to put the Japanese within fifty meters.
Close, one hundred and fifty meters, one hundred meters, fifty meters
The Japanese invaders rushed into the distance set by Feng Houdun.
"Grenades, still!" First, hundreds of grenades were thrown.