Chen Bazhi won the true biography of Chen Mu.

Originally, Chen Mu thought that with Xiaoba's temperament and ability, he would definitely use war to solve things if they could be solved by war, but in fact, according to the war report sent by Japan, the number of times Chen Bazhi's Ming army fought was very small, and among them, he personally led the army to fight, and all of them were used in the war to pacify the Maori clan.

Since the Mori clan was defeated by the Kyushu coalition and the entire Sanyin Sanyang was included in his hands, Chen Bazhi had only one transfer of troops, which was to transfer his six warships to Nankaido to support Honganji Temple in Settsu Province to break through the naval blockade of the Oda clan.

For a long time, there were not many battles, and even if they sent troops, they did not send many troops, but as long as they played, it was a big victory.

There is no way, from the very beginning of the exploration to the present, the Ming is nothing more than nominally intervening in the war, but in fact, it ...... The imperial court did not increase the number of troops for Chen Bazhi, except for the rice and grain occasionally transported by Nanyang, the soldiers in his hands were still the first group of people to bring, and even Ni Shangzhong's group of combined troops withdrawn from Kuwu Island were also sent to Kanto due to the intervention of Li Chengliang in Liaodong, which evolved the situation into the current situation.

The shortage of troops forced Chen Bazhi and Wang Rulong to choose to join forces and horizontally, and later simply set aside the directly governed prefectures belonging to the Ming Dynasty, with the prefect and county orders to divide the heads of troops in various places, and externally to drive the heads of troops to fight with official titles such as General Qinwang and General of Rebellion, trying to control the situation and squeeze benefits for a long time.

This is in line with Chen Mu's claim to Japan at the beginning, they have fewer soldiers and less baggage consumption, at least in the two places of Izumo Mansion and Iwami Mansion, even if it does not count the income of Yinshan, Chen Bazhi's financial report is also earned, and with the cooperation of Li Dan's maritime merchants, he also earns a lot.

Therefore, the war has become a state of near stagnation in Chen Mu's eyes, but in fact, there are still wars and casualties in various places every day in that land, even more serious than before the Ming army intervened.

"170,000 stone of sulfur, 60,000 stone of saltpeter, and saltpeter in Japan?"

Chen Mu frowned, although the battle reports of the brocade stalls in various places are not so good-looking, from dozens of people on both sides of the war to tens of thousands of people on both sides of the war, but Chen Jiujing's general chapter of the battle report is still good, but he saw saltpeter on the income of Yinqi Island, which made him feel extremely weird, the biggest reason why those big names can use iron cannons is because of the trade between the smugglers of the Ming Dynasty and the Portuguese.

Where did Chen Bazhi get saltpeter?

Li Dan rummaged in the lacquer box as he spoke, and said: "This is the case when Hachiro sent troops to help Honganji, and his monks and mercenaries have many iron gunners, and they have mastered the cultivation method of making salt and nitrate; In addition, after Maori was destroyed, its craftsmen recorded the method of making salt and nitrate from horse manure, which is now recorded by Hachiro and sent to the Nanyang Military Government and the Navy Lecture Hall. ”

This is, the legendary fecal nitrate and urine nitrate?

"What about Li Rusong, do you know his situation over there?"

Hearing Chen Mu ask about Li Rusong, Li Dan thought about it a little in his mind, after all, he had heard about Chen Mu and Li Rusong's bad relationship in his early years, and said: "The Ming army in the east is based on the Ezo land, in addition to Li Rusong's 3,000 Liaodong army, there are also more than 10,000 combined troops composed of Korean soldiers, Jurchen soldiers, and Mongolian soldiers under Ni Shangzhong's army. ”

"I heard that he fought several big victories over there at first, and his northernmost princes, the southern clan, were easily defeated by the imperial court soldiers and horses due to the internal strife of the heir, but then the war was delayed, and the deployment led by Ni Shangzhong asked the imperial court to keep its promises, and the military affairs were chaotic."

At first, hearing that Li Rusong had won a big victory, Chen Mu bowed slightly, in his opinion, it was the most correct decision for the Li clan in Liaodong to attack from Ezo, when they intervened, it was the autumn of the previous year, the climate there was bitterly cold, and the local soldiers and civilians lacked warm cotton clothes, but the Liaodong Army could fight in winter, and there was artillery, and everything was broken.

However, when he heard that Ni Shangzhong's subordinates wanted the imperial court to fulfill their promise, he knew that something bad was wrong - that army was originally used for expeditions to the Americas, and the land promised to be laid when they were recruited belonged to them.

They have extremely strong survival and combat capabilities, and they have the cold materials prepared for them by the Nanyang Military Government, and if they rebel, it will be a great blow to Li Rusong.

"Later, how did Li Rusong deal with it?"

Li Dan felt strange about Chen Mu's anxiety, and he said happily: "What else, keep your promise, clear the land on the spot, organize the households, set up a guard, and recruit prisoners as the banner army...... Later, they could not advance southward, and the Mongol thousand households were busy feeding the horses, the Jurchen thousand households were in a hurry to hunt, and the Korean thousand households were fishing and building ships...... Li Rusong, like the Japanese daimyo, sent troops twice in the second year of Wanli and was busy with internal affairs for a year. ”

Saying that, Li Dan laughed, and laughed very, very seriously, and said: "I heard that last year, I wanted to ask the imperial court to appoint him as the commander of the Kwantung Metropolis, and to set up the Kwantung Metropolitan Command Envoy, but he was rejected by the imperial court, because after the calculation, the seven guards on their side could only send the military rations of the two guards in the interior to the imperial court. ”

"After the flag is issued, there is nothing left, and in the end, only the governor of Oshu was set up to control the affairs of Oshu in Japan, and there was no capital division, and he was sent to two jinshi as prefects, and now a bunch of soldiers under his command are rushing to get official positions."

Li Dan said that he suddenly thought of something, and said to Chen Mu: "Father-in-law, the little Oriental affairs are now under the control of the Oriental Military Government, and Li Rusong didn't write a letter to his father-in-law to ask for an official?" ”

Chen Mu shook his head a little dazedly, and then said with a smile: "I guess I can't wipe my face, but he has enough soldiers, seven guards, and 40,000 horses." ”

Although Li Dan nodded cautiously, he also explained to Chen Mu: "Those are all Japanese soldiers he recruited, and their combat strength is strong and weak...... There are no cars and few horses, and the transportation of baggage depends on manpower, all the places are poor, the products are not abundant, and the military rations carried by the expedition are only enough for ten and a half months, and after half a month, the grain team needs to be transported. ”

"In addition to mining and extracting silver last year, Hachiro studied these things with Wang Rulong, and has found Japan's weaknesses, although most of the combat input troops are not much, but its scattered samurai have created unique improvements for war in the war, a small number of elite soldiers and a large number of miscellaneous soldiers constitute its army, and the long-term war has given its people the courage to fight bravely, giving it more than Luzon and Sulu countries."

"But its congenital deficiencies, one can not go on expeditions, two can not supply, this is the common weakness of all the princes of his country, in the event of a war, hold on, delay, can be invincible."

Protracted.

"Hachiro summed it up well."

Chen Mu's head, the war has both the inside and the outside, one is in military strength, and the other is in logistics ability, and the lack of many Japanese daimyo is in logistics, so now the result of Chen Bazhi being the shopkeeper is that the war situation is rigid.

He raised his hand and tapped the battle report on the table, and said, "So now, Japan is divided into three pieces?" ”

"Almost, the main force in the west is General Qinwang, the king in the middle is Oda and Tokugawa, and in the east is Li Rusong's thousand households."

Chen Mu smiled dumbly, this combination ...... It's kind of weird. /14_14088/