The sound of horses' hooves trampled heavily on the road, the yellow gray smoke in the sky was kicked in the flying, and the rumbling steps were ominous, and the dense footsteps behind were also neat, making people feel a kind of fear and awe.

After a few days of empty space in Mao Jue's hesitation, the Dongjiang Army still followed the original plan, ignored the Maeda family's main force in Kanazawa Castle, and began to move south and launch an attack on the Kanto Plain.

Although it is an island country, the Wa Kingdom is the same as the Ming Dynasty, it is a thoroughly agricultural country, on both sides of the narrow Waren official road, there are lush farmland everywhere, and you can faintly see the green seedlings that have just emerged.

Even Confucius, who opposed the war, in the last few chapters of the Analects, has a famous saying that he does not teach the people to fight, which is to abandon it, but whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Wa State, which was founded by Confucianism, seems to have forgotten this sentence, and now it has been peaceful for more than 20 years, and the peasants on both sides of the road do not know how to retreat, some look far away, and some simply kneel on the ground in panic when they are too close.

Fortunately, Mao Jue didn't have time to take care of them for the time being, the forward Liu's cavalry only cared about hurrying, and the infantry carrying heavy firearms behind them also didn't squint, time is money, time is money and life, these two famous words are unprecedentedly vividly displayed at this moment, not in a hurry to attack Edo before the main force of the Kyushu shogunate retreats, not to mention that the silver can't be obtained, everyone has to whine.

But even if it was so dangerous, more than 10,000 Dongjiang troops still followed Mao Jue on the journey without hesitation, including a few women.

The carriage doesn't work here, Adriana and Yu Le'er had to follow the local customs, and replaced them with a box-sized sedan chair in the Japanese country, which is completely different from the big sedan chair of the Ming Dynasty.

"Hmph, vixen! I like the new and hate the old, and I love it!"

Curled up in the sedan chair, coiled with a pair of numb slender thighs, Yu Leer also looked out of the sedan door from time to time, glanced forward sourly, and muttered in her small mouth.

In her eyes, the horse riding next to Mao Jue was a heroic female warrior with a long knife on her shoulder, wearing red muscle loops, but her bottom was short to show most of her toned long legs, needless to say, it was naturally Maori Sakura who had just been upgraded to Mao Jue's small surname.

Seeing Mao Jue and this pirate girl whispering from time to time, "grinding their ears and temples", this Yu Le couldn't stop gritting her teeth for a while, and clucked a pair of little tiger teeth.

Originally, if there was one person in the sedan chair, Adriana could sit more comfortably, and there was one more person, squeezing her books aside, listening to the real girl complaining, the map was a little unbearable, and the foreign girl raised her head helplessly and rubbed her temples.

"I can't get used to it, why are you coming along?"

"How can you not come along, if you don't come, you won't let that fox spirit succeed!"

"And what about you?"

This sentence, Yu Le'er, who was huffing and puffing, was dumbfounded, indeed, Mao Jue was still walking side by side with the pirate girl, and she was sitting in a sedan chair in the back.

"Okay, our general is a person who does big things, if you want him to like you, just do more useful things."

This girl is not swaying, the sedan chair stabilized a little, Adriana unfolded the map with her right hand, and said casually while watching.

"Something useful?"

Her eyes couldn't help but show a little confusion, and Yu Le'er's little hand subconsciously touched her bulging little breast, which seemed to have something hidden inside.

Next to Mao Jue, Mao Li Sakura's black-clothed ghost-faced armor is now inherited by the samurai leader of the Nine Ghost Family, and the samurai's pitch-black armor shoulders are also carrying a strange token, a round cloth bag grass target, with a big gourd and a large number of small gourds inserted on it.

This thing is not ordinary, it belongs to the special token that belongs to the identity representative of the Japanese Warring States Daimyo, the imperial horse seal, this large gourd is also called Qiancheng gourd, it is the unique horse seal of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, at its peak, this Qiancheng gourd is completely made of gold, that is, the one captured by Mao Jue in the Li Joseon Wangjing, but at this time, there is obviously no such condition, and the gourd can only be carved from wood, fortunately, the meaning that needs to be expressed is almost the same.

Immediately next to Mao Lance, there were also a few more mothers wearing carcasses and carrying a bright red ball behind them, and the Dongjiang Army now also brought a little bit of the flavor of Japan's Warring States, but now playing the signboard of the Toyotomi family, how much effect it can have, it's really hard to say.

From Noto to attack Edo, although it was across the entire island of Honshu, the straight-line distance was not long, five hundred miles, Napoleon's army marched about eight to ten miles per hour, and Mao Jue's army was not much slower than it, getting up early and resting late, marching for ten hours a day, and it would arrive in five or six days under normal circumstances.

However, this battle was not an abnormal situation, and while speaking, the Echichu of the Maeda family was completely finished, and the bulging hills in front of him began to appear in front of him in a chaotic manner.

The terrain is complex, and the mountainous Shinano country has arrived.

This place is not just a bunch of small mountain bags, the two most famous daimyo in the history of Japan's Warring States period, Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin, the main stage of this life, almost all of them are this Shinano River, the Takeda family and the Uesugi family fought five consecutive battles of Kawanakajima here, which can be called the battle with the highest casualty rate in the history of the Warring States period.

You can see the danger of this place.

However, if you pass through here, you can directly enter Musashi Province, where Edo is located, and this Shinano River is still a must.

"Lord, go further, it's the Yokogawa Mountain Road, originally this North Shinano was the fief of the Uesugi family, but after the Sekigahara War, the Tokugawa family forcibly moved the Uesugi family, and divided the North Shinano to visit, Sanada, and so on for a dozen or so small domains, and further south, it is the land directly led by the Tokugawa family general, although the strength of these small feudal domains is not strong, but there are more ants to bite the elephant, and their relationship with the Tokugawa family is still quite close, and the lord is still careful."

Looking at the narrow Shinano Hengshan Road in front of him, which was even more difficult to walk than the broken road under his feet, even Mao Jue couldn't help but swallow his saliva secretly, and then waved his hand again, Liu Xingzuo of the front army raised the military flag and roared loudly around the legion.

"The general has an order, march!"

…………

In the Art of War, such terrain is called a branch land, which is a difficult place for the enemy, and our army is also a sad place, although there are no too high lofty mountains, and I don't want to be as spectacular as the mountains, but the hills on the border of this inland plateau are rugged enough, either the mountains have just melted, and the extremely muddy trails, or they have to simply climb, even if the Dongjiang River has six wheels, and the field Hongyi cannon wrapped in cowhide tires is a bit impassable here.

"One, two, three, work hard!"

A few mules and horses pulled desperately kicked their hooves in front, and a dozen infantry behind them also followed with gritted teeth and pushed, for about ten minutes, the heavy artillery carriage was pushed out of the mud pit, but the next one did not dare to go, and had to mobilize more soldiers to go to the nearby hillside to harvest wood and throw it into the pit, so delayed, another half an hour passed, and began to enter Shinano at noon, and at five o'clock in the afternoon, it was only more than 20 miles away, looking at the hills and mountains that still stretched in front of him, Mao Jue's brows couldn't help jumping.

No wonder the Japanese were reluctant to use artillery, such a complex mountain-shaped, bulky cannon was simply a disaster.

But when the Dongjiang army was struggling in the mountains of Shinano, the Maeda family of Kanazawa Castle was as lively as a boiling pot, and the samurai of the Sanada family, who had been cowering in Kanazawa Castle, were like spring estrus, carrying spears and swords, and kept marching outside the city, forming an old team.

Neck flags painted with family crests similar to the grass flowers in poker are magnificently rippling in the sunset.

The armor of the samurai family is a family treasure from generation to generation, and the Maeda family is no exception, when the Maeda Toshiya family's famous gold leaf foot binding device is now also draped on the body of the contemporary head of the Maeda family, Maeda Toshitsune, the unique helmet is more than half a meter high, sharp like a small mountain, and the gold-plated armor on the body is also reflecting a dazzling yellow light, riding on a horse that is not much bigger than a donkey, the Maeda family master is excited, holding a katana, and shouting incessantly.

"Tang Kou has fallen into the scheme and fallen into the North Shinano Hengshan Road, this group of bastards dares to ignore our Hokuriku samurai, brazenly invade our Kaga Domain, kill the feudal clansmen, loot the samurai's property, finally, the time has come for us to take revenge! March, cut off the heads of the Tang people, and let them see the power of the Maeda samurai, hahahaha!"

It seems that they have already foreseen the victory, and the killing of Tang Kou is all over the mountains, Maeda Toshishi often laughs loudly, and the ugly laughter even spreads throughout Kanazawa Castle. However, it will be the courage of a soldier, and with his unbridled laughter, the Maeda samurai who walked out of the battle seemed to have a little more confidence and wildness, and the little short legs like turnips under the foot were a little faster.

On the other side of Shinano, Kawanakajima, the famous battlefield of the Takeda Uesugi family, the same group of samurai ants gathered like that, don't look at the Japanese army these days are mainly shrinking, secretly they have also made a lot of preparations, Ishikawa, Sanada, Senshi and other samurai are all gathered in the small mountain castle facing Kawanakajima, driven by the samurai, groups of farmers carry stones, blocking the road to Kai Musashi, a breastwall defense position more than one meter high has been almost built, behind the wall, The envoy sent by the Tokugawa family, the Honda Tadashi of the descendants of Honda Tadashikatsu, one of the four kings of Tokugawa, listened to the report of his subordinates with a frown, even if the Daimyo of Fudai was like him, his eyebrows were still twisted into a pimple.

"Thousands of gourd horse prints? Five-seven Tongwen flag, this Tang Kou turned out to be the remnants of the Toyotomi family? ”

The Toyotomi family is indeed a difficult topic for the Tokugawa family, especially from last year to this year, the two Tang Kou rebellions have been in an uproar, if there is a shadow of the Toyotomi family in this, for the shogunate, it is not only the impact of the war, but also the political impact is extremely bad.

But!

In the sound of the uproar, the dense iron cannons were placed on the chest wall, and behind them, the samurai coalition troops from the Tokugawa family, Ishikawa, Sanada and other families were also countless, busy preparing for battle, looking out, they couldn't see the edge, looking back at their own army, Honda Tadashichao's narrow triangular eyes also showed a vicious evil smile.

It doesn't matter if you are the remnant of the Toyotomi family, since you dare to come, you will be buried here!

(End of chapter)