When the 50,000 Tokugawa army arrived at Yokohama in a rage, they saw that the Ming army had already returned to the ship.

They could only stare dryly at the warships at sea, and even ate a few rounds of heavy artillery on board because they were too close to the shore, leaving behind a hundred and ten corpses.

The next day, the naval infantry army went around by boat and landed at Kisarazu, a hundred miles southeast of Edo Castle, and frightened the shogunate army to rush to defend against the enemy, but once again swooped down.

From then on, the Tokugawa shogunate did not dare to take it lightly, and scattered tens of thousands of men and horses along the coast of Edo Bay to fortify, and urgently transferred troops into Edo from other places.

The Daming Marine, on the other hand, circled in the harbor in a leisurely manner, and fired a few shots in the direction of Edo Castle when he was in a good mood. The Japanese army had no way to take the warships, and they had to watch out for the landing and attack of the Ming army all day long, which was simply miserable.

Kyushu, Minamihara Island.

Ebe Yoshiji closed the door, his eyes flashed with excitement and said: "Sure enough, as the oracle said, the shogunate and the Ming Dynasty had a conflict, and now the Ming Dynasty warships are wandering in Edo Bay, and the Edo area is in chaos. The shogunate's nearly 80,000 troops are pinned down near Edo Castle, and it's a good opportunity for us to do it! ”

The dozen or so people in the room looked at a little boy sitting under the cross, Amakusa-sama.

The boy stared at him in embarrassment, wondering what the group was up to. He was just a Japanese orphan found by Lou Ming, and after training, he was just "pretending to be a ghost" here.

"Father Lou" hurriedly said: "The Maori rebellion in the oracle will also be fulfilled. We don't have to wait any longer, we can directly mobilize the sect members and take Omura Castle in one fell swoop! ”

"Hey!"

Three days later, nearly 4,000 Catholics with well-armed firearms surrounded Omura, carrying two six-pounder cannons and a twenty-four-pounder mortar.

They had already learned of the oracle and had been secretly training for more than half a month, and although the queue was loose, it was full of religious fanaticism.

Junyori Omura led his men and horses out of the city to fight once, and was almost killed by these desperate believers.

The Catholics then shouted the name of Amakusa-sama, and under the cover of the cannons, they went crazy and stormed Omura Castle in only three days.

The entire island of Kyushu was under the influence of Catholicism for a long time, and the news of the resurrection of Amakusa-sama and the capture of Omura Castle spread quickly.

Soon, the number of parishioners gathered near the village reached 30,000 or 40,000. Lou Ming selected another 3,000 strong men and horses, and together with the previous 3,000 men, he continued to march towards Songpu Zhenxin in the direction of Zhuqian.

Nagato Province, outside Hagi Castle.

Mao Lixiu sat in front of the military tent and said loudly to dozens of military generals in armor: "The Tokugawa clan has been entangled in the warships of the Ming Dynasty, and there has been a large-scale rebellion on Kyushu Island, and the world is about to enter the troubled times again!"

"Now is a good opportunity for my Maori family to rise up, recover China, and eliminate the Tokugawa family to take revenge!"

By "China," he was referring to an area in the western part of Japan's island of Honshu, which was originally largely a Maori fiefdom.

The generals immediately shouted in response, "Swear revenge and destroy Tokugawa!" ”

Two hours later, the Mori army of 7,000 began to march in the direction of Aki, attacking the Asano family of the Hiroshima Domain.

The Maori family had been preparing for a rebellion for decades, and once it broke out, it was extremely powerful. In less than ten days, they approached the castle of Hiroshima, and then relied on the terrifying firepower of thirty cannons to easily defeat the Asano army and occupy Aki Province.

Because the Tokugawa shogunate was so attracted by the warships in Edo Bay that it did not respond to the rebellion of the Mori family until a month later, it was able to mobilize less than 20,000 men.

At this time, Mori Shu had already captured nearly eight regions, including Aki, Iwami, Izumo, Bingo, Bichu, and Misaku, with a force of more than 25,000.

The Shimazu family also rebelled with the Propaganda Department immediately after the Maori family made a move - if they didn't take this opportunity to rebel, they would be eaten by the Tokugawa clan sooner or later.

They also took most of the southern part of Kyushu Island in a lightning flash, and then the Propaganda Department and the Mori family formed an alliance to reorganize the "Western Army" and raise the banner against the Tokugawa shogunate.

Although the Uesugi family did not dare to move for the time being because of its location in the northeast, they still secretly joined the Western Army and formed an alliance with the Mori and Shimazu families.

For a time, the daimyo who were dissatisfied with the Tokugawa shogunate or had ambitions in various parts of Japan raised troops, and the flames of war broke out.

It wasn't until a month later that the advance of the Western Army had reached the vicinity of Harima, but the warships of the Damei Navy Division suddenly left Edo Bay without taking a cloud with them.

After all, Zhu Linmi's strategic goal was not to let Mori and Shimazu replace Tokugawa and become the new shogun, but to plunge Japan into internal strife and internal strife.

If the tens of thousands of Tokugawa troops continue to be contained in Edo, I am afraid that the Western Army will really want to unify Japan. In addition, when the maritime trade of the Ming Dynasty was booming, it was in urgent need of sailors to escort them, and these main warships should not continue to waste time in Japan.

The Kenning and another frigate were stationed in the northern part of the Ryukyus in order to intervene in the situation in Japan at any time.

Although Japan's sea power was enough to deal with these two 300-ton Galen ships, Zheng Chenggong still transferred 20 ships from the Korean naval division to help fight for the sake of safety.

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Shandong.

Jinan Mansion.

Jinan is an important town leading to the north of Zhili, and has always been a battleground for soldiers, so the city wall of Jinan City is built quite strongly.

When Chengzu was martyred, he besieged Jinan City with an army of 100,000. Tie Xuan led the remnants of Li Jinglong to hold on, and even made Zhu Di, who was very good at using soldiers, attack for two consecutive years, and almost made Emperor Jianwen turn around.

It was Zhu Linmiao who also attached great importance to the battle of Jinan, and had already made careful arrangements for the siege with the General Staff Department.

Four miles away from the south gate of the city, hundreds of Ming army flags with the sun and moon on a blue background flutter in the wind. The line of infantry of 10,000 men stretched across the city, and everyone standing in the line stared at the captives at the head of the city, as if calculating how many kills would be enough to make a first-class achievement.

On the east side of the infantry, more than thirty heavy guns of more than twelve pounder were lined up in a neat column under the command of the artillery battalion officer.

More soldiers shuttled in, placing shells and boxes of gunpowder next to the cannons for use when firing. The whole position seemed very busy, and everyone was full of energy, looking forward to a clean victory.

You must know that from the main force of the Ming army leaving Muyang, only the Jianyu of Yizhou tried to resist stubbornly along the way, but the city wall was blasted open by more than 50 cannons in one morning.

None of the 1,500 thieves who rushed out of the city could escape, nearly 1,000 were killed on the spot, and the few hundred who survived were immediately sent to Dongfan for mining.

Destroy the withering and decaying, and the city will be broken in half a day!

Since then, no Jianlu in Shandong has dared to take the Ming army lightly. Nowadays, no one dares to mention any nonsense such as "Manchurian is invincible", but I don't know when there was a saying among the Qing army that "three thousand dragon guards, iron and stone are broken".