Seeing this, Kashiyama Jiushou had to press the idea of suing back into his stomach, and also knelt down on one knee to Mr. Li Lian with a smiling face, "The commander of the Shimazu Army, Kajiyama Kumori, meet this lord!" ”

Mr. Li Lian looked him up and down, and he didn't need to translate, and said in Japanese: "Shimazu Army? Let me tell you, when you come to the Ming Dynasty, there are only the Ming army and the enemy army, which one are you? ”

Birch Mountain Jiushou was stunned and hurriedly said, "This ...... When、Of course, it is the Ming army。 ”

Mr. Li Lian nodded slightly, and then sank his face again, "As the commander of the first army, you led the team to leave the ship but did not immediately reorganize the army, nor did you count the weapons and baggage, and ran without my summons. It seems that I have to teach you the military discipline of the Ming army first! ”

"Yes, yes, I'm going to reorganize the army." Birch Hill bowed again and again, retreated and left.

After a long time, he finally gathered 3,500 Japanese soldiers at the port, and saw the Ming officer bring people over.

"My name is Li Yezhi," the officer said in a loud voice, "from now on you will be organized into four battalions, and I will be your commander-in-chief." During the Ming Dynasty, you must listen to my orders in every move, even if you, you must also get permission! ”

Commanded by him?! Huashan Jiushou was stunned again, and hurriedly said: "Lord Li, when you are fighting, you command the last general, you don't need to ...... it yourself."

"By you?" Li Yezhi squinted at him and snorted coldly, "As far as these soldiers under your command are concerned, they don't stand one by one, and the team is all crooked, and when you meet Jianyu, it is no different from sending them to death." Birch Mountain has been guarding for a long time, right, in the future, you will be my deputy general, and you will not be allowed to give military orders without permission. ”

Then he said to several Ming army officers beside him: "Tao Cheng, the head of the first battalion of the Japanese army." Cheng Lei, the commander of the second battalion of the Japanese army. Wang Xinji, the third battalion of the Japanese army...... Niu Hong, the prime minister, is a logistical burden of the Japanese army. ”

Several people saluted at the same time and said loudly: "Yes!" ”

Li Yezhi couldn't help frowning when he saw Huashan staring at the side for a long time with no reaction at all, and couldn't help frowning: "What? Dissatisfied? He pointed to the ship of the North Korean sailors, "If you are not satisfied, go back as soon as possible." Do you think I want to take you soldiers? ”

Huashan has been guarding Shimazu Mitsuhisa repeatedly, asking him to kill more Houjin soldiers in Liaodong, so that the Western Army can get more support from the Ming Dynasty. If he really turns around and goes back to Japan at this time, Mitsuhisa-sama will not immediately let him apologize.

He had to grit his teeth and bow his head and said, "Don't dare, it's all up to Master Li's orders." Then I watched a group of Ming officers walk into the Shimazu army, and began to reorganize the team with the cooperation of the interpreter.

Half an hour later, the soldiers finally formed their ranks under the training of the new officer, followed the beat of the drums, and marched westward.

After leaving Laizhou Port and walking for another three or four miles, Huashan Jiushou saw a military camp in front of him.

When he entered the camp under the leadership of Li Yezhi, he found that the soldiers in the camp were also Japanese. Looking at the outfit, it seems that it is the soldiers of the Toyotomi family, but it is also a Ming officer leading the team, which makes him feel a little more balanced in his heart.

There was also a group of soldiers and horses in the battalion, numbering two or three thousand, who spoke as if they were Korean. Later, he learned that it was a soldier sent by the king of Joseon, Yi Liang.

Those Korean soldiers all looked at the Ming officers in front of the Japanese army with envy, as if it was a very glorious thing, and it was not until more than a month later that Huashan Jiushou saw the command ability of the Ming army officers, and finally understood the reason.

The next day, a total of 5,55 Shimazu troops and Toyotomi troops, plus 2,500 Korean soldiers led by Min Chengxiao, marched north and rushed to Beijing.

Along the way, the long stay of Birch Mountain can be described as an eye-opener!

First of all, he sighed at the excellence of Daming's food - a meal of brown rice, fried shredded potatoes, and a meal of meat every other day!

The utensils used by the people of the Ming Dynasty to hold meat were also extremely peculiar, it was a transparent jar, and it was said that the meat in it was still fresh for half a year! There are many types of meat, and in addition to the common pigs and fish, there is also a type of meat called "kangaroo", which is said to have been shipped from Australia, thousands of miles away.

The soldiers under his command originally thought that coming to Daming was a chore, but now they are all happy, and it is estimated that they are driven by whips, and no one wants to go back to Japan.

However, looking at the North Korean soldiers who were traveling with them, they all looked sad. Due to the language barrier, he could not ask about it, and he had no way of knowing that more than 3,000 Korean soldiers and many more Korean people had died in Nam Zhili.

In addition to the food, Daming's roads and vehicles also surprised Kayama Hisamoru.

From Laizhou, there were wide official roads along the way, which were built extremely smoothly, so that the marching speed was three or four percent faster than in Japan.

The car loaded with military weapons and baggage is also very peculiar, with four huge wheels, wrapped in a black elastic thing, which is not only stable to drive, but also extremely horsepower-saving. Two horses can drag a one-and-a-half-tall cart full of cans.

The most amazing thing is that the car will go up and down on its own to reduce tremor when it encounters a ditch. He once looked under the car, and realized that the wheels were all mounted on spring plates, which are said to be called "shock absorbing springs", which were invented by the great tomorrow.

Hisamori thought that the shock of the trip was enough, but when he arrived in Beijing, he realized that this was just the beginning.

Li Yezhi was extremely generous in changing all his subordinates with new weapons and armor. What kind of steel spears, swords, and iron cannons are almost unlimited, and the most exaggerated thing is that the "cotton armor" lined with steel sheets is actually one for each person!

Kayama Hisamori has tried, although the defensive power of this thing against swords and spears is slightly inferior to his ancestral "Red Bamboo Foot" armor, but it is far stronger than his own armor when used to resist arrows and iron cannons.

He looked at these well-equipped, no, luxuriously equipped soldiers, and secretly thought that if this group of men and horses could be brought back to Japan, it would be easy to deal with 10,000 Tokugawa troops.

Two days later, more than 2,000 soldiers from the Uesugi family and more than 1,300 soldiers sent by Li Ying of Korea arrived in Beijing.

After receiving new weapons and armor, these horses began to continue north to Liaodong under the escort of 3,000 Ming troops.

After leaving the temporary camp east of Beijing, Huashan Jiushou saw a large amount of grain, rice, clothing, artillery shells and other materials piled up like a hill.

At the foot of the "hill", four thick "sticks of wood" that were smooth and straight were built on the gravel and stretched to the end of the view.

On top of the wooden strips were wide and tall carts, mostly three or four end-to-end, dragged by six or ten horses, along the straight wooden strips.

He watched as thousands of bald slaves in shackles—in fact, shaved prisoners—were driven by the whips, and kept loading bags and boxes of baggage into the cart, each of which weighed more than two thousand pounds!

But such a heavy cart, even if three were connected together, were easily pulled away by six horses, and it was obvious that those carts were extremely labor-saving on wooden bars.

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