Xianxia version of Water Margin

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The grain shipped back from Japan soon landed at Hangzhou Port, Mingzhou Port, Quanzhou Port, Guangzhou Port, and Qiongzhou Port, and was transported by land and water at the fastest speed to Huaixi, and even to Shu.

The food shortage problem in the southern part of the Yuan Empire has been greatly alleviated.

But then again, counting on relief will never last long.

Moreover, the Yuan Empire can rob Japan this time, but what about next time?

The key is that these areas in the south are not unable to produce grain. On the contrary, they are wealthy grain-producing areas of the Yuan Empire. In the past, they also supplied grain to the north.

Therefore, relief is only a temporary measure.

At the same time, Jiang Hongfei personally took charge of this year's spring plowing. At the same time, he began to use work-for-relief measures to dredge rivers in the south, lay railways, build roads, and add docks in coastal cities.

As for Fang La who turned to the west, Jiang Hongfei still didn't move in a hurry.

Jiang Hongfei believed that when his side had a good harvest, Fang La's Yongle Dynasty would probably collapse.

To take a step back, even if the Yongle Dynasty did not collapse at that time, Jiang Hongfei had soldiers and food, wouldn't it be easy to destroy the Yongle Dynasty?

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Not long after, the news came back from the Right Army.

Previously, Wang De and Zhang Shun led the right-leg army to launch a great battle with 100,000 samurai from Ou in Mutsu Country.

In that battle, Wang De relied on a large formation of thunder chariots and Yuan's elite cavalry to defeat one hundred thousand warriors in Ou.

——If it weren’t for the insufficient strength of the right army, all those 100,000 Ou warriors would have been wiped out.

After the war, the Right Army successfully occupied Mutsu Country. At the same time, 40,000 to 50,000 Japanese samurai and a large number of Japanese fled to the Gyeonggi and Kanto areas.

At this point, the Right Route Army was completely in contact with Ruan Xiaoer's headquarters.

After figuring out the situation of the Right Army, Ruan Xiaoer sent 50,000 Ji troops to the Right Army. Wang De selected 30,000 Japanese warriors from the captured Japanese warriors who were willing to be loyal to the Yuan Empire. They provided political education and Training, while leading them to continue south.

However, this time the right route army encountered firm resistance from the samurai from the Gyeonggi and Kanto regions.

After a series of previous battles, the Japanese army also understood that they were no match for the Dayuan Army in a field battle.

As a result, the Japanese army changed their tactics to defend according to danger, and took advantage of their familiarity with the terrain to harass the Yuan army with guerrilla warfare.

This trick works very well.

The right army's previously overwhelming offensive also became slow.

As for the Left Army.

Because there are natural dangers such as Shufang and Nagato, which can be called the key to the West Gate, the Japanese side mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops to defend them.

The West Route Army of the Left Route Army was blocked from the main island and could not move forward further.

The East Route Army of the Left Route Army encountered resolute resistance from the samurai and monk soldiers on Shikoku Island, and failed to land on Shikoku Island.

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The Left Route Army first captured Kyushu Island and Dazaifu and established a stable rear area for itself. Otherwise, the Left Route Army would definitely be defeated due to the supply problem of food and grass supplies.

The Right Army was also lucky. They took advantage of the Japanese court's unpreparedness and transferred a large number of troops to the south, and captured the Ezo region, Ou region, and Mutsu country. They captured these areas and captured enough grain and grass to fight the war. for a period of time.

The battle has now entered a stalemate stage.

After Jiang Hongfei learned about this, he did not send any more troops to Japan. Instead, he sent a large number of political cadres with experience in political education and Qian Tai students.

——Similar to the method used to eliminate the Goryeo Dynasty, Jiang Hongfei did not want to invest too many troops in Japan so as not to affect the security of the Yuan Empire. Jiang Hongfei even hoped that the Japanese would fight the Japanese and his side would be invincible.

In addition, Jiang Hongfei sent people to recruit a large number of refugees and immigrated them to Japan and Jidi through policies such as dividing farmland, dividing grain, and dividing wives.

Jiang Hongfei planned to immigrate two million people to each of these two places, completely turning these two places into places for the Han people.

Jiang Hongfei was not wishful thinking.

In this era, the total population of Japan was less than 10 million.

If Jiang Hongfei moved over two million Han people, Japan would definitely become part of the Yuan Empire.

The total population of Minichi is only 3.5 million, which is not as large as Japan.

If Jiang Hongfei moves over two million, he will definitely be able to completely occupy Jidi.

The key is that in recent years, the South has suffered a large number of natural and man-made disasters, and many people have been displaced.

As long as the Yuan Dynasty controlled the efforts to relieve the victims and stepped up publicity about the benefits of immigrating to Jidi and Japan, there would definitely be no shortage of Han people who wanted to go to the two places.

In other words, Jiang Hongfei not only wanted to completely conquer Jidi and Japan militarily, but also wanted to completely disintegrate the rule of the Goryeo Dynasty and the Japanese Dynasty politically.

Emperor Shirakawa, forced by domestic political pressure, sent three waves of envoys to Hangzhou City, claiming that he was willing to cede Shufang, Nagato and all the south of Shikoku Island to the Yuan Empire, be willing to declare himself a vassal and pay tribute, and be willing to send protons. Friendship forever.

In other words, the Japanese court hoped that Jiang Hongfei would return the Ou region and Mutsu country captured by the right route army to them, so that the two sides would stop the war.

Fujiwara Nagami also privately told Zhao Liangsi and Ma Kuo that compensation, the opening of treaty ports, and the investment and establishment of factories in treaty ports by people from the Yuan Empire could also be discussed.

But 200 million Min is too much, and the Japanese court is willing to compensate the Yuan Empire for the war compensation of 5,000 Min spirit stones.

It is unrealistic to open all coastal areas as commercial ports, but the Japanese court agreed to open Futian Port to the Yuan Empire, and also allowed people from the Yuan Empire to invest and set up factories in Futian Port.

There were two different voices within the Yuan Empire regarding Japan's request for peace.

One voice was that the Yuan Empire should stop while it was ahead. With Japan's Kyushu Island, the Yuan Empire had already gained a large county. With the addition of Ezo, which the Japanese did not mention, the Yuan Empire had gained another county. There was no need to fight again. Moreover, the front line had been explored. Japan had mobilized hundreds of thousands of samurai, monks, and reserve soldiers, and was ready for a war that could not be underestimated.

Another voice was that the Japanese nobles were extremely extravagant and did not train their military. Although they had a large army, their combat effectiveness was low. The lower classes of Japan were suffering and unfortunate, and the Japanese slave class was in darkness. The Yuan Empire had the basic conditions to occupy Japan. More importantly, how could they allow others to sleep soundly beside their bed? Therefore, they had to seize this moment when the time, place, and people were all right and conquer Japan in one fell swoop.

To be honest, the Yuan Empire has achieved its minimum goal of waging war against Japan. If it stops now, the Yuan Empire can at least cut off Japan. If the Yuan Empire is a little tougher, it can even not return the Ou region and Mutsu Province to the Japanese court. The two sides will use the current occupied areas as the dividing line, and the Japanese court will definitely agree.

After occupying Dazaifu, Jiang Hongfei already knew that there was a super large spiritual stone deposit in the southern part of Kyushu, which could mine millions of spiritual stones every year.

There are also many spiritual stone reserves on Ezo Island - the Hongwu Mine on it has at least 1 billion spiritual stone reserves, and there is a spiritual stone field in the Horobetsu River and its tributaries along the coast of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk.

There are also many spiritual stone mines in the Ou region.

These spiritual stone mines are enough for the Yuan Empire to squander for a hundred years.

In other words, if the Yuan Empire negotiates peace with the Japanese court now, the Yuan Empire will win this war.

Therefore, the opinions of those ministers who advised Jiang Hongfei to stop while he was ahead were not without reason.

As long as the war continued, no matter what the probability was, the Yuan Empire would definitely be defeated. In that case, the Yuan Empire might not be able to maintain its current victory.

Therefore, although stopping now could not achieve the greatest victory, it was a wise choice.

But Jiang Hongfei also knew that not only Kyushu Island, Ezo, and Ou had a large number of spirit stone mines, but other regions in Japan also had a large number of spirit stone mines, such as Sado, Ikuno, Iwami, etc., which were all super large spirit stone mines.

It is no exaggeration to say that if Jiang Hongfei could conquer Japan and then vigorously mine spirit stones, it is estimated that the Yuan Empire would not lack spirit stones for 200 years.

In addition, Japan also has good land resources. The areas around Lake Biwa, Nobi Plain, and Ise Province are all areas with large grain production.

More importantly, if the Japanese court is not completely wiped out and allowed to recover, how can they be willing to let the Yuan Empire take away so much territory? They will definitely take back all the lost territory when the Yuan Empire is weak.

Moreover, one of the reasons why Jiang Hongfei wanted to fight Japan was that the Japanese were ambitious and if they were not killed, they would definitely make trouble in the future, and might invade China as in history.

If you don't kill the snake, there will be endless troubles.

Therefore, for evil things, you must cut the grass and root it out, and never leave any troubles!

At this time, Li Bao submitted a memorial to Jiang Hongfei, saying that he had a way to break Japan's defense.

Li Bao was a legendary water general in the Southern Song Dynasty in history.

This person was originally a righteous army in the two rivers, and later belonged to Zong Ze.

After Zong Ze died of illness, Du Chong succeeded him.

Du Chong was cruel and incompetent. The righteous army recruited by Zong Ze either rebelled or left. Li Bao also left Du Chong to work alone and fight guerrilla warfare in the two rivers.

Later, Jiang Hongfei destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty, and Li Bao was the target of Jiang Hongfei's recruitment.

They were almost unified, and Jiang Hongfei had been working hard to restore peace and let the people live and work in peace, so Li Bao led his men to surrender to the Yuan Empire.

After Li Bao surrendered to the Yuan Empire, Jiang Hongfei actually summoned him in person and asked him to make suggestions in person.

According to Li Bao's response, Jiang Hongfei transferred Li Bao to the navy as a commander and led an army alone.

Later, he promoted Li Bao to the position of commander-in-chief, and this time he even picked Li Bao's name and asked Li Bao to attack Japan with Ruan Xiaoer and others.

The reason why Jiang Hongfei attached so much importance to Li Bao was, of course, because Li Bao had fought the most beautiful naval battle in history.

At that time, the Jin ruler Wanyan Liang showed more and more signs of breaking the alliance, and adopted the advice of the surrendered Ni Xun and others to build sea vessels in the Lu River and form a navy, led by the Minister of Works Su Baoheng, in an attempt to attack Lin'an by sea.

The Southern Song court felt it necessary to strengthen the defense of the Zhejiang coast, but lacked experienced generals.

Because Li Bao was good at naval warfare, he was transferred to serve as the deputy general manager of the cavalry and infantry army in western Zhejiang, and his military rank was promoted to the Observation Envoy of Yao County, responsible for commanding the navy.

After Li Bao took office, in addition to the archers and imperial guards of Liangzhe, he also urgently recruited experienced naval forces along the river, and transferred dozens of old subordinates from Zhenjiang, forming a navy of 3,000 people and 120 sea vessels in a short period of time.

Li Bao also sent his son Li Gongzuo and others to sneak into the enemy territory to collect intelligence.

Afterwards, Li Bao went to Lin'an to meet Zhao Gou, and believed that the vast sea was difficult to defend, and he should take the initiative to attack, which was praised by Zhao Gou.

Soon, Li Bao sent troops from Jiangyin and advanced against the wind. He first defeated the Jin soldiers who were besieging the city of Haizhou and rescued Wei Sheng. Later, he incorporated Shandong volunteers such as Kai Zhao and Wang Shilong, and finally arrived at Jiaoxi, the Jin army's shipbuilding base, and confronted the Jin navy.

In the early days, the north wind was blowing, which was not favorable for the Song army, but most of the Jinshui army were Han people, who secretly helped Li Bao, so Li Bao was determined to take the initiative.

It happened that the wind direction changed at this time. Li Bao first attacked with rockets, and then boarded the ship to fight hand-to-hand, and then annihilated the enemy army, beheaded Wanyan Zhengjianu, the deputy governor of Jin, captured Ni Xun, and Su Baoheng escaped. After Li Bao landed, he burned all the military facilities of the Jin people.

Li Bao wanted to take advantage of the situation to sweep Shandong, but his son Li Gongzuo believed that Wanyan Liang had crossed the Huai River, and Jianghuai was in danger, so he should return to support.

So Li Bao retreated to Donghai County, and Kaizhao, Wang Shilong and other righteous armies also came to join. After the victory in Jiaoxi was reported to the court, Zhao Gou was overjoyed, thinking that he had a keen eye for talent and discovered Li Bao. He immediately promoted Li Bao to the commander of the coastal military region, and his military rank was also promoted to the regular governor, and the four characters "Loyal and Brave Li Bao" were written to commend him.

And Li Bao also became the first general of the Southern Song Navy because of that battle.

It is worth mentioning that Li Bao was a naval general who was very good at developing and using advanced weapons. The weapons he left behind were used as samples for the manufacture of weapons in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Li Bao's idea was very simple, that is, he was going to use a secret weapon of the Yuan Empire that was almost forgotten - the sinking snail boat, to break Japan's defense.

This sinking snail boat is shaped like a clam shell, and all the gaps are sealed with asphalt. Water cannot enter. It can walk underwater. It can accommodate hundreds of people and can cross the ocean. It can travel hundreds of miles a day and is not afraid of wind and waves.

To put it bluntly, this sinking snail boat is actually a simple submarine.

Li Bao planned to build 300 to 500 sinking snail boats, openly repair the plank road, secretly transport 30,000 to 50,000 elite troops to the north of Shikoku Island to find a place to land quietly, and then attack from both sides to capture Shikoku Island in one battle.

As long as Shikoku Island can be captured, the left army can use Shikoku Island as a stepping stone to land on Honshu Island, and then attack Suo and Nagato from front and back, and then conquer the Japanese army's southern defense line and open the door to Honshu Island.

Jiang Hongfei is very optimistic about the sinking snail boat, and is even more optimistic about Li Bao, the naval general, and is very optimistic about Li Bao's plan to build a plank road in the open and secretly attack Chencang. Therefore, he secretly ordered Bai Walhan to mobilize all craftsmen and boatmen to build the sinking snail boat.

In order to paralyze the Japanese, Jiang Hongfei first ordered the left and right armies to temporarily stay put to clear the resistance forces in the occupied areas, and then sent Zhao Liangsi and Ma Kuo to continue to negotiate peace with Fujiwara Nagamasa.

Seeing the hope of peace talks, Fujiwara Nagamasa sent people back to Japan to inform the White River King, while trying to negotiate peace with the Yuan Empire.

In order to persuade Jiang Hongfei to let Japan go, Fujiwara Nagamasa gave his daughter Fujiwara Toko to Jiang Hongfei.

In history, Fujiwara no Tokuko was the empress of Emperor Toba and the mother of Emperor Konoe. Later, after Emperor Konoe died, she helped Prince Masahito to succeed to the throne as the 77th Emperor, Emperor Go-Shirakawa. Therefore, Emperor Go-Shirakawa treated her as his adoptive mother.

Jiang Hongfei knew that Fujiwara no Tokuko was a very powerful woman, and she was not ugly.

The problem was that when Fujiwara no Tokuko came to Jiang Hongfei, she was only eleven years old, which was a little too young.

After thinking about it, Jiang Hongfei kept Fujiwara no Tokuko by his side and asked her to help him deal with government affairs from Japan with Tamamonomae...

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