Vol 2 Chapter 2294: Discussing the war against Japan and building sea ships

Chapter 2294 Conquering the Japanese and building sea ships

Chapter 2290: Discussing the Japanese Conquest and Building Sea Ships

There are actually two reasons why Ying Hao is preparing to conquer Japan. The first reason is that the Japanese country is too arrogant.

The previous Japanese invasion of the eastern coastal area did not have much to do with Oda Nobunaga. After all, Tokugawa Uesugi and other forces were the culprits. However, in the Youzhou War, Oda Nobunaga did take the initiative to intervene, and also helped the Qing Dynasty contain the Liaodong Sea. Qin Navy.

No one forced Oda Nobunaga this time. He made his own choice, and he will naturally have to bear the corresponding consequences.

Ying Hao originally planned to unify the Central Plains, and sent his navy to conquer Japan. It happened that the Japanese islands could be used to train his troops, but he did not expect that the Japanese country did not know how to restrain themselves after repeated provocations, and they dared to go out to participate in Ying Hao's coronation ceremony.

There were actually many uninvited envoys from forces, such as Tubo, Wang Mang, Nanyang and other forces. Da Qin did not invite them to watch the ceremony, but they came anyway.

 It's just that these forces are not enemies, and they can forget about it if they come. However, Japan, which has already gone to war with Da Qin, is still shameless to come to watch the ceremony, which is a bit disgusting.

Other than Japan being too arrogant, the second reason is that Ying Hao feels that it is easier to conquer Japan now.

 After Oda Nobunaga became the emperor, he followed Ying Hao in all aspects of politics, military, economy, etc., and obtained a large number of new technologies from the Central Plains princes, so Japan is developing very fast today.

If Oda Nobunaga is given a few years and allowed to continue developing like this, after Japan has mastered the forging technology of the Central Plains and completes the change of uniforms of the entire army, the combat power of the army will definitely increase significantly. The difficulty of Japanese is even greater.

Based on these two points, Ying Hao decided to attack Japan in advance, and the sooner he conquered Japan, the better.

With the development and progress of shipbuilding technology, Da Qin has been able to build sailing ships across the sea. This has been fully proved in the two battles of Qingzhou and Youzhou.

At present, Daqin is fully capable of cross-sea operations. Naturally, it cannot let Japan continue to run like this and threaten to be wiped out in the bud.

The Japanese country is obviously not a soft persimmon. There are more than five million people in the country and a total military strength of four to five million. Even though the Japanese army's combat effectiveness is still very weak and their equipment is poor, it is still not easy to destroy the country.

If you rely solely on the power of Qin to conquer Japan, you will easily fall into the quagmire of war, so Ying Hao prepared to take the three younger brothers of Wei, Song and Wu together.

 Persuading the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu to conquer Japan together can not only share the cost of the war to reduce their own casualties, but also use the hands of Japan to weaken the three countries. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

Of course, Ying Hao did not want to conquer the Japanese immediately. He had to rest for at least a year and a half, waiting for the country's strength to recover before sending out troops.

During the rest period, Da Qin can first develop its navy and build more cross-sea sailing ships to prepare for war.

 Cao Cao, Zhao Kuangyin, and Sun Jian couldn't help but fell into silence after hearing Ying Hao's proposal to conquer the Japanese and the reasons.

It is impossible to attract them to send troops to jointly conquer the Japanese simply by relying on national righteousness and hatred. Therefore, Ying Hao used interests to induce Wei, Song, Wu and Qin to send troops together.

When Ying Hao told Cao Cao and others that Japan had a large number of gold and silver mines, Zhao Kuangyin and Sun Jian were fine, but Cao Cao's eyes were straight.

 Obviously, Wei State's financial pressure is very great, and Cao Cao, who is used to living a hard life, does not want to miss any opportunity to make money.

"But the Japanese country is a big country with a population of more than five million after all, and the Japanese are very martial. It may not be easy to conquer Japan, and we know almost nothing about Japan." Zhao Kuangyin said.

When the Japanese invaders invaded, the Song Dynasty was still inland and had not occupied the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers. Zhao Kuangyin, who had not experienced any personal pain, naturally did not hate the Japanese pirates as much as Sun Jian, so he was very rational in his attitude towards the Japanese invaders.

Hearing this, Cao Cao and Sun Jian also reacted.

Yes, Japan has a population of more than 5 million and 50,000, which is larger than the population of the three other countries. If we send out troops to conquer Japan, how many troops will be sent? How many casualties will it cost?

 For a while, both of them felt a little discouraged.

Ying Hao smiled calmly and said confidently: "Everyone, Great Qin has fully collected information about Japan."

As soon as he finished speaking, a woman walked in. She was the elder of the Yin and Yang family, Jie Siyun.

“Jie Siyun, a disciple of the Yin Yang family, has met your majesty and all the great kings.” Jie Siyun saluted.

Ying Hao pointed at Xie Siyun and said, "Elder Xie has been to Japan before and knows Japan very well. Elder Xie, let me explain Japan's strength."

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 Jie Siyun starts with the political structure of Japan.

When they learned that Japan had not been completely unified, and that although Oda Nobunaga was the emperor, he was only the largest force, and that there were many other forces on Japan, Cao Cao and others thought that the difficulty of attacking Japan was once again reduced. After all, A divided Japan will definitely be easier to fight than a unified Japan.

“The Japanese naval force is very powerful, but the land army is very weak and poorly equipped. The Japanese pirates who attack various parts of the coast are already Japan’s elite army.

The four kingdoms of Qin, Wei, Song and Wu only need to gather 100,000 elites, which should be enough to sweep across the four islands of Japan. "

 Hearing what Jie Siyun said, Cao Cao and the three of them all looked happy.

Those Japanese pirates who don't even have armor and only have a Japanese sword are already the strongest army in Japan?

Then I'm afraid that nothing will happen, so just go ahead and do the **** thing.

 In the age of great war, the equipment of the armies of various countries is getting better and better, and the overall combat effectiveness of the army is getting stronger and stronger.

Even the poorest of the four countries, Wei, had a much stronger army and even better equipment than the invading Japanese pirates.

 This is not progress made by one family or one country, but progress made by the entire era, especially in the military aspect.

As for those princes who were standing still and could not keep up with the pace of the times, they were naturally annexed by stronger princes.

If the Japanese army and land force were not as good as the Han army, then the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Wu would naturally not be afraid. After all, they all came from that era and clearly knew the combat effectiveness of the Han army at that time.

If the comprehensive combat strength of the Japanese army cannot even match that of the Han army, then if the same number of people fights, it will never be the opponent of any of the four countries.

The Japanese army's combat effectiveness was so weak, but they possessed a huge amount of wealth. In the eyes of Cao Cao and others, they were like childish people carrying money through the market.

 What they should consider now is no longer whether to send troops, but how to divide the territory and population of the Japanese country, and how to transport the money and grain they have captured back to their home country.

Qin and Wu both had their own navies, so they could naturally transport back the looted wealth, but Wei and Song did not have navies.

Cao Cao and Zhao Kuangyin looked at each other and made a decision in their hearts. They also wanted to form a naval army, even if it was smaller in scale, it would be fine, as long as it could transport supplies.

Seeing the expressions of everyone, Ying Hao knew that this time the alliance was formed, so he smiled and asked: "I wonder if you are willing to join the alliance to defeat the Japanese?"

   “The State of Wu is willing.”      “The State of Wei is willing.”

 “The Song Dynasty is also willing.”

 The three of them answered one after another.

“In this case, I declare that the Anti-Japanese Alliance has been formally established. After making preparations for the war, the four countries will send troops to attack the Japanese islands together to avenge the lives of the people who died.” Ying Hao said righteously.

Apparently he was not interested in revenge, so he asked: "I wonder when His Majesty the Qin Emperor is going to send troops to fight against the Japanese?"

Sun Jian also nodded. Without any worries, he was eager to send troops immediately. After all, he also needed to use the wealth of Japan to restore Wu's previous war damage.

Japanese invasion, Shanyue rebellion, Jiangxia war, after a series of wars, Wu State is actually short of money to recover from the trauma, and its slow development cannot be as fast as grabbing it.

"There is no rush for the time being. After all, at least one hundred thousand troops will be dispatched to conquer Japan. However, the combined warships of Qin and Wu are not enough to transport one hundred thousand troops to Japan. Therefore, if we want to attack Japan, we still need to build a large number of warships. A boat will do.”

As soon as Ying Hao said this, Sun Jian followed suit: "Wu will also build more warships to transport soldiers and supplies."

Cao Cao and Zhao Kuangyin looked at each other. Neither of them had naval forces, and there was no shipyard. Even if they were established immediately, they could only build merchant ships instead of warships, so they could only follow the ships of Qin and Wu to land on the island.

However, logistics and transporting goods back to the country cannot be borrowed from others, so they are also preparing to form a fleet to transport supplies.

"The combat power of the Japanese army is weak. It would be a waste of manpower to send too many troops to conquer the Japanese. Therefore, for the time being, we have set the number of the Japanese coalition forces at 100,000. We, the Qin Dynasty, can send 50,000 troops. The other 50,000 troops can be allocated by you and other three countries. "

What Ying Hao meant was that half of the proceeds from the conquest of Japan would be given to Qin, and the other half would go to the three kingdoms of Wei, Song, and Wu.

For Great Qin, although more troops can be dispatched to conquer the Japanese, if it exceeds 50,000, it will definitely affect the country's recovery, and 50,000 is just enough, neither more nor less, and will not cause too much harm to Great Qin Influence.

 Cao Cao and the three men also heard Ying Hao's voice-over, and immediately started quarreling over the share of the 50,000 yuan.

"We, the State of Wei, are willing to send 30,000 troops." Cao Cao said first.

Sun Jian sneered and said: "Mengde, you are so greedy. Wei State doesn't even have a naval force. Even if it can send out 30,000 troops, how can you land on the Japanese island?"

"We don't have to worry about it now, Wentai. The Wei army can take the Qin army's warship to land on the island."

Cao Cao said it as a matter of course, without any shame at all.

"No, our country of Wu has both naval and land forces. Its output is second only to that of Qin. Of the remaining 50,000, it should account for 30,000."

"Then our Song and Wei states can only dispatch 10,000 troops? No, this is too few."

“You, the Song Dynasty, don’t have a naval army, so it’s not bad to give you a quota of 10,000 troops.”

"Humph, our Song Dynasty does not have a naval army now, but it does not mean that there will be no naval army in a year. I have decided to form a Huaihe River naval army."

After hearing what Zhao Kuangyin said, Cao Cao was so envious.

After the Song State occupied the Jianghuai River, it already had access to the sea. It was indeed possible to form a navy and take the sea route directly to Japan, but the Wei State could not.

Wei is the only landlocked country among the four countries. If it wants to go to sea, it can only go to the Yellow River. But it can't form a navy on the Yellow River and then use the Yellow River to enter the sea to Japan, right? The navies of Qi and Ming would not let Wei pass.

Furthermore, with the financial resources of the Wei State, setting up a logistics transport fleet is already the ultimate goal, and there is no money to build warships at all.

The three of them argued for an hour, but could not come up with a solution. In the end, Ying Hao made the decision. Among the remaining 50,000 troops, Wu State sent 20,000, and Wei and Song each contributed 15,000. The debate came to an end.

After finalizing the conquest of Japan, Cao Cao, Sun Jian, and Zhao Kuangyin all returned to China on the same day. After all, they had nothing else to do in Luoyang.

The conquest of Japan is currently the top secret of the Four Kingdoms. Except for the monarchs of the Four Kingdoms and a few high-level officials, no one knows that the Qin, Wei, Song, and Wu Kingdoms are eyeing the overseas Japanese Kingdom. This secret will probably not be exposed until the day when the coalition forces set off. , and doing so naturally caught Japan off guard.

The expedition to Japan was divided into water battles and land battles. Only if the water battles were won, could one land on the four islands of Japan. Naturally, the choice of commander of the naval forces was Zhou Yu.

 Zhou Yu is about to get married to his little sister, and as his brother-in-law, Ying Hao naturally has to send a congratulatory gift.

As the Commander-in-Chief of the Qingzhou Navy and one of the thirty-six founding princes of the Qin Dynasty, Zhou Yu is already qualified to marry Princess Ying Xuewu of Huayang.

 In the early morning court, Ying Hao shouted to the ministers below: "Where is Zhou Yu?"

 “The end will be here.”

“Zhou Yu, I have appointed him as the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy in Hebei Province, in charge of all the naval forces in Hebei, as well as supervising the construction of warships and other important tasks.

Within the next year, I want you to expand the Great Qin navy to 50,000 people and build a fleet capable of transporting an army of 100,000 people.

Can it be done? "

Da Qin originally had two naval forces, the Yellow River Navy and the Jingzhou Navy, but now the Yellow River Navy has been merged into the Qingzhou Navy, and the Jingzhou Navy has been almost wiped out. Now there is only one navy in the country, the Qingzhou Navy.

 The Qingzhou navy originally numbered 30,000, but it suffered a lot in the Youzhou battle. Now there are only 20,000 troops left.

 Doubling the size of the army and building a fleet to transport 100,000 people within one year is not an easy task at all.

 Hearing that Ying Hao wanted to expand the navy, the civil and military ministers who did not know the truth were a little confused.

After the Qin army has recuperated, its next strategic target will also be Guanxi and the Central Plains. Since the main focus of attacking these two places is cavalry, why should they expand the naval army instead?

 Could it be that my lord is already preparing for sending troops to conquer the south of the Yangtze River in the future? But this is a bit too early. All the generals thought this in their hearts.

Zhou Yu didn’t know that Ying Hao was going to conquer Japan, but without any hesitation, he knelt down and saluted: “Thank you for your trust, Your Majesty. Zhou Yu is willing to issue a military order. If he cannot complete the task, he is willing to raise his head to see you.”

“I don’t want your head, otherwise that girl Xue Wu will be a widow.” Ying Hao said with a smile.

As soon as these words came out, there was a burst of laughter in the audience. Zhou Yu felt a little embarrassed when he laughed, and Bai Qi looked at Zhou Yu with even more relief.

Now Zhou Yu is no longer the little transparent person next to him, but the commander-in-chief of the Hebei Navy of the Qin Dynasty. His status in the navy is equivalent to that of Bai Qi in the army. This naturally makes Bai Qi, the master, feel very happy.

 (End of this chapter)