In the distance, there was a faint sound of cannons coming. After hundreds of miles of transmission, it became as if it was faint thunder. This was the Zhou army's "Truth"-class gunboats harassed and attacked a castle (later discovered to be a temple) on the coast of Sagami, with the purpose of attracting the attention of the Japanese samurai of Sagami and Musashi. A hundred miles away from the northeast, the main force of the Ozhou Navy's Oriental Fleet, and the transport fleet carrying the First Marine Brigade, Second Brigade and Sixth Army Division, had already rushed into Musashi Bay with murderous intent and came to the ocean outside the Tama River.

This is an unprecedentedly powerful expeditionary fleet, consisting of more than 30 Beiyang class, Dongyang class (the Dongyang class is an improved Beiyang class), and the Truth class artillery warships, covering more than 300 transport ships, as well as more than a dozen flat-bottomed gallopy gunships towed to Musashi Bay with large gunboats.

These large and small sailboats formed a moving city on the dark sea and pressed towards the coast near the Tamakawa, Musashi, Japan.

It is October of the 13th year of the Great Zhou republic (1128 AD). Because it is the lunar calendar, winter has entered. And it is still the Little Ice Age and the climate is very cold. In October, many areas of the eastern country of Japan have already suffered heavy snow. Even if it does not snow, it will be snowing in a few days.

Considering the speed of the reaction of the Japanese court, this is definitely the best time to raid Musashi Bay.

And for this raid, the Japanese dispatched army commander prepared for a year and a half!

First, concentrate troops on Hirado!

The Japanese court allowed the Great Zhou Republic to lease Hirado to establish a shopping mall and a shopping port, which was eventually proved to be a big trick to attract wolves into the house.

After more than ten years of development and construction, by the 13th year of the Republic, Hirado Island had already fully equipped ports, markets and castles.

These facilities that have been slowly built over more than ten years are very important for an expeditionary army.

With these facilities, coupled with the strong maritime transportation capabilities of the Navy of the Great Zhou Republic and the maritime merchants, the General Secretary led by Wu Yiyong can slowly hoard food and supplies at the doorstep of the Japanese, and at the same time build camps for tens of thousands of troops.

With food, supplies and camps, the operation of hoarding large troops on Hirado Island is just to transport people across the sea.

Kanfeng and other things cannot save Japan at all!

The second step to invade Japan is of course to deceive the false as true.

When the army arrived at Hirado Island one after another, Dazaifu in Japan had already discovered something was wrong.

In their opinion, the invading army of Baozhou should land in the northern part of Jiuzhou.

So while mobilizing the samurai from Kyushu, they advanced to the Dazhou Merchant and Embassy in Hakata.

The so-called commercial halls and embassies, by the Japanese standards, are two "cities". The Great Zhou Republic stationed marine soldiers there, and were also equipped with light artillery and heavy muskets.

Therefore, the Kyushu Samurai's attack on the Hakata Merchant and Embassy quickly turned into a disaster of casualties.

After the Japanese took the initiative, Wu Yiyong immediately sent a small number of reinforcements to Hakata, repelled the messy Kyushu Samurai Army and completely occupied the entire Hakata commercial port.

However, he did not immediately expand the war, but according to the pace of the Japanese fighting villages in this era, he slowly increased his troops to Hakata and built a city in Hakata.

Then a small number of troops were sent to land on both sides of the Guanmen Strait (the closest to Kyushu Island and Honshu Island), building two Menshi Castle and Xiaguan City.

After controlling the Guanmen Strait, the Zhou fleet entered the Seto Inland Sea. Then, while sweeping away a small number of Japanese naval forces, they occupied the islands in the Seto Inland Sea, and acted as if they were ready to attack Namba.

At the same time, the Dazhou Merchant House and Embassy in Namba also entered a state of combat.

Now the Japanese court was scared and paralyzed!

The Prince of Shirakawa Court and a group of otakus have never seen this formation? And I never thought about it. So their Peaceful Jing did not even have a city wall!

Seeing that the army of Bruce Zhou was about to fight, the Emperor Shirakawa had to prepare to move the capital to Shinono while allowing the Hei clan and Genji to convene his subordinates to join the capital to serve the king.

A large number of Kanto samurai from the Gen family, led by Genayi, Genayi, Genayiko and others, came to Luo.

The Kanto Plain became extremely empty for a moment!

Wu Yiyong's plan was completely successful!

After successfully attracting the Kanto samurai warrior, he bypassed Kyushu Island and suddenly started to implement the bold battle plan of Musashi Bay from the southeast of Honshu, Japan.

This is a feat that has never been seen in military history, at least in East Asia.

A fleet of more than 300 large warships and transport ships carried an infantry division and two marine brigades, nearly 23,000 landing troops. They quietly set off from Hirado Island and headed south through the Osumi Strait in the south of Kyushu Island and then sailed northeastward. The fleet traveled nearly 2,600 miles in total, which took 6 days and 6 nights. Finally, in the early morning of October 18, the 13th year of the Republic, they all arrived at the reserved landing waters.

Oh, not all of them arrived. More than a dozen transport ships fell behind. I don’t know where they are now?

But it doesn’t matter, at least 20,000 landing troops have arrived!

The coast of Japan's Musashi Kingdom was empty and completely unprepared.

The combat operation to raid the Kanto Plain in Japan is in sight!

On the stern staircase of the "Dongyang" was busy with more than a year of work for today's battle, Wu Yiyong was holding his breath and staring at the hazy scene ahead.

The sky was already bright! The few light boats leading the way were already carrying the warriors of landing soldiers and approaching the entrance of Tamakawa.

These small boats were hung on landings. In the hazy morning mist, I watched a few lights rise and fall, and slowly moved forward.

The speed of forward progress seemed quite slow, but Wu Yiyong knew that the heroes on the ship were already paddling very hard.

It's just the tide now, and it's very hard to go against the trend.

I don’t know how long it took, but several flames suddenly appeared on the beach in the distance.

This is the landing successfully landed and launching signal rockets into the air.

"It's done!"

Wu Jie, the general army of the Japanese dispatched army, breathed a sigh of relief and said to Wu Yiyong beside him: "Go up! The Tamakawa Beach is empty and we have made a plan!"

Wu Yiyong smiled: "Those who travel a hundred miles apart are half ninety... Jin Qing, this is just beginning! The success now is natural, because they can't fight now. But the ability to fight can be honed little by little, just like the Western Song Dynasty.

So we must kill as much as possible while they don’t know how to do it, especially in the Kanto Plain. Kill more now, and there will be fewer people who will resist us in the future, and there will be more land that can be distributed!"

While preparing for the attack on Japan for almost two years, Wu Yiyong conducted in-depth research on Japan's military power.

The results of the research made him believe that the so-called Japanese samurai actually did not fight!

Some of them may be brave enough, but fighting and bravery are two different things. War is a technical job! If you cannot receive systematic military education, you can only explore slowly in practice.

Therefore, Wu Yiyong estimated that in the early stages of the war, Japanese samurai who could not fight would be very easy to eliminate.

Therefore, you must kill more!

Kill more now, and the next war will be easier to fight.

At this time, the morning sun had already shone down from the sky, dispelling the morning mist on the sea and on the Tama River, and showing a quiet and beautiful land to the Great Zhou invaders armed to their teeth. Oh, it was the eyes of the liberator.

At this time, everyone, including Wu Yiyong and Wu Jie, did not expect that their conquest of Japan was actually a starting point.

The starting point of a new world!

For people in the East Asian world, Japan is their starting point for them to go to the new world in the future.

In the future, all East Asian races, including those on the island of Japan, will benefit from this conquest.

Therefore, in later history books, the words "invading Japan" or "conquering Japan" do not exist, only "liberating Japan"... This war is a just liberation war that overthrew the country and cut off China, a corrupt rule of the Japanese emperor and ministers, liberated the oppressed Japanese samurai and civilians, and turned Japan into a righteous liberation war of prosperity for East Asia!

Therefore, Wu Yiyong was also called "Liberator Yiyong" by the people in later Japanese provinces.

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"Success! Sir, news about Hirado Island, my brother's troops successfully landed near Tamakawa, Musashi Bay, Japan! After the troops landed, they encountered Musashi, and the Genji Samurai Order of Sagami countries resisted... They fought on both sides of the Tamakawa, and they won a great victory, killed and captured more than 6,000 enemy troops!"

The good news of victory was only conveyed back to Xuzhou, the winter capital of the Great Zhou Republic at the end of November of the 13th year of the Republic. Wu Yijiu personally informed Wu Haogu.

The news is very good! The login is extremely smooth, and after the main force completed the landing, Musashi and Sagami Japanese samurai army were welcomed, with a population of up to 7,000 to 8,000 people!

As Wu Yiyong expected, these so-called warriors did not understand the real war at all. Now the era of the Japanese martial arts family has not begun yet! Where did they go to learn superb war art? When they met Wu Yiyong, Wu Jie, a general like Zhou who had been trained as a warrior since childhood and had been struggling on the battlefield for more than ten years, of course, would not have any good ending.

Moreover, Wu Yiyong also has weapons, muskets and cannons that Japanese samurai cannot believe! He also has 1,800 cavalry! 900 of them can also be used as armored cavalry!

So after the Battle of Tamakawa, Wu Yiyong gained the reputation of a "military god" and soon spread throughout the Hachishu, Kanto!

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