Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 317 Tokugawa shocked, ultimatum
But when they saw that the Ming soldiers who came off the boat were Chinese-speaking soldiers, these people felt relieved.

The Ming army who came to the Korean kingdom from afar was far more friendly and safer than the Korean army in the eyes of the Korean soldiers and civilians.

Not to mention the invincibility of the Tianming soldiers, who easily beat away the Dongying people who wanted to invade North Korea. They are here, giving people a sense of security.

In terms of military discipline alone, the Ming army is much stronger than the Korean army. After all, the Ming army that the Korean soldiers and civilians saw in the past were all elites drawn by the Ming court from the frontier army and the interior. It is stronger than the Joseon Kingdom Army, which is similar to the Guards.

Therefore, when the Korean soldiers and civilians in these docks and ports saw the Ming army, instead of retreating, they greeted them very enthusiastically, or asked them if they needed their own goods, or asked them why they came.

Even the local officials rushed over as soon as they learned that the Ming troops were coming off the big ship.

After hearing that a prince and an earl from the Celestial Dynasty came here, the local soldiers and civilians were terrified, fearing that they would not entertain them well and offend them, so they hurriedly informed the Korean King Li Yu in the royal palace of the Ming Dynasty about the arrival of the Ming Dynasty Navy, so that He came to receive these two.

Although Xu Hongji was only a duke, his nominal status was much lower than that of Li Zhen, but because he was the duke of the kingdom of heaven, he was no less important than his own king in the eyes of the Korean soldiers and civilians.

Soon, Li Jing rushed to the port with hundreds of palace guards. Besides, he also brought a large amount of gold, silver, cloth, wine, meat, and water to reward the Ming army.

When Zhu Cihong signed the treaty with the Koreans before, it had stipulated that the Korean Kingdom should undertake some obligations to the Ming Dynasty, such as providing information support and sending guides to the passing Ming army, and of course assisting the Ming army with supplies. If the army came to the Kingdom of Korea to fight for a long time, the local government would even pay some military expenses to Daming.

Zhu Cihong didn't want to be a foolish good old man who didn't want money to help others fight wars.

The Ming army would spend countless amounts of silver every day. If they were fighting for the Koreans and the Kingdom of Korea was not allowed to pay the silver, then what would happen to Zhu Cihong and Daming? Is North Korea a vassal state or Daming is a vassal state?

After receiving certain supplies from North Korea and asking Li Yu to find a hundred soldiers who were familiar with the coast and hydrology of North Korea and Dongying, Xu Hongji and Zheng Zhilong set sail and headed for Edo on Dongying Honshu Island.

Although Zhu Cihong didn't know what Dongying was like in this era, he probably knew that the current Dongying should be ruled by the Tokugawa family based on his historical knowledge from his previous life.

In other words, the Tokugawa family is now the Great General of Japan, and the Tokugawa Shogunate was established in Edo as the capital that essentially managed the military affairs of Japan. As for Kyoto, where the Emperor of Japan lived, it became a large waste nursing home.

So before the sailors set off, Zhu Cihong asked them to go directly to Edo. After all, the Tokugawa family had the final say in Japan, and it was useless to find someone else.

With the help of a group of North Korean soldiers, the Daming Navy quickly left North Korea and arrived in the waters near Dongying.

Immediately afterwards, with the help of Zheng Zhilong and his sailors who knew the sea conditions, charts, and hydrological conditions of Dongying, the fleet successfully reached the sea near Edo.

At this time, the Tokugawa shogunate had been established for decades. The shogunate pursued a policy of isolation from the country. Not only did it abolish its martial arts, it also prohibited the daimyo from all over Japan from developing military power.

So the Donghai Navy came to the sea of ​​Edo without any obstruction, stood on the observation deck of the flagship, and could even directly see the castle tower of the Tokugawa shogunate.

It was the core area where every daimyo lived in Japan, just like the Forbidden City in Ming Dynasty.

But even if it was not stopped, the Ming army fleet was too large after all, and its whereabouts could not be concealed at all. Therefore, when the Ming army fleet came to the sea near Edo, the Tokugawa shogunate sat firmly in the castle tower and listened to the retainers' report on government affairs. The third generation general Tokugawa Iemitsu suddenly received a report from his samurai.

"Report, General, a large-scale fleet has appeared on the surface of the sea. From a distance, it looks like a continent floating in the sky."

A samurai knelt down in front of Tokugawa Iemitsu and informed him of the existence of the Ming fleet.

"What? Where did the fleet come from?" Tokugawa Iemitsu never expected that a fleet would suddenly come near his shogunate on an ordinary day.

"I don't know yet." The warrior shook his head and said.

But in the next second, another warrior suddenly rushed into the castle tower.

"General, the fleet on the sea wants you to come out. They claim to be soldiers of the Great Tomorrow, and they are coming to fight against the dissidents." The samurai had a panicked look on his face, and even the bun on Tsukiyo's head shook in fear.

"It's a joke, I'm the general who conquers barbarians, and I'm loyal to the emperor. Why should I submit to Ming Dynasty? It's nonsense." Tokugawa Iemitsu said righteously.

The connection between Dongying and China is not strong, and it has always been free from the tributary system of the Chinese Dynasty, and occasionally it will accept the canonization of the Chinese Dynasty in some years.

Tokugawa Iemitsu did not think that Dongying was the same as North Korea from the bottom of his heart, not to mention that he was not the monarch of Dongying, he just controlled the actual power of this country like Cao Cao.

"Let the soldiers prepare armor and weapons, go up to the city wall to defend, and then call all the sailors around, and we must keep these people out of Edo city."

As soon as Tokugawa Iemitsu gave an order, there was chaos inside and outside Edo City. Soldiers stationed in various places rushed to the coast one after another, and the forts in Edo Port were also aimed at the Ming Fleet.

At that time, the Tokugawa shogunate had only been established for a few decades. Although it had been peaceful for a long time, the quality and training of the army were still to a certain extent. The shogunate also had the confidence to fight any invading enemy.

Unlike the Tokugawa shogunate 200 years later, when they saw a few American warships, they hurriedly signed a humiliating treaty.

However, the Ming army was not easy to mess with. The Western sailors in the fleet were all experienced in battle, and the sailors brought by Zheng Zhilong were not lacking in brave and skilled fighters.

As soon as they saw the Japanese aiming their artillery at them and mobilizing a large number of troops to the shore, they immediately responded by aiming all the artillery of the fleet at the Tokugawa Fort on land.

At the same time, they sent people to the sea near the shore in small boats, and informed the Tokugawa shogunate army of the ultimatum made by Xu Hongji and Zheng Zhilong.

"Listen, people of the Tokugawa shogunate, we are the Navy of the Great Ming Dynasty. This expedition to Dongying is for the purpose of crusading against disobedient ministers. In order to save lives, the shogunate general Tokugawa Iemitsu, please go on a boat and cross the sea to meet Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei of the Ming Dynasty, and Zheng Zhilong, the governor of Nanan. .”

(End of this chapter)