Chapter 1059 Mysterious Gift

Compared with Hokkaido, Dongying's deployment on Honshu Island is more perverted.

With Edo as the boundary, Mikasa Castle has set up three steel defense lines in the south, and four lines in the north. As for the defense of the main port, it will only be crazier than Hokkaido.

Keisuke Honda's strategy is very clear, that is, to hold on for a month.

Han Xin naturally sneered at this, no matter how good the defense is, it is just a display in front of the super attack. There is a saying in the art of war: "The best defense is offense."

For how to attack Honshu Island, Han Xin already has a complete set of combat plans.

On June 7, the Northern Route Army began to move.

Guo Ziyi led the Flame Army across the strait, landed on the northernmost tip of Honshu Island, and was responsible for sweeping down from north to south. The First Army of the City Guard Army, the First Army of the Huben Army, and the First Army of the Yingyang Army were divided into three teams and landed at three different ports in the north of Honshu Island to support the Flame Army.

There are too many ports on Honshu Island, and the Japanese army is limited, so it is impossible to defend impenetrably. Once Han Xin catches the loophole, it will be the time when the enemy's entire line collapses.

In addition, the expeditionary force has a large rear in Hokkaido, ensuring a steady stream of food and supplies to the front line, even if it is a four-line battle, it is still easy to handle.

It can be seen that the strategic significance of the expeditionary force to win Hokkaido is greater than the actual combat significance.

As for how the four-way army broke through the steel defense line set up by Japan near the port, with Ran Min's experience in taking Kushiro Port, it is not as difficult as climbing the sky.

"It's nothing more than a question of how much damage it can bear." Han Xin said.

As the saying goes, "Compassion does not command soldiers", when it is time to be ruthless, Han Xin can also attack his own people. For the ultimate victory, sometimes it is impossible to sacrifice a group of troops.

No one is immortal in war.

In addition to these four armies, Han Xin will personally lead the Leopard Army, approaching the vicinity of Edo, intending to attack the northern part of Honshu Island, and at the same time sweep up the forts outside the Edo, clearing the way for the final siege.

Han Xin's arrangement in this way saved the time of the national war to the greatest extent.

The more Dongying wanted to delay, the more Han Xin wanted to make the enemy scurry, and he couldn't delay at all. Of course, the final siege still requires the cooperation of the South Route Army.

Among other things, the North Route Army cannot deal with the millions of forbidden troops stationed in Edo alone.

In the past two days, under the pressure of external public opinion, the southern army has slightly accelerated the sweeping speed, and has almost captured the entire territory of Kyushu Island recently, establishing a large rear.

In a few days, the South Route Army will continue to go north and attack Shikoku Island.

Even so, the progress of the South Route Army was still very slow, which made Ouyang Shuo quite dissatisfied. Fortunately, he still held a trump card in his hand, which could turn things around at a critical moment.

Only the leader of the national war as the offensive side knows this trump card, not even Keisuke Honda.

Sometimes, Ouyang Shuo even wished that Di Chen would die like this. If that was the case, he would have given Di Chen a big gift, but he didn't know if Di Chen could bear it.

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In the following week, the three major battlefields related to Huaxia all entered a critical period.

In addition to the army led by Han Xin "making waves" in the northern part of Japan's Honshu Island, setting off bursts of killings and gradually dismembering the so-called steel defense line built by Japan, the other two battlefields were equally fierce.

In Koryo, the army led by Li Jing was still unstoppable. In just ten days, they had captured the entire northern part of Koryo and officially reached the royal city of Koryo—the foot of Seoul.

Unlike the battlefield in Japan, Li Jing planned to besiege Seoul without attacking it, and then take this opportunity to wipe out southern Koryo in one fell swoop, turning Seoul into an isolated city.

Prior to this, Great Xia had already destroyed the four kingdoms. This strategy of sweeping out the outer barriers first and then attacking the royal city was proven to be the most effective way to destroy the country.

The root cause probably lies in Gaia's setting of the Forbidden Army in the Royal City. Even after five years in Gaia, the territorial army is still at a disadvantage compared to the Forbidden Army of the Royal City, which is easier to break through.

This situation is not only very common in small and medium-sized game areas like Xingguo and Annanguo, but also in super regions like Huaxia District, where there are global hegemony territories like Daxia and Handan City, the situation is still the same.

What's more, before the national war, the royal city and the territory were often in a hostile state, especially for those with only one royal city and one territory in a game area.

The two sides are usually in a state of competition, trying to compete for dominance in the region.

With the coming of the national war, although the two major powers are embracing each other, it is only a forced temporary cooperation after all. How can they be really close? !

Therefore, when the territory is swept away by the enemy, the Forbidden Army of the Royal City will generally not attack.

Just like in Dongying, Emperor Meiji supported Mikasa Castle no differently, allowing it to operate on the periphery, and all the millions of forbidden troops in Edo were stationed in the city, immovable like a mountain.

Since Honda Keisuke's biggest goal is to hold on for a month, Edo is the last barrier. The stronger the Edo garrison, the longer it can hold on.

Therefore, although he was unwilling, Keisuke Honda still did not raise any objections.

It can be predicted that after the national war, even if Japan can keep its territory, Mikasa Castle will be completely reduced to scorched earth in this war, and it will no longer be able to dominate the situation in Japan.

Perhaps, Emperor Meiji will become the biggest winner of this war.

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In addition to the duel between the field forces on the Koryo battlefield, there is another point that is worthy of attention. It is the game between the two navies at sea, which is much more exciting than the naval battle on the Dongpu battlefield.

Not because of anything else, just because there was a famous naval officer in Goryeo—— Yi Sun-shin.

This legendary figure who was once named the number one military general in Asia by the Koreans, the most memorable battle was the famous Luliang naval battle in history.

The Naval Battle of Luliang took place at the end of the sixteenth century AD.

The commanders were Chen Lin and Deng Zilong from the Ming Dynasty, Yi Sun-sin from Korea, and Konishi Yukachi and Shimadzu Yoshihiro from Dongying. The result ended with the victory of the coalition forces.

At that time, the real power in Japan was Toyotomi Hideyoshi, one of the three heroes of the Warring States Period in Japan.

In this national war, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was appointed by Keisuke Honda as the general guard of Kyushu Island and Shikoku Island, and Oda Nobunaga was naturally the guard of Honshu Island.

Let's talk about the Luliang naval battle. This naval battle has a very important position in the history of China and even the world's maritime wars, and it greatly affected the geopolitical situation in Northeast Asia at that time.

The Luliang naval battle was also rated as "one of the eight ancient naval battles in the world" by the West Point Military Academy.

In this battle, Yi Sun-shin led the Koryo "Turtle Ship" fleet to injure the Japanese army with a few victories and many losses, and finally died heroically. In fact, the real commander of this battle was Chen Lin, Admiral of the Navy of the Ming Army, but this credit was taken away by Yi Sun-shin, a Korean. Yi sun-shin has always been considered the first minister in this war, so he also became a great hero in the hearts of people in the Koryo Peninsula, and he was given the posthumous title of "Zhongwu" after his death.

Koreans even took this as a background to shoot the movie "Mingliang Sea Battle", which made history in Korea both in terms of the number of viewers and box office records.

Although Li Sunshin was boasted a bit too much by the Korean people, he was indeed not a man of vain fame. The Korean fleet led by him and the Coastal Fleet led by Qi Jiguang had a wonderful duel.

Goryeo's unique turtle boats also entered people's field of vision for the first time.