Chapter 631: The Dust Sweeping Plan to Sweep the Japanese Island (41)
The Rizhao God who seemed to be accompanying Asano Nagao finally shook his hand and left, leaving behind a lonely man, becoming a captive of the Zhao Changsheng Group of the Korean army who almost came into the city with the Fukuyama Legion leaving the city.
In fact, Li Zhanglian didn't believe that Asano Nagao and Miura Wulou would have any so-called kindness to be sympathetic to the people. Therefore, when Asano Nagao and Miura Wulou actually took the release of some "innocent people" out of the city as a necessary prerequisite for them to offer the city, Li Zhanglian immediately understood that among these "innocent people" who were about to leave the city, there would definitely be a top figure in Hiroshima who was eager to escape...
For Li Zhanglian, it is the most important thing to be able to obtain the city at the lowest cost as soon as possible. As for the escape of several important figures in Hiroshima, it is simply an insignificant thing.
So, Li Zhanglian chose a path that seemed to be always following Asano Nagakuro, but Li Zhanglian, who had become increasingly smart, added a bluff while advancing.
Just like the two magnificent and powerful big military dramas outside Hiroshima City that were once directed, this time, Li Zhanglian used the skills he learned from the old Red Army of the Celestial Dynasty, so that all the Japanese "women" and children who escaped from Hiroshima City could truly see the "large number of" Korean troops paved from Hiroshima to Fukuyama.
Li Zhanglian believed that in the face of the powerful Korean army, it was impossible for the Japanese to be a mess, and there would always be some smart rats.
Sure enough, Li Zhanglian "bet" a complete Fushan City.
However, just when Li Zhanglian was very happy about his successive victory, Lu Shunde and Pan Qiliang, who accompanied Li Xingying to sit in the Korean Army base camp in Busan, were not happy.
According to the news that Li Zhanglian kept returning. After Fukuyama Castle fell into the hands of the Korean army, it was originally a vassal city with many vassal cities. The Japanese army in each vassal did not seem to want to fight the Korean army desperately like Nagato, Zhou Fang, Hiroshima and other vassals, but were gathering towards Kyoto early on.
Lu Shunde and Pan Qiliang understood that the Japanese army retreated eastward in such an early stage, as if they were snowballing, not only would they be rolling bigger and bigger, but they would also be getting harder. As the Li Zhanglian Second Legion continued to advance, the front line was gradually lengthened, and the troops that could be used for the front line were decreasing. Due to the method of strengthening the walls and clearing the fields implemented by various vassals along the way, the logistics support of Li Zhanglian's troops began to become increasingly fragile.
In view of the actual maritime transportation capacity of North Korea, in the plan that had already been formulated by Li Sing-Ying, the total attack on the main island of Japan should have been at the end of October or early November, that is, when the Fourth Legion of Choi Sung-lin, who attacked Shikoku Island, completely captured and roughly digested Shikoku Island. After all the Korean soldiers of various routes also obtained winter equipment, Li Zhanglian and Yu Zaizai'ao's troops launched the Nagamon and Mu Ao battles respectively. Moreover, the purpose of the two battles was not to make Li Zhanglian and Yu Zaizai'ao's troops eager to implement eastward and southward, but only to occupy part of the two vassals of Nagamon and Mu Ao. It was the primary goal of providing a stable landing point for the future Korean army and attracting and distracting the Japanese side's attention.
The real attack direction is planned, but the two directions of Aizu and Viet-Chong from the main island of Japan.
At that time, Choi Sung-lin's main force of the Fourth Korean Army's 4th Army's troop front directly pointed to Osaka Castle in the Aizu family, while Lee Yong-hee's troop first Army's troop seized Toyama of the Yuezhong family, and aimed directly to Edo Castle, the heart of the Tokugawa shogunate.
All plans revolve around a central task, which is to completely solve the Japanese problem as quickly as possible.
However, Li Shiying was so anxious that he completely broke the entire established plan.
Although Cui Chenglin's Fourth Korean Army Corps, after arriving on Shikoku Island, relied on two terrifying battles between Iyu and Tosa in the west, forced the eastern Tokushima and Takamatsu to surrender without a fight, and the Shikoku Island Battle also ended early in early October.
But although the war was gone, the small war was far from over. Most of the Fourth Legion had to be scattered all over Shikoku Island. Not to mention that the winter clothes had not been replenished, it was difficult to concentrate the entire legion immediately.
By the end of October or early October, even if the Fourth Legion was already concentrated, even if the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Legion could continue to carry out their bloody battles without winter clothes. However, the ships originally used to support the main force of the Fourth Legion to carry out landing operations were still busy between Busan and Maguan, and they were all working hard to maintain the logistics support of Li Zhanglian's Legion.
Of course, Lu Shunde and Pan Qiliang also knew that a important thing that Li Shiying didn't know at all, that is, only during the original period of attack on the main island of Japan would the Ryukyu fleet of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Red Navy would have free time. Once this precious time period was missed, the Fourth Legion's attack on the Aizu family could not continue.
After all, the Japanese navy has not been completely eliminated. When the final danger comes, they will still struggle crazy before dying. In addition, they have to consider an extremely special situation, what if there is a fleet of Allied countries coming here?
Due to the above reasons, when we knew that the Fourth Legion's trip to Osaka Castle was difficult to achieve, Lu Shunde and Pan Qiliang could only teach Li to fill the holes, using the ships of the North Korean Navy Park Zhenhai Express Fleet that had been shuttled through the Seto Inland Sea as barges, and transported the main First Division of Cui Chenglin's army from Shikoku Island to the coasts of Hiroshima and Fukuyama in batches.
While strengthening Li Zhanglian's strength, under the strong persuasion of Lu Shunde and Pan Qiliang, Li Shiying finally gave Li Zhanglian another letter to him that he should not be eager for success and move forward in a steady manner, and gradually approached the defense line from Osaka to Songjiang, which was already formed by the Japanese army.
On October 29, Pan Qiliang and Lee Rongxi boarded Han Zhengxi's flagship "Seoul" in Busan Port, carrying a huge formation of nearly 40,000 officers and soldiers of the First North Korean Army Corps, and began to sail towards their destination, Toyama Bay.
Li should be a blessing in his own way.
Just because of insufficient transport ships, not only did Cui Chenglin's Fourth Legion's plan to attack Osaka have been restored, but even the third Legion of Yu Zaiyuan who was already on Ainu Island (Xiyi Island) attacked Mu Oao from the north. When Li Shiying felt it was difficult to implement the plan, a very excited news from Li Shiying quickly spread to the temporary base camp of the Korean army in Busan - Yu Zaiyuan actually forced to recruit dozens of transit transport ships from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and had already crossed the Jinqing Strait on November 2 and began an attack on Mu Oa.
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