In June of the 19th year of Wanli, the Taige of the Kingdom of Wa (formerly Guanbai was the prime minister) Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent an envoy Soyochi to inform the King of Goryeo, Lunzu Lee Kyu:

"Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Japan, I would like to answer the King of Goryeo. The country's various roads have been separated for a long time, abolished the rules and regulations, and blocked the emperor's orders. Hideyoshi was angry and wore a strong force to fight against the east, and over several years, he decided to more than 60 countries.

Hideyoshi is a despicable person, but when he is in the fetus, his mother dreams of falling into her arms, the digger said, "Where the sun is coming, all the sun is clear, and the eight signs of martial arts will be shining in the year of the year." Therefore, he will win the battle and win the attack. Now that the country is governed, the people are rich and wealthy, and the prosperity of the imperial capital is extremely ancient. The wife lived in the world, and she has not been over a hundred years since ancient times. How could she live here for a long time in depression?

I want to use the idea of ​​your country, transcending the mountains and seas, and entering the Ming Dynasty, so that the four hundred states can be transformed into our customs and imparting the king's rule for billions of years. This is Hideyoshi's ambition. All the vassals overseas will be in the way of serving. Your country will first prepare the coins, and the emperor praised it very much. On the day of Hideyoshi's entry into the Ming Dynasty, he led his soldiers and joined the military camp to take the lead."

This is Toyotomi Hideyoshi who expressed his intention to attack the Ming Dynasty in the spring of the 20th year of Wanli (this year), and please help.

As a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, Goryeo refused because it had been in the Ming Dynasty for a long time. At that time, Goryeo's eight martial arts were in disarray, Li Bing emphasized literature and neglected military affairs, and the court's internal struggle was fierce, so that "people did not know about military forces for more than 200 years", which was a completely replica of the Ming Dynasty.

However, what the Goryeo court did not know was that Toyotomi Hideyoshi's real goal was not the Ming Dynasty, but the Goryeo.

After basically unifying Japan in the 16th year of Wanli, Toyotomi Hideyoshi took over the military and political power of the entire Japan. In order to satisfy his sudden expansion of ambitions, he also transformed the domestic conflicts over the land impartment and weakened the various major forces, he decided to send troops to the outside world to obtain more land.

Goryeo became Toyota Hideyoshi's first goal. If Goryeo can successfully occupy Goryeo, the Ming Dynasty will become the new goal of Japan, and then seek India and dominate Asia.

Toyota Hideyoshi was also worried that Japan would send troops to Goryeo, which would allow the Ming Dynasty, the clan leader of Goryeo, to send troops to support it. However, the situation in the Ming Dynasty at home relieved Toyota Hideyoshi. The Ming Dynasty had a powerful enemy in the south and could not withdraw troops to support Goryeo. If the Ming and the People's Army were both injured or killed or disabled, it would happen that Japan would advance after capturing Goryeo, expanding the territory of Japan dozens of times in one fell swoop.

In order to invade Goryeo, Toyotomi Hideyoshi began preparations last year, and in the first month of the year, he issued a mobilization order for the recruitment of naval troops to major names:

"From Changlu in the east, through the South China Sea to the four countries, Kyushu, and from Akita in the north, Sakata in the north to China, and from various famous territories of various countries in Linhai, two large ships are prepared for every 100,000 stones.

Each of the harbors has ten sailors, and they take large ships built by various famous names in various countries. If there is any excess, they will be concentrated in Osaka.

The ships used by Hideyoshi Moon's army were built by Daming from various countries for every 100,000 stones and five medium-sized ships. The construction costs required were allocated by Hideyoshi Toyotomi;

The construction costs required by famous generals from various countries are reported in the budget table and allocated half of them first, and then paid after the ship is built.

Each sailor gave two people a salary of rice, and his wife's food was paid in addition. All the wives under the military camp were given food."

Nowadays, ships and sailors have been concentrated in the ports of the three countries of Hojin, Homoma, and Izumi. Toyotomi Hideyoshi has also officially launched a mobilization order for the recruitment of army troops. A total of 306,250 troops will be mobilized, and the army troops of 158,700 were divided into nine legions to cross the sea to Koryoi, with Ukita Hidea as the commander-in-chief.

In addition, Katsuraki Kyuhiro led 8,750 naval troops and 700 ships to transport soldiers and naval battles. In addition, in order to supplement the source of troops, he ordered Tokugawa Ieyasugi, Maeda Taki, Uesugi Keika, Pusuki Township, and Masato Ida Masato gathered their troops in Himemae Nagoya (Saga Prefecture) as a reserve team, with a total of 105,000 people.

In terms of strategy, Toyotomi Hideyoshi adopted Tokugawa Ieyasu's proposal to determine the tactics of "advance on land and sea", "bulking the weak with strong force", and "fight quickly and quickly" to ensure the supply of strategic materials for the army with the navy. The army advanced in three directions and occupied Goryeo in one fell swoop.

With so many troops, it is more than enough to conquer Goryeo, which is in a state of desolate military equipment.

Japan is almost ready to start a war, and the Goryeo court did not even react. No one talked about the mobilization of the Japanese army, and no one thought that the Japanese would invade Goryeo.

The Goryeo court was like this, and the Ming court didn't know at all that most of the Ming court is now focused on the People's Army. The People's Army is somewhat prepared for the ambitious Japanese state. However, the People's Navy is still weak, and Japan will first occupy Goryeo if it wants to attack the land of China, and then Goryeo invades the land of China from land, and the north is still the Ming court's ruling area.

Fang Nan didn't have much feeling about the invasion of Goryeo. It was just a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, which was nominally an enemy of the People's Army. In Fang Nan's plan, when the People's Army destroyed the Ming court, even if Goryeo asked for help from the People's Army, the People's Army would not rescue him. When the People's Army was ready, the army dispatched to destroy all the Goryeo and the Japanese army and occupy the territory of the original Goryeo.

On the land of China, war is approaching, but it has not affected the progress of spring plowing.

In the People's Army ruling areas, half of the People's Army's forces and all the new recruits in the training base of the new recruits went to the countryside to help the people do farm work. After working for a while, the other half of the troops will come to continue to do farm work.

The people of Guangdong Province have become accustomed to the arrival of the People's Army. The people of the other four provinces are no longer afraid of seeing the People's Army soldiers, and welcome the arrival of the People's Army soldiers with bright smiles.

In the Ming Dynasty, spring plowing in most areas is also underway, especially the landlord armed forces that have surrendered to the People's Army. Under the order of the People's Army, the guards only left a small number of people, and the others were devoted to the spring plowing.

For the landlord armed forces who surrendered to the People's Army, this year is probably the last year for them to obtain a lot of benefits from the land. When the People's Army arrives, the land will be taken away by the People's Army and distributed to the lower-class people. Without land, they cannot live in vain. They still don't know what to do in the future.

Compared with spring farming, the Ming court was more concerned about war. The Ming court successively launched transfer orders to the Ming army in various places (the landlord armed forces also belonged to the Ming army in name), mobilizing a total of more than one million troops, requiring the Ming army of each unit to arrive on the north bank of the Yangtze River before nine months to set up defenses to resist the People's Army.

Nanzhili was very important to the Ming court, but there was no natural danger south of the Yangtze River that could resist the People's Army's entry into Nanzhili, so we could only give up Nanzhili. If we could block the People's Army with the Yangtze River natural danger, it would be a great victory for the Ming court.

However, after the Ming court was transferred, how many Ming troops would obey the orders? The Ming court was very unconfident.

Some officials proposed to use "King of Kings" to let Ming troops from all over the country go to war, but few people in the court expressed their support because they knew that the "King of Kings" was too small.
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