"I thank Your Highness! Please walk and take a look!"

Li Dingguo did not take Zhang Qingyuan's accusations and the implicit contempt, nor did he express his intention to please the other party.

He first bowed to Zhu Cilang to express his gratitude, and then invited the prince to come to the front of the map hanging in the cabin. Then he tapped a wooden stick on it and began to explain the new combat plan.

Li Dingguo's overall strategy was to take advantage of the fact that the shogunate army is now concentrated in the southwest of Kagoshima, send a group of troops to land near Miyagiri, and then give it a fatal blow from behind.

Another group of troops landed near Osaka. Taking advantage of its inadvertent defense, they raided the location of the Kyoto Shogunate and directly took off the head of the shogunate. Then they selected people close to the Ming Dynasty to form a new shogunate, and issued an edict to disband the Daming armed forces in various places. If there were any dissatisfaction, the Ming Dynasty's official army would divide their troops to attack.

Li Dingguo's plan was quite risky and overturned the safe plan that was originally formulated at home and was able to advance step by step. If this strategy was successful, the process of Ming Dynasty's strategy of the entire Japan would be greatly shortened, and it would also reduce Zhu Cixuan's time in a foreign country.

"According to the strategy of the general of Dingguo, how many troops are needed to raid Kyoto? How many enemies are needed to attack in front of you?

What if the raid is blocked?

Kyoto is the core of Japan, so I think its defense should be quite strict!"

Although Zhu Cilang has never been on the battlefield, he has known a lot of common sense about using troops in the past six months of the Ministry of War's observation of politics. This time, the Ming Dynasty Expeditionary Force only had 10,000 people. Although he had an absolute advantage in weapons, he did not have the advantage in terms of geographical advantage, so he was still a little worried.

"I report to Your Highness, I am against General Li's plan!

Our army is already too small, so we should not take this dangerous plan!

According to previous information, the current enemy is less than 40,000. Although our army is good at fighting, we should also be fully prepared to deal with it. If we divide the troops in other places at this time, if we are in danger, the consequences will be very unfavorable to me!

I think it’s better to follow the previous strategy, follow every step of the way and make steady progress!"

Before Li Dingguo could answer Zhu Cilang's question, Zhang Qingyuan took the lead in expressing his opinion.

Zhang Qingyuan was still very confident in the combat capabilities of the Ming Dynasty's official army. In recent years, the official army has achieved overwhelming victory in all directions, no matter who they face against the enemy, so whether they are front-line generals, school soldiers or court bosses, they are full of confidence. This is also the reason why the Ministry of War dared to land in Japan for combat only after sending 10,000 people.

Since you are fully confident that you can win, spending more time is nothing, and there is no need to take risks. If there is any accident, it will leave stains on your future career.

"Your Highness, Doctor Zhang.

It is precisely based on many intelligence judgments that our army has to take risks!

With the strength of the shogunate, if we fight with our army, the number of soldiers it can use should be between 20 and 300,000. In this way, our army will only have about 20% of the enemy in front of us. We must follow the previous strategy to capture the entire Japanese territory. Although our army will eventually win, it will also face the difficulties of lack of supplies and supply, and will also attack the enemy's heavy troops from all sides, which will lead to a significant increase in the number of casualties. Judging from the results, it is really a pity that the gain is not worth the loss!"

Faced with the prince's question and Zhang Qingyuan's doubts, Li Dingguo talked calmly. Zhu Cilang couldn't help but nodded repeatedly when he heard this, and Zhang Qingyuan looked undeniable.

"According to the domestic situation in Japan, the shogunate is the real power controller. As long as you attack it and annihilate it in one fell swoop, there will be no one in the entire territory of Japan to convene the army to compete with me. Although its famous troops are still there, there is no force to gather between the choices and choices. At that time, our army can deal with it calmly and destroy them one by one if necessary!"

Over the past year, Zheng Qi arranged his subordinates to use various channels to spare no effort to collect information from all aspects of Japan. The total force that the shogunate could mobilize was mentioned by Li Dingguo just now. These hundreds of thousands of troops were pieced together by the Ming Dynasty in various places after receiving the order to collect the shogunate. The number of samurai who was a permanent army of the shogunate was not large.

"Just just now, how many people are required to raid Kyoto, I think two thousand is enough!

There is no problem with the remaining 8,000 troops dealing with the enemy in front of you!

I think the shogunate would never have thought that our Ming Dynasty official army would participate in this battle, nor would he have thought that it would attack its headquarters. Therefore, this raid would have a great chance of winning!"

Li Dingguo's remarks seem arrogant, but in fact they do not mean to underestimate the enemy.

During the Wanli period, when North Korea called the "Renchen Japanese Rebellion", Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent 140,000 troops to land in North Korea. The Ming army, who was ordered to "resist the Japanese and aid Korea", invested less than 40,000 troops in total when it first participated in the war, and it turned out that 140,000 Japanese troops were urinated.

During the second anti-Japanese war against the Japanese and aided Korea, the Japanese army also had 140,000 troops, and the number of Ming soldiers increased to 70,000, but the 140,000 Japanese troops killed were almost wiped out.

Since then, Japan began to close the country, and its national strength has declined even further. Ordnance equipment and strategies and tactics are far behind the development of the times. Under the leadership of Zhu Youjian, the Ming Dynasty had the strength far beyond the army of any contemporary country from ordnance to tactics. As one goes up and down, it is certainly very sure to fight the shogunate army.

"Since General Dingguo said this, I agreed to this strategy. However, as the main general of the expedition, it is not advisable to take risks. It is better to choose another person in the surprise attacking army. General Dingguo should lead the main force to deal with the enemy in front of him!"

Based on the principle of not interfering with the military command and deployment of the general, Zhu Cixuan thought for a long time and finally agreed to Li Dingguo's new combat plan. Zhang Qingyuan wanted to refute it again, but after seeing Zhu Cixuan's attitude of trusting Li Dingguo, he finally did not speak out again.

The Ministry of War is usually responsible for collecting and controlling military information in various places. Zhang Qingyuan certainly knew how powerful the Ming official army was. The opposition just now was mixed with the factors of civil and military disputes. In fact, he still recognized Li Dingguo's strange plan. Now that the prince made a decision, there was no need for him to sing a bad face anymore.

After the overall strategy was set, Zhu Cixuan stopped inquiries about this matter. In the next few days, Zhang Qingyuan, Li Dingguo and several other major generals of the Expeditionary Force began to formulate detailed combat plans, including arranging the generals who led the raid to take the Zheng family ship to the near Osaka to investigate the landing location, the Zheng family's Japanese entourage disguised themselves on the ashore, and tried to collect as much information as possible about the relevant information of the shogunate's location, etc.

As for how long the coalition forces that were still struggling under the heavy pressure of the shogunate army can last, they have long been selectively ignored.

On the twelfth day after arriving at the sea near Nagasaki, all preparations were ready. Zhu Cixuan gave the order, and the warships of the North Sea Fleet revealed their true appearance and drove into Nagasaki Port. The Ming Dynasty's attack on Japan officially began.
Chapter completed!