The commander of the First Army was promoted to Cao Wenyao, the commander of the Guard Division, and Wu Fuming took over the position of commander of the division.

After the reorganization order was issued, the number of officers and soldiers of the Imperial Army belonging to the First Army reached more than 36,000, while the Japanese troops in the Shogunate faced each other were about 80,000.

The Japanese army was not successful in attacking Nara, with thousands of casualties. The Ming team landed in Osaka again. Its tactics were novel and the guns were sharp. The Japanese traditional tactics were difficult to defeat the enemy, so they had to shrink their troops and retreat to the front line of Kyoto, forcing the Ming team's logistics supply line to lengthen and find fighter jets to annihilate the Ming team's part of the Ming team, who might have gone deep into the army alone.

Except for more than 20 "rebellious vassals" including Satsumashimazu and Himema, the other vassals have received orders from the shogunate to mobilize troops.

These strong men from all sizes can send troops ranging from thousands, and the weak are only hundreds or even dozens of them. Compared with Huang Ming, it is generally like the county magistrate who is said to have a flag, the town magistrate blows the trumpet, and the village magistrate comes to fight.

The vassal states near Kyoto and Edo, that is, the family members of the Tokugawa family, have all raised troops. Because their fiefdom is near Kinki, they acted quickly and were able to mobilize about 30,000 vassal troops to assist in the war.

Most of the vassal states that followed Tokugawa Ieyasu to fight against all the loyal retainers of all directions and were granted the title of the shogunate. However, because Satsuma, Himema and other "rebellious vassal states" cut off the north-south transportation, they could not gather in Kyoto for a while.

More vassal states surrendered to the shogunate during wars. These people could not gain the trust of the shogunate, and their fiefs were generally in remote areas, so these vassal states had almost no intention of supporting the shogunate. The argument of "defeatism" in their territory occupied the upper hand.

Even if they finally chose to send troops to support the shogunate, they would face obstruction from the anti-shogunate army and the "rebel vassals" in their territory, and they would not be able to help the shogunate fight against the Ming team.

Tokugawa Hidetachi also had a deep understanding of this, so he did not urge the distant vassals after issuing the order to transfer troops.

At this time, the Yuanfans could not openly oppose the general of the conquest of the Yi, which was Xiuzhong's greatest victory.

The unsuccessful battle in Nara did not inform the Kyoto court. Even though the young emperor was his son-in-law who insisted on marrying his daughter, Hidetachi still had no intention of revealing any war trend to Komizuno.

The successive reinforcements of the near-vassal state strengthened Hidetsuma's confidence in the decisive battle in Kyoto, but after deciding the retreat plan, Hidetsuma held the general's face that he could not retreat easily, and fantasized about resisting the Ming** team for more days to gain time for reinforcements of the vassal states in various places, so he was reluctant to order the general to retreat.

Even on the 26th, Hidetachi personally commanded the Hashimoto, that is, the general's Guards Warrior Army, and launched a 10,000 offensive against Nara Nori's Army. After paying more than 100 Guards Warriors' lives, Hidetachi had to order the troops to withdraw.

On the 29th, Xiuzhong finally ordered a retreat on the entire line.

However, Xiuzhong's death was too late to delay the retreat time, resulting in chaos in various Japanese troops, which should have retreated immediately on the front line. Some Japanese troops received the news of retreat too late. In order to avoid being surrounded by the Ming army, some Japanese generals ordered their subordinates to organize their retreat on their own.

When they finally retreated, because the order of retreat of each unit was not explained, more than 80,000 soldiers of the Shogunate Central Army crowded on the two roads leading to Kyoto. Not only did the retreat become congested, but they also suffered a strong blow from the Ming* team, which was extremely painful.

The great retreat soon turned into a great escape.

The Fifth Infantry Regiment of the Guards Division, stationed on the east side of Nara and on the front line of Shumachi, decisively seized the fighter plane and followed the retreating Japanese troops, and went deep into Kyoto alone without the division order.

Under the command and leadership of the corps leader Ding Xiaogong, the Fifth Infantry Regiment took two days to capture the important passage between Nara and Kyoto, Uji, a villa of the nobles of the Heian era in Japan. In order to keep warm, the Fifth Infantry Regiment demolished the Uji Scenic Site Ethnic Institute and the Ukra Shrine.

Then, the Fifth Infantry Regiment advanced towards Kyoto with Shenxun. Two young officers competed on the second brigade on the front line, agreeing that whoever killed the most Japanese pirates would be the elder brother.

One of them is Cui Yuanji, the other is Cui Yuanji, and the other is Youma.

Cui Yuanji was born in the former Emperor Jinzhou Guards, and Youma was born in the former Iron Gun Football Army of the Japanese Army.

During the competition, Cui Yuanji first killed 36 retreating Japanese troops, and only 25 people were killed.

In Mukaijima, southeast of Kyoto, the two separated temporarily and moved with the troops. The next day, Cui Yuanji heard that Ama surrounded a group of Japanese pirates in an unknown village, and rushed in and killed 6 Japanese soldiers. Cui Yuanji, who was not willing to be outdone, immediately led his subordinates to search for nearby villages and killed 18 Japanese soldiers.

In the end, the Fifth Infantry Regiment stopped moving forward at the Kamidago Tomb, which was only a few dozen miles away from Kyoto. At this time, Cui Yuanji and Ayuma each killed 78 Japanese soldiers and 62 Japanese soldiers.

Aoma admitted defeat with ease, but proposed a new competition: "So, this time I lost, but for the upcoming battle in Kyoto, I and my brother agreed that whoever enters Kyoto first will be seized will be the other party!"

"I have been a hundred households for more than two years and have not been promoted. Whether I can become a thousand households this time depends on the Battle of Kyoto!"

Choi Won-ji laughed and took on a new competitive bet.

On the Japanese side, due to the chaos and the great escape caused thousands of casualties, and about 10,000 troops were missing.

Even because of his extraordinary courage, he was called "a general with both Hana Shi" by Oda Nobunaga, and by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, "the number one in Japan and the only one in history" by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, known as "the most powerful general of Sanhe", "the most powerful general of the ghost", "the world's most powerful general of the Warring States Period", and Tadamasa Honta, son of Tadashikashi Honta, who was also unknown when he retreated.

Another general, Naokashi Ii, the son of Naokashi Ii, one of the "Four Heavenly Kings" of the Ieyasu era, was captured alive by the Ming team.

Naokashi Ii was captured alive by a complete accident. When his Japanese army retreated, they were chased by the Sixth Infantry Regiment of the Imperial Guard Division, and the two sides fought fiercely in Budian River.

Naokashi Ii led an elite shogunate army, not only with more than 1,000 flag-buildings, but also with more than 4,000 members of the Imperial Family, equipped with a large number of iron guns and cannons, causing great casualties to the Sixth Infantry Regiment of the Imperial Army.

However, under the command and attack of the corps captain Li Yanzhao, the Sixth Infantry Regiment still broke through Naokashi Ii. During the fierce battle, Naokashi Ii was hit by the Imperial Army's big pole gun. In the chaos, his subordinates tried their best to save Ii, but in the end they failed to do so.

Ii Naokashi was captured by a Mongolian imperial soldier named Pi Mazi. After the war, Pi Mazi promoted to the general flag for his merits.

The unauthorized pursuit of the Fifth Infantry Regiment triggered a chain reaction, and the Guards Division and even the entire First Army was affected by the actions of the Fifth Infantry Regiment, and then crossed Nara and advanced towards Kyoto.
Chapter completed!