In order to save travel expenses, Hanshi Hideyoshi chose to transport ships. He went down the river and arrived at Jeecho in just one morning. On the way, he also reconnaissed the outer defense systems of Iimoto Castle and Ishiyama Honanji Castle from a long distance. The biggest support of the two cities is to rely on mountains and rivers. Without the support of powerful naval forces, he could only attack from the land direction. The enemy reinforcements could come from the water route, and even if they wanted to siege, they were unable to do so.

After thinking about it for a long time, I didn't come up with a countermeasure. "It's really hard to do." I sighed and put away the map.

The monkey was not in a hurry, 'What are you worried about? I didn't let us attack Fansheng City. I would have a profit of 500 cents in one trip on my boat. This year's annual end is finally better.'

I don’t know what my surname is for a profit of 500 jin. If I tell him that the batch of eliminated iron cannons I brought can have a net profit of tens of thousands of jin, it wouldn’t scare him to death. You should know that arms trading has always been a huge profit. Since all the new flint iron cannons were equipped with new flint iron cannons, the old flint iron cannons stored in the warehouse were not even used for training, and no one would want to patrol or train with a burning rope. This time, I took out half of the old flint iron cannons in the original city of Shigekawa to sell them, and there were a total of 1,000 units. Although they were used second-hand goods, they were worth 25,000 jin even at half price. The cost was less than half of the fraction.

The hull was shocked and was already docked on the dock of Jie Town. A team of feet stepped up to charge us for the parking fee. ‘Medium-sized sailboats, docked for one day.’ After generously paying the parking fee for three days, I found that this team of ten people actually carried ten flags on their backs. Could this be the legendary army of ten people in Jie Town.

Jetcho is a free commercial port. It does not belong to any Japanese daimyo. The laws and taxes here are determined by the so-called Jetcho ten people. The reason why ten people can control Jetcho is also related to the forces in their hands. It is said that Jetcho can gather 10,000 troops. If other merchants' bodyguards are added, a small Jetcho will have more than 20,000 troops. This number is equivalent to the number of peasant soldiers that a million Shishidae can gather, which is comparable to the total strength of the Miyo family of the Kinki overlord. It seems that it is a bit difficult to make Jetcho surrender if there is no force several times.

However, considering the combat effectiveness of these 20,000 people, it is really not worth mentioning. It is just that the number is still very intimidating. The reason is that this is the hometown of the 4th Division of Osaka in later generations.

The first feature of the Fourth Division was that the officers and soldiers pretended to be sick before the war. The Osaka Fourth Division was established in 1888. The soldiers were mainly composed of vegetable vendors in Osaka. It is one of the oldest divisions in the Japanese army. This unit has four regiments under its jurisdiction and is equipped with first-class weapons and equipment, which can be called the "elite" of the Japanese army. However, not long after its establishment, the reputation of "scamless" spread throughout the Japanese army. Especially the core unit of the Fourth Division, the Eighth Regiment, was defeated repeatedly in the Russo-Japanese War, and was nicknamed "The Eighth Regiment, who is not afraid of defeat."

Since then, until the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Fourth Division never went to the front line again. However, this does not mean that it did not have the opportunity to show the spirit of "braveness". In 1933, Matsui, a second-class private of the Fourth Division, ran a red light in the center of Osaka, and clashed with the police. In order to "maintain the dignity of the Great Japanese Imperial Army", the division commander, Touchi Desunuch, resolutely led his troops to smash the police station, known in history as the "Osaka Go-stop Incident". The "martial courage" of the Fourth Division in Japan can be seen.

In 1937, due to the shortage of Japanese troops stationed in China, the Japanese base camp transferred the Fourth Division to Northeast China and transferred it to the Kwantung Army. How can this unit be revitalized in combat? The Japanese base camp really took some effort and concluded that the commander had a decisive role in the combat effectiveness of a unit. So the Japanese base camp transferred several famous generals to train the division. For example, Yamashita Tomoto, who was nicknamed "The Tiger of Malay", had served as the division commander, but he had no choice but to use the free and casual Fourth Division.

Two years of training, the Fourth Division finally had the opportunity to show its face. In 1939, the Soviet Union and Japan fought in the Nomenkan area on the Sino-Mongolia border. The Kwantung Army ordered the stationed in Osaka, north of the puppet Manchukuo. The Sendai Division two were mobilized urgently to reinforce the front line. After receiving the order, the Sendai Division (the Second Division) forced its troops from Hailar to Nomenkan for four days. On the day of arrival at the battlefield, they entered the battle, but were soon beaten by the Soviet army.

On the contrary, although the dispatch order of the Fourth Division was issued, it was delayed. The reason was that after the mobilization order was issued, the number of patients with diseases in the division increased. Looking around, the entire camp was full of officers and soldiers who were asked to stay behind due to various reasons. The excited Japanese corps captain was furious and personally sat in the infirmance to participate in the diagnosis, so he barely organized the troops to advance to the front line. The joke of "the corps leader changing his career to be a doctor" spread among the Japanese army. However, the matter was not over, and the soldiers of the 4th Division were

The soldiers used new tricks - passive slacking off. From Hailar to Nomenkan, the Second Division walked for 4 days, but the Fourth Division walked for 8 days, and a large number of people fell behind. Coincidentally, on the day the advance team of the Fourth Division arrived at the front line, Su Ri announced a ceasefire. The news came, and the officers and soldiers of the fallen Fourth Division followed quickly as if they had taken a big pill. Even many of the remaining officers and soldiers rushed to the front line with "illness" and were still complaining in great grief that they did not have the chance to fight.

Ironically, when the return trip, the 4th Division, which was full of people and full of energy, became the most powerful force of the Japanese army, while the 2nd Division, which was the first to arrive at the battlefield, was dismantled and wounded soldiers were all over the camp. The officer in charge of news and publicity in the Kwantung Army really couldn't stand it. He picked up his pen and changed the title of the news title of "The Return of the Power of the Fourth Division of the Invincible Imperial Army" submitted to the Japanese newspaper for review, and changed it to "The Return of the Power of the Fourth Division of the Imperial Army", which was sarcastic about the bush.

Although he made all fools, the Fourth Division was very lucky. Because the Japanese army invaded central China at that time, they were in a hurry to fight and needed reinforcements. The Japanese military had to give up pursuing the Fourth Division and urgently dispatched it to reinforce the country. The Fourth Division transformed into a member of the elite 11th Army of the Japanese army.

"With the Fourth Division participating in the battle, the battles that could have been won will also be lost..."

In fact, the reputation of the Fourth Division has been heard of. As early as the Battle of Xuzhou, the Chinese team encountered a "strange Japanese army". At that time, facing the Japanese encirclement, Li Zongren commanded a 400,000 army to cleverly jump out of the Japanese encirclement. However, after the Chinese team broke through, they were already trapped in people and horses, lost a lot of heavy equipment, and their combat effectiveness was sharply reduced. When crossing a road on the border between Shandong, Jiangsu and Anhui, the tired Chinese team suddenly found a well-equipped Japanese army on the road.

Because the troops were already very tired, the Chinese team was panicked when they discovered the enemy and left the highway in chaos to retreat to the nearby mountainous areas. Strangely, after a long time, no Japanese army chased after. The commander of the Chinese team was surprised and sent people to inquire, but he saw that the Japanese army had no intention of pursuing. On the contrary, the Japanese army was cooking food openly on both sides of the road. This strange Japanese army was the South Advance Detachment of the Fourth Division.

Since the situation was still very dangerous, the Chinese team had to make a decision and cross the highway with a tough bullet, but the road was safe. Afterwards, the commander of the Nanxing Detachment explained to his superiors on the grounds of "strictly abide by combat discipline": "I did not get the order to intercept the Chinese team."

The news reached the ears of the Zhong** team, and the saying that "Japanese soldiers in Osaka cannot fight" became popular. Every time they fought, the Zhong** team often increased their morale and rushed to fight with the Fourth Division. The Fourth Division, which had just arrived at the front, was caught off guard and suffered several cowardly defeats, even implicated friendly forces, so that the friendly and neighboring troops complained to the 11th Army Command: "With the Fourth Division participating in the battle, the battles that could have been won, because the enemy's morale was greatly boosted, they would also lose..."

Since then, the commander of the 11th Japanese Army had to let the 4th Division concentrate on "standby" in the rear. Once, Anan Wei, the commander of the 11th Army, almost did not believe in evil and sent the 4th Division to fight the main attack in the battle of Changsha. As a result, the 4th Division was driven out as soon as the 4th Division entered Changsha and was defeated on the whole line. The Kuomintang army guarding Changsha was elite troops of Xue Yue, and only Anan would use the 4th Division as the main attack.

Given the performance in the Changsha Battle, the Fourth Division became the "Shengmen Star" of the Japanese army. No army wanted it, so the base camp had to change it to a direct-institutional force. Now some of the soldiers of the Fourth Division blew up: "I was in the A Division when I joined the army. When the war started, they belonged to the Kwantung Army - the elite force, and when the war started, the 11th Army - the elite force. In the end, the 11th Army was not out of our uniforms, so I had to change to the direct-institutional force of the base camp..."

Although the Fourth Division was cowardly, it was a Division A after all, with many veterans. Since the Japanese army suffered great losses in combat and urgently needed to supplement veterans, they would draw officers and soldiers of the Fourth Division from time to time to supplement other divisions. At that time, the Japanese divisions had their own characteristics in their speeches, such as the Second Division, when the battle was good, they would say "long-term martial arts fortune"; when the situation was not good, they would say "Kyudansaka Mishi" (Yasukuni Shrine is in Kyudansaka, Tokyo). However, when the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Division said goodbye, they often said "to control the body with great force", which translated to "take care of the body", "body first", or simply "saving life is the most important".

Later, the Japanese army encountered the tenacious resistance of the Chinese team when attacking Hengyang and Zhijiang. At the beginning of the battle, veterans from the Fourth Division repeated the same trick, from officers, non-commissioned officers to veterans, and refused to fight passively but reasonably. When the wounded Japanese soldiers arrived at the hospital, the "seniors" of the Fourth Division who were "rehabilitated" also asked: "Why are you trying so hard?" When asked why they were unwilling to participate in the war, these "patients" were so arrogant: "I heard that we were acting as a feint attack this time. This is very boring. If it was the main attack, we naturally had to fight a good battle."

In April 1942, the Fourth Division was transferred to the Philippines to participate in the final attack on the Corregidor Fortress. In this battle, the Fourth Division made a smooth progress and completed the mission successfully. In the end, all the US and Philippine troops on the Bataan Peninsula surrendered. Later, I realized that this was not the credit of the Fourth Division, but the US and Philippine troops in the Philippines had been cut off for several days and had lived on "salt and vegetables" for several months. It was not new to collapse at all. Since then, the Fourth Division has been constantly redirecting behind the Japanese front and has never participated in major battles again.

When Japan surrendered in August 1945, the Fourth Division was resting near Bangkok, Thailand. Unlike other Japanese troops who refused to accept the fate of defeat, the surrender and return to China went very smoothly. When all the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Division, who were rosy and healthy, appeared at the Japanese ports, the local malnourished and haggard Japanese were very surprised. According to statistics, the Fourth Division was the unit that died the least in the southern Japanese army and retained the most complete equipment and materials. The US military's evaluation of this division was "peace-loving". After the Fourth Division returned to China, this characteristic was immediately reflected. The day after returning to China, officers and soldiers ran to the US barracks, neatly set up stalls, and sold war souvenirs.

The Osaka Fourth Division also has three privately circulated non-fightings. First, never pay for sacrifices without profit. Second, never participate in unreasonable battles. Third, do not pursue poor enemies. It is worth mentioning that this small businessman's family is still in the number.

After getting off the boat, Hideyoshi Hashishi was busy arranging people to unload the goods. I left these small things to my subordinates to deal with. Of course, I took my wife and concubine to Jetto for a walk. Most of the Japanese Nanman trade was controlled by the Dutch, the pioneer of navigation, Portugal and the Dutch, the coachman on the sea. Most of the Nanman shopping malls on Jetto streets were opened by merchants from these two countries. I also have a lot of imported products at home, but compared with here, it is obviously not enough to see them. The piano seen behind the entire glass cabinet made Sakurako envious. Fortunately, I knew that even if I bought it, it would only make noise in my hands, so I firmly resisted Sakurako's purchase plan.

In this era, most of the goods brought by Europeans were luxury goods. With me, Sakurako bought a round fan of velvet for everyone in the family, which was the kind that European ladies were required in the movie. This light and fluttering thing was also valuable, and it actually cost two or two to one.

After buying back the gift, the group went to the Nanman Club. Sakurako heard a lot of rumors about the Nanman Club that monkeys said on the boat. Although she had met Nanman people in Qingzhou Town, Sakurako still wanted to go to the Nanman Club to see what the foreign lady looked like. There were no women on the whaling ship.

The so-called Nanman Club is nothing more than a bar run by Europeans. There is no concession in Jie Town yet. Europeans mainly focus on business, meals, and leisure activities.

Now we are one of the billionaires, and we have to be high-end. When we arrived at the bar, I said, ‘Open a bottle of Louis XIII.’

The waiter at the bar was stunned for a moment, 'Sorry, I'm not born yet.'

‘You won’t say Rafi doesn’t have it either.’

The waiter shook his head, 'I have never heard of this brand, only red wine and sake are available here.'

Silently, ‘Let’s have a glass of red wine.’
Chapter completed!