Baekje, Southwest.

On the banks of Rongshan River, don’t Axi County City.

The younger brother of the regent of the Japanese crown prince, Prince Shirato, led 10,000 troops as the vanguard. He arrived here all the way with more than 300 Japanese ships.

"I never thought that I could actually climb the land of Baekje."

The prince of the Laimu wore a set of Mingguang armor imported from the Central Plains Qin. This set of armor was very popular and cost 300 taels of gold, but he thought it was worth it. The defense of the leather armor produced by the Japanese was many times improved many times. Although it was a bit heavy, it could be worn on the body and was both strong and majestic.

Coupled with the equipment such as ring-headed horizontal sword, horse-slashing sword, horse spear, and strong bow purchased from Zhongyuan, it is really majestic.

The only drawback is that it is too expensive. The equipment of these Qin people is really good, but it is also really expensive.

He spent 500 taels of gold on his body. Before he could count the beloved war horses, he spent 500 taels of gold on his horses.

But he thinks that although it is expensive, it is quite worth it.

After all, Japan's equipment is still too different. It only has leather armor, with very few iron armor and poor defense performance. Even leather armor, not all Japanese troops can be equipped with it.

As for the knife, Japan generally uses straight and iron knives similar to those in the Central Plains and Han dynasties. Compared with the steel horizontal knives like the Qin people, the performance difference is too far.

The Japanese straight iron swords are generally less than five feet long, thin, have poor armor-breaking ability, and are not hard enough.

As for the bow, it is even worse. At this time, the Japanese mainly use bamboo bows, which are extremely weak. Moreover, the Japanese army generally use flat shooting. When the two armies fight, they often have to approach five or six steps before they start shooting at the target.

Moreover, the Japanese had almost no real cavalry.

Because their horses were too short, only three or four feet tall, and were only suitable for farming or carrying. The Japanese horses' heads were also strange, not high, with flat necks, looking short and chunky but not majestic, and having thick legs, making them suitable for mountain life.

The speed is also slow.

Compared with the war horses in the Central Plains, it is too far apart. Even the horses of the Goguryeo are not as good as those of the Goguryeo, let alone other better Hequ horse breeds.

Without good horses, there will naturally be no cavalry.

There have never been decent real cavalry among the Japanese. They imported some horses from Baekje or Qin every year, but basically all they could buy were castrated stallions.

The stallions are taller and more powerful, suitable for cavalry war horses, but if the stallions are not castrated, there will be trouble. Of course, the Japanese also wanted to buy some uncastrated horses to improve the horse breeds, but the Qin people refused to sell them.

Standing on the top of Wu Axi's city and looking at the camp outside the city and the white sails in the river outside the city, the prince came to the island was very excited.

The people of Baekje said that the Qin people were unable to increase their troops on the Peninsula. Now there are only 12,000 troops on the Peninsula, which made him feel that they would win this time.

Although the Qin people were strong and sharp, they were out of reach.

"When you defeat the Qin people this time, Baekje must give the captured Qin army weapons, armor and equipment, especially the war horses, to me Yamato."

When he thought about the equipment of the Qin people, he couldn't help but sigh and was extremely envious and jealous.

How good are the armor of the Qin people, the crossbows of the Qin people, the war horses of the Qin people, the horse spears and spears of the Qin people, etc. If their Yamato army had such equipment, with the courage of the Yamato warriors, they would definitely be able to crush the Qin people.

Until now, they cannot even make a qualified spear. Although they have learned the technique of making bronze spears from the Han people in the Central Plains, they are now behind and unpractical.

But they were able to make straight iron swords but could not make good spears, so the Yamato army had no formal spear soldiers until now.

Three hundred miles apart.

On Dongtu Island.

Wei Zhongxian was listening to his subordinates’ reports.

"In the future, the Japanese prince led 10,000 Japanese troops, and had entered the mouth of Rongshan River and stationed in the city of Wu'axi County. Local Baekje officials are supplying their food and grass supplies."

‘Wai Ah Xi, what’s this name? Isn’t Baekje called Little China? I have been learning Confucian culture in Central Plains for 300 years, and I have learned this result, and I can’t even get a place name.”

Deputy envoy Cheng Mingzhen said with a smile, "Please ask my father-in-law to get one, anyway, this city will belong to our Daqin soon."

"Don't be a wise man, it's better to change your name and be safe and peaceful."

"Okay, this is a good name, my father-in-law is a talented man."

A group of people started flattering each other.

As the royal trade fleet, the Bohai Fleet has a powerful guard team, but it is quite special and is not a real imperial official army.

Therefore, in this fleet, the headed trade envoy was an eunuch from the palace. Of course, the four thousand elite guards were naturally commanded by the generals in the original imperial guards.

Cheng Mingzhen was also an old subordinate of the emperor when he fought against Liaodong. When the emperor turned to the south of the Yalu River, he followed Song Laosheng to guard Daxing City and was ordered to stay on the Jiangkou Island for a long time.

The qualifications are still quite old. Mingzhen made some mistakes when he was in the Imperial Army, and it was not a big mistake. However, he had some economic and lifestyle problems, so he finally withdrew from the Imperial Army and was arranged to serve as deputy envoy to assist the eunuch Wei Zhongxian.

In the fleet, he was mainly responsible for war affairs and ignored the rest.

All four thousand elite soldiers under his command were obeyed by his command.

"Deputy Envoy Cheng, do you think we will be too underestimating the enemy when we attack Rongshan Riverkou? After all, there are 10,000 Japanese people, and there are still many people in Baekje. Moreover, they occupy the city and occupy the river. We are not as good as the other party in terms of quantity or geographical advantage." Wei Zhongxian was a little cautious.

After all, the emperor handed over this fleet to him, and in the past they were all doing trade, and there was nothing wrong with it. But now they have to fight, so this is not his strength.

"Dadfather-in-law, let alone ten thousand, you don't have to worry about the Japanese people, even if you come again, you don't have to worry about 10,000 or 20,000. They are still old-fashioned hard sailboats, and they are all relatively small hard sailboats. What's the use of many ships? As for Wu'an City, you don't have to worry about it. If you defeat the Japanese and Baekje people, this city will naturally be ours."

"Please rest assured that my father-in-law has me, Old Cheng and Four Thousand Tigers, I will win this battle."

Cheng Mingzhen's life style was unconventional, but if he wanted to say that this was a good fight, otherwise the emperor would not have let him be the deputy envoy of the fleet and gave him four thousand retired imperial guards.

"Do you think about it again? Ask the saint?" Wei Zhongxian asked again.

"Dad, you can make a quick decision on the battlefield. Since Your Majesty has given us the will, how to do it well is our business. If you ask Your Majesty everything, wouldn't it seem that we are incompetent? My father-in-law just needs to sit on Dongtu Island, and Lao Cheng and I personally lead the fleet to fight against the enemy."

Seeing that Cheng Mingzhen was so confident, Wei Zhongxian thought that his words made sense. If he asked the emperor for instructions in everything, wouldn’t it seem that Wei Zhongxian was too incompetent? What if the emperor sent another person to take over the fleet, wouldn’t it be bad?

"Okay, do it. However, this envoy and Deputy Envoy Cheng led the fleet to fight against the Japanese together!"
Chapter completed!