Lord of Ming Dynasty

The thousand-ton warships in their fleet are built by themselves, but they don’t have the shipbuilding technology of the Huaxia Kingdom. Many thousand-ton warships are actually rebuilt by Dafu Ships. This kind of slow-moving ship only has a maximum speed of six knots, and generally uses three to four knots. Sailing warships really can't fight each other.

The most artillery of their thousand-ton warships is only 76 artillery pieces. If they die, they will find space to add a few more to reach 81 artillery pieces.

The 60-ton battleship already looks a bit like the similar warships of the Huaxia Army. There are more than [-] cannons on board.

These artillery are all imitated by themselves, made indiscriminately, not like the Huaxia Army. Even though they have not upgraded their technology for a few years, they still exist to crush the artillery of the surrounding kingdoms. That is to say, the progress of the Taixi people's artillery can be compared with that of the Huaxia Army. , Others are comparable to the Huaxia Army's artillery in terms of quality, firing speed, operating specifications, and generation difference.

So now the Huaxia Army can safely force them to dare not resist with a quarter of their fleet.

After receiving the order from the eldest prince to order Kong Youxing to return, Feng Quan's carrier pigeon flew out of the mansion and went straight to the battlefield.

The Huaxia Kingdom has now used carrier pigeons to communicate everywhere. The carrier pigeons have become the telegrams of the Huaxia Army. Urgent or short things can be conveyed through the carrier pigeons.

Each county has a special department for sending and receiving pigeons, which is similar to the telegraph office of later generations.

Civilian and military, both use carrier pigeons to deliver messages.

Ordinary news, in a kingdom like the Huaxia Kingdom with dedicated post roads, can only be delivered by letter. Special letters are delivered at a speed of [-] kilometers for urgent letters, and ordinary letters are delivered by horse-drawn carriage at about [-] kilometers per hour. If it is to convey some unimportant family letters, a carriage at a speed of [-] kilometers will sway through thousands of kilometers and deliver it in a month.

The slowest delivery is one month across the country. Letters to Southeast Asia can only be delivered by [-]-kilometer express trains, and it takes a month. From Yunnan, Yunnan and Guizhou to Lu, it takes about half a month. Yes, Lu Since the country opened a port, it has more contacts with the Huaxia Kingdom, and the Huaxia Kingdom has opened several ports for them to send letters directly.

If it is sent from Jinling Mansion to the State of Lu at a speed of [-] kilometers, from the port to the State of Lu, and then by boat, it will only take four days to arrive.

In the case of carrier pigeons, they were sent from the state of Lu to Kong Youxing's camp on the battlefield in the evening to a special pigeon-raising unit, and then special personnel came to pick them up, and finally sent them to Kong Youxing.

At this time, Kong Youxing was also having a headache.

There are three field brigades of ten thousand in the army of the State of Lu, and the other field brigades are all second-class field brigades, with a strength of about 500.

Except for the three field brigades with [-] people, the other five field brigades, the same artillery brigade, all experienced abnormalities. Kong Youxing learned that from the eldest prince to the third prince, to the eldest son of the second prince, the four forces They all interfered with the soldiers and horses he was leading in battle, and all six troops showed varying degrees of sabotage.

Some have even pulled their men and horses to the port, preparing to take a naval troop carrier there to return to the main island of Lu State, and join the vortex of power struggle.

This will not be allowed. He has already sent people to take over the command of these field brigades, all of them are his confidantes. Currently, there are only three troops closest to him, and the other four troops have no news. Waiting for news.

He has basically mastered the three first-class field brigades of [-] people, as well as the artillery brigade. There are also two troops who have news, one is the troops running to the port, and the other is approaching the deer that is hundreds of kilometers away from him. In Koshima, they were on their way to transport [-] newly conscripted Kagoshima young adults and Japanese wandering samurai to the battlefield.

This army has vowed to obey his command, but there is no news about the two troops in the middle. He thinks there may be a problem.

The troop that went to the port already knew clearly that it was the troop controlled by the prince's confidant. His people went late and did not control the troop, so they had to run back to report the news.

There are two troops, one is the army controlled by the second prince, and the other is controlled by the second prince's son. He thinks that the problem lies here, and they all say that the second child is shrewd. It seems that he is too shrewd. At this moment, what are you doing? Ah, Japan has not yet conquered, so it will withdraw its troops immediately, so how will its own army, which already has no advantage, fight the following war?

The loss of 1 troops.

There is also the navy squadron that promised to transport troops, and the prince's troops, which is another loss of [-] troops.

He guessed that Chen Hui didn't fully control all the troops of the navy, and now he was having the same headache as him, but he didn't know how many troops would be fully controlled in the end.

Kong Youxing listened to Feng Quan, he knew that the state of Lu could not be in chaos now, otherwise, hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops rushed down, and he died without a place to bury himself, and those princes could not be relied on.

Chapter 7 The Fallen Soldiers of Lu State

"Grand Marshal, the general of the [-]th Field Brigade disobeyed the command and has returned to the main island on a warship with the general of the [-]rd Squadron." Kong Youxing's confidant general reported.

Kong Youxing waved his hand helplessly, "Forget it, let them go, you send an order to let the First Field Brigade stay, so set up a suspicious formation to cover our evacuation, we will go back to Nagasaki County, we are not defeating the Japanese now , but to keep the current achievements and the current troops, leave the first regiment of the Second Field Brigade, and let them escort [-] civilians back to Nagasaki as soon as possible."

Then he said to his confidant Ding, "Write me two urgent letters, one to Mr. Feng, telling him not to mobilize the garrison on the main island, and stay here to stabilize the political situation on the main island. We don't need it here anymore." Let the [-]th Field Brigade camp on the spot, train the [-] young men while waiting for orders, and don’t act without my orders. Let the [-]th Field Brigade return to Kagoshima County to stabilize the situation there.”

As for the fourth, fifth, and sixth field brigades, Kong Youxing was no longer counting.

The eldest prince and the second prince had already controlled the three troops, so it would be good if they didn't make trouble for him on the way to retreat.Thinking of the way to retreat, Kong Youxing felt a headache. These two troops were firmly blocking his way of retreat. Although they were only 1 troops, they left his [-] frontline troops with nowhere to escape. Japan The island is too narrow and long.

I didn't know that the fleet was loyal to Feng Quan, so if I rashly summoned a fleet, these landlubbers of mine might become fish on other people's chopping boards, and let them knead them casually.

Kong Youxing wrote the second letter to the navy general Chen Hui, asking if he could send a fleet to pick him up?

We must return to Nagasaki County before knowing the attitude of the two field brigades, quickly gather the field brigade, strengthen our own troops, and control the [-] newly recruited young people, and train while coping with the changes in the court. To cope with the Japanese counterattack.

The Japanese have 50 soldiers and horses. With the strengthening of the support of the Thai and Western people, he has seen that the Jinkai 1 matchlock guns in the hands of some Japanese soldiers have been replaced by Jinkai 2 matchlocks.

This has already leveled the weapons gap between the Lu army and the Japanese army. What remains is that he is better than the Japanese in the use of firearms, but there is a huge gap in strength that cannot be made up.

In the past, I used tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to fight the enemy's 15 to 35 soldiers and horses. The enemy was either a samurai army carrying iron cannons, or a cold weapon force wielding swords and spears. It's just a waste of ammunition. I have fought [-] enemies with [-] enemies, but now the enemy has [-] firearms troops, plus more than [-] cold weapon troops, which has almost weakened my firepower advantage. The Japanese are comparable The Qing army on the land of Ming Dynasty was much braver. Those people were generally fooled and lame dead people who didn't know what death was. They were dead soldiers. For this reason, the Lu army had suffered a lot of casualties, and they had to fight with them as cannon fodder. war.

Tens of thousands of Japanese civilian husbands recruited previously died, and 1 Lu civilian husbands died. This is already a traumatic experience for Lu, which has a population of only 10,000+ in the entire kingdom.

Fighting against the current Japanese soldiers and horses is tantamount to a war of overwhelming power.

A few days later, Kong Youxing took [-] soldiers and [-] civilian husbands, and ran across the outskirts of various counties in Japan in a hurry. He didn't even dare to enter the counties, and gathered the retreating Lu officials and some along the way. The troops defending the city reached [-] troops.

On the third day after the Japanese realized that their soldiers and horses were retreating, the first field brigade had already set off for a day, and more than 3 civilians accompanying the army abandoned their luggage and followed slowly. The [-] regular army and [-] civilians retreated to the middle of the Japanese island, and they were about to face the two Lu soldiers who did not know which side they would fall to.

There are about [-] Japanese regular troops behind Kong Youxing, and an army composed of [-] young and strong farmers is chasing him.

Feng Quan's letter has already stated that Chen Hui only controls one-third of the fleet, about 80 thousand-ton warships, more than 450 [-]-ton warships, and [-] [-]-ton to less than [-]-ton warships. Something obviously can't compete with others. At the same time, Chen Hui's fleet retreated to Kagoshima County to maintain order, and only a small part of the fleet was in the port of the main island.

The fourth field brigade controlled by the eldest prince has returned to the main island. The eldest prince has [-] garrison troops and [-] field brigade troops, while Feng Quan controls [-] garrison troops, [-] militia troops, and [-] sailor troops.

The second prince has only [-] recruited servants and [-] Japanese samurai, and he controls about [-] regular army troops and [-] militia troops scattered on several islands.

At the same time, he also owns one-third of the fleet controlled by his son. It can be said that the soldiers and horses of the State of Lu have been separated.

The third prince controls [-] troops near Kagoshima, one-third of the fleet strength, and more than half of the civil and military officials. Whether it is in Japan, or in the country of Lu, the three princes and Feng Quan have not achieved the overwhelming strength that determines each other. The places where they want to increase their strength are not strong enough, and the places where they do not want to increase their strength are high.

For example, the fleet controlled by the second prince and his son surrounded Japan on the sea side of Hokkaido, Japan. The soldiers and horses they controlled were in the middle of the Japanese island, and they are now mobilizing the fleet to withdraw the army.

The strength of the third prince was trapped in Kagoshima, because the people there listened to Feng Quan. Feng Quan was going to send [-] garrison troops there, but he failed and was divided by the three princes.

Feng Quan has the support of the Huaxia Army, and others dare not touch him. Feng Quan has prestige among the officials, and they are the elders of the Lu State.

But he has no righteousness, he can't move a few princes, and he doesn't have many troops.

Chen Hui took care of Kagoshima for him.

Although the Eldest Prince possessed righteousness, he only had the strength of the main island in his hands, not many fleets. The fleet that had been transported back earlier was quickly controlled by the Third Prince, and he only had a few ships for escape.

Several princes who are capable of vying for the throne can't do anything to each other, and Feng Quan is the same. Although the Huaxia Kingdom supports him, they can't give him too much support. He has been told that he will not take the initiative to interfere in Lu's internal affairs, and can only guarantee his life. So in the country of Lu, he can only play by himself.

And the most urgent thing is Kong Youxing, he was chased by the Japanese behind his ass.

If you don't run, you will be attacked by the superior force. If you run, the troops of the second prince in front are obviously waiting here to force him to support the second prince. Kong Youxing really wants to scold the second prince. What time is it? , if you are wiped out by the Japanese, how will your two troops be better?

Can it withstand the Japanese attack?

Kong Youxing was very helpless. At this time, he could only choose to fight, defeat the two troops in front of him, and then flee to Nagasaki County as soon as possible to organize troops to resist.

Or, he looked up and looked in the distance, Jinling Mansion across the sea, it is not bad to join the Huaxia Kingdom, the niece of the nephew is the princess.