Lord of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 7 Fifteen: The Response of the Kingdom of China

This side is in a dilemma, and there is a mess. Zhang Qiang was shocked when he received the news from Lu Guo Feng Quan. After being shocked, he smiled wryly and said to Wei Wuji: "It seems that you can't do this thing anymore. There is trouble, and in the end we have to clean up the situation ourselves."

Wei Wuji smiled and said, "As soon as I received Feng Quan's letter, I knew right away that the small country of Lu couldn't handle the tasks Your Majesty entrusted to them, and there is nothing wrong with it."

Zhou Porridge caressed his face, and listened to the words of the two people innocently. It had nothing to do with him. He has a lot of things to do now, causing headaches all day long. Fighting is a matter of Zhang Qiang and Wei Wuji. He is engaged in people's livelihood. People, don't pay attention to those.

However, he also manages personnel affairs, so he said: "You can let Zhang Liang continue to engage in diplomacy. His diplomacy is very interesting. Qian Bingdeng is too old-fashioned. He is not a diplomat. .”

Wei Wuji laughed and said, "Then where is Qian Bingdiao going?"

Zhou Porridge rubbed his face, "Let him go to Fujian Province for a few days to clean up the mess. After You Haibo, there was no one to clean up the mess. He Jin stayed for a few days and was transferred to Qiongzhou by you. Qiu Jianyong from Qiongzhou His ability can only manage soldiers, so let Qiu Jianyong take over the post of garrison commander somewhere, and it will be quite troublesome for He Jin to run at both ends."

Zhang Qiang thought for a while, "Well, He Jin is the governor of Qiongzhou. It's okay to distribute military power to Qiu Jianyong. Qiu Jianyong is also a little uncomfortable in managing civil servants. As a general, he can't manage civil servants well. It's okay to separate military power from political power. Qian Bingdeng was resigned from the Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but there is no need for Zhang Liang to take over, so let Gu Yuesheng go. He was supposed to be promoted last time, but he did not come up, so let him be the Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Zhang Liang It’s still good to be Minister of the Ministry of Officials, don’t you get along with him?”

Zhou Porridge laughed, "It's always uncomfortable to look at someone who is a eunuch every day."

"Hahaha," both Zhang Qiang and Wei Wuji laughed. There is no way. Zhang Liang was discovered and promoted by Zhang Qiang from the court of Nanming Kingdom. , Everyone likes such a person, but Zhou Congee seems to be insensitive to this kind of person and doesn't like it.

"Okay, if Gu Yuesheng is not allowed to be Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Zhang Liang should go back to be Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs," Wei Wuji suggested.

Zhang Qiang thought about it, and two of his confidantes suggested it, and he couldn't save their face, so he said, "Well, let's let Qian Bingdeng go to Fujian Province, Gu Yuesheng go to the Ministry of Officials, Zhang Liang Going back to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he is good at doing this, knowing people and making good use of them is also a great virtue. Qiu Jianyong, as Bagyaru's deputy, will take over as the deputy commander of the corps and be promoted to admiral. In this way, Baodao has Milin as the governor, and the director of the two Island, which actually governs Baodao, Qiongzhou is managed by He Jin, and soldiers and horses are managed by Qiu Jianyong."

After finishing this personnel adjustment, Zhang Qiang brought the problem back to the current problem, how to solve the fact that Lu's domestic division is divided.

"Or, let's leave the country of Lu alone, and let Feng Quan and Kong Youxing occupy the section from Kagoshima to Nagasaki, and then continue to expand to the main island of Japan." Zhou Porridge made a suggestion.

"You mean to split the Lu State with a quick knife? Create an established fact and throw the Lu State to Hong Chengchou's three sons and a grandson to fight for hegemony?" Wei Wuji asked.

"Yes, anyway, Feng Quan still has some naval warships, although there are not many, and with Feng Quan's ability, we will add another one to tear apart the navy of the Lu State, so that the Lu State can fight for it by itself. Go, let's take out all those who can fight, and occupy his territory of two hundred miles in Kagoshima and Nagasaki, Japan, where the population is larger than that of Lu State, and we still retain all the elite soldiers and horses of Lu State, so that we can let They set up a country, or directly merged into our Huaxia Kingdom, but we didn't send troops to go there right away, we only sent the First Navy Fleet to support them, and now no force dares to provoke us." Zhou Porridge said.

Zhang Qiang slapped the table, "That's right, that's right, throw away those useless guys and let Feng Quan start a new one. Feng Quan will definitely be able to stabilize the situation. We don't need to pay much. When the time comes, will we face the blow from the remnants of Lu State or Japan?" I think the two of them can at least support it."

"Just do it like this." Wei Wuji also patted the table and said.

At this time, Jin Qi knocked on the door and walked in, "The latest information from Your Majesty, the Second Prince's men organized 3000 troops to fight Kong Youxing. Kong Youxing broke through the Second Prince's obstruction and returned to the In Nagasaki, they had less than [-] soldiers and horses left, most of the civilian husbands fled, and only brought back [-] people, and then fought a battle with the Eighth Field Brigade of the third prince.

The Eighth Field Brigade was defeated, and 3000 people were captured and killed. The brigade commander fled with hundreds of people in a warship to a large island dozens of nautical miles away from the main island of Lu. Now the three princes have a total of 1 soldiers and horses, and a population of about [-] on the big island. They claim to break away from Lu and establish the Ryukyu Kingdom. "

Zhou Porridge smiled and said, "It seems that things have developed beyond our expectations."

Jin Qi also reported, "The third prince's flickering function is good. He flicked about fifty thousand-ton warships, sixty eight-hundred-ton warships, one hundred six-hundred-ton warships, and two hundred three-hundred-ton warships. , the rest plus about 450 merchant ships, the total number of sailors is a little small, but [-] people, stuffed with about [-] fishermen, barely drove these ships back to their own territory. "

"The current situation in the country of Lu is changing three times a day. This morning, the eldest prince had a fight with the second prince, and then turned around. The second prince brought his own soldiers and horses to storm the first prince's mansion. The soldiers and horses under the first prince rushed over. , the second prince's mansion was breached, and with the remnants of his troops, he boarded Chen Hui's warship and ran back to the Japanese island with 120 warships. About 60.00% of the remaining warships were brought back to Osaka, Japan by Chen Hui, and then pledged their allegiance to Japan. His population and troops were taken back to Osaka Island, Japan by warships, about 3 people, [-] militia troops, plus the soldiers and horses of the two field brigades he originally owned, he has almost [-] soldiers and horses.”

Zhou Congee asked, "Then what about the eldest prince?"

Jin Qi shook his head and said: "The Eldest Prince is competing with Feng Quan for population and troops, the Eldest Prince reprimanded Feng Quan for being disloyal, not helping him, and not helping him when the Second Prince attacked him, and immediately sent troops to attack Feng Quan's mansion.

Feng Quan had no choice but to resist, he didn't have many troops, he couldn't cope with the prince's [-] soldiers and nearly [-] militia troops, and the [-] young and strong people recruited by the prince, so he could only retreat to the pier, thanks to our Huaxia army Only when the garrison intervened, he could retreat safely. He retreated to Kagoshima County, where he had a reconciliation with Kong Youxing.

Nearly 30.00% of the civil and military officials who followed him were all civil and military officials who were close to him and were afraid of being liquidated, as well as nearly [-] soldiers and horses, and [-] militia troops. It can be said that our people have lost Lu Guo In the mainland, the control power has declined. Zhao Hui has sent back a message, asking whether to withdraw troops from Lu? "

Zhang Qiang waved his hand arrogantly, "Don't retreat, tell Zhao Hui to guard the pier of the main island for me. As for the other big and small islands, they can be handed over to the eldest prince of Hong Chengchou. It's not enough to make us afraid, it should be that he is afraid of us, let's cool him down for a while, let him panic, and when the opportunity comes, we will blackmail him, and promise to pay more than his dead ghost."

Chapter 7: Melee Battle in Lu State

The second prince fled to Osaka and hurriedly organized his own forces and army. He was a little frustrated. Although there were still [-] soldiers and horses, this power made people really have no confidence. The key was population.

In terms of population, I even robbed and coaxed, but brought a total of 3 people, dozens of low-level officials, and more than a dozen cabinet officials from the DPRK and China.

I searched in Osaka, but found [-] people of Han descent who were willing to submit to him, become the people of his power, and support his rule.

In this way, he only has a total population of 5. This population does not even exceed the population of the small county of Osaka. The population left by the Japanese daimyo in the nearby villages is certainly dozens of times his population.

And what's even worse is that the Japanese have already attacked from an island in Hokkaido and recovered most of Honshu Island.

Japan is divided into several island-like terrains from north to south according to the island-like terrain, Hokkaido, Honshu, China, Shikoku, Kyushu, and five island-shaped areas of different sizes.

Among them, Shikoku is the smallest, China is the second smallest, Kyushu is the third smallest, Shortcut is the fourth smallest, Hokkaido is relatively medium, and Honshu is the largest.

These areas are small on both sides and large in the middle, and there are direct narrow and long land borders in the edge area, or intermittent small islands. It is obvious that several land plates in the form of islands of different sizes are slightly docked.

Among them, the shortcuts connect the most with the two plates of China, and the shortcuts connect the most with Honshu Island. The others are only connected by islands, or connected by a continental shelf, with sea water in the middle and rivers separating them. There is a wide gap between the four countries and China. seawater connection.

There is a strait connecting Hokkaido directly with Honshu Island, tens of kilometers wide.

If you compare the shape of Japan, it is like a fish lying on its side. Hokkaido is the fish head, Honshu Island is the main fish body, the shortcut is equivalent to the lower waist, Shikoku and China are two legs, Kyushu Island is equal to the calf, and Shikoku Island It is equivalent to a thigh without a calf and a foot, and Kagoshima to Nagasaki is equivalent to the ankle and instep of this calf in Kyushu Island, which is almost equivalent to an irregular fish tail.

The shortcut can be roughly regarded as a part of Honshu Island, similar to the fin of a fish.

Osaka is just a little bit above the connection between the fin and the body of the fish.

The second prince found himself in a very bad situation, very unfavorable, because the Japanese had already occupied most of Honshu Island, and the daimyo generals of the defeated Tokugawa shogunate family came back one after another to recover their lost territories, 10,000+ Japanese troops, With his current strength of less than [-] Lu regular troops, a mob composed of [-] militiamen and farmers would not be able to gain an advantage in numbers, so he set his sights on Shikoku Island, where almost all sides are surrounded by sea water. Occupy the four countries, take advantage of the fact that the Japanese who are still in Kyoto have not reacted, seize a base area, and then plan to counterattack Lu or go to Honshu to fight Japan in the future.

Anyway, with the size of the Japanese's small navy, the naval forces I have now dare not fight over, otherwise hundreds of cannons will teach the Japanese how to be human.

Going to Shikoku Island is also good for avoiding the Japanese soldiers. Let the Japanese toss about China Island before. If they were beaten to land by the Japanese, then they would be able to defend Shikoku Island and let Feng Quan and Kong Youxing have a headache.

This is a bit like the situation between the eldest prince and the third prince of the Lu State. The eldest prince will definitely regain most of the islands of the Lu State, but the third prince has a large navy. The naval force can defend the big island, which is only a few tens of nautical miles away. This is the largest island in the Lu Kingdom, and it looks a bit bigger than the main island of the Ryukyu Kingdom, which is raised on long strings of water beads. The main reason is its land Concentration, and because the main island of the Ryukyu Kingdom is relatively narrow and long, the time for the eldest prince to clean up the chaos and subdue other small islands is enough for the third prince to gain a firm foothold.

It will take some time for the first prince to restore the state of Lu. The second prince knows that it will take some time for the Japanese daimyo generals to restore their rule in the original territory. The first thing they have to face is the fishtail part occupied by Feng Quan and Kong Youxing. Because the land there is directly connected, it is much easier to fight than here. Kong Youhe and Feng Quan's naval forces are the smallest among these forces.

Among all the people, the second prince has changed from the previous advantage to the worst, the disadvantaged party.

Because his biggest danger comes from Japan. After being beaten by the Lu State for so long, the shogunate forces that have been almost wiped out have now regained control of most of Honshu Island. It was a mess, but due to the inertia of being ruled, they would soon become the aid of the Japanese daimyo generals to drive out the forces of Lu.

The little prince, the son of the second prince, immediately led [-] regular soldiers, [-] militiamen, and [-] civilian husbands, and under the cover of his own fleet of [-]-ton ships and [-] merchant ships, he crossed the sea and arrived at Shikoku Island.

The 2 regular army all used the front-loading muskets originally purchased by Hong Chengchou as their main weapons, the [-] militiamen used matchlock guns, and the [-] militiamen transported supplies. Spears and such are much stronger than the Japanese using local materials such as kitchen knives, sticks, bamboo poles, and wooden shields. It can be said that these civilians can be used as the main elite troops of the Japanese.

Well, what I’m talking about is that in the past, after suffering from the losses of the Lu army, the Japanese today have at least changed to the weapons and armor they bought from Lu. These were all made by Hong Chengchou when he was in Lu. In the early stage of the Ryukyu Kingdom, some were also manufactured, or the original weapons of the Ryukyu Kingdom were collected and replaced. For the purpose of development when the port was first opened, Lu and Japan were still allies. Of course, we must create some opportunities for them.

So a batch of cold weapons were supported for free. These are much better than the original messy weapons and armors similar to the Stone Age in Japan. Although they all look like they have been used, they must have been used. The weapons of the Ryukyu Kingdom It must have been used, the Lu State and the Huaxia Army had also used it to fight life and death on the mainland, and the weapons and armor seized from the Qing Army and the Huaxia Army had also been used.

Hong Chengchou learned everything from the Huaxia Army, including the behavior of disposing of old weapons to his weaker opponents immediately after changing new weapons and equipment, in exchange for money. The image he learned is even more outstanding.

Support a batch and sell a batch at a low price. If you want more, you have to buy at a higher price. After you make the final calculation, the average price is still a big profit for the Lu State. Ming officials are actually businessmen. They are more businessmen and treacherous than businessmen. Many weapons turned out to be obsolete and sold for a higher average price than new weapons.

At the same time, you finally found that after selling these to you, the weapons in the hands of those merchants immediately took on a new look, much more powerful than the ones in your hands, and then they smiled and sold some new weapons that could make your eyes shine. The price is so high that it shocks you, but you can't help but buy it again, but there is a price but no market, and you can't buy it even if you have money.

When the daimyo general who secretly went to the island of Shikoku in Japan to clean up the place led the 2 troops he had assembled to face the little prince, he found that even if they were equipped with a batch of Jinkai [-] matchlock guns that the Dutch urgently gave them, the overall The firepower is still not as good as that of the enemy.

Chapter 7 Seventeen Complicated Situation

1 people against 6000 people, no matter how you look at it, the Japanese won.

But both sides in the war knew that it was impossible.