Chapter 136: The Battle of Wei Gong on the Sea (Part II)
"Niang Xipi, is the widow called more than 10,000!"
After receiving an urgent letter from Huang Chengxuan, the governor of Fujian, Father-in-law Wei didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Other old people may not know, but there are absolutely no more than 10,000 Japanese invaders on the southeast coast during the Wanli period.
As far as Jiajing Ye was concerned, it was impossible to dispatch more than 10,000 troops at a time during the peak period of the Japanese Invaders, and it was only a few thousand, and most of them were Han Chinese.
Therefore, more than 10,000 bullshit pirates came to attack, and most of them were shouted by those guards along the coast.
"Father-in-law, since it is said that there are more than 10,000 Japanese pirates, and I think there should be a lot of people, whether to suspend the landing of the combined fleet in Taiwan, and then we will talk about suppressing this group of Japanese pirates."
Shen Yourong is a little bottomless, what the Fujian governor said may be exaggerated, but it can be exaggerated to the point that more than 10,000 Japanese people will attack, and it is expected that there will be thousands of Japanese people who will enter the Japanese people.
Considering that the elite soldiers of Fujian are all in the center and left, the officers and soldiers of the rest of the guards are really unbearable, if this group of Japanese robbers is asked to take advantage of the situation and go to the provincial capital, then the matter will be a big trouble.
There were only more than 100 people in the Akashi Daoist Friendship Department in the past, and they didn't scare the coastal prefectures and counties enough, and the provincial capital was closed in broad daylight.
What's the matter, I'm not afraid of 10,000, just in case.
Shi Dezheng and Hou Anzhi are the military chiefs of Zhejiang and Fujian provinces, and coastal defense is their responsibility, and now that such a big thing has happened, if the imperial court blames it, the two will definitely bear the brunt, so they both echo Shen Yourong, thinking that they should immediately send a joint fleet north to clear out the Japanese invaders.
"Hmm..."
The father-in-law also called Shen Yourong to say that there is no 100% absolute in the world, he knows that there is no big trouble in the Wanli period, but there is also no Wei Liangchen in the Wanli period.
If the news is not exaggerated, the three provinces on his side joined forces to fight Taiwan, but he asked the Japanese to take off his underwear at the door of his house, and his father-in-law Wei had no light on his face, how could the emperor explain it?
Your Majesty asked you to run maritime affairs and build an imperial army, which is to make a fortune, not to let people come to the house if they have nothing to do.
After thinking about it again, my father-in-law sent someone to call Akashi Michitomo over.
"Tell me, is this news credible?"
The father-in-law threw the urgent letter from the governor of Fujian to Michiyu Akashi.
After reading it, Akashi Daoyou shook his head firmly and said, "My lord, this is impossible. ”
"Huh?"
The father-in-law raised his eyebrows, and came to the spirit: "Why is it impossible?" ”
Akashi said that when he set out from Nagasaki with Murayama Akiyasu, he had never heard of the shogunate's plan to conquer the Ming Dynasty, and that this was a different time than decades ago, when he had a strict grip on samurai and ronin after Sekihaku unified Japan.
After the establishment of the shogunate, in order to avoid irritating the Ming Dynasty, Tokugawa Ieyasu further restricted the activities of the ronin. In addition, Li Dan and others, who controlled Japan's maritime trade, also strictly forbade their subordinates to plunder along the coast of the Ming Dynasty.
Hearing what Akashi said, Shi Dezheng and Shen Yourong also realized that the information might really be wrong.
"However, according to the villain's opinion, it is very likely that the people who invade the coast of your country are the people of Murayama Qiu'an." Michitomo Akashi proposed a possibility based on rationality.
"Is Murayama Akian?"
Gonggong Wei pondered that there was a possibility, and that guy from Qiu'an dared to forge a national letter to help him get out, so he dared to take further action to confirm the matter.
"If this group of Japanese robbers is really sent by Qiu'an, how many people do you think they have?" Grandpa Wei is more concerned about this.
"Lord Hui, Murayama is ambitious and talented, brave and unstrategic, looking ahead and backward in doing things, and leaving room for himself in everything, so the villain thinks that it is impossible for him to bring out all the fleets, at most he will send a few hundred people."
Akashi even said that if the Japanese who harassed along the coast of Changle were really Qiuanbu, then the person who led the troops must be Qiuan's right-hand man, Ronin Momoyanmon. That guy was originally from the Shimabara Domain, and later took the initiative to join the shogunate, and he was a shameful existence.
"What do you think?"
The father-in-law has become accustomed to consulting his subordinates before making a decision, which is typical of the Kenji Temple.
Shi Dezheng thought that if the Japanese were really a partial division of the Qiu'an Division, then there was no need for the Labor Combined Fleet to go north, just send a few warships and seven or eight hundred elites to encircle and suppress.
"The last place where the Japanese invaders appeared was the Dongsha Sea area, where there are many reefs, and if the Japanese invaders do not know the shape of the water, it is easy to hit the reef, and once they hit the reef, they cannot be transferred, our army only needs to send an elite army to surround them, and it will not take half a month, and the Japanese will collapse without a fight."
Shen Yourong is worthy of being an expert on the sea, and he analyzed the real situation of the Japanese in a few words.
Hou Anzhi had been to the Dongsha area in the past, and he agreed with Shen Yourong's analysis, but as the commander of the Fujian Navy Division, he had the responsibility to defend the territory and resist the enemy, so he suggested that he lead his troops to Dongsha. The main force of the Combined Fleet will sail to Taiwan as originally planned, and if there is an accident on his side, the Combined Fleet will send warships to reinforce it.
"Landing in Taiwan is the top priority of our tripartite, and there must be no change!"
Gonggong Wei put the overall situation first, and decided that Shi Dezheng, Shen Yourong, and Hou An would lead the main force of the fleet to land in Taiwan, while he himself led his troops north to encircle and suppress the Japanese bandits.
"My father-in-law is a eunuch and is responsible for supervising the army, how can he risk his life?"
Shi Dezheng and the three of them hurriedly dissuaded and dealt with a group of Japanese robbers who might only have a few hundred people, where did they need the eunuchs of the prison army to go into battle in person. Hou Anzhi said that it was better for him to lead the troops.
"Hey, the overall situation is important, just a small group of widows, where you need the deputy commander to come out, let's go to our house! ... Hey, anyway, the three of you are experts at sea, and we can't play a role with you, so it's better to do something to sweep the head and tail. ”
The father-in-law couldn't help but say that he insisted on personally leading the troops to suppress the Kou.
Shi Dezheng and the three of you, look at me, I look at you, thinking that the number of the Japanese will not be too much, and there is a fifty percent chance of hitting the rocks, and Wei Gonggong will not be able to win if he leads his troops to fight, and there is no danger to talk about, so they no longer dissuade them, and each of them will go to sea and land in Taiwan tomorrow.
In the afternoon of the same day, Gonggong Wei couldn't wait to get on the ship East Asia, and ordered his old man to go north to suppress the Japanese.
It's just that the father-in-law seems to have a bit of a lot of officers and soldiers who went north. In addition to the father-in-law's personal guard battalion of more than 500, there are more than 3,000 officers and men of the First Infantry Wing, a brigade of the artillery wing, and more than 60 main warships and more than 2,000 officers and men on the navy, with a total strength of nearly 7,000, accounting for more than a quarter of the total strength of the allied forces of the center and left.
When the fleet sailed out to sea, it was really immense, and Shi Dezheng, who had arrived on the shore after hearing the news, was dumbfounded.
On the East Asia, the father-in-law stood proudly on the bow of the ship in a flying fish suit, and the large gold chain around his neck glittered in the reflection of the sun.
Jokes, the credit for sending it to the door is not for our family to thunder and drop in the sky!
I don't know the details of the other party, but I know that the other party is at most a partial division sent by Murayama Qiu'an with a number of only a few hundred, and my father-in-law has no reason not to take advantage of this to make a name for himself.
He is the old man who is the best at bullying the few with the more and the weak with the strong.
In terms of faith, it is enough to be enough!
Didn't I see my father-in-law even called Ge Saburo from "Huangming Daily", I heard that Ge Saburo was ordered to compile a book of "The Capture of the Wa Ji of Wei Gong", so that it could be sold in the southeast region.
This is really everything in place, and it is almost the end of the day.