Excessive exaltation and excessive debasement should be rejected by a good political figure.

Seeking truth from facts is conducive to human progress and to restoring historical truth.

Wei Gonggong gladly accepted the title of "the strongest man in East Asia", and he didn't think there was anything wrong with this title.

Compared with the title of "the strongest man on the surface" - "the strongest man in East Asia" is still very realistic, and it is also very down-to-earth, at least easy to understand.

On the same day, his father-in-law's Lu Bo had an additional long banner of "the strongest man in East Asia", and on the same day, he issued an order for a general attack on Miyakojima.

More than 20,000 officers and soldiers on land and sea were assembled in this campaign, and not only the first line of the Gonggong of Wei was in command, but also a special observation team.

This team is the "Battlefield Observation Group" composed of students from the advanced training class of eunuchs in the supervising army, and the full name is "Emperor Daming's pro-army eunuch battlefield observation group".

Years later, in order to implement the spiritual instruction of Wei Gonggong that "the eunuchs of the supervising army must understand actual combat and participate in actual combat", the senior training camp of eunuchs of the supervising army located on the edge of Tamsui in Taipei began to organize students to go deep into various theaters for on-the-spot observation.

Previously, two batches of 45 trainees had been organized to go to the Taiwan Garrison Division to study in depth the "new tactics of a three-tier blockade in the form of a rolling barrel" adopted by the division to sweep away Taiwan's savages.

In the process of observation, the eunuch trainees of the prison army were exposed to actual combat for the first time, and also felt the cruelty of war for the first time, and fully understood how the various tactics learned in the classroom were specifically used on the battlefield, and achieved good results.

According to the instructions of Gonggong Wei, this batch of trainees will follow the army to observe the tactics and tactics and study in depth in various units, and it is expected that after the end of this year, this batch of trainees will be qualified to take up the post of supervising the army of various departments.

The father-in-law has written to His Majesty the Emperor to request that after the conquest date, the post of town guard will be set up in each part of the Wa Kingdom, and at that time, the town guard will be selected from the students of this imperial army field observation group.

Once in office, it is the beginning of the seventh grade.

Of course, whether His Majesty the Emperor approved and agreed to the plan, Gonggong Wei could not be sure for the time being. But what is certain is that there will definitely not be any Da Jue in the inner court who will object to this letter, because these eunuch trainees are all selected by each yamen.

They did not belong to the Duke of Wei in essence, but to the entire inner court.

In order to strengthen the regularization of the field observation group, the trainees are uniformly wearing Exocet suits, and they are now gathering together under the leadership of the relevant staff officers of the Guards Division and the Combined Fleet to analyze and study the sand table set up according to the terrain of Miyakojima and the Japanese defense forces, so as to deduce the pros and cons of attack and defense on both sides of the enemy and the enemy in the next battle.

Each trainee is also equipped with three full-time attendants, two of whom are Japanese soldiers from the Japanese military training camp, and one is a Han Chinese who is proficient in Japanese language.

Some of these Han generals were perennial wanderers (pirates) who were captured by the imperial army, and some were the children of coastal maritime merchant clans who took the initiative to get closer to the imperial army.

A spark can ignite the plain.

Gonggong Wei had high hopes for every member of the battlefield observation group, and he believed that the eunuch cadets who had undergone professional political and military training would be able to shine in Japan in the future.

The battle against the Japanese army in the Ryukyus was never the focus of Wei's father-in-law, and his sights were always farther north.

Since the Japanese nation claims to be a branch of the Han Chinese nation, the Duke of Wei and the soldiers of the Imperial Army, who came all the way on behalf of the motherland, will treat them as brothers and treat them as flesh and blood compatriots.

Before the expedition, Gao Ju, the governor of Zhejiang, had written a letter to Wei Gonggong in his private name, asking where the supply of grain and grass for the imperial army would come from after the expedition.

The same worries were shared on the Fujian side, as this was the first expedition since the founding of the dynasty, and it did not receive any support from the imperial court.

Since ancient times, expeditions have focused on grain and grass.

If the grain and grass are insufficient, the army will return without success when it is outside, and at worst, the whole army will be wiped out.

In particular, the two provinces have begun to mobilize manpower and material resources to develop Taiwan, and some maritime merchants have even signed contracts with the maritime yamen to jointly carry out maritime trade in the Ryukyus, so if the imperial army cannot defeat the Japanese state, all their efforts may come to naught.

Therefore, as the governor of Zhejiang, the pressure of exaltation is also very high. Those maritime gentry who have been involved in the deep have no way to take the Wei eunuch, but there is a way to take him high.

Gonggong Wei replied to Gao Gao Cheng in this way, he said: "The Japanese country is a strip of water with me, and the Confucian scholars of the country call themselves Han people, and regard their country as my Chinese concubines, and the promising people of the Japanese country regard our imperial army as the savior, so there is no need to worry about the grain and grass." ”

After Gao Gao Cheng received this reply, he didn't understand what Grandpa Wei was talking about for a long time. If you want to give an answer, there is no. If there is no answer, Eunuch Wei has gone on his own.

Later, Shen, who was still seriously ill, gave a one-word answer in a trembling manner - "rob".

"If there is a shortage of food, solve it on the spot, and if there is a shortage of ammunition, fight a white-knuckle war!" - The answer was also given by some fanatical officers of the Combined Fleet and the Guards Division.

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The Japanese troops stationed on Miyakojima were actually not many, less than 1,000 people, and the leader of the army was Kojima Taro.

According to the Japanese military structure explained by Ichiro Sanada and others, Wei Gonggong believed that this army was equivalent to the post of chief of staff, responsible for mobilizing troops and directing operations according to the orders of the general general. Below the military commission, there are officers such as the banner commissioner, the bow commissioner, the spear commissioner, and the soldier ration commissioner.

Miyakojima was actually far away from Ishigaki Island in the Yaeyama Islands, where the main force of the Japanese army led by Hisataka Kayama was stationed, and it was essentially a lone army. Due to the blockade of the Combined Fleet, the Japanese forces on the island have actually lost contact with the main force. There are about 20,000 Ryukyu residents on the island, and it is the more than 20,000 Ryukyuan people who have supported the Japanese army in Kojimabe and enabled them to hold out until now.

Miyako Island is dominated by plains, half of the land is arable land, and the island has a mountain area more than 100 meters high, which gave the Japanese troops who were defending the island an advantageous position to repel the attack launched by the Imperial Army.

If the Marine Units of the Combined Fleet and the 1st Wing of the Guards Division can be fully mobilized, there will be no problem in solving the Japanese forces on Miyako Island.

The bad thing is that the Imperial Army still needs to divide its forces to besiege the main force of the Japanese army in Yaeyama, which causes the Japanese army on Miyakojima to delay in solving the problem.

Now the problem of insufficient troops has been resolved.

A general assault is about to begin.

After combining the actual situation of the Japanese army and the imperial army, Wei Gonggong ordered the formation of a 500-man death squad.

The death squad was selected by the Japanese training camp and the Taiwan Volunteer Corps, and was led by Michitomo Akashi, a subordinate of Murayama Akiyasu who had surrendered earlier.

"Your goal is Yokoyama, that is, Kojima Taro, you and your subordinates must fight hard for it, even if you die, you must win!"

Inspired by Father-in-law Wei, Akashi Michiyu took a deep breath, bowed 90 degrees, and then led the daredevils to a place less than two miles away from the Japanese army in Hengshan.

However, instead of attacking immediately, they stopped and began to freshen up, and some of them even had makeup cases in their hands and were painting their teeth black.

Gonggong Wei was greatly surprised, and was puzzled by Akashi Daoyou's move.

"Father-in-law, Akashi Michiyu is a samurai, and he thinks that if you go to the battlefield, you can't die sloppily, which will damage the image of the samurai." Koji Yamamoto.

"Samurai?"

Gonggong Wei nodded, threw his dagger on the ground, and instructed Koji Yamamoto: "Take it to Akashi Michiyu, if you can't give Kojima's head to our family before dinner, he will cut his stomach, and our family can make him more decent." ”