Chapter 8: Ah, my good student!
It's really boring, it's not fake boring.
Father-in-law Wei doesn't like to do things with a purpose, he really gave him those sixteen words out of his love for Zhenying.
My father-in-law's handwriting is good, and the plug-in disciple who studied under Dong Qichang's registered disciple should be very valuable in the future. Well, the premise is that Zhen Ying keeps his old man's words, and there are descendants to keep them.
Although the overall temperature in Liaodong has been declining in recent years, Liaodong in April is still relatively comfortable. After taking Jierling, my father-in-law did not aggressively fold his fan and continue to march towards Heituala, but became a tourist in Jierling.
This is the big chest muscle of a great leader with great wisdom and great responsibility, and it is also the difference between a commander who commands 3,000 people and a commander who commands tens of thousands of people.
Nurhachi's muscles are far more developed than his father-in-law, but he can't command like his father-in-law.
The Jin army's counterattack was the fastest, and it took four or five days to see the shadow.
In addition to being concerned about the grain transfer situation in Xiayizhou, my father-in-law took a few cartographic staff officers to travel around the mountains and rivers. Otherwise, if they followed Damu and them out to fight the wilderness, their lives would be sufficient.
On the sixth day of the fourth lunar month, a letter came from Taiwan.
It was the good news from Shi Dezheng, commander of the Combined Fleet, that after half a year of preparation, the Combined Fleet lived up to his father-in-law's expectations and finally attacked and occupied the Ryukyus in one fell swoop in late March, completely annihilating the Japanese Murayama fleet, burning four of its ships and beheading 176 of its soldiers.
Unfortunately, Murayama Akian escaped by luck and led the rest of his 100 people to defect to the Emperor of the Ryukyu Kingdom, Kayama Hidaka of the Satsuma Domain of Japan.
As early as the 37th year of Wanli, Ryukyu had actually been occupied by Japan. It was not the shogunate that occupied the Ryukyus, but the Satsuma domain.
Satsuma Domain is a large feudal domain in Japan, also known as Kagoshima Domain, which is a feudal domain in the Edo period of Japan, and its territory is in the southwest of Kyushu, which controls Satsuma Province, Osumi Province and part of Hyuga Province, and the domain is dominated by the Shimazu clan.
Seven years earlier, Kayama Kutaka had led his troops to conquer the Ryukyus, and the Ryukyu king, King Shoho, was forced to go to the Satsuma domain as a hostage, and his kingdom was ruled by Kayama Kutaka.
It was precisely because the Ryukyus were controlled by the Satsuma Domain that Tokugawa Ieyasu agreed to the Murayama father and son to use the Ryukyus as a base to send troops to invade Taiwan.
After the defeat of Murayama Akiyasu, he ran to the middle castle of Kayama Hisataka located on Kikai Island in the north of the Ryukyus, and in the face of the sudden attack of the combined fleet of the Ming Dynasty, Kayama Hisataka did not immediately withdraw to the Satsuma Domain, but organized his Japanese army and more than 6,000 Ryukyu troops on the island to actively resist.
Because the Combined Fleet had naval superiority and weak land forces, it was unable to completely control the Ryukyu Kingdom despite gaining sea supremacy.
The two sides repeatedly fought over Miyako Island and Yaeyama Island, and the battle reached a stalemate.
At the same time, Shi Dezheng reported the victory, and asked Wei Gonggong to immediately order Taiwan's Guards Division to participate in the Battle of the Ryukyus, in order to completely eliminate the Japanese army on the island.
At the same time, Shi Dezheng secretly reported that Shangxian, the third son of King Shangfeng of the Ryukyus, secretly sent Cai Jin, a doctor of the Ryukyu Dynasty, and others to contact the combined fleet, saying that his country had always been orthodox to the Ming Dynasty, and it was a great shame for Japan to occupy it, and asked the Ming Dynasty to canonize Ryukyu again, and help Ryukyu expel the Japanese army and restore the national unity.
Because at the joint meeting last year, Gonggong Wei had a conclusion on the attributes of the Ryukyu Kingdom, that is, where the Ming Imperial Army arrived, it was the land of the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, Shi Dezheng and Chief of Staff Shen Yourong did not give Cai Jin and others a clear answer, and shirked that they had sent people to Beijing to ask for instructions, asking Shangxian and others to secretly organize the rebel army to resist Japan, and the issue of the restoration of the Ryukyus was to be decided by the imperial court.
"Shi Dezheng has the ability to be handsome, Shen Yourong has the courage to be bold, it is difficult for both of them to eliminate the Huashan Department, it seems that that the Huashan Jiugao has two brushes."
Gonggong Wei didn't know much about Japanese history, and he only knew that there was a naval admiral in Japan in his previous life, but he didn't know what connection he had with this Birch Mountain.
The Guards Division is currently assisting the Taiwan Division to pacify and sweep away the savages entrenched in south-central Taiwan, and the progress is not very satisfactory due to epidemic obstacles and terrain reasons, but it has also formed a great encirclement and blockade circle, as long as time passes, it is not a problem to finally eliminate those savages who dare to be stubborn and stubborn.
After careful consideration, Gonggong Wei put pen to paper and ordered the Guards Division to immediately draw out the First Brigade, and the brigade commander Zheng Duo led the joint fleet to implement the Ryukyu battle plan.
"We must annihilate them all, and do not let the thieves return to the country!"
This request was clearly stated in a private letter from Gonggong Wei to Zheng Duo, the commander of the First Brigade. At the same time, the Combined Fleet was reminded to pay attention to guarding against possible Japanese reinforcements, and if conditions permitted, a detachment could be sent north to Japanese waters led by Chief of Staff Shen Yourong to form a deterrent to the shogunate and the Satsuma Domain.
He also informed him that he had sent an envoy to Japan to contact Yan Siqi and other anti-shogun fighters, and Shen Yourong could send someone to contact him if possible. At the same time, it is important to pay attention to the fact that the "Kapitan" Li Dan is a person with strong naval forces, and it is necessary to win the "neutrality" of this person as much as possible so that it will not affect the Ryukyu Operation.
The father-in-law finally said that in addition to winning over Li Dan with righteousness, he should also give him practical benefits. At the very least, it was necessary to ensure that the Ming Dynasty would still guarantee its legitimate maritime trade after the capture of the Ryukyus.
After dealing with these affairs, my father-in-law sent a letter to Jiang Fangyin on Phi Island, informing him that the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau would ship a batch of ordnance and gunpowder to Phi Island, and that Jiang Fangyin would send people to the front line as soon as he received it.
After a few days of waiting, Hu Zhu's department found a forward team of the Jin army more than forty miles northwest of Ji'erling. There were about 3,000 people, all of them cavalry, and they were flying white flags.
"Ah, my good student!"
After receiving the report, the father-in-law was very pleased, and then ordered Hu Zhu's troops to retreat to Jierling.
Hu Zhu immediately organized a retreat after receiving the order, because there were 3,000 Jin Army cavalry behind, and Hu Zhu's troops were all infantry, so he inevitably felt a lot of pressure when retreating, so he quickly changed from an organized retreat to an unorganized retreat.
However, in the face of the general's request for battle, Zhen Ying always refused to allow it, insisting that the Ming army must have an ambush and must not enter lightly, and then fight to the death with the eunuch after the main force of the two white flags arrives.
The fighter plane passed, two days, more than 10,000 taels of white flag main force arrived, Zhen Ying and the younger brother Abai who led the white flag joined forces, and killed Jierling violently, wanting to capture Wei Liangchen alive and wash his suspicion of collaborating with the enemy.
However, when the two white flags and tens of thousands of horses were killed in front of the pass, they found that there was no enemy army on Jierling. Goshha of Zhenying found a letter pressed with a stone on the table at the gate, and the letter named Zhenying to open it in person, and the payment was made by Wei Liangchen, the maritime eunuch of the Ming Dynasty.
"That eunuch wants to divide me again!"
Zhen Ying was furious, and read the letter with his younger brother Abai and more than a dozen of his subordinates. After dismantling, there are only eight words - "If you don't come out of the sky, who will compete".