Yang Cong was really a little speechless when he heard that Yan Song could get away with it like this, but he didn't have time to continue fighting with Yan Song at this time, because he had to quickly solve the problem of pirates and pirates, otherwise, not only would the people on the southeast coast not be at peace, but Jiajing and Yan Song would also make him uneasy.

He had already learned about this pirate and the pirate and the pirate in detail, and he really didn't know if he didn't know, and he was shocked when he asked, because the composition of the pirate and the pirate was too complicated, and even Wang Zhi couldn't count them all.

For example, pirates, the pirates wreaking havoc on the southeast coast this time are not all maritime merchants engaged in maritime trade in Dongying and Nanyang, some of them are the subordinates of the maritime giants who have been dispersed, and some are civilians who have lost their livelihood on the southeast coast, and there are even real pirates mixed in, even Wang Zhi can't figure out how many "pirates" participated in the looting of the southeast coast this time.

This is also one of the main reasons why Wang Zhi didn't move them, because these people don't have a unified subordinate relationship, there are benefits, everyone can still shout and move, if there is no benefit, people will not care about you at all.

Another example is the Wako, the Wako still have a leader in name, and their leader is Matsuura Takanobu, the daimyo of the Hizen Province Hirado Domain of Toei Hizen, but some of the Wako can't even be controlled by Matsuura Takanobu.

At this time, there was more than 60 countries and two or three hundred vassals, and Matsuura Takanobu was only a daimyo of a vassal in Hizen Province.

The reason why the Wako respected Matsuura Takanobu as the nominal leader was mainly because the Matsuura family had organized samurai to raid the southeast coast and the Korean coast since the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, and at that time, they played the banner of revenge for the invasion of the Yuan Dynasty, so they were very popular with everyone.

Later, although the nature of the raid has completely changed from resisting the invasion to piracy, all the wandering samurai and the common people of Toei still habitually assemble in the Hirado Domain, and then go to the coast of Korea and the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty to plunder, so the head of the Matsuura family has always been the nominal leader of the Wako, and Korea has always called the Wako "Mishima Wako", the so-called Mishima refers to the territory of the Matsuura family, Hirado Island, Iki Island and Tsushima Island.

In fact, the Japanese at this time are no longer the samurai of the Matsuura family, and the composition of the Japanese is far more complex than that of pirates.

Among the Japanese invaders, there were Dongying civilians who lost their land due to the war, wandering samurai who lost their livelihood due to the defeat of their family owners, and even great Ming thieves who shaved their heads and tied their hair for the convenience of plundering.

When these people participated in the raid, they swarmed up as if they were a gang, but after the raid, they scattered in a hurry, hiding everywhere, trying to catch them I don't know how troublesome it was.

Yang Cong's head is big at this time, how can this pirate and pirate who are like scattered sand be wiped out?

He originally thought that as long as he appeased Wang Zhi, he could easily find the lair of pirates and pirates, and then train the sailors to clear them one by one, but now it seems that this idea is a bit too naïve, because these pirates and pirates are just a plate of loose sand, and there is basically no fixed lair.

Of course, it is not necessarily true to say that they do not have a lair, and the Hirado Domain can be said to be the lair of pirates and pirates.

However, it is also unrealistic to take the Hirado Domain at this time, although Dongying is divided into more than 60 countries, large and small, once they face a strong enemy, they are still relatively united, like the Yuan Dynasty, I don't know how many times the sea has attacked Dongying and has not taken it is proof.

If these small countries in Dongying are united, their strength is also more terrifying, like the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Dongying Guan Bai Toyotomi Hideyoshi once gathered the people of the Dongying countries, organized more than 300,000 troops to attack North Korea, in a vain attempt to use North Korea as a springboard to invade the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty took a lot of effort to defeat it, and at this time the Ming Dynasty was far worse than the Ming Dynasty after Wanli Zhongxing, and it was easy to go to war with Dongying, and there was little hope of victory.

Based on these circumstances, he could only choose to slowly figure it out, first stabilize the coastal defense and ensure that the southeast coast is not invaded by pirates and pirates, and then build warships and go to the sea to slowly round up and wipe out the pirates and pirates.

Originally, this was just a delaying plan for him to fool Jiajing, but he didn't expect that he had to choose this protracted strategy at this time, fortunately he didn't brag in front of Jiajing and set a deadline, otherwise it would really not be able to end.

Of course, the long time it takes means that it costs a lot of food, and the consumption of tens of thousands of troops in a year is not a small amount, and ordinary people are really unable to mobilize so many troops to ensure the safety of the coast.

At this time, he had already assembled 50,000 guards in Nanzhili, and if you add the men and horses under Lu Bo and Liu Xian, it adds up to 60,000, then how many pirates and pirates do you have to gather to deal with it.

If in terms of quantity alone, pirates and pirates are quite terrifying, there are nearly 10,000 people under Wang Zhi alone, and the maritime merchants or pirate leaders who are similar to Wang Zhi include Xu Weixue, Ye Zongman, Xie He, Fang Tingzhu, etc., as well as the more famous pirates Lu Qi, Shen Jiu, Chen Sipan, Li Guangtou, etc., these people alone add up to no less than 60,000, and there are other pirates and pirates, adding up to at least more than 100,000.

However, in terms of combat effectiveness, most of these pirates and pirates are just equivalent to ordinary garrison guards, and as long as the sturdy garrisons practice well, there is no problem with one enemy ten, one against three, or even one against five.

Therefore, the most urgent issue at this time is to drill, combine weapons and formations to drill the assembled cantonment guards, and then quickly disperse them to various coastal areas to protect the territory and the people.

So, how do the trained guards or recruits get started?

Anyone who has read a little about the art of war knows that the first thing to do in training recruits is to form a team.

This formation includes the appointment and dismissal of generals at all levels in the army, as well as the grassroots structure of the army.

However, this time, Yang Cong did not follow the traditional method and take the five-person team as the most basic structure, he chose a team of twelve people as the most basic structure, as for the reason, it is very simple, because the Qi family's army is formed in this way.

The Mandarin Duck Formation is the best formation to deal with pirates and pirates with short weapons, which has been proven by history, and he naturally chose to apply this most applicable formation.

At this time, although Qi Jiguang was still underage, Tang Shunzhi, the real founder of the Mandarin Duck Array, had been following him for many years, Yang Cong simply described the structure of the Mandarin Duck Array to Tang Shunzhi in detail in the name of discussion, Tang Shunzhi really understood it at all, and quickly mastered the subtleties of the Mandarin Duck Array.

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