At this time, there was the sound of people talking outside, followed by the sound of the armor guards turning around and letting them go, in the sound of the tumultuous armor leaves, Fu Qian was in front, Kong He was behind, and Fang Shaoqun walked in while talking.

Qin Dongyang, Jin Baoyi, Liu Yi, Ge Dageer, Zhang Huchen and others also walked in.

"I can say it." Xu Zixian said to Chen Daojian, "The movement of the Japanese people, before you go to the Eastern Domain, the latest news brought by the Ling No. 3 ship, not only the Japanese people are mobilizing, but Kang Maocai and they have also made some moves, and they have gathered a lot of ships, from the coast of Guangdong to Fujian, there are many ships that are dependent on the Kang family to rush to the Japanese country. It can be seen from this that the preparations for war between the Kang family and the Wa Kingdom are serious, so we now need to know how you and Kang Tianqi talked about it and what they talked about."

Kang Tianqi didn't say it explicitly. Only then did Chen Daojian know that the Eastern Domain's side already knew the general situation, and his mood relaxed a lot, and he began to talk about the meeting with Kang Tianqi.

"The old fox." After Chen Daojian finished speaking, Fang Shaoqun shook his head and smiled, and said, "So far, I still don't understand what to say, Li Dan and Yan Qi together are at most evenly matched with Kang Tianqi. Last time, the Tianfang people also sent an envoy to the Wa Kingdom, and it was obvious that Pu Xingfeng was still trying to win over the two forces of the Wa Kingdom and Kang Tianqi. In the future, Pu Xingfeng cleaned up the Three Buddhas, and the first thing he wanted to deal with was not Kang Tianqi and the Japanese people behind him, but the coastal area of Great Wei. The first to bear the brunt is of course the Eastern Domain, our tough attitude towards pirates, and the Hou Mansion is running the Eastern Domain, which is a great threat to Pu Xingfeng's future plans. ”

Kong He said in a deep voice: "It is estimated that there will be Pu Shougao who will play a role in it." ”

Li Yi's face was worried, and she was not in a hurry to speak.

Prior to this, the Japanese people were on alert, and the news that the Kang family had summoned ships came one after another, and this matter was originally quite moving, and even it was estimated that the pacification envoys in Fuzhou and Guangzhou would also receive relevant information and make a little preparation.

But Li Yi and the others also knew and understood that once the local officials knew that this time Pu Xingfeng and the pirates were targeting the Nan'an Hou Mansion and wanted to attack the Eastern Domain, it was estimated that everyone, including Lin Douyao, would be relieved.

The Nan'an Hou Mansion is equivalent to sealing the feudal domain in the Eastern Domain, and almost everything here belongs to the Hou Mansion. Along with the two prefectures, they are well aware of what is happening on the island.

The original defense has made Chen Duzhong have been hollowed out, and the Chen family is also willing.

The changes in the Eastern Domain have spread throughout Fujian Road, and due to the large sale of official salt, Lianghu and Zhejiang, Liangguang and other places, Nan'an Hou Mansion will also begin to radiate influence.

For the imperial court, Xu Zixian made money with peace of mind, developed the Eastern Domain, and even put horses on the Eastern Domain, all of which were tossed by him.

As long as his mind does not need to be on the struggle for the storage position, and there is no need to fight for military and political power on Fujian Road, everything is up to him.

This is also the main reason why Nan'an Guanyan can be marketed in all directions, and the two prefectures, three divisions, and local rotation divisions of the center have not made major moves.

Otherwise, even if the distributors are all decent figures like Chen Duzhu, the gentry and businessmen are all decent figures, and after a ban, the officials and gentry will not be able to openly confront it, so they can only treat Nan'an salt as private salt.

It's not impossible to have private salt, but you have to hide it, the cost will increase, and the sales volume will fall.

If there are pirates who come to attack the Eastern Domain and defeat the momentum of the development of the Eastern Domain, I am afraid that not only the Son of Heaven, but also the two provinces, Lin Douyao and King Zhao of Fujian Road, will feel happy from the bottom of their hearts.

"It's certain." Fang Shaoqun said solemnly to Xu Zixian, "Kang Tianqi didn't say it explicitly, but it is obvious that Li Dan and Yan Qi's fleet should be coming to the Eastern Domain. ”

"Its strength should be around 30,000 to 40,000." Qin Dongyang frowned tightly and said, "However, his department has to deduct some of the sailors and miscellaneous people who have been on the ship for a long time, and they have to leave a few thousand to watch the prince of Penghu, our sailor should stay in Penghu, this is the consideration of a few of us after private discussion, it is estimated that the pirates will also think of this, I don't know what the prince thinks."

"And rightfully so

Xu Zixian's face was as usual, and he even said with a smile, "It is impossible for us to send the sailor to Quanzhou Port or Fuzhou, and the pirates also know that we will not." The port here in the Eastern Domain is not as well guarded as Penghu, and we will not send the sailors to the sea to die, 2,000 people against 30,000 or 40,000 people, even if the soldiers practice diligently every day, they cannot be the opponents of pirates. The general trend is like this, and there is nothing to say about being expected by the enemy. ”

Indeed, as Qin Dongyang said, most of the pirates would have expected this, and divided their troops to guard the port of Penghu.

As long as the dozens of ships in the Nan'an Hou Mansion are not allowed to sneak attack, they will not pose a threat to the pirate fleet, and Li Dan and Yan Qi will probably be able to break into the Eastern Domain with more people with peace of mind, go ashore from several ports or one place, and form a formation to engage the Nan'an Fu army.

Jin hugged a hateful and said, "There should be between 25,000 and 30,000 pirates ashore, and this is the entire net worth of the two pirate thieves." In this battle, if they end in a fiasco, I am afraid that even if they escape from the Eastern Domain, they will definitely not be able to keep their top rank within a year or two. ”

This is an obvious thing, the two pirate kings have done more evil than Kang Tianqi and Wang Zhi, and they are not as good as Pu Xingfeng with the background of the Heavenly Family, once they fail in the Eastern Domain, their prestige is completely lost, the lower limit of their control, they can't bear the external enemies and internal fighting, and they will fall apart within a year, and most of them will be killed by some ambitious subordinate, and the beheading will spread all over the world.

But such words to vent hatred were meaningless, and everyone present nodded slightly, and no one answered.

"There shouldn't be much trouble with the Penghu garrison." Qin Dongyang has the style of a general, sits upright and does not move, and says eloquently, "The port is narrow and the terrain is steep, and it is difficult to attack. Moreover, there are many strong crossbows in Penghu, and the ships can be suppressed with strong crossbows in the near sea, and it is difficult to get close at all, and there are 2,000 officers and soldiers of the naval division to guard the port, which is enough to make the enemy unable to advance an inch. In those smaller outlying islands, there are not many people living in the first place, that is, there are some sheep herders and duck herders, and they are told in advance to move to the island for a while. The important thing is here in the Eastern Domain, how will our army respond to this enemy attack?"

Li Yi asked, "Li, Yan Erbu, how is Wang Zhi, Kang Tianqi, Pu Xingfeng Department, and Chen Yutai?"

Qin Dongyang and the others were silent, their understanding of these pirates was relatively shallow, and everyone looked at Liu Yi.

Since the battalion of the water division, Liu Yi is the Eastern Domain and Penghu running at both ends, he is single, no wife, no family, and his parents are gone, so he has the most abundant time.

Since a few months ago, Xu Zixian ordered Liu Yi to start cooperating with military intelligence personnel, and greatly collected information on pirates from various departments at any cost, even including Wang Zhi, who had already been attached.

According to intelligence, Wang Zhi has been active in the northern seas and the coastal waters of Fujian and Zhejiang, including Champa and other places, Kang Tianqi is mainly based on the Wa Kingdom, with Siam and other countries, Li Dan and Yan Qi are mainly from Luzon to the South China Sea of Great Wei, and Pu Xingfeng only occupies Malacca to Siam, as well as Ceylon, India and other places.

In terms of the size of the territory, of course, Pu Xingfeng is the largest, and the strength is also the strongest Pu Xingfeng.

followed by Kang Tianqi, Li Wang, and Yan Li at the bottom.

If you want to talk about ferocity, violence, and daring to fight, of course, it is also Pu Xingfeng first, but in terms of ferocity alone, Yan Qi is the first, his subordinates loot sea ships, almost never leave a living mouth, and use a variety of means to torture and kill, Yan Qi himself likes to do this, even if he is the leader, he often kills people with his own hands.

"Damn it." Li Yi said with a pale face, "If you can defeat this person, you should be punished." ”

"I would also like him to be punished by the canon." Kong He said in a deep voice, "This kind of person is just using brutal means to intimidate his subordinates, and when he is bound by the law rope and is about to be executed, he is much more timid than ordinary people. ”

Kong Hejiu served in front of the ya, and he was also a long-standing official, and his judgment of such matters was generally very accurate.

"We need to have a way of coping with it." Ge Cunzhong said, "The enemy situation is roughly like this, unless Pu Xingfeng is in person, of course, it is impossible to judge with the current situation. He should be because

The matter of Chen Yutai and Pu Shougao made us jealous, and Yan Qi and Li Dan were sent to interrupt the momentum of our development. This is actually a good thing, the more the enemy attaches importance to us, it means that we are on the right path. Now it is up to the prince to judge whether we should stand on the beach and fight the enemy in a dignified formation, or attack him halfway, or retreat to the garrison, and use castles, fortifications, hills and mountains, to avoid without fighting, and to engage the enemy guerrillas."

Liu Yidao "Yan Qi and Li Dan are nothing more than Chen Yutai who has enlarged the scale, we can defeat Chen Yutai and defeat these two people, my opinion is to attack its half-crossing, and the Nan'an army can defeat these two enemies, but the strength is slightly inferior, and half-crossing is the best way." ”

"It's hard." Qin Dongyang shook his head and said, "Attacking halfway is the place where the enemy must cross." The sea is vast, our naval division can not go to war, not to mention that there are hundreds of miles of places in the Eastern Domain that can land anywhere, just Huaxi, Nan'an, Tiger Leaping Creek, stretching for nearly 100 miles can go ashore, how can our army predict, defend, and attack the pirates who go ashore If they are frequently dispatched, I am afraid that it will consume the physical strength, will, and courage of our soldiers. ”

The brothers of the Ge family glanced at each other and said, "What Brother Qin said is very true, and we also think so. ”

"Then you have to choose between guerrilla warfare and frontal attack on the enemy."

"I think guerrilla warfare is good." Ge Cunzhong said, "Our army has a favorable location, people, this is a very real thing, the people support us, our army can temporarily avoid the edge, hit the enemy's flank, harass, sneak attack, the enemy has no supplies, food routes, at most ten days to withdraw, in the middle of which we will make them suffer heavy losses." ”

The civil officials present all nodded, in the opinion of Li Yi, Kong He, and Fu Qian, Ge Da's method was the most secure, and it was difficult to control it half-crossing, and it was difficult to control it in a head-on battle, and the difference in number was more than twice as much, and the other party was also a pirate who had been famous for many years, not comparable to a small group of pirates like Chen Yutai.

It is undeniable that after receiving and confirming the news, people are surprised, panicked, and afraid, which is a normal emotional reaction.

People who are not on the coast can't imagine how much pressure pirates can put on people, and the past thirty years have been a period of rapid development of piracy, and if you are an old man before Chengzong, you will be surprised, because there were no decent, large groups of pirates before that. Indeed, there have always been small bandits along the shipping lanes to Luzon and the South Seas, which is unavoidable, and a few hundred years later, Somali pirates can still make a name for themselves.

But before that, pirates had at most one or two ships, a few hundred people, and it was simply impossible to form a large group of thieves.

The Great Wei sailors would often exterminate pirates, and the countries of Zhancheng and Lanfang, Srivijaya and Manchu would also exterminate pirates.

The Japanese people poured out a lot of pirates in the civil war more than 100 years ago, they had plundered along the coast of the Great Wei, and were killed very badly by the Great Wei sailors, and later the Emperor of the Great Wei ordered the Japanese to ban pirates, and the Muromachi general at that time did not dare to fight with the Great Wei, so he ordered the daimyo everywhere to kill the Japanese who were suffering at sea, and the Japanese were exterminated.

Since the establishment of the sect, there have suddenly appeared large numbers and groups of pirates, and gradually developed into thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of giant thieves.

Even like Kang Tianqi, he was able to suppress many of the daimyo of the Wa Kingdom, force the shogun to recognize their status, and allow them to have ports, territories, and foundations in the Wa Kingdom, which cannot but be said to be unimaginable decades ago.

This was not accidental, or due to the decline of the Great Wei Sailors, but the greater reason came from the more prosperous and extensive regional trade.

Yan Qi and Li Dan have both been famous for a long time, and they are famous, and it is strange not to feel afraid when they hear these two giant thieves attacking.

If you can avoid without fighting, so that the enemy will work in vain and suffer losses, in the eyes of Li Yi, Kong He, Fu Qian and others, this is indeed the most important thing.

Several military attachés also made some moves, and of course this method of warfare is not very good, and it will also cause losses to the people, but the army can be preserved, and it can get much more valuable actual combat experience than training.