Chapter 199: The Situation
Except for the leaders of Juzhou and Rizhaolai, the other Wubao owners under the Qingzhou Army were all stunned by Xu Muhe's practice of turning his face and not recognizing people.
No one would have thought that Xu Muhe Jinshi, who thought he was the envoy of Qingzhou Jiedu and was very famous in the entire Qi Province, would suddenly resort to such a method like the king of the mountain, fire and accomplices!
However, he just used it, without the slightest joke, and acted resolutely.
Just a moment later, nearly twenty majestic Dock Fort Lords in their hometown fell to the ground!
"The main force of our Qingzhou Army will attack in three days!"
Xu Muhe said viciously:
"All the departments on the front line, if the battle situation is still like now, these rebellions that don't know how to be inferior will be the end!"
"Dissolve the bunkers of these people, and confiscate the population, livestock, fields, houses, and property!"
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On the second day of the return trip, Xu Shiyang arrived at Shuangyu Port again.
Compared to the last time I visited, this huge private port is obviously much deserted.
Xu Shiyang inquired curiously.
It turned out that during the time he was on his trip to Lin'an, the Li pirate group launched a surprise attack on the port of Nagasaki controlled by the Fuso daimyo Ryuzoji family!
This was a crazy military adventure, the Li family's thirteen large cabinets poured out, including the small cabinets of vassals, more than 3,000 large and small ships, and more than 80,000 pirates led by the ship sold by Xu Shiyang, and arrived at the port of Nagasaki to ambush.
At first, the pirates used the ship to paralyze the vigilance of the Fuso people, and when the ship docked, hundreds of pirates hidden inside came out together, and other pirates who were lying in ambush outside the harbor swarmed up.
Within a day, the port of Nagasaki fell.
But then, a huge rift arose within the Lee Pirate Group.
Among the thirteen major cabinets, several leaders led by Li Feibao suggested that they should accept it as soon as they saw it, and immediately return to their nest after taking away the population and property of Nagasaki.
However, the other group led by Li Feihu hoped to occupy the port of Nagasaki for a long time and force the Fuso government to open up trade to the Li family, rather than being limited to the few ships that sent Zhou and the extremely risky smuggling trade every year.
Flying Lee, who was supposed to stand up and make the final decision, hesitated between the two factions.
At this time, it became clear that the Li Group was not united enough and did not have a real core.
The pirate legions gathered in and around the port of Nagasaki, advancing and not advancing, retreating and not retreating, and the battle situation fell into a kind of sit-still when Fuso was still unable to fight back.
Subsequently, some of the well-robbed cabinets began to leave on their own, and the strength of the pirate legion in Nagasaki began to gradually decrease.
On the other side of them, the Ryuzoji family knew they were powerless to resist the huge pirate army, so their head Ryuzoji Takanobu asked for help from other Fuso daimyo in the vicinity.
After the Ryuzoji family agreed to extremely humiliating conditions, the Otomo family and the Shimazu family, both of whom belonged to the Kyushu forces, sent troops to rescue Ryuzoji, and then the Mori family also got involved.
The four Fuso daimyo were not confident that they would be able to defeat the pirate legion in the field, but it was okay to take advantage of their native superiority and limit their movements.
The Fuso people took advantage of the opportunity of the pirate army to build a long wall around the port of Nagasaki, and then Li Feihu and Li Feihuang led the army to attack several times and achieved some small victories, but did not break the blockade, and now the two sides are still in a stalemate.
Hearing the development of the battle situation from the pirates who stayed behind, Xu Shiyang sneered.
The ups and downs of the combat effectiveness of the Li pirate group are really exaggerated, and with the technical conditions of this era, it can be played out by forcibly landing and occupying the port directly in front of the enemy, but now it has actually become such a situation.
Moreover, in Xu Shiyang's view, the pirate army is actually at a disadvantage now, although I don't know how many people there are in the Fusang army on the other side, but the battle has entered a stalemate, and the pirate army's territory cannot be expanded, so they can only rely on Shuangyu Port to replenish supplies and reinforcements.
Although the efficiency of shipping and replenishment is good, in the event of unsuitable weather such as typhoons, it only takes a few days for the pirate army to be in a desperate situation.
That is, if the pirate army cannot make a breakthrough in a few days, then they will definitely retreat in a few days.
Of course, it cannot be said that the pirates lost, after all, they managed to plunder the port of Nagasaki.
It's just that this raid may trigger a more severe ban on the sea by the Fuso daimyo, causing the Li pirate group to lose the Fuso market, which is a bit more than worth the loss.
"The strategic goal is too vague, since you want to fight, you have to completely kill it, or you can convince Fuso and dare not disobey, or you don't fight at all, and now this situation is simply a bad situation second only to defeat."
This is Xu Shiyang's evaluation of this war.
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Gangnam.
The Great Zhou court was in great chaos because of a fire in Dutingyi.
Although there was a diplomatic problem such as hurting the envoys, which was a big scandal anywhere, because the Tartar envoys died too cleanly, the psychological pressure on the Jianxing Emperor and the Lord's cabinet was actually much lighter, so that they were still in the mood to discuss the aftermath slowly.
Of course, the envoys were all wiped out, and Da Zhou had to find a way to give Dajin an explanation, and Emperor Jianxing personally ordered Bao Zheng to thoroughly investigate the Dutingyi case.
At the same time, in order to appease the Jin people and prevent the Jin people from using this as an excuse to go south to threaten the Yangtze River defense line, the Great Zhou decided to change the policy of the separate implementation of the New Year's Coin and Heqin to a combined implementation.
Emperor Jianxing planned to send 1.5 million guan money, 300,000 horses of silk, 300,000 taels of silver, 3,000 craftsmen and a princess, together with the news of the total destruction of the envoys, to Liaodong, hoping to use these people and goods to engage in a "dissipation diplomacy".
This was naturally strongly condemned by the main battle faction, and the main war faction officials led by Wen Zhong even threatened to resign en masse, and strongly demanded that the emperor withdraw the holy order.
These petty officials themselves are not important, the important thing is that the emperor is in the requirements of balancing the power of the court, and it is impossible to completely drive out the main battle faction.
So Emperor Jianxing kept trying to appease the increasingly irritable main battle faction, but to no avail.
Moreover, this time, the main battle faction was guaranteed by a strong reinforcement right to know the Lin'an Mansion, and Bao Longtu was also severely opposed to the implementation of the peace policy, and his attitude was even tougher than that of the main battle faction.
The current idea of the main battle faction is to only give New Year's coins, not to get along.
And Bao Zheng's request was to stop even the New Year's coins and not give a penny.
According to Bao Longtu, the main reason why the Jin people used the envoys to oppress this time was that they completely lost the strength to cross the Yangtze River and conquer Jiangnan, whether it was because of several raids by the Tatars or the resistance of the Han people in Jiangbei.
Otherwise, even in order to cooperate with the actions of the envoys, the Jin people should send some troops to the Yangtze River to put pressure on the Great Zhou court.
Since compromise for peace has become unnecessary.
Bao Zheng admonished that if the Jin people couldn't get the New Year's coins this time, then they could only threaten Da Zhou with mouth cannons in the future, and it was impossible to actually threaten the existence of Da Zhou.
However, Emperor Jianxing was not as sure as Bao Zheng.
As for the Lord and the faction, it is strongly recommended to meet all the requirements of Daikin.