Chapter 184: The Misguided Tsushima Raid
When Li Yu conveyed the generous land distribution policy to the Chaos Guards who were preparing to go on an expedition after settling in Xingzhou and Ryukyu, the entire Chaos Guards were shocked by Li Yu's generosity. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
You must know that the average field system of Datang is that middle-aged men and Ding men over 18 years old are divided into 80 acres of land and 20 acres of Yongye field. The old man and the disabled were divided into 40 acres of land, and the widow and concubine were given 30 acres of land. It adds up to only 200 acres per household.
What's more, in the decades of Chengping in the Tang Dynasty, especially in the era of Gaozong, the imperial court's uniform land system was gradually destroyed, and land was encroached upon by the powerful and there was no land to divide.
There are many soldiers in the Chaos Guard who have no land or less land at home, and they were forced to rely on their martial arts and strength to devote themselves to various industries in the Yanwang Mansion as guards or laborers.
At this moment, when I heard King Yan announce that as long as they moved their families to the Xingzhou and Ryukyu Islands where they were about to be stationed, each household could get at least 1,000 acres of land.
The eyes of the soldiers of the Chaos Guard were red one by one, although it was an overseas wild island, but the soil on the island of His Royal Highness King Yan was definitely not bad, so why hesitate?
"Soldiers, would you like to settle in Seshishu and the Ryukyu Islands with your family?"
"I'm willing to ......"
"Your Highness is willing to ......"
The Chaos Guards scrambled to wave their hands, responding to Li Yu with great enthusiasm and loud voices, for fear that he would miss himself when he couldn't hear the land.
"Wealth is moving, and land is even more attractive!" Li Yuan shook his head helplessly and said with a wry smile, thinking that the homeland of the Chaos Guards would be difficult to leave, and there were few responders, so he could take the opportunity to persuade His Highness to give up spending millions of gold to open up overseas wild lands. It seems to be nothing more than wishful thinking!
"The family members of the Chaos Guard will have Lao Dapu and Xue Sanyang to take care of it, and I will order Cui Xuan to mobilize various commercial banks to cooperate." Li Yu enthusiastically hugged the shoulders of the two and said.
"All your life!" Xue Jun was speechless.
The old man and the strong who were holding their shoulders had sad faces, but only the handsome young man in the middle smiled very happily.
Xue Maoxun came up with a cheap smile and said, "Your Highness, how much land do you think I can get?" ”
The ten Chaos Guards were blushing in the face of more than a thousand acres of land, but they were still a little worried about the soil conditions on the island. But Xue Maoxun, who was a general, had already inquired about Zhang Qin and other people who had returned from the Southeast China Sea expedition, and there was absolutely nothing to say about the good soil conditions in Xingzhou and Ryukyu.
After receiving an affirmative answer, Xue Maoxun was more eager to expand his family business in more circles in the two places.
Although Xue Maoxun was the grandson of Xue Wanche, a famous general in the early Tang Dynasty, the bad thing was that his grandfather, who had no political brains, actually wanted to rebel and support Li Yuanjing, the king of Jing, as the emperor in the early years of Yonghui, but he was killed and the whole family was implicated. Not only did the title of Duke of Wu'an County disappear and he became a commoner, but he also exiled his family. It was not until now that His Majesty was pardoned after the amnesty of Mount Tai was granted to the world. In the end, he relied on his family martial arts to enter the command of King Yan.
"Come on, you Xue Dayun will have to have 3,000 acres of land, plus the two exchanges of the previous meritorious land, to say the least, there are 4,000 acres." Li Yu scolded with a smile: "Ryukyu has been leveled, you fool remember to quickly enclose the land." ”
"Hahaha! Thank Your Highness for the soil! ”
A big landlord of 4,000 acres, Xue Maoxun was happy in his heart.
Xue Jun on the side hated itchy, and said dissatisfiedly: "Your Highness, Li Changshi and I work hard all day, why do you have to give us a few thousand acres?" ”
"Don't worry, you're indispensable, wait a few more years, and I will definitely divide a bigger and more fertile land for you heroes!"
Wait a few years? Xue Jun wondered.
Li Yu leaned into Xue Jun's ear and whispered: "You have thought about it, the land you want in Xingzhou and Ryukyu now is just sesame, and the future is watermelon." Don't be greedy, pick up sesame seeds and lose watermelon. ”
"Then I'd better wait a few years for watermelon!" Anyway, he was not a person who lacked money and land, Xue Jun chose the latter without hesitation, and he was quite looking forward to where His Royal Highness would occupy a more plausible land.
Li Yu had already thought about it, and the next step in laying down Ryukyu was Taiwan and Hokkaido, and compared with Xingzhou and Ryukyu, it was simply a small sesame seed in sesame.
The morale of the Chaos Guard is high, and there is no worry about crossing the sea for thousands of miles to expedition to the wild island, almost three times a day, urging Jiaolong Sea to set sail, urging Cangcao to participate in the military Dou Huaike.
It has created the most urgent army to go to the battlefield since the founding of the Tang Dynasty.
The impatient Jiaolong HNA Supervisor and Dou Huaike, who were urged, finally prepared the materials for the expedition under overtime.
The long-awaited Chaos Guardians finally boarded a sea ship and set out for the Ryukyus.
When Chaos Wei went south, Cheng Wuzhong of Xingzhou was also ordered to dispatch 500 soldiers and horses, led by Ning Zichang, who had been transferred to Chifengwei and promoted to lieutenant in the Andong battlefield last year, and set out east to attack Tsushima with three medium-sized warships.
Whether it was Li Yu who ordered in Pyongyang, or Cheng Wuzhong, who dispatched troops and horses, or Ning Zichang, who commanded the army.
In their eyes and cognition, at least from the historical materials that the Tang Dynasty can find about Tsushima, Tsushima is just a sea area sandwiched between Silla and Wakoku, with a radius of only more than 400 li, with dangerous land, deep forests, and roads like poultry and deer trails. The people are no more than a thousand households, there is no good land, the sea is eaten for self-survival, and the ships are obedient to the north and south of the city.
Ning Zichang knocked on the side of the boat and said with a smile: "Recruit a small pair of horses, I will bring more than 100 soldiers enough!" ”
In fact, the kingdom of Tsushima was under the rule of the Wa kingdom more than 200 years ago. After the Battle of Baijiangkou, the Japanese panicked that the Tang army would attack its own territory, and also stationed troops on Tsushima Island to set up beacons, and later added the garrison of Jintian Castle, which was not useless.
Even if seven or eight years have passed, the Japanese State no longer worries about the Tang army's attack and reduces the garrison on the island, it is still far from what Li Yu, Cheng Wuzhong, and Ning Zichang expected.
Ning Zichang was so confident that he ordered the fleet to sail directly to the sea off the capital of Tsushima.
Since the establishment of the beacon tower, there has never been a gas smoke warning beacon tower, at this time the smoke is billowing out, and more than 600 Japanese troops in Jintian City hurriedly climbed the city wall with bamboo guns, bows and knives under the urging of the generals.
Ning Zichang ordered a landing on the north coast of Jintian Castle, and sent a brigade commander who was good at shooting to shoot arrows tied to the surrender document to the castle tower. Regardless of whether the other party can understand the Chinese characters or not, the city will be attacked as soon as the time comes.
Tsushima Morishogun, who was stationed here eight years ago in Kawachi, took the letter of persuasion from the arrow and opened it, and the whole person was stunned.
The enemy army that came was actually the Tang army, and Hanoi Yoshicho was very puzzled why his country sent an envoy to Shangbiao Tong and a vassal after the Battle of Baijiangkou, so why did he send troops to attack now?
Ning Zi under the castle often looked at the castle in front of him and was very annoyed, although there is only one castle in Tsushima, but this is different from the record about Tsushima sent by His Royal Highness?
The city is not large, the city wall is less than two zhang high, and the civil structure is not a strong city. The defender Ning Zichang estimated that there were five or six hundred, with uniform clothing and weapons, as well as marked flags.
"It's not right for Equestria!" Ning Zi often estimated it.
If any of the soldiers and horses led by Ning Zichang had participated in the Battle of Baijiangkou eight years ago, they would definitely recognize what kind of Tsushima army was on the city wall, and it was clearly a Japanese army.
No matter what, let's talk about it later!
Ning Zi often ordered: "The crossbowman stepped forward and gave Tsushima Yi a rain of arrows to taste!" ”
"No!"
The well-equipped Tang army divided two hundred men and aimed at the city tower with bows and arrows.
The Hanoi Yoshicho in the city panicked, and the brave and good fighting of the Tang army had already spread in the mouth of the Japanese army who had fled from the battle of Baijiangkou. At present, the Tang army, which is only less than 100 people less than himself, is attacking, how can this low earth city resist the charge of the Tang army like a tiger and wolf?
"Don't shoot! Don't shoot! Hanoi Yoshicho shouted at the Tang army in horror in the city: "The Wa State is a subject state of the Tang Dynasty......"
Hanoi Yoshinaga had never regretted not learning Chinese as much as he did today, and the Tang soldiers under the city only looked at him curiously, and the arrows still shot towards the city.
The grievances failed to get the Tang army to stop, but to the extent that the city heard that it was the Tang army's already low morale to the impotence.
When the arrows were fired, the Japanese army in the city screamed in panic and fled in all directions, looking like a defender of the city.
Yoshicho Hanoi was shot down by an arrow, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead. When the Japanese army saw that the commander was killed, they dispersed in a hurry.
"Hahaha......"
The Tang army under the city pointed at the Japanese army who fled for their lives in the city and laughed, I didn't think that the first time I went to the battlefield with a real knife and a real gun, I would encounter such a bad thing!
"Captain, we won!" Several brigade commanders were laughing.
Ning Zichang also smiled: "Only by winning the city can you win!" Ordered the whole army to attack the city, and whoever captures more prisoners will be the first to do so! ”
"No!"
"Captured ......" The five hundred Tang Army officers and soldiers were in high spirits, fought bravely, and smashed open the wooden city gate in a few clicks, and boarded the city wall with no soldiers except for dozens of unlucky ghosts who were shot, and hung up the military flag of Chifengwei.
For the first achievement, the soldiers of the Tang army rushed to catch the fleeing prisoners, and the Japanese army hid in the mountains and forests if they could run, and surrendered on their knees if they couldn't.
Ning Zi often climbed the city wall, which gave him a surprise, but it did not exceed expectations, and it was indeed a great victory without casualties in a battle.
"The captain has caught the official of Tsushima, and he should be the lord of the country!" I saw several soldiers fall to the ground with the arrow, and Hanoi Yoshinaga, who woke up, escorted him to Ning Zichang.
"What kind of country, people call it a mean dog!" Ning Zichang scolded with a smile.
"What? Humble...... Humble dogs? When the soldiers heard this, they were all surprised, and looked at the sluggish but kept telling something with a look of disbelief, like a Tsushima official begging for mercy, and he should be called a humble dog.
Hanoi Yoshicho was dead, no matter how he cried and explained, the Tang Jun in front of him just couldn't understand what he was saying.
I don't know what these soldiers are talking about him, and they laugh at him one by one, full of ridicule, ridicule, and curiosity.
Hanoi Yoshicho looked up to the sky and roared: "Isn't there a single soldier in the Kingdom who understands the Japanese language?" ”
It wasn't until a few days later that a Baekje merchant passed by Tsushima on his way to the Wa Kingdom for business, and found that the banner on Jintian Castle had been replaced by the banner of the Tang Army, so he went ashore to take a look. I saw Yoshinaga Kawachi, the former lord of the castle who worked as a slave.
Hanoi Yoshicho seemed to grasp the life-saving straw, begging the familiar Baekje merchant to explain the reason for him in front of the Tang army generals.
At this time, Ning Zichang realized what the problem was, and it was too late.
After the news was transmitted back to Pyongyang, Li Yu realized that he was ill-informed and stabbed a big basket and shouted that he had made a mistake!