Chapter 452: Capture Iwami
In the Imperial Palace, Wang Aoke, the commander of the Yellow Sea Fleet, sent troops to provoke a provocation without being well-behaved, and presented a one-sided accusation.
Changshi Li Yuan believes that Wang Aoke has no king's law and military law, and he promises not to punish him, and in the future, all military generals will follow suit, and in the future, the country will not be a country, and the generals will be in chaos.
Although Li Yuanyuan said a bit heavy, it was surprising that Xue Ne, Zhang Shi and other generals did not refute it. Because they knew that the border pass was far away, and waiting for the military order to go out might delay the fighters, they could lead the army to go out before receiving the order. However, there is one thing that cannot be violated, that is, before the commander leads the army to go out on the expedition, he must play the reason, and then play the experience and results after the battle.
Wang Aoke's dispatch of troops before the performance this time was out of Li Yu's heart, and he was a little unbearable to punish Wang Aoke, and he couldn't do it if he didn't punish him.
After thinking about it, Li Yu decided: "Demote Wang Aoke to the people, and temporarily command the Yellow Sea Fleet as a white body to make meritorious contributions to the country." ”
Some people suggested whether it was better to order Wang Aoke to withdraw his troops from the occupied Sado Island and Oki Islands, to regulate the two countries, and to send envoys to reconcile them.
"It's good to fix a fart."
Li Yu directly said rudely: "Wu Guoming is a vassal to my Tang Dynasty, but behind his back, he arrogants himself as the emperor, where does this make my Tang Emperor?" Since ancient times, there has only been one Son of Heaven in the world, and the great disrespect of the Japanese Kingdom must be punished and forced to go to the emperor's title. If the promise is not obeyed, I will play Your Majesty, and raise an army to fight against the Japanese kingdom that does not transgress. ”
When the officials and generals heard that the king dared to usurp himself as the emperor, they were filled with righteous indignation, and the courtiers who proposed to return the two islands shouted the loudest at this moment: "Use the steel knife of the Tang Dynasty to let the lowly Japanese people understand that those who usurp the title of emperor will be killed." ”
The king of the Japanese proclaimed himself the emperor, and the monarchs and ministers of the Tang Dynasty did not know that it was okay, and they knew that it must not be spared, and they promised to go on an expedition across the sea and to crusade against it. Otherwise, can you defend the status of the Tang Dynasty as the lord of the world and the emperor as the only son of the sky?
Li Yu found a Japanese merchant who was doing business in Pyongyang, handed him a sternly worded edict to the Japanese monarch and ministers, and ordered the Japanese king to immediately remove the title of emperor, continue to use the name of the Tang Dynasty, and apologize for his crimes. Otherwise, as soon as the heavenly soldiers arrive, the jade will be burned.
The merchants of the Japanese Kingdom were so frightened that they trembled, and after receiving the hot edict, they were very worried that after the Tang State pacified the eastern countries, they finally set their eyes on the Japanese countries overseas.
"How will the Japanese Kingdom resist the invincible and invincible Tang Heavenly Soldiers?"
When the Emperor of Wakoku received the edict of King Yan brought back by the merchants, his face was pale, and his worries finally came.
It was urgent to order the state to immediately recruit brave and young men as soldiers, defend the coastal islands and mountains and rivers, build cities in the dangerous places where the Tang army might land on the beaches leading to the inland, and build water cities along the coastal arteries for defense.
At the same time, the people of the sea hurriedly sent another envoy to Pyongyang to present a table of apology, saying that they would change their name to the emperor and change their name to the king of the emperor, and that the country would forever pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty, and would never dare to have the slightest disrespect.
Li Yu sneered, the monarchs and ministers of the Wa Kingdom called themselves the Wa King of the Tang Dynasty, and they were called Japan and the Emperor in their country, this set of tricks is very familiar to the traversers, and they want to rely on a paper of apology to deceive him like they used to deceive the Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers?
Hehe! Act recklessly.
Li Yu tore apart the apology of the sea people in front of the Japanese envoys, and the Japanese envoys were suddenly colorless.
"This is going to happen!"
"Someone came, put these Japanese people in prison, and tortured them to extract a confession of the Japanese domestic situation. This king wants to recruit the Japanese, so naturally he can't lead the army to fight blindly like a blind man. ”
"Whoa."
"His Royal Highness King Yan, we are just envoys, why bother us to wait......"
The envoys of the Japanese State panicked, and they were dragged down by the guards and did not forget to beg for mercy.
Li Yu laughed and said: "It's not the first time to put the disrespectful envoys of Fanguo in prison, when the former king of Silla, Kim Famin, who was ambushed a few years ago, was in power, didn't my father still put the two envoys he sent to the Tang Dynasty in prison?" Except for the deputy envoy who was later released, the chief envoy is still locked up in the prison of Chang'an. ”
After the Japanese envoy was put in prison by the guards, looking at the dazzling array of torture instruments on the wall, the timid were scared on the spot, and they didn't have time to use Xing to confess the situation in the country.
The bones were hard and didn't hold up a few times, and he honestly confessed with bruises all over his body.
After Li Yu got the supply paper, he smiled, with the current contradiction between the conservative faction and the reformist faction in the Japanese country, once our army arrives, even if it can't be like a bamboo, it can get twice the result with half the effort.
A country with internal discord is definitely easier to deal with than a country that is connected to the next and the next.
Li Yu not only allocated grain and grass, but also recruited troops and horses to prepare for the conscription.
At this time, Wang Aoke's request for help also arrived, and the news of the rich gold and silver mines on Sado Island leaked, and the Wa Kingdom gathered 20,000 soldiers and horses in Echigo, on the other side of Sado Island, and collected 1,000 ships to cross the sea to retake Sado Island.
Although the province is famous for its large-scale gold and silver deposits, such as Iwami Ginzan, Inaba Ginzan, Ikuno Ginzan, Sado Ginzan, Kurokawa Ginzan, and Oshu Mine......
However, most of the gold and silver deposits were discovered and mined in the Warring States period.
At present, none of the world-famous gold and silver mines in Japan in later generations have been discovered, except for the Sado Gold and Silver Mountain, which was discovered by the Tang Army.
The current Wa Kingdom is a poor ghost sitting on a mountain of gold and silver, looking around and still looking up to the sky and humbling God for treating him unjustly, making him poor.
In the battle of Baijiangkou more than ten years ago, the Tang army had been taught, and the Japanese army was beaten all over the ground looking for teeth, and the corpses of the Japanese army stained the sea water at the battlefield red.
Li Yu ordered the Yellow Sea Fleet to reinforce 30 warships to Sado Island, with 3,000 soldiers, and ordered Wang Aoke, "There is the battle of Baijiangkou commanded by Liu Renliang in front of the left servant, and Ru Nuo was defeated by the Japanese army, so there is no need to come back to see me, find a sea area with good water quality and jump into the sea." ”
After Li Yu and the generals discussed the conquest of the Japanese army, a series of military orders came out of the capital, and a total of 50,000 soldiers and horses were assembled by land and sea to Dongnae-gun in the southeast of Silla, and Busan, the largest port in Korea in later generations, was in the south of Dongnae-gun.
The Tang army will board the transport ships of the Yellow Sea Fleet and the East China Sea Fleet dispatched from this place to rest on Tsushima Island and then attack the Japanese in the east.
The Japanese conquest Li Yuwa Ren Gao Chongde led the Suzaku Guard as the vanguard of the army, captured Iki Island between Kyushu Island and Tsushima Island as an outpost, and peeked into the northern part of Kyushu Island to see the Japanese army defense.
Su Mingxiu led the Tianshi army to attack Iwami Province, one of the countries where Iwami Silver Mountain was located, and Li Yu wanted Iwami Silver Mountain, and he wanted to use the gold and silver mined from the Japanese Kingdom as military expenses to destroy the Japanese State.
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Su Mingxiu led his army to land from the coast of Iwami Province at night, captured Anno County in one fell swoop, and attacked the 3,000 Japanese troops who came the next day, and within five days they conquered the last county of Iwami Province, Mino, beheading 5,000 Japanese troops.
Frightened, the surrounding countries of Iwami did not dare to send troops to rescue, and the Iwami Silver Mountain that Li Yu longed for was also in hand.