Chapter 122 The Fall of the Ryukyus
Fang Hua had just finished secretly refreshing, and before he could reminisce about it, this young man's next sentence almost scared him to death. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Xiao Wang, ask the generals of the Heavenly Empire to help Xiao Wang restore the country for the sake of Ryukyu being a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty!"
"Holy! Restoration! Is this going to be a baa? ”
Through questioning Fang Hua, he learned that it was the Japanese who caused the trouble, and now the daimyo on the Japanese island are in a scuffle, and there are defeated so-called samurai everywhere, and they can't stay on the Japanese island, so they can only come out and wander.
And the Ming Dynasty, who was thousands of nautical miles away from them, was not lightly troubled by them, let alone Ryukyu, which was not far from them.
This young man was a prince of the Ryukyu Kingdom, Shojing, and when the Japanese invaded most of the Ryukyus, the Ryukyu king finally made the decision to resist.
And the leader of the troops was the Ryukyu prince Shang Jing, who led the Ryukyu army and the Japanese to start a great war in their eyes, and resisted for less than three months, Shang Jing was defeated.
The large army suffered many casualties, and Shang Jing rushed out of the Ryukyus with only a few hundred retinues, but there were still Japanese pirates behind them, and it was not until they reached this small island that they could shake off their tails.
At that time, Shang Jing wanted to ask for help from the Ming Dynasty, but he heard that there was also trouble along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, so he didn't dare to go directly, so he sent one of his military attaches to ask for help first with the only warship and his seal.
But I didn't expect these people to come back, they haven't even seen a shadow for almost two months, if it weren't for the abundance of products on this island, they might all starve to death here.
Just when Shang Jing was about to despair, a fleet suddenly came two days ago, these big ships were warships they had never seen before, Shang Jing was afraid that they were widows, so he hid with his men.
However, through the observation of the past two days, Shang Jing was basically sure that these people were definitely not Japanese robbers, so he dared to come out, and after seeing Fang Hua, he risked his life to ask Fang Hua for help.
And Fang Hua was stunned by Shang Jing's request, to restore the country, do you want to make it so big, but after thinking about it, it's not bad to do this, but some things are better to figure out first.
Continuing to ask Shang Jing about some things, Fang Hua finally figured out the current situation of the Ryukyus, and when Shang Jing took refuge overseas, the Ryukyus basically fell.
With the exception of Shurijo Castle, the capital of the Ryukyus, and a few nearby castles, all the rest of the castles fell to the Japanese Invaders, and the composition of the Japanese on Ryukyu Island was simply Japanese slaves
The number of these Japanese slaves is unknown, but the approximate number is available, and according to Shang Jing, there were no less than 50,000 Japanese in the entire Ryukyu Islands before he left.
Fang Hua's eyes lit up when he heard this, 50,000 Japanese people was a big business, and he had settled on the heads of these Japanese people.
Thinking of this, Fang Hua decided to go to the Ryukyu Islands first, anyway, the general route was the same, but it was just a few days earlier.
Shang Jing was overjoyed when she heard this, and took several of her officials to kowtow one after another, this kind of treatment Fang Hua had never enjoyed.
The fleet continued to depart, and the bad things they feared did not happen again during the next few days of sailing, but they were able to see the beauty of the sea thoroughly.
Schools of sharks, whales, graceful dolphins, giant squid fish, and the legendary ship-sized turtles.
When he saw the turtle, the boat boss and Shang Jing and the others knelt on the ground and bowed and worshiped the mythical beast, Fang Hua was a little puzzled at the time, but later understood that they regarded the big turtle as the legendary Xuanwu.
However, such a big turtle had really never been seen, if it weren't for the fact that Fang Hua and Zhao Yun had both seen the legendary immortal Nanhua Old Immortal, it was estimated that they would both want to worship it.
However, when he thought of Nanhua's virtue, Fang Hua felt that he had no desire to bow down, if the immortals were all the same virtue as Nanhua, then it would be too sad.
Two days after leaving the sea where they had seen the turtles, the Ryukyu Islands were not far away, and Fang Hua and their fleet attracted the attention of the Japanese in the Ryukyu Islands.
At first, they thought they were their own, for there was no fleet in the sea that could compete with them, but as the fleet approached, the pirates panicked.
Because Fang Hua's warship was too big, the Japanese did not have such a warship at all, you must know that the shipbuilding technology of the Ming Dynasty at that time of the Three Treasure Eunuchs threw off the eight major roads of Wa Island.
If it weren't for the Ming Dynasty's insistence on the policy of blockade and sea ban, perhaps the first industrial revolution would have erupted in the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years in advance.
You must know that at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the handicraft industry, manufacturing, and scientific and technological strength far surpassed the rest of the countries.
In 13XX, even the Kingdom of Britain, which was rampant in the seas in later generations, had only just shaken off slavery and stabilized the power of the feudal dynasty.
If it weren't for the Ming Dynasty's self-imposed self-style, closed off the sea and closed the country, and the later Manchu Qing Dynasty's even more closed country, the tragedy in China hundreds of years later would not have happened.
Even so, the treasure ship used by the Three Treasure Eunuchs in the Western Ocean is still the most advanced sea ship in the world a hundred years later, and those unevolved beasts on Wajima simply did not have the strength to build such a large sea ship in this era.
The pirates realized that something was wrong, and they immediately boarded the ship to prepare for a naval battle with Fang Hua's fleet, although their warships were small, but they were numerous, and according to their wolf pack tactics, it was still possible to deal with those big ships.
In the eyes of the Wakos, their naval tactics in this era were nothing more than shooting arrows not far away, and leaning over to pick up the ship after long-range suppression.
However, Fang Hua's treasure ships were not the same as the warships in their consciousness, they were equipped with a large number of firearms, and these firearms were all Qi Jiguang's credit.
This is the famous tiger squat cannon in later generations, although there are not many guns on each ship, there are about ten, and these are all obtained through Qi Jiguang.
If it weren't for Qi Jiguang and Fang Hua, where would they get some things, you must know that Qi Jiguang had taken a big risk to get these things, if it weren't for Fang Hua and them to fight the Japanese this time, Qi Jiguang would never have done this kind of thing.
However, Fang Hua did not take it in vain, he mainly did not have time to cast the cannon, Fang Hua exchanged a rapid-fire ** paper from the system in exchange, which was also the famous artillery "Napoleonic cannon" in later generations.
With the drawings of this kind of artillery, Qi Jiguang's exchange went extremely smoothly, each of the nine treasure ships was equipped with ten guns, a total of ninety, and now seeing the Japanese sea ships rushing over, Fang Hua ordered all the sea ships to start adjusting.
With the order issued by the banner, which was quickly received by all the soldiers, Fang Hua's treasure ship began to adjust rapidly, and they aimed the same side in the direction of the Japanese attack.
As the red order flag waved down fiercely, the hundred tiger squat cannons opened fire almost simultaneously, and ninety huge fire balls emerged from the treasure ship, and at the same time, the earth-shattering loud sound rang out.