Chapter 541: Declaring war on Goryeo

Hearing the other king's words, the Ryukyu envoy did not get angry, as if he had expected it, he took out another letter from his bosom and said, "When my king of the Ryukyus came, in addition to the letter of state, he also asked me to bring this ultimatum. ”

After saying that, the envoy handed over the ultimatum, and the whole country of Goryeo looked at the Ryukyu envoys with contempt, and the king of Goryeo frowned even more, and the eunuch wanted to hand over the ultimatum, but the king of Goryeo waved his hand, knocked down the letter of state and said: "Go back and tell your king that this is Goryeo, if he comes to ask in person, this king may reward him with two cows, and if he finds that the merchants on your side are buying things indiscriminately, they will be arrested by you!" ”

Seeing that the whole country of Goryeo did not take this matter to heart, the envoy bowed down and said: "The words of the king of our country have been brought, and I will also bring your reply to the king, so the minister will take his leave." ”

After speaking, the envoy glanced at the ultimatum that was still on the ground, turned around and left, and the whole country of Goryeo only regarded this matter as a trivial matter in the court, and then discussed the war in the north.

At this time, the war between Goryeo and the Jurchen Wanyan tribe had been lost, and Goryeo not only did not grab those tribes, but the cavalry of the Wanyan tribe had crossed the Yalu River and galloped on the south bank of the river.

This is also the reason why the Ryukyu General Staff is confident that it will rely on 50,000 troops to defeat Goryeo quickly, and the whole of Goryeo is now thinking about how to deal with the invading Jurchens, and no one pays attention to this sudden arrival of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

At this time, one of the ministers who had gone to sea stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, the minister saw the merchant ships of the Ryukyu Kingdom on the way to Yunzhou City a few days ago, according to the crew of the ship, there are countless Ryukyu merchant ships, and the warships are powerful and invincible across the seas, and the war with the Song State is a war that completely destroyed the elite Dengzhou naval division of the Song State. ”

One of the ministers said with a smile: "Li Taichang's words can't help but increase the morale of others to destroy their own prestige, I have seen the so-called Dengzhou sailors when I went to Daliao last year, and there are only three or five ships, which is not much different from our warships, so the destruction of Dengzhou sailors in the Ryukyus is not worth boasting about." ”

In fact, what this minister saw was only a patrol detachment of the Dengzhou Naval Division, but in the eyes of the arrogant Goryeo, those ships should be all of the Dengzhou Naval Division, after all, the naval division of one of Goryeo's own states is of this scale, so when he thought about it, he felt that the Song Dynasty was also like this.

The minister said proudly: "Our Inchon sailors laugh at dozens of warships, if the Ryukyus dare to attack our merchant ships, we will dispatch sailors, beat them to the ground, snatch all their merchant ships, and turn them into the property of our Great Goryeo Empire!" ”

The whole country of Goryeo nodded with satisfaction when they heard this, this is indeed the truth, in their eyes, this so-called Ryukyu country is just a small island country with dozens of small ships, relying on a few merchant ships to do whatever they want.

After the Goryeo people formulated a strategy to deal with the Ryukyus, they no longer cared about this matter, and it was not until after the retreat that the eunuchs of Goryeo picked up the ultimatum that the king had knocked out, and after thinking about it, it was also a file, so they threw it to the little eunuchs around them for archiving and processing.

From beginning to end, the three clerks of the General Staff studied the first ultimatum of the Ryukyus drawn up in one day, and sank into the archives of Goryeo without even being opened and looked at it, and no one in Goryeo knew the final date set on the ultimatum.

The Ryukyu envoy returned to the post house, and immediately flew a pigeon to send a letter to Zhenwa Island, and the next day Zhang San received the story of the matter, and Zhang San gave the other party ten days to lose, and now it seems that the matter has come here, and there is nothing to say.

On Zhenwa Island, the Ryukyu Army was conducting targeted landing and siege training, and Incheon Port was a tidal port, and it was impossible for more than 100,000 troops to complete the landing at one time, so the General Staff concluded according to the calculation that in addition to some troops landing at Incheon Port and occupying the port, it opened up a road for subsequent material transportation.

The large army took advantage of the high tide to enter the Han River and go directly to the city of Seoul, and then shelled Seoul in an effort to take Seoul in one go.

As for the troops of the Japanese State, they were in the midst of intense assembly and transportation, and Zhang San dispatched a batch of logistics ships in order to complete the transportation task of this batch of suddenly extra troops.

At the beginning, these logistics ships sailed to Zhenwado Island to transport looting materials after the next step of conquering Goryeo, but now they will transport the soldiers of the Wa Kingdom first, and they can transport the materials without delay when they come back.

It's just that most of the troops of the two countries are concentrated in the Kanto Plain area to confront each other, so it will take about ten days to assemble from there and transport them to Zhenwai Island, but fortunately, Zhang San is fully prepared, and the Japanese army does not participate in the first phase of the attack.

Now that the army of the Wa Kingdom has been assembled, Zhang San calculated the time in addition to the time needed on the road, Zhang San decided to set off from Zhenwei Island in six days.

After two more days of training, the soldiers began to rest, and all the troops began to tell the reason for the battle, the goal and the battlefield discipline, which is to tell the soldiers why they want to fight, who to fight, and when to fight, so as to avoid the blindness of the soldiers.

Six days after the ultimatum was issued, the Japanese troops finally arrived at the town of Wajima, and it happened that everyone had gathered, and Zhang San simply did not let the Japanese soldiers land on the island, and directly ordered the troops to set off, and also let these Japanese soldiers see how our Ryukyu soldiers fought.

After a simple mobilization campaign, the troops began to board the ship one after another, and Zhang San also boarded his Ryukyu warship, and the kings of the two Wa kingdoms were also invited to Zhang San's ship to watch the whole process of the war.

When passing through Jeju Island, the Ryukyu Navy did not stop, and this place was to be used as another horse farm on Zhenwa Island, so the task of attacking was entrusted to Luan Tingyu, the governor of Zhenwa.

According to the information obtained by the scouts, the total number of troops stationed on the island is less than 200 people, and there is only one small sailing boat on the island, and the island's supplies are basically self-sufficient, of course, Goryeo will also send ships to send some supplies and salaries every month.

So Zhang San doesn't bother to stay on such an island at all, and it's a waste of time to send a fleet to clean it up, and let the Japanese land on the island, it will be even worse, and this will be the Ryukyus in the future, let the Japanese rob it again, isn't that equivalent to robbing Zhang San's money?

Therefore, Zhang San directly handed over the task of occupying Jeju Island to Luan Tingyu, and for Luan Tingyu, this matter is also very simple, and it can be easily done by casually sending a battalion.

After the troops bypassed Jeju, they headed northwest, and the fleet of more than 200 ships was very simple to avoid being discovered, and in the era when there were no telescopes, as long as the ships on the periphery were on guard and drove away from the approaching ships, the probability of the fleet being discovered was still very low.