No. 395 Domination of the East China Sea 2

In particular, Wanyan had already gathered a thousand troops early in the morning of the third day, preparing to attack the army of the Goryeo and have a good meal.

What this Tianjiao didn't expect was that before he and his troops arrived at the seaside, the news of the complete rout of the Goryeo army came.

The army of Goryeo was defeated.

Moreover, the defeat was very fast.

In the early morning of the fourth day, a large fleet of ships of the Cai family appeared at the site where the 50,000 Goryeo troops were stacking grain and grass.

In order to prevent the grain from being robbed, the general of Goryeo was of course on guard, and he sent 10,000 heavy troops to guard the base in the rear. Moreover, this place was only about an hour's walk from the 20,000-strong besieging procession.

However, this experienced and steady general ignored an important fact, whether the 10,000-strong troops could withstand the enemy's attack.

I'm afraid it's very difficult, although the most ferocious Japanese in history has been wiped out by Cai Dao's troops, but now this Japanese army under Takagi is inferior, but these people have been fighting smoothly in recent years, and with the help of the Cai family's fleet, they have already made the soldiers in the coastal area of Goryeo fearful. What's more, among the people who attacked this stockade, there were also pirates recruited by the Cai family among the Jurchen tribe, as well as siege weapons made by the Cai family.

Under the influence of three factors, the Koreans wanted to resist the enemy's attack with their strong camps, and their dreams of waiting for reinforcements were shattered. Because, this camp was broken by the big cylinder of ten volleys at the first time. Then, in the panic of the Goryeo soldiers, the Wa samurai, the Wa Ashigaru, and the Jurchen pirates pounced on the lambs to the slaughter like wolves.

That's right, these Korean soldiers are lambs, and all of them have all their beards and tails to survive. The captured Goryeo soldiers will become slaves of the Cai family. Not only did the Great Song Dynasty need slaves, but the nobles of the Great Liao Kingdom also needed slaves, and Cai Dao needed slaves even more when he developed Yizhou Island. Although there are not many other mineral deposits on Yizhou Island, there are large coal mines that can be mined.

The end result surprised everyone.

In fact, the Cai family's counterattack is more than that. While the Goryeo Kingdom had not yet received news of the rout of the front-line troops.

The Cai family's fleet once again quickly sailed to the capital of their country, Kaesong, and the arrangers plundered near Gyeonggi in Goryeo for three full days.

The people in charge of the plundering were naturally those Japanese and Jurchens, and Cai Sansi personally led his troops under Kaesong City, forming a formation to make a posture of attacking the capital of Goryeo at any time. In fact, he didn't want to attack Kaicheng at all, and even if he had this strength, he wouldn't do it, because it was easy to break the city, but he wanted to get all the wealth in Kaicheng.

The strength in Cai Sansi's hands is still not enough, the key is that the number of people under his hands is too small, less than 30,000 people, and all of them are seafarers. When fighting against the defense forces of Kaesong Goryeo, he will definitely suffer a big loss.

However, Cai Sansi is not doing useless work in this way, but just such a gesture, Cai Sansi's action is still flapping the wings of a butterfly, and the lord of Goryeo, Xuanzong Wang Yun, was actually scared to a serious illness, and before the document for help reached the Liao State, the king of the Shoucheng country died. It really amused the people who heard the result.

If it weren't for the fact that the Great Liao Kingdom still wanted to stabilize the situation in Goryeo, Wanyan Aguda would have wanted to personally lead troops to capture this country of lambs.

After this war, the Cai family gave a lot of rewards to the tribes that defended the city, and of course, there was their own credit in this. After the camp where the grain was placed was breached, Cai Sansi did not burn the grain as before, and fled by boat. Instead, he rushed to repair the camp on the spot, because he found that the combat effectiveness of the Goryeo army was too poor.

After successfully and resolutely withstanding the onslaught of reinforcements, Cai Sansi's troops also lost some of their troops during this period, but most of the dead were those recruited from the Wa Kingdom. Even Shinyuemon Takagi doesn't feel sorry.

This is grain, and if it is sold to the Great Song Dynasty, or the Honshu Island of the Liao State and the Wa Kingdom, it can also get a high return. What can a few hundred casualties count?

After that day, the news of the loss of food soon spread throughout the army of Goryeo, and the Jurchens, who had been defending the city, took advantage of the early morning to sneak up on the troops besieging them. With minimal losses, each tribe took thousands of captives. As long as these people are alive, the Cai family will use money to redeem them.

At this time, after the replenishment of huge wealth, these tribes grew rapidly.

Although most of the Jurchens were integrated by the Wanyan Division, there were still many warriors among those conquered tribes who refused to give in. After receiving the news, these warriors and those who had lost their tribes and became ronins and robbers all came to the seashore and were absorbed into these tribes. However, among them, if there are warriors with good water nature, they will be absorbed into the Cai family's fleet.

In this era, pirates were not just pirates, but the Jurchens actually had pirates. Moreover, in history, there have been records of Jurchen pirates invading the Wa Kingdom. This is also known as the 'knife into the coward'.

With these ferocious thugs, Cai Sansi followed the plan Cai Dao had made before, and turned his next target to a larger island, Ezo Island. That is, the island of Hokkaido in later generations.

In this era, Cai Dao does not know whether there is a rule of local forces of the Japanese people on Ezo Island, but this is not the point, anyway, on this island, even if there are Japanese people, they are only concentrated in the southernmost narrow area of the island, as long as they are all taken. Another ethnic group on the island, the Ainu people, these aborigines, Cai Dao, did not intend to kill them all, but to make friends with them.

After all, in this era, it is still very difficult to completely develop Ezo Island. It is covered with ice and snow all year round, and it is very difficult for the people of the Great Song Dynasty to settle on it.

In the future, when Cai Dao really clashed with the Liao State, he could consider moving the Han people who had been living in the Youzhou area of the Liao State to this place. Anyway, these people who speak Chinese don't see themselves as Song people. Cai Dao doesn't have to be particularly kind to them.

This military operation was very smooth, after all, the current Wa Kingdom has not yet entered the period of Genji and Peace, the frequency of wars is not too high, there is no invasion by foreign enemies, and the combat effectiveness of the Wa Kingdom, which has been closed off from the country, is limited to those samurai. And it was with the successive reigns of the Genji and Heiji clans that this class really grew in the Wa Kingdom.

Following the charts drawn by Cai Dao from memory, one of Cai Sansi's subordinates found Sakhalin Island in the north of Ezo Island. Upon hearing this, he eventually established a permanent settlement on the South Bank.

Cai Dao did not include this island in the scope of his conquest, after all, the climate and environment on this island were even harsher than Ezo Island, and the Song people simply did not have the ability to completely occupy this island permanently.

With the Cai family's fleet, the safety of this island is not a problem, but Cai Dao is just a traverser, he is not a real immortal, and he can live to be a hundred years old at most. If future generations do not fight and forcibly develop Sakhalin Island, it will harm the people who have migrated to this island.

Therefore, Cai Dao told Cai Sansi the news of Sakhalin, but in the end, he had to make his own decision on how to deal with this island.

In the end, Cai Sansi decided to send some people to Sakhalin, but not to occupy it. Instead, in order to take precautions, his subordinates have been communicating and trading with the Jurchens in recent years.

I already have a deep understanding of this nation, especially the Wanyan Aguta, the leader of the Wanyan tribe who was praised by Cai Dao, was particularly impressed. This man is indeed worthy of the praise of his master, he is just like Yelu Abaoji, who led the rise of the Khitans in the first place, calm, brave, and resourceful, while his main enemy, Yelu Hongji of Liaodao Sect, is completely a dumb king without a way.

Compared with the two, one is thriving, the other is thinning, Cai Dao called the Liao State at this time a sick tiger. Not only for this reason, Yelu Hongji's heir, Tianzuo Emperor Yelu, is also a faint monarch who can be beautiful with Song Huizong.

It is no wonder that Cai Dao has repeatedly ordered that the Cai family's fleet must not make any transactions with the Wanyan Ministry, and the Jurchen tribes they come and go with are also the mortal enemies of the Wanyan Ministry.

The fall of the Liao State is imminent, if it really comes to that time, the Great Song Kingdom does not have the protection of Yanshan, and it will also be difficult to stop the pace of the Jurchen people's conquest.

The Jurchens are less than 10,000, and they are invincible.

This sentence made the deepest impression on Cai Sansi.

This is the most powerful advantage of the Jurchens, but it is also the biggest flaw of this semi-nomadic and semi-forest people themselves. Whether it is a raw Jurchen or a mature Jurchen, the ability of their soldiers is very strong, but their clan is still too few.