On the slopes of the coastal hills, countless people of Fusang, carrying their hands and shoulders, are working hard, and under the supervision of thousands of Red Turban troops, a brand-new earth-rammed city has begun to take shape. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Hao Ren held a horse whip in his hand, stood on the hillside, looking at the city he planned to cast, and felt quite proud in his heart.

"My lord, what is the use of building a city in this wild place in Fusang?" Yao Guangxiao asked, holding the rosary.

The Western Route Army of the coalition army, after dividing troops with Zhang Shicheng and Fang Guozhen, the 40,000 Qingfeng water and land army, along the west sea line of Kyushu Island, marched all the way, first defeated the samurai of the Shimazu family in Satsuma, and then defeated a small naval army loyal to the Southern Dynasty at Ariake Bay west of the Higo Domain.

This navy army only has a few hundred small boats, and it is a coalition of three naval forces of the Kikuchi family and the Aso family, which is gathered by Prince Huailiang to protect Prince Huailiang, and it can't resist the artillery attack of the Qingfeng army at all, and it will be crushed with one blow.

The Qingfeng army spent half a month, and the battle losses increased by another 2,000, plus the battle losses of the crossing of the sea and the Ijiin family, the battle losses of the Qingfeng army increased to 4,000 people, equivalent to one-tenth of the total number of soldiers, and turned to attack the Hizen Domain on Fuso Kyushu Island.

Endless conquests and killings seem to be endless. Hao Ren was keenly aware that he could not continue to fight like this, and if he continued to fight like this, he was afraid that it would be difficult for the 40,000 soldiers and horses who crossed the sea to withdraw from the quagmire of war, and the Central Plains had not yet been calmed down, and it was easy to lose big because of small things.

The gunpowder brought by the Qingfeng army with the army has been consumed more than half, and the empty ships of the army have been filled with the capture of the war, and Zhang Shicheng's infantry is far behind in the rear, and if it continues to fight like this, Zhang Shicheng's army is easy to be divided and eaten, once the gunpowder is used up, the firearms advantage of the Qingfeng army will be gone, and the Qingfeng army will return to the era of cold weapons.

Moreover, fighting in a foreign land, unlike Middle-earth, is difficult to replenish the troops lost in battle.

Middle-earth operations, war losses, can be replenished from the captives at any time, a steady stream of supplies, will arrive from the water, the road two places, now fighting in a foreign land, the culture is not comprehensible, the language is not understood, the captured enemy is about equal to zero, the soldiers of the Qingfeng army, the loss of one is one less, the shell is one, there is one less.

At present, facing the scattered forces of the enemy, after a long time, sooner or later, the princes of Fusang will organize a powerful coalition army to fight a decisive battle with the Qingfeng coalition army.

Hao Ren decided to build a city on the west coast of the Hizen Domain and establish a permanent base.

The Hizen Domain, which was an important distribution center for pirates, withered and weakened, and the people were strong, and later Fuso was unified, and the local pirates were forced by the pressure of the central government, so they went overseas, causing the death of China.

The Keiho army established a permanent base here, and to the north, it could attack the coastal castles west of Fuso's Honshu Island, or it could cross the strait between Honshu Island and Kyushu Island and attack Shikoku Island and the Gyeonggi Prefecture of Fuso. To the south, you can attack the southern part of Kyushu Island.

To the northwest, you can attack the Goryeo Peninsula (Goryeo is a country of nephews loyal to the Mongol Yuan, and the royal family intermarried with the Mongol and Yuan royal families in the Middle Earth), and to the west, you can threaten the coasts of the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea of the Mongol Yuan. To the southwest, you can face each other across the sea from your own big rear on the southeast coast of China.

It is a long-term plan to build a city on the Hizen Peninsula that can be attacked and retreated.

Hao Ren chose a fishing village near the inland river and fresh water in the coastal location, and the fishing village was called Nagasaki Village, where Hao Ren dug a trench and built a city, and named it Nagasaki City.

The main enemies that Hao Ren faced were the daimyo and samurai of Fusang, as for the ordinary people, the samurai who were not like professional soldiers, belonged to the bottom of the society, so they didn't care who ruled them, as long as they didn't kill or rob, didn't burn their houses, and didn't dominate their women, they didn't bother to resist.

"The Fuso prefect I appointed, if there is not even a decent government, do you want to live in the village?" Hao Ren asked rhetorically.

"Huh?" Yao Guangxiao is currently the most trusted member of the army by Hao Ren's side, and Hao Renbing did not discuss the appointment of the prefect, he asked in confusion: "When did the lord give the order?" Why doesn't the little monk know? ”

"Senior brother is the person I trust the most, I am going to leave you to guard Nagasaki City and help me pass through the land of Fusang, I don't know what my junior brother thinks?" Hao Ren said.

"Senior brother, are you going to return and leave me in this wild place?" Yao Guangxiao said with grievances.

"The Wild Lands?" Hao Ren groaned: "At this time, you see that he is a wild land, aren't we building?" The strategic significance of this Nagasaki Castle must have been known by my junior brother, and you must defend it for me. In the future, the Shen family's fleet will go east to Fusang, and all of them will use it as a port of call, I am afraid that it will not be long before this is the Yangzhou of Fusang! ”

"Even if there is a city, how many soldiers and horses can the lord leave behind? If the Fuso people mobilized the strength of the whole country to attack, how could Nagasaki Castle be protected? Yao Guangxiao felt that Hao Ren no longer trusted him, and wanted to send him to a wild land, he complained.

"Senior brother!" Hao Ren patted Yao Guangxiao on the shoulder, and said earnestly: "I have no father or mother since I was a child, Master Zhou Dian is like my biological father, and you, just like my own brother, such a glorious and arduous task, only flesh and blood relatives can be worthy of this task!" ”

Hao Ren paused for a moment and continued: "Fusang and my Han family do not understand the language, the terrain is narrow and intricate, in a short period of time, it is difficult to completely conquer, rather than rushing to reach, it is better to retreat as advance." I want to use strong force to defeat the northern and southern courts of Fusang, and admit my possession of Hizen, as long as time passes, our civilization and science and technology will definitely be able to conquer the land here and domesticate this place into the hometown of the Han family! ”

Yao Guangxiao is not greedy for money, not lustful, and wants to do something earth-shattering, hearing that Hao Ren has such a plan for his career, he can't help but feel a strong passion in his heart.

"I just don't know how to domesticate the people here?"

"We have the technology to purify crude salt, we can extract salt here, sell the salt to the whole of Fuso, and if this is feasible, we can control Fuso economically!"

"Yao joined the army and was also a Confucian scholar, if the school-age children in Fusang were given free Chinese education, in less than ten years, I am afraid that half of the people in Fusang would already speak Chinese!"

"If we give enough benefits to the samurai, and take in the samurai of Fuso for our use, and go for us to attack the land that we refuse to surrender, and destroy it, won't we have a steady stream of soldiers?"

When Yao Guangxiao heard Hao Ren's three-point suggestion, he couldn't help but pause, and sighed with worry: "This matter is quite challenging, it is an opportunity for the little monk to make a name for himself, rest assured, I will definitely make the land of Fusang a little better!" However, how can we keep the samurai of Fuso from attacking us for three or two years? ”

"My lord, there is a Fusang envoy, who claims to be your old acquaintance, and has come to ask for a meeting!" Su Wei Chen Dayu reports.

Old acquaintances? Could it be that Zhang Shicheng's army was defeated? Sending someone in disguise to deliver a letter?

"Don't worry, the prefect will have a plan in less than a month!" Hao Ren said confidently: "Go and meet the envoys of the Fusang people!" ”

(To be continued.) )