Chapter 158: The North Wind Rises, When We Return
When the Japanese farmers in Koga Village harvested the yellow, orange, and orange millet from the fields and planted wheat, they finally became idle. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 However, when they have just experienced the harvest, they do not see joy on their faces, but more sadness. Most of the grain harvested after a year's hard work was collected by the lords, and there was not enough food left for them. As long as there is still a trace of greenery in the mountains, dig some wild vegetables and pick some mountain mushrooms, so that they can be mixed with grain to make wild vegetable paste, so as to cope with the coming winter.
The children of the village were shouted and yelled by the adults of the family, and they carried small baskets to the mountains and fields to pick wild vegetables, and they never had time to watch the training of the samurai adults. In fact, even if they wanted to see it, they could no longer see it, because the wandering samurai stationed in the village were empty.
When the fierce north wind finally swept down the Japanese islands, accompanied by the boundless falling leaves, the time for the Ming maritime merchants to set off finally arrived. They can take advantage of the northwest monsoon, sail south, and return to Daming with a full harvest.
In the castle of the Matsuura family, Ren Siqi and Matsuura Ayako were entangled in the death, under the endless impact of Ren Siqi, Matsuura Ayako was like a lonely boat in a hurricane, a duckweed in the rain, squirming on the white sheets, shouting, begging for mercy, and finally the whites of her eyes rolled over, and she collapsed on the bed, unable to move again.
"Si Qijun, you're going back to Daming, how can you live if you leave Ayako alone!" Ayako Matsuura, who had recovered her strength, snuggled into Ren Siqi's sturdy arms and sobbed quietly.
"Ayako, don't be sad, when the monsoon rises next year, I will come to Nagasaki again, and we will be together." Hugging the Yiren in his arms, Ren Siqi comforted in a low voice.
"Siqi-kun, you must not forget Ayako, I will wait for you here!" Ayako's tenderness like water made Ren Siqi reluctant, he was just with Ayako at first, but he didn't expect Ayako to be so infatuated, it seems good to marry a wife who is obedient to him, Ren Siqi said secretly.
Ren Siqi wanted to say that you should go back to Daming with me, but he held back, because he knew that Matsuura Dong would never let Ayako follow him back to Daming now. And her foundation is not stable, and she doesn't have time or time to take care of her, so it's better to let her stay in Nagasaki temporarily!
After relieving, Ayako took the initiative to come up and wrap herself around Ren Siqi like an octopus, because she knew that the days of getting together would not be too long.
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The fierce northwest wind whistled down, and the banner of "Qiyun Commercial Bank" on the tall mast was blown violently.
In the command cabin of the "Flying Fish", Ren Siqi, Mao Shiba, Sima Nan, Olier, Li Xingjiu and others gathered together, and Li Guozhu of Hirado Island was also among them. As a group of people were discussing the upcoming battle with the Dutch, as the head of the land and as the person most familiar with the sea conditions around Nagasaki, Li Guozhu was secretly invited to come over and give advice on the battle against the Dutch.
"With the strength of your Qiyun Trading House, although there are ten lucky ships, and there are plywood ships like the 'Flying Fish', they are still not enough to compete with the Dutch!" Li Guozhu said eloquently.
"Your Exocet has only six guns, and the other ships either have a furlong gun or none at all. The least number of Dutch ships had more than twenty guns. There is a huge difference in firepower, and it is difficult to win in naval battles! ”
"Isn't there a chance at all? If the Dutch were really so powerful, how could they be defeated by the Zheng family in Liuluo Bay back then? Sima Nan was not convinced. In the past few months, in order to fight against the Dutch, the Qiyun Trading House has spent money like flowing water, buying ships to recruit men, purchasing weapons, and paying the wandering warriors to settle in, which alone has cost more than 100,000 taels of silver. Now Li Guozhu said lightly that he couldn't beat him, which made Sima Nan very unconvinced.
"Brother Sima, don't be impatient, listen to Brother Li." Ren Siqi pacified Sima Nandao.
Li Guozhu shook his head, unimpressed by Sima Nan's reaction. He has been taking the Zheng family as his biggest enemy all these years, and he has inquired about the Zheng family's movements clearly, and of course he knows what is going on in the naval battle of Luowan.
"In the Battle of Liaoluo Bay, the reason why the Zheng family was able to win was ten times that of the Dutch ships, not to mention the key geographical advantage. In the narrow bay, the speed advantage of the Dutch ships could not be brought into full play, and the Dutch who were crowded by a large number of small boats, whether it was setting fire to them or jumping into gangs, the Dutch, who were small in number, could not bear the strength of the Dutch. Nowadays, it is impossible for the Japanese to let us move in the port of Nagasaki, which is an endless sea, and the advantages of many people and ships cannot be used on the open sea. Li Guozhu's words made everyone calm down and think carefully.
The people on the Qiyun are not novices, everyone has experienced several naval battles, so they naturally know what naval battles are all about. The big boat presses the small boat, the speed is faster than the slow speed, and the more boats are not necessarily the advantage, because if people can't beat you, you can run away at any time, if you are slow, you can't catch up at all.
"Brother Li means that if we want to win, we must find a place to fight?" Mao 18 asked, he had been sailing for many years and instantly understood what Li Guozhu meant.
"Exactly." Li Guozhu nodded approvingly to Mao Eighteen.
But if you can't start a war in Nagasaki Bay, where can you put the battlefield? A large, rudimentary map was placed on the table, a map of the Nagasaki area that Ren Siqi had obtained from Matsuura-dong.
Fingers swept over the sea outside Nagasaki, and Ren Siqi looked at the map carefully, studying the possible battlefields.
"This is the Five Islands Islands, the territory of the Zheng family, and the Zheng family will definitely not allow us to put the battlefield here." Ren Siqi pointed to the map and muttered to himself.
The others also gathered around, looking at the map carefully, and making their own ideas. But after talking for a long time, none of them are reliable.
Song Liben stood aside and didn't say a word, he didn't understand naval warfare at all, so he didn't come up with ideas. But he was not idle, a pair of triangular eyes observed everyone's expressions, and when he saw the smile on the corner of Li Guozhu's mouth standing on the side, his heart suddenly turned to Ren Siqi and secretly pulled Ren Siqi and secretly signaled to Ren Siqi.
After getting Song Liben's prompt, Ren Siqi suddenly realized that with Li Guozhu, the head snake of the land, here, why should he and others look for a place again, and ask him.
"Brother Li, please give me some pointers and the others, where to put the battlefield where to start the war with the Dutch?" Ren Siqi respectfully saluted Li Guozhu and asked for advice. (To be continued.) )