Chapter 619: Secret Fight
The entire fleet stayed in the Ryukyu Kingdom for five days, rested well, revitalized the dead Korean soldiers, and entered Shuri Castle to recuperate. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
King Shangning sent his ministers to take care of it diligently, provide melons, fruits, rice and grain to the army, and offered 30,000 taels of silver, which is the little money of King Shangning, and King Shangning has only one request, so what, can you garrison the army here without leaving.
He was really scared, his guards had been bribed by the Japanese people, and his every move was under the monitoring of the Japanese people, no wonder he was terrified.
Without the protection of the strong army of the Ming people, he is like a lamb to the slaughter, and it is a fool's dream to expect the Ryukyu soldiers to defend him.
Landlord Wei replied that he had to consult Lord Zhao Lie, and only Lord Zhao could decide, and said that Lord Zhao hated the Japanese and that if King Shangning wrote to the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Lord Zhao would definitely send troops to protect the Ryukyus.
King Shangning immediately returned to the palace and wrote a letter to the Ryukyu state, imploring the Emperor to send troops to protect Ryukyu from the invasion of the Japanese invaders, and handed it over to the Wei landlord to convey it.
Whatever the Wei landlord did was required by the Military Intelligence Department to do it, and this letter of state immediately became an excuse for the garrison of the Ryukyu army in the future, and also became the introduction to the annexation of Ryukyu in the future.
Hundreds of years later, whenever some so-called Ryukyu independence people attacked the Central Plains and annexed the Ryukyus, they would take out this letter and display it, which was the request of the Ryukyu king, and the Central Plains was not good not to handle it.
At this time, of course, there were no such problems, and when King Shangning and the people of Ryukyu were extremely welcoming to the Ming army, it was the honeymoon period between the two sides.
Five days later, the fleet drove directly to the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyushu.
The current lord of the Satsuma Domain is Shimazu Mitsuhisa, whose father, the previous lord of the domain, Shimazu Tsunetada, had just died while visiting the shogun in Edo, and he succeeded the Satsuma Domain, a powerful southern domain with a height of 770,000 koku, as the second son.
At this time, he was preparing to take back his father's coffin and bury it in the Kagoshima family cemetery.
Of course, at this time, the sealing of the Ming army made all this extremely difficult, but he Satsuma Domain was not in harmony with the Tokugawa shogunate, and even had a bloody battle, and the Ming army that hated the Tokugawa shogunate would not be difficult for him.
Just as he was about to send a sea ship to find the warships of the Ming army to negotiate with him, the sailors of the Shimazu family sent someone to report that dozens of warships of the Ming people had entered Kagoshima Bay, and were now heading towards Kagoshima Castle in the western part of Kagoshima Bay.
Shimazu Mitsuhisa was shocked when he heard the news, he didn't have a bad relationship with the Ming people, absolutely not, why did the huge sailors under Zhao Lie come to Kagoshima Castle with great momentum.
At noon on the second day, more than 40 large and small warships of the Broken Army came to the sea several miles east of Kagoshima Castle, and the scene was extremely terrifying that so many powerful warships were piled up on this small sea.
Standing on the town to observe the movements of the Ming army, Shimazu Mitsuhisa's face was solemn, and the retainers were also wordless watching the cloud-like sails on the sea, the gray-black huge hull side, the hideous black hole in the cannon window, which made people feel powerless.
Shimazu immediately sent his retainer Shinna Chungkiyo to meet with the commander of the Akito fleet, and he wanted to find out whether the Akito had come to see if he had come to meet with him.
As for the battle with the Ming people's fleet, as long as the Ming people didn't want to capture Kagoshima Castle and take his life, the lord of the Satsuma domain, then avoid the conflict, just kidding, the Japanese general Iemitsu broke his wrist with Zhao Lie's water infantry army, and the result was a disgraced face, and then a daimyo began to rebel.
Even he, Shimazu Mitsuhisa, also had a heart of disobedience, why is the Tokugawa family so embarrassed, isn't it just to provoke the evil god Zhao Lie.
In ten years, the fleet was wiped out, the town of Edo was besieged, and the standing reserve lost more than 20,000 yuan, which is a big loss, this is also the great general, and his Shimazu family is even more weak, and he must not clash with the Ming army.
Landlord Wei and Gao Shuicheng met with Shinna Zhongqing on the Black Tooth Changzhi,
"Since the Satsuma Domain's brazen invasion of the Ming Dynasty in the Ryukyus was regarded as a great disrespect to the Great Tomorrow, Lord Zhao Lie ordered the army to recover the Ryukyus and help the Ryukyu people to restore the country, and the fleet came to the Satsuma Domain to warn the Satsuma Domain governor that if the Ryukyus were attacked again, the army would soon capture Kagoshima Castle and punish the vassals."
After a brief greeting meeting, Landlord Wei counted the crimes of the Satsuma Domain and warned the Satsuma Domain.
Shinna Chungkiyo was shocked, "I don't know how my Satsuma Domain is standing." ”
"Except for the hundreds of Zuqing who were captured, the others have been wiped out." Landlord Wei said proudly, of course he was qualified to be proud.
Where did Xinna Chungcheong still have the mind to hover here, he hurriedly proposed to take his leave and return to report to the feudal lord.
"When you go back to the Satsuma Domain, stop the attack on Shimabara immediately, otherwise our army will land here and repeat the scene in Edo."
Before leaving, Landlord Wei threatened.
Shimazu Mitsuhisa listened to Shinna Tadashi's report, and was speechless for a long time, he knew that Ryukyu was lost, and now Ryukyu is the money bag of the Satsuma domain, and the loss of Ryukyu is quite painful for Satsuma.
But what can he do, turn his face with Mingren, then wait for Mingren to slap his face, Tokugawa Iemitsu's face is swollen now.
In addition, the Akito intimidated him to withdraw the army that attacked Shimabara, which was also a rude interference in the Satsuma Domain, which made him lose face, but the strength was not good, and it was not enough to fight hard, and the Satsuma Domain had a hard regret in the history of the Toyotomi family, and the result was a tragic defeat, and the governor was forced to apologize to the shogunate and become a monk, and the Satsuma Domain almost perished.
Since then, successive lords of the Satsuma Domain have reprimanded them for never being tough in the face of trouble, and this is also true today.
"Send someone who knows about Shimazu Hisanobu to immediately withdraw his troops from Shimabara."
Shimazu Mitsuhisa said gloomily, he still has a longing for Ryukyu in his heart, he is still young, he hopes that Daming will be as chaotic as before, and there will be no time to look east, and then the Shimazu family, which is very close to Ryukyu, will have a chance.
It's just that he didn't expect that this would be hundreds of years, and he didn't wait until that day when the Satsuma Domain was destroyed.
Zhao Lie's life is getting busier and busier, he has successively inspected the shipyards, iron works, and military camps, urging the shipyards to repair merchant ships, and visiting the iron factories to transport the arrears of wrought iron output to Jeju as soon as possible, and there are still 2,000 guns to make up for the staff.
Zhao Lie felt more and more that it was a bit of a delay for the artisan battalion to continue to be set up in Jeju, and the artisan battalion in Jeju could be retained to supply Jeju and Beihua, but in Shidao to rebuild the artisan battalion, the fierce battle in the Central Plains was in full swing in the future, and the need for armor must be greatly increased.
As for the issue of pre-considered supervision by the imperial court, it is now irrelevant, the Denglai army has become a faction of its own, and the imperial court is helpless.
Of course, all this is to wait until after this battle, if everything goes well, Jiannu thinks that the imperial court and the Denglai army have completely turned their faces, and Zhao Lie thinks that the Qing army will soon enter the customs.
A fierce tiger looked at the helpless cattle and sheep that were close at hand, and finally couldn't bear it, he didn't enter the customs for three years, Zhao Lie already thought that Huang Taiji was in control, but Jiannu's bandit system decided that Huang Taiji couldn't stop it for long.
On this day, Zhao Lie and his escort came to the barracks to watch the drills of the Jinghai battalion, and now the Jinghai battalion can charge in a tight formation after a year of hard training.
Zhao Lie praised Liu Fugui, after all, this war battalion from the reserve army was established late, except for some generals who were transferred from the old war barracks, the others are the children of local military families, and Liu Fugui and others must have done their best to have the effect they have today.
On the way back to Zhao's house, Du Li was already waiting on the side of the road, and seeing Du Li's solemn face, Zhao Lie's heart moved.
"Liaodong." Without waiting for Du Li to speak, Zhao Lie asked.
"The heron came to report that more than 70,000 Jiannu troops had been mobilized, and the target was Gyeonggi." Du Li approached and whispered.
During this period of time, Zhao Lie's constant busyness in the military and political places is just for this day.
When he heard the exact news, Zhao Lie was relaxed at this time, and he had been back to Ming for more than ten years, and finally waited for this day, which could be regarded as a relief.
After this battle, the fate of his Zhao Lie will be decided, and the fate of Ming Guo and Jiannu will also have a result.
Zhao Lie silently turned back to the official office, and he successively issued assembly and confinement orders to the Seokdao and Jeju Shuibu Army, and from this moment on, all soldiers were not allowed to take vacations or leave the barracks for half a step, and they were ordered to go out at any time.
Zhao Lie's military order made the whole Shidao strange, and he didn't see a single soldier enter the market for a few days, which was absolutely unimaginable in the past.
As a military town, the people and merchants knew that the Broken Army might start a big war again.
Zhou Yuan was actively preparing for the situation of the broken army at this time, and the big war was approaching, if he couldn't find out the specific situation of the broken army, he might face severe punishment later, and now his boss was Ji'er Harang, Prince Zheng, a prince would not be as humane as Li Yongfang.
Prince Zheng looks at these expatriates as a standard, useful and useless, if they are classified as useless, Zhou Yuan can imagine how miserable the ending will be for him.
And Jin Yiwei also felt that the taste was wrong, they would never think about Jiannu, what they thought of was whether the imperial court's strategy against the Zhao family had been fully known by Zhao Lie, and the Zhao family was therefore on guard.
The people on both sides were busy, constantly probing the military situation of the captive army, and the undercurrent of Shidao continued.
On this night, the closed Zhou Ji gold shop was like a bean in the front room, the gray light only illuminated a corner of the room, the other boundaries were gray, the gold shop looked extremely gray, Zhou Yuan and the second noble servant were muttering in a low voice.
"Master, the news from Hu Zi is that this is Zhao Liebu's department knowing that the Ming Dynasty is going to suppress the rebellion in the Central Plains and then returning to attack Denglai, because the Ming army is progressing smoothly in Shaanxi and Henan, and the rebellion has been defeated one after another, so the Ming court estimates that there will be three months to suppress the rebellion."
Ergui said in a low voice,
"Zhao Liebu estimated that the imperial court would mobilize no less than 200,000 troops to attack Denglai in half a year, including the border armies of Shanxi, Xuanda, and Liaozhen, as well as the Central Plains rebel army, and maybe the Beijing camp would also send troops, so Zhao Lie decided to immediately gather troops for training."
"Is this news reliable?" Zhou Yuan squinted, as if the dimness of the little oil lamp was still too bright, which made him extremely uncomfortable.
"Don't worry, sir, that Vice President Yu was drunk again today, accidentally told the people around him, and scolded the court in the private room, Luo Huzi heard it outside the door, there will be no mistake."
Ergui bowed his head and said.
"Well, this Yu Vice Qian's speech is a little accurate," Well, no, Zhou Yuan was terrified for a while, and he stood up excitedly,
"The whole army of the Broken Army is under martial law, how did he get out."
Zhou Yuan's voice trembled a little, and he thought of the worst possibility, could it be that the notorious Military Intelligence Department and the Internal Security Department in Shidao had discovered them, and the news that was deliberately revealed here was to put a long line to catch a big fish.
Ergui was taken aback, he looked at Zhou Yuan in surprise, "Master, you forgot, this Deputy Qian has been in charge of procurement for almost a year, and the military camp is under martial law, but so many soldiers must have something to eat." ”
Zhou Yuan patted his head, hey, I forgot to forget, this Vice President Yu has indeed been buying for a long time, and he was guided by his own thoughts and thought about it.
Zhou Yuan sat down, he was covered in a cold sweat at this time, it was really a cup bow and snake shadow, and he couldn't live this special day.
"Send the news as soon as possible, I can be regarded as worthy of the Jurchen master."
Zhou Yuan said sarcastically, he was helpless and sad in his heart, he wanted to get rid of it, but he couldn't let go of the children at home, it was really a dilemma.
Ergui agreed, he was saved by Zhou Yuan, Zhou Yuan asked him to do whatever he wanted, it was always right to be loyal, as for the Han or the Jurchens, he never thought much, that was something that the master should consider, isn't it.
After a meal, Ergui walked to the forest again in fear, he didn't find anyone who was tracking him, and went to the tree agreed in the forest to put the wax pills, and Ergui spared a big circle and returned to Zhouji.
What Ergui didn't know was that the people watching in the dense forest had already seen his every move.
Zhou Yuan waited restlessly for Ergui to return, and when Ergui finally returned to Zhouji, Zhou Yuan got up with a stick of incense, and he was really grateful to the gods for protecting him and allowing him to escape again. (To be continued.) )