Li Yuntian did not stay in Lei Mansion for a long time, and left quietly through the back door in the early morning, and he had to go to Huai'anwei to inspect the military camp the next day, so he could not stay with Li Anyuan.

Lei Ting didn't go with Li Yuntian, the so-called mother-son connection Li Yuntian knew that Lei Ting had been thinking about Li Anyuan in her heart, so he asked her to accompany Li Anyuan in Lei Mansion for a few more days, and when the plan to clear out the Japanese invaders began, I am afraid that Lei Ting will not be able to see Li Anyuan again for a long time.

According to Li Yuntian's plan, the Daming Navy Division will divide into two routes in mid-July to launch an attack on the Japanese invaders entrenched in Xiaoliuqiu Road and Qiongzhou Island at the same time, striving to recover the two largest overseas islands of the Ming Dynasty that had been occupied by the Japanese in the period of Emperor Hongwu in one fell swoop.

General Li Yuntian commanded the attack on the Xiaoliuqiu Waiko, the Japanese on Xiaoliuqiu Island had the most serious infestation on the Ming coast, and the number of the Waiko was also the largest, and it was necessary to go through a hard battle to take Xiaoliuqiu Island.

However, the capture of Xiaoliuqiu Island and Qiongzhou Island was only the first step in Li Yuntian's plan to balance the Japanese people, and then he had to emigrate to Xiaoliuqiu Island and Qiongzhou Island in large numbers, consolidating the defense of the two large islands and preventing the Japanese from recovering and occupying them again.

As long as the small Liuqiu Island and Qiongzhou Island are controlled, then the Japanese will lose the two springboards for attacking the Daming coast, and they will also start from the Ryukyu Island in the near future, so that the activity area will be greatly affected, and it will be easier to be dealt with by the Daming sailors.

The task of attacking Qiongzhou Island was handed over to Qin Kun, the deputy commander of the naval division and the marquis of Pingwu, Qin Kun was made a marquis by the imperial court because of his military exploits in the war with the Northern Yuan, and Li Yuntian transferred him to serve as the deputy commander of the naval division, responsible for the daily affairs of the naval division.

In fact, Qin Kun came into contact with the formation of the naval division very early, and received further training in naval warfare in the lecture hall, he can be said to be very lucky, he should have gone to the naval division before Emperor Xuande's northern expedition, but because of Emperor Xuande's northern expedition, Li Yuntian left him to protect Emperor Xuande, and then entered the marquis with military merits.

The current station of the Daming Navy Division is in Liujiagang in Taicang, Suzhou Prefecture, where sixty percent of the ships of the Navy Division are stationed, and forty percent of the ships are in the multi-harbor of Jiaozhi.

Historically, Zheng He chose Taicang Liujiagang as the anchorage for his seven voyages to the West, and the reason for this is because Liujiagang has five unique conditions:

First, Liujiagang is a rare port in the south of the Ming Dynasty, known as "the throat of the ocean, the gateway of the rivers and lakes", and before the Ming Dynasty, it had the title of "Six Nations Wharf" and "the first wharf in the world";

Second, the area where Liujiagang is located is a rich land in the south of the Yangtze River, with convenient water and land transportation and rich resources, and is a typical land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River;

Third, Liujiagang can easily summon the experienced crew members of those ships on the southeast coast;

Fourth, Liujiagang merchants gathered, commodities were sufficient, and the fleet was easily replenished;

Fifth, Liujiagang was very close to Nanjing City, the capital division of the Ming Dynasty at that time, and Taicang was the closest coastal port to Nanjing City, which was convenient for the imperial court to control the fleet.

Although Liujiagang is now home to the ships of the Daming Naval Division, the base of the three fleets under the jurisdiction of the Daming Naval Division is not in Liujiagang, and Liujiagang will only be a sub-port of the Sea Eagle Fleet in the future.

However, Liujiagang currently serves as the headquarters base of the Daming Naval Division, and the headquarters of the Daming Naval Division Yamen is located in Liujiagang.

The three major fleets of the naval division are the Sea Dragon Fleet, and the fleet base is located in Jiaoao Port, Shandong; Sea Eagle fleet, the fleet base is located in Ningbo Port, Zhejiang; The Seawolf Fleet, the fleet base is located in the harbor of Cochindo.

Because the construction of the military port requires a lot of financial and material resources, so according to Li Yuntian's plan, the first Daming naval division to build the Jiaozhi multi-seaport, so as to ensure the smooth sea trade routes between the Ming Dynasty and the South Seas.

Many seaports had been built in the ninth year of Emperor Xuande, and the ships of the Sea Wolf Fleet had entered the harbor and were regularly cruising the sea.

Beginning in the 10th year of Xuande, the Daming Navy Division will concentrate on building the ports of Jiaoao and Ningbo at the same time, and strive to complete the formation of the Sea Dragon Fleet and the Sea Eagle Fleet within three years, so as to ensure the maritime security of the Beijing Division and form a deterrent to Korea and Japan.

In late June, just when the outside world thought that Li Yuntian was still patrolling Huai'an Province, the Ming Yang, escorted by several three-masted warships, sailed away from the dock of the Longjiang Shipyard.

In the cabin of the Mingyang, a young military attache wearing the rank of colonel introduced to Li Yuntian the configuration of the ships and personnel of the naval division that was going south to attack Xiaoliuqiu Island, and Li Yuntian nodded his head incessantly when he heard this.

This burly military attache is named Wu Ziyan, who was originally a hundred households of Zhenhaiwei, who once followed Zhenhaiwei's command to make Luo Hai escort Li Yuntian to Jiaozhi to quell the rebellion, because he was shrewd and capable, so he was reused by Li Yuntian, and is now a senior operational staff officer of the headquarters of the Daming Water Division.

In order to capture Xiaoliuqiu Island in one fell swoop, Liujiagang's Daming Naval Division will send a huge fleet of nearly 100 ships, including 20 three-masted warships, 15 Zheng He's treasure ships, and more than 60 other large and medium-sized ships.

Li Yuntian made a clear division of labor among the naval divisions, with the personnel on the three-masted warships specialized in naval operations, and the landing operations were handed over to the marines of the naval division who took transport ships.

The reason for this was to improve the efficiency of engaging the enemy, and secondly, to avoid unnecessary combat attrition of the personnel on the three-masted warship, knowing that it would take at least one year to train a qualified three-masted warship combatant, and Li Yuntian did not want them to die in a land battle with the enemy.

Because there are more than 10,000 Japanese pirates on Xiaoliuqiu Island, there are at least 100,000 people in addition to their families and other residents.

Therefore, Li Yuntian mobilized a total of 30,000 marines to recover Xiaoliuqiu Island this time, and concentrated the main combat forces of the Sea Dragon Fleet and the Sea Eagle Fleet.

Although the bases of the Sea Dragon Fleet and the Sea Eagle Fleet have not been built, the military households belonging to the two fleets have been allocated in place, and the marines of the two fleets have already gathered and started their normal daily training.

This time, in the name of intensive training, the sailors of the Sea Dragon Fleet and the Sea Eagle Fleet were gathered to prepare to strike a thunderous blow to the Japanese Invaders on Xiaoliuqiu Island.

In Li Yuntian's view, in the face of such a large and well-trained naval combat force of the Daming Naval Division, the Japanese of Xiaoliuqiu Island had no way to compete with it, so it was not difficult to attack Xiaoliuqiu Island.

However, after landing on the island, how to get rid of those people hiding in the deep mountains and old forests on the island is a headache, and this matter cannot be rushed, so the only way to do this is to work steadily and steadily, step by step, and gradually clean up those who are hiding.

"Lord, according to the humble position, if the progress of Qiē goes smoothly, our army can take the largest port on Xiaoliuqiu Island, Jilong Port, within one day, and then we can use Jilong Port as a springboard to gradually eliminate the Japanese invaders entrenched in the north of Xiaoliuqiu Island, and at the same time, we can divide the fleet to attack other ports on Xiaoliuqiu Island and block the Japanese on Xiaoliuqiu Island."

After briefing Li Yuntian on the situation, Wu Ziyan bowed down and confidently said to Li Yuntian that this operational plan was formulated by the operational staff officer of the Navy Division Headquarters in accordance with Li Yuntian's requirements, and it has been deduced and demonstrated several times, and it is the best combat plan.

"It's easy to take down Xiaoliuqiu Island, but it's not easy to manage him well." Li Yuntian nodded when he heard this, and then put down the water glass in his hand with a slight frown.

Because Xiaoliuqiu Island is isolated overseas and the local residents are wild and uncivilized, it is not easy for the Ming Dynasty to rule, otherwise Ming Taizu would not have ordered the residents of the island to move back inland.

"Lord Wang, as far as I know, although the environment of Xiaoliuqiu Island is harsh, it is extremely rich, if Xiaoliuqiu Island can be governed by the prince like Jiaozhi, the prince will definitely be able to manage it firmly and unbreakable." Wu Ziyan bowed again and said in a deep voice.

As the senior operational staff officer of the Daming Navy Division, Wu Ziyan knew that Li Yuntian had drawn up a detailed resettlement plan to Xiaoliuqiu Island and Qiongzhou Island, and that under Li Yuntian's governance, these two overseas islands would definitely become two natural barriers on the Daming Sea.

Li Yuntian's brows gradually relaxed when he heard this, and a smile appeared on his face, his immigration plan will create a precedent for the scale of immigration after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and once successful, Xiaoliuqiu Island and Qiongzhou Island will be stable.

The ships in the river dodge to both sides after seeing the three-masted warships, because there are many three-masted warships made by the Longjiang Shipyard docked on the wharf of Liujiagang, so people who often run boats know that this strange-looking ship is the warship of the sailor, and often goes out to sea to cruise.

For the sake of secrecy, when the Ming Yang arrived at Liujiagang, there was no ceremony on the wharf to welcome Li Yuntian's arrival, and Li Yuntian, who was wearing an ordinary military attache uniform, got on board and went straight to the station of the sailor's yamen.

"See the prince!" The naval attachés who participated in the recovery of Xiaoliuqiu Island had already gathered in a conference room, talking to each other in a whisper, and after Li Yuntian entered the door, everyone got up and bowed.

"This is the first battle since the establishment of our sailors, and we must win the battle and play the prestige of my Daming sailor." Li Yuntian sat down in the seat in the center of the front and pressed his hand downward to signal everyone to sit down, and then looked at the military attache at the scene quietly and said, "Do you have confidence?" ”

"Yes!" Hearing this, the military attachés straightened their chests and replied loudly.

"General Luo, announce the combat mission of each department this time." Li Yuntian saw that the crowd was angry, so he nodded with satisfaction and said in a deep voice to Luo Hai, who was sitting on the side.

Luo Hai's original Zhenhai Guard Commander, since he escorted Li Yuntian to Jiaozhi to quell the rebellion, he was left by Li Yuntian to take care of the affairs of those ships escorting overseas trade fleets, and can be described as a veteran of the Naval Division, and now serves as the chief officer of the Staff Department of the Naval Division's headquarters, and is deeply trusted by Li Yuntian.

After Li Yuntian's words, Luo Hai stood up, walked to a large map of small Ryukyu Island hanging on the wall on the side, pointed to the chicken coop port of small Ryukyu Island with a slender stick in his hand, and began to assign tasks to the various troops participating in the war.

According to the combat plan drawn up by the General Staff, when the three-masted warships in the naval division destroyed the water resistance of the Japanese invaders, the marines of the Sea Dragon Fleet and the Sea Eagle Fleet divided their troops into two routes and carried out a beach-rushing landing under the cover of the artillery fire of the three-masted warships, and surrounded the Jilong Harbor as quickly as possible, so as to encircle and annihilate the Japanese in the Jilong Harbor as much as possible, so as to prevent them from flowing into the deep mountains and old forests of the island. R1148