On the morning of the second day after Li Yuntian arrived at Liujiagang, more than 100 ships parked at the port set off one after another and made a mighty attempt to kill Xiaoliuqiu Island.

Since the Ming Yang was Li Yuntian's ship and the flagship of the fleet, it was located in the center of the fleet and was closely protected by the ships of the sailors.

If you look closely, you will find that there is a huge flag hanging on the mast of the Ming Yang, and there is a striking word "handsome" on the flag.

It is worth mentioning that just when the sailor was running murderously towards Xiaoliuqiu Island, Xie Muen, the left deputy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, entered the Fengyang Mansion in the central capital with great fanfare with Li Yuntian's honor guard, and no one would have thought that the person sitting in Li Yuntian's car was one of his stand-ins.

Anyway, there were very few people on the ground in Nanzhili who had seen Li Yuntian, and even if they had seen Li Yuntian, they had only watched from a distance, so even if the stand-in stood in front of them, they wouldn't know, let alone doubt it.

After more than ten days of sailing, the fleet arrived at a distance of 50 nautical miles from Xiaoliuqiu Island, and then quietly stopped on the sea.

According to the plan made in advance, the sailors will raid the Chicken Coop Harbor in the early morning of the next day, and the Chicken Coop Harbor will be caught off guard, in order to avoid being discovered by the Japanese Invaders on the island, the sailors' ships can only stop on the sea and wait for the night to fall, and march towards the Chicken Coop Harbor under the cover of night.

On the foredeck of the Mingyang, Li Yuntian stood on the bow of the ship and stared at the skyline in the distance, knowing that the beautiful Xiaoliuqiu Island was behind the skyline.

Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Xiaoliuqiu Island has entered the annals of China, at that time it was called "Daoyi", it was called "Yingzhou" during the Qin Dynasty, it was called "Yizhou" during the Three Kingdoms period, and it was called "Ryukyu" from the Sui Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty.

For example, the northern part of Xiaoliuqiu Island is called "chicken coop", the western coast of Xiaoliuqiu Island is called "Beigang", and the southern part of Xiaoliuqiu Island is called "Dayuan".

In Li Yuntian's view, the geographical location of Xiaoliuqiu Island is very important, it is bordered by the Pacific Ocean in the east, the Greater Ryukyu Islands in the northeast, the Bass Strait in the south and Luzon Island separated by more than 600 miles, and the Yizhou Strait in the west and Fujian in the west.

Although Xiaoliuqiu Island is mountainous, mountains and hills account for more than two-thirds of the island's area, and other natural resources are limited except for abundant water, forest and fishery resources.

However, Li Yuntian felt that this was not too much of a problem, because Xiaoliuqiu Island had a warm climate and abundant rainfall, so it was rich in rice, with two to three crops a year, good rice quality, high yield, suitable for growing crops, fruits and flowers, so it was enough to feed the people living on the island.

The reason why Xiaoliuqiu Island has become a paradise for Japanese pirates has an inseparable relationship with Ming Taizu.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the coastal plague was rampant, and Ming Taizu issued a ban on the sea in an attempt to put an end to the plague, but this measure backfired, making the coastal people lose the main way to make a living, and then forced many people to join the team of the widows because of their livelihood.

Although the combat effectiveness of the coastal guard army of the Ming Dynasty was relatively strong at that time, because the Japanese robbed and ran, and when the guard army arrived, the Japanese had already taken a boat, so they could only sigh with hope.

In view of the fact that the Japanese have a very flexible mobility, so Ming Taizu began to arrange coastal defense forces, and set up more than 50 guards along the coast from Liaodong to Guangdong, each guard post is equipped with 50 warships, 50 soldiers per ship, and a total strength of more than 200,000 troops, which are specially used to deal with the Japanese invaders.

In this way, there is a solid coastal defense line along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, and many of the soldiers of those coastal defense posts are veterans who followed the Ming Taizu to fight the country, with strong combat effectiveness and strong mobility, so when the Japanese invaders plundered the coast as usual, they suffered heavy losses, and the good news of the Ming coastal defense posts to annihilate the Japanese invaders was frequently reported.

On the surface, it seems that Ming Taizu's coastal defense line has successfully prevented the Japanese from doing evil, but the initiative on the battlefield is always in the hands of the attacking side, and any passive defense will always reveal flaws.

Ming Taizu's coastal defense line was built along the coastline, but Xiaoliuqiu Island was an isolated island outside the Ming Dynasty, and the rule of Xiaoliuqiu Island in the Ming court was weak, and only a Penghu Inspection Division was set up in the Penghu Islands to manage the affairs of Xiaoliuqiu Island.

Therefore, the Japanese changed their previous strategy, using Xiaoliuqiu Island as a springboard to invade the Ming Dynasty, first staying on Xiaoliuqiu Island and waiting for the opportunity, and once they found that the Ming army of the coastal guard was lax, they plundered the coastal area with lightning speed.

Because Xiaoliuqiu Island has a sufficient food supply, it can be allowed to live in the Japanese for a long time, and the limited strength of the Penghu Inspection Department is beyond the reach of the Japanese who are entrenched on the island, so Xiaoliuqiu Island has gradually become the base camp of the Japanese invaders.

According to the report of Tang He, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang at that time, every time the Japanese invaded Fujian and Guangdong, they would inevitably go to Xiaoliuqiu Island to replenish fresh water and grain.

Originally, Ming Taizu did not want to evacuate all the residents of Xiaoliuqiu Island to the coastal areas, but in July of the 19th year of Hongwu, the Japanese invaders circled the coast of Fujian for more than a month based on Xiaoliuqiu Island, and successively plundered Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Xinghua and Xiamen, and finally returned with a full load.

Ming Taizu was furious about this, and scolded Tang He, the governor of Min and Zhejiang at that time: "The founding hero, why can't he be a slave!" Tang He was very helpless and bluntly said that it was all the fault of Xiaoliuqiu Island.

Considering that the coastal defense posts along the coast of the Ming Dynasty were no longer able to effectively deal with the Japanese invaders, Ming Taizu thought of an extreme way to move all the residents of Xiaoliuqiu Island inland, and the ministers of civil and military affairs agreed with this, even if there were objections, who would dare to oppose Ming Taizu?

At that time, Huang Zicheng, the new science and technology detective, thought that Xiaoliuqiu Island was mixed with Han and Yi living alone, and it was better to move the residents there to the mainland than to spend money and food to guard it, so that the Japanese would have no foundation for their lives.

Therefore, in the twentieth year of Hongwu, Ming Taizu issued an order to abolish the Penghu Inspection Department and ordered the residents of Xiaoliuqiu Island to move to the mainland as much as possible, not to leave a grain of grain for the Japanese Kou.

The Han Chinese residents of Xiaoliuqiu Island responded positively to Ming Taizu's policy, burned their houses, destroyed food, and then moved to the mainland, but the local indigenous people reacted coldly, after all, Xiaoliuqiu Island is their hometown.

In addition, Xiaoliuqiu Island is too big for the Penghu Inspection Division, and the area it rules is limited, so it is impossible to send Ming Taizu's will to move inland to every settlement on the island.

Therefore, despite the best efforts of the Penghu Inspection Division, there are still many residents on Xiaoliuqiu Island.

The official in charge of this matter would definitely not dare to report the matter to the imperial court, otherwise according to Ming Taizu's temper, he would definitely cut off his head in the name of "ineffective work".

Therefore, the imperial court received a report that all the inhabitants of Xiaoliuqiu Island had been relocated inland, and no one questioned this report, because it was impossible to verify it under the conditions of the time, and no one cared whether there were still people on the island.

On the surface, it seems that Ming Taizu's large-scale evacuation strategy cut off the back route of the Japanese on Xiaoliuqiu Island, but in fact, he gave Xiaoliuqiu Island as a great gift to the Japanese Kou.

Due to the evacuation of the Penghu Inspection Department and the officials on Xiaoliuqiu Island, there was a power vacuum on Xiaoliuqiu Island, and the Japanese could unscrupulously stationed on Xiaoliuqiu Island and even the Penghu Islands, using this as a base to attack and harass the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty, making the Japanese invasion even more rampant.

Not only the Japanese pirates, but also the pirates, fugitives and people forced by life along the coast of the Ming Dynasty also fled to Xiaoliuqiu Island to make a living, making Xiaoliuqiu Island completely a paradise for Japanese invaders.

"Xianggong, are you worried that those would-be robbers will escape from Chicken Coop Harbor?" Just as Li Yuntian was deep in thought, a crisp voice sounded in his ears, and Lei Ting and Liu Wenqing walked over side by side.

Liu Wenqing, like Lei Ting, is also a woman dressed as a man, wearing a major uniform, looking at Li Yuntian with a smile.

Liu Wenqing will definitely participate in the war to recover Xiaoliuqiu Island this time, she is not only the veteran who single-handedly formed the water division, but also Li Yuntian's spokesperson in the water division, when Li Yuntian was in the capital, Liu Wenqing was secretly in charge of the affairs of the water division.

Like the Xiaowu Army, all the military attaches of the Navy Division have the experience of training in the Lecture Martial Arts Hall, and many of them are personnel drawn from the Xiaowu Army, all of them are arrogant, no one can suppress them except Li Yuntian, Liu Wenqing has a special identity, not only reconciles the contradictions and entanglements within the Navy Division, but also acts in accordance with Li Yuntian's plan to ensure the steady development of the Water Division.

Therefore, for the first battle after the formation of the water division, Liu Wenqing naturally wants to participate, this opportunity is very precious, once you miss it, you will regret it for life.

"The terrain on Xiaoliuqiu Island is complicated, the mountains are busy, and the forests are dense, in case those Japanese robbers escape into the mountains, it will not be easy to clear them." Li Yuntian turned around and smiled at Lei Ting and Liu Wenqing, he didn't want his elite marines to go into the deep mountains and old forests to fight guerrillas with the Japanese invaders, wouldn't that be a cannon to fight flies.

Besides, the warm climate of Xiaoliuqiu Island was not something that the soldiers of the Navy Division could get used to, and he did not want to see a large-scale non-combat attrition of the Navy Division.

"Xianggong, do you already have a plan to deal with it?" Lei Ting knew Li Yuntian very well, and when she saw a smile on his face, she asked with interest.

"It's not a countermeasure, it's just a helpless move!" Li Yuntian waved his hand when he heard this, and said with a smile, "Instead of letting those Japanese robbers wander into the mountains, it is better to let them leave the island, which will save us a lot of trouble." ”

"Xianggong, aren't you going to annihilate those would-be robbers on the island?" Liu Wenqing's eyes flashed with a look of surprise, it was not Li Yuntian's style to let go of the enemy.

"Depending on the circumstances, it is more beneficial for us to let go of the pirates who escaped by chance than to leave them behind." Li Yuntian smiled and bowed slightly, then turned to look in the direction of Xiaoliuqiu Island, "What the Xianggong wants is Xiaoliuqiu Island, and those would-be robbers will have a chance to clean up in the future!" ”R1148