Chapter 886: Good Intentions
When night falls, the sea is sparkling and silent, and the waves crash against the hull of the ship.
The atmosphere of the naval fleet was a little dull and depressing, in order to meet the next day's upcoming battle, the soldiers on each ship were carefully wiping their weapons, and only weapons were their most reliable partners on the battlefield, which could be used to save lives at critical moments.
The fierce name of the Japanese has spread all over the Ming Dynasty, it can be said that the people talk about the tiger color change, in the folk has long been synonymous with fierce gods and evil, especially last year, dozens of Japanese robbers actually made Zhejiang and the south of the hundreds of thousands of troops helpless, not only makes people feel incredible, but also shows from the side the bravery of the Japanese and the Ming Jiangnan guard army combat effectiveness unbearable.
Since the formation of the Naval Division, the Naval Division has never fought against the Japanese Invaders, so the soldiers of the Naval Division, especially the marines who are about to land and fight against the Japanese Invaders, feel a little apprehensive in their hearts, and do not know whether they will survive the battle tomorrow.
To tell the truth, there are very few people in the world who are not afraid of death, and ants are still stealing life, let alone human beings, but these soldiers of the sailor are not afraid of death.
First, their war with the Japanese is a good thing to serve the country, and it is also the glory of the sailors, and secondly, the sailors have a complete pension system like the Xiaowu army, even if they die in battle, they don't have to worry about the lives of their families.
Or this is the two biggest differences between the army under the jurisdiction of the martial arts and the army of the Great Ming Guard, fighting for the glory of the soldiers, coupled with no worries, will inevitably inspire the confidence and courage of the soldiers to fight bravely on the battlefield.
Li Yuntian is now the dignified county king of Daming, so naturally he will no longer lead the army and the main force of the rebels in Heiniu Town as he did when he quelled the rebellion of the Han King, but he was not idle to go to the gun compartment of the Ming Yang to wipe the body of the Franc machine gun with the gunners on the ship, and the Ming Yang will definitely participate in the battle tomorrow.
Li Yuntian chatted with the gunners while he was busy, and because the gunners were not used for short-handed encounters, the atmosphere was not as dull as those soldiers of the Marine Corps, and they were full of expectations for tomorrow's battle.
For the gunners on the three-masted warship, tomorrow the ships of the Japanese and the buildings of the harbor will be their targets, and what they have to do is very simple, destroy the ships of the Japanese in Jilong Harbor in one fell swoop and then provide artillery support to the soldiers of the Marine Corps, knowing that the Japanese on the shore will enable the marines to land along the way.
The gunners knew very well that if they could eliminate one more pirate, then those Marines would have one less dead brother.
While Li Yuntian was talking and laughing with those gunners, the fleet that was parked on the sea slowly started and headed towards Xiaoliuqiu Island in the night.
Since the gunners were going to fight the next day, Li Yuntian didn't stay in the gun room for long, and after wiping the gun, he got up and went to the deck, usually he would find a way to calm his mind before the big battle, and blowing the sea breeze on the deck was a good choice.
When he arrived on the deck, Li Yuntian found that he was not the only one who had come to blow the sea breeze, a military attache with the rank of lieutenant and a graceful posture in the moonlight was standing motionless on the bow of the ship and staring ahead.
"Is there anyone you care about on Xiaoliuqiu Island?" Seeing this, Li Yuntian smiled slightly, got up and walked over to stand beside the lieutenant military attachΓ©, looked at the sea in front of him and asked.
"Lord Wang!" Keiko Yamaguchi, who was in a daze, suddenly came back to her senses when she heard this, and hurriedly bowed down to Li Yuntian, and then looked at Li Yuntian with some surprise, "How did the prince see it?" β
"The closer you get to Xiaoliuqiu, the more uneasy you become, and there is a faint look of worry between your eyebrows, thinking that you were found on the coast of Zhejiang, so this king thinks that the person who took you there should live on Xiaoliuqiu Island."
Li Yuntian looked at the vast sea and said quietly, "If this king is not mistaken, the reason why that person wants to take you to the coast of Zhejiang to plunder is that he is not worried about leaving you alone on Xiaoliuqiu Island, but unfortunately something went wrong in the middle, so you have to separate." β
"The prince is really powerful, he can see through my heart." Keiko Yamaguchi's eyes flashed with a look of surprise when she heard this, and then she smiled bitterly and looked at the sea in front of her, "After so many years, I don't know how they are doing, whether they are still alive." β
"I'm definitely alive, and I'm trying to find you." Li Yuntian smiled and said, "When we capture Jilong Harbor tomorrow, this king will send you a few ships to find the people you want to meet." β
"Thank you, Lord Wang!" Keiko Yamaguchi was stunned for a moment when she heard this, she was very curious about how Li Yuntian knew that the person she was looking for was not in Jicoo Harbor, but then she was relieved and bowed to Li Yuntian again.
Since Li Yuntian had just said that the other party was not at ease and left Keiko Yamaguchi on Xiaoliuqiu Island, then naturally he would not choose to live in a place like Jilong Harbor, where dragons and snakes were mixed, and would definitely choose a quiet place to hide.
"I think you know that according to the king's plan, there will be a war between the Ming Dynasty and Japan, and the truth that the side of the couch will not allow others to snore does not need to be explained to you." Li Yuntian smiled slightly, and then his face became stern and his tone became stern, and he said to Keiko Yamaguchi in a deep voice.
"Lord, Japan and the Ming Dynasty are far away from the sea, when Meng Yuan wanted to cross the sea twice to conquer Japan, he returned from the feathers, and it was not easy to include Japan in the territory of the Ming Dynasty." Keiko Yamaguchi's expression suddenly darkened when she heard this, and after hesitating for a moment, she bit her lip and said.
She stayed in the Zhongwu Palace, how could she not know Li Yuntian's plan, although Japan received the edict of Emperor Yongle and paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty to become a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, but never really surrendered, so Li Yuntian had to use force to conquer.
If it were someone else, Keiko Yamaguchi thought that the chance of success in the conquest was very small, after all, Japan was too far away from the Ming Dynasty, and the labor expedition would be very unfavorable to the Ming Dynasty, after all, the two failures of the Eastern Expedition of the Meng and Yuan Dynasty were the best examples, and even if the expeditionary force of the Ming Dynasty could have a foothold in Japan, it would not be easy to completely capture the entire territory of Japan.
However, Li Yuntian is different, not only does he have the backing of the naval division units equipped with powerful firearms, but what is particularly important is that his ability to govern the local area is extremely outstanding; if he adopts a strategy of taking action step by step and fighting steadily after the Japanese have a foothold, then he will encroach on the entire territory of Japan little by little.
Keiko Yamaguchi is Japanese after all, how could she be willing to see Da Ming and the Japanese sword soldiers meet, and they will definitely be ruined at that time, so she wants to persuade Li Yuntian to give up this idea.
"The reason why Meng Yuan was defeated was that he underestimated the enemy, if Kublai Khan was willing to calm down and make preparations, I am afraid that Japan would be hit hard even if it was not destroyed." Li Yuntian knew Keiko Yamaguchi's thoughts, and after pondering for a while, he said, "If this king prepares carefully, it will not be difficult to take Japan, but it will take some time. β
"How good it would be if there was no war." Keiko Yamaguchi knew that Li Yuntian had made up her mind, and couldn't help but look at the sea and said quietly, and there seemed to be endless loss in her words.
"If there is an entanglement of interests, there will be war, and this is something that no one can avoid, and in this case, the only way to deal with it is to actively deal with it." Li Yuntian pondered for a while, and said helplessly, in fact, he doesn't like war, but he can't help but face the cruel reality in front of him, rather than being killed in the war, it is better to kill others.
Keiko Yamaguchi bit her lip when she heard the words and didn't answer, and then the scene fell into silence, Li Yuntian and Keiko Yamaguchi stood on the bow of the boat while thinking about their own thoughts while blowing the sea breeze.
"Go and rest, tomorrow is going to be a long day." I don't know how long it took, Li Yuntian turned his head and said to Keiko Yamaguchi, who was looking ahead.
"Lord Wang, retire from your humble position." Keiko Yamaguchi came back to her senses, bowed to Li Yuntian, and walked away, tomorrow is the most critical day for the Chicken Coop Harbor Wako, and she will definitely be extremely busy, so she needs to recuperate.
"Alas!" After Keiko Yamaguchi's lonely figure entered the cabin, Li Yuntian shook his head a little helplessly, and sighed softly, he hoped that Keiko Yamaguchi could understand his hard work, and he didn't want to meet Keiko Yamaguchi on the battlefield in Japan in the future.
In Li Yuntian's view, Keiko Yamaguchi is a smart girl, and she should know that Japan is powerless to stop the Ming Dynasty after careful preparations, after all, this world is the world of the strong, and any resistance to the Ming Dynasty Japan is futile, it is just a trapped beast, and it will be captured by the Ming Dynasty.
Moreover, Japan is now poor and backward, and if it is included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, its economy and society will achieve tremendous development, which is a good thing for the people of Japan.
For Keiko Yamaguchi, Li Yuntian has an indescribable pity in his heart, and when he first met Keiko Yamaguchi, Li Yuntian was full of pity for this taciturn girl.
Because from Keiko Yamaguchi's vigilant eyes, Li Yuntian found that this girl showed a maturity that did not match her age, and this maturity must have experienced the baptism of some kind of painful event to contribute to Keiko Yamaguchi's precocious mind.
Therefore, Li Yuntian brought Keiko Yamaguchi back to the capital, not only hoping that Keiko Yamaguchi could help him in the affairs of Japan in the future, but also hoping to gradually heal the scars on Keiko Yamaguchi's soul.
However, judging from the current situation of Keiko Yamaguchi, the fire of revenge is burning more and more in Keiko Yamaguchi's heart, and she will definitely return to Japan to take revenge, and the first step she has to do is to gather the old department on Xiaoliuqiu Island.
Therefore, the closer she is to Xiaoliuqiu Island, the more uneasy Keiko Yamaguchi becomes, she does not know if those old ministries are still alive now, and without the support and assistance of those old ministries her great cause of revenge, it will be more difficult.
In addition, after Li Yuntian's temptation, Keiko Yamaguchi was very hesitant about how she would choose after the war between the Ming and Japan in the future, and her mood was very conflicted: she did not want Japan and the Ming Dynasty to have a war with a huge disparity in strength, but at the same time, she could not sit back and watch Japan be annexed by the Ming Dynasty, after all, she had the blood of the Japanese nobles in her body and had her own pride and glory.
"The flowers are similar every year, but the people are different every year!" The sky was full of stars, Li Yuntian looked up at the brilliant stars in the sky, and couldn't help but whisper in his mouth, after tomorrow's battle, I don't know how many people will die on the battlefield, and they will never see this gorgeous and beautiful star again. R1148