Chapter 70: The Prologue to the Raid on the Wa Kingdom

A scorching cold wind blows on the shore, and waves of the sea come from the sea, and finally break on the reef on the shore and turn into froth.

This is the Naga-mon waterway at the junction of Honshu Island and Chikushi Island in the southwestern part of the Wakoku Province, and the sea waves are much weakened in the narrow waterway, and many of the Wakoku fishing boats hide in the inland sea behind the waterway to make a living.

There is a castle a few miles away from the coast, but in fact, it is not even half of the new city of Jeju Island built by Wang Ze, at most less than a third.

However, although the sparrow is small, there are all kinds of organs, the city is nearly two zhang high, and there is a city 'gate' on the south and east and west sides, and the north does not build a city 'gate' because it relies on the mountains.

There are a few big flags on the city tower.,Crookedly written a few don't know what the meaning of the Wa country big characters.,At this time, Japan has not yet been large-scale sinicization.,Although the text also uses Chinese characters, but there are also other ancient characters in use.。

It was the fortress of Chang'emun, which was an important maritime pass in the western part of the country, and was responsible for defending against invasion by peninsular countries such as Baekje and Silla.

Originally, there were more than 1,000 defenders in the city, and there should have been a naval army to cooperate in blocking the Chang'mun waterway, but a few days ago, that naval army cooperated to attack Jeju Island, and the result was that it was gone forever.

Ever since he fled back to Nagamen Castle from Goto after the naval battle a few days ago, Soga Mako still can't recover from that deep fear.

At first, Soga Mako first fled to Tsukushi Island, but the tribes on Tsukushi Island have been separated from the Japanese court since the 'rebellion' of Jun Iwai thirty years ago.

In addition, the southern part of Chikushi Island is not yet the territory of the Wakoku, and there are still Kuma-himself tribes and Hayato tribes where they are resisting the southward expansion of the Wakoku.

After considering these dangerous factors, Su I Mazi hurriedly fled with the remnants to the long 'gate' across the water from Chikushi Island, which was already a strategic place for the Japanese kingdom.

Although Su I Mazi's two sisters, Su Ijian Yanyuan and Su I's little sister, were both married to the current King of Qinming as concubines, Su My Mazi did not dare to flee elsewhere.

Because during this period, the Wa Kingdom was in the late stage of the Kofun period in history, and it was the King of Qinming who was in power, and the Soga clan and the Monobe clan were the two poles in the current Wa regime, and the struggle between them was fierce, and the Soga Mazi was also afraid of being caught by the Monobe clan and attacked by the handle of the Soga clan.

This time, the large-scale attack on Jeju Island by the Japanese army was carried out by Soga Iname, mainly because he wanted to take advantage of the opportunity for Silla and Baekje to fight to the death and seize Jeju Island.

He then 'forced' Baekje to turn against him, and then united with Baekje to counterattack his ally Silla in order to restore his original sphere of influence in Renna's area.

The relationship between the three kingdoms of Wa and Baekje Silla was complicated, and from time to time they would 'exchange' allies to attack each other, and the Wa would sometimes form alliances with Baekje to attack Silla, and sometimes they would form alliances with Silla against Baekje.

Originally, in the past few years in history, while Silla defeated Baekje one after another, it began to attack Rena Province in the southern part of the peninsula, leading to an alliance between Baekje and the Wa Kingdom against the Japanese Kingdom.

This time, because of Wang Zeheng's 'insertion' of the carry, Silla was defeated and retreated by a strong attack by Baekje, and more than ten cities were captured by Baekje.

This time, Silla invested a lot of money in order to win over the Wa Kingdom, not only spit out the land of Rennafu that the Wa State had occupied in the past twenty or thirty years, but also gave up its original ten cities to the Wa State, in order to send troops to the Wa State to help.

The news of the Silla people's land cession made King Chinmyeong, who was interested in restoring the power of the Wa Kingdom, ecstatic, and with the strong support of the powerful minister Soga Inamo, it can be said that more than half of the Japanese army was dispatched to prepare to take Jeju Island first and then directly 'insert' Sihyeonseong, the capital of Baekje.

After all, it is more in line with the interests of the Wa kingdom to help the weak and attack the strong, and whichever is stronger, Baekje or Silla, should be attacked.

As the best son of Soga Inamo, Soga Mako became the leader of this time, and the actual commander was Soga Inamo's nephew Soga sister-in-law, and Soga Inamome also took great pains to let his son succeed to his position smoothly after he made military achievements.

After Su I Mazi set out on the expedition, he collected a large number of ships and 100,000 young men to prepare as a reserve force, and at this time, the entire Japanese country only had a population of 15.6 million, and 100,000 people were already nearly one-third of the young and strong men of the Japanese country.

As soon as these follow-up troops arrived in the Bigo area, they were defeated and killed by the army of Su My Sister's Water Division, and Su My Mazi led hundreds of remnants to flee back to Chang'men', and urgently needed reinforcements to arrive as soon as possible to help defend the Chang'men waterway, so as to prevent the enemy from taking advantage of the situation to cover up and kill into the hinterland of the Wa Kingdom.

It wasn't until ten days later, Su I Mazi's uncle, Su I Yongde, led an army of 30,000 to the long 'gate' by boat, and Su I Mazi's wounded heart settled down a little.

Now there are more than 30,000 troops stationed here in Changmen, and there will be 70,000 troops coming in the next four or five days, which is not only enough to keep the safety of the main island of the Japanese country but also to defend Zhuzi Island, Su Ma Zi thought to himself.

Su I Yongde was also surprised when he learned the strength of Wang Ze's water army here in Su I Mazi, thinking that the country of Tamna was just a small country back then, and there were only 10,000 or 20,000 people in the country, and I didn't expect that the Central Plains people who occupied Tamna now were so powerful!

Since he already knew that the enemy army was so powerful, Su and I did not dare to slack off, and immediately urgently deployed defenses, and the main force was still here in Chang'men', but 10,000 troops were also deployed on Tsukushi Island on the other side of the Chang'men waterway, and the original tribal forces on Tsukushi Island could also have more than 20,000 people.

Just when Su I was urgently deploying the defense, Wang Ze's water fleet arrived!

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On the big boat, Wang Ze looked at the person in front of him, who was Lu Zhen, the general under the command of Xiao Yu, the governor of the Southern Liang Navy who had 'exposed' twice before.

Qu Liulang looked at Lu Zhen unceremoniously and said, "You said you were going to defect to Xiahou before, but you sailed away, and now you are here to return the sergeant generals who were captured before, what is the reason?" ”

Zong Li, Kan Le, Gu Bin and Du Sheng next to him all looked at Lu Zhen with fierce expressions, and next to them there was an ironclad army led by Liu Wancheng, an ironclad fruit captain, who was going to cut Lu Zhen into 'meat' sauce if he didn't agree with him.

Lu Zhen is also worthy of being a wise general under Xiao Yu, although he was captured before, it was also because he didn't understand the reason why Wang Ze's gunpowder bomb led to the destruction of the warship.

Now Lu Zhen is facing such a large group of butchers, but he still does not change his 'color', and said bluntly: "Although the governor of my family did not attach himself to Xiahou as stated in the letter, he did not help the Japanese to attack Xiahou, and now that my governor has taken refuge in the king of Baekje, the two families can be regarded as allies!" ”

Seeing that Qu Liulang and the others had already been told that they didn't have the fierce appearance just now, Lu Zhen secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

He said to Wang Ze with a sincere face: "Besides, there is no enmity between our army and your army, and I hope that Xiahou will release the generals and soldiers of our army who were captured before for the sake of the Chinese Miao descendants!" ”

At this time, Wang Ze was grabbing a wisp of sword spikes and wrapping them around his fingers and then unwinding them, and when she heard Lu Zhen's words, she said slowly: "Although what the general said is also reasonable, but after all, the governor of Guidu deceived me and waited first, if I let it go easily, wouldn't it mean that our army is weak and can be bullied?" If our army attacks the Wa Kingdom, won't it be a big trouble for me to take the opportunity to attack Jeju Island? ”

Lu Zhen said with an anxious face: "How can our army be like this, now we are all of Chinese Miao descent, and there are several countries such as Silla and Goguryeo, and we should work together, and I hope Xiahou can rest assured!" ”

At this time, Yang Ku sneered: "How can Xiao Dudu, a few generals, be so concerned, I'm afraid that the identities of those people are not simple!" ”

Wang Ze also looked at Lu Zhen coldly after listening to Yang Ku's words, and Lu Zhen immediately felt the great pressure.

looked at Lu Zhen and Wang Ze said to him: "General Lu, it's better to tell me well, otherwise you won't be able to get it back!" ”

After Lu Zhen's explanation, Wang Zeyang Ku learned that one of the young generals who had been captured before turned out to be the son of Xiao Yu's eldest brother.

Xiao Yu's eldest brother is dead, as Xiao Yu's only descendant, Xiao Yu still values it very much, and the other two young generals are the sons and nephews of the two generals in the fleet.

Lu Zhen is a Southern Liang general who is good at water warfare, Xiao Yu can still learn a lot by arranging his nephew and others to follow him, and the safety factor is also higher, but he doesn't want to be captured by Wang Ze's water army.

Lu Zhen looked at Wang Ze with a blank look after speaking, hoping that Wang Ze could put the person back, but he also knew that he was afraid that the chance was slim.

Sure enough, after listening to this, Wang Ze said to him after a while: "Your Governor Xiao broke his promise before, I still have some faith in him, so let's let these people stay here for a while, and now there is still a month before the New Year, and I will let them go back to reunite with the Metropolitan Governor before the March 3rd Festival two months after the year!" ”

Lu Zhen heard Wang Ze say this, and knew that things were destined to be like this, so he had to go back and tell Xiao Yu the truth.

Watching Lu Zhen go away by boat, Wang Ze ordered the whole army to start the expedition except for the hundreds of people who stayed behind to guard the five islands that had just been cleared.

Cao An and Meng Xian each led a section of the Blue Wolf Battalion with a total of 5,000 people, and Xu Zheng led the White Wolf Battalion with 1,000 cavalry to occupy the camp of the Xiaoliang Water Army, while Wang Ze led the other armies to all head towards the Chang'men waterway between Chikushi Island and Honshu Island.

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"It's a bit tricky!" Wang Ze looked at the huge number of last Japanese troops and the narrow waters in the Chang'men' waterway, as well as the huge number of Japanese troops on both sides of the river.

Because Wang Ze didn't know the military system of the Japanese people, when he saw so many troops, he thought that it was really the Japanese army that came, although he was not afraid, his scalp was still a little numb.

It is really difficult to deal with so many warships of the Japanese Kingdom concentrated in such a narrow water, and Wang Ze's warships are all fast ships with excellent maneuverability, and they need to be on a wide sea surface to exert their own advantages, and they cannot exert their speed advantage in the long 'gate' waterway.

Qu Liulang let Du Sheng attack tentatively, but the Japanese almost burned two sea boats, but fortunately, the boats were equipped with river sand and quickly extinguished the fire on the deck.

Qu Liulang came to Wang Ze: "Xiao Langjun is not easy to do!" Our boat could not move in that waterway, and we tried to lure the Japanese boat out of the waterway, but they stayed in that waterway and could not get out! ”

Just when Wang Ze was thinking hard, Yang Ku walked over with a map, and shouted: "Lang Jun, I have an idea!" ”

Wang Zeshun saw it and knew that it was a map made by the fleet of Zhongshanzhai a few years ago when it went to Zhuzidao in the Wa Kingdom to 'trade'.

In fact, it is the coast near the Naga'mon and a general coastline to the west of Chikushi Island, as well as some parts of the interior, and the map of other places has not yet been drawn.

Yang Ku pointed to the map and faced Wang Ze and said: "Lang Jun, we don't want to attack the Japanese country, we have to attack this waterway, as long as our army lands in these places, then the Japanese army will have to be divided into several pieces!" ”