Chapter 71: Tsukushi Island Raiders
In a lobby in Chang'men City, Su I Yongde is holding a banquet with Su I Ma Zi and more than a dozen generals under his command, saying that the lobby is actually a room that can accommodate 100 people, which is equivalent to the living room of a wealthy family in the Northern Qi Dynasty.
As the eldest son and eldest grandson of the Su I clan, Su I Ma Zi still has a very high status, he and Su I Yongde sit side by side facing south, there are rows of cases on the left and right, and the other generals sit in turn.
In the middle, two geisha are performing a program from the Southern Dynasty, which was the forerunner of what would become Noh play, and everyone in the hall listens with relish, reveling in the breath of art from time to time, and some people shake their heads and recite words, as if singing harmony in their hearts.
There weren't too many delicacies in front of Su Yongde, only two sauces in them, a porcelain bowl with a few rice balls, and some side dishes pickled with wild vegetables.
This method of kneading glutinous rice into rice balls and dipping them in sauce was the way for Han fishermen to go out to sea to fish in the former Han Dynasty.
Soga Yongde likes this way of eating very much, and other sake 'meat' is not just a rice ball, and sashimi has not yet appeared in Japanese recipes at this time.
Yesterday, Wang Ze's navy slowly retreated into the distance after unsuccessfully attempting the attack, and until today he has not seen him come back, and Su Yongde was overjoyed in his heart, thinking that this time he would retreat like the previous Baekje and Silla naval armies.
Just when Su I was feasting with his generals and drinking, he didn't want to connect with the messenger sent by the defenders of Tsukushi Island, and the enemy troops who retreated yesterday actually landed on the beach dozens of miles away from the Chang'men waterway, and are now attacking the defenders of Tsukushi Island.
Since the main purpose of the deployment of troops at that time was to hold the Nagamuto waterway, the defense of Chikushi Island was mainly in the coastal area of the Nagamuto waterway in the northern part of Chikushi Island.
On the one hand, because the southern part of Chikushi Island is close to the territory of Kuma himself and Hayato, there is no large-scale army, and on the other hand, because at this time, Chikushi Island is more than eighty percent mountainous, and the land is barren and the people are really poor, and there is really nothing to defend.
Just when Su I ignored the army of Wang Ze of Tsukushi Island, they suddenly landed under the cover of dawn, because there were many harbors on Tsukushi Island, and the navy quickly used prefabricated panels to build a simple dock, and 15,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry quickly landed.
Before the small group of Japanese troops nearby could react, they annihilated the small group of Japanese troops nearby, and then Wang Ze's army quickly 'inserted' into the Japanese military camp stationed on Zhuzi Island south of the Chang'men waterway.
Su I Yongde was shocked to learn that Wang Ze's tens of thousands of troops had landed on Tsukushi Island, and hurriedly gathered troops to defend closely on the one hand to prevent the enemy's naval division from attacking the Chang'men waterway and the main island again, and on the other hand, urgently mobilized 10,000 troops to prepare to cross the waterway to the other side to support.
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A group of soldiers shuttled through the jungle, all wearing leather armor, and a cloak dyed with various colors on the outside of the leather armor, most of the soldiers held swords and shields to clear the way, and in the middle of the group were five or six halberders, and behind them were four protected crossbow archers.
This is exactly the formation of a squad of the blue wolf battalion, and then there is such a squad every tens of meters or hundreds of meters nearby, this is the blue wolf battalion under the command of Zhang Hang and Chu Honghang is marching in the jungle near the coast.
On the coast, Jiang Chuan led 10,000 infantry troops in a hurry, and the cavalry of the White Wolf Battalion dismounted this time and advanced with the infantry army.
Because Tsukushi Island is mountainous and inconvenient to ride a horse, and in order to save horsepower and prepare for the battle later, there are still some spare horses carrying the armor weapons of the ironclad battalion.
"This hellish place is full of mountains, and I don't know what the use of Da Lang wants to rob this broken place!" Zhu Bofu muttered secretly in his heart, since the landing, the army has traveled more than twenty miles, and there are not a few flat lands along the way.
Because all the Japanese people on the seashore fled, the Tiger Battalion and the White Wolf Battalion marching on the seashore did not see any enemy troops, and the Japanese who fled into the nearby mountains and forests had their own soldiers of the Blue Wolf Battalion to deal with.
I don't know how many mountains I have climbed, anyway, just when Zhu Bofu couldn't hold on a little, the military camp of the Japanese people appeared in Zhu Bofu's sight.
A few miles beyond the Japanese military camp is the narrow Changmen' waterway, from which you can faintly see the Changmen' city on the opposite bank.
He stood on the hill and looked at the Japanese military camp in the distance and said to Wang Ze: "Lang Jun, looking at the appearance of the camp, the Japanese army is probably no less than 20,000, and there are still 20,000 Japanese troops on the other side of the waterway who can be reinforced at any time!" โ
Now Wang Ze is no longer the first brother he was at the beginning, he doesn't know anything about the army, he carefully observed it for a long time and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's okay, the Japanese will separate the army in order to prevent us from storming the Chang'men waterway." In this way, although the waterway that could be protected was not lost, it divided the main army into two. Moreover, you see that although the Japanese army under the mountain is huge, it is chaotic and disorganized, and I am afraid that our army will rush away with a charge! It's all a dirt 'chicken' tile dog! โ
After explaining to Yang Ku, Wang Ze ordered the army to rest for a quarter of an hour to replenish energy, and the soldiers sat down in place in Shiwu, each took out a backpack on his body, which contained a bamboo tube, and opened it to see that some were dried fish, fish 'meat' and loose, and some took out high-energy foods such as sugar pills or marinated quail eggs.
These are all things that Wang Ze has come up with intentionally or unintentionally over the years, the 'meat' pine and sugar pills were originally made to make Zhu Qingqing happy, and the marinated quail eggs were purely because he was tired of eating crooked duck eggs and wanted to change the taste.
After a quarter of an hour, the sergeants were neatly prepared one by one, and under the command of Jiang Chuan, the infantry army went down the mountain first, and lined up at the bottom of the mountain to attack the Japanese military camp, and the cavalry led their horses down the mountain and swept the formation on both sides, but the blue wolf camp did not show any trace.
The Japanese people under the mountain had already discovered Wang Ze's army when they appeared on the mountain, and now they are waiting for Wang Ze's army to attack.
However, the strict preparation of the Japanese people was really like child's play to Jiang Chuan's subordinates, who had experienced the battle in Jinan City, and the camp that had been set up was just a round of fire 'powder' and it was blown up.
At this time, the average height of the Japanese people was about 1.3 meters, and when they saw the army wearing armor like a god on the opposite side, they began to think about resisting.
However, when the first round of gunpowder bombs exploded in the Japanese army's formation, more than 20,000 Japanese people were suddenly 'chaotic', and they thought that who else could control the heavenly thunder with such a height but gods?
In particular, the armed forces of the more than 10,000 Zhuzidao tribes were even more 'chaotic', and the generals sent by Su I wanted to hold on to resist for a while, but the army had already been 'chaotic' and 'chaotic' by their own soldiers, and they were powerless.
Seeing that the Japanese people were so easily 'chaotic', Jiang Chuan took advantage of the situation to lead the army to cover up, and a large number of Japanese people fled towards the seaside naval army.
Just when Jiang Chuan was killing Zhenghuan, Su I Yongde personally led 10,000 Japanese regular troops to land, but when I saw the fleeing Japanese sergeants who were killed on the shore, Su I Yongde stopped the landing team again.
The defenders of Tsukushi Island had been routed, and now it was useless to land on the shore, so Soga Yongtoku only ordered to gather the rout troops who had fled to the seashore.
In the end, more than 20,000 defenders of Zhuzi Island were collected by Su Yongde, and the rest were either wiped out or waiting to be slaves.
Originally, I wanted to take advantage of the support of the defenders of the long 'gate' to give the Japanese a blow in the back, but now it seems that it was in vain, and Zhang Hang and Chu Honghang led 5,000 soldiers of the blue wolf battalion out of the jungle.
Seeing that the army of Zhuzi Island was defeated in a battle, Jiang Chuan was happy in his heart, and he happily said to Wang Ze: "Xiao Langjun, the Japanese are so ineffective in fighting, although there are millions of people in this Japanese country, it is easy to get it, so it is better to attack directly to the other side!" โ
Wang Ze waved his hand when he heard Jiang Chuan's words and said disapprovingly: "The matter of the Twelfth Uncle can't be counted like this, the Japanese have been fighting for hundreds of years, especially in the past few decades, they have often 'engaged' with Baekje Silla, and their combat effectiveness is still very strong. It's just that this time they thought that the gunpowder thunderbolt we used was a thunderbolt, and they regarded us as gods, so they 'messed up' their own positions, and they still need to be careful against the Japanese people in the future! โ
After thinking about it, Wang Ze said to Jiang Chuan again: "I'm afraid that many soldiers will have the heart of underestimating the enemy in this battle, and the twelfth uncle will talk to them, you must know that the arrogant soldiers will be defeated!" Think about the fate of the Xianbei cavalry outside the city of Jinan, Qizhou, despising us! โ
Jiang Chuan didn't think much of Wang Ze's words at first, but when he heard that the arrogant soldiers were going to be defeated, especially the Xianbei cavalry led by Lou Errong, the fate was mainly to light the enemy, and his heart was suddenly stunned.
Seeing that Jiang Chuan listened to his advice, Wang Ze was relieved, and took advantage of the opportunity of Su I to withdraw to the long 'gate' to defend it tightly, Wang Ze used the strategy of the suspicious soldiers to arrange a camp.
Only 5,000 infantry troops were left in the camp to defend, and the other 10,000 or so cavalry turned around and attacked southward, sweeping away the Japanese tribe on the western peninsula of Zhuzi Island, where there were also 5,000 blue wolf battalions led by Cao An and Meng Xian who were attacking from south to north.
The place where Cao An and Meng Xian landed was the old camp camp provided to Xiao Liang's naval army by the Japanese people, that is, near Nagasaki in later generations.
According to Wang Ze's plan, he would first take down this area of the peninsula and sweep it away, and then expel the Japanese indigenous tribes while emigrating.
As for the disappeared Qu Liulang Navy, they took advantage of the time after Wang Ze and others came ashore to sweep many small islands in the west of Chikushi Island, the largest of which was later the Iki Islands.
Such a large string of islands is between Wang Ze's army and Jeju Island, and if it is still under the control of the Japanese people, it will be a big hidden danger in the future; Therefore, Wang Ze sent Qu Liulang to take advantage of the annihilation of most of the Japanese naval army and the opportunity of the remaining defense of the Changmen' waterway to take this string of islands in one fell swoop.
In fact, there is also a Tsushima Island in the northeast, but Tsushima Island is too close to Silla, if you capture Tsushima Island, Rena Province and the Silla people will inevitably attack it, and Wang Ze has insufficient troops in his hands, so he has to let it go in order to prevent making wedding dresses for others.
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Since landing from the old camp of Xiao Liang's naval army a few days ago, Cao An and Meng Xian swept the vicinity and led an army of 5,000 all the way north.
The team of 5,000 people did not show its weight in Northern Qi, but it was really a large army in Zhuzi Island, and it was not that there were no Japanese people to resist along the way, but under the leadership of Cao An and Meng Xian, the blue wolf battalion swept all the way, and did not encounter much battle.
The tribes in the northern part of Chikushi Island have been severely weakened by the central government of the Wa Kingdom since the 'rebellion' of the local clan leader Jun Iwai, and they have been fighting on the border with Kuma himself for many years, so there are not many people one by one.
In the past few days, he has swept more than a dozen tribes one after another, obtained thousands of slaves and hundreds of 'women', after Wang Ze's reprimand last time, this time Cao An Mengxian only retained the young 'daughters' who were not ugly, and the others were all sent to the aunt who was worshiped by the Japanese people.
However, this will Meng Xian muttered in his heart like Zhu Bofu, he hasn't seen a flat land for several days, this time so many soldiers have made contributions, I'm afraid the land is not enough!
Just when Meng Xian was muttering in his heart, his eyes suddenly opened up, and a large plain appeared in front of him, it was really rare to find this mountainous Tsukushi Island, which was the Fenghou area of later generations.
As one of the few plains of Tsukushi Island, there are more Wa tribes living here, and just when Cao An and Meng Xian were hesitating to attack, the scouts actually brought scouts from Wang Ze's army, and it turned out that Wang Ze's army was not far from here.
After the two armies met, they swept all the way, which can be described as a "chicken" dog that did not stay, and strictly followed the three-light standards of the later generations of Japanese people, and it was really a white and vast land that was really clean!
After Wang Ze's sweep, the Japanese people in the plain area fled to the mountains and forests, most of them turned into nutrients to nourish the land, and a small number of young and beautiful young 'women' became the trophies of the army.
Just when Wang Ze swept the rise of 'sweeping', Su Wuyong, who was waiting for another 70,000 or 80,000 reinforcements from the scout to report to the Chang's 'gate', was already 'wanting' to move and wanted to counterattack Zhuzi Island.