Chapter 72: The Battle of Tsukushi Island

The Battle of Tsukushi Island, which took place in the ninth year of Tianbao of the Northern Qi Dynasty, was so inconspicuous in Wang Ze's later series of wars, and except for Baekje Silla in the East China Sea, no country paid attention to this war that took place in the Wa Kingdom.

The hilly plains along the northern coast of Tsukushi Island are one of the few gentle places on Tsukushi Island, and Wang Ze'an and Yang Ku and the others are watching the upcoming battle on the mountain behind the military formation.

This time, Wang Ze mobilized all the troops to Tsukushi Island, and even the hundreds of defenders on Iki Island who had been swept back were withdrawn, and even the number of sailors on Qu Liulang's ship was suppressed to the minimum standard, freeing up more than 1,000 people to fight ashore.

However, Wang Ze, the thousands of militiamen on Jeju Island, did not move at all, Wang Ze still had to prevent Xiao Liang's naval army from sneaking up on his base area, although there were hostages in hand, it was better to be careful.

However, many doctors on Jeju Island were brought by Wang Ze, because Chen Duan and other second-generation disciples of the Haotian God Sect were in Qizhou and other places, so Wang Ze brought more than a dozen disciples of Lu Wangzhi and others, led by Lu Wangzhi's twenty-year-old apprentice Lu Han.

These little Taoist priests had never experienced a war, and they were stunned when they saw the 25,000 troops deployed under the mountain.

But seeing that the 100,000 troops of the Japanese people on the opposite side were full of worry on their faces, there were a few teenage little Taoist priests whose faces were red and white, and their expressions were 'fine' and colorful, but Chen Duan's two 'female' disciples Ziying Zixia had very calm faces, which made Wang Ze, who was observing, nod secretly in his heart.

The army under the mountain has Jiang Chuan as the commander-in-chief, and the sergeants under the command of Cao An, Zhang Hang, Meng Xian, Chu Honghang and other commanders have formed a tight military formation, plus more than 3,000 cavalry of the white wolf battalion on the right flank.

That's right, this time Wang Ze's more than 20,000 troops are in a defensive position, and Su I Yongde has arranged for the 20,000 troops to defend the territory of Changmen, and this time they are pouring out.

Originally, there were more than 20,000 troops in Su and Yongde, plus 70,000 young men who arrived later, plus more than 2,000 troops that Changmen originally had, but it was a real army of 100,000.

In this way, the 20,000 troops who went out to defend the Chang'men area, Su I led 80,000 troops to cross the Chang'men' waterway and boarded Chikushi Island, preparing to defeat Wang Ze in a battle.

Because of the defeat of Su My Mazi and Su My Sister, the Su My Clan has a lot of them in the King of Qinming, and there are even more Monobe Clans who are desperately fighting against the forces of the Su My Clan, and many tribal ministers have already thrown themselves into the Monobe Clan.

If Su I Yongde is still defeated this time, then the inheritance of Su I clan in the Wa Kingdom will also be broken, and my heart is very heavy when I think of these Su I Yongde.

Compared with Wang Ze's army, which has been trained in many battle formations, the 80,000 army under the command of Su Yongde can be described as a 'mess', except for the nearly 20,000 troops who participated in the war with Baekje Silla can still maintain calm, and the other tens of thousands of young men and women can break Su I's heart with De' Cao.

Due to the lack of iron weapons in the Wa Kingdom, in addition to the 20,000 standing troops using iron weapons, other armies are also using bronze weapons.

Most of those young and strong people turned out to be two or three zhang long bamboo spears cut from the bamboo of the Japanese Kingdom, which can be regarded as a sharp weapon.

The most 'elite' army under the command of Su I used the steel knives that had been 'traded' with Qu Liulang and Sun Xing when the fleet came over the years.

Of course, everyone knows that this is a light sword made by Wang Ze and Cao Blacksmith for the Japanese people, because the Japanese people have always cherished these treasure knives, and most of them are still sharp after all these years.

Under the 'pressure' of Su and I with the Dedu team, more than 10,000 young men of the Japanese Kingdom rushed towards the opposite army with bamboo spears in their hands.

Since Wang Ze warned Jiang Chuan that day, Jiang Chuan can be said to have taken out all his 'spirit' to treat the Japanese people, but he can't overturn the boat in the 'yin' ditch.

After the first 'wave' attack of the Japanese people entered the range of crossbow arrows, under the command of Yu Feng, the commander of the former crossbow arrow battalion, rows of Japanese people were 'shot' to the ground.

When Wang Ze returned to Jeju Island, he left all the crossbow battalions to his father Wang Yong, and he only took Yu Feng and one or twenty backbones with him.

After selecting a group of militiamen and young men who were good at 'shooting' on Jeju Island, after more than 10 days of training, they have mastered the skills of 'shooting' crossbow arrows, but what they lack now is a grasp of the battlefield.

Now it seems that it is still good, although one by one is still a little nervous, but under the protection of the Tiger Battalion and the Blue Wolf Battalion, one by one they still 'shoot' the crossbow arrows into the Japanese army safely.

After being 'shot' and killing thousands of people, the Japanese people who attacked in the first 'wave' finally couldn't bear the fear and fled back without even approaching a distance of 20 zhang.

Because Wang Ze's army was surrounded by the sea on the left and thousands of cavalry from the White Wolf Battalion on the right, Su I could only attack head-on.

As a result, the young Zhuang who fled back from the first 'wave' attack began to be expelled and attacked again after hundreds of heads were cut off, and this time not only the previous 8,000 young men but also 10,000 more.

This time, due to the large number of attackers, and the fact that some of the young men and women also had simple shields made of wooden planks, the two armies quickly took over.

Although all the junior officers in the army had been warned, the soldiers still did not think so, and as a result, hundreds of people were stabbed by bamboo spears and dozens died.

At this time, the cavalry of the White Wolf Battalion moved, and more than a thousand cavalry, led by Zhu Bofu, quickly attacked the flank of the attacking Japanese people.

So the Japanese army attacking the right flank was suddenly scattered, crying and scattering in all directions, because he was afraid of the bamboo spears of the Japanese people, Zhu Bofu did not dare to go deep into the assault.

At this moment, thousands of cavalry also appeared behind the flank of the Japanese army on the opposite side, and the banner they were carrying turned out to be the cavalry of the Japanese people.

Wang Ze was taken aback, and when the Wa cavalry approached, he found that these cavalry horses were all local ponies of the Wa Kingdom, and the horses were actually smaller than the donkeys fed by the people of Northern Qi.

However, the cavalry is cavalry after all, Wang Ze did not dare to underestimate it, Zhu Bofu and Yan Xiaowu Yan Tieyi under the mountain saw four or five thousand Japanese cavalry rushing towards Zhu Bofu's thousand cavalry, and immediately drove the horses to lead the remaining cavalry of the White Wolf Battalion to rush out.

In this way, the infantry fought together, and the cavalry also fought fiercely on the battlefield, but in general, Wang Ze's side had the advantage.

Although the cavalry of the White Wolf Battalion was one or two thousand fewer than the Japanese cavalry, because the cavalry of the White Wolf Battalion was equipped with light leather armor, gunpowder, thunderbolts and crossbow arrows, the Japanese people who were killed immediately retreated.

Seeing that Wang Ze's army was entangled by his own army, Su I immediately ordered the whole army to attack, and there was a great momentum to destroy this eclipse.

Seeing the Japanese people coming to kill them in one go, Jiang Chuan was no longer reserved, and ordered all the gunpowder thunderbolts to be thrown out like raindrops in the sky.

In addition to the sergeants in the front rows who fought with the Japanese people, the sergeants in the back struggled to throw out the gunpowder bombs, and the Japanese people in the front army who were blown up were bleeding like rivers.

Just when Su I led the army to the front of the battle, an earth-shattering noise shocked all the Japanese people, like the thunder of the gods when they were angry.

A huge open space was formed on the battlefield, and the Japanese soldiers here had disappeared, and the Japanese soldiers who were close to the loud noise fell to the ground one after another bleeding and died.

The gods are angry! This was the thought of all the Japanese soldiers, and after a moment of coldness, they screamed and fled in all directions, even if it was useless to slash and kill one after another with Su I's overseer team under the command of De.

Under the rolling 'waves' and 'tides' of escape, the overseers were dispersed by the crowd in less than a quarter of an hour, and Su I had no choice but to flee to the long 'gate' under the escort of his own guards.

"Seems like winning too easily? Doesn't it mean that the Japanese have always admired the 'spirit' of bushido? Wang Ze pinched his chin with his hand and thought to himself, he didn't even use the ironclad battalion, and he originally wanted to use the ironclad battalion later.

Although the Changmen' waterway is narrow, it has become a nightmare for the vast majority of Japanese people, and it is strange that as an island country facing the sea on all sides, most of the Japanese people cannot swim.

This was also cheaper for Wang Ze, and when most of the Japanese ships were rescuing their own soldiers, Qu Liulang led the navy to return to the Chang'men waterway.

Unlike last time, this time, because of the support of his own infantry on Chikushi Island, Qu Liulang did not hesitate to lead the naval army to rush in, and a large number of rockets were 'fired' at the Japanese ships crowded on the shore.

A number of Japanese warships and civilian ships were set on fire, and many Japanese had to jump into the sea to escape, but because they could not swim, although they were close to the shore, nearly half of them were drowned.

Qu Liulang took advantage of the wind to pursue bravely, and a large number of Japanese ships could no longer care about the soldiers who escaped on the shore and fled in all directions.

Only the burning ships on the shore and the soldiers on the shore who had no choice but to surrender were left, and a large number of Japanese troops fled to the east, and the White Wolf Battalion and the Tiger Battalion and the Blue Wolf Battalion were in hot pursuit.

There were only more than 6,000 infantry troops and more than 1,000 sailors who landed on the shore to help the battle, guarding the 20,000 or 30,000 Japanese surrendered troops.

Fortunately, Wang Ze had already ordered people to tie up the Japanese army one by one, otherwise if it was not 'done', there would be an uproar, and it would be his own loss.

Looking at the Tsukushi Island in front of him, Wang Ze's heart was very excited, and the later dynasties were still fighting for those small islands and small islands with the Japanese people, and now we will directly take them down a big island.

"Mr. Ruogao," Wang Ze said, calling the word Yang Wither, "Now that we have taken Tsukushi Island, it is a foregone conclusion that we will take Tsukushi Island, and you will send someone back to Jeju Island to arrange for the people to immigrate to Tsukushi Island with Zheng Kui, Xu Ning, He Bo and others!" ”

Yang Ku said worriedly: "Although Lang Jun said that we defeated the Wa people this time, there are still a large number of Wa tribes on the island, and the south of Chikushi Island is still the territory of Xiong himself and Hayato, these two tribes are brave and aggressive, and it will not be good if there is damage!" ”

Wang Ze smiled: "It's okay, we won't have such a large area at the beginning, mainly the peninsula in the west of Chikushi Island and the large plain near the peninsula, and we will clean up and migrate at the same time in other places!" You must know that our people are all trained, and if you are tall and large, you will also suffer from the loss of the Japanese and others! ”

Hearing Wang Ze's explanation, Yang Ku felt that it made sense, and he said: "In this way, we can invisibly expand the scope of control a lot, and only a small number of troops can control a large area of territory!" ”

Seeing that Yang Ku had understood what he meant, Wang Ze was very satisfied, Jeju Island was only three or five days away from Chikushi Island, and now there were still fifty or sixty thousand people there who did not have their own land, and only needed He Boyan and other professors of the Agricultural College to plan first, and they could build while immigrating.

Zhuzi Island, Wang Ze silently read a few times in his heart, and he said loudly to Yang Ku and others: "The name of Zhuzi Island was taken by the Japanese people, and now it needs to be named by the Han people!" ”

After consulting with Yang Ku and others, everyone agreed that the Wa Kingdom had Xu Fu crossing to the east as early as the Qin Shi Huang period, so the name of Chikushi Island was changed to Qinjin Island, and a castle called Qinjin in the Nagasaki area was to be built in the future.