Chapter Ninety-Four: The Wrath of the Empire
As for the follow-up of the Japanese Kou, it is none of Yang Feng's business.
The purpose of his trip had been achieved, because by the time he returned to Suzhou in a dragon boat, the road was full of drums and cheers......
Hero!
The hero who saved the land.
Although in fact, without him, those pirates would not have been able to penetrate deeply, at most they would only plunder in some villages and towns along the coast, but the panic they created could reach as far as Suzhou, in the end, this area is all waterway communication, and pirates like this can easily reach Songjiang and Shanghai.
Even along the canals.
Even take the Yangtze River waterway directly to Zhenjiang.
When the Ming Dynasty was at its worst, even Yangzhou had encountered it.
The Ming army did not stop.
But in Yangzhou, he was beaten away by the guards of the Jin merchants.
It is conceivable how deep the Japanese can go in this area, and now the appearance of a god of war level general, for the people, it is really a god, and there are all those who repair temples for Yang Feng. What's more, he is so cooperative, the image of the silver helmet and silver armor, and the image of the giant Guan knife in his hand is simply a perfect fit for the god of war in folklore. What kind of traverser is he touched the common people, at most it is fresh, and he is not much touched by the gun, and the firearm is not unseen, at most he is more powerful, but it is different with a big knife.
Can really see.
There is a basis for rumors or processing.
Then, in just a few days, he killed thousands of Japanese in Jinshanwei, which has become the hottest news among the people in Susongjia.
There are also multiple versions.
It's being chanted on the streets of all cities.
So when he stood on the bow of the dragon boat with a cloak behind his back and appeared proudly outside the Panmen of Suzhou, he was greeted by hundreds of thousands of people.
"Honor the heroic spirits who died in battle!"
Yang Feng held the wine bowl in both hands and shouted solemnly.
In front of him, a group of officials from the Suzhou Mansion and Suzhou Wei watched.
Then he poured some wine on the ground in the eyes of hundreds of thousands of people.
"Respect the creatures who have been devastated!"
Then he continued.
Fortunately, he didn't continue to pour, and then picked up the small half bowl of rice wine that was still left, poured it down in one breath, and then threw the wine bowl in his hand to the ground, and picked up his big knife, walked to the stone road in front of the gate of the urn, held the handle of the knife with both hands, and raised it high in front of him.
Then he roared at hundreds of thousands of pairs of puzzled eyes, and used all his strength to pestle the slate.
The slate shattered in an instant.
Even if the ground is compacted soil, in a place like Suzhou, which is full of water, it is actually relatively soft, and the big knife weighs one hundred and twenty pounds, and with his full strength, the knife will disappear instantly, and the handle of the knife will also go down nearly a foot, and then the big knife will stand on the stone road, surrounded by a circle of broken stones......
"Today, the sword stands here, and there is no forgiveness for those who dare to come here!"
Then he yelled.
"Good!"
The Suzhou Wei commander hurriedly applauded.
"The ambassador is mighty!"
Then there was a boiling roar.
Because the prefect of Suzhou has been dismissed, and now he is the agent of Tongzhi, who hurriedly asked people to surround the big knife, which must be specially built to build a small temple to worship, just like those land temples, and the surrounding must be reinforced.
It's a magic weapon!
It is equivalent to Qin Qiong's lieutenant Chi Gong's spear of Yue Fei.
The envoys of Tongzhi and Suzhou Wei invited Ambassador Yang to mount their horses, and then entered the city amid cheers.
The city is also full of mezzanine welcome.
It can be said that it is extremely honorable.
However, when he went to the official office of the commander of the Suzhou Wei envoy, he saw Dai Gui, who was promoted to command the envoy after sending the little princess back to the capital, and then transferred to Yang Wen's subordinates, and was sent by Yang Wen to invite Yang Feng to Taicang. Yang Wen has been appointed as the governor of the left capital, responsible for commanding the coastal troops and horses of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to clear and suppress the Japanese invaders. In fact, when he came back from North Korea, he should have been promoted, but he was coaxed by Yang Feng to attack and harass the Japanese State, which was regarded as an unauthorized claim, although it could not be said to be guilty, after all, Zhu Yuanzhang said that he was crusading against the Japanese State, but after all, he did not do the task.
So there is no penalty and no promotion.
Now Lao Zhu took this opportunity to promote him.
Lao Zhu still values him, after all, he is a relatively outstanding general of this age.
He belongs to the all-round general.
Although it is not outstanding, no matter where he is placed, whether it is the southwest subtropical mountains and forests, or the grasslands outside the Saiwai, or the sea, he can do it all very safely, and the only fiasco in his life is Jing Nan, or he was manipulated by Jianwen.
He was originally in Kaiping and had been holding Zhu Di back from the rear, although it was true that there were more defeats and fewer victories, but Zhu Di really couldn't solve him, and as long as he was there, Zhu Di didn't dare to really go too far south. As a result, Jianwen ordered Yang Wen to lead the Saiwai army south through the area controlled by Zhu Di to fight a decisive battle in Jinan, which was comparable to letting Mao Wenlong pass through Jianzhou Wei to rescue Jinzhou.
But he was an honest man and could only be obedient, and then the army broke up directly as soon as it arrived in Tianjin.
If you go any further, you won't even be able to eat.
He himself was taken prisoner.
And now Zhu Yuanzhang obviously needs to promote more newcomers, although he didn't kill Lan Yu and the others this time, but His Majesty the Emperor also knows that promoting new talents is the most important thing.
So people like Yang Wen and Dai Gui were promoted.
As for Yang Wen's invitation to Yang Feng......
This must be what Zhu Yuanzhang meant, His Majesty the Emperor didn't want Yang Feng to feel that Da Ming needed his help everywhere, so he didn't come forward, and then asked Yang Wen to invite him personally.
Yang Feng understands.
It just so happened that he also wanted to continue to clean up these pirates.
He and Zhang Xianzong immediately boarded the ship and went to Taicang with Dai Gui, when Yang Wen arrived in Taicang, Yang Wen had gathered more than 100 warships, and basically they were all equipped with rapid-fire guns, and several large warships were rapid-fire guns. And it's not just rapid-fire guns, Zhu Yuanzhang also has a lot of three-eyed guns there, I have to say that he really knows how to choose, this thing is indeed more effective against Japanese guns than birds and the like.
The rate of fire is fast!
At this time, the Japanese did not have a southern barbarian carcass.
The level of equipment of those elite Japanese robbers before is really enough.
"No grenades?"
Yang Feng checked and found that there were no grenades.
"Don't use that thing on the ship.
Last time, I tried it, and when a soldier lit the fuse and threw it out, he missed, and it exploded on his own ship, and there was gunpowder nearby, and the whole ship burned.
A mistake on land kills at most one or two people, and a miss on a ship is a boat, not to mention that the fuse is not easy to calculate, and it is unlucky to be picked up and thrown back if it is thrown on an enemy ship. Maybe it will blow up before it falls, or even accidentally blow up on your own ship, and you will be in chaos during the battle, who can dare to guarantee that you will not miss.
That's not your grenade. ”
Yang Wen said.
This is indeed arguably the biggest problem with grenades at this time.
Once you miss it, the consequences are too serious.
In fact, in the era of queuing to shoot, grenadiers had to be driven to the front, for fear that they would blow up their own people by mistake, and flowering shells were rarely used on warships for a long time.
Also this question.
The consequences of a mistake can be tolerated on land.
But on the battleship, compared with the serious consequences that may be caused by mistakes, the value that may be brought by using it is not enough to make up for it, since it is not used in this way, anyway, the rapid-fire cannon, the three-eyed gun and the bow and arrow are combined, this combination of naval combat is enough to deal with the Japanese Kou, not to mention that the Ming army has already used a large number of rockets at this time.
In the end, it's just a wolf.
Of course, at this time, this set of equipment is invincible wherever it goes at sea.
Including Europe.
The main naval battles in Europe in the middle of the 14th century were the Hundred Years' War between England and France, Genoese crossbowmen and English longbowmen fired at sea, although it was the end of the 14th century, but Europe had only just begun to use muskets, that is, similar to three-eyed guns with a wooden pole at the back and an iron or copper pipe in front. It was not until the middle of the fifteenth century that the Fran cannon began to appear in naval warfare, and its main purpose was to suppress the opponent's firepower by relying on the rate of fire to cover the jumping of their own sailors, which was no different from the current Ming warships.
But that was sixty years later.
"This is the goods you want, the first batch, these two pockets, you take a look at the goods first!"
Yang Wen pointed to the two sacks and said.
"So fast?"
Yang Feng said unexpectedly.
Then he opened the sack and looked at the fish vines inside.
However, it is not completely sun-dried, it can only be said that it has been slightly sun-dried.
"Zhejiang has it, but the more south it is, the more Liangguang is the most, and there is a Fujian businessman who said that there are a lot of Xiaoliuqiu, and there are many more in Nanyang, and the most on our side is still Liangguang."
Yang Wen said.
In fact, this is all over the south of Zhejiang.
However, the species are not the same, belonging to a general category, the most suitable for pesticides is said to be introduced from the South Seas, but the native species are also OK, it is nothing more than the strength of the medicine. In addition, there is a more widely used one on the other side of the strait, where a subspecies is also very suitable for pesticides.
"There are more good things in Xiaoliuqiu, sulfur, deer, camphor, the best cypress for shipbuilding in the mountains, the land is fertile, the south is three crops a year, and there are whaling grounds along the coast, so it can be said that there is everything."
Yang Feng said.
"Don't always seduce me and wait."
Yang Wen said very calmly.
It's like an old man who is being taken to see some special performance.
"Why don't you take Wu Hook and collect Guanshan Fifty Prefectures!"
Yang Feng said.
"Poor and uncertain riverside bones, still a person in a spring boudoir dream?"
Zhang Xianzong said.
"But there are no bones by the river, and after all, the land where they buried their bones was left for future generations."
Yang Feng said.
"But what did the bones of the Wuding Riverside get, the descendants can indeed say that they left the land for the descendants to bury the bones, but that is what the descendants said, and the descendants will of course say so, but for the bones of the Wuding Riverside, what did they get?
Tearful waiting loved ones?
Persuade the gentleman not to talk about sealing the marquis, and it will be a success! ”
Zhang Xianzong said.
This question is clearly the position.
For Yang Feng, it is natural to open up and open up again, but for the soldiers and civilians of the Ming Dynasty, they are now very satisfied, and there is no need to work hard for the development of the Ming Dynasty. Pioneer Hui Ning can, after all, the main purpose is to cut off the flank of the remnant Yuan, including Nuer Gancheng before, they were all officials of the Yuan Dynasty, and it is natural to beat them.
Interests or something are secondary.
Fighting Hu Yuan is the correctness of the unanimous military and civilian in the Ming Dynasty at this time.
If you hit Mobei, you have to fight it, and you have to fight as many dead people as you want.
It's not a matter of interests, it's about enemies.
It is also possible to fight the Japanese state.
After all, it was the Japanese who attacked and disturbed the Ming Dynasty first, and since they dared to attack the Ming Dynasty, of course the Ming Dynasty wanted to kill and beat them, which was also naturally correct.
But......
Nothing else is necessary, right?
Something nice?
Got land?
But there is no shortage of Daming!
However, the current Ming Dynasty, out of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the rest is all sparsely populated, and the entire north is a little more in Shandong, and the remaining one is until the southwest, all of which are vast and sparsely populated, and they are all wasteland.
Is there a shortage of land in Daming?
What is lacking in the Ming Dynasty is obviously a person.
During their debate, the huge fleet of sailors sailed away from Taicang and along the Yangtze River, riding the low tide out of Chongming Sand, but at this time Chongming was the northern channel, and a large area of land on the north bank had not yet come out of the water, so the width of the Yangtze River estuary was almost twice that of modern times. After leaving Chongmingsha, he turned south, rode the north wind south, and joined the naval warships of various guards in Hangzhou Bay, such as Nanhuizui and Jinshan, because the latter brought a large number of relatively small warships, so the scale was expanded to 200.
It can be said that the sails are like forests on the sea, and the strength of the world's most powerful navy is currently on display.
But they had to find the Woko first.
"Here, Sizhou Tang."
Guan Haiwei, a fellow intellectual, pointed to the map of Yang Feng rushing to work on the ship and said.
That is, Shengshan Island.
This is indeed the place where the pirates hide most often.
"Then go and destroy them!"
Yang Wen said.
At the same time, Zhang Xianzong took out a ruler, measured it on the map, and then calculated the distance according to the scale, as if he were a staff officer.
"I think we're going to wait?"
Yang Feng touched his chin and said.
"What do you mean?"
Yang Wen and a group of generals looked at him.
"If the Japanese ask Imagawa Sadayo for help, then the reinforcements sent by Imagawa Sadayo will definitely go there to join them, after all, they need to replenish the water from the Japanese country to here, and this kind of foothold that has been controlled will inevitably rush to converge.
It's winter now, and the sea is basically a north wind, so it won't change the direction of the wind.
It's a good wind for us to get from here to there.
We're waiting here.
Then send people to patrol that area, and find that the reinforcements will go over again, and it is best to intercept them halfway, and annihilate the support army directly at sea. ”
Yang Feng said.
"But after they join up with the Japanese in Sizhoutang, it will be difficult for us to clear them."
Zhang Xianzong said.
"Ha, I'm afraid of something.
Besides, it's not that we can't continue to transfer troops, the Japanese Kou have limited shipping capacity, even if they can still have a few reinforcements, it is nothing more than tens of thousands of people at most, how many people are there on both sides of Hangzhou Bay?
Jinshanwei, Hainingwei, Shaoxingwei, Linshanwei, Guanhaiwei, Changguowei, this is not counting the bunch of guards in Hangzhou City, it can be said that 50,000 elites can be easily assembled, as long as the Japanese are gathered in one place, are we still afraid that there will be many of them? ”
Yang Feng said.
"In this way, after this battle, the coastal pirates will be extinct."
Yang Wen said very simply.