Weihaiwei is the easternmost east of Daming Mountain, pointing directly to Seoul in North Korea on the opposite side.

Since June last year, the Ming Navy has gathered like Weihaiwei, and before the sea was sealed, all the naval forces of the Ming Dynasty were gathered here, waiting for orders, except for the detachments stationed in various places.

At the beginning of November last year, the Japanese state, which the navy had been watching, finally made a move.

The Japanese army set out from Honju Island, bypassed Tsushima Island, which had been ceded to the Ming Dynasty, and landed directly at Pusan, North Korea.

At this time, the Korean army was actually not weak in combat effectiveness, but since the Ming Navy defeated the Japanese invaders, the Korean maritime frontier has also become much safer.

After a few years of peace and peace, the army here slowly began to relax a little, and the trade goods brought by the caravan of the Ming Navy behind accelerated the corrosion.

All kinds of bizarre and strange new gadgets, as well as the female slaves of the Japanese Kingdom who can't be sold on the side of the Ming Dynasty, and some of the black slaves of the Three Kingdoms, make these sticks in North Korea dazzled, and they indulge in pleasure every day, and they can't think about it.

As the saying goes, it's not easy to learn well, but it's hard to learn badly.

Under the corrosion of beautiful women's food and wine, and all kinds of strange things, the vigilance of the combat effectiveness of the DPRK army is falling again and again.

In mid-November, the 150,000 Japanese army rushed straight to Busan, and without the clamping of the Ming navy stationed in the Japanese state, the Japanese country did not have any worries, and riding the Korean stick was a messy hammer.

It took one day to occupy Busan, less than 5 days to take Daegu, half a month later to directly capture Munqing, and at the end of November, it approached Seoul, the capital of North Korea.

The reason why the Japanese invaded so fast was that in addition to the fact that their soldiers were in the elite of war all year round, the main weapon to kill the enemy was that they had flintlock pistols in their hands.

I have to say that Xiao Ri still has a brain, with some simple drawings left by Ashikaga, after two or three years of exploration, and secretly stealing the weapons of the Ming army stationed in the Wa Kingdom, they finally made a flintlock pistol.

Due to the lack of iron in the island country, in order to make a flintlock pistol that could be used to equip the troops, at the call of the emperor of the island country, all the people of the island country contributed all the iron tools in their homes in order to avenge their hatred.

After two years of clandestine development, the Wa Kingdom was finally equipped with a 10,000-strong flintlock force before attacking Korea.

If you have a weapon, you must have a way to use it.

In order to learn advanced flintlock pistol tactics, the Wa Kingdom did not hesitate to use countless gold and silver beauties to successfully tempt several soldiers of the Ming Dynasty Battalion stationed in Izumo, and obtained the training technology of flintlock pistol and advanced black powder technology.

The weapons are there, the training methods are there, and the next step is revenge.

The battle of the Ming Dynasty almost broke the bones of the Japanese country, which was a crazy slap on the face, coupled with the harsh treaty after the end of the war, the Japanese warriors were already humiliated.

For so many years, in order to take revenge, they have endured humiliation and secretly trained and prepared weapons, in order to defeat the invader Daming and return all their shame to Daming.

After the flintlock rifles were assigned and the various training tactics were completed, many of the high-ranking Japanese officials shouted for immediate revenge and killed all the Ming troops stationed in Izumo.

It's a pity that he was rejected by the emperor, who had just gained real power for a few years.

In the words of the emperor, our Wa Kingdom faces the sea on all sides, and without the assistance of powerful warships, even if we win the Ming army stationed in Izumo, we will suffer endless retaliation from the Ming navy later.

The Emperor's words evoked painful memories for everyone.

It was a beautiful day.

It was a day of sails.

On that day, the artillery roared like thunder.

It was a day where shells rained down.

On that day, more than 100,000 warriors of the Japanese Kingdom had no resistance, and were smashed to pieces by iron balls.

In that battle, the Japanese kingdom was almost wiped out.

Yes, there can be no war with the enemy on the home soil, and once the enemy's warships arrive, they do not even have the ability to resist.

It's not that the Wa Kingdom has not studied artillery, and they also have artillery on their warships.

According to the observation of the high-level of the Japanese state, the range of their artillery is not even half of that of the Ming Dynasty, and if the medicine is filled with a little more, it will directly explode, not only can not kill the enemy, but will kill and wound themselves.

After research, they found that it was the problem of iron, but they could not solve it, and the production of their kind of small workshop would be good if it could ensure the production of weapons, and it would be good to improve the quality of iron.

In the end, it was the emperor's staff who came up with a strategy that was approved by everyone.

That is to ignite the fire of war on the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Without the powerful force of the navy, on land, their warriors of the Great Wa Kingdom were no worse than the army of the Ming Dynasty.

In this way, not only can you avoid being blocked at home and resisting beatings, but you can also let the enemy's people taste the pain of war.

In their deduction, their powerful flintlock troops, the troops against the Ming can be 1 to 2 or even 1 to 5 without falling behind.

As long as they dispatch 100,000 troops, they can sweep the invincible in the Ming Dynasty.

As for whether it is what they think, they don't care, anyway, they just need to think so in their hearts, and even the propaganda to the soldiers below is also propaganda like this.

In fact, in the high-level thinking of the Japanese state, it does not matter whether they win or lose.

It's normal to lose the battle, it's a big deal to return to the mainland and continue to pay compensation and cede land, this is not the first time they have done this, they are already familiar with it.

If you are lucky enough to win, then you can get a vast territory, and you will not have to survive in this fart place in the future, let alone face the risk of tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions every day, as well as vast land, growing food, countless mines, and countless money beauties.

The more I thought about it, the more reasonable it became.

If you lose, you will live a more miserable life, and if you win, you will turn over and become a serf and sing.

The idea is good, but where to attack first is a problem.

Daming's naval detachment and an army unit are still stationed in Izumo, if you attack Daming directly, it is estimated that the front has not yet started, and the back will be copied by others.

After a few days of scratching their ears and cheeks, a group of people finally decided to attack North Korea and find a place to camp on the mainland first.

After annexing and digesting North Korea for a few years, and greatly increasing its own strength, he used North Korea as a springboard to attack Daming.

As for attacking North Korea, whether Daming will help North Korea or not, they have also considered this.

Later, after research, they found that North Korea and their Wagua country were both listed as non-conscripted countries by Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty.

In other words, as long as it is not a big mistake, Da Ming will not do anything to them.

As for what happened in previous years?

The Japanese high-level speculated that it may have been caused by the Izumo silver mine.

As a weak country, there is a huge silver mine, and you don't get beaten by anyone.

Now that they have handed over the silver mines, they honor the army of the Ming Dynasty stationed in the Wa Kingdom every year like a filial piety to their father.

In addition, in the past few years, he has paid tribute to Daming every year, and he can already be regarded as a qualified dogleg.

The high-level of the Japanese people thought that as long as they gave Daming enough benefits when the war broke out, they believed that Daming would not care about the fight between the two dogs.

That's what they think, and that's what they do.

Before the war, their desperate filial piety to Izumo's Ming troops was also recognized by the Ming commanders stationed in the Wa Kingdom.

In the words of that commander Shen An, as long as there is a reason for the incident, it is indeed the fault of the Korean state, and the Ming Dynasty will not interfere in the war of the vassal state of Fanbang.

After receiving the promise, the Wa Kingdom began to prepare.

After a few days of research, they came up with a way to go to war.

That is, the North Korean fishermen reached the sea borders of their country and clashed with the fishermen of the Japanese country, killing several people.

Being bullied and killing several people is something that no one can tolerate.

When the time comes, send envoys to provoke and say some arrogant and ugly words, won't this war just start a war?

A few days later, a conflict broke out between the North Korean and Japanese fishermen in the waters off Honshu Island, and the Japanese side kept peace above all else, and did not make a move against the Korean fishermen.

And the North Korean State relied on a few women in its own country to be Zhu Di's little wife, and brutally and domineeringly killed several fishermen from the Japanese State, and then insulted the Japanese State and then left.

The Emperor of the Wa Kingdom refused to be humiliated, and hoped that Shen An, the commander of the Ming Dynasty stationed in Izumo, would stand up and uphold justice in the place of the Ming Dynasty.

Shen An, who had already been instructed by Zhu Zhangui, maintained a sympathetic attitude towards this matter, although he had the intention to help the Wa State, but the Ming Dynasty had always remained neutral in the affairs of the Fanbang vassal state, and he was also powerless in this regard.

In the end, Shen An proposed that he hoped that the two sides would send envoys to resolve themselves and try not to have conflicts.

After getting the signal, the hanging heart was instantly relaxed, and without the intervention of the Ming Kingdom, they won the battle.

Subsequently, the Japanese sent envoys to Korea to discuss the matter.

During the negotiations, the envoy of the Japanese State opened his mouth and directly handed the treaty signed by the Ming Dynasty to them by changing the name to the Korean State.

The Korean side naturally did not do it, and the two sides clashed in the main hall, and the envoys of the Japanese state were beheaded by the order of the king of Joseon, and only a small person was driven back with his ears and nose cut off.

Seeing the success of the plan, the Wa State happily found Shen An, the commander of the Ming Dynasty stationed in the Wa State, and complained about the arrogance and hegemony of the Korean State with tears in his eyes.

Hearing the wailing of the Japanese state, Shen An expressed sympathy and dissatisfaction with the Korean state.

After stuffing a lot of silver and beauties, and obtaining the Ming Dynasty stationed under the default attitude of Shen An, the Korean conquest plan officially began.

"Your Highness, this is how the overall cause and result of the battle were."

At the temporary base of the Weihaiwei Navy, Li Hu gave a general account of the intelligence collected by the navy.

Although Zhu Zhangui secretly acquiesced in the attack on North Korea, he only knew a general result, and the overall arrangement was still carried out by people on the navy's side.

After listening to the current situation, Zhu Zhangui got up and walked to the map, looked at the map of Japan and North Korea and asked, "How long will it take for the sea to thaw?" ”

"According to the previous practice, it will thaw in about half a month, and the ship can move after a month." Li Hu replied without hesitation.

As a naval officer, he is well acquainted with the various climates and currents in the oceans.

Zhu Zhangui nodded slightly, raised his hand and pointed to the location of Seoul, "How long can the North Korean side hold up?" ”

An intelligence officer stepped forward, "According to the information we have received, and with the help of the personnel sent by our army in advance, North Korea will have no problem supporting the sea until the sea surface is icy." ”

"And during this time, the Japanese also stopped attacking, after all, the freezing of the sea is not only affected by us, they are also affected, and they are affected even more, after all, their logistics are all dependent on ship transportation and local collection."

Zhu Zhangui chuckled lightly and raised his hand to slap on the map.

"As soon as the ice surface melts, we will launch an attack immediately, and the first step is to cut off their supply lines from Tsushima Island, and I want the entire Wa country not to be allowed to go to the sea without a single piece of wood."

"At the same time, send ships to inform Shen An, and after receiving the order, immediately launch an attack on the Japanese state."

"My order to him is that before I settle the Korean War and set foot on the islands of the Wa Kingdom, I want the banner of the Ming Dynasty to fly over the entire Wa Kingdom."

"Yes!"

All the generals shouted in unison, saluted and turned to leave.

At the beginning of March of Yongle 18, the ice on the sea surface was slowly lifted.

As the waves beat again, the fleet, which had been anchored on the shore for a winter, moved its stiff body, loaded it with soldiers and various supplies, and set sail for the Korean Peninsula, which was in the midst of war, under the service of the officers and men of the navy.

"Kill Ji and give!"

Under Seoul, countless dwarf warriors, wielding swords with shields, stepped on countless corpses under the cover of musketeers not far away and the artillery that burst into flames from time to time, shouting and launching a fierce attack.

As winter passed, the two-month battle began again.

The warriors of the Japanese Kingdom, who had enjoyed a winter on the Korean Peninsula, were called by their officers early in the morning, crawled out of the arms of the warm Korean women, and then excitedly put on their cold leather armor and prepared to launch a new year's offensive.

Their commander has promised that as long as they take Seoul for three days without sealing the sword, they will burn and loot as they please.

The little nest melons who were beaten by Daming and have lived a hard life for several years have long been looking forward to this happy day.

Thinking of the snow-white-skinned *** people, and the delicious food and tempting gold and silver.

Even though they knew that the siege was heavy and wounded, the hearts of the warriors of the Japanese Kingdom were still hot.

The ant-like little bean stick, attached to the ladder on the city wall, let out a wolf howl from his mouth, and desperately climbed up the city wall.

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The little nest melons attacked like crazy, and the sticks were not to be outdone, under the command of some Ming officers, they used all kinds of weapons to defend the city, and frantically killed Xiao Douding.

Rolling stones, giant trees, rain of arrows, gold juice...

Every kind of fortification item that is thrown down will bring a terrible howl.

The little nests with hideous expressions, like dirty little cockroaches, were stoned, scalded, and shot to death.

Patches of corpses were piled up under the city walls, and the bright red and smelly blood pooled into red streams that flowed towards the low-lying places in the distance.

"Your Excellency General Qi, may I ask when the Ming Dynasty's reinforcements will arrive, our soldiers have suffered heavy casualties, and there is not much food left in the city, I'm afraid we won't be able to hold out for long."

In a city tower, a minister of the Korean state glanced at the shouting outside the city in fear, and nervously asked a man in a Ming costume next to him.

Qi Yuan, Shandong Weihai guards the Japanese army thousands of households.

Since the navy was stationed in Weihaiwei, Li Hu directly took over the local command, in order to prevent the sticks from losing so quickly, after consulting Zhu Zhangui, Li Hu transferred the officers of the Japanese army to North Korea, and asked them to train the Korean army and assist the stick army to defend the city.

After all, they are the best at fighting the Japanese bandits, and it is also their job.

When Qi Yuan first came, there was no cold reception on the stick side, and he entertained them very warmly, but never mentioned the contact with the army.

Although Qi Yuan is a martial artist, he has been in the officialdom for so long, and he also understands some of the ways.

He understood that these sticks did not believe them, and they were afraid that after they trained the army, they would indirectly control the army of the sticks, thus threatening the dominance of the sticks.

Qi Yuan didn't care about this, anyway, the order they received was to assist the stick country to stabilize its defense, and they would listen to what the North Korean sticks arranged.

Besides, how can the training soldiers eat and drink spicy food every day and enjoy the comfort of interracial beauties.

Unfortunately, within a few days of the good days, the Japanese launched an attack, and in less than a month, before they could discuss with the king of Joseon, a large number of defeated troops retreated to Seoul, and the Japanese followed.

Well, it's so easy, the army runs over on its own, and there is no need to run to a certain corner to train the army.

In order to defend Seoul, wait until the reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty arrive.

The king of Joseon was afraid that his generals would not be able to defend the city, so he handed over all the rights to Qi Yuan.

In the mind of the king of Joseon, the generals who can be sent here by the Ming Dynasty cannot be useless waste.

Fortunately, the king of Joseon did not guess wrong, although Qi Yuan is just an ordinary thousand households, his family is a martial arts heirloom, and his skills are no worse than those famous generals.

The main reason why he is only a thousand households so far is that he has no opportunity and filial piety for the money above.

If he had the opportunity to honor the money above, he might not be able to mix with the three battalions to become a general now.

In fact, the main reason is that since the Ming navy was strong, the Ming Dynasty did not have the trouble of the Japanese army, and their position as a Japanese army was a little embarrassing.

Even for several years, the above seems to have forgotten the existence of their troops, if they were not in Shandong, and the navy happened to receive them, I am afraid that Qi Yuan would have to take his subordinates to open up wasteland and farm to support themselves.

Now that he has an errand, after taking over the North Korean army, Qi Yuan used what he had learned in his life, and he was stunned to use less than 5,000 stick troops to block nearly 100,000 Japanese soldiers for nearly 100 days.

This is Qi Yuan's record handed, and it is also a vote for whether he can join His Royal Highness Taisun in the future.

Who doesn't know the entire Ming Dynasty, now the military attaches want to come out, and only by going to Taisun's subordinates can they have a chance to get ahead.

Otherwise, no matter how strong the ability is, I won't be a sycophant, and I don't have some money above, let alone a promotion, it's good to keep my current position.

I think that there were a thousand households in Ningbo at the beginning, but because of his performance in front of His Royal Highness Taisun, he was reused by His Royal Highness Taisun, and now he is the commander of a 10,000-person cavalry in the 3,000 battalions.

Qi Yuan didn't want to do nothing for the rest of his life, he wanted to use his credit for guarding Hancheng to recommend himself to His Royal Highness Mao Sui.

also wants to give his brothers who have been forgotten by the court a chance to live and eat and wear warm clothes.

After all, if they don't work hard, their reserve army will be disbanded.

The brothers who have been in the army all their lives, if they are disbanded, they will not even have the craftsmanship of Hukou.

So no matter what, he has to enter the eyes of His Royal Highness Taisun and pull up his brothers who rely on him for food again.

"Rest assured, the sea has now thawed, and I believe that the troops supporting the imperial court have set off."

Qi Yuan glanced up at the sky, calculated silently in his heart, and said to the officials sent by the king of Korea: "You go back and tell your king that in three days at most, the imperial court reinforcements will arrive, so that he will stabilize the city for three days no matter what." ”

"Please rest assured about the affairs outside the city, as long as I am alive, just a few widows will not be able to enter the city."

Saying that he was appeasing the officials of the Korean State like this, Qi Yuan actually wanted the support troops of the imperial court to come later.

Guarding the city for a hundred days is not enough to show his ability.

The emperor's subordinates are full of talents, and if he doesn't show some dazzling achievements, even if His Royal Highness the prince knows about him in the future, it is estimated that he will not be too impressed.

With his current merits, Qi Yuan thought that when he talked about meritorious deeds in the future, he would probably be sent away by a random position.

If only he had himself, he still had thousands of brothers under him, and he had to think about those thousands of brothers, so he hoped that his credit would be as great as possible.

"Head, in the south of the city, I found that the Japanese were digging the city wall, and it seems that they were planning to blast the city wall with gunpowder."

Just when Qi Yuan was looking at the city defense map and thinking about how to expand the credit, a hundred households under his command ran over and reported to him what he had discovered.

Qi Yuan glanced at him, and said, "Isn't it okay to repel them, you still need to come and ask me about this little thing, the lessons I give you on weekdays are all in vain." ”

"It's not the head, those little gourds are very cunning, they push the chariot against the city wall, our stones and wood can't be smashed at all, and the fire can't be burned, they have splashed water on them, and they have formed thick ice."

Qi Yuan threw the brush in his hand on the table, picked up the tea next to him and took a sip.

"Then use explosives to blow up, didn't we bring some gunpowder, let the stick army jump directly with the explosives bag on their backs, grab the enemy's chariot and blow it up."

"Huh!"

Baihu was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and opened his mouth to say something, but Qi Yuan's surging gaze made him unable to speak.

"Third child, remember, this is not our country, and the problems that can be solved with other people's lives are not problems."

"Don't think about the influence, these things are considered by the people above, our task is to guard this city, and nothing else has anything to do with us."

After hearing these words, Baihu's eyes were fierce, and he saluted and turned to leave.

"By the way, after running out of explosives, remember to report to the king of Joseon, these are all things that he needs to buy with money, this thing is very expensive, when I left, I licked my face and patted the sycophants of Chief Officer Li Hu for a long time before I came, it's not easy."

The corners of Baihu's mouth twitched, and he ran quickly towards the south of the city.

"I was watching the mountain scenery from the city tower, and I heard the chaos outside the city, and the flags were waving in the air..."

Waiting for his subordinates to leave, Qi Yuan held the teacup, watched the fighting inside and outside the city wall, humming in a good mood, the opera sung by Si Laojun in the teaching workshop some time ago, enjoying the beautiful life in the early morning.