The Yuan Dynasty set up a horse ranch on Jeju Island, as well as royal institutions such as Taebu Temple, Seonhuiwon, Jungjeongwon, and Ziseongwon, and by the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor Won Shun had also planned to retreat to Jeju Island, but in the end he did not make the trip.

After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, there were more than 30,000 war horses on Jeju Island at that time, Goryeo and the Ming Dynasty negotiated for a long time for these more than 30,000 war horses, Lao Zhu asked King Gongchou of Goryeo to send the war horse to Taicang, King Gongchou of Goryeo said that it was difficult to travel by sea, and he was unwilling, Lao Zhu asked him to transport it by land, from Dingliaowei to Jingshi, King Gongchou of Goryeo made excuses again, and beheaded the Ming envoy twice in the middle.

Lao Zhu was furious for a while, and planned to use troops against Jeju Island, but finally gave up.

Since then, this once huge horse farm of the Yuan Dynasty has become owned by Goryeo.

After Sheng Yong arrived on Jeju Island, he landed on the northeast side of the Yuan army training sailors.

Ships come and go here every day, and countless ships in the Ming Dynasty go back and forth between the two places to transport supplies.

A large amount of materials were piled up on the edge of the dock, and there was too much material to move.

A group of Ming soldiers and workers who arrived first were still working overtime, mainly afraid of storms and rain.

The emperor sent troops to three guards, and in addition to the surplus materials in the early stage, he also transported more than 5,000 people and more than 500 craftsmen.

Minfu was recruited as an auxiliary soldier, with 20 yuan per person per day, and was recruited near Huai'an at that time, and it was full in three days, and there were countless registrations.

Because in the past, the Ming court's conscription was compulsory, and there was no salary.

At this time, ordinary people do odd jobs outside for a day, and it is not bad to have a maximum of ten cents.

The imperial court explained that only copper coins were issued, not treasure money, and everyone signed up very actively.

The craftsmen were paid a little more, 30 wen per person per day, and most of them were recruited from the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Households.

Sheng Yong walked on the yardside, looking at the mountains of materials, many of which he didn't know, and asked as he walked.

He was accompanied by Li Youzhi, a waiter from the Ministry of Works.

Li Youzhi was the logistics supervisor of this expedition to Dongben, responsible for the logistics supply of the Ming army.

"This box is so long, what's inside?"

"Hoe, after you pass, you should also have a small amount of your own fields, grow some vegetables, and grain."

"What's in here?"

"Sapper shovels, used to build fortifications."

"What's in here?"

"For polishing stones, Your Majesty said that after occupying the Silver Mountain, the artillery can also use stone bullets, and the stones left from mining can be polished into stone bullets."

"Isn't it possible to retract the bullet and reuse it?"

"There will be misses, so always be prepared."

Sheng Yong looked around and found that the emperor was very well prepared, from life and production to fighting, he basically thought of everything.

After attacking Dongben, in addition to a small amount of its own supplies, the main supply was supported by Jeju Island, relying on the powerful naval division of the Ming Dynasty, Dongben had no choice.

But this is not the emperor's long-term plan, and the emperor may also consider using war to feed the war and force Dongben to supply on the spot.

Two days later, the soldiers and horses of the Gangnam Samdu Division arrived in Jeju, and by the end of March, the whole army had been assembled in Jeju, including peasants and craftsmen, more than 20,000 people.

At the beginning of April, hundreds of ships came from Daming, and more than 500 ships from the previous one formed a huge fleet of thousands of ships and headed for Shimane Prefecture.

The one who led the way for Sheng Yong and them was actually an East Guy Yoshida.

Na Dong himself speaks Chinese very well, claiming that his father is a Ming man and admires the Ming Dynasty.

The emperor promised him that after the matter was completed, he would be named a county lieutenant and serve as an official in the Ming Dynasty, Yoshida was very excited, and changed his surname to Zhao, called Zhao Jitian.

The Ming army set off in the tailwind season, and the first batch had a water division and a guard, plus a guard battalion, two thousand people, and the rest were all kinds of materials and grain and grass.

In just four days, the fleet was close to the waters off the island root.

But just as they were approaching the land of Higashihon, a cannon rang out in the distance, and a black pressure appeared on the sea.

Dongguo had already learned of the news of the Ming army's arrival in Fan, but he didn't know that the Ming army would land there.

After the Ming army crossed the Goryeo Strait, the Dongguo Province kept watching, and mobilized the whole country's naval divisions to intercept it.

The two sides came into contact near Shimane, with a fleet of about 1,000 Ming troops and 3,600 ships of all sizes in the East.

That's almost all the ships that Ashikaga Yoshinori was able to muster.

This will be where he can fully control, and he will not be able to go to the whole country.

However, the ships of the Eastern country were small, and the ships of the Ming army were spread out on the sea, and the area occupied was not as large as that of the Ming army.

The commander of the naval division, Tao Degui, gave an order, and the Ming warships were separated according to the team.

Bang bang bang, the sound of artillery soon sounded on the scene.

The kamikaze that the East had hoped for did not reappear.

On the sixth day of the first month of April, the Ming army defeated the eastern country at sea, the Ming army had many ships and cannons, and the eastern country did not even have a few cannons, and some cannons could not hit the Ming army, so they had to rely entirely on close combat.

But they didn't even have a chance to get close to the Ming warships.

The Ming army was almost unscathed, sinking and damaging hundreds of ships in Tomoto.

The two sides fought from the morning of the sixth day of the fourth month to the afternoon of the seventh day of the first month, and after one day and one night, the East country was defeated and retreated.

On the night of the seventh day of the first lunar month, the Tomoto sailor wanted to use a small boat to sneak close to the fire attack.

But the Ming army had already prepared, and it hit the Dongben Naval Division again.

Originally, Ashikaga Yoshimochi was still quite conceited and didn't take the Ming court seriously, but the Ming army taught them a hard lesson with its fleet and artillery, and since then, at sea, the naval division of the eastern country has completely given up and does not dare to fight with the Ming army again.

In the early morning of the eighth day of the first lunar month, the first batch of men and horses of the Ming army landed at Shimane.

At this time, the eastern country knew the direction of the Ming army's landing, and the troops from all over the country were gathering towards the island one after another.

The eighth hour of the first month.

"Kacha Kacha" Sheng Yong's boots stepped on the sand, making a Kakacha sound, he bent down and lowered his head, picked up a few stones from the ground, and found that the beach was full of rubble.

If you stand on the seashore and look up, you can see Iwami Ginzan in the distance.

"Where's the map?" Sheng Yong waved back at this time.

A soldier immediately handed over the latest map of the area.

Last year, when Zhu Gaoxu received the Goryeo envoys, he asked Mao Xin's Jinyi Wei to start collecting maps in the eastern country, and the vicinity of Iwami Silver Mountain was the most important, and it was obvious that he was already preparing for the attack at that time.

Sheng Yong took the map in his hand, and the landing location was correct, the straight-line distance from Iwami Silver Mountain was about twenty miles, which was very close.

It was the hour of the hour, and in addition to the time required to disembark and unload, the soldiers and horses would immediately go out and enter the Silver Mountain in the morning.

Although only one guard came in the first batch, the eastern country did not know that they had landed here, so it was impossible for the eastern army to arrive in a short time.

"Leave a thousand men stationed to help carry the goods, and the rest of the soldiers and horses will gather immediately and prepare to go."

Sheng Yong ordered one by one, and Dahewei commanded Feng Dong to come forward and ask: "An Guogong, do you want to bring artillery?" ”

"Did any horses and mules get off the boat?" Sheng Yong asked.

Feng Dong looked back, the landing here was relatively slow, and there were still a large number of ships in the distance, and they had asked for 500 horses and mules from the Jeju Goryeo people with the ships, but none of them had come down so far.

"It's hard to take a mule without a horse." Sheng Yong said: "But it is said that there are a small number of defenders on it, with two of the lightest cannons. ”

"Whoa."

After Sheng Yong got off the ship, he ordered 4,000 soldiers and horses, brought two cannons, and took turns to push and pull.

All the way to Iwami Ginzan.

By a quarter of noon, the striker had reached the foot of Iwamiyama.

Iwami Ginzan was mined in 1309 (the 2nd year of Yanqing), but it was not mined on a large scale until 1526, more than 200 years later.

Now Iwami Ginzan belongs to Iwami Lord, but there are many of the same small countries around, including Zhou Defense Country, Nagato Province, Aki Country, Izumo Country, etc., and several countries are fighting for Iwami Ginzan.

At this time, Iwami Silver Mountain did not produce much silver, and it was all small-scale mining, but the countries were also constantly competing.

Iwami built a fortress around Silver Mountain as a protection, and the entire mountain garrison was about three or four hundred people.

After the Ming army arrived at the bottom of the mountain, Sheng Yong was also stunned.

I saw that at the foot of the opposite mountain, three or four hundred stone soldiers and horses were standing together in a chaotic manner, all holding weapons, looking at the Ming army from a distance, looking at it without discipline.

Sheng Yong looked up and saw a castle in the distance, and the soldiers and horses of the eastern country did not go to defend the city, but ran out to fight with them?

Just when he was inexplicably wonderful.

A general walked out on the opposite side, and someone next to Sheng Yong was immediately ready to draw a bow.

"Wait." Sheng Yong heard the emperor say that this nation is very strange, what kind of samurai spirit is talked about, and he immediately ordered to wait first and see what he has to say.

The general slowly walked within twenty steps of Sheng Yong, and said something.

Zhao Jitian immediately translated to Sheng Yong: "On the opposite side is Iwami country Matsumoto Tsuru, asking to go head-to-head with the generals of the Ming army, and if you lose, you will withdraw your troops immediately." ”

“。。” Sheng Yong.

A fool is going to fight with you alone, if you fight like this, I have to let Your Majesty come over, Sheng Yong waved his hand back: "Archery." ”

Crash, there was a crash in the air.

Whoosh, at least two dozen arrows flew over, and the general of Nadong was shot into a horse peak nest on the spot.

On the other side, the soldiers and horses of the East Kingdom shouted and scolded the Ming people for not having martial virtues.

"Kill, leave no one." Sheng Yong waved his hand again, and the Ming army rushed away like a tide.

Dong himself was not afraid, and rushed forward one after another.

However, Dong himself was unlucky when he encountered the Ming army.

The Ming army had a lot of bows and arrows, and the two sides had not yet encountered, they collapsed, and there was a burst in the air, and arrows rained down.

Dong himself also shot arrows at the same time to counterattack, but it was far less than the Ming army's arrows.

A rain of arrows passed by the Ming army, and there were almost no people on the opposite side who could stand.

This is the advantage of having more people, and the Ming army has more archers than the Eastern country.

This battle was fought without difficulty, and it was simply the easiest battle since Sheng Yong joined the army.

When cleaning the battlefield, I found that Dong's armor was not neat, and many people did not even have armor protection.

Sheng Yong's confidence in holding Iwami Silver Mountain has become even greater.

In the afternoon, the Ming army entered Iwami Ginzan, and the defenders were almost completely annihilated, and the Ming army held the four corners, occupied the castle of Higashimoto, and then immediately strengthened and began to transport artillery from the coast.

At this time, Sheng Yong also found that Iwami Silver Mountain had not been mined on a large scale, and there were more than 1,000 workers on site, far less than the scale of tens of thousands of people in later generations.

According to the emperor's strategy, Sheng Yong sent troops to search within a radius of 50 miles, capture everything he saw, confiscate the grain and property of Dong himself, and concentrate all of them in Iwami Silver Mountain, and levied them as civil husbands to mine silver mines.

Ishimi was in the country, and suddenly chickens and dogs jumped everywhere, and a large number of people were captured by the Ming army and went to Yinshan to become laborers.

(End of chapter)