Volume 2: The Battle of the Wa Kingdom

Chapter 131: The Son of the World is also ambitious

"General, the Ming army has been found ahead."

A flag warrior came to Hirata Masanobu's horse and said quickly, "There are no less than 100 people. ”

Hirata Masanobu did not participate in the Korean War, and he was very disdainful of the combat effectiveness of the Ming army as his ancestors said, and he thought that it was just that Konishi Yukinaga and Fujido Takatora at that time were making excuses for their defeat, after all, the army of more than 100,000 did nothing but know that breaking through was really losing the face of the samurai.

Hirata Masanobu glanced back at the samurai behind him, and then said sharply: "The Ming army is vulnerable, show the samurai spirit, and be loyal to my Satsuma country." ”

"Huha...", the samurai behind him whispered in unison.

Here, Hirata Zengxin was rushing to Lingang with more than 200 reinforcements, and Chen Cao over there was waiting for Shangxian's answer with a posture of looking at the world.

Zongxin approached Shangxian with difficulty, and said in a low voice: "Shizi, before the right guard will die, he shouted to Shizi that you lead the Ryukyus, have you forgotten?" ”

Shang Xian turned his head, a little confused: "To give up Lingang is to give up the entire Ryukyus." ”

Zong Xin glanced at Chen Cao and the others who were staring at them, and then said with difficulty: "The Ming army came prepared this time, and your subordinates think that they are not as simple as simply wanting to conquer the Wa Kingdom. ”

Shang Xian raised his head: "Ryukyu is the heavens // Emperor Taizu of the dynasty is not a country to conquer..."

Zong Xin looked at Shang Xian with some embarrassment: "The Wa Kingdom is also among them..."

Shang Xian's eyes became confused again, and at this moment, the interpreter brought a Ryukyuan man dressed in tatters, and Shang Xian recognized this person as Wang Zhuang from afar.

"Lord Wang..."

"O son..."

Wang Zhuang cried and ran to Shang Xian and knelt down, and then wept bitterly: "King he, he was killed by the Japanese people... They slaughtered the royal palace..."

Shang Xian stumbled, Zong Xin immediately supported him, and it took a long time for Wang Zhuang to come to his senses, with a sobbing body: "They are ready to support Shang Zhen as the king of the Ryukyus." ”

"How did you get here?"

Wang Zhuang was stunned for a moment, and then said bitterly: "They slaughtered the palace and sent people to loot in the city, and the subordinates escaped under the escort of their families, but unfortunately the family has been..."

Zong Xin saluted: "Shizi, if you don't make a decision, the Marquis of Dingwu will definitely leave." ”

"You only have two choices right now..."

Chen Cao opened his mouth and walked in front of their small group, and under the gaze of the high-ranking officials of the Heavenly Dynasty, Shang Xian still bowed to Chen Cao with difficulty: "Please show the Hou Ye." ”

"Ben Hou got the news that the Ryukyu prince Shang Zhen united with the Japanese to ambush and kill the king of Ryukyu Shangfeng, his crime was extremely evil, and he should be beheaded, Ben Hou as an envoy of the suzerain, with no will, but to kill the ministers is the sky // The upper country maintains the duty of the lower country;

Shangxian, the prince of the Ryukyus, cannot clear his suspicion in this matter, and Benhou is a different matter..."

Shang Xian was stunned on the spot, and only after his thoughts reacted did he retort: "Master Hou, the subordinate did not participate, and the subordinate is innocent." ”

"Shizi," Wu Chun stood up and said in a strange manner: "The matter has come to this, Ryukyu is subordinate to my Ming Dynasty, and from now on, it will be governed by my Heaven // Chao Shangguo." ”

Boom...

Sang-hyun sat down on the beach.

..

Hirata Zengxin's home has a lot of Ming army standard armor captured on the Korean battlefield, so he also has a certain understanding of the Ming army's clothing, but behind the shield array three hundred steps away from him, he can clearly see the other party's clothes.

There was no protective armor outside their dark green clothes, and if it weren't for the word 'Ming' written on their banner, he would have even thought that these people must be pirates from Dongfan Island.

"General, they have muskets in their hands."

The samurai rode a short Japanese horse and swam around in front of Chen Cao's army and retreated.

"The maximum distance of the Ming musket is fifty paces, and our iron cannon is one hundred steps, hahaha," Hirata Zengxin was looking forward to the Ming army, he wanted to see how strong the Ming army was in the mouth of his ancestors.

Chen Cao glanced at the more than 200 Japanese soldiers on the flat sand at the intersection of Lingang, shook his head and patted the guest Guangxian who was approaching in front of the battle: "Mrs. Fengsheng hopes that you will surrender to the ground, and I will hand it over to you in today's battle, and the Japanese will only have so many horses, and the pursuit of them will be handed over to you." ”

"Yes..."

"Master Hou, the sailor has gone to Naha Port in Shanbei Prefecture." Sun Chuanting approached.

Chen Cao's strategy was to annihilate the Japanese army in the Ryukyus, and then let some people go back, and wait until Satsuma's reinforcements arrived to talk about other things.

"Master Hou, Shang Xian wants to see you."

Zhao Xin straddled the sword, he didn't think that Shang Xian would resist, and at this time, no one would care about the life and death of the little Ryukyu prince.

"Ben Hou might as well explain to you the previous two paths, first, my Ming Dynasty is in charge of Ryukyu, but you Shangxian is still the king of Ryukyu, but the military and foreign trade in the future of Ryukyu are all decided by my Ming Dynasty;

Your Shang clan is in charge of Ryukyu, and the political affairs and taxes in the Ryukyus are left to your Shang clan to decide, and you can keep 200 palace guards and 50 princely guards, and the stability of Ryukyu will be maintained by your Shang clan, and if there is a rebellion, it will be pacified by my Ming garrison;

If the people of the Ryukyus think that they have been oppressed by your Shang clan and sue the Ryukyu garrison, you will have to give a perfect explanation and classify it, and the internal affairs of the Ryukyus will be handed over to your Shang clan, and the foreign affairs will be managed by my Ming dynasty..."

Shang Xian's breathing began to become short, and Chen Cao continued when he saw this: "The second way is that I, the Ming Dynasty, directly govern Ryukyu, and the Shang family is no longer the king of Ryukyu, and in the future, the political affairs of Ryukyu will be decided by the people of Ryukyu, and Ryukyu will no longer have the title of 'king'." ”

It's hard to do both...

Sanghyun regretted it, he regretted that he wanted to ambush Hirata, and he regretted the idea of asking the suzerain's country for help, but at this moment, the knife was already on his neck, and he had to choose to bow his head.

"The subordinates are willing..."

"Okay..."Chen Cao clapped his hands, his face was extremely happy: "In the future, this place will be called the 'Ming Ryukyu State Special Zone', still dominated by your Shang family, Ben Hou is in charge, from now on, you Shangxian is the new king of the Ryukyus." ”

Even though he became the king of the Ryukyus, Sanghyun did not have the joy he had before.

Chen Cao immediately saluted Shang Xian very politely: "I have seen King Shang Xian, and I also ask King Shang Xian to move and observe how our army repels the Japanese invaders, please..."

King Shangxian is now chasing ducks to the shelves, but after all, he has fulfilled the old saying of the Ming Dynasty, 'people have to bow their heads under the eaves'.

If you calculate it carefully, the king of Ryukyu is also at the level of a county king under the canonization of the Ming Dynasty, and a marquis like Chen Cao also has to salute people, but the outer domain is the outer domain, even if it is at the earl level, the king of the Ryukyus has to take the initiative to be polite when he sees it.

Chen Cao and Shang Xian stood on the temporary high platform, the two sat side by side, Chen Cao politely pointed to the Japanese army in the distance in front of him and said: "King Shang Xian, this kind of Japanese coward is in the eyes of my Dingwu army, but it is just a local chicken and a dog, and see how I can break the enemy under my command." ”

During the training, Keguang only heard Shangguan talk about the equipment of the Japanese army, and they did not have artillery, mainly because of the restrictions on iron materials in Japan, if the iron material of an artillery piece was made into Japanese swords, the best swords could be made into at least 100.

They were proud of their own improved arquebuses, which they called 'iron cannons', and there were also heavier iron cannons that could be used as light grenadiers.

Chen Cao smiled and pointed to the few Japanese firearms units that were gathering in the distance: "King Shangxian, the muskets of the Japanese can hit a hundred paces, and their largest iron cannon can hit about a hundred and fifty steps, if it is to fight the Ryukyus, these are okay." ”

Shang Xian's face was slightly red, and then he said: "The subordinate is a small country, and the national strength is not good. ”

"Order, if the Japanese reach one hundred and fifty steps, they will be caught off guard."

"Yes..."

Hirata Masanobu looked at the Ming army in front of him mockingly, he didn't think that the opponent's firearms could fight farther than them, and the combat effectiveness of the Ming people was generally very poor.

"My lord, the return of troops is already on the way."

A samurai of the flag came on a swift horse, and after giving the order, he withdrew.

Hirata Zengxin held the fan in his hand and waved it forward, and the captain of the iron artillery immediately drew his knife and pointed forward: "Iron artillery team, advance and shoot." ”

Keguang first commanded a battalion of soldiers and horses, and immediately after receiving the order, he ordered a heavy shield to be placed in front of the battle, according to the pre-battle understanding of the Japanese army, their most powerful iron artillery team could not break through the heavy shield.

"Deputy Commander, one hundred and eighty paces away," Li Xianyun shouted behind him, standing in front of the queue.

Keguang was not a good man or a woman, and at this moment, he had a military order with him, so he immediately ordered: "The whole army is ready..."

"One hundred and seventy steps..."

"One hundred and fifty steps..."

"The Japanese army is stationed, and the enemy's iron artillery team is reorganized..."

"Put..."

"Bang bang bang... Bang bang bang ... Bang bang bang..."

Li Xianyun was the first to strike and fired at the iron artillery team of the Japanese army.

During the Warring States Period, especially in the wars with firearms, the old tactic was that the musketeers first carried out three-stage shooting, then attacked the cavalry rushing by the iron artillery team, and finally the infantry engaged in battle, and the two sides fought very politely.

Chen Cao vaguely remembered that when he used to watch a certain river drama, the two warring lords of the two countries fought very modestly, and the war was like a gang fighting in a group, and they would accept it when they saw it after the fight.

Bang bang bang...

Many of the scattered bullets of the iron cannon were sprayed on the heavy shield, all of which were inlaid in the shield wrapped in iron sheets, and the few Japanese iron artillery teams suffered a catastrophe, and the arquebuses of the Ming army in their images could not even compare with their muskets, how could they hit one hundred and fifty paces?

The iron artillery team was smiling at a certain stage the moment the muskets on both sides rang out, and it was only when he knew that Hirata Masanbu saw that the iron artillery team of more than ten people had all fallen to the ground and wailed, and he felt the seriousness of the matter.

The only Qiben warrior beside him immediately drew his sword, raised his sword and shouted, and then led more than seventy people under his command to quickly run towards the shield array in small steps.

Chen Cao shook his head with a smile, then pointed ahead and said to Shang Xian: "King Shang Xian, it seems that the battle solved by a stick of incense was misestimated by Ben Hou, at most a cup of tea." ”