Chapter 67: The Great War Is About to Begin

When Liu Sanduo's backstage was thinking about how to deal with Liu Sanduo and Li Yingyuan, Yuqian, the governor of Zhejiang in the Ming Dynasty, received Yang Sichang, the right attendant of the military department, in his mansion, and discussed with the other party about the occupation of Dinghai County by the English who had been in a uproar recently. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Brother Fat Man, the day before yesterday you sent someone to send a copy of 'Ping Yingce', I have studied it carefully in the past few days, and I feel that the more I look at it, the more it tastes, and I feel that it is really amazing to say a good solution to the problem of English infestation.

I just don't know who wrote this 'Ping Yingce', can you recommend it?" Yu Qian patted a book on the table and asked. Yang Sichang is weak in words, and he calls himself a fat man, and people close to him often call him this.

Hearing Yu Qian praise "Ping Yingce", Yang Sichang looked a little embarrassed, as if there was another reason for this.

"Since Brother Shu Ting asked, I should tell you the truth, but there is something strange about the author of this 'Ping Yingce'. Yang Sichang is considered to be the most trusted minister of Emperor Chongzhen today, he became a soldier at a young age, his future is limitless, and he is usually capable, and he is considered to be a capable minister who knows the soldiers.

"My father had presided over the affairs of Shaanxi during his lifetime, and during this period, many people who did not obey the king rebelled, so he recruited martial arts people to protect them and rely on them in case of war.

One of the staff members surnamed Xie contributed a lot, he was originally a person in the first emperor's period, but because he liked martial arts, he learned martial arts from a master in the world, and became one of the best masters in the world in a few years.

Originally, the mountains were not quiet, and the news of this person had been cut off for several years, and he never thought that he would find it a few days ago. I thought that this person was just here to reminisce about the past, but I didn't expect him to offer this 'Ping Ying Strategy', saying that with this policy, the English Rebellion can be easily solved.

I looked at this 'Ping Yingce' and found that the content of the book was detailed, and the countermeasures described were also exquisite, so I asked people to copy a copy and send it to Shuting Mansion for viewing.

It's just that about the author of this book, I thought it was written by this Xie Juren, but I didn't expect this Xie Juren to say no, it was one of his junior disciples who took the risk and went deep into Dinghai to observe the actions of the English people at close range.

I asked him the name of his junior brother, but he was reluctant to mention it, saying that his junior brother was still in Dinghai to investigate the news of the English, lest our side would act secretly, leak his junior brother's name, and harm his junior brother's name. only said that he would tell him in detail when his junior brother was out of danger.

Therefore, I don't know the name of the author of this 'Ping Yingce'. Yang Sichang knew that the source of this Ping Yingce was very important, and it involved the question of whether it could be trusted, so he carefully stated it.

"Oh, that's a strange thing. After hearing this, Yu Qian groaned a little, thought for a while and asked: "That person surnamed Xie, can you ask if his teacher's surname is Chen?"

"Yes, yes. Yang Sichang nodded.

Yu Qian's heart immediately brightened, knowing who the person Yang Sichang was mentioning, this person was heroic and righteous, and had an outstanding reputation in the martial arts, but he was a credible person. However, this person has a bad background and has some connections with people in the church, but he is not a popular figure in the court, at least he cannot openly communicate with him.

Yang Sichang told himself all these secret things, on the one hand, he knew that he was close to him and would not tell it out, and on the other hand, he understood that the source of this Ping Yingce was very important.

However, since the martial arts figure surnamed Xie has always valued faith and righteousness, and because of his master, he hates pirates from overseas such as the Japanese Kou, so the content of this Ping Yingce has a lot of credibility.

According to the book, the English seem to have only 3,000 men, but they have hundreds of artillery pieces, and their hulls are strong and tall, and if they attack hard, they will inevitably lead to heavy casualties among officers and soldiers, so they cannot be attacked lightly.

It is ridiculous that the people of the government used to underestimate the English, thinking that the other party had few people and not many ships, and it could be easily cut down, but now it seems to be a fallacy. The other party is actually a strong ship with strong guns, strict military discipline, and the support of the first power of Taixi behind it, if it is not mentioned by Ping Yingce, I am afraid that we will suffer.

It's just that Ping Yingce mentioned the technique of driving away tigers and devouring wolves, thinking that Fusang and the English should be encouraged to fight with the English first, and then the officials and soldiers will look at the situation and profit from it, I don't know what the fat man thinks?" Yu Qian asked Yang Sichang.

"It's a great way to go. Yang Sichang replied with a fuss, if he didn't think this method was feasible, he wouldn't recommend it to Yuqian.

"Dinghai was originally one of the strongholds of the southeast Japanese invaders, but after being hastily occupied by the British, the hearts of the Japanese people everywhere were fluctuating, and they all wanted to fight back as soon as possible and take Dinghai back into their hands.

At this time, if we tease a little, these pirates will definitely be happy. It's just that we need to think carefully about how to provoke these robbers, who will win and who will lose after the tiger and wolf fight, and how the officials and troops should deal with them. ”

"The fat man is right. Yu Qian smiled and agreed with the other party's statement. So the two men spread out the charts and discussed carefully how to deal with the English pirates and Fuso pirates, and they talked until late at night.

It's just that the Ping Yingce that the two talked about, if Li Yingyuan saw it, would be surprised, it was very different from the Ping Yingce he wrote the first time.

Regarding the military arrangement of the English, it is basically the same as that of Li Yingyuan's Ping Yingce, and the parameters of the weapons are also copied as they are, and all of them have not changed.

However, when it comes to the textual part, especially the part of the strategy for dealing with the English people, it is a major change, and there is hardly a shadow of the original policy.

Li Yingyuan's Ping Yingce was originally very plain, and he didn't think about embellishment at all, but only wanted to use the most ordinary language to reflect his thoughts most truly, but this was because Li Yingyuan felt that if this kind of strategy was too ornate, it would be noisy and might misinterpret the original intention of the person who wrote it.

It's just that Xie Xun is older than him, and he knows that if he doesn't embellish it, these Ming civil officials won't even look at it, so they all use gorgeous rhetoric to try it out, making this strategy deceive Li Liu, and the writing is brilliant.

However, this is still the second, and the content of Xie Xun's countermeasures has also been greatly changed. Originally, Li Yingyuan's article focused more on improving his own capabilities than defeating the enemy, that is, economically, by opening the sea ban and lifting restrictions on various industries, he increased fiscal revenues and laid a good foundation for the increase of military spending; militarily, he advocated abolishing the military household system, establishing a mercenary army of the Qi family's army, and vigorously copying and purchasing Taixi ordnance to improve the army's combat capability.

However, when he came to Xie Xun, he understood that once he wrote like this, it would only have the opposite effect, and these Ming civil officials had to work hard with the author of the article, and even the threat of the English would be put behind, so he decided to delete all these contents and fill them in with his own ideas.

So the solution proposed by Xie Xun is to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, and use the Fusang Wokou to deal with the English first, no matter who wins or loses afterwards, it will only be good for the Ming Dynasty, and there will be no harm.

The geographical location of Dinghai is unique, it is just the only way for the pirates to go from Fusang to the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty or from the Ming Dynasty back to Fusang, and it is also an important commodity distribution center for the pirates to sell stolen goods and buy and sell goods in the Ming Dynasty, which is of great significance to the Japanese Kou, and the Japanese believe that the occupation of Dinghai by the English is just a moment of negligence, and there is no personal understanding of the strong force of the British people, and they can just use it.

Of course, Xie Xun also wrote that if the English won afterwards, they would first Huairou and allow the other party to buy and sell goods to a certain extent, but they must insist on letting the other party give up the land of Dinghai, etc., and then find a way to build their own navy and strengthen their military strength.

However, with the virtues of the Ming civil officials, the other party will only value the part that drives the tiger and devour the wolf, and the rest of the content will only praise a few words with aftertaste, and will not seriously think about understanding and implementing, but this is not something that Xie Xun can control.

In addition, Xie Xun also proposed to send brave soldiers to sit on a small boat filled with fire oil, and then quickly approach the British warship, use axes and nails to fix the bow chain to the opponent's standing ship, and then use gunpowder to ignite the oil and then go to the sea to escape and other effective tactics, but Xie Xun is more familiar with naval warfare than Li Yingyuan, a man who talks about war on paper, so he thought of a better way to use the current strength of the Ming army to deal with large warships.

In short, this Xie Xun's version of "Ping Yingce" is very different from Li Yingyuan's version of "Ping Yingce", which more reflects Xie Xun's familiarity with the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty, and is also more suitable for the implementation of Ming officials.

And Li Yingyuan's "Ping Yingce" is not necessarily bad, but its content is too shocking, so that these civil officials can see that they will only rush to bring the writer to justice, but will not think of doing it according to his ideas, but this is where Li Yingyuan is too young and too naïve, and it can be regarded as the Ming Dynasty version of the Too young, too simple Tucson break.