my days with tyrants

Chapter 94 The Wrath of the Empire

As for the follow-up of the Japanese pirates, it is none of Yang Feng's business.

His purpose of this trip has been achieved, because when he returned to Suzhou by dragon boat, the journey was full of drums and cheers...

hero!

The hero who saved the land.

Although in fact without him, those Japanese pirates would not be able to go deep, at most they would only plunder some coastal villages and towns, but the panic they created could reach as far as Suzhou. After all, this area is all connected by waterways, and pirates like this can easily Easily reach Songjiang, Shanghai.

Even along the canal.

Even take the Yangtze River waterway directly to Zhenjiang.

When the Japanese pirates were at their worst in the Ming Dynasty, even Yangzhou had encountered them.

The Ming army did not stop them.

But in Yangzhou, he was beaten away by the guards of Shanxi merchants.

It is conceivable how far the Japanese pirates can go deep in this area. Similarly, the appearance of a war-god-level warrior now is really a god to the people, and there are people who can build temples for Yang Feng.What's more, he is so cooperative, the image of the silver helmet and silver armor, holding a giant Guan knife, perfectly fits the God of War in folklore.What kind of traveler is he? He touched the common people so much, at most it was a novelty. Similarly, he didn't touch much with a gun. It's not like he has never seen a firearm. 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 beheaded thousands of Japanese pirates in Jinshanwei, which has become the hottest news among the people in Su Songjia.

There are also multiple versions.

All the city streets are singing.

So when he stood on the bow of the dragon boat, with a cloak behind his back, and boldly appeared outside Panmen of Suzhou, he was already greeted by hundreds of thousands of people.

"I respect 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 Suzhou government and Suzhou Wei watched.

Then he poured some wine on the ground in front of hundreds of thousands of people.

"Respect the charcoal creatures!"

Then he continued.

Fortunately, he didn't continue to pour, and immediately picked up the rice wine that was still half a bowl away, and poured it down in one gulp, then threw the wine bowl in his hand to the ground, picked up his pretending big knife, and walked to Wengcheng On the stone road in front of the door, he held the handle of the knife with both hands and raised it high in front of him.

Then he let out a loud roar amidst hundreds of thousands of puzzled eyes, and punched down on the stone slab with all his might.

The slate shattered instantly.

Even if the ground is compacted soil, in a place like Suzhou full of water, it is actually relatively soft. The big knife weighs 120 kilograms. With his full strength, the knife will disappear instantly, and the handle will also go down. It was nearly a foot, and then the big knife stood on the stone road like this, surrounded by a circle of broken stones...

"The sword stands here today, and any Japanese pirates who dare to come here will be killed without mercy!"

Then he growled.

"it is good!"

The commander of the Suzhou Guard hurriedly applauded.

"The ambassador is mighty!"

Then there was a boiling roar.

Because the prefect of Suzhou has been dismissed, and now he is an agent of Tongzhi. The latter hurriedly asked people to surround him with big swords. This must be dedicated to building a small temple, just like those earth temples, and the surroundings need to be strengthened. The sword used to kill Japanese pirates is the town of Suzhou City.

This is a magic weapon!

It is equivalent to Qin Qiong's mace Yu Chigong's Yue Fei's spear.

Tongzhi and the Commander of Suzhou Guard invited Ambassador Yang to get on his horse, and then entered the city amidst cheers.

The city is also full of welcome.

It can be said to be extremely honorable.

However, when he went to the official office of the commander of the Suzhou Guards, he saw Dai Gui. After sending the little princess back to the capital, he was immediately promoted to be the commander, and then transferred to Yang Wen's subordinates, who was sent by Yang Wen to invite Yang Feng to Taicang.Yang Wen has been appointed as Zuo Dudu, in charge of commanding Jiangsu and Zhejiang coastal troops to suppress Japanese pirates. He was originally the Duodu, but now he is directly added two ranks to Zuodudu to control the coastal troops.In fact, when he came back from North Korea, he should have been promoted, but he was coaxed by Yang Feng to harass the country of Japan, which is considered to be arbitrarily asserted, although he cannot be said to be guilty, after all, Zhu Yuanzhang said to crusade against the country of Japan, but after all he did something other than the mission .

So there is no penalty or promotion.

Now Lao Zhu took this opportunity to promote him.

Lao Zhu still thinks highly of him, after all, among the generals in this age group, he is quite outstanding.

He is an all-around general.

Although they are not outstanding, no matter where he is placed, whether it is the Southwest subtropical forest, the grassland beyond the Great Wall, or the sea, he can do all of them safely. The only disastrous failure in his life is Jing Nan, who was still messed up by Jianwen Micromanager.

He was originally in Kaiping, and had been holding Zhu Di from the rear. Although it was true that he lost more than he won, Zhu Di could not deal with him, and as long as he was there, Zhu Di would not dare to go too far south.As a result, Jianwen micromanaged thousands of miles and ordered Yang Wen to lead the foreign army southward through Zhu Di's control area to fight Jinan. This order was comparable to asking Mao Wenlong to go through Jianzhou Guard to rescue Jinzhou.

But he is an honest man and can only be obedient, and then the army collapsed as soon as it arrived in Tianjin.

If you go any further, you won't even be able to eat.

He himself was captured.

And now Zhu Yuanzhang obviously needs to promote more newcomers. Although he didn't kill Lan Yu and others this time, His Majesty the Emperor also knows that promoting newcomers is the most important thing.

So people like Yang Wen and Dai Gui were promoted.

As for Yang Wen inviting Yang Feng...

This must be Zhu Yuanzhang's intention. His Majesty the Emperor didn't want Yang Feng to feel that Daming needed his help everywhere, so he didn't show up, and then asked Yang Wen to invite him personally.

Yang Feng understood.

It just so happened that he also wanted to continue to eliminate these Japanese pirates.

He and Zhang Xianzong boarded the ship immediately, and went to Taicang together with Dai Gui. When they arrived in Taicang, Yang Wen had gathered more than 100 warships, and basically all of them were equipped with rapid-fire guns. Several large warships were equipped with quick-fire guns.And not only rapid-fire guns, Zhu Yuanzhang also equipped a large number of three-eyed guns. I have to say that he really knows how to choose them. This thing is indeed more effective against Japanese pirates than bird guns.

The rate of fire is fast!
At this time, the Japanese pirates did not have the Nanman body.

As far as the equipment level of the elite Japanese pirates is concerned, the three-eyed gun is really enough.

"No grenades?"

Yang Feng checked and found that there were no grenades.

"Don't use that thing on a boat.

I tried it last time. A soldier ignited the fuze and missed it when he threw it out. As a result, it blew up on his own ship. There was gunpowder nearby, and the whole ship was burned.

A miss on land would only kill one or two people at most, but a miss on a ship would be a ship, not to mention that the fuze is not easy to calculate, if you throw it on the enemy ship too early, it will be unlucky for others to pick it up and throw it back.If it's too late, it might blow up before it lands, or even accidentally blow up on your own boat. There will be chaos during the battle, and who can guarantee that you won't miss it.

That's not your grenade. "

Yang Wen said.

This is indeed the biggest problem with grenades at this time.

Once you miss the consequences are too serious.

In fact, in the era of queuing for shooting, the grenadiers had to be rushed to the front, just because they were afraid that they would blow up their own people by mistake, and flower bombs were rarely used on warships for a long time.

Also this problem.

Mistakes can be tolerated on land.

But on a battleship, compared with the serious consequences of a mistake, the possible value of using it is not enough to make up for it. If you don’t use it in this way, don’t use it. Anyway, the combination of rapid-fire guns, three-eyed blunderbuss and bows and arrows, this combination of naval warfare is already Enough to deal with Japanese pirates, not to mention that the Ming army had already used rockets in large quantities at this time.

After all, it's just Japanese pirates.

Of course, at this time, this set of equipment is invincible no matter where it goes at sea.

including Europe.

The main naval battle in Europe in the middle of the [-]th century AD was in the Hundred Years War between England and France. Genoese crossbowmen and English longbowmen fired at sea. Although it is the end of the [-]th century AD, Europe has only just begun to use fire door guns, which are similar to three-eyed guns. A gun with a wooden rod in the back and an iron or copper pipe in the front.It was not until the mid-fifteenth century that the Fran cannon began to appear in naval battles. Its main purpose was to suppress the opponent's firepower by its rate of fire and cover its own sailors. This is no different from the current Ming warships.

But that was 60 years later.

"Here are the goods you want. The first batch is these two bags. You should check 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.

But it's not completely dried, it can only be said that it has been slightly dried.

"There are in Zhejiang, but the more you go south, the more Guangdong and Guangxi have the most. Another Fujian businessman said that there are a lot of Xiaoliuqiu, and there are more in Nanyang. We still have the most in Guangdong and Guangxi."

Yang Wen said.

In fact, this is all over the south of Zhejiang.

However, the species are different, and they belong to a general category. It is said that the most suitable pesticides are imported from Southeast Asia, but local species are also fine, nothing more than the strength of the pesticide.In addition, there is another widely used one on the other side of the strait, where a subspecies is also very suitable for making pesticides.

"There are more good things in Xiaoliuqiu. Sulfur, deer, camphor, and the best cypress wood for shipbuilding in the mountains. The land is fertile. There are three crops a year in the south. There are also whaling grounds along the coast. It can be said that you have everything you need."

Yang Feng said.

"You don't always tempt me to wait."

Yang Wen said very calmly.

Like an old man being taken to watch some special show.

"Why don't you bring the Wu hook and charge Guanshan Fifty States!"

Yang Feng said.

"Poor bone beside the Wuding River, still the person in the spring girl's dream?"

Zhang Xianzong said.

"But the bones by the Wuding River, after all, left the land where their bones were buried for future generations."

Yang Feng said.

"But what did the bones get by the Wuding River? Later generations can indeed say that they left the land where the bones were buried for future generations, but that is what future generations said. Speaking of the bones by the river, what did they get?
Relatives waiting in tears?
Advise the king not to talk about the affairs of the Marquis, once the general will be successful, all bones will be wiped out! "

Zhang Xianzong said.

This issue is clearly a matter of position.

For Yang Feng, it is natural to open up and open up, but for the soldiers and civilians of Daming, they are already very satisfied, and there is no need to work hard for the development.The Pioneering Association would rather do it. After all, the main purpose is to cut off the flanks of the Yuan Dynasty. Before that, including Nuer Gancheng, they were all officials of the Yuan Dynasty. It is only natural to beat them.

Benefits are secondary.

Fighting Hu Yuan is the unanimous correctness of the army and the people of Ming Dynasty at this time.

If you hit Mobei, you have to fight, and you have to fight as many dead people as possible.

This is not a matter of interests, but of enemies.

It is also possible to fight the Japanese country.

After all, it was the Japanese pirates who first attacked and harassed Daming. Since they dared to attack Daming, then of course Daming would kill them and beat them. This is also naturally correct.

but……

Others are unnecessary, right?
Something good?
Have land?
But Daming is not short of it!
On the contrary, in the current Daming, after leaving Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, the rest is sparsely populated. The whole north is only a little bit more than Shandong, and the rest until the southwest is covered with sparsely populated land.

Is Daming short of land?
What Daming lacks is obviously people.

During their debate, the huge naval fleet left Taicang, moved forward along the Yangtze River, and sailed out of Chongming Sands at low tide. However, Chongming was the northern channel at this time, and the large land on the north bank was not out of the water, so the width of the Yangtze River estuary was almost modern. twice as much.After exiting Chongmingsha, it turned south, took the north wind and headed south, where the naval warships of various guards in Hangzhou Bay such as Nanhuizui and Jinshan converged. Because the latter brought a large number of relatively small warships, the scale was expanded to [-] .

On the sea, it can be said that the sails are like a forest, and the strength of the world's most powerful navy is fully displayed.

But they have to find the pirates first.

"Here, Sizhou pond."

A colleague of Guan Haiwei pointed to the map where Yang Feng rushed to work on the boat and said.

That is Shengshan Island.

This is indeed the place where Japanese pirates hide most often.

"Then go kill 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, just like a staff officer.

"I think we should wait first?"

Yang Feng touched his chin and said.

"what for?"

Yang Wen and a group of generals looked at him.

"If the Japanese pirates ask for help from Sadayo Imagawa, then the reinforcements sent by Sadayo Imagawa will definitely go there to join them. After all, the first thing they need to replenish fresh water when they come here from the country of Wa is that this kind of foothold that has been controlled is inevitable. Rush to rendezvous.

It is winter now, and the sea is basically northerly, and the wind direction will not change.

We have a tailwind from here to there.

We wait here.

Then send people to patrol that area, and if they find that the reinforcements go there, it is best to stop them halfway, and annihilate the reinforcements directly at sea. If they cannot be stopped and let them reach Sizhoutang, then it is nothing more than going to Sizhoutang to clear them up. . "

Yang Feng said.

"But after they merge with the Japanese pirates in Sizhoutang, it will be very difficult for us to eliminate them."

Zhang Xianzong said.

"Ha, what am I afraid of.

Besides, it’s not that we can’t continue to deploy troops. The Japanese pirates’ shipping capacity is limited. Even if they can still have a few reinforcements, it’s nothing more than a few thousand at most tens of thousands of people. How many people do we have on both sides of the Hangzhou Bay?
Jinshanwei, Hainingwei, Shaoxingwei, Linshanwei, Guanhaiwei, Changguowei, this is not counting the group of guards in Hangzhou City. It can be said that [-] elites can easily gather. As long as the Japanese pirates gather in one place, are we still afraid of them? Too many people? "

Yang Feng said.

"In this way, after this battle, the pirates along the coast will be extinct."

Yang Wen said very simply.

(End of this chapter)