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Chapter 369 Overlord Hong Kong
Ryukyu, overlord Hong Kong.

Commander of the Luzon Northern Guards and General Zhaoyong Chen Bazhi stepped out of the flat deck cabin of the Dinghai ship. The thin young man's face was raised slightly, half of his face was covered by the shadow of the six-petal iron helmet with gun tassels, and he raised his eyes to look at the shore .

The young commander has exquisite armor. The six-petal iron helmet is decorated with the God of Six Armors, the helmet and spear are hung with red tassels, and the bronze decorated gun mount is also carved with the Emperor Zhenwu; It does not reflect light under the sun, and the steel neck guard is hung with the devil's face armor that has not been brought up, which is majestic and majestic.

Beside him are Qi Zhengyan and several Nizi family warriors headed by Hengdao Hyogosuke standing with arms folded. The young-looking Xingchang Qi is struggling to raise his adoptive father's Japanese sword with both hands, and looks at everything around him with wide eyes. .

President Qi's eyes were especially focused on Chen Bazhi. He always heard his adoptive father mention this general and used it as an encouragement to him, so that he must win the first rank in this battle with the major general.

When Chen Bazhi was still Wei Balang, he was as old as President Qi, and he stabbed to death his friend who fled to Qingyuanwei with his adoptive father with a spear. Later, he became General Zhaoyong.

This is like a ceremony for the young President Qi.

He knew this kind of ceremony in the Japanese archipelago in the past. It is especially important for the young samurai to take the first battle after entering the uniform. It can be a good omen for the martial arts in his life. Now this ceremony has a firmer belief, just like General Chen Bazhi!
In this story, no matter whether it is Chen Bazhi in Wei Balang's time, Qi Zhengyan who fled for his life, or President Qi who told the story, no one cares about the friend who died under the spike gun.

Who cares about friends, in this troubled world, isn't it the most important thing to survive?
"It's very similar to Japan." Qi Zhengyan visited here when he led his troops back to the west, and introduced to Chen Bazhi: "Look at the brave soldiers on the shore, they look like Japanese, because the armor is all traded from Japan, and the chest is painted with Ba pattern It's the banner of King Shang, isn't that right, Zheng Ditou?"

Zheng Pei stood aside, Qi Zhengyan called him from his fiefdom, and Urasoe thanked him for being the head of a famous village.He nodded first, and then explained to several people: "Ryukyu focuses on sea trade. Ming, Japan, Korea, Siam, Luzon, Sulu and other places have trade exchanges. Japanese armor is cheap and easy to make, so Ryukyu soldiers make Japanese armor .”

"Because the sword is too long, it is not suitable to use it alone with a shield. So I bought many short swords more than two feet long and mixed them with the long spears bought by the Celestial Dynasty. Most of the firecrackers and three-eyed guns were bought in the tribute. When the kings unified the islands, they returned to them The emperor invited twenty general cannons, which the Japanese called Shihuoya, to make a great contribution."

Zheng Pei's respect makes people feel good, but Chen Bazhi has never been easy to get along with, he can say anything, and asked with a frown: "Even if the firearms of the Celestial Dynasty are changed, why not change the armor and knives at the same time? Do you want to change your armor?"

"The general is joking, that's not the case. My Ryukyu has paid tribute to the Celestial Dynasty for 200 years since the Sanshan era. Regardless of shipbuilding, military armor, and military art, I have learned from the Celestial Dynasty. The earliest emperor Taizu ordered Fujian to be good at building ships. 36 surnames went south to Ryukyu to pass on the method of building huge ships , there is my Zheng family, my father met the Japanese pirates, and was exiled in Ryukyu at the earliest, and he survived only by the family's support, no one dares to forget the great kindness of the Chinese dynasty."

"But Ryukyu also has Japanese descendants. Japanese pirates plundered, Shimadzu traded, and there were three divisions in the country that were close to the Japanese country, so it became like this." Zheng Pei explained: "Ryukyu is close to Ming Dynasty, but it is also very close to Japan. , this is also a helpless move.”

Chen Bazhi nodded, raised his hand to pick up the visor between his neck and looked at the patterns on it, pondered for a moment, then turned his head to look at Zheng Pei and said: "It's okay, Japan is very close to Ming Dynasty - put a small boat!"

Chen Bazhi did not disembark, he and his flag army stayed on the fleet, only Li Dan and Qi Zhengyan's men and two hundred households disembarked.

In Ba Ye's words, he stays on the boat, and whenever there is a battle, it is good to send someone to call him.

If there is no war, they don't take a cent, and they don't even need Ryukyu to provide food and grass, because even if Ryukyu is allowed to raise it, they can't afford it.

Ryukyu lacks food. Although Ryukyu is developed due to its geography and sea trade, it is an indisputable fact that the land is barren and lacks food. Even if there is no shortage of meat near the ocean, it is difficult to live on meat alone.

Because of the lack of food, Ryukyu people often eat cycads, which is the fruit of iron trees. This contains starch. Although it can be eaten, it will be poisoned if you are not careful, because it was used as medicine in the Ming Dynasty to treat dysentery.

There are only a few thousand soldiers on the entire island, which is almost equal to the strength of Chen Bazhi's fleet.Chen Bazhi, in addition to the Lusong Northern Guard Banner Army, also had Chinese, Japanese, and Western pirates headed by Shi He, Qi Zhengyan, and Farikat, with a force of more than [-]. What was the result of suddenly handing over such a large force to Ryukyu for supplies—— —It will cause famine in Ryukyu.

So they took the grain ship and prepared enough military grain for Lu Song after the big harvest.

There are two important tasks for Li Dan to get off the ship. One is to help Chen Bazhi see if the dispute between the princes in the Ryukyu Kingdom has developed to the point of mutiny. The most northeastern part of the Big Island built a port to garrison troops to protect maritime merchants.

Chen Bazhi led the army to take root in Ryukyu. Maritime merchants who were protected did not understand it, and Ryukyu courtiers did not understand it very well. want to hit them.

No logic!
There is no need to fight at all. Looking around the Greater China Circle, Ryukyu is the most obedient among all the tributary countries. Since the Ming Dynasty, Japan has paid tribute more than ten times, North Korea has paid tribute more than [-] times, and Annan has paid tribute more than [-] times. Ryukyu has paid tribute to this year—just right A hundred times!

It is more than adding one piece to the overseas tributary country.

Although Daming's tribute sometimes has a sense of relief and loss, it depends on how it is said. The little brother on the island is suffering from famine all day long, and no one can ignore it, let alone this little brother is so good.

Only Chen Bazhi knew why Chen Mu asked him to bring troops here. The main target was not Japan, but to fight for maritime supremacy and guard against the Spaniards who came back to make trouble.

Because Chen Mu doesn't know whether the Spaniards will come from the east or the west. After all, war has been declared. If they come from the west and go around Japan from the east, the first ones to be attacked without precautions will be the northern and southern Zhili and Zhejiang areas. War has been declared, and Xiyi will not only focus on Luzon to fight.

If the flames of war were to spread to the country, Chen Mu would have committed a heinous crime.

This is the main reason why the adopted son led the fleet into Ryukyu.

Chen Bazhi drew a circle on the chart. If the governor of the Philippines reported back to Madrid at the beginning of the war, the Spanish fleet should have already set sail; preparation stage.

Below Chen Mu, none of the Nanyang generals thought that the Spaniards who were rampant all over the world would simply bow their heads and admit defeat—they were all waiting for a massive naval battle that would establish Ming's supremacy!
　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)