Lord of Ming Dynasty

According to the captured soldiers of the Xinlu Mansion, they have captured 50 people and [-] militiamen on Shikoku Island, and they are all planning to pack and sell them to Zheng Chenggong, and send them to the cold and remote Australia to mine. Those are the people under his rule. , was captured by the enemy.

And what the enemy paid was a mere 2000 cannon fodder, the indigenous militiamen in Southeast Asia, those short humans who didn't know how to jump out of the mountain forest, he had heard that the Huaxia Kingdom destroyed three small Southeast Asian countries, and gained 800 million Southeast Asian indigenous people The population, except for some descendants of the Han people who were sent to the core area of ​​the Huaxia Kingdom, many others were sent to Baodao Prefecture and Qiongdao to open up wasteland. The environment alone caused millions of Southeast Asian natives to be buried there, and the Huaxia Kingdom immigrated Where did the [-] million Han Chinese go to naturalize the natives of Southeast Asia, and now His Majesty the King, who is so talented, sends the population of that place to the Japanese islands, so that those natives of Southeast Asia will harm his territory.

It is really unforgivable that the third brother keeps throwing himself into the territory of the natives of Southeast Asia to harm him.

The second prince made up his mind, and immediately mobilized 20 soldiers from other places, and went straight to the defense line where his third brother was. He handed it over to his son to command, and he looked at Feng Quan here.

There are 26 soldiers and horses here, and 20 soldiers and horses there. He has deployed all the troops in his territory to the front line, but the rear is empty.

But in his opinion, this is nothing, and now he is an ally with the Japanese.

The Japanese are still fighting with Kongyou recently. More and more soldiers and horses died. Nearly [-] soldiers and horses were thrown into it. Even the [-] green battalion soldiers sent by the Qing army were thrown in, and they died again. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses still haven't broken through the defense line of Kitakyushu, and even the layer of skin hasn't been worn out.

With the selfless assistance of the Huaxia Army, Kong Youxing has no shortage of ammunition. The number of militiamen helped by the Huaxia Army in the rear is increasing day by day. These militiamen are pulled up to fight a few battles, and they immediately become veterans and elite militiamen. Maybe they are more effective in field battles. Not to mention how high it is, but there are fortifications, and it is difficult to shoot at the enemy, or a one-sided massacre battle.

Even though Kong Youxing has dispatched [-] regular troops to Feng Quan, and Feng Quan has dispatched almost all the militiamen from the country to Shikoku Island, he still has [-] regular troops and [-] militiamen here, and the militiamen in the rear are constantly growing. It is still possible to get exercise and maintain order.

On this day, he sent away another [-] regular troops and [-] militiamen, which weakened the line of defense, but as long as no attack was launched against the enemy, the defense was more than adequate.

What does Ming Dynasty generals do best? Defense.

Jumping from the general of the Ming Dynasty to the general of the Qing Dynasty, Kong Youxing followed his elder brother Kong Youde, but he beat the general of the Ming Dynasty over and over again, and learned to attack. Things are safe, and generally they will not be beaten into a mess by some people, and they can basically attack and defend.

The second prince dispatched troops to attack the third prince, Hong Tianpao. Hong Tianpao quickly withdrew his troops and began to defend. At this time, he already had 15 regular troops, [-] militiamen, and [-] cannon fodder troops.

15 cannon fodder troops were successively thrown into the attack, and the 4 soldiers and horses eventually killed and injured 3 people, 1 people fled back, and [-] people disappeared.

The [-] Southeast Asian natives who fled back immediately changed from ordinary cannon fodder civilians to militiamen, and were organized into militia servants, which is equivalent to a lower-level army than militiamen, and their treatment is much lower. Inferior people, that's it. a statement.

But this is also much higher than their captives and immigrant status. At least two meals a day, free to eat, unlike the hungry people, who ate the last meal without the next meal, and did not eat for two or three days in a row. Hungry It's so tragic that the heart is close to the belly.

They are equivalent to people from the Ryukyu Kingdom who are one level lower than ordinary people.

But they are a little taller than ordinary people, because they are soldiers and have knives in their hands.

This is the reward for their harm and arrest of the people of the four countries some time ago.

If you don’t go back to starve to death, you will be able to improve your family’s social status when you come back. Each family member on Amami Island will receive an extra meal every day based on their status here to maintain their lives. At this moment, they have exchanged their credit for their status. They need to exchange greater credit for higher status.

In this battle, persist until the end of the battle, or be transferred back to Amami Island without dying, then you will be officially converted into a militia, not a militia servant army. , The brave ones, the ones with the most credit are promoted to recruits. Recruits are candidates for regular army soldiers. They are immediately transferred back to Amami Island for recruit training.

[-] official militiamen, these militiamen were originally recruited from Southeast Asian natives, Japanese, and Han people. They are people who are more accepting and loyal to the Ryukyu Kingdom. They already have certain combat experience and have been trained to follow the army. It's time to fight.

They led an army of [-] militia servants to guard the cannon fodder civilians who had not been released.

In short, in order to make future generations and the small countries that made trouble in China suffer, in order to digest their population and naturalize them as Han people, Zhang Qiang used all means. His approach, through demonstrations, hints, and persuasion, made Feng Quan He and the third prince who wanted to rely on the Huaxia Kingdom all learned it. Originally, the State of Lu was famous for learning from the Huaxia Kingdom, and the policies of the Huaxia Kingdom can be said to be more thorough than Zhang Qiang, the founder.

Facing the ferocious Shikoku Island troops led by the little prince, the third prince was not afraid, and immediately used the same trick as Feng Quan, letting the little prince grind meat in front of their strong defense line and fierce firepower. He suffered a big loss in front of the machine-like battlefield.

After Feng Quan and the third prince attracted a large number of enemy troops, Zhang Qiang recruited Kong Youxing again, and immediately asked him to lead [-] soldiers and [-] militiamen across the sea to attack Ehime County on Shikoku Island. The little prince mobilized them to the front of the Third Prince's line of defense, and they were concentrating their forces on a fierce attack, but unexpectedly, it was another dark and stormy night, and a group of elite soldiers biting daggers and wrapping single-handed and flintlock guns in oilcloth rode the night. Sneaked into the beach with a small boat, and secretly attacked the Shikoku Island militia guarded in one of the few coastal fortifications. After that, [-] soldiers and horses immediately crossed the bay with only three to five miles by boat.

After dawn, [-] soldiers and horses even erected the bay pontoon bridge, and supplies and cannons pulled by carriages also went in.

The second prince and the little prince never imagined in their dreams that Zhang Qiang would sit in Kagoshima County, turn his hands into clouds and turn his hands into rain, making them so embarrassed.

7 Chapter Fifty We Support Your Forces

The second prince, the little prince, and Prime Minister Yan, as well as the Englishman Taim, the Dutchman Ike, and the generals of the Tokugawa Iezuna family will reunite. They are now in the county seat of Kagawa Island, which is close to the shortcut area of ​​Honshu Island in Japan. Kobe Port is not far from Osaka, which was originally occupied by the second prince.

Xiangchuan Island is currently under the management of Prime Minister Yan. The four countries where the second prince is located use a management system for important figures. The ministers and generals are equivalent to the Jiedu envoys of the Tang Dynasty, and they have military and political power.

Why should such a system be implemented? In fact, the second prince has no choice. The officials and generals he brought are a bit like Long Wu's situation when he fled to Fuzhou just now. The generals are powerful, but the ministers are weak. He was supported. After all, the King of Lu’s throne has long been settled. He does not have the appeal of the eldest son inheritance system. The military generals who support their troops and self-respect are all sequelae brought about by the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, there are also Japanese family forces left by the local daimyo generals. It can be said that his power is a hodgepodge.

Japan is too powerful, and the combat power of his direct kingdom army is not weak. If they cannot join forces, it will have a devastating impact on him, so he has to compromise among various forces and let them support him as the master. The enfeoffment system is implemented. If this system is not implemented, first of all, the 400 million Japanese people will not be easy to control.

This is because they are the territory of the old Japanese General Daimyo. The General Daimyo escaped, but the forces under the General Daimyo did not escape. These forces that were not united forced him to continue the enfeoffment system, so he can only do so now.

Prime Minister Yan was such a strict Lord from the Lu State in the past. He thought he was dead, but later he escaped, fled to the Qing army, and hid with Lord Yang. Later, because the Han officials in the Qing Dynasty couldn’t get enough of him, he secretly Back to the newly established state of Lu on Ryukyu Island, I served as a county governor at the beginning, which was equivalent to trying cases, or serving as a secretary or secretary for the leadership.

At that time, there were quite a few Lu officials who fled with Hong Chengchou, but Lord Yan was actually abandoned. Those who finally boarded the ship were all Hong Chengchou's cronies who were willing to take away. Although Lord Yan had made great contributions in the past, he objected He retreated, so he was abandoned and lost Hong Chengchou's trust. It was not until Hong Chengchou's death that he served as the second assistant of Lu State from the identity of the second prince's disciple who had been promoted all the way up. When the second prince fled, he also took him away.

Now he is the biggest civil servant in the group of the second prince, the prime minister.

Although this is the site of Prime Minister Yan, the second prince is the highest leader in name here after all, the king of the four countries, the little prince is still a prince, so Yan Cheng is very polite to them, the second prince's power came here, the climate is not satisfied , was assimilated by the Japanese system, and regressed from the feudal dynasty to the enfeoffment system in the Middle Ages, which benefited him instead. Although he is the prime minister of the whole country, he is actually the king of Kagawa County.

After presiding over the coalition meeting, Prime Minister Yan sat down and watched the conversation between the second prince and the little prince, the Dutch, the British, and the daimyo general sent by Ietsuna Tokugawa from Japan.

But in his mind, most of Ehime County has been occupied by the army of Xinlu Prefecture. They stabbed their knives in the back, and the third prince attacked from the front, knocking out 20 militiamen.

Due to the large number of troops, lack of training, and limited weapons, the Qing Dynasty only supported some old-fashioned shotguns and matchlock guns. Japan supported broadswords, spears, bows and arrows, short horses, and iron cannons. Most of the militias were equipped with these Things, some elite generals are equipped with Jingai 1 and Jingai 2 matchlock guns. Only the troops directly under the little prince and the second prince, about 1 people are equipped with smoothbore guns provided by the Dutch, and the quality is also good. Not very good, the good ones were given to the Japanese by the Dutch, and the Japanese are not equipped with good quality smoothbore flintlock guns.

I heard that the guards of Japanese daimyo generals were equipped with single-bore front-loading flintlock guns, which were supported by the British and Dutch.

I heard that the eldest prince was supported by the Spaniards, and the Dutch and the British also moved around, but not many. The Dutch and the British mainly traded people with the eldest prince, and supported the eldest prince with some Southeast Asian and Nanyang indigenous populations to support The prince's troops were exhausted. Although the Spaniards provided weapons, the weapons were really not very good. They were all old matchlock guns that needed to be mounted on a tripod.

Now the prince mainly equips his troops with gold-modified 1 matchlock guns. They have mature technology, because there are some old craftsmen left over from the original Lu State arsenal, so there is no difficulty in producing imitation gold-modified matchlock guns.

With such firepower and the quality of the soldiers, how can they fight against the troops of the third prince trained by the instructors of the Huaxia Army? I heard that most of the islands of the Lu Kingdom have been lost, and they can only shrink to the main island of the Ryukyu Kingdom. , the Spaniards almost ignored them, and just provided some food to keep them going, because they didn't have enough returns.

Those Thai and Western people value profit over kindness.

Now it seems that the Four Kingdoms are about to fall into the embarrassment of the eldest prince.

20 troops collapsed, and now less than 3 troops can be recovered. Ehime County has no soldiers to defend.

The second army of the Xinlu Mansion and the third prince's army have joined forces at the border between Xiangchuan and Kochi County. Is it going to attack Xiangchuan County next? This makes him feel uneasy, thinking that if Xiangchuan County is breached, where will he go?

All the troops under him were transferred away, and there were still [-] generals trained by him, and the [-] militiamen guarding the county were all Japanese.

Prime Minister Yan closed his eyes and thought, and he heard the second prince arguing with those people in his ears. Hearing the situation, the second prince also felt that he couldn't hold on. He hoped to take the remaining 20 troops to retreat to the Japanese shortcut area, but the Japanese refused to agree. .

The two sides have been arguing for many days about this, and today they still can't make up their minds. Both the Dutch and the British support the second prince and they retreat to Osaka County, a shortcut area in Japan, to continue resisting the new Lu army in China, but the Japanese do not agree. On the one hand, they have increased troops on the opposite side of the coast. The two sides were hostile to each other, and the coast was heavily defended. Now the Japanese have deployed 20 soldiers and horses on the coast. If the Japanese soldiers and horses near Kitakyushu are added, the Japanese are facing Shikoku Island. 50 soldiers and horses have been deployed in the direction of Kyushu Island.

This could not but make Prime Minister Yan worried. Now he can see that the power of the second prince has actually come to an end.

The soldiers of the Thais, the Dutch, and the British are very powerful. At least they are better at fighting than the Japanese and Han. They are well-trained, but they are too far away. It is not easy to come here once. There are wandering naval squadrons deployed in the islands and sea areas. If you want to pass through the blockade of the Chinese army, it is tantamount to suicide.

In this era, your sailboat does not sail close to the shore, and there is no way to even call for help if something goes wrong.

While Prime Minister Yan was thinking, General Daimyo, the representative of Japan, shouted loudly: "We don't agree with you to go to our shortcut area, but we can support your troops, 30, 50, we will give, this is the final bottom line , if not, we have nothing to say, you wait to perish or prepare to escape."

Chapter 751 The Westerners Pit the Japanese

The Japanese promised to support the troops of the Four Kingdoms, but they did not allow them to retreat to the shortcut area. This made the second prince very uncomfortable, very sad, because he knew that if he did not handle it well, he would not even have the chance to escape from this place.

The navy has been wiped out by others. Even if one or two ships can be brought in, they will not be able to take away a large number of troops and people. Without troops and people, he, the king, is a fart. A bare-handed commander, it is better to be an idler at that time Let him be the king of the county, even if the youngest becomes the king, he will not end up defeated and killed. If the battle for the throne is abandoned, his brothers are still very harmonious.

Although he seems to still have 20 soldiers and horses, half of Kagawa County and Kochi County, Denio Island has not been harmed by others, but he knows that his strength is no longer able to fight against the Xinlu Mansion that attacked him from three directions .