Lord of Ming Dynasty

Now that the war has come to this point, due to the intervention of the Japanese, the Japanese people on Denios Island have chosen to be loyal to him instead, which has to be said to be a kind of irony.

Because the Han people will not be kind to their own people in the land of the Han people. In addition to fearing their force and being forced to submit, they did not do much to betray them behind the scenes. Some people were even worried and kept fleeing to Honshu Island, Japan, the territory of the Japanese.

Now these people are tightly united around them and become a barrier to protect them. Otherwise, the troops of the second prince and the little prince who lacked clothing, food, guns and ammunition would have been annexed by the Japanese long ago.

The fate of them and the Han people will definitely not be good. The Japanese have looked down on the Han people since ancient times. How can they treat them well? In the process of unity between the two sides, thousands of Han people were captured by the Japanese under various excuses. , enslaved, and even sent to the battlefield as cannon fodder, the second prince and the little prince, as well as their Han officials and generals, can't bear it anymore.

But they really dare not fight the Japanese, because there is a more powerful Shiguofu of the Huaxia Kingdom behind them. Although the Shiguofu is now autonomous and does not belong to the Huaxia Kingdom, they have not even entered the non-core areas of the Huaxia Kingdom. But they didn't dare to fight the Japanese either. It would be different if they drove the wolves and the tigers.

However, the situation was about to change. Zhang Qiang didn't want the Japanese to stay in Shiguofu any longer. The Siguofu wanted to develop and could no longer fight against the Japanese. The Xinlu Mansion on the opposite side had already developed rapidly.

The Japanese in Xinlu Prefecture are naturalizing, and the Japanese who do not accept naturalization are quickly immigrated and sold to Zheng Chenggong, who let Zheng Chenggong control them and open up Australia.

The county government of the county seat of Denios Island is still the residence and office of the second prince. There are many Japanese samurai and samurai from the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate, officials, and daimyo generals wandering around in the county seat. The second prince Because they had no money to hand over to the Taixi people, the Japanese forced them to go to the island on the grounds of helping them settle their debts. The second prince and the others did not stop them, they couldn't stop them, and they couldn't stop them. Since they wanted to fight the Chinese people, they It's too late to be happy, how can I stop them, I have been watching them fighting with the soldiers of the Shikoku Mansion for the past few months.

The second prince handed a letter to the little prince. The little prince looked down for a while, then raised his head and asked, "Father, do you accept the terms of the Huaxia Kingdom?"

The second prince's eyes were a bit bleak, "So what if we don't accept it, we are already at the end of our battle, if we don't accept it, the Huaxia army lands, and we can only end up defeated and killed. Do you have any other options?"

The little prince clenched his fists angrily, and slumped down on the chair for a long time, "I can only promise them, but we have to take away the Japanese people who are loyal to us, as well as the Han people. This is the capital for our comeback, I heard Uncle and the others went to Nanyang, where shall we go?"

The second prince said: "We can only go to Nanyang. There are countless Han people in Nanyang, which is the basis of our unity. Others can't be trusted. After all, we are a Han country. I heard that the natives of Nanyang are more vicious. If there are no Han people, we will be very angry." It may be killed and robbed by the natives, and it is impossible to be wiped out with our strength, but it will not be too good, after all, the natives have the help of the Thais, and we will have to swing between the natives and the Thais in the future."

The little prince sighed, "That's better than facing the Huaxia Kingdom. The Huaxia Kingdom is too powerful for us to fight against them."

The second prince said: "In this case, you go to contact their leader, General Zhao Hui, and meet Prime Minister Yan. How can you say that everyone is a king and minister, he will definitely help. We can get rid of more people. We Wherever you go, your strength will be higher."

"I will be my father." The little prince agreed with a nod, then turned around and took two Han officials from the Shikoku Kingdom to meet the officials of the Shikoku Mansion on Shikoku Island.

Chapter 779 The Second Prince Uprising 2

Inside the Imperial Palace of Kochi County, the Imperial Palace of Kochi County was built a few years after the Second Prince arrived. Its structure is similar to that of Daming’s Imperial Palace. It is much taller and more refined than the Japanese low palace buildings. However, this imperial palace is now Zhao Hui’s military camp in the Shikoku Prefecture. It exists as his headquarters. Even Prime Minister Yan can’t live in it. If he wants to work, he can only work in a low-level Japanese government office in Kochi County. .

Prime Minister Yan knew who he was and what his status was in the eyes of these Chinese troops, so he could only do his job as the magistrate conscientiously, but never got involved in any other power struggles, dispatching the people in the territory, and the new It is his job to repair water conservancy, develop roads, manage Han immigrants and Southeast Asian natives, Nanyang native immigrants, and the local Japanese people who are several times more than Han people.

For this reason, he also handed over all the family guards in his hand, and then used the personal guards arranged by Zhao Hui. He has already learned that all the official guards of the Huaxia Kingdom, and the generals' personal guards are all arranged by the top, and no one can Possess private force, or wait to be judged as a crime. Possessing private force is tantamount to treason.

He received the little prince when he arrived, but the negotiation was directly led by Zhao Hui and some people from the Huaxia Kingdom, so he could only listen in on the sidelines.

"General Zhao, upon receiving your request, my father sent me to negotiate with you." The little prince was very arrogant.

Zhao Hui sneered and said: "Our request? We just don't want us Han people to kill each other. If you think we are begging you, then please go back. After a while, after the two field brigades of the regular army of the Kingdom of China land , we will no longer consider you as Han people, but traitors of Han people, we treat traitors more cruelly than enemies, if you don’t believe me, you can stay and wait for our army to arrive.”

"You, we still have a hundred thousand soldiers and horses. Don't think we can't break your tortoise shells. If you are capable, you can fight. We will still make your heads bruise in front of our tortoise shells." The little prince was young and angry after all. Sheng, unable to bear the slightest insult, jumped up to criticize.

If it were the second prince, he would not cause disputes at all if he opened his mouth. The Han people think that they are very capable people are tortoises, and they are invincible in ninjutsu. Let Zhao Hui wave his hand easily, transfer people and supplies to him generously, let them go easily, and maybe get some weapons and equipment. This is the nature of the Chinese people. , and there is no scheming.

Although Zhao Hui has been training for a short time, he used to be a military commander, running around the artillery camp all day long, obsessed with artillery, and then he was accidentally admitted to the navy, and then he joined the navy as a soldier. Later, there were people in the court It is easy to be an official and promoted quickly. Although Zhang Qiang in the Huaxia Kingdom has been suppressing this kind of atmosphere, but in view of his seniority, the officers and soldiers of the navy must have given him various conveniences, so he was promoted very quickly. A small soldier, he was promoted to naval garrison in seven or eight years.

When he led his troops to bombard the coast of Japan, he made new achievements and was promoted to admiral of the navy, commanding the navy of the Lu State Garrison, and the garrison navy of the Xinlu Mansion, becoming another admiral of the First Fleet.

At this time, they faced the Japanese and the second prince face to face, and at the same time mastered the soldiers of the Four Kingdoms, commanded the soldiers of the Xinlu Mansion, and the 60 regular army troops, [-] militiamen, and [-] servant troops stationed here by the third prince. It took two months. The elimination of the enemy's [-] troops allowed him to be promoted to lieutenant general of the navy, and if he was promoted, he would be at the same level as Ruan Shu, commander of the first fleet.

Now he controls 50.00% of the warships of the First Fleet of the Navy, the Navy Squadron stationed at the Three Princes of the Ryukyu Kingdom, the Navy Squadron of the Xinlu Prefecture, and the Navy Auxiliary Fleet of the Shikoku Prefecture. After warships and merchant ships, the establishment of the First Fleet has been reduced a lot, from more than 1000 ships to only more than 500 large and small ships.

Although there are still many thousand-ton warships, the total size is almost the same as that of the fifth and sixth fleets of the separate second-class naval fleets. It can be said that after a sale, Zhang Qiang's Huaxia Kingdom naval fleet has a large number due to its old ships. The fleet is now damaged in strength, and before new warships join, the navy of the Huaxia Kingdom has actually declined.

Facing the arrogant arrogance of the little prince, Zhao Hui directly pushed forward, using his power to overwhelm others. In his mind, the navy of the Huaxia Kingdom is powerful, and the Huaxia Kingdom is powerful. No one can challenge the dignity of the Huaxia Kingdom. .

Facing Zhao Hui's dominance, the little prince succumbed after struggling all the time, so what if he didn't succumb, seeing his family face the situation of being destroyed like this, could he not succumb?

"Then we need at least five hundred six-hundred-ton merchant ships to carry our people, and at the same time we need at least twenty six-hundred-ton warships to cover our people's evacuation here, and of course food, hundreds of thousands The common people and our troops will definitely need a lot of food, and I hope you can provide it." The little prince put forward his own conditions very aggrieved.

Zhao Hui sneered and said: "We only promise to let you go, you unconditionally disband your own army, and then we will not stop you, you can go wherever you like, this is the bottom line of the negotiation given to me by the superiors, you choose."

The little prince shook his head, spat on the ground, stood up and left, he had had enough.

This side didn't stop him. No matter what he said, he was also the negotiating envoy of the other party. Under normal circumstances, no one would kill the envoy.

Prime Minister Yan felt that this was not enough, he had served the little prince and his family for a while, and said in a low voice: "General Zhao, can you accommodate me a little bit, what we need is to solve the problem, not make it impossible to solve the problem, if If we can’t decide, we can report to the higher authorities.”

Zhao Hui suddenly turned his head and looked at him coldly. Prime Minister Yan consciously shut up. He is a surrender, and sometimes there is a natural barrier. Judging from his experience as an official, like this kind of fierce general, the ordinary end of civilian officials is that they are impulsively killed. As a surrender, he doesn't think that anyone in the Huaxia Kingdom will stand up for him.

After he went back, he wrote his words into a memorial, and asked a confidant to take him to report to the cabinet of Jinling Mansion on a merchant ship. This was his right. Great rights and freedoms.

Not long after, Gu Yuesheng arrived. He personally negotiated with the little prince, and quickly reached an agreement, satisfying the little prince's request. Gu Yuesheng knew that Zhang Qiang was already very impatient with the stalemate in the Siguo Mansion these days, and as soon as possible. Dealing with it is the business, and things that can be solved with some money and materials are not considered serious things.

Give some old merchant ships, all of which are about to be sold to merchants, or those that have already been sold to merchants. They will be taken back and exchanged for older merchant ships. Anyway, merchants in their own country will give them new ones. For a small number of merchant ships, when the time comes to pay taxes on the profits they create, it will not take long for the lost profits to be made back soon.

The average age of these merchant ships has reached 21 years, which is equivalent to the merchant ships manufactured by Ming Dynasty at the time of the Jinhua Rebellion. They all came from the confiscated ships of those Ming merchants, and the merchants were exchanged for the elimination of Lu Jian. The merchant ships obtained from Lu Jianguo during the state period are about 15 years old. In fact, there is no difference at all except for the age.

Five hundred merchant ships were quickly assembled, and the trembling conscripted fishermen drove to the port outside Kochi County, Shikoku Prefecture, to stand by.

This time, I asked the Second Fleet to get twenty 180-ton warships remodeled by the Huaxia Army in the [-]s. The fastest speed was only six knots, and the slowest was three knots. There are about fifteen armed merchant ships of the Spanish, Dutch, and Portuguese. These are preserved after many resales. The armed merchant ships that can be opened after repairs are about [-] tons or [-] tons, or [-] tons. Taisi ships of various sizes.

The first batch of delivered ships did not have any collateral. In the dark night, the little prince secretly asked the little prince to take their sailors to the hidden place in the harbor where they were. Just for the sake of sincerity, the three outdated armed merchant ships were all The 180-ton Portuguese Clark merchant ship, even if the Japanese knew about it, they didn't take it seriously, and thought they were hiding it.

Everyone has some hole cards. For some high-ranking officials, it is enough for everyone to hide some life-saving things, so there is no need to say it.

So, one dark night, when the Japanese sent another 20 troops to the front line to attack Zhao Hui's defense position, the second prince and the little prince mobilized several of his confidant generals and sent servants to supervise them, about [-] troops The Han troops drove out of the barracks and secretly assembled behind the Japanese barracks, garrisons, docks, and defense lines preparing to attack.

None of them Japanese soldiers are useless. When doing some secret and important things, everyone knows that the people they can rely on are their own people, of course they are people of the same clan.

The Han people who can be taken away by the second prince and have always followed the second prince are of course the Han generals and soldiers who are worthy of the second prince's trust and have various ties.

Dabao Liquor and Jingshan Kazuya are the two Japanese generals who are in charge of the attack. At the same time, there is Shimadzu Yamashita behind them. The daimyo general of the Shimadzu family of Japan is in command in the county seat.

As a famous general, Shimadzu Yamashita was drunk in his mansion. His Shimadzu family was expelled from Kyushu Island and lived on Honshu Island. Like a fish out of water, he was bullied. This time Because the Wada family of the Satsuma domain was dismissed and investigated, he was able to take over as the commander-in-chief here and lead troops to recover Shikoku Island. The Tokugawa shogunate has promised that if they can recover Shikoku Island, Shikoku Island will be their family’s fief in the future and belong to their island. The territory of Tsu Daming.

But this time he has been here for two months and still can't start the situation. General Tokugawa Iezuna has sent other daimyo troops to help him. If he can't take Shikoku Island by the end of this month, he will also go back to be a A wandering samurai, his family will be reduced to an inferior family. With such an important family mission, he is under great pressure. For this reason, he planned this night attack, and the battle will determine the world. It is not that these 50 Japanese soldiers died, When he died, he had already prepared the tools to kill himself, squinting his drunken eyes and waiting for the first shot fired in the night.

7 Chapter 3 The Second Prince's Uprising [-]

While they were waiting for the first shot, in the dark night, a boat like a hill was sailing against the wind and waves at high speed, heading towards Kochi County on Shikoku Island.

The whole ship is equipped with 195 crew members, plus the 296 pro-guard soldiers accompanying Zhang Qiang, a total of [-] people.

After dismantling fourteen guns, especially the huge 2-ton 85-pounder gun, one was reduced on each side, for a total of two, and nine were left on one side, the 32-ton 2.35-pounder Pound guns, two of the 32-pound guns were removed, and the eight 24-pound guns on the left and right of the upper floor were not reduced, but the number of eighteen-pound guns was reduced by two, three twelve-pound guns were removed, and one nine-pound gun was removed , two six-pounders and two three-pounders each.

Fourteen cannons were removed from the 95 cannons. Although the firepower has dropped, Zhang Qiang believes that there is really no need to install too many cannons on a ship with a total weight of nearly 76 tons. This is five more cannons than other third-tier battleships. They only installed [-] artillery pieces.

After various configurations, sea trials and the second modification, the weight has been reduced and the efficiency of no-load has been improved, so the speed has increased by half a knot, and it can reach a speed of 15 knots when chasing at full speed. Of course, it depends on a little wind speed. The wind speed should not be too low, ten knots is enough for ordinary sailing and combat, but after this adjustment, it can still be increased by half a knot.

In the future, even if the voyage time is long and the age is slightly older, the drop is not too severe, and the speed of losing half a knot can still be tolerated, so that the usable life will be longer. After the plankton in the sea was repainted, Zhang Qiang took his new-style warship to the voyage again to test the new ship. The birth of a new ship requires continuous experimentation and continuous improvement.

In the middle of the journey, he was bumped into by a traffic ship going to the Ryukyu Kingdom. Zhang Qiang knew about the cabinet and the second prince and the others, so he sent the new ship to Shikokufu.

There is nothing to be afraid of Zhang Qiang going to Siguofu. There are nearly 36 naval warships stationed there, and there is also a regiment of 2000 marines. At the most critical moment, he can go to Xinlu Mansion. The Han people in Xinlu Mansion But there are many, many of them are Han Chinese who immigrated from the Kingdom of Huaxia and were loyal to him. At the same time, there is a brigade of more than 6000 garrison troops stationed there, as well as a regiment of marines and 36 naval fleet warships, which are enough for cover. No matter where he left, Zhang Qiang didn't feel any danger to his own safety.