Chapter 295, 296 The Eastern Expedition Army, it's over...(1/2)
On the same day that Li Luo set out from Tsushima Island, the "Dark Road Army" in Haidong was about to set off.
More than 4,000 land divisions, more than 2,000 navy divisions, and more than 6,000 elite Tang army soldiers all gathered at Luoning Port on the beach. Cui Xiuning, the wife of Tang Kingdom, came to see her off in person.
In addition to the sailors and the "military medical team", the entire fleet had more than 7,000 people, more than 2,000 war horses, and more than 1,000 mules.
The defenders, the Tiger Soldiers, the Guards, the Flying Eagle Cavalry, and Zheng He's ocean-going fleet.
Those who accompanied him were Jiang Jun, Yang Qingque, Wanyan Hugu, Yang Xu, Zhu Han, Zhang Lian, Shen Huasheng, etc., all of whom were front-line generals of the Tang army.
The fifty medium-sized warships seized from Pu Shougeng took away forty, and the captured Pu merchant ships took away eighty.
The entire Tang army fleet reached more than 150 ships, and they were also medium and large sea ships. The fleet carried more than 7,000 people and 100,000 stones of grain from the new harvest, as well as the 5,000 armor and ordnance seized from Pu's family, and the Haidong self-made ordnance, freshwater, dried fish and other supplies.
But even though it carried a lot of things, the fleet was still lightly loaded. Most of the empty cargo was used to carry the remaining Yuan army.
Except for Cui Xiuning, all officials above the eighth rank of the Tang Kingdom came to see him off.
"Don't worry, madam, we will meet with you soon, and it will be foolproof." said Zheng He, commander of the Ocean Fleet.
Cui Xiuning looked at the beginning of the day and nodded, "Set's sail and set off. I only have one division of the church. If things go wrong, don't force it. Return immediately. It's especially important. You must let Tang Hou return safely."
"No!" Zheng He and others bowed solemnly.
"Rise the sail! Set sail!" With the order, the fleet led by the new sail battleships "Chang'an" and "Jinyang" slowly sailed away from Luoning Port and sailed northward through the wind and waves.
Cui Xiuning looked at the huge fleet that was setting off with some concern. It was not until the fleet left that it led the "one officials" to leave the port.
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July 18th, sunny, south wind, hot.
Today, the secret road army finally set off. Calculated that Li Luo has been away for fifty days, I am really worried. However, I must relax and strive to maintain an optimistic attitude.
Because, I am really pregnant. Anxiety is poison, which will damage the healthy development of the fetus. For the sake of my future children, I not only arrange scientific diets and routines for myself, but also adjust my mood.
I don’t know if it’s a man or a woman. Li Yuan is probably a boy, but I don’t think she is sure. It would be a bit amazing if traditional Chinese medicine can really judge a man or a woman in two months.
As for the sour men and spicy women, I don’t believe it. The pregnancy reaction is not strong, and the taste does not like to eat sourness or spicy food, but rather likes to eat lightness.
Today, the Tang Kingdom of Haidong had just harvested once and collected more than 100,000 shi of summer tax, but almost all of them were taken away by the secret road army.
During this period, the focus of the special inspection bureau's work was transferred to Liaodong. Zong Zhou, who was sent to Liaodong, sent back today, was that he had initially contacted the retainers of King Naiyan of Liaodong. In the name of the slave merchants in the South China Sea, he exchanged salt for convenient activities in Liaodong.
My plan is to take advantage of the limited opportunity of the Yuan court's control over Liaodong to smuggle tens of thousands of Jurchen residents from Liaodong to Haidong while his adoptive father was still strong.
According to his adoptive father, if the immigration plan is successful, there will be five thousand elite Jurchen veterans. As long as these Jurchen veterans come to Haidong, they will definitely obey orders.
The adoptive father is trustworthy. He has no children and is nearly 70 years old. With this last bit of Jurchen elite soldiers, he can't do anything, and he can't have any ambitions he shouldn't have. I believe in my judgment.
Li Luo's Battle of Japan could not end in less than half a year. His troops would definitely be in short supply and would even face great danger. If he sent 5,000 Jurchen veterans as reinforcements, he would be much safer.
Therefore, the plan for Jurchen immigration must be accelerated. The plan of replacing salt and Naiyan with horses must also be implemented as soon as possible. It is best to send reinforcements at that time, mainly cavalry.
I ordered the training of one thousand new soldiers, so that the remaining regular troops reached 5,000. Together with ten thousand peasant soldiers, it was enough to ensure the safety of Haidong.
Don’t worry, you are still pregnant. Don’t write anymore. After doing pregnant women’s fucks, you have to teach intelligence students. Tonight, you must go to bed early and don’t stay up late.
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Li Luo's fleet arrived at Yakushima on July 22. The fleet of nearly 100 ships immediately alarmed the Japanese people on the island.
Without saying a word, Li Luo ordered the blockade of Yakushima and did not allow a Japanese citizen to escape from the sea.
Soon, all the only dozen households on the island were captured in front of Li Luo.
Yakushima and Kagoshima, the southernmost end of Kyushu, are still separated by Osumi Strait, which is more than 100 miles away. Therefore, Yakushima is just a remote island for Japan, with a small population and is not paid attention to.
Similarly, Yakushima is not noticed by the Three Kingdoms of Ryukyu.
This is also the reason why Li Luo chose Yakushima Tibetan soldiers.
"Master, will you kill me?" asked Yan Jun, the captain of the left guard of the personal guard.
Li Luo said, "These are just ordinary fishermen, don't kill them. They all know Japanese language, and it should be useful at that time." The people of dozens of Japanese countries were just old, weak, women and children, so there was no need to make a fuss and insist on killing them.
So, dozens of Japanese people escaped, but became Li Luo's prisoners. Li Luo asked them to stay with Shao Erxinzi and all came under house arrest.
Li Luo hid his fleet south of Yakushima, which was even more hidden and would not be discovered by the Japanese or Yuan army. This sea area was nearly 500 miles away from the Kitakyushu battlefield. If all of this was discovered, it could only be said that Li Luo was too lucky.
Li Luo arranged to build a simple water camp, and then held a military discussion, mainly to tell Jianghua Navy and Ninghai Navy that a partial division of the Jiangnan Army would come to meet.
The Jianghua Navy and the Ninghai Navy's generals did not doubt it. How could they have thought that it was not the Yuan army but the Tang army that came to join?
At dusk, a huge fleet appeared in everyone's sight. Li Luo's confidant subordinates immediately knew that the Haidong Army was coming!
But the naval commander Luo Yu immediately issued an order to be on guard with all his might.
When the fleet approached and saw the Yuan army battle flag flying on the ship, Luo Yu must have been the "Jiangnan Army Partial Division".
Why do you want to join a Jiangnan Army? What are the plans for the Grand Marshal? Is all this arranged by General Xindu? Luo Yu didn't know. Since Li Luo didn't say it, he wouldn't ask. He just needed to execute the order.
When the fleet was approaching, Luo Yu saw two mighty warships and couldn't help but think, "This ship is really extraordinary, I have never seen it before. Is it the new ship of the Jiangnan Army? Oh my god, there are too many combat equipment in this ship, right?"
Luo Yu is an old navy master. He could tell at a glance that these two new ships had great combat power, better than all the warships he had seen.
Suddenly, Luo Yu became a little jealous.
The Tang army slowly drifted to the dock, and then teams of black-clad soldiers walked off the ship.
Luo Yu was stunned when he saw these soldiers and horses. What armor were they wearing? They looked very energetic and more pleasing to the eye than ordinary armor. However, they were neither iron armor nor leather armor. They looked like... cloth. Is this useful?
For a moment, Luo Yu even wondered if the other party was wearing armor. However, he was an old army after all. From the footsteps of these black-clothed soldiers as they got off the stairs, he judged that their black-clothed soldiers were of great importance and must be armor.
Well, it must have been covered with fabric on the outside of the armor. Luo Yu immediately figured it out.
Soon, a young man with more gorgeous armor came down from the tall and mighty new warship. The man got off the ship and came to Li Luo and saluted, "Jiang He, a thousand households in Jiangnan, pay homage to Li Shuai!"
Immediately afterwards, a group of generals with cloud patterns embroidered on black armor got off the boat and saluted.
"Yan Hugu, a thousand families of Jiangnan Army, pay homage to Li Shuai!"
"Yang Xu, a thousand households of Jiangnan Army, pay homage to Li Shuai!"
"I am humble in Jiang Jun, a thousand families in Jiangnan, and I will pay homage to Li Shuai!"
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Li Luo smiled and said, "No gifts and no gifts. This general is not your superiors, so there is no need to perform the gifts."
Zheng He said, "Master Fan told us to obey Shuai Li's orders. Although we are partial teachers, we must also be united in power. As the saying goes, snakes cannot do without heads."
Li Luo said, "Okay, that handsome guy will take it as his best."
After all the Tang army disembarked, Li Luo immediately promoted the tent to the army.
The first thing is to form two partial divisions into guards, which means the guards of the Japanese army.
Then, Luo Yu was temporarily appointed as the commander of the navy of the rear guards and Zheng He was the deputy commander; Jiang Jun and Yang Qingque were appointed as the left-hand military advisors; Hu Gu was appointed as the commander of the cavalry, Yang Xu was appointed as the left-hand commander of the infantry, and Guangxia was the right-hand commander of the infantry. Zhu Han, Zhang Lian and others also had their own responsibilities.
In this way, the two armies were united. There were 7,000 naval troops, 2,000 cavalry, 5,000 infantry, and 14,000 combat soldiers in the entire army. In addition to the sailors, 16,000 people.
Luo Yu saw Zheng He and others carrying a lot of food and excess weapons, and speculated that the purpose of forming the guards above should be just in case. In case the main force in front fails or the military supplies are exhausted, the guards can provide timely support.
Because Li Luo had no flaws in concealment, he still thought that forming the guards was the intention of Xindu, Jin Fangqing and others.
Li Luo concealed this out of helplessness. Because the Jianghua Navy and Ninghai Navy combined a total of four or five thousand people, they were the main force of the naval battle. But they were not Li Luo's private army, but the official army of Goryeo and the Yuan court. How can you not hide it?
In order to conceal, Li Luo and Cui Xiuning had arranged for military members and backbones to provide relevant confidentiality education for soldiers very early, so that every soldier of the Li family army would keep his mouth shut. And supervise each other and those who violate the confidential military laws should be dealt with by the military law.
The second thing that the military discussion is that Li Luo used the matter of ghosts and gods to capture the morale of the army.
"I dreamed last night that I dreamed of the Supreme Laojun. Laojun told me that within ten days, a hurricane would have to appear on the sea, which was extremely dangerous. Let me stay on this island temporarily and wait for the hurricane before taking action."
As soon as this statement was made, all of Li Luo's old subordinates looked solemn. They did not doubt Li Luo's words at all. Because the miracle of the lord being protected by Laojun has been fulfilled more than once, and it has been fulfilled every time.
This shows that the lord is definitely a lucky person. This time, Laojun's dream must be true.
But Luo Yu and others were very suspicious. However, Luo Yu was not able to question directly, but said tactfully, "Since Laojun asked the dream to the Grand Marshal, should the Grand Marshal report this matter to the Grand Marshal Xindu?"
Li Luo shook his head and said, "It's just a dream. How dare I take it seriously? How can I play with military and national affairs? If I report this dream solemnly, it will be ridiculed at the least, and it will shake the morale of the army at the worst. I will definitely be punished."
Luo Yu and others thought about it. They didn't believe this strange dream, let alone those noble and stubborn Mongolian officials who were unfamiliar and self-righteous. They were so boring that they were self-inflicted or even troubled. If Li Luo really wanted to report it, they would have to stop it.
Li Luo said again, "But, my guards are fine now, so why not stay here on this island and train sergeants. In short, if there is something wrong on the front line, we will just need to support it quickly."
Luo Yu and others took the order one after another. Even more than two thousand war horses also went to Yakushima to carry out cavalry training.
Li Luo didn't want to keep his troops alive for a day.
Of course, Li Luo's dream of Laojun's dream spread throughout the army, and even the Korean sailors knew about it.
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Li Luo hid in Yakushima and secretly trained his troops. The Yuan and Japanese troops in Kitakyushu were quiet for a few days.
After the last bloody battle, Xindu also knew that the Japanese reinforcements were coming and experienced the tenacity of the Japanese army. He knew that if he had to attack Kitakyushu, he would probably not be able to fight, and would lose many troops. If he continued to fight like this, he would not be able to bear it.
Finally, the stubborn Xindu accepted the opinions of Jin Fangqing, Fan Wenhu and others, gave up Beijiuzhou and attacked Nanjiuzhou instead.
Although the Southern Kyushu is far away from the Dazaifu, as long as you can land, Xindu is fully confident that he will push from south to north to Dazaifu, and it will take more time to waste it.
The Japanese commander of the Daizaifu also closely monitored the trends of the Yuan army. The last bloody battle also hurt the Japanese army. Especially the losses of the three thousand heavy cavalry, Utsunomiya Sadatsugu almost turned against Shao Er Jingzi.
This is half of the heavy cavalry in the Kingdom of God. She was ruined by Shao Er Jingzi. As the general of the cavalry, how can Utsunomiya Sadatsutsu not be angry or distressed?
To be continued...