Chapter 1589

When Qi Jiu heard what Li Qiu said, "It's wrong, it's all wrong," his heart trembled. Then he saw that Li Qiufeng's face was ashen and his body seemed to be trembling, which made him startled. He moved closer to Li Qiufeng and lowered his voice.

He said to Li Qiufeng: "Brother Li, what went wrong?"

Li Qiufeng finally came to his senses. Seeing Qin Laowu and Shopkeeper Bai yelling at each other, he became more and more anxious. He turned to Qi Jiu and whispered: "It's too noisy here, let's go out and talk!"

At this time, Li Qiufeng no longer cared about hiding his whereabouts, and strode out of the main hall with Qi Jiu. When they were leaving, Xiao Dong sneered and said: "You made such a fuss and made Li so popular that he left the house. These days

We have been so embarrassed today, don’t you think it’s not bad enough?!”

After Li Qiufeng and Qi Jiu walked out of the main hall, they walked to the remote place where the two people were talking before, and then stopped. Li Qiufeng listened carefully, but there was no strange sound around, then turned to Qi Jiu and said:

"Brother Qi, just now Qin Laowu said that it only takes one day to get there by boat from here to Tianjin Wei. I wonder if what he said is true or not?"

Qi Jiuyi was startled, glanced at Li Qiufeng, and then said: "This person is right. If you take the land route from Dongliao County to Tianjin Wei, you have to go around Liaoyang Prefecture and pass through Shanhaiguan, which is a big circle, almost

It has to go one thousand three to four hundred miles. However, if you take a big ship, you can reach Tianjin Wei in just a dozen hours. Just don't encounter violent storms at sea, otherwise you will never be able to reach Tianjin Wei in one day. "

Li Qiufeng said in a deep voice: "So, if you go to the capital from Liaodong by boat, the shortest route is to go to Tianjin Wei first, then abandon the ship and go ashore, and go straight to the capital by land?"

Qi Jiu nodded and said: "Exactly. In fact, if you enter the customs from Liaodong, you have to go in a big circle by land, which naturally takes a lot of time. If you take a big ship, you can go to Tianjin Wei, and then go to the capital via Tianjin Wei.

You can also go to Jinan Prefecture first, and then ride a horse to the north. Comparing the two, if you disembark from Tianjin Wei, you can reach the capital faster..."

When Qi Jiu said this, his heart suddenly trembled, his face changed drastically, and he said in a trembling voice: "Brother Li, you are saying that the Fusang people are going to kill Tianjin Wei from the sea, and then go straight to the capital? This, this...

"

When Qi Jiu said this, he could say no more. He served in the Dengzhou Guards, so he naturally knew the arrangement of troops and horses near the capital. The troops guarding the capital were mainly composed of the three major battalions of the capital. However, if the enemy and the

When the three major battalions are fighting, the capital must be in danger. Therefore, after Emperor Chengzu moved the capital to Beijing, he expanded the capital's defense circle several times. The key pass in the northeast is Shanhaiguan, and the north and west are in Xuanfu.

Heavy troops were deployed in six military towns in Datong. In the south, there were more than 100,000 troops along both sides of the Yellow River. The guarded pass extended eastward from Luoyang Prefecture in Henan to Kaifeng Prefecture. In the southeast, heavy troops were assembled in Shandong, in addition to guarding against enemy attacks from south to north.

In addition, we must also defend against enemies advancing northward from the sea and threatening the capital.

Emperor Chengzu arranged his troops in this way because at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Liaodong outside the Pass was a bitter cold land with few people except barbarians. Although it is very close to Tianjin from Liaodong coastal road, the barbarian population is sparse and they only rely on the

People who hunt for a living and do not know the art of shipbuilding will never attack the capital from the Liaodong coastal road. Even if one day the barbarians rise and want to attack the Central Plains, they can only enter through Shanhaiguan, or go around Mobei, from Xuanfu, to Datong

The pass went south and approached the capital. Therefore, Chengzu gathered heavy troops at Shanhaiguan and Xuanfu, Datong, and actually sealed the chokepoint from Liaodong to the capital.

It’s just that it’s been a hundred years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and the situation in the world has changed. The Japanese pirates have become more and more fierce, and their power continues to grow. They are no longer satisfied with just robbing and plundering along the southeast coast, and they always want to go north. Only a few decades ago, the Japanese pirates first

After a sneak attack in Liaodong, they were ambushed by officers and soldiers, and the whole army was annihilated. From then on, they never dared to go north easily. The imperial court stationed heavy troops in Jinan and Dengzhou to practice naval forces. Once the Japanese pirates wanted to take a boat to go north, the Ming Dynasty in Shandong

The navy waited for work and robbed and killed the Japanese pirates on the way. The Japanese pirates had to be defeated. Therefore, the Ministry of War and the commander of the Japanese capital thought that as long as they sent troops to a few military towns in Shandong, the capital could be kept safe. As for the Japanese pirates' sneak attack on Tianjin Guards from the Liaodong Coastal Road,

, without any preparation.

The more Qi Jiu thought about it, the more frightened he became. He secretly thought that if Yagyu Sogan really led the Japanese pirates to take a boat from Dongliao County, they would only need to travel three to four hundred miles west to reach Tianjin Wei. Tianjin Wei is a key pass guarding the east of the capital.

However, because there are Shanhaiguan in the northeast, Yanshan in the north, and Shandong in the south, heavy troops are stationed in these places. Therefore, the defenders of Tianjin Guard are not many, and they are all old and weak soldiers who lack training. Once the Japanese pirates attack, the defenders of Tianjin Guard will

The army was afraid that the whole army would be annihilated immediately. By that time, the Japanese pirates marched westward from Tianjin and attacked the capital, leaving the officers and soldiers of Shanhaiguan and Shandong behind. It only took half a day to reach the capital. With Yagyu

Zong Yan's resourcefulness, whether it is to capture Tianjin Guards or to attack the capital along Tianjin, he will definitely do it without anyone noticing. Moreover, this person is very skilled in martial arts and has many strange people under his command. The Japanese pirates quietly arrived outside the capital,

You can send a small team of people to pretend to be ordinary people and enter the city. In the dead of night, Yagyu Sogan, a martial arts expert, uses light kung fu to cross the city wall, open the city gate, and let the Japanese pirate army attack the city. The Japanese pirates who sneaked into the city during the day acted as internal agents and set fires everywhere.

, the capital was bound to be in chaos. The Japanese pirates took the opportunity to attack the palace, capture or kill the emperor, queen, queen mother, and others, and then hunted and killed the cabinet bachelors, six ministers, and ministers. In this way, even if soldiers and horses from all over the country went to the capital to serve the king, the people

They will also be slaughtered by the Japanese pirates. Moreover, the emperor, the cabinet, and the big bosses of the six ministries have all fallen into the hands of the Japanese pirates. Even if the Ming Dynasty still has elite soldiers and generals, but without the backbone, it will be difficult to compete with the Japanese pirates. It's terrible, it's really terrible.

Thinking of this, Qi Jiu almost jumped up from the ground. He said in a trembling voice: "Brother Li, if it is as you guessed, the capital has already opened its central gate. Even if the imperial court is in Shanhaiguan, the two prefectures of Xuanda, Henan and

There are hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Shandong, but it is too late to return to the capital to save the capital. By then, the Japanese pirates on the southeast coast and the Tatars in the north have also come to kill them, and the Ming Dynasty must be overturned."

Li Qiufeng said: "Brother Li said before that he couldn't figure out why Yagyu Sogan stole the ship. At that time, I always thought that the Fuso people stole the ship to steal the gold and silver on the ship. At this time, it seems that Brother Qi is still thoughtful.

Yagyu Sogan seizes ships not just to rob money. He also wants to accumulate ships to transport Japanese pirates from Dongliao County to Tianjin Guard."

When Li Qiufeng said this, he paused for a moment, and then continued: "On the day our ship was lost, all the ships on the dock were missing, and the people on the shore were also mysteriously missing. Think about it now, those people didn't even know they were there.

It was faked by the Fuso people. They had been watching on the shore, and when they saw our big ship arriving, they immediately reported it to Yagyu Soiwa. Then the killers of the Yagyu clan and the Fuso people pretending to be common people joined forces to snatch away all the ships on the dock and hide them in secret

When the time comes, these ships will be used to transport troops."
Chapter completed!