As for what happened next to the Japanese pirates, it was none of Yang Feng's business.
The purpose of his trip had been achieved, because when he took the dragon boat back to Suzhou, there were drums and cheers along the way...
hero!
The hero who saved this land.
Although in fact, without him, the Japanese pirates would not be able to go deep, and at most they would only plunder some coastal villages and towns, but the panic they caused could reach as far as Suzhou. After all, this area is all connected by water, and pirates like this can easily
Easily reach Songjiang and Shanghai.
Even along the canal.
You can even take the Yangtze River waterway directly to Zhenjiang.
When the Japanese pirates were at their worst in the Ming Dynasty, even Yangzhou encountered them.
The Ming army did not stop him.
But he was beaten away by Shanxi merchant guards in Yangzhou.
You can imagine how deep the Japanese pirates can go in this area. Similarly, now that a warrior with the level of God of War appears, he is really a god to the people. There are people who built temples for Yang Feng. What's more, he is so cooperative, and the silver helmet
The image of the silver armor and holding a giant sword in his hand is a perfect fit for the God of War in folklore. What kind of time traveler he is, it touches the common people. At most, it is fresh. Similarly, his use of a gun does not touch much, and firearms are not new to him.
, at most he is more powerful, but carrying a big sword is different.
Can really see.
There is a basis for rumors or processing.
In just a few days, he killed thousands of Japanese pirates in Jinshanwei, which became the most popular news among people in Susongjia.
There are also multiple versions.
The chants are being sung on the streets of all cities.
So when he stood on the bow of the dragon boat, with a cloak behind his back, and proudly appeared outside Suzhou Panmen, he was already greeted by hundreds of thousands of people.
"Honor the heroes who died in battle!"
Yang Feng raised the wine bowl with both hands and shouted solemnly.
In front of him, a group of officials from Suzhou Prefecture and Suzhou Guard looked on.
Then, with hundreds of thousands of people watching, he poured some wine on the ground.
"I pay my respects to these miserable creatures!"
Then he continued.
Fortunately, he didn't continue pouring, and then he picked up the remaining half of the bowl of rice wine and drank it down in one gulp. Then he threw the wine bowl in his hand to the ground, picked up the big knife he was pretending to have, and walked to Wengcheng.
On the stone road in front of the door, he held the handle of the knife with both hands and raised it high in front of him.
Then he roared in front of hundreds of thousands of doubtful eyes and punched the stone slab with all his strength.
The stone slab instantly shattered.
Even if the earth is compacted, it is still relatively soft in a place full of water like Suzhou. The broadsword weighs 120 kilograms, and when he punched it down with all his strength, the blade disappeared in an instant, and the handle also disappeared.
It went down nearly a foot, and then the big knife stood on the stone road, surrounded by a circle of broken stones...
"Today the sword is standing here, and any Japanese pirates who dare to come here will be killed without mercy!"
Then he yelled.
"good!"
The Suzhou Guard commander quickly applauded.
"Ambassador is mighty!"
Then there was a boiling roar.
Because the Suzhou magistrate has been dismissed and is now the deputy magistrate, the latter quickly asked people to surround the sword. A small temple must be built to worship it, just like those earth temples, and the surrounding area must be reinforced. In the future, Ambassador Yang will
The sword used to kill Japanese pirates is the town treasure of Suzhou City.
This is a magic weapon!
It is equivalent to Qin Qiong’s mace, Wei Chi Gong’s Tao Yue Fei’s spear.
Tongzhi and the commander of the Suzhou Guard asked Ambassador Yang to mount his horse, and then entered the city amidst cheers.
The city was also greeted with a warm welcome.
It can be said to be a great honor.
However, when he went to the official office of the Suzhou Guard Commander, he saw Dai Gui. After the latter sent the little princess back to the capital, he was promoted to command the Qianshi, and then transferred to Yang Wen's subordinates, and was sent by Yang Wen to invite Yang
Feng arrived in Taicang. Yang Wen had been appointed as the Left Commander, responsible for commanding the troops along the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to suppress the Japanese pirates. He was originally the Commander-in-Chief, and now he was directly added two levels to the Left Commander to control the coastal armies. In fact, when he returned from Korea,
He should have been promoted, but he was coaxed by Yang Feng to invade the Japanese country, which was regarded as a good idea. Although he could not be said to be guilty, after all, Zhu Yuanzhang said he would attack the Japanese country, but he did something other than the task after all.
So there was no fine or promotion.
Now Lao Zhu takes this opportunity to promote him.
Lao Zhu still thinks highly of him. After all, among the generals of this age group, he is relatively outstanding.
He is an all-round general.
Although he is not outstanding, no matter where he is placed, whether it is the southwest subtropical mountains, the grasslands outside the Great Wall, or the sea, he can do it very safely. The only disastrous failure in his life was Jingnan, which was caused by Jianwen's micro-management.
He was originally in Kaiping, and had been containing Zhu Di from the rear. Although it was true that he lost more than he won, Zhu Di was indeed unable to deal with him, and as long as he was there, Zhu Di did not dare to go too far south. As a result, Jianwen managed thousands of miles and ordered Yang
Wen led the troops outside the Great Wall south through Zhu Di's control area to decisively fight Jinan. This order was comparable to asking Mao Wenlong to pass through Jianzhou Guards to rescue Jinzhou.
But he was an honest man and could only obey, and the army collapsed as soon as it arrived in Tianjin.
If we go any further, we won't even be able to eat.
He himself was captured.
Now Zhu Yuanzhang obviously needs to promote more new people. Although he did not kill Lan Yu and others this time, His Majesty the Emperor also knows that promoting new people is the most important thing.
So people like Yang Wen and Dai Gui were promoted.
As for Yang Wen inviting Yang Feng...
This must be Zhu Yuanzhang's intention. His Majesty the Emperor could not make Yang Feng feel that Ming Dynasty needed his help everywhere, so he did not come forward, and then asked Yang Wen to invite him in a personal relationship.
Yang Feng understands.
It just so happened that he also wanted to continue to eliminate these Japanese pirates.
He and Zhang Xianzong immediately boarded the ship and headed for Taicang with Dai Gui. By the time they arrived in Taicang, Yang Wen had assembled more than a hundred warships, and most of them were equipped with rapid-fire cannons. Several large warships were equipped with heavy-weight rapid-fire cannons. Moreover,
Not only rapid-fire cannons, Zhu Yuanzhang also equipped a large number of three-eyed muskets. I have to say that he was really good at choosing them. These weapons were indeed more effective against Japanese pirates than bird muskets.
The rate of fire is fast!
At this time, the Japanese pirates did not have the body of the southern barbarians.
As far as the equipment level of the elite Japanese pirates was concerned, a three-eyed musket was enough.
"No grenades?"
Yang Feng checked and found that there were no grenades.
"It's better not to use that thing on the ship.
It was tested last time. A soldier missed when he lit the fuse and threw it out. As a result, it exploded on his own ship. There happened to be gunpowder nearby, and the whole ship was burned.
If you miss it on land, it will kill only one or two people at most, but if you miss it on a ship, it will kill a whole ship. What's more, the fuse is difficult to calculate. If you throw it on the enemy ship too early, others will pick it up and throw it back, and you will be unlucky. If it is too late, it may not be dropped.
It exploded, and even exploded accidentally on his own ship. During the battle, it was noisy. Who can guarantee not to miss.
That's not your grenade."
Yang Wen said.
This is indeed the biggest problem with grenades at this time.
If you fail, the consequences will be serious.
In fact, in the era of queuing to kill, grenadiers had to be pushed to the front, just to avoid them accidentally blowing up one of their own. Moreover, explosive shells were rarely used on warships for a long time.
This is also the problem.
Land can afford the consequences of mistakes.
But on a battleship, compared with the possible serious consequences of a mistake, the value that may be brought by using it is completely insufficient to make up for it. If you don’t use it, then don’t use it. Anyway, if you add rapid-fire cannons, three-eyed blunderbuss and bows and arrows, this naval battle combination has already
It was enough to deal with Japanese pirates, not to mention that the Ming army had already used a large number of rockets at this time.
After all, they are just Japanese pirates.
Of course, at this time, this set of equipment is invincible no matter where it goes on the sea.
Including Europe.
The main naval battle in Europe in the mid-14th century AD was the Hundred Years War between England and France. Genoese crossbowmen and English longbowmen fired at sea. Although it is the end of the 14th century AD, Europe has only just begun to use fire portal guns, which are similar to three-eyed guns.
Guns have a wooden pole at the back and an iron or copper pipe in the front. It was not until the middle of the 15th century that French cannons began to appear in naval battles. Their main purpose was to suppress the opponent's firepower by the rate of fire and cover the enemy's sailors.
, this is no different from the current Ming army warships.
But that was sixty years later.
"This is the goods you want. The first batch is these two bags. You take a look at the goods first!"
Yang Wen pointed to the two sacks and said.
"So fast?"
Yang Feng said unexpectedly.
Then he opened the sack and looked at the fish vine inside.
But it's not completely sun-dried, it can only be said to be slightly sun-dried.
"There are them in Zhejiang, but the more you go south, the more they are in Guangdong and Guangxi. Another businessman from Fujian said there are a lot of them in Xiaoliuqiu, and there are more in Nanyang. The most in our area are in Guangdong and Guangxi."
Yang Wen said.
In fact, this is all over the south of Zhejiang.
However, the types are different and belong to a general category. The ones most suitable for use as pesticides are said to be introduced from Nanyang, but local varieties are also suitable, and it just depends on the effectiveness of the medicine. Another one that is widely used is the one from across the Taiwan Strait.
There is a subspecies there that is also very suitable for pesticide use.
"The good things in Xiaoliuqiu are not limited to this. There are sulfur, deer, camphor, and the best cypress for shipbuilding in the mountains. The land is fertile, with three crops a year in the south. There are also whaling grounds along the coast. It can be said that everything is available."
Yang Feng said.
"Don't always tempt me to wait."
Yang Wen said calmly.
It was like an old man being taken to watch some special performance.
"Man, why don't you take Wu Gou and capture the fifty states in Guanshan!"
Yang Feng said.
"The poor bones by the Wuding River are like the ones in the spring boudoir dream?"
Zhang Xianzong said.
"But the bones by the Wuding River eventually left the land where their bones were buried to future generations."
Yang Feng said.
"But what were obtained by the bones by the Wuding River? Later generations can indeed say that they left the land for future generations to bury their bones. But that is what future generations said. Of course, future generations have to say so if they benefit from the legacy. But for Wuding
For the people living by the river, what did they get?
Relatives waiting in tears?
I advise you not to talk about the matter of making a marquis, as one general will make thousands of bones wither!"
Zhang Xianzong said.
This issue is obviously one of position.
For Yang Feng, it is natural to open up and open up again, but for the soldiers and civilians of the Ming Dynasty, they are now very satisfied, and there is no need to fight for the development. The development will be fine, after all, the main purpose is to cut off the flanks of the remaining Yuan, which previously included the slaves.
Including Ergan City, they were all officials of the Yuan Dynasty, so it was only natural to beat them.
Profit and other things are secondary.
Beating Hu Yuan was the unanimous decision of the Ming army and the people at this time.
We will fight as far as Mobei, and we will fight no matter how many people die.
This is not a matter of interests, but of enemies.
You can also fight against Japan.
After all, it was the Japanese pirates who first harassed the Ming Dynasty. Since they dared to attack the Ming Dynasty, of course the Ming Dynasty would kill them and beat them. This is also naturally correct.
but……
There is no need for anything else, right?
Something good?
Have land?
But Ming Dynasty has no shortage of them!
On the contrary, in today's Ming Dynasty, beyond Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the rest is vast and sparsely populated. The entire north is only a little more than Shandong. The rest, all the way to the southwest, is vast and sparsely populated, and it is a wasteland as far as the eye can see.
Is the Ming Dynasty short of land?
What Ming Dynasty is missing is obviously people.
During their debate, the huge naval fleet left Taicang, moved forward along the Yangtze River, and took advantage of the low tide to leave Chongming Sands. However, Chongming was the northern channel at this time, and a large area of land on the north bank was not yet out of water, so the width of the Yangtze River Estuary was almost modern.
Twice the number. After leaving Chongming Sands, we turned south and rode the north wind southward. We met at Nanhuizui and Jinshan and other naval warships from various defenses in Hangzhou Bay. Because the latter brought a large number of relatively smaller warships, the scale expanded.
to two hundred ships.
On the sea, it can be said that the sails are like a forest, and the strength of the world's most powerful navy is fully displayed.
But they had to find the Japanese pirates first.
"This is Sizhou Pond."
A fellow officer of Guanhaiwei pointed at the map that Yang Feng was rushing to work on on the ship and said.
That is Shengshan Island.
This is indeed the most common place for Japanese pirates to hide.
"Then go and destroy them!"
Yang Wen said.
At the same time, Zhang Xianzong took out a ruler, measured it on the map, and then calculated the distance based on the scale, just like a staff officer.
"I think we should wait first?"
Yang Feng touched his chin and said.
"what for?"
Yang Wen and a group of generals looked at him.
"If the Japanese pirates ask for help from Imagawa Sadao, then the reinforcements sent by Imagawa Sadao must also go there to join them. After all, the first thing they need to replenish from the Japanese country is to replenish fresh water. Such a controlled foothold is inevitable.
Rushing to meet up.
It is winter now, and the wind at sea is basically northerly, and the wind direction will not change.
We have a tailwind from here to there.
Let's wait here.
Then send people to patrol that area. If they find that the reinforcements are passing by, it would be best if they can intercept them halfway. They can annihilate the reinforcements directly at sea. If they cannot intercept them and let them reach Sizhoutang, then it is nothing more than going to Sizhoutang to clear them out.
."
Yang Feng said.
"But after they merge with the Japanese pirates in Sizhoutang, it will be difficult for us to eliminate them."
Zhang Xianzong said.
"Ha, what are you afraid of if you have me?
Besides, it’s not like we can’t continue to mobilize troops. The Japanese pirates have limited sea transportation capabilities. Even if they can have a few reinforcements, they will only have tens or tens of thousands of people. How many people do we have on both sides of Hangzhou Bay alone?
Jinshan Guard, Haining Guard, Shaoxing Guard, Linshan Guard, Guanhai Guard, Changguo Guard, not counting the bunch of guards in Hangzhou City. It can be said that 50,000 elites can easily assemble. As long as the Japanese pirates gather in one place, are we still afraid of them?
Is there too many people?”
Yang Feng said.
"Just like this, the Japanese pirates along the coast will be extinct after this battle."