There are actually Japanese pirate groups with several thousand people.
In the Hongde Dynasty alone, there were several incidents of large-scale Japanese pirates landing and plundering the coast. In the third year of Hongde, Japanese pirates landed in Taozhu Town, Taizhou Prefecture, and massacred local people. The cruel and inhumane Japanese Japanese took the bodies of children to
Picked up on a Japanese sword and hung on a tree branch, the tragic situation in the entire Taozhu area at that time was almost too terrible to watch.
In the sixth and seventh years of Hongde, large-scale Japanese pirates landed and massacred the coastal people.
It is precisely because of this that the little emperor suddenly set his sights on the Japanese pirates along the coast this year. From a political level, of course he wanted to start with the Japanese pirates to build a powerful navy, and more intuitively
The reason is that Japanese pirates are indeed very rampant along the coast.
Repeated large-scale raids on the coast, and even burning and plundering the coast, almost completely destroyed the majesty of the imperial court.
At present, Chen Guo has lost half of its territory in northern Xinjiang. If it causes chaos in the southeast again, makes the people in the southeast miserable and loses their economic lifeline, then there is no need for Northern Qi to attack, and maybe it will perish.
But even so, the news brought by Zheng Hu still made Mr. Shen's expression slightly change.
He is not afraid of Japanese pirates.
On this trip south, he followed Li Mu and worked hard, even hiding his identity and reputation, just to contribute to the country and try every means to kill as many of these Japanese Japanese as possible.
But these Japanese pirates gathered too quickly.
At present, the anti-Japanese army only has five to six hundred people in total, and there are still two hundred of them beside Li Mu, the crown prince of Jin Dynasty.
There are only 300 people around Shen Yi.
Although a thousand new soldiers have been recruited in Wenzhou Prefecture in the past few days, according to the elimination rate of the anti-Japanese army, of these more than a thousand people, only about 200 will remain.
If you calculate it this way, it is estimated that there are only more than 500 anti-Japanese troops around Shen Yi.
Although the skeleton of the current anti-Japanese army has slowly taken shape, it is still in its infancy after all. It can cope with a Japanese pirate gang of several hundred people, but it can cope with thousands of Japanese pirates...
It's too forced.
Mr. Shen took several deep breaths before digesting the shocking news. He looked at Zheng Hu and asked slowly: "Is it a Japanese pirate?"
"It shouldn't be one..."
Zheng Hu lowered his head and said: "Our Di newspaper department has been deploying manpower to keep an eye on the coast. There should be several groups of Japanese pirates slowly gathering together..."
Before Shen Yi went south this time, he did a lot of homework and checked a lot of information about Japanese pirates.
The reason why the Japanese pirates became more and more rampant was partly because of the political turmoil on the main island of Japan, so there were many rogues doing evil on the coast of Chen State. Especially after the local guards of Chen State gradually eroded, the power of these Japanese pirates became more and more powerful.
, and then began to collude with some local pirate forces in Chen State, and became the Japanese pirates in their current form.
Some of the Japanese pirate leaders were simply Chen people, just like Wang Xian.
Of course, Japanese pirate leaders like Wang Xian are in the minority after all. Most of the Japanese pirates are led by Japanese Japanese. However, whether it is headed by a Han or a Japanese, each gang will have some natives of the Chen State more or less.
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These people would lead the Japanese pirates to land, guide them, lead them to kill their own compatriots, plunder their own land, and even set fire to their homeland themselves, burning it to the ground.
However, the Japanese pirates also did not trust each other, because things often happened between the pirates and the gangsters.
Therefore, in most cases, Japanese pirates generally act independently and will not cooperate with other Japanese pirate groups unless...
Unless they have some common goal.
Thinking of this, Shen Yi suddenly had some ideas...
He pondered for a moment, and then said slowly: "Okay, I understand this..."
"Please run away and call Xue Wei outside the city. Tell him that I have something urgent to do with him and ask him to come here to see me immediately."
Zheng Hu bowed his head deeply and said: "I obey my orders!"
After saying that, the leader of the fourth group turned around and opened the door and left.
After Zheng Hu left, Shen Yi sat on the desk in the room and began to write a letter to Li Mu.
The main purpose was to tell Li Mu that there might be news of a large group of Japanese pirates landing in the near future, and to ask Li Mu, the imperial envoy on patrol, to cooperate with him as much as possible.
Because the matter was urgent, Shen Yi had no time to speak. After simply writing the matter, he had to send someone to deliver the letter. As soon as he put the letter into the envelope, Xue Wei's voice came from the door: " Shen...Shen Sizheng is here."
Shen Yi collected the envelope and put it in his sleeve, then walked to the door of his room, opened the door, and saw Xue Wei, dressed in smart clothes, standing respectfully at the door of his room.
Seeing Shen Yi pushing open the door and walking out, Xue Wei once again handed over his hand with a respectful expression: "Sir Shen, do you have anything to say to your subordinates?"
After Shen Yi's last correction, Xue Wei no longer calls Shen Yi Hanlin Gong, but he still calls himself a subordinate.
Regarding this kind of title, Shen Yi was too lazy to say anything more. After seeing Xue Wei, he invited him to his room. After asking Xue Wei to sit down, Shen Yi asked: "Xue Baihu, a recruit outside the city." Battalion, how many recruits are there now?"
Xue Wei was serious about his work. He replied without hesitation: "Go back to Sizheng, there are a total of 1,178 recruits."
Shen Yi nodded and asked, "How much is Xue Baihu prepared to keep?"
Xue Wei patted his chest and said with a smile: "There is no need for Si Zheng to worry about this. My subordinates have always followed Si Zheng's instructions and selected strictly..."
"Si Zheng said, you want semen but not too much."
Xue Baihu said solemnly: "After a few days of training, there are only about 200 people who are truly qualified. Tomorrow, my subordinates will kick those who are unqualified out of the recruit camp and concentrate on training those with potential."
Shen Yi sat in his seat and sighed silently: "You must keep all of these more than a thousand recruits and don't drive away any of them."
Xue Wei was stunned when he heard this, and opened his mouth to say something when he heard Shen Yi continue to ask: "How many wolves are there in your army?"
Xue Wei pondered for a while and replied: "When we were in Linhai, we made a total of one hundred satchels. In Taiping County, Sizheng asked the blacksmith to make thirty or forty more satchels. Now the blacksmiths in Yongjia City are also making wolves. The swords, together with the wolf sword heads made by the blacksmith shop in the capital, are also being sent one after another. Adding them together in bits and pieces, my subordinates estimate that..."
"It should be close to two hundred."
Shen Yi nodded and asked again: "How many of our anti-Japanese troops can shoot strong bows?"
Xue Wei answered honestly: "Less than ten people."
Shen Yi frowned and asked again: "How many crossbows are there?"
Xue Baihu thought for a while and replied: "There are a lot of bows, but not too many crossbows. Some of the crossbows were handed over from the Japanese pirates. They are all old guys. The machine is old and cannot be used at close range." It may not necessarily kill someone..."
Having said this, Xue Wei, no matter how stupid he was, figured something out. He looked up at Shen Yi, swallowed, and asked, "Sizheng... is there going to be another war?"
Shen Yi stood up from his seat silently. After being silent for a while, he nodded to Xue Wei.
"yes."
After saying this, Mr. Shen walked out of the club.
By now, it was getting a little dark.
Mr. Shen did not hesitate and strode towards Wenzhou Government Office.
At this moment, he was ready to take over all military and political affairs in Wenzhou Prefecture.