At the end of January, Jiyang's reorganized second army invaded Laizhou, Qizhou, Zizhou, and Qingzhou. There were not many Japanese pirates in the area, so the reorganized second army easily reached the capital of Laizhou.
In the battle of Laizhou Fucheng, the reorganized second division also showed a fearless spirit and stormed for seven days to capture Laizhou Fucheng.
The main force of Laideng Japanese pirates withdrew to the Penglai area.
The so-called reorganized second army is the remnants of the East Route bandits.
Led by surrendered general Mopu.
Mopu turned out to be Ma Wei's confidant. After Ma Wei's death, he was considered the actual controller of the remaining troops.
During the battle with the Renaissance Army, he was frightened by the artillery fire and did not dare to fight against the Renaissance Army at all.
Withdrew all the way to the Yellow River.
Finally, inspired by Song Tong, he led more than 8,000 remnants of the bandits to surrender to Song Tong.
Song Tong ordered it to be reorganized into the Second Army of the Eastern Route Northern Expedition of the Daqian Jiangnan Revival Alliance, referred to as the Reorganized Second Army.
After the reorganized Second Army captured Laizhou Fucheng, it immediately sent an urgent report to Song Tong.
This can be regarded as their biggest victory since their eastern expedition against Japanese pirates.
Reporting victory to Song Tong also means taking credit.
Of course, I also wanted to get some food supplies from Song Tong.
The bandits on the east route fled all the way and did not have a head-on confrontation with Song Tong's army, so they naturally saved food.
But their supplies have long been cut off, and now they don't have enough food to last even seven days.
This was also the main reason why they fought desperately to conquer Laizhou. Only by conquering Laizhou could they obtain food from Song Tong.
Song Tong read the letter reporting the victory and said happily: "This guy Mo Pu is quite reliable, he captured Laizhou so quickly!"
Cui Qiang nodded and said: "Let them fight our Renaissance Army. They won't have any courage, but they have a lot of fighting power against the Japanese pirates!"
Song Tong put down the letter, walked to the map, looked at the map and said:
"With Laizhou captured, only Dengzhou, Mizhou and some islands are left in Henan Province."
"Now most of the Japanese pirates in the north are concentrated in Dengzhou, and there are not many Japanese pirates in Miszhou."
"Let's do this. Let Mopu be temporarily stationed in Laizhou Fucheng. When our army clears out the Japanese pirates in Haizhou and Mizhou, we will then join forces to attack Dengzhou and finish with a dragnet to completely eliminate the Japanese pirates in Henan Province. "
Cui Qiang nodded and handed Song Tong's order to the messenger.
Of course, we didn’t forget to adapt the Second Army’s food shortage.
Song Tong gave them five hundred shi of grain and five hundred kilograms of pork, which was enough for them to eat for ten or eight days.
Anyway, they used to drink gruel, five hundred stone grains, and thick porridge for half a month.
The team of messengers and freighters set off north to transport grain and grass to Qingzhou.
Qingzhou is the logistics supply storage location for the reorganized Second Army.
Separating food from the main force is Mopu's way of using troops.
This is also the main reason why they have not run out of food after being defeated for so long...
When the grain was going north, Song Tong also ordered Mopu to stop in Laizhou.
In the end, Mopu, who was reliable, did something outrageous.
After capturing Laizhou, this guy felt he was good again.
In order to achieve greater achievements, on the third day after the victory message was sent, Mopu led the army eastward to Penglai, Dengzhou!
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"Your Majesty! Be careful, sometimes there will be stray arrows coming here." Cui Qiang led his guards and held up shields to protect Song Tong.
On February 13, more than 30,000 people from the Northern Expeditionary Army on the Eastern Route, commanded by Song Tong, arrived in Qushan.
At noon, Song Tong went to the beach to check the situation.
Today is mid-tide.
At noon, the tide was at a low level, and it just started to rise after noon.
Looking at the large swaths of tidal flats, Song Tong couldn't help but shake his head.
This kind of tidal flat is similar to a swamp, one foot deep and one foot shallow.
The movement speed cannot be increased at all.
Although small boats can cross at high tide, there are so many Japanese pirate boats that there is no chance of landing on the island despite intensive defense.
"When will the high tide be the day after tomorrow?" Song Tong looked at Han Jin and asked after returning from the beach.
"Your Majesty, the spring tide peaks twice in the morning and evening. The first time is around Mao hour, and the second time is around You time." Han Jin replied immediately.
Han Jin often lives by the sea and is very familiar with tidal conditions.
He came ashore this time to check the details of the attack with Song Tong one last time.
"Then I will launch an attack at Yinshi, and try to attract the attention of the Japanese pirates when the time comes. You will wait for the opportunity to take action."
"Yes! Then I will take the sound of cannons from the prince's side as a signal." Han Jin cupped his hands and said.
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On the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, all the boats sent by Song Tong from various places arrived at Qushan.
The Japanese pirates also discovered that the Qushan Renaissance Army had collected a large number of small boats.
At this time, the Japanese pirates on Yuzhou Island were also nervous. Tomorrow would be a big tide, and the Renaissance Army had prepared so many ships to land on the island.
"BaGeYaLu! Our Japanese soldiers are so strong! We are not afraid of any enemy attack at all!"
"Give me the order! We are the retainers of Lord Matsushima Zufeng! I will be fearless! We will open up the Daigan battlefield for Lord Matsushima Zufeng!"
There is a small town on Yuzhou Island called Donghai, and a short boy in the town is shouting crazily.
This short man's name was Matsushima Toda, and he was a serious Japanese pirate warrior. His master Matsushima Zufeng was a daimyo on the Japanese island of Kyushu.
There are six daimyo on Kyushu Island, and the Matsushima family is at the bottom.
After the natural disaster, the daimyo attacked each other, and the Matsushima family was always at a disadvantage.
In a battle the year before last, the Matsushima family suffered heavy losses.
So the Songdao family couldn't wait to open up the situation from the outside.
If they can get resources from Dagan to support local operations, the Songdao family still has room to continue the fight.
Of course, if they can occupy a place in Dagan, then the Matsushima family can run away to Dagan even if they are defeated in Kyushu.
Yuzhou Island is a place that the Matsushima family has taken a fancy to. After Matsushima Toda came to Yuzhou, the Matsushima family spent all their wealth to finally help Matsushima Toda gain a foothold in Yuzhou, and all the nearby ronin samurai were conquered.
Collected.
Originally, these thousands of people were planned to be sent back to Kyushu to help the Matsushima family fight.
But before they had time to leave, the Northern Expedition Eastern Route Army launched a clearance operation in Henan Road.
In order to protect the newly developed base area of Yuzhou Island.
Matsushima Toda had no choice but to leave the Japanese pirates who were about to be sent back to Yuzhou Island for defense.
"Master Samurai! The artillery of the Dakan people is placed on the shore!"
After Matsushima Toda finished his passionate speech, Ronin came to report.
Artillery is the nightmare of Japanese pirates. Although their fighting will is stronger than that of bandits, they are still defeated when encountering artillery.
Only when fighting at sea can we defeat the enemy by sending out small boats to surround the chartered ship.
This combat method has been verified by Matsushima Toda and is indeed effective.
"Bagya Road! Damn artillery! We almost got that ship with artillery last time! That ship seems to belong to the Japanese too. I don't know where they snatched the artillery ship from! Master Zu Feng, if
If you can imitate the artillery, you will definitely be able to unify Kyushu! Even dominate the entire Japanese country!" Matsushima Toda yelled.
"Sir Samurai, why don't we buy some artillery from Da Gan?" The Japanese ronin who didn't know the truth asked doubtfully.
"Hmph! Our Matsushima family can rob it based on our ability, so why buy it!" Matsushima Toda said confidently.
In fact, my heart is thinking: "Don't you want to buy it as me? Don't you want to buy it as Zu Feng? Don't you have no money?"
The Matsushima family is at the bottom of Kyushu Island, let alone the entire Japanese country.
With that little power and territory, there is no place to make money.
After listening to Matsushima Toda's words, all the ronin samurai were speechless. Now they were obviously unable to defeat him and could only huddle on the island. It was hard to get food, let alone grab the artillery!
"Send the order! Move the main force to the west coast! I guess they will land on the island tonight!"
"As long as we annihilate their main force at sea this time, on the tidal flats! Then we can cross the sea to grab their artillery!"
Matsushima Toda expressed beautiful thoughts.
On the night of the 14th, the Fuxing Army rested silently.
There are still three hours left before the agreed time for landing on the island, and the soldiers can sleep for another two hours.
To fight at Yin Shi, you only need to prepare at the end of Chou Shi.
As the head coach, Song Tong does not fall asleep easily.
Leaning on the chair, Song Tong kept thinking about tomorrow's battle.
As long as the Japanese pirates on Yuzhou Island are eliminated, and once the largest Japanese pirate group in Henan Province is destroyed, all that is left is almost just the finishing work.
When the Japanese pirates are destroyed, it will depend on Song Yang’s strategic layout.
If the Central Route Army can eliminate the remnants of Luo Xin's troops, the only thing left is to go north to regain the lost territory in Daqian.
Of course, if Luo Xin is destroyed, there won't be any big battles going north.
"From this point of view, the battle in Yuzhou is the most important battle."
“There is absolutely no room for error when we land on the island tomorrow!”
Song Tong warned Cui Qiang worriedly.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty. Once the tide comes, the boat will be used."
"As long as Tokyo Camp can land on the island, the Japanese pirates will definitely be in chaos. It's no problem for us to land on the island."
Cui Qiang is very confident about tomorrow's battle.
The main shortcoming of the Eastern Route Army was its lack of ships.
Now the Tokyo Battalion is here to help them make up for this shortcoming.
"Tell the soldiers that after this battle is over, we will go to Qingzhou to repair for half a month!"
The battle against Japanese pirates has been busy for several months.
During the Chinese New Year, the East Route Army did not rest at all, except for two days in Yizhou.
After that, it was a process of searching and paying.
It took more than a month of fighting to wipe out the Japanese pirates in Haizhou.
Although the soldiers held back their energy and persisted.
But Song Tong knew that the Eastern Route Army was already exhausted and it was time to rest.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your consideration. The soldiers will definitely be more energetic and brave to kill the enemy tomorrow!" Cui Qiang said, cupping his fists.
After midnight, Song Tong felt a little sleepy. He closed his eyes and vaguely felt someone calling him.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the end of the ugly times is coming soon."
Cui Qiang's voice came.
Song Tong was confused for more than an hour without realizing it.
Cui Qiang really didn't sleep at all. After Song Tong fell asleep, he went to the military camp and coastal defense to inspect the arrangements.
It is also necessary to check the condition of artillery, shells, muskets, bullets and other equipment to ensure that the subsequent battle can proceed smoothly.
"Hold the lamp! The whole camp is ready!" Song Tong shook his head and forced himself to wake up.
As I get older, my roots have been damaged, and my energy and energy are no longer as good as those of young people.
Song Tong applied a cold towel to his face to regain some energy.
Soon, the torches in the camp lit up.
The nearby side is illuminated by firelight.
Such a big fanfare is to let the Japanese pirates see what's going on here.
Attract them firmly to the west side of Yuzhou Island.
"The response was quite fast. No wonder they are the regular troops of the Japanese country."
Song Tong packed up, took on his cloak and walked out of the camp, observing Yuzhou Island with a telescope on the high platform.
I happened to see torches lighting up on the shore of Yuzhou Island.
Under the light of torches, many Japanese pirates can be seen wandering on the shore and keeping watch.
Soon, the ugly part will pass.
The Renaissance Army has already formed its formation in order.
As the tide rises, the small boat on the beach has floated.
Many Renaissance Army soldiers boarded the boat.
Looking at the Japanese pirates, there are also many ships gathered, but they dare not approach the Renaissance Army for the time being.
The Renaissance Army is suppressed by artillery.
"Let the warriors hold their ground! We must not come forward until they come!" Matsushima Toda gave the order.
The Japanese pirates only dared to wait for the Renaissance Army to attack first, and then engage in battle, and then interfered with the Renaissance Army to avoid the Renaissance Army's artillery attack.
Matsushima Toda is indeed a serious samurai who has fought in Kyushu Island for several years, and he always has some sharp eyesight.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
Yin Shi was approaching, and the trumpet sound came from the Fuxing Army.
Matsushima Toda looked towards the other side, his eyes filled with solemnity.
The ronin who came to deliver the order said:
"Don't be anxious! Don't let your bows and arrows wander around! Stay calm! Wait until they get close!"
"The Ronin group will get on the boat first. As long as the Dagan people come within a hundred steps, rush forward! Quickly insert them into their formation as quickly as possible!"
Although he directed calmly, Matsushima Toda was still very nervous.
The Renaissance Army has 30,000 troops, and they know it.
There are only more than 4,300 of them. If the Renaissance Army attacks Yuzhou Island at all costs, they will not be able to withstand Yuzhou Island.
The Japanese pirate soldiers have almost been deployed here.
Matsushima Toda called a confidant and asked in a low voice: "Are the ships to the east ready?"
"Sir, you are ready. You can leave at any time!"
"Okay! If the Dagan people land on the island, we will leave immediately! Reserve one or two thousand combat power for Master Zu Feng, and it will not be considered as a waste of time for us to come to the Dagan!"
This guy has already thought of an escape route and will run away if he can't defeat him.
For this purpose, ten large ships were deployed on the east side of Yuzhou Island.
The topography of the island was very familiar to the Japanese pirates. As long as he gave an order, one or two thousand people could escape.
When the time comes for him to escape back to Kyushu with one or two thousand samurai ronin, the Matsushima family will no longer be considered the least powerful daimyo.
Of course, Matsushima Toda still fantasized about being able to stop the Renaissance Army at the seaside and protect Yuzhou. The Matsushima family would be truly invincible.
On the Qushan side, all the vanguards for the cross-sea battle have boarded the ships, and the artillery on the shore has also been loaded.
Now we are waiting for Song Tongtong's order, and the artillery will cover the other side first.
After a period of bombing, the Tokyo Battalion will launch a surprise attack upon receiving the signal and land on the island from the east.
Once the Tokyo Battalion gives the signal, the Renaissance Army vanguard can land on the island.
"What time is it?" Song Tong put down the telescope and asked.
"The time of Yin has arrived." Cui Qiang replied.
Song Tong's eyes were firm and he waited for a long time. When he estimated that the time had come, he waved to Cui Qiang.
Cui Qiang nodded, turned around and said behind him: "Drumming!"
"Dong dong dong!"
The drums sound and the battle to land on the island officially begins!
"Zizzizi!"
The artillery on the shore emitted fire, followed by a rumble of gunfire that echoed through the pre-dawn darkness.
"Boom boom boom!"
There were continuous explosions, round after round of bombings.
The Japanese pirates on the bombed island didn't dare to show up.
The closest point between Qushan and Yuzhou Island is only over 200 meters away, and the Crouching Tiger Cannon can hit them by adjusting its elevation angle.
Needless to say, the cannon can easily blast it to the other side.
There is constant sound of gunfire here, on the east coast of Yuzhou Island.
There are ten large boats parked at the pier, and one or two hundred people can be aboard each boat.
At this time, the suit was already full of supplies, and Matsushima Toda moved all the supplies from Yuzhou Island onto the ship.
Once the war on the west coast stops, they will go directly to the east coast to board ships and escape.
"Kojiro, do you think Toda-sama can defeat Ogan-sama?"
"It's hard to say. Daqian's artillery is very powerful, but we have many ships and we have an advantage in fighting at sea."
"But...why do I think Daqian is determined to take Yuzhou Island this time? They have an army of 30,000 to 40,000 people! If we attack regardless of casualties, we may not be able to defend it!"
"Alas! This is what Mr. Toda wants, so we are acting as a back-up here. If nothing can be done, we will return to Kyushu!"
"It has been three years since I came out in the blink of an eye. I often think of my hometown and I also think of Shizuka."
"Yo Xi! Shizuka, you are so beautiful!"
"That's right. You don't know what's behind her..."
"Yo Xi! Shall we go back together?"
"Yeah! Let's do it together!"
Listening to the sound of cannons in the distance, several close associates of Matsushima Toda gathered on a boat and discussed carefully.
They were still talking about the war, but then they started driving.
When several people were discussing enthusiastically about forming a group to pursue an acting career, a dark shadow appeared on the eastern sea.
The dark shadows grew bigger and bigger, and finally through the moonlight I could see clearly that they were ships!
Lots of sea ships!
The Japanese pirates on the shore didn't even notice at this time. They were still laughing and talking about the road ahead and back.
"Boom boom boom!"
A series of explosions sounded from behind them.
Howling shells flew over their heads.
"No! An enemy is coming from the sea!" We were shocked.
Their main force is on the west side of Yuzhou Island, and there is almost no fighting force on the east side.
Before the Japanese pirates could organize an attack, many soldiers with muskets jumped on their boats.
These warriors shouted in broken Japanese language:
"Put down your weapons, kneel down and surrender!"
"Surrender without killing!"
Looking at those big ships, they have also been surrounded. They don't even have a chance to break out.
"BaGeYaLu! Damn Dagan people! You are so insidious!"
Matsushima Toda's confidant who was stubbornly resisting screamed and thought about fighting with the Renaissance Army.
"Bang bang bang!"
After a series of noises, those cronies immediately became sieves!
"Put down your weapons, kneel down and surrender!"
The soldiers of the Renaissance Army killed several of the leaders, and the Japanese pirates behind them did not dare to move forward.
After shouting several more slogans to persuade them to surrender, the Japanese pirates looked at each other and some of them put down their weapons.
Soon, most people laid down their weapons.
Most of these Japanese pirates were dilapidated samurai ronin, who had escaped after the Japanese were defeated in a melee.
Such people simply don't have the courage to fight to the death, let alone commit seppuku.
"Yo Xi! You will be glad that you made the right choice today!"
Watanabe Niyu walked up to the person.
The Japanese pirate kneeling on the ground was stunned. The guy wearing the general's armor in front of him turned out to be a purebred Japanese?