A knife in love

Chapter 1328

Although Qin Yuanwai lowered his voice when he spoke, Li Qiufeng still heard his words clearly because of his profound internal skills.Hearing from the officials of Qin that the Tartars were going to join forces with the Japanese pirates to capture Liaodong, Li Qiufeng's heart sank. He thought to himself that the Tartars invaded the north and the Japanese pirates plundered the southeast coast. Although these two enemies were Ming's confidantes, they had never heard of them. The news that these two groups of thieves teamed up.If it is true what Yuanwai Qin said, it is really a big trouble.

When he was thinking about it, he suddenly remembered that he met five assassins from the Yagyu clan that night.Then he remembered that in the Town God's Temple in Xiuwu County, Liu Shengzongyan joined forces with the Japanese pirates on the southeast coast in a vain attempt to bloodbath Xiuwu County and capture Fengmen Village as a place for Japanese pirates to attack the capital.Liu Sheng Zongyan has always looked down on the pirates in the southeast coast, but in order to win the world, he does not hesitate to join forces with the pirates in the southeast coast.In this way, it is not impossible for the Tartars, who regard Ming Dynasty as their great enemy, to collude with the Japanese pirates.

The horsemen said: "Old Qin, I'm afraid your words are wrong? The Japanese pirates are far away on the southeast coast, but the Tartars are in the northern desert. The two sides are separated by thousands of mountains and rivers. It is tantamount to wishful thinking."

Just as Ma Yuanwai finished speaking, the skinny man sitting on his right said with a smile on his face: "Ma Yuanwai is right. Ever since Taizu founded the country, he expelled the Tartars from the Central Plains and forced them to flee to the extreme north of the desert. When Emperor Chengzu came out of the Great Wall six times, he swept the caves in the Liting Court and beat the Tatars to flee. The powerful soldiers of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty were all wiped out, and they were unable to go south. Even after the change of civil forts, the Tartars did not attack the Central Plains on a large scale. , to seize the Great Ming Dynasty. It’s just that the Tartars’ desire to destroy me is not dead, they didn’t send troops south, and they didn’t want to do it, but they knew it was impossible.”

The skinny man spoke excitedly, shaking his head, quite proud of himself.The horseman smiled, and said in his mouth: "My brother is worthy of being selected as a scholar. He can be a knowledgeable person with a single mouth. It's amazing. Just say what you want to say, don't drop your book bag in front of us."

Ma Yuanwai's words were overtly praised, but sarcastically implied. After hearing this, the thin man blushed, looked quite embarrassed, and apologized repeatedly, and then continued: "The Tartars have been driven back to Mobei by Emperor Taizu and Emperor Chengzu. Injured, unable to march south. In addition, the Tatars are divided internally, and they are constantly attacking each other. Although there are such famous officials as the first, they can hardly hide their decline. Although the Tartars have been in the north of Xuanfu and Datong for these years There were harassments from time to time, but they only robbed money, cattle and sheep, and plundered people, and did not dare to confront Ming Dynasty directly. But in Liaodong, it was a different situation. Because the imperial court did not have many troops stationed in Liaodong, and as time went by, border Only then did the Tazi cavalry dare to go deep into the hinterland of Liaodong, and even looted outside Liaoyang from time to time.

"Not only the Tazi soldiers are eyeing Liaodong, but the Japanese pirates have actually targeted Liaodong. Everyone thinks that for a hundred years, Japanese pirates have only been wreaking havoc along the southeast coast, but they don't know that near our Dongliao County, Daming's army once fought with Japanese pirates. The battalion has fought a battle."

When the thin man said this, not only Li Qiufeng was quite surprised, but Ma Yuanwai, Qin Yuanwai and others also said "Hey".Ma Yuanwai said: "Brother, this is a bit of a nonsense. Our Ma family has lived here for generations, why have we never heard of Japanese pirates coming to Liaodong to make trouble?"

The thin man smiled and said, "Liaodong is far outside the pass. The imperial court has always regarded this place as a tasteless place. No one in the pass is willing to move to Liaodong. Therefore, for more than a hundred years, Liaodong has a large area and few people. Although there are some villages, they are often separated by hundreds of years. In Liaodong, old and dead do not communicate. Although the battle was so dark and blood flowed like rivers, it was only because Liaodong was sparsely populated and there were no people living near the battlefield, so this matter did not spread. And when the war happened, it was Emperor Chengzu During his reign, the Ming army was invincible, and even the Tazi soldiers were beaten to flee, and nearly a thousand Japanese pirates were killed, which is really not a big deal, which makes this battle less famous."

When the thin man said this, he paused for a while, and then continued: "The battle to exterminate the Japanese pirates took place in Yongle Seventeen. At that time, it was Mr. Liu Jiang who served as the commander-in-chief of Liaodong. Speaking of this Mr. Liu, he was also a remarkable man. He was originally called Liu Rong, but because of the conscription by the imperial court, his father was seriously ill, so Liu Rong had to join the army instead of his father and falsely used his father's name, and he was called Liu Jiang from then on. , Starting from a small soldier, he accumulated military merits and was promoted to a hundred households, and was soon promoted to be the commander of the capital. After the Battle of Jingnan, Master Liu followed Emperor Chengzu to conquer the desert many times and made many contributions. Emperor Chengzu treated him He was quite appreciative, and after the Northern Expedition, he was promoted to Liaodong Commander-in-Chief, stationed at Guangningwei, an important town in Liaodong, one of the nine borders of the Ming Dynasty.

"After Mr. Liu became the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, he heard that pirates often landed, massacred people, and robbed women of property. These pirates dressed in strange clothes, did not speak like Han people, and were extremely tough. Mr. Liu personally went to the coast of Liaodong to investigate. It turned out that these pirates were not ordinary thieves, but Japanese pirates from Fusang.

"The scourge of Japanese pirates began at the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty. By the time of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the scourge of Japanese pirates in the southeast coast became more and more serious. Master Liu is not ignorant of this. It's just that he has never heard of Japanese pirates raiding Liaodong. He was shocked. While reporting the matter to Emperor Chengzu, he rectified the Liaodong guards and trained soldiers to prevent Japanese pirates from invading Liaodong.

"Emperor Chengzu received Liu Jiang's memorial and knew that the Japanese pirates were plotting against Liaodong, and he was furious. He sent envoys to Fusang to blame General Fusang, urging him to restrain the Fusang people from going out to sea to make trouble and suppress the Japanese pirates. , Zongbing and the governor of Liaodong, and Zongbing ordered them to strictly suppress and arrest the Japanese pirates who harassed Ming Dynasty.

"Master Liu got the order of Emperor Chengzu, and immediately set out to exterminate the Japanese pirates. At that time, there were only more than 1000 field soldiers in the Liaodong Guard, and the remaining soldiers in the field were only in the early [-]s. These soldiers in the field were old and weak. Some of them can’t even hold a knife and gun, which is really tasteless. Mr. Liu led more than [-] soldiers to build beacon towers in Lushunkou, Wanghaiguo, Left Eye, Right Eye, Xishazhou, Sanshou Mountain, and Shantou. He especially valued Wanghaiguo, because the Japanese invaded Liaodong several times before, and they all landed here. Master Liu personally led the soldiers to build a stone fort and set up a beacon tower in Wanghaiguo. , take precautions.

"Sure enough, in June of that year, the sergeant guarding Wanghaiguo found a faint light of fire on an island in the sea, and reported the matter to his superiors. After Mr. Liu got the news, he believed that the Japanese pirates had gathered at sea and were about to go ashore to plunder. Yes So he mobilized more than 700 officers and soldiers to guard Wanghaiguo and wait for the Japanese pirates to attack. In the early morning of the second day, the Japanese pirates took more than [-] large and small ships and went straight to Wanghaiguo. Such pustule, one by one as a soldier, extremely brave. After one battle, more than [-] Japanese pirates were beheaded, and the remaining more than [-] people were all captured alive. Master Liu frightened the Japanese pirates in the first battle. Since then The people of Fusang no longer dare to attack Liaodong, so they can only toss about along the coast of Fujian. If Master Liu had not won the Battle of Wanghaiguo, Japanese pirates would attack Liaodong in the north and Fujian in the south, and the situation in Ming Dynasty would be in jeopardy!"

(End of this chapter)