A knife in love

Chapter 4122

At a quarter past noon, everyone walked into a town. Although this town only has seventy or eighty houses, it is already considered to have a large population in Fuso Country. Ye Fengchun sat on the carriage, pointed at the low and dilapidated earthen house and said to Li Qiufeng and Murong Danyan: "The land in Fusang Country is barren and most of the people do not have enough to eat. If they live together in one place, it will be extremely difficult to supply food, so they have to disperse. Where we live, we each find a way to survive. This town can be considered a big town with a population of nearly a hundred households. After passing this town, we walked seven or eight miles and there was a wooden bridge. Wooden bridge, turn to the west, even if King Shou has thousands of troops, he can't do anything to us. "

After hearing what Ye Fengchun said, Murong Danyan curled his lips, with a look of disdain on his face, and said: "Although King Shou is a poor man, his ancestors have been prosperous after all. It stands to reason that he has gathered soldiers from several famous names. To find bad luck with Scholar Mao, you need to bring at least 30,000 to 50,000 troops. Unexpectedly, this bad guy only has a few thousand troops, and he is still talking nonsense, and he also wants to conquer the throne of the King of Fusang Kingdom. Huh, he. If we see our Ming Dynasty marching with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of troops, we will be scared to death!"

Ye Fengchun said with a smile: "Yes, yes, that is indeed the case. The Fusang Kingdom is isolated overseas, with barren land and a sparse population. How can it be compared with the Kingdom of China? At present, the islands of the Fusang Kingdom are torn apart, and dozens of big names are separatist. One side sounds majestic and powerful with a large number of people. In fact, the territory of each daimyo is hundreds of miles away, or even only dozens of miles away. The population under its jurisdiction is not large. If there are five thousand soldiers capable of fighting. People are already considered great. If there are a few low stone cities in the territory, they will be able to dominate one area."

Li Qiufeng listened to Ye Fengchun's words and thought to himself that I had heard Chu Yanfei talk about the Golden Village earlier, and I was still quite suspicious. I thought that if Uta gathered thousands of people and only a few hundred warriors wielded swords, they could compete with Fusang. The confrontation between the imperial court and the daimyo is really hard to convince, and it is mostly just bragging. Listening to Ye Fengchun's words at this time, perhaps Chu Yanfei was not exaggerating, but the Fusang Kingdom was like a ball of loose sand. The local lords were divided and conquered each other endlessly, making it difficult for the people to live and the population to reproduce. The Tatars under Uta were brave and good at fighting, and each one was worth ten. However, it was difficult for the Fuso Kingdom court and the daimyo to gather enough soldiers and horses to encircle and suppress Huangjinzhai, which made Huangjinzhai grow in size. But then again, the officers and soldiers of the Fuso Kingdom and the soldiers and horses of the daimyo from various places were not a concern, but the Japanese pirates who invaded the daimyo were extremely powerful, beating the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who went to encircle and suppress them into a miserable state. Both of them are Fuso people, but their combat prowess is so different that it's really hard to guess.

While Li Qiufeng was thinking, he heard Ye Fengchun continue to say: "In the past, when the Tatar army crossed the sea and marched eastward, the Fusang people were scared. Knowing that they were no match for the Tatars, they burned incense and worshiped Buddha every day, just asking for the blessings of the Buddha and gods. To protect the safety of the Fuso Islands. Strangely enough, during the first expedition of the Tatar army, the vanguard had already reached the coast and was about to kill all the Fuso soldiers. Unexpectedly, a strong wind suddenly blew on the sea. The waves destroyed all the warships of the Tatar navy. The Tatar soldiers who came ashore were in disarray and had no way to advance or retreat. They were taken advantage of by the Fusang people and ended up being wiped out. The Tatar emperor heard that the entire army of the Eastern Expedition was destroyed. He was really furious and wanted to capture the Fuso Kingdom, so he mobilized his army and marched eastward again. As a result, he encountered strong winds and waves. The Tatar soldiers were killed by the strong wind before they could fight the Fuso people. Seventy-eight percent of Shilang was destroyed, leaving only a few thousand defeated soldiers who fled back to China. Although the Tatar emperor was unwilling to do so, his two eastern expeditions were blocked by strong winds, and he lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in vain. Fearing that monsters were causing trouble, the Tatar emperor had to give up his plan of another eastern expedition. In fact, the Fuso Kingdom was isolated in the sea, and strong winds and waves were common. The Tatar navy was destroyed twice by strong winds. , has nothing to do with gods and Buddhas at all, it’s just that the Tatars are very unlucky and there are no resourceful people in the army who know how to avoid wind and waves at sea. This is the reason why the Tatars’ Eastern Expedition army will be in bad luck. If we could avoid the wind and waves, perhaps the Fusang Kingdom would have been crushed by the Tatars, and the Fusang people would be exterminated, and they would no longer be able to wreak havoc in the southeastern part of the Ming Dynasty."

Murong Danyan heard Ye Fengchun say this, with a look of regret on his face, and said: "Mr. Ye is right. The Fusang people are cunning and cunning, and they have been coveting the Ming Dynasty for many years. They are really hateful. If the Tatars could conquer the Fusang Kingdom back then, If we eliminate it, Ming Dynasty will be less troubled.”

Ye Fengchun nodded and said: "That's it. But I would like to say one more thing. The Tatars suffered two big losses at the hands of the Fusang people, but it was also their retribution. It should be noted that when the Tatars rose in Mobei, they had a close relationship with the Jin Dynasty. The Jin people fought fiercely one after another, and although the Jin people were extremely embarrassed, the Tatars did not have many soldiers and horses. The Jin people had been operating in the north for many years and had sufficient soldiers and food. They were not comparable to the Tatars once one or two outstanding soldiers led the army. , the Tatars were in danger of overthrowing. Genghis Khan, the leader of the Tatars, was extremely cunning. He knew that trying to destroy the Jin Kingdom by the Tatars alone was tantamount to wishful thinking, so he sent people south and settled in the south of the Yangtze River. The Song Dynasty contacted the Song Dynasty and asked the Song Dynasty to send troops to the north to join forces with the Tatars to destroy the Jin Kingdom. Genghis Khan deceived the Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers and promised that once the Jin Dynasty was conquered, the Tatars would only take the gold and silver treasures and hand over all the land south of the Great Wall. Song Dynasty."

When Ye Fengchun said this, he paused for a moment, and then continued: "In the past, Song Taizu founded the Song Dynasty, which eliminated the war in the Central Plains and allowed the people to live and work in peace and contentment. However, the Sixteenth Prefecture of Youyun was occupied by the Khitan people and became a mountain hanging above their heads. With a sharp sword. The Khitan cavalry used the Youyun Sixteenth Prefecture as their base and could send troops southward at any time, posing a great threat to the Song Dynasty. In order to recapture the Youyun Sixteenth Prefecture, Song Taizu led troops to the north several times, but unfortunately the Khitans occupied the territory. However, the Song army's northern expedition was in vain. Later, Song Taizong personally conducted the northern expedition, but was defeated by the Khitan Queen Mother Xiao and almost became a prisoner of the Khitan people. The terrain of the Sixteenth Yun Prefecture is too critical. If we want to avoid the disaster in the north, we have to take back the Sixteenth Prefecture of Youyun. Otherwise, we will have to be passively beaten. Later, after the Jin people rose up and destroyed the Khitan, they took the Sixteenth Prefecture of Youyun. In his hands, the Northern Song Dynasty was finally destroyed. The Southern Song Dynasty stayed in the south of the Yangtze River and was always worried about the Jin people going south. In fact, there were good generals such as Yang Ye, Pan Mei, and Cao Bin in the Northern Song Dynasty, and there were also Yue Yeye, Han Shizhong, and Wu in the Southern Song Dynasty. Famous generals such as Jie, these loyal ministers and good generals are good at leading troops. If they had a free fight with the Khitan and Jin people, they might not have a chance of winning. It is a pity that the Sixteenth Province of Youyun was occupied by the enemy and lost its geographical advantage. It was a pity that they failed to defeat the enemy in the end. ”