Supporting the body in the white blade, wandering in the red dust

Chapter 899
In the 20th year of Wanli, Japan's Taira Hideyoshi appointed Ukita Hideie as the general. He led Konishi Yukinaga and other nine regiments with nearly 16 people to board the ship and prepare to land in Korea. The great war in East Asia began.

As expected, the Korean army collapsed at the first touch. In less than three months, the Korean king had fled to Yizhou on the border. Several envoys ran to the Ming Dynasty capital every day, just crying for help. "How courageous is Ping Monkey? How dare a pearl of rice compete with the sun and the moon?" Bailang laughed, "It's a pity that I can't go on a personal expedition this time." The Wanli Emperor sighed and ordered the North Korean King Li He to enter. Daming stayed in Shenyang temporarily, and at the same time ordered Qi Jiguang to lead [-] troops allocated by Liaodong and the capital to attack Japan.

"If the foreign emperor's order is not accepted, the war in Korea will be controlled by Qi Shuai alone." Bailang's decree was like this, and after receiving the decree, the Korean King Li Huo happily ran to Shenyang.After Qi Jiguang gave the order, the Liaodong Army, which had already been prepared, began to move, preparing to enter North Korea.The first was to use money and food to collect money and food from the border areas and build roads with the Korean people - horse-drawn artillery vehicles had to pass over them.

The first to enter the court were the light cavalry - in fact, the Ming cavalry were all armored, and their armament was far superior to the Japanese cavalry, which consisted of monkeys and dogs.Since the infantry of the Liaodong Army were now rich, they were also equipped with a large number of new four-wheeled carts pulled by horses or mules, and their marching speed went up a whole level.In fact, Wanli now intends to directly divide the arms. The logistics arm is equipped with four-wheeled carriages to accompany the infantry and cavalry artillery.

After the army went out, Bailang didn't have anything important to do now. He only needed to ensure logistics.Now that he was in Wanchun Garden, the eunuch who accompanied him brought a tray, which contained several silver coins - eighty-five silver and one-five copper. Bailang picked up the silver coin. The pattern on it was clearly visible, and on the edge of the silver coin was fine teeth. "Sure enough, the stamped ones are exquisite." He played with the silver coin in his hand, flicked it and listened to the sound.

This is a one-yuan silver coin from the Ming Dynasty. It can be used as one tael of treasury silver, but it is actually much lighter and is not pure silver. As long as the government uses it as one tael of silver to collect taxes, it will naturally establish credibility - this You can't make such exquisite things by private casting. Even if you can make them so exquisite, then you can make money if you have the ability, as long as you don't worry about being caught and beheaded.The gold coins were in another tray, slightly smaller than the silver coins but just as beautiful.

Bailang put the coins away, "That's it. For a period of five years, all provinces across the country will set up mints under the Ministry of Household Mining to start manufacturing. After five years, all national tax silver coins will be based on silver dollars. No more scattered silver will be collected." He issued the order. He passed the decree to the Ministry of Household Affairs and blocked a considerable corruption hole.

The officials of the Ming Dynasty were very courageous to commit corruption, and they would try their best to find a solution for you - this problem cannot be avoided even in the Republic of China.Bailang could only find and arrest one by one. If he couldn't catch them, he would be lucky.Fortunately, here in Bailang, there is a way to save money, which is to raid your property after retirement. No matter how good you are, when you retire, you will have a one-time raid. Anyway, according to your level, you will be left with more money, more money will be refunded, and less money will be made up. Depending on your level, it will depend on how much you have been greedy. After reaching the death line, There are treatments such as beheading, killing the three tribes, and killing melons and vines.

As for the dignity of an old minister?Bailang doesn't have it here. It would be nice if he didn't shout "My money!"

Bailang was struggling to deal with government affairs, but the battle in Korea had begun. The Liaodong light cavalry entered Korea, explored in depth, and ran into the Japanese army head-on.What more than a hundred cavalrymen saw was the Japanese army's formation of a thousand men. The leader of the group wanted to make a symbolic charge to test the Japanese army's combat strength. The Chinese character on the flag seemed to be "Ota".

The Liaodong Qingqi were only wearing cotton armor, their horses had no armor, and the weapons in their hands were only three-eyed muskets, bows and arrows, and spears and knives. When these hundreds of cavalry rushed out, the Japanese army had just formed a formation in a chaotic manner.I originally thought that I would rush out and shoot down the three-eyed musket and fire a few arrows, but I didn't expect that when I rushed over, the Japanese spearmen actually scattered.

So immediately the three-eyed cannon was fired, and the other side shouted something like horse-mounted iron cannon, which was unable to stop the cavalry's assault.The Ming Dynasty cavalry that stood out from the smoke simply began to march into formation, and the entire Japanese army's formation of a thousand people collapsed.The Ming cavalry did not dare to pursue them deeply and retreated after chasing for more than ten miles.The enemy general may be among the soldiers, and we don't know whether they are dead or not. Anyway, many short Japanese soldiers died along the way.

Several cavalrymen died and their bodies were taken away. Commander Qi Jiguang asked these cavalrymen in detail what they had seen and heard - he sent a large number of light cavalry to collect information on the battlefield and prepare to fight in Pyongyang and destroy the Japanese army. Offensive momentum.

Bailang is paying attention to naval shipbuilding. Now two shipbuilding locations - one in Tianjinwei and one in Shanghai County, are now trying to build ships using the debris shipbuilding method provided by Bailang. Among them, Jesuit missionaries It had some effect.Even if they don't know how to build ships, they still know what the ships that came all the way from Europe look like inside and out.

This is a battleship built with a keel. The watertight compartment ensures its excellent anti-sinking ability, and the gun deck on the middle layer allows it to fire under "any" weather conditions. Of course, there are several artillery guns in the gun shed on the deck. It can be used to sweep the deck. The ship has 24 cannons and two masts hung with Chinese-style hard sails, so it is slightly slower than Western warships with soft sails, but its flexible rudder makes up for it in maneuverability.

If the construction is stepped up now, it will only be equipped with front-mounted cannons, which will be enough to attack Japanese ships.As long as Bai Lang wanted to and could find the money, the Ming Navy could form an army quite quickly.If the Japanese army had fought in Korea for two years, their navy would have been destroyed.

Qi Jiguang is indeed the military god of the Ming Dynasty, and he is not comparable to the "famous generals" of the Japanese Warring States Period. After learning that the Ming Dynasty army entered the DPRK, the Japanese army took the initiative to shrink and retreated directly to the vicinity of Pyongyang.Qi Jiguang calmly led the Ming Dynasty army to the outskirts of Pyongyang - and launched a surprise attack almost as soon as he arrived.

The Japanese army was caught off guard and was in chaos. The Liaodong cavalry was fully equipped and divided into three teams to attack the Japanese flank. However, the field artillery pulled by the carriage was placed among the infantry array and did not fire.The Ming cavalry easily destroyed the Japanese cavalry and began to attack the Japanese infantry. This was considered a sniper attack.The Japanese army has two choices. One is to retreat all the time and try to see if they can escape back to Pyongyang before they collapse.The other one is quite suitable for them. They try to move forward and bet whether they can defeat the Ming army.With the little devil's personality, it is almost certain what he will choose. Starting with General Ukita Hideie's flag leaning forward, the entire Japanese army launched an assault, "Namu Eighth Class Great Bodhisattva!"

(End of this chapter)