Xinshun 1730

Chapter 434 Disgusting Tactics

The secret order also stated some plans of strategy and calculation, which seemed to be full of trust.

In fact, it was a faint warning to the navy, not to think about how many votes you can make, but to strictly abide by the strategy of the Privy Council, and not to fight meaningless battles.

It’s just that the expression is very cryptic, and I’m really worried that the navy’s brain will get hot, and after capturing Hagi City, they will go to Xiaguan, and even go to Kyushu Island to make military exploits.

It's not that you can't fight, but it's meaningless.In addition to making military exploits, eggs are useless.

It is too painful to beat the real powers such as Changzhou Governor's Mansion Kyushu Island, and it is easy to break the balance between the shogunate and the powerful vassal in the future.

It will be very detrimental to the future policy of divide and rule and center control.

The Privy Council wants a unified Japanese market, maintaining the privileges of the samurai, and ensuring that there are at least 40 households in Japan with spending power, that is, the group of samurai.

What can Japanese farmers afford at this time?
The Privy Council does not want a Japan that is in chaos, where all the feudal clans have fallen and the Warring States Period has fallen, and no one is spending money, squeezing out the money of ordinary people to buy arms and build warships like sesame oil.

What the lower-level staff and officers think about is making military exploits; what the Privy Council thinks about is how to end the war with the least cost.

Li Yan hadn't learned how to fight, but he understood the implicit meaning in the secret order.

As I said before, whether to fight or not depends on the court, and if necessary, you can take the order of the foreign emperor.

Now the Privy Council has not only cryptically expressed the concern about the army's military achievements, but also formulated a very detailed plan, so that it is impossible to accept the order of the foreign emperor.

When military exploits are reduced to the word "brushing", military exploits are meaningless to the war itself.

Putting away the secret orders of the Privy Council, Li Yan smiled wryly and said: "Everyone, this is a whip, and the words are quite severe. If that's the case, then don't make trouble, and act according to the plan of the Privy Council."

Wu Fangrui thought to himself that my combat achievements are enough anyway, unless Edo is defeated, there is nothing to compare with.

"Your Highness, don't worry, if the navy can't land, there's nothing they can do. If the fleet can seize the opportunity and wipe out the Japanese navy, it won't have any impact. The order of the Privy Council is just to stop landing indiscriminately and fight in the wild. "

"I'm going to formulate and revise the plan here. Your Highness can send someone to escort the King of Japan back to Tianjin, and the warship escort will not affect the follow-up actions."

Li Yan smiled, then shook his head.

I thought that no matter whether it was the imperial decree or the secret order of the Privy Council, there was no mention of sending the King of Japan to the capital.

Not to mention such a big matter, it is obviously not allowed to be sent to the capital, and it is more appropriate to detain it in Busan or Tsushima Island for the time being.

It should be sent, and there is no way to deal with it.

If the Celestial Dynasty wants to win, it has to win in a dignified way, and it wants the Wa country to surrender the title of emperor and become a minister.

Moreover, the King of Japan has no real power, and before the country of Wa was formally allowed to surrender to the emperor, he was sent to the capital, which became a hot potato.

After winning face, he became self-deceiving again. When the shogunate really established a new monarch, it would be difficult to handle, and he would not be able to step down.

The imperial court may have been a little bit overwhelmed after being slapped in the face by the tributary country.

North Korea admits that the shogunate is the king behind the back of the celestial dynasty, and the emperor is the emperor in disguise; Ryukyu is controlled by the Satsuma clan behind the back of the celestial dynasty, and the tribute trade continues... If this kind of emperor's new clothes are not lifted all the time, they will all pretend to be stupid, deceive their ears and steal their bells, and have fun ;Once it was uncovered, the emperor couldn't bear to be a fool again.

Send the King of Japan to the capital now, or treat him as a prisoner, and the court will definitely flatter him like a tide.

If the time comes, the shogunate will not pay tribute, and a new king will be established.Today's flattery is like a tide, and in the future it will be a slap in the face.

Even if the King of Japan enters the capital, it must be after the peace talks, when he enters the capital with the appearance of being a minister.

Otherwise, if the King of Japan is a staunch one, after entering Beijing, he yells that you are the emperor of the sunset country, and I am the emperor of the sunrise country, etc., and this matter will not end.

This is a shrine. Holding it in your hand can add a little bargaining chip, but it is only a bargaining chip, but not the person presiding over the negotiation.

The imperial court could clearly distinguish the relationship between the Japanese king and the shogunate.

Although the imperial decree has not yet come, Li Yan guessed that it should not be long before the courteous government or someone who knows how to negotiate will come to contact him.

So first arrange the Japanese king to live in the former Busan Japanese hall, and ask someone to take care of it, just don't run away.

All kinds of expenses should be satisfied as far as possible, and can be paid in advance, and will definitely be made up afterwards.Anyway, they can't eat much, and it seems that they can eat meat anyway, and it doesn't cost a lot of money.

It is estimated that within a few days, new orders will come, so Li Yan stayed in Busan, handed over the command of the fleet to Mantou, and asked Mantou to command the fleet to harass Shimonoseki.

Chen Qinghai stayed in Busan and was responsible for escorting and transporting troops to Tsushima.

The action with great fanfare began here. The vanguard troops landed on Tsushima Island first. After a three-day rest, the follow-up troops began to go to the island one after another.

Mantou led part of the fleet and went out to the vicinity of Xiaguan.

Did not enter the Xiaguan Strait, and observed the situation in the strait with a telescope.

In the Xiaguan Strait, there are a large number of small boats. It looks like there are two to three hundred ships, but they are all small.Huddled inside, watching Dashun's light boat approaching, measuring the water depth and throwing buoys there, but none of the boats left the strait.

After looking at it for a while, Mantou turned his head and said to several officers around him: "It's not that the Japanese don't know soldiers and water warfare. The wood is like a horse, and the toad crawls on the feet. It doesn't bite people, but responds to people."

The officers who observed the situation also cursed at the Japanese sailors who were huddled in the strait in the distance, thinking that a bunch of cowards are coming out to fight.

There is no steam engine at this time, and unless the fleet commander's brain is rusted, he will not choose to go deep into the Xiaguan Strait.

The Shimonoseki Fortress is located near the Chofu Clan's feudal hall, facing the Seto Inland Sea. Landing there can directly threaten the Chofu Clan's feudal hall.

However, the situation faced by the Japanese this time is fundamentally different from the situation in which Western countries bombarded the Xiaguan Fort in later history.

The latter has a steamship, so you don’t have to worry about being blocked in the narrow strait due to the suspension of the wind direction; the latter has insufficient landing troops.

But now, Dashun has occupied Tsushima, Dashun can land and fight, and his previous performance is that he likes to land and fight.

Therefore, Japan's coping strategy is completely different.

The entire Kyushu Island, Honshu Island and other places could recruit all the navy troops, and organized a navy fleet with more than 200 ships to block the Xiaguan Strait and prevent the Dashun Army from passing through the Strait.

Naval battles are definitely impossible to win. These people still know the level of the navy after the country has been locked for so long.

Blocked in the strait, if Dashun's sailing ships dare to enter the strait, they can use these more than 200 small boats to besiege and set fire to them, and they still have the power to fight.

However, if the Dashun Army did not enter the strait, the recruited navy would not go out to fight in the strait.

This is called toad-like, not biting, but responding to others.

Saying you can't beat it doesn't mean you can't beat it.

There are more than 9 small boats, and the design of the Japanese ship has serious problems. The center of gravity is too high to place heavy artillery;

The biggest ship is a Flang machine placed on the bow, some of the Flang machines are older than Dashun Taizu Li Zicheng.

Most of the ships were still boarded by sailors and fought hand-to-hand on board.

Even if the terrain is narrow, even if the strait is not wide, at worst, the Dashun navy can wipe out the Japanese navy with two warships seriously injured.

But the Navy doesn't want to have an accident with a single ship.In case of bad luck, there is no wind all of a sudden, and it may even be completely folded inside.

Hiding inside and not coming out, the navy cannot pass through the Xiaguan Strait.

To threaten the Seto Inland Sea, it is better to sail from Matsue to Ryukyu, and then go north from Ryukyu.

That's why Mantou sighed, saying that it's not like the Japanese didn't understand water warfare.

This patchwork navy played its biggest role and indeed blocked the Xiaguan Strait.

But that's all there is to it.

They couldn't stop the Dashun army from landing. Once they landed, they set up their cannons on the coast, and these naval forces would either stay in the strait to be bombarded, or they would withdraw from the strait and be wiped out by the Dashun navy.

However, this is enough.A navy that was destined to be wiped out played its full role, and the disgusting Dashun navy could only bypass it.

The fleet drifted around the islands outside Shimonoseki for a day. Not only did the Japanese navy have no intention of going to war, but they even shrank back. It seemed that they had made up their minds not to leave the strait.

Several light, relatively shallow fast boats, within a safe range, measured the depth of the waterway, and threw some buoys to mark the passable waterway.By the way, I tried to seduce it, but the Japanese navy didn't fall for it at all, and just shrank into the strait.

Some warriors on horseback can be seen on the shore, galloping constantly, presumably they are delivering news.

Mantou observed and seduced all day long, but the Japanese sailors just didn't come out.

Early the next morning, the sounding ship sent to the north received news that it had found a place where it could dock.

There is no pier, only a Yuhuo pier. A few scouts went ashore, arrested a few Japanese farmers, and asked about the situation.

After the interpreter inquired, he told Mantou that this place belongs to Fengpu County of Changfu Clan, and its name is Lingluomu Village.It is said that people from the Qin Dynasty came here when they traveled east and taught the local people to raise silkworms and grow mulberry, so it has this name.

This legend is estimated to be pervasive, but it seems that the legend of the Qin people's eastward journey is very widespread.

It is only ten miles away from the vassal hall of the Chofu Clan and Kushizaki Castle, which was once built by the Mori clan.

After asking about the general situation, these farmers were deliberately let go.

The fleet set sail, followed the buoys left by the sounding ship, traveled north for more than ten miles, and came to the beach with deeper water and closer to the shore.

The beach is very flat, and there is a team of warriors guarding the coast, about a hundred people.

The terrain here is flat, there are no high mountains nearby, the surrounding situation can be seen at a glance, and there is a small river that is not too wide.

There were more than 100 warriors on the shore, far away, Mantou ordered the ships to line up, and bombarded the warriors on the shore in the way of shooting mosquitoes with cannons.

The Clippers continued to measure the surrounding water depth and throw buoys, and a small group of marines landed in small boats.

The bombardment, which was purely a waste of shells, began. There was not even a fort here. After two rounds of bombardment, the warriors on the shore dispersed.

After the marines who landed in a small boat planted a flag on it, they went forward to scout the situation, and were not in a hurry to retreat.

"It's here."

On the flagship, Mantou nodded, and chose an excellent location to alarm the defenders of Changzhou, Changfu and other feudal clans.

This small village called Lingluomu has no decent pier, but the coast is very wide and there is no obstacle to landing.

When I went to Edo with Liu Yu, Mantou and the others took the road from Nagasaki to Ogura. I remember clearly what was in the Shimonoseki Strait.

There were two very old forts before, and it is estimated that several more should be built since the start of the war.However, it can only threaten the Xiaguan Strait, and cooperate with the navy to prevent the Dashun Navy from passing through the Xiaguan Strait.

It is stupid for the navy to shoot at the battery.

However, Dashun was not one of those Western countries in later generations, who had to transfer troops from tens of thousands of miles away.Tsushima Island is all occupied, and the coastal defense artillery of the fort is good, but it can't stop the army.

Since the Japanese still felt disgusted with Dashun because they knew that the navy would be blocked in the strait and could not fight, they would definitely gather a large number of warriors near Xiaguan to prevent Dashun from landing and fighting.

The Japanese used the wretched navy tactics to block Dashun's large warships, and Mantou also used the method of pretending to land to disgust the Changzhou Fan and get a feel for the deployment of the Changzhou Fan's troops.

If you land here, capture Kushizaki Castle, and control the fort, the navy assembled by the Japanese in the strait will be useless.The Xiaguan Strait is also wide open.

In that case, the connection between Changzhou Fan and Kyushu Island was directly cut off.

This is a place that must be contested. All the Japanese may not stick to it, but the Changzhou Fan must stick to it.

(End of this chapter)