Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 622
Tsushima Island.

Lin Renzhao listened to Gu Hongzhong describe his opinion with a little excitement.

"Captain, you see, this Tsushima Island connects Wa and Koryo, and this island is the best place for transit. Wa and Koryo are feuds, and they don't know how to use it if they have treasures. If they can turn hostility into friendship, the two countries will pass through this pair. Trade between the Falkland Islands will bring huge benefits to both parties."

"In addition, where Tsushima Island is located... Wa Kingdom has a long and narrow territory. We stationed a naval force on Tsushima Island, which can attack any place in Wa Kingdom at any time."

Gu Hongzhong said with joy, he is a painter, and he is also a top painter with an unforgettable memory.

In history, after Li Yu ascended the throne, due to the decline of the Southern Tang Dynasty, he was deeply wary of the northern officials in Nantou and worried that they would cooperate with the enemy.

As the most famous northerner, Han Xizai was deeply jealous.

Han Xizai held a banquet at home, Li Yu secretly sent Gu Hongzhong to attend, and asked him to record the banquet scene to see if Han Xizai really held the banquet, or used the name of the banquet to do illegal things.

Relying on his quick insight and amazing memory, Gu Hongzhong memorized the whole process of Han Xizai's night banquet at home, and then drew the top ten famous paintings of China handed down from generation to generation "Han Xizai's Night Banquet Picture".

With his extraordinary painting skills, he drew five scenes of playing the pipa, watching the dance, resting during the banquet, blowing the air, and seeing off the guests. The expression of each character is vividly depicted.

There are not many authentic works of Gu Hongzhong handed down in this life, but this "Han Xizai Night Banquet Picture" is enough to prove his status in the painting world.

However, history has changed. Due to the effect caused by Luo Youdu, not only did Li Yu fail to become the monarch of the Southern Tang Dynasty, he even failed to catch up with the crown prince.

If it weren't for Li Jing's favoritism, he might even be treated as a traitor.

Gu Hongzhong also lost his chance to become famous.

"Han Xizai Night Banquet Picture" will no longer exist.

Luo Youdu did not waste Gu Hongzhong's talent. He did not enclose Gu Hongzhong and specialize in painting as in the Southern Tang Dynasty. Instead, he gave him another job, surveying land, drawing maps, and especially drawing seas. The picture is the main one.

Gu Hongzhong was very grateful for Luo Youdu's appointment.

He was really good at drawing, but he didn't want to be just painting.His idols are the two brothers Yan Lide and Yan Liben. Apart from painting, one of them worships the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, and the other is the official prime minister.

Gu Hongzhong also wanted to make contributions, not to be a court painter.

During this expedition, Gu Hongzhong’s task was to draw a detailed chart of the surrounding areas of Koryo, Wa, and the Ryukyu Islands, so that the court’s navy could better control Koryo and Wa.

Lin Renzhao led his troops to attack Tsushima Island this time because of inaccurate charts, and almost went to Koryo Busan.

Fortunately, Xun Zhi, who was traveling with him, noticed something was wrong and immediately persuaded Lin Renzhao.

Xun Zhi was a native of Korea, and when Luo Youdu ascended the throne, Wang Zhao sent an envoy to congratulate him.Then he stayed in the Central Plains, and now he is serving in the Central Plains. This time he went out with the army.

Xun Zhi once served as an official in Busan, and he could tell at a glance that the direction was wrong, so he stopped Lin Renzhao immediately.

With the help of Xun Zhi, they successfully found the position of Tsushima Island, and then the army sealed off the island, attacking the island in one go.

Encountered some resistance, but in the face of the bombardment of Hong Tianlei, the Donghai Division quickly entered a state of mopping up.

The core power of the Wa country is now in the hands of the central Fujiwara family and a few local royal family guards. Other local samurai groups are still on the way to rise, lacking equipment and food.Facing the well-trained Donghai Navy who has been well-trained on the battlefield, there is no resistance at all.

In order to draw a map, Gu Hongzhong went around Tsushima Island himself.

In addition to his job map, Gu Hongzhong had many ideas in his mind.

Koryo and Wa countries face each other across the sea, and a market can be built on Tsushima Island to trade with each other.

He can also build military bases to deter Korea and Japan respectively, and even the detailed site selection is in his head.

Gu Hongzhong found an opportunity to make a suggestion to Lin Renzhao.

Lin Renzhao listened carefully, seeing Gu Hongzhong dancing and giving a generous speech, he said with a smile: "Lin is a big bastard, he doesn't understand these things. Gu Langzhong said it so definitely, it's almost impossible to think about it. It just so happened that the six thousand prisoners in his hand were locked up and wasted." , and the risk of trouble. Just let them do it, don’t feel sorry for them, use it to death. Eat a three-point full, use up all your strength, even if you want to resist, you don’t have that strength.”

Gu Hongzhong excitedly said: "Obey, I will not let the governor down."

At this moment, news came from outside the tent that Zheng Yanhua asked to see him.

Lin Renzhao let him in to speak.

Zheng Yanhua said cheerfully: "The direction of Gaoli has also found something is wrong. They sent over a hundred people this time."

A smile appeared on Lin Renzhao's face, and he said, "No one escaped!"

Zheng Yanhua said: "How is it possible, their small ship has no speed, no combat power, all of which made them run away, how can they have the face to see the governor?"

Japan actually mastered certain navigation techniques, and their warships were mainly Huanglong, Sea Falcon, and Tang envoy ships.

But these are old products from 200 years ago.

Among them, the Tang envoy ship is a troop transport ship, the largest sea ship in Japan.

Huanglong and Haifalcon are improved versions of river ships learned from the Tang Dynasty, and they are all outdated products.

It's just that the Japanese kingdom has been closed to the outside world for more than a hundred years, and the imperial court has decayed. Naturally, the ship technology has not improved, and there is no need for maintenance and new construction.

Ships from more than a hundred years ago have long been unusable.

Now the ships they use to travel between Japan and Koryo are the cheapest flat-bottomed long boats, each of which can only accommodate 20 people.

In the Central Plains, Luo Youdu attached great importance to the navy. When he was still a minister in the Later Zhou Dynasty, he tried his best to promote water trade with Wu Yue, absorb their advanced shipbuilding technology, and form a navy that could run across the Bohai Sea.

After unifying the south of the Yangtze River, it summed up the shipbuilding techniques of the Central Plains, Southern Tang, Wuyue, and Zhangquan, as well as the technology of Western sea ships, and developed new types of sea ships.

In recent years, most of the money and taxes earned by maritime merchants have been used for the improvement and construction of the Navy.

The gap between the two sides on the ship is not a little bit.

Facing the fast sailing sea falcons in the Central Plains, the flat-bottomed narrow boats of the Wa Kingdom had no chance of escape.

Lin Renzhao nodded in satisfaction and said, "That's good. First, torture them separately and let them talk about the situation in Gaoli. Then throw them all to Gu Langzhong. It's all labor. It's a pity to lock them up. Your Majesty said, what is it called Shi Jian?" There is a big silver mine in the place, save their lives, and they will all be miners when the time comes."

"No!" Zheng Yanhua cupped his fists to accept the order.

Lin Renzhao watched Zheng Yanhua and Gu Hongzhong leave, looked at the latest map, and drew a long line from left to right on Tsushima Island with his fingers.

This long line is the sea area they blockade.

The coastline of the Wa country is long and narrow, and it is impossible to completely block it.

But as long as half a month is given to Chen Decheng, it is enough for him to win Kyushu Island.

Kyushu Island has gathered most of the materials of the Wa Kingdom, and if these materials are taken away, it will be a major blow to the morale of the Wa Kingdom.

The Japanese soldiers in the direction of Koryo lost their logistical supplies and had to withdraw their troops southward.

Goryeo will be at your fingertips then.

Lin Renzhao deduced the process in his mind, and it took about half an hour.

Zheng Yanhua came back from the interrogation: "Captain, there is a new news. According to a young general of the Wa Kingdom, they have a 3000-strong army attacking the Tamna Kingdom."

Lin Renzhao looked at the location of Jeju Island on the map, thought for a while and said, "Call Lu Jiang here."

Not long after, a young general with gray hair and beard who was over seventy walked in.

"Captain!" Lu Jiang's voice was loud and full of confidence, not at all like an old man in his seventies.

Speaking of this Lu Jiang, he is also the number one figure in history.

One of the representatives of late bloomers.

Lu Jiang, styled Jinqing, was born in Yichun, Jiangnan, and was the great-grandson of Lu Zhaozhi, the first number one scholar in Jiangxi history.Born in a scholarly family, he has been fond of military strategists since he was a child, and he takes game games as his business.

This kind of person can't pass the exam, not to mention the Jiangnan where the style of writing is at its peak, even the Central Plains.Therefore, at the age of seventy, nothing can be accomplished.

Until Zhao Kuangyin and Chen Qiao's mutiny and the addition of yellow robes, the situation in the south of the Yangtze River was severe.

Lu Jiang felt that she was a young man in her seventies, and a hero was the place to use her skills, so she wrote a letter to the Southern Tang court to discuss the matter in order to advance herself.

Lu Jiang's talents were brought into play, and she personally recruited a water army, trained them, and stationed at the front line of the Qinhuai water fence.

When the Song Dynasty invaded the south, Lu Jiang faced the Song army ten times larger than himself, and won many battles without a single defeat. The Song army was in a psychological shadow. Hearing Lu Jiang's name, he was timid and afraid, and dared not attack.

In the end, it is still the same sentence, the Southern Tang Dynasty will not perish, there is no natural reason.

Since Lin Renzhao was unjustly killed by Li Yu, Lu Jiang was the only one who could challenge the Song army.

Because he always won battles, the Southern Tang court quickly transferred him to the rear as a Jiedu envoy, so that the Southern Tang front line was defeated.

In the end Li Yu surrendered, but Lu Jiang was unwilling to surrender to the Song Dynasty, and led his troops to attack Shezhou, trying to defend central Fujian and revive the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Facing Shezhou where Lu Jiang lived, the Song Dynasty fought up and down for more than a year, but they had no choice but to take Lu Jiang, losing troops and losing generals.

Seeing that Lu Jiang could not be conquered, Zhao Kuangyin resorted to soft tricks to persuade him to surrender.In the end, due to the shortage of food and grass, Lu Jiang surrendered for the soldiers of the people.

But Lu Jiang, who was 84 at the time, was unwilling to kneel down to Zhao Kuangyin.

Zhao Kuangyin was afraid of Lu Jiang's loyalty internally, and feared that Lu Jiang would regret the power of the Song Dynasty, so he directly ordered Lu Jiang to be pushed out of the Meridian Gate and beheaded, and at the same time ordered to kill Lu Jiang's nine clans.

After hearing the news, the descendants of the Lu family changed their surname from Lu to Zhong. Even now in Fenyi, there is a famous saying "Destroy a furnace in one night and make a clock".

Now Lu Jiang has not had time to go to the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the Southern Tang Dynasty has been destroyed.

Seeing that the Dayu court had the style of the Han and Tang Dynasties, Lu Jiang felt that she was only seventy years old, a young man, and could not be buried here, so she wrote a letter to the Dayu court to discuss the matter.

Luo Youdu saw that Lu Jiang's words were pearls, and every sentence made sense, and he had deep insights into water warfare.It happened that the Donghai Navy was short of personnel, so Lu Jiang was transferred to Lin Renzhao.

When Lin Renzhao saw an old man transferred by Luo Youdu, he was puzzled and thought he was a related household.

It wasn't until in-depth contact that Lin Renzhao discovered that Lu Jiang was a talented person, and he was actually a first-class good person.In the letter with Luo Youdu, he praised Lu Jiang again and again, revealing his pity for his age.

Luo Youdu just found out that Lu Jiang, who wrote to him to discuss the matter, wrote the article full of youthful spirit by a seventy-year-old man.

Lin Renzhao called Lu Jiang forward, pointed to the Tamra Kingdom on the map and said, "There are 3000 people from the Wa Kingdom here, and they are attacking the Tamra Kingdom. Are you sure we can wipe them all out?"

Lu Jiang looked at the map, narrowed her eyes slightly, and said, "Do you need to block this place too?"

Obviously, the seventy-year-old veteran also understood their current purpose.

Lin Renzhao said, "Do your best, you don't have many soldiers."

Lu Jiang said loudly: "The young general understands!"

The corner of Lin Renzhao's mouth twitched, no doubt he was a young player.

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Sangju Mudongnae County!

This Donglai County is either Yantai, Shandong, or Busan of later generations. The root of Goryeo culture comes from China, so many of their place names like to be called after the Central Plains.

The same is true of Dongnae County here.

Yuan Manzhong stood on a high place in Busan, looking at Tsushima Island from a distance, a trace of anxiety flashed in his eyes, and the uneasiness in his heart grew stronger.

This well-known founder of the Yuan family in the history of Japan is far from being as reckless as it appears on the surface.

He contradicted Ping Zhensheng like a stunned head, and his purpose was really to win the favor of Fujiwara.

Although the Fujiwara family is rotten to the bone, the world of the Japanese country is ultimately in the hands of the Fujiwara family. Holding Fujiwara's thigh is the most beneficial for Qing and Genji.

Therefore, regardless of right or wrong, Yuan Manzhong firmly stood on the side of Fujiwara.It may seem like a no-brainer, but it is actually the most sensible move.

If the soldiers and horses are not moving, the grain and grass will go first.

This most basic truth is the first lesson in the introduction to military studies.

On the first day of the food shortage, Shifu Fujiwara, who was far away in Kaesong, paid attention to it and sent people to Tsushima Island to urge it.

But in the end, there was no news.

Busan is not far from Tsushima Island, just over 110 miles away, and a fast ship can arrive there in a day.

Now is the season of less wind, even if you are unlucky and encounter a surge, the whole army will not be wiped out.

Fujiwara Shifu felt ominous, and sent Yuan Manzhong to Busan himself to find out what happened to Tsushima Island.

When Yuan Manzhong first came to Busan, he immediately arranged a team of hundreds of soldiers to go to Tsushima Island.

Yuan Manzhong made full preparations. He divided the [-]-man team into three groups, one mile apart from each other, approaching Tsushima Island, and told them to retreat immediately if they encountered danger.

Yuan Manzhong has realized that there is a problem with Tsushima Island, and this time he just wants to see how the opponent's warship is doing.

In water battles, ships come first.

As a result, there is still no news...

Yuan Manzhong closed his eyes, no news is the worst news.

This shows that even if I arrange it like this, the opponent's ship still has the ability to catch up with them and catch them all.

"Report!"

Yuanmanzhong was thinking about countermeasures, a soldier ran to the vicinity and said: "Master Yuanmanzhong, Masuda Kaito-sama of Andong Prefecture was killed by the mob, and more than 2000 people shouted "Central Plains!" The Son of Heaven's order to seek thieves has occupied the Anton mansion."

A sudden sweat broke out on Yuan Manzhong's back. Once this uprising occurs, it will be in an endless state.

Now that they have run out of food and grass, they don't know where to retreat, and there are rebels everywhere...

How to fight this?
(End of this chapter)