Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 843 Wa Kingdom: We Are Undefended
In fact, Japan also had a clear north-south distinction like China, but because Japan is a long strip extending from southwest to northeast, the most displayed in history is the combination of Kanto and Kansai.

Of course, this is a rough concept. Kanto is roughly the area around Tokyo, and Kansai is the area around Kobe and Osaka.

Most of the conflicts and developments in Japanese history were also manifested in the conflicts and peace negotiations between the Kanto and Kansai groups.

Historically, Japan's political and cultural center has always been Kansai, headed by Heian-kyo and Heping-jo-kyo, while Kanto is somewhat similar to China's Guanwai.

Until Tokugawa Ieyasu managed the Kinugawa, Tonegawa and other rivers, and turned the Kanto Plain into Japan's most important farming base, Kanto was a relatively wild land.

The title of General Zhengyi, which is obviously of a pioneering nature, was also called General Zhengdong or Ambassador Zhengdong at first. You can see from the literal meaning that this is a concrete manifestation of the continuous development of the Japanese central government towards the Kanto in the past dynasties.

And this situation has also led to the army stationed in the Kanto, which is similar to the elite frontier army.

Therefore, the internal fighting in Japan in the past dynasties was basically fought by samurai from the Eastern Kingdom against the samurai from the Western Kingdom.

Even in the ghost period of the later generations, the Kwantung Army was still the elite representative of the ghost army, and the Osaka Division in Kansai, etc., were even given various funny nicknames and storylines.

As a place west of Kansai, Hizen, Chikuzen, Buzen and other countries in Kyushu, and samurai from Nagato, Iwami, Izumo and other countries in China, all belong to the younger brothers among the samurai in the Western countries, basically pulling the hips synonymous with.

The reason for this situation has a lot to do with the history of Kitakyushu as a birthplace of civilization that can be compared with Nara and Kyoto in Kansai.

If the Kansai area is a civilization produced by the combination of Dulai people and local aborigines, then Kyushu and China are pure Dulai people's kingdoms, not localized at all.

For example, the famous Yamatai Kingdom and the Queen Himiko who often appear in the Three Kingdoms game, as well as the occasional Dog Slave Kingdom and so on.

Judging from their close connection and relationship with the Gongsun family in Liaodong, this Yamatai country is likely to be a country established by the peninsula people who crossed the sea to Kitakyushu.

Their culture should be different from the Japanese culture centered on Nara.

Therefore, due to this situation, after the Japanese imperial court unified the Japanese islands, they tried their best to accept the people from the country, such as the Eastern Han family and the Qin family, as their subjects, and ordered them to move to the Kansai area to win them over.

On the one hand, it is necessary to implement strict restrictions on the local forces in the northern part of China and the Kyushu region.

Specifically, in addition to setting up the Dazaifu to monitor and stationing the Mikasa, Toga and other legions in Dazaifu, the armaments of the samurai in these two places were also strictly restricted.

This has led to the so-called warriors in these two places with only a small amount of bamboo armor, only three or four bows, and sharpened arrows made of animal bones. Most of the melee weapons are wooden spears, and even a broken iron sword can become a status symbol.

Needless to say, this kind of military strength, combat effectiveness, well, probably no fishermen from Nantang and Wuyue can fight, no, it shouldn't be about, it must not be able to beat fishermen from Nantang and Wuyue.

Therefore, when Qin Pingtong saw a team equipped with iron armor, holding a fine iron horizontal knife, with seven or eight fighting step bows, and six or seven types of crossbows.

The horses were taller than others, and Zhou Jun, who was like a giant beast in the armor, was frightened stupid.

After he was stunned for a full cup of tea, he rolled in the dust and kowtowed in a flutter, shouting exaggeratedly in his mouth:

"It turns out that the Heavenly Soldiers from my hometown have arrived! The Heavenly Soldiers that my ancestors have never forgotten have arrived! The Qin family of Xikaidao is willing to serve the king!"

And when he was crying, Murong Nobunaga was also dumbfounded. Recalling his and his father Zhang Shengren's analysis of the Wa Kingdom, Murong Nobunaga felt for the first time that his father, who was like a god, had miscalculated.

Where did the 500 million people come from in this Wa country?How can there be one hundred thousand armor?

Estimated from the Kyushu and China regions provided by Qin Pingtong, the entire Wa Kingdom has a maximum of 300 million people, and its area is almost as large as that of Hedong and Hebei, but its military equipment is extremely slack.

According to the total of 6000 people stationed in four legions in Dazaifu, there are at most 5 to [-] standing troops in the entire Wa Kingdom, but there are a large number of samurai among the people. As long as they are willing to spend money to recruit, about [-] people can be recruited.

However, Murong Nobunaga smiled. What kind of combat power does this kind of recruited warrior have, compared with the warriors under his command?
I thought that the Wa country was the most difficult to fight, but now, the Wa country is actually a soft persimmon with poor military equipment.

In fact, Murong Nobunaga's judgment is still wrong. Dazaifu did station four legions, but that was 100 years ago. I don't know if there are 1000 people now.

As for his estimate of the [-] standing army of the Japanese court, although Murong Nobunaga had already tried his best to imagine the lower limit of the Japanese army, he still overestimated a lot.

Because I still don't know that there is no standing army in the country of Wa at this time.

Now guarding Heianjing and Hepingchengjing are basically samurai from the emperor and the prince's manor, and there are about 7000 to [-] people.

The imperial guards responsible for the guards in the Emperor's Forbidden Palace are only a few hundred people at most, and the rest are the Fanshang Suwei composed of noble children from all over the country.

Of course, this is much better than Zhang Shengren being fooled by the powerful cultural propaganda industry of Guidao in later generations.

Looking at the entire history of Japan, it is not true to say that their battles are all village wars.

At least until the end of the Warring States period in Japan, that is, the period of Toyotomi Monkey and Tokugawa Old Turtle, it was still possible to dispatch tens of thousands or 10,000+ people in the Japanese Civil War.

For example, in the Wanli Korean War and the later Osaka Battle, Japan has been able to dispatch an army of about 20 to participate in the decisive battle.

But for a long time before that, especially during the mid-Heian period, village warfare was a very appropriate description.

In the decisive battle of the Pingjiangmen Rebellion, there were a total of 400 people in the 'army' led by Pingjiangmen.

And the army led by Fujiwara Hideto, who came to destroy him, reached as many as 200 "terrifying".

As soon as the battle started, the monarch Ping Jiangmen rode his horse and launched the attack first, regardless of whether he commanded or not.

What's even more amazing is that, seeing Hera Shomon so bravely, about [-] farmers in Fujiwara Hideko's crusade army immediately dispersed, leaving only [-] elites still standing firm.

So, in fact, what the Japanese boast about is the appearance of the shrine maiden, the killing of the shogun's wraith, and the six-fold clone of the shadow warrior, etc. It looks like a war between gods and demons.

But the actual Hirashomon Rebellion was when Fujiwara Hidego defeated 300 Hirashomons with 400 people.

As a result of the battle, about 200 people died in battle, [-] flat shields (a small wooden shield), almost [-] bows, and about [-] swords were captured.

It's shabby enough, please note that among the seizures here, there is no mention of armor.

This is either because Fujiwara Hidesato and Heping Zhensheng are afraid of being taken away by the court and concealed it, or they really have no armor.

Murong Nobunaga was already gearing up a bit. He said to Li Hanqiong beside him, "If the Japanese military equipment only has this ear, it seems that there is no need to overhaul the warships and assemble the army. Let's kill them now, and we can easily wipe out the Japanese."

Only Wang Pu remained sober. He reminded Nobunaga Murong that if the information was not true, he still had to collect it from multiple sources and never underestimated the enemy.

. . . .

On Iki Island, Qin Pingtong's family is not only related to Iki Shou, but their father is Iki Shou, but it can be said that it is not Iki Shou.

The reason for saying this is because Iki Mamoru of the imperial court is a high-ranking official in Heian-kyo.

At this time, the government was corrupt, and the court ministers and nobles often bribed the ministers of the interior to obtain official positions such as ministers in various countries.

But after getting an official position, not many people in remote places like Kyushu are really willing to take up the post, let alone a remote place in a remote place like Iki.

This gave the local tyrants, that is, the local brave warriors, a chance.

The ministers and ministers of Ping'an capital want the country to guard this official position, not because they are loyal to the king's affairs, but to search for places.

They are not interested in being officials, but they are very interested in making money.

Therefore, a local tyrant like Qin Pingtong's father would go to Ping'an Beijing to make connections and pay homage after receiving the news.

Once connected, you can obtain the identity of the family members of Gongqing Xunchen, and 'contract' all the affairs of this place from them.

Of course, the price is to pay a large sum of money to a meritorious minister with a state guarding official position every year.

Qin Pingtong's father is like this. Although he is called Iki Mori by the islanders, he is actually just a white glove. Every year, he must donate five hundred shi of brown rice to the real governor of Heian-kyo in order to keep his position.

However, this poor Iki Island was only [-] shi high in the Tokugawa shogunate period, and if it was collected in the way of the devil's frenzied five officials and five people, it would be able to collect [-] shi of grain.

If this includes the cost of sending it to Ping'an Jing, even now Iki is three thousand stones high. After giving it to the big shots in Ping'an Jing, Qin Pingtong's father can at most have a little leftovers.

Therefore, what their father and son care about is not the stone height of Iki Island.

What they care about is that Iki Island is stuck in a key position in the trade between Koryo and Japan. They can do sea trade while colluding with Koryo and even Daoyi pirates to lead the way and sell stolen goods.

However, the arrival of Murong Nobunaga completely disintegrated all of this, and the defeated Koryo navy flooded into Tsushima Island, and quickly merged with the Wa Kingdom on Tsushima Island.

These people knew that they would definitely be exterminated by Murong Nobunaga's navy, so they rushed to the Wa country to find a place to live.

After the request to go ashore from the chief minister of the Chikuzen country was rejected, these people simply attacked the Wa country like crazy, hoping to use this method to force the chief minister of Dazaifu to submit.

Trade was interrupted and wars broke out.

As a result, Iki Island, located in the southeast of Tsushima Island, was in a desperate situation.

Without the opportunity to be a ground tiger on the sea trade line, Qin Pingtong and his father couldn't afford the tribute of five hundred shi.

Without these five hundred shi, they could only go back to the countryside of Buzen country to drink porridge with wild vegetables.

The father and son had no choice but to find another way out. They finally decided to take the navy of dozens of people under their command and accept the order of Dazaifu to help Dazaifu destroy the Koryo pirates from Tsushima Island, so as to get rewards for their military exploits to fill the gap.

As a result, the battle was fought, the strength was exhausted, and people were killed and injured, but the commander-in-chief refused to admit his account, and there was no reward or pension for a penny.

The desperate Qin Pingtong and his son really had no other choice, so they decided to take advantage of the bandits, pretending to be someone who wouldn't be, I'll go directly to recruit the Heavenly Soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty in the Central Plains.

Qin Pingtong held up a well-made ring lock armor and respectfully handed it to his father Weizong.

"My lord, these rewards given to you by His Royal Highness King Yan, as long as we are willing to take refuge, father can immediately be the guard of Fengqian Kingdom."

Although Wei Zong was short in stature, he was still considered a veteran in the battle. When he saw this armor, he knew it was definitely not ordinary. If it was in Ping'an capital, it would be of the level of some kind of god and demon armor.

"His Royal Highness Yan Wang is so generous, is he not going to send troops?" Wei Zongping asked a little discouraged.

In his opinion, His Royal Highness Yan Wang across the sea must have lacked confidence when he made a move with this kind of treasure at the level of a demon armor. He just wanted to bribe him now as a secret response.

It may be that Weizong has to spend a lot of effort in his life to create conditions for the army of the Yan State.

If you are really confident and feel that you can crush the Wa Kingdom, then why pay such a high price to buy him a samurai who is not even Iki Shou?

Qin Pingtong grinned, he finally realized what Zhou people felt when they saw him.

"Does father think this is very precious? Not at all, because Zhou people have so many!"

As Qin Pingtong spoke, he raised his right hand and spread out his palm, with five fingers pointing to the sky.

Wei Zong's spirit was lifted all his life, if he had fifty collars like this, some of them at that time would have three hundred or even five hundred collars.

With so many armors, it is not easy for the court in Heianjing to deal with it, at least it is hopeful that Xikaidao will be conquered.

Qin Pingtong took a deep breath, then shook his head, "Father, the king has five thousand collars!"

"Five thousand collars!" Wei Zongping screamed in horror, stood up abruptly, and then felt the dizziness of blood rushing to Baihui acupoint, spun around, and sat down on the ground directly.

"Five thousand gods and demons with great armor. With such a treasure, it is enough to destroy the world. Does His Highness King Yan still need our father and son? What else can we do?"

Faced with his father Weizong's unconfident questioning, Qin Pingtong showed a fierce look on his face.

"Your Majesty needs my Qin family to contact a group of warriors to find out the mountain and river route map from Xikaidao to Heianjing, and to record all the ministers and ministers of Heianjing and members of the Heavenly Royal Family."

Wei Zong was puzzled all his life, "Why does Your Majesty want these? These are meaningless!

If there are five thousand armors of gods and demons, plus tens of thousands of armors with sharp blades, you only need to fight all the way through, and you don't need to think about the geography of mountains and rivers at all!

In the entire Land of the Rising Sun, no one has the combat power to ambush these warriors. "

But as he spoke, this well-educated old warrior who was hiding his anxiety about the status quo was suddenly shocked, followed by ecstasy. He looked at his son, and his mouth trembled twice:
"King..."

"If my son's guess is correct, the king is here to take the five thousand miles of land back to the Celestial Dynasty.

The Gongqing Xunchen and the Royal Emperor of Ping'an capital have become real Japanese people, not Chinese since they were banned from sending Tang envoys! "

"Okay! Okay!" Wei Zong clapped his hands and laughed, "If King Yan doesn't want to kill people, we might as well take refuge, because we might be liquidated when he leaves.

If he is willing to kill people, you and my father and son will have a future as a minister!

I don’t want this broken Iki Island anymore, you and I, Pingtong, hurry back and go to Buzen Country to report to the Patriarch. Let’s organize the samurai from Kyushu, Iwami and other countries to King Yan. "

. . .

Dali Kingdom, Mengkui Ridge, this mountain is located between Yiliang and Zhaotong in later generations of Yunnan, and at this time it belongs to the Abang tribe and the Wumeng tribe.

As early as three years ago, the big and small leaders of the Abang tribe and the Wumeng tribe were all bribed by Guo Rong, who was stationed in Nanxi Mansion.

Uh, it may not be accurate to say that it is a bribe. In the eyes of these tribal leaders, it is the weak Zhou people who continue to buy peace with a lot of salt, sugar, tea and cloth. They do not admit that they have surrendered to the weak Zhou state.

These leaders who took a lot of benefits from Guo Rong looked down on Guo Rong very much, and even gave him a useless nickname to ridicule Guo Rong's weakness.

And now, that weak and useless official of Zhou State summoned them to gather at the foot of Mengkui Ridge.

The heads of the ministries were extremely happy, because in the past, when Zhou people invited them to a happy gathering, it was basically to send a lot of money.

How could no one like such a good thing, so Guo Rong didn't need to vigorously promote it, just released a little news.

Qiong, Luolan, Lianglin, Adu, Shama, Wumeng, Aganlu, Mangbu, Weisa and other nine large tribes located on the border between Dali and Zhou, and more than [-] small tribes who followed them .

A total of nearly forty chiefs and their two hundred guards almost rushed to the northern foot of Mengkui Mountain, for fear that they would be late and they would lose some benefits.

Guo Rong was still wearing the white crotchless shirt he often wears, but the expression on his face was extremely serious.

Zhang Yongde walked into Guo Rong's room and said to Guo Rong in a low voice: "The leader of the Abang Department has already been arrested. He knows that if he dares to reveal a little bit of information, the whole family of 120 people will not be able to survive."

Guo Rong nodded, before he could speak, Zhang Fei and Zhang Xiaobao ran in quickly with a limp on one leg.

"Boss, Zheng Guogong personally led an army of [-] from Sichuan Province, and he has already reached the north of Qingxi Pass. As long as our side captures the leaders of the various ministries, he will immediately send his troops south to take Jianchang Mansion.

Zheng Guogong is the Yin Zhengqi Yin kite who sits in Chengdu.

Not long after, the eldest son of the emperor, Zhang Xiancun, the founder of the Dian Kingdom, also rushed over, and everyone hurried to meet their half-lord.

Of course Zhang Xiancun knew that he couldn't play big cards in front of Guo Rong and Zhang Fei, so he hurriedly helped them up, while excitedly shaking the letter in his hand, he said loudly:

"Cui Huxin, Superintendent of Soldiers and Horses of the Ya'an Prefecture, Su Shangzhi, the Consolation Envoy of the Kangding Prefecture, and the Babu of Xishan, the comfort envoys of the Fan and Qiang tribes, and the envoys of Anquan have just arrived.

They have gathered the Tubo Qiangs in Xishan and the two guards of Ya'an Prefecture, a total of 2 people.

Prepare to go south on time in April next year to attack Yufu (ji) City (Deqin County, Diqing, Yunnan).Before June, you will definitely be able to join us in Yangju (cha) Mea City (Dali). "

Qingxi Pass is in Jianchang Mansion, which is the north of Xichang in later generations. If Qingxi Pass is broken, Jianchang Mansion, that is, Xichang, cannot be kept.

In addition, Cui Huxin and Su Shangzhi went south from the Hengduan Mountains to Dali, which was enough for Dali to be unable to cope.

"Okay!" Guo Rong clapped his hands abruptly, looked at the officers and generals around him and said loudly: "We have spent three years of hard work, and we were treated as soft bastards by everyone. Even your family members in your hometown feel ashamed to see others. All this is just to paralyze you. Dali country.

At this moment, it’s finally time for Yixue’s humiliation, pass on the order, the warriors who came with me today will raise their vigilance, and tomorrow they will capture all the chiefs and take down Wumeng City (Zhaotong). "

(End of this chapter)