The Ming Dynasty started with caution

Zhongzheng Island,

A pure black horse galloped, and the horse's hooves landed on the bluestone road, making a clattering sound.

The spy hurriedly turned over and dismounted, panting and reporting: "The King of Satsuma sent Okubo Tagawa to garrison Shangzheng Island in the south, and the troops are unclear."

Hearing this name, Dong Min was shocked. He turned to Wang Shouren and said: "This man is the first fierce general under the King of Satsuma. He once defeated the daimyo Tagawa and saved Satsuma."

The Tagawa family is a powerful force in the island country. They destroyed the army of General Ashikaga Yoshizai and became famous in the island country.

Okubo's reputation was established by defeating his army.

At this time, the personal soldiers came forward and said with a sad face: "Lord Yizheng, the military rations are not enough to support five days."

After Wang Shouren landed on Xiazheng Island, he led his army to fight hard for three days, conquering cities all the way and reaching Zhongzheng Island.

Not only did he not plunder the people's food, he also gave them a day's worth of rice.

Although he won the support of the people.

But it also led to a rapid reduction in the military rations he brought.

Dong Wen couldn't understand why Wang Shouren did this: "What's the point of you wanting the support of the people? They won't fight against the enemy! Now the military rations are insufficient, so we can only send people back to Shuri Castle to transport food."

The large ship needs to carry soldiers, and carrying 30 days of food is already the maximum limit.

He can only send an empty ship back to Shuri Castle and transport food again.

Wang Shouren shook his head: "Go north directly and attack Shangzeng Island."

There is no food, what to fight with?

Dong Wen really couldn't figure out this scholar, and he did some incredible things.

Sometimes he thought Wang Shouren was very smart, but it was stupid to send food to the enemy's people.

"The King of Satsuma wants to stop us at Zhongzheng Island. He can bypass Okubo and attack the Satsuma Peninsula directly. What do you think, Lord Wang?"

Wang Shouren shook his head again, his eyes firm: "Only after we capture Shangzheng Island can we continue to go north."

Withdrawing the big ship means returning the captured territory to Satsuma.

If Satsuma deploys artillery on the island, it will be difficult to land again.

In addition, Satsuma is far away from Shangzheng Island.

If we go to Satsuma without capturing Shangzheng Island, we will be attacked from both sides, and the retreat will be blocked, and the whole army may be destroyed.

No matter how good Dong Min's temper is, he will become furious when he meets the stubborn Wang Shouren: "With only five days of military rations, how can you attack the Satsuma King's City?!"

The weather on the island is abnormal, with frequent heavy rains and typhoons, and the islanders are not good at farming techniques.

So, the food production on the island is extremely low, and looting is useless.

Wang Shouren said, "Sell the big ships of Satsuma to the Japanese pirates in exchange for food."

Dong Wen almost fainted from anger.

The Japanese pirates and Satsuma are in the same group. Isn't this sending equipment to the enemy?

"Lord Wang... can you fight?"

He suspected that Wang Shouren's previous victory must have been due to luck!

After all, there are times when talking about war on paper works.

Wang Shouren looked normal and drew his sword: "King Shangzhen ordered me to lead the army. You disturbed the morale of the army. According to military law, I can kill you with my sword. This will not happen again!"

Feeling the murderous gaze, he was decisive without any emotion.

Dong Wen broke out in cold sweat. He had no doubt that Wang Shouren would kill him if he did it again.

The soldiers around him had flickering eyes. King Shangzhen handed over the military power to Wang Shouren, so they naturally had to listen to Wang Shouren.

At this moment, no one dared to speak for Dong Wen.

Wang Shouren took back his sword: "Let's sell the ship. There are many islands nearby, and we should be able to find pirates."

Dong Wen snorted coldly and ordered people to notify the nearby deserted islands and announce the news of selling the ship.

It is safest to trade with pirates on Zhongzeng Island. There is a large army, so there is no fear of being robbed.

Three days later, a three-masted ship appeared on the blue sea.

The pirates seemed to be afraid of being attacked and did not dare to approach further.

Wang Shouren boarded the ship and came to the sea three miles away from the coast. He faced the pirates across the ship, and the two sides were on the verge of a fight.

"I heard that you want to exchange five large ships for 100,000 stones of grain?" said the leading pirate.

The sea breeze blew past, and it could be heard vaguely.

Dong Wen approached Wang Shouren and whispered: "Lord Wang, they are only more than a thousand people, we can rob them."

Wang Shouren turned a deaf ear and said to the pirates: "This is the news released by this official."

One tael of silver is two stones of rice, and 100,000 stones is 50,000 taels of silver.

What a loss!

These five six-masted ships of Satsuma are worth at least 90,000 taels.

The leading pirate's eyes lit up. The hardest thing to buy is a big ship, unless you rob other big pirates, they will usually be robbed back.

With these six ships, they can become a larger pirate.

The leading pirate said excitedly: "Deal, but how do I know that you won't cheat?"

"You can let your people get on board first, and then hand over the full amount of food, and you can leave."

With an order, the Ryukyu soldiers withdrew the big ship of Satsuma and transferred it to Wang Shouren's ship.

Several pirates boarded the ship to check and signaled to the leading pirate.

The leading pirate thought for a moment, looked at his deputy, and the deputy picked up the horn.

Woo woo woo~!

Not long after, four three-masted ships and more than 20 small boats came from a distance, full of food.

Wang Shouren looked at Dong Min: "Check whether there is any poison."

He guessed that the pirates would not poison.

Firstly, if the deal fails, they will have to transport the grain back and not be able to eat it.

Secondly, there is not so much poison on the island that can be put into 100,000 shi of grain without being detected.

Sure enough, after a while, the soldiers came up and reported: "Master Wang, this is all good food."

The soldiers began to carry the rations to the ship, and the pirates also helped to carry them in order to leave quickly.

After an hour, everything was put into Ryukyu’s rice bags.

The leader of the pirates said cautiously: "Retreat!"

He couldn't believe that Wang Shouren would really let him go.

When the ship was one mile, two miles...eight miles away, the Ryukyu soldiers made no move. Only then did he finally believe that Wang Shouren was a man of his word.

The fleet disappeared over the sea.

Dong Min tried to persuade her for a long time, but Wang Shouren didn't do anything. He was furious: "Giving them the big ship is just drinking poison to quench their thirst. Mr. Wang, what do you mean?!"

Wang Shouren's expression was dull: "Send people to the Satsuma King's City to spread the news. In exchange for five large ships, Ryukyu formed an alliance with the Japanese pirates and annihilated Shimazu Tadharu's army in one fell swoop."

Dong Min's face was stiff, her body felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave, and her whole body was cold.

He stared at Wang Shouren blankly. This man's toying with people's hearts was so chilling.

At this moment, he finally understood Wang Shouren's strategy.

When King Satsuma hears such news, he will definitely break with the Japanese pirates!

Five large ships are proof!

Although Shimazu Tadharu jumped into the sea, he was so far away from the land that he might have been buried in the belly of the fish long ago.

This scholar named Wang Shouren is really terrifying!

"I have been disrespectful before. I still hope that Mr. Wang will..."

At this moment, he was so impressed that he fell to the ground.

Wang Shouren shook his head secretly. If Lao Gao was here, would he have a better plan?

He took a deep breath, took out Yan Chengjin's letter, glanced at it, put it back without opening it.

"Master Dong, there is no need to be polite." He turned around and continued: "Transmit my order to rest for two days and attack Okubo!"

Dong Min's pupils shrank slightly and nodded heavily.

Although Okubo is invincible, he has confidence in Wang Shouren.