Wanli Youming

Chapter 232 Slaying traitors and sacrificing the flag, the battleship sets sail

Chapter 232 Slaying traitors and sacrificing the flag, the battleship sets sail

After Wu Weizhong said this, Liu Xilin pondered for a moment, and then said: "Forget it! I, the North Korean gentry, will strictly control the domestic slaves in their respective mansions, and punish the escaped slaves more severely. In addition, the Xuan Fu has reduced the treatment, but it's not good. It can also prevent a large number of domestic slaves from fleeing and hiding in Busan."

Liu Xilin thanked Wu Weizhong for his courtesy.

Therefore, the matter of halving the wages and treatment of North Korean civilians was settled in this way.

After Wu Weizhong and Song Yingchang came to Qi Jiguang's place, Wu Weizhong informed Qi Jiguang of his decision.

After hearing this, Qi Jiguang nodded and said: "That's fine, with the help of the North Korean government to recruit civilian husbands, more civilian husbands can be recruited, which will facilitate the next recruitment of Japanese."

Wu Weizhong and Song Yingchang nodded.

Then, Qi Jiguang said: "According to the situation of the sea area in recent years provided by Jin Yiwei, and the news brought by General Yu from Ningbo, I decided to cross the sea and land in Hirado five days later!"

Qi Jiguang looked at Wu Weizhong as he said: "You pass on the order immediately, and tell the first batch of officers and soldiers to get ready!"

Wu Weizhong immediately bowed his hands and said yes.

Song Yingchang couldn't help but look agitated because of this, looked at Qi Jiguang, and said: "Jinglue, please let the lower officials go to Hirado with the first batch of soldiers."

Qi Jiguang looked at Song Yingchang: "What are you going to do for remonstrance, so you're not afraid of encountering kamikaze in case?"

"Didn't Jinglue say that this crossing of the sea was determined based on the conditions of the sea area provided by Jin Yiwei? How could there be a kamikaze?"

Song Yingchang asked.

Qi Jiguang said with a smile: "That being said, the weather on the sea is always changing, and no one can tell whether such a strong wind will suddenly appear."

"In this way, the subordinate officials have to go together!"

"Because the lower official brought along a very powerful Immortal Zhang, who can cast spells to drive away the evil winds on the sea, let him go with the lower official, and naturally they can reach Hirado smoothly."

Song Yingchang said.

Qi Jiguang glanced at Song Yingchang thoughtfully: "This fairy can really drive away evil winds?"

And Song Yingchang said: "Please think about it carefully. How many years have passed since the 14 Japanese army was defeated by the kamikaze in the Japanese dynasty? Do you take this fairy to stabilize the morale of the army?"

"What you said is very true! On the day of the expedition, please invite Zhang Shenxian to board the ship to perform a religious ceremony."

Qi Jiguang said.

Although this is just alchemy, it was really authoritative for most people at that time, otherwise the cult would not be so rampant.

Therefore, even if Qi Jiguang didn't believe it, he chose to believe it.

Five days later, it was a sunny day in the area of ​​Busan. I saw the blue sky for thousands of miles, and the boundless sea was full of water.

And the large number of warships gathered here by Daming are all ready to set sail at this time.

And the wave boat, which is a sentinel, has already set sail ahead of time, heading for the place where the water and the sky meet.

Wu Weizhong, who was going to take the first batch of officers and soldiers to Hirado, also boarded his flagship at this time, a double-decker big bird ship equipped with 32 cannons.

Since Zhu Yijun asked Qi Changguo and others to develop the [-]-jin heavy cannon equivalent to the Hongyi cannon in history, he asked the navy to improve the warships compared with the Xiyi cannons, so that now the Ming Dynasty has built on the basis of the wave-opening boats. The double-deck big bird ship has been released, and this kind of ship has become the main warship of Ming Dynasty.

Because this kind of ship has a sharp bow and fast speed, it travels like a bird on the sea, so it is called a bird ship.

Of course, Zhu Yijun wasn't satisfied with making his Ming's sea giant ship only a double-decker big bird ship with more than 30 doors. His goal was naturally to build even bigger and magnificent warships in the future.

It's just that the available wood is limited, the technicians are limited, and the real environment is limited. Zhu Yijun has not prevented the Ministry of War from spending huge sums of money to build larger-scale giant ships, such as giant ships with three decks and hundreds of cannons. ship.

After all, in Asia now, the only one who can challenge the Daming Navy is the Xiyi, but because the Xiyi came from afar, the ships they brought were mainly merchant ships. The tonnage of the main warships is not very large, and the largest is only a double deck.

Therefore, with the current strength of Ming's warships, it is still possible to suppress Xiyi in Asia and run rampant in Asia with a double-deck big bird ship that can carry [-] to [-] heavy guns weighing more than [-] jin. At home, the numbers can also be enough to suppress Xiyi.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun has not yet upgraded the warship directly to the first-class sailing battleship with hundreds of heavy guns in the middle of the seventeenth century.

After all, it is expensive to build a giant ship.

Although Zhang Juzheng and other reformist civil servants who valued military equipment are now in power and have not opposed Zhu Yijun, it does not mean that they are really willing to make the emperor so happy that they spend a lot of money on building super battleships that have little practical significance.

As for the main enemy at present, namely the pirate navy, the big bird ship is more than enough to deal with it.

Because the current Japanese pirate navy has very few artillery pieces, and most of them still use bows and arrows. The so-called iron cannons widely used by Japanese daimyos are nothing but heavy matchlock guns imported from the Portuguese.

Therefore, Daming does not have to worry about Japanese pirates on the water now. The only trouble that may need to worry about on the water is encountering a typhoon.

Turn the words back.

At this time, Song Yingchang and that immortal were on board with Wu Weizhong.

"Push up!"

After Wu Weizhong boarded the ship, he first issued the order to execute the spies.

Because there were many dignitaries and gentry in Ming Dynasty secretly smuggling and trading with the Wa country, it is impossible for the Wa country not to be aware of such a big move of Daming’s conquest of the Japanese. The domestic dignitaries and gentry who traded with Japan let the Japanese daimyo know in advance that Daming might want to conquer them.

In addition, the Wa Kingdom is currently in the Warring States Period. Many nobles in the Wa Kingdom, that is, daimyo, have rich combat experience and know how to use intelligence warfare. Many daimyos, such as the Shimadzu family, are even masters in intelligence warfare.

In addition, in this era, the national consciousness of the Han people has not been fully established, and it is still the era of the world, many Han people have naturally joined the Wa Kingdom, and are willing to be spies for these Wa Kingdom daimyos, as long as the Wa Kingdom daimyos give them enough benefits .

Therefore, the country of Japan has naturally sent many Korean spies and Han spies to Busan to inquire about the details of the Japanese army that was conquered by the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that Qi Jiguang, Wu Weizhong and other famous generals of the Ming Empire are not vegetarians, and Jin Yiwei is not a vegetarian either. They all know about intelligence warfare and are serious about countering espionage, so they have caught many spies.

According to Qi Jiguang's order, these captured spies were to be used to sacrifice the flag during the expedition.

Therefore, Wu Weizhong issued such an order at this time.

Not long after, a group of traitors and court traitors were brought up and ordered to kneel on the deck.

"cut!"

Wu Weizhong gave an order.

Swish!

Swish!

Swish!

Immediately, sword shadows slashed towards the sky, and a large number of heads fell to the ground.

All of these spies were found decapitated, and the blood immediately smeared the entire deck.

The so-called Zhang Shenxian who boarded the ship began to follow the plan at this time.

Suddenly, a lot of black smoke rose from the boat.

He stared blankly at the officers and soldiers on board, and then cheered happily.

"The wind is smooth, the wind is slow!"

After Zhang Shenxian read a few words, he immediately said to Wu Weizhong: "We can set sail."

Wu Weizhong nodded after hearing this, and immediately ordered: "Raise the sails and raise the anchor!"

Immediately, the sentinel on the mast bucket raised the command flag and played the semaphore of raising the sails and setting sail.

"Sail and anchor!"

"Sail and anchor!"

Not long after, orders from Ming army navy officers were heard on the other sailing ships.

So, at this moment, Song Yingchang saw many soldiers of his own on the ship running to the deck, all excited, as if they really believed in Zhang Shenxian's spell, thinking that there would be no typhoon, and they were all doing their own responsibilities seriously thing.

Then, Song Yingchang saw that several people had already turned the car-closing rods, which made the wooden rollers rattle, and after a while, iron chains came out of the water beside the warships. Come out, like little black dragons coming out of the water.

It didn't take long for the ships to slowly leave the port and head towards the twilight skyline.

At that time, the moon was hanging in the west, and the mountain shadows were reflected in the sea. Giant sails covered the clouds, and seabirds wandered among them, and there were a few chirping sounds from time to time.

And Liu Xilin, a North Korean official who came to Busan for the first time to work in the army, was the first to see these giant ships, so he stood on the shore and watched these giant ships leave with dumbfounded: "Fortunately, my Highness is willing to be a dog for the Celestial Dynasty!"

(End of this chapter)