Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 370 A Transaction

No matter how big the news is, it will be easily defeated by time.The sensational Fu Que's letter at the time, Chen Dong, who was famous in Tokyo, quickly became a past tense when the Liangshan Army defeated the Guangji Army and attacked Xingren Mansion along the Wuzhang River, seeming to go all the way to Tokyo. .

For the first time, the idea of ​​moving the capital came to Zhao Ji's mind.

There is a lot of wind and rain in Tokyo.

"Drive, drive..." Lin Chong led the cavalry like an angry dragon, heading straight for Tokyo along the avenue.

The Liangshan army did not intend to capture this huge city in the world today, but the horses bred in the Tiansi Prison at Moutuogang outside Jingyangmen were Lu Qian's must-haves.

Ten thousand or twenty thousand horses, even if only half of them can be used as war horses, is a huge wealth.

So Liangshan Army defeated Guangji Army and entered Xingren Mansion without any hesitation. On the one hand, he bluffed to attract the attention of the Song Dynasty, on the other hand, he sent Leopard Head to lead the main force of his cavalry, and rushed directly to the city of Tokyo.

Lu Qian was worried that if he took a step too late, Zhao Ji would pull all the horses of Tian Si Jian into Tokyo City.

And now Tokyo City's reaction should not be so fast. After all, Liangshan Army is still far away in Xingren Mansion. Even though it is only one step away from Tokyo, it still has not hit Tokyo City. Now Zhao Ji should be busy recruiting economic neighbors. The remaining soldiers and horses in the state capital came to escort the king, just in case.

Ever since, Zhao Song, who had been in imperial power for 60 years, was killed by the enemy outside the capital for the first time.Still a cavalry!
The inside and outside of the city of Tokyo exploded like this in an instant.

For the first time, those high-ranking officials, those wealthy families, and those princes and grandchildren really felt the threat of the butcher's knife.

Liang Shanbo's attitude towards officials has always been clear. The dignitaries in the city of Tokyo weighed themselves. If the city is really broken, how many of them can survive?
But in the end, the cavalry led by Lin Chong was just a false alarm. They just plundered Jinmingchi, and then fought all the way into Tiansi Prison. Not only did they drive the horses eastward like sheep, but also the eunuchs and grooms in the racecourse. , servants, etc. were all packed together to be taken back to Shandong.

[-] to [-] horses is not a small matter, but what is this loss to the whole Zhao Songlai?
For Zhao Ji in the imperial palace, for the dignitaries of the entire Tokyo city, and for the hundreds of Zhao family members in the city, Liangshan bandit soldiers are just like this, and that is already the greatest luck among misfortunes.

Otherwise, Lin Chong would just burn, kill, and loot in the suburbs outside the city. If he looted and burned every manor and mansion that was defenseless, the Song Dynasty's losses would be ten times that of Tiansi Prison.

What's more, Liangshan thieves then carried the parcels on their backs, drove the cattle and sheep, and swaggered back to Shandong under the support of the Xingren Mansion thieves. That is to say, the threat of Tokyo City was gone.This is the most important thing, right?
It was like the knife on Zhao Ji's neck was finally moved away, his timidity and horror went away, and his mind gradually recovered.In other words, self-esteem began to recover.That in turn is endless rage.

Was the bandit Liang slapping him in the face, or slapping him crazily in front of all the subjects in the world.His imperial dignity was completely trampled and insulted, and the majesty of the entire court was also desecrated.

"Lu Qian, Lu Qian..."

In Yanfu Palace, the corpses of eunuchs and maids have been carried out one after another in the past few days.Of course, the dignified king of a country cannot be saved by the lives of a few eunuchs and court ladies, and he vented his greater anger on Tong Guan, Cai Jing and others.

Tongguan was demoted to be the general of the left guard, demoted successively, and relegated to be the Jiedu envoy of the Zhaohua Army; Cai Jing was dismissed as a secretary and supervisor.Yang Jian lost the title of Grand Tutor, and the Jiedu Envoys of Zhen'an, Qinghai, and Zhendong were deprived of cleanliness.There is also Liang Shicheng, and even Zheng Juzhong and Bai Shizhong.

But one thing to keep in mind is that the Song Dynasty is separated from official positions.Official rank is official rank, and position is position.Although these people have been severely demoted in the official ranks, they still hold real power in terms of dispatch.

Tong Guan's conjecture was not false at all. Zhao Ji's imperial power still needed their support, and Zhao Ji would not really punish him severely.It's like they also need Zhao Ji's imperial power to protect them...

Zhao Ji accepted all Zheng Juzhong's proposals.

Lu Qian's attack on Xingren Mansion was just a bluff, and Lin Chong's real goal was to sweep Tiansi Prison.You know, the tens of thousands of Song troops [the original defenders plus a few defeated soldiers] in Puzhou City are still nailed to the bank of the Yellow River like a nail.And Lu Qian is very interested in Puzhou.

Although the Liangshan Army has occupied the ferry and wharf outside the city, cutting off the water transportation of Puzhou City.However, many rout soldiers fled into the city, and there were even officers from the Western Army. Liu Zhongwu had already taken control of the overall situation in the city.

After learning that the remnants of the Western Army had fled into Puzhou City, Lu Qian's interest in Puzhou City greatly increased.Wang Zhen, Wang Fan, Wang Yuan, Yao Gu, Yang brothers, plus Liu Zhongwu and his son.The value of these people in Lu Qian's eyes is more important than the money, food and soldiers in Puzhou City.

Therefore, he told Lin Chong to get out of the city of Tokyo just to shame the Zhao family a little bit, the first thing was to save face for the Song family.

Cheng Wanli was staying in Dongping mansion with a bitter face, looking at the document Wen Huanzhang handed him, with a mournful face.Is he still Lu Qian's cheap husband?How can I push my father-in-law into the fire pit?If Tong Guan read this document, he wouldn't be so angry that he would chop himself into pieces.This so-called transaction is too big.

The second is that Lu Qian should turn around and take a good look at Puzhou.

Just when Lin Chong led the cavalry into Tiansi Prison frantically, Ruan Xiaoer also received Lu Qian's latest military order.They want to formally explore Sado Island in the book, and at the same time go all out to increase the size of the navy.

These two orders were simply giving a foreshadowing that he would soon dispatch the navy to attack Bangzi's Tamna County.Because the sea route between China and Japan is long, at least for this era, it is unrealistic to go directly to Japan from Shandong by sea.Even if they occupy Tamna County, which is later Jeju Island, and the current Tamna Island, it will be even more difficult to occupy Sado Island in the next step.

Because the direct sea route from Tamna Island to Sado Island is more than two thousand miles, and there are Tsushima Islands and Oki Islands on the way, and then Sado Island.

The owner of the Tsushima Islands is now the Abilius family, and the Tsushima clan of later generations has not been seen yet.Lu Qian is even more ignorant of Japanese history, and he can remember the Tsushima family because of the fact that this name has continued to annoy its existence in the history of China, Japan and Korea hundreds of years later.For example, when Mongolia conquered Japan (known in history as the "Battle of Wenyong"), Tsushima Island bore the brunt.Zong's master, Zong Zhuguo, led more than 80 riders to rush towards the more than 4 Mongolian and Koryo coalition forces that were landing. Hundreds of years later, the Falklands still retain the body tomb and head tomb of Zongzhu State.During the Mongolian Army's second Eastern Expedition (referred to in history as the "Battle of Hong'an"), his son Zong Shengming led the army to resist the attack of the Mongolian and Korean coalition forces, and made many military exploits.Then there is the Korean War in the three major expeditions of Wanli, and there is also the figure of the Ma Zong family.Only in this way did Lu Qian have a little impression, and as for the Abilius family, he had never heard of it.

The distance between Tsushima Island and Tamna Island is no less than [-] miles, and the distance between Tsushima Island and Oki Islands is no less than [-] miles. The Oki Islands are Japan's famous island of exile. The identity is the same, and the sea distance between the two is not small.

It is obvious that such a long sea route cannot be taken care of by relying on the current navy at Liangshanbo.More importantly, Lu Qian couldn't tell his chief ministers directly that he was going to the gold and silver mines on Sado Island.The latter is a real treasure island on the sea.

In that case, Lin Chong and Lu Zhishen must regard it as hysteria.

Lu Qian has only one explanation for this, and that is to use the island as a base to isolate Korea and Japan, and plunder the money and food of Korea and Japan to make up for his own deficiency.

This reason is full marks.

Although the people of today's country are very solemn about the Liao Kingdom, they don't pay much attention to Korea and Japan.At the moment, Japan is still China's dutiful younger brother, and has not yet thought of taking advantage of the big brother.

Lu Qian's explanation convinced all of his subordinates. Another important reason is that the separatist plan he made earlier, the territory under his jurisdiction is only a small Jiaodong, only the land of four states. How can he support tens of thousands of soldiers?Then external supplementation becomes a necessary choice.Since Zhao Song can no longer use a knife to cut flesh, and the future of the trade with Fang La is also uncertain, so robbing Korea and Japan has become a very feasible choice.

Although the two countries are small countries, they have been established for hundreds of years, and their internal accumulation must be quite a lot.With the power of the two countries, it is enough to raise soldiers and horses in Liangshan.As for whether it is fair or unfair to Korea and Japan to do so, hehe, who are you waiting to think about this.

In the past, the people sent by Liang Shanbo were brought into the sea trade threshold by the Chai family, and they also arrived in Korea, but they were very unfamiliar with Japan.I just heard from the maritime merchants in Denglai that the southern tip of Goryeo faces Nagasaki, a major trade center in Japan.There is also trade between Korea and Japan, but the route is relatively simple, and they are all transited through Tsushima Island.

Some sea merchants from Denglei also transited through North Korea and went to Japan.It's just that the number of ships is limited, and compared to the Jiangnan, which is more convenient than the Tongri Sea Road, the connection between the northern sea merchants and Japan is far inferior.

Therefore, Liang Shanbo and Fang La really cannot lack contact.Now Fang Shenggong has not only the money and food that Liang Shanbo urgently needs, but also a large number of sea ships and sea sailors.Of course, Fang La was more anxious than coming to Fang La. After winning Hangzhou, he marched into Mingzhou.The latter is the later Ningbo, where a large number of maritime merchants and shipyards are now gathered.

The purpose of this is to get enough materials for Liangshan as soon as possible, enough shipbuilders, enough sailors, enough wood, and even enough sea ships. They can run away by boat, but they will never take away all the sailors and shipbuilders, let alone all the wood.

The first batch of transactions amounted to 1 armaments. Don’t think that this number is not much. This is the armor and weapons needed to equip 30 people. There are [-] sets of armor including [-] armors, and [-] long and short cards. , [-] god arm bows, [-] spears, knives, long axes, maces and other heavy weapons, [-] swords, iron swords, hand hammers, hatchets, etc., as well as [-] pairs of war bows and [-] Crossbow arrows.

With so many equipment, equipped with troops separately, it is completely possible to arm an army of 3 people.

That is to say, the Liangshan Army needs so many weapons for an army of [-].

One thousand knives and axes, one thousand magic-armed archers, and one thousand full-time armored soldiers.After that, 7000 people will need [-] bows.Because everyone in the Liangshan Army carries bows and arrows, the two professions of melee soldiers and archers can be switched at will.

Not only that, each soldier is fully equipped with long and short weapons.War knives and iron swords are only standard configurations, and the real killing moves are hand hammers, hatchets, bone buds, and iron whips.Of course, if you can't deal with an army without armor, like the Fang Layi army at the moment, then you don't need these.

It's just that the real enemy in Lu Qian's heart was never Zhao Song, nor Fang La and his ilk, but the Jin soldiers in the north.In this way, Liangshan Army's excellent military equipment is hard to compare with the elite of the Western Army.

This is thanks to the wave of funding from the city of Tokyo.

And look at what the Manichaeism army, which has swept half of the south of the Yangtze River and expanded to 10 troops, has only what goods in their hands, and we can understand Fang La's urgency for this batch of military resources.

(End of this chapter)