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 Chapter 415 Great success lies in the future

The whereabouts of Takehiko Ishimoto and his group of Japanese troops must start with their retreat from Runzhou.

At that time, when they were frightened and retreated, they happened to encounter a strong wind on the sea. They were busy escaping for their lives and had no time to think too much, so they fled to the southwest sea along the north wind.

After Runzhou's defeated army retreated, Chang Sui Ning ordered people to trace their traces. In the end, it was only found that they had returned to the Japanese country. As for why the traces of Ishimoto Takehiko's group were missed, it cannot be blamed on Chang Sui Ning's subordinates and the southwest coastal states. The Navy's incompetence—

It should be noted that in the spring, after Chang Suining took over the post of general marshal of the anti-Japanese war, he united with the coastal states to clean up coastal defense and conduct military exercises. However, when he went southwest, the matter encountered obstacles in Yuezhou.

Yuezhou was unwilling to follow Chang Suining's arrangements. He made excuses several times and never opened the Yuezhou waters to Chang Suining.

On the one hand, they believed that the Japanese army was targeting Jiangdu, which was weak after the war, and could not attack Yuezhou, which was not rich. There was no need for Yuezhou to get involved in this matter.

Secondly, Li Su, the king of Yue, obviously had his own plans. He followed the arrangements of his advisers and ignored Chang Suining's suggestion. Instead, he used it to recruit troops and buy horses in the name of resisting Japanese pirates, so as to build up momentum and spread the army. Recruit talented people.

Unfortunately, Takehiko Ishimoto led the remaining troops to flee with the wind. After entering the East China Sea, they soon targeted Yuezhou.

Suzhou Navy's Derunzhou and Changsui Ning's subordinates, who were not far away from Yuezhou, warned that when they were exploring traces of Japanese troops at sea, they repeatedly asked Yuezhou about the matter, but Yuezhou still ignored it and only said that they had never done so. Saw traces of Japanese troops.

The Yuezhou navy looked at the calm ocean and sneered. I heard that Chang Sui Ning used some means to defeat the Japanese army in Jiangdu. These Japanese had no time to take care of themselves. How could they come to Yuezhou at this time?

At this moment, their lord Li Su was busy plotting rebellion behind closed doors with more than a hundred counselors he had collected.

It can be seen from this that Li Su was focused on his own great cause and did not spend much thought on maritime affairs at all.

Therefore, Takehiko Ishimoto soon discovered to his surprise that the weakness of Yuezhou's coastal defense was very gratifying.

At that time, Takehiko Ishimoto had lost contact with the rear, and news at sea was delayed. He did not yet know the news of Maro Fujiwara's defeat in Jiangdu.

He was very at odds with Fujiwara Maro, but privately, to a certain extent, he recognized Fujiwara Maro's ability.

Fujiwara Maro led an army of 70,000 to attack Jiangdu. Is there any reason why it cannot be conquered?

On the contrary, he was forced to follow Fujiwara Maro's arrangement and come to attack Runzhou. He was already holding back his anger, and then encountered the Taihu navy pretending to be Xuance Army. When he came to his senses, he felt really unlucky.

He must not just go back in despair and meet up with Fujiwara Maro under the reputation of losing the battle.

He took advantage of the wind and came here, it must be the guidance and gift of God!

Therefore, Takehiko Ishimoto planned to secretly capture Yuezhou, regain his face, and amaze everyone.

He has carefully calculated that by the time he captures Yuezhou, Fujiwara Maro will have landed in Jiangdu. By then, the coastal states of Dasheng will be in chaos... Brave soldiers, enjoy the fruits of victory first!

On a windless night, Takehiko Ishimoto suddenly launched a surprise attack.

The unsuspecting Yuezhou Navy had almost no resistance.

No one expected that Japanese troops would land in Yuezhou.

The King of Yue, Li Su, was shocked and quickly used all his troops to resist - he never expected that the troops prepared for the rebellion would be used at this time!

However, many of his soldiers were newly recruited and had only a short period of training. Although they had the upper hand in numbers, they were still frightened by the arrogance of the Japanese army.

Finally, the Taihu Navy, which was between Runzhou and Yuezhou, came after hearing the news and roughly stabilized the situation.

At this time, Takehiko Ishimoto finally learned the news of Maro Fujiwara's defeat.

Later, Liu Yang, the envoy of Jiangnan East Road, rushed to Yuezhou with his army to encircle and suppress the Japanese army.

The Japanese troops in chaos began to flee in all directions, and Qiantang, which was connected to Yuezhou, was also disturbed and affected.

Long Yan, the Holy Emperor, was furious and scolded the Yue King Li Su for being arrogant and arrogant. He refused to work with the states to clean up the coastal defenses, which almost led to the fall of Yuezhou.

The empress would not have been unaware of the King of Yue's dissatisfaction, and this mistake by the King of Yue was equivalent to being brought to the doorstep.

The king of Yue, who was so soft-hearted that he was hesitant to act at this critical moment, was unwilling to surrender before his great cause had even begun. Before the emperor's defeat, he simply chose a different day than to hit it, and rebelled.

But the timing he was forced to choose was obviously wrong, even bad. Liu Yang, the governor of Jiangnan East Road, came well prepared. In just four days, he suppressed the troops under his command that had just been disrupted by the Japanese army.

However, under the desperate protection of a group of his confidants, the King of Yue took advantage of the chaos and escaped, and his whereabouts are still unknown.

From the Japanese army's invasion of Yuezhou to the failure of the Yue King's rebellion, everything happened in a hurry and failed in a hurry.

This happened ten days ago. Chang Sui Ning was near Xingzhou at that time, so he didn't know the whole story until today.

But Jiangdu Governor's Mansion knew all of this very well. At this moment, after hearing the capital's treatment of Yue Prince's Mansion, Wang Yue was terrified for the future, and his phantom death syndrome broke out completely.

If he had really followed the Yue King Li Su, I don't know how he would die now.

And this Li Su is really not a piece of cake. This rebel has not even left Yuezhou... It is as if he has not left the house yet. He was caught as soon as he stood up. Such a quick battle is rare in the world.

This is probably the most efficient thing Li Su has done in his life.

However, he himself failed to accomplish the task and did not take it seriously. Instead, he implicated the people of Yuezhou and Qiantang and gave the Japanese pirates an opportunity. Now the court is still searching for the remnants of the Japanese army in Yuezhou and Qiantang.

Wang Yue is from Qiantang. At this moment, he is glad that his family moved to Jiangdu early, but he can't help but curse Li Su in his heart.

Recalling the day when he first met his lord, the lord had already concluded that it would be impossible for the King of Yue to succeed. Wang Yue couldn't help but sigh: "My lord, your eyes are as bright as a torch, and you can predict things like a god..."

He also expressed his gratitude to his close friends: "It was Guan Lin who saved my life."

At this moment, the sky has darkened, the lights are on in the study room outside, Yao Ran and others have left, and Wang Yue has finished what he is doing, so he has time to say these "self-conscious words" to Luo Guanlin: "... Guanlin is not only Save me and introduce such a lord to me, you are indeed a noble person in my destiny."

Luo Guanlin was sorting out his official duties and making perfunctory remarks from time to time.

Until I heard Wang Yue say with regret: "It's a pity that you don't have this ambition. We are destined not to be together for a long time, and we will be separated in three years..."

Wang Yue said, suddenly paused, looked at his friend, and pondered: "You should have submitted yourself to the Lord in the spring of this year, right? And now that the new year is approaching..."

Wang Yue suddenly felt even more regretful: "So, doesn't it mean that there are only more than two years and one month left?"

Luo Guanlin was also inexplicably surprised - why so fast?

Wang Yue sighed a few words, only to feel that the time of separation from his friend was not far away. It seemed that he had to pay more attention to the matter of gathering his friend's wool.

Wang Yue liked discussing official matters with Luo Guanlin very much, and his desire to learn was written on his face every day.

On the way out of the study room, Wang Yue asked Luo Guanlin what he thought about Mohe's incident.

About twenty days ago, Mohe, who was in the northeasternmost part of Dasheng, suddenly launched an army.

Mohe's motivation for raising troops is somewhat similar to Takehiko Ishimoto's attack on Yuezhou -

The leader of the Heishui tribe in Mohe heard about Jin Xianying, the new king of Dongluo, who wanted to send troops to attack Sheng.

There is only the Andong Protectorate with the Yalu River as the boundary between the Mohe Sumo Department and the border of Dongluo Kingdom.

The Mohe tribe makes a living by fishing, hunting and nomadic life. They also have a small amount of arable land, but they are located in a bitter cold place. Like most foreign tribes, they also yearn for a prosperous, lush and vast inland territory, and have repeatedly invaded and invaded the territory for many years. Taking advantage of the fact that all the troops in the northeastern part of Dasheng were used to guard against Dongluo, the leaders of Mohe's various tribes gathered their forces, crossed the Liao River, and captured Yingzhou in one fell swoop with an extremely powerful attitude.

The Anton Protectorate assigned half of its troops to suppress the attack, but failed repeatedly.

Mohe occupied Xiayingzhou and was no longer in a hurry to advance. Instead, he waited for news about Dongluo's recruitment of troops.

But the news of the troops was not received. Instead, they heard that Dong Luo had submitted a letter of apology to Emperor Dasheng!

Mohe commanders:...? ?

Damn Dong Luo!

It actually changed hands at this time!

They jumped in front of Dong Luo to seize the opportunity, lest all the benefits would belong to Dong Luo, and they could only pick up the rest from behind... But who would have thought that Dong Luo actually stopped following!

Soon, they learned about the disastrous defeat of the Japanese army.

At this point, Mohe was supposed to be completely panicked, and Dongluo decided not to fight. The Anton Protectorate could finally deploy all its prepared troops to deal with Mohe and take back Yingzhou—

But who knows, at this moment, Pinglu Jiedu rebelled.

Pinglu Jiedushi was stationed in an important town in the northeast to control the Shiwei, Mohe and other tribes in the northeast. He was one of the ten Jiedushi envoys established by Dasheng, and his importance should not be underestimated.

I don’t know whether Pinglu Jiedu envoy Kang Dingshan approached Mohe this time, or Mohe secretly hooked up with this person. Although it is not clear who took the initiative, and I don’t know what terms and conditions were reached, the two did collude. .

Kangdingshan has 37,000 elite soldiers under his command, and there are more than 50,000 Mohe soldiers and cavalry. The internal and external collusion has become a serious problem.

Kangdingshan has been stationed here for many years, and the Anton Protectorate is also under his jurisdiction. Recently, the imperial court has sent more troops to guard Dongluo, otherwise the current consequences will be even more unimaginable.

However, the 50,000 additional troops sent by the imperial court were simply not enough to compete with Mount Kangding, who was familiar with the terrain and combat methods here.

An urgent message was sent back to the capital.

At this moment, Kangding Mountain was full of momentum and troops were already on the way to Jizhou.

"Administrator Cui has led his army to rush for reinforcements..." Luo Guanlin said to Wang Yue at this moment: "It is a thousand miles from the Anbei Protectorate to Jizhou. Counting the days, Governor Cui's march should be more than half way."

"I hope it's too late." Wang Yue sighed: "Although Jizhou is in danger, Youzhou must not be lost."

Kangding Mountain is obviously headed for Youzhou.

Once Youzhou is defeated, the situation within the pass will be completely chaotic.

Therefore, even though it was crucial to guard the northern border, Cui Jing had to lead his troops there - this is the news about Cui Jing that Chang Sui Ning learned.

"Youzhou still has the envoy Fan Yang, who can at least resist one or two. We can only wait for the news after the arrival of Governor Cui..." Luo Guanlin said: "Fortunately, Dongluo will be determined without a fight, otherwise the northeastern part of the country will be inevitable at this moment. It’s completely devastated.”

This is a blessing in misfortune.

Speaking of Dongluo, Wang Yue couldn't help but said: "The internal political changes in Dongluo are really strange... Then why did the new King of Dongluo suddenly think of sending a request for help to us adults?"

Luo Guanlin: "I can only say that this new king is a wise man."

"I always feel that it's not that simple..." Wang Yue thought and whispered: "Do you think that before the request for aid was handed over, did the Lord have secretly interacted with the new King of Dongluo?"

For example, it was the adults of his family who secretly influenced the replacement of the throne of Dong Luo, and Dong Luo's request for help was just a superficial process?

Luo Guanlin turned his head and glanced at Wang Yue: "...Now you are going to regard her as an omnipotent person."

Wang Yue smiled reservedly and said with his hands behind his back: "In any case, it is my lord who sent troops in time to stabilize the civil strife in Dongluo without a fight. This is a great achievement."

"Stop fighting Dongluo and defeat the Japanese army... My lord, after this battle is won, the entire eastern sea area will be stable, and there will be no more disturbances for at least several decades." Wang Yue still finds it incredible when he says this: "Guanlin, you said How did the adults do it?"

Luo Guanlin was too lazy to pay attention to him: "When he comes back, you can ask him personally."

"Like the people of Jiangdu, I am looking forward to your triumphant return every day." Wang Yue looked towards the Yellow Sea through the night: "The sea is so cold, I don't know what is happening to you now. Speaking of which... the seventh victory report should be sent back. Right?"

These days, their hands are sore when delivering good news to the capital.

But there is no way, who makes their lord so good at fighting.

Wang Yue is still in a good mood. Despite the ups and downs outside, at least Jiangdu is becoming more and more stable. His ability is limited as a fledgling, and the overall situation of the world is beyond his ability. For the time being, he just wants to clear the door for himself.

The day after these words were said, Jiangdu ushered in the first snow of this winter.

Along with it is Chang Suining's seventh good news.

Different from the first six letters, this one is the last one, indicating the complete victory of this war.

"... Your Excellency's letter said that she took Fujiwara Maro's head to Japan to obtain a peace letter!" Wang Yue was very excited.

Yao Ran was a little confused for a moment. What kind of peace letter does he need to get in person?

It can be seen from this that the weight of this summation letter must be very extraordinary, right?

"My lord, I will go to the Japanese country and patrol the sea area with a great victory. If the word spreads, it will definitely deter overseas countries!" Luo Ze is young after all. At this moment, he was so excited that his fair face turned red: "But Let the countries around the world take a closer look. Even if Dasheng is in trouble for a while, it is by no means a weak country that they can covet and bully!"

Although the young man's words contained too many personal emotions, Wang Changshi nodded in approval.

At this time of turmoil, your Excellency, winning such a rare and complete victory at sea is of particularly profound and far-reaching significance.

"Your Excellency and every soldier should be recorded in the history books." Wang Changshi sighed: "Your Excellency, the merits of this battle will last forever."

Wang Changshi suddenly remembered that in the previous reply to him by Taifu Chu, he mentioned that "the saint does not want to use Xuance's army to help him. This battle is difficult, and you need to worry more about the girl." 】

But now, my lord has proven that even without the Xuance Army, she can still win the most beautiful battle at sea.

This battle has come to an end, and your lord has truly vindicated himself. From now on, no one can say that your lord's defeat of Xu Zhengye was just a matter of luck and cunning tactics.

Those who are waiting to add insult to injury should swallow their sarcastic remarks word for word.

Luo Guanlin didn't say much, but his chest was filled with excitement, and he even felt refreshed and energetic.

Although he did not show it clearly, he immediately urged: "Hurry up and tell Jiangdu about this great victory!"

"Quickly generate the report and send it to the capital on horseback—"

Then he said: "There is still General Chang, so we should send people to deliver the message quickly!"

4300-word update delivered, good night~

(End of this chapter)