Chapter 197 Anti-encirclement and suppression war in the Sea of Japan

Now they don't care who provides them with shelter. As long as they can survive, they don't care who they will follow in the future!

And these nine-headed people keep their word. When they get here, they can be sheltered and give them enough to eat. Although the food is not good, most of them are miscellaneous grains mixed with a lot of wheat bran, and some unknown potatoes (potatoes), but these things have not been eaten for a long time. For the Liaodong soldiers and civilians who are serious about grain, it is already very rare. The long-lost smell of grain almost made them swallow their tongues together.

They felt that they had never eaten such a delicious food in their lives. When they received their first meal, they didn't care about anything and swallowed them into their stomachs. When there was only a little food left in their hands, they began to chew slowly and taste the fragrance of the food that they had not seen for a long time. People are even reluctant to finish eating the cake they received for the first time, quietly leaving a little and hiding it in their arms, afraid that after eating this meal, they don't know when they will be able to eat the next meal.

It was not until they received the food on time for the second time that they found that it was not a dream. The nine-headed pirates really didn't lie to them. They really served them two meals a day. Although there was only one meal with miscellaneous grain cakes and the other meal was just a large bowl of miscellaneous grain porridge, the miscellaneous grain porridge was also made by regular grain. And it is very thick. It is by no means the kind of porridge used to help the victims and fool the victims. When you eat it in your stomach, your body will immediately warm up.

So these soldiers and civilians in Liaodong who were taken in were completely relieved, became much quieter and obedient, and became much more respectful to the pirates who sheltered them and began to become obedient.

Later, many large ships came to Lushunbao and loaded them into the boat, saying that they were going to send them to a safer place. These people did not know where to send them, but they did not have much nostalgia for leaving Dongjiang Town. Now their homeland, except the area of Lushunbao, has been Jiannu occupied it. It's not safe to stay here. No matter where you go, it's better than staying here!

So these received Liaodong soldiers and civilians did not have any resistance. They were quietly loaded into the boat and embarked on an unknown journey.

After a few days of sailing, they were sent to Jeju Island. Until this time, they did not know who really saved them. Until this time, they did not know Yu Xiaotian's name and the name of the sea wolf.

Although Jeju Island is also geographically north, due to the influence of warm and humid airflows, Jeju Island is much warmer in winter than in Liaodong, and the island is rich in water and grass. Compared with Liaodong, it is simply a paradise.

And here, a large tube room has already been built for them to live in, and a large amount of food has been prepared for them to eat. Although after a few days of resting and cleaning, they have changed into clean clothes, their hair has been shaved, and they have to be sent to work, but this kind of With the feeling of having enough food and not having to worry about being killed by the construction slave army all day, they have made them feel very happy. Therefore, these abandoned people in Liaodong soon returned to the family army. Many people soon joined the newly established army and became members of the Yu family army.

In addition to this large-scale military operation in the eastern Liaoning, the sea wolf also experienced another fierce battle in October of Chongzhen.

But this fierce battle did not take place in the sea wolf's control area, but on the sea surface of Japan.

In recent years, at the behest of Xiaotian, the sea wolf has sent a large number of privateers and personnel to the sea around the Japanese islands to raid the coast of Japan, treating them in their own way, setting off a bloody storm along the coast of Japan.

Because of Yu Xiaotian's instructions and personal likes and dislikes, the crew of the plunder ships sent to Japan's coastal activities were very cruel to the Japanese, almost the same as the Japanese pirates who treated the Chinese in those years, and also hit the Japanese.

The sea wolves are strong, resistant to wind and waves, fast, fast, and well equipped. In addition, well-trained personnel, they soon emerged along the coast of the islands in southern Japan. They are haunted and constantly appear on the coasts of various vassal states. Almost every day, they go ashore to wash and plunder. It can be said that there is no burning, killing and looting. Don't do evil.

And they also collected many idle warriors in Japan as their pawns and carried out bloody* and massacres along the coast of Japan.

Especially for Japanese ships operating on the sea, whether they are official ships, merchant ships, or even fishing boats, as long as they encounter them, they will immediately *. It is common for them to kill and cross the goods. Over the past few years, they have made the names of various vassal states along the coast of Japan.

In addition, the sea wolf plundering fleet also followed the strategy of leniency of Catholics at the instructions of Yu Xiaotian. This era was the most severe era for Japan to suppress Catholics. The number of Catholics in Japan itself was quite large, but under the strong suppression of the Tokugawa shogunate, these Japanese Catholics were greatly forced. Harm.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian ordered to plunder the private fleet to effectively use the contradiction between Japanese Catholics and the Tokugawa shogunate and try to absorb these Catholics for their use.

In this way, they recruited a large number of pawns by colluding Catholics in Japan, and also linked an intelligence network through these Japan*.

The activities of the sea wolf plundering the private fleet greatly violated the rule and interests of the Tokugawa shogunate. At this time, it was the period when the third general of the Tokugawa shogunate, Ieguang, was in the rising stage and its rule over Japan was relatively stable.

When he felt that this group of Chinese pirates who inexplicably appeared along the coast of Japan had greatly affected the Tokugawa family's rule over Japan, Tokugawa Iemitsu finally couldn't help but decide to suppress these pirates from China.

This kind of thing made Tokugawa Imitsu feel very depressed. A long ago, Japanese warriors drifted to the coast of China and were called Japanese pirates, making the coast of the Ming Dynasty a mess. However, they didn't expect that now they have fallen down. Their Japanese warriors did not go to the coast of China, but the Chinese pirates made pirate ships. They drove to their side in Japan and burned and looted everywhere.

And these Chinese pirates are very ferocious and can be said to be extremely ferocious. Every time they attack the shore, they always adopt the three-light policy of killing and robing the attacked villages. The place where they pass can be described as a bare land. Moreover, in recent years, more and more merchant ships in Japan have gone out for trade, but fewer and fewer people come back.

Often went out a lot, but in the end, many of them did not return and there was no news. Later, a ship occasionally rescued two boatmen who fell into the water at sea. Only then did they know that their merchant ships were attacked by the Han Dynasty (the Japanese's reputation for sea wolves) after going to sea, and the ship The goods were robbed by those Han pirates.

The two boatmans were relatively lucky. It happened in the evening. They found that something was not good, so they jumped into the sea to escape. First, they hid under the ship and were not found by the Hanko. After dark, they held a board and wandered away from the hijacked ship for three days before being passed by the sea. The ship was rescued and reported the incident to General Tokugawa.

Only then did Tokugawa Ihemitsu realize that these pirates from the Ming Dynasty had seriously threatened the interests of Japan. No wonder that for so long, many merchant ships that went to Ryukyu for trade had mysteriously disappeared. It turned out that they were robbed by these Chinese pirates.

In recent years, Japan's foreign trade quota has fallen year after year, which turned out to be caused by these Chinese pirates looting their Japanese merchant ships at sea.

The Tokugawa shogunate has now issued a lockdown order, strictly prohibiting any ships from going to sea, cutting off trade with Spaniards, and prohibiting the Dutch from trading in Hirado. Foreign trade is not too much now, but he does not want to see Japanese merchant ships go out and be robbed.

This is still tolerable, but these Han pirates actually looted along the coast of Japan every day, which made him really intolerable.

So Tokugawa Iemitsu came to the tenth year of Chongzhen, that is, the 14th year of Kan'ei in Japan, and decided to clean up these Chinese pirates that haunted the coast of the Japanese islands.

The Tokugawa family ordered people to find a way to explore the places where these sea wolves plundered private ships most frequently, and then gathered more than a dozen vassal states and gathered hundreds of warships. As many as 20,000 warriors looked for the sea wolf's plunder fleet in the sea south of Hirado Island.

And the sea wolf's private fleet was not afraid of these Japanese warships at this time. Although the strength of the two sides was very different, they still took the initiative to attack, adopting the tactics of guerrilla warfare at sea, concentrating their forces and breaking them separately.

From October to December of the 10th year of Chongzhen, the two sides fought with Japanese vassal warships in the sea south of Hirado and the waters of Heizen, as well as the sea area of the Satsuma Domain.

Of course, there is no need to say more. Although the strength of the sea wolf plundering fleet is limited, it occupies an absolute technical advantage. The construction of the sea wolf plundering is unusually strong, and the shipbuilding technology far exceeds Japanese shipbuilding technology, and the artillery on board also occupies an absolute advantage.

Although the Japanese learned to make firearms earlier than China. Firearms are called iron cannons in Japan and are widely equipped, Japan's casting technology has never been developed, and most of the cannons cast are short-bducted and small-caliber guns.

In addition, the displacement of Japanese warships is small and not strong enough. Although those Japanese warriors are very brave in the naval battle, they can only stare and wait to be beaten.

The sea wolf's boot fleet gave full play to their advantages. In a few months, they defeated the Japanese fleet several times, annihilated hundreds of Japanese warships, massacred nearly 10,000 warriors on Japanese ships, and completely defeated Tokugawa Imitsu's attempt.