Dawu six hundred and two years, Xuanwu twenty-two years, late February.
Just as Dawu Luoqi was holding a martial arts competition in full swing, in Shandong, the Eastern Japanese pirates started an undeclared war, and soon the Northern Japanese pirates also started an undeclared war. Each side had 50,000 troops and invaded Qing, Lu, and Yang. state.
On the same day, Japanese generals Noboru Rokuda and Saburo Shinoda under the Japanese pirate Satan Onizuka led 20,000 Japanese soldiers to capture the Huaihua Fort in Yangzhou. All 5,000 Huaihua defenders and generals were killed.
Now he advanced to Shouguang City and defeated ten thousand troops at Shouguang Slope, and the generals fled in disbelief.
A part of the Japanese pirate army invaded Luzhou, and dozens of large and small warships advanced into Hulukou, Luzhou. The 10,000 defenders of Hulukou resisted desperately, but in the end they could not withstand the indiscriminate bombardment of a large number of enemy warships. When Hulukou was about to fall, . Fang Shouke, a famous anti-Japanese general, led 50,000 Japanese troops from the Luzhou headquarters to rush to Hulukou's aid, and was able to keep the Hulukou position from being lost.
In the land of Qingzhou, they faced the Northern Japanese pirates, a group of 50,000 well-equipped Japanese pirates. On the same day, they invaded Taizhou, which claimed to have 100,000 defenders (in fact, it only had 30,000 local troops). As a result, Taizhou defender Yu Wanguang died on the battlefield. Taizhou's 30,000-strong army was almost wiped out by the Japanese pirates' musketry army as they fled.
In just a few days, more than ten generals and more than 60,000 soldiers were killed in Shandong.
Two days later…
Jiwu Palace!
Morning!
Hooray!
"A bunch of rubbish! A bunch of rubbish! What's the use of Dawu Kingdom raising you?" With the battle report from Shandong in his hand, Emperor Xuanwu had a splitting headache and almost died of anger on the dragon throne.
"Tell me, excluding the Japanese soldiers in Shandong, each state should have an army of 100,000, right? But according to the news from the deputy governor of Shandong, why are there only 30,000 troops guarding Taizhou? The other 70,000 Where are the Qingzhou garrison?"
"Ye Yi, my prime minister, I will hand over the general affairs of Shandong to you. Is this what you, the governor of Shandong, do?"
"Look at the memorials on this table. They are all urgent letters from the three states asking for help and battle reports of the lost areas. In just a few days, Shandong lost more than ten generals and more than 60,000 soldiers were killed. Our Dawu soldiers are so unbearable One blow!"
"Also! Where are the 300,000 local troops in Shandong? Ye Yi! You'd better give me an explanation, otherwise! I don't mind giving up your position as prime minister to someone else."
Angry! Emperor Xuanwu was really angry this time!
Shandong as a whole has a population of nearly ten million and a vast territory. How much territory has been lost in just a few days? If this continues, I'm afraid! It is not the coastal areas that are lost, but the whole of Shandong.
thump!
Ye Yi was so frightened that he knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, please forgive me!"
no way! There are too many officials in Shandong who are living on empty wages! Even he eats it himself. The money that can be paid to the soldiers is half less than the actual food and wages.
This naturally led to Shandong soldiers going on strike collectively, running and escaping. There were originally 300,000 local garrison troops, but later! Barely to one hundred thousand.
"snort!"
"I was wrong about you!" Emperor Xuanwu said angrily, "General, General of Shandong, who can claim it?"
Anyway! The military power in Shandong, including 200,000 Japanese soldiers, cannot be handed over to Liu Wenlong.
Liu Wenlong certainly understood Emperor Xuanwu's intention, so just reduce the military power! He didn't care very much, "Your Majesty! I have a candidate in mind, but I don't know if Your Majesty is willing to accept it!"
oh!
Emperor Xuanwu calmed down a little and asked, "Who is the general referring to?"
Liu Wenlong said: "Shang Shu of the Five Arms, Zhang Tianzheng."
The Five Military Ministers are equivalent to the Ministers of the Ministry of War during the Tang Dynasty, and were subordinate to the third-rank officials in Dawu. in! The five soldiers also refer to the central soldiers, foreign soldiers, cavalry, special soldiers, and capital soldiers.
Zhang Tianzheng, thirty-five years old, was admitted to Jinshi twelve years ago in the same year and ranked third on the imperial list. In the next five years, he made outstanding achievements and was worshiped as the Minister of the Five Soldiers. Assisted Wang Mingzhang and Liu Wenlong in managing the Ministry of War. Later he became a direct subordinate of Emperor Xuanwu.
Emperor Xuanwu was heartbroken!
Good guy! You know how to choose!
Zhang Tianzheng was one of the few loyal ministers under him. If he was sent to Shandong as governor, it would be like cutting off his skin and flesh.
but! In order to stabilize the situation in Shandong, he had to reluctantly part ways.
"Secretary of the Fifth Army, Zhang Tianzheng, if I appoint you as the governor of Shandong, how should you respond to the aggressive Japanese pirates occupying the coast and how should you deploy your troops?" Emperor Xuanwu asked His Highness Zhang Tianzheng.
Zhang Tianzheng moved a step, stepped out of the line of officials, stood in the middle of the hall, and worshiped: "Your Majesty!"
"If your Majesty appoints me as the governor of Shandong, I think that I should transfer Qi Lanyin, the guard general of Wukou Pass in Yuzhou, to lead 5,000 Qi's troops under his command, recover all parts of Taizhou, and transfer 50,000 Japanese soldiers to prepare for the Japanese. The anti-Japanese general Zong Jing will Station along the coast and set up outposts again to defend against Japanese pirates on the coast." Zhang Tianzheng analyzed.
oh!
Emperor Xuanwu interrupted. After thinking for a long time, he always felt that Qi Lanyin seemed to have heard it somewhere. Deep in his memory, he found such a small fragment and asked: "You are talking about the recovery of Lu three years ago." Qi Lanyin from Hulukou Prefecture?"
"Exactly!"
"You said that, and I remembered it! This boy has a very stubborn temper. When he wiped out the Japanese pirates, he was only twenty-two years old. Counting the time, he should be twenty-five now! He should also grow a beard. What a shame! But! This man is actually a good anti-Japanese general."
"Okay! Just send this person forward!"
Emperor Xuanwu responded.
then! Zhang Tianzheng directly stated his anti-Japanese strategy and his thoughts after being appointed governor of Shandong. Luzhou Fang Shouguo was ordered to directly lead all coastal defenses in Luzhou. The remaining local military forces in Luzhou were directly led by the Defense Section and led 30,000 Japanese soldiers to garrison the Hulukou Fortress.
then! He also asked Li Shuren and many other generals to prepare 50,000 Japanese soldiers and the Yangzhou garrison to directly recover Huaiguang, Shouguang and other places.
At Yangzhou Fishing Port, more than fifty warships, including three large ships, medium-sized ships, and small ones, left the port one after another, directly led by the artillery general Luo Qian.
Luo Qian is a naval battle general! In the past few years of the war with the Japanese pirates, he almost always won but never lost in the naval battles he commanded.
And these generals! Almost all famous anti-Japanese generals in Shandong and other places. For a time, Zhang Tianzheng was all at his disposal, which was called a prosperous era of great martial arts!
"Okay! With you Zhang Tianzheng in Shandong, I should feel at ease." After hearing Zhang Tianzheng's words, Emperor Xuanwu felt relieved a lot, "Come here and draw up the decree!"
"I ordered Zhang Tianzheng, the Minister of the Five Arms, to be appointed governor of Qing, Lu, and Yang in Shandong, with the power to command all generals in Shandong. In addition, King Dongfangtian of Qi assisted Zhang Tianzheng, governor of Shandong, to retreat from the Japanese pirates and recover the lost territory. "
"In addition! The literary examination meeting will be held as usual tomorrow. King Qi Dongfangtian can attend the poetry meeting and then return to the fiefdom of Luzhou."
Zhang Tianzheng and Dongfang Tian quickly paid their respects and said, "I obey your order."
in this way! No matter how arrogant the Japanese pirates were, Emperor Xuanwu would not believe it. Two hundred thousand Japanese soldiers, plus hundreds of thousands of local garrison troops, could not defeat a hundred thousand Japanese pirates.
