On the third day of the new year, the Silla army again suddenly attacked Hirado Island, which was close to Sekaido.

Why say again?

"Huh! The Silla Kingdom is unexpected again this time", Zhen Jiu looked at the latest battle report, the expression on his face was incomparably rich, although he had long guessed that the Silla Congress would send troops to capture Hirado Island, but he didn't expect it to be so soon.

Could it be that the army of Silla is not the Spring Festival?

This is also a question in Zhen Qian's heart, Silla is too anxious!

Hirado Island was of course important for the Silla Kingdom to occupy the Sehkaido, but it was not impatient, after all, the Silla Kingdom had already occupied Iki Island, which was equivalent to priing open the door of the Wa Kingdom, and with a place to settle, the importance of Hirado Island was not very important.

"Tell me about the fact that Silla is in such a hurry to occupy Hirado Island?"

The attack on Ikido Island by the Silla Kingdom on Chinese New Year's Eve was completely unexpected, and now that the Silla Kingdom has controlled the sea passage to the north of the U Kingdom, the sea advantage is obvious, and there is no need to occupy Hirado Island in such a hurry.

The Wa Kingdom did not have many troops on Hirado Island at all, and if Zhen Qian wanted to occupy it, it would be equally easy, and this ripe peach could still fly with wings.

"Will the Silla Kingdom go south right away?"

"Now it seems that this is becoming more and more likely?"

Naturally, the concern was when Silla would move south, and when to occupy Hirado Island was just a matter of judging what Silla would do next.

"It seems that there is not much time left for the Wufeng Islands to prepare!" Wang Lun worried.

"Master, my subordinates think that there must be a reason why the Silla Kingdom is now sending troops to capture Hirado Island......?"

Before Zhen Jiu's words were finished, he was sneered at by Wang Tianxing next to him: "Tsk, who doesn't know such a simple question, do you still need to talk about it?" ”

"Noise!" Zhen Qian glared at Wang Tianxing angrily and said, "Go on?" ”

"As the saying goes: when things are abnormal, there must be demons. It is obviously unreasonable for Silla to attack Hirado Island at this time, unless something happens to Silla State, for example, the envoys of the Tang Dynasty ask Silla to cease fighting? ”

"Hmmm! There is some truth in that, but do the envoys of the Tang Dynasty really have much authority? Wang Lun asked rhetorically.

Zhen Qian already knew that the Tang Dynasty sent mediation envoys to Silla and Wa, but he did not have any hope for the outcome of the mediation. This is not to say that the authority of the Tang Dynasty and the two countries will turn a deaf ear, but that the arrow has to be sent on the string, and the two countries will cease war with the empty words and white teeth of the Tang envoys, and that is the real joke.

Of course, if Datang can send a huge fleet, things are another matter.

Under the strong military deterrence, Zhen Qian believes that the two countries will sit down and negotiate rationally, but the question is whether Datang can send a fleet now?

Again, the answer is no!

No! Today's Datang sailors are corrupt and have become paper tigers, and they have long had no such strength!

Now the biggest possibility is that the envoys of the Tang Dynasty bluffed and ordered the two countries to cease fighting, and the two countries made false promises, saying one thing at the negotiating table, and doing what should be done behind the scenes!

Perhaps the Japanese state was more willing to negotiate first at this time, but the Silla state, which already had the advantage, wanted to fight first and negotiate later, so as to increase its bargaining chips for the negotiations.

Therefore, it is meaningless for Datang to mediate at this time!

"So, Silla sent troops to attack Iki Island on Chinese New Year's Eve before, and this time it suddenly sent troops to occupy Hirado Island, did it want to take the lead in negotiations?" Zhen Qian still didn't believe it.

Zhen Jiu nodded and said, "I don't know, but is there such a possibility?" Second, if there are people in Silla who oppose this dispatch of troops, the front-line generals will need several victories to prove the correctness of this war, or if Silla is not prepared for war and cannot sustain a long-term war, it is necessary to make their own invincible ......position as soon as possible. ”

Zhen Qian nodded frequently after listening to Zhen Jiu's analysis, Silla sent troops this time There are many suspicions, and the timing is actually not the best, and it is obviously used as a gunman. Can't the Silla Congress see it? Obviously, there is a reason why Zhen Qian does not know about it, and at the same time, after Silla sent troops, it was in Tsushima to contain the main force of the Japanese State, and then it was completely possible to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, so that it was in line with the interests ......of a country.

None of these surest methods were adopted by Silla, apparently for another reason!

Zhen Qian handed a few more documents to a few people and said, "There is a stalemate in the war on the island of Shikoku in the Japanese country, and the Shaoer Dongshang coalition army of the Osumi country has no intention of continuing the battle, what do these people seem to be waiting for?" ”

"I'm waiting for the decisive battle between the main forces of Silla and Wa!"

"But Fujiwara Nakamaro is not stupid! Fujiwara Nakamaro will not fight hard with Silla now, just wait to see how the game of chess of the opposition Sekaido goes? ”

In this era, there is basically no concept of the country in later generations, but a certain surname is the family and the country, and naturally it will not fight to the death with the enemy.

Originally, Zhen Qian was unwilling to get involved in this kind of bad thing, but Silla threatened the survival of the Wufeng Islands, and Zhen Qian had to fight back. This is the same as the Silla Kingdom is going to attack Sekaido, can the big and small masters continue to be calm?

What Zhen Qian wants to know most now is, what is Fujiwara Brusho of Hizen Country thinking at this time? Is it that the bowels of regret are blue, but the Hizen country is the front line of the Silla country's attack on Sekaido, and once the Hizen country is occupied by the Silla country, Fujiwara Brusho's guardian has also been done.

This may be the reason why the Japanese opposition is still watching the wind!

On the third day of the Silla occupation of Hirado Island, a fleet flying the flag of the Silla Navy appeared murderously ......at the northern tip of the Gobō Islands.

The Silla fleet dropped anchor and landed at the northern tip of the main island, and sent soldiers to search the surrounding unnamed islands, and set sail again after finding nothing.

All this was seen by the outpost of Silla who had been closely monitoring it, and there was no intention of blocking it, the northern tip of the North Main Island had not yet been developed, and now there were no people at all, which was also a smoke bomb for the Wubong Islands, and I hoped that Silla would give up the idea of landing on the island after checking it.

The topography of the Goho Islands and Pingdo Islands is different, Hirado Island is dominated by plains and hills, and the Goho Islands are valleys in addition to mountains, which are not suitable for large-scale military stationing, as long as Silla did not have the idea of fighting the Goho Islands, it would not send troops to occupy the Goho Islands, otherwise why after 800 years, the great pirate Wang Zhi can still occupy the Goho Islands, there is only one reason, it is indeed not a good place to live, so it is not surprising that the Wa Kingdom turned a blind eye to the islands at their doorstep.

(End of chapter)