Chapter 1052: The Great War is about to begin
Although the Jusang Kingdom made preparations for war as soon as they received the news of the invasion of the Japanese army, they did not expect the Japanese army to attack so quickly, nor did they expect that the captured countries in the South Seas were so vulnerable, and their fortifications were only halfway built, and the Japanese army's fleet had already arrived.
The long stretch of coast, with its very messy fortifications, littered with fallen wooden stakes, and many places exposed huge gaps, may be able to stop the Japanese army for a while, but it is impossible to really stop the Japanese army.
In contrast, a deep pit dug in the sand with a lot of manpower may be more useful than a wooden fence.
The warships of the Jusang Kingdom, in addition to the three military warships, are still somewhat powerful, and the more than ten requisitioned fishing boats are really weak in comparison with the Japanese fleet.
The warships of the Japanese people are naturally not as large as Han Mo's fleet, but compared to the ships of the Jusang Kingdom, they are much more imposing.
There are few weapons in the South Seas, the military strength is weak, and all countries take the sea as the basis for their lives, so there are many small fishing boats in various countries, and few countries prepare warships, such as Jusang country, which has three warships all year round, which is already quite powerful.
After all, they are all small countries and small people, and if they really want to build a qualified warship, the amount of money spent is by no means small, and the military expenses for repairing warships and maintaining naval strength every year require a lot of money, so for the Nanyang countries that have been stable for many years, such expenses can be saved, after all, for many years, although contradictions often occur between the Nanyang countries, there are indeed very few cases of real armed confrontations, and most of the cases are solved by sitting at the negotiating table.
The shore was already lined with newly recruited recruits, who hid behind wooden fences that had not yet been built, and looked at the dark fleet on the sea, all of them showing a look of gloomy fear.
But at dusk, they saw a large group of officials hugging a bamboo sedan chair to the seaside, behind the bamboo sedan chair, followed by more than a dozen giant elephants, on top of the giant elephant sat heavily armed elephant soldiers, in the roar of the elephant, nearly 10,000 Nanyang soldiers on the shore were dumbfounded.
Nanyang bamboo sedan chair is different from the sedan chair of the Central Plains, is fixed between two long bamboos with a large chair, the chair is covered with a canopy, in the Nanyang countries, one of the symbols of status is whether you can take this kind of bamboo sedan chair, qualified to take this kind of bamboo sedan chair, not rich but expensive.
However, the rich and noble people also have to be graded, and the number of sedan chair drivers, the length of the bamboo pole and the size of the chair can distinguish the grades.
The average wealthy merchant can only be carried by two palanquin bearers one after the other, the bamboo pole is shorter, and the chairs are smaller, while those officials are four to six, but at this time there are eight palanquin bearers, four before and after, but only the king and queen have this qualification.
And compared with the closed sedan chair in the Central Plains, the occupant of the sedan chair in Nanyang is bright and bright, sitting on the chair, and everyone who passes by can see it, and everyone can clearly see that on the chair, there is a luxurious beautiful woman, graceful, but revealing the majesty of the king.
And the dozen or so giant elephants behind the palanquin, everyone knew even better, it was the palace guard.
There were only four or five hundred thousand people in the whole country, so the standing army was very small, and the most powerful army was the palace guards, except for some yamen who maintained social order.
The palace guards are only a thousand people, and the most elite of them are the giant elephant guards.
There are giant elephants in the country, but the number is also very scarce, the whole country adds up to only a hundred, most of which are used for manual labor, and the most elite giant elephants are selected into the palace, and maintain twenty giant elephant guards all year round to protect the king and queen.
On the back of the giant elephant, there is a special battle seat, which can accommodate six elephant soldiers at the same time, except for one who is used to command the giant elephant, the other five elephant soldiers are dressed in bamboo armor, carrying bows and arrows, all of them are carefully selected marksmen.
When the huge enemy army was approaching the coast, the queen actually brought most of the elite giant elephant soldiers to the sea, but it surprised the soldiers of Jusang Kingdom, and they even saw that even many ministers on both sides of the palanquin also held weapons and followed the queen to the seaside.
Only this scene made the soldiers of Jusangguo, who were originally demoralized, suddenly excited, and there was no doubt that the queen was going to advance and retreat with the soldiers.
Queen Fujiwara's prestige in the country of Kikusang was already extremely high, and when she came out again at this time, many soldiers burst into tears.
When the palanquin man stopped, Queen Fujiwara slowly stood up from her chair, and like a goddess, she raised her arms, pointed backwards, and said in a loud voice: "My people, behind you are your wives and children, and what you have to do as men is to ensure that they are not trampled on by foreign enemies at all costs...... Slash at your enemies with your knives, blindfold them with your blood, and let them spill their blood on the sea ...... every step forward! ”
The soldiers all fell to their knees and shouted, "Queen...... Queen......! ”
King Fujiwara looked at the sea without fear at the dark fleet in the distance, and then his beautiful eyes looked at the blue sea, folded his hands, closed his eyes, and murmured prayers.
At this moment, a herald rushed in, and under the gaze of everyone, ran to the sedan chair and knelt down, and said excitedly: "Queen, the messenger of King Asi has arrived!" ”
Queen Fujiwara suddenly opened her eyes, and a hint of brilliance crossed her eyes, causing the palanquin man to lower the palanquin, and a minister had already stepped forward to help the queen get off the palanquin and step on the sand.
At this moment, a few people ran panting from the rear, the style of clothes was quite different from that of the people of Jusang, the first one was short and fat, and when he arrived in front of Queen Fujiwara, he saluted with his right hand across his chest, and said respectfully: "The envoy of the country of Turus, Lagos, is ordered by King As, to come to meet Queen Fujiwara!" ”
Queen Fujiwara said solemnly: "Larkess, where is King Ace now?" Is your fleet coming to the rescue? ”
Lagos said solemnly: "Dear queen, after King Ace got the news, he immediately sent people to the kings of the three nearby countries, the country of Huoluo, the country of Manwu and the country of Gumtuna are willing to send troops to help. A few days ago, King Ace had already made a detour from the south, leading the alliance army of the Four Kingdoms to prepare to go around to the rear of the Japanese bandits, and attack your country back and forth, and take the Japanese bandits by surprise. ”
Queen Fujiwara knew that King Ace was the oldest and most prestigious among the kings of the Nanyang countries, and if there was a dispute between the countries, this King Ace would definitely come forward to mediate and resolve the dispute.
Moreover, this King Ace has been a brave man since he was young, and it is not easy for him to come to the throne, and after ascending the throne, King Ace is also very generous to his people.
Now when he heard that King Ace had led his troops to rescue him, he was overjoyed and asked, "How many people has King Ace brought?" ”
Ralgaston was a little embarrassed, but he still said honestly: "Back to the esteemed queen, our monarch King Ace not only mobilized two invincible warships of our country, but also mobilized many civilian ships, plus other countries, there are more than 30 large and small ships, and nearly 2,000 warriors!" ”
Queen Fujiwara frowned slightly, but there were less than 2,000 people in the thirty ships, which showed that the ships were extremely small, but he also knew that this was King As's best efforts, so he could only bow his head and say: "This time, our Nanyang countries will work together to drive the bandits out of the Nanyang!" ”
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Han Mo's fleet was not far from the Jusang Kingdom, and after receiving the news that the Japanese army had invaded the South Seas, Han Mo ordered the whole team to move forward at full speed, and it was only more than 20 nautical miles away from the mainland of the Jusang Kingdom at this time.
He even boarded the East Sea Eagle to board the Immortal, causing the fleet to stop moving forward and only use the Immortal as a merchant ship to probe forward.
On the lookout platform of the Immortal, Han Mo used a telescope to look into the distance, and he could vaguely see the fleet of the Japanese army, which was black and oppressive, and there were really a lot of them, and he was also sure that the Japanese army would never find their own fleet at this time, and the Japanese people were devoting all their energy to the conquest of Jusang at the moment, and they did not realize that a terrifying Central Plains caravan had quietly arrived.
Han Mo could see that the fleet of the Japanese army was extremely numerous, and the size of the warships was not small, at least five of them could compare to the medium-sized warships of the Zhenfu army, and even larger than their own merchant ships, and the flagship of the Japanese army, which was also their only large warship, was larger than their own merchant ships, but not as large as their own warships.
In addition, the Japanese army still has more than 20 small warships, and the figures on the warships are crowded, which can also show the prosperity of the opponent's troops.
Han Mo knew very well in his heart that this was the bottom line of the naval army of the Wanomaru country.
On the way, Han Mo also learned from the mouth of the Nanyang merchants that the eastern region of the Wanomaru country is more barren than the western Kyushu Shikoku region, and there is almost no naval force, and the central region is the place where the princes are fighting the most fiercely, and the princes are vigorously developing land forces and have no energy to build a naval army, so the naval force is very weak, and Shikoku Kyushu is the place where the Japanese naval army of the Wanomaru country is dominant, not only the daimyo naval army is entrenched in the sea, there are still many pirates, those who really can't survive the Japanese no Maru people, Pulling up a boat can form a sea bandit force, which means that 80% of the water power of the Wanomaru is entrenched in the area of Shikoku Kyushu.
Shimazu Tsukihisa united with the western daimyo to persuade the pirates and gathered a large number of naval forces to go south, and this huge navy was almost all of the sea bases of the Japanese no Maru.
Although compared to the huge water power of the Yan Kingdom's Zhenfu army, the water power of the Wanomaru is not mentioned, and even compared with the large-scale military duel in the Central Plains, which is prone to tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands, these forces in Nanyang are inconspicuous, but Han Mo knows that for these small countries, this is an extremely huge duel.
Although there were only 3,000 Japanese troops, these 3,000 people came out of the baptism of war in the Japanese no Maru, and each of them was extremely brave, and with the combat experience and strength of the Nanyang people, they were by no means the opponents of the Japanese people.
Han Mo put down his binoculars, looked up at the already somewhat dim sky, and stretched out a hand to probe in the air, thoughtfully.
Du Bingyue beside her had already asked softly, "Little Fifth Brother, when are we going to attack?" Do you want to wait for the night to fight the bandits by surprise? ”
Han Mo shook his head, and said with a straight face: "It's good to be caught off guard, but we must not underestimate the strength of the bandits, if we are tough, we will certainly have a slight chance of winning, but we will definitely pay a heavy price." He groaned slightly, and said slowly: "We must strive to defeat the bandits, a naval army, at the lowest cost!" ”
Du Bingyue reached out and brushed a lock of hair from her cheeks, and asked softly, "Then what should we do?" ”
"Wait for something!" Han Mo looked at Du Bingyue's beautiful face and smiled gently: "If it doesn't arrive, we will hold on!" ”