Most of the immigrants resettled on Yingzhou Island lived a very difficult life.

Among them, the situation of the immigrant households who came in the first year was slightly better. They gained a lot of benefits in the process of expelling the court and indigenous people on the island. They occupied some villages and houses, and were allocated some cattle and livestock.

However, a large number of newly arrived immigrants did not catch up with such an opportunity. When they arrived on Yingzhou Island, they had to start from scratch. They ate relief food and wild vegetables obtained through work-for-work relief, and lived in their own dug tunnels.

, a straw shed built by oneself.

Fortunately, no matter what, the last batch of immigrant households who arrived in June had basically completed the farming work of reclaiming wasteland and planting by mid-July, and did not miss the last farming season.

The entire Yingzhou Island, from the north of the South Island and from the east to the west, has completed resettlement in a total of 84 villages and 25,350 households, with a population of more than 100,000.

This situation has greatly exceeded Yang Zhen's expectations.

Yang Zhen thought that it would be good to be able to immigrate more than 100,000 people within five years. From last summer to this summer, it took only one year to achieve this goal.

Of course, what makes Yang Zhen even more delighted is that more than 25,000 immigrant households have completed land reclamation and planted sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes and sorghum, and the total area of ​​rice exceeds 300,000 acres.

Among them, more than 250,000 acres are planted with relatively high-yielding sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes.

Of course, the one with the largest planting area and the largest number of acres is the sweet potato, which old villagers on the island have already tasted the sweetness of and are extremely easy to introduce.

Yang Zhen took the accompanying people and horses around the island and found that almost all the land that was easy to cultivate and cultivate in the plain around the island had been cultivated, and there were lush sweet potato fields and sorghum fields everywhere.

Yang Zhen spent three days walking around the island, and he felt more confident. With such a base for supplying food and grass, he was more confident in conquering Kyushu Island.

For the Japanese slave country, Yang Zhen hated it in his heart, but he was still more or less afraid.

Most of the generals who followed him were rough men, and their understanding of the Japanese slave country basically stopped at the stories passed down orally from their ancestors and fathers about their entry into the DPRK to fight against the Japanese during the Wanli period.

At best, I just want to know more about the stories and legends about how Marshal Qi and Marshal Yu led the army to fight against the invasion of Japanese pirates as early as the Jiajing period.

As for the history of Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan Dynasty, who raised an army to attack the Japanese slave country hundreds of years ago, none of them knew about it.

But Yang Zhen was different. He came from a later generation and had attended university and studied history.

Although he was not a history major, he was very interested in how to destroy the Japanese slave kingdom, so he read a lot of books on this subject.

Among them is the historical story of Kublai Khan sending two men to conquer the Japanese slave country.

Yang Zhen can no longer remember the specific time and the ins and outs of Kublai Khan's two expeditions against the Wonu Kingdom. The longer the time travels, the more vague the memories he formed in his previous life. But Kublai Khan

The lesson that Lie twice sent to conquer the Japanese slave country failed, but Yang Zhen remembered it deeply.

Kublai Khan's first expedition against the Wonu Kingdom was before the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty. The Yuan army sent nearly 40,000 troops and nearly a thousand ships. They set out from the southern tip of the Koryo Peninsula. They first captured and massacred Tsushima Island, and then

Occupied Iki Island, massacred Iki Island, and finally successfully landed on Kyushu Island from Hakata Bay.

However, because the Japanese slaves on Kyushu Island were too poor, even if the Yuan Dynasty's army slaughtered and looted everything they passed, they could not grab any decent supplies of food and grass. As a result, the military supplies of 30,000 to 40,000 horses were cut off, and they were unable to fight anymore.

And because the Kamakura shogunate at that time mobilized 100,000 troops to fight one after another, and caught up with the typhoon at the same time, Kublai Khan sent an army to conquer the Wonu Kingdom for the first time and finally evacuated hastily after losing a large number of men, horses and warships.

As for the second time Kublai Khan sent people to conquer the Japanese slave country, it was carried out after the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty. This time he sent more people, as many as more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, various warships, and supply ships, as many as four or five

Thousands of ships.

Kublai Khan thought that after learning the lesson from the first time, sending so many troops for the second time, and mainly based on the navy of Fan Wenhu who had surrendered from the south of the Yangtze River, he should be able to conquer the Japanese slave country in one battle.

However, what is very surprising is that this time the Yuan army was divided into two groups, with a total of 140,000 and 500,000 troops, but the battle opportunities were repeatedly delayed because of the inability to unify the command.

Finally, facing the well-prepared Kamakura shogunate army, the Yuan Dynasty army once again chose to land at Hakata Bay, but failed to successfully achieve the goal of landing the entire army on Kyushu Island.

Except for some of the leading troops who fought desperately to land on the beach of Hakata Bay, a large number of soldiers, horses and warships drifted on the sea outside Hakata Bay for a long time, unable to dock.

As a result, it went on day by day. Thousands of ships, large and small, carrying hundreds of thousands of people, drifted outside Hakata Bay for more than a month. Finally, they encountered a typhoon again.

The huge fleet of the Yuan Dynasty suffered a devastating blow in the typhoon. There were more than 4,000 large and small ships, but only about 200 remained. People and horses fell into the sea and died, and countless corpses were floating in the sea.

The remaining troops evacuated in a hurry, and finally retreated to the starting point at the southern tip of the Koryo Peninsula. However, the number of Yuan troops who had safely withdrawn to Koryo was less than 30,000.

Kublai Khan sent out troops to conquer the Japanese slave country for the second time, but it ended in a disastrous defeat, with more than 100,000 soldiers and generals lost. This lesson is profound.

It is precisely because of this that when Lao Zhu established the Ming Dynasty, after much deliberation, he listed the Japanese slave country as a country that would not be conquered, so that the descendants of Lao Zhu's family could not easily cross the sea to fight against the Japanese slave kingdom.

The reason is that when the Yuan Dynasty was at its peak, it conquered the Japanese slave country twice, and both times it was defeated.

Of course, Yang Zhen also had his own thoughts on the reasons why the Yuan Dynasty failed to conquer the Japanese slave country.

In addition to the many typhoons around the Wonu Kingdom in the summer and autumn, there are several main problems in summary. The first one is the issue of military supplies.

The Yuan army was used to fighting in a furious manner without rear areas. They often relied on massacres and looting to obtain military supplies wherever they fought.

However, this kind of fighting method is not suitable for the Japanese slave country, because the Japanese slave country during the Kamakura shogunate period was very poor from top to bottom and could not grab anything.

Therefore, although the Yuan army successfully landed at Hakata Bay in its first expedition to the Wonu Kingdom, the 40,000-man army could not get enough food and military supplies, and in the end they lost all their arrows.

Secondly, there was the problem of warships. The warships at that time were not only of low quality, but also had poor equipment on board. They were adequate as a means of maritime transportation, but they were far from good when used for beach landings.

Especially when facing a coast where a large army is already stationed and fortifications have been built, no matter how many warships are not equipped with artillery or trebuchets, they will not be able to play much of a role in launching an actual landing operation.

The reason why the second landing operation of the Yuan army was delayed was due to this situation. At that time, the Kamakura shogunate recruited a large number of manpower and built a large number of fortifications on the beach of Hakata Bay to guard against the Yuan army coming to sea.

As a result, the commanders of the Yuan army, Zangdu and Fan Wenhu, still chose Hakata Bay, the place where the Yuan army successfully landed during their first expedition to the Wonu Kingdom, and they were right in the middle of the ambush of the Kamakura shogunate army.

Although they had many ships, more than 4,000 of them, they had neither artillery, nor trebuchets, nor any long-range weapons on the wooden ships. The landing troops had no choice but to brave the fortifications and arrow rain of the Kamakura shogunate army.

"Charge" on the beach.

The results can be imagined.

The third issue is the issue of command. At that time, the Yuan army was divided into two groups, one starting from the Korean Peninsula and following the command of Xingdu, a descendant of the Mongolian Yuan clan, and the other starting from Ningbo in the south of the Yangtze River and following the command of Fan Wenhu, the surrendered general of the Southern Song Dynasty.

The monkeys all came from the Meng Yuan clan and were proficient in bowing, horse riding, and shooting. However, they had never fought in a naval battle and knew almost nothing about the situation at sea.

When he led the 40,000 troops assigned to him, crossed the sea from the southern end of the Koryo Peninsula and marched eastward, attacking Tsushima first, and then Iki, and rushed to the Hakata Bay overseas combat area in early June of that year, Fan Wenhu's 100,000-strong army

Thousands of ships have yet to arrive.

Under normal circumstances, as long as the time is right, Xiangdu, with 40,000 men and nearly a thousand warships, should land decisively without waiting for Fan Wenhu's arrival.

However, seeing that Fan Wenhu's fleet had not yet arrived, Xiangdu led his troops to retreat inexplicably and returned to Iki Island to station themselves.

In this way, in order to wait for Fan Wenhu, the Orang Du not only failed to land first, but also leaked the news of the army's eastern expedition.

After a full month passed, in early July, Fan Wenhu finally led the main force from Ningbo in the south of the Yangtze River to the north, arrived in the Hakata Bay area, and joined forces with the orangutans.

However, at this time, the Kamakura shogunate had already heard the news that the Yuan army was attacking again, and had already mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops to stand ready at Hakata Bay.

It stands to reason that at this time, Xing Du and Fan Wenhu should discuss landing in another place.

After all, although the terrain of Hakata Bay is relatively flat and open, making it easy to land, it is already heavily defended by the Wonu Kingdom, and Aangdu and the others have lost the opportunity to land on the beach.

But the bad thing is that the two groups of people will be incompatible, and the monkeys and Fan Wenhu can't reach an agreement.

So facing the Wonoku army that was already well-positioned in Hakata Bay, the hundreds of thousands of troops were hesitant. They didn't know whether to land as planned or to withdraw first and then make plans.

As a result, for more than a month, warships with more than 100,000 men and horses made small attempts in Hakata Bay again and again. The army could neither land smoothly nor come up with a proper response method, and time was wasted in vain.

Then in August, we encountered a big typhoon, and then nothing happened.

After learning that the Japanese slave country was prepared, Fan Wenhu, who had always advocated withdrawing his troops and considering the long term, was completely heartbroken and simply abandoned the army and fled in a hurry.

As soon as he ran away, the news spread, and the Yuan army, which originally had tens of thousands of people and still had a chance to fight, fell into complete chaos and was completely ruined.

These painful lessons from the Yuan army's crusade against the Japanese slaves hundreds of years ago have been bothering Yang Zhen ever since he made up his mind to conquer the Japanese slaves.

However, with the experience of Kublai Khan's failure in his two campaigns against the Japanese slaves, Yang Zhen naturally would not make the same mistake again.

This time, the reason why he dared to lead his army was because he had made sufficient preparations in all aspects.

On the one hand, Yingzhou Island was captured last year. After a year of immigration and cultivation, it has now become a foothold for the troops led by Yang Zhen. This place can be attacked and defended. It should be regarded as the best place to conquer the Japanese slave country.

The base area.

More than 300,000 acres of land have been cultivated and cultivated on the ground. By August and September, there will be a large amount of output. By then, it will not only be able to feed the immigrant households on the island, but also be enough to provide sufficient food for the army he brought.

supply.

Correspondingly, after the plague raged from last autumn and winter to this spring, both the Hirado clan and other feudal kingdoms on Kyushu Island experienced a sharp decline in population and great loss in strength.

Under the circumstances, the situation faced by Yang Zhen was completely different from the situation faced by Xingdu, Fan Wenhu and others hundreds of years ago.

On the other hand, most of the main warships under Yang Zhen's command are new ships built by Jinzhou Shipyard in the past two years, and these warships are equipped with a large number of Hongyi heavy artillery for long-range attack and close-range attack.

Sky cannons and thunder cannons.

And once the Dutch fleet arrives as scheduled, Yang Zhenjun's firepower will be even stronger after joining the Dutch fleet.

Furthermore, Yang Zhen is different from Xingdu, Fan Wenhu and any of their subordinates.
Chapter completed!