Chapter 2226
Chapter 2226
Chapter 2226
The seven surnames spent a lot of money to send these children to Zhoushan for military training. On the one hand, they wanted to let them master the authentic Haihan military skills, and strive to form a combat-capable armed force in Zhoushan, which can be deployed immediately after returning to Yangzhou; On the other hand, they are also required to move the entire system of Haihan military training back to Yangzhou after they have finished their studies, so that they can form and train private armed forces by themselves in the future.
Therefore, every training that the children of salt merchants have received here will also be copied to the training process of their own militia in the future.In order to ensure that there will be no distortion during the transfer process, they have to complete all the training items honestly now, and experience the various details in person, so that when they train newcomers in the future, they can be as comfortable as the instructors in front of them.
However, with the training standards of the Haihan Army to deal with these pampered salt merchants' children, most of them still have a hard time.But in this way, people with better foundations like Dai Chengrong have more opportunities to perform.When the others were exhausted, Dai Chengrong was still able to complete various instructions given by the instructor.
The children of salt merchants who came to Zhoushan for training all knew that the ultimate goal of this errand was to set up a firearms team, so they would consider the use of firearms in training as a sign of entering the formal training stage.However, after the initial excitement quickly faded, they have discovered that the training with guns only looks majestic, but the intensity has increased too much compared to before.
After the day's training was over, most of the people didn't even have the strength to complain, and when they heard Chen Xiaoyu's order to disband, they all staggered and sat on the ground.However, after being warned in the previous training, they remembered not to throw the guns on the ground, and they still leaned the guns on their shoulders obediently.
Seeing this, Chen Xiaoyu smiled and said, "Just let you walk out of the queue with guns, this is already unbearable? When we went to battle, we had to carry much more than this!"
Someone responded: "Instructor, you said that if someone like us joins the army, will he be kicked out after a few days of training?"
Chen Xiaoyu didn't mean to hit them blindly, he shook his head and said: "As long as there is no serious physical problem, generally speaking, we won't kick people out during recruit training. If the performance is not good enough, then practice more." .What you learned today will be practiced every day for the next two months, and when you practice long enough, it won’t be as empty as it is now.”
When everyone heard that this kind of practice would last for the entire training period, they immediately showed bitter expressions.Most of them have never been so tired since they were born.Thinking that this kind of life will continue for more than two months, it is naturally difficult to be in a good mood.
Even Dai Chengrong, who was more adaptable to this, couldn't help but feel a little bit embarrassed at the moment. He had only heard about the various glorious achievements of the Haihan Army, but he never thought about how much it would cost to train such a strong army.But just like what Chen Xiaoyu said, after practicing for a month or two, after adapting to the intensity of the training, maybe he won't feel how hard it is.
Duan Tiancheng did not stay to encourage these exhausted students, he was notified to go to the staff headquarters immediately for a meeting, and hurried over after the training.
As the chief instructor of this group of people, Duan Tiancheng doesn't need to personally handle everything.He made a training plan, and then handed it over to his subordinate Chen Xiaoyu and others to implement it step by step.However, he still has to watch during the training so that he can make real-time adjustments to the training program according to the progress of the students.
Although Duan Tiancheng is a naval officer, these recruit training items that include basic military skills are actually the same for both the army and the navy, so if he is in charge of the training content for the salt merchants' children, there will be no problem of professional inappropriateness.
It is reported that today's meeting will be presided over by Shi Diwen himself, but there is no news beforehand, which means that there is a relatively important news to be announced in Zhoushan.When Duan Tiancheng arrived, all the participants had already taken their seats, waiting for Shi Diwen to appear.
Next to Duan Tiancheng was Ji Yuanqing from the Military Intelligence Bureau. Seeing the serious expression on his face, he asked, "A meeting was called suddenly, what's the matter?"
Ji Yuanqing obviously knew some inside information, but he refused to disclose it to him at this time, but said vaguely: "It's not about Zhoushan, let's wait for General Shi to talk about it later."
"It's not about Zhoushan?" Duan Tiancheng frowned slightly when he heard the words. Generally speaking, only when an emergency military situation occurs, would Shi Diwen personally order such an emergency meeting.But it didn't happen in Zhoushan, but Shi Diwen paid so much attention to it. So what is the situation?
After a while, a soldier shouted at the door: "General Shi is here!"
Hearing the sound, the officers in the meeting room immediately stood up in unison, raised their heads and chests up, and greeted Shi Diwen with a military salute.
After Shi Diwen entered the room, he also raised his hand in return, and then let everyone sit down.
"This meeting was held temporarily because we got some intelligence information today. I think everyone here needs to be informed." Shi Diwen said in a deep voice: "A foreign merchant ship from Japan came to Zhoushan and brought information about Hirado Clan latest news."
Almost all of these officers here participated in the previous expedition to Hirado, and they immediately pricked up their ears when they heard Shi Diwen's words.
It was a Portuguese merchant ship from Nagasaki Port that sent news to Zhoushan. After departing from Nagasaki Port, the ship made a detour north to Hirado.However, the purpose is not to inquire about the follow-up measures of the Hirado Clan, but the owner of this merchant ship still has some goods stored in Hirado Port. Want to try my luck again.
After going to Hirado, the merchant ship crossed the sea to Zhoushan Port.When the Port Authority learned that the ship was coming from Japan, it immediately notified the military, and then the Military Intelligence Bureau visited the owner of the ship, obtained first-hand information from him, and quickly reported it to Shi Diwen.Shi Diwen believed that this matter must be taken seriously, so he immediately notified relevant people to convene a meeting.
"According to the description of the ship owner, Tian Chuansuke, the lord of the Hirado feudal clan, has returned to the local area and organized personnel to clean up the ruins of the city. However, the reconstruction of Hirado is too big a project, and the local population loss is serious. It is estimated that it will be difficult for them to start for a while. .”
After the news came out of Shi Diwen's mouth, there was a sigh in the conference room.
After the allied forces captured Hirado Island, the Fujian Navy Fleet led by Xu Yuzhuo defeated the main force of the Hirado Navy at Kaya Bay to the east of Hirado Island. Father and son, but the coalition forces had difficulty staying in Hirado for a long time due to supply problems, and worried that the Hizen Diet would mobilize forces to launch a counterattack, so they voluntarily withdrew from the area.
Regarding the life and death of Tagawasuke, the lord of the Hirado domain, because there was no way to verify whether he had died in the Battle of Kayawan, the coalition command only listed him as a missing target.However, many people hope that Tian Chuansuke can die silently, so as to eliminate this hidden danger hidden in the direction of Japan.
But things backfired. Tian Chuansuke's fate seemed to be quite tough. Two months after Haihan withdrew his troops and returned to the camp, he appeared again. This is indeed a pity for Haihan's officers.
Shi Diwen tapped on the table lightly to signal everyone to stop, and then continued: "This is indeed disappointing news. For us, the survival of Tian Chuanjie, or the Tian Chuan family, means hidden dangers. It still exists, even if it can no longer threaten our security, but in the long run, these hidden dangers still need to be eliminated."
Shi Diwen paused at this point, looked at the people in the room and said: "Considering various factors, we should not launch another expedition of the same scale in the short term, so I hope to hear your opinions. How to handle this."
The last time the Eastern Expedition Hirado searched for a large amount of property and people after the war, they basically earned back all the military expenses spent during the operation, and the accounts calculated by the East China Sea Fleet afterwards even made a small profit.But if Hirado is attacked again, the prosperous area of the local area is already in ruins, and there are no areas on the island where a large number of people live can be looted. The cross-sea expedition will definitely lose money. Will not take the initiative to raise troops again.
However, among Haihan's ruled areas on the coastline of the East Asian continent, the closest to Hirado is Zhoushan Dinghai Port, and it is also the most likely target of retaliation by the other party in the future. Shi Diwen has to guard against this.So he also needs to listen to the opinions of his subordinates to see if he should continue to take military measures against Hirado.
"General, I have a question. Since Hirado has been destroyed by us, and the main force of the Hirado Domain Army and Armed Fleet has also been wiped out, it can be said that the Tagawa family has completely lost power, and Tagawasuke's superior methods are tricky, and the name is not right. If the words don’t go well, then why didn’t other clans in Feiqian Kingdom take this opportunity to replace them?”
Duan Tiancheng's mind turned quickly, and he was the first to ask the question.Tagawasuke's rise to the top position was due to the inexplicable massacre of the original feudal lord, the Matsuura family. In Haihan's view, this was most likely a good show directed and performed by Tagawasuke himself, in order to seize power and rise to power.
Although the Hizen Kingdom to which the Hirado Clan belonged did not raise any objections to this, there must have been many people staring at the fat of Hirado, but it was only because of the fact that Tagawasuke's army was equipped with a large number of guns and artillery, and Heira, who was known as the number one in Kyushu, The Hushui army is not easy to openly seize power.However, the coalition forces organized by Hai Han almost wiped out all of Tian Chuansuke's armed forces. Under such circumstances, no one took action against him, which made Duan Tiancheng a little surprised.
Shi Diwen responded: "We have too little information about the power structure within the Hizen Kingdom, and it is difficult to confirm whether other clans intend to replace Tagawasuke. But I think it is still possible for Tagawasuke to continue to maintain his position. There is a reason worthy of our attention, that is, his subordinates may still have the production technology of guns and artillery. If he is willing to exchange this, it is also very likely to get support from the Hizen country.”
During the battle on Hirado Island, the coalition forces only destroyed a cannon casting workshop on Hirado Island, but did not find the Hirado Clan's gun production workshop.According to the information obtained from the interrogation of the captives later, Hirado’s musket workshop was set up in its territory on the island of Kyushu, a secret place deep inland. He has almost never set foot on Kyushu Island, so naturally he can't destroy the musket workshop of the Hirado Domain.
It is not known how many weapons the Hirado Domain still has in stock, but it is conceivable that they may still be able to organize new armed forces after the war.However, if other powers of the Hizen Kingdom want to replace the Tagawa clan to rule the Hirado Domain, they will probably still be afraid of the armed forces under their hands.
At that moment, someone asked again: "Is it possible for Tian Chuansuke to use this special resource to achieve a quick turnaround?"
Shi Diwen responded: "The past prosperity of the Hirado clan was not because they owned guns and artillery, but because of their special trade status in Japan. Now they have lost their main source of income, whether it is manufacturing weapons or recruiting manpower to rebuild the army. Both require a lot of money, and I think it is unlikely that they will return to their pre-war level of armed forces in a short period of time."
Another question was asked: "Does the Portuguese businessman have anything else to gain in Hirado? For example, whether the local foreign trade activities will be restarted, so that we can arrange our own people to go to inquire about information."
Shi Diwen responded: "As I said earlier, the rebuilding of Hirado Port is a huge project, and the entire city has been burned to ruins by us, so it will be very difficult for them to restart trade activities in the near future. But you It also makes sense, we can find a few merchant ships that have been traveling to Hirado for many years, and arrange our people to go there to find out more detailed information."
After occupying the area, the Haihan army made a detailed registration of the local Han merchants.And the vast majority of them chose to withdraw to Daming under the "escort" of the Haihan Army, and many of them withdrew to Zhoushan Island with the East China Sea Fleet.These businessmen have personally experienced that battle and know the strength of the Haihan Army. If the military comes forward to ask these businessmen to cooperate in the intelligence field, I believe no one will dare to refuse.
However, considering the distance between the two places, it is difficult to guarantee the timeliness of the information obtained. For example, the information brought to Zhoushan by a Portuguese businessman this time is about ten days ago, and it can only be used as a countermeasure. A reference, if it is used as a basis to formulate combat operations, then the reliability will be far worse.
Ji Yuanqing, as the leader of the local military intelligence department, responded with great interest at the moment: "I will take the order from the humble post, and I will find someone to arrange it later, and send a boat to Hirado as soon as possible to find out."
(End of this chapter)
The seven surnames spent a lot of money to send these children to Zhoushan for military training. On the one hand, they wanted to let them master the authentic Haihan military skills, and strive to form a combat-capable armed force in Zhoushan, which can be deployed immediately after returning to Yangzhou; On the other hand, they are also required to move the entire system of Haihan military training back to Yangzhou after they have finished their studies, so that they can form and train private armed forces by themselves in the future.
Therefore, every training that the children of salt merchants have received here will also be copied to the training process of their own militia in the future.In order to ensure that there will be no distortion during the transfer process, they have to complete all the training items honestly now, and experience the various details in person, so that when they train newcomers in the future, they can be as comfortable as the instructors in front of them.
However, with the training standards of the Haihan Army to deal with these pampered salt merchants' children, most of them still have a hard time.But in this way, people with better foundations like Dai Chengrong have more opportunities to perform.When the others were exhausted, Dai Chengrong was still able to complete various instructions given by the instructor.
The children of salt merchants who came to Zhoushan for training all knew that the ultimate goal of this errand was to set up a firearms team, so they would consider the use of firearms in training as a sign of entering the formal training stage.However, after the initial excitement quickly faded, they have discovered that the training with guns only looks majestic, but the intensity has increased too much compared to before.
After the day's training was over, most of the people didn't even have the strength to complain, and when they heard Chen Xiaoyu's order to disband, they all staggered and sat on the ground.However, after being warned in the previous training, they remembered not to throw the guns on the ground, and they still leaned the guns on their shoulders obediently.
Seeing this, Chen Xiaoyu smiled and said, "Just let you walk out of the queue with guns, this is already unbearable? When we went to battle, we had to carry much more than this!"
Someone responded: "Instructor, you said that if someone like us joins the army, will he be kicked out after a few days of training?"
Chen Xiaoyu didn't mean to hit them blindly, he shook his head and said: "As long as there is no serious physical problem, generally speaking, we won't kick people out during recruit training. If the performance is not good enough, then practice more." .What you learned today will be practiced every day for the next two months, and when you practice long enough, it won’t be as empty as it is now.”
When everyone heard that this kind of practice would last for the entire training period, they immediately showed bitter expressions.Most of them have never been so tired since they were born.Thinking that this kind of life will continue for more than two months, it is naturally difficult to be in a good mood.
Even Dai Chengrong, who was more adaptable to this, couldn't help but feel a little bit embarrassed at the moment. He had only heard about the various glorious achievements of the Haihan Army, but he never thought about how much it would cost to train such a strong army.But just like what Chen Xiaoyu said, after practicing for a month or two, after adapting to the intensity of the training, maybe he won't feel how hard it is.
Duan Tiancheng did not stay to encourage these exhausted students, he was notified to go to the staff headquarters immediately for a meeting, and hurried over after the training.
As the chief instructor of this group of people, Duan Tiancheng doesn't need to personally handle everything.He made a training plan, and then handed it over to his subordinate Chen Xiaoyu and others to implement it step by step.However, he still has to watch during the training so that he can make real-time adjustments to the training program according to the progress of the students.
Although Duan Tiancheng is a naval officer, these recruit training items that include basic military skills are actually the same for both the army and the navy, so if he is in charge of the training content for the salt merchants' children, there will be no problem of professional inappropriateness.
It is reported that today's meeting will be presided over by Shi Diwen himself, but there is no news beforehand, which means that there is a relatively important news to be announced in Zhoushan.When Duan Tiancheng arrived, all the participants had already taken their seats, waiting for Shi Diwen to appear.
Next to Duan Tiancheng was Ji Yuanqing from the Military Intelligence Bureau. Seeing the serious expression on his face, he asked, "A meeting was called suddenly, what's the matter?"
Ji Yuanqing obviously knew some inside information, but he refused to disclose it to him at this time, but said vaguely: "It's not about Zhoushan, let's wait for General Shi to talk about it later."
"It's not about Zhoushan?" Duan Tiancheng frowned slightly when he heard the words. Generally speaking, only when an emergency military situation occurs, would Shi Diwen personally order such an emergency meeting.But it didn't happen in Zhoushan, but Shi Diwen paid so much attention to it. So what is the situation?
After a while, a soldier shouted at the door: "General Shi is here!"
Hearing the sound, the officers in the meeting room immediately stood up in unison, raised their heads and chests up, and greeted Shi Diwen with a military salute.
After Shi Diwen entered the room, he also raised his hand in return, and then let everyone sit down.
"This meeting was held temporarily because we got some intelligence information today. I think everyone here needs to be informed." Shi Diwen said in a deep voice: "A foreign merchant ship from Japan came to Zhoushan and brought information about Hirado Clan latest news."
Almost all of these officers here participated in the previous expedition to Hirado, and they immediately pricked up their ears when they heard Shi Diwen's words.
It was a Portuguese merchant ship from Nagasaki Port that sent news to Zhoushan. After departing from Nagasaki Port, the ship made a detour north to Hirado.However, the purpose is not to inquire about the follow-up measures of the Hirado Clan, but the owner of this merchant ship still has some goods stored in Hirado Port. Want to try my luck again.
After going to Hirado, the merchant ship crossed the sea to Zhoushan Port.When the Port Authority learned that the ship was coming from Japan, it immediately notified the military, and then the Military Intelligence Bureau visited the owner of the ship, obtained first-hand information from him, and quickly reported it to Shi Diwen.Shi Diwen believed that this matter must be taken seriously, so he immediately notified relevant people to convene a meeting.
"According to the description of the ship owner, Tian Chuansuke, the lord of the Hirado feudal clan, has returned to the local area and organized personnel to clean up the ruins of the city. However, the reconstruction of Hirado is too big a project, and the local population loss is serious. It is estimated that it will be difficult for them to start for a while. .”
After the news came out of Shi Diwen's mouth, there was a sigh in the conference room.
After the allied forces captured Hirado Island, the Fujian Navy Fleet led by Xu Yuzhuo defeated the main force of the Hirado Navy at Kaya Bay to the east of Hirado Island. Father and son, but the coalition forces had difficulty staying in Hirado for a long time due to supply problems, and worried that the Hizen Diet would mobilize forces to launch a counterattack, so they voluntarily withdrew from the area.
Regarding the life and death of Tagawasuke, the lord of the Hirado domain, because there was no way to verify whether he had died in the Battle of Kayawan, the coalition command only listed him as a missing target.However, many people hope that Tian Chuansuke can die silently, so as to eliminate this hidden danger hidden in the direction of Japan.
But things backfired. Tian Chuansuke's fate seemed to be quite tough. Two months after Haihan withdrew his troops and returned to the camp, he appeared again. This is indeed a pity for Haihan's officers.
Shi Diwen tapped on the table lightly to signal everyone to stop, and then continued: "This is indeed disappointing news. For us, the survival of Tian Chuanjie, or the Tian Chuan family, means hidden dangers. It still exists, even if it can no longer threaten our security, but in the long run, these hidden dangers still need to be eliminated."
Shi Diwen paused at this point, looked at the people in the room and said: "Considering various factors, we should not launch another expedition of the same scale in the short term, so I hope to hear your opinions. How to handle this."
The last time the Eastern Expedition Hirado searched for a large amount of property and people after the war, they basically earned back all the military expenses spent during the operation, and the accounts calculated by the East China Sea Fleet afterwards even made a small profit.But if Hirado is attacked again, the prosperous area of the local area is already in ruins, and there are no areas on the island where a large number of people live can be looted. The cross-sea expedition will definitely lose money. Will not take the initiative to raise troops again.
However, among Haihan's ruled areas on the coastline of the East Asian continent, the closest to Hirado is Zhoushan Dinghai Port, and it is also the most likely target of retaliation by the other party in the future. Shi Diwen has to guard against this.So he also needs to listen to the opinions of his subordinates to see if he should continue to take military measures against Hirado.
"General, I have a question. Since Hirado has been destroyed by us, and the main force of the Hirado Domain Army and Armed Fleet has also been wiped out, it can be said that the Tagawa family has completely lost power, and Tagawasuke's superior methods are tricky, and the name is not right. If the words don’t go well, then why didn’t other clans in Feiqian Kingdom take this opportunity to replace them?”
Duan Tiancheng's mind turned quickly, and he was the first to ask the question.Tagawasuke's rise to the top position was due to the inexplicable massacre of the original feudal lord, the Matsuura family. In Haihan's view, this was most likely a good show directed and performed by Tagawasuke himself, in order to seize power and rise to power.
Although the Hizen Kingdom to which the Hirado Clan belonged did not raise any objections to this, there must have been many people staring at the fat of Hirado, but it was only because of the fact that Tagawasuke's army was equipped with a large number of guns and artillery, and Heira, who was known as the number one in Kyushu, The Hushui army is not easy to openly seize power.However, the coalition forces organized by Hai Han almost wiped out all of Tian Chuansuke's armed forces. Under such circumstances, no one took action against him, which made Duan Tiancheng a little surprised.
Shi Diwen responded: "We have too little information about the power structure within the Hizen Kingdom, and it is difficult to confirm whether other clans intend to replace Tagawasuke. But I think it is still possible for Tagawasuke to continue to maintain his position. There is a reason worthy of our attention, that is, his subordinates may still have the production technology of guns and artillery. If he is willing to exchange this, it is also very likely to get support from the Hizen country.”
During the battle on Hirado Island, the coalition forces only destroyed a cannon casting workshop on Hirado Island, but did not find the Hirado Clan's gun production workshop.According to the information obtained from the interrogation of the captives later, Hirado’s musket workshop was set up in its territory on the island of Kyushu, a secret place deep inland. He has almost never set foot on Kyushu Island, so naturally he can't destroy the musket workshop of the Hirado Domain.
It is not known how many weapons the Hirado Domain still has in stock, but it is conceivable that they may still be able to organize new armed forces after the war.However, if other powers of the Hizen Kingdom want to replace the Tagawa clan to rule the Hirado Domain, they will probably still be afraid of the armed forces under their hands.
At that moment, someone asked again: "Is it possible for Tian Chuansuke to use this special resource to achieve a quick turnaround?"
Shi Diwen responded: "The past prosperity of the Hirado clan was not because they owned guns and artillery, but because of their special trade status in Japan. Now they have lost their main source of income, whether it is manufacturing weapons or recruiting manpower to rebuild the army. Both require a lot of money, and I think it is unlikely that they will return to their pre-war level of armed forces in a short period of time."
Another question was asked: "Does the Portuguese businessman have anything else to gain in Hirado? For example, whether the local foreign trade activities will be restarted, so that we can arrange our own people to go to inquire about information."
Shi Diwen responded: "As I said earlier, the rebuilding of Hirado Port is a huge project, and the entire city has been burned to ruins by us, so it will be very difficult for them to restart trade activities in the near future. But you It also makes sense, we can find a few merchant ships that have been traveling to Hirado for many years, and arrange our people to go there to find out more detailed information."
After occupying the area, the Haihan army made a detailed registration of the local Han merchants.And the vast majority of them chose to withdraw to Daming under the "escort" of the Haihan Army, and many of them withdrew to Zhoushan Island with the East China Sea Fleet.These businessmen have personally experienced that battle and know the strength of the Haihan Army. If the military comes forward to ask these businessmen to cooperate in the intelligence field, I believe no one will dare to refuse.
However, considering the distance between the two places, it is difficult to guarantee the timeliness of the information obtained. For example, the information brought to Zhoushan by a Portuguese businessman this time is about ten days ago, and it can only be used as a countermeasure. A reference, if it is used as a basis to formulate combat operations, then the reliability will be far worse.
Ji Yuanqing, as the leader of the local military intelligence department, responded with great interest at the moment: "I will take the order from the humble post, and I will find someone to arrange it later, and send a boat to Hirado as soon as possible to find out."
(End of this chapter)