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Chapter 197 Entering Ryukyu Island (Part 1)
Chapter 197 Entering Ryukyu Island (first update)
After half a month of preparation, Xiao Qi led the [-] cavalry and [-] infantry troops brought by Qin Tu, together with the original [-] Musketeers and the [-] Vulcan Army, left the island country and headed south under Ma Shoucheng's envious eyes. Go to Ryukyu.
This time Xiao Qi brought two giant building ships, three three-masted warships, more than 100 building ships of about [-] feet, and a dozen large transport ships over [-] feet.
It can be said that this time, except for a small number of large-scale building ships and sea-going ships under fifteen feet, Xiao Qi brought all the large and medium-sized warships of the Song Dynasty Navy to carry out this operation to recover Ryukyu.
Of course, Xiao Qi knew very well that the Ryukyu's combat power at this time was very poor, compared with the combat power of those people on the peninsula.
The reason why Xiao Qi brought all the warships this time was mainly for large-scale fleet drills.
In the future, the Invincible Fleet of the Great Song Dynasty will appear in farther seas. From now on, the Great Song Navy will begin to be familiar with the formation of ocean warfare, as well as the communication with each other on the ocean, and the coordinated operations between the warships.
On the way to the south, Xiao Qi ordered the warships to conduct various formation drills in anticipation of naval battles, and even when the wind and waves were not strong, he divided these warships into two camps for offensive and defensive drills.
Along the way, the officers and soldiers of the Great Song Ocean Navy were really happy and painful.
Happily, I learned many unheard-of naval battle formations from Marshal Xiao. Sadly, I was too tired. In this era, the operation of the ship still relies entirely on manpower.
After each drill, a large number of naval officers and soldiers will be exhausted and paralyzed. After a few days of rest, they will be ordered to carry out the next drill just after recovering.
These navy officers and soldiers can be said to be in pain and happiness.
Although everyone was exhausted all day long, but thinking of what Xiao Qi told them before: You will be the first batch of ocean-going sailors in the Song Dynasty, and from now on you will represent my Song Dynasty and appear in any place in the world where there are oceans. Great Song Junwei!
Thinking of Marshal Xiao's words, this group of navy officers and soldiers went to those barbarian places to declare the prestige of Song Guowei with all their strength!
The Changsheng battalion drilled all the way, stop and go, until they arrived at the northern end of Ryukyu Island a month later.
Xiao Qi did not first order the bombardment or cast iron bomb attack on the port as he did before capturing the enemy's port.
Instead, tell these opponents: This Ryukyu was originally my Han country, but I, the Song Dynasty, did not take care of the management before. Now we are going to take this island back. If the residents on the island do not resist, they are not allowed to kill innocent people indiscriminately.
Then ordered three three-masted battleships and two giant building ships to line up to cover the landing of other building ships carrying soldiers from the Changsheng Battalion.
If the people at the port do not attack the soldiers who landed on the island, they will ignore them. If there is an army attacking the troops who landed on the island from the Changsheng Camp, they will use all their firepower to kill those attackers.
I don't know if it was the people in the port who were stunned by the huge battleships of the Changshengying Navy that covered the sky, or whether they didn't resist seeing the Chinese characters on the flags on these battleships.
The soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion landed very smoothly. When the Changsheng Battalion landed, there were still some local people watching from a distance.
Because these soldiers have long been ordered by the military, and the people on the island are not allowed to harass these people unless they pose a threat to them.
Therefore, the soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion were very friendly to the curious people on the island who appeared around them, and did not scold and drive them away.
As the number of troops landed increased, groups of soldiers began to organize their teams and were taken away by their respective generals and marched towards the predetermined location.
As the number of people who landed reached [-], within [-] miles around the port, it was already firmly in the hands of the team that landed first.
Then Xiao Qi and others also started to land, and then those transport ships began to dock, unloading the trebuchets, artillery and war horses.
As the entire battalion received the supplies from each barracks, they began to spread out to find a suitable place to camp and rest.
The dock side gradually became empty, but more and more island residents came to watch the excitement after hearing the news, although there were already groups of soldiers from the Changsheng Battalion around.
However, these soldiers are very tolerant of those unarmed people who just came to watch the excitement, although most of them can't understand each other.
Seeing that these soldiers were very kind, the common people gradually stopped being afraid, and began to gather together to criticize the soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion.
Xiao Qi had selected a lot of Fujianese soldiers from the army before, and these soldiers were selected to communicate with the residents of the island and appease the people on the island.
Because he knew that a large part of the residents in the western part of Ryukyu had come from the coast of Fujian in the past dynasties.
Some of them drifted to Ryukyu Island due to bad weather while fishing at sea, and some of them migrated with their families. Generally speaking, many immigrants from the west coast of this island are immigrants from Fujian.
Xiao Qi's method quickly worked.
It didn't take long for the soldiers from Fujian to bring over a dozen island residents. According to the soldiers, these people were the second or third generation Fujianese who had just arrived here.
Therefore, they can not only communicate in Hokkien, but also communicate with islanders in the island language.
Xiao Qi was very happy, immediately asked these people to help find some people like them, hired them with a high salary, and assigned a person like this to the officers of each military battalion, so as to facilitate the communication between Changsheng Camp and the residents on the island.
After the army landed, they rested for two days. During these two days, Xiao Qi found more than 100 island residents who could act as translators.
After the army rested for two days, the discomfort of drifting on the ship for a month had almost been eliminated. Xiao Qi ordered the army to start eastward, reach the east coast, and then go south together to quickly occupy the entire territory of Ryukyu.
So except for the navy who stayed at this pier, the rest of the Changsheng Battalion soldiers began to march eastward, occupying the northernmost tip of the entire island.
Although some local forces encountered resistance in the middle, these forces with hundreds of people, at most thousands of people, are not even qualified to give Changsheng camp a bite.
These small forces who jumped out almost died when they were slapped on the ground by Chang Shengying.
This also shocked the common people watching the excitement.
It turned out that this group of soldiers had a very good temper, even if some bare-bottomed kids ran into their team to make trouble, they were all coaxed out with some delicious food.
I thought these people were just well equipped, but in fact, humans and animals are harmless and not strong in combat.
Who knew that each of these people was the reincarnation of killing gods, if you treat them well, they will treat you well, as long as anyone dares to show their fangs to them, sorry, the place where you bared your fangs is destined to be your burial place land.
This group of people is really too fierce, and those bared-toothed Zhan Wuscum didn't even have a chance to regret it, and they were neatly buried in the pit.
As the real combat power of the Changsheng Battalion spread on this island, and Xiao Qi equipped each team with an interpreter to communicate with the local residents, the teams advanced quickly.
It is rare to encounter unsightly local forces and jump out to play with Chang Shengying.
This allowed the Changsheng Battalion to occupy half of the Ryukyu Island in the north in just a dozen days.
As more and more territory was occupied here, Xiao Qi felt that prefectures and counties should be set up here like the Song Dynasty and managed carefully.
It can't be like the peninsula and the four islands in the north. Song Dynasty only sent a Jiedu envoy from the second rank. In fact, it is mainly military management.
This is the land of the Song Dynasty, and it must be governed well. The extensive military control cannot be applied to the people of the Song Dynasty.
For this reason, Xiao Qi also wrote a memorandum to Emperor Zhao Shen, hoping that all the systems of the Great Song Dynasty could be implemented here, especially the requirements for officials at all levels should be the same as those of the Great Song Dynasty, and assessments would be conducted at regular intervals.
Those who are unqualified must be dismissed until convicted, and those who change their careers will come.
As soon as he sent away the memorial for the emperor, Xiao Qi received a battle report from someone sent by Qin Tu, saying that when he was marching south with a large army, he encountered an island army of 10 people.
Qin Tu said that they had defeated their 1-strong vanguard. According to the account of the captured prisoners, the leader was a local witch in her sixties.
This woman did not know how to win over dozens of nearby tribes, claiming that this is not the territory of the Song Dynasty, saying that this is theirs to drive the Song army away, and they want to establish their own country.
Xiao Qi read Qin Tu's letter asking for instructions on how to type, and immediately became angry.
What the hell, there are really people here who dare to act like a monster!
Even a god dancer dared to challenge me to Changshengying, and he didn't admit that this is my territory of Song Dynasty!
Immediately let the sent soldier go back and order Qin Tu: "My Changsheng Battalion gives preferential treatment to the people of our country, and those who do not belong to the people of our country will be driven into the sea, and told to find their own father, and no one is allowed to stay on the island!"
Today is the birthday of the Seventh Party, the [-]th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, a day of national celebration!I wish China more and more prosperity under the leadership of the party.I wish the land of China, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, will stand on the top of the world as soon as possible! ! !
(End of this chapter)