On this day, the three seals of the Japanese army of Xu Hai, Ma Ye, Chen Dong, and Beijo Dao, who were entrenched in the territory of Song Jiang Province, Zhejiang Province, such as Tuolin, Chuan Sha Fort, and Hua Ting, made out the banners of “General of the Heavenly Peaceful Sea”, “Grand Secretary of the Heavenly Peaceful Sea”, and “Grand Governor of the Heavenly Peaceful Sea”, and formed the four major units. The “Great Pillar of the Sea” and the “Great Ming Family Governor of the Sea of Heavenly Peace” were used as flags to roughly integrate the Japanese pirates that came one after another, forming four major groups of Japanese pirates.
After the integration of Xu Hai, a group of Japanese became more and more rampant and attacked Zhapu and Haining counties at the same time on the same day.
At the time when the county towns of Zhapu and Haining were on the verge of collapse, the Japanese pirates suddenly turned their direction to kill Chongde County. Chongde County was unprepared and was taken by surprise by the Japanese, and Chongde County fell.
After burning and looting Chongde County, the Japanese returned to Takurin’s lair, singing and dancing as if they were strolling in their own backyard, pulling horses and oxen, and driving hundreds of wagons.
The people of Songjiang province were in great distress, and many people in the streets and lanes cursed the incompetence of the imperial court for failing to protect its people, and some cursed Zhang Jing, the governor of Jiangnan province, for being an ignorant man who had so many soldiers under his command but did not do anything about it, and watched the Japanese wreak havoc and plunder in Songjiang province.
In Yingtian City, there were many similar voices in the teahouses and restaurants criticising Governor Zhang Jing, and they all felt that Zhang Jing, as the Governor of Jiangnan, had the responsibility and obligation to send troops to eliminate the Japanese invaders in Songjiang Province.
When Zhao Wenhua learnt of the Japanese invaders’ attack on Chongde County, he came straight to Zhang Jing’s residence, and without waiting for a briefing, he barged into Zhang Jing’s office.
“Governor Zhang, the Japanese bandits are so lawless, in broad daylight, openly attacked my Ming county, and even broke through a county, burned, looted and plundered all sorts of evil, the people wailed all over the place. Governor Zhang as the governor of Jiangnan provinces, is responsible for the extermination of Japan’s imperial order, but also please Governor Zhang quickly send troops to eliminate the entrenched in Zhejiang Tuo Lin, Chuansha Fort, Huating and other places of Xu Hai, Ma Ye, Chen Dong, Beijiao Daosan, and other Japanese invaders, to get rid of the harm for the people.”
As soon as he entered the room, Zhao Wenhua bluntly and repeatedly urged Zhang Jing to send troops to exterminate Xu Hai and other Japanese invaders.
Inside the room, Zhang Jing was arranging and deploying the work for the officials of the Ministry of War, when he saw that Zhao Wenhua barged in without informing them, he was already in a bad mood, and now when he saw that Zhao Wenhua was ordering himself to send out the troops, his heart was even more in a bad mood, you are a person who is not as high in the government as me, not as powerful as me, not as good as me, and not as good as me, and you still recognise others as your father, who are qualified to be so bossy and angry with me Zhang Jing?
I want to go out to fight against the Japanese!
I want to, I want to fight those damn Japanese more than anyone else! But I can’t do it now!
How can the soldiers under my command have the ability to fight the Japanese? How can the officers and soldiers have the ability to fight the Japanese? They are lucky to be able to defend their homes.
Yingtian although there are a few Beijing battalion, troop strength and combat effectiveness is not bad, but the main responsibility of the Beijing battalion is to protect the Yingtian city and mausoleum, although their own Jiangnan Governor also has the power to command them, but not to special circumstances, or do not mobilise to guard the Yingtian and mausoleum a few Beijing battalion.
Usually call the capital battalion, at most one-third of the capital battalion, must leave enough troops to protect Yingtian city and the imperial mausoleum. Otherwise, if Yingtian and the Imperial Mausoleum had the slightest slip-up, one’s own sins would surely be unpardonable, and one would not be able to absolve oneself of the blame even if one were to die.
Although in addition to the Beijing battalion, there are some foreign troops transferred to Yingtian, these officers and soldiers can be deployed, but the number of these officers and soldiers is less than 20,000, equipment and combat effectiveness is not as good as the Beijing battalion, in the road, there are generals and leaders of the self-esteem of bravery, take the initiative to lead the troops looking for the Japanese to engage in battle, but a few defeats in a row, the morale of the decline of the serious. In addition, there are also veteran generals who are not very obedient to their commands because they think they are senior and already have a high reputation and a lot of experience.
In such a situation, how can we go out to fight against the Japanese? With today’s troop strength and combat power, they were no match for the Japanese. Defeat would only make the Japanese even more arrogant, disappoint the people, and make the situation even worse.
Therefore, we can’t act rashly, and we have to wait for the arrival of the two Guangdong wolf soldiers, Shandong gun soldiers, and other powerful soldiers before we can send troops to fight against the Japanese.
The wolf soldiers of the two provinces are strong and capable of fighting, their past Governor of the two provinces have merit, loved by the wolf soldiers, commanding the wolf soldiers, such as the arm of the command. After the arrival of the wolf soldiers, after careful deployment, I am confident that I can do it all in one battle.
If you don’t move, you will be successful!
Thus, Zhang Jing impatiently swept a glance at Zhao Wenhua and said coldly, “Now is not the time to send out troops to exterminate the Japanese, Your Excellency Zhao can just sacrifice the sea with all his heart and soul, I have my own arrangements for the extermination of the Japanese, so I don’t need to trouble Your Excellency Zhao.”
Zhao Wenhua’s face was ugly, “Now is not the time to send troops, then when is the time to send troops?”
“This this official has his own arrangements. It will soon be time for the Sea Sacrifice, it would be better for Lord Zhao to focus on the Sea Sacrifice.”
Zhang Jing didn’t bother to pay any more attention to Zhao Wenhua and dismissed him with a very official and perfunctory sentence.
“What arrangements does Governor Zhang have that he cannot speak to this official about? Governor Zhang needs to remember that in addition to being the imperial official who sacrifices the sea, this official is also the imperial official who oversees military affairs, and this official has the right and responsibility to know Governor Zhang’s arrangements for the Japanese suppression.”
Zhao Wenhua’s face went black and he said to Zhang Jing with an angry face, in order to subdue Zhang Jing, Zhao Wenhua brought out Emperor Jiajing.
“Ta-Jen Zhao also said that your Chin’s mission is to inspect military affairs, not to command them.” Zhang Jing said indifferently.
“You ……” Zhao Wenhua was choked and didn’t say anything for a moment, but he was also a veteran in the official world, and quickly found a way to break the situation, saying word by word, “That’s right, my imperial envoy is to inspect the military affairs, not to command them, but inspecting the military affairs, naturally, also includes inspecting how Governor Zhang, as well as the generals, are commanding the military affairs.”
“I still have to inspect the military camps, I don’t have time to play word games with Lord Zhao, Lord Zhao please return.”
Zhang Jing got up and said.
“I’m not playing word games with Governor Zhang, suppressing the Japanese isn’t a game either, today Xu Hai, Ma Ye, Chen Dong and a bunch of other Japanese invaders broke through Chongde, countless people of Chongde have their corpses strewn all over the place and their blood has flowed into the river, the dead people are waiting for us to avenge their deaths and hatred, the living people are waiting for us to destroy the Japanese invaders and bring them safety, and His Holiness is also in the Xiyuan waiting for us to play our triumphant song! Governor Zhang, I only ask one thing today, when will we send troops to fight the Japanese?” Zhao Wenhua blocked in front of Zhang Jing and questioned without budging.
“We will send troops when the time comes!” Zhang Jing was stopped by Zhao Wenhua, his heart was even more unhappy, and he impatiently said.
“When the time comes? Oh, Governor Zhang is afraid of the Japanese invaders, want to wait for the Japanese invaders to plunder enough to escape the opportunity to annihilate the remaining invaders to report the merit of it?”
Zhao Wenhua laughed coldly.
“Fart! I am waiting for the arrival of the wolf soldiers from Guangdong and Guangxi!” Zhang Jing was infuriated by Zhao Wenhua’s words and directly exploded a foul mouth.
