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Text Chapter 855 Zhou Yu goes to Yizhou

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    A few years ago, Lu Bu used his memory of studying modern maps, and based on the actual situation in the third century AD and the diversion and impact of various rivers, he drew a map of East Asia, a world map, a map of the Han Dynasty, and a map of the Han Dynasty offshore map in the third century AD.  The Printing Bureau directly under the Ministry of Industry printed the maps and distributed them to generals at battalion level and above for military purposes.

    Lu Bu knew that his memory was not comprehensive or detailed, so he ordered all levels of the army to draw detailed maps of the garrison and collect and supplement military maps. At the same time, the intelligence organizations controlled by Guo Jia, Jia Xu, and Fa Zheng were obliged to assist in the compilation of military maps.  Surveying and mapping improvement work.

    The attack on Yizhou began three years ago. After Zhou Yu was no longer needed to be in charge of the Yangtze River Navy, Lu Bu transferred Zhou Yu to the East China Sea Navy and made him the commander-in-chief of the East China Sea Navy. He Qi was the deputy commander, and he had  Zhu Huan, Ling Cao and other generals.

    Zhou Yu ordered Zhu Huan to lead five thousand naval forces to station in the Zhoushan Islands. Zhou Yu and He Qi led other naval forces to continue sweeping the coastal islands of Yangzhou, making sure to turn all the coastal islands into Yangzhou's sphere of influence.

    Zhou Yu followed Lu Bu's instructions with the idea of ????fighting steadily, and captured the Jiushan Islands, Yushan Islands, Dongji Islands, and Zhang'an (Taizhou) Islands, and held Zhang'an Bay tightly in the hands of the army.

    Zhou Yu distributed a total of four battalions of troops on various archipelagos outside Zhang'an Bay, allowing them to coordinate with the Zhoushan Islands and control the maritime trade of Zhang'an (Taizhou) and Yuyao (Ningbo).

    Zhou Yu then led his troops to Yongning (Wenzhou) Bay, occupied the Dongtou Islands, controlled the maritime trade of Yongning (Wenzhou), and controlled the Shuangsui and Tianfu Saltworks in Yongning Bay.

    After Zhou Yu occupied Dongtou Island, he made every effort to build Dongtou Port.  Dongtou Island is located outside the mouth of Oujiang River, hundreds of miles east and south of Yongning Bay, covering an area of ??more than 20 square kilometers.  There are nearly a thousand residents on the island, mostly fishermen. Stone adzes and gray pottery shards have been found on the island, proving that humans were active on the island more than 2,000 years ago.  Historically, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Fang Guozhen, the first generation of tyrants to raise the banner of resistance, once used Dongtou as a maritime stronghold, which shook the southeast.

    In the future, fleets coming from the north will use Dongtou Island as their last supply point, and then they can head directly to the fresh water of Yizhou.

    But the Donghai Navy¡¯s route to Yizhou was not that simple.  It is more time-saving to march directly into Tamsui or Keelung, but if you do not establish good relations with the local natives, there will be endless troubles in order to successfully occupy and govern Yizhou.  Zhou Yu's navy had to take some detours.

    Zhou Yu left a battalion of troops on Dongtou Island and continued to attack the coast of Fujian. He successively surrendered to the pirates on the Taishan Islands, Sizhu Islands, Dongyin Island, Matsu Islands, and Baigu Islands. Combined with the previous surrender on the Zhoushan Islands, Zhou Yu  Zhou Yu's Donghai Navy had expanded to 20,000 pirates. After the reorganization, Zhou Yu left a battalion on the islands outside Dongzhi (Fuzhou) Bay to collect tolls from ships traveling to and from Dongzhi.

    Zhou Yu¡¯s Donghai Navy then captured Haitan Island and its nearby islands in the sea off Fuqing.  Haitan Island covers an area of ??more than 260 square kilometers and is the fifth largest island in China. It is 250 miles away from Dongzhi and only 68 nautical miles away from Hsinchu in Yizhou to the east.  It is the closest point on the mainland to Yizhou.

    The coast of Haitan Island is winding and winding, with a coastline of 800 miles, which can be built into a natural harbor.  A large number of pirates were stationed on Haitan Island, just like the pirates on the Zhoushan Islands.  There are thousands of people, but their warships and bows and arrows are very average.  But how could they defeat Zhou Yu's 20,000-strong invincible navy with powerful guns? The bombs fired by the three-way ballistae frightened the pirates and they surrendered one after another. Anyway, this group of demons also claimed to "disarm and not kill, surrender."  There will be rewards, and there will be pay for surrendering." You are not selling your life to anyone, but the pirate leaders refused to surrender, and they all died under the powerful arrows shot by the crossbows.

    Zhou Yu left another brigade of troops to garrison on Haitan Island to reorganize the prisoners on Haitan Island. The method of reorganizing the army was the same as before. The grassroots officers and soldiers who joined the army were selected from the meritorious soldiers of the first division. At the same time, Fei Ge sent a letter to  Lu Bu said that for the sake of greater safety, future fleets coming from the north could use Haitan Island as their final supply point, and then proceed from here to Hsinchu in Yizhou.

    Tamsui and Hsinchu were both marked on the chart by Lu Bu himself. At this time, they were still occupied by the Gaoshan natives on Yizhou Island, and they were called by some unknown names.

    Zhou Yu then led troops to capture Nanri Island outside Xinghua Bay in Putian. Nanri Island was named Nanni Mountain in ancient times because the mountain concealed the sea.  The topography of Nanri Island is in the shape of a "dumbbell", with a total land area of ??50 square kilometers. It is the third largest island in Fujian.

    Zhou Yu left a battalion of troops on Nanri Island and continued southward, and then captured Meizhou Island outside Meizhou Bay. Meizhou Island is located in the northern half of the mouth of Meizhou Bay, Fujian's "Gold Coast". The entire island runs vertically from north to south.  It is long and narrow and shaped like an emei, so it is called Meizhou.  The island has a land area of ??15 square kilometers and a coastline that stretches for 60 miles.  Meizhou Island is only two nautical miles away from the mainland, and only 2 miles away from Yizhou Taichung to the east.10 nautical miles, 100 nautical miles from Xiamen, and 70 nautical miles north to Fuzhou Mawei Port. It is also a critical place, and a battalion of troops has been left here.

    Then there is the coastal end point of this detour to Yizhou, Kinmen Island.

    Kinmen is located on the southeast coast of Fujian, straddling the throat of Xiamen and blocking the Fujian and Guangdong regions. It was called "Wuzhou Island" at this time, covering an area of ??about 130 square kilometers. It was a desert island at this time.  Until the war in the Central Plains during the Western Jin Dynasty, there were six families named Su, Chen, Wu, Cai, Lu, and Yan who moved to Kinmen to avoid the war.  The Tang Dynasty court set up five horse ranches in Quanzhou, Wuzhou was one of them, and Chen Yuan was appointed as the horse herding supervisor. This was the beginning of the establishment of administrative agencies on Kinmen Island.  The twelve surnames Cai, Xu, Weng, Li, Zhang, Huang, Wang, Lu, Liu, Hong, Lin and Xiao followed Chen Yuan to the island for reclamation, so Chen Yuan was revered as the "Benefactor of Kaiwa".  Zhu Yuanzhang, Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, ordered Zhou Dexing, Marquis of Jiangxia, to conduct a military expedition along the coast of Fujian. A total of five and twelve stations were established. The Kinmen Guards Station for Thousand Households was one of the twelve stations. It had jurisdiction over four inspection departments: Fengshang, Guanao, Tianpu and Chenkeng.  Later, the Lieyu Inspection Department was added. Kinmen was named Kinmen because it adhered to the southeastern seaport of Fujian Province, which means "as solid as gold and powerful as the sea gate".  In the first year of Longwu in the Southern Ming Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong landed at Jingtou of Lieyu Lake and enshrined the spiritual throne of Taizu of the Ming Dynasty. He convened the military officials of the Ming Dynasty to inspect Sicheng. From then on, Kinmen was used as a logistics base to launch the Northern Expedition to Nanjing and the Eastern Expedition to Taiwan.  In the 15th year of the Yongli reign of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Zheng's army set off from the Liaoluowan Pier in Kinmen and landed at Luermen in Tainan. In only eleven months, he expelled the Dutch who occupied Taiwan back to China.

    ?? Kinmen is only 18 nautical miles away from Xiamen. Who would have expected that it could be defended by the Kuomintang army for decades. It can be seen that Kinmen is very suitable for being a military fortress.  Zhou Yu stationed two battalions of troops in Kinmen and began to build military fortresses to intercept passing maritime traders and collect tolls.

    Zhou Yu¡¯s navy immediately began to attack the Penghu Islands, which were then called Penghu Islands.

    At this time, a small number of Han people had crossed the strait eastward and went to Penghu to engage in fishing, shellfish harvesting and farming.  Penghu is only about 20 nautical miles away from Yizhou. When the weather is clear, you can see the opposite shore clearly, so these Han people established contact with the indigenous people on Yizhou Island.

    Enticed by the exquisite ceramics, silks, tea leaves, gold and silver jewelry and inspired by their national loyalty, the Han immigrants in Penghu quickly surrendered to the army. They took Zhou Yu's navy to Chiayi (Yizhou did not have a detailed place name at this time)  , according to the names on Lu Bu's hand-drawn drawings), they searched for the Penghu immigrants who had already cultivated the wasteland here, and asked the Penghu people who were already familiar with the indigenous people on Yizhou and understood the language to act as interpreters, and exchanged fine silk and other rare items for the land.

    Although Lu Bu was in Luoyang and had many major military affairs waiting to be dealt with every day, he was still nervously paying attention to the progress of Zhou Yu's navy. Especially after Zhou Yu's troops entered Penghu, he even asked Zhou Yu to fly pigeons to deliver messages once every five days.

    Lu Bu is familiar with the history of the Han people's opening up of Taiwan. From the beginning of the Three Kingdoms to the end of the Ming Dynasty, it lasted more than a thousand years, and there was no success until Zheng Chenggong came out. In Lu Bu's hands, it was more than 1,300 years ahead of schedule.  I don¡¯t know if Zhou Yu can successfully win Taiwan this time.

    Although Taiwan seems to be very close to the mainland on modern maps, due to the underdeveloped navigation technology in ancient times, ships could only sail along the coastline, and the Taiwan Strait is known for its high winds and waves. Therefore, ancient China and Taiwan  The connection with the Gulf and the Philippines is far less than the connection with the Indo-China Peninsula and the Indonesian Islands.  According to historical data, the connection between China and the Indochina Peninsula can be traced back to the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors period. The connection with the Nanyang Islands and the east coast of India has been established at least in the Han Dynasty. However, the introduction of Taiwan, Taiwan and the Philippines has been unclear.  In fact, even during the Western Han Dynasty, the Chinese had not yet gained control in Fujian. After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty conquered Fujian and Yue, he moved the residents of Fujian and Yue to the Jianghuai River, leaving Fujian empty. It was not until the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties that Han immigrants really began to develop Fujian, let alone  Mention Taiwan.

    But ancient Taiwan was not completely disconnected from China.  Taiwan, Ryukyu, and the Japanese islands belong to the same island chain. Due to the backward navigation technology in ancient times, it was too technically difficult to cross the East China Sea from Fujian and Zhejiang to Taiwan. The ancients had to sail along the coastline, passing through Korea and Japan to Ryukyu.  , and then arrive in Taiwan.  Therefore, Taiwan was also regarded as part of Ryukyu in ancient times (Taiwan was called Little Ryukyu in ancient times).

    During the Three Kingdoms era, King Sun Quan of Wu sent generals Wei Wen and Zhuge Zhi to lead 10,000 officers and soldiers to "float the sea to seek Yizhou and Danzhou." After Wei Wen and Zhuge arrived at Yizhou, due to the epidemic of disease and the unaccustomed climate and soil, "the scholars  Tens of people died from the epidemic." He had to lead thousands of Yizhou people back to the mainland.  This is the first time the squadron has arrived in Taiwan.  At the same time, due to this action, it was possible for Shen Ying, the prefect of Danyang, to learn more about the situation in Yizhou through the officers and soldiers who had been to Yizhou and the Yizhou people brought back by the officers and soldiers, and wrote the "Linhai Land Chronicles", leaving behind  The world's earliest account of the situation in Taiwan.

    Although technological advancement has made it possible to sail directly from Yangzhou to Yizhou, the indigenous people on Yizhou Island are fierce and difficult to conquer.  Soochow once tried toThey conquered Yizhou, but they encountered stubborn resistance from the indigenous people and were never able to gain a foothold in Yizhou.

    Subsequently, Sun Quan did not continue to send troops to Yizhou, otherwise China's Age of Discovery might have arrived earlier.

    This time Lu Bu sent Zhou Yu to occupy Yizhou and establish a foothold here, using it as an important supply point for the ocean-going navy. He also used it as a springboard to attack Japan, then used it as a springboard to deal with Luzon, and used it as a springboard to invade Hawaii.
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