Yang Cong heard that Yan Song could get away with it, and he was speechless. However, he had no time to continue fighting with Yan Song at this moment, because he had to quickly solve the problems of pirates and Japanese pirates. Otherwise, not only the people on the southeast coast would not be at peace, but Jiajing and Yan Song would also make him uneasy.

He had already learned about the pirates and Japanese pirates in detail with Wang Zhi. He really didn't know if he asked. He was shocked when asked because the components of these pirates and Japanese pirates were too complicated, and even Wang Zhi could not count them all.

For example, pirates, the pirates rampant on the southeast coast this time were not all maritime merchants engaged in maritime trade in Japan and South Ocean. Some of them were subordinates of the scattered maritime merchants, some were civilians who lost their livelihoods in the southeast coast, and even real pirates were mixed together. Even Wang Zhi couldn't figure out how many "pirates" were involved in the robbery of the southeast coast this time.

This is also one of the main reasons why Wang Zhi couldn't move them, because these people had no unified subordinate relationship, which was beneficial, and everyone could still shout, but there was no benefit, and they wouldn't care about you at all.

For example, the Japanese pirates still have nominal leaders. Their leader is the daimyo Takanobu Matsuura from the Hirado clan of the Hirado clan of Japan. However, some Japanese pirates cannot even control them.

At this time, Japan had more than one country, and more than one vassal. At this time, Japan had more than 60 countries, including two or three hundred vassals. Takanobu Matsuura was just a daimyo name of the vassal state of the country.

The reason why Japanese pirates respected Takanobu Matsuura as the nominal leader was mainly because the Matsuura family organized samurai to rob the southeast coast and the coast of Korea since the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, they used the banner to retaliate against the Yuan Dynasty's invasion, so it was very popular with everyone.

Although the plundering nature has completely changed from resisting invasion to piracy, all the wandering samurai and Japanese civilians still habitually gathered in the Hirado clan, and then went to the coast of Korea and the southeastern coast of the Ming Dynasty to plunder. Therefore, the head of the Matsuura family has always been the nominal leader of the Japanese pirates, and North Korea has always called the Japanese pirates "Three Islands Japanese pirates". The so-called Three Islands refer to the territory of the Matsuura family, Hirado Island, Iki Island and Tsushima Island.

In fact, the Japanese pirates at this moment are no longer the samurai of the Matsuura family. The Japanese pirates have a complex composition, which is far superior to pirates.

Among the Japanese pirates, there were Japanese civilians who lost their land due to war, and there were also wandering warriors who lost their livelihoods due to the defeat of the head of the family. There were even Ming thieves who shaved their heads and tied their hair for the convenience of robbery and pretended to be Japanese pirates.

When these people participated in the robbery, they rushed up, as if they were in a group, but after the robbery, they scattered and hid everywhere, and they didn't know how troublesome it would be to catch them.

Yang Cong is already overwhelmed now. How can he clear out these pirates and Japanese pirates like scattered sand?

He originally thought that as long as he recruited Wang Zhi, he could easily find the nests of pirates and Japanese pirates, and then trained the navy to clear them one by one. Now it seems that this idea is a bit too naive, because these pirates and Japanese pirates are just a mess and basically have no fixed nests.

Of course, it is not entirely true that they have no nest. The Hirado family of Japan can be said to be the nest of pirates and Japanese pirates.

However, it is unrealistic to take down the Hirado family at this time. Although Japan has divided into more than 60 countries of all sizes, they are still relatively united once they face powerful enemies. They are as powerful as the Yuan Dynasty. I don’t know how many times it has covered the sea and failed to take it down.

If the small countries of Japan are united, their strength will be terrifying. For example, during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Toyotomi Hideyoshi of Japan gathered troops from Japan and organized more than 300,000 troops to attack North Korea, in an attempt to use North Korea as a springboard to invade the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty took a lot of effort to drive it away. At this time, the Ming Dynasty was far behind the Ming Dynasty after the Wanli Revival. It was easy to go to war with Japan, and the hope of winning was slim.

Based on these situations, he could only choose to slowly plan, first stabilize the coastal defense and ensure that the southeast coast is not attacked by pirates and Japanese pirates, and then build warships to slowly encircle them on the sea to clean up the pirates and Japanese pirates.

Originally, this was just a delaying plan for him to fool Jiajing, but he didn't expect that he had to choose this protracted strategy at this moment. Fortunately, he didn't brag in front of Jiajing and set a deadline, otherwise he wouldn't have ended.

This strategy is not difficult to implement, it only takes a long time. Of course, long time is used to consume a lot of food and money. The consumption of tens of thousands of troops in a year is not a small amount. Ordinary people can't mobilize so many troops to ensure the safety of the coast when they are the governor.

At this moment, he had gathered 50,000 Tunwei in Nanzhili. If the troops under Lu Tong and Liu Xian were added to be 60,000, then how many pirates and Japanese pirates were combined? He actually had to gather so many troops to deal with it.

In terms of number alone, pirates and Japanese pirates are quite terrifying. Wang Zhi alone has nearly 10,000 people. The sea merchants or pirate leaders who are similar to Wang Zhi include Xu Weixue, Ye Zongman, Xie He, Fang Tingzhu, etc., as well as the more famous pirates Lu Qi, Shen Jiu, Chen Sipan, Li Bulou, etc. The total number of these people alone is no less than 60,000, and there are other pirates and Japanese pirates, with at least more than 100,000.

However, in terms of combat effectiveness, most of these pirates and Japanese pirates are just equivalent to ordinary pirates. If you only need to practice the pirates and guards well, it will be fine, not to mention one against ten, one against three, or even one against five.

Therefore, the most important issue at this moment is to practice, combine weapons and formations to train the gathered guards, and then quickly disperse them to all parts of the coast to protect the country and the people.

So, how should the training guards or new recruits start?

Anyone who has read a little about military tactics knows this. Training new recruits is the main factor in forming a corps.

This corps includes the appointment and removal of generals at all levels in the army, as well as the grassroots structure of the army. Generally, the conventional method of corps is five people and one corps, which is the most basic structure, and the name of corps is therefore derived.

However, this time, Yang Cong did not use five people and one team as the grassroots structure according to the traditional method. He chose a team of twelve people as the grassroots structure. As for the reason, it is very simple, because this is how the mandarin duck formation of the Qi family army was organized.

The Yuanyang Formation is the best formation to deal with pirates and Japanese pirates who mainly use short weapons. This has been proven by history, so he naturally chose to apply this most applicable formation.
Chapter completed!