Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

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"Your Majesty, the minister has made a decision!"

When Tokugawa Tsunayoshi said these words, the emperor who was sitting upright behind the gauze curtain knew that the performance was over, and now it was time to talk about something serious.

"May I ask what the general has decided?"

It was Guan Baiyi Dongjing who asked the question.

Tokugawa Tsunayoshi said: "Your Majesty, I have decided to personally conquer Kyushu to strip Hakata Bay and fight the Ming invaders to the death!" Tokugawa Tsunayoshi said, "This campaign is related to the rise and fall of the empire and the future of your majesty, so please Your Majesty prays to God Amaterasu, and asks her to send down the kamikaze again to assist the ministers in the decisive victory!"

"Okay, I will definitely pray to Amaterasu." Of course, the emperor dared not say "no" to Tokugawa Tsunakichi—he is the real emperor, and it has been decided. Rebellious?

Of course, he, the "Emperor of Actors", probably won't be able to invite Kamikaze... He asks Amaterasu for a raise every year, but it doesn't help at all.

He can't even ask for a few thousand catties of rice, so how can he still hope for kamikaze?

So he asked, "General, if I can't get Kamikaze, what should I do?"

"Then..." Tokugawa Tsunakichi's tone sank, and he stopped halfway through his words, but the emperor was so nervous that he was afraid that the general would say "then apologize by harakiri"!

"That means Amaterasu also thinks..." Tsunayoshi Tokugawa considered his choice of words, "I also think that Japan should give way temporarily to wait for the time."

"Concession means..." The emperor continued to be nervous.

"Concession is..." Tokugawa Tsunayoshi said, "It is to choose conditional surrender after inflicting certain damage on Ming Kou."

"Surrender?" The Emperor's heart was in his throat, "That is to say... Japan no longer needs the Emperor?"

"Hay," Tokugawa Tsunakichi gave an affirmative answer, "If Japan surrenders to Ming Dynasty, it will not be an imperial country, but a kingdom."

"The king..."

Emperor Shiren's forehead is covered with sweat!

Hurry up!

Because Japan has a king!As early as the Muromachi shogunate era, General Ashikaga accepted the Japanese king conferred by the Ming Dynasty.

Since the era of Tokugawa Hidetada, General Tokugawa has also begun to use the name of the king of Japan for diplomatic activities.

After all, the emperor is just an actor... You can't let an actor engage in diplomacy!

So Emperor Shiren is now very worried about his [-] taels of rice.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty," Tokugawa Tsunakichi said with a smile, "If Japan becomes a kingdom, His Majesty will assume the post of king, and the king's salary will also be [-] taels of rice. The shogunate will continue to assist His Majesty in governing Japan."

Tokugawa Tsunayoshi is quite a friend, and he didn't want to kill the Emperor of Japan and then become the king of Japan himself, but he still wanted to continue to maintain the vassal system, be the general himself, and let Shiren play the king of Japan.

I believe that since he can play the emperor well, he should be able to play the king as well.

The emperor breathed a sigh of relief, and felt a little grateful... This general is really good, and he didn't forget him when he was going to be a dog. This is like a dog.

It's just that this salary is still a little less, it's not enough to spend at all!

It seems that it is better to get the whole country!Emperor Shiren has made up his mind...he can't just be a "drama king" forever, he wants to be a real king, even if he is a dog, he also wants to be the king of dogs!

"That would be great," the Emperor said to the general in a grateful tone, "then I wish you long luck in martial arts, and you will be victorious!"

Hearing the emperor's words, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi was also relieved... It seems that the emperor has no dissatisfaction with the Tokugawa shogunate, and he can leave Kyoto to start the Western Expedition with peace of mind.

Chapter 680 It is agreed, fight together, be a dog together!

At the end of June in the eighth year of Yanbao, Japan, Kyushu, Fukuoka Castle.

The originally prosperous castle town in the north of Fukuoka City no longer exists!

According to the order of Kuroda Mitsuyuki, the feudal lord of Fukuoka, the entire castle town was razed to the ground...including the historic temples and Tang houses, all were demolished.

And the reason why Kuroda Mitsuyuki issued such an order was of course to resist Ming!

The Emperor Daming on the other side of the Korean Strait seems to want to fight a war of gentlemen this time... In April, he sent someone to inform the feudal lord of the Fukuoka Domain, Mitsuyuki Kuroda, that the Ming Emperor's soldiers were going to fight against Wang Hua at the door of his house The Japanese devils fought a big battle, and asked him to quickly dismantle all the odds and ends at the door of the house, so as to clear a piece of land for the battlefield.

Although Kuroten Kozhi was reluctant to part with the prosperity of Hakata Town, in order to fight against Ming invaders and serve the Emperor, he had no choice but to grit his teeth and demolish the house.

It won't work if it doesn't need to be demolished. Fukuoka Castle, his home city, is too close to the coast, only about one and a half miles away.

Almost as soon as you leave the city, there are bustling cities and towns. If you don't clean them up, those miscellaneous buildings can easily be used by the Ming army who landed and become a fortress for artillery.

Although Kuroda Mitsuyuki was a closed-door Japanese feudal lord, his Fukuoka clan was very close to Nagasaki Port and across the sea from North Korea.So he is very aware of what kind of firepower Xin Da Ming's army has?

Although the Fukuoka Castle he owns is solid, under the bombardment of the powerful artillery and rocket launchers of the Ming army, it is only a matter of time before the city is destroyed!

So after learning the news that the Ming army was about to invade the invaders, Kuroda stepped up his defense and training of the vassal army on the one hand, and on the other hand sent people to Kyoto to ask for help from General Tokugawa who was in Kyoto.

And this time the Tokugawa family's response was also very timely, and soon issued orders to the feudal clans in Kyushu, China (referring to the west of Honshu Island), Shikoku and other places to "send troops to Hakata Bay", and announced the general's personal conquest, and also Fukuoka Castle was designated as a temporary residence for the shogun commanding the Battle of Hakata.

As a foreign daimyo, Kuroda Mitsuyuki was even reused by the general, and was regarded as the post of the battle-before the arrival of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi himself, he had full command of the coalition forces of the various feudal clans gathered in Hakata Bay.

So during this period of time, a large number of military camps appeared on the fields south of the Oka clan, including Satsuma Shimadzu, Changzhou Maori, Saga Nabeshima, Kumamoto Hosokawa, Hiroshima Asano, Tottori Ikeda, Tosa Yamauchi, Tokushima The troops from the Southwest Foreign Powers, such as Hachisuka, Uwajima Date, etc., have all arrived... The camps have also been built day and night, and the flags of each family's crest are printed on each side. Flying in the sea breeze of Hakata Bay.

As the seventh day of the seventh lunar month approaches, the atmosphere in Hakata Bay is becoming more and more dignified. The feudal lords or generations of feudal lords who have come to the Fukuoka feudal domain are invited by Kuroda Hikyuki every day. Go to Fukuoka Castle for a meeting to discuss countermeasures—although Daming’s Heavenly Soldiers haven’t arrived yet, all kinds of bad news have come from Nagasaki and the other side of the sea these days!

The first bad news came from Nagasaki. The merchant ships and shops of the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, England and other countries that had been saying that they would support Japan’s resistance to the Ming Dynasty are now withdrawing...and they haven’t withdrawn very far. , all evacuated to Shanghai.

What the hell does this mean?Who are these foreign devils supporting?

The second bad news is also related to those foreign devils who are oiling their feet... The flintlock guns and gunpowder they promised to support are basically not in place, unless the feudal lords who want to get flintlock guns and gunpowder give enough money!

Not even willing to give gunpowder, these foreign devils are willing to send reinforcements to help?

It's unreliable to think about it!

The third bad news is that there is actually no news-the family of the lord of Tsushima has not contacted Fukuoka for almost a month.

And there is no news from the entire Tsushima Island!None of the ships that Kuroda Hikaru sent out to make contact with them returned.

This shows that most of Tsushima Island in the Korean Strait has been captured by the Ming army, and it will be used as a springboard for the Ming army to land in Hakata Bay.

It seems that what Emperor Ming said about landing in Boduo Bay on the seventh day of July was not a bluff!

Most of the war will come as scheduled!

However, the main force of the army led by Tokugawa Tsunayoshi has not been in place for a long time. At present, it is still in the territory of Changzhou Fan, and has not crossed the sea to enter Kyushu Island... What does he mean by this?Want to imitate his grandfather Tokugawa Hidetada and be late for a joint battle?

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"We shouldn't trust those Nanmans from the very beginning... The only thing we can rely on is ourselves!

Now that the enemy is at hand, those of us must unite! "

In Honmarunouchi of Fukuoka Castle, the one who "slapped the ground" is a middle-aged man with a full beard, but not well groomed, and looks a little bit down.It was the one who wanted to end the curtain, but had no courage to carry it out, so he had to yell out the curtain with his subordinates during the New Year and holidays. The lord of the Changzhou Domain, Mori Tsunahiro, who had been hidden from his mouth.

Hearing his words, Kuroda Mitsuyuki couldn't help frowning.

Who said that when people come together, they must be united?The same is the foreign feudal lord, he also has some good and bad ones.

The Mori family became the current vicious look because they stood on the wrong team in the Battle of Sekigahara and were brutally slaughtered by Ieyasu Tokugawa, losing most of their territory.

But like the Kuroda family.However, it has expanded from the original 10,000+ stones to the current scale of 50 million stones... Be careful!

Thinking of this, Kuroda Mitsuyuki took another look at Tsunaki Shimadzu of the Satsuma Clan.

The situation of the Satsuma Shimadzu family is a bit like that of Changzhou Moli, and it is also a domain with more wolves and less meat.But Ishi Taka of the Shimadzu family is much taller than the Mori family... Ishi Taka is strength!

"The Marquis of Changzhou (the feudal lord was often referred to as the lord in the Edo period) is right. We and other feudal lords should indeed unite as one at this moment..." Shimadzu Tsunaki and Mori Tsunahiro are in the same tone, obviously It was through Qier in private.

He paused, and then said: "The Ming invaders are about to land, Japan is in danger, and the general's army has not yet arrived... If we don't unite, we may not be far away from perishing!"

"Yes!" Mori Tsunahiro immediately took up the topic again, "We have already boarded a boat, if we can't help each other, it will really be over... And I also heard that Ming Kou will use North Koreans to lead the battle!

If the North Koreans are allowed to kill into our territory, what will be the consequences, everyone must be very clear, right?So if we can't unite and fight to the death, the consequences will be disastrous! "

"Yes!" Shimadzu Tsunaki echoed again, "Masters, we can only keep our territory and our homeland if we unite as one and advance and retreat together..."

He had just finished speaking when suddenly there was a rush of footsteps outside the door, and then someone shouted: "Here we come, here we come, Ming Kou is here..."

Chapter 681 The Celestial Soldiers Have Arrived, Now All We Need is Kamikaze and Reinforcements!

Ming Kou is here?

A group of feudal lords and important ministers of various feudal lords who were usually high above all showed a look of panic, but they quickly tried to cover it up.

They are all leaders of the samurai group, how can they let others know that they are actually afraid of death?This is so embarrassing.And will this "Ming Kou Invasion" collapse the shogunate like the last "Yuan Kou Invasion"?Once the shogunate collapses...then the chaotic times of the Warring States Period will be full of heroes!

Thinking of the troubled times of the Warring States Period, Kuroda Mitsuyuki, Shimadzu Tsunaki, Mori Tsunahiro, Nabeshima Mitsushige, Hosokawa Tsunatoshi, Asano Tsunasaki, Ikeda Tsunamasa, Yamauchi Toyomasa, Hachisuka Tsunamo, Date Munetoshi, etc. His chest involuntarily straightened up.

The troubled times of the Warring States Period were the era that the samurai dreamed of. These feudal lords grew up listening to true and false stories of the Warring States Period... Although their bodies lived in the comfortable years under the rule of the Tokugawa Shogunate, their bodies The souls all stay in the long-gone Warring States Period.Each of them imagined that if they were born in that era of heroes, what great achievements would be admired by future generations.

Now they don't have to fantasize, they can do it right away!

Kuroda Mitsuyuki, the descendant of Kuroda Kanbei, was the first to stand up, his black face was full of excitement, and he looked at the group of feudal lords and ministers of various feudal vassals who had quickly changed from fear to excitement just like him. , and then showed a confident smile: "The defense of Hakata Bay is impenetrable. There are forts built on Genkai Island, Shiga Island at the entrance of the bay, and Noko Island in the bay. There are also forts on Tangbo Port at the entrance on the west side of the bay. Forts were built. All the forts were equipped with 4000-pound guns provided by the Netherlands and England. The number of them was as many as one hundred! The samurai of our Kuroda family were defending the forts, and the total number of them was as many as [-]. They must have It can keep Ming Kou firmly out of Hakata Bay... until the reinforcements from Kamikaze and Allies arrive!"

After bragging, Kuroda Mitsuyuki smiled and said to the feudal lords and important ministers below: "Masters, the castle tower of Fukuoka Castle is very high and has a very good view. From there, you can overlook the entire Hakata Bay. Why don't we go up together?" Go to the Tianshou Pavilion and watch with your own eyes that the Fukuoka samurai use their artillery and bravery to severely injure the Ming invaders!"

A group of feudal lords and important ministers below heard what Kuroda said, and they all stood up, and followed Kuroda to the castle tower of Fukuoka Castle.There are uncontrollable smiles on everyone's faces... The troubled times of the Warring States Period are about to come, and they finally have a stage to display their ambitions and talents!

This group of Japanese samurai leaders who firmly believed that they were really powerful followed Kuroda Mitsuyuki to the tall, large and eye-catching Fukuoka Castle Tower. Fortunately, the warships of the Ming Dynasty Navy had not rushed into Hakata Bay, otherwise It will be a lot of fun to aim at this castle tower and launch a few waves of rocket salvos.

The samurai leader who boarded the castle tower took the binoculars from the cute little surname who was with him-almost all high-end products produced by the "Crystal Palace" in Nanjing, which can see far and clearly, and better than Western goods are still cheap. In the past two years, Japanese Bushido who has a little money have used this kind of binoculars.

The big guy opened the binoculars and took a look - Bodo Bay is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack.Regardless of the size of the interior of Hakata Bay, there is an island-connected sandbar called Umanakado between the east coast of Hakata Bay and Shiga Road, which blocks nearly two-thirds of the entrance to Hakata Bay.

The remaining one-third - about ten miles wide, is not unimpeded, and there is a small island called Xuanjie Island just in the middle, watching Xuanjietan, the exit of Hakata Bay.In the two battles of Wenyong and Hong'an, the overwhelming Yuan army passed through Xuanjie Beach and entered Hakata Bay, and then was blocked at sea and could not land. Finally, it was blown upside down by the sudden "Kamikaze" and had to fail. And returned.

At this moment, the Ming army fleet that appeared outside Xuanjie Beach was not as huge as the big guys imagined, and it didn't mean to cover the entire sea. Shooting.The firepower is not strong, it seems that there is only one cannon on each ship (there is a heavy cannon at the bow), which is far worse than the Western warships with several layers of cannons on both sides of the ship...

In addition to these large ships, there are thirty or forty Ming army small boats that are rapidly approaching the dangerous Xuanjie Island in Xuanjie, and it seems that they are going to send the landing troops there.

At this time, the fort on Xuanjie Island began to fire back!There are two forts on this island, both built on the hillside, which are used to block the waterways on the east and west sides of Xuanjie Island.Now it is the fort on the east side of Xuanjie Island that is firing. Twelve twelve-pound guns are placed on this fort. The firepower of the salvo is quite powerful!

In addition, a fort located on Shiga Island also began to show its power. It also had twelve twelve-pound guns, and it fired a burst of firepower at the Ming army fleet on the sea.I only saw water jets rising continuously around the two big bird ships of the Ming army, which meant to engulf the warships of the Ming army.

Such rapid firepower was something that the Kamakura samurai did not have!

And the artillery of the Ming army... seems to be much weaker than imagined!

Seeing this scene, the feudal lords on the castle tower of Fukuoka Castle were a little disappointed—is this the Great Ming Bing who boasted so miraculously?

If they are defeated in one fight, then the Tokugawa world will be hard to shake...

However, the Ming army did not disappoint them for too long, because two-thirds of the thirty or so small boats approaching Xuanjie Island were so-called assault boats!

On the remaining dozen or so small boats, there were two full-collared North Korean and Ming army grenadiers!

The dinghies looked innocuous, and their targets were too small to hit.Therefore, an elder of the Fukuoka clan who guarded the island decided to "lure the enemy to land". He mobilized hundreds of samurai to form a battle formation near the beach and pier in the south of Xuanjie Island, and prepared to take advantage of the opportunity of the Ming army to land. Their fatal blow!

At this time, the tactics of the Japanese shogunate army and the vassal armies were still roughly at the level of the late Warring States period.The army is dominated by ashigaru, and the ashigaru is dominated by pikemen. Muskets only account for [-]% of the total number of ashigaru troops, and most of them are equipped with matchlock guns—only the new army directly under the shogunate is equipped with flintlock guns. , but the flintlock guns used by Japanese samurai are not equipped with bayonets... They are still used to slashing people with samurai swords!

The small boats of the Ming army on the sea were divided into two formations. One formation headed for the fort on the east side of Xuanjie Island, which was firing artillery, while the other formation passed under the guns of the Japanese army and circled to the south of the island. Come to prepare to land.

"Hehe," Kuroda Mitsuyuki put down the binoculars confidently, as if he was muttering to himself, and seemed to be saying it to those around him on purpose, "Victory is in sight, Ming Kou is nothing but that..."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a sharp whistling sound of "chirp chirp chirp"!

Before he could react, there was a roar like rolling thunder.

"It's the Sky Thunder Rocket!"

I don't know who shouted!

Kuroda Mitsuyuki hurriedly raised the binoculars, just in time to see several Ming army's assault boats shooting thunder from the sky!

There was a lot of smoke on the sea, and the flames flickered, and then I saw rockets dragging smoke bombs whizzing towards Xuanjie Island at an extremely fast speed—not flying randomly, but flying towards Xuanjie Island with a clear goal. Captured the Fukuoka Army near the East Fort of Xuanjie Island and the south pier and beach of Xuanjie Island!

In the blink of an eye, Kuroda saw balls of fire and black smoke rising from the fort!And the hundreds of Fukuoka samurai who lined up near the pier and the beach were covered by the roaring rockets without even seeing the enemy landing soldiers... Although the number of casualties is unknown, the rocket exploded The momentum is really amazing!

"Lord..." Someone yelled again at this time, "Shiga Island and Kaizhongdao were also beaten...Ming Kou is powerful!"

Chapter 682 Why is this Ming Kou?This is clearly Father Ming!

A dozen fast boats pierced through the undulating waves and landed on the beach in the south of Xuanjie Island with a bang.

On the fast boat, it was full of heavily armed North Korean and Ming army grenadiers.The morale of these North Korean Ming troops was extremely high, and the ship had not stopped completely before jumping down screaming.The leading leader of the North Korean Ming army was Jin Chengkai who made contributions in the battle of Goyangdong in the Battle of Seoul that day.

Because of Gao Yangdong's military exploits, he got a short training opportunity in the military academy after the Seoul war, and then he was promoted to a rank and became a leader.Now, I am very lucky to get this opportunity to land on Xuanjie Island in the first battle... If the battle is successful, then the official luck will be prosperous!

I saw him put a flying saucer helmet on his head, then held up a saber, looking crazy, shouting "Kill the Japanese! Kill the Japanese!" and rushed towards the beach in the cold sea water.The North Korean soldiers under him also rumbled down, all of them had ferocious faces, and they knew at a glance that they were about to kill.

Of course the Koreans in this era hate Japanese pirates the most!

Although the Manchus ravaged North Korea more severely, Zhu Heqi actually destroyed North Korea.However, North Korea regards the Manchu Dynasty, which ravaged them, as the second enemy, and regards Japan, the neighboring country that ravaged them seven or eighty years ago, as the number one mortal enemy. Most respected father.In North Korea, no one would say that Zhu Hechi was wrong, and everyone regarded North Korea's removal of the feudal clan and the country as a blessing from God!He also regards Li Wenji, who personally dedicated the royal power of Joseon to Zhu Heyi, as a saint...

"Kill the Japanese pirates, all the Japanese pirates deserve to die... Find the Japanese pirates! Line up, line up quickly, two horizontal lines!"