Chapter 514: Tokugawa Katsuyoshi and His Nation
The Japanese army defending Kyoto surrendered to the Meiren!
When the first Japanese army to lay down their arms and walk out of the defense line appeared, more and more Japanese soldiers chose to go out of the artillery hole and surrender on the spot, surrendering the entire Heiankyo to the Ming Federation, and only a small number of officers of the samurai family chose to commit suicide by seppuku and die for the country.
The so-called Great Patriotic War, which was regarded as great by Ashikaga Yoshinori and countless Japanese, ended in such a hurry.
The war dominated by the suspension of the technology of the times cannot be affected by human will at all.
The Japanese army defending Kyoto was not indomitable in will and combat effectiveness, but in the face of thousands of heavy artillery, it was destined to be just a group of lambs waiting to die.
Xue Ke's combat boots set foot on the land of Kyoto!
"Be sure, capture Shiren alive!"
This was the first military order issued by Xue Ke after entering the city, and this glorious task was handed over by Xue Ke to his own guard battalion.
The first major contribution to the destruction of Japan will always be the capture of Emperor Chengguang alive, and this credit naturally cannot belong to those who served in the army.
"Ashikaga Yoshimochi is a man, and General Ben will give him this face."
Since Ashikaga Yoshinori chose to surrender within the time limit, Xue Ke was also willing to keep his promise, whether it was the surrendered Japanese army or after entering Kyoto, Xue Ke did not kill even one person, restraining military discipline and stabilizing the overall situation.
"How to deal with Japan is not something that this marshal is qualified to worry about, and in the same way, no one can make his own decisions before His Majesty's holy will is issued, and those who violate it will be killed."
Xue Ke warned several commanders of the army, and several of them nodded in fright, and hurriedly left the strict discipline.
It was not very difficult to capture Shiren alive, and there were less than a thousand guards in the entire Emperor's Palace, and in the face of the wolf-like and fierce guard battalion, they were completely annihilated without even resisting for half an hour.
Shiren was tied up in Xue Ke's tent by the five flowers.
"Hold on."
Xue Ke didn't have much spare energy to talk nonsense with Shiren, so he waved back directly, and then shouted: "Report to Nanjing."
Xue Kefu, the marquis of Chenyong City and the commander-in-chief of Dingwei, asked our emperor to bow to peace.
At the beginning of the year, he was fortunate to inherit the king's order, won the position of commander-in-chief of the Japanese army, reorganized the army, and unified the 200,000 troops of the Four Nations Alliance in the early summer to leave the north of South China to conquer the Japanese island, first Osaka and then Kobe, and finally joined Kyoto in the autumn.
Relying on the blessing of our emperor's holy grace, the soldiers were brave and the artillery was sharp, and the minister Xue Ke was lucky, and the battle was successful.
One of the thief chieftains, Ashikaga Yoshinoshi, committed suicide, and the rest of the people surrendered, and at the time of the letter, the puppet emperor Minorihito was also captured alive and sent to Nanjing along with this letter.
Since then, the battle of Dingwa has been completely won with our army's victory in Kyoto, and the Japanese national Zuo has been extinct since then, and the East Asia determined by the monarch will be included in the Ming Union system from today onwards, bathed in the holy light of the monarch.
Long live Minglian! Long live the Ming Dynasty! Long live my emperor! β
The military Chinese book was prepared and handed to Xue Ke for review, and after confirming that it was correct, Xue Ke solemnly stamped the handsome seal and handed it to the soldiers beside him: "Go, eight hundred li to report the saint urgently." β
Ashikaga Yoshinori committed suicide, Emperor Chengguang was captured alive, and more than 200,000 Japanese troops died or surrendered, just as Xue Ke said, Japan's national Zuo has been destroyed, and the war should be over.
"Make good use of the soldiers to build fortifications at Kyoto's crossings and send troops to control every part of Kyoto and stabilize the post-war situation."
Having received this task, the staff officer personally rushed to the prisoner of war camps outside the city where the guards were concentrated.
Under the threat of bayonets and killing, the soldiers were driven into Kyoto Castle in rows, entering the city's communication crossings, and began to build various fortifications for garrisoning.
Although it is obedient, this efficiency is obviously a bit negative and sluggish.
This made Xue Ke, who was inspecting, very dissatisfied.
"One by one, like his mother and his mother died, they were like chickens and dogs when they started fighting, and they were like this, wasting food waste alive."
After scolding a few times, Xue Ke had no better way, and it was not good to destroy the military order and kill the prisoners, so he had to ask the staff officer how to deal with it.
For this kind of thing, the staff officer didn't have a problem, and smiled helplessly.
"Why don't we ask the Japanese?"
The bell must be tied to the bell.
Xue Ke scratched his head and thought for a long time that there was no better way, so he had to hum silently and let the soldiers next to him bring a Japanese soldier.
"What's your name?"
Facing the questioning of the Marshal of the Ming Union in front of him, the pawn was obviously extremely nervous, and tried his best to straighten his chest to calm himself: "Your Excellency Marshal Hui, my name is Tokugawa Katsuyoshi, and I was a steward before. β
The governor is a local official position, and the daimyo is a local governor with a high degree of autonomy, and the governor is a local governor appointed by the central government, which does not have too high autonomy and is subject to the jurisdiction of the central government.
One of the stewards became a member of the surrender army, indicating that during the previous defense of Kyoto, Tokugawa Katsuyoshi had come to Kyoto from elsewhere with his troops.
"Leader, so you're still a nobleman?"
Xue Ke raised his eyebrows, and came to be interested: "Since you are a nobleman, then the conversation between us is much simpler, Ben Shuai is very dissatisfied with the progress of your current fortifications, Ben Shuai hopes that you can call on your comrades, hurry up and complete the task, don't force Ben Shuai to use force." β
In the face of Xue Ke's intimidation, Tokugawa Katsuyoshi naturally responded with a bitter face, and this expression made Xue Ke dissatisfied, and he slapped it over, knocking Tokugawa Katsuyoshi to the ground.
"Give shameless things, what about Lao Tzu talking to you, can't you find death with this attitude?"
Tokugawa Katsuyoshi, who was slapped in the face, suddenly became a lot more honest, but the staff officer stopped Xue Ke, who was still about to do it, turned his head to look at Tokugawa Katsuyoshi and asked: "Are you embarrassed or do you have a better way?" β
Tokugawa Hideyoshi knelt on the ground and hesitated for a long time before saying: "Your Excellency, every nation is not perfect, and we Yamato are also human beings.
All you need to do is give an order to divide the fortifications evenly over to everyone, and the first few to finish will be rewarded, and the last ones will be killed, I promise, you will see what you want to see. β
Xue Ke and the staff officer were stunned.
Both of them are military attachΓ©s, and they really hadn't thought of this method before, but now when they heard it, their eyes suddenly lit up.
"Just do as you say, and leave the assigned tasks and overseers to you."
As soon as he heard that he could be an overseer instead of continuing to work hard, Tokugawa Katsuyoshi was overjoyed, paused on the ground, and happily went down to make arrangements.
It didn't take long for more than 100 Japanese soldiers on this fortification to be instantly inspired.
and Fang Cai's passivity and indifference show a completely two-sided situation.
Soon five people took the lead in completing the section of the work they were responsible for, and Tokugawa Katsuyoshi led them to receive the reward.
"A bowl of rice, a piece of meat for each person, and a woman."
Xue Ke waved his hand, and someone took them down to settle down, eating and drinking were easy to arrange, and they could eat while sitting on the ground, but there was no camp in the fortified place for them to indulge their selfish desires, and these five people were in a hurry, so they dragged the woman who was snatched out of their respective homes into an alley not far away.
After a while, there was a burst of babbling.
"What a fucking bunch of brutes."
Xue Ke laughed and scolded a few words, and before he could enjoy it, the five of them ran out and ran to Xue Ke to kneel and kowtow in front of Xue Ke to express their gratitude.
Xue Ke didn't pay attention to these five people, but beckoned Tokugawa Katsuyoshi and said coldly: "You have found the five people who have completed the earliest, so have you found the five people who have completed the latest?" β
Tokugawa Katsuyoshi's face changed a few times, and then a touch of anger appeared: "I found it." β
"So what to do?"
The silence lasted only for a short moment, and Tokugawa Katsuyoshi called out to the previous five people and said to Xue Ke: "I will take them and dispose of the waste that has not completed the task." β
Xue Ke laughed, pulled out the waist knife of the soldiers around him and threw it in front of Tokugawa Katsuyoshi: "Go for it." β
Tokugawa Katsuyoshi silently picked up the knife and said something suddenly before leaving.
"Thank you, Your Excellency."
personally executed his compatriots, and Tokugawa Katsuyoshi actually said thank you to Xue Ke.
Watching Tokugawa Hideyoshi pull out the five soldiers who had completed the fortifications at the latest, escorted them to the battlements not far away, and cut off their heads one by one, Rao is Xue Ke killed countless people, and his face was a little numb at the moment.
It was not the blood that was shocked, but the murderous and vicious nature in Tokugawa Katsuyoshi's eyes before his execution.
Even, Xue Ke keenly saw a kind of pleasure hidden in his eyes?
"This nation is a wolf."
Xue Ke's back was a little chilly, and he whispered to the staff officer beside him: "Raising tigers will eventually fight back, and so is raising wolves, this Tokugawa Hideyoshi was so excited when he even killed his own clan, do you still expect him to be our Daming's dog in the future?" β
"yes." The staff officer also said in horror: "The Japanese are different from the Southern Burmese and Siamese, let alone expect them to be as docile and obedient as the Indians, they value glory.
And when it comes to punishing the weak, it is so natural that there is no mercy and mercy in the beginning, and the onlookers are also indifferent, that a nation with this personality will never be slow in its progress, and once they are made strong and big, it will be dangerous. β
Through Tokugawa Katsuyoshi's performance, Xue Ke can already see that this is a nation that worships the strong infinitely and disdains the weak, which can be said to have completely engraved the law of the jungle of survival of the fittest into his bones.
As a conqueror against Japan, the strength of the Minglian may make people like Tokugawa Katsuyoshi willingly become lackeys, but what if the Minglian or the Great Ming, who holds the core leadership of the Minglian, weakens?
After the execution, Tokugawa Hideyoshi didn't know what Xue Ke was thinking at this moment, at this moment, with a body of blood, he knelt in front of Xue Ke, and respectfully raised the execution knife above the top.
"I didn't disappoint Your Excellency the Marshal, the last five wastes have been disposed of, and they have received the punishment they deserve."
"You're doing a great job."
Xue Ke reached out and picked up the knife, looked at the blood beads that slowly slipped off the blade, and affirmed.
"Tokugawa Katsuyoshi, now that the commander has appointed you as the commander of the Kyoto Japanese Army, he is fully responsible for the construction of fortifications and the maintenance of stability throughout Kyoto, and I hope you can live up to your heavy responsibilities."
"As you wish!"
Overjoyed, Tokugawa Hideyoshi slammed his head to the ground, bleeding profusely.