Chapter 797: The Ming Army Sacked Kyushu Island

Bao Kezheng's face was as dead as ashes, his mind went blank for a while, and a lingering consciousness kept lingering in his mind.

Can the shogunate still win against such an opponent? What does the future hold for Japan?

Azig also feels bad, I haven't seen him for a few years, why is the combat effectiveness of the Ming army getting stronger and stronger? Even this kind of "motley army" that is not the Tianwu Army is so powerful?

The Dongying Eight Banner Banners around him are also incomprehensible, how strong is the Ming Kingdom? Why are there such powerful warships and iron cannons? (Iron cannon is the Japanese name for muskets)

It is only now that these Japanese have figured out what kind of opponent they are fighting.

Mao Lixiu, the owner of the Dongying Changzhou Banner, said: "General, I have never seen such a terrible iron cannon, it is like rain, there is not even a little gap!" ”

"Yes, general, I'm afraid that Oda Nobunaga's iron artillery army can't compare with them back then!"

"General, we can't win this battle, retreat!"

Listening to a circle of Dongying banner owners persuading them to retreat, Azig frowned.

He said to Baoke Masayuki before that it didn't matter if he fought or not, and the words that retreated to the Qing Dynasty were actually just radicals.

Kyushu Island is the nest that Azig has been running for ten years, how can it be easily abandoned? Back on the Korean Peninsula, who will tolerate him?

"Can't you win?"

Azig thought about it over and over again.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen, Azig was the main general who entered the customs and went south to cut Ming, was hanged and beaten by the Yongwei battalion, and was quiet by Huang Taiji after he returned.

In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the Liaodong War, the Qing Dynasty was defeated, and the elder brother Dolgon killed the king and seized the throne, killed Huang Taiji, released him, sent him to conquer Japan, and created the Eight Banners of Dongying.

In the first year of Tianwu, the battle of Guan Jin, the Qing Dynasty was defeated again, the elder brother Dolgon was wounded by Emperor Tianwu and died.

In the past few years, including before the war with the Ming army, Azig has thought more than once that if he encounters the Ming army again, will he be ashamed?

Like his father Khan Nurhachi, he straddled the horse and held a sword, galloped across the field, beheaded the generals and captured the flag, commanded the Eight Banners Force, fought in the east and west, expanded the territory, established his own kingdom, and made the prestige of the Qing Dynasty once again shocking the world!

One day I can even enter the customs again and go south and unify the world!

But the reality is so cruel, after a few years, Azig used nearly seven times the strength of the Ming army, and it was still a "ragtag army" of the Ming army, and it would be like this!

Will this battle be lost like this?

"No, never! I don't throw in the towel! ”

In the astonishment of the surrounding generals, Azig let out a low shout, ordered someone to lead the war horse, and issued an order to transfer all the cavalry of the Eight Banners of Dongying.

The Chinese army of the coalition army sounded a trumpet and a neat shout, in the eyes of all the people, in the eyes of the worshipful soldiers, the prince of the Qing Dynasty and Shuoying, and the general of the expedition to the east, Azige, personally led 10,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners and launched a charge against the Ming army array!

These Dongying cavalry were like dead soldiers, fearless in the face of the Ming army's guns, and they attacked one after another!

The face of the shogunate commander Masayuki Hoshina was full of admiration, and he exclaimed: "The great general of the eastern part of the expedition is mighty!" The general of Zhengyi is not as good as it! ”

The cavalry of the Eight Banners of Dongying desperately shouted in unison to kill the enemy, trying to disrupt and cut off the battle formation of the Ming army.

However, the battle situation was very bad, and countless Eight Banners cavalry were killed and wounded more than half of them on the way, and some were frightened by artillery fire and ran away.

What is even more regrettable is that the Dongying cavalry was blocked by the dense fire of the Ming army and the bombardment of mortars and suffered a large number of casualties, and was almost unable to form an army, and was forced to retreat under the fire of the Ming army.

In the face of the towering and immovable Ming army array, Azig also showed bravery, refused to retreat, and organized men and horses to attack many times.

He rode a war horse and stood in front, waving the general's order flag to challenge the Ming army again, and the Dongying Eight Banners, which were scattered by artillery fire, regrouped many times.

Even the chief general of the shogunate army, Masayuki Hoshina, was moved, gave up the idea of escaping, and led the shogunate cavalry to join the battle on his own initiative.

The cavalry of the coalition army braved the artillery fire of the Ming army, and carried out many heroic charges, and some of the elite cavalry wearing yellow coats rushed to a place forty or fifty meters away from the Ming army's array, and some even rushed to the vicinity of the Ming army's Chinese army to carry out white-knuckle battles.

The battle of mountains and rivers was fierce for an hour, the battle was very fierce, the array of the Ming army changed many times, using a hollow phalanx, and even all of them were bayonets to start a white-knuckle battle.

In the end, more than half of the 60,000 allied troops were killed and wounded, and the commander Azig was killed by Lan Haoran, the commander of the Ming Army.

The bloody Ming army advanced in formation, the momentum was fierce, the coalition army was shocked, and there was no longer the courage to resist, and they completely disintegrated and fled for their lives.

In the battle of the mountains and rivers of Kyushu, the Japanese-Qing coalition army was defeated, with more than 30,000 dead and wounded, and the battlefield was full of corpses, and the humid sea breeze was also full of a strong smell of blood.

Compared with the heavy casualties of the coalition army, the losses of the 8,000 Ming troops participating in the battle were appalling, with only a few hundred casualties, of which less than 100 were killed on the spot!

Shen Shouchong, the commander of the Ming army, stood in front of Azig's corpse, watched silently for a moment, and finally said: "Azig, I heard that you are brave and scheming, cowardly and cowardly, but in today's battle, you can also be regarded as a general of the Qing Kingdom!" ”

After defeating the Japanese and Qing forces, the Ming army entered Tsurumaru Castle as victors and carried out a purge in the main castle of the Satsuma Domain.

Tsurumaru Castle was the main castle of the Satsuma Domain, one of the richest daimyo in Japan, and most of the money and goods of the Shimazu family were hidden here.

There were also many Satsuma merchants, samurai, and retainers living in the outer city, all of whom were considered to be in the upper middle class in Japan, and their families had a lot of savings.

The Ming army first slaughtered the feudal lord daimyo and the retainers of the Shimazu family, and then carried out a carpet raid in the city.

The Ming army fully demonstrated its colonial posture and plundered inside and outside Tsurumaru Castle for four full days, ravaging as much as they wanted, whether it was a wealthy Kamiya temple or an ordinary towntown dwelling, looting from house to house.

Food, gold, silver, copper coins, katanas, folding fans, prints, and other items are not spared, and all valuable things that can be removed are removed!

Not only food and other gold and silver goods, but also valuable two-legged creatures such as young men and young women, were all caught and loaded onto the ship!

Tsurumaru Castle in Satsuma was only the first stop, and after the Ming army swept away, since the troops were divided, they entered Miyazaki, Saga, Nagasaki and other places on the island of Kyushu, and carried out colonial packing.

Although there was small-scale resistance along the way, it was the mantis arm that was used as a car after all.

There were also a large number of samurai, ashigaru and other coalition troops who took the initiative to surrender to the Ming army, hoping to get a piece of the pie.

In order to reduce the casualties of the Ming army, Shen Shouchong approved their glorious acts of traitor.

It's just that what Shen Shouchong didn't expect was that these Japanese looted more vigorously than the Ming army!

This gang of Ming soldiers desperately robbed, ravaged the villagers to their heart's content, set fire to the light, killed people at the worst, and from time to time picked some fresh Japanese beauties to present to the Ming army, so as to gain the favor of the Ming army.

At this time, the culture of flower streets in Japan was prevalent, and the most common industries were brothels, especially in more prosperous places such as Nagasaki, where brothels were everywhere, and there were as many as 1,000 wandering girls engaged in this industry in a single place.

The Japanese traitors did not dare to fool the Ming army masters with the wandering girls on the bad streets, and they all picked fresh and petite beauties to offer, which can be said to be well-understood, empathetic, and well-behaved......

The disastrous defeat of the coalition shook the whole of Japan, and the Tokugawa shogunate panicked, especially when he learned that the Ming army was repairing the warships and preparing to march into Edo, the great shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu fainted on the spot.

Kyoto, Japan, Imperial Palace.

The nineteen-year-old Emperor Shaoren, who was only nineteen years old, stood in front of the palace at this time, gently flicking the documents in his hand away, and the corners of his mouth gradually rose, revealing a hint of joy.

"I've been waiting for so many years, and the shogunate is finally finished!"

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