Chapter 983: The Moon of the Ming Dynasty is Rounder Than Japan
With the fall of the enemy's flag, there was a burst of cheers in the Ming army, and the entire battlefield entered a climax stage.
The artillery battalion shelled even more violently, and the well-trained Ming gunners shelled the enemy at a rate of two shells per minute.
The Ming army besieging the city also became more and more energetic, desperately climbing the ladder and rushing up, even the shooter who used the Wujiu Thunderbolt to suppress the firepower of the shogunate army at the head of the city also shook the hand rod faster.
Poor Kobe City, under the heavy firepower, was broken into the city by the Ming army in less than half an hour.
Where could the soldiers of the Kobe Domain resist the attack of the Ming army, and after several rounds of volleys fired by the Ming army that was the first to break into the city, they were defeated in an uproar.
Before the war, Naito Tadashi still swore that he would say nonsense such as jade shattering and martyrdom, but after the Ming army invaded the city and killed the Japanese army of the Kobe Domain, he immediately panicked.
Naito Tadashi is a noble child who grew up with a golden key, although he participated in several battles during the Tokugawa Ieyasu period, but the more he lived, the more he spared his life, especially after inheriting the throne of the daimyo, the courage of blood and blood has long disappeared without a trace.
Naito Tadashi did not choose to fight to the death with the Ming army, and hurriedly retreated to the castle tower with the defeated army as soon as possible.
However, the Ming army was like a group of hungry wolves, rushing into the city and killing even more ferocious, as long as it was a person with a weapon in his hand, he would kill it when he saw it.
What's even more excessive is that a group of shooters carried the Wujiu Thunderbolt and erected it on the half-collapsed city wall, firing wildly at the rout of Little Japan on the streets of the city.
Naito Tadashi, who hid in the castle tower, was also unhappy, and as the Ming army surrounded the castle tower, he drew his saber and prepared to commit suicide by disembowelment.
However, as soon as the tip of the knife touched his belly under the candlelight, Naito's hand immediately became weak, and he tried several times, but he was reluctant to stab the saber into his body.
In the end, Naito Tadashi dragged on until the Ming army entered the castle tower, knocked out the small sword in his hand, and captured him alive.
At the same time, Naito Tadashi's wife and concubines were also arrested.
Don't look at the old guy in his sixties, he is still quite happy in life, he has married seventeen wives and concubines, ten of whom are under the age of thirty, and the youngest is only fourteen years old.
During the Tokugawa shogunate, the Japanese got married very early, and the powerful even earlier, similar to the Tatar Qing, they got married and had children at the age of twelve or thirteen, and it was normal to take a minor as a concubine.
Of course, now Naito Tadashi's wives and concubines and children have become prisoners of the Ming army.
With the capture of the shogunate's top official in Kobe, the battle in Kobe was nearing its end, and the commander Xu Qingshan settled in the Daimyo's Mansion to preside over the next work of reassuring the people and purging the people.
After a night of tossing, the Ming army killed more than 2,000 Japanese soldiers, captured 1,600 people, and the rest were missing.
After all, there is no shortage of soldiers who are good at hiding anywhere, and some people can scrape the ground and not find them as long as their legs are not broken.
To the surprise of the Ming soldiers, when the army took over Kobe, the Japanese residents here did not fight back, they were very obedient, and they could even be said to be flattering!
Some Japanese reported the Japanese soldiers who ate at night and hid in their hometowns.
Some Japanese directly let their sons help the Ming army work, the free kind.
Some want to sacrifice their daughters, saying that they are willing to find a Ming son-in-law, no bride price, which is better than their own people.
This puzzling situation made the Ming soldiers a little overwhelmed and confused.
If only a small number of Japanese were willing to rape the Japanese, it would be fine, this kind of thing has not been encountered, but like now, the Japanese are fighting for rape on a large scale, which is strange!
Completely incomprehensible!
It wasn't until Comrade Jinyiwei, who was lurking in Kobe, said that everyone figured out what was going on.
It turned out that after the last Tomorrow War, the Ming army captured Kyushu and Shikoku in Japan, and forcibly incorporated the two places into the Ming territory with the "Osaka Treaty".
The Japanese in the two places who belonged to the Ming Dynasty were not treated as slaves as the Qing Dynasty enslaved them, and after these Japanese obtained the household registration of the Ming Dynasty, they endured hardships and stood hard work in the various policies implemented by the imperial court, and finally settled down again.
Kyushu Island is blessed with a unique geographical location, with the full opening of the sea, more and more trade with the Ming mainland and the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, Luzon, Nagasaki, Kagoshima, Kumamoto, Miyazaki and other prefectures and prefectures are getting better and better, and the life of the Japanese is gradually improving, at least much better than the Japanese under the rule of the shogunate.
These news were transmitted to Japan by the Ming Dynasty and Japanese businessmen, which sparked heated discussions, and under the operation of the Ming intelligence network, the matter became more and more outrageous.
All in all, the moon of the Ming Dynasty is rounder than Japan, and the social security, civilization and material life of the Ming Dynasty, even the air, are fresher than Japan! Everything in Daming is better than in Japan!
As long as you go to Daming and become a person of Daming, you are a human being, and you can live a personal life!
These rumors made the Japanese under the shogunate envious, and now that the Ming army is here again, how can it not be welcomed?
Some Japanese almost knelt on the ground and licked hard, wishing they could give birth to a few more daughters to give to the military master of the Ming Dynasty!
In just a few days, five groups of Japanese spontaneously formed a group, pretending to have the courage to pull a banner to the Daimyo's mansion where Xu Qingshan was staying, begging the Ming army not to leave, and to let Kobe belong to the Ming Dynasty.
Xu Qingshan looked coldly at the group of Japanese in front of the mansion with tears in their eyes, and felt sorry for them in his heart.
The people of the Ming Dynasty have awakened and have the consciousness of the nation-state, but the Japanese are still ignorant and have no concept of the country in their hearts, coupled with the character of obeying the strong in their bones, it is not strange that there are today's things, it can only be said to be sad!
However, among the Japanese aristocracy, there are still good ones, such as this Naito Tadashi, although he is a coward who is afraid of death, but he does not surrender when he sees that the Ming army has broken the city, and chooses to resist to the end.
Reading a lot, sometimes it's not necessarily a bad thing, Naito Tadashi is influenced by Chinese culture, just like some civil officials in the Ming Dynasty, his ability is not very good, and his integrity is still a little.
On the third day of the Ming army's entry into Kobe, when Jinyiwei used all means to pry open Naito Tadashi's mouth and learn about the Japanese army in Osaka, Xu Qingshan ordered the entire Naito Tadaxing clan to be wiped out.
If it was placed in normal times, Xu Qingshan would never kill Naito Zhongxing's temperament of dying, even if he was forced to confess by Jinyiwei.
And this time, he had to.
Japan's big country has more than 200 daimyos, some of which are big and some are small, and if each of them resists Naito Tadashi's vow to the death, it will definitely bring a lot of trouble to the Ming army.
The Ming army pacified them one by one, and they couldn't get rid of Japan in a few years.
Moreover, Zhu Cihong gave Xu Qingshan only one month to take Osaka, and now it has been seven or eight days, and he must take Naito Tadashi to warn the other daimyos.
In the face of the conquest of the Emperor's army, those who dare to resist will have the only way to die, and the whole clan will be destroyed!
As long as it is a human being, when faced with the choice of life and death, there will always be people who choose to compromise because of fear.