Honjoji Temple has actually been broken once by the Shimazu family!

Just as it was about dusk this afternoon, the Shimazu family finally filled in a trench north of the temple, and then launched a general attack, killing the defenders with a platoon of guns, and finally broke into the courtyard of the temple.

At that time, the situation was very critical, and the warriors of the Shimazu family and Zhu Cihuan's samurai guards started a melee outside the main hall where Zhu Cihuan was hiding, and they almost rushed into the main hall and killed him. Baoke Zhenghui, who was guarding Zhu Cihuan's side, had already begged him to commit suicide with tears in his eyes...... Just when the prince was desperate and was about to draw his sword and kill himself, the Shimazu army, which was obviously gaining the upper hand and was about to win, was miraculously repulsed.

Although he barely managed to defend Benxun Temple, Zhu Cihuan also understood that most of his lives could not be saved.

Nearly half of his 2,000 samurai have been killed or wounded, and fewer than 1,000 can still fight. To make matters worse, your arquebuses were completely overpowered by the opponent's flintlock muskets, which could form a much denser formation and have a significantly higher rate of fire than their arquebuses. So the shootouts between the two sides in the gap in the wall always presented a one-sided result! After several rounds of gunfights, more than half of the arquebusiers on Zhu Cihuan's side had been lost, and only more than 300 people were left to fight. On the other side, there are more than 1,000 flintlock pistols that can be fired in the Shimazu army alone!

If you include the Spanish soldiers and the Japanese soldiers attached to the Spanish army, the difference in strength is even greater.

So tomorrow morning, it will be the death date of Zhu Cihuan, the king of Chongqing County in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Cihuan, who knew that he was going to die, had no choice but to ask Baoke Zhenghui for a pen and paper, and began to write his death poem in the main hall by a little dim candlelight.

Zhu Cihuan has learned to write poetry, which is not good, but he can also write a few sentences. But now that he is about to die, he can't hold back the famous words that have been handed down to the world. This is probably the only one who died in the eternal hardship...... However, no matter how hard it was, Zhu Cihuan finally held back four limerick poems that were widely circulated later.

Just finished writing a limerick poem, Zhu Cihuan was in tears, and the door of the main hall was suddenly knocked open. Zhu Cihuan was taken aback, and when he looked up, he saw Baoke Zhenghui running in in a hurry.

Zhu Cihuan is now a little scared to see Baoke, because this guy has been bringing him heart-pounding bad news lately...... So he didn't dare to ask, just stared at Baoke's face blackened by gunpowder.

"Your Royal Highness, have you written your death poem?" But Baoke saw the pen and paper on the ground.

"It's ...... written," Zhu Cihuan sighed.

"I'll take a look first," Bao Ke Zhenghui knelt down in front of Zhu Cihuan, then picked up the white paper with four lines of calligraphy written on it, and read it, "Stocks are risky, you must be careful when entering the market, and if you don't pay attention for a while, your tears ripple...... This, this is a posthumous poem? ”

"yes!" Zhu Cihuan said, "It can be regarded as a warning for future generations!" He asked again: "Hoshina, is it possible that the Shimazu army has started attacking again?" ”

Baoke Zhenghui shook his head, "Not yet...... I just sent an envoy over. ”

"Military envoy?" Zhu Cihuan asked in a low voice, "Is it persuasion?" ”

"No, it's not." Baoke said.

Zhu Cihuan sighed: "I know it's not...... So what are they here for? ”

"They," Paulo paused, "the Shimazu family wants to give His Highness the Great King two choices!" ”

"Which two?" Zhu Cihuan asked hurriedly.

"The first is that the king committed suicide and martyred his country!" Baoke said.

Zhu Cihuan sighed and said, "You don't have to choose, this king is preparing to commit suicide...... That is, it's ...... I'm a little scared of death! ”

As he spoke, Zhu Cihuan's tears fell. He really lost his life this time!

Baoke Zhenghui hurriedly shook his head and said, "The king doesn't have to be afraid of death, he doesn't have to be afraid of death...... Because, because the king still has a way to live! ”

"Alive?" Zhu Cihuan raised his eyes to look at Bao Ke with a bitter expression, "Or do you want this king to surrender?" Zhenghui, this king has been a prisoner, I know what it's like, I don't want to be anymore, and I can't be a prisoner......"

He still knows a little bit of the general trend, now is not the time for Li Zicheng to sweep the world, but when the Ming Dynasty is in full swing, he is going to surrender to the Shimazu family, and sooner or later it will fall into the hands of the Ming Dynasty, and he will still have to die when the time comes!

"No, no, no...... It's not that the king wants to surrender, and they can't afford it! Hoshina Masaki shook his head, "The way for the Shimazu family to live for the king is to get married!" ”

"Married?" Zhu Cihuan looked at Baoke in a daze, "What does this mean?" ”

Baoke Zhenghui said: "Marriage means that the king is courting the bride!" ”

"This king knows, this king has been married......"

Baoke Zhenghui smiled: "Then it will be done again!" So that the king can live! ”

"Who are you marrying?" Zhu Cihuan asked again.

"Marry Shimazu Nokichi," Masaki Hoshina said, "You have seen her, it is the daughter of Mitsuhisa Shimazu, and she is the one who commanded the Shimazu army to beat us to the ground!" ”

"She ......" Zhu Cihuan was stunned again, really a little puzzled, "She wants to marry this king?" Then she still beat this king like this, and this king almost died! ”

Baoshina Zhenghui nodded again and again, as if he felt the same way, "What the king said is right, Shimazu Nayoshi is really not good, he is so ruthless, he almost killed you!"

That's why you have to marry her...... Then she'll be yours, and you'll be able to clean her up! ”

"This ......" Zhu Cihuan seemed to be a little hesitant, "Let this king think about it!" ”

"Think?" Baoke Zhenghui looked at Zhu Cihuan, "Wang, do you still need to think about this?" ”

Oh, yes! On one side is suicide! On one side is the candle in the cave room...... And Shimazu Nokichi is still a little beauty! What else is there to think about?

"This king is thinking about how to clean her up!" Zhu Cihuan gritted his teeth and said, "And what this king doesn't understand is why the Shimazu family wants to marry their daughter to this king?" ”

Oh, yes! What's so good about Zhu Cihuan? I don't have a diploma, I don't seem to have a job, I speculated in individual stocks, I even lost my father's pension money, I even lost my own house, and I ran away to the Americas with a lot of debts, but I also ran into a big war and was besieged inexplicably.

This is a scumbag at all! In addition to being handsome, there is no merit in the whole body. If you insist on finding any bright spots, it is nothing more than that his father is the former emperor and his brother is the current emperor......

"Because the reinforcements of the Ming army have arrived, and they are fighting with the Spanish army in the flood valley!"

It was a female voice who spoke, and then I saw a rather petite woman in a kendo uniform walking in from outside the main hall, and when she arrived at Zhu Cihuan, she bowed: "The little woman Naiji asked King Jin'an." ”

Zhu Cihuan was completely stunned, what was going on?

"Nai, Nagi, now the war is going on!" Zhu Cihuan stammered, "You, why did you come in?" Outside, people outside......"

"My lord," Shimazu Nokichi straightened up and said with a smile, "Your guards are all following you for the sake of making a career, isn't this the opportunity to make a difference?"

Your Highness, this is also a good opportunity for you to make contributions, Your Highness! ”

"Achievement?" Zhu Cihuan seemed to understand a little, "Naiji, what do you mean...... Is the Shimazu family going to defect to the Celestial Empire? ”

Shimazu Nokichi nodded lightly: "The Shimazu family admired the benevolence of the king, so they resolutely defected...... The king won't refuse the concubine and the Shimazu family, right? ”

"Of course I won't refuse!" Baoke Zhenghui has already spoken for Zhu Cihuan, "The king still wants to clean you up!" ”

"Really?" Shimazu Naiji blinked a pair of big eyes that were a little foxy, and threw a wink at Zhu Cihuan, "So, the king has already agreed to marry a concubine?" ”

"This, this ......" Zhu Cihuan looked at Shimazu Nokichi carefully, and finally nodded, "This king agreed!" But you have to make it clear to the king, how should the king make a contribution? ”

Zhu Cihuan is still ambitious! He's got a lot of debt! If you can't make a contribution, how can you pay off this debt!