Chapter 463: Island Nation Ronin
Edward, the colonial leader of the Portuguese garrison in the entertainment city, took more than 100 remnants of the defeated army and ran to the harbor area for refuge, because this also caused an illness, lying in bed for several days, a week before the illness was cured, after stabilizing, he was annoyed and angry, of course, he would not give up with Daming.
He immediately left the harbor area on a ship, and this time he did not look for Zheng Zhilong again, but returned to Lisbon in the continent to find their King His Majesty to settle the matter, and asked them to fight the kingdom of Portugal and start a war with the Ming Dynasty.
Zheng Hongkui and Zeng De cleaned up the remnants of the defeated army and retreated to Guangzhou, and they lost more than 20,000 horses in the first battle of the entertainment city. A few more cities were lost. Hurriedly wrote to their Majesty King Zheng for guilt and asked for help again.
At the same time, Wei Malang, the head of Taiwan of the Dutch East Magic Country Company, was also slapping the table, and they suffered heavy losses in the first battle in the Zhoushan Sea. More than 60 merchant ships, plus 13 escort warships, 3,000 soldiers, and more than 1,000 merchants were almost completely wiped out. Only two wrecked ships returned, less than 400 sailors.
He waved his big fleshy fist and threatened to teach this surnamed Lin a good lesson. He immediately dispatched his troops to bring back the Hector, the main battleship of the Dutch East Magical Kingdom Company in Asia.
Hector is a three-masted battleship of the Dutch Navy in the 17th century, with a length of 56.60 meters, a width of 10.5 meters, a draft of 5.1 meters, a crew of 341 sailors, and a displacement of 600 tons.
According to the original historical development, this main warship flaunted its might in the waters of East Asia, and was finally sunk by the navy of the national hero Zheng Chenggong.
But in order to sink such a battleship, Zheng Chenggong's navy also paid a heavy price for damaging more than 30 warships.
Now Wei Malang wants to use such a main battleship to form a fleet of more than 400 ships, he wants to use the strength of the entire Eastern Magic Country Company, and he wants to compete with Lin Yi's Daming Naval Division, and he is now actively preparing for the battle......
However, at this time, it was not only Zheng Zhilong, the king of Portugal, the Netherlands, and the Great Southern Empire who gritted his teeth at Lin Yi, but also a special force in the east of the Sakura Country, the Ronin of the Sakura Country.
They were originally unofficial representatives, and they could only be regarded as martial arts people. But this time it was also labeled as a government. Because the Sakura government is unable to send troops, but they don't want to see a re-emerging Ming Dynasty, they can only go all out to support the opposition, but seeing Zheng Zhilong's Great Southern Empire, defeated and embattled, it is not the opponent of the Ming army at all, the army on the shore is not good, and the sailors are also defeated, so they have to buy these ronins and set foot on the land of Daming on behalf of the government......
After these hundreds of Cherry Blossom Ronin landed in Quanzhou, they were in a hurry, and they were quickly taken into the post house, and the three people led by them entered the imperial city of the Great Southern Empire.
The three of them walked steadily, their faces were full of arrogance and confidence, especially the two eyes were not ordinarily bright, and Zheng Zhilong personally met them.
A middle-aged ronin at the head is called Taro Miyamoto. The man wore his hair in a cord like a woman of the Hereafter, but with a small braid tied upwards and stretched out to the heavens. The small round face has a small black beard. Dressed in loose black, he carried an Oriental sword, and his two eyes emitted a fierce light.
Behind Miyamoto were two young samurai, a man and a woman.
"I've seen His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Southern Empire."
After the three of them saw Zheng Zhilong, they respectfully bowed 90 degrees.
Zheng Zhilong is worried about the successive defeats, now the Portuguese fleet has also been defeated, Zheng Hongkui and Zeng De have lost tens of thousands of horses, and the two advertisements are anxious for help, but where can he send troops, Shi Lang's uncle and nephew will descend to Ming, and so on to draw a pillar, Liu Guoxuan is also very difficult to fight in Jiangxi, and now Lin Yi personally led the sailor from the Yangtze River into the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and recently he heard that the battle of Zhoushan, even the Dutch fleet was defeated, how can it go on like this?
I heard that the people of the Sakura country are coming, and this is to help Zheng Zhilong cheer up and meet the three ronins.
Zheng Zhilong looked at these people, and finally his eyes fell on Miyamoto Taro, "Miyamoto-kun is exempt, I heard that Miyamoto-kun is a well-known kendo master, proficient in judo, Sakura country kendo, and various schools of Chinese kung fu, I can see it today, I also feel fortunate to have three lives." ”
"Haha, Your Majesty has won the prize," Miyamoto Taro said politely, but pouted, "If Your Majesty wants to see and understand, we are willing to serve." ”
Miyamoto Taro said, and began to introduce the two personal entourages behind him to Zheng Zhilong and other ministers. Both of them are his apprentices, a man in his 20s, whose name is Masao Ono. This person has good facial features, a straight figure, a square face, facial features like carving, I can't see his joys, sorrows, sorrows, and sorrows, his two eyes are shining, and the Oriental sword of the cherry blossom country is also carried on his body.
The most eye-catching of these hundreds of Sakura Country Ronin is about to lose to the only female ronin. This woman's name is Makiko Tagawa, and she is just 20 years old this year. With a height of nearly 1.7 meters, her figure is more slender and straight, delicate and pleasant, and the most eye-catching thing is, of course, her beautiful facial features, which are compared with Sakura Country actress Sakai Fako.
However, the two eyes are like bright lights, in the beauty, the corners of the eyes and eyebrows are murderous, at first glance, it is the origin of martial arts, and there is no sword on the body, but a long sword.
When Miyamoto Taro introduced this female disciple, Zheng Zhilong and his ministers noticed that this Miss Makiko had bright eyes and good eyes, and her two eyes were like two autumn waters, as if she was looking for someone. She looked at Zheng Zhilong and their civil and military officials, and finally with a little disappointment and doubt, as if she hadn't found the person he was looking for.
These are the two most proud disciples of Miyamoto Taro, Miyamoto Taro has only done martial arts all his life, he looks like he is only in his 30s when he is nearly 50, and he traveled between the South and the East in East Asia when he was young. Visit famous teachers all over the world, and meet friends with martial arts. China alone came 8 times and stayed on and off for 5 years. At the age of 30, he officially opened the martial arts hall, and after nearly 20 years. His Hongkou military attache is famous in the country of cherry blossoms, and the peach and plum are all over the world. This time he picked 200 of the best disciples, and then in the martial arts realm of the Sakura Country. Another 600 martial arts ronins were hired, and 800 warriors came to meet Zheng Zhilong with the wishes of the Sakura Country government and the expectations of the Tagawa family and the Tokugawa shogunate.
After Taro Miyamoto introduced Makiko Tagawa, Zheng Zhilong remembered a past in his early years in the country of cherry blossoms, his first wife was a woman from the Tagawa family named Tagawa Matsu, this Tagawa Makiko turned out to be a member of the Tagawa family, and Tagawa Makiko had to call Zheng Zhilong an uncle.
Therefore, Zheng Zhilong remembered the experience in the cherry blossom country in his early years, sighed at the trampling of the sun and the moon, and the impermanence of life, and then had a sense of family affection for these Cherry Blossom Country ronins, especially this Miss Makiko Tagawa.
And this Makiko is also different from Zheng Zhilong, his grape-like eyes are shining with an abnormal light, containing a special feeling.
After Miyamoto finished his introduction, he bowed respectfully to Zheng Zhilong again: "Your Majesty, it is my honor and mission for Miyamoto to bring 800 warriors to your Majesty at any time and serve Your Majesty's Great Southern Empire. ”
Zheng Zhilong smiled, "Oh, haha, it's rare that Miyamoto-kun and all the warriors are so heartfelt, and I am very relieved." ”
Zheng Zhilong said a few polite words, but he was indeed a little disdainful in the face of hundreds of people.
Zheng Zhilong said secretly, it doesn't matter if General Tagawa and the Tokugawa Shogunate are unwilling to send troops, what's the use of getting these seven or eight hundred ronin? It's not a competition in the ring, it's not a river and lake here, I, Zheng Zhilong, have four or five hundred thousand elite soldiers, and I have lost battles, lost cities and land, and lost soldiers, what achievements can these hundreds of people have?
It may be that this Miyamoto Taro saw Zheng Zhilong's disdain and disappointment, and smiled indifferently: "Your Majesty, it's not Miyamoto who is boasting, these eight hundred warriors can be worth thousands of horses and thousands of troops wherever they go, Your Majesty is interested in letting them perform martial arts for Your Majesty?" ”
Zheng Zhilong nodded after hearing this, and led hundreds of civil and military officials to the military field.
Commanded by Masao Ono himself, 800 Sakura Nation Ronin took off their robes, put down the Sakura Country saber, formed their own formation, and launched hand-to-hand combat with an order to choose their own opponents.
Don't look at them with their bare hands, these people are all in good shape, with the shadow of Chinese martial arts in judo, their bodies flashing, their fists are like meteors, and they knock their opponents to the ground in the blink of an eye. And the opponent jumped up from the ground, continued to fight, they went up, eight or nine feet high, down, no sound, fists and wind, sometimes feet down, banging a muffled thunderous sound, and then look at the marble floor tiles on the ground have been shattered, it can be seen that they have soft and hard kung fu.
Zheng Zhilong and the others were all shocked when they saw this, and burst into applause from time to time, and they all had unique skills.
This Miyamoto Taro had a smug look on his face, but he only bowed slightly.
Then 800 people began to stage a collective dance of knives, each pulling the sword, the cold light flashed, this oriental knife is different, the blade is narrow and long, the handle is also long, the whole knife is nearly five feet long, and it is murderous in the hand.
Ono gave an order, and 800 people practiced a set of swordsmanship, the sword light flickered, the whistling sound, fierce as the wind, fast as lightning, and thunderous.
Zheng Zhilong is also an expert in martial arts, and at first glance, these people are not only powerful in fist and foot kung fu, but also have unique knife skills. If these people go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, it is definitely a terrible force.
Zheng Zhilong showed a smile at this time.
After the 800 Sakura Nation Ronin finished the drill, Zheng Zhilong and the others thought it was over, but Miyamoto said, "Ono-kun? ”
"Hey!" Commander Ono agreed, put down the Toyo sword, and then bowed deeply to Zheng Zhilong and the ministers again, and then stood still in the middle of the martial arts arena, and withdrew his shirt and went naked.
At this time, Miyamoto said to Zheng Zhilong: "Your Majesty, can you borrow a musket?" ”
Zheng Zhilong was startled, so he nodded, and soon his fifth brother Zheng Zhibao asked his subordinates to bring a arquebus, Miyamoto personally raised the gun and aimed at Ono Jean to light the arquebus, everyone was stunned, this soldier did not dare to light it, and finally it was Tagawa Makiko who lit the arquebus, a burst of white smoke, Zheng Zhilong's ministers were too timid to look at it and closed their eyes.
"Phew!" With a bang, the bullet hit Ono's chest 50 meters away, but Ono was unharmed......