Chapter Thirty-Nine: Capturing the Shogunate's Treasure Wu Sangui's soldiers besieged Andake

The daimyo said, "Yes! Even if they are killed, they will not be handed over to the kiln people! "Why didn't you deal with them earlier, it has become a burden to leave them now!" "Yes! We're going to leave food for those who can fight! ”

Tokugawa Ietsuna waved his hand to stop the daimyo and said, "Don't worry about this, you also know that the people of Yaogang have already conquered Kyushu and Shikoku Island. Now it has landed from Edo again. We fought this battle in Edo, and tens of thousands of people were killed and wounded. Now it's time for us Japanese to live and die. Let's talk about what to do, shall we? ”

Some of the daimyo scolded in their hearts: "Usually you don't care about us little daimyo at all at all, but now you ask us what to do." Usually we pay a little less food tribute every year, you don't dare to do it, and now it's you who should contribute. ”

The daimyo all bowed their heads and remained silent, and the Tokugawa family scolded angrily: "Are you Yamato men? Are we exterminated by the Kiln Gangsters, can you be okay? ”

A daimyo said: "General, since we are here, we just want to fight with you to the end against the Yaogang people, and we will listen to you!" ”

The daimyo also knew that if they didn't unite now, they would really be completely wiped out by the kiln people, and they had to give up everything and fight the enemy with one heart, so they all expressed to the Tokugawa family that they would fight with the kiln people to the end, and would rather break the jade than surrender.

When Tokugawa Ietsuna heard the daimyo say this, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's good! Although we have a large number of people, we belong to the major names, and from now on we must have a unified command so that we can form a force. Then, Tokugawa Ietsuna appointed a family general to unify and organize the armies of the major names.

After sending off the daimyos, a family will come to the Tokugawa family's tent. Tokugawa Ietsuna looked at the housekeeper and didn't speak, and the head followed Tokugawa Ietsuna to the back tent, came to Tokugawa Iezuna's side and whispered: "Everything is arranged, and the outsiders over there have taken care of it." The rest are our people! ”

Tokugawa Ietsuna nodded and said, "Well done!" You'll be back there tomorrow, and you won't need to do it here. You just have to get things done over there! ”

"Yes!" The general agreed, bowed and went out.

Tokugawa Ietsuna had already arranged for this general to quietly transport all the gold and silver treasures of the shogunate to a small island with only thirty or forty households, and hid all the treasures under the houses of these families and buried them. For fear of leaking the news, they killed the men, women and children here and buried them on the island after disposing of the treasures. Their men changed into civilian clothes and lived on the island to guard the goods.

The shogun quietly came to see Tokugawa Ietsuna, and it was back to report to him. Of course, Tokugawa Ietsuna would not let him stay here, but still ordered him to return to the island to guard his belongings.

Mt. Norikura is one of the tallest mountains in Japan, with gentle terrain and lush trees, making it ideal for concealed armies. However, the Japanese, who were familiar with the situation here, arranged ambush positions on several necessary routes. They wanted to take advantage of the easy ambush of the army in the mountains, and take advantage of the favorable terrain to attack the pursuing soldiers of Yaogang.

Because the Japanese evacuated so completely, all the evacuated villages were burned down, and the kiln people never found out where the main force of Tokugawa Ietsuna was. However, Wu Sangui judged based on his feelings that the Japanese would definitely choose a favorable terrain to attack themselves when they marched south. Otherwise, they also know that they will not take advantage of it at all. So where is this vantage point?

Wu Sangui's scouts were not given in vain, a group of five scouts rode horses and saw that some ruts on a small road were very deep, and from the horseshoe prints, there were several horses pulling the cart, and they must have pulled heavy objects on the cart. Curiously, they followed the rut to a seashore. Just as they were buried and looked at the sea, the sound of several fast horses running from behind them was heard. The Scouts immediately went into hiding.

Soon six fast horses came running from behind, and the scouts looked like they were Japanese.

They let these fast horses go and continue to lie in ambush. The horses ran to the seashore, and with a whistle, a small boat was swung out from under a cliff by the sea. The scouts quietly surrounded the sea, and just as they were hiding behind a reef to take a good look at these people, suddenly, the Japanese sent out several hidden weapons, and the two scouts immediately caught the guy.

As soon as the rest were exposed, they picked up their muskets and "bumpered" and fired at them.

The shotgun iron sand hit five Japanese at once, and the other body was agile and couldn't dodge, so he hid behind the horse and dodged the blow. The gunshots were thought of, and the man hiding behind the horse jumped up in the air and slashed at the scouts, and in a flash of lightning, the scouts were too late to dodge, so they had to stretch out their muskets and stab the jumping guy. There is no way to do it. At the critical moment, a brother who fell to the ground and was injured shot at the guy in the air with a "bump" of his gun.

This guy who jumped up, his martial arts are not ordinarily high, but when he is in the air, it is too late to dodge in the face of the iron sand that shoots over. I had to pull a knife flower and try to resist the iron sand. But no matter how fast the knife is, it can't stop the iron sand. This one was hit in the air with countless pieces of iron sand and fell to the ground. The scout was not ambiguous, and when he landed, the scout, who knew that this man was very good at martial arts, had loaded his bullets and approached his knife-wielding right arm, and the other shot him in the leg. No matter how high your martial arts are, it is useless to be broken by iron sand.

The scout picked up the ** and knocked the wounded man unconscious, then tied him up before giving him gold medicine to stop the bleeding. Wave your hand to the boatman who was standing in the boat stupidly and let him come. But the boatman was dumb, and he didn't know what to say.

The scouts dragged the dead horse and the dead man ashore and buried them in a ditch, and brought in two horses that could still be ridden, and tied the boatman and tied him to the horse, and put the wounded master on the horse.

They went back and told the situation, Wu Sangui felt that this person must be unusual, such a martial arts person must have a special mission when he goes to the seaside. Immediately asked the military doctor to retreat his wound. The medic said that the man's legs and one arm could not be saved. The iron sand on the body has to be found slowly.

Wu Sangui said: "Just save his life, and don't let him commit suicide." ”

The next day, the man finally woke up, and Wu Sangui's scouts asked the interpreter to interrogate the man, but the man didn't say a word, and the scouts used a lot of means, but it was useless. The angry Wu Sangui jumped straight, but he was reluctant to kill him.

Mu Yi heard about this and asked Wu Sangui to send this person to the ship safely no matter what.

On the ship, the trained Marine Scouts spent half a day recruiting all of this guy, and they asked what to say.

Even the dumb boatman was not dumb.

Wu Sangui's scouts showed their faces, and through this captive, they not only learned that Tokugawa Ietsuna was ambushed there, but also knew where Tokugawa Ietsuna's belongings were hidden. Wu Sangui happily said to Mu Yi on the radio: "Commander Mu, how is it?" My scout is not ambiguous! ”

"Huh! Old Wu, you have shown a big face. I think it's too late to deal with the Tokugawa Ietsuna, and we have to wait for the army behind us, so a large mountainous area, and it's easy for us to suffer if we go to a small number of people. ”

"Hmmm! I look at the island thing, we can't delay it too long. Is it that your sailors are going to do this job, stealing chickens and dogs, they are good at it? Wu Sangui joked.

"Huh! You guy, what is it called stealing chickens and touching dogs, that's called special operations! Mu Yi also smiled, "I'll tell the Marine Corps to do this!" But you scouts are going to follow them! ”

Mu Yi arranged for a company of marines to deal with the Japanese on the island where Tokugawa Ietsuna hid his treasure. Before leaving, Mu Yi personally called the company commander and instructor of this company over and said to them: "I can rest assured that you are going to deal with more than 100 Japanese, although they are all strong in martial arts, as long as you do not underestimate the enemy, I believe that they are not your opponents." Your more important task is to protect the property in its place after it has been seized until our ship arrives to retrieve it safely. Do you understand? ”

"Understood!" The two saluted.

"Now on the west coast, there are no warships, and you will have to get a few more boats when you cross Haideng Island." Mu Yi instructed with confidence.

The company commander smiled and said, "Commander Mu, we are a marine corps, so we are not a layman on the ship!" ”

Mu Yi was also happy when he heard what he said, "Stinky boy, don't mess things up with Lao Tzu!" Go ahead! ”

"Yes!" The two saluted and went out.

The boatman, who pretended to be dumb, spoke quickly in front of the Marines. He confessed: "My family is on the island, and the general told me to cooperate with them and listen to them, and they will ensure the safety of my family." They told me to pretend to be dumb and not to talk to anyone, or else I would cut out my tongue and kill my family. ”

When this person is told, his family on the island and everyone on the island have been killed. This man didn't believe anything, and the Marine Corps company commander knew that he didn't want to believe it. When he calmed down, the company commander said to him: "As long as you cooperate with us to go to the island, we will help you avenge your family feud!" ”

The man cried and said, "There are my parents, my wife and my son on the island. Promise to take those men and give them to me, and I will take you to the island. ”

"Good! I promise you! The company commander immediately agreed.

The company, with one horse per man and other horses carrying equipment, took the boatman with them and galloped quickly to the west coast.

When I got to the beach, with the help of this boatman, I quickly got a few boats. They fixed the time, set sail at dawn, and when it was dark, they approached the island. In the darkness of the night, five marines put on their diving gear under the boatman's astonished gaze, then rolled over and went into the sea and disappeared.

They dived to the island and quietly went ashore, unloaded the diving equipment, took out the ****, used the waves to impact the cover of the sound on the shore, and quietly found the ambush Japanese secret sentinel, and used the **** to solve the light and dark sentinel in this direction one by one. Then he flashed his flashlight three times into the sea. The sea also flashed back three times.

Several ships quietly approached, and all the marines went to the island. Search around the island for a circle of people and dispose of all the light and dark sentinels around it.

There's nothing going on on the island, and those guys go to bed early. The boatman, who was anxious for revenge, led the marines and searched for the Japanese from house to house. Originally, everything went well, but when I met a guy who came out to change the guard, I found that there were many people walking quietly in the village, and knowing that the situation was not good, I picked up a musket and fired a shot to report to the other Japanese.

At this gunshot, the whole village was thrown into chaos, and the Japanese who rushed out of each room waved their knives and screamed one by one, and the marines did not have to worry about the gunfire revealing their targets, and there were gunshots everywhere. No prisoners have been captured since the gunshots were fired. Because these people were all samurai of the Tokugawa family, and none of them surrendered. Besides, the marines of the navy did not want to risk taking prisoners in this black light, and they still felt that the dead Japanese were safe. The captives were all caught in their sleep by entering the house from the front.

Afraid that there would be a slip through the net, the marines dared to relax overnight, and when it was dawn, the boatman led the landing team to thoroughly search the island and make sure that nothing had slipped through the net. That's when the digging began.

This time the digging began, and the Marines were stunned. There are more than 30 households, and there are things buried underground. Afraid of moisture, they buried everything in the ground of the room, even though the boxes were tightly wrapped in two layers of tarpaulin. There are too many boxes.

After making sure that his family had been killed, the boatman cried enough, and then said to the Marines: "These people have cordoned off their village a long time ago, and ordered all the men in their village to participate in digging the pit. A lot of the boxes were shipped very early. The last batch of boxes had just arrived. ”

The main ones seized were gold and silver, and there were many antiques. However, the boatman provided a message saying: "It seems that there is more than one place to hide things. This island is the closest to Honshu. A lot of documents and the like were shipped and hidden somewhere else. I've heard a little bit about it once in a while, but I didn't dare to ask about it. ”

The Marines fulfilled their promise and handed over more than 30 people captured alive to the boatman.

To the surprise of the Marines, the cowardly-looking boatman picked up a knife and cut off the captives one by one. In the end, he couldn't cut his head, so he directly wiped his neck with the blade. More than thirty people were killed. Strangely, none of the more than thirty people begged for mercy. They were all killed one by one.

It seems that the samurai of the Tokugawa family are really kind, but it's useless to have a kind of dead one.

The command center received the news from Mu Yi and instructed Mu Yi to send a warship to transport all the belongings back as soon as possible. Only then did Mu Yi feel that this battle was fought well, as if something was missing. After such a long battle, the gold and silver seized were too little. Mu Yi used the radio to talk about the situation with Wu Sangui and Zheng Zhilong, and both agreed with Mu Yi's opinion. However, Zheng Zhilong said: "I don't think this is the fault of our officers and soldiers." I think that the Japanese here have often had wars in the past, and they all know how to hide their belongings. In the future, we will pay special attention to these things. ”

Unbeknownst to Tokugawa Ietsuna, one of the islands where he had hidden his belongings had been occupied by the Yaogang people. His plan to send people to carry out a counterattack on Kyushu also failed, and the two warships of Yaogang came to the Seto Inland Sea, and all the ships along the coast were robbed by them. It is impossible to cross the sea without a boat. Even if there is a ship, the Yaogang warship is here, and no one dares to cross the sea.

Mu Yi and the others calmed down, and after several troop moves, Wu Sangui began to command the army to press down on the Tokugawa Ietsuna of Mt. Norikura.

By this time, the Tokugawa Ietsuna had gathered more than 500,000 people in the mountainous area of the area.

However, Wu Sangui and his side can only dispatch more than 3,000 marines, an infantry regiment, and Wu Sangui's cavalry corps and an infantry corps that they have just reorganized, that is, 70,000 people. However, they had heavy artillery and gun carriages, as well as delta-wing aircraft.

After reconnaissance and understanding of the situation, Wu Sangui knew that the side of Cheng'anyue was suitable for cavalry combat artillery vehicles and heavy artillery tractors. This made Wu Sangui feel much more confident in his heart.

In fact, Mu Yi was not very relieved about Wu Sangui, because Wu Sangui was not familiar with the fighting style of the kiln gang after all, so he sent a staff team to follow Wu Sangui to act together, and Mu Yi was also remotely commanded on the ship.

The preset positions originally prepared by Tokugawa Ietsuna were on both sides of the mountain road where the Yaogang people had to pass through several places when they advanced southward, and they had to carry out layers of ambushes to attack the Yaogang army. However, Wu Sangui would not listen to the Tokugawa Ietsuna, he knew that the headquarters of the Tokugawa Ietsuna was in Mt. Norikura, and he was determined to capture Mt. Norikura. Therefore, Wu Sangui abandoned the Japanese on other hills, and aimed directly at Mount Norikura.

In order to ensure the safety of the Norikura headquarters, Tokugawa Ietsuna cut down a large number of trees, built several layers of fences on the top of Mt. Norikura, set up a grassroots camp, and built many forts on the mountain.

The character of the Japanese is like this, and Tokugawa Ietsuna saw the strong camp and his confidence returned. He believed that even if the ambush could not be successful, this camp was enough to ensure that the Yaogang people could not attack in a short time. In particular, the anti-artillery headquarters they dug deep can ensure that they are not attacked by the cannons of the kiln gangsters. Because it was dug out on the foundation of a cave.

The Japanese also learned a lesson to prevent being attacked by the kiln gang people, and they placed a lot of wooden barrels with water on the mountain. They don't know yet that the fire of *** cannot be extinguished with water.

After the delta wing scouts washed out the photos taken, Wu Sangui clapped his hands happily after reading it and said, "Great! Tokugawa Ietsuna set up a cage for himself. However, it is also amazing that we take pictures from the air to investigate. No matter how Tokugawa Ietsuna disguised it, he couldn't disguise it from his head. ”

After discussing with Mu Yi, Wu Sangui decided to start with Tokugawa Ietsuna and strive to eliminate Tokugawa Ietsuna in this battle, so as to speed up the process of the Japanese war.

Wu Sangui took advantage of one night with a large group of men and horses, and suddenly drove to the foot of Chenganyue Mountain, and arranged an army to send reinforcements. Five artillery wagons were placed in front of the position, and twenty 130 heavy guns were placed at the bottom of the mountain. Thirty infantry guns, more than 60 120 heavy mortars, and more than 150 60 mortars were concentrated in front of the formation.

Wu Sangui ordered to eat the war meal early, and when it was dawn, the cavalry was in formation.

All the muzzles of the guns were pointed at Tokugawa Iesuna and their camp at Mt. Norikura.

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New progress in "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty": the Battle of Yashan, the defeat of the Yuan army, the counterattack of the Song army, and the landing in Fuzhou.