Chapter 150: The Netherlands Comes to Japan's Aid
The landing battle was not ordinarily smooth, and it only took two days to log in to Nagasaki, Fukuoka, perhaps out of his own wishful thinking, or because he was worried that the Marines would steal the limelight from Zheng Jiajun. Zheng Zhilong unexpectedly did not take advantage of the victory, but ordered the marine combat route to be corrected in rotation. The Zheng pirates, who had just arrived, came forward to sweep up the resisting army.
Shen Xing was originally very entangled in his heart, the Marines had long been strict in military discipline and would not kill innocents indiscriminately under his own three Shen and Five orders, but now facing Japan, a bandit country, not to mention the invasion of later generations, even the coastal robberies of the Ming Dynasty can also make people hate the root of their teeth.
If they follow the style of the Marine Corps, they will definitely only kill the resisters, and they will definitely not commit any crimes against the people along the coast, but how can such a move solve the hatred in Shen Xing's heart, if they don't kill now, they will kill a fart when they are all occupied. Zheng Zhilong made such an adjustment, and was originally afraid that Shen Xing would come forward to obstruct it.
But surprisingly, Shen Xing not only did not get angry, but also praised it a lot, and even unexpectedly came to a pre-war mobilization.
"Soldiers, the Japanese barbarians have long been separated from our China, and since the Tang Dynasty, they have been deeply helped by us, learning our writing, culture, and ...... It can be said that they are children raised by China, but do you know? They are immature tigers and wolves! During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, China's coastal areas were repeatedly plundered by Japanese pirates, and they killed people when they saw them, and the three-year-old children were not spared...... The province of Korea has been captured by them several times! The accumulated white bones of your ancestors are still vividly remembered, not because China is unkind, but because the blood debt should be tasted with blood! The city is broken, the blade is bloody, and all the seizures are your own! ”
"Long live, long live, long live China! Blood debt and blood taste! ”
"Xing'er, wouldn't this be too much! It will be difficult for a father to appease the local people in the future! Zheng Zhilong was bleeding painfully in his heart at the moment, he regretted making such a move, and originally planned to secretly discuss with the Tokugawa shogunate to see if he could invade Japan without bloodshed. Now that Shen Xing is stirred up like this, Mao's plan is useless.
The 100,000 pirates who had finally managed to regain their hearts were now released from their true natures all at once, and Shen Xing felt terrible just thinking about it. "Father-in-law, the character of the Japanese nation is well understood, they will only succumb to the strong, do not beat them to the heart, break the backbone, they will not die to join our Chinese empire, what I want is long-term peace and stability, let them identify with China from the bottom of their hearts, and dare not give birth to a rebellious heart for a hundred years or even a thousand years! By the way, you bother to inform me, don't kill children and young women, we are still short of people! ”
Zheng Zhilong was speechless, his face kept twitching, his godson should really be a living Hades! The city is broken and bloody, and after the war, a million men and women will be pulled to China lightly, so that there is a light island left to manage a ball for themselves! Complaining is complaining, and he didn't have the courage to say it to his face, so he could only privately ask those leaders to kill less.
Of course, the descendants of Tokugawa Ieyasu are not muddy, but their ancestors also worked hard to lay down such a country with a knife and an arrow, as the saying goes, the tiger father has no dog? The ass has just sat down for a few years and is about to be surrendered, and there must be no door, and the Tokugawa family killed it without even reading the letter sent by Zheng Zhilong, and even cut it with a messenger.
Nagasaki and Fukuoka fell, the whole country of Japan was shocked, 780,000 ronins spontaneously gathered everywhere to fight against the Chinese invading army, and the Tokugawa shogunate also did its best to gather 150,000 troops. People's livelihood has just improved, and although the population has increased, the light and strong people who may go to the battlefield are overstretched.
In 1600, the Battle of Sekigahara established the world of the Edo shogunate, and in 1603, Tokugawa Ieyasu visited the shogun in Edo, established the shogunate in Edo, and established a unified and centralized shogunate, known as the Tokugawa shogunate or Edo shogunate, and began his rule for more than 260 years.
At that time, although the emperor enjoyed high prestige and was nominally the supreme ruler of the country, he had no real power, and the real power was in the hands of the shogun. The shogun was also the largest feudal lord, directly administering a quarter of the country's land and many important cities, and the rest of the country was divided into more than 200 "feudal domains," large and small.
Both the shogun and the daimyo kept their own retainers, the samurai, from whom the samurai received fiefs and rice, but had to be loyal to the shogun or daimyo, and these samurai were generally professional soldiers with the privilege of swords, and they formed the basis of the shogunate's rule, thus forming a feudal system of rule consisting of the shogunate and the feudal domain, the shogunate system. In order to cultivate the samurai as a pillar of ideology, the Tokugawa shogunate vigorously promoted the "bushido" spirit of loyalty, righteousness, and courage that the samurai should have in order to serve and die for them.
In 1616, the second shogun, Tokugawa Hidetada, took further measures to ban Christianity. The main contents are: First, further banning Catholicism, especially thoroughly eradicating Catholics among the peasants; Second, all foreign ships were not allowed to trade in the daimyo territory, and could only engage in trade activities in Nagasaki and Heido.
Third, Chinese vessels are not subject to this regulation. At the same time, the control of the trade in vermilion seals was strengthened, prohibiting the western daimyo from owning large ships with a load of more than 500 koku, and issuing seals only to a few wealthy merchants in Kyoto who were close to the shogun. Even so, some daimyo in the west were still privately doing business with Western merchants in order to increase their economic power and obtain advanced weapons, and the shogunate was very uneasy.
In 1623, the shogunate issued a decree prohibiting Spanish ships from coming to Japan. Then, from February 1633 to July 1639, the Tokugawa shogunate issued the so-called "Closed Nation Decree" five times in a row.
The main contents are: first, the prohibition of Japanese ships to trade at sea and the exchange of Japanese people with overseas countries, and the death penalty for stowaways; Second, Catholic missionary activities should be banned, and missionaries who infiltrated Japan should be denounced and arrested, so as to prevent the spread of Catholicism in Japan. Third, foreign ships arriving in Japan were closely monitored, and trade activities were strictly controlled by the shogunate. In this way, Japan's "closed national system" was finally established.
In 1639, the shogunate ordered the severance of trade with Portugal. Prior to this, English merchants had voluntarily withdrawn from Japan in 1623 due to their defeat in the competition with the Dutch. The Netherlands was a Protestant country that did not carry out missionary activities in Japan, which was approved by the shogunate, and Dutch merchants had supported the shogunate's suppression of peasant uprisings, so the shogunate granted permission to trade with the Dutch. In addition, China, North Korea, Japan's traditional foreign trading countries, can still trade with Japan.
However, trade with Japan was also strictly regulated and could only be carried out in Nagasaki. Because Nagasaki was a direct domain of the shogun, it was easy to control, and the shogunate did not want the daimyo of the feudal kingdom to enjoy the huge benefits of foreign trade and increase their power.
But now the Zheng family's 100,000 tiger and wolf vanguard are attacking the city, burning, killing and looting like divine help, and the 50,000 Manchurian cavalry and 30,000 light cavalry of Korea Province who arrived later are even more wanton and harassing all parts of Japan as if they were in a no-man's land. Tokugawa Hidenaka was a difficult opponent to fight, despite his efforts to gather troops from all over the country to block it.
However, the trend of the war became worse and worse, and in less than a month, most of Japan's territory was already in the hands of the enemy. In desperation, he made a compromise with the Dutch East India Company, hoping to exchange it for military assistance.
In the face of a large number of favorable conditions and countless gold and silver promises, the Dutch did not know whether to live or die, and readily agreed to Tokugawa Hidenaka's request, and also very forcefully dispatched more than 200 warships from their Java headquarters to support, as if they had forgotten the painful lesson of more than 50 ships that were wiped out by the Shen family caravan three years ago.
The Zheng army, which was carried away by the victory, was undisciplined by the rest of the army, and when they attacked all the way to Nagoya, they were caught off guard by the Dutch muskets that suddenly appeared, and they suffered heavy casualties under the attack of the Dutch artillery, which also made the Dutch get carried away with joy, thinking that the Chinese army was as vulnerable as the natives of the colonies they had occupied before.
However, the Manchurian cavalry suffered negligible damage due to the mobility of changing places with one shot, but the overwhelming offensive of the Chinese army was also stopped by the addition of Dutch mercenaries, and the two sides launched a battle for the city in a half-month-long battle.
In the Chinese Provisional Command and Operations Department in Osaka, Zheng Zhilong's beard trembled and smashed several teacups one after another, and he was angry not that the Dutch suddenly joined, but that the 100,000 sailors he had painstakingly trained for several years were still as stupid as pigs. In the face of a sudden battle situation, it collapsed in an instant.
Not to mention half of the casualties, in the end, it was necessary to rely on Dolgon's cavalry to suppress the formation to barely maintain the battle situation, he remembered that he had boasted of Haikou before and was ashamed of indescribable, if there was no 100,000 marines to join Shen Xing in the future, his trip to attack Japan would not mention the loss of troops and would be beaten and fled.
"Waste, it's really waste, what do you say about the land of projectiles on weekdays, I think you want to make me tired to death, why are you kneeling in front of me, go to ** adult, then ask for guilt!"
Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Zhibao were wrapped around their heads, the other wrapped their hands and covered in blood, and the few generals who followed them were not neat, and when they heard Zheng Zhilong's words, they were surprised and sweat beads kept falling. Shen Xing's methods of governing the army are well known to passers-by, and now even three-year-old children on the street know how to recite Shen Jiajun's ten killing orders.
The first one is to take the enemy lightly! "**, for the sake of me waiting for more than 30 cities in Lianke, please give me a chance to atone for my sins!" Shen Xing carefully checked the topographic map drawn by the staff officers, and after a while, he stretched his muscles and shook his head to walk in front of the group. He looked at Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Zhibao's faces with extremely serious faces.