On July 30, Li Zhi watched the 50,000 thieves and warriors standing all over the castle from the castle tower of Sunpu Castle. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Fifty thousand samurai were withdrawn from the mountains a few days ago. A few years of living as thieves made them very embarrassed, and they were all very thin. The original gorgeous armor on their bodies was torn, but there were no craftsmen to repair them, and they looked depressed.

And the samurai were a little ashamed, because they surrendered to the enemy. Before they entered the mountain, they fought to the end with the determination of the jade shatter. However, the samurai underestimated the corrosive will of a life of misery, and perhaps they could not hesitate to disembowel, but they could not stand hiding in the mountains like rats.

The hardships of several years of life were like heavy snow in winter, and little by little they crushed the proud backbone of the samurai. They were samurai, too accustomed to walking the streets in silk silk weaving, enjoying the superiority of the common people who had given way. They were accustomed to giving orders to their servants at home and sitting in front of the courtyard and drinking sake.

However, in the mountains, in addition to hunger, only cold remains, and the samurai huddle in the caves to resist, where is there still a bit of aristocratic decency?

And a few years later, Li Zhi's rule in Japan was rock solid. The 50,000 soldiers of the Tiger Army carried out military management in various places, and the collection of taxes and security ran very smoothly, and there was no crack in the slightest because of the resistance of the samurai in the mountains. The Japanese people are slowly getting used to the fate of the destruction of the Japanese state and the fate of Japan as a province of the Ming Dynasty.

And the 50,000 troops stationed in Japan also eliminated the possibility of samurai fighting out of the mountains.

The samurai felt more and more that it was pointless to hold on in the mountains.

So after Li Zhi issued the surrender order, the samurai came out of the mountain one after another and surrendered to Li Zhi.

However, even though these samurai looked down, the appearance of 50,000 samurai standing together in armor was still quite powerful.

Li Zhi looked at the old man standing at the front of all the samurai.

That old man was the leader of the samurai, the famous Japanese prince Sanada Nobuyuki. The old man was already so old that his hair was gray, and at this time he stood at the front of all the samurai with a cane in his hand, hunched over, with a look of embarrassment and helplessness.

Li Zhi waved his hand and said, "Let the leaders of these warriors come up." ”

After a while, Sanada Nobuyuki walked up to the castle tower with four samurai leaders.

Seeing Li Zhi, Sanada Nobuyuki led four generals to kneel on the ground and shouted loudly: "The wild samurai Sanada Nobuyuki led four generals to see His Highness." ”

Li Zhi sat on the chair and said, "Isn't the Sanada family resisting anymore?" ”

Sanada Nobuyuki said: "Your Highness is willing to hire the samurai of the mountains and let the samurai go to the battlefield to establish their achievements, and they have no position to continue to resist. Even if Sanada Nobuyuki ordered the samurai with his own strength, he could not restore the samurai's fading ambitions. ”

Li Zhi looked at Sanada Nobuyuki and said, "Are you quite helpless? You're not afraid I'll kill you? ”

Sanada Nobuyuki sighed: "The country is dead, the people are old, there is nothing to be done, and the river is flowing eastward." ”

Li Zhi laughed and said, "With such a helpless gesture of yours, aren't you afraid that I will kill your children and grandchildren?" ”

Sanada Nobuyuki's face turned grim and said, "The sadness of the country's demise is human nature. The king convinces people with virtue, and he will never destroy me because of a few words from Sanada Nobuyuki. ”

Li Zhi sneered and looked at the samurai behind Shinyuki Sanada.

"You have also come out and surrendered, and there are no more rebels in Japan, and now they are completely destroyed. Do you have the consciousness to forget about Japan and survive as a samurai of the Ming Dynasty? ”

When the four generals behind Sanada Nobuyuki heard Li Zhi's words, they burst into tears one by one and sobbed silently.

The four generals probably felt that their appearance was too unseemly, so they quickly kowtowed to Li Zhi and hid their tearful faces on the tatami mats.

"Your Highness, we have come to our senses!"

Li Zhi looked at the appearance of these warriors and was silent.

Sanada Nobuyuki said slowly: "Your Highness, rest assured, we in Japan... The samurai of the province did what they said, and since they had surrendered to the king, they already had the consciousness of being a minister of the Ming Dynasty. Although we can't help but be sad at this moment, since we have pledged our allegiance to His Highness, we will definitely accept our new identity, forget about Japan, and fight for the cause of the king. ”

"No matter how dangerous the battlefield, we will rush to the front line, use our martial arts and resourcefulness to fight the enemy until death."

Li Zhi smiled and said, "Okay, let me see your martial arts." ”

With a wave of his hand, the sturdy soldiers of the Fifty Nomenclature Battalion stepped out with wooden swords in hand and challenged the samurai standing there in front of the castle tower.

Li Zhi's interpreter shouted loudly: "Fifty samurai are out of the ranks to compete with His Highness's soldiers in martial arts. ”

The samurai looked at each other, and finally the fifty samurai closest to the soldiers of the Yoshiji Battalion walked out. They took the wooden swords from the hands of the soldiers of the Yizi Battalion, bowed to the soldiers, and began to compete in martial arts.

The bottom of the castle tower suddenly became lively, and the sound of a hundred people fighting together came and went, and the sound of wooden knives and wooden knives staggered everywhere was heard.

As they fought, some people's wooden knives slashed at each other's bodies, and the winners and losers were decided.

In the final result, the Yizi camp won 17 and lost 33.

Basically, the regular samurai were victorious. Most of the losers to the Yizi battalion were some low-ranking samurai who had been promoted from the peasants.

When the results came out, the soldiers of the Yizi battalion were a little annoyed. As the first unit to join, the soldiers of the Yoshiji Battalion are currently higher in status than the samurai. Losing the competition in front of people with lower status than themselves made the soldiers of the Yizi Battalion feel disgraced.

Standing on the castle tower, Lee Sik applauded the samurai's victory.

"Good martial arts, worthy of being a professional soldier who has practiced martial arts since childhood."

The four samurai generals behind Sanada Nobuyuki raised their heads and looked at Li Zhi with some expectation when they saw Li Zhi praising the samurai.

Li Zhi said: "The widows are about to attack the Yue Kingdom, and the warriors will fight in the mountains and dense forests. If the samurai can play a role in this war, I promise that you will all live a life of white rice and fish. And after conquering the entire Indochina Peninsula, I promise that each of you will be able to get a land in the Indochina Peninsula and become a landlord. ”

Hearing Li Zhi's words, the eyes of the samurai generals lit up.

In Li Zhi's words, he has given the samurai everything they want. Eating rice, eating fish, and becoming a landlord were the ultimate goals of the samurai's life. For this purpose, the samurai could die without hesitation.

"I am willing to die for His Highness!"

Sanada Nobuyuki led four samurai generals to prostrate on the ground, expressing complete surrender.

With a wave of his hand, dozens of interpreters ran down the castle tower and passed Li Zhi's order to the ranks of 50,000 samurai.

When the samurai heard the interpreter's words, their faces flushed with excitement. The shame of losing one's country and surrendering is gradually replaced by the excitement of a bright future. One by one, their eyes widened, and they knelt on the ground excitedly, prostrate themselves towards the castle tower where Li Zhi was.

Li Zhi held on to the railing of the castle tower platform, nodded and said, "The military heart is available, and the Indochina Peninsula is available!" ”