Riding in the middle of Nagasaki Castle, he was walking with a dozen Dutch merchants in the direction of the port. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The Dutch gave Baba a sum of money in the hope of expanding the size of the Dutch Trade Center. Horse farm Li got the money and immediately went to the field to point out the room for expansion for the Dutch.

A dozen or so Ashigaru armed with ten-character guns opened the way in front, and Baba led the Dutch proudly to carve a path through the crowd.

On both sides of the road, shops are bustling and decent tiled roofs are lined up.

After more than a decade of development, Nagasaki has surpassed Hirado to become Japan's largest trading port. Every year, hundreds of trading ships dock here. These ships are all large ships carrying hundreds of thousands of catties of goods, loaded with raw silk and porcelain of the Ming Dynasty. Bring an endless source of silver and prosperity to the Japanese

With more than 40,000 inhabitants living in the port of Nagasaki, Japan has a population of just over 10 million.

Because it was a city formed by merchants, Nagasaki lacked planning, and the roads in the city were narrow, and buildings were built one after another. Because there were many wealthy merchants, the city was full of elegantly decorated luxury shops - raw silk was used to make silk, samurai clothes were made for the fine samurai, porcelain from China was more expensive, and goods brought in by the maritime merchants were things that the peasants could not afford.

Because of the concentration of merchants, it has become the commercial center of Kyushu. Not only are luxury goods brought from the Ming Dynasty for sale, but even wholesale traders of rice, iron and pottery are gradually gathering here. The streets of the city are lined with Japanese-style flags and signs, reflecting the bustling city.

Every month, the city brought a lot of money to the Tokugawa shogun's family.

Nagasaki has a high position of authority, and it is the object of competition among maritime merchants from all over the world. Every month, the horse farm receives a lot of gifts. Some of the gifts are handicrafts, luxury goods, and some are naked silver. Horse farm Toshige prefers the latter to the former. Baba hopes to save a large sum of silver when he leaves office.

In fact, the shogun also knew that Nagasaki had plenty of oil and water for this position, and he turned a blind eye to Nagasaki's acceptance of gifts.

Toshishige Baba was chatting with the Dutch right away, when he suddenly heard a loud "boom" not far away.

What exploded?

Toshishige and the Dutchman followed the sound and looked ahead, but before they could react to the explosion of something, they heard a series of thunderous explosions exploding in all directions. The explosions of "boom" and "boom" could not be stopped like a series of cannons, and there were hundreds of them, which became more and more dense, and finally merged into a loud noise.

Toshishige Baba turned pale with fright, and he didn't know where to hide on his horse. He suddenly saw a dark shadow smash into a merchant building on the right side of the front, and after a while, a huge spark exploded from the merchant house.

A loud "boom" burst out with the shock wave, blasting a large hole in the wooden wall of the merchant hall. Pieces of wood spurted out of the merchant house with sparks from the large hole, stabbing several pedestrians on the road.

Riding on his horse, he looked around and noticed that after the explosion, the fire had come out of many buildings. More than a dozen black pillars of smoke appeared in Nagasaki Castle, striking out against the clear sky where the fog had just cleared.

"Enemy attack!"

The soldiers in Nagasaki Castle began to roar loudly. Their roars, however, were not so much a reminder to the citizens as they were to embolden themselves. So far, there have been hundreds of explosions in the city, but the soldiers don't even know where the attack came from.

The attacks appear to have come from outside the pier, and the explosions appear to have been caused by artillery shells. But what shell can hit so far? Shoot into Nagasaki Castle, a few miles behind the pier. And this shell will also explode?

The Japanese had very backward cannon casting technology, and they called the cannon "national collapse". Large-caliber artillery is rare in Japan, and flowering shells are even more unheard of by the Japanese.

The citizens of the city were in disarray, screaming and fleeing to their homes. Although the home is as dangerous as the road under this barrage of bombardment, the citizens still subconsciously think that their homes will be safer.

The Ashigaru soldiers near Baba Toshishige sprang into action, and they surrounded Baba Toshishige in the middle with spears, trying to protect the Tokugawa shogun's chief official with human flesh as shields.

The panicked Dutch, on the other hand, were completely unprotected and looked in the direction of the port.

After a long time, three cavalrymen with small flags of the Tokugawa family on their backs rushed over. They rushed to the horse and jumped off their horses, knelt down on one knee and said loudly: "In the temple, dozens of Chinese ships have come from outside the port, and there are hundreds of national collapses on board, shooting at Nagasaki Port. ”

Baba Toshishi's face turned pale with shock. Chinese? Hundreds of national collapses? Shoot Nagasaki a few miles away? This makes people feel unbelievable, and the tactics suddenly make Baba Toshige lose his ability to think.

"Where did the Chinese come from?"

The cavalry kneeling on the ground replied: "The alert ships that escaped back said that those big ships were flying the big flag with the character Li, and it was probably the fleet of Li Zhi of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

Sure enough, it was Li Zhi's fleet. Did Li Zhi really drive a huge ship to attack Japan?

Horse Farm was still surprised, and suddenly saw hundreds of black dots in the air shooting at a rapid pace. The black dots of death pierced the sky at a rapid pace, shooting into the streets and alleys of Nagasaki Castle, into the houses of merchants, through the rudimentary walls of the Japanese wooden planks, and into the deepest part of the building.

Frightened, he jumped off his horse and almost rolled to the ground.

"Boom!"

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

"Boom! Rumble! ”

Huge sparks burst out from the point where the shells landed. There were explosions everywhere in the city, and chaos was shattered. I don't know how many people were killed in the roaring explosion. The panicked citizens began to realize that the houses could not protect them, and fled to the road, running around like headless flies.

Flames emerged from the bombed wooden houses, and gradually began to engulf them. Some people were carrying water to fight the fire, but many more lost their minds under the fear caused by the shells and ran around, not thinking of carrying water to save their own houses.

In the panicked city, the flames grew stronger and began to spread to the surrounding buildings.

Another burst of screams was heard, and hundreds of death-like flowering bombs flew in, smashing into the port of Nagasaki, Japan's only foreign trade port.

A cannonball slammed into the dirt road a few feet away from the racecourse. The smoking seal made Ma Changli's scalp tingle. A junior samurai shouted "Beware! He pounced on Baba Rishige.

"Boom", that shell exploded. The iron projectile swept across the surrounding space of several meters, and the two Ashigaru soldiers, who were slow to escape, were stabbed to death on the spot.

Panic spread rapidly in the port of Nagasaki, where tens of thousands of people lived.

In the sound of explosions one after another, the whole city lost its cool. Obviously, these terrible shells will soon engulf the whole of Nagasaki. With no one left to care about the raging fire, the townspeople rushed into the house to rescue their children and money, and then fled out of the city.