The bodies of the samurai in the valley have been buried in a large pit, but on the stones on both sides of the valley, still

Li Zhi stood at the foot of the hill and looked at the mountains and forests on the mountain with a telescope. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoOccasionally, you can see a samurai figure in the mountains. But it is obscured by dense woods, and it is not clear to see.

However, the steep cliffs on three sides of the hill made Li Zhi a little embarrassed.

The hill is steep on all three sides, except for the one facing the valley. If the troops had climbed such a hill, it would have been difficult for them to come down. Li Dingguo put a letter at the entrance of the hill, and the other three sides slightly arranged some manpower, and blocked the more than 20,000 warriors on the mountain.

60,000 men and 120,000 handcuffs were held at the foot of the mountain, which was enough to prevent any breakthrough of these wild warriors.

Li Dingguo knelt down and said, "King, the warriors on the mountain have been surrounded for two days. There was a mountain spring on the mountain, and the samurai had water to drink. But the samurai had no food and were probably exhausted by now. ”

Li Zhi looked at Li Dingguo and said with a smile: "You did a good job!" ”

Li Dingguo said loudly: "It's all the king's equipment. After our Yizi battalion was equipped with handcuffs and chain mail, its combat power was several times that of the original. If it was the original Koguang thief soldiers, they would not be able to defeat these samurai no matter what. ”

Li Zhi said: "After this battle, I will equip you with standard rifles to strengthen your firepower!" ”

Li Dingguo's face was overjoyed, and he kowtowed and shouted: "King Ende, the righteous word camp should be shrouded in broken bones and horse leather to repay!" ”

Li Zhi nodded and looked at the mountains and forests.

Liu Wenxiu, who was kneeling next to Li Dingguo, raised his head and asked, "King, are you going to kill all these warriors?" I think..."

Li Dingguo glared at Liu Wenxiu angrily, and drank: "The king's holy judgment, how can you be allowed to put your beak?" ”

Liu Wenxiu looked at Li Dingguo, his neck shrunk, and stopped talking.

Li Zhi smiled and asked, "Vice Dutong Liu, what do you think?" Let's talk about it. ”

Liu Wenxiu looked up at Li Dingguo, then at Li Zhi, and said boldly: "The last general thinks that these warriors are also pitiful people. Gathered in this mountain to be thieves, one by one is not afraid of death, and he is really a warrior. The king might as well spare them and let them return to the field..."

Li Dingguo said: "Childish! Disarming and returning to the field, can it ensure that these samurai will honestly farm and not rebel for the rest of their lives? ”

Liu Wenxiu said: "This... I just think that we have a confrontation with these samurai, and it would be too cruel to kill them all. ”

"And although we won a great victory by setting up an ambush this time, our Yizi battalion also suffered more than 700 casualties. It is said that there are still more than 20,000 samurai in the mountains, and if our army continues to attack in the mountains, I am afraid that there will be new casualties. ”

"It's better to surrender!"

Li Zhi thought for a moment, waved his hand and said to the two chief and deputy commanders, "You guys get up." ”

The two of them got up and stood beside Li Zhi. Li Zhi asked people to bring a small stool, sat down by himself, and sat there thinking.

Li Zhi was thinking about what to do with the samurai on the mountain, when he saw three samurai in the mountain forest walking down.

The three samurai were dressed in a single coat, holding their own samurai armor and hats, and carrying no weapons, apparently for peace talks.

The soldiers in front checked and let the three in.

The samurai at the head was a middle-aged man, kneeling in front of Li Zhi with two attendants, prostrate on the ground and shouting: "General, we have been defeated, we are willing to lay down our arms and surrender, please give us a way out!" ”

The translator translated the middle-aged man's words, and Li Zhi looked at the middle-aged man and was silent.

Seeing that Li Zhi did not speak, the samurai thought that Li Zhi was not ready to let them go. He kowtowed to the ground and said, "If the general doesn't worry about us, all the samurai on our mountain are willing to cut off their left hamstrings and become lame, and they will never raise their katana to fight again!" ”

Li Dingguo touched the scabbard on his waist and said, "You are already cornered, and now it is not a problem that can be solved by being willing to waste one leg!" ”

Li Zhi looked at Li Dingguo and couldn't make up his mind for a while.

In fact, killing 20,000 people is not a big deal, and Li Zhi doesn't know how many enemies he has killed along the way. These warriors hid in the mountains to resist Li Zhi, making it clear that they were mortal enemies with Li Zhi, and it was said that they could indeed be killed.

It's just Liu Wenxiu's plea, but it also made Li Zhi feel compassion. The enemy has surrendered, is it not necessary to kill them all?

Moreover, these samurai fought to the end because they destroyed Japan, and they were indeed patriotic warriors in spirit.

Li Zhi was hesitating, and the commander of the personal guard company behind him suddenly said: "Lord Wang, the little warrior on the left really looks like the second prince." ”

Li Zhi was stunned and looked at the young warrior.

The samurai looked no more than seventeen or eighteen years old, and was obviously a low-ranking samurai. Li Zhi glanced at this little warrior, but felt that he was indeed a little similar to his second son Li He.

The commander of the personal guard company behind Li Zhi said: "Lord Wang, these Japanese and us Han people look the same at all. ”

Li Zhi knew that this personal guard company commander was pitying these warriors, so he turned around and glanced at his personal guard company commander.

When the commander of the personal guard company saw the eyes of the king of Tianjin, he didn't dare to say any more and shut up.

The Ming people of this era did not experience Japan's war of aggression against China, and they did not have a bitter hatred for Japan. Since Li Zhi's invasion of Japan, he has been in a state of great strength, and there have been no casualties. Li Zhi's subordinates did not hate the Japanese, but they all had some compassion for the Japanese of the same culture.

Compared to the Malays in Luzon, and even more like the Jurchens by the Black Water, the Japanese look more like the Han Chinese.

Li Zhi was silent for a long time.

Everyone looked at Li Zhi and waited for Li Zhi's decision.

After thinking about it for a long time, Li Zhicai sighed: "That's it, they look so similar, they are all yellow people." Now that you have surrendered, why rush to kill them all? ”

Li Zhi waved his sleeves and said: "You are all warriors with martial arts, and it is impossible for you to return to the countryside with martial arts." It's too wasteful to cut the hamstrings, are you willing to join the army of the widows and be the dead soldiers of my one town and nine provinces to expand the territory? ”

"In the future, when the outnumbered invade Annam, Burma and Siam, the fighting in the mountains and mountains will be handed over to you warriors, how about it?"

The warrior on the ground glanced at Li Zhi in surprise, and saw that although Li Zhi's face was serious, he no longer had a murderous aura. The middle-aged samurai was suddenly overjoyed, and tears flowed uncontrollably.

He knocked on the ground with his head and said loudly: "We samurai have been defeated again and again, but the great general has been extrajudicial to the mercy. This grace of not killing, we will definitely repay it with our lives! Even if they all died in the southern mountains, we have no hesitation! ”

Li Zhi smiled and said, "Don't say it so tragically. You have a lot of money in the army! Fighting in the mountains, if you make meritorious service, there is a reward! Although you have to carry out more dangerous missions than the Tiger Ben Army and the Yizi Battalion, with your martial arts, the casualties against the natives of Indochina should not be too high. ”

"If you make a meritorious service, the widow may even give you a piece of land in the Indochina Peninsula!"

When the samurai on the ground heard the interpreter's translation, their faces turned red with excitement, as if they were in a dream.

Li Zhi actually wanted to give them the land. After conquering the South, they could still be samurai in Indochina who did not produce and specialized in warfare? What's the difference between that and the happy life before the fall of Japan?

The two squire warriors on the ground glanced at each other, their eyes full of surprise.

The middle-aged samurai said loudly, "If the king does not doubt me, I am willing to bring this condition into the mountains for the king and tell the remaining 20,000 samurai in the mountains." I think that if the adults are willing to hire us, all the samurai in the mountains will surrender immediately. ”

Li Zhi was stunned and said mockingly: "I thought you wanted 50,000 people to break the jade!" ”

Glancing at the commander of the personal guard company behind him, Li Zhi laughed.

"You samurai have endured hardships in the mountains for several years, and you can't stand it anymore because you can't eat enough and wear no warmth?"