The so-called Jingguan is not simply a pile of corpses or human heads.

Whether it is rammed earth into a pyramid or built into a ring, in fact, it needs to have a certain architectural foundation.

Zhuang Jing led a team of Yulin Guard soldiers to inspect several places on the banks of the Dianchuan River, only to find a loess, this kind of loess is sticky, and with rice juice, the Jingguan will be strong and durable.

In particular, there is a Chongzen temple next to this place, and there is a Buddhist temple to resolve grievances and not be afraid of ghosts asking for life.

After several marches and battles, Zhuang Jing has clearly realized that he is not a general who is good at commanding troops.

Jinyiwei is his most suitable destination, and this kind of small-scale war and slaughter of families, he is more comfortable to do.

Since he already has the heart to leave a ruthless impression in front of His Highness, and wants to become a feared villain in the eyes of the Japanese people, he doesn't mind showing his more vicious side.

Therefore, he volunteered to take over the task of building a Beijing Temple, and had the intention to build a Beijing Temple here that would make the Japanese people fearful.

In addition, he also had to have people carve stone tablets to remember the battle and leave his name!

He just wants to make all the Japanese people hate him and fear him, even if it leaves a name for eternity!

"Commander Zhuang, this place is the most suitable place. In the future, if our Ming army stays here, it should also use the Yodogawa River as a base to guard the passage in and out of Osaka and Kyoto. The Beijing Temple was built here, and no Japanese dared to damage it. ”

Zhuang Jing smiled and said: "It doesn't matter if they are damaged, as long as the Jingguan is built for one day, it will be remembered in history!" As long as I can be remembered by the world, I don't care if he is a good name or a bad name! Let's go to the temple for a visit......"

The one who followed Zhuang Jing was only the general of Yulin Wei, and several other craftsmen did not dare to question Zhuang Jing's decision.

The group surveyed the river again, then turned around and walked towards the monastery from which they came.

Toei is a Shinto integrated country, and today's emperors and shoguns, including the major names. They all had to become monks after a period of pro-government, in order to deify their leadership positions.

So in Dongying, there are a large number of temples, and each place, each sphere of influence, has its own temple.

Some of these temples are privately owned, some are shared, far more than the number of schools, and even take into account the educational responsibilities of some schools. Of course, those who can receive education are the children of wealthy families, and the poor are not eligible for education.

This Chongzen temple is a public temple, which covers a small area and is worshiped by the local people of Shibukawa.

Their arrival made the more than ten monks of the temple look very frightened and greeted them in fear.

However, Taisun has strictly forbidden harassing the Dongying Temple, and wants the temple to be the only safe place for Dongying.

Zhuang Jing didn't understand why Taisun didn't have a good impression of the monks in China, but he looked at the monks in Dongying differently.

Later, he thought of a reason for this order, perhaps, Taisun hoped that more people in Dongying would be willing to become monks in the future!

In other places, wars are raging, and only the temple becomes a clean place, which will inevitably cause more people to flee to the temple. The more Dongying people became monks, the corresponding decrease in their population.

Thinking that he had grasped Zhu Zhanji's mentality, Zhuang Jing would certainly not destroy the grandson's plan. Under the dark clouds, he visited the monastery, and when he left, he also dropped a silver coin, which puzzled a group of monks.

General Sun Qian also didn't understand what Zhuang Jing wanted to do, and when he got out of the temple, he asked, "Commander Zhuang, just to visit?" ”

Zhuang Jing smiled and said, "Your Highness will not allow the destruction of the temple, of course I am just here to visit......"

Having said that, Zhuang Jing certainly had more than that.

The integration of Shinto in Toei has made the country's system seem somewhat rigid, but this system has also restricted everyone from living under this system.

No matter how powerful the shogunate is today, no one dares to directly overthrow the emperor and sit in that position.

Zhuang Jing was already preparing for the end of this wartime, so he asked someone to help him explain the links that he couldn't understand.

If you can be familiar with this system, will you be able to shape yourself into a god in those barbarian lands in the future, so as to rightfully claim the king and hegemony in those barbarian lands?

Now Zhuang Jing has set his sights on the barbarian places on the map, he can't stay in Dongying to develop like Commander Ji, and he must also take precautions and plan for the future.

I only hope that Taisun can see that he can do things hard and arrange a fertile place for himself.

There is also Pang Ying who has the same mind as Zhuang Jing, this Jinyi Wei Zhenfu, who is the same as Zhuang Jing Ji Gang's eagle dog, originally just held the idea of advancing and retreating with Ji Gang, left the whirlpool of Daming, and hid in Dongying.

However, he was different from Zhuang Jing's situation, when Zhuang Jing led a group of Japanese pirates and troops to set fire to Nagasaki, he formed a complete intelligence network in Dongying.

At the beginning, he also laughed at Zhuang Jing, thinking that Zhuang Jing was too flamboyant, and now he has become a street rat in Dongying, and everyone shouts and beats him.

In the future, they can stay in Dongying to develop, but Zhuang Jing is no longer possible, if he dares to stay in Dongying, he will definitely face assassinations that will never stop.

But he couldn't understand the situation later, Zhuang Jing not only did not relent, but became more and more public.

After nearly twenty years of friendship with Zhuang Jing, Pang Ying is very aware of Zhuang Jing's ability, not only is he not stupid, but he is a smart and ruthless person.

Otherwise, Zhuang Jing would not have been able to do the command of the fourth grade, and he would still be a pacifying envoy from the fourth grade.

Such a person will never go to the dark with a dead end.

Therefore, after Zhuang Jing risked his life and killed more than a hundred assassins, he asked Zhuang Jing what he thought.

Zhuang Jing has been friends with him for many years, and he did not hide his thoughts in front of him, and clearly told him that his future was not in Dongying, but in those barbarian lands.

From now on, he will not take refuge under Ji Gang's wing forever, but wants to lay down a territory by himself.

Hearing such an answer, Pang Ying was very shocked at first, because he never thought that this friend would already have an independent heart.

But after thinking about it for most of the day, his ambition was also stimulated by Zhuang Jing.

Yes, since Taisun wants to use troops abroad and occupy countless borderlands, of course, these borderlands also need people to manage.

Although those barbarian lands are desolate, there is a chance to be the king and hegemon, why can't they fight for it, and they have to hide under the wings of Master Ji!

But he also knew that his friend had left a deep impression in front of Taisun because of his contribution to dealing with the Japanese and the burning of Nagasaki and Osaka later.

Early this morning, the grandson also praised Zhuang Jing's bravery, and ordered him to attack the Kamishiwa River with Yu Linwei and the Japanese Kou, and reaped another military exploit.

Now he is far ahead of him, and he is gradually entrapping some people in the Wako.

I don't have these conditions, and if I want to take this road, it will be a little impossible.

He pondered for most of the day, listing the strengths and weaknesses between himself and his friends. Zhuang Jing is brave and ruthless, and he is good at attacking external problems. He is feminine and sensitive, and he is good at internal affairs.

And if he wants to be stationed overseas for Daming, he also needs someone like himself to help him manage internal affairs, so it seems that the two complement each other.

Moreover, there are not many available people around this friend, unlike Commander Ji, who is surrounded by many talents, and now he is allied with him, which is a better chance than staying by Commander Ji's side.

When his power develops to a certain extent, then his opportunity will come......

Because overseas territories always have to be expanded, and the imperial court will not let one person sit big, it will inevitably divide power.

The more I thought about him, the more energetic he became, and he seemed to see a bright future.

On this night, except for the soldiers who had already fought hard for a day and returned to the ship to take turns to rest, most of them could not sleep.

On a drizzly night, the city, which was built a thousand years ago, howls in flames.

Most of the buildings in Dongying are made of wood because of frequent earthquakes, especially in the civilian area, where countless low-rise wooden houses are next to each other.

Originally, it was the last bulwark used by the Japanese against the Ming army, but now, the fire has made it all come to naught.

When the fire burned, General Nanbo, who was originally bent on fighting to the death with the Ming army, had the idea of escaping for the first time.

Without the protection of the outer city, relying only on the inner city here in Tiannoji Temple, they lost the battlefield with the Ming Dynasty, and they had no chance at all.

Watching the most prosperous city in Dongying burn in the fire, he couldn't help but shed tears.

It's just that he doesn't know who he is crying for, because of this thousand-year-old city, or for the people who have fled into the mountains but have lost their homes.

A group of people hurried up the city wall, and General Nanbo quickly wiped the tears from his face and looked back.

Ashikaga Yoshikyo, who usually looks like a personable scholar, was full of horror at this time, looking at the raging fire, and his words trembled.

"General, Akito was so ruthless that he burned the whole of Osaka. …… Now, we can only retreat! ”

Nanbo looked at him and laughed miserably: "General......, you are still a general when you return to Kyoto, but if I lose Osaka, what kind of general can I be!" ”

"The green mountains are here, even if there is no firewood? General, as long as you still have a thousand samurai under your command and thousands of people, even if you arrive in Kyoto, your brother will still reuse you. ”

Nanbo sighed: "This time the Ming army is coming, it is said that it is still the ambitious imperial grandson who leads the army, do you think their target is only Osaka?" If their goal is Kyoto, where should they flee? ”

Ashikaga Yoshikyo sighed and said, "They don't dare...... The longer the front is stretched, the more unfavorable it will be for them. ”

Nanbo shook his head and said, "This afternoon, the Ming Dynasty has already captured the riverboats hidden thirty miles upstream, and with these boats, they can directly reach Kyoto against the current. Excuse me, what can we do to deal with Daming's firearms? ”

Ashikaga Yoshikyo still just learned the news, and at this time, he didn't care about complaining about the news of Nanba's closure, and was frightened.

Kyoto is only eighty miles away from the sea, if the Ming really attack Kyoto, no matter how many people can resist the Ming firearms.

At this moment, Ashikaga Yoshikyo didn't want to flee back to Kyoto, but wanted to find a mountain forest to hide.

However, this idea was then dispelled, and when he returned to Kyoto, he was still the younger brother of the fourth shogun of the Muromachi shogunate, and when he fled into the mountains and forests, he was nothing.

Seeing his dejected appearance, Nan Bochang sighed and said, "Withdraw, no matter how late it is, the fire will burn over, and you can't escape if you want to." ”

Although the light rain in the sky could not stop the burning of the fire, it did have a huge impact on the combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty.

Although most of the firearms of the Ming Dynasty have been changed from arquebuses to flintlock pistols, the rainproof effect of the powder cap is not good, and this rain can easily cause the musket to fail to sound, weakening more than half of the combat effectiveness.

So originally, the Ming Dynasty was going to ambush a few thousand people to block the retreat of the Japanese people, but now it had to send nearly 30,000 people.

Moreover, on such a rainy night, Zhu Zhanji and the others were not willing to let themselves suffer huge losses because they killed a few more people, so even if they intercepted them, they were mainly harassed.

The purpose of this is not to kill, but to prevent the opponent from fleeing with his goods.

The battle must be fought, and the battle must be won. Money has to be earned, and big money has to be made.

If you earn face and lose your heart, Zhu Zhanji will not do it.

For the Japanese people, the night of the first day of the fifth month of the 23rd year of Yingyong was the most tragic night in the history of Dongying.

A raging fire has reduced the largest city with a history of 1,000 years to ruins. With the exception of the inner city, which was protected by the city walls, the entire city was almost reduced to ashes.

The guardian of the city, the general Nanbo, was shot on the way to escape, although he was only shot in the arm at the time, but the lead bullet and the rain caused him to have a high fever subsequently.

Just four days later, he died in the mountains and forests of Mt. Wakakusa in Nara.

And at the time of his death, there were more than a thousand samurai under his command, thousands of people strong, and less than a thousand remained.

Subsequently, some of these hundreds of people were taken over by other daimyo and shoguns, but most of them fled even further, unwilling to face the fierce Ming people again.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth month, a 20-meter-high giant Kyoto Temple was built on the banks of the Yodo River. This Jingguan used more than 5,000 heads alone, and within a few months, the rancid smell did not dissipate.

A large amount of supplies that were not transported out of Osaka were originally collected by Nanba into the inner city, hoping to become supplies to resist the Ming army.

He originally thought that the fire would wipe everything down, but the light rain and the city walls stopped the fire, allowing Da Ming to obtain countless supplies.

This is the material distribution center of the entire Dongying, and after the sea area was blocked by the Ming soldiers, only a small part of the materials were transported by land.

In the end, Akito was cheaper.

Osaka is not only the distribution center of Toei, but also the gateway to Kyoto. Because of the abundance, there is also the most powerful samurai group in Toei, and no one expected that the city would be completely burned down in just two days.

This ending also frightened countless generals and daimyos, who did not know how to fight against the Akito's firearms.

They also have firearms, but they are difficult to make, and it takes a skilled blacksmith three to five days to make a barrel, and it is easy to blow up.

What they don't know is that the steel produced in Dongying has a high carbon content, and that kind of sword needs to be tempered, and if the barrel wants to be strong, it also needs to be decarbonized.

The entire Dongying fell into a sense of powerlessness, because they had no way to deal with Da Ming's firearms at all.

Ashikaga Yoshinori felt regret at this time, regretting that he did not continue to follow his father's old path and cooperate with Daming.

However, there was nothing he could do, because his father finally wanted his younger brother Ashikaga Yoshitsugu to succeed him as the shogun, so he had to enlist a group of people who opposed his father to consolidate his power.

And these people, most of them are against the Ming Dynasty.

When Ashikaga Yoshikyo fled back to Kyoto, he was shocked to find that Kyoto, which was originally quiet and peaceful, had already been in chaos before the Akito attacked.

On the day when the Ming fleet appeared in the waters of Osaka, in Kyoto, eighty miles away, Kitayama Temple, Hino Yasuko, in the name of his son Ashikaga Yoshitsugu, united with Ashikaga Mitsutaka to set off a war against his stepson and brother-in-law Ashikaga Yoshimori.

The Ashikaga family has a deep relationship with the Hino family, and it can even be said that it is a bunch of confused accounts.

Let's just say that in the current two generations, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu first married his aunt Hino Yeko, and then married his niece Hino Yasuko, who was supposed to become the emperor's concubine.

And Yasuko Hino did not marry Emperor Go-Komatsu and married her father Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, but her sister Hino Eiko married her son Ashikaga Yoshimori.

Therefore, Yasuko Hino and Ashikaga Yoshinori are both mother and son, and brother-in-law, and her son Ashikaga Yoshiji is Ashikaga Yoshinori's younger brother and elder.

Hino Yasuko was ambitious, and had always been unwilling to accept the succession of his concubine Ashikaga Yoshinori to the position of general, and after receiving the support of the Ming Dynasty, he agreed to start a war at the same time on May and April 30.

Ashikaga Yoshinori was extremely annoyed at this time, and the blockade of the Ming Dynasty made the sea ships of the island country of Toei dare not leave the port, which also caused difficulties in transportation.

Dongying is mountainous, and the cost of land transportation is too high.

He hoarded a large army in the Nagasaki area, but he didn't expect that the Ming fleet did not go to Nagasaki and directly attacked Osaka.

And the rebellion of Yasuko Hino and her uncle Ashikaga Mitsutaka almost brought Kyoto to a standstill.

Although Kyoto was modeled after Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty, it is also the largest city in Dongying, but the people who are allowed to live here are nobles and wealthy merchants, so the population is only more than 100,000.

During the Muromachi shogunate period, it became the political center of Toei.

Because there were almost no civilians in the city, even if there was a rebellion, Hino Yasuko would only gather more nobles to attack Ashikaga Yoshinori.

Although the soldiers of both sides were in the stage of confrontation, neither side dared to take the initiative to fight.

When the rout soldiers and merchants who fled from Osaka to Kyoto brought the news that the Ming Dynasty had burned down Osaka, this also directly detonated the original confrontation.

Even if Ashikaga Yoshitsugu and his uncle Ashikaga Mitsutaka had fewer troops, they took the lead in starting the war.

The house leak was rainy, and under the internal and external troubles, Ashikaga Yoshinori didn't even have time to recall the troops outside, so he started a war with his mother and eldest aunt.

And more people began to retreat in a panic, trying to flee to the mountains.

Under the description of the rout, the Ming soldiers each had a musket, and they could take people's lives dozens of meters away, and Dongying's army had already fallen before they could hit the other party.

No one wants to die in vain, they can only run for their lives temporarily.

There were more wall-riding factions that began to stand on Hino's side, and even those who were originally supporters of Ashikaga Yoshinori were panicked at this time and wanted to join Hino Yasuko's side.

This also allowed the Yasuko Hino, who was originally weak at the beginning, to expand rapidly, and was able to compete with Ashikaga Yoshitori.

Ashikaga Yoshimoru originally wanted to steadily clean up his stepmother and younger brother, but at this time, he had to make a desperate gamble and devote all his troops to quell the civil strife first.

Osaka was burned down in two days, and now that the Ming Dynasty has a ship again, no one knows when the Ming soldiers will appear in Kyoto.

However, in Osaka, Zhu Zhanji had no plans to march to Kyoto at all, and he stayed on his flagship every day, reading the list of seizures submitted by his subordinates.

This time he occupied Osaka, although the amount of gold and silver obtained was not large, but the seizure of other materials was innumerable, and these gains far exceeded his expectations, making the war several times more profitable.

Although he knew that this was because most of Dongying's trade materials were concentrated here, and the harvest in the future would not be as much as this time, he still couldn't help but be happy.

Tens of thousands of soldiers traveled every day for seven days to complete the silver, lacquerware, folding fans, knives, and copper ingots captured in Osaka.

During this period, it was not these generals who were most anxious, but the civil officials like Kim Chun, who had always disapproved of the burning of Osaka at the beginning.

In their opinion, these things are not absent from the Ming Dynasty, and such a robbery is really damaging to the image of a great country.

But of course they won't stop this looting, and everyone knows that there are never too many good things.

They were in a hurry to enter Kyoto as quickly as possible and show the Japanese the majesty of their Celestial Empire.

"Your Highness, now that Osaka has been flattened, countless Japanese people have come to vote, and Jing'an in the rear, is it time to send troops?"

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "This matter is not in a hurry, now Ashikaga Yoshinori and Yasuko Hino are inseparable, we will join in this excitement later." ”

"But aren't Ashikaga Yoshitsugu and Ashikaga Mitsutaka already secretly serving my Daming?"

Zhu Zhanji shook his head and said with a smile: "An obedient dog whose strength is damaged is of course better than a dog whose strength is strong and wants to bite its owner from time to time." What's more, if Ashikaga Yoshiji is too powerful, and I want to garrison troops in Toei in the future, won't there be no excuse? ”

Jin Chun has nothing to say about this, and if he can make a book, of course, he will not simply not see the situation clearly.

Since Taisun wants to let the Japanese kill each other, it is naturally good to pick up the bargain a few days later.

However, in Kyoto, when Ashikaga Yoshinori recalled an army originally stationed in Nagaokakyo, the situation began to turn unfavorable for Yasuko Hino and his side.

It has been fighting for nearly ten days, and the Ming army has not yet come, and Grandpa Yasuko Hino couldn't help it and sent a delegation to Osaka for help.