Chapter 511: Japan in Turmoil
The book that Gu Xiuquan gave to Amakusa Shiro is the revised version of the "Heavenly Dynasty Tianmu System" and the "New Chapter of Senior Administration" promulgated by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in history, and the content containing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has been removed. These two books are Chinese traditional Chinese, and there are many people in Japan who know Chinese in this era.
The political program of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was very capable of mobilizing the people in the early stage, but because it was unrealistic, its absolute egalitarian program was doomed to be impossible to realize, or because other conditions of the subject and object determined that it could not be implemented, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom could not put forward a practical program that could mobilize the broad masses, especially the broad masses of peasants, but it could not maintain the revolutionary enthusiasm of the peasant masses for a long time, so it could not lead the war to final victory.
But it doesn't matter, Wang Yue still gave these spiritual food to the leaders of the "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom" in Japan, after all, this is something two hundred years later, very advanced, okay?
Moreover, the program of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was very close to the proposition of the rebels, and the rebels were more acceptable.
"Thank you very much Xiu Quanjun for your selfless help!" Amakusa Shiro bowed again in thanks.
"Amakusa-kun doesn't have to be polite, I sincerely hope that one day the light of the Lord can fully shine on Japan and sweep away the darkness!"
Gu Xiuquan said solemnly: "Amakusa-kun, you are the reincarnation of God to save the Japanese people, you are the incarnation of God in the world, and you are the hope of all Japan!" Go for it! You'll be able to overthrow the dark rule of the shogunate, build a whole new Japan, and eventually become the new emperor! ”
"The Emperor?" Amakusa Shiro was dumbfounded, although the emperor is a hypocrite, his position in the hearts of the Japanese is irreplaceable.
Gu Xiuquan also learned from the Japanese and bowed solemnly to Amakusa Shiro and said, "Come on, Amakusa-kun, I believe you will succeed!" ”
The status of the Japanese emperor in the eyes of the people in this era was far less than that after the Meiji era. The reason why the Japanese emperor has been passed down for thousands of years is because Japan is a religious country. The uprising led by Shiro Amakusa believed in Catholicism and was completely different from the Japanese religion, so shouldn't the emperor be replaced?
January 1, 1638.
A high platform was erected in the center of Japan's original castle, and Amakusa Shiro announced that he had changed his name to Amakusa Tokisada, claiming to be the incarnation of God's reincarnation and the most holy king of great virtue, referred to as "Heavenly King".
He also named his generals An Ao Jingsan as the king of the east, Tagawa Hongxu as the king of the south, Toshio Doi as the king of the west, and Ping Qiusheng as the king of the north.
Amakusa Tokitsada renamed the Righteous Army as the "Heavenly Army" and formally proposed to establish an ideal society in which 'there are fields to plough together, food to eat, clothes to wear, money to work together, unevenness everywhere, and warmth everywhere' through holy warfare.
The "Heavenly Army" was reorganized with the assistance of Chen Yingzong, commissioner of the Military Investigation Bureau, and through a series of god-making movements, the Righteous Army was no longer the peasant army with hoes in history, but quickly became a well-equipped army with faith.
Due to the defeat of Itakura Shigemasa, Tokugawa Iemitsu, the third shogun of the shogunate, was furious, and ordered the old Naka Matsudaira Nobutsuna to be the general general, and dispatched troops and horses from all over the country to suppress the uprising.
On January 10, a coalition of 113,000 troops led by Matsudaira Nobutsuna, including Kuroda, Nabeshima, Tachibana, Hosokawa, Mizuno, and Arima, arrived at Hara Castle.
Matsudaira Nobutsuna first launched a tentative attack, killing more than 2,000 people and finding nothing. The rebels had walls to rely on, advanced Type 37 rifles and artillery in hand, and only 86 people were killed, so their morale was greatly boosted.
Later, Matsudaira Nobutsuna forced the Dutch merchant ships requisitioned from Nagasaki to provide artillery support, and the Dutch merchant ship "Batavia" launched an artillery bombardment on Hara Castle in desperation. The rebels in the original city immediately returned fire fiercely, and the gunners of Xinnen relied on the range and rate of fire of the Type 37 guns to inflict heavy losses on the "Batavia" and leave.
Matsudaira Nobutsuna realized that the firepower of the rebels was not weak, so he ordered a siege of the city, expecting to break through the city again when the ammunition and food in the city ran out. During this period, after the shogunate army tried to dig tunnels to break the city, they took Amakusa Tokitada's mother and sister as hostages to break the morale of the rebels, but it did not work. The siege instead gave the rebels time to familiarize themselves with the new weapons.
On February 28, Matsudaira Nobutsuna ordered a general attack, and the rebels and shogunate forces engaged in a fierce offensive and defensive battle around the original castle.
More than 10,000 rebels recited the teachings of God and fought bravely against the shogunate army, which was ten times their size. This offensive and defensive battle was fought for three consecutive days, although the shogunate army had an absolute advantage in strength, but in the face of the rebel army defending the city, the armed rebel army suffered heavy casualties, killing more than 30,000 people in three days, and the rebel army only killed more than 2,500 people.
In the face of brilliant results, the rebels became more and more courageous. On March 3, Dongwang An accompanied Jingsan to lead his headquarters out of the city, attacked the back of the shogunate coalition army, burned the grain and grass of the coalition army, and the shogunate coalition army began to panic.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Ogasawara Tadashima, the general of the Okura Domain, was the first to lead the headquarters to retreat, followed by the general Hosokawa Tadashi of the Kumamoto Domain, and the Kumamoto Domain was the main force of the coalition forces, and their retreat was like dominoes, and the shogunate coalition finally collapsed.
Seeing the situation, the rebels attacked with all their troops, and the shogunate coalition army lost their armor all the way and left in defeat.
At the cost of more than 3,080 casualties, the 110,000 shogunate coalition army was defeated, and more than 40,000 enemies were killed.
On March 22, the rebels surrounded Kumamoto Castle, which was a large castle in Kyushu, and the Kumamoto Domain was also a strong feudal domain in Kyushu, so the defense of Kumamoto Castle was very strong.
The fierce attack and defense of Kumamoto Castle lasted for half a month, and the rebels finally broke through Kumamoto Castle at the cost of 15,000 casualties due to lack of training.
Due to the heavy casualties, the "Heavenly King" Amakusa Tokisada ordered the slaughter of the city, killing all the citizens who did not believe in Catholicism. The purpose of the slaughter was to loot property, raise military expenses for the purchase of arms, and also to deter the shogunate.
The coalition army was defeated, Kumamoto Castle was slaughtered, and the news spread to the entire Toei, and the entire Toei was shaken, and the shogunate was shocked!
While Tokugawa Iemitsu was organizing a coalition again, he also sent a plea to the Westerners through the merchants of Nagasaki, hoping to buy more artillery and munitions.
The rebels rose, Kumamoto Castle was slaughtered, and Kyushu Island was in turmoil. On March 26, another piece of news shocked the shogunate, and the Hirado Domain, the lord of the Hirado Domain, Matsuura Kushin, suddenly sent troops to the Hizen Domain to occupy Saga Castle on the grounds that a samurai of his own family had gone missing in Saga of the Hizen Domain, and the Hirado Domain achieved its initial expansion.
The Hizen Domain is not a big domain in this time and space, but it is many times stronger than the small Hirado Domain, and it was defeated by the Hirado Domain with one blow, and there was no power to fight back, and the territory was also annexed, which shocked the eyeballs of a place.