After leaving Shikoku, Zhao Guoliang's gang of bandits continued northward, passing through another large island, Awaji Island, and then entering Osaka Bay.

Zhao Guoliang originally thought very well, he came to Osaka with the army, and if he could, he could grab it, and if he couldn't grab it, he would bypass Osaka and go directly to Kyoto, and according to the combat effectiveness of their army, they could snatch the emperor away before the Japanese army could react. When the emperor arrives, the rest is simple, directly sign the alliance under the castle, and do whatever you want!

But the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is skinny. Zhao Guoliang was dumbfounded after the soldiers approached Osaka Bay, the whole of Osaka is a very large city, with a total population of more than 300,000, which is not inferior to some prefecture-level cities in China.

After Zhao Guoliang and these turtles plagued Kyushu and Shikoku, they formed an impression in their hearts, that is, the Japanese country was poor and bad, and there could be no brilliant civilization at all, and the city of Nagasaki with a population of 70,000 or 80,000 should be the largest. And Yang Shilong has only been to Nagasaki, and he has never been to the mainland of the country, but he heard that there are three relatively large cities in the country, Osaka, Edo, and Kyoto, but Yang Shilong naively thinks that it is only one size bigger than Nagasaki.

However, when I came to Osaka, I found that the area of this big city was not inferior to that of Hangzhou, Yangzhou and other cities. The metropolises in China are all two- and three-story buildings, and one-third of the population lives outside the city, so the area is really not much. However, the buildings in Osaka are all bungalows made of wood and bamboo, and they look like they are one by one, and they are even more imposing than the cities in Japan.

At this time, the defenders of Osaka had already seen the Ming warships outside the port, and immediately rushed out from the port more than 20 customs ships and sailed towards the Ming warships.

Zhao Guoliang was originally preparing for a landing operation, and there was no preparation for a naval battle at all, so he had no choice but to order the navy to withdraw from the battle immediately, and all the ships went to the sea off Osaka to assemble. Seeing that the Ming ships were fast, the sailors of the Wa Kingdom pretended to chase for more than ten miles behind and went back.

After leaving Osaka Bay for more than forty miles, Zhao Guoliang let the fleet drop anchor and let all the middle-level officers gather on the flagship for a meeting.

After Zhao Guoliang saw the four regiment commanders and the pipes of all the warships, he asked: "Everyone has seen the battle in the morning, and the strength of the Japanese is far above us, how do you say we should fight?" ”

The commander of the first regiment of the Eighth Division was a martial artist, and said with a big grin: "Sir, what are you afraid of, can these three-inch nails beat us?" Tomorrow, the ships of the navy will directly fight with the Japanese navy, and our army will take the opportunity to go ashore, I don't believe that our more than 10,000 people will not be able to defeat them? ”

Li Tinglong shook his head and said: "No, the Osaka Navy has more than 20 Otaku ships, and there should be quite a lot of small ships left, and the navy can't solve the battle quickly." If the navy is not over, it will not be able to shoot at close range to support the army, and the casualties will be too great! ”

Zhao Guoliang's Wa State Dispatch Army had been fighting for more than a month, and there were nearly 2,000 combat and non-combat attrition, and now there were less than 10,000 left.

Zhao Guoliang nodded when he heard Li Tinglong say this: "Lao Li is right, let's see what is the best of both worlds?" ”

The guys in the cabin are illiterate, and the only two people who are literate are Yang Shilong and Zhu Jiang, Yang Shilong is just a leader, so Zhu Jiang is the only one who has a clearer mind.

Zhu Jiang thought for a while and said: "Lord Admiral, we have all seen in Nagasaki, the houses of the Japanese Kingdom are all wooden structures, and the roads are narrow, as long as there is a fire, they can be connected into pieces, why don't we attack with fire again?" ”

"Fire attack, it's good, but it has to be transported up, and the navy can't end the battle as soon as possible, it's really difficult?"

Li Tinglong's eyes lit up when he heard the fire attack: "My lord, I have another plan, I can use the fire attack!" ”

"Oh? Come on! ”

"My lord, do you know that I used to be a pirate, and I had contact with the Ming army, and the Ming army sailors have a fire dragon out of the water, which can be launched five or six hundred steps, and ignite the gunpowder in it after landing, which can be used to burn local ships, why don't we make some fire dragons out of the water to deal with Osaka?"

"Good! This is a good plan! In this way, tomorrow Lao Li, you will take the navy to fight with the naval army of the Japanese country, and I will take the landing ship of the army to get close to the dock to prevent fire, and then land, what do you think? ”

When everyone in the room saw that the big man had decided, they all agreed.

Next, the Ming navy found a small island in the open sea and began to use the tools in their hands to make a fire dragon out of the water.

The Ming Army's "Wubei Zhi" recorded: use five feet of thatched bamboo, go to the knot, and scrape it thin with an iron knife. A wooden dragon head and tail are installed on the front and back. The mouth of the dragon's head is upward, and the dragon's belly is equipped with several rockets, which always connect the rocket's medicine line together and lead out of a hole in the lower part of the dragon's head. Under the dragon's body and inclined to the front and back of each mounted two large rocket launchers, their medicine lines are always connected together, and the dragon's belly is connected to the bottom of the two rocket Janes in front, "water warfare" can be three or four feet away from the water to ignite the fire, that is, fly two or three miles away from the water surface, like a fire dragon out of the river.

The serious fire dragon out of the water has to carve the front part into a dragon head, but now the project is in a hurry, and there is no big wood on the island of the Wa Kingdom, so you can only use some bamboo as a thruster, and then tie the fire * medicine of the naval artillery to the big bamboo, so such a shoddy fire dragon out of the water is completed.

Zhao Guoliang experimented with one, and saw that a bamboo thruster could only launch a pack of gunpowder a hundred steps away, which was too close. Anyway, domestic supplies have been delivered, and gunpowder is available, Zhao Guoliang ordered eight thrusters to be tied together, and the launch distance can reach 500 steps.

Zhao Guoliang saw that it could be used, and ordered the whole army to do it, and made more than 200 copycat versions of the fire dragon out of the water in one night's effort.

After all the work was done, it was already dawn the next day, and Zhao Guoliang saw that his soldiers had not closed their eyes all night, so he decided to rest for a day today, eat in the afternoon, and fight at night.

In the evening, the weather was fine tonight, just right for arson, Zhao Guoliang ordered the whole team to set off and rush to Osaka Bay.

In the past two days, the Osaka navy has been in a bad mood, and at night the navy warships are all on duty, and observation posts have been placed on several small islands in Osaka Bay to prevent the Ming army from sneaking up in the middle of the night.

Therefore, when the Ming army took advantage of the starlight to enter Osaka Bay, they were immediately discovered by these observation posts, and then lit a beacon fire on the island. The garrison in the city found that the Ming army was coming again, and the navy poured out this time, and hundreds of warships rushed out.

Because the navy wants to entangle the Japanese navy, it can't give full play to its speed advantage, but fortunately, there are more than 20 ships in the Japanese navy, and the other small boats can't reach the tall side of the Ming warship, but Zhao Guoliang still placed a hundred army musketeers on each warship just in case to prevent the enemy from jumping.

The speed of the Ming troop carriers was much slower than that of the warships, and after the warships caught up, twenty troop carriers, under the leadership of Zhao Guoliang, took advantage of the night to sneak around the main battlefield and approach Osaka Castle.

Finding a shallow place outside the city, Zhao Guoliang put down a battalion of 500 people and asked them to take the fire dragon out of the water and set fire to Osaka City.

Now the attention of Osaka Castle was attracted by the naval battle in Osaka Bay, and these 500 people quietly approached the Osaka Castle Wall.

Three hundred meters outside the city, the Ming army supported the fire dragon out of the water, and then fled far away.

More than 200 fire dragons suddenly appeared in the night, and the soldiers defending the city were stupid, why did they still set off fireworks?

However, these fireworks fell into the city, and these fireworks ignited the gunpowder packets on the top, and wherever they fell, they burned everywhere, and more than 20 fires immediately lit up in Osaka Castle.

As soon as the fire was flashing, the Japanese navy in the bay immediately lost the courage to fight, and they turned around and fled, but where was the opponent of the Ming navy at the speed of their ships, Li Tinglong led the navy to follow behind, and sank the twenty Anzhai ships.

By the time the naval battle was over and the sky was already bright, Li Tinglong rushed back to Osaka Bay with the navy, and the fire of Osaka Xiongxiong could be seen twenty miles away.

The fire burned for five days, and Osaka Castle, which had just been built, was burned to the ground. Because of the poor urban planning, it was not effective in extinguishing fires, and three-quarters of Osaka Castle was burned to the ground, and less than 60,000 of the city's 350,000 residents escaped.

Zhao Guoliang did not stay here to watch the fire, but took the army ashore the next day, grabbed a guide and went to Kyoto, eighty miles away.

Kyoto in the Wakoku Kingdom was not the Tokyo of later generations, and the Tokyo of later generations was called Edo in this era.

At the end of the Nara period, Emperor Kanmu moved the capital to Heian-kyo in Yamashiro Province in 794 A.D. in order to get rid of the influence of the Buddhist monasteries in Nara, and thus began the Heian period and the history of Kyoto as the capital of Japan. Heiankyo's location is based on Feng Shui ideas and is modeled after Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty in China, and is a traditional city-based city. Heiankyo is about 5.2 kilometers long from north to south and 4.5 kilometers long from east to west, an area equivalent to one-fifth of Chang'an Castle in the Tang Dynasty of China. Located directly north of Heiankyo, the Emperor's residence, the city is divided into two symmetrical parts, Ukyo and Sakyo, centered on Suzaku Daiji.

Zhao Guoliang came to Kyoto with his troops, but he pounced, it turned out that after the attack on Osaka, someone had already come to Kyoto to transfer Emperor Mingzheng away, although the emperor did not have any rights in Japan, but after all, it was a symbol of a country, and naturally could not be captured by the Ming army.

However, the emperor left in a hurry, and the gold, silver and jewelry left behind were cheap Zhao Guoliang, Zhao Guoliang robbed a total of more than 800,000 taels of silver here in Kyoto, and Zhao Guoliang didn't ask for food, which was more than 80 miles away from the sea, and it was inland, so it was inconvenient to bring so much heavy food.

Zhao Guoliang was still a little unwilling to catch the emperor, so he asked his men to go to the palace to catch a maid, wanting to ask where the emperor went.

Where did the maid see these tall soldiers, all like evil ghosts in hell, after learning that these evil ghosts wanted to find the Heavenly Empress, they led Zhao Guoliang to a temple in the city.

Zhao Guoliang was overjoyed when he saw that the emperor did not flee, and rushed in with people, grabbed a monk and asked where the emperor was?

After the emperor was caught, Zhao Guoliang was completely dumbfounded, he didn't expect the emperor to be a woman! Still a big girl in her twenties!