Chapter 703: Warring States Fight for Dominance
Under the original city, an earth-shattering offensive and defensive battle was killed.
Amakusa Shizhen brandished a pheasant knife and personally went into battle to kill, seeing that the leader of the sect took the lead, the tenacious cultist army went forward and succeeded everyone bravely, and the corpses under the city and at the head of the city were piled up like a mountain, and finally the shogunate army lost more than 7,000 soldiers to declare the siege failed.
Unable to attack, Matsudaira Nobutsuna decided to besiege it for a long time, and more than 100,000 men surrounded the original castle.
Within a few days, a navy with more than 60 large warships and more than 40 merchant ships arrived at the sea, and they indiscriminately and directly bombarded the Mizuno Katsunari Division, which was defended by the sea.
This huge fleet is, of course, a coalition formed by the "Huaxia Navy" and Li Guozhu's group.
The fleet of merchant ships docked, and more than 1,000 Westerners, led by a few missionaries carrying huge crosses, rushed into the defeated army of Mizuno Katsusei.
For a time, the gunfire was loud, and the shogunate army was defeated, leaving 3,000 corpses to flee, and the road from the port to the original castle was immediately opened.
Immediately after that, a large number of weapons and food were unloaded from the merchant ships, and 20,000 people came out of the original city to participate in the defense and rush to transport supplies.
Amakusa Tokisada met with missionaries who had traveled thousands of miles to join the apologetics, and was greatly replenished, and he strengthened his confidence in overcoming the autonomy of the Tokugawa shogunate.
Amakusa Tokisada wanted to establish a Catholic state, and he wanted to try to rule in a unity of church and state.
The shogunate's commander-in-chief, Matsudaira Nobutsuna, had lost more than 10,000 people, and the original castle still could not be defeated, and now there was a new situation, and there were still ships on the sea to send believers from all over Kyushu into the original castle to join the rebel forces.
It dragged on until the summer, and the fierce battle continued, with many casualties on both sides every day, and it seemed that there was no winner in a short period of time.
If the Tokugawa shogunate dragged on any longer, its finances would dry up and it would be unsustainable, and this civil strife would undoubtedly shake the foundation of the Wakoku.
In the spring, he took the opportunity to capture the Wudao Islands with the assistance of the "Huaxia Navy," and the territory under his control was more than doubled.
The morale of the Japanese shogunate was low, and the supply lines were repeatedly cut off, making it difficult to supply medicine and food, and the hot summer had come, and the plague broke out in the hundreds of thousands of troops who were often hungry and lacking medical treatment, and dozens or hundreds of people died every day.
As time passed, the situation of the shogunate army became more difficult, they had lost the strength to attack the original castle, and now Matsudaira Nobutsuna considered how to lead the remaining men and horses to retreat safely.
This civil strife was bound to be protracted, Huang Sheng decided not to participate, and ordered Zhao Shimin to continue to maintain the status quo, as long as he ensured that Amakusa Toshisada had territory and troops and would not be wiped out by Tokugawa Iemitsu, and the Ming army would not land and fight.
Now that there are many channels for "Nanming" to obtain copper, and the Japanese state has almost cut off foreign trade, they are in urgent need of military spending.
Huang Sheng decided to weaken them again economically, and from now on, the price of copper exported by the Wa Kingdom was calculated as a silver coin for thirty catties.
The price of all Japanese exports has been lowered by more than 30 percent, and the prices of all Japanese imports have increased by 30 percent, and the arms embargo has been strictly imposed on this island country, and all foreign ships that come to trade have been captured or sunk.
This is, of course, an economic blockade of the country, while continuing to support the expansion of the cultist army and encourage them to conquer the city.
The war of the Japanese Kingdom has burned the plains, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Kitakyushu have fought in the dark, and the war is accompanied by famine and epidemics, and the people's lives are even more difficult.
The Japanese kingdom was already very poor, but natural disasters and military disasters caused a sharp drop in food production, and hunger soon swept the islands, and there were countless children and daughters.
Since there is no such thing as filial piety in the Wa Kingdom, there are too many old people who have lost their labor force in the entire Wa State who have been sent up to the mountains by their children to starve to death, which is not sensational, and their folk customs are like this.
Many of the foreign feudal lords were overwhelmed and could no longer afford to send troops or labor, so they began to divide one side in order to protect themselves from the Tokugawa shogunate's announcements.
Hokkaido was not originally a land of Japanese letters, but it is now called Ezo land, and the Japanese country has just begun to conquer, and the Japanese general of the Japanese conquest has a history of conquering the barbarians of the island such as Ezo.
Due to the transfer of the shogunate army, Ezo was given a chance to breathe, and from being passively beaten and hiding in the mountains and dense forests to taking the initiative to attack, he was even able to launch a major battle to besiege the town.
There is no doubt that the dominance of the Tokugawa shogunate was about to be broken, and the Warring States struggle for power would soon be staged again, and there was no doubt that Huang Sheng deliberately tried to balance it, and there was no doubt that the Japanese civil war was protracted.
After arranging the deployment of the Wa State, Huang Sheng will make a big move next.
The first action was to take the Malay Peninsula, which was already a plate of loose sand, and the original relatively large king Sultan Mamaha was beaten away by the Portuguese more than a hundred years ago.
The current Malay Peninsula is very chaotic, a few years ago the rising Aceh Sultanate seized the tin mining land of Pahang, and the sultans there were also captured, as for how many sultans there are in the Malay Peninsula, that is, how many so-called kings, it is really hard to say.
Pahang is located on the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia, with the Dahan Range, Terengganu Highlands and Cameron Highlands to the north. How can the "Dahan Mountains" become the mountains of other countries? This is simply intolerable.
Due to its geographical location and the deposit of tin, the land was plagued by constant wars, with the Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch fighting over each other, the English and Gauls also beginning to get involved, and the indigenous sultans also attacked each other.
The geographical location of the Malay Peninsula is particularly important, and it is even more chaotic due to the intervention of many Western powers.
In order to quell the fighting, the great Ming Dynasty sent troops to take this ominous place, so as not to hurt the harmony of the countries fighting for me.
Huang Sheng issued an order that the total number of 18,000 cavalry that Huang Dongshan had trained on "Nanhua Island" had been expanded to 10,000, and that 12 battalions of auxiliaries had been added, and after three months of intensive training, he would cross the Strait of Malacca and seize the city of Malacca.
In the process of marching into the army, no matter whether they encounter Xiyi or monkeys, they will be treated equally, and those who dare to resist will be killed.
The second order was given to Cheng Quangong, who ordered him to organize the garrison of Cochin, which had more than doubled, into 15 battalions, and two months later led nine battalions of men and horses to Guangnan to assemble at "Xingang" and cross the sea to attack the Sultanate of Gilan in the eastern part of the Malay Peninsula.
Cheng Quangong only needs to satisfy that the troops left to guard Jiaozhi have six battalion heads, and the Guangnan Kingdom and the declining Lancang Kingdom are also known as Laos, these two neighbors are too weak to be afraid that they will take the opportunity to attack Jiaozhi Province.
Cochin has been in business for many years, and now has a population of 15 million people with the Han people as the main ethnic group, and there are no less than a million young and middle-aged men who can take up arms and fight when defending their homeland.