Chapter 506: The Tokugawa Shogunate Meets the Emperor
This was perhaps the darkest period in the history of the Japanese Kingdom, and it was also the most ferocious of the Ming Dynasty in foreign wars. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Almost one-third of the Japanese people were slaughtered in this war, and it was from this time that the country of the Ming Dynasty would no longer be a benevolent and deceitful country in the eyes of the Japanese people, but a country of hatred and fear.
Of course, Zhu Youxiao doesn't care what these Japanese people think of Daming, and even in Zhu Youxiao's opinion, instead of letting these Japanese people worship and covet Daming, it is better for him to keep hating Daming.
At this time, the soldiers of the Praetorian Guard and the border army had completely ignored the military discipline in the country, and showed their most violent side, just like the Japanese people in later generations treated the Chinese people, and the bayonets did not hesitate to pierce the chests of the Japanese people, and sometimes they did not bother to use bayonets, so they directly used poison gas bombs to kill the Japanese people in the entire village.
The only surviving Japanese people in the places where the Janissaries and border troops passed were young and beautiful women, and it was not only because of their small and delicate bodies and delicate faces that they could save their lives, but also because of their gentle temperament and affectionate veins that could be ravaged at will.
The samurai and daimyo of the Wa Kingdom were indeed enraged, their will to fight was ignited, and the Tokugawa shogunate had to stand up and declare that they would fight to the death against the Ming army and denounce the atrocities of the Ming army.
And in this era, there is no international organization, and there is no other superpower that can be used, and no matter how ambitious it is, the Japanese country will have to face the catastrophe of overthrow.
What's more, the Japanese State does not have the so-called strategic depth, the sea has been controlled by the major naval fleets of the Ming Dynasty, and the Western Ocean, which could have been relied on, was also driven out of the Ming Sea by the Ming Dynasty, and now there is no fleet in the entire South China Sea that dares to compete with the Ming Dynasty.
In this war against the Japanese state, Zhu Youxiao did not arrange a commander-in-chief, but Chang Yanling, the chief officer of the First Army of the Praetorian Guard, entered Iwami, Izuling, Boqi and other places from Nagato and swept along Honshu Island from north to south, while the Third Army of the Praetorian Guard advanced along Zhoufang, Anyun and other places, sweeping from south to north.
The border army Zhao led the sect to the south to Higo, Hyuga and other places, sweeping the entire territory of Kyushu, while the border army Zhou Yuyoshibe swept Tosa, Iyo and other places that are now Shikoku Island, and the border army Mangui went directly to Ezo Island, which was now occupied by the Japanese state, with the navy.
Chang Yanling is not very infatuated with women, only after the first taste of a few Japanese girls, he felt that he was happy, not as thin as Yangzhou thin horses know how to be flattering and coquettish, except for the extremely happy between the beds, but there is no sense of challenge, so Chang Yanling is more interested in killing, the commander is so, and other officers and soldiers of the First Army are also deeply affected by it, so on the way of the First Army, there is more blood flowing, rather than delicate and tactful.
On the contrary, the third army of the Praetorian Guard is rich in the sea, although the rich sea is a little fat and has fair skin, but the people are better than Ximenqing, plus the perennial conquest and training, but also trained a good physique, the officers and soldiers under his command are the same, as if they have not touched a woman for several years, when they see a Japanese woman, they can't open their legs, and they can't suppress the third leg, so on the way of his third army, there are many Japanese women who were ruined by them, sowing countless seeds, and also waving a lot of descendants, even, Many years later, when the Royal Academy of Sciences did research, it was found that the new residents in this area had the highest genetic similarity with the people of the Ming Dynasty, but it was not known how many of them were the descendants of the Third Army officers and soldiers.
Zhao Shujiao likes to cut off people's heads, and has formulated a lot of evaluation rules for this, such as how many Japanese women can be served by every hundred Japanese people killed, etc., for this kind of entertaining competition, Zhao Shujiao is happy, and because of his atrocities, the entire Kyushu Island of the Japanese Kingdom is wailing, and the jackdaws are dense.
Zhou Yuji is quite talented as an artist, he likes to build a Beijing view, and every time he slaughters a city, he must build a Beijing view, and it must be bigger and more spectacular than the previous Beijing view.
The Mangui and the Marines liked to instigate the children of the Ainu tribe who were oppressed by the Japanese to shoot the Japanese samurai, and even went so far as to find the old and weak women and children to attack the Japanese people, according to them, to regain justice and let them learn to take revenge themselves.
In short, the performance of the various units of the Ming army in the Wa State is distinctive, but they are all in line with the military task of eliminating the Wa people in the completion, although they were later denounced by countless conservative factions or people who advocate forgiveness and benevolence for their behavior is to annihilate human nature, but they did make the Wa people pay a heavy price, and let the Wa people once again deeply realize the most terrifying side of the Celestial Empire.
According to the instructions of the Ministry of War, after three months, the 1st and 3rd armies of the Praetorian Guard were to meet in Kyoto, and as the final stage of the sweep against the Japanese country, that is, to completely destroy the Japanese Kyoto Castle and arrest the Japanese emperor and the current general of the Tokugawa shogunate, Tokugawa Iemitsu.
Therefore, most of the news of the atrocities of the Ming army in the Wa Kingdom was concentrated in Kyoto. At this time, Kyoto was not only panicked, but also many fanatical Japanese samurai threatened to resist to the death and engage in the final bloody battle with the Ming army.
Tokugawa Iemitsu also did his best to motivate his subordinates at this time, and he even met with the emperor himself and vowed that he would defend Kyoto to the death and fight for the last drop of blood for the Japanese kingdom. However, only he knows that his own psychology is actually bottomless.
In order to prevent his shogunate rule from being shaken by the atrocities and aggression of the Ming Dynasty, Tokugawa Iemitsu encouraged the soldiers to be the main writers of the ship, and at the same time sent a secret envoy to contact the people of the Third Army of the Praetorian Guard, and delivered the letter to the Ming Dynasty, hoping that he could obtain the forgiveness of His Majesty the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao by ceding the territory, compensating the property, or bowing to the vassals.
However, the 1st and 3rd Armies of the Praetorian Guard ignored Tokugawa Iemitsu's envoys, because the purpose of the Ming Dynasty at this time was to completely eliminate the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and destroy the Emperor, the symbol of faith that maintained the unity of the Yamato nation.
After learning that the Ming Praetorian Guard had reached Tanba all the way, the Tokugawa family completely gave up the illusion of ceding territory or paying reparations to make amends, or even surrender to their vassals.
Tokugawa Iemitsu had to immediately mobilize 200,000 troops to Tanba to prevent the Ming Janissaries from joining forces with the other Ming army, in which case he would lose his last chance to turn the tables, and Kyoto would soon be occupied by the Ming army and plunged into unprecedented disaster.
This is the season of cherry blossoms, and the entire Kyoto area has become a snow-white world, and countless Japanese with samurai swords are tragically stepping on the cherry blossoms, and in the humid air, they are killing the Ming army.
The officers and soldiers of the First Army of the Ming Praetorian Guard also walked towards the dense and completely innumerable Japanese invaders at this time, and the cherry blossom petals fell and fell on the bolts of the Ming officers and soldiers, looking more and more snow-white.
A neat sound of bolt pulling shook the cherry blossoms on the bolt, and at the moment when the cherry blossoms didn't fall to the ground, there was a bang! Bullets carrying flames and smoke pierced through the chamber, quickly breaking open the robber's iron armor and taking their lives.
The wind blows softly, and countless cherry blossoms spin and fall, like white butterflies dancing among the flowers, and the bullets that rush through the cherry blossoms take the lives of one after another.
These conceited and arrogant Japanese warriors could not get close to the Praetorian Guards with their firearms and sharp swords, so they sprinkled blood all over the cherry blossoms, staining countless colors in vain.
The army of the Japanese State has begun to show signs of weakness, and began to slowly retreat, while the first army of the Praetorian Guard is still steadily advancing at a normal speed, as long as there are Japanese invaders who can't stand it and want to rush up to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army, the bullets in the hands of the Ming army will not hesitate to penetrate people's chests.
It is precisely because of this that all the bloody Japanese invaders finally collided with the muzzle of the Ming Praetorian Guards because they couldn't bear the general and aggressive momentum of the Ming Praetorian Guards.
Although this is a bit like a moth to a fire, it is a self-defeating way, but for the Ming Dynasty, it is exactly the desired result, as long as the more rebellious people in the Japanese are killed, in order to ensure that the future Japanese Kingdom will no longer dare to offend the ambition of the Heavenly Empire, that is, the Ming Dynasty.
After the 200,000 elites of Tokugawa Iemitsu's organization were defeated and fled back to Kyoto, Tokugawa Ieyasu naturally became even more nervous, and he did not know how to get the Ming army to stop its atrocities against the Japanese and allow his shogunate to continue.
But the fact now is that even if he Tokugawa Iemitsu sent an envoy, the Ming army did not reply to him for any reason, so he had to take some action through his own speculation to seek the mercy of the Ming Dynasty.
In Tokugawa Iemitsu's view, so far, there are only two things that have offended the majesty of the Celestial Empire, one is the invasion of the southeast coast with the support of the Haikou during the Jiajing period, and the other is the Imjin Rebellion.
Tokugawa Iemitsu didn't know what to do to make the Ming feel truly satisfied, so as to achieve the goal of the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao enough to forgive himself for the country, but he could only try his best to make the Ming Dynasty and even His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Youxiao happy.
As a result, Tokugawa Iemitsu arrested and killed all the daimyo Masuda Kanemitsu and his family who had participated in the plundering of the southeast coast, and a group of people such as Konishi Yukinaga, Oda Nobunaga, and even Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who had participated in the Imjin Rebellion, were killed.
Even in the end, this Tokugawa Iemitsu also found the emperor directly, and the emperor also knew at this time that the Ming Empire on the other side of the ocean was about to be destroyed and he had finally settled down peacefully, so the emperor of the Wa country also asked Tokugawa Iemitsu with some anxiety:
"General Tokugawa, the Ming army is menacing, nominally to punish my Wa State for secretly hiding court repeat offenders, but in fact he wants to completely end my Wa State, I don't know what good strategy General Tokugawa can have?"
The Tokugawa Shogunate, which had always ruled the country, knelt down to the Emperor of the Wa Kingdom on a rare occasion today, and bowed to the Emperor of the Wa Kingdom very reverently, and said to the Emperor of the Wa Kingdom very solemnly: "Your Majesty the Emperor, the Ming Kingdom is powerful, but its purpose is naturally to recover the statement of the Battle of Imchen. ”
As he spoke, Tokugawa Iemitsu pulled out his sword first, pressed one hand on the extremely cold katana, and held the handle of the sword tightly with the other, and said to the Emperor of the Wa Kingdom with great seriousness: "Your Majesty the Emperor Qiyu, now you may only be able to use the head of the Son of Heaven to offset the anger of His Majesty Emperor Zhu Youxiao.
As he spoke, this Tokugawa Iemitsu did not wait for His Majesty the Emperor of the Wa Kingdom to take the initiative to let him stand up, so he stood up first, and raised the hilt of the sword in both hands, ready to cut off the head of the Emperor of the Wa Kingdom.
The emperor of the Wa Kingdom did not expect that the Tokugawa family had just come to ask for his head, and he was so frightened that he immediately sat down on the ground, and desperately took a few steps back, and the whole person trembled, and hurriedly asked, "Why did the shogun say that?" ”
"Although it is said that the last will govern the world with His Majesty the Emperor, His Majesty the Emperor is the lord of the Wa Kingdom after all, so in the eyes of the Ming Kingdom, the Wako Rebellion in the Jiajing Period and the Renchen Rebellion in the Wanli Period are all related to His Majesty the Emperor, so for the rule of my shogunate, I have to borrow His Majesty the Emperor's head now!"
As he spoke, Tokugawa Iemitsu slashed down, and in an instant, blood spilled on the window, reflecting a string of brilliant plum blossom patterns, and the head of the Emperor of the Wakuni Kingdom also rolled down on the desk, and then rolled from the desk to the ground.
Tokugawa Iemitsu lifted the head of the Emperor of the Japanese Kingdom with one hand and walked out step by step with heavy steps, he never thought that he would kill His Majesty the Emperor with his own hands.
At this time, the first army and the third army of the Ming Praetorian Guard had already joined forces in the area of the mountain city and had surrounded the city of Kyoto, and the people near Kyoto had already fled, most of them fled into the city of Kyoto.
Therefore, at this time, the city of Kyoto was already overcrowded, and the Tokugawa shogunate took advantage of this busy to continue to expand the army, hoping to increase the garrison of Kyoto, and at the same time, he had presented the heads of the Emperor of the Wa Kingdom and dozens of generals and families who had fought against the Ming Dynasty to Chang Yanling and Fu Dahai, hoping that the Ming Dynasty would withdraw from the army now.
However, people will always unconsciously imagine in a good direction, and the same was true of Tokugawa Iemitsu at this time, although he knew that he was powerless in his current state, and Ming Guo would not give up Kyoto and not fight, but he still held on to a glimmer of hope that in this way Ming Guo would let his shogun spare.
Fu Dahai is obviously not interested in the head sent by Tokugawa Iemitsu of the Wa Kingdom, he only cares about how many beautiful women in the Wa Kingdom have not been occupied by him, while Chang Yanling is more interested in the grain and grass in Kyoto City.
Therefore, Chang Yanling, the chief officer of the First Army of the Ming Praetorian Guard, directly asked Tokugawa Iemitsu for tens of thousands of stones, grain and grass and some important ordnance to supply the long-term siege of Kyoto City in the future, and Tokugawa Iemitsu did not dare not give it, after all, the current Tokugawa Iemitsu could only accommodate the Ming army in every possible way in order to maintain the direct shogunate rule, and did not dare to disobey in the slightest.
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