Chapter 522: The Crusade to Japan (1)

The eunuchs and maids in the palace saw that someone had finally broken into the palace, and immediately scattered and fled.

In the past two days, there has been a lot of fighting in the city, and the entrances and exits of the palace have been blocked, and the people in the palace also know that someone will enter the palace sooner or later, but it is still indispensable to panic when it comes to the end.

Chao Yong asked people to catch a few eunuchs and palace maids who were running slowly, and said: "Let everyone come to the square in front of the main hall, and then I will send troops to search the palace and behead all those who are hiding." ”

A eunuch actually trembled in Chinese and replied, "Yes." ”

Chao Yong looked at the thirty-year-old eunuch in surprise and said, "How much Chinese do you know?" ”

The eunuch said: "I can understand it, and I can also have some Chinese characters." ”

Chao Yong smiled: "Okay, there is another talent, then you are responsible for the order, well done, I can set you free." ”

When the eunuch heard this, he hurriedly said, "Yes, yes." ”

Chao Yong took his soldiers to the palace hall and admired the architecture of the Goryeo people.

The people in the palace kept rushing to the square outside, huddled together and shivering, waiting for the fall of the prince of Daliang.

Sairengui Guo Sheng came in from outside and reported: "King Wang Kai of Goryeo has arrived. ”

Chao Yong turned around and smiled: "There will be no Goryeo in the future, he is a prisoner of my Daliang." ”

Guo Sheng nodded and said, "Yes." ”

Chao Yong came out with people, and thousands of people had gathered in the square outside the main hall, and at the front were actually more than a dozen Goryeo guards holding knives to protect a young man who looked very weak, and couldn't help but wonder: "How can there be weapons?" ”

Hebul said: "When we entered the city, some guards fled into the palace, and I didn't take anyone to search for them. ”

Chao Yong said to Guo Sheng on the side: "If you surrender their weapons, there will be no mercy for violators." ”

Guo Sheng was originally afraid of hurting the life of the king of Goryeo, but when he heard the prince's order, he had no worries and forced forward with people.

Wang Kai can also understand Chinese and hear Chao Yong's order to kill. Hurriedly told the guards to lay down their weapons.

He has a weak temperament, and he was set aside by his maternal grandfather and father-in-law Li Ziqian as soon as he ascended the throne, and he has been under house arrest for the past two years.

For him, it would be good if he could save his life, and as for whether the country will die or not, it has never been in his control.

The palace guards were willing to work hard, and when they saw the king's order, they all threw their weapons.

Guo Sheng led people to escort all the guards out.

There were more women in the palace of Goryeo than eunuchs, but Chao Yong felt bored at a glance.

Without the plastic surgery techniques of later generations, the Korean people basically have big pie faces and small eyes. It's hard to find a few women who can match the palace maids of the Taiwo.

Chao Yong said to Hebule: "How are these women? ”

Hebul greedily looked at the woman below and said, "It's good-looking." ”

Chao Yong smiled and said: "Take your people to sweep the whole country of Goryeo, I want the war in Goryeo to end in half a month, and all these women will be rewarded to you." I brought the royal ticket number, and they will value your loot and exchange it for a silver ticket. The silver ticket is easy to carry, and you can exchange it for gold and silver when you return to the grassland road. ”

Hebul also felt that it was difficult to continue fighting with the things he had grabbed, and he was immediately overjoyed when he heard that the silver ticket could be exchanged for a royal ticket number.

After the establishment of Prairie Road. The royal ticket number has also expanded to the newly built city on Grassland Road, and all ministries have also heard of the business of the royal ticket number, but their wealth is basically cattle and sheep, and there is no way to store the royal ticket number. And they prefer gold and silver in hand. Of course, the customers of the royal ticket number on the Prairie Road were mainly merchants who traveled between the prairie and the hinterland, not the poor wool-only tribes.

However, after the sacking of Kaijing, they had money to deposit into the royal ticket number.

Of course, the royal ticket number will also make a lot of money from it, in addition to gold and silver. These steppe people, who had only seen cattle and sheep, would not know the value of the Goryeo national treasure even if they grabbed it. Of course, the royal ticket number is not interested in these barbarian national treasures, at most they take them back and auction them off to some rich people in the Central Plains who like rare things.

Chao Yong stayed in Kaekyung for ten days and then took the Prince's fleet to Busan.

Busan is located on the southeastern border of Goryeo. There are countless small islands walking on the calm sea, and the cliffs on the shore are endless, and the scenery is very beautiful.

According to the two devils of Goryeo, many Goryeo emperors have come here to play, and of course, it has now become a small bay in Daliang.

The North Sea Fleet continued to travel back and forth between Goryeo and Dengju, sending batches of Goryeo slaves back to the Central Plains.

It is much closer to travel between the two places by sea than by land.

On April 1, Chao Yong led Wu Songbu and 10,000 Jurchen soldiers, 80,000 grassland vassal troops to the east to invade Japan, and Hua Rong led his troops and 20,000 grassland road vassal troops to continue to purge Goryeo.

The task given to him by Chao Yong is to return the world to a clean and happy land, to ensure that there is not a single Korean on it, and to wait for the relocation of the people to redevelop in the future.

Since Da Liang announced that he would wipe out Japan in the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Japan sent several waves of envoys to sue for peace, but every time the envoys just landed, they were captured by Da Liang and sent to the mine.

After Japan sent several envoys, they all went and never returned, and they also knew that Daliang had made up their minds to start a war against them, and they no longer made unnecessary peace, and directly began to prepare to defend against Daliang's attack.

Japan deployed almost all of its forces along the coast of Kyushu and Honshu, and built a stone wall in Hakata Bay, the best landing site on Kyushu, to prevent the landing of the Iryo army.

On the other hand, Japan also built a fleet to keep the soldiers and horses out of the country, but after the spies saw the majestic Taizi, the Japanese hid their warships with interest.

The situation in Japan was somewhat similar to that of Goryeo, where Wang Kai married his aunt, and Emperor Toba of Japan married his grandfather, Emperor Shirakawa's adopted daughter, Fujiwara Akiko.

If that's the case, it's not a strange thing, but Emperor Shirakawa and Fujiwara Zhangzi actually have one leg, which means that Fujiwara Zhangzi is serving both grandparents and grandchildren at the same time.

Emperor Shirakawa has held power in Japan for decades, so it can be said that he is old and strong, and Emperor Toba can only tolerate this situation.

However, Emperor Shirakawa also seems to know what kind of person his grandson is, and although Japanese people are ninjas, it is rare for them to endure like this. So in the third year of the Apocalypse, Emperor Shirakawa abdicated Emperor Toba to become Emperor Toba, and the emperor was succeeded by the eldest son of Toba and Fujiwara Akiko as Emperor Shotoku.

The policy implemented in Japan at this time was the imperial government established by Emperor Shirakawa, the emperor abdicated and became the emperor, and the emperor recruited troops to be called the samurai of the north. Orders issued in the name of the Yuan Xuan are more authoritative than the emperor's edicts. The Emperor became a monk and became the Emperor of the Law, and the power of the Emperor was transferred to the Emperor.

The imperial government was a system in which Emperor Shirakawa was in order to solve the problem of the Fujiwara clan, a relative of Japan, and the power of the emperor was weakened, and the Fujiwara clan relied on the regents appointed by the emperor, and Sekihaku was naturally worthless.

In fact, this Emperor Shotoku is not the son of Emperor Toba, but the son of Emperor Shirakawa and Fujiwara Akiko, Emperor Toba helped his grandfather raise a son for a few years, and then was ousted from the throne by his grandfather's son, and the grievances in his heart can be imagined.

However, Emperor Toba is also a ninja and continues to endure. Endured until the death of his grandfather, Emperor Shirakawa. Emperor Toba grasped the real power, and only then began to attack. He gave his other son to Emperor Shotoku as an adopted son, and Emperor Shotoku was still his son in name, so naturally there was no reason to give the younger son to the eldest son as the eldest son.

Perhaps Emperor Toba was using this gesture to vent that Emperor Shotoku was not his son.

Well, now all of Japan knows that there is chaos in the Heavenly Empire.

Within two years, Emperor Toba, who had become a monk, abdicated Emperor Shotoku and let his own son succeed him as Emperor Konoe.

It's a pity that Emperor Konoe died not long after, and then Emperor Toba and Emperor Shotoku began to fight. Emperor Shotoku wanted him or his son to be emperor. But how could the powerful Emperor Toba still want to be an old ninja again, and resolutely did not let his grandfather's wild seed be the emperor again, but wanted to let his other son be the emperor.

In the end, it was Emperor Toba, a ninja who had endured for more years, who was a superior ninja and made his other son the emperor. That is, Emperor Go-Shirakawa.

After the death of Emperor Toba, Emperor Shotoku, who had endured for many years, also had some ways to go, and the samurai who were loyal to him went to war with Emperor Go-Shirakawa, which was the Hogen War.

The Hogen Rebellion caused the samurai class to interfere in politics. It also allowed the later shogunate system to take root.

The history of Japan can be said to be the history of the emperor's family, and it can also be said to be the history of the practice of ninjutsu by generations of emperors.

Baoyuan Rebellion Emperor Chongde was defeated and exiled, after Chongde was exiled. After three years of writing five Mahayana sutras, hoping to atone for his sins, and begging the imperial court to send the sutras to Kyoto to Nayu Temple, this request was also refused, and the emperor said that there was no point in his life.

After eight years of exile, he had a complete mental breakdown, and after that, he did not trim his hair and nails, and it was not long before he became what the Japanese call a tengu.

In the scriptures written in his own blood book, he wrote: I copied the Buddhist scriptures in order to accumulate good karma to atone for my sins, and since I was not forgiven, I let those karma be put into the three evil realms to help me become the great demon of Japan, killing the people for the king, and killing the king for the people. After writing the scriptures, he sank to the bottom of the sea and committed suicide by biting his tongue at the age of forty-six.

After the death of Chongde, Japan continued to have disasters, the government and the opposition had no peace, the Japanese felt that this was the curse of Emperor Chongde, so they built a temple to worship Emperor Chongde, and even in the year of Yongwan Yuan (1165), the spirit of Emperor Chongde and the main god of the great thing were sacrificed together, but this did not seem to calm the resentment of Chongde, so a disaster of the imperial court ---- the "Taira dictatorship" came.

Japan was plunged into 700 years of war, and it was not until Emperor Meiji sent an envoy to the Shiromine Imperial Mausoleum to bring the shrine to the Shiromine Shrine in Kyoto before he ascended the throne.

People are afraid of Chongde's curse, calling it "Japan's Great Demon Yuan" and "Woe Chongshen", the image of Emperor Chongde in the legend is a golden kite, similar to the protector god in Buddhism, holding a steel pestle, with wings on his body, leading the Tengu to guard the white peak.

Japan, known as the eight million gods, the first resentful spirit, the first demon king, generally say that the emperor Chongde is here.

The book is back to business, in the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Emperor Shirakawa is still alive, Emperor Toba can only be a ninja, watching his queen go to play with his grandfather every day, Japan's first resentful Emperor Chongde is still a six-year-old Xiao Zhengtai, and he doesn't know that the person he calls his father every day is actually his nephew.

In charge of the defense of Kyushu Island is the Japanese Sekihaku (equivalent to the prime minister, but in the era of the imperial government, in name only) Fujiwara Tadamichi.

The soldiers and horses of Daliang crossed the sea from Goryeo, and the first to capture were Tsushima Island and Ilki Island, two relatively large islands.

Chao Yong originally thought that the Japanese on the two islands should be evacuated to Kyushu Island or Honshu Island, but he did not expect that the Japanese on the two islands would try in vain to resist on the spot.

Without saying anything, 50,000 steppe people pressed up and killed the resisting Japanese, and all the others were sent back to the Central Plains as mine slaves.

Within a few days, the army arrived at Hakata Bay, and Chao Yong also found out that the Japanese had built a stone wall in Hakata Bay. But instead of landing elsewhere, they were ready to crush the Japanese with strong force, so that the Japanese knew that the girder was irresistible.

Chao Yong also knew that the Yuan Dynasty had made two expeditions to Japan, but both were defeated. But this time the girder came prepared, and the ships of the North Sea Fleet were all sea-going ships, and their resistance to wind and waves was beyond doubt. Moreover, he sent people to inquire about the maritime merchants who have traveled between the two countries for many years, and there were many hurricanes in Japan in the first month, and he was scheduled to set out in April, preparing to use three months to raise a Japanese puppet to dig gold and silver for him.

The water in Hakata Bay is clear and the scenery is quite good. However, when huge ships appeared on the sea in the distance, the Japanese on the island had no intention of appreciating the sight of thousands of sails, and they clenched their weapons and prepared to fight.

The Prince dropped anchor a few miles offshore to prevent it from running aground.

Chao Yong held a glass of orange juice in one hand and a telescope in the other to watch the situation in Hakata Bay.

Orange juice is a must-have drink for sailors to prevent sepsis on naval expeditions.

Seeing that little Japan actually planned to use a few stone walls to prevent the fleet from docking, he said to the soldiers on the side with a smile: "Order the frigate to move forward and use artillery to blast the stone wall." ”

The flag-bearer standing above the mast soon raised his flag, and the three frigates of the Prince moved forward. It stopped less than a mile from the shore and faced the shore with the side of the ship.

The Japanese on the island of Kyushu stood behind the stone wall and looked at the three rare big ships in bewilderment, not knowing what the Great Liang army was doing.

Soon, however, the Japanese knew what the girder was up to. Streams of fire erupted from the iron pipes sticking out from under the ship's side, and then a loud bang rang out on the island.

Gaps of different sizes immediately appeared in the stone wall, and many archers behind the stone wall were also blown to pieces.

The bombardment of the three frigates of the Prince lasted for half an hour, destroying all the stone walls that the Japanese had painstakingly built. It also made the Japanese flee the shore.

The Japanese samurai basically knew that the girder had gunpowder that could blow through the city wall, but they didn't know that the girder's ship was still in the sea and could hit the shore. Many Japanese civilians were so frightened that they fell to their knees. Pray to the gods and Buddhas to save them.

The ordained emperor controlled the power, so that Buddhism flourished in Japan, and after the destruction of the Great Liang Sect, many monks went east to Japan to preach, so that Buddhism flourished even more.

At this time, the samurai had not yet formed bushido, and they were completely a group of killing machines that practiced martial arts every day, and they did not believe in any religion, so they were easily used by later emperors and emperors to pay for their families.

The samurai just thought that the firearms of the girder were powerful, and he didn't think it was a ghostly practice.

The artillery of the girder shocked the Japanese, and also shocked the grassland departments and the Jurchens behind.

Chao Yong saw that the stone wall had been destroyed, so he ordered the North Sea Fleet to come up and let the grassland tribes and the Jurchens land.

Seeing the landing of the Great Liang soldiers, the Japanese also reacted and rushed to the coast to shoot arrows.

The steppe vassal army and the Jurchen soldiers also fired arrows to fight back, and the archery skills of the steppe tribes and the Jurchen soldiers were higher than those of the Japanese, and the range of bows and arrows was also farther than that of the bows used by the Japanese. The Japanese archers were quickly suppressed, and a ** vassal army stepped on the sea to grab the case.

Fujiwara Tadamitsu, who was commanding in the back, watched the Liang soldiers land, and hurriedly asked the samurai in iron armor to come forward and fight.

The Japanese samurai's iron armor was also quite well-made, and long-range bows and arrows could barely penetrate it, and after paying a small number of casualties, the Japanese samurai fought hand-to-hand with the allied forces of the steppe tribes and the Jurchens.

The steppe tribes and the Jurchens did not pay attention to the short Japanese at first, but after fighting for a while, they found that these short Japanese fighting skills were very high, although they were not as strong as them, but the fighting skills were enough to make up for the shortcomings of small strength, and the short Japanese were more flexible.

There was a fierce fight on the coast, but Chao Yong was watching leisurely with orange juice in one hand and a telescope in the other.

Wu Song looked at it for a while, and said: "The combat effectiveness of the various departments of the grassland under the horse is not as good as that of the horse, let me lead the troops to kill it, and within an hour, I will ensure that the Japanese will be repulsed." ”

Chao Yong put down the binoculars, slowly lay down on the rocking chair behind him, looked at the sun that was still a little scorching overhead, and said with a smile: "Don't be impatient, the Japanese samurai have good fighting skills, let the vassal army play with them first, and then you will lead your troops to kill them in half an hour." ”

Wu Song looked at the scorching battle situation on the shore, but he couldn't lie down like Chao Yong.

Chao Yong smiled: "It's still early, sit down and rest, I spent money to support them to let them fight." I'm going to find a few steppe tribes and let them become mercenary tribes to fight for me for generations. Like this Japanese samurai, he learned the art of fighting from an early age. What do you think? ”

When Wu Song heard this, he frowned and said, "If there really is such a tribe, then wouldn't it be difficult for them to suppress them if they started a mess?" ”

Chao Yong smiled: "You can control their population, 10,000 people like this is enough, if you exceed 10,000 people, let them go to the battlefield, and they can always kill people invisibly." ”

Wu Song was shocked and said: "There are more than hundreds of thousands of people in the various departments of the grassland, right, and the prince is only going to keep 10,000 people?" ”

Chao Yong shook his head and said: "How come, they are already my people, as long as they don't rebel, I won't kill indiscriminately." Most of the tribes, we want to educate them and make them Han Chinese. Only choose one tribe to come out, let them become the mercenary tribe of my Great Liang, and fight for my Great Liang for generations. ”

Wu Song thought for a while and said, "The prince is alive, and hundreds of thousands of people can control it, but I am afraid that it will not be easy to control it in the future." ”

When Chao Yong heard this, he couldn't help but think about it.

He weakened the assimilation of the Jurchen and the grassland tribes, naturally in order to reduce some difficult enemies for his descendants, if he really created a fighting tribe, if there were descendants who neglected to supervise, it was likely to make this tribe expand, and finally become a disaster for the Great Liang.

Thinking of the terrible part, Chao Yong gave up the idea. (To be continued)