As soon as he sat down in the study, Luo Jian said to the three of them: "Very good, you have done a good job, this time you have not completely opened up Japanese trade, let's talk about it next time." ”

Hearing Luo Jian's words, Wang Qiang gave up, and Lu Wei and Zheng Chenggong were obviously relieved.

"But Japan isn't that far away, is it? Why did it delay for so long, it's been more than three months. Luo Jian asked with some confusion.

"Brother Weisheng, you are eloquent, you can say it, this is hard to say." Wang Qiang said to Lu Wei with a smile.

"Metropolitan Governor, things are indeed not as smooth as we imagined..."Lu Wei took a sip of water from his water cup, and then he told the story.

It did not take much time for the fleet to reach Japan, the steamer ships basically got rid of their dependence on ocean currents, and Wang Qiang kept urging them not to delay time, so the fleet kept moving towards Japan at full speed.

The target of the fleet was still Nagasaki, where merchant ships were detained.

Before reaching the port of Nagasaki, the fleet encountered more than two dozen Japanese warships coming to intercept it, saying that it was forbidden for the fleet to enter the port and anchor.

Zheng Chenggong was still a little hesitant, and Wang Qiang, who was standing on the deck of the "Wei Qing", looked at the Japanese ship in front of him that was about the same size as the Yangzhou Military Naval Division, and directly ordered the battleship to fight.

The "Weiqing" opened fire first, followed by the "Anqing" and "Fengyang" one after another, and the Japanese warships were sunk five or six at that time, and countless Japanese sailors were floating on the sea.

Other Japanese warships began to flee, Wang Qiang also ordered the fleet to pursue, Lu Wei stopped him, saying that the main task now is not to attack the Japanese warships, landing in Nagasaki is the most important, Wang Qiang let go of these Japanese warships, and ordered the warships to march towards Nagasaki Port.

As soon as the fleet entered the port of Nagasaki, the sound of cannons suddenly sounded on the shore, and a solid buckshot crossed the side of the "Anqing" and almost hit the "Anqing", which made Wang Qiang furious.

"Call me! All the artillery opened fire and flattened the port of Nagasaki for me! ”

Hearing Wang Qiang's order, Zheng Chenggong commanded the "Anqing" and "Fengyang" and "Weiqing" to open horizontally, and when the ships were ready, Zheng Chenggong gave the order to open fire, and immediately dozens of shells flew towards the port of Nagasaki.

With a violent explosion, the port of Nagasaki was enveloped in thick black smoke.

"Don't stop! Keep calling me! Wang Qiang continued to give orders.

The guns on the three battleships fired ten shells from each gun, and Wang Qiang ordered the guns to stop firing.

"Master Wang, do you have a grudge against the Japanese? With such a bombardment at the port of Nagasaki, I'm afraid there won't be anything left. Zheng Chenggong shouted in Wang Qiang's ear, and the sound of the cannon just now shook everyone so that they couldn't hear it at all.

"Of course there is a feud! I've had eight lifetimes of enmity with them! Wang Qiang also roared.

The fleet waited outside the harbor for a long time before the smoke above Nagasaki slowly cleared, but there was silence on the shore, and no one was seen or heard again.

Wang Qiang ordered the merchant ships carrying the soldiers to slowly approach, until all 1,000 people landed, and there was not a single living person except for the corpses in one place.

Wang Qiang asked Zheng Chenggong to guard the battleship, and he and Lu Wei led people to board the small boat put down on the "Wei Qing" and also landed ashore.

When Wang Qiang and Lu Wei landed on the shore, a group of people finally came from afar, shouting incessantly, and Lu Wei told Wang Qiang that he was shouting "don't open fire".

"What are they going to do?" Wang Qiang said to the interpreter.

The interpreter ran over for a long time and came back to tell Wang Qiang that the Japanese were willing to negotiate and asked everyone to come to the city to talk.

When Lu Wei heard that the Japanese were willing to negotiate, he was very happy, and immediately followed the Japanese officials to Nagasaki Castle.

Wang Qiang had an instinctive distrust of this nation, and before setting out, he ordered more than 1,000 soldiers to prepare for battle, and then went to Nagasaki City with Lu Wei.

Seeing that the more than 1,000 Ming troops were all about to enter the city, the official who led the way showed a look of horror on his face, but the official next to him knocked on him, so he couldn't help but speak.

Wang Qiang looked at the Japanese houses along the way, and saw that most of the Japanese houses at this time were relatively low wooden houses, which were too far away from Yangzhou.

"You see that the Japanese are much poorer than us in Yangzhou, you see they are all so short." Lu Wei whispered to Wang Qiang.

"Hmph, don't look at them poor now, but one day when they turn over, they will all become demons. Brother Weisheng, haven't you been here a few times? I warn you, you have to be careful, I always feel that they are not well-intentioned. Wang Qiang has no sympathy for the people of this island.

Nagasaki City is not far from the port, and it will arrive soon, Wang Qiang is still calculating along the way, if the ship's artillery can hit the city with the maximum range, it seems that there is no problem at all.

The negotiation house was finally a brick house, seeing that Wang Qiang and a few people arrived, the Japanese officials kneeling on the tatami mats in the civil war hurriedly got up to greet them, and the interpreter translated their words, which was nothing more than a very welcoming meaning, Wang Qiang was secretly amused when he heard it, the shells were hit at the door, and you were "very welcome"?

Lu Wei saw that the Nagasaki officials he had dealt with before were also present and greeted him.

There were no stools in the house, so Wang Qiang, Lu Wei and others had to sit cross-legged on the tatami mats.

The negotiations did not go well, and the Nagasaki officials said that the detention of the Ming merchant ships was a decision made by the Edo Tokugawa shogunate, and they had no right to return it, and Wang Qiang was immediately annoyed.

Lu Wei asked them where the merchant ship was, and the Nagasaki officials said that the merchant ship was not in Nagasaki Port now, but had been driven away by people sent by the Tokugawa shogunate, and they did not know where it was.

"You ask how long it will take for them to inform the Tokugawa shogunate?" Wang Qiang said to the interpreter.

The interpreter hurriedly told several officials in Nagasaki what Wang Qiang meant, but they said that it would take about a month, which made Wang Qiang very impatient.

Nagasaki is really not close to Edo, and it will take about a month to inform the Tokugawa shogunate from Edo.

Wang Qiang and Lu Wei discussed for a long time, and felt that they couldn't talk about anything famous with them in Nagasaki, so they simply went directly to Edo.

While Wang Qiang and Lu Wei were discussing, several Nagasaki officials had quietly retreated.

Suddenly, the guards outside the gate ran in and reported that the Japanese army had surrounded the place.

Just as Wang Qiang and Lu Wei were walking out, the gunshots of Yangzhou Type 1 rifles outside had already been heard.

Coming to the door, Wang Qiang saw that the more than 1,000 people he had brought were lined up in three rows according to the combat formation of the Yangzhou army, leaning against the house that had just been negotiated, shooting at the Japanese troops who rushed over.

Many people dressed as Japanese samurai held samurai swords, and moths rushed towards the neat formation of the Yangzhou army, and they were knocked to the ground when they were dozens of steps away.

Liu Yuanwai of the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce, who came with Wang Qiang and Lu Wei, was already trembling with fright, and seeing more and more Japanese soldiers rushing over, Lu Wei also became a little nervous.

Wang Qiang became more and more excited when he saw that the Japanese soldiers fell, walked to the side of the queue in a few steps, and gave a loud command, in Wang Qiang's password, the Yangzhou army's shooting actually had a sense of rhythm.

After watching it for a while, Lu Wei's heart was steady, although the Japanese soldiers were numerous, they didn't seem to be effectively commanded, and they were extremely chaotic, but the Japanese soldiers didn't seem to have any intention of giving up, the ground was already full of Japanese soldiers' corpses, but the ones behind were still rushing up fearlessly.

Just when Lu Wei was worried that he didn't know how long this battle would last, the rear of the Japanese army rang out the gunfire of Yangzhou rifles, and then the Japanese soldiers began to mess up and run in all directions.

It turned out that Zheng Chenggong had been watching the situation in the city with binoculars on the ship, and he was still very worried that Wang Qiang and Lu Wei only brought more than 1,000 people into the city, and when he was watching, he heard the sound of gunshots, Zheng Chenggong immediately ordered Shi Lang to take charge of the command of the fleet, and he rushed over with five or six hundred soldiers ashore.

Zheng Chenggong did not rush directly to Wang Qiang, but led people directly to the back of the Japanese soldiers, and when they reached the back of the Japanese army, Zheng Chenggong found that the number of Japanese soldiers was not very large, and it was estimated that there were only four or five thousand people.

After defeating the Japanese soldiers, Wang Qiang noticed that the more than 1,000 people he brought had lost more than 100 people, most of whom were sacrificed when they were attacked by the Japanese soldiers at the beginning, and more than a dozen people were injured by the bows and arrows of the Japanese soldiers in the later battles.

Looking at the Ming army that fell to the ground, Wang Qiang's eyes were red, and he was about to order the troops to pursue, but the Japanese soldiers had fled on all sides, where to chase?

"Come on, burn this broken house to me!" Wang Qiang, who had nowhere to vent his anger, looked back at the house he had just negotiated with, which seemed to be the official office of Nagasaki, which made people burn it.

"Chief, I didn't expect this fire to burn too much." Hearing Lu Wei say this, Wang Qiang was a little embarrassed and said to Luo Jian.

"Burning too much? What do you mean? Luo Jian asked suspiciously.

"Alas, Metropolitan Governor, we didn't expect this torch to ignite the surrounding houses, most of the houses in Japan are wooden houses, but unfortunately there was a strong wind, which almost burned down Nagasaki Castle." Lu Wei continued beside him.

"How big is Nagasaki Castle? What is the estimated population? Luo Jian asked.

"Nagasaki City is very small, it's not comparable to one of our counties, I don't know the population, Brother Weisheng, what do you say?" Wang Qiang said indifferently.

Lu Wei was a little nervous, thinking that Luo Jian was going to blame them, so he hesitated for a long time before saying:

"I didn't all of them burn to death, I saw that a lot of people escaped, and I estimate that the population of Nagasaki is also 20,000 or 30,000."

"How many people are there in Nagasaki now?" Luo Jian then asked.

"There will definitely not be many, it is estimated that they have almost escaped, and then there are probably only one or two thousand people, and they are all in the countryside." Lu Wei said as he wondered why the Metropolitan Governor was asking all this.

"Chief, are you thinking about the reconstruction of the port of Nagasaki?" Wang Qiang's reaction was not slow, and he quickly understood what Luo Jian meant.

"yes, didn't you lend Nagasaki to you?" Luo Jian asked.

Lu Wei saw that Luo Jian was concerned about the reconstruction of Nagasaki Port, so he understood what Luo Jian meant.

It's just that I can't figure it out, Wang Qiang has also heard about Wang Qiang's sacrifice of his life to save the people in Xuyi, and the governor of the capital is really good to the people, why do they treat the Japanese as people? The Japanese were burned to death so much that they didn't even blink their eyes, which made Lu Wei puzzled.

"What's next? How did you get to Fukuoka? Just when Lu Wei hadn't figured it out, Luo Jian asked again.

"Chief, we didn't go to Fukuoka?" Wang Qiang asked a little strangely.