Chapter 165: It's a bastard to take advantage of it
It's a little late, and the second one is coming!
Wang Wenyue, who —————— received the order, immediately began to change his strategy, sent troops and horses again, and began to sweep through the Kanto region.
The Japanese people in the Kanto region were simply powerless to resist the sweep of the Honshu Mixed Brigade.
What kind of guerrilla warfare, before the firearms technology has not reached that level, the only way to resist is to fight white-knuckle warfare, and fighting white-knuckle warfare with the mixed brigade of Honshu is almost looking for death.
At the same time, the Kanto region is a plain area, and it is not possible to fight any kind of guerrilla warfare.
All precious metals will be scraped.
As for the Japanese slaves, they have not been caught for the time being, after all, there are still 150,000 Japanese slaves that have not been transported back. The next time these Japanese slaves are transported back, it will not be too late to catch them.
This time the looting was very thorough, and even Edo Castle was swept again, not to mention, a lot of property was really found. If it was only those officials and samurai last time, this time even the homes of civilians began to be scraped.
For a time, the entire Kanto region was full of complaints, and the people's grievances were boiling, but Wang Wenyue didn't care about this, and turned to contact the envoys of the Tokugawa shogunate.
According to the order issued by the military department, Wang Wenyue put forward a five-point demand.
First: The Tokugawa shogunate paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty, paying an annual tribute of 50,000 taels of gold and a number of special products.
Second: The Tokugawa shogunate compensated the Shandong army for military expenses of 30 million taels.
Thirdly, the Tokugawa shogunate opened the market and port to the merchant ships of Shandong, and allowed any daimyo ships to trade with them and enjoy customs exemption rights in the capital.
Fourth: The Tokugawa shogunate was not allowed to have a navy.
Fifth: Hokkaido and Hokkaido fishing grounds are owned by the Ming Dynasty.
Sixth: Establish the Nagasaki Concession and allow the Shandong Army to station 3,000 troops in Nagasaki to protect the expatriate.
According to the bottom line given by the military department, the compensation will be at least 20 million taels, which can be divided into several years to be delivered, and as for other treaties, there is no room for change.
As a condition for the signing of the treaty, the Shandong army was to withdraw from the Kanto region and recognize the Tokugawa shogunate's right to rule over the Shomoto.
As soon as these treaties were proposed, the envoys of the Tokugawa shogunate roared on the spot, saying that the shogunate would never sign these treaties, and Wang Wenyue smiled and said, "If you don't agree, I'm sure the Catholics on the island will agree." ”
As soon as these words came out, the messenger was shocked, these Ming people actually knew! How do they know?
The momentum plummeted for a while, and finally he said that he needed to go back and talk about it again, so he hurriedly left with a few samurai.
At this time, Su Buheng had already arrived at the island with the fleet.
Amakusa Shiro, whose real name is Shiro Masuda, his father 'Masuda Shibei' was a retainer of 'Konishi Yukinaga', and after the Battle of Sekigahara, he lived as a ronin in the village of Ebebe on the outskirts of Uto. After receiving Catholic education, he began to preach the doctrine that "heaven and earth are of the same root, that all things are one, and that there is no distinction between superiority and inferiority." At the same time, because of his 'beauty', he is considered to be a 'savior' and a 'heavenly child' sent from heaven.
In October of the 10th year of Chongzhen, Shiro Masuda led 37,000 Christians from Shimabara (Nagasaki) and Amakusa (Kumamoto) to revolt and occupy the ancient castle of Hara in the southern part of the Shimabara Peninsula.
Immediately afterwards, Shiro Masuda began to attack Shimabara Castle and Tomioka Castle, but among the 37,000 Christians, only 13,000 were capable of fighting power.
Previously, Amakusa and Shimahara responded to each other and supported each other, and the cult army suddenly increased to more than 30,000 people. And fought a few beautiful battles, so that the leaders of the official army were killed in battle, and the disembowelment was disemboweled, and the shogunate decided to send a general to lead a large army to exterminate it when there was nothing to be done.
Faced with the encirclement and suppression of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shiro Masuda led the rebel army to retreat to the original ancient city.
This old castle was originally built by a daimyo and was abandoned after the war. In November, Inaba Masakatsu led 120,000 regular troops to encircle and suppress the rebel army, which had only more than 10,000 fighters, in the ancient city.
But the will of these Catholics was very strong and strong, and the 120,000 people led by Inaba Masakatsu launched several strong attacks, all of which were forcefully repulsed.
Inaba Masakatsu learned the lesson of Itakura Shigemasa's death, and used the method of besieging the city for a long time until the city ran out of ammunition and food, and then attacked it in one fell swoop, and after several strong attacks were repulsed, he began to use the method of siege.
But the siege did not mean inaction, and ten Dutch warships, at the request of Inaba Masakatsu, began to shell the ancient city, and it happened that the three Portuguese warships were still in Nagasaki, and the Tokugawa shogunate immediately asked the Portuguese to shell the ancient city.
Under the threat of Zoben's request, the Portuguese, in order not to lose his trading position, the captains of three Portuguese warships reluctantly shelled the Catholics on the island.
At the same time, Inaba Masakatsu also began to dig tunnels and shoot messages into the city. even arrested Shiro's mother and sister as a threat.
However, the methods of digging tunnels, shooting letters, and blackmailing soon failed, and only the warships at sea continued to shell the ancient city.
Su Buheng arrived at the sea area where the ancient city was located with three warships, five armed merchant ships, and two clippers, and the clippers quickly came to report that ten Dutch warships and three Portuguese warships had been found in the port in front.
This made Su Buheng very embarrassed, and then reacted, as the most profitable market for the Netherlands in Asia, the Tokugawa shogunate was naturally the object of their curry-please, if they didn't help the Tokugawa shogunate, then as long as the tokugawa shogunate was forbidden to trade with them, many benefits would be lost.
At the same time, the Netherlands did not have the ability to enter the capital like the Shandong Army and threaten the Tokugawa shogunate by military means, which was a very simple relationship between gain and loss.
The same was true of the Portuguese, who, although they were Catholics, were motivated by interest to open fire on the rebels, who were also Catholics.
It's just that the Portuguese still don't understand that no matter how hard they shell it, they can't go back to this market.
After being stunned, Su Buheng suddenly laughed: "Okay! These Dutch people were actually met by us here, and they are still hiding in the harbor, and they are bastards if they don't take advantage of them, so if they don't wipe them all out this time, how can they be worthy of the general's cultivation. ”
"Pass my order, advance in a longitudinal line, and block the exit." Su Buheng immediately gave an order, and soon three warships and five armed merchant ships formed a longitudinal line and headed towards the sea area where the Dutch warship was located.
The Dutch Navy likes melee the most, this is the impression that Su Buheng fought several naval battles with the Dutch, although the first fleet's artillery power and rate of fire are enough to win in the melee, but there will always be losses.
Therefore, this time, Su Buheng adopted a longitudinal tactical attack, and then waited for an opportunity to adopt a dispersed tactic in order to reduce the loss.
...... "Amen, forgive me!" ”
A Portuguese captain stood on the deck, looking at the ancient city that had been shelled and on fire, constantly drawing crosses on his chest and praying one after another.
"Captain, look." Suddenly, the lookout on the mast shouted loudly.
"What?" The captain didn't understand, and looked up and asked loudly.
"Ship...... Boat...... The navy of the northern part of the Empire of Light. The lookout shouted in alarm.
"What?" The captain was taken aback, and quickly picked up his binoculars, and immediately saw a total of eight large ships heading towards the harbor.
Those ships all hung a moon flag that was constantly fluttering in the sea breeze, and this flag could be said to be the most terrifying thing on this route.
When any European ship goes to Yueben, the most afraid thing to encounter is these Shandong navy flying the Yueyue flag, and the warships may be able to escape, but the merchant ships loaded with goods will definitely not be able to escape.
However, the situation is different now, they are in a narrow port in order to shell the ancient city.
The exit is only a little over a hundred meters wide!
The captain groaned, this is the end of it.
"Rush, rush out and talk, be careful, don't shoot at those ships of the Empire of Light." The captain hurriedly ordered.
The three Portuguese warships immediately reversed course and rushed out of the harbor.
At the same time, the ten Dutch battleships were equally dumbfounded.
"Damn, can anyone tell me, how did those bitches end up here?" The commander of the fleet of the Batavia Company roared and asked, it stands to reason that the Shandong Army was attacking Edo, and it had only begun shelling the ancient city two days ago, and there was almost no possibility of being targeted in advance.
Because this was a request made by Yu himself, they didn't pay much attention to it at all, and directly drove all the battleships into the harbor, and all the reconnaissance ships were in Nagasaki, and they didn't bring any of them.
"Long ...... Long...... Officer, we ...... What do we do now? The adjutant stammered and asked, since several encounters, the warships of the Batavia Company were afraid to see the First Fleet.
What's more, the number of ships on both sides is similar.
They had only two more ships than the First Fleet. Although those armed merchant ships were not designed for naval warfare, they were not weak in combat after being loaded with artillery, but the number of guns was less and the speed was slower.
However, at the moment, the Dutch warship was blocked in the harbor, and the speed difference was not a problem.
The Dutch, with their vast seafaring experience, could see the current situation at a glance, and it was almost impossible for them to escape from being stuck in the harbor.
"You ask me? Who is going, I ask? The commander roared loudly.
The adjutant of "......" was speechless, and he was cold for a while!
At the same time, three Portuguese warships were rushing towards the exit that was about to be blocked, and the Portuguese sailors on the warships waved their arms and shouted loudly.
"Fire!" Su Buheng shouted, he didn't care about the Portuguese, since he was blocked by them in this small port, he naturally had to swallow them all.
If these Portugal are released from the port, in case they come to meet with the Dutch, it will not be over, and Su Buheng will naturally strangle all possible dangers in the cradle.
The flagship's mast was quickly fired, and after a while the flagship's broadside guns roared, and the flagship opened fire first, followed by the rest of the warships and armed merchant ships, and also fired at the onrushing Portuguese warships.
Hearing the sound of cannons, and the balls of light flying in the sky, the Portuguese face was like ashes......
(To be continued)