Chapter 417: The General's Helplessness

To add insult to injury, the gunners of the Breakers finally moved several of the cannons, adjusted their muzzles, and reloaded them with shotguns. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

But in front of them was the army formation of the Broken Army, and for the sake of safety, they aimed at the eastern rear of the two armies and attacked the Japanese people behind.

In fact, they usually have a lot of artillery training, it should be said that eight or nine are not far from ten, but in case they hurt their own soldiers, they can't bear the responsibility of cutting off their heads, so Mr. Bai ordered, or come honestly.

This heavy blow crushed all the courage of the young and strong of the Japanese people, and immediately almost all the young and strong people began to flee backwards, leaving this hell is the most important thing, and nothing else matters.

As soon as they fled, the ashigaru, who had already suffered more than half of the casualties and couldn't support it, immediately collapsed, collapsing like an avalanche, Maeda Fengyi helplessly watched Ashigaru flee from the front, he and his guards tried to stop it, but there were too many people, not a dozen of him could stop it.

In an instant, a few of them were left to face the Ming army that was chasing them.

It was impossible for Maeda to escape, and so did the guards around him, his family members were all in Edo, and he was the Tokugawa family for generations, and most of the people in the family served the shogun, so it was impossible for him to humiliate the whole clan because of his defeat.

His guards did the same to him, there was no way out, only death.

Maeda threw out his heavy headband, drew his sword, picked up an iron shield from the ground, and rushed to the enemy with the guards, and he still had the courage to die with the enemy.

However, the spear formation of the Breaker Army was not a low-grade of his sword, and when he fought with a pikeman, the spears from the left and right flanks pierced him instantly. Maeda fell to the ground in pain and struggled for a moment before dying.

All his guards fell to the ground and died. The result of their fight was only to kill and wound the soldiers of the Broken Army.

Boom, boom, boom. The artillery continued to fire scattered bullets at the fleeing widows, sowing blood, death and terror across the land.

The remaining three or four thousand intact widows galloped to the east like rabbits, and they did not dare to go from the west, and the cannons were frightened behind them.

Li Lu sent dozens of horsemen on horseback to cut and kill them behind, while the brigade stopped to collect the prisoners of war.

And the gunners received an order to reopen fire into the western city, with fireball rounds.

After the meal, while the Breakers were still collecting the wounded, the cannons began to roar again. Launch fiery iron balls into the city and continue to set the city on fire to its low wooden buildings.

Raging fires began to rise again in the city, which was filled with burning houses and screaming people, as well as the remnants of the defeated and unmotivated soldiers.

After the last two days of Yasuda's patience, he was surrounded by guards in clothes with many burnt holes, but he couldn't hold on anymore, almost all the houses in the city were burned down, and it was not impossible to sleep in the open air in the summer, but when most of the food was burned, there was no point in resisting.

At this point, nearly 10,000 people in the city and 4,000 young men surrendered, and Sado Castle fell into the hands of the Broken Army.

Li Lu braved the smoke and the remnants of the fire and the smell of roasted meat into the city to investigate. He was extremely pleased with the fact that there were few intact houses in the city.

This was arranged by Lord Zhao Lie, but Zhao Lie did not forget the scene where the US military burned Tokyo with Molotov cocktails in later generations. The reason why most of Tokyo is turned into white ground is because the Japanese have built their houses out of wood for thousands of years, which is too flammable, which is a fatal flaw.

For Zhao Lie, who has coveted the Japanese country for a long time, he knows that the Japanese have a large population, and the damage to his own family will be heavy if he fights hard, since he has ready-made combat power, why not use it, after all, it is necessary to retain his strength, and there are more ferocious enemies waiting to break the army in the north, and that is a life-and-death duel.

Li Lu had no interest in such a dilapidated and smoky Sado City, and he sent Korean soldiers into the city to appease public security, of course, there were chickens and dogs jumping inside, but as long as the Korean soldiers were not too much, Li Lu would not interfere.

With Kogi and Sado Castle in place, the gold mining area of Aikawa became the last place not to be captured, but the main force had been lost, and the remaining few samurai and hundreds of young men had to surrender and hand over the largest gold and silver mining area in the Japanese country to the hands of the Breaker Army.

Li Lu immediately began to recruit Japanese miners to resume production, and the water income of the Broken Army dropped sharply, and this big hole was temporarily filled by this gold mining area, although there was still a gap between the two, but it was also a huge benefit.

Since they were the occupying army, Li Lu used two hands according to Zhao Lie's instructions, one hand gave sweet dates, and all the miners who returned to work were paid half of the salary, and if the miners who did not return to work were dispatched to the Korean army to start purging, leaving the Japanese people to produce rice and mining, neither of which was done, what was the use of keeping.

Under the threat and lure of Li Lu's two hands, the mining area quickly resumed production, and Li Lu was still handed over to the wealthy family in the mining area to manage, after all, he was not familiar with these tasks at all, and he still handed them over to someone who understood, what he wanted was not less than the gold and silver produced before, if he couldn't reach it, he didn't mind killing him.

Li Lu was right, in the few days before the Breaker Army attacked the city, several groups of islanders had already taken advantage of the fishing boats to run to Echizen and Echigo to call the police, and the two places were less than 100 miles away from Sado Island.

Echizen Guardian Matsudaira Tadamasa received news of the Ming Dynasty's massive attack on Sado, and immediately sent fast horses to Edo.

Due to the importance of this trip, all the vassals on the way changed their horses for Echizen's messengers, so that the information could reach Edo quickly.

Four days later, in the evening, four clay figures rode into the fortified castle of Edo on their horses, and they brought shocking news to the shogunate, the Ming attacked Sado Kanzan, and the Ming counterattack began.

Tokugawa Iemitsu was of course furious when he received this news, but at the same time he was deeply helpless, since he had a bad relationship with the Jeju Ming people a few years ago, the fortunes of the country have not been smooth, and he lost both battles, which has dealt a great blow to his prestige in the country.

Previously, he issued a decree to lock the country after collegial discussions with the important ministers on the left and right, because in the account books submitted by the Nagasaki Commissioner, in a year, there were more than 400 ships from the Ming Sea alone into the Nagasaki Sea Trade.

This figure frightened Tokugawa Iemitsu when it came out, if the Ming people collected eighty percent of the tax silver here, it would be more than 300,000 taels of silver, in addition to the merchant ships of Korea, Ryukyu, the Netherlands, Spain, England, and France.

After several people discussed, they could only order the country to be locked up, the sea trade closed, and the Jeju Ming people were prevented from continuing to use these silver taels to build a fleet, otherwise when would the shogunate sailors catch up with the combat power of the Ming sailors.

When it was proposed, Inaba Masakatsu had suggested that the Akito might not give up, because this was also the great advance of the Akito.

But in order not to sit back and watch the Akito become bigger, Tokugawa Iemitsu can only act like this.

Sure enough, only a few months after the edict was issued, the revenge of the Ming people came, and the Jeju Ming people came up to attack the shogunate's biggest money bag, Sado Jinshan, which was the foundation of digging the shogunate.

In the assessment room of the castle tower, Tokugawa Iemitsu looked at the next Ii Naotaka, Inaba Masakatsu, Doi Toshikatsu, Sakai Tadayo and others with a frosty face, and at the end of the shogunate navy general ship to Mukai Tadakatsu.

Everyone knows the news of Akito's attack on Sado, but now I'm afraid Sado has fallen.

"Ladies and gentlemen, you all know the news of the Ming people's attack on Sado, and today is to assess how to deal with this matter." Tokugawa Iemitsu said calmly, but Inaba Masakatsu knew that the general was already angry, and it was because of this that he slowed down his tone to prevent stuttering.

"At present, there are only two roads in my shogunate, one is that the sailor detours from the east, passes through the southern end of Ezo to rescue Sado, and the other is to go directly west to fight the Ming sailor." Okaii is straight and filial piety.

"It's not the time for a decisive battle." Inaba sighed.

"Now is the time to fight a decisive battle, if the direct territory of Sado is captured by the Ming people, my shogunate does not fight back, my shogunate will lose face in all of Japan, I'm afraid... Naodaka Ii didn't continue.

Everyone understands what he means, and he has been humiliated by the Akito five times in a row, which is fatal to the shogunate, which is known as the most powerful in history, and this time from the impression that the emperor and nobles and the daimyo samurai from all over the country are weak and bulliable, and the instability in the country is fatal.

Although the shogunate now has millions of stones and more than 80,000 elite banners, the shogunate mainly relies on coercion to act and does not use swords unless it is absolutely necessary, otherwise the shogunate can go bankrupt with just the loss of wealth.

"So, who is in favor of sending troops?" Iemitsu said dryly.

"My subordinates are in favor." Jing Yi bowed down.

"My subordinates are in favor." Toshikatsu Doi bowed.

"My subordinates are in favor." Tadashi Sakai bowed.

Inaba Masakatsu coughed lightly twice, and now he is tired and often coughs up blood, and he is barely trying to maintain it.

"The subordinates agree." Inaba is victorious, and he actually has no bottom in his heart.

"Then go out into battle, this time my shogunate sailors will gather all the daimyo sailors to fight together, and from now on, the Sea of Japan will either only have our navy sailors, or they all belong to the Akito. The First World War was decided. Iemitsu decided.

"Xiang Jing Zhongsheng, is there any certainty of victory." Iemitsu turned to Mukai Tadakatsu, who was at the bottom.

"Your Highness Bing, this battle, the subordinates estimate that it will be a five-five battle." Mukai Tadashi is in the tunnel.

Jiaguang stared at Xiang Jing Zhongsheng for a long time, Xiang Jing was already cowardly when he said this, and he didn't dare to say that he would win in front of him and the old people, which showed that Xiang Jing Zhongsheng was not optimistic about this.

Jiaguang's heart flashed, he sadly found that he has no way to retreat now, if he retreats again, one is that he is disgraced, and then there is Sado's gold and silver is his hope to catch up, if this big money bag is gone, his sailor construction will stop, and there is no hope of catching up with the Ming people, it is better to fight with the Ming people at this moment.

"Order the soldiers under your command, if you defeat the Ming people, each of them will be paid a salary in March, and if you return from defeat, be careful of the heads on your head." Jiaguang said sharply.

Now he can only use it with grace and power, and there is no other way.

Xiang Jing Tadashi took orders from the ground, and if he didn't win this battle, he didn't plan to come back. (To be continued.) )

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